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Buying a Bidet and living with "Skipper" · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_01: I want to do that on the beat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh hey guys, how you doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: My name's Michael.
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  SPEAKER_01: Michael Gillespie to be exact.
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  SPEAKER_01: Weird intro going on, but I'm trying not to record, I'm not trying to redo this.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is my third time trying to do the intro.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're going to keep it going.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not stopping.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not doing this again.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to go through with the episode despite me bumbling and bumbling.
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  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, guys, how are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope all is well with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: With that, with that being said, let's get into it with the what the hell's going on.
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  SPEAKER_02: What the hell's going on?
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  SPEAKER_01: So recently, recently, we just bought something new for the house, basically, in the bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now you might be thinking, like, what the heck can you buy in the bathroom?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, yes, you could buy absolutely a new toilet.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did buy that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We bought a new toilet.
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  SPEAKER_01: And needless to say, that is something that needs to be looked at when you own a house is to buy your own toilet.
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  SPEAKER_01: That sounds weird, but guess what?
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a good financial decision to buy your own toilet.
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  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, we also bought a bidet.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now you may ask yourself, well, Michael, what's a bidet?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, bidet is um bidet is basically cleaning yourself without paper, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: It is water squirting in those regions to get you clean.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, at first you'd be like, man, that's weird.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's weird.
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  SPEAKER_01: But and I thought it was weird too until I tried it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I tried it, and right now the only problem is that I got this thing on cold water.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Once I get it on hot water, you will, it's um being told it's it's a very different experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we got it.
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  SPEAKER_01: My wife wanted it, we bought it, and it's kind of nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it's it's it's it's new and it saves paper.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anything, if anything, this bidet, this bidet is saving trees, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't take my opinion on it, take the um the one of the comedians, one of the late great comedians that just recently passed away, David Arnold.
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  SPEAKER_01: David Arnold uh recently experienced bidet, and I want I want to play this, guys, for you.
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  SPEAKER_04: A toilet humor.
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  SPEAKER_04: This is a story about not having certain life experiences.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I'm in New York City and I'm staying in Manhattan because that's what makes me feel successful.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I realize that everything in this hotel room is top-notch.
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  SPEAKER_04: But everything goes to another level when I walk into the bathroom and this happens.
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  SPEAKER_04: What the hell?
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  SPEAKER_04: And what's all these buttons for?
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  SPEAKER_04: So this morning I'm in the middle of using the facilities when all of a sudden I touch something and water shoots into my ass.
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  SPEAKER_04: What the hell?
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  SPEAKER_04: At first I'm shocked and offended.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then I realize that it's warm and soothing.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't know how I've lived this long without this experience.
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  SPEAKER_04: But now it's time to get up and go about my business, and I don't know how to turn this water off.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't have my glasses on, so I'm just touching buttons to see what happens.
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  SPEAKER_04: This thing won't stop.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now I realize that I'm gonna have to call the manager so somebody can come up here and stop this water from blowing through my ass.
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  SPEAKER_04: Six minutes later, I figured that I'm gonna finally got off that toilet.
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  SPEAKER_04: My legs was numbing, my knees was weak, but my ass never been squeaky clean like that.
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  SPEAKER_04: Go on and get yourself one of these things they call a successful life.
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  SPEAKER_04: It ain't for the week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, rest in peace, David Arnold.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are a great comedian, and that take alone is worth a bidet, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now, that's like I said, it's on cold water right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: But once I get it switched to hot water, I guarantee you it's gonna be a different experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, we're gonna go to a quick break, then I'm gonna get into the main topic of skipper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, the main topic is uh titled Skipper.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you uh if you know me or you don't know me, Skipper is my dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: My dad goes by the nickname for Skipper for some strange reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: Didn't know that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But um how this call comes about is because um recently uh I mean not recently, about three years ago, he passed away, and I felt like I needed to talk about it in a comedic hue, you know, humorous way like I always do with things.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I feel like, you know, now is a good time to talk about my life or my life experiences with my dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, before I even started, before we even get to the dad part, remember I live with my mom.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I lived with my mom, I lived in a good neighborhood, good neighborhood, west side of Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: It really felt like the wonder years.
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  SPEAKER_03: What would you do if I sat down?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we had a neighborhood, we had played football all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brother, sister, mom, neighborhood kids, we had everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was tipping, it was it was it was the wonder years.
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  SPEAKER_03: I will try not to sing out of key or baby hide.
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  unknown: What I need is that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you if you from if you my age, you had to watch the wonder years back then.
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  SPEAKER_01: But that's what it was, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: If if I had a good life or anything like that, it was it was the wonder years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nap drive to me was the wonder years, and it was great.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, like I was saying, you know, everything I had was there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and I I cannot explain, I cannot go into detail right now how good I had it right there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then, as you know, life goes on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Life goes on, and my mom married, uh, got married, started seeing uh preacher man who didn't turn out to be a preacher man, and things escalated to a point where I had to move in with my dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, before I moved in with my dad, it was weekends with dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Weekends with dad at the Gillespie house.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, why I say it like that is because, you know, nobody back then, you know, my mom was living, you know, on my mom was living at Nap Drive, didn't feel like a house.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Gillespie house felt like a house, had a front room, had an upstairs, had a downstairs, had a basement, which was very scary as a kid.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very scary.
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  SPEAKER_01: They tell me to go down to the basement to grab some drink.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never ran so fast in my life to get that drink.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was like stone, scary, smelly, water leaking everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was scary, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So living with my dad was, you know, weekend dad, it was going to the Gillespie House, which was great.
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  SPEAKER_01: This same house is where my dad and his brothers were all raised up.
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  SPEAKER_01: They all lived in the same house, and it was called the Gillespie House, 626, I believe South 4th Street in Hamilton, Ohio.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: The Gillespie House.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go look, go Google that house.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was nice for back then when I was a kid, didn't know what was going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was the Gillespie House.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would go there on the weekends and we would hang out.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would go to the mall, Force Fair Mall that's now being condemned, or is about to be condemned.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was his um, that's what we used to do on the weekends, and it was fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had a great time.
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  SPEAKER_01: First time I experienced Cinnabon.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what a Cinnabon is, those things were delicious.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was that was it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would have a good time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So every time that I spent time with my dad on the weekends, it was good, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We had fun at the at his house, at the Gillespie house.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um back then, I used to play, I used to play sports, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But my dad had a way of wanting me to play sports the old way.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I mean by that is like, for example, when I played basketball, he never wanted me to drive.
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  SPEAKER_01: He never wanted me to drive down the middle and collapse the defense and push it out for someone to shoot it.
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  SPEAKER_01: He always said, as a point guard, Carlos, he said, you should not be driving down a hole.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I said, Dad, you know, it's the 90s now, you know, if we collapse the defense, they come in trying to, you know, get me, kick it out, shoot it.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Carlos, I will pull you from the game if you keep this up.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, Dad, are you serious?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, this is and it's working.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we were we weren't the best team in the league, but we weren't the last we weren't the worst team in the league.
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  SPEAKER_01: And either way, so I had to adhere to what he was saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, like I didn't drive down the lane.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, you know, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he he didn't like he didn't help me with the basketball, didn't help me with the football as far as like what to do or how I should go about it.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: I just played the sport how I played it.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't like it.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know, it is what it is, it's whatever.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's a move on.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um then you know, as my mom moved on and everything, things things happen.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm struggling.
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  SPEAKER_01: So move I finally moved in with my dad and um he got evicted from the Gillespie house.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, how do you get evicted from a house that's owned by your own family?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never got into it as a kid, because I didn't understand.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: I just know we lived across the street.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: We lived across the street, and I've never met, I've never been in a place.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: Now, mind you, when I lived with my mom, yes, we did have roaches.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know, one here, okay, lie, three here, three here, three there, right?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: In the house, not a big deal.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Black if you're black, it's alright.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Step on the roach and keep it moving, right?
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: My dad's house, we lived across the street from the Glusp house, them, they were gangs of cockroaches.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: And then I've, you know, I've never I've seen a couple roaches, you know, kid freak out a little bit.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: These things were these things rolled like a gang.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: They I mean they were so many.
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  SPEAKER_01: So living like that, it just just could you just imagine roaches.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: Roaches everywhere.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's just just uh as an adult, it's just that's unacceptable.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: Me, and it's unacceptable.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: I can't have bugs in my house, period.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-uh.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: If I if I find it's funny because those things happened when I was a kid.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: Today, if I see a roach or anything that resembles a roach in my house, we're moving everything.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're moving the refrigerator, we're moving the oven, we're moving the stove, we're moving the kitchen table.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna find that dirty thing and we're gonna get rid of it.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: Plain and simple.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot live with roaches.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Not today.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: Never ever.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-mm.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: Nope, not happening.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: So living with my dad ruined my childhood as an aspect as in reference to growing up, an adult.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm 13, 14, I'm starting to do the puberty thing.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, from living with my mom, I never experienced any adult situations.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: So when I live with my dad the first couple weeks, I was putting in a VCR.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm dating myself, shut up.
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  SPEAKER_01: A VCR tape in there, program it to record my cartoons in the morning so I didn't have to wake up to watch all the cartoons.
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  SPEAKER_01: I could sleep, put the tape in, you know, put the tape in, play it, and then guess what?
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: I got Power Rangers, Captain N, and the Nintendo Masters, I got, you know, Transformers, whatever the Saturday morning cartoon was, I have it ready to go.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: That was the plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I went to bed at 9 o'clock, 89 o'clock, tape was in there, ready to watch Power Rangers in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was the main thing.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: I had to watch Power Rangers in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Instead, when I get up, I woke up, put the TV in, or put the uh push play on the V V H V C R.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: That didn't sound like that did not sound like Power Rangers.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Not one bit.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: What was that?
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: My childhood has been ruined.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: I've been corrupted.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: That was not Power Rangers, and if you can tell what that sound was, you know what that what was in there.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: So then my curiosity took over.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: What was that?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Let me let me do some further investigation to figure out why she's yelling, yeah, like that for.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: It was okay.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: This is what we do.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't need to watch Power Range no more.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it corrupted my childhood and it's been ruined.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: And now I gotta figure out what this tape is all about.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: So 13, 14 years old, my mind has been altered.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: No longer playing Super Nintendo.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to figure out what's on this dag on tape.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: It happens, right?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: I guess, right?
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: So from that point, he finally moves out.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: And we move to a better neighborhood in Hamilton, in German village, right?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: So again, I'm entering puberty, I'm starting to experience how it's like living with a man as opposed to a woman.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Because none again, I was young, my mama never did this stuff.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: I never never knew this stuff existed.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now I know it existed.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: And he would start having females over.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: When he had when he had women over, right?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: I stay in my room.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: I got a PlayStation now, I can play Final Fantasy VII, mind my business, have my own TV, everything was great.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: I could just stay in my room, whatever, right?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: So the thing with the thing with my pops is that whenever it was entertainment time, again, PG show, entertainment time, it would be Earth, Wind and Fire time.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Every time entertainment came by, I would get uh, you know, September or fantasy, you know, songs from Earth Wind and Fire.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: I guess it might be the reason why I like Earth Win and Fire so much, but no, they're actually a good band, right?
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: So he would play like hey, Carlos, went busy, you know, stay in the room.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: All right?
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, cool, no problem.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, turn the TV on, play the Final Fantasy.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm gonna leave you alone, you leave me alone.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Bang.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yep.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, Earth When it Fires in the background, right?
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Chilling, playing fantasy, then you hear this bing bong, bing bong.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Someone's at the door.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: He told me to stay in my room.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm not getting out.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna stay in my room, keep playing Final Fantasy.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not involved, right?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: He be like, he came to my door, like, hey, Carlos.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yeah, dad.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, I need you to uh get the door for me.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay, I mean, you know, whatever.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, yeah, but don't let her in.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: I said, huh?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: He said, come up with something, don't let her in.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what?
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Why am I involved in this situation?
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just 14, 15 years old.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't want to be involved in this situation.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to lie, I gotta come up with these lies for two minutes and tell this person that you're not here when they're clearly here.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Carlos! I'm like, all right, dad, got it.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Go downstairs, open the door.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's a big, blonde, big boobied woman.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my God.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, is your dad here?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, um, no, he's not here.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, oh, she's not?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: I said, no, he's not.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: He said, oh, do you like Earth, Wind and Fire?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I love Earth, Wind, and Fire.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's my favorite.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's September plan right now.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's one of my favorite Earth Wind and Fire songs.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, oh, is it now?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yeah.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Name another one.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: I said, girl, you act like this is my first rodeo.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: I said, fantasy is coming up soon.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's one of my favorite songs.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: This ain't nothing new to me.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: All right, this has been happening for a while, but this is the first time I have to block somebody at the door.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, okay.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: Then explain why his van is in the front.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: I said, his van is in the front because um it is um it is broken.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's broken.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's broken.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yeah.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's broken.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: His brother has come in and they're getting parts to fix the van.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, really?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yep.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: So do you mind if I wait?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you can't do that.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just 15 years old.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's weird to have a stranger in my house.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: My dad says, don't have strangers in the house.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: So, oh, really?
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: And she left.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: She left.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, yo, that was good.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: I was good on my feet.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said, this is great.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: I said, she she left.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: So successful mission, right?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: I I I officially CB'd, you know, PG show.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: If you figure out what C B means, you know what it means.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: I see I C B'd this lady.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, the next day my dad's like, Did she come in?
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: I said, obviously not, Pops, you know.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: You're like, oh, good job, good job, Carlos.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: And you might be like, Who's Carlos?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Again, that's classified information.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's my middle name, code for my middle name.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: My real middle name is not Carlos, but I will never tell it.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, you will never know my middle name.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: So after that, we became like closer in a way, question mark.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: And the reason why I say that is because he's like, Hell, hey, you know, um, when are you gonna have some entertainment?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, I'm like, dad.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm like 15.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not, you know, my mindset is not there yet.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not ready for that.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he's like, and he looks at me like, are you sure?
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, you know, like I'm like, look, I still like PlayStation, I still like watching TV, I watch football, play football, you know.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Right now, girls is not my uh number one thing.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, oh, okay.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: He looked at me like, okay, well, look, my videos, my VCR tapes are right there.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: He said, my condoms are up there, and if you want me to leave, I'll leave for 30 minutes, you know, and let you handle your business, and I'll come back.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, Carlos, this, you know, you this is the way it's gonna be here.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is the way it's gonna be here.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, dad, really?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like you wanna you wanna put this mind frame?
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: You wanna put this in my mind, like make me think about this in the future?
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm just not ready.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Let me be a kid, let me just be a child and not have to worry about this.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to worry about this.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_02: And he would look at me like just and the reason why he would look at me, he would, I think, like it's weird, like two eyebrows up, like, what's the and I think he questioned if I was gay or not.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like he's just like, Are you just like okay, Carlos?
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: If you say so, I'm like, like looking at me like crazy, like he's like, Are you he never said, he never asked me like straight up, but he kind of hinted at like you never never mind it's just I wasn't I wasn't there, I wasn't ready, ready for that.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: I just wasn't ready for that.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: One of the funny things about my dad was learning how to adjust to his style, like like I would listen to hip hop music and rap and all that stuff, and he would listen to this old 1950s quartet barbershop stuff.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: You may not now it's 2022, and you may not be familiar with it, so let me play a little sample of what this stuff was.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Now imagine coming home, and then this is all you hear.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_03: I want a girl just like the girl that married dear Paul Dad.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: She was a bird and the oldest.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I heard majority of the time.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, to each his own.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't like my rap music.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: I sure as heck didn't like the barber quartet.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Music.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know anybody who actually does these days compared to that old school 1950s stuff.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's bad in my book.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm not gonna sh I'm not even gonna try to make it sound good.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's bad music.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, it is what it is.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I lived with him for roughly five to six years.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then when I turned 18, started to have a job, started to collect, you know, successful gain, you know, have money.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: I wrote up one day, he was like, hey uh Carlos.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know, what's up, Dad?
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey man, you wanna go wanna go half on this rent?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, half on rent?
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm still your child, man.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean half on rent?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like, well, you know, it's that time you you 18.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go half on this rent.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, I'm not going half on rent because you're supposed to be my father.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're not you asking me for rent?
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, it's that time for you to start going half on rent.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, you know what?
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: You're crazy.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: You are certifiably crazy to think I'm going to pay rent as a child.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not even 18 yet, and you want to charge me rent to live in this place?
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, do we do I get to choose where I live and what I get to do and all that stuff?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, no.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, then get the heck out of here.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then that's when I started to realize, like, something ain't right with this guy.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: If you're gonna charge me rent, I couldn't imagine asking my kids to pay rent in my house.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: What makes you think that's that's cool or acceptable, huh?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: So at that point, I knew I had to go.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I just started doing things to make them mad, right?
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: Just try to see what happened to make him upset.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: So, one thing he didn't like, he didn't like piercings, ear piercings.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't like ear piercings.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I get that being a military person that he was, he didn't like ear piercing.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know what?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: So be it.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get my ears pierced.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I got them both pierced.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, ain't no way my son or anybody in my family is gonna have two ears piercing.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: I said, really?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: He said, yeah, you gotta go.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, all right, fine.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Screw it.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Go back and live with my mom.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: My mom lives back in Hamilton's.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, she didn't go, she married a guy, the guy divorced, whatever, died, something.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: He no, he didn't.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: He eventually passed away.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I moved back in with my mom.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: Moved back in with my mom for about a year, year and a half.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: Then I met my my wife, then girlfriend at the time.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: And and I started getting my life together, and then I started to I started to you know talk about joining the military.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then my dad, I tell my dad, hey, I'm gonna join the military.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: So what branch?
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: He said, United States Air Force, the best branch in the world.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, uh, I'm gonna need you to go through a psyche evaluation.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: You want me to go through a psychic evaluation?
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah, Carlos.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: I said, No, dad, I'm not going through no psychic evaluation.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: What's wrong with you?
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: You think you think I'm crazy?
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: You think I'm crazy?
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, you crazy.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, he's like, before you go, you're gonna do that evaluation.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, you pay for it, and then I'll go.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Needless to say, it didn't happen.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: So then I get engaged before I left.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: And then he goes, uh, this ain't lasting no longer than five years.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: I said, really?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: He said, yeah, I guarantee you you're gonna find you something new in the military and it ain't gonna last five years.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Well, guess what?
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm at 20.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm almost at 20.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: So you lose.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: You lose, my friend.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: And all that, all that, you may ask yourself like, well, why would you make an episode about your dad?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: Because my dad, he made the example that I am right now.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: And you maybe think, well, if you listen to the whole story, like, well, you know, he was this, he was that, he was a he was a he wasn't the best, right?
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Clear cut, he wasn't the best.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: But his example of how not to be the best has made me a better human being, slash dad, slash husband.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: So the examples he put forward, this and this and this, were terrible, terrible.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I took all those and said, this is what I'm not gonna do.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: This is what I'm not gonna do.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: This is what I'm not gonna do.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: And that shaped me to who I am.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: His example, his bad example has made me, in my opinion, a better man.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: And that's it.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: That is part one of the story.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: Part two is going into a little more details for him.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: And when I, you know, as an adult now, I get to find out more about it.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna end this on that note.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening in to the WDYM.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and guys, I'm out.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.