Welcome to Fit's Dog radio. I am your host Greg Fitt Simmons and I have been with you for many years. Thank you for those of you who've been on the ride. We got some. Got some fun podcast coming up next week is the great Pauli sure. Oh yeah. Great.

Great guest already recorded it Rob Cordries coming up Kirk Fox from the jury and a bunch of other fun people I think Caroline Ray is coming on soon.

And then I'm going to take a week off while I go to Europe this summer. So maybe we'll get a guest host who knows I just did an episode last week that was very.

It was an important episode for me to do because I've been talking about doing it for years because I got the audio tapes of my dad. And so I put together a father's day episode.

I hope you enjoyed it. I got a ton of email from people it was really heartfelt. There was a lot of really touching notes written to me by people that also had complicated relationships with their father.

And I think I struck a chord with some people and you know my my hope was that my love for him would come through and it did. And I cried a little bit.

And I apologize for crying and a lot of people wrote in to say shut the fuck up. There's nothing wrong with crying. You know, and I think I always I always had that you shouldn't cry thing which was tough because I cry.

And my sister's a cryer and my daughter is a cryer. And it's fine to cry. I think for men as long as it's an emotional cry.

You don't want to cry from physical pain because that's seen as weak like I remember I remember when we were in like seventh grade I was playing street hockey with my friends Kyle McGovern and Danny Killer in and Tommy Bootsie.

And we would we would have these kind of fake fights where we would like you know check each other and then there'd be like a pile on. And I remember at one point we were in front of Kyle McGovern's house and there was a pile on me.

And people were I was being completely held down and people were taking turns punching me in the side of the thigh as hard as they could. And it really fucking hurt and I cried.

I was like what 12 and they gave me so much shit at school the next day that I was limping the next day and they gave me shit about crying. That was a rough one.

But you know I cry I cry at stuff my I remember the first time I dropped my son off at preschool.

Me and my wife dropped him off and then we sat in the parking lot and we cried our eyes out that was a big one.

Anyway so and my friend was crying last night I got a good buddy whose birthday it was and we went to a Hanna which is this cool bar kind of an OG Venice bar on Washington.

And a friend of his died and he came in with tears in his eyes and he I could tell he felt self conscious about it. I felt like Jesus Christ your friend died your you're allowed to cry.

And I think he's it's just tough. Why is it that men won't cry in front of other men. I respected him for crying. I would I would think it would be weird to lose a friend and not cry.

So I should check in with him today see how he's doing. But maybe that'll make himself conscious maybe he's listening. Hey man I hope you're doing okay.

But Hanna was fun last night there was a band it was like a band played from like four o'clock to eight o'clock and we all went down and danced a little I did a little dancing.

But there was just a lot of Venice chicks like older Venice chicks brawless dancing like to kind of hippie songs from an all black band which was a weird there was some Latinos that were salsa dancing there was we shot pool brought my daughter.

And she was on a team with Dennis gobbins and I was on a team with this girl that may or may not have been on methamphetamines.

And I took a dive I let my daughter win because she loves playing bar pool and she's getting better but I purposely lost the game.

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