What’s cracking what Kracken what’s going on I’m J Burke here with the fatherhood exclusive podcast I got the guys on I got Poma in the building what’s up man how you doing hello oh well you want to introduce your special guest yes this is my oldest daughter
Ayya hello say hi what’s going on a hello Absolut then we got Diego in the building what’s up Diego going on gentlemen man your your your phone still ain’t updated or something oh he did it last time oh okay there it is there it is all right cool cool you go Junior and
Then I got I got Junior in the building what’s up Junior all right this is a special addition can can I finish can I here we go already all right this is a special edition um episode and we’re excited to have the kids on um really oh man so they’re having a good
Time and enjoying themselves um but we decided to bring the kids on and get a little insight from the kids today uh see see how they feeling and see what they thinking on some things oh this dude’s heavy man so uh Junior’s birthday is in two weeks he turns five
But he looks like a seveny old already so like even when we went to the store went to motorport store and they’re like oh yeah he’s he’s way past age where he should have been on motorcycles I’m like he’s only four and they’re like Oh I
Thought he was like seven or eight cuz he’s tall like damn what you feeding him it’s the protein pancakes man I’m telling you yeah every time oh I’m not supposed to tell him that but either way every time uh he asks for pancakes uh I make him some protein pancakes with
Syrup yeah with syrup and then when he eats waffles he eats waffles with peanut butter on them for some reason nice yeah he get EXT protein good fats yeah allegedly how you doing Diego I’m doing good just uh you know here just another day in paradise you know how we roll
Absolutely you look tired man oh yeah it’s uh I’ve been grinding as much as I can lately it’s uh um and it it just the orders just keep coming it’s like what just happened I’m very thankful of it but yeah it’s it’s been busy I think I’m
Gonna have to start looking towards uh hiring somebody that’s good that means you’re congratulations yeah I thank you yeah I’m in a spot where like it’s either that or I’m going to drive myself myself into the ground because I you know I’m staying up super late and Stu
Yeah yeah so for sure for sure how was school this week huh how was school this week good good did you learn anything new uh yeah but I forgot oh man my twin to a te yeah just wait till you get older it’ll happen more and more you’ll forget everything
Yeah you you’ll walk into a room and you’ll be like you’ll be like a Roomba and you won’t know which way to go cuz you forgot what you forgot what you got to say I want to say just say little boy oh my God I’m not a little boy
You’re a little boy no I said him oh he’s calling you a little boy Puma that’s fine I’m short I accept it hey that means we can fight though Junior you better be ready you said what so that means me and him can fight since we’re the same
Height oh yeah I don’t I just want to say you want to fight not me though you know it’s it’s crazy because he always wants to fight but nothing else like that’s all I get you know what I mean he’s a mama’s boy so anything Mama related he’s like
Run to her for cuddles and all sort stuff but literally all the wants to do is fight me yeah like can we just relax together you know what I mean no movie she’s giving me a black eye before oh wow yeah teaching her how to punch and
She missed my hand hit me square in the eye I so proud I’ve been in school but now I’m now I’m not in school well we got to get you well you’re in the re-registration process so since we moved from March 10 to North Carolina we
Had to get him re registered and since he’s uh autistic we had to get his IEP re set up and there’s a bunch of stuff that’s involved but yeah it’s not just you can’t just throw him back into school since you know he’s autistic thankfully he is on the uh
Higher end of the spectrum so we don’t have too many issues with him yeah and he he develops you know pretty fast he’s he’s smart huh that’s awesome yeah all right so anyways today today we’re going to talk about what are you guys’s favorite thing about
Dad so we’ll start with Aya oh what’s your favorite thing about your dad favorite thing make it good can I don’t talk to them don’t talk to me that me and him are twins yeah and he tickles me and he tickles you okay cooking no nothing uh your cooking’s all
Right no Sak for you what no please no please no you’re cooking all right why you C my weirdo all right your turn Junior what’s your favorite thing about me um no not chunky butt what’s your favorite thing about me come on Junior speak up we can’t hear you
Um I like to hug and cuddle with me yeah you never huging cuddle me love it when do you hug me like all the time all the time Dad he said I’m speaking for the Pod man yeah see this is the whole do it for the
Graham thing yeah he for sure all right give me one more thing one more thing that you love about me like a thing I okay go ahead my bad I be on the podcast you like to be on the podcast okay right on I like that I like that
Junior what’s what’s your handle for your YouTube page let’s get you some followers huh oh yeah definitely you want to be on the YouTube page too absolutely I think so my YouTube page is uh same as my Instagram it’s official J work j a y b r ke e um with
Official in front of it obviously but yeah we’ll get you on the YouTube page too okay because I know you like to talk he just talk real quiet I thought he was doing the whole gaming thing oh no so that’s gonna be Liams oh
Okay okay I got hey you got so many man I get confused I know right Liam’s the game Liam you know Liam be practice like he practices as if they’re actually people watching him in person that’s good so when he’s like granted we don’t like let
Them be on electronics a lot because you know there’s a world out there other than Electronics but when he does get on there um you know he’s like talking and kind of narrating what he’s doing and I walk in the room like who is he talking to but he’s like practicing for it
That’s okay like What’s Up chat like I’m going go do this this and that yep okay hey so at least he won’t be like nervous when he’s doing it you know yeah no I recorded him one time and um you know he just he rolled right into it like I was
Recording him the whole what is that beeping can y’all hear that I oh turn that down Diego if you would right no um yeah go ahead what you got to say um I want to say I found invisible Sonic you found invisible Sonic yeah well how did you find he was
Invisible I found the vable S all right so um in a flying Sonic in a flying Sonic yeah Okay cool so um anyways all right next question Aya all right this might be a tough one okay other than his cooking what’s your least favorite thing about your
Dad and you can be honest too just not about the thing I said earlier when he farts when he farts I clear a house anything else you don’t like Be honest be honest is there anything that that I do you don’t like no just when you fart just when I fart or take too long in the bathroom or take too long in the bathroom well it’s probably because he’s farting he’s trying to let
The air go out you know what I’m saying he let you guys in there yeah that’ll be in there for about 10 minutes sometimes half an hour half not too bad just 10 minutes you think there is 10 minutes yeah yeah yeah you’re right you’re right she start
Clocking you now I know what about what about you Junior what you trying to say something well we got a question for you what’s what’s what’s something your what’s something your dad does that you don’t like be honest I’m living with Mommy now with mom only me what
You’re you’re not living with Mommy only Me we Lally live in the same place all right give me one more thing um are you talking about when I didn’t live with Mommy no or you talking about right now yeah we all live together right now yeah but now only me oh so he’s saying he doesn’t like that I live
Here he said so we have this little H I don’t even know what to call it but it’s like a competition I swear because you know I’m sleeping next to Katie he always finds his way in the middle in the room and finds his way in between
Us um anytime I like holder hand or you know anything anything um he finds he finds his way over there to separate us because he’s like that’s my mommy you can’t be near her you can’t touch her so apparently he don’t even want me to live here because uh that’s his mommy
You get you get jealous Junior little bit you get huh what about I get out of here well how about this how about you pay the bills you p a bill I do pay the bill he said I will with my YouTube money you think just because you got my
Name you can call the shots I hey hey Junior what’s J what what’s something funny your dad does something funny pH being on my phone what do you mean and and what he’s on his phone he’s telling somebody and then just and then he watch you while he talk
Somebody oh when I’m making cont yeah that that makes me funny yeah I’m glad you think I’m [Laughter] funny you got questions for the kids Diego what was that you got any questions for the kids yeah uh man I remember when they were that little so like I can understand that’s my rice
Cooker so um what is the favorite thing uh the uh you guys like to do with your dads say that one more time what is the favor the most the the one thing that you guys like to do with your dad that do you love the most okay okay
Well when we go on our daddy daughter dates nice yeah you Dad did tell me about about those those moments what do you like what do you like a lot about that what is what is it that you like the best tell me tell me what what do
You guys do there uh we sometimes go to catapult or def all right I also like when we have our yes days when we get to spend $50 on him oh I heard about those those are pretty cool dad still owes me $50 so we can go on a date he still owes
Me $20 all right right there we go see he landed a backflip on the trampoline over the weekend and she was trying I was like yo if you land it you’ll you’ll get 20 bucks and then behold after two tries landed it landed it and I was like
Well all right you know little motivation and some money doesn’t hurt you know yeah absolutely absolutely uh what do you buy with the what is some of the things you buy with your $50 during your date uh Toys you buy toys all right toys I always wanted that he won’t give me
What kind of toys is that just toys that I see on ads oh do you see on ads okay yeah that’s awesome and sometimes like once every three or six months we’ll collect all the toys that they don’t play with anymore I’ll make them
Get rid of like five or 10 each to give it to kids who don’t have any toys right and then they can pick out one toy that day nice that’s cool that’s pretty nice of y’all that shows that y’all are not selfish and you like so that’s good
I said I can’t really do that but you know I secretly get rid of them why they’re not looking think they need all of their toys oh yeah well it’s it just tells them that they’re giving back to kids who don’t have anything my kids still even when I
Make them uh when I make my kids are older right and uh even though when I make them clean their stuff and and pile up the stuff that they don’t need they still have a hard time giving away some of their stuff like there’s stuff that they haven’t played since they were
Little but they want to keep it as a memoir and uh they won’t give it away and it’s like you guys have to get rid of this stuff man you guys got so much they have it in their boxes and everything like no I still want to keep
It and he was like all right one of these days I’m gonna clean house I mean they’re older so I have to respect their space but I’m like man you guys have so much stuff but all right now now to you uh what is uh what is your uh favorite
Thing you like to do with your dad um being by yoube yoube and yoube and Roblox and and by and by Minecraft and and a phone and you guys do a lot in my own house so I heard uh uh Minecraft and uh Roblox so you guys play together video
Games I he the phone no what what he said is he apparently he thinks I’m rich and so he wants me to buy oh or whatever and all this other stuff that he thinks he’s going to get because apparently I’m rich you better claim it claiming iny junior
Junior how do you like how do you like your new house man good good and I how’s how’s that nice big backyard my golden my golden bar and golden cheetah to I heard our heard golden cheetah some about a golden cheetah you have a golden cheetah toy no I didn’t have one
Before what’s what’s some of the TV shows you guys watch together Junior um Dy open your mouth when you talk buddy did open your teeth areen opening there you go say I watch Da Catman the Catman D Catman okay who C I talk like I watch all day no you [Laughter]
Don’t you like to until you get upset that I don’t let you what about the activities what about the uh the drawing and writing activities do you like to do those I painting huh I like the painting in the painting yeah yeah and um
Uh um a paper this s on don’t do that motion no you said what the paper with the sticks on it Pap on sticks okay the Arts and Crafts yeah okay and I might build a Sonic but I’m I don’t how a Sonic P Bally you B one on the side and
The side and the side on the side okay oh nice and I and Sonic that wellow white and and red and then and then on the bottom okay Jun you’re great at telling stories and then me remember me I watch Sonic and I didn’t know how he did on the
Building that’s why he we on the building okay okay cool just like I remember that Spiderman movie he just won on that how you go from Sonic to Spider-Man what what’s what’s going on all right all right so Diego since since your kids aren’t here um what’s your
Favorite thing to do with your kids man you will realize that um at their at their age where’re where they’re at right now at least for me is any time you I get to spend with them it’s very enjoyable because right now they’re at an age where they just want
To do their own thing yeah so um with me being so busy with the with with work and stuff so it’s kind of it’s been I’ve kind of neglected that so but one thing that we are getting back on again is just having our outies outings on uh on
The on the weekends so either we’ll pick something on Saturday or whatever and and uh we’ll go out to eat or like yesterday we just went out to uh the arcade uh what is it called that one or number one or something like that oh round one one round one yeah yeah that
Place expensive oh my God it is it is you probably you probably dropped like at least $120 to have fun oh I wish I wish two 300 bucks oh man I bet you guys played games the whole time though those games are expensive yeah it’s like um like one game is like four
Doll because crazy uh each like each point like four points is a dollar so each game is like 12 12 points I think I think it’s I think 12 points is like a175 or something like that there when you swipe the card over and over again yeah
Something like that man I mean we were there for like I mean we were there for like 30 minutes 40 minutes and we burned through that stuff because I each of my kid 55 bucks yeah so we usually go to uh well but we used to go to uh Dave and Busters a
Lot and um we put like I don’t know maybe 200 on a card or something like that um and they’d run around and you know half of the games they would they wouldn’t you know they were pretend to play uhuh yeah yeah you know what I’m saying yeah and so you know
200 bucks might last them two trips that they because you know you get to keep the card or whatever so it might last them two trips sometimes but yeah 300 that’s crazy no yeah it went quick we were there for like 40 minutes tops and
Um we went out to eat and we kind of just kind of hang out did you eat there no no no they got pretty good pizza though yeah we they had pizza at their mom’s and then uh usually we do pizza pizza Fridays in a movie which is
Another thing we kind of uh we built on uh kind of like a um a thing that we do is every Friday we have a movie and then we TR yeah tradition there we go and then we have uh pizza so um those are kind of the the things that I I enjoy
With my kids um on a Friday sometimes after school we’ll go on for a walk so we’ll walk from my house to the to the ice cream place it’s about a Four Mile Walk so yeah we’ll go out for a walk come back get some ice cream at uh I men
Chees and then walk back so you know it’s uh as they get older I get to kind of appreciate a little bit time that that uh that we spent because they they not want their own space so yeah you know this is where y’all being little is
Is the best time and I think we as parents we take that and uh and uh we don’t we don’t we don’t appreciate those moments and we don’t live them to the fullest until they’re gone and then once you see them all you know older 16 17 years old
You’re like man I wish they were little because when they’re little that’s when they they want want you all the time so uh that’s one thing that uh that I’ve I am experiencing now and it’s it’s fun seeing them grow but sometimes I like man I wish they were little
Yeah I think I’m experiencing a little bit of that because um this dude he just wants to fight all the time what dud you what dude he literally just want can we fight can we fight like morning afternoon night can we fight and I’m like no
Like I want to fight you 247 like first of all I mean I’m not old but I feel old at this point in my life and um I can’t keep up with you know you running in circles and not getting dizzy yeah there was a there was a a guy that spoke
And I really like what he said um it’s like uh there will come a time where well they said take everything that happens with your kids as if that’s going to be the last time that you will see because there will be at the time where you will actually want your kids
To have their Legos on the floor where you step your house to be spot right you’re G to want their little hand prints all over the glass right yeah you’re G to want them uh calling your name for was this was this an older white guy
Yep yeah I saw the same thing yeah yeah and and it it really hits hits home right because now I have my youngest one is 12 right so um he is my youngest one and sometimes I try to um almost overdo it to where like I want to spend time
With him but he’s getting to that age where he wants to do these things and the older ones are just you know they got their friends and they you know they’re getting phone calls with them they play their video games and stuff so um but so it’s it definitely let puts
You in perspective and and makes you think about it and try to make you enjoy I me there’s never it’s never too late to right so um so that’s why we try to make that thing to where like you know our fright is our secret we have pizza
And and movies right so we don’t skip it for nothing um I spoke with my kids over the over the weekend and I told all you know I I know I work a lot but let’s make it a thing that where now you guys
Get to pick where we want to do for that weekend and then so now they have a little bit part of of of the planning and they don’t wait for me to just go wherever I said let’s go so you know if they want to go somewhere they’ll
They’ll uh I’ll let one of them pick and say okay you’re going to pick this weekend and and it will just pick off um I rather at this point kind of you know set myself up to where like I have to work late when they’re sleeping
And spend the time uh with them during the day then sacrifice that time you know I mean like yesterday we spent the whole day uh uh out after I picked them up and then late at night I just jumped in and got some some work done while
They were uh in bed going to going to sleep and I’m okay with that you know I mean because to me now it’s I’m starting to value a lot of the time is gone and I feel due to my deployments and and the military that I’ve lost a lot of that
Time when they were they were little they were asking like that can we do this that can do that those are those are going away really fast and uh it kind of gets you nostalgic at at points so yeah now I have to find a different
Ways to spend time at their age right so that way you know it becomes a very um actual like uh meaningful time with them because you can’t you they’re not g to want to build Legos anymore you know I mean they’re they’re more into like you know different teenage things now that
It’s it’s funny because I try to keep up with the lingo and they’re like Dad you’re doing too much you know what I mean you’re doing too much man H it’s it’s funny but um but yeah it’s uh it’s something that the parents we need to as as dads and
Parents in general we just need to um understand I appreciate that when they’re little it’s uh it’s a special moment they they really they really need you um because that time will fly by I’m telling you I’m 40 and 42 now and it’s time is flying back quick I already feel
Like January is gone and and I’m already going towards the end of 2024 right time slower when you’re younger I feel I feel like when I was 25 time was was going slow as heck 40 I’m try to make as time last as I can I just can
Sow down that clock and it’s uh yeah it’s it can get it can get set up up points absolutely you know what’s crazy and I I’ll kind of wrap it up with this kind of going into what you were saying a little bit anyway um from a business perspective they say um most
Millionaires and billionaires wake up at 3:00 a.m. for that very reason because they’ve lost so much time with their family over the years they wake up early while their while their family still sleeping so that they can get focused work done and still um maintain their Financial Freedom so that they can use
That Financial Freedom to spend the rest of the day with their family and I thought that was real deep I heard it uh yesterday and I was like man you know I thought it was like you know one of those uh one of those things that you know people just you know these
Internet gurus oh wake up at 3:00 a.m. you’ll be successful but you know it’s deeper thann that it’s it’s a part of you know not replacing your family time with you know uh with work well that’s one of the reasons why older people wake up early have you noticed that older
People wake up early older people are up up out of out of bed at least my my mom right she’s out of bed at 5 in the morning like doing things because they know that their time is up it’s coming up very short and they want to enjoy as
Much as they can so you know and why wait till you’re old to try to figure that out why not do it while you’re young and you know what I mean so yeah absolutely absolutely Ayla how you doing good just listening well you’re a very well behaved young lady that is
Aw junor how you doing why did I say to me oh my god did you enjoy being on the podcast okay cool a did you enjoy being on the podcast all right I like the movie Friends TV I do too I like the show Absolutely a good
Show a classic we definitely have to have you guys on again uh thanks for listening all you guys um we love y’all we appreciate y’all and this is another another edition of say one more you want to say one more thing okay Junior just cut me off one more thing um I got
Sneakers wow you got sneakers this has been another edition of the fatherhood exclusive we love y’all we appreciate y’all we’ll see y’all next week peace Co
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