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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up my people after show podcast checking in it
- 0:03Speaker 1: is a monday november 9th i hope everybody is doing
- 0:06Speaker 1: well i appreciate you listening to this podcast and making
- 0:09Speaker 1: it a part of your routine i do it every
- 0:12Speaker 1: single day well five days a week right after the
- 0:14Speaker 1: billy and lisa show ends i jump on here that's
- 0:17Speaker 1: how this works but i hope you had a great
- 0:19Speaker 1: weekend i had a great weekend comics come home great
- 0:22Speaker 1: time so we typically go to vermont to a recovery
- 0:25Speaker 1: event we've been going for many many years But the
- 0:28Speaker 1: last couple of years, Comics Come Home has fallen on
- 0:30Speaker 1: the same weekend. So I found that we've kind of alternated.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Last year we went to Vermont. This year we decided
- 0:36Speaker 1: to go to Comics Come Home because we love both.
- 0:39Speaker 1: I mean Vermont is a very special place to us.
- 0:41Speaker 1: We've been going– oh my god. We started going in
- 0:44Speaker 1: 2009 and we went every single year. I believe up
- 0:47Speaker 1: until 2017 or 18 and then we kind of alternate.
- 0:52Speaker 1: It's a getaway. We love Burlington, Vermont. We love seeing
- 0:54Speaker 1: the people up there. It's really just a special place,
- 0:58Speaker 1: special time, and really an important part of our relationship.
- 1:02Speaker 1: But this year we decided on Comics Come Home, and
- 1:03Speaker 1: I'm glad we did because we had a great time.
- 1:05Speaker 1: So we've got a hotel room in Boston at the
- 1:07Speaker 1: Courtyard Marriott, which is right across from the Garden. My
- 1:10Speaker 1: wife actually put it all together. Shout out to her.
- 1:12Speaker 1: She booked the hotel. She booked the parking, all that stuff,
- 1:16Speaker 1: the breakfast on Sunday morning. So, yeah, the kids stayed
- 1:20Speaker 1: at home. We got out, parents night out. We went
- 1:23Speaker 1: to the snow port. It was raining, which kind of sucks,
- 1:26Speaker 1: but it was cool. Didn't spend as much time there
- 1:28Speaker 1: as possible because when we got into Boston, we thought, okay,
- 1:31Speaker 1: if it's not raining, we'll go by snow port. That's fine.
- 1:34Speaker 1: But if it's raining, we'll just go to the hotel
- 1:37Speaker 1: and try to check in early. So we get into Boston,
- 1:39Speaker 1: like into the tunnel, and it wasn't raining. So we
- 1:42Speaker 1: find parking in the seaport. We get out. We start
- 1:44Speaker 1: walking towards snow port. What do you know? Downpours.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 1: So we walked around a little bit. We got some,
- 1:51Speaker 1: she loves truffle, truffle everything, truffle fries, truffle popcorn, and
- 1:56Speaker 1: they had a truffle stand there. So we yucked it
- 1:59Speaker 1: up with them. She got some truffle popcorn and some
- 2:01Speaker 1: truffle honey. And then we made our way over to
- 2:04Speaker 1: the garden, the hotel, which was really cool because she
- 2:07Speaker 1: got a view overlooking the Zakem. So our room was,
- 2:10Speaker 1: you know, just one room with a king size. And
- 2:14Speaker 1: you open up the curtains, and it's literally right over
- 2:16Speaker 1: the Zakem Bridge. So it was really, really cool. And,
- 2:20Speaker 1: you know, I mentioned on the show today about the
- 2:21Speaker 1: sheets that I sleep with a fitted sheet, but I'm
- 2:25Speaker 1: very particular about the top sheet. I don't sleep with
- 2:28Speaker 1: a sheet and a blanket. I can't believe that I'm
- 2:31Speaker 1: kind of alone on this via the talkback's. I don't know.
- 2:36Speaker 1: I don't sleep with a top sheet at home either.
- 2:38Speaker 1: I just get tangled up in it. Maybe it's because
- 2:40Speaker 1: I roll around a lot when I sleep. But every
- 2:43Speaker 1: time I sleep with a top sheet, I don't have
- 2:45Speaker 1: a good rest because I wake up and the sheet's
- 2:48Speaker 1: wrapped around my body in weird ways. And then the
- 2:50Speaker 1: blanket somewhere or, you know, in my sleep, I'll get
- 2:54Speaker 1: rid of the blanket and wake up with just a
- 2:56Speaker 1: sheet and I'll be freezing. It just never works out
- 2:58Speaker 1: for me. So I don't like the sheet. And then
- 3:00Speaker 1: the pillow thing.
- 3:01Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 3:02Speaker 1: It's got to be a flat pillow, but not too flat.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I know this sounds like diva-ish, but hey, you like
- 3:07Speaker 1: what you like. The pillows were comfortable, but they were bulky.
- 3:11Speaker 1: I don't like the bulky pillow, so I don't know.
- 3:14Speaker 1: A lot of people were DMing me and sending talkbacks
- 3:17Speaker 1: about the hotel comments, but comics come home, fantastic lineup.
- 3:22Speaker 1: I really liked everybody, honestly. Ray Romano was my favorite,
- 3:27Speaker 1: which was surprising because I liked Everybody Loves Raymond as
- 3:30Speaker 1: a show. I wasn't a huge fan. I did like it,
- 3:32Speaker 1: but I had never seen his stand-up, Ray Romano. And
- 3:35Speaker 1: he had me dying. It was great. Alex Edelman, great,
- 3:39Speaker 1: really funny. Jimmy Fallon was good. God, everybody was really good.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Leslie Jones was very funny. And, of course, Dennis. Dennis
- 3:50Speaker 1: always does a great job. And Cam and his wife, Paulina.
- 3:54Speaker 1: What they do at the Neely House is really, really
- 3:56Speaker 1: an amazing thing. Obviously, Cam Neely's parents died of cancer. So,
- 4:00Speaker 1: you know, years ago, 30 plus years ago, he started
- 4:03Speaker 1: Neely House as a place where people that are, you know,
- 4:06Speaker 1: sick with cancer can go and have a comfortable place
- 4:10Speaker 1: to be taken care of and not, you know, glued
- 4:12Speaker 1: to a hospital bed somewhere. So they do amazing work
- 4:16Speaker 1: in 30 years. Crazy. And, you know, one of the
- 4:19Speaker 1: coolest parts of it is the comedians that come do
- 4:22Speaker 1: it for free. And Dennis said that on stage. He
- 4:24Speaker 1: gives to understand Saturday night for a comedian. That's where
- 4:28Speaker 1: they make all their money. So the fact that this
- 4:30Speaker 1: entire lineup of top billing headliners took a saturday off
- 4:35Speaker 1: to fly into boston to perform for free for you
- 4:39Speaker 1: know cam neely and neely house was just it's really
- 4:42Speaker 1: really cool so we had a great time laughed our
- 4:45Speaker 1: asses off of course bobby kelly was great lenny clark
- 4:47Speaker 1: was great everybody was fantastic um and it was a
- 4:51Speaker 1: great night dinner didn't work out so well for us
- 4:54Speaker 1: did not work out well um We had a reservation
- 4:58Speaker 1: at a place called Alcove, which is right next to
- 5:00Speaker 1: the garden. I had been there before. And we made
- 5:04Speaker 1: it from 6 o'clock, but we went at 545 and
- 5:06Speaker 1: thought maybe we'd try to get in earlier. So they're
- 5:08Speaker 1: about to seat us. The restaurant isn't that busy. They're
- 5:11Speaker 1: about to seat us, and this other woman comes over,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, no, it says 7 o'clock. So
- 5:16Speaker 1: we're like, no, it's 6 o'clock. She said, no, it
- 5:18Speaker 1: says 7, and we can't seat you until 7. Like
- 5:20Speaker 1: really rude, rude to us. And you have to understand. Listen,
- 5:24Speaker 1: you never know what people are going through, right? They're
- 5:26Speaker 1: stressed out. They're busy. I get it. Okay. But we're
- 5:31Speaker 1: not rude people. My wife and I, we are the
- 5:34Speaker 1: most laid back people. You can ask anybody. I know that,
- 5:37Speaker 1: you know, I work on the radio and you hear
- 5:39Speaker 1: me talk on this podcast and you can kind of
- 5:41Speaker 1: get an idea maybe of what I am like as
- 5:44Speaker 1: a person in everyday life. You could ask anybody in
- 5:47Speaker 1: our lives that we're known for that is we are
- 5:50Speaker 1: not drama filled. We don't treat people bad. We are
- 5:54Speaker 1: very calm. So when we say like, oh, your reservation
- 5:58Speaker 1: is at 7, my wife goes, oh, no, it's actually 6.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I actually have the confirmation here and showed her the confirmation.
- 6:04Speaker 1: And she was so mean and so rude. And she's like, no,
- 6:08Speaker 1: it says 7 and we cannot seat you until 7 o'clock.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Mind you, it's 545. So I'm like, I'm not dealing
- 6:14Speaker 1: with this. So we leave. We don't even stay there.
- 6:16Speaker 1: So shout out to Alcove. Thank you so much for
- 6:18Speaker 1: the attitude. I appreciate it. But then we were stuck.
- 6:21Speaker 1: We had no dinner. Yeah. Like where were we going
- 6:23Speaker 1: to eat? Saturday night, Tavern in the Square, our wait.
- 6:27Speaker 1: And we didn't want to get to the show late.
- 6:28Speaker 1: It starts at 8 o'clock. We wanted to get into
- 6:30Speaker 1: the garden by like 745. We didn't want to be
- 6:32Speaker 1: those people stumbling around, walking in while the show is
- 6:35Speaker 1: going on, especially if there was going to be a
- 6:37Speaker 1: big open for the show. So we decided to go
- 6:42Speaker 1: into Hub Hall. Oh, now mind you, the bracelets for
- 6:46Speaker 1: the pre-party I did not have with me. So there
- 6:49Speaker 1: was a pre-party for Comics Come Home. So we went
- 6:51Speaker 1: to Hub Hall, and we ended up getting seated at
- 6:54Speaker 1: the ramen spot there. It was fine. It was okay.
- 6:57Speaker 1: My wife doesn't really eat that stuff, though, so she
- 7:00Speaker 1: didn't really have much. But we left there and went
- 7:03Speaker 1: to Mike's Pastry, and we split a giant piece of
- 7:06Speaker 1: carrot cake. So, you know, that was good. She was
- 7:09Speaker 1: happy with that. And then we made our way into
- 7:12Speaker 1: the big show there.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Hi, Justin. I just left a talk back for the
- 7:16Speaker 3: morning show, but I wanted to leave one here too
- 7:19Speaker 3: because I have been a member of the After Show Army.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Let's go.
- 7:24Speaker 3: For as long as I can remember since you and
- 7:27Speaker 3: Bex first started the podcast. Um, I just got back
- 7:31Speaker 3: from comics, come home. I had so much fun. I
- 7:34Speaker 3: saw you and Jen as soon as I got to
- 7:36Speaker 3: the garden and hub hall, but I was too nervous
- 7:39Speaker 3: to say hi. So I just wanted to say hi now.
- 7:42Speaker 1: God, why didn't you say hi? I just did this
- 7:44Speaker 1: whole speech about how we're just, we're very like cool
- 7:48Speaker 1: and calm and collected. We're fine. If you see me, please, please,
- 7:52Speaker 1: please come up and say hi. It means so much
- 7:54Speaker 1: to me. It really does. You are never, ever a bother.
- 7:57Speaker 1: I'm just a regular person. I know I work on
- 8:00Speaker 1: the radio and that seems like a really cool thing
- 8:03Speaker 1: and it is, but I'm just me. I'm just Justin.
- 8:05Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I always say this.
- 8:07Speaker 1: I'm just a dad to my son, right? Like my
- 8:11Speaker 1: goal in life is to be the coolest person to
- 8:14Speaker 1: my children. That is my goal. If anyone else thinks
- 8:17Speaker 1: I'm cool, that's all well and good. I don't care.
- 8:20Speaker 1: I literally don't. I don't care at all, but I
- 8:22Speaker 1: would love to meet you. So please, if you see me,
- 8:25Speaker 1: come up and say hi. I met so many people.
- 8:27Speaker 1: So many people came up and said hello, took pictures,
- 8:30Speaker 1: which is always a fun thing. And I met a
- 8:32Speaker 1: lot of After Show Army members. So please, if you
- 8:35Speaker 1: see me, say hello. I would really appreciate it. It
- 8:40Speaker 1: was funny. I was in line at Mike's Pastry with Jen,
- 8:42Speaker 1: and there was a group of people right behind us.
- 8:46Speaker 1: So my back was kind of turned to them, and
- 8:48Speaker 1: Jen goes, they're talking about Kiss 108. And so I
- 8:51Speaker 1: kind of was listening a little bit, and they were saying–
- 8:53Speaker 1: they were talking about Noah Kahn. And trying to get
- 8:55Speaker 1: tickets and then trying to win tickets on the iHeart
- 8:57Speaker 1: app through Kiss 108. And so I was like, oh, wow,
- 9:00Speaker 1: look at that. And there I was standing right there.
- 9:03Speaker 1: But I didn't want to bother them. They were having
- 9:05Speaker 1: a good time. So I did not. But overall, a
- 9:08Speaker 1: fantastic weekend. And then I came home last night to
- 9:10Speaker 1: watch the Patriots get crushed. That didn't go well. Typically,
- 9:14Speaker 1: my dad comes up to watch the game. But he's
- 9:17Speaker 1: having some health issues, man. It's not fun, you know,
- 9:20Speaker 1: when your parents have these kind of issues. He's doing okay.
- 9:23Speaker 1: He just... He had been feeling kind of bad over
- 9:27Speaker 1: the summer. We thought maybe it was like dehydration or
- 9:30Speaker 1: something because some of the symptoms, you know, he works
- 9:32Speaker 1: out at the YMCA every day. I've talked about that before,
- 9:35Speaker 1: but he also does the sauna and the steam and
- 9:37Speaker 1: cold showers. And we were concerned that he wasn't eating
- 9:41Speaker 1: enough food and also not drinking enough water and electrolytes.
- 9:46Speaker 1: So we had him go get a bunch of tests.
- 9:48Speaker 1: And luckily enough, thank God he said something. They found
- 9:52Speaker 1: some things in his stomach because they did a full
- 9:54Speaker 1: CAT scan. They did a colonoscopy, full testing, and they
- 9:58Speaker 1: saw some things in his stomach that they did not like. like,
- 10:00Speaker 1: some lesions. So he had a– I'm not even going
- 10:03Speaker 1: to say the word because I'll mess it up. But
- 10:05Speaker 1: he had a procedure where they put the thing down
- 10:07Speaker 1: to his throat and they remove or take pieces of
- 10:11Speaker 1: whatever the lesions are to test them. So he came
- 10:16Speaker 1: up and stayed at my house last weekend after, you know,
- 10:18Speaker 1: the thing or whatever. And he hasn't gotten the results back.
- 10:21Speaker 1: But then he didn't come yesterday. So we reached out
- 10:24Speaker 1: to him. Couldn't get a hold of him. Finally, we did.
- 10:26Speaker 1: And he's like, I just don't feel good. Like, I
- 10:29Speaker 1: don't feel right. I didn't sleep all night. And I
- 10:31Speaker 1: feel like I passed out earlier. And we're like, so
- 10:35Speaker 1: my brother, who's a nurse, who's kind of his medical guide,
- 10:39Speaker 1: is in Florida. So I'm on with my brother. My
- 10:42Speaker 1: brother's like, all right, let me. Before you go down
- 10:43Speaker 1: there and pick him up and take him to the hospital,
- 10:46Speaker 1: let me call him. So he talked to him. When
- 10:48Speaker 1: he was doing it, he's like, okay. Honestly, I think
- 10:50Speaker 1: it's the same thing as before. Like he didn't sleep well.
- 10:54Speaker 1: He has issues sleeping. He got up in the morning.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Probably he didn't eat because he doesn't eat. He does
- 10:58Speaker 1: intermittent fasting. He doesn't eat until later on in the day.
- 11:00Speaker 1: And then what is he eating? He drinks a protein smoothie,
- 11:04Speaker 1: which is great. Like he's very health conscious, but he
- 11:07Speaker 1: doesn't eat a lot of food. So he went to
- 11:10Speaker 1: the gym. He worked out for an hour. He said,
- 11:12Speaker 1: then he did sauna and steam and then he drove
- 11:15Speaker 1: home and he felt woozy and he like kind of
- 11:18Speaker 1: like passed out in the car in the driveway. So
- 11:20Speaker 1: my brother's like, how to take his blood pressure, had
- 11:23Speaker 1: him drink some water and he's like, he's okay, but
- 11:25Speaker 1: he's going to follow up with his doctor tomorrow. So
- 11:28Speaker 1: it's a, yeah, it's not easy, man. It's not easy
- 11:30Speaker 1: when people around you that you love get sick. So
- 11:34Speaker 1: not that he's sick, but you know, these things happen
- 11:36Speaker 1: and you get, You get nervous. You definitely get nervous
- 11:40Speaker 1: and you really want to cherish the moments with your parents.
- 11:44Speaker 1: And I'm so grateful that he comes up every Sunday.
- 11:47Speaker 1: He never, ever misses. Very rarely. That's why it was
- 11:49Speaker 1: weird when he didn't come up because he doesn't call
- 11:51Speaker 1: and say he's coming because he's been coming up every
- 11:53Speaker 1: Sunday since my son was born. So think about that. 2017,
- 11:57Speaker 1: so nine years he's been coming every Sunday. And he
- 12:04Speaker 1: sleeps over and he spends time with my children and
- 12:08Speaker 1: You know, he's just a fantastic, he's a better, he's
- 12:11Speaker 1: a great father, but he's an even better grandfather. And
- 12:14Speaker 1: I think that happens a lot. I think it was,
- 12:17Speaker 1: my mom said that once. She's like, that can happen,
- 12:20Speaker 1: especially for men and women too, but especially men. Like
- 12:23Speaker 1: they're good fathers, but it's like you get all of
- 12:26Speaker 1: the practice and you make all of the mistakes raising children.
- 12:30Speaker 1: By the time the grandparents come, I mean, the grandkids come,
- 12:34Speaker 1: it's like you're a pro at it. And, you know,
- 12:37Speaker 1: and you're also at a later part in life, right?
- 12:39Speaker 1: He doesn't have to take care of the kids. He
- 12:40Speaker 1: just comes up, plays with them, takes them out, has fun.
- 12:44Speaker 1: So that's why it's a fun thing. So shout out
- 12:46Speaker 1: to my dad. He'll be okay. And now we're back
- 12:48Speaker 1: at it. We were going to hopefully have Tom Brady
- 12:51Speaker 1: on the show this morning. Chris Costa could not come through.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Not his fault at all. He was going to call
- 12:57Speaker 1: in at 9-10, kind of recap the weekend, the Patriots game,
- 13:00Speaker 1: the Gronk Hall of Fame induction. So it was kind
- 13:03Speaker 1: of iffy if he would be up to it. But
- 13:06Speaker 1: Chris Texas this morning and said he was just completely
- 13:09Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the trip. He apologizes, but he's got to
- 13:12Speaker 1: get some rest. You know, obviously he was in and
- 13:14Speaker 1: around Boston all weekend. He did a special appearance at
- 13:17Speaker 1: Card Vault at the Garden. And then he was at
- 13:21Speaker 1: the Gronk induction right after that. And then he had
- 13:23Speaker 1: to do the game last night. So he just said
- 13:25Speaker 1: he was crazy and he wanted to do an IOU
- 13:28Speaker 1: to call and check in. So, yeah, that's happening. Oh,
- 13:32Speaker 1: and then there's this. I teased this at the end
- 13:36Speaker 1: of the show today. In Billy's Entertainment Report, he played
- 13:41Speaker 1: the clip of Benson Boone bringing a cancer patient up
- 13:44Speaker 1: on stage, surprising her and letting her perform with him. And,
- 13:49Speaker 1: you know, I had talked about the John Cena clip
- 13:51Speaker 1: that I posted last week of him, you know, hugging
- 13:55Speaker 1: a fan that was in the crowd who was going
- 13:57Speaker 1: through cancer treatment or his cancer had come back. And
- 14:00Speaker 1: he said, you know, you were the one that has
- 14:02Speaker 1: gotten me through and gave me the strength. And all
- 14:05Speaker 1: I want to know is can I hug you? And
- 14:06Speaker 1: then John Cena comes down and hugs him. By the way,
- 14:09Speaker 1: I think John Cena, you can look this up, holds
- 14:13Speaker 1: the record I think for the most make-a-wish things that
- 14:16Speaker 1: he's done for kids. I think that's true. Anyway, great moment.
- 14:20Speaker 1: So we did the story and it just got me
- 14:22Speaker 1: thinking that the one– the worst celebrity that I ever met, right?
- 14:27Speaker 1: This is a very common question that you get in
- 14:30Speaker 1: radio and entertainment is who's the best and who's the worst?
- 14:34Speaker 1: And I always say that the best would be probably
- 14:37Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran, right, when he came in because he was
- 14:39Speaker 1: just fantastic. And the worst, I did not say who
- 14:43Speaker 1: it was, the name on the air. I just told
- 14:45Speaker 1: the story and the initials, and the initials were CB.
- 14:48Speaker 1: And it was one time at a show, a Make-A-Wish
- 14:51Speaker 1: kid had, you know, came to the show to meet
- 14:55Speaker 1: this celebrity. And so I was kind of backstage. I
- 14:59Speaker 1: was working. And so they had the kid in one room.
- 15:02Speaker 1: And the celebrity singer was coming down to, to meet
- 15:05Speaker 1: with him. And I happened to be kind of in
- 15:07Speaker 1: the middle.
- 15:07Speaker 3: Right.
- 15:08Speaker 1: And so when he came down, he was talking to
- 15:10Speaker 1: his people and I could hear him saying to his
- 15:13Speaker 1: manager or whoever it was. And he was saying, uh,
- 15:16Speaker 1: we just gotta get the kids over with.
- 15:17Speaker 3: All right.
- 15:17Speaker 1: I don't want to, I don't want to be touched.
- 15:19Speaker 3: Okay.
- 15:19Speaker 1: I don't want them to touch me. I don't want
- 15:21Speaker 1: to hug. Okay. Just, just real quick, like no touching.
- 15:24Speaker 1: And I was like, what a fucking monster. And then
- 15:28Speaker 1: I watched them proceed to go out and say hello.
- 15:31Speaker 1: And he didn't fucking hug the person. He didn't touch them.
- 15:35Speaker 1: They had a little interaction. They took a picture. He
- 15:37Speaker 1: got down low. But there was no touching at all. Obviously,
- 15:41Speaker 1: the kid, I don't think, was told not to touch him.
- 15:44Speaker 1: But the kid was in a wheelchair. So I always
- 15:47Speaker 1: remembered that. And I had told you I would say
- 15:51Speaker 1: who it was on the podcast. And it was not
- 15:53Speaker 1: Cardi B. That was one of the guesses or a
- 15:56Speaker 1: bunch of guesses. On the talkbacks, it was Chris Brown. Yeah,
- 16:02Speaker 1: it was Chris Brown. No surprise there, actually, because he
- 16:05Speaker 1: makes great music. My wife loves his music, loves his music.
- 16:09Speaker 1: She's able to separate the person from the music. She
- 16:13Speaker 1: knows he's a piece of shit. He just makes good music.
- 16:16Speaker 1: But well-documented piece of shit who has not really behaved
- 16:22Speaker 1: the right way. Obviously, the Rihanna, the domestic abuse, all
- 16:26Speaker 1: the bullshit. But that was a really bad moment, man.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Definitely takes the top spot as the worst celebrity. All right.
- 16:33Speaker 1: What else we got here before we wrap up the
- 16:35Speaker 1: Monday after show?
- 16:36Speaker 2: Hey, Justin. I'm always behind the podcast. I'm always a
- 16:39Speaker 2: few days behind, but I was catching up this weekend.
- 16:42Speaker 2: I listened to your after show podcast when you talked
- 16:44Speaker 2: about your son and your meeting with the teacher. I
- 16:47Speaker 2: was sobbing in the car. You can't ask for anything
- 16:50Speaker 2: better than that. When your kids are doing things when
- 16:52Speaker 2: you're not around and they're kind, it's a win, and
- 16:56Speaker 2: you've done a great job as a parent. Good job,
- 16:59Speaker 2: and God bless Abel.
- 17:01Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, that was
- 17:04Speaker 1: a story I told last week. I was telling it
- 17:05Speaker 1: this weekend, and my friends were having a good laugh.
- 17:07Speaker 1: They're like, are you crying at the parent-teacher conference? What
- 17:11Speaker 1: is wrong with you? But, yeah, I get emotional, man,
- 17:15Speaker 1: with my kids. I don't know. I just do. But
- 17:18Speaker 1: my son, I was very proud of him, you know,
- 17:21Speaker 1: for the parent-teacher update because he's doing so good, man.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Like so, so good. And, you know, this weekend when
- 17:27Speaker 1: I was with my wife, we were talking about it. And,
- 17:29Speaker 1: you know, he wants a new electric scooter. Sorry, electric bike.
- 17:33Speaker 1: He wants a nice electric bike. And, you know, the
- 17:37Speaker 1: thing is with those is obviously he has a scooter
- 17:41Speaker 1: now that goes 20 miles an hour. Okay. That's the
- 17:43Speaker 1: max speed. I don't want it to go faster than that,
- 17:46Speaker 1: what I get him. That's one. Two, I've taught him
- 17:51Speaker 1: how to ride things. He's been riding four-wheelers and dirt
- 17:53Speaker 1: bikes since he was a little kid. He's actually really,
- 17:55Speaker 1: really safe on the things that he rides. He doesn't
- 17:58Speaker 1: do tricks. He doesn't do any of that stuff. And also,
- 17:59Speaker 1: he doesn't go anywhere. It's just like around the little block,
- 18:02Speaker 1: and I live on kind of a cul-de-sac, so there's
- 18:04Speaker 1: not a lot of cars. So getting him an electric
- 18:06Speaker 1: bike does not concern me. It was that You know,
- 18:11Speaker 1: we got him one last year, a cheap one. And
- 18:13Speaker 1: so I did a bunch of research on it. And,
- 18:16Speaker 1: you know, you got to spend the money. If you
- 18:18Speaker 1: want something that is going to be, it's going to
- 18:21Speaker 1: last a long time. You're not going to have issues
- 18:23Speaker 1: with a legitimate brand. You know, you're looking at upwards
- 18:26Speaker 1: of two, three, $ 4, 000. And, you know, I was reading
- 18:30Speaker 1: this whole thing on Reddit about e-bikes. And one of
- 18:33Speaker 1: the top cons or, sorry to say, one of the
- 18:36Speaker 1: top things not to do is buy an electric bike
- 18:40Speaker 1: an e-bike or an e-scooter that's like between $ 300 and
- 18:44Speaker 1: $ 1, 000 because those are generally cheaper, which are okay, right?
- 18:50Speaker 1: He has one now that's actually broken. So that should
- 18:55Speaker 1: tell you about that. But if you want like, you know,
- 18:59Speaker 1: a good one, you got to spend the money. So
- 19:03Speaker 1: I was saying to my wife, I had been thinking
- 19:04Speaker 1: about like spending the money on him, like getting him
- 19:07Speaker 1: the nice e-bike. And I was playing with it in
- 19:10Speaker 1: my head and, you know, this weekend we were talking
- 19:13Speaker 1: about it and I'm like, I'm just so proud of him.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Like I really, really am. He's come a long way.
- 19:18Speaker 1: You know, there's always been a running joke on the
- 19:21Speaker 1: show about my son, how crazy he was. And it really,
- 19:25Speaker 1: there was such trying times, you know, when he was three, four, five, six, seven.
- 19:31Speaker 1: And then when he went to school that we had
- 19:32Speaker 1: a lot of issues in school with his behavior and
- 19:35Speaker 1: we've done a lot of work with him. And in
- 19:38Speaker 1: this past year, I mean, the last two years have
- 19:40Speaker 1: been great, but this year in particular, you know, no
- 19:43Speaker 1: issues at school. And to hear the teacher say like,
- 19:45Speaker 1: he is doing awesome. He is a fantastic reader. He
- 19:48Speaker 1: does all of his work. I don't have to worry
- 19:50Speaker 1: about him. He participates. I remember like that was the
- 19:55Speaker 1: one thing she was, she was upset about, not upset
- 19:57Speaker 1: about that. The one negative was that he said that
- 20:00Speaker 1: he was, he said he was okay. And there was
- 20:03Speaker 1: a sheet, if you missed the story, That said like
- 20:06Speaker 1: math and science and recess and being kind was one
- 20:10Speaker 1: of them. And the options were great, good, okay, and poor.
- 20:14Speaker 1: And he gave himself great and good for every single one, right? Recess, math, reading, science.
- 20:21Speaker 1: The only one he did okay for was being kind.
- 20:27Speaker 1: And she was kind of taken aback by that because,
- 20:29Speaker 1: you know, she sees him as a very, very kind kid,
- 20:32Speaker 1: very helpful kid. She has no issues. Pleasure to have
- 20:34Speaker 1: in class. So I was like, should I just do it?
- 20:38Speaker 1: And so I did. I did this weekend. I pulled
- 20:41Speaker 1: the trigger on it, if you will. And I got
- 20:43Speaker 1: him a very, very nice, nice scooter. I'm sorry, e-bike.
- 20:48Speaker 1: And it's a really good one too. It goes 20
- 20:50Speaker 1: miles an hour. There is a way to make it
- 20:52Speaker 1: go faster, but he's not going to know how to
- 20:54Speaker 1: do that. You have to like, this is a computer
- 20:57Speaker 1: system and you need to know how to do it.
- 20:59Speaker 1: So hopefully he doesn't figure it out. I don't think
- 21:01Speaker 1: he will. But, you know, I can control the speed.
- 21:04Speaker 1: So 20 miles an hour is good enough for him. OK, so, yeah, parenting, man,
- 21:11Speaker 1: it's you talk to someone like Billy, right? He has
- 21:14Speaker 1: three boys all doing fantastic. But you know what? The
- 21:16Speaker 1: issues are always there. When I say issues, I don't
- 21:19Speaker 1: mean like bad things, but there's always, you know, they're
- 21:23Speaker 1: always you're always one phone call away. So his kids
- 21:25Speaker 1: are always calling him like, Dad, can you help me
- 21:27Speaker 1: with this? So, Dad, you know, I get this going on.
- 21:29Speaker 1: There's all you're always no matter how old they are.
- 21:32Speaker 1: you're intertwined in their life. And you know what? I'm
- 21:35Speaker 1: ready for the challenge. So there you go. All right, everybody,
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