Hey friends, before we jump into the episode this week, we wanted to spend just a quick moment

talking about the upcoming Father's Day as this episode releases.

For all of you who are out there who are fathers, we appreciate you.

There is few higher callings than it is to be a father, and we want to challenge you to be

doing that the best that you can.

For those of you who are not fathers yet and are considering that honor, we challenge you to be doing that the best that you can. For those of you who are not fathers yet and are

considering that honor, we challenge you to take it seriously and to put it in your heart as something

that is perhaps more meaningful than hardly any other tasks that you will accomplish in your life.

As a father myself, I find great honor in raising the next generation and i just want to encourage you

for those of you who are feeling beat down or or tired to keep going to challenge you for those of you

who are considering what else you have to do and and where else you can go and to just say from my

heart to yours happy father's day right on buddy i am someone who

did not grow up with the father didn't meet my stepfather until i think i was 16 good dude great to my

mom um been a great guy for my for my sister but. But I was, you know, well into my teen years,

uh, before I met him. And so grew up without a father and feel, you know, felt growing up the, um,

need for, for a strong male father figure in my life. and I now aim to be that for my kids.

And I read something stupid online the other day that had me feeling kind of mushy.

Not my typical M.O. Right, Nate.

Right. But, you know, whatever I read made me realize that I have four kids. So my wife and I have four kids, a 17-year-old daughter, a 14-year-old son. And then we have two very young daughters that are seven and four. We can't have kids anymore, or I can't at least, so that's behind us. But it made me realize that at some point i had held my two oldest

kids the very last time and i don't know when that happened i'll never find out what that time

what that day was but at some point I held them for the last time.

And now if I tried to hold them, they'd be creeped out, rightfully so, and maybe take a swing at me.

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