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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Nick's Multi-Generational Home

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mens Room Question: For better or worse, how are you like your parents, or what do you not do because your parents did?

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0:00.0

Oh, what way are you like your parents, for better or for worse? What will you never do because your parents did it? A couple of responses here. My dad is old school and doesn't get in his feelings. It's hard to read the man. I feel like he doesn't trust me and I felt hurt because of it growing up. I come to flip around, I hear the same from others about me. I seem uptight. Don't seem to trust others because I don't open up to them. So I basically came full circle. Another, I'm like my mom and that when I get stressed out, I burst into tears. I really don't like that. And even with tremendous self-control, I managed to keep the tears from flying out of my eyes. My voice, though, will pitch real high and give it away. Our question, for better or worse, how are you like your parents or what will you never do because your parents did it? 206, 803 Rock. Hello, Nick. Welcome to the Mendrum. Hey, what's up, fellas? Ola! Well, I've been listening since day one, and that's the first time I've called in, just like a bitched down my dad. All right. Awesome. How do we have had something for you?

0:56.1

Really took 20 years.

0:57.0

I need to go golf again.

1:00.7

So this time I promise I won't dump the golf cart, but let's go hit the links.

1:01.9

Well, it's cold outside, huh?

1:02.4

All right.

1:03.3

All right.

1:06.6

Anyway, so yeah.

1:12.7

So I, my dad lives with me, and I have a a lot of kids and the last two are still living at home. And, well, kind of the one of them joined in Navy recently.

1:16.3

And so he was home for Thanksgiving.

1:18.2

And so I get to see everything that's bad about me in my son.

1:24.5

And then I get to see where it comes from from my father. It's great. Now, do you

1:29.3

see anything good as well? Like, I can take credit for that. Oh, that I can take credit for sure.

1:36.5

I'm great. Of course. No, I mean, look, we take things from our parents, good and bad. And my dad, my dad is an old hippie.

1:46.4

He's a good dude.

1:47.7

Like, he's a family man.

1:48.9

There's lots and lots of things about my dad.

1:50.7

I'm really stoked about.

1:51.6

And I'm happy to emulate.

1:54.5

But he, like, he doesn't understand the anger is a secondary emotion.

1:59.8

To him, anger is how you just do with stuff.

2:03.0

And, like, that's what was spread on to me. And then Mike's sons. And so now trying to get that to change. And, I mean, trying to tell a 77-year-old man, like, he literally, what do you want to do, change? Yeah, dude. That's exactly what I want you to do. You can't be angry at everything all the time.

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