Welcome to today's podcast. We have the return of my boy, Mike Salemi, Salemi, as they used to call him. Nobody calls him that anymore. He's, well, I'd say he's too much of a savage, but he's too much of a sweetie, honestly.

So lemmy is somebody who I met years ago.

I'll actually talk about this because it's been so long since we've podcasted together.

Mike is a father now.

He has a three-year-old.

I think the last time I saw Mike, his little boy was in the womb.

So lots of cool shit to catch up on in this one. We deep dive Mike's background because he has such a wealth of knowledge in Czech's educational system as well as many others. And he's just been on a really cool trajectory in life. I adore Mike. He's a dear brother and a friend of mine until the end, and I think this podcast was awesome. I loved getting to learn more about him in this one. Share this with friends, support our sponsors. They make the show possible. I'm not further ado, my brother, Mike So lemmy. Welcome back to the podcast, brother. It has been fucking ages. It really has. It's been what,

you know, usually we say like it's been too long since I've seen you, but no, actually,

it's legitimately been way too long, almost three years, I think. Yeah, we used to see each other way more often. Even being here in Austin, you know, I think you're traveling more. One thing that I

really, you know, what resonate with, though, is the fact that you're now a father. And I didn't travel. I traveled a lot when Bear was young, only child, first child kind of thing. And being from California and then moving here, my family always wanted to see Bear. So if we wanted to go out of the country or something like that, we'd fly Bear home to the bay. He'd hang with my mom and my dad and my sister and all his cousins. And we'd go to Touloum or somewhere, you know, with fit for service. And so it always felt like it was the right thing. It felt awesome. Looking back, he was way too young for that. And so when we had Wolf, five, you know, he was five. We had Wolf.

It was like, there was like a very strong grounding cord just immediately implanted in me. That was like, it was undeniable. Like, oh, an intuition of your, I'm not going anywhere until she's three years old. And then there, it'll just be for work. And that's worked out really well.

So anyways,

that resonates fully with me why we wouldn't see each other,

why you would hunker down.

And it is the right thing.

You know,

there are some things I had to learn the hard way.

But there's no replacing dad.

There is no fucking replacement for that whatsoever no replacing mom either right

and you know like if you when you have uh when you're watching the kids for a day and mom's getting a

break how many times they bring up when's mommy coming home you're like listen here this is daddy day

damn you're going to enjoy this time i'm going to buy a pizza and

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