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Dad Can You Not From Author And Dad Tim Leighton · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Good morning, Jip, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, er, I'm great. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm very excited to share a conversation with you.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is the funniest thing, Jip. While while reading
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  Speaker 1: the book, I hear my father's voice because I just
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  Speaker 1: because I would always look at my dad and because
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  Speaker 1: dads do the most odd ball things. But yet when
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  Speaker 1: you get to be up there in Dad's age, you go,
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  Speaker 1: he was quite funny, he said it, you know, cause
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  Speaker 1: any I mean, I don't think he ever meant harm
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  Speaker 1: by the words he shared and you kind of give
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  Speaker 1: us that vibe right here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean books called Dad can you not
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  Speaker 3: a Dad's guy? To being less cringey? And so there's
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  Speaker 3: a yeah, there's a certain kind of just cringe that
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  Speaker 3: dads embrace and that I think when you become a
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  Speaker 3: dad or you've come an older dad, you sort of
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  Speaker 3: appreciate it and embrace yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's full of like.
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  Speaker 3: Dozens and dozens of funny things that like real, real
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  Speaker 3: life dads have done.
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  Speaker 1: Well poor dads these days, because I swear to God
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  Speaker 1: that dads want to learn everything from their their parents
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  Speaker 1: as well as their grandparents, and then they're struck trying
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  Speaker 1: to be hip and cool in a culture that changes
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  Speaker 1: every five minutes, and it's like, no wonder dads say
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  Speaker 1: cringey things like that because it's like going, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to fit in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, one of the big rules in the book
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  Speaker 3: is don't try to use the language of your kids' generation.
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  Speaker 3: That's like, you know, when you start talking about you know,
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  Speaker 3: your riz or whatever, like that's.
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  Speaker 1: Not going to go well, no, it doesn't go well.
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  Speaker 1: You know one of the things that that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you you bring so many memories to life for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And I would love to have like this big auditorium
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  Speaker 1: full of people where everybody brings their dad story, because
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  Speaker 1: right away, I'm thinking of when my dad all he
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  Speaker 1: had to ever do was just touch the corner of
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  Speaker 1: his belt and you knew, shut the hell up, you
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  Speaker 1: break it down. There's no reason to have this going on.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, that's a cringey dad moment because Dad
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  Speaker 1: had some super Yoda power.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you say, you know, like bring together
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  Speaker 3: people in the auditorium or whatever, And that's that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of what I'm trying to do here and on social
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  Speaker 3: media is like I started sharing some funny stories about
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  Speaker 3: dads and then like people in the comments or in
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  Speaker 3: my messages will just chime in with all these others,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's trying to That's kind of the idea
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  Speaker 3: about the book is just sort of a collecting these
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  Speaker 3: and even though the specifics behind, you know, an example
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  Speaker 3: might be different, like you can kind of you kind
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  Speaker 3: of get the concept of you can sort of picture
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  Speaker 3: your dad doing some of the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: On One of the things that that I really love
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  Speaker 1: about your book is how honest it is that you
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  Speaker 1: are transparent in the way that you say that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we are the dads. We have an unofficial translator,
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  Speaker 1: and Dad's got to figure things out and put it
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  Speaker 1: in his own words, and then the rest of us
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  Speaker 1: are sitting there shaking our head, going, please don't do
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  Speaker 1: this when my friends are around, Dad, Please can you not?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I have a lot of I have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teenager texts in the book that are about dads,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, Dad's not embarrassing them.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's one there's one.
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  Speaker 3: That's like, Hey, I'm having friends over at two o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: can you and Dad be out of the house? Dad specifically,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so we're the ones that they're that they're
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  Speaker 3: concerned about.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it that dads think that they can fix everything?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really believe that in my own case anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a chart in the book about you,
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  Speaker 3: like Dad's home improvement checklist, And it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the first thing is like refuse to bring in a professional,
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  Speaker 3: which you know pretty much steals your fate, and then
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  Speaker 3: all the mistakes from there. But yeah, that is a
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  Speaker 3: it is a pretty common dad behavior.
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  Speaker 1: So no, in your in your studies and bringing the
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  Speaker 1: book together. What did you learn about dads and texting?
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  Speaker 1: You kind of brought up on that, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's one of those transitions where we move from
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  Speaker 1: even my dad would never put anything down on a
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  Speaker 1: piece of paper if you didn't hear him. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear him, and then you're gonna get your butt beat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the the I have one of the
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  Speaker 3: one of the pitfalls is acronyms.
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  Speaker 2: Like dads will try to use acronyms and get them wrong.
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  Speaker 3: So, like the biggest source of confusion is l O L,
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  Speaker 3: which obviously stands for laugh out loud, but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of dads think it means lots of love, so they'll
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  Speaker 3: they'll send texts like, hey, Grandma Pats in the ICU
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  Speaker 3: l ol dad, you know which, you know that's not
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  Speaker 3: the right that's not the right move.
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  Speaker 1: I would have loved to have been a fly on
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  Speaker 1: the wall when you were opening up these emails and
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  Speaker 1: letters in the because I mean, these are real, honest
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  Speaker 1: to God kids that are sharing their stories, and it's
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  Speaker 1: and just to be there to hear those stories. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that what we all live for? And why grandparents like
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  Speaker 1: being grandparents because they like to tattle on their parents, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's yeah, there's just something so universal about
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  Speaker 3: dad behavior that like, you know, you like, there's a
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  Speaker 3: story of the book about this guy who he was
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  Speaker 3: with his family in the movies and he stepped out
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  Speaker 3: to like make a phone call and he came back
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  Speaker 3: and just like sat down next to a completely different
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  Speaker 3: family and didn't didn't realize it. And it's like that's
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  Speaker 3: never happened like in my family, but I could totally
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  Speaker 3: picture it happening that kind of thing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to. I had to look up what
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  Speaker 1: the word cringey is defined as in the dictionary, only
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  Speaker 1: because I'm just a word freak awkward, embarrassing, the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that makes people cringe. Hell, dude, I've become my dad, right.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right, Yeah, that's yeah, there's I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 3: what age that gets triggered everything gradually, but yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: definitely happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what about you personally? When did you have one
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  Speaker 1: of those moments where you get busted by your dad
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  Speaker 1: and it's like one of those where they kind of
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  Speaker 1: come back with a better answer and you want to
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  Speaker 1: be stern and strong and all that, but all of it.
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  Speaker 1: But what they said was wiser than what dad said.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting one. Yeah, I mean, I mean kids
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  Speaker 3: are I mean, part of why I like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: teenagers and teenager texts and stuff is that they're like
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  Speaker 3: they're very funny and sarcastic, which is like it's a
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  Speaker 3: sign of intelligence, I think.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, for me, with my kids.
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  Speaker 3: They'll like it's more of like they'll kind of like
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  Speaker 3: like bust me, bust me in like a in like
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  Speaker 3: a sarcastic way.
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  Speaker 2: Like my uh.
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  Speaker 3: There's actually little mini roasts throughout the book from my
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  Speaker 3: kids in there, which is kind of a fun thing.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a a little.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the introduction that says, like, you know, talks
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  Speaker 3: about me quitting a solid paying corporate job in my
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  Speaker 3: fifties to film insufferable tiktoks in a pathetic attempt to
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  Speaker 3: gain clout. So you know, it's those kinds of descriptions
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  Speaker 3: that keep me, keep me humble.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know what, the one thing I've seen
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  Speaker 1: with dads today as well as dads of yesteryear, they
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  Speaker 1: don't stop dreaming. I mean, I mean, my dad, my grandfather.
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  Speaker 1: They were always working on a boat, or they were
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  Speaker 1: working on different plans. And as an adult today, I
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  Speaker 1: swear to god, you know that dads of yesterday still
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  Speaker 1: live within dads today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that is true.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of uh yeah, pipeream pipe dreams in
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  Speaker 3: most cases probably, but uh but yeah, there's always uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's always something on the horizon that that most dads
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  Speaker 3: are thinking about that the family's probably just shaking their
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  Speaker 3: head at. But but that's yeah, I guess that's part
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  Speaker 3: of cringe too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you just gave me a flashback when
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  Speaker 1: dads are shaking their head because when my daughter looked
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  Speaker 1: at me and said, so, please tell me, dude, are
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  Speaker 1: the clouds in your sky purple and pink? Because you
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  Speaker 1: think that you are out here, So I just want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I can relate with the clouds
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  Speaker 1: that you see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a lot of crazy questions like that
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  Speaker 3: from teenagers in the book to dad, like, hey, the
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  Speaker 3: are the stainless steel pots microwave safe?
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  Speaker 2: You know that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of a lot of laundry texts I've
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  Speaker 3: seen from kids too, like hey, how do I get
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  Speaker 3: my clothes out of the washing machine. Do I just
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  Speaker 3: like reaching there with my hands, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Or dad trying to explain to their kid who just
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  Speaker 1: got their very first car, where the radio is and
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  Speaker 1: why radio is very very important, and the kids just
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  Speaker 1: look at it going now, I got it on my phone, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I I got it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that one must must sit home for you
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  Speaker 2: kind of. Yeah, that's gotta hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't listen to the radio anymore. That's good.
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  Speaker 1: That means there's more room for everybody else than it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like a church. Just let somebody new come
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  Speaker 1: in and sit down in the seats, then please don't move.
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  Speaker 1: you had to have laughed when you would read about
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  Speaker 1: fathers who always try to fit in, because you know
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  Speaker 1: it's a relate. That's what I love about this book
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  Speaker 1: is that every generation can read it. But dads are
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  Speaker 1: gonna find this book so dang funny that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to Spotify, We're gonna go to you know,
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  Speaker 1: a TikTok where because we want more from you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well that's good. I like that. Yeah and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So are a place that's kind of like a community
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  Speaker 3: where people come together and like the comment sections full
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  Speaker 3: of people saying, oh my gosh, my dad did the
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  Speaker 3: exact same thing or my kid did the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's fun about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's I'm not trying to not trying to like make
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  Speaker 3: fun of kids or parents, but I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 3: like kind of highlight the every day, you know, silly
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  Speaker 3: stuff that happens in life that to give people a smile,
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  Speaker 3: hol er, a laugh.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's been it's been fun.
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  Speaker 3: I just kind of developed this platform while I was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, working full time in the corporate world, and
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  Speaker 3: eventually I left that job to focus more on this
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  Speaker 3: in the books. But it's been just a great kind
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  Speaker 3: of like adventure to you know, connect with different people
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  Speaker 3: and see them connect with one another.
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  Speaker 1: But as a dad and as a business person, don't
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  Speaker 1: you love this freedom that this streaming process and writing
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  Speaker 1: process has given you When it comes to just speaking
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of truth so that people can tap
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  Speaker 1: into you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I love these new platforms, right, that's
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  Speaker 3: why I started. I mean I started on TikTok, and
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  Speaker 3: the whole reason was that, you know, anybody with like
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  Speaker 3: no following can post thing on TikTok, and if it's
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  Speaker 3: engaging enough, it can go to thousands or even millions
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  Speaker 3: of people. And so it's it's you think about all
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  Speaker 3: the you know, just creative people in the world, or
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  Speaker 3: people who have ideas that are now able to reach
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  Speaker 3: others and share them, and that that wasn't the case
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  Speaker 3: like when I was growing up or when I was younger,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think it's I think it's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: I know there's you know, plus minuses to social media,
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  Speaker 3: but but for me, it's been like an amazing experience
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  Speaker 3: to connect with others. And yeah, just I hear from
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  Speaker 3: a lot of parents like, oh, I guess, I guess
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  Speaker 3: I'm a perfectly normal parent. I thought it was like
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  Speaker 3: the worst parent of the world, or I thought my
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  Speaker 3: kid was weird or something, but I guess we're just
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  Speaker 3: totally normal.
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  Speaker 1: I took on a job at a grocery store because
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  Speaker 1: I love people so much and being in radio we
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  Speaker 1: envision people, we don't see people, and so to be
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  Speaker 1: there in these grocery stores and to watch fathers come
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  Speaker 1: in with their kids. I literally will go up to
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  Speaker 1: a little one and say, I'm so jealous of you
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  Speaker 1: because my dad would never go to a grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: I said, what is it like to have this guy
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with you? And that smile the two of
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  Speaker 1: them share boy or girl? My god, dude, And that's
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  Speaker 1: why your book fits in perfectly, because it's happening dads.
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  Speaker 1: Dads are more invested in kids today only through personal experience,
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  Speaker 1: than I've ever seen dads do it, and I love
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  Speaker 1: them for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a good observation. I think that
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  Speaker 3: is true. I think dads are more involved than they
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  Speaker 3: used to be. I think that's part of where, part
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  Speaker 3: of where some of the jubra comes from, dads, you know,
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  Speaker 3: texting their kids or trying to be trying to be
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  Speaker 3: cool or doing whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's a good example.
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  Speaker 3: I and and I do see a lot of I
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  Speaker 3: do get a lot of good content from grocery store
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  Speaker 3: type interactions. The famous one was the kid who texted
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  Speaker 3: his parents like hey, I think it was his mom actually,
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  Speaker 3: but he's like, hey, I'm at the grocery store, right,
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  Speaker 3: We're like, where do I find a pasta water?
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  Speaker 2: It's like, that's not what something they sell.
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  Speaker 1: Is this going to be turned into a board game
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  Speaker 1: like Monopoly? Because I could see a whole group of
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  Speaker 1: people playing like crimes against humanity with a game like this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh interesting, I hadn't thought of that. Now that's a
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  Speaker 3: good I'm gonna have to think some more about that era.
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  Speaker 3: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: I did hear from like some families, like with my
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  Speaker 3: first book, which is called What Time Is Noon? Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them will like read they'll like read
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  Speaker 3: it out loud, like together as a family, and just
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  Speaker 3: because it's just you can open any page and it's
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  Speaker 3: just like funny, funny stories and texts and stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: so it's a little bit like a board game dynamic,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, a little less investment.
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  Speaker 2: But my hope is that this is what it's it's
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  Speaker 2: the same kind of deal.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that last book, because you and I
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  Speaker 1: had a conversation about that book, and I love the
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  Speaker 1: way that the origin of that book and how you
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  Speaker 1: were able to be able to have the strength and
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  Speaker 1: confidence to bring that book to the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: And it all started with a conversation inside your family
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  Speaker 1: about noon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I've heard, yes, the book is the titles
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  Speaker 3: what Tite is Noon? And I've probably heard from like
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  Speaker 3: a dozen different families that their kid asked them some
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  Speaker 3: form of that question, which is kind of crazy because
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  Speaker 3: you would never think, like, I got to teach my
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  Speaker 3: kid what moon means. But but if you hadn't, then
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  Speaker 3: they'd never heard what it meant, then they wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it's just that kind of like relatable
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  Speaker 3: thing that you know, it's there, it's no fault of anybody,
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  Speaker 3: but just creates this crazy, funny situation and you get
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  Speaker 3: these so that, Yeah, that books full of tons of
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  Speaker 3: other crazy questions, like you know, do Grandma have kids?
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  Speaker 3: Or you know, like can you get lung cancer from
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  Speaker 3: smoke turkey? You know all those kinds of crazy questions.
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  Speaker 1: I host the show on iHeartRadio called Something Our Parents
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  Speaker 1: Would Say, and it really is everything that our parents
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  Speaker 1: would say. And the thing is, though, is that I'm
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  Speaker 1: learning a lot of this stuff that we even say today.
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  Speaker 1: Started back in the early part of the nineteen hundreds,
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  Speaker 1: or even far as far back as the fifteen and
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hundreds. Dads are not off base. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: swear to God and that's and this book serves as
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  Speaker 1: that reminder if we just listened to them. Because the
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  Speaker 1: languages that dads and grandfathers do it is it's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: way out there, weird, but kids can learn from it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, so you're researching this back to the fifteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 2: I do. I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, but I'll tell you what I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it, and I would have to have Encyclopedia
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  Speaker 1: Britannicas in here if I were to do it the
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: old fashioned way, the way we used to do it
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: back in the seventies and eighties. And so thank God
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: in Heaven we've got streaming in all these platforms because
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: it allows us and see once again, your book is
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: going to do that. I want to know how many
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: listeners are going to read your book, Dad, can you not?
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: And they're going to go in there and they're going
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: to do their own research because you set up the conversation. Dude.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Oh well thanks, Yeah, that'll be good. I think, yeah,
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the other thing, obviously, like the
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: book is it's a good gift for a dad, right
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: because you know the dad will get some good laughs
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: out of it, but the family might benefit from some
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: lessons that he might learn. So obviously be good for
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Father's Day, since Father's Day gifts are notoriously terrible. So
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: you know, there's there's there's there's some you know, it's
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: a win win.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: I think with this one.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Well, Alexa doesn't like to talk about this, and Lord
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: knows that I have been with her a lot asking
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: her things about dads, and I always say that why
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: is it that dads think they can fart the way
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: they do? Because that's pretty damn cringey, dude, And it's
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: like and they won't even just break a smile or anything.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: It's just it's a part of live.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it's yeah. I've got a few stories
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: about life.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: The book about Dad's Like there's one who like he
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: was in the park and like farted and like a
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: flock of geese landed like right immediately after.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: There was there was also a.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: There's a there's a famous text in the book can
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: can you tell Dad?
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Me and my friends can hear him farting in the bathroom?
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: You know, get feedback like that, are you gonna take
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: this to a comedy club because it would be so
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: fun to just sit there and and and listen to
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: you share stories and take live things from the crowd.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's good. I have done a little
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: bit of live performing. I do.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: It's sort of a mix of I've done some events
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: around like the book launch launches, and but I've also
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: done some sort of stand upy stuff and I do
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: like I do a thing where I actually use like
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: a digital screen behind me and I share some of
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: the funniest, you know, texts and stuff, and and it's
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: pretty fun. I've done some stuff at colleges with like
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: parents weekends and stuff, because like that's a you know,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: that's my core audience is like parents of college students
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: and teenagers. So it has been fun to like meet
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: people in real life and not just online.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: The book we're talking a bit about is dad, can
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you not? And one of those big moments and I'm
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: sure we all go through it, And I would love
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: to know what the age group is when dads can
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: do this. When you look at your dad and you say, Dad,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you're wearing your pants too high? Can you just put
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: them down on the hips, buddy, It's not about the
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: belly button. Put them down on your hips. Have you
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: run into that at all with with with readers as
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: well as yourself.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Well, sure, I get tons of I get tons of
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: feedback about my own my own clothes, and it's usually
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: like one mistake is like if I wear stuff, it's
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: like all the same color and my daughter will be
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: all over you know, my monochromatic outfit or whatever. But
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I've got I've got a little you know, some charts
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: in the books about the different wardrobe types. You know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the dads wear the high socks and the new balanced
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: shoes and everything from Costco and all that kind of stuff.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, you got to embrace that, I guess.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Do you think that this is one of the very
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: first books where it's like, you know, because people always say,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: imagine your dad, and it's like we imagine my dad.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: My dad's actually doing it. I mean, that's what this book,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I mean reminds me of. It's like I can't be
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the only one, and this he's proven that my dad
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: is not the only one.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, No, No, that's the whole thing is like, uh,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: even though this some of the behavior of the book
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: is like kind of crazy, it's also kind of normal, right,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: like the Dad's just Dad's just do it and uh
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: and uh yeah, like I said, like kind of like
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: a lot of that just kind of embrace being cringey
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: and you know, like one of the first people I
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: told about the book was like, why would I want
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: to Why would I want to be less cringey?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: It's like half fun.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: So uh but but it's yeah, it's just it's a fun,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: light read that's like a good thing for just the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: family or to leave out on the you know, lead
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: out on the you know, the living room table or
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: whatever and people can open up and get laugh.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Wow. Where can people go to find out more about you? Man?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Eighteen minutes with you is not going to be enough time, chip,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and I want them to dig in and follow you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and really tap into your last book as well, because
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I really thought there were a lot
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of very inventive and creative things that you shared inside
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: those pages.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Oh thanks, I appreciate it. So yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: My social media platforms are all the Layton Show, l Ei,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: e ht O, n so, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook are
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: the big ones. And I also got a website, the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: leytonshow dot com And yeah, Dad ken you not or
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: what time is noon? Or you know, available wherever books
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: are sold. And like I said, I think Dad can
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: now be a great, great fun gift for the dad
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: in your life for Father's Day or whatever other occasions
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: you have coming up.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the future. Chip, You know that door is always going
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to be open for you. Dude.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks, I really always appreciate chatting with you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Will you'd be brilliant today? Okay, all right, you too,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you sir.