Episode summary introduction:
Join us as we explore a myriad of essential life lessons that our parents may have inadvertently overlooked or inadequately addressed during our upbringing. Life is tough, the world is tough and no one should traverse the complexities of life in solitude.
Throughout this light discussion TC & Maddog answer important questions to find out what Mom & Dad really taught us to get us ready for the real world.
Laugh at our stories and reflections as we invite our listeners to join us on this journey, contemplating the valuable insights gained from our parents' experiences, as well as the lessons left unspoken.
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During this thoughtful exploration of the lessons one learns from their parents unfolds as TC & Maddog share their personal stories to bring to life the subtle yet profound ways in which parental influence shapes an individual's worldview.
The conversation meanders through various topics including respect for the environment, the nuances of financial management, and the importance of treating all individuals equitably, irrespective of their background.
Generational differences are highlighted in upbringing, positing that while their parents may have lacked awareness of certain contemporary issues, such as social responsibility, they nonetheless provided a foundation of values that inform their present actions and attitudes.
We encourage listeners to reflect on their own experiences and to recognize the invaluable lessons our parents did teach us in their own special way..
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The Electronic Walkabout. Maddog. Let's welcome listeners around the world to another episode of Electronic Walkabout.
And when I say around the world, we actually had some listeners from Germany as of late.
Maddog:That's so interesting, isn't it?
TC:You know that you always say that our subjects are so deep.
Maddog:Uh, oh, yeah.
TC:So we're going to stay away from deep today.
Maddog:Oh, okay.
TC:Yeah. So I thought we could have a little fun at mom and dad's expense. Are you with me on this?
Maddog:Sure. Absolutely.
TC:Life is far from easy to navigate. And in fairness to our parents, they can't prepare us for everything. But there are some things we don't want to learn ourselves.
Journey with us this episode as we discuss the important things we need to know that maybe mom and dad forgot to tell us.
Maddog:This should be an interesting one.
TC:But first, as always, a thought for the day. "Sharing your downs with others in a positive light will always point them in one direction. Up."
Maddog:Yep, there's the deepness.
TC:That's as deep as it. Okay, okay.
Maddog:But point taken.
TC:Okay. So, Maddog, how are you doing today?
Maddog:I'm doing excellent, sir. And you?
TC:Pretty good.
Maddog:Good, pretty.
TC:But don't tell anybody. Yeah, yeah. When I. When I say that, is there any things that come to your mind when you say, geez, I wish mom or dad had a.
At least kind of filled me on this or that.
Maddog:Sort of like, my dad was a bit of a jokester and, you know, he always liked to have fun and stuff. And yeah, he told. And I don't.
He always told me, he's like, hey, if you ever get into trouble, you know, if you're at a party or something, you call me and I'll come and help you and take care of me. I'm like, oh, okay, perfect.
TC:So that reminds me of that. That scene from Pulp Fiction. The cleaner.
Maddog:Yeah, exactly. So we went to a field party in Calgary and our car got flipped over and it was upside down in the ditch and RCMP came and it was 2:00 in the morning.
I'm like, I asked the RCMP officer, I'm like, hey, can I borrow a phone? I just want to call my dad. Because in my brain I'm like, he's got me. So I called him up and he's like, hey.
I'm like, hey, listen, we're out, you know, by Chestermere, and Chris's car got flipped and I don't have a ride. He's like, oh, okay. He goes, the RCMP there. I'm like, yeah. He's like. And everybody's okay. I'm like, yeah. He's like, okay, good luck. And he hung up.
Was slick. No, no, no, we had a. An agreement here, sir. So that was more of a funny anecdote. But I. He always told me, you can call me. And he.
Obviously if something was the matter, he would have come and got me, but I just, I felt betrayed at that moment.
TC:So in his mind, this is just another life lesson for you, Is that it? Yep, yep.
Maddog:So. But insofar as like, stuff where I say, oh, I wish I. There's not a lot like I can actually put my finger on that, I say, well, I think.
And this goes with everybody, I think budgeting and stuff like that and just, you know, financial learnings, they don't teach it in school. And it just is one of those things. And you know, my dad's like, oh, I didn't really teach you and your brother about money.
And I'm like, yeah, thanks, because I haven't done that with my kids. You pass that on. But. But I think that's a fairly normal one.
TC:So let's. We'll talk a little bit about that. But I think you're right. Finances, it seems to be a big one, but I think they're an affairs to mom and dad.
There might be a reason for that. Sure, we'll talk about that for sure. But here's one. Did mom and dad ever teach you to protect the environment?
Maddog:Nope, was not high on the priority. But don't forget, we grew up in a different era.
So social responsibility and stuff like that wasn't a big thing in the 80s or 90s and not in my family at least.
TC:So I had the same experience.
Maddog:So no, I can honestly say I can't think of a single incident where they said, well, we should do this to better the environment, and then not. Not slating them. But I just, I can't remember anything.
TC:Along that ill recycling, to me when I was a kid were news, were nothing but newspapers that I picked up as a boy Scouts so that we can make a little cash for the troop. Right?
Maddog:Yeah, no, it was. That's an interesting one. Yeah. And actually, no, I can honestly say go side the Bottle Depot. But I think my dad just wanted money back.
So that was about it. So interesting. What about you?
TC:100%. And even today when you talk about the whole electric car thing and you're thinking, okay, well that's going to help save the environment.
And if you drive down the road between here, let's say Kelowna, you could see the windmills now that weren't there, let's say 10 years ago, at an effort to save the environment, apparently cleaner energy.
Maddog:And they say that, but then you hear the counterargument, where do you know what it takes to get these batteries for these cars? And da, da, da. That's where the damage is. So, yeah, so there's always an angle somewhere where you're not, you know, completely for the planet.
TC:Did mom or dad ever teach you to respect everyone?
Maddog:Primarily elders, my dad looked at it from his dad. If anybody ever talked poorly, his dad, h'd end up in jail for sure. So he raised us very sternly.
To respect your elders. And that, that was a big thing. That was a big thing for us.
TC:Just, just the elders. And that makes, that makes perfect sense.
Maddog:Yes.
TC:Right. So.
Maddog:Because.
TC:Yeah. So I'll, I'll tell you a story. I was probably about five or six years old and I was playing with, with the friends. It was summertime.
My mom decided she was going to make us treats. And, and there's this other kid, he was, he was one of the kids that was outside the group. Right. She's handing out the.
It was, I think it was fudge or something like that. She sanded homemade fudge. Oh, yes.
Maddog:Delicious.
TC:Yeah, delicious. So all of a sudden she calls over this kid that no one was really fond of and they're like, mom.
Maddog:No, no, no, no.
TC:Yeah, but then, but then think about what we're talking about. Like that she's showing that, that kids respect.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:And there was a, there was a life lesson like it doesn't matter where they come from.
Maddog:You know, now that you say that, I can think of one. We had a gentleman on our hockey team, young guy, had a single mom and down, you know, down on their luck. They didn't have much financially.
So my dad took him under his wing and we always picked him up and drove him to hockey practice. And it was, if I were to say who he taught me to respect is like those who can't either protect themselves or are in need.
You pay attention to those people. Everybody else can figure it out on their own. But, but I, when I saw that and you Know, my dad was a pretty. My dad was Archie Bunker.
Like, literally, he looks like Archie Bunker. Oh. Like to a T. And sometimes acts like it. So when I saw him do that for this young man, Calvin, I was just like, okay. So that.
That stuck with me for sure. So that. That would be my one.
TC:So that influence. I'm just. Just guess when I say this, that how you would kind of, like, treat people from then on kind of thing.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:Yeah.
Maddog:And I think, you know, I.
What I was like, as a president of Bikers Against Child Abuse, and I've done a lot of stuff for, you know, kids that can't necessarily help themselves. And I think that's probably where that rooted from, was seeing how he took care of somebody who's having a little bit of problems. So.
TC:And I know when I was doing the old job and walking the beat, like, I mean it, you just treated everybody with respect. Doesn't matter whether they were living on the streets or they were in trouble, whatever. He treated them as individuals a little differently.
You would treat, let's say, your brother or sister with respect. And it goes miles. It really does.
Maddog:It's funny you say that.
My son just got on with the Chilliwack Fire Department, and he was saying through their tests, there was a lot of questions around your morality and your view and how you treat people. And I didn't really think about that. And then I thought, well, I guess, yeah, you probably want to have that always helping attitude.
And you don't want to, you know, that guy is homeless. He just crawled out of a dumpster. He's not that important. So to that point, I can see why that's a big focus in your jobs.
TC:So again, in Ferris, Mum and dad, here's a couple of things we've been talking about where they didn't necessarily sit you down and say, well, son, this is what you should really think about when you're going through life. They taught you these things by example.
Maddog:Sure. Exactly.
TC:And then. I'm only guessing, but I think that was the manner in which they taught you those important life lessons.
Maddog:Yeah, agreed.
TC:Here's one. Did mom or dad ever teach you to treat girls equally? Okay, so you got to think about this. Okay?
Maddog:Yes.
TC:Just run with it. Run with your thoughts. Share them with me. And then I'm going to share.
Maddog:Yeah, I think it's yes, you treat them equally, but also being protective of them. Does that make sense?
TC:Yeah, but it's for. But it's for a different reason, right?
Maddog:Yes. Correct.
TC:Yes.
Maddog:Yeah. Yeah. I'M trying to think. I don't think there was any direction otherwise.
No, it was, it was more of a respect based thing, you know, and not looking at them as lessers. Like not, not in that regard.
TC:See, and, and I, I'm on the same page with you, but here's, here's the thing that mom and dad never.
Maddog:Never told us that girls can be mean. Just saying sometimes.
TC:But they didn't tell us there was this inequality between men and women.
Maddog:Right, true. Yeah.
TC:Because again, depending on the generation you grew up in, some, some generations just saw girls as like second class citizens rather than equals.
Maddog:Yeah.
And I think through the 50s, 60s and 70s, there was that traditional marriage type look where husband went at work, mom stayed at home, cooked, take care of the kids, stuff like that.
TC:So it's funny, I don't spend a lot of time on the Internet, but you already brought up Archie Bunker. But there was a clip I was watching and it had Edith Bunker, who was Archie's wife.
Maddog:Archie.
TC:She is, and she's at the bank applying for a loan. And the loan manager is not having anything to do with this because she doesn't have a job. And she's trying to explain, I do have a job. I'm at home.
I make sure that I take care of my husband. I make sure there's food on the table, I make sure I clean the house. Well, no, no, that's not a real job.
Maddog:Right. It is. You just don't get rewarded or recognized to work.
TC:That's right. So at the end of the clip, she had her, her, let's say, last laugh.
She basically took all her bank accounts out of that bank and said, you have a nice day.
Maddog:That's it. Yeah, yeah. And definitely ERA based, for sure. Yeah. Because it, when we grow up is different from how these kids are growing up now.
TC: omen in the RCMP until around: Maddog:Yeah, the boys club still definitely is out there and prevalent, unfortunately.
TC:So the important thing is that, yes, mom and dad never taught us that we needed to treat girls equally, but we certainly do.
Maddog:Yes, absolutely. Or that's my scripted answer. If my wife is listening.
TC:I got nothing but respect for a lot of the Women I worked with doing that's nothing but respect. And we already talked about this one. Did mom or dad teach you to manage your finances?
Maddog:Not overly. And again, I don't think it was a conscious neglect. I just think that maybe they assumed, okay, in school they'll learn that or whatever and stuff.
But no, not really.
TC:And not really from this end of things. And I think even till his last days, I don't think my dad could manage his finances. He was always doing things behind mom's back.
Maddog:Right.
TC:And then there'll be the financial discussions, which are never pleasant to have.
Maddog:No, no. There. Usually something's been uncovered that needs to be discussed. Yeah.
TC:What'd you spend this money for? The.
Maddog:Yep, that's it. So. Yeah. Yeah. No, not a. Not a big learning curve that I was taught for sure. And I definitely have done some work with.
With my boys, and some of them are much better off than I was at their ages. And I just. You kind of give them general advice and hope they take it, but that's.
TC:Yes, you hope they take it. It's funny because you throw it out there because you feel.
Well, mom and dad never taught me that, but I want to make sure at least I kind of share that information. And whether they take the advice or not, that's a whole second dynamic to the equation, isn't that?
Maddog:Yeah. And that was one of the frustrations when my mom was alive. She never told me what to do. She always laid out the options, and it was my choice.
I was like, no, this isn't what I'm looking for. I want you to tell me what I should do. But I appreciated it, and it help shape who I am, but. And I. I take that. That course with my children, but I.
TC:Would have liked some hard answers instead of feeling around the dark. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did mom or dad ever teach you how to be successful at a job interview?
Maddog:Yeah, I think not in great detail, per se, but just the overall kind of. My dad was in sales his whole career. My mom had her doctorate in English and was a university professor. So not insofar as, you know, still.
You were young at that time, but it was still dress smart, you know, eye contact, you know, polite shaking hands, stock, you know, so. So the general. I think. Yeah. Yeah.
TC:So not so much. No. I could tell you his story, but, like, I don't know where the difference was between.
I don't know whether I actually learned anything, and I actually completely forgot about it until I was at my retirement. And then the person throwing the party Was going through my personnel file and brought up that first interview that wasn't successful.
Maddog:Oh, interesting.
TC:So one of the questions was, and you might get a chuckle out of this, because I didn't shave for that job interview. I wasn't dressed in a suit. I just. Literally a kid out of high school.
Maddog:Yeah. Right.
TC:So. And then more concerning was the answer that I.
That I gave when I was asked about the fact whether I had taken the time shaving off for the interview. Yeah, well, I only shave every second day, and this is room. And I was mortified.
Maddog:Fantastic. But at. At your age, at the time, that's just the reality of your life.
TC:And I was confident. I figured I got this one. I got this one made. Right. So not so much.
Maddog:That's funny.
TC:Yeah. Did mom or dad ever teach you the importance of religion in the world? Not. Not about any particular religion, I think.
Maddog:Maybe not in the world. Like, I was raised Roman Catholic and my dad was a Knight of Columbus, and my mom was part of the WL and all sorts. Oh, yeah.
Like, they were early in it. Yeah, I was an altar boy. And, yeah, I came into that unscathed. I'll leave it at that. But, yeah, no, it was more of a. I found religion more of a.
Just trying to be a better person. You kind of sum it up to that simplicity. It wasn't, you know, okay, you need to do this and walk this in your life.
It was just trying to remind yourself as to what good and bad there is out there and stuff like that. So I. I took from it the positive stuff, but I can't say from a worldly standpoint.
TC:No, not a worldly.
Because even for me to think about the worldly standpoint, it's a little bit complicated when you think about all the religions and let's say, those higher orders and generally when people are being diplomatic, whoever you pray to, whatever works for you from a religious point of view.
Maddog:And the unfortunate thing, I think, about religion nowadays is that it's. It's no different than newspapers. Right. They.
They advertise all the crazy bad stuff going on, and not enough is focused on the good that comes from religion. Right. There's so many extremists and zealots out there nowadays that that's all the attention that gets paid. It's not.
Well, here's a lot of good humanitarian work that happened at Da Da Da Da. So, yeah, I think it's just the narrative sometimes gets a little bit skewed.
TC:Well, I know we did. We did an episode about Regret, But.
And I don't know whether it's regret, I guess time will tell, but with my kids, I never did take the time to make sure they were at church every Sunday.
Maddog:Yeah, same here. Even though that's how I was raised.
TC:Yeah, same here. But having said that, every once in a while, Josh will pipe up, says, well, I'm going to go to church. I said, okay, which church are you going to?
Because I want to know about it. Right. And then for some reason, like, it's a buddy thing, so, no, we decided not to go to church.
Maddog:You know what? That. It's funny that you say that, because my boys went through the same thing. It was never one of them singularly expressing. It was a group of them.
Either they just wanted to check it out or know more about it. But, yeah, it was that same same mentality.
TC:So my stance on that. I want to encourage that 100%.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:Because if that individual gets something out of it.
Maddog:Yeah. Yeah. Like, I haven't heard of any disastrous directions that the churches give.
It's essentially to, you know, I think, just, again, focus on some positivity and some love and trying to incorporate that into your life.
TC:Sometimes there's food there, too.
Maddog:Yeah. There's little buffets. That never hurts.
TC:Did mom or dad ever teach you to respect your partner?
Maddog:Yes. Yeah. My dad was a fiercely protective family guy that. Yeah. Very quick story. Very quick story.
My mom's dad came out once to visit us, and he was a big drinker, and. And he got drunk and started belittling my mom. So my dad put him in the car and sent him back to Montreal.
And that was the last time I ever saw my grandpa. But that was my dad protecting my mom. Didn't matter who it was. And that was a lesson that I learned early in life.
So, yes, protecting your better half. It was paramount.
TC:I'll tell you right now, one of my thoughts for the day was you don't have to worry about big brother watching you. It's little brother. It's that example that makes a difference. And I've already mentioned that.
Perhaps they didn't sit you down and talk to you about how to respect this or deal with that. But the example. What, Miles, for sure.
Maddog:Exactly.
TC:Did mom or dad ever teach you the danger of credit cards and a healthy.
Maddog:No. No. Hard. No. Could have used. Could have used that one. Yeah. No, it was. Mind you, I think, like a lot of us at that.
That era, you know, we were out at 18.
TC:Right.
Maddog:You move out and then you're Figuring it out for yourself. And when you're cash strapped, nothing comes in better time than a credit card. So. Yeah, no, no, not at all. I was not taught anything.
TC:No, revolving credit to me meant revolving credit cards. I remember my first credit card. Funny story, right? And it's always like. And I would never think of saying this today because.
And it's a little different because the. You almost know real time what your. What your credit limit is. Right, right.
But back in the day where they didn't have the Internet, you got this credit card and I had went on a holiday and I just kept handing over that piece of plastic across the table. I'll take this, I'll take this, I'll take this.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:The credit card company calls me Mr. Caverly. How are you today? We get into the conversation, Mr. Cavart, do you understand what a credit limit is?
And I wasn't being smart, but I certainly came across that one.
Maddog:Sure.
TC:Well, sure, I know what that means. That means if I put my card across the counter and it's accepted, I still have a limit.
Maddog:That's fantastic explanation.
TC:Yeah. It didn't have that card any longer.
Maddog:No, but it made sense logically.
TC:Logically, yeah. But there's a limit, Right. So it's a question how you manage that.
And today I've heard two or three times, well, the bank suggests that I get a credit card because I can establish my. Sure.
Maddog:That's their upsell.
TC:That's their upsell. Because again, like. Yeah, but just use it and like, just make a, like a small purchase and then pay it off. A small purchase.
Maddog:That, yeah. Not a thing.
TC:No. Credit's not your friend.
Maddog:No, it is not. And I. That is the one thing that I've tried to impart to my boys is that it's the devil, truly.
Because it is money you don't have that you will have to repay back.
TC:And over and over again because of interest.
Maddog:Yeah. And you will keep maxing out. So. Yeah, no, I've, I've. Yeah.
TC:Did mom or dad ever teach you to be a good neighbor?
Maddog:So it's interesting that you said that previously. It wasn't even so much like sitting down and explaining it. It was more by example, watching.
My dad always made sure that he knew the neighbors on both sides and were always very cordial to them and stuff. So that's where I saw it as. Oh, okay. Yeah. If you're living next door to somebody, you should be, you know, a nice person.
I don't know if really, if he went out of his way to do anything special. But that's really the only exposure I had to quote, unquote, being taught that.
TC:Yeah. And. And again, different. Different generation. I mean, I mean, way back when, everybody did know who their neighbors were, good, bad, or indifferent.
But for the most part, mom and dad always got along with the neighbors.
Not so much today, because the closest that we get, at least where we are right now, like, I can have a conversation with the next door neighbors, but the rest of the neighbors, I. I have no idea.
Maddog:Yeah, it's.
TC:And it seems that's the world we live in, right? Yeah. So.
Maddog:And I think a lot of the time too, is that everyone's so taxed with time and jobs and all that sort of stuff that, you know, most people just want to really enjoy their four walls and their family. And then they maybe don't extend outward as much as maybe it happened in the olden days.
TC:I remember a few years back, our neighbors were selling their house and I had to have a little chat with them. I said, in your subjects, you have to put that we get to interview these individuals before they buy the house.
Maddog:That's fair. That's fair.
TC:Because you can't choose your neighbors. You can't choose your family.
Maddog:No.
And it's funny, when we were moving into the house we're in now, we were looking at it and we didn't know who the next door neighbors were, but we found out that their son went to school, play basketball with our boys, and they're like, are you looking at this house? You. You should buy this. You should buy this house.
So come to find out later that they had had a couple of really shady renters in there previously that made their life hell. So, yeah, to that point, they. They were extremely encouraging that we buy a house.
TC:And I may have experienced a neighbor from hell at one point. And I remember one. One morning I got up to put the garbage out and there was that neighbor. And she started going off on me.
And I'm thinking, okay, I haven't even had a cup of coffee, and I just looked at her and said, don't ever talk to me again. That's all. And I walk in the house and that was the end of it, right?
Maddog:Yeah, yeah, it's. And it. Cause it does make life a little uncomfortable when you have neighbors that you don't get along with.
TC:Okay. So, I mean, the point is, get to know your neighbor.
Maddog:Yep.
TC:Okay. And that doesn't mean you have to have them over for Christmas dinner or.
Maddog:Anything like that, but cups of coffee doesn't hurt. No. Be aware of who they are.
TC:Be aware. Did mom or dad ever teach you how to be assertive or confident?
Maddog:Yes, my dad is a pretty confident guy. Yeah. It's so funny when you start looking at these things when we were younger versus what's happening now.
TC:Absolutely. It's. Is the word scary or just different? I don't know.
Maddog:Both. I think it's a healthy blend of both.
TC:And yeah.
Maddog:You know, I think nowadays the kids maybe are a little more apt to ask. Well, I don't feel that comfortable. Our parents from the era that they came from, oh, suck it up, you'll be fine. You know what I mean? It was just.
Yeah, it was different. So now I think about.
It's horrifically different because I, my son was doing some, you know, had to go through a series of interviews and asked me what can I. He came to me and asked me.
So I was okay with, with coaching, but I don't know if I ever would actually gone to my dad in that era at that time and asked that question because I probably would have got a smart ass answer.
TC:So.
Maddog:Yeah, so I, I don't. Again, as we go through all these, it's not so much that there was a sit down. We're going to teach you this. It was more observational where.
TC:Yes.
Maddog:Hicked up.
TC:Yeah.
Maddog:Your cues.
TC:You may find this hard to believe, but probably till the age of about 25, I was pretty shy, introverted.
Maddog:Oh, really?
TC:Really. Not good at conversing. Talking with people.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:But I mean to do the job that I had, I had to develop that skill set because it's a people business.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:So. And maybe that was one of the motivations. I wanted to be good at what I was doing.
Maddog:Yeah.
TC:So I had to learn how to talk to people.
Maddog:Interesting.
TC:And even to the point.
And I remember when my mom was still alive and she just shook her head once because she says you're actually getting up in front of a class and you're talking to people. She says you mumble when you talk.
Maddog:No, this is with you.
TC:So I said, yeah, I, I do. And some people think I do a pretty good job. Yeah, that's right.
Maddog:So that's funny. They can't see you in that light, right? No, you're their child and stuff.
But yeah, like my growing up, all my report cards always like, you know, James is talking with too many, you know, he's getting out. So I don't think, you know, the extrovertedness was ever an issue. It was just kind of when it came to work and.
And being professional, I was able to witness to both of them and took examples from that.
TC:And it's funny because I. I mentioned Josh. He. He doesn't like to converse, but, like, when he engages, that is so nice to see. And he's very, very polite. And.
Maddog:And these kids are, you know, they're smart beyond their. Their ways. But. But I. I agree that.
I don't know whether it's the excess of social media these days that make kids just a little bit more reserved, but when they get in their lane and they start going, it's like, man, you should do more of this.
TC:Right, yeah, absolutely. But again, they don't see that.
Maddog:No, Right. No.
TC:Right.
Maddog:So.
TC:And then finally, did mom or dad ever teach you, as a Canadian, it's okay not to apologize every five minutes?
Maddog:No, I think that's just standard. I think that's some sort of in everybody's DNA.
And, yeah, no, my dad wasn't an overly apologetic, hip disturbance, so I think I had to learn to apologize down the road. But so.
TC:So have you ever been with that. That Canadian. And of course, we're both Canadian.
Maddog:Yep.
TC:So we can. We can. We have license to talk?
Maddog:Absolutely.
TC:But they literally. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And I'd say, what are you apologizing for?
Maddog:Yeah, yeah, it's. It's a funny stereotype, but it is so true. It is very true. And again, I think. Is that the worst thing that we could be doing? We're overly polite?
That's fine. I'll take it. If people were being overly rude, different story.
TC:And let's not fool anybody around the world. I mean, yes, we're quick to run through an apology, but we do have a switch inside of us.
Maddog:That's the best. Yeah, yeah. You kill him with kindness first, and then if it doesn't, then, yeah, we'll just leave that. Yeah, well, yeah, we'll stop there.
TC:Well, no apologies, but that music is telling us that this episode has come to an end. And not too deep.
Maddog:No, no, that was good.
TC:Not too deep. Safe to say mom and dad could never prepare us for everything we could face in the big, bad world.
But they always did their best with trying to put roof and food on our table as we grew up. Thanks, Momentum.
Maddog:Yep. They did well.
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Maddog:Cat.