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Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney.

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My name is Christine Blackburn and I'm here with

Honest Finney and we're coming to you from Downer True Value Hardware Store on Downer Avenue

in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I know exactly why we're coming from here. Because this, our

subject today is Bad Dad Decisions. And your dad would come to this hardware store and what?

Just all, I think hardware stores, hardware stores this one is the one that I grew up with with the smell of the

harbor store and the and the decals of bare feet on the floor coming in do you

remember the decals of the bare feet and and and it's like a hardware store is

the mecca this epicenter of bad dad decisions. I can clean the roof. I can replace the gutters myself. I can this. I can that. And it never ends well. But you know what? There are many other reasons to go to the hardware store. For instance, I made up a key yesterday. You know what I mean? Go to the hardware store and make a key. I'm not going to get hurt. Nobody gets hurt. Any other reason you've ever been in a hardware store? Yeah, buy a light bulb. How about an electrical socket? How about a toilet seat? See what I'm saying? Yeah, but since you're not a dad and a mom, you're a mom, therefore you picked things you could actually handle. I buy batteries. I can replace the toilet seat. I can replace a toilet seat. mom you're a mom therefore you picked things you could actually handle like

I buy batteries I can replace the toilet seat I can replace a light bulb dad is like I can tear the

toilet out I can put in a bidet yeah it's like dad you only have one arm and you have no

training in engineering doesn't matter I have test testicles and I can build an entire wing

on the house. Men like to be admired for the things that they do and the things that they accomplish.

So while women, we need you to listen to my problems, listen to what went on all day, the man would

rather just fix the cabinet behind your head and say, look, I did that hinge, didn't I?

Right. And as we've discussed before, it's like women, when a woman tells her problems to her

man, he wants to solve it. Right. She has no interest in him solving it. She just wants him to listen to it.

Right. So you need to listen. Which seems to men completely pointless. Why the fuck am I listening to it if I'm not going to do anything about it? Men and women are so different. You know, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a great guest here tonight. John Reep is here. And first of, let me just say John... He's from North Carolina, South Carolina. Well, North Carolina. Hickory, North Carolina.

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