Decoding Dad Life in the World of Gaming and Social Media

What happens when you mix dad life with the trials of gaming, content creation, and staying relevant in this rapidly growing digital age? That's the question your hosts Bearded Nova and your other favorite dads aim to answer. We share our journeys, experiences, and yes, even our struggles as we navigate through the world of kids, careers, and content creation. We talk about the madness of social media and the misconception that dads are not as involved in their children's lives, all while tackling the realities of being a father in the 21st century. 

Picture this: your kid comes home with a heap of homework that’s beyond your comprehension, thanks to the new era of technology-based assignments. This is not just a scenario but a reality for us and many parents. We examine the challenges of helping kids with their homework without being too hands-off or too strict. We also shed light on the generational differences in parenting styles, striving to strike a balance between encouraging academic success and allowing children to enjoy their childhood. 

Ever imagined a high school classroom dedicated to eSports? We recently visited one and boy, was it an eye-opener! Join us as we share our thoughts on this trending topic, the opportunities it presents for students to learn about streaming, commentary, and team management, and how the over-40s community is jumping on the streaming bandwagon. We wrap things up with a candid conversation on our wild adventures as dads in these modern times, debunking the myth that women won't get our love for gaming. So, buckle up and join us on this exciting ride tomorrow for part two. Y'all be cool.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Stand by, stand by Switching from Human Mode to Dad Mode, initializing Sequence In 3, 2, 1. This is Dad Mode, the podcast where we navigate the chaotic realms of parenting, gaming, content creation, work and hell, just life in general. We're diving into the challenges of raising kids in the digital age, from social media madness to navigating the gaming landscape. We're talking about it all, especially from a dad's perspective. Whether it's conquering the littest game, creating content that's more than just a hobby, or just trying to keep up with the ever-changing tech landscape, we're right there with you. We want to help you navigate this wild journey of parenthood and modern life, from balancing family time to managing your career and still squeezing in some gaming and content creation. It's all about fun, some dad wisdom and a whole lot of dad mode. Now your hosts bearded Nova and more.

Speaker 2: 1:17

Wait, wait, is it already started?

Speaker 3: 1:21

You know, we honestly we've been recording for 30 minutes now. We edited all. Don't worry, it gets all edited.

Speaker 2: 1:28

Okay, a little bit about myself. What's that bearded?

Speaker 4: 1:34

I was gonna say, yeah, grab it, then you just use it for the intro.

Speaker 3: 1:37

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 1:40

Okay, I didn't prepare anything this time. I felt like every time I meet with you, I always prepare stuff right and I think I should be comfortable talking to you.

Speaker 4: 1:50

Man with fireworks at his ass from fireworks at people's asses.

Speaker 2: 1:55

I like throwing fireworks, but I feel like I just need to be able to I don't know just be comfortable and have just more natural conversations with folks. So a little bit about me 43, I've been married for I don't know 13, 14. It's a long time now. I have two kids please hopefully my wife doesn't see this and I work from home primarily, so whenever the kids are on vacation, it's me and the kids. My wife doesn't give me credit for it, right?

Speaker 4: 2:24

She pushed those children out. Mate, you don't get any credit now, no matter what you do.

Speaker 2: 2:31

She pushed them out, but I'm taking care of them.

Speaker 2: 2:33

I'm just saying it's not that easy at this point, and I've been doing content for the last two and a half three years, but prior to this I was making YouTube videos on boxing. I had a show where we talked about current events and things like that. So I've always been in the content space doing fun things. Right, I used to draw a lot, and being creative in this space allows me to feel like I'm drawing stuff again, editing video, making stuff, speaking to people, writing stuff up. All that stuff helps me feel just better about myself. It's a release for me. So that's a little bit about me.

Speaker 3: 3:12

Well, I'm so glad you're able to join us. I completely feel you on the creative stuff. It is not at all what I do at my job and it's a welcome outlet to be able to do anything creative, because the job is the job. It's not creative at all. But back to your not getting credit. When you're watching your kids, I would tell my wife, oh, I'm babysitting today. And then I get the laser beams from the eyes. She's like no, you're the dad, am I watching them? Yeah, then I'm babysitting Apparently. She doesn't like that. Two different things.

Speaker 2: 3:51

Can't babysit your own kids no.

Speaker 4: 3:55

I get the credit for all the bad things they do as well, but never the good, just anything bad they do. I gave them that apparently.

Speaker 3: 4:05

You know what? I can see that yeah.

Speaker 2: 4:11

I think it's the fear balance. But I don't think that my wife, like we've been fortunate enough. Every time the kids are out on Christmas break, summer break, any type of vacation, I'm always available in here with them. It is an up and down type of thing as they get older, to try to keep them entertained, fed and keep the house in order. I'm not saying I need you to come and kiss my feet, but I'm just saying hey, give dads a little credit out here in these streets, like we are participating a lot in our kids' lives, like we should be, but some credit is would be nice.

Speaker 4: 4:52

My wife the other night actually said you know you're hard on the kids for some things, but then there's other things they do and you just don't care. I'm like, oh really, I thought I was always labeled the person that's hard on everyone, but apparently there's a lot of things that I just let slow.

Speaker 3: 5:05

I'd that she looks at me on.

Speaker 4: 5:07

Really, you're going to let that go?

Speaker 3: 5:10

Yeah, I'm the, I'm the apparently fun parent in my. Even though I yell a lot, I'm still the fun parent because I like the movies, they like, I like playing video games. I bring them to Comic Con and stuff like I let them get fast food. No, actually, this isn't being. She didn't hear that I do a lot of fun things and she just I actually think she doesn't get enough credit because she makes sure that all of the homework is done all the time, she makes sure the doctor's appointments are scheduled and all this stuff, you know, and I don't feel like she gets enough credit for that. And she might be standing there and that's why I'm saying all these good, I'm kidding, um, no, but I don't think she gets enough credit for, like, doing that stuff, that dirty work.

Speaker 4: 5:58

I just have fun with them. You know you're ranked at number eight out of 10 at the moment. Ain't you lost, like a father, something you were telling me?

Speaker 3: 6:06

I am yeah, she was ranked the five, yep. So then they did last week they did a rank like who do they like best in the house? Me, my wife, the dog or the brother on the dog was unanimous number one, so I'm a solid number two. Wife was usually last. Oh no, yeah, so you know what. It's funny, like they're laughing. I'm like I gotta deal with this. When you guys go to bed I gotta sit right into her, be all upset about it.

Speaker 2: 6:35

I Find that Very similar.

Speaker 2: 6:38

I'm ranked really high in my house and I'd be the person that like care the least, right, my wife push them out.

Speaker 2: 6:43

She's all lovey-dovey, she's sweet, and I'm the person is like, give me a high five and keep on moving, but my kids want hugs from me, they want kisses from me and I'm like I'm the wrong parent for this type of stuff, but I'm the one that they want this additional love from and I feel like it's it has a lot to do with, like my past and whatever Spiritual stuff that God blessed him with Is comes out and they give me so much life and energy is cuz I lost a lot of my family.

Speaker 2: 7:14

I didn't have family and then my wife has such a big family and my wife is very sweet and I think she she 100% should get all the love and support from the kids, but for some reason they're just that much more caring and nice to me and they look for me and they always want to be around me and they give me that family support that I kind of lost, right. So some something connects them to me and I'm ranked really high in the house, right, that is, and I I'm serious, I laid the law down and but I'm the one that they, you know, want to spend time with, do fun things with, and I think it's a little messed up sometimes, but I'm saying dads are winning out here in these streets.

Speaker 3: 7:54

I will never come like. I love the fact that I'm in this position right now where I'm the parent and they like a lot Like you went to come on ever.

Speaker 2: 8:03

I know that.

Speaker 3: 8:04

I know right paid for it. You paid for this love. I know kind of was expensive. So I'm going to eat this up as long as it last, because there will come a time in like six months where like that sucks. I know that will happen, you know that's what.

Speaker 4: 8:18

That's what I'm doing here with this one. So keep telling my wife I'm like, I'm liking this. At the moment it's at the age where I'm the favorite, I'm number one in this house. I'm gonna, I'm gonna lap it up until she gets a bit older and I know that will change, yep.

Speaker 3: 8:33

So Well, let me ask you this so I grew up with without a father figure in my life. So, like I'm making this shit up as I go along, you know and you're talking about you know losing some of your family. Do you find that you are, do you overcompensate for how you were raised with your kids, or are you trying you kind of consistent or I think there is a overcompensation there, right.

Speaker 2: 9:02

So I don't know what a good male role model looks like. So I'm just kind of winging it and I've thought about this a lot and I feel like you know what? I'm just a big-ass kid with some experience, right, and I'm gonna do my best to pass on that experience to them, be there for them. I do the things that I didn't get as a kid and, yeah, sometimes that leads to me spoiling them. But that also means I'm at every single game.

Speaker 2: 9:27

I'm at every single parent-teacher conference. I'm at every single play or presentation that they have. I'm always there. They don't know what it's like to not have a dad. Last night we all yeah, the good and the bad I was there to snuggle with them and watch movies and all that other stuff. So I I Don't know if, if it's, if it's just because I didn't have a parent, it's just cuz I, I dad, I just I feel like I'm just trying to figure things out and so I make a lot of mistakes and I'm okay messing up with them. I'm like I'm still here, we're still gonna do better the next day.

Speaker 3: 10:06

So yep, I really agree with that. Like I think when you're younger and you look at your parents is Dottis or the woman in the earth and who have always that age, never younger, and like I feel like you know, I feel like I still when my wife says you still act, I still like I'm 16, but I'm just a big kid.

Speaker 3: 10:23

Yeah likes all the same shit that my kids do and and like, when I say I'm babysitting, it's cuz I just sometimes I just hang out with my kids and like I don't Feel like the parent in all of those yeah yeah circumstances. We're just my my oldest son and I use 12. We're just talking about hey, what do you like what's in your favorite star movie? Like, what do you like about start? Like we're just talking about stuff. You know, it's not like thou shall grow up and go to a good college and do all those other stuff. No, we're just hanging out.

Speaker 4: 10:51

Right, I find they send it over, confiscate. And I do that like we go. We go to the Grocery show in the afternoon or something with my daughter after picking up from school. It's the heart. The older one catches the bus and we'll get stuff for dinner and then we're at the checkout and then you see the little chocolates there. I'm like, oh yeah, cool. Like my wife knows, nearly every time I take a child out I'm just buying, like you know, a dollar chocolate. Yeah, we'll both have this. Or as a family we go out and we're going past the 7-eleven. Well, that means I'm stopping. Stopping there, we're all getting slurpees, but that's you know. Just little things like that that I do. And At the same time it comes back to homework and like education.

Speaker 4: 11:31

I never had anyone drive me from my education, I'll say, hey, you need to do this, make sure you're doing your homework, push, pushing to get you know, to give them the best future, that the ability to have the best future that I can have. I overcombsate there too. Like it's, I never had anyone doing that. I never had anyone coming on my parent teacher interviews, checking in to see how my grades were or getting my grades and going. Well, you know you could do better than this. You know it was kind of just I was left in the wind to do what I wanted.

Speaker 3: 12:01

Yeah, yeah. So last week yeah, I think it was last week we talked to Dan Daniel and he he was talking about his kids and you know that that relationship he has with them and homework and when it comes to, like, permissions and things like that, what's your stance on, like you know, making sure your kids do stuff? Or like, do you check how, how certain are you with grades and things like that?

Speaker 2: 12:34

I was afraid of this one. All right. So I'm on homework duty right now. We switched our kids to a new school so we used to have a sitter that would help us. The kids were closer to my other job. I would you know, go into the office, pick the kids up. The sitter would help with the homework. And now the kids are three blocks away from where I actually live, right.

Speaker 2: 12:52

So now I pick them up and I'm responsible for the homework Monday through, like Wednesday or Thursday, yeah, and my daughter's homework hasn't been great, right. So while my wife is correcting her, she's yelling at me at the same time. I care about grades and getting the homework done, but I look at it and be like is the concept there? Yeah, we're good. My wife was like well, number two is wrong, number 17 isn't. Come on, man, she got like 30 other rights. So I do care, but I kind of look at is the concept of what she's doing, is it correct? And I've been getting more strict and more serious, but I don't know how to do things. In the middle I'm either not involved or basically like cruising or 100% fully invested in is going to get really tough and shitty for everybody until everything is perfect, and so, like I'm trying to figure out that middle place with the kids in their homework, and so right now I'm struggling. You caught me in a struggle phase where I get yelled at at least once a week over homework.

Speaker 4: 13:55

But it'd be. It's one of those ones that you constantly you know when they need the homework and when they don't need homework. Like you see, the grades coming in, the grades are right, the grades not all right. That's. That's where I look at the homework side of things like OK, cool, yeah, Great slip and that means we're not understanding the work. So that means we got. We got to focus on this homework stuff and make sure we understand what's what's coming through, but my wife goes again.

Speaker 3: 14:22

I'm hoping she's not listening to this episode. She goes a bit hard on it. We have they have an app that the teachers upload all the grades in daily. Every other day she gets an alert of every single grade, every single homework, a turned in or not turned in. You know all this stuff and every single one of them she's going to ask my son about and I'm like you need to. I respectfully, you need to back off a little bit because you're overwhelming the kid, like he's like I can't make, I can't like do anything wrong without getting yelled at, and my thing is like like, is the effort there? You at least try to do your work. I don't really care if you're getting an A plus on every single thing you turn in. That's not going to happen usually, right. I want to know are you doing the work and are you getting at least decent grades?

Speaker 3: 15:14

So I know you're comprehending what you're studying you know, yeah, Like my son last year was was messed slipping on homework. He just can't every test A homework assignments F's because he wasn't turning them in. Yeah, he's, just I didn't feel like doing it, Like you don't get an option.

Speaker 4: 15:33

You know you don't get an option to not do that, so it's a technology doesn't allow them to get away with it Either way, like I am constantly spanned with, like the school apps or emails from the teacher going hey, yeah, I got one this week about my son's history thing. Going, hey, we've been on him but I'm starting to notice like his attention slide and he's not doing it in, like the drafts not up to scratch, like if he doesn't pull his head and he's going to, he's going to, you know, fail this, this exam. The teacher's to do that. For me that means I had to pick up a phone, go to the office, pick up a phone, call my mom, hopefully get my mom at home and then to report, oh you know. Or write a letter and then send it in the post.

Speaker 4: 16:19

Like there's, technology doesn't allow them to get slip up anymore. Like you think about it, it was effort before. Nowadays it's not. They can do it. The teacher can do a zoom call, they can message you on the fly about individual things via email or whatever. I feel sorry for the kids in a way.

Speaker 3: 16:40

So so Wes, when you're growing up no, we're not going to tell anybody. I'm sure you kind of got away with some stuff that your kids couldn't with what comes to school and grades and stuff like that or what not.

Speaker 2: 16:55

Um one, my mom was pretty strict. I went from Belize, so it's like a Caribbean culture.

Speaker 3: 17:02

So you're.

Speaker 2: 17:03

Belize and I was born there came here. So you know most of the folks that come out here they have you're in America, so you're going to have the American dream. And my mom went to school and she she became a nurse and a director at Cedar Siner. She was in the big hospital out here in California and she didn't play any games with me. So for a while I could mess around and in high school she got really serious. She would lock me in a room and be like okay, you're going to study college courses. If you're going to start slipping in high school, then you need to. I'm going to take you up a grade level because obviously you have too much time on your hand. So things got really rough for a while. My mom was really strict when it came to education and things like that. Yeah, the only difference is she let me go outside a lot more than I let my kids go outside. You don't need to go outside, stay inside. Today.

Speaker 4: 18:03

I'm forcing I'm still forcing my children to go outside more To do stuff. I mean, given it's summer here at the moment and you don't want to be outside, it's horrible. Yes, they are after me. My kids were said they were going to go to the park and play some basketball, and I had just gotten home and I walked in and it's nice.

Speaker 4: 18:22

It's a nice temperature, the air conditioning is going like, it's comfortable in here. And they're like, yeah, we're going to the park and I'm like I'm going to the shop, do you want me to drive you down to the park at least? And they said no, no, no, it's fine. Like the youngest is like, no, I want to walk. And my oldest is like, yes, I want to be in the car. Like if we're going to go, please, you know, she just walked from the bus.

Speaker 4: 18:44

I was like she knew what it was like and I made my youngest I'm like go stand outside for a couple of minutes. Like, go, go feel what it's like outside, then come back in and tell me if you want to lift to the park or not. And she just put her head out the wall at the door. I'm like, no, no, stand outside, close the door because the aircon side, I don't want to go outside. Go, stand outside there, come back in. And she walks in and goes, yeah, I'd like to be, I'd like a drive. Like you know, we, like I said, at the moment I want them outside more often, but some is such a killer here.

Speaker 4: 19:15

So we don't have the pool like we did at the last house. So now I'm going to take them somewhere to cool off, etc. But yeah, yeah, the social side of things, I guess, is that more further. It's different now it's. You know, I am.

Speaker 4: 19:30

I feel like I am constantly on my children going hey, you should message your friends, see what they're doing, go see if you want to have a friend come over, see if they want to go to the park, maybe you want to go to a friend's house, like. And then, when it comes to school holidays here, because our holidays are different to yours, school terms are 10 weeks at a time and then they've got three, two week holidays, so one around the first quarter, middle of the year, september, and then in December they'll go from, they'll have a six or eight week holiday, something like that. And then you know it comes to these holidays that's approaching on us. Much is probably just sitting there room the whole time at the moment, but I'm like, no, like, what about? You got to be talking to your friends. You're going to be doing some of your friends like.

Speaker 4: 20:21

Growing up as a kid I knew my parents wouldn't see me for the eight, six weeks, like, oh, my mom never saw me. I was gone, not even my brothers, and like I'm the oldest of all these children and they didn't even get to see me. They didn't see most of them growing up, because I was like see you later, I'm off. Go say it my friend's house for a few weeks at a time, as a kid Like no, that's the one thing we couldn't do.

Speaker 2: 20:45

Caribbean culture, you don't. You don't sleep over anybody's house.

Speaker 3: 20:48

Really.

Speaker 2: 20:50

That is a no, no, nope, that's not happening. I didn't have sleepovers until I was like 16. A friend got to stay here. I still couldn't go to his house.

Speaker 4: 21:02

So we we not possible? Younger child, we grew up in a city and then when I got to high school, my parents moved us out of town so there were room and there was no public transport out there on a weekend, so I couldn't go anywhere. So if I was going there at home on a Friday, that man, I was there till till Monday, like I wasn't seeing anyone till Monday because my parents didn't want to drive, you know, 40 minutes each way, just just for me to get a social interaction for a day. So I made that commitment, enjoy yourself. Yeah, I made that commitment on a Friday. Like I'm packing my bag, see you later.

Speaker 2: 21:37

I'm, you know, pretty much became, I think, one of one of my close friends.

Speaker 4: 21:43

his parents actually didn't even care if I showed up, if he wasn't there. It's like, oh you know, if you just need a place to stay, josh, it's fine, you can just come over. You know the key. You just let yourself in, crash on the couch and then you know that's, that's through high school, and I could go go out see some friends through the day and then come back there and stay there if he wasn't. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 22:04

My mind went to a horrible place and I won't say it here, but like not, not horrible as in bad, but like you always see, certain corn start that way, like step mom or something.

Speaker 4: 22:20

That's probably on steam too. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3: 22:25

I was pretty much the same by the time I was 15, the 16,. As soon as I got my license, like a month after I turned 16, I was a ghost in the house, Like I did. I just disappeared and you know, I was allowed to do literally anything I wanted to do, which was terrible because I made some bad choices. But I think that's going to come back and haunt my kids, yeah, and I'm like I think of all of the things that I did and I'm projecting that on them and I'm like what, if you make the same choices, Like I feel like I'm lucky to be alive half the time, I'm like you guys might not be lucky.

Speaker 4: 23:02

You ain't getting away with what I got to live with Same. Yeah, I honestly don't think I've said it multiple times on this I know it's just going to be all come from my son. Anything that I've put in place, it's going to test the ability of anything is all going to come from my son and I'm like I'm not worried about that In the slightest. I don't know, my son is going to be the one the problem, I guess that way. And. I can't say anything, because he's just taken after me, so 12.

Speaker 2: 23:43

Nice I have my son's 11 and my daughter six.

Speaker 4: 23:49

Okay that's I. No, my son's just going to basketball. That's a Mmm. That's a whole new thing there. Yeah, I said in high school because we're doing the career thing at the moment, like so what are you thinking you want to do when you get older? He's like play basketball. I'm like, dude, you just do. You just started basketball. This is the first time you're playing competitive sports. You've just started. You've only been doing it for two months. Let's not set the expectation that high right now, because if so You're talking to careers itself, right?

Speaker 3: 24:25

Something that is a career that wasn't when we were growing up is being a professional youtuber or a professional streamer or a gamer, right, right? Do you think those are viable careers that you would Mind your children dabbling in?

Speaker 2: 24:42

I feel like those types of careers are possibilities, but they're like like any of these Other careers out there, like being a basketball player, football player, a rapper, a singer. I think there's, you know, only a handful of people that ever make it right. It's like, you know, like winning the Lotto to me is how I see it. So I think, with hard work and and the right timing, it's a possibility.

Speaker 2: 25:10

And I originally started my, my twitch channel to Stream with my son because he's such a sweaty gamer, he's really really good at games, and that's just not me saying that as a dad, he he often gets banned and booted because he's he's just so good. I don't know what it is about his eye, but he, he can actually play and I thought it'd be good to kind of expose him to this and I don't know where his future leads. If he wants to pursue something in that, I'm willing to go there with him, but also set the expectation like not everybody makes it, man, and you have to have some other interests and some other career Pats that you want to pursue, because this is like the Lotto you may not make it, no matter how bad you want it so Go on.

Speaker 4: 25:53

It's a career path actually, cuz. Send more for picture of it. The other day we went to One of my daughters new high school that she starts next year, uh-huh, and she's the first child going to this high school. The eldest goes to another, my son goes to another one. So never been to school. Walking around getting a tour of it, and we go into one room. It's got 3d printers, laser, laser printers etc. That type of stuff, lots of computers like lots of cool stuff to play with Mm-hmm. And then we go to classrooms down and he opens up the door and it's Esports as a class in high school. So they they take. So this room had two walls either side, just gaming computers, monitor, big TV above so like the teacher could see what they're playing without looking over their shoulder easily. There was projectors on one side of the room for other things, switches on the other. They do Rocket League, league of Legends, dota and you know, as a class.

Speaker 4: 26:54

But they're not just learning, they're not learning streaming as such, a learning the esports side of things, but also the commentary side of things, and they can they can study that from the start of high school and major in it through the end of high school and the class is small. That's interesting.

Speaker 4: 27:13

Like I'm never seen it before, like how does? Yeah, you know, they even had a room next to that they called the green room, where they could go in there and do creative space, and I remember like bumping on my daughter gone, you don't need that, I've got that in the garage. I do have a whole green space that up over here, but it was interesting seeing the fact that this is a serious class. It wasn't, it wasn't something. This was a dead serious thing. They do competitions. You got to learn about the online commentary, social media, managing our team managing like those. They put in a giant list of where taking the eSports class could take you in Korea for the future and I thought that was really cool. But that's just adapting adapting to the future.

Speaker 3: 28:01

Yeah, there's a lot of changes over the years, you know. One even three years ago, three or so years ago, when I got into this, people over 40 were. It was a very small percentage, but I feel like it's growing and like I just got to think why do you think that is? And I don't feel like I'm such an outcast. And just three years earlier, later, I don't feel like I'm such an outcast because I'm over 40 anymore.

Speaker 4: 28:32

OK, OK, I just.

Speaker 3: 28:33

I just Google I suppose I'm just.

Speaker 4: 28:35

Google something. There is actually an Australian High School eSports national competition. Oh really.

Speaker 2: 28:44

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 28:45

So, I'm not surprised. My friends my friends kids would play on the eSports team and I would watch them on Twitch, and so it was Rocket League specifically that they were playing. So totally familiar with that, like high school students playing professional Rocket League and other sports on Twitch and then them kind of airing it, which is really neat, yeah. And then to answer your question more, why are so many people over 40 kind of getting into streaming? I don't know. I think we have a lot to share and we're in better shape. We have, I don't know, experience behind us and people actually care about some of the shit that we have. To say, money, we have disposable income, but I mean, but we could spend it on extravagant setups.

Speaker 2: 29:32

Well, when you started streaming, you were educating a lot of people, right, and people needed that type of. I feel like there's something that we as older gentlemen or older people have to offer that some of the young kids aren't just don't know yet, so they can talk about all the risks they got, but you want the real risk.

Speaker 2: 29:51

Come take a look at some of the older guys right, or older people that are in this space, and I think we do a good job at kind of conveying some of our experience, a bunch of different things that we're able to kind of speak to and our careers lend to it our life experience, our relations. Oh shoot, sorry about that, can you?

Speaker 4: 30:12

hear that you want to know what that noise is. Then come back for part two tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 30:19

You've been listening to Dad Mode. Our passion is navigating this wild journey of parenthood and modern life, from balancing family time to managing your career and still squeezing in some gaming and content creation. And no matter what the women say, they will never be able to pry the controller out of our cold dead hands. Anyway, we hope you enjoyed the show. If you did find us on Twitter, TikTok and YouTube at Dad Mode Podcast, and we can be found on every podcast site at Dad Mode Podcast. Y'all be cool. See you next time.