This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Oh, I missed the sounds of that intro because that means that Papa Greg Wishinsky is joining me now.

Hello Wish, how is second fatherhood?

It's good man. So I've been so my daughter Iris was born on January 11th for those who don't know she's wonderful

if everybody's happy and healthy it's good I've learned that so my older daughter is 13, so it's a pretty good spread there, and I've learned that having a child

13 years after your first one, it's kind of like when you don't buy a new car for a long time,

which is something I also experienced recently. And so like you go, you buy your car.

The kids now have nicer features? They, right, like the first time I went and bought a new car,

it was after the backup camera had become standardized

on cars, you know, here it's a game changer. And so, yeah, it was marvelous. standardized on daughter has been the increase in technology.

Like we've got something that sanitizes the bottles.

We got something that distributes the formula that sounds like a coffee maker.

There's a thing you put on her foot to monitor on your phone what her sleep is like.

Like it's, I feel like I had a kid on the Jetsons or something, way that this technology has left forward since the last time I did this.

It's because I've had the same experience as well. But here's the thing. I don't know about you, but it always makes me wonder how I survive childhood.

Like you know pictures of like old playgrounds we used to play in?

Or like, think like I remember my parents telling me like when they brought me home from the hospital like I was in the front seat in a basket

That was it. There was like no seat bells no child like I was in a basket like I was just being sent up the river or they had

maybe rescued me from a river I don't know but like you ever have those

moments I'm sure you do I think we all do we look back at our childhood and say a what were we thinking and be

what our parents thinking everything was a death trap from like our bedroom

to the garage to the cars to the playground to to sports I remember my first year of

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