Welcoming Dad Home

The night the house gets quieter, life gets louder. We open the door to Dad after he loses his wife and talk candidly about what it means to fold a parent into your daily rhythm—care, meals, jokes, horror-movie nights, and the steady work of making someone feel safe again. That warmth sits beside hard-won lessons on planning: why every family needs a last will and testament, a living will, and powers of attorney before the phone rings with bad news.

We unpack the human side of crisis management—how paperwork is an act of love that shields a grieving home from confusion and opportunists—and we wade into the psychology of control. Lies can wreck honest people; truth can rattle narcissists. We share plain-language tools for setting boundaries, staying grounded, and keeping your peace when others demand what isn’t theirs. Along the way, Dad’s background as a Marine and former law enforcement officer adds a calm, practical lens on service, safety, and doing the next right thing.

There’s levity too: Saturday horror traditions with Faith, sleep quirks, and a legendary unsweet-tea prank. We also read a listener’s moving letter about a brother who loses his mom the day his sister is born and grows into her quiet protector. His realization—from a swing set to a life’s purpose—reminds us that perspective can turn pain into fuel. We close by sharing our growing academy and community, designed to deliver trauma-informed courses at little to no cost, plus details on our upcoming book and how to submit your story.

If this resonated, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a nudge to prepare, and leave a review so others can find these conversations. Your story might be the one that helps a stranger take the next step.

Transcript

A New Family Member Moves In

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Howdy, y'all. Welcome to another episode of a contagious smile, unstoppable, with the lovely and sexy red-headed vixen Victoria. Oh Lord. And I'm Michael, the sidekick.

SPEAKER_04 0:20

My redneck. My little redneck. Sometimes the bitch. I love that I have that recorded. I know, right? So we have a lot of change that's happened.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

I do. I have a bag full up under my desk. I've probably got several hundred.

SPEAKER_03 0:38

Well, Faith would say now you have common sense, but that's not what I was referring to. I have to go through. We now have a new member living with us in our home.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

We do.

SPEAKER_03 0:50

Permanently. And it's exciting. It's been a lot of work. We've had to, even if you don't think about it, you know, get your affairs in order because you have no idea what can happen on the blink of an eye, like on a day's notice, right? We had no idea the day before that everything was going to change that next day. And we have been lucky enough to have a lot of the paperwork in order. However, you want to tell everybody the big change?

SPEAKER_01 1:27

I'm I'm mesmerized by your voice. You got this sexy ass radio voice.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

That's because I don't have the radio look uh TV looks. Do I have a radio voice?

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Yes, you do. And the looks. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:41

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought. What were you saying?

SPEAKER_03 1:45

So who's the new member of our chatter? Your dad.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

So a month ago, month and a half, month and a week, some somewhere around that era, my dad's wife died. Notice I said my dad's wife. You've never once called her mom. She she passed away, and we felt, all three of us, felt that it was necessary, uh wanted. We didn't even think twice about it. To move in my dad with us. Okay? And really, you know, if you think about it, that it should be that way. You know? My parents took care of me, so it's my turn to take care of them. Your parents? Well, my dad.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

Well, you said that in a plural sense.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

So I wondered who's gonna take care of us.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

I'm gonna take care of us, because my body parts make me only about eight.

Why Paperwork Matters Before Crisis

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Well, that's sick. That is just sick. Y'all disregard that. Edit it, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

I'm not editing it.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Anyway, dad has officially moved in with us here at a contagious smile, and he has been on uh eight, if not more than one. He's been on one and he will come on again because he has experience in the niche that we talk about a lot. Domestic violence, narcissism.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

By more than one woman.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

He opened up and was talking about that tonight.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

And he has served our country as a Marine. He is a Marine. Once a Marine.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

Always a Marine.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Yep. He's also been former law enforcement for many, many years. There's a lot of knowledge under his belt, so we'll have him back on the show here. But we're happy that he's up here. He's safe, he's with family, he's loved.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

He's happy, he's taken care of. He's happy. Like he's genuinely happy.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Him and our daughter, Faith.

SPEAKER_03 3:46

Oh my god. I thought I had a little bit of help on my side because these two knuckleheads have their Saturday night day night, and they watch horror movies. And I'm like, finally, somebody who's not gonna watch horror movies. And they watched it today. Yeah, dad and Faith was watching, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Watching Annabelle and uh the new one, the new series with uh something about Drury. Welcome to Drury.

SPEAKER_03 4:14

You're asking someone who doesn't even get to watch television unless it's the blacklist, and other than that, like I can't even tell you the last movie I've sat and watched.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

So, as my wife has pointed out, y'all, it is vitally important to get at least the bare minimum as far as documentation done and set before the shit hits the fan.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

Before the shit will hit the fan.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Before that loved one loses their right state of mind.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

Well, it's not just that, but I mean, you know I said three different things here. Like the leeches come out of the woodwork.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

I love that he said that. The leeches and the roaches come out of the woodwork, and that's so true.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

It's so true. You want a wheel. A wheel what?

SPEAKER_03 5:07

You want power of attorney, a medical power of attorney, a medical power of attorney. And last will and testament.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Last will and testament. Are those like the three basics?

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Where'd you learn to count there, Fred Flintstone?

SPEAKER_01 5:18

I counted three.

Welcoming Dad: Service And Safety

SPEAKER_03 5:19

A wheel, a wheel?

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Set of wheel.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

A wheel. Yes. Is that like a wheel on a vehicle? A wheel?

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 5:26

Oh Lord help me.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

Or a horse and buggy.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Oh, geez. And then a medical power of attorney.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Power of attorney.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

That's three.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Last wheel, wheel, and estimate.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

So what's one is a living will and a living will and a last will.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Okay, one is when you are deceased, and one is your dis your wants and desires when you're in an incapacitated manner, so that your family doesn't have to make those decisions for you.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Well, which is which? I just explained that to you, Goberbow. One is after death.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

Will, last will and testament is when you are deceased. Living will fill there, Fred Flintstone. The person does prior to. Like I filled and did all yours.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh wait, no. A last will and testament. That get the word last. Hear it? Last will and is done after your deceased.

SPEAKER_03 6:21

No, uh, Fred Flintstone. It's done prior to. You know how you had me sit down.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

A living will because you're still alive.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

No. A living will goes in and explains your desires for like being in a vegetative state. Do you want to be in a feeding? Do you want a feeding tube? You want an angi tube? Do you want antibiotics? Do you want pain medication? You know, these are things, you know. Do you want your power of attorney to be able to make XYZ choices for you? That's the living will. The last will and testament is after you've passed away, what you want your property and your belongings to be dispersed as.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Okay, and a will is different than those two?

SPEAKER_03 7:12

We don't have enough airtime for this. You see how I'm the brains and he's the bronze and the beauty.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

He's the hot one. That's why I'm the radio voice. Oh he looks so flustered.

SPEAKER_01 7:39

If you're dead, it's not a living will.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

No, that's a totally separate entity. Like it's a totally different document. Completely not the same.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Then why is it not called a living will?

SPEAKER_00 7:52

A living will is while you're still alive. They were alive. They've moved to the life.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

But once you've deceased, you become deceased.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Your last will and testament comes into play, meaning, okay, where are the vehicles, the land, the jewelry, the furniture, where's that all going to be dispersed out to? Who is the executor of the estate? Who's going to make sure that everything is put in correctly? Are there quick claim deeds? Are there this or there that? And then why are you looking at me like that? Like he's looking at me like what?

SPEAKER_01 8:25

I like aggreg.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

Well, do it on something else.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Regardless, y'all go out and get those documents.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

I have to say, without giving the whole situation of what transpired, one of the things that I absolutely cherished and loved that I've never had really in my life was when he and I dated 25 years ago, he was so protective of me. And it was one of the qualities that I just loved about him more than anything. And this was prior to me being abused. And I think it was a subconscious thing due to all the narcissism that I had in my life. And over the weekend, I got to see that side of him for the first time in years. We're not going to go into specifics, but let's just say that somebody decided to uh what do you want to say?

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Get froggy.

Wills, POA, And Living Will Explained

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Right. Over crap that had no relevance to them whatsoever, and wanted what wasn't left to them. Let's just say that. And so my husband stepped up and I got to see that side of him, which was so cute and sweet and loving and you know, it was it was nice. It was chivalrous. It was. But you know what's ironic is you sit here and you think about it that the tr a lie, okay, a lie will devastate an honest person when someone lies about you, right? But the truth will butt screw a narcissist, it will outrage them because when you tell a truth on them, they have to quickly manipulate a web of lies to try to cover it up and decredit the source of honesty because they can't be accountable. It's it's basically the best way when someone says, I don't know anything about narcissism, and I'm like, imagine somebody who thinks they're a king, but they act like a toddler, and that's the accountability they want. Like when they're a toddler and you're learning to do things, you know, you don't really punish a toddler, they get away with things because they're in that learning process of life.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

You know, Victoria, I think I've read this somewhere in a book before. Here we go. I had to go on Amazon looking up. That sounds very, very familiar.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

You know, it's funny because I actually had someone say that I don't know anything about narcissism. Forget my certifications and training and school and everything else that I've been through, or the fact that I've been doing this for 20 years, but I have been outright said to that I don't know anything about narcissism.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

She is not tooting her horn, y'all.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

I never toot my own horn. That's the problem.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

I know you would. I'll toot you all day long.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

Keep it clean, Mr. Fancy Pants. Seriously.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

I mean my PJs.

SPEAKER_03 11:27

I know it's kind of cute that you're like sitting here in your jammies.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

How many other people do podcasting and PJs?

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Hey, I used to do video conferences with a shirt and tie on and then pajama bottoms. And the one time at Band Camp, haha, I got up to go get some tea. I got up and I thought everybody was on break, and I thought I had turned the video off, and I had Mickey Mouse pants on, and they just never let me live it down.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

As Paris just say that's hot.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

I can't stand her. Please don't quote her. She's like one step beneath Mariah Carey.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

And I haven't seen her in probably 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

Oh, counter blessings. And the problem is, is that Christmas is my favorite time of year. Love Christmas. The only thing that I don't like about Christmas is the only time Mariah sticks her head out. And after what she did 20 years ago on air in Atlanta, I have zero hero respect for that individual person. Because you know what? People don't get to who they to be a celebrity if it's not for fan base, if it's not for followings, right? And for someone to be so cold-hearted, and even when she was pregnant, she's like, They ruined my body. Do you know what they did to me? You know, like she had people cut the tags off of her dresses so nobody knew what size she was when she was going through, you know, her ups and downs or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

And ladies and gentlemen, we are now in left field.

SPEAKER_03 12:52

And you said you wanted to kiss my wife. You walked around wearing a shirt yesterday that said you eat ass.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Hey, whoa. You did easy greasy.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

Now what you got to say? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

What else are you working on there, Victoria? You've got 143 courses in your academy.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

And we just started and built a school, S K-O-O-L community. And so I'm opening that and getting that ready as well. And you know, he just looks at me like I can't even explain it. The the look that you give me. He he's like, he comes in and he's like, babe, what are you doing? I'm writing a course. Of course you are. Like this.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

Hey listeners, what'd y'all think about the uh episode with Muck Sticky? Did y'all start following him because of you know the interview, or were you already a follower? We we we quite enjoyed him. Enjoyed, enjoyed, enjoyed. I kind of bit my tongue there. Yeah, we we enjoyed Monk.

SPEAKER_03 13:59

And he's funny, but what a story he has as well. I mean, he really does. And oh, okay, let me just tell, you know what? I'm gonna do this for the first time. I am gonna don't owe Lord nothing.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

I'm gonna read to you guys what how many people bought his uh pajama britches.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

They're a little, they're a little expensive.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

I mean, I'm a broke mama, so food is expensive.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Oh my god, I know. I do the food shopping, I know. So we have everybody knows about the dear silence you lost. So now we're doing one. I am uh not defined by my diagnosis, and I've been getting plenty of submissions already, and it hasn't even been a week. And I want to tell you for the first time, I'm gonna read one. He's always one who reads.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

I'm not reading one.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

He hasn't read any of these.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

There's always pollen here when I read.

Truth, Narcissism, And Boundaries

SPEAKER_03 15:02

He'll he'll still help you pollinated. This is one that came from a brother. And he called it for her. I stay. I just picked one. My my family tells me I was too young to remember, but I do. I remember all of it. Every minute, every second, the smell of the hospital, the corridors that looked so cold, and the faces of everyone that towered over me as they looked down to talk to me. I was eight when my sister was born. This was also the same day that my mom died. She was my best friend, my superhero partner. She was my safe place, and the one who always made me feel better. She was my mom. I didn't really understand it at first. They just said mom was sick and that the baby came early. But I remember standing in that hospital hallway watching people whisper. Nobody would even look at me. That's how I knew something bad had happened. When they finally told me my mom wasn't coming back, I didn't say anything. I just nodded. But inside, it felt like the whole world fell apart right inside of my heart. The same place my mom had always told me she would be. Then she told then my dad told me I had a baby sister. Everyone said she was a miracle. Back then, I didn't want a miracle. I just wanted my mom. She was my mom and only mine until this baby was born. It took me a long time to understand that she didn't take mom away. She came into the world at the same moment everything went wrong. And somehow she's the one who held us together after. She was so small. I remember standing on my tiptoes, trying to see her through the glass in the NICU. Wires everywhere. I thought she looked too fragile to live. Then she opened her eyes for a second, and I swear she looked right at me. I don't know if babies could do that, but it felt like she could. I don't know, I didn't know it then, but that was the very moment everything changed. Our dad did what he could, but grief hits everyone different. He went quiet, a kind of quiet that fills a house. So I started helping with her. Bottles, diapers, late nights, whatever needed doing. I guess that's when I stopped being a kid. She got sick a lot when she was little. Hospitals became our normal. I'd sit by her bed and hold her hand, and she'd fall asleep like she trusted me with her whole world, and maybe she did. Sometimes she'd ask where mom was. She'd point to pictures and say, That's her, right? And I'd nod. She'd ask if mom would come back someday. I'd tell her no. But that she could still talk to her when she prayed. She used to pray for me too. She'd close her eyes and say, God bless, don't let my brother be sad. That one got me every time. Now she's older. She still has health problems. She still has rough days, but she laughs more than anyone I know. She's got this laugh that fills the room. It's loud, it's contagious. Like she's daring the world to try and take her joy. She's tougher than anyone I've ever met. She doesn't even realize it. I remember one day we were at the playground. She was watching other kids run around. I could tell she really wanted to join them. But she's never been able to keep up. I started to feel that old ache, the one that hits when you wish life was easier for someone that you love. Then she looked up at me. Would you push me, please? She loved swinging on the swings, so of course I pushed her. I pushed her as high as she thought I could, but I never pushed her too high because I was so worried she would fly off the swing. She laughed so hard I started laughing too. Then she said to me, Hey Bobo, I can see over everyone's head. I'm faster than everyone else out here. It was right then that I realized her perspective was unlike everyone else's. It was better. She looked at everything differently, and I was so insanely jealous because I wished that I could see things the way she did. What a fantastic way to see life. For the first time in a long time, I wasn't thinking about mom or hospitals or how hard it's been. I was just happy. People always tell me how lucky she is to have me, but they've got it backwards. I'm the lucky one because for a long time I didn't know who I was without mom. I didn't know how to move forward, but she gave me a reason. She didn't know it, but she saved me. Every time life got too heavy, I looked at her and thought, if she can keep going, so can I. That's why I stayed for her. Not because I have to, but because I want to. She's my reason and she's my miracle. And I think, no, I know my mom would be proud of the both of us. Are you getting emotional?

SPEAKER_01 19:52

No, I'm getting tired. I've had a long weekend.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Oh, for the love, because it was any longer than mine. No, because while you slept, I worked. And while you napped, I worked.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

That's quite possible. But that was that was a great story. A great true life event.

SPEAKER_03 20:09

There's some such sweet, and from a brother's perspective, you know, to say, wow, you know, she sees them totally different. I'm a little jealous because I wish I could see the world through her lenses, you know. Oh my god, my husband's yawning.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

My apologies, y'all.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

Unreal.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

It's a lot for uh this whole guy to pack up and drive back and forth.

SPEAKER_03 20:37

We drove too. I drove with a boat.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

I know, I put it in the back of the truck.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

I know. I drove with a boat.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

You gotta have a boat.

SPEAKER_03 20:47

I drove with a boat.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

So when uh can we expect this book to be released?

SPEAKER_03 20:56

My hope is for holiday release.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Which holiday?

SPEAKER_03 20:59

This coming up before the Christmas, because I would love for families to be able to give it to grandparents or siblings and say, you know, like put a little posting note on the front and say, turn to page 81 or page 88 or whatever, and it's their family story, or even better, the story of their special needs miracle, amazing kid. You know, have them open it up and say, This is a book about you. This is all about you, and watch them light up to know and tell them your light is shining worldwide.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

And how come these how come these listeners get their story to you?

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Oh, we're getting them all right. They're sending them to Victoria at a contagious smile.com. And then we are putting in the submission. If we accept your story, which we're accepting almost all of them, I'll send you a waiver because all rights to that story go into the book, and then all proceeds from the book go to a contagious smile academy where we have like my stucco squad and all of the different courses that are out there, and we have them for free or under five dollars so that everybody can come in and get the assistance they need because you know what, everybody's paid the ultimate price already, and I'm not gonna charge what these courses have been valued at because people need the assistance, and it shouldn't matter where the funds come from, and we're just trying to you know keep afloat ourselves and to be able to pay for the platforms to which all these are on.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

Do you know what I just said?

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Really?

SPEAKER_01 22:40

My wife does me very well. She knows I'm getting very tired.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

I know when he's spacing out.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Well, that's normal.

SPEAKER_03 22:47

But like, I know when he's like snuggled up in bed, we get out of bed and we snuggle every single night, and I'll be like, Yep, he's out. He's like, How do you know that? I can't see him, and now I'm deaf in one ear. So, you know, it's oh well, we know. I know these things.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

But yeah, you say uh snore like a freight train.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Okay, your dad, number one, said, Holy shit, I can hear him downstairs, and the door is closed in the bedroom. Number two, he was dumbfounded at the fact that you can fall asleep mid-sentence. And I explained that this was not a one-time thing, this is a constant every time thing. I have video of it.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

I have no explanation.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Yeah, you've always been that way.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

By the time I I don't know, just seconds after I I laid my head down.

SPEAKER_03 23:40

I don't think you're no, I think it's seconds. It's like milliseconds.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

And I'll I'll instantly start dreaming. And if you wake me up, I'll tell you what I'm dreaming.

SPEAKER_03 23:51

You'll wake up and tell me a sentence that's longer than you've been asleep.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

And my poor wife over here, bless her thump and gizzard, she'll lay there for hours.

SPEAKER_03 24:02

And every time you get up, I'm like, Are you okay? And he's like, Have you been asleep yet? No, no, and then I'm like the mom that you know, I'm still the medical mom. Like, I get up, open the door, check on dad, make sure he's okay, you know, all that. With medical moms, we have ninja feet where we are quiet because if they're sleeping, we are not gonna wake them up and look over there and see. Okay, they're good. Smiling is and smiling and yawning is contagious.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Yes, yes. So why don't you wrap this up and I go take a nap?

SPEAKER_03 24:37

No. Hey, it's too early.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

It's only 8 30.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

I know, and we have a lot to do. Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

You have a lot to do.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

I always have a lot to do, and my husband just thinks it's fun for him to always add more to my list of things to do. He thinks it's just fantastic to hey, you know what? You still haven't eaten my apple pie.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

You know what? I thought you said keep this PG 13.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

I did. I made Apple Cobbler. I made Apple Cobbler, and you haven't eaten it.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

You haven't eaten it.

Creative Work: Courses And Community

SPEAKER_03 25:09

You know what I would like to know? I want to know what everybody's doing for Thanksgiving this year because you know, there's so much going on, and what is pee first of all. I see, this is my husband's fault. I'm sorry. That's his fault. I apologize. But like, you know, all the food assistance is temporarily paused, and then grocery prices are through the roof, and they're only gonna get worse. So, what is everybody doing? What's everybody doing for Thanksgiving? Like, you know, instead of a potluck dinner, people bring like, you know, here's thirty dollars for cranberry sauce can. I mean, really, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

It'd be spam and potted meat.

SPEAKER_02 25:51

What is potted meat?

SPEAKER_01 25:53

I'll have to buy you some.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

No, thank you. You don't even buy me a Christmas gift. Why are you gonna buy me potted meat?

SPEAKER_00 25:58

It's kind of like um kitty pate. You can save that shit.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

Spanks, but no spanks. Uh-uh. No. Am I gonna have to get dad to record me at some point? Because you are like I'm about out. How is that possible? I know. I've been up as long as you how many naps should you take today?

SPEAKER_01 26:25

None. And you're over here yawning.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Because it's infectious. I yawn because you yawn.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

So I'm I'm a disease. I'm a virus.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Are you lifelong?

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Lifelong virus?

SPEAKER_03 26:38

Are you with me forever? Lifelong?

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Yes. Then your ball and chain. Sometimes you're bitch. I got that twice? Because I did the dishes tonight.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

Uh no, no, sir. I cleaned up after dinner. Uh okay, what holds hold the fort. Number one, I unloaded the dishwasher and then loaded it and ran it. Unloaded that one and loaded it again, and then went down and did laundry. Then I switched them all over. Then I've made dinner. I've worked all day. I've answered, I can't tell you how many emails, worked on submissions, done courses, created classes, took care of dad, took care of Faith, cleaned up the house, and you're saying, what? And I made dinner. You came home and dinner was on the table.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

So because I put it there.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

Who cooked it?

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Well, you did.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

So you're saying, What? You know what? You're still bent out of shape because another prank was pulled on you today, and I'm here to tell you that your father was partially behind it. Oh, so he came home and said he was gonna run an errand and Faith was gonna go with him. So he said, Hey, can you I need to get some sweet tea before I leave? And so, okay, so our wonderful child runs in and gets and is talking with dad in the process. Dad has given her a couple of different phenomenal prank ideas that you have not seen yet, babe. And so she comes out laughing and what what's so funny? Oh, his thermos. Did you put tea in it? Yep. Oh, okay, great, good job. It's unsweet. Oh crap. And so she takes it and gives it to him. He cannot stand unsweet tea. I drink it all day long. He hates it. And so she filled his thermos.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

What did you do?

SPEAKER_01 28:38

I spent the next hour parched.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

What did you do when you tasted it? Realize what it was. What the heck?

SPEAKER_01 28:45

I said, this is disgusting. And then I I just put it down and looked at her. She said, How's your tea, Dad? And she started laughing.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

How is that the tea from dinner?

SPEAKER_01 28:56

No.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

How was that tea?

SPEAKER_01 28:59

I don't remember. You drank it all. I'm gonna wrap this up. I mean, you're gonna wrap this up. No, but you are go ahead. No.

SPEAKER_03 29:07

No, if you're gonna end our show early and you're already tardy because you weren't around, then I I can't help it. Don't say you have a medical condition because that's a load of crap. And what condition is that?

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Narcoleptic.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

No.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

No.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

Mine is at will, narcoleptic. Love you.

SPEAKER_03 29:35

Who are you saying I love you too? You. Well then take us out since you want to end it so early.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

I you got it. Nope.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

You have to because you are ending this too early. Go ahead. Take us out. Are you serious?

SPEAKER_01 29:50

They like your voice. Thank y'all for listening to a contagious smile. Unstoppable. Michael.