Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. Usually I’m Link. I’m usually Rhett. And this week at the round table of them lighting, this is the first of what we’re calling minis four minis that we’re doing over the next month. Things get a little bit, well, it’s not a month. We’re halfway into July and we’re going halfway. Well, four over over the course of a month can be from mid to mid. Really? Yeah. Yeah. It’s like. Oh, I’ve had this problem for a month. Well, is it exactly the month of July? Well, four weeks. You know, a month is a length of time. You just blew my mind. Like when you say your kid is 18 months old, do you? And they were born on, that’s true. July. Hey, I’m not, you don’t need to convince me man. You already blew my mind. Okay. Yeah, man. I’ve been, a woman is pregnant for nine months. 40 weeks. Really? Wow. So now I have, if I wanna say a, a proper month, I need to say calendar month. Uh, I think everyone else just does this automatically, instinctively in their mind without thinking about it. So just trust, just trust us all. Well, hold on. Lemme think about it. So we’re doing a month, four weeks in a row of these minis. We did this some, something like this last year. I mean, I will say, when you say we’re doing a month, it, it does seem like. Well now you’re gonna here. Okay. What you’re doing right now is you’re appealing to the link’s. Gotta point people. And those people just need to be quiet sometimes, because if Link didn’t say anything, you would’ve thought what I said made total sense. But now that he’s brought something up, you’re gonna be like, Link’s got a point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Link has made a point. I, I’ve got, does he, does he actually have one? I’ve got a point. I made it four weeks. Okay. I’ll change for everyone for the next four weeks. Uh, we’re doing minis well for the next three weeks. Uh, and you know what? Today, these are gonna be about a half hour long. And we’re not apologizing for it. We love you. End of story because, ’cause let’s explain what’s really going on here. Okay, we’re going on vacation. Well, vacation is probably the wrong term. We are taking our, yeah. Our prescribed, yeah. Mental and emotional health break that we have now built into our year. Yeah. Uh, which is, do you need to answer? Well, let’s see. I might need to answer this. Actually. This is Shepherd. He and Lock are still in North Carolina. Lemme see here. Okay. Hey, dad. Yep. You know, first of all, hold on, hold on. First of all, you can, I can say he, hello first. You don’t have to start talking every time. I can say hello and then you can say, Hey dad, after that. He’s talking. He’s talking to his son on the telephone. His son’s doing most of the talking right now. He’s just listening. Okay, so hold on a second. So now he’s talking, you and Locke and Dante went to the creek at night. Yeah. Do you know how much poison ivy you probably watched walked through? He’s asking about his personal safety. He’s in total dad mode right now. Okay. Did you put any insect repelling on, he’s being kind of judged. Have you like, have you checked? Checked for ticks? It’s pretty passive aggressive. Like seriously walking around in June in the woods in North Carolina, like, you’re just like, tick magnets have to think about these things. When his son called him is, is what he thought he was gonna get, did lock check over Oliver lecture. I wonder why he actually did call. Okay, so you’re saying you got what? Dirty, you got your like shoes and your pants and you don’t wanna wash them because they’ll get other stuff dirty. Is that what you’re saying? He’s, he’s, he’s asking a laundry question. Mm-hmm. It’s interesting. Well, I’m gonna be there, I’m gonna be there for most of July, so you wouldn’t get them until the end of the summer. They’re still talking. So why don’t you take a, here’s what I would do. Why don’t you take a trash bag? Put them in a trash bag and bring ’em home. Okay. See, that’s what dads do. We come up with solutions, okay? It usually involves trash. Is everything else good? You guys are about to leave, maybe duct tape. Is there, did you call, did you call mom? And did you text her and ask her? Yeah, but she probably didn’t answer. That’s why he called him. Okay. Just make sure that lock checks for ticks too. Okay. Love you. Bye. Anywhere. There’s hair, you know what I’m saying? They’re, they’re, you know, it’s, we left early for North Carolina, so they were there, they had another night there, and it’s just like, so they’re like responsible for like getting every, like they’re the last ones to leave the house that we won’t return to for. Uh, I mean, family will be there between now and then, but, well, it’s good that he called you. Is this all part of the podcast or did we cut that out? Oh, it’s all part of the podcast. Okay, good. Because you didn’t tell him that he was being recorded, but I mean, he’s a minor. He’s a son. Could he, could he hear? Could you hear him? I could hear like, Mr. No, we couldn’t hear him. You know, both of my sons, for some reason, this is why I said it at the beginning. Every time they call you, before you say hello, they say, Hey dad. And they’ve always done that. And I, and I used to mention to it all, then I stopped. But I just thought Id do it ’cause I knew I was being recorded. Do they think that you’re just answering the phone and just waiting for them to talk? I guess I don’t, I’ve tried to teach them phone etiquette, you know, to a certain degree. I was like, when you call somebody, let them greet you. Because that’s, that’s your confirmation that they are engaged. Yeah, they’re listening. They’re actually connected. But as soon as he, which I guess is a really efficient way to start the conversation, but I kind of wanna say hello. Hey, son, what’s up? I have many different things I could say. He doesn’t come from a world where a connection has to be established. Is this like a thing that happens with other kids or is this just my children? Uh, I can’t say that it’s ever happened to me. They went and got, they went and got really dirty. Last night in the dark, in the creek in the dark, going back to the creek. And his jeans and his boots that he likes are all messed up. And so he was like, are you going? I don’t wanna bring him. Are you going in a couple of weeks and you can bring him back? And I was like, well, I’m gonna be there. Back to what we were saying, our, our mental and emotional health break that we have now built into the middle of the summer schedule, um, which I will be in North Carolina for most of that time. But I would be keeping his boots. He’s gonna be at some like summer program for music that he’s doing. He’s gonna want his boots. So once he realized that, I dad it out and said, put ’em in a trash bag and bring ’em back. That was so good, man. And he said, I’ll do that. Yeah. You know? And one day dad to the wrist, we can only hope he would just think of that solution himself. Mm-hmm. Or why not just wash the boots? Because he has to leave in like 10 minutes. Oh. And he has, that’s why he didn’t even just woken up. And I, and I sent them a, a te a text with a list of the things that they needed to do to the house to, and they actually both individually called me to confirm Oh. Things. So maybe they’re learning. Okay. We’re both hot off of, um, trips. We’re a little. Worse for where? Because of it. You said you got in at one 30 last night? Yeah, I took a well on Thursday night, so this is for my, thankfully my nephews who aren’t the same age ended up somehow sinking up and graduating college at the same time. Thank you guys for doing that, because it was one trip back to North Carolina to celebrate and we celebrate it all weekend. We had festivities on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. That’s a lot. And uh, there was karaoke, there was a barbecue truck. I ate brisket with a fork. Um, there was a curry truck, there was an ice cream truck. Whoa. There’s multiple trucks. There was a tent with tables. There was karaoke. I sang Lady in red. That one. Huh? Jesse and I sang islands in the stream. Uh, you sing Lady and Lady and Rock Lady and Reddit. That that song? Yeah. That’s the one I sang at the gay bar in Atlanta. When you were on your way and you never showed up. Oh, it’s your new karaoke song you got, and you got into a fight with the Muppets. Yeah. Um, now when I go to a real karaoke place, I bring it down a step. ’cause you can do that at a real karaoke place. You can. Mm-hmm. You can ask. You know, a Korean karaoke bar in Los Angeles, there will be an option to take it down as many steps as you want. Any song you want. But then it gets weird when you’re like trying to, well, one step nobody noticed. Yeah. No one will know. And do, do you know that? But even knowing where to start, if you, if you take it down three steps, then you’re, you’re gonna be lost, right? Uh, I don’t think so. ’cause it’s just, you just follow the chords. Do you know that, um, if you’re musically inclined, do you know that virtually every musician who, uh, writes songs that are really hard to perform on the record, performs in a different key when they perform a concert? Hmm. Super common tactic. I can believe it totally makes sense. I wouldn’t say that I knew it, but I can believe it. But it, yeah. Yeah. And it’s, and you really can’t tell, right? Because it makes it impossible to do that every single night when you’re like, I, on the record, I’m going for it. Oh, yeah. But I’m gonna do that every damn time. We go out to necessarily a step or two sometimes. Okay. So now to replay what you said. In light of this. So I, when you, when you sang Lady in Red, you went for it ’cause you didn’t lower the key. Yeah, and uh, I would say it’s out of my range. And it is, I would say it because it is, but you’re singing your falsetto. Uh, no, I, I know I stay in chess voice the whole time. Lady Red. This is the part they’re not getting hot and I’m actually singing higher than the key is. Actually. I don’t think you are. No, no, because. First of all, it was nighttime. It’s it’s morning. I, it’s nighttime. When I sang What is the next part? Go for it. Like, holy, I would do that. But I did it and I actually, uh, it was, it wasn’t that I didn’t get to the note, it’s that I could not find the other notes around it, but like. I got all the way to it, you know, it’s family karaoke. Okay. So it was fine. It was, you know, and I was looking at my wife who was wearing blue, and at the end I changed it to Lady and Blue, and I just looked at her and embarrassed her a little bit. Uh, anyway, yeah, I said I did that, but they synced up their, their graduations. I mean, that’s just the way it worked. And we, but I took the red eye. Mm. On Thursday night and I had a layover in Atlanta. I’m in the Atlanta Airport at 3:00 AM you know, just the middle of the night. Nothing’s open. Nothing’s open, and you’re there for, your eyes are barely open. Two hours an hour, two hour layover, two and a half hour layover, eh, and uh, but I was able to, once we got. And we went straight to the cabin. We took a, I took a four hour nap, which it turns out I can nap when I don’t sleep at night. I bet you could. Yeah. And then we partied all weekend and then I took another, for some reason, Delta, you’re my favorite airline. You know, I love you. Your options from RDU to LAX not as great as some other airlines. Not enough direct flights. If, if you don’t wanna leave at six 30. Am which is tough. And so, um, when you are an hour late, layover in Salt Lake. Last night, but I got in to LAX at 1230, got rolled up into my bed at 1 30, 1 40 5:00 AM and here we are ready to record a couple of podcasts and shoot a big Wonder Hole video today. I’m excited about that. A promotional promotional video. A promotional video for the season two premier. It’s going to make a lot, make, make a lot of people mad probably, I think. Yeah. But in a good way. Yeah. The good kind of man. You notice how everything comes with a fee these days, whether it’s buying tickets, booking a quick trip, or even paying online somehow there’s always a service or processing fee tacked on. It adds up fast, especially when money’s tight. That’s why we’re such fans of chime. Chime offers fee free banking, no monthly fees, no overdraft fees, and no minimum balance requirements. That’s right, none. 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Just go to indeed.com/ears with an S right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast indeed.com/ears terms and conditions apply. Hiring indeed is all you need. I celebrated graduation as well. You did for somebody. You’re directly related to my oldest. Lily graduated from college and um, we went up there. We did the ceremony. It was beautiful. Who was the keynote speaker at the graduation? Some guy. Some guy. Yeah, I heard He is great. Yeah, it wasn’t anybody that I knew. He ran like a company. Hold on. You’re telling me a state school in California. Just get some guy. Yeah, right. You know who Jesse got for her graduation that I went to, that I totally forgot about until she reminded me this weekend. Uh, don’t tell me. Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby. How do you remember that? I don’t know. I just remembered. I actually didn’t remember. But then I knew that someone had Bill Cosby, her Bill Cosby gave her commit to dress, and that was back in the year’s. That’s getting, it’s getting awkward. All that was back in 2000 whenever she graduated too. When did he go to Carolina? He didn’t go to Hawaii. No. No. But that was back when having Bill Cosby do your commencement was a gr was a great thing. That was before we all knew what Bill Cosby was actually about. That was when he was just Huxtable, you know what I’m saying? Yeah. It was a, it was a big positive deal. Yeah. He would do a lot of those. It’s a weird bragging right now of, um, but, but if I’m saying contextually at the time, because he was America’s dad to have Bill Cosby. At that time, do your commencement. You’re like, okay, well, and it was Carolina, you know? So, I mean, it was, yeah, but I would just think no. Mm-hmm. I would just think maybe in some circles, this guy was somebody, but not to me. Just some guy with a company. Some guy with a company. He made quite an impression. You don’t remember his name? You don’t remember his company. What was the point of, what was his, what was his thesis? Was it funny? His thesis was Stop. Drop. Drop and roll. Yeah, it was, it was, uh, California wildfires. Man. I mean, it’s important. Gotta be ready. Keep it top of mind, I guess. If you ever find yourself on fire, if you’re doing stunt work. Stop. No, it wasn’t. Stop. It was pause. He said pause. That’s better. P uh, let’s see. With two other ones. Let’s see if I can remember those. Wow. Um, pause. Listen. Feel this was his. You stop and smell the roses. Is this what he’s talking about? Just, it’s a good practice in any situation, and I, I’ve actually thought a lot about it. Not enough to remember anything besides pause, but pause, listen and feel. Listen. Feel, you know, you get in touch with yourself. Okay. It was, it was kind of, uh, wishy gushy a little bit, but it was short, which is nice ’cause there was a crap ton of people to go across that stage. Yeah, I bet. Uh, went off without a hitch, but the thing that I’d like to, um, complain about and talk about at length is everything around that. I was so excited to go to the graduation. Mm-hmm. This. You know, I kept telling Christie, I was like, this is a big moment for Lily, but I mean, it’s also a big moment for us. And she was like, us. This is a representation of a lot of my work That you just, yeah, okay. You might’ve paid for some of this. That’s an, it’s an interesting thing to say. Yeah. This is a big moment for us too. Well, as parents, right? Yeah. It’s a milestone. It’s a, it’s a milestone moment. Yeah. It, you know, it’s our first kid graduated from college. We, and, and yes, I totally agree. It is a bigger moment for Christie having been Lily’s primary teacher. She grew up homeschooling until freshman year of high school. I remember. So it was a big deal for Christie, and then I was, I was glad to be there and there too. Were, and it was a really big deal for you. Were there pausing, listening, and feeling. Yep. The thing that I didn’t anticipate or really think about was not only is this a five and a half hour drive to celebrate a graduation. But it’s also move your kid out of school weekend. Yeah. And we were not ready for that. Lily. Lily was supposed to have been ready and Yeah, I’m gonna throw her under a bus. You mean no boxes and stuff? I mean, she had boxes. The F we showed up Thursday night, same night that you flew. We were driving down there. So we, ’cause the graduation was Friday night. And then, let’s see, so all day. Friday we were just getting ready for the graduation and then the graduation and then all day Saturday we just left the boys there to help her start packing stuff. ’cause when I, after graduation, when I took her back to her house, I was like, there’s no evidence of anybody being ready to move out. Yeah. They’re college students. She was like, yeah, I just, you know, I hadn’t gotten to that yet. And I was like, well, I’m gonna leave you. And, um, Madison was there. You know, Lily’s bff, so like they started working on boxing up stuff and was this everyone who lives in this house moving out of it at the same time? So what, like there’s a furniture other, yeah, there’s a furniture situation. Other people had moved out by the next day. There was a whole room that was gone by the time we showed up. On Sunday morning, somebody had moved out Saturday, but who’s taking this furniture? ’cause you didn’t take a Exactly. You didn’t take a moving truck up there. Exactly. We have our SUV and we have Lily’s car and we’re driving two back. And then the, you know, the day before we’re leaving, she’s like, well I, I’m trying to get them to agree to keep the couch. I’m like, what? And we got this shelf over here. I don’t want that. And we got this chest drawers over here. I don’t want that. And I’m like, well, I can’t. What am I, what are we supposed to do? Do you know? So. The night bef. I was like, I’m not showing up hours early than everybody else, to then take all the stuff you don’t want and donate it, and then come back and pack everything, and then drive six hours home and then unpack. I just wasn’t ready for all of this. Good news is we had manpower, we had all the siblings and the friend, and you know. But I was like, we get anything that you don’t want, I want to get rid of tonight. ’cause tomorrow is just move it out and get the hell outta here kind of a thing. Yep. Graduate Friday, Saturday you pack everything up. Sunday we leave. So on that Saturday, I was like, listen, I’m just, let’s just, I started taking, we couldn’t fit anything in the car, so I started disassembling stuff that she didn’t want. Like IKEA type shelving. Yeah. You know, it’s like you. I with IKEA shelving, when it’s really beat up, it’s not, it’s not worth donating anymore. Yeah, yeah. And you get one screw loose and the whole thing falls apart and then, or it doesn’t, and then you’re sitting there like trying to rip it apart limb from limb just to kinda get it in the back of the car. And then you’re taking the drawers out and you’re putting the piece in and then you’re putting the drawers back in. ’cause now it’s too heavy. And then I’m. The Salvation Army closes in 30 minutes or whatever it was. Goodwill, I don’t know what it was. We didn’t get any help with any of this stuff. That’s the difference. Oh yeah. In our generation, it was a flashback to that. My dad never came to our apartment in the like three years that we lived there and he was like 30 minutes away. Like, and you remember what happened? We, the place was trash and all we did was move all our stuff out and the same thing happened to Lily. I was like, we started moving stuff out and. I realize everything, when you move anything out, everything underneath it is completely dirty. And a, it’s like dust bunnies that are larger than raccoons. Yeah. Like what? It’s something, it’s something crouching back there. Oh no. It’s just a, an accumulated d dust bunny and they’re not getting their deposit back. Yeah. I’m like, listen you, Lily, when you move out of a place. They don’t know you. They don’t know. They have to learn the hard way. You have to clean. We learned the hard way. You have to clean it. It was on my credit report, not yours. ’cause you never signed the lease For years. It was on my credit report for i I My credit was horrible for years. Well, ’cause of this. Well that’s what we get for putting grip tape in the bottom of the tub so you don’t slip when you’re in a shower. But we spelled our names with it and then didn’t remove it. When we left. So I’m like, Lily, if everything’s not cleaned, you’re not gonna get your deposit back. Even if they say yes, we’ll keep the couch. Your name wasn’t on the lease, but your name was on the bathroom, on the bathtub. So you should have been guilty fan. I was. I was guilty. I just wasn’t charged. Yeah. Sorry about that. We’re just oblivious, right? Oh yeah. We get all the stuff out, then they clean it. No, you have to clean it. It’s what I was explaining to her. But then the other part of it, which we learned in the second apartment move where we left, was the real key, first of all, is not to be the last person out. There was one roommate that was left after Lily and I was like, Lily, you realize you’re stuck. You’re sticking this person to have to clean everything and then you know they’re not gonna do it. Yeah. And you’re all gonna be charged. So we need to listen. What We need to bring somebody in to like get rid of the junk that nobody wants. ’cause it’s everywhere. Oh, I don’t want that. I’m just gonna leave it. I don’t want that. I’m just gonna leave it. That won’t fit. I’m just gonna leave it. The last three hours of packing. Happens after you think you’re done completely with packing, like never. Uh, you should almost plan a completely new day. Once you’ve com think that you are gonna be completely done packing and moving out because all of that, the cataclysm you’re gonna leave behind is your responsibility. Well, but you graduated from college. Now you’re adult. But here’s the thing, it’s not their responsibility because our generation of parents. We make it our responsibility and we end up doing all this stuff for ’em and then they are going to learn the lesson when something is their responsibility. But do you think your kid and those other kids learned the lesson about how to move out an apartment? Do you think they learned it or did you dad it up in a way that took care of it sounds like you dad it up. Yeah. Wish I would’ve done the same thing. Not blaming you. That’s what we do. Our parents made us do everything and we learned all these lessons. We do everything for our kids. And we probably like, we probably have more dynamic emotional relationships with my kid. Yeah, you can, you can see how dynamic my, my conversation went with Shepherd was. Yeah. Right. Exactly. No, but I like, I am very, like I know a lot about what my kids are dealing with. Emotionally, relationally, we talk about a lot of things in a way that my me and my parents di didn’t talk about at that age. So I do agree that their level of communication is different, but the level of responsibility that is being transferred to them, yeah. Is way low. I, we were watching the NBA finals the other night and they were talking about one of the players on the Pacers and. The announcer was like he was raised, you know, they have these little anecdotes that they’re ready to share. Uhhuh when somebody’s doing something. He was raised in a very, a household that had a lot of expectations. He had to make up his bed every single morning. And one morning he didn’t make up his bed and his mother came to school and got him out of school and made him go back home and make up his bed. Whoa. And I looked over at Lock and Shepherd. And I was, and I was like, should I, should I have done this with, with y’all? And they were like, maybe, maybe. I mean, look at him. He’s a pacer. He’s a pacer. Now I’d like to think that the main thing I taught Lily was desperate times call for desperate measures. Okay, so wait until the last second and then scramble. Yeah. So I’m disassembling crap. Put it in the back of the SUV. I’m loading it to the gills with the stuff that we didn’t want. So that I can get rid of it. We’re, we’re going to, this Goodwill closes in 30 minutes. Oh, the Goodwill hates graduation weekend. They’re like, oh gosh, we get there, all this useless sh-t. She’s like, should we go to the front? I’m like, no. Drive around back. That’s where the donations go. And then there’s a chain link fence and there’s, it is locked and there’s a sign on it, and it said. Even though the front’s open, they don’t take donations for like two hours before they close, which makes sense. And then there’s also another sign that says, and don’t leave anything here. Yep. On the outside. College grad family. Don’t do that, dad. Dad, don’t be a bad example. And I knew this was gonna happen, so all the way there, I’m just not scoping left. I’m scoping right. I’m looking for any type of accessible dumpster that I can find that, you know, gas stations, you ain’t gonna get to their dumpsters. All of the gas station dumpsters are behind chain link fences that are locked, and they’re all on high alert this weekend and they’re on high alert that weekend. But then like a ram in the thicket. Oh, I looked over past the goodwill, down a little alleyway and there’s two dumpsters. Oh, that might even be a third dumpster. And uh, and he’s broad daylight, but I’m like, alright, Lily, she’s driving. I’m like, Lily, pull up the dumpster and pull out close to it and let’s get outta the car and let’s, uh, get rid of this stuff. We have no other option. What dumps, what business were these dumpsters associated with? It was, it was a like a strip mall of businesses that were two levels. Okay. Two levels of, of, uh, strip mall. So I’m like, this is great. Not any one. You’re spreading out the burden across multiple businesses. Right. And there was three dumpsters there and only one of ’em was full and they weren’t locked. Oh, yeah. And I opened that thing up and I just started taking all these pieces of Ikea. Furniture. It is legitimately trash at this point. Yeah. And I’m throwing it in there and then Lily’s getting out and I, I look at Lily and she’s like, she’s in like a three point stance, like a pacer looking around. I’m like, don’t look around. Yeah. Just look, just look at the task at hand and be quick about it. So I’m teaching her stuff. Yeah. Yeah. He taught her something. Yeah. You know, because looking around is, is guilt. Yeah, looking down and doing is task. Moving. Moving too fast is also not a great idea. You know, you don’t want dark darty movement. It’s a give and take there because I mean, we took out the chest of drawers. Well, we took the drawers out of the chest of drawers. Then we took the chest out of the back, and then I, she started, she started thinking, we’re gonna throw it in the dumpster. I’m like, no, no, no. This is a good piece. We’re gonna stand it beside the dumpster. Somebody, somebody will definitely take this. Somebody will like that, maybe. I, I don’t wanna be the one to throw it away. So then we sit it up, right? And then we’re starting, put the drawers back in and like, making it nice and inviting, you know? And then as we’re, and then I start hearing voices. Mm. I’m like, get in the car. Okay, get in the car. Get in the car. And as we’re getting in the car and I’m backing up, there’s a, there’s a man and a woman and a child in a stroller. And I’m like, okay, not, not very threatening. Okay? This is not very threatening. But I bet you they run one of these businesses, family owned business. Oh my gosh. But they brought the child and before they could say anything to us, we s skirt it outta there. Oh. And I feel like they got a license. I don’t know if I’m, I hope not. I don’t know if it was a Proud Dad moment, but it was a necessary dad moment. It’s like, you know, you got, you gotta make it happen sometimes. You just gotta make it happen. So the alternative was just driving back all the way with it and throwing it away somewhere? No, no, no. Then I had to go back and you had to go back completely fill her cart with stuff she wanted to keep. Okay. Got it. To the gills. You had to get rid of it to the gills. It was, it was something, man, if you are out there and you are in a a similar situation and you don’t wanna follow link’s, lead here. Um, I think that the thing probably to do if we’re just gonna take the ethical high road here is find the landfill near your. Your kids’ residence, the closest landfill and, but they have to be open and have a plan. They have to have a plan. They have to have a plan. Y’all have to have, he doesn’t have to have a plan. I’m just saying that’s a lesson that you can learn. Lily learned, here’s what’s gonna happen. Lily is going to repeat what you did when she gets to be your age, but now someone listening and maybe you next time, maybe for your next kid, you can have a landfill planned. I do have another one. I have two more shots of this, right? And uh, or if you really want to throw money around, you can hire someone to come pick up the junk and then you can hire someone. What was the level of coordination with the other parents? I never saw another parent stuff. And then I think the key takeaway is when you’re moving out. Of a roommate situation, especially with multiple and like a house, and especially in a college situation, don’t be the last one to move out. ’cause you’re gonna be stuck with everything. Well, I think it’s an opportunity to develop a, a plan so that everyone, now I realize this is asking a lot. You’re graduating, you’re the last thing you’re thinking about. Right? But what you, what, what you will find is that. There comes a time in your life when you’re experiencing something that’s overwhelming, that’s all you know, consuming, but you still have responsibilities that can’t fall to the wayside. And when you get to be an adult who’s responsible for yourself and others, sometimes you don’t have a choice. And so I’m just saying that it, there’s, it’s never, that’s a hard pill to swallow kids. It’s never too early. I depended to find the local landfill. I depended on my parents for a lot of things. Right. And, and, and I think that it’s gotten even more so that. For, for a lot of kids, you know, you’re gonna be on your, your parents’ health insurance until you’re 26. You’re probably, a lot of people are gonna be living at home after they graduate college because it is a different time than it was when we were coming up. No shame in that. Um, that’s true. They might be. Pay, it might be paying your rent, they might be paying your car payment, your insurance and stuff like that for, if they can, if they can afford it, uh, for, for a little bit, they may wean you off of those things. Mm-hmm. And if that, and that, and again, in this economy, that might be a necessary thing, but at some point the book’s gonna stop with you. It’s gonna stop with you and you’ll have to figure out how you can do something hard and do something in hard and necessary and then something inconvenient and unnecessary at the same time, like transition to a new place and then take care of your sh-t. Listen to dad over here. You know what I mean? You can go in the woods and have a good time, but you gotta check for ticks. You know what I’m saying? You gotta say protects, you get your boots dirty, but you need to have a trash bag to transport ’em in. ’cause the thing is, is if you, if you get Lyme disease, that’s gonna be a lot more inconvenient than checking for ticks. A lot more inconvenient. Yeah. I think that’s also a lot more inconvenient than being caught by the dumpster on, or throwing trash in their dumpster. ’cause I mean, it could be worse. You could just be sitting perfectly decent furniture beside their dumpster. Maybe they saw it and were like, oh, let’s go check out that nice piece of furniture. I bet. You bet. That’s what it was. I bet you it’s in their living room right now. That’s what it was. They were like, oh yes, you can go in the baby’s room. I’ll paint it. Paint it white. None of the drawers. They didn’t really marry when you pushed them in. They didn’t really, well, you probably just had ’em in the wrong slot. They’ll figure that out. Yeah. Yeah. They’ll figure that out. They’ll figure that out. It was exhilarating. Especially if it stays out there and gets a little bit wet, then a little bit hot. It’ll all work itself out. Right. It’ll bake. It’ll bake together. It’ll align right back up. Yeah. Yeah. But we made it. We’re proud dads of, uh, either graduates or…… Nephews that are graduates, right? Very proud. Sign up now to get the newest Mythical Society collectible, the Belvedere, the cockatrice pillow plush. It’s very plushy. It’s very fun. It’s huggable, it’s huggable. Um, also join third degree of the Mythical Society by the end of July. That’s July 31st. 30, 31 days in July. 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Um, and I just wanna let you know that it’s 2:04 in the morning right now, and you guys have made a really big impact on my life and I really appreciate it. So I love you guys.