Daniel: 0:07

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode, uh, for two Dads Safes podcast. I am here in my hall, Queen Con across him. John, you're a pirate. What's up?

Jon: 0:24

So you can tell what I am. Okay, good. I was, We're not gonna get it. Um, everything's going good over here. Welcome everyone. Back to another great episode of We're You Dad Sick. So, yeah, so to catch up I guess, what we, uh, what we did this past weekend and everything, um, I, Well, how was your weekend? So the weekend was great, Cause I got to go to this awesome party. It was at a park that, uh, Dan and I kind of. Used to play basketball, football there. And, um, it was my niece, Daniel's daughter, uh, seventh birthday party. And, uh, we had a blast. Kids were running around the jungle, gyms playing, having fun. Daniel brought, uh, I guess it was it a w.

Daniel: 1:16

Well, you got me one of those like blitz pitching with a bat in a ball a few years ago. So we never really used it. And until this past Sunday, which was uh, which is fine. I took you deep over the fence and then I took Sergio deep over the

Jon: 1:35

fence. So just to kind of clarify, that was several times swinging and. Terribly at the, at the ball just hitting nothing but air. He, uh, How many strikeouts did I get on you? Like about five, I think. Give, give or take a little. Nope. Nope. Never happens. You might want to put your, your hat back on. It kinda looks like you're just wearing a right. A big shirt. almost like a dress. There you go. There you don't have to bucket. Just let it hang. You don't strap it. What's wrong with that? There you.

Daniel: 2:08

What's wrong with that? What's drawn up by a war address?

Jon: 2:12

Nothing's wrong with it. I just don't know if that's what you were going for. I'm just

Daniel: 2:15

saying So, yes. Um, it was my daughter's birthday, um, like I said in the last episode, So we just had, uh, John's family and my sister's family and a few of her friends, um, from school over to the park and I had a little pizza party. uh, everyone had a great time. Uh, she did her own cake, which she was very proud of, and, uh, it was a great day. Yeah, there were, uh, those parties can just be. Exhausting when you have like an all day one. So this one was, we decided to keep it simple and not go too crazy. Um, so yeah, she liked it. She had fun and uh, she knocked out early. She was so tired. So it was, it was great. Shut out to Jonathan Party. Shout out to Jonathan. Um, We were setting up and one of her favorite balloons happened to full. Uh, it flew away. The weight came off, and she was devastated. She was crying. She was upset and reached out to my little brother, and he came through, went out and got her a rainbow balloon and a cupcake balloon, I

Jon: 3:34

believe. It was a whole birthday cake, but it's, Yeah, it had candles and it did everything you wanted it to do, but when, Yeah. All John Johns needed, we sent right to the goal line and get there.

Daniel: 3:48

Yeah. And Saturday, uh, we just stood home. We were gonna go to this, uh, family outing. To take the kids to El Dora Park is a little like nature hike, but. The little one. Alex didn't, uh, we couldn't get him to take a nap and we knew if he got in the car he was gonna sleep and it's not that far from, you know, to the park. So he was gonna miss it anyways, So, um, Danny and her friend went. Sherry took him. They had a great time. And while Alex stood behind and took his nap, so, um, better luck next year. Alex gonna

Jon: 4:30

say about that something similar kind of happened to, uh, to my two kids. Um, Saturday night, I believe it was. We took, uh, the kids just about, it's like a 15 minute drive here from, from our house. Um, there's a couple blocks that really go all out on their houses, like all the houses on the blocks decorate their houses Halloween. And, um, we, you know, got in line, went through the houses, and, uh, unfortunately right before we were going in to see the houses, my, uh, second oldest fell. And he was just out. And so we like, ah, well if we wake him up, he's gonna be grumpy. So he's, yeah, he slept through it all. But, um, it was cool. It's a couple blocks of, you know, if you guys live near the Whittier area in California, um, it's, uh, over right by whi blower in first Street, couple blocks over there that, uh, really go all out. They, on the weekend they had people. Like dressed up and walking the street and you know, walking up to the cars and it was cool. So that was a good time. Um,

Daniel: 5:34

yeah, sometimes as a parent you just, you just have to make that call. Like, do I let the kids sleep? Do I wake'em up? Like, you gotta just, you just have to make that your judgment call. And I feel like, I don't know about you guys, but I felt like we got it right because he definitely would've fell asleep and he would've slept through the whole thing. And I think they were only there. An hour and a half and his naps are usually about like a little over an hour or so. It was a, it was a safe call on our part.

Jon: 6:03

I think most of the time it's safe to let them sleep because, uh, we let him sleep. We went through, it didn't take that too long to do the houses and drive back home, and it was around his bedtime anyhow, and. we pretty much got him outta the bed, took him straight to or outta the car, straight to the bed, and, um, he was down for the night. So, yeah. I mean, we could go this weekend to try a little earlier or try to keep him up a little better. But, uh, yeah, it was a good decision. Um, I was gonna ask you, Dan, have you seen the previews or have you heard of the movie? Lyle Loud, Crocodile. We went, we took the kids to the, what was it, The, like one of the first showings at the matte or mm-hmm. Uh, we took them to the mood theaters in Uptown and, uh, we watched that movie. If, uh, you guys have any of the ones, it's a pretty cool movie to go check out. Um, it's about an alligator that can sing and it's with real life cast and there's a lot of singing in it. So I think down you would probably like it. Um, But it's, uh, it's a pretty unique story about the alligator that can sing. And the, his owner is, uh, like a showman and he tries to get him to sing for the audience with the alligators to, he always gets stage fright, never sing. So, uh, spoil art. And so, but up, uh, thanks for writing. This happens in, like, this happens in the first, like five minutes of the movie, so

Daniel: 7:34

yeah, never seen it, so I have no idea what happens. First minute, second minute,

Jon: 7:39

third minute I just told you. Right. Exactly. So I'm telling you, you don't have to go see the movie on the lane, you know right now. Then you stop talk, then you can stop talking. Okay. Um, but no, it's a good movie. Check it out. Um, it's pretty funny and uh, it's a good watch for the kids. Our, our two little ones, they enjoyed it. Do you go today? No, uh, that was Saturday morning.

Daniel: 8:04

Okay. Yeah, we haven't took, uh, we haven't took Alex, uh, to the movies yet. Danny's been there a few times and she loves it. We make it like a little experience for her, but, um, yeah, Alex hasn't, so we'll see. We'll see. Uh, maybe that might be a good one to take him too. We'll, we'll have to check that out. Yeah.

Jon: 8:27

Um, we, uh, well we went to the early showing and there was like nobody there in the theater, which was nice. So you don't have too much chaos or anything happening. Um, and it was actually my, uh, second son's, his first time to the movie theaters. He did really good. Um, I mean, as best as a three year old can, uh, on the back end of the movie was getting a little restless and starting to look around. Want to get up and stuff, but overall they had

Daniel: 8:54

fun. Oh good. Well it sounds like it was, uh, a good day.

Jon: 9:01

Yeah, it was a good weekend actually. It was a great weekend.

Daniel: 9:06

Um, yeah, so like I said, Saturday we stood home, um, saw the UCLA game, they let me down and so that was a disaster and. Like I said, they came back, Danny and uh, Sherry came back and then, uh, we said dinner and then, uh, Sherry uh, went to go take care of her grandma and the kids stood here with me. So it was a good, uh, nice little Saturday, quiet and calm. And so

Jon: 9:41

speaking of, um, we're actually gonna go tailgate this weekend at the UCLA game. Thanks for the invite. I believe we did send an invite to Sherry.

Daniel: 9:53

Oh, uh, when did you send that invite?

Jon: 9:58

I had to, I think Bri said it so. Oh. Cuz I

Daniel: 10:02

did not get any information. And after he told Sherry too, like I kind of want to go tailgating this year.

Jon: 10:10

Come on down. What time are you guys leaving? The kids, I think we're gonna try to get there like around. Um, it's a, it's a evening game, so it starts at seven. Um, to be honest, I'm not even sure if we're gonna go to the game itself because we'll have the kids. So I, we're gonna tailgate, we were trying to see, think of a way to get a TV set up so we could watch some of the game outside. Don't you have a generator? No, we do not. A generator. I think you need a generator. Uh, well, I know the truck has an outlet in the bed of the truck. You can try that

Daniel: 10:43

or take the trailer.

Jon: 10:46

That's such a hassle just to have it there for like, but it'd be worth it couple hours. I don't know if it would be, Cause I, I don't know if I could turn, uh, take it back to the storage that late, I would've to find spots that was parking the street,

Daniel: 11:01

Um, let me see. Um, okay, I'm trying to think how else would you go about it. I mean, you could try it. Um, another. Have you tried Googling it? No,

Jon: 11:18

not yet. Okay. It's still like several days away, so. Cause I think

Daniel: 11:22

Sergio, Sergio and Felix were trying to, like, they were gonna do that like every weekend and go tailgating and they couldn't really figure out how to do that. But I'm sure like all you needed is a generator to hook up the tv. And then, um, some type of like, uh, streaming service, I'm assuming.

Jon: 11:44

Yeah, Erio was suggesting to some connect the, the TV to like a fire stick and then just do hotspot off your phone mm-hmm. and just go about it that way as far as getting like the signal. But, uh, he was saying get a generator, like, Oh, Or you could try the truck. You just were probably to have the truck running the whole time. So yeah,

Daniel: 12:04

they're just gonna probably

Jon: 12:04

affect their gas and battery. We're just gonna have it going for the beginning of the game. Like, Well, we're there a tailgate? We're not gonna have the TV on. Be having fun. Who's going with you guys? Uh, so I know she told Mel about it. Um, there's a couple people from her work that are gonna go. Um, that's about it. As of right now.

Daniel: 12:31

I'm trying to think. I don't think we have anything going on this

Jon: 12:34

Saturday. So many listeners are out there Yeah. And wanna go swing by the tailgate. Don't say hi

Daniel: 12:42

He'll be the guy without the rv. There. There you

Jon: 12:46

go. There's plenty of us

Daniel: 12:48

around. So, John, uh, all right, so what's trending for you?

Jon: 12:55

All right, so tonight was a bit, a little bit of an eventful night. So, um, I was, Outside of the shed getting, uh, the costume out ready for tonight's show or episode. And, um, as I come inside, our eight month is I hear him crying in the baby monitor. I was like, Okay. So, you know, Chris's probably gonna go get him and he's crying. I look at the baby monitor, she's not in there, and on my way up I hear a bang. How was that? So, turns out my oldest and in his room, they have bunk beds. He has a stuffed animal of a snake. He decides to make a lasso out of it, and he wraps it around the glass bowl of the ceiling fan where the light sits in, and that fell and shattered all over the floor.

Daniel: 13:50

Ooh. Was he okay? Mean?

Jon: 13:54

Yeah, he's fine. He was on his bed, so it, it, the glass was nowhere near him. Meanwhile, his brother's on the bunk bed below him sleeping. He never woke up. He just slept through the whole thing. Even as I'm sweeping the glass up and you hear it clinking and clanking together, uh, he just sleep the whole time. So, uh, that was not, not too, too fun. Um, so he's, he's gonna be, Having to deal with that for a little bit, but, um, the kids are fine. Everything's fine. Nothing was really damaged besides the Glass Bowl. They, you know, we'll have to, we'll replace. But, uh, yeah, that's, that's kind of what was going on right before recording here. Well, that's one thing that's going on in my world.

Daniel: 14:41

Yeah. When you get those, uh, nothing worse when you get like those unexpected surprises and now what turned out to like, what seemed to be like a relaxing evening turned out to be a mess. You have to pick up and also attempt to kids and so, which can be, Yeah. That's crazy. Um, so my first one, Okay, is, let's go. Ducks. We're, uh, our boys at the pond are one, four and one since, uh, our last podcast.

Jon: 15:19

So just a front reminder. We're, we're hoping to turn that around. Probation, probation plan, seeing if he's gonna stick around. We haven't accepted his application fully just yet. Um, Yeah. So, uh, the ducks are coming, actually, they're, they're coming back home tomorrow. They're whole scene against, uh, the Lightning. Um, they've been on a road trip over there on the east coast cause they didn't see great, but,

Daniel: 15:51

uh, but imagine if they did

Jon: 15:56

Yeah. We got I think at what, one point while they were out there.

Daniel: 15:59

Is that right? Yeah, yeah. It was okay. Yeah, it was. How did they get that? They tied. I'm trying to think who they tied. They didn't tie. They didn't. Yeah, they did. They lost some shootout. Well, they tied, and my world is still a tie back in the day. I. Well, we're not

Jon: 16:20

back in the day.

Daniel: 16:23

Um, Well, no. So Sherry, Sorry, sorry. Just text me. Um, okay. So

Jon: 16:29

yeah, so just fy for people that are in hockey fans, uh, the point system for the overall, like together playoffs and stuff like that, if you win a hockey game during regulation, You get two points. If you lose, you get zero. Obviously if you go into overtime, each team gets one point, then whoever wins gets the second point. Um, and then if you wanna shoot out, same thing. Winner gets two. Whoever loses just gets one. So the ducks, uh,

Daniel: 16:55

I gotta say though, like I think shootouts probably like one of the most overrated moments in sports. How so? I don't know. It's just like, I think, I feel like once you, It's like same thing with soccer, like. Once you see it, once it's like, okay, it's kind of like the same thing. Um, I know there's a lot of skill to it, and that's why I'm not a hockey player. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's easy. Many reasons for that. I'm not saying it's, it's, it is easy, but as a spectator, it's like, it just seems like it's just, uh, it just seems the same thing over and over again. That's my point.

Jon: 17:35

I could, I could agree to a certain extent. I mean, for. The ball spot is the ball's put in the same spot and it's gonna get kicked from that same spot, you know, every time. Yeah, that's, I do agree with that. With hockey though, you, the guy can come in from way right way left. They could slapshot it from like halfway, you know, down the way. And the deeps that they do, I mean, some of them are just, Downright dirty. Like, and Exactly.

Daniel: 17:59

And again, that, that's why I'm not a, that's why I'm not a hockey player and you know, there's a lot of skill involved with it that I would agree to. But yeah, it's just like as a spectator, I remember seeing my first one, second one, third one, and I'm like, okay. It's kind of like, the, the same thing. Usually the, the goalie would have to like bite before and the guy would still have to be able to pull it off. It just like I said it, once you see him, you see one. I think it's like, okay, I've been there, done that. I

Jon: 18:33

guess just what my point is to argue is it's not just, okay, hey, you shooting with his forehead, He can shoot with his back hand. He can go between the legs. He, there's different ways to. Achieve that goal opposed to soccer where they're kicking from the same spot or they get kick in different directions, but they can't dribble it and juke the goalie out and then, you know, kick it in.

Daniel: 18:54

Yeah. Again, it's hard, but it's just like, Yeah. Um, I don't, I guess like, it, it, there was. Cause I thought about this. If you don't turn it into a tie, if you just take like a three point win to a zero point loss, that might make it a little bit more dramatic. Um, that's something I can get on board with.

Jon: 19:18

Um, so it's not a visual thing for you watching, but I was like, it's like, Oh,

Daniel: 19:22

okay, here we go. Yeah. Cause I feel like someone behind it, I feel like. Yeah. Then that's what a, the penalty. Okay. Uh, that could make the case like in, um, soccer cuz you know, you don't see that much scoring and then when it happens you're like, Oh, okay. Um, Cause again, you don't see it as much in soccer as you do in, in hockey. Okay. Cause not every game. Yeah. Cuz in they only bring out the, the shootouts in soccer if it's like a big tournament and they need someone to like advance. But if a regular game could end at a tie, then they don't go to the shootout.

Jon: 20:02

Um, one of the things I will say that hockey did, I did that I do like is, uh, making the overtime, the five minute overtime. Mm-hmm. three on. I think that really opened up the ring. Yes. Made it more exciting for her back and forth. That

Daniel: 20:14

makes it more a little more fun. Yes. That, yeah. Sign me up for that. More. Three on three, but, uh, yeah, the hockey and hockey's like best outta three, right?

Jon: 20:24

Uh, for playoffs?

Daniel: 20:25

Yeah. No. Um, the shoot out, the

Jon: 20:29

shit out. I want to say it's the best out of three and then just panic. It goes back and forth from there. Yeah. Yeah.

Daniel: 20:37

And I think that's what soccer got it right? It's a little bit more drama because it's best outta five. And then like they showed the guy every time walking from, um, the halfway point, the midline is a soccer, not hockey. And they show'em walking up to the ball and, and it's just like the build up. It's so much better where hockey, it's just like it happens real quick and it's over that. I think that's more like it you. That's more reason why I'm like, Oh, okay, this is, this is whatever. Because it's happened so fast.

Jon: 21:15

I mean, I mean, for me, I guess the build would be once they take it from centerized, And they're skating towards the goalie. That's that buildup that I get, but it's definitely a preferable thing. Preference. All right,

Daniel: 21:28

we're going a game right in November.

Jon: 21:32

Which game?

Daniel: 21:33

I don't know. You tell me. I.

Jon: 21:35

Well, sign me up. Sign me up. I'm there. We're supposed to go against your abs, but No, that's not,

Daniel: 21:42

that's, that's a, uh, an abs aren't until March. Anyways, I checked it. Right. So like we can go in November. I figure it would go once a month. Be fine content. It, uh, Alright. Uh, so, Okay. It's, well, it's your turn.

Jon: 22:01

Oh, okay. Um, so the next topic that I uh, came across was, um, Adidas doing the right thing and droppy Kanye West.

Daniel: 22:11

Um, yeah, he had some, uh, heard about this and well, I heard that. He, uh, he had the antisemitic comments and everything, and so yeah, he's been losing labels left and right. Uh, I be, I believed he had his own, or he was partnered with a sports agency and a lot of the sports, um, athletes like Aaron, Donald and a few other athletes left the agency today. And so, uh, you know, it's pretty bad when Antonio. Reaches out to you and like, Hey, let me, uh, hey, let me help you out. Let me give you my hand in need. Like when he's like the voice of reason, you know, that's just pretty low. That's pretty low. That's as low as you can get. Antonio Brown. it's making sense and you're not. So,

Jon: 23:03

but yeah, so I'm, I'm happy seeing all these labels drop them.

Daniel: 23:07

Yeah. I think, uh, I was reading today that he still owns like 5% of like, uh, Kim Kardashian's business and Oh, does he? Yeah. She could easily buy him out, but it'll be cheaper just to give, um, his five. each year, you know, each quarter. So, yeah. Uh, but yeah, so he's definitely his falling.

Jon: 23:32

No one talks why I saw that in the, in one of the news. Um, they're saying that I guess his kids where they go to school, they've had to beef up security just because of the dumb things he's saying that they're afraid that someone might go out to the kids or something like that, or, So that's really important. Yeah.

Daniel: 23:50

Yeah. And then my last one. Saying goodbye to the McRib. What? It's going away. I think they just brought it back and then I think McDonald's has Hinton like this is gonna be, its last run. Uh, I've never really had it before. I think I had it like once and it was okay. Nothing great. Uh,

Jon: 24:14

I would say that my experience was, I want to say I got it once and that was only because there was that whole big Oh, the McRibs back. The McRibs back, yeah. And so I tried it to see, and uh,

Daniel: 24:27

uh, I think it reminds me of, uh, those rib sandwiches have that in elementary, but.

Jon: 24:35

Or, uh, at am pm

Daniel: 24:37

Yeah, exactly. Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's what it reminds me of. Uh, so I never really thought it was like all that great, all that, the prestige, but I will say, congratulations John collecting all three buckets for McDonald's.

Jon: 24:54

We did. Yeah. My wife, she, she put in a lot of work and called, you know, several McDonald's and we, we nailed that. So we, we kinda had made up for it because, Kind of got it late in on the adult, uh, adult happy meal. Right. And by the time we tried to go get it, everybody was already sold out and it's discontinued so we miss out on that one. So we kind of tried to get an early jump on this one and yeah, we got all three. The ghost, the pumpkin and the

Daniel: 25:22

witch. Yeah. And then, uh, are longer happy joking you. And then my last one was the, was it when we were young? Festival got canceled?

Jon: 25:36

Uh, yeah, they got canceled because of the wind. It was the wind, Yeah.

Daniel: 25:41

That's like as old age as you can get, right? Like, Yeah. The concert, it's like, oh, it's a little too windy. We're gonna, we're gonna call this one off. That's when you know, like you're old. Yeah, it's

Jon: 25:54

on your, I like if you heard, but a lot of the artists, they actually like try to make it up to, uh, the locals there and they actually did, performed a lot of, um, like free gigs at just local bars and venues there. Yeah. So if you're there, you got to, you know, go check it out, which is there, but have to try to make it up for

Daniel: 26:12

it. All right. All right. So we got to tonight's topic. Let's do it. All right. So fears,

Jon: 26:23

Do you

Daniel: 26:24

have fear? Yeah, I don't, It's not really a fear like, but I hate being in the dark. And so for instance, if I come home and I'm by myself, What I would do is I'd turn on all the lights and make sure everything's okay, and then I slowly transition, turning off the lights one by one. But I'm not a, not a big dark guy. I'm not, Not someone who, who lives in the dark.

Jon: 26:57

Once you turn on all the lights, do you call mom to see when she's gonna be home or

Daniel: 27:02

no? No,

Jon: 27:04

No. Just kidding. Yeah.

Daniel: 27:06

Uh, could do

Jon: 27:08

better than that. That's a, that's a common one.

Daniel: 27:11

Uh, well, I tell you one thing though. I did today, we, uh, Sherry and I had probably on the top of our list, probably one of our fears that we never thought we would have to go through. Um, you know, you hear about it in the news and it's kind of hard to put yourself in that situation. Sherry was taking gang to school and all of a sudden we started hearing, uh, helicopters and tons and tons of sirens around the house. And what had happened was, um, Danny's school was on lockdown. Uh oh. And so that was, that was a little frightening. However, yeah. Luckily they locked it down right when she got there. So they told everyone basically, if you're getting dropped off in a car to stay in your car, and everyone that. Was walked to school like we do. Uh, they told us to turn around and walk back home. So luckily again, it's just a few houses down, so it's not like a long walk. And, uh, so Danny was with us, so it wasn't, we couldn't reach her or, or anything like that. Uh, she wanted to watch a news She's obsessed right now when she sees like a accident or a cop car or so. To turn on the news and be like, Oh, I was there. I, I saw that. So, um, so she would had a channel surfing to see if, uh, any of the news covered it, but come they didn't. So basically what happened was, um, in the city next over there was, uh, a guy, guess he, uh, shot somebody or something happened, and so, He went on the run, stole a car, and then he tried to go hide in this private Christian Church right next to the school. And so they had him surrounded. But once they had him surrounded, that's when they locked down the high school, junior high and elementary school and uh, Oh Yeah. And so about like an hour and a half later that's, The, they got'em and, uh, the lift was un, it was uplifted and she got to go back. But at that point it was kind of a reverse situation. So all the kids that were waiting to get into school, were going into school and all the kids that were already in school, We're coming out, parents were taking their kids out. And so, um, so for example, like one of Danny's friends was inside the school. She was in the classroom on lockdown. And when they lifted it, the parents pulled her out, took her home. Well, Danny went back to school. To school. Yeah. So yeah, that's, you see it on tv, but you never know how to like process this and it's harder. You don't wanna put yourself in that situation, you know what I mean? So like when you hear about like these actual shootings, it's just, you know, you think about what you have and what you're grateful for, but. I try to put myself, Oh, what if that was Danny? Or what if that was here? And it's just hard to go to that place. And so, yeah. Yeah, I hope that's like the, this is the worst of it and we never have to go through this again or, you know, the, um, anything like more dramatic would be just terrifying, so. Right. Um, but we were talking about it today and we don't want. Sometimes it's hard, but sometimes you have to have those talks and it's like, you know, Danny, and you know, when you hear fireworks when you're in school and you hear fireworks, you know, get down on the ground. Um, Right. Because you don't want to put that fear inside her. You know, you want her to go to school and be free, but. You don't want to, like, you also need to like educate her on the reality of the situation and what going on in the world today. Yeah, yeah.

Jon: 31:26

Yeah. That's, that's terrifying. Um, was it the, that church thing, right? By the 10 courts, I

Daniel: 31:33

wanna say it was the church right next to the gas station. on the phone or the mobile, right? Yeah, I think that's what it was. Oh, okay. But you could be right. I, to be honest, I have no idea what specific church it was, but those are the two that are close to the school, so it could have been,

Jon: 31:55

right. Yeah. Oh, no. Yes, I'm glad everybody, Everybody was okay and everything came out, you know, as positive as it did.

Daniel: 32:05

But yeah, for as far as getting though, it's just. Like, you know, you know, going into like what her fears is. Um, the only one I could think of when I was planning for tonight was her fear of, there's two, her fear of falling off the bike. So she had training wheels, Right. Offer tricycle and then Right. We, we decided, You know, take'em off. Which we kind of were going back and forth with her cuz she didn't want to, cuz she knew it was gonna be a challenge. But when she first tried, she's like, Diana, don't let me go. Don't let me go. And she knew every time our about to let her go. She would break and break, and what happened was she just was like, I'm gonna learn this by myself. I'm gonna do this on my own. And she would practice every day in front of our house. She would get up, start pedaling once, twice, and then stop once twice and stop and just practicing our balance until. You know, she figured it out. And so, uh, it was, it was interesting cuz she and I were having a talk and we were like, do we, do we let her just stay on the tricycle? Cause that's what she's comfortable with, or, You know, do we, you know, do we push her? Cause you know, you don't wanna push too hard because, and too fast, because then that could lead to like some type of trauma. And so, um, Right. Yeah. So, you know, it's, she overcame that and I think she gets her fear of dart of the dark from me. So. Because I think she has issues too, in the dark.

Jon: 33:48

Have you talked to her about being afraid of the dark or does she, like, does she notice you are or do you think it's just like, Oh, because you are, She is. I'm

Daniel: 33:57

just assuming. I mean, I haven't really talked about it. You know, we, we have a nightlight, um, right now getting back, getting situated into our old house. Now that everything's almost done, there's a couple of nights she has spent the night and it's like, Dad, I have to go to the restroom. It's like, well go. You've been, you've gone to the restroom the night before by yourself. She's like, Yeah, but I'm scared. So I have to like get up and walk with her and make sure, you know, to comfort her and her know, you know, it's okay. You know, nothing's right, nothing's gonna happen. And so, what about you, John? Do you have any fears? Uh,

Jon: 34:41

so I have one that is pretty silly when I say it out loud, but it is something that like is in the back of my head, just randomly I'll, it'll pop up in there, but I'm always kind of like worried that I wanna at some point kind of come to the realization of like where I'm at and everything that I have been. It. Like, I wasn't doing like, like for example, like, say like if, um, I guess an example of it is if like when you black out from drinking and you keep, you know, partying or you keep going on, you don't remember any of it and you were talking, you were doing stuff, but you, you know, when you wake up and you're like, Oh dude, like what happened last night? And you know, someone said, Oh dude, you were acting stupid or you were doing this, or you doing that. And so I'm worried like one day I'm just gonna wake up at work and like just. How I got there, what I've been doing wasn't what I was doing. And I like, who knows what I like I was doing as far as like, you know, not saying what I thought I was saying or something like that. So that's something I always just kind of like, yeah, I don't know why.

Daniel: 35:53

Yeah. I don't know what to say to that. Never heard of it. So I

Jon: 35:58

can't, Any names

Daniel: 35:59

somewhere in psychology, but I'm sure there's not.

Jon: 36:03

No, I mean, they

Daniel: 36:04

come Sure. There's not John. Okay. Trust

36:08

me,

Jon: 36:08

there's some like bi syllable word for it, but um, yeah, like that's just something that's, that I kind of pops in my head here and there, but, um, yeah. Okay. I, I told you it's a weird one, but yeah, that's just something I little like, I just like, kinda like, oh crap. Like how'd I get?

Daniel: 36:31

what about your kids? Have they have any fears? Have you talked them about or

Jon: 36:36

helped them through? Yeah, so, um, there's this one night, my oldest, he kept coming downstairs from, uh, him trying to go to bed and one of the times I heard him get down from his bunk bed, and so I went up the stairs and I caught him at his doorway. And I was like, Hey, bud. I go, What's wrong? I go, What? Why aren't you gonna see? He's like, Oh, cause I'm scared of the dark. Uh, I'm scared. There's something like in the closet. And I go, No. I go, bud. I go, And this was like around the winter, so we had like all the windows closed in the house. And um, I was like, Bud, I go, Let him tell you a secret. Okay? I go, You can't tell anybody. So daddy has. um, sensors all around the windows in the house, and right now we're on what's called lockdown. I go, Do you know what sensors are? And he's like, No. I go, So, you know, on your shows when there's a laser, somebody walks through it, alarm goes off. He's all, Yeah. I go, Well, that's a, that's a sensor. That's what that is. I go, We have sensors all over the place, so right now, you, me, you know, your brothers and your mommy. Were the only ones inside. If anybody comes in, it's gonna alarm, it's going to, um, give me notification on my phone, and I go, and then I can deal with. I go, Trust me daddy. I go, You know Daddy's Batman. So by

Daniel: 37:57

throwing your phone at them, that's how you're gonna solve this

Jon: 38:01

No. They won't notify if someone's in the house.

Daniel: 38:05

Why you say you praise the phone up and you're like, I'll take care of it. Well, no. They'll fight

Jon: 38:11

me. Hey. Right, right. Someone's else. It's time to go to work. Okay. And so he was like, Really? I was like, Yeah, bud. I go, So you don't have to worry. I go, We're the only ones in here. You could just relax. I go, Do you feel better? He's like, Yeah. And he, it was really cute. I was just, he kind of like had a little bit of a smile on his, on his face and, um, walked him back up to his bed, you know, kissed goodnight. And, um, actually that's after that he went back to sleep. Um, Since then, I would say maybe once or twice he just said like he was worried about something's in the closet and I just, you know, go in there like, No, but nothing's in here. Look it. See, So you tell something, so you're able

Daniel: 38:53

to comfort him basically. Of course. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah, and I think that's where it comes from. You know, they're the way we looked at our dad, It think its safe to say it's the way our kids look up to us. And so, you know, they look at us, you know, like superheroes and so obviously not dressed like this, but what do you mean But you know, so they, you know, they feel safe. And I think that's what a dad's job is, you know, to make your kids, you know, feel safe. And when you're around, And knowing it's gonna be okay and that's gonna help'em conquer their fears. Like I think one more of Danny's is, um, you know, she was shy or I think she is still shy, but she would always, like, for instance, she'd love to dance and she hears music, she wants to dance, but then we go to a party and she shut down and we tell her, you know, don't be afraid to be yourself around. You know, it's just, you can't, you can't live your life worried about what other people think. You have to, you know, do what you want and enjoy it. So like, one of the things we do is, you know, she gets a, she gets to pick out her clothes every day for school, whatever, whatever she wants. And there's better once or twice where I'm. Look at Sherry mom, This is where she's gonna go to school in. And she's like, That's what she wants to go to school in. So I'm like, okay. And she rocks it. She walks in every day confident and I'm proud of her for it. There you go. I know a lot of parents wouldn't let their kids make that choice. I'm not saying we're right and they're wrong. Um, but you know, our goal is to give our daughter confidence, cuz And that's one of the best gifts. They can, they can, they can have growing.

Jon: 40:50

Oh yeah, definitely. And to touch on what you were saying about how, you know, kids look at their parents, um, I saw a post on, uh, one of the people that we follow, um, uh, and it showed, it was a split image. The top was kind of like this storey looking guy, and it said how dads. and then other me was like this buff riff superhero looking guy and said how the kids see dad. And it's true, like it is definitely true. You know what, what you said that, um, the kids, they don't know what, you know, all the insecurities that we have that we're, we're learning how to be parents as we go and whatnot. They just see us handling the situation and protecting them and providing for them and yeah. As long as you're doing those things, then you're doing it right.

Daniel: 41:48

Yeah. All right. Anything else you wanna add or bring up before we move on? Uh,

Jon: 41:57

my young or my second son, he's, he's dealing with the, the darkness right now, but I gotta say he's, he's a pretty brave little guy. So if, like, for example, the whole door to the bathroom, And if he needs to go and it's the hallways, the dark, and we have a nightlight in the bathroom, um, I'll, I'll tell him. If he says I gotta go potty, I was like, Okay, go. Just to see if he's gonna go on his own. If he says, Oh, go with me, or I need help, then I go with him. But there's times where he says, Okay, and then he gets up and just goes and. It's probably more just, you know, ignorance is bliss, but um, but yeah, I'm super proud for him just being able to go do that and when he comes back I tell him, I'm like, Good job, bud. Look at that. You did it all on your own. I had a boy and so yeah, kids are amazing.

Daniel: 42:48

Give him a thumbs up for me.

Jon: 42:50

Will do, will do.

Daniel: 42:51

We'll do. All right, so that concludes our topic for tonight. Fears. Uh, let us know. Um, message us. Let us know like a fear you have or you've overcome in, in your life. And so, all right, so we're gonna move on to our last segment of tonight's episode, and that is Dad draft. Uh, did you see the result from last week's?

Jon: 43:18

I. At least I saw them last night. I'll know I haven't seen them today. Have they changed last?

Daniel: 43:23

Well, no, there's only 24 hours. I only do it for a 24 hour period. So, um, it was funny. So I post, I posted up the, the poll and my wife Sherry saw it and said, Oh, you are gonna lose. This draft you, She's like, John, by far has a better list. And she actually voted, She actually voted for you. And when I checked it about like an hour or two later and you had a, a big lead on me, and I'm like, Maybe she was right. This is it. This is the end of an era. This is the, the streak is done and it's time to move on.

Jon: 44:12

Been over for a while. I already, and

Daniel: 44:14

then I checked it at night and to my surprise, we have a tie, a 50 50 tie once again. How are you feeling about that? Did you feel like you were gonna overtake me? Did you feel like you had the better list

Jon: 44:33

internally? Yes. um, uh, I don't know. I felt like your list was, was pretty solid in itself. Um, I mean, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, I hope that's the right order. Mm-hmm. of those words. Um, that's one of my one I movies I love to watch and I wish I could have had that one on my, on mine. And then, um, it was one or two other, the moves that I really wanted to put on my side and I, I wasn't able to, but, uh, you definitely had some good ones, but, I do feel a trend, I feel a change in the win. Okay. I feel the, that I'm starting to get more ties, which are gonna turn into more wins. I see a lot more Ws coming right away.

Daniel: 45:19

All right. So tonight's topic is, or tonight? Yeah. Tonight's topic for tonight's draft is Beth Home Inventions. Um, basically since we were born. So these are home appliances or home gadgets that were invented in our lifetime. And so John, I'm going to again let you pick first the floor is yours.

Jon: 45:48

All right. So this is a challenging dad job to do, but I'll start off with going with. Amazon Echo.

Daniel: 45:59

I had, I had, um, I had Alexa, but I think that's the same thing. So Ill That's

Jon: 46:05

the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. So that's her, that's just her name.

Daniel: 46:08

You want me to write it down as Alexa or Echo?

Jon: 46:12

You put Echoes Alexa.

Daniel: 46:16

Okay. Yeah, and I was thinking of getting one for the house now. Um, you know, our kitchen was so old that we didn't have any counter space. So like we all like all these appliances that we, we wanted and, uh, every house we went to, they had one in their kitchen. I've always wanted that. So I told Sherry down there, we have a brandy kitchen and all this counter space. I kind of want to get one. for the house. So, but that's a good one. Go ahead.

Jon: 46:48

I was gonna say, what's really cool is, um, you could get, they have kids once we put one in the, in the boys' room, we want, we have one downstairs in like the living room that you could still hear in the kitchen. Um, but if the boys are playing up in the room, we could say, Oh, Alexa called, you know, the boys room. And it'll ring up there and it uses it as like a, a, um, what is it called? Just talk to them up there. Speaker. Yeah, there's another term. Okay. Uh, you know what I'm talking about, I'm sure knows what I'm talking about, but Gotcha. You've talked to them through that, so Yeah. Which is really nice.

Daniel: 47:27

All right. So my first pick, um, gonna go with wifi. So like, okay. That was a game changer there. I think that was a game changer. Um, Bluetooth and everything. So yeah, going with, going with wifi. Can you imagine a house without wifi?

Jon: 47:54

Uh, I'm sure there's plenty out there, but, um, I'm sure they wish they did have wifi.

Daniel: 48:00

All right. Uh, on you. All

Jon: 48:04

right. Um,

Daniel: 48:08

I don't know if there, there is one thing I, there is one thing I, I. I wonder if you're gonna pick, because you always bri, you brag about it when you bought it.

Jon: 48:19

Uh,

Daniel: 48:20

and so, Oh, go ahead. Let me throw you off. Well, the,

Jon: 48:24

no, the, the next one I was gonna pick, I'm not sure if too many, if how many people are familiar with it, but the Nest thermostat. Okay. So that thing's awesome because. So obviously if you have ac you could turn your AC on through it, you can turn your heater on through it. But what's really nice is say it's a hot day and you don't want your AC running all day. You can, a, you could control AC from when you're away from the home, but say you're, you know, half an hour away from the house or hour away from the house, you wanna turn an AC on then, so that way when you get home, the ac the house is cool. You can do that. You can even set it where it keeps it a certain temperature, an ecosystem, or an equal session or a setting where when you're away from the house, the house is a little hotter, and then as you know, you get home, it kicks on it automatically. So it's really nice. So just come home to a nice school house on a hot day?

Daniel: 49:20

Yeah. We're thinking of, uh, maybe like the beginning of the year or maybe summer is, uh, putting in a, an AC unit. Mm-hmm. but more like a, I think they car, they're called splitters and they're very popular in. And it's a little bit more, uh, environmental, uh, friendly. Uh, so the only thing is that they're not, they don't look as nice as central air. So like when you walk in our house, And each room there's gonna be like a bulky little fan on the wall, but um Oh, okay, I see those. Yeah. Yeah. So they're really bad. No, they don't. So I think that's where the direction we're going with. Um, Nice. Yeah. And so, alright, so my next one is SMART tv. Yeah. Uh, yeah,

Jon: 50:22

it's handy. You get the same result of Fire Stick, but

Daniel: 50:28

Yeah. Smart TVs. Uh, the ad is the future. Can't complain. Uh, so we're gonna, we're gonna do is, um, we're planning on, they're, right now we're redoing our patio. So I think eventually, maybe like in a few months, um, buy some furniture out there. And I told Sherry we can either buy a TV for out there or put the TV we have in our front room outside and then buy a new TV for the living room. Um, definitely me looking tv. That's right. You know this. That's right. Oh, alright. Number three.

Jon: 51:11

Number three. Uh, I'm not gonna lie, distracted by what you told me. Like, what did I brag about a lot when I,

Daniel: 51:19

It was a co it was a couple years ago. I'll give you half less than Sergio HealthPoint. I need to have the exact same.

Jon: 51:26

Exact same one. Okay. Um, yeah, I have no idea.

Daniel: 51:32

I could be wrong, by the way, too

Jon: 51:37

Uh, alright, so you want me to tell you? Yeah, just tell me coffee maker. Oh, okay. The, the Kerick?

Daniel: 51:46

Yeah. Oh, no, they don't have a kerick. They don't

Jon: 51:49

have a, they don't have a ke. I think they do well. We have to thought, Okay.

Daniel: 51:53

Espresso Keurig. Okay. Maybe they, Yeah. Then that's the same word. Is that what you wanna put?

Jon: 51:59

Um, for lack of better idea. Yeah. The keric espresso Curic, i, I espresso care. I think that alone might get me, People love coffee.

Daniel: 52:17

See, I'm trying to help you out. Trying to, um, okay, let's see. I have one on my list, but then I'm like, it, I think it's kind of the same thing, but it's really not. So I'm gonna go dvr.

Jon: 52:42

Yeah, that's it. That's its own thing. Yeah.

Daniel: 52:44

Point dv, dvr. Um. You use it? Um, a lot because, not a lot, but uh, they come in handy cuz especially when you're a parent, there's, you don't get any time for yourself, so it's kind of hard to keep track of your shows. And so, um, especially too, like when you're functioning the game, that's the big one. I'm able to like pause the game now and like help. And then come back and replay where before I'm like, I can't, You have to wait till time out. You have to wait till a

Jon: 53:15

commercial So I remember those days. Yeah. So yeah, so it the trash next commercial,

Daniel: 53:24

next thing you know, it's like three hours has gone by. Like, what the hell? It's like, oh yeah, it's a red zone. That's

Jon: 53:31

gonna be her,

Daniel: 53:31

can be here, can be here all day. Go

Jon: 53:35

ahead. How many more do I have? Uh, two more picks. Okay for this one. Um, let's go with the streaming services. So Netflix, um,

Daniel: 53:48

Hulu, isn't that smart tv?

Jon: 53:51

No, that's not smart tv. You can use those for, for smart through a smart tv, but you can do a lot more with the smart tv. Smart TV just allows you to get those applications. Gotcha. Okay. I see you says it today.

Daniel: 54:08

for me. My fourth one will be air fryer.

Jon: 54:13

Oh, nice. Yeah, that's a good one. So, and you do, you guys, you guys have an air fryer, right? We have one, yeah. So before you guys, you know, The whole demolition and infrastructure on the house went on were, Did you guys use your air fryer like religiously, or was it just like here and there?

Daniel: 54:34

So here's the thing. We bought it during the pandemic because, uh, our, right when the pandemic happened, our, our oven went out. And so for a quick fix, we bought this, um, portable oven. But one of the features was air fryer. And so when it came time to, like, we didn't use it religiously, but we used it a lot.

Jon: 55:03

Okay. Cause I feel like, yeah, I know we have an air fryer and when we first got it, we used it all the time and then slowly we just kinda like, ah, Like we just don't, we haven't used it as much as frequently. Right.

Daniel: 55:17

And, okay, so your last pick.

Jon: 55:21

All right. My last pick, this is purely just to go with, uh, my youth and just remembering it, but, um, this is something that's totally not used nowadays, but, uh, wireless phones when at the cord.

Daniel: 55:36

I had that on my, I had that on my list. I

Jon: 55:40

remember when it was a wireless he had, if you didn't put on the charger, ooh, everyone in the house was mad at you.

Daniel: 55:47

Okay. What's

Jon: 55:49

your last

Daniel: 55:49

one? I've torn between three of'em. All right. So I'm not going, I'm not going to use this one. I'm not gonna use iPad, you know? Okay. That be a good one. Is that really

Jon: 56:04

a health items? A good

Daniel: 56:06

could be. I mean, you control, you can control a lot of appliances off your iPad,

Jon: 56:12

I

Daniel: 56:12

guess. Um, okay, so I'm gonna go with, um, I don't know, what would you call it? Video surveillance? Like services? Yeah. Or like, uh, video, like, uh, doorbell. Doorbell

Jon: 56:36

ring. Like the ring. Well, you could just put ring. Yeah, the ring. That's

Daniel: 56:41

what would you call it though? Like, I mean, it's like a, Is it a

Jon: 56:46

security system right? Yeah. It's this type of security system. Yeah. I go,

Daniel: 56:53

yeah, cause you gonna monitor things from your iPad or your phone or or tablet and stuff. So yeah, I'm gonna go with that. I mean if

Jon: 57:01

you wanna go Prees ring so that way they can kind of make sure they know what it's,

Daniel: 57:06

Yeah. So go. I had PlayStation on, but it. Yeah, I mean,

Jon: 57:13

gaming counsel, I guess.

Daniel: 57:14

Yeah. So, All right, so that's it. Um, there we go. Can't wait to go take this thing off cuz I'm sweating. uh, if you can't, please subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen to, and also follow us on Instagram. Under 4, 2, 6. Um, alright. From John and I, uh,

Jon: 57:39

one last thing. I gotta get my fun facts in. I know, you know, I mean, you gimme time so,

Daniel: 57:46

Well, you're, you're supposed to do it as we're saying goodbye, but go ahead. Yeah, that makes no

Jon: 57:51

sense, by the way. Okay. So, Okay. So if you speak a second language, you may make, uh, decisions differently. A study in at the University of Chicago, they had, uh, students that spoke a second language and the decisions that they made while speaking a second language were less emotionally and more rational. So it may, uh, so the study should kind of show that if you are speaking in a different language, you may process things differently and make decisions differently.

Daniel: 58:24

All right. There you all right. There you go. Thank you John. Appreciate that. There you go. All right guys. Have a happy and safe Halloween and from John and I don't go change.