Talk Daddy to Me: The Big (Parenting) Game

everything in my life. That's what happens when you have kids. You just everything becomes one big blur, which is a good and a bad thing. Means you're busy. I'm very busy. Things are going well. Valentine's Day just passed. Ashley and I didn't go on a date yet. We're planning on doing that this weekend. It's so much different when you have kids, and plus Audrey's I was working on Valentine's Day.

We did this Valentine's Day a little cute dinner. We had about ten to twelve vers of eight, and we had some walk ins too, that's at the bar, and had some drinks and it was nice. We kind of turned it into a little bit of a restaurant for a minute and did some table service and candle like dinner, and I was cooking in the back and I made a salmon dish, a chicken dish, and a and a baked pasta dish. Was quite delicious if you ask me, which nobody's asking me. I'm just telling you because I'm

talking to myself here. But it was really nice. So Ashley and I have not had a Valentine's Day date yet. We haven't gone on a day in a while though, which is not good. It's something we really need to start doing more of. It's it's just, you know, time goes by just so fast. You don't have time to schedule dates like before you know it. It's like, wait, what's the lostiming on a date four months? Four months? Also, Ashley being pregnant doesn't help, you know, she's not feeling well, lethargic.

I'm working a lot, so whenever we have time, we just kind of want to just not do anything. And that's what we do, you know, come home, watch TV, chill out, hang with Dawson. So there's never like a moment where like, Okay, we need to you know, have a night. We're gonna get a babysitter, we're gonna go out to dinner, but we really need to do that because we just, you know, full transparency, it's like, we

don't even feel like a couple. Well we feel like a married couple obviously, but we don't feel like a romantic couple. And there's a lot of factors, having Dawson and her being pregnant, and Audrey's it just being so cold outside, so there's a lot of factors as to why it's just like, let's just not do anything. We'll stay in and I'm sure there's a lot of couples going through that right now. It's just a horrible time of the year. To February. God, what a piece of

crap time of year, especially in the Northeast. Listen, obviously, if you're down south listening to this, here you have pretty nice weather, but up here, which majority of the country has to go through, you know, you're just waiting for the weather to turn. And it's not too much longer, but it's just like grinding through January, grinding through February

and even March. I'm sorry, March socks, there's nothing look forward to it in March, like I guess sometimes the weather starts breaking a little bit, but I don't know. I just feel like March the past couple of years has still been kind of cold and just rainy, and so it's just like it's just it's I don't know, it's not my favorite. Hopefully I'm wrong, and hopefully like March is like fifty degrees outside and sunny and good times,

good times. We'll see. Anyway, you guys didn't tune into this podcast to listen to the weather, or maybe you did because you listening to me right now, which I still can't believe. Thank you again. Hopefully you guys listened to this past week's episode of suck Ass. I wonder what you're Let me know what you think about that title too, Suckers just dm us, you know, comment on our Instagram. It's been grown a little bit, which is great. Our PR team's doing an incredible jar with the social media,

so shout out to iHeart for that. And it's been fun and I hope you guys are be enjoying these podcasts listening to Kalin's pop culture, which I'm sure She's talked a decent amount about Bachelor because that's been dominating the news. The ratings are doing really well, which is incredible. Everybody seems to really enjoy Joey as the Bachelor's the first time. I feel like people have liked The Bachelor.

No offense to Clayton and Zach. I'm very likable gentlemen, but just you know, sometimes it's just, you know, not that captivating, and it feels like Joey season's captivating. Everybody's behind. Ratings are doing well, there's more engagement on social media. Feels good, feels good, so that's great. They just announced they're going to do another season The Golden Bachelorette. Very exciting. I'm curious who's going to be the Golden Bachelorette. Odds

on favorite is Leslie. I'd be stunned. We're talking about this on The Sucker's podcast. If they don't choose someone from the Golden Bachelor cast, if they do go from the outside and pick a random like they did with you know Gary and yeah Gary for the Golden Bachelor.

Because the Golden Bachelor was such a success that the ratings did so well that you feel like they would want to try to catapult off that and grab someone from that season who is a rootable character and make her the Golden Bachelorette and then give her brand new guys. But we'll see. I'm glad they're doing it. I hope it does really well because the first season did so well. I really hope this one does well also because I'm

just ruined for the franchise. Speaking of Bachelor, though, I'd be remiss to not at least speak on Sidney, who a lot of people just do not like, and I feel bad. Sidney is a friend. I haven't seen everything. I'm gonna give full disclosure on that. I've seen a decent amount of the drama that Sidney has been involved in with her and Maria. I don't know Maria. I'm sure Maria is very nice as well. I think what sucks.

And this is how I felt as soon as Sidney came back, because because she's a friend, you know, we talked about, like, all right, what happened, and she give us the lowdown of what happened that was involving her and the drama with her Maria, And when I first heard it, I felt nervous for her because it sounded like she could be the person who was constantly going to the Bachelor complaining about another woman, and nobody wants to be that person. Nobody wants to see that person,

and that person is not enjoyable to watch. And so I was very nervous for her at that point, but she felt very confident that a lot of the girls in the season did not like Maria, and Maria was the core problem. And Sidney might be right because after Sydney left, it feels like there is more drama involving Maria, and for some reason, there's a lot of girls that have issues with Maria. And let's be honest, it's problemen, not a coincidence. There's probably a reason why multiple girls

are having problems with Maria. Uh. I don't know why, but there's something there. Where there's smoke, there's fire. But also I can criticize sid and I never like I just you know, what I tell people is just focus on yourself, you know, and trying definitely don't be the person that goes to the Bachelor complaining about another person,

because it's just never gonna end well for you. It's kind of like you know, rule one O one, But so I didn't like that obviously, But I do you feel bad for sid because she's just gets so much hate. And what I can speak upon about sid because obviously I wasn't there, so I don't know the full context of what happened between her and Maria and why Sidney kept on insisting to go to Joey telling him that Maria is the real problem, which I did not like.

Didn't like it at all. I wish I could go there and be like sid just focused on herself and don't go to Joey about another girl. Nobody wants that. But what I can speak upon on Sydney is her character. I worked with Sydney, she did social media for Audrey's. She's a friend, someone I've spent time with, someone that has been over our house, has spent time with our son, Dawson, who's been so good to him. You know, Sidney's a good person. She's got a good heart, and she works hard,

and she treats people well. And obviously she went on The Bachelor, got caught up in the drama. I'm sure there's a lot of things that she regrets. Having said that, there's no need for people to say some of the things that have been said towards Sydney because it just goes too far. Now, of course, there's some lightheartedness that I find funny that I think should all be good. You know, Like there was a clip on TikTok or something where people were in the parking lot of Folk.

It was like young kids celebrating Sidney got sent home. All right, I find that funny, Like, I think that that's funny. I think sid hopefully got a good laugh at that because they were just partying because Sidney got sent home. I think, you know, because that's kind of lighthearted. It's all fun and games. There is a part of you that is a character. Like we're part character on this show. We're very real, we're real people. It's real stories,

it's real feeling. But it's also a TV show, and there's characters that are created, and like Ashley and I are character on this TV show, and so is Sydney, and so I find it funny that people were celebrating, like drinking in Sydney's parking a lot of her store in Rhode Island, like celebrating the fact that I guess

she sent home. Because I think, like if Sydney she wasn't at the store at the time, so she couldn't have done this, But I thought it would be so funny if she was actually at the store and she went out and like partied with these people, because they would have loved it, you know, and it was shown self deprecating and it would have been funny and it would have been great. And that's the type of stuff

that I think is funny and totally fair game. But of course the things that I don't find fair game are some of the messages that Sidney even posted on her Instagram where people are just saying heinous stuff, and it's like, guys, guys, you know, I'm not saying you have to like Sydney, but like, would you ever, in your everyday life say some of the things that you're saying to someone's face? Of course not, of course you wouldn't. So anyway, anyway, that's my thoughts on The Bachelor. We

also just had Super Bowl Sunday, which was fun. Man, It's just turned into such a thing. The idea that the Monday after the super Bowl is not a holiday is just banana land, absolute craziness. Like, come on, America, Come on, America. I love this country. I think it's the greatest country in the world. But come on, you need to make the Monday after the super Bowl a national holiday and you don't need any excuse to do it.

People were like, why can't you just celebrate President's Day, you know, and move it to the Monday after the super Bowl. You don't even need to do that. A lot of people that work hard in this country, that work five days a week, and it's just like, you know, you need good things in life. You need good things in life, and the making the Monday a holiday after the super Bowl is a good thing in life, and we should just do it, because you know what, life

is too short. Let's take the day off of work after the super Bowl because we're all up late, we're all eating, we all feel like crap because I've had seventy four wings with all different types of sauces that are now mixed together in my stomach. I've had seven beers. I haven't moved from the couch. It's late, and now you tell me I got a wake up early. No no, no, no, no, no,

Let's just all have the day off. Let's all get together. Okay, Republican Democrats doesn't matter and just say, hey, listen, if there's one thing we're going to agree on, it's nobody's going to work the Monday after the super Bowl. Because this is a good thing. And that's my rant about that. It was fun, got to watch it with Dawson. I feel a little conflicted with doing things with Dawson right now that are meant for adults as well. The reason I say this is a super Bowl. You know, we

went to my friend's house for the Super Bowl. And it's tough, right because you go, like, I want to watch the game. I want to watch the game with Dawson. I want to share this experience. But he could give a rats ass about the game. He doesn't know what's

going on, Like he just wants to run around. So I find myself running around with him, not paying attention to the game, not bonding with him over the things that I don't want to bond with him over, Like it's just things that we do all the time, which is like reading a book or just like throwing the ball or just me chasing him, which is so much fun. But it's also like, bro, it's a super Bowl, like we you know, this is something like I want to share with you and not do the things that we

do all the time. Anyway, A point is the reason I was thinking about this is because I'm going to a Bruins game, Boston Bruns game, which I'm excited about. I've actually never been to a Bruns game. It's my first Brun's game ever, which is crazy. But I was thinking do I bring you know, I was talking to Ashley about it, and Ashley, it's not feeling too great right now with pregnancy. She's not really a hockey fan, you know. She was like, I'll go and it would

be fun. We can bring Dawson, and I was like, yeah, do I want that? Though? And then I felt so terrible because I was like, I want to go so badly to sporting events with my son because that's such an experience for both of us. But it am I being selfish by saying I don't want to go with him right now because he's just too young for those

type of environments. Like when we went to Disney. I didn't feel like he was too young for Disney because there's so much for him there should do you know, at a game, the only thing to do is to watch the game, and of course there's lights and you can walk around, but like, I don't want you five minutes in him to start freaking out and just want to run around the stadium where it's like no, no, no, we watched the game, buddy, you know, we're going to

watch the game together, and there's like so much happening, but he doesn't care. You know, after ten minutes of watching that, he's he's over it. He wants Aladdin, you know. So I feel kind of selfish being like I don't know if I want to take Dawson. In fact, I know I don't want to take Dawson, not because I don't want to be with my son. I want to be with my son so badly. I want to bring him to Red Sox games. I want to bring him to Bruin's games and Patriots and like share that experience.

But I want him to know what's going on, so I can, you know, talk to him about things like, dude, you see that play, like this is what he did on that? Isn't that crazy? You're like, oh, my god, was on a crazy throw, you know, or my god, what to pass? And like, oh the Bruins won, Like he has no idea, he's probably gonna be scared. Honestly, I was also thinking that, like with the loud noise in the lights, he's probably gonna freaked the hell out.

So maybe it's not that selfish. I don't know anybody else feel that way though, where you get this parent guilt. You're like, oh, no, I want to do something without my son, but something I do want to do with my son down the line, So like, should I feel terrible for not wanting to do it right now even though I think it's probably the best that I do this, And then he just stays home and just like you know, chills in his room with his toys, which is what

he's going to want to do. Anyway. I don't know. These are all things that pop in my head. I kind of feel like a bad person. But at the same time, should I not? Should I feel like a bad person? I don't really know anyway. What else' those are my thoughts about taking Dawson to the Bruins games. I know, compelling stuff. Guys, tell me about it. If you guys have any questions for me about parenting, about

fatherhood relationships, please dm the Instagram let me know. I would love nothing more than to answer them on air, because again I'm doing this podcast by myself, so I'm really talking to you guys to listeners, which is fun for me. I hope it's fun for you. It's really just me talking at you. I don't know how much fun that is for you. But I guess you're driving right now, or doing something else or just listening to this in the background, so you're voluntarily listening to this.

Thank you again for doing so. But if you have any questions for me you want to answer, you want me to answer on the air, or just like thoughts in general stories things like that, please DM the Instagram, Please comment on the Instagram. We'll gather them up, we'll talk about them on air, because at the end of the day, this solo podcast is really just a conversation between me and you. You know, and I'm sure you guys have a lot of kids. You know a lot

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