Are you a dad who loves pulling pranks? Are you unable to stop goofing around with your kids, even when it's past their bedtime? Would your spouse say that you're the "fun dad"? If so, this episode is for you. We rap with legendary radio personality Greg Kretschmar about how to maintain authority as the dad, when you also seek the mischief and companionship of a friend.
Are you a dad who loves pulling pranks? Are you unable to stop goofing around with your kids, even when it's past their bedtime? Would your spouse say that you're the "fun dad"? If so, this episode is for you. We rap with legendary radio personality Greg Kretschmar about how to maintain authority as the dad, when you also seek the mischief and companionship of a friend.
Episode 9 finds Adam and Marc discussing the thrill of playing a good prank, and the joys and challenges of being a playful parent. Guest Greg Kretschmar shares his own "fun dad" stories, while imparting some wisdom on how to navigate playing the role of both "dad" and "friend." Topics include:
• The satisfaction that comes from making your kids belly laugh
• When your influence comes back to bite you
• When does a boy become a man?
• Embarrassing your kids in public intentionally
• Embarrassing your kids in public unintentionally
• Doing funny voices
• A prank that crossed the line
• Switching from friend to disciplinarian
The guys round out the episode with another installment of Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
Links:
Greg and the Morning Buzz
Greg Kretschmar Photography
Morning Buzz Podcasts
TMNT Screening & Modern Dadhood Q&A @ 3S Artspace
Steve Lavigne/Shellback Artworks
Caspar Babypants
Bubby Lewis
Spencer Explores the Universe
Marc:
How about that? We're back.
Adam:
It's another episode.
Marc:
We're here again.
Adam:
Everything sounds good.
Marc:
Does it?
Adam:
Yeah, in my headphones it does. How are you?
Marc:
I'm okay.
Adam:
Who are you?
Marc:
Who am I? My name is Mark Checket and I'm a dad of twin boy toddlers.
Adam:
Well that's good. My name is Adam Flaherty and I am a father of two daughters, six years old and three years old and we like to say that Modern Dadhood is an ongoing conversation about the joys, challenges and general insanity of being a dad in this moment.
Marc:
Living in the moment is a thing.
Adam:
Dads, we have a cool announcement for you. On March 7th, Marc and I are going to be representing Modern Dadhood at a 30th anniversary screening of the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film taking place at 3S Artspace here in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Marc:
Yeah, not only are we so stoked for the movie because it's completely badass, but Adam and I are also interviewing an interview/Q&A with one of the original Turtles comic artists, Steve Lavigne.
Adam:
If you live in the northeast, you can grab tickets at 3sarts.org. If you don't, we'll film the Q&A and make it available for you guys after.
Marc:
My wife brought up something to me the other day. She said, "Have you interviewed only people that have daughters?" And I had to think for a second and it's not true because a couple of our guests have had boys.
Adam:
Yeah, Justin's got Otto. Terry's got two boys.
Marc:
Oh, that's true. I had forgotten about that. Where's the point where you cross from boy to man? I feel like a boy still.
Adam:
Isn't it 18?
Marc:
That's what the Army says.
Adam:
I have a feeling of this is going to be a good conversation. So why don't we get right into the topic of today's episode.
Marc:
Let's do it. Lead the way.
Adam:
I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm a bit of a jokester. Did you know this?
Marc:
Hold the phone. Wait a minute.
Adam:
Yeah, I look a good prank. For example at work I like hiding on people, jumping out of people, scaring people.
Marc:
I feel like there was a story you told me very recently about hiding under your desk and waiting for a person to enter your room.
Adam:
Oh yeah. I met messaged Lucas the other day and I said, "Lucas, I have a question coming to my office." And I did have a legitimate question, but he came in eventually and there I was under my desk. And he went right up to my desk and his legs were ix inches from my face. I didn't touch, I wasn't going to touch.
Marc:
You're not a crazy person.
Adam:
But I said "Lucas." And I could almost hear the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. It was awesome.
Marc:
You're a bad person. You're a bad person for that.
Adam:
I'll own that. That's fine. I love doing that stuff to my girls too. So they're six years old and three years old and I love scaring them. I will creep up silently and scare them. I'll do the same thing with my wife. If we're getting ready for bed, she's brushing your teeth, I'll go into our room and I'll arrange pillows in the bed so that she thinks I'm there. And then-
Marc:
That's classic.
Adam:
Yeah, right. And then I'll jump out from the other side of the room and terrify her. It's now to the point where when I do it, half the time I'm actually in the bed half the time I'm somewhere else in the room. I think it's fun, perhaps a little bit immature.
Marc:
I can't do that because I joked once with something that would be, I don't know, considered maybe scary, frightening. This was soon after the film The Grudge came out.
Adam:
[Grudge noise]
Marc:
That's good. See my wife won't listen to this episode now by the way, but this is twice that The Grudge has come up in this podcast. But I left a voicemail. It was a short sighted thing that I did. I thought this would be funny because she was terrified when we watched the movie. Let me leave the voicemail. That was in, I don't know ... When did the grudge come out? 2004, 2005? I haven't joked since with that stuff. Okay. That's why I'm still married to this day. So I know better. I guess what I'm saying is I envy you a little bit.
Adam:
I am so driven by those screams of terror followed by the laughter. It's not just about jumping out though. I love goofing around with my kids. I love that we have a really playful relationships.
Marc:
There's Fun there. There's fun there that's being had.
Adam:
So when my six year old daughter turns that on me, I'm doing something in the kitchen and she creeps up and truly, truly gets me. I can't possibly be upset with her. I have to give her a high five and give her props because she's, she's learned it from me.
Marc:
The prankee he has become the pranker and that's a natural evolution. Isn't it?
Adam:
Today's guest, I would say that he's a personal friend. He is a well-respected figure in the community. Also a father of two now grown children who from what I know of them are responsible adults now. Marc, I don't know if you know this, but you are in the presence of a legend.
Marc:
Of greatness. I can actually feel it in the room.
Adam:
You're in the presence of somebody who's been roasted.
Marc:
I didn't know that.
Adam:
Yeah, the roast and toast of Greg Kretschmar. You didn't know this.
Marc:
I didn't know that.
Adam:
Where have you been? Where do you live, Epping?
Marc:
Hey, we've got listeners in Epping. I know personally, at least one of them.
Adam:
So I'm really excited to welcome Greg Kretschmar to the show. Thank you for your willingness to come on and chat with us about being a dad.
Greg:
Glad to be here man. I'm a fan of the podcast.
Marc:
That's amazing to hear.
Greg:
Nicely done. Nicely done, gentlemen.
Marc:
Thank you sir.
Greg:
You're welcome. You're welcome.
Adam:
Anyone here in New England will know you and is already going to be familiar with you and your family, but for the Modern Dadhood listeners around the country around the world, Greg, for 35 years now, it's hosted a radio program here in new England. You've developed such a devoted following. Dads who are listening can actually listen to the show using the iHeartRadio app on your phone. Just search for Greg in the Morning Buzz. Coincidentally, Modern Dadhood just appeared on iHeartRadio as well. I don't know if you pulled any strings to make that happen the day before you appeared on the show.
Greg:
I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea.
Marc:
What did you do?
Adam:
But maybe even folks are using the app right now to listen to this episode. So it's very cool. And I would encourage the listeners to check out Greg in the Morning Buzz. It's an amazing show.
Greg:
Thank you.
Adam:
So Greg, paint us a picture of your family.
Marc:
Well my wife Valerie and I had been married I think it's going on 28 years and we have two kids. Caitlin is the oldest, she's 26 she's a nurse and my son Tyler is 25 who is a grad student out of Bowling Green University and the athletic training program. So I was talking to my son on my way over here and I listened to your podcast and you're talking about what you're going through with your younger children. And it seems like yesterday when I was right in the same spot as you guys are.
Adam:
It goes fast.
Marc:
It goes really fast.
Greg:
You don't know yet. You will and all the things that people tell you that you know about being a parent and all that stuff and you brushed it aside because what do they know? They actually do. They actually do know and things tend to go faster the older they get. So the rollercoaster ride doesn't slow down.
Marc:
It's amazing how quickly you do realize that, "Oh my God, they weren't kidding." Because there's so much leading up to it and there's so much opportunity that people take. And I appreciate this at the time I may have been a little bit like, "Oh yeah, I've heard that a hundred people say exactly what you just said," but they're saying it for a reason. And yeah, you find out really, really quickly that, "Wow, everything that these people warned me of is totally true." That things go by so fast. Anybody that's out there that is pregnant right now, you pay attention. You listen to these people when they talk to you.
Greg:
You're right. You're right.
Adam:
So I know from listening to the show for a long time, I have a pretty good idea of your family dynamic. But for people who don't know, you talk about when your kids were growing up, the different ways that you might interact with your kids, then Valerie might have interacted with your kids.
Greg:
It's interesting because there are definite, like what you said earlier about you and your wife being totally different. My wife and I are very different, but at the same time very unified. I'm older than both of you. I'm 58 years old, so I come from a background that was probably a little bit more old school and I mixed the old school attitudes with a newer looser attitude. But when when it came time to lay the law down or whatever or establish the boundaries, that's what I did. Valerie was the caretaker and she's in on every detail and I'm the support system. But if they got out of line, I was the guy that had to fix that. Not that Valerie didn't. So it was definitely a partnership. It was a 50-50 thing.
Adam:
Did you enjoy raising hell with them?
Greg:
Yeah, absolutely. I did a lot of that stuff. I was the goofy dad. I embraced that role. And you talked about pranking and scaring. I did that to my daughter and her friends all the time. It's just fun. You didn't want to try and see how far I'd go because I would outdo whatever it is you thought. If you thought I was embarrassing you by walking down the aisle in Walmart with you, I'll show you how I embarrass you. I'm that guy.
Marc:
Don't tempt me.
Greg:
I am that guy. When they're 15, there's nothing you as a dad can do right. You better just get used to it because it's coming. Let me just tell you something, it's harder than you think because as dads, we're not supposed to say how hard it is. We're just supposed to suck it up and blah, blah, blah.
Marc:
Yeah, right.
Greg:
I'm telling you, it is not easy because it's something you can't understand as a male. It's a real thing. I mean, all kinds of stuff's going on and crazy hormones and stuff. Yeah, just ride the wave as best you can. And so we were walking through a Walmart once and she said, "Dad, you're embarrassing me. I'm like, "Embarrass you?" I took my shirt, I lifted it over my belly, I stick my belly out as far as they could. I threw my arms out like I was a muscle guy and I started yelling, "Where the Muscle Milk? Where the Muscle Milk?" And her face just was crimson. I didn't stop.
Marc:
How could you possibly be embarrassed by that. That is incredible.
Greg:
I didn't stop. I was like, "I'm looking for the Muscle Milk." When and we rounded the corner, swear to God Somersworth Walmart, rounded the corner and there's a display of Muscle Milk. There's a guy in a tank top with a Gold's Gym tank top on.
Adam:
Of course.
Marc:
Please tell me there was a high five where I, between you too.
Greg:
No, there was none that. It was like, "This guy's going to snap me in half." And Caitlin was horrified. It was one of my proudest moments actually.
Marc:
That's amazing.
Adam:
That's fantastic.
Marc:
That's phenomenal.
Greg:
When you talked about pranks and doing stuff, that's the kind of thing that I will do. She still remembers it to this day. I thought it was hilarious, but it just-
Adam:
Does she looked fondly back at that though now?
Greg:
Yeah.
Marc:
You said she's 20-
Greg:
She's 26.
Marc:
26.
Greg:
One of the great things that happens is when you start to see them value those things, and it really ... I got to tell you, I'm an emotional guy. I cry at the drop of a hat. I know you guys talked about that and one of the previous podcasts that I'm definitely emotional. They make fun of me because I'm so emotional. But little things like that when they bring it up it's like, "Yeah, that's ... " because it's special to me.
Marc:
That's huge. A turning point between, "Dad you're embarrassing me," to realizing how amazing that is to have really ... There's no value that you can place on that type of memory.
Greg:
There's nothing Caitlin likes better than popping in the DVDs of the home movies that we took when they were little. You just sit there and go, "Wow, I love that. She loves to watch them." And I could sit there and watch them and I could say to her, "I remember that moment like it was yesterday." I was sitting on the floor and my legs are crossed and I had the video camera and she was crawling over to me and I remember it and I thought, "This is the best day of my life." That's what I was thinking as a dad as that was happening. I honestly remember thinking that. Here we are watching it together and I didn't say that's what I thought is, but that's just how I remember it. You remember those moments and the fact that they love him. Oh, that's awesome.
Adam:
Was it hard when they were growing up to switch roles between the being really playful and then being a disciplinarian?
Greg:
That was dictated by them.
Marc:
Interesting.
Greg:
That whole thing is dictated by them. We raised them with the attitude that you're the one that that calls the shots. We have the rules, but the benefits that you get and liberties that you will get are direct result of how you behave.
Marc:
God, that stuff terrifies me because I can remember being that age and being faced with that conversation from the kids' perspective where my parents are like, "You got to understand the consequences." And I'm like, "What are you talking about? I don't understand any of this right now and I'm trying to figure it all out." I feel like I can still feel what that felt like from that kid's perspective, kid being teenager.
Greg:
We are different. Our generations are different. You guys are different. I'm different, but we are different than our collective parents because we have two roles, friend and dad. Our dads weren't there to be our friends. There was no ... We want to be friends with our kids. I want to be friends with our kids. I love hanging out. I love having conversations, joking around with them. But there's a time that ... I'm there to be your dad first and always. That's the thing I would say, "I'm not here to be your friend. I want to be, but I'm here to be your dad and that means I'm going to tell you what you don't want to hear sometimes. And I'm going to say the things that you need to hear that maybe no one else will tell you."
Adam:
So I've got this problem where here an example. The other night I was putting my six year old daughter to bed and I read a couple books to her and then, and lay with her and she'll fall asleep pretty quickly. It's not like I'm in there for a long time, but she's now starting to read herself, which is amazing. And so she wants to read a book to me. And so she's reading to me and I can't help myself. My finger comes out and she's reading to me and I slowly move it towards her and poke her. And it makes her laugh and she loves it. It interrupts her reading and so I have to apologize. And then she goes back to reading again and she's reading a few words and then my finger comes out like this and it slowly moves and it just becomes this thing. We get into this groove where we're both laughing hysterically about it and it's so stupid and she wants me to do it. But eventually I need to stop because she needs to finish her book so she can go to bed and we can turn up the lights and stuff.
Greg:
Daddy's got to go to bed.
Adam:
That's true. I'm exhausted as well. But sometimes I can't help myself. So finishes her book and we've calmed ourselves down and take a nice deep breath and we're relaxing, getting ready for sleep. And I still can't help doing it again because I so yearned for that laughter. Because It's enjoyable for me too, but I love hearing her laugh like that. That true belly laugh is so satisfying. How can I possibly be the one who also has to say, we got to stop doing this, but I can't help it myself.
Greg:
What time's bedtime.
Adam:
I don't know. Eight o'clock.
Greg:
Okay. Well what about just saying like, look, if we start reading a book at 7:30 we have to stop at 8.
Adam:
Yeah.
Greg:
It's going to take a couple of times of you getting up saying we're done and she's not going to like it.
Adam:
I know. And it's not even her fault. It's my own fucking fault because I can't stop goofing around.
Marc:
You monster.
Adam:
That's incredible. And when you're having those moments and you're just feeling like I'm in Parenthood bliss, it doesn't get better than this. That's the moments where I'm like, you know what, if we're up an extra 20 or 30 minutes because we're goofing around and making each other laugh... That's what life's all about, it's having those moments of shared laughter and enjoyment. So who cares?
Greg:
You're right. But real life will catch up to you at some point and you have to be okay with that when that happens and go, "Look, Dad's got a 8:00, we're cutting it off tonight because I can't do it." That's how I was anyway.
Adam:
I think what I just struggle with and feel guilty about is inconsistency. If I had a tough day at work and I come home and I'm all stressed out about whatever and that changes how I interact with my children or that I disciplined them more because it's just a side effect of having a shitty day. I don't feel like they deserve that.
Greg:
In a perfect world you'll be consistent, but you don't live in a perfect world. And a lot of times the way, the way you react to your children was also a reaction to the environment, your week, your work week. The older they get and the busier you get as a dad and at work, that's going to make it easier to be consistent because you have to be. So that grows as the kids grow. The need for consistency will be easier for you.
Adam:
You told me a story a little while back about your son Tyler, and he was... I don't remember how old he was at the time. Maybe you can refresh me, but he pulled some prank on you. Do you remember? You know what I'm talking about?
Greg:
I do. I do. Yeah.
Adam:
All right. Maybe I should just let you tell it.
Greg:
It's a sore spot.
Marc:
Uh-oh.
Adam:
I really only brought you in here tow to open up wounds that have healed.
Greg:
I joked around with them and I did more of the voices type stuff like goofy voices. "Geez Louise! Oh my God, Dad! Geez Louise!" That kind of stuff. Sometimes the difficult part of being that dad is being on the receiving end of it and 95%, 99% of the time, it's funny and you roll with it because you created it. This one day it was Father's Day and we were sitting outside on the deck by the pool, beautiful day. We had drinks and I don't normally drink, but I having a drink with them and we were sitting there at the table and my daughter was across from me and she picked up her phone. I didn't know at the time, but she was recording and Tyler went in the house and he came back out around where I was at the table and he stood behind me. Now this is Father's Day.
Marc:
This is a video? Is she videoing?
Greg:
I didn't know she was doing a video. I thought she was doing a text, but she's doing a video of it.
Marc:
What is up.
Greg:
Tyler went around behind me and I didn't really think much about it. And all of a sudden I looked up at her and she had a smile on her face. And just then there was an egg that cracked on my head and the yolk and I sat there because the comedy me took the hit. I knew and I sat there and I didn't move my face and I didn't react because that's funny. That's what you do. You take the hit, then I got angry because I'm like, "It's Father's Day for Christ's sake." I bottled it up and I didn't say anything. I made a choice to bottle it up, which it ruined the day for me anyway. I've got to be honest. I've got to own it and trust me, they know we've talked about it. It was one of those things where, because we created that sort of playful joke around relationship, I just ... It was one of those moments. And I think the reason it got me was because I was really appreciating the day. Look, I don't need to be feated or any of that nonsense. I just, it was us together, like you said, enjoying the moment. It was awesome. I was appreciating that when that happened and I just ... It hit me wrong and maybe I reacted wrong. Maybe I was out of line. I don't know. But I was just like, "The one day to not do that is this day." That caused a lot of stress for me because I had created that monster.
Adam:
Yeah. Right. So that's the moment where you have to say, that's my influence that caused that.
Greg:
They just were doing it to be funny, but it was ... it bothered me a lot.
Adam:
So what does Tyler say about that now when you talk about it?
Greg:
We talked about it tonight.
Adam:
You did? On the drive here?
Greg:
Yeah. He said, "What are you doing?" I told him we were going to talk. And I said, yeah. I said, "Did we do pranks?" And when I was asking and he said, "The only other one I did when you didn't come out so well."
Adam:
It didn't go over all that well. Yeah.
Greg:
I will own maybe reacting badly and then thinking about it in the wrong way. But I also stand by my point that on that day probably wasn't a good day to do it.
Marc:
In some twisted way. Is it possible that Tyler thinking, "He's going to love this."
Adam:
He must have. He must've thought there's going to be an uproarious laughter.
Marc:
This is me showing my respect in a certain way.
Greg:
Maybe, and don't get me wrong. What's weird is they're very respectful. That kind of thing doesn't happen very often, but it was ... Yeah man. Boy, I tell you that was hard to deal with it. I feel bad about how badly I felt. I feel like stupid because I felt so bad.
Marc:
But see that's the thing, I don't know. It's weird. In this moment right now where I still am, I can see both sides of it and I can see how, I bet you he thought that this was going to go over really well and he was going to be like, "That was a good one son and I respect you even more for that." But I can totally see just from your perspective at the time being like, "You kidding me."
Adam:
And for better or worse you will just by the nature of how things work you'll move-
Greg:
I've never told this story publicly by the way.
Marc:
Oh God.
Adam:
You will move farther and farther away from that and be able to only see it from Greg's perspective.
Marc:
That's the real rub, isn't it? That he's not going to fully understand that perspective until he gets there. There's no way for you to get him to see it until the time comes.
Greg:
When he heard, now mind you, he was an adult. And this gets back to the line of dad versus friend because that was a friend. That was a friend mode... on Dad's Day. Look, again, I'm not the guy that whines about like, "I didn't get any..." That's not how it is, but I was enjoying the moment so much. I wasn't ready for it. Yeah, it totally threw me and once we talked about it and I think they saw my point of view and my perspective, they still thought it was funny. That's one of the things. You create and you mold this human being who is going to be way more like you than you think. They're going to pick up little things about you. They're going to pick up the mannerisms and the way you treat other people and there are parts of it that are going to come back and bite you in the behind.
Adam:
One of the things that I love about this show is that we can have conversations with people who can impart some wisdom and share some experiences that we can use to shape our own parenting. So thank you for, for being here and for your willingness to, again, to participate. I think very highly of you. I respect you a lot.
Greg:
Thank you. The feeling is mutual.
Marc:
This conversation has been very insightful.
Greg:
Well thank you very much. I, I enjoy what you guys do. I think it's a really a great resource for dads, not just as their new dads either because perspective is something that you can always use other perspectives or something you can always use. So thank you very much for you too.
Adam:
Greg Kretschmar thank you so much and we hope to have ... Maybe you can come back again after we've got some more episodes under our belt and impart some more wisdom.
Greg:
Love to.
Adam:
Marc, you know what we haven't done in awhile?
Marc:
Thumb wrestle?
Adam:
We have not thumb wrestled. Best 6 out of 10.
Marc:
Yeah, best 6 out of 10 and we'll just, we'll just let it record and everyone who's listening is just going to have to wait.
Adam:
Unfortunately it's more or less silent. Now, what we haven't done in awhile is a, "Did I just say that out loud?"
Marc:
"Did I just say that out loud?"
Adam:
And I understand that you have a good one to share with the dads.
Marc:
I do. I do and I'm going to share it. So my kids started daycare recently and I think as you do, you get the daycare plague and our family got hit pretty hard by it.
Adam:
It's relentless.
Marc:
Our kids brought home some weird cough that manifested into all sorts of different things. There's been sinus infections and conjunctivitis and respiratory infections and piles of used tissues on every surface and just a haze hovering about four to six inches above the floor in every room in the house.
Adam:
It's just been terrible.
Marc:
You walk into the house and you can see it. Yeah, it's like-
Adam:
Sickness lives here.
Marc:
Yeah. Yeah. Our whole lives is just like that message from Oregon trail when that was like, "You have died of dysentery. Do you want to continue?" No. And it occurred to me during this period of time that is really hard to teach somebody how to blow their nose. I'm sure you've probably gone through this.
Adam:
Yeah. When the girls were young, I tried and tried and then at one point just a switch flipped.
Marc:
Is that what happens?
Adam:
Yeah, they just get it.
Marc:
God, I hope that happens.
Adam:
Yeah, the boys will get it.
Marc:
We're in this moment now where they are just like ... They don't want the tissue near them. I'm trying to constantly just like attack them from behind just real quick. Let me wipe that upper lip. But at the same time it's like we want to try to teach them, but neither of us have any ... we have no idea how to teach another human being to blow their nose. So I was struggling so hard one day. I've tried to hold a child, trying to hold both of their arms down and I'm trying to get this tissue in their face. I'm like, "I got to try something. I got to try to reason with them." I know that that's ...
Adam:
Logic doesn't work here, for the record.
Marc:
Yeah. No.
Adam:
Sneak attack is the best way to get that done.
Marc:
I know that now, but I was like, "Okay, what am I kids know that I can use in this situation?" I had this quick flash in my mind of, we have this book about a bunny rabbit and we were doing the little bunny thing, you know with your nose where you wrinkle up your nose and you breathe in and out and you do this little bunny face.
Adam:
I can see you doing it now.
Marc:
Dads can't see it. Nobody can see me. It doesn't come through.
Adam:
It's adorable.
Marc:
I keep doing it though.
Adam:
It's adorable.
Marc:
We've taught them that. We're like, "Oh it's a bunny." And then we'd go to do the face and they do a little face and it's so cute to see the little nose crinkles up, but they tend to breathe in and out when they do it through their nose.
Marc:
So I found myself wrangling a kid. I had one, I had my left arm around the chest both arms down and I'm trying to just ... It looks like I'm trying to put like one of those things over somebody's face with the chlorophyll where I'm trying to make them pass out so that I can put them in the trunk of my car.
Adam:
With the rag, yeah.
Marc:
That's the position I'm in. But I'm also trying to calmly walk them through like what you need to do. All of a sudden I find myself like just loudly yelling, "Blow like a bunny. Blow like a bunny."
Adam:
That's a great one.
Marc:
And it's definitely not getting through to them, but I'm definitely like, "Do you hear yourself right now man? You're yelling blow like bunny to a two year old." It didn't work by the way.
Adam:
Of course not.
Marc:
It didn't help at all. There were boogers everywhere by the end of this altercation that we had.
Adam:
How do bunnies blow?
Marc:
I don't know. It made so much sense to me at the time. I was like, "Oh, they understand the wrinkly thing and they breathe in and out. I'll just say blow like a bunny and magic will happen." It didn't.
Adam:
That's the thought process that's all happening in like a fraction of a second before if comes out.
Marc:
It was like a flash in a pan.
Adam:
Just comes out.
Marc:
Yeah. Blow like a bunny. Idiot.
Adam:
That finds us at the end of another episode of Modern Dadhood.
Marc:
Blow like a bunny!
Adam:
Dads, you can find Modern Dadhood at our website, Moderndadhood.com on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify Pocket Casts, Google, iHeartRadio, wherever you listen to your podcasts. You can also as a reminder, find Greg in the Morning Buzz on the iHeartRadio app, which airs live from 5:30 in the morning to 10:00 Monday through Friday. It's a demanding schedule. They are dedicated, all of them. I love them.
Marc:
It's rough.
Adam:
They're awesome.
Marc:
Oh man, everybody out there, you guys have been so generous with your reviews, your ratings. We love it so much and but please keep them coming. They're huge for us. Even something as simple as a one line review on Apple podcasts would be, would be really, really helpful to us. So we thank you for those. Of you that have done it and please keep it coming and tell your friends.
Adam:
Reach out to us anytime hey@moderndadhood.com. A huge thank you to Caspar Babypants for the music, for our podcast and to Spencer Albee for also his awesome contributions to the music here in our show and to our intern Nick Roes.
Marc:
Intern Nick Roes.
Adam:
Until next time.
Marc:
Until we meet again. Until we two become one.
Adam:
It's getting awkward. It's gone on too long. Bye-bye.
Marc:
Turn it off.