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Miles Between Us
Remembering Bob Sullivan: The Legacy of a Father and Founder
The doorknob would be within your grasp, your hand just touching the cool metal, when Bob Sullivan would suddenly find one more thing to show you. A new movie, a funny story, or a random fact he'd discovered – anything to keep you there just a little longer. This "doorknob technique" perfectly captures the essence of our father: a man who savored every moment and connection.
In this deeply personal episode, we take you through the extraordinary life of Bob Sullivan – founder of Bob's Auto Repair, devoted father, innovative thinker, and larger-than-life personality who left an indelible mark on everyone he met. From his early days as an Air Force brat exploring Spain and Africa (where he once had a pet camel!) to his uncanny ability to connect with wild animals (including a falcon that perched on his shoulder without hesitation), Dad's adventures were limitless.
His passion for helping others led him to start Bob's Auto Repair specifically to create a space where women wouldn't be talked down to or taken advantage of – a revolutionary concept in the automotive industry decades ago. But his talents extended far beyond mechanics. He was a technology enthusiast who never believed in volume settings below 75, an interior decorator with coastal flair, and a Florida State superfan whose Seminole-branded Suburban bearing player autographs became legendary at tailgates.
Through eight years of illness, including walking his daughter down the aisle during the pandemic's earliest days, Bob maintained his zest for life. Even after his passing in September 2020, the signs of his presence continue – from remarkable redfish catches at Alligator Point to breathtaking sunsets that arrive precisely when needed.
Whether you knew Bob personally or are meeting him through our stories, we invite you to subscribe and join us for more unscripted, unedited conversations about the remarkable people who shape our lives and the miles between us.
All right, we're back. We're back. Episode two Welcome to Miles. Between Us with Misty and Melissa.
Speaker 3:It is unscripted, unedited real life.
Speaker 2:How are you today? I'm good. I'm good. This is an exciting time. We're into the fall and football and the students are back, so how about you?
Speaker 1:Good, I got my haircut today it looks so good.
Speaker 2:I literally can pull off the short hair. I can't imagine me with short hair. I'd love to see you with short hair, do you know? In middle school.
Speaker 1:Did you ever have?
Speaker 2:short hair, no. So listen, at raw middle school I wanted to cut my. I thought I wanted to cut my hair one time and so do you remember when you're middle school? And I wrote those should Misty cut her hair? Check yes or no and literally passed it around the class. But everybody voted no. So let me know if you think I should cut it short or keep it long. We could be twinning.
Speaker 1:Well, today is a very special episode. I think Probably going to be one of my favorites. I think it's going to be one of my favorites as well. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Who are we going to talk about? We are going to talk about our best friend, our mentor, our founder, our father Bob Sullivan.
Speaker 1:Technically, his legal name is Robert S Lee Sullivan. Yeah, and I love that.
Speaker 2:So let's just talk for a second about the S Lee part. So the S Lee goes all the way back to our great-great-grandfather, and every boy in that lineage had the middle name Esley. However, it changed spelling every single generation and alternated between two S's and one S. And so your son also has that middle name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I stole it. So technically I shouldn't have named Esley that, but I stole it as his first name and then I named it with the two that dad has, so he's named after dad no, it's, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:You know, today might be a little bit emotional for us. We're coming up on five years. Our dad passed away on September 8th of 2020, so we're still crazy if we're keeping it real, right, right, and so grief sucks.
Speaker 1:It's just weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it sucks.
Speaker 1:But it's the strange. If you've never been through it, I love that for you. But if you've been through it, you know it's so debilitating at first.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Like for me. I was like what do you mean? The world goes on Like it can't go on Like my best friend, my dad, is not here, Like you know.
Speaker 1:What do you mean I have to care about everybody else's problems. What do you mean I have to go buy bananas at the grocery store, Like what do you mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, much less like take care of yourself, right?
Speaker 1:But we had an amazing relationship with our dad, yeah, so we want to share that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's talk about some of these stories and really where our founder came from. He was an Air Force brat. So our grandfather was in the Air Force and they traveled and lived all over the world. Spain was cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that was one of his favorites was Spain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he loved Spain. He also loved Africa. Really, yeah, lo loved Spain, he also loved Africa.
Speaker 1:Really, yeah, loved Africa. What did we learn about? Didn't he have a monkey or something? What did he have? A camel.
Speaker 2:He had a camel. Dad had a pet camel. He had a donkey he had.
Speaker 1:yeah, he loved animals. They loved him. Yes, the falcon Right. So tell that story man. So I wish our other sister could tell this story. She was there. We all just got pictures and videos and we're all like what the? What is happening? I think we said that a lot with dad. What the yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So out in Colorado with Christy, I don't know, saw this bird that looked like maybe it was injured or stunned or something by a fence, and so dad got out and it was a falcon a very large, I'm gonna have to insert a photo for reference, because no one's gonna believe that we're talking about.
Speaker 1:It was massive. He got out with nothing, though, like normally I feel like someone would want gloves or like, absolutely I don't know something, but this man Right.
Speaker 2:And I mean this was not a tamed animal, this was a wild creature. And I think when he first saw it, for some reason this bird went to our dad. It is sitting on dad's shoulder and it is way bigger than his head.
Speaker 1:It is sitting on dad's shoulder and it is way bigger than his head. You know, the video in the living room, or whatever my dad and the bird are on the ground and the bird's just hopping over to him Like this wild bird in somebody's house is so crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was so close with our dad that Christy was stationed at the Air Force Academy at the time and she thought maybe it was one of the Air Force's falcons, because this thing was so close with our dad and, like, interacted in such a way that it had to be somebody's falcon, right. So she called the Air Force and the Air Force came and it was not one of their falcons, it was a wild falcon, I don't get that close to wild birds.
Speaker 2:I don't trust them but I had one experience. So it was our dad was already sick and I came out of the doctor's office and there was a hummingbird that was cool, and so the hummingbird landed in my hand. I got to shoot a video and share it with our dad, and I was like dad, this is you. Like this bird is telling me I'm very much like you. And the yellow bird bird.
Speaker 1:Our dad is a beautiful bird. No, that was crazy. We were like 15 miles out on the Boston whaler and this little I'd call it a Tweety bird. It looked like a Tweety bird Neon yellow, nothing else around it just came and sat on the boat for like 20 minutes and then off it went. There was just so many moments like that with dad, with like animals in general yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And we've talked about Bob's auto repair and we have people that some of you guys knew our dad, A lot of you guys knew our dad. He was kind of infamous in Tallahassee. I think we have people that worked with him in previous career.
Speaker 1:We just had somebody stop by last week. No clue who they were. Worked at Woolco with them, right Shared stories, said the other guy that he worked with at Woolco had more stories and he's just going to tell them to swing by.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah thank you If you have stories about our dad, please.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'd love it.
Speaker 2:Love it. We love the stories, we love the interactions. It's so important to us. So our dad originally he wasn't a mechanic. Our dad started out managing Waffle House, so there's no doubt in my mind that's where he learned his customer service, because all of you that have been to Waffle House at 2 in the morning like they get your food right.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And so, yeah, he was a manager at Waffle House.
Speaker 1:With Johnny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he got an opportunity to work at Wolko, which for anybody Wolko doesn't exist anymore, but back in the day it was like the first Walmart super service center and it had an automotive repair center in it and he became like the regional manager for that. So that's how he really. He grew up with motorcycles and race cars and always loved actual auto mechanics.
Speaker 1:Was it you or Ryan that would get around the block on the motorcycle to be put to?
Speaker 2:sleep. Yeah, absolutely, ryan. He just fell in love with helping people and actually dad's first customer that he ever had in Tallahassee was Judy Hickman, and she's still a customer today. So we love you, Judy. Thanks for you're awesome. Yeah, thanks for sticking with us too. I think dad really instilled in us how important customers are.
Speaker 1:I mean they're they're friends, they're family. He's just always wanted to help people and he could whether that be with, like a warm conversation or actually fixing your cars. Like he's one of the very few people that I've ever come in contact with that's truly present, like he doesn't talk about other people, he's always just current, and that's really hard to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, not only was he current, but he was ahead of all of us, true? So he knew all the latest songs, all the latest you know, Gadgets, electronics, all of it. Yeah, I mean I remember gosh before like big screen TVs. He had like a 75 inch TV.
Speaker 1:That thing was a beast, it was. It took up the entire wall of the house. I mean, that thing probably weighed like 800 pounds.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was huge, but he had to have kind of the latest surround sound. Yes, we all absolutely love Top Gun. Because of that, every time he got a new stereo component or a new speaker, that song got blared.
Speaker 1:Yet more emphasis on the blaring it. I do not believe our father believed in any volume below 75. That's probably true, yeah it's probably true. Maybe that was after all the years of you know the loud mechanic life, but maybe he just had a passion.
Speaker 2:I think he just had a passion for loud stuff Full speed, yeah, and fun.
Speaker 2:You know I can tell you that dad protected us. He fought for us, he challenged us, he encouraged us. He loved us. He fought for us, he challenged us, he encouraged us, he loved us. I always knew, growing up and early into my college years, right like if a boyfriend was being dumb, dad was going to show up. He was going to show up and he was probably going to kick his shoes off, because if dad kicked his shoes off, he was about to whip somebody's ass.
Speaker 1:No doubt he was good at that subtle intimidation where he really didn't say much but his, his tone shifted, his mannerisms got a little tighter and you're like, oh, oh, this like really charismatic funny guy, just kind of took it to a new level.
Speaker 2:There's a new level there, for sure. So tell me some of your favorite memories with dad.
Speaker 1:It's hard. So my memory is not good from when I was younger and then the divorce happened, so that was a whole crazy time, but then I got to live with him for.
Speaker 2:I don't even know how long I'd say at least a few years. Oh yeah, I think it was four years.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, so dad died in my 20s so I didn't get much of like the adulthood with him. So I'm glad I got to live with him, because I feel like it kind of expedited things and we just shoved in a lot of memories in there.
Speaker 2:They had a party house, in case anybody wants to know. It was great. The one on Devereaux was so much fun.
Speaker 1:So I've never seen a house where it's laid out, where it's like the upper deck, and then you go down below into the pit with like the living room and then you have the pool table.
Speaker 2:You had the pool outside did was rig up the hammock chair on a pulley system to go over in the air above the pool. Like there always had to be something cool that was going on, yeah he could never leave it as is.
Speaker 1:He didn't know what the word meant, but the feng shui he would be redecorating, I swear, every couple weeks, like the couch would be in a different spot, like he would totally revamp. And he loved interior decorating he did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Coastal beachy nautical, Like that was kind of his element. But honestly he wasn't bad at it.
Speaker 2:He was actually really good, yeah, I think we've all taken a little style from him. Yeah, I want to go back to kind of his passion for the auto repair business because he honestly started it to help women. Dad saw when he was at Wolko women being taken advantage of. He thought that people you know, these mechanics had a reputation and they would talk down to women, Didn't make them feel as comfortable or explain things to them. And dad absolutely, you know he had daughters at that point. No, that was not going to happen. I think that's where we get our passion from right, Because it's not just women. I mean, we explain stuff to people all the time. Cars have gotten more complicated, but dad really had that passion for helping you. It was all about explaining what was going on. And I remember one time we had a young girl at Florida State who was struggling financially and her car had broken and dad allowed her to donate dog food or cat food to the shelter in exchange for her car repair. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:I hadn't heard that one. Yeah, absolutely. But that's what's funny is I'm probably going to say that that's crazy, I hadn't heard that one. Yeah, absolutely. But that's what's funny is I'm probably going to say that often oh, I hadn't heard that one. Because that's another thing that skips people when you have so many years apart is you just don't, you don't even know what has or hasn't been told, and memories are really hard to just all of a sudden say, hey, what's your favorite memory?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You just blank because you're like how am I supposed to go through 20 something years of memories on the spot like that? Yeah, Our dad was the greatest.
Speaker 2:Our dad got sick and he was stubborn, right, it was eight years. He was sick for eight years and I remember the day that he could no longer work. I thought that it was just going to crush him, but he would still come and be around his customers. And then at one point we installed cameras so he could see what we were doing on a daily basis. And it was definitely like having big brother, but it was big dad, because Melissa put her desk up on my feet one time and dad called and said tell that girl to get her feet off your desk.
Speaker 1:It's hard when you're a people person for that long and then all of a sudden your health tanks and you're kind of stuck and isolated. It was a nice way to feel connected, yeah.
Speaker 2:And he would bring little bear and he would come up and visit the shop. And for us it was such a blessing that I think our dad took great comfort in knowing that we were taking this to another level. He got to see this shop be built.
Speaker 3:He loved that this new shop.
Speaker 2:I mean, he had spent all those years on Gaines Street. Little known fact. One of the first locations was actually on Lake Bradford, it's now the. Fsu RV parking lot, but that was dad's original shop in that area, full circle. This came back home and as we were building it, dad would come down here and check the progress and look at the steel beams and check everything.
Speaker 1:Do you remember how crazy that was Our very, very last day on gains? I mean, he knew it was our last day but, like he didn't know what time we were going to be done, we had a bottle of champagne and we stepped out on the porch and within 30 seconds we didn't even pop it yet he just comes up, little bear. His lab jumped out the passenger seat and he just came and hung out and then we popped the bottle. Like there are things like that, that the timing was wild.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because I think that dad was just connected. He was connected to us. He was connected to our feelings and emotions, and he was connected to this business, so that's never going to leave.
Speaker 1:If you ask us why our at all? I remember seeing him you know, by his toolbox and in the shop. But like I don't recall him ever working on a car, but those tailgates was where he flourished.
Speaker 2:Epic Bob and Casey level. Like we had so much fun with you guys.
Speaker 1:We miss everybody tailgating.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was amazing.
Speaker 2:It was so much fun Back in the day. You could literally walk in and see Coach Bowden and he was really good friends with Chuck Amato and all of those guys. He worked on Chuck Amato's Corvette for years and so dad had a Suburban that he would get this big old body Suburban and in that center it had kind of the old panel right down the center and every single year he would take the Suburban. It was garnet and he had a beautiful hand-painted Seminole head on the hood and he would take it over to the stadium and the coaches would bring the team out and the entire team would autograph Dad's Suburban and then he would clear it and that truck would go to every out-of-town game. Everybody knew that truck.
Speaker 1:Everybody was excited to have their because that's just so cool. I mean, honestly, it was so unique and different right, and if you haven't seen it which I'm sure a lot of you haven't, because I just saw it for the first time a couple weeks ago, but it's in the lobby, you can see a picture of it. Yeah, it was really incredible.
Speaker 2:He had a helmet that was this huge, I mean Like a beanbag holder yeah, it's like a three foot by three foot Florida State University football helmet, metal helmet and he would strap it to the top of the truck and away. We'd go to these games. Players could have jobs and so they were some players that worked for dad and you hosted them as kind of godparents, because they don't get to go home for Thanksgiving. We always play Florida that weekend, yeah, so they would go to houses and have Thanksgiving and it was just a huge, huge family. I can tell you that I have sat with dad in the pouring rain of football games.
Speaker 1:His biggest.
Speaker 2:As much as he hated Florida, the place he hated worse was Miami.
Speaker 1:No, the only thing I remember going to games with him Miami it did not matter, because I don't remember stats. Dad knew stats. He could tell you in 1993, in the fourth quarter, with two minutes left, I'm like it's too much, that's amazing, that's too much. It did not matter. With Miami, whatever year it was, we could both suck. One could be great, one could not be great. It always came down to those last 30 seconds and he wouldn't be with me. I'd be like 12 years old in the stands by myself because he had to go down to the concession and pace and watch it on the TV.
Speaker 2:He couldn't do it. He never knew what was going to happen in that game. My favorite out of town game with him was the first time we played Notre Dame. At Notre Dame, Dad and I flew up to Chicago and over and at that time the College Football Hall of Fame was there and there was so much stuff about Bobby Bowden in there and it just felt like home and it was.
Speaker 1:That campus is beautiful and the people were so nice no, honestly, another fun game was our first time ever at the champions club me, you dad and back my husband. Yeah, that was incredible the champions club.
Speaker 2:Absolutely beautiful. Dad loved every minute of it. When you go from sitting on those metal bleachers and see the changes over the years I mean when he started that brick wasn't around there- Like it looked like an erector set you guys To see all of those changes and then him go to the Champions Club. He just felt that was his very last game. It was his very last game.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And what a way to go out. He loved all the food and the views and socializing with everybody.
Speaker 1:He just always thought things were neat, like if. I had to boil it down to that. He just genuinely lived life Like I wish I could be better at, where he found excitement in the little things and he didn't take life too seriously. He was wildly inappropriate, but at the best times he knew that he could get a rise out of certain people, and it was usually me.
Speaker 2:Oh, he loves scaring you. He would jump out constantly. He just loved messing with me 24-7.
Speaker 1:So at Misty's house she's at now it's been remodeled, hallelujah. I don't remember what it was actually for, but it was the doors. Poorest design in the entire world, in my opinion. If you're the one who's constantly being messed with, you have the stove and then right next to that you have the countertop where you're cutting, prepping whatever, and then you have these two little it's a door through.
Speaker 2:it was a pass through to the original owner. It was a woman who was very into basketball and she would make her husband and kids cook her wings, and then they would. So she did not have to leave her room watching these basketball games and they would pass her her chicken wings through this window.
Speaker 1:So she's iconic, but I don't like her because that was my demise. I mean I would be cutting something up, he didn't care. He didn't care what I was doing. I could be holding a boiling pot of water and he would bust through those things and be like Surprise and I'm like buddy. There was a time at Devra I was carrying the laundry basket and there's kind of like a half island and I'm walking. He was on the ground. So again, this is when he was still healthy that I got this version living with him On the ground. So again, this is when he was still healthy that I got this version living with him. He is on the ground like a creature popped out.
Speaker 3:I got so scared I dropped the basket, hopped inside the basket.
Speaker 1:And I feel like he just kept getting too satisfying of moments like that that he's like why would I stop?
Speaker 2:Right, because you would freak out, but then you would laugh.
Speaker 1:Because, yes, what else do you do Cry? I'm resilient because of him, it's true?
Speaker 2:yeah, I want to talk a little bit about the fact that all of kids and grandkids have had a part in this, this business even down to the tater tots yeah we've got gino, jacob, jacob, christy, misty, me, ryan, aiden, emberley, esley. Alexis, alexis. Yeah, I think that's everybody, every single person. Yeah, at least spent a summer up here. Yeah, he had so many passions in life. Right Like he absolutely loved fishing, he loved Alligator Point. He constantly had a boat in our lives.
Speaker 1:Just anything coastal he was drawn to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was where he wanted to be. His black marlin Epic right. So there was a group in Tallahassee Silver Slipper, daddy Chris shout out to Bill Kalfas. They had started this annual trip to Costa Rica to go fishing with the guide out of North Carolina. That became friends with dad after that and so every year this group of guys a pretty large group, I don't know 56 would go down there, it was bigger than I remember, yeah, and they were always chasing the marlin, right.
Speaker 2:So a blue marlin is it's a big fish and it's actually kind of common for you to catch in areas like that. And then there's a white marlin is a big fish and it's actually kind of common for you to catch in areas like that, and then there's a white marlin, but the kind of sought-after nobody-catches-one is that black marlin. Our dad was down there on his second trip and dad caught an 800-pound black marlin.
Speaker 1:And the other one. What was the other one?
Speaker 2:The rooster, the rooster fish he loved that one, that black marlin gosh, the joy that it brought him and and that beautiful atmosphere and being in costa rica it was just meant to be. I mean, other people had gone forever yeah, I mean bill kalfas still talks about the fact that he went fishing for that black marlin every single year and, dad, that was the one another tie with these animals.
Speaker 1:i'm'm telling you it's crazy. When he passed away we did a little celebration. We got so many signs that trip, more than I'll probably be able to recall right now. But the animal thing was the redfish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's pretty unusual to catch redfish off of Alligator Point.
Speaker 2:And our dad had years ago, I mean I was probably I don't know nine or 10 years old. He was fishing off the beach in Alligator Point and he caught two beautiful, just perfect in slot redfish on the same day, and so there's this amazing picture of dad and these redfish. And then, on the day of his paddle out, we actually paddled out and spread his ashes at Alligator Point, shane's dad's son and Shane started fishing off the beach after we had paddled out. We were all back fishing because that's what we were going to do to celebrate dad's life, and Shane, who doesn't fish caught two redfish that day.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, before that nobody had caught redfish off of Alligator Point like that. And then that summer when I went down there and I would stay at a house down there and I was fishing off the beach and I caught two redfish.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And so we have our pictures kind of side by side, all saved together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that sunset that was down there, the rainbows it was insane. We had insane double rainbows the most luscious pink purple sky tied with those rainbows, the most luscious pink-purple sky tied with those rainbows. We were there for probably like four days or something, and I'm not kidding. Every single day there was the gorgeous full moon, but this sunset y'all I'm a sunset seeker.
Speaker 2:She is, I would say, sunsets are like we will find a sunset.
Speaker 1:I will stop everything for a sunset and I remember it was like a couple days before he was passing and I'm just like send me a sunset. Like people ask for signs or like something like that. I'm like send me something. It was wild. It was the most vibrant sunset I've ever seen in my life. It it was just the most orange, bright, like we have the most incredible pictures and videos, but it was dad right, because he couldn't send us just one, it was nuts.
Speaker 2:He sent us an entire, like five days of signs every single day that he was okay, that we were gonna be okay and that he was watching over us.
Speaker 1:And it's crazy because, like, you're very strong in your faith, yeah, and I'm not as strong with certain things, where I'm matter of fact, and no matter where you stood on that spectrum, there was so many that you're just like, okay, come on now. Like I hear you, I see you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, we went through some hard times, we went through some good times.
Speaker 1:He was sick for eight years. Yeah, I mean, there was three I can think of, unless I'm forgetting one to where they were. Like he's not going to make it, oh, yeah, no absolutely.
Speaker 2:I mean, there was one where he spent 13 days in the hospital and our brother, ryan, brought me a cot and I spent the night in that intermediate ICU room and never left the campus of that hospital. And so one day he's dying and he's not going to make it, and the next day we're going home and he's, you know, bouncing around.
Speaker 1:And that's what was crazy is the highest highs match with the lowest lows.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:When my husband planned not his first, because the first one got ruined by some hurricane, but the second proposal in Thomasville. We're over by the tree. Zach gets down on one knee. I black out. I have no clue what he said. I said yes, but then I hear off in the distance and I hear Mois. Does that mean yes? And I'm like what the hell? And you see this head peeking out of some car, I do not know, some like gold Jeep, and he's just back there and I'm like what is happening? And even Zach didn't know he was in the photographer's car.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Hiding back in there.
Speaker 1:I was in the bushes filming it, just to be true. That was so funny. I was crawling in the bushes. No, funny seeing you're crawling in the bushes. No, if y'all could see her video, it is literally a video. This close to her face she's on the ground, army crawling, whispering out of breath, and she's like two houses down and then she's like they just walked by.
Speaker 2:They just walked by but dad wasn't gonna let that go again. A testament to who he was right. Right when dad found out that he had less than a year to live and dad said I can't go, I got three things I got to do. What do you have to do? You know what I mean? Like I'm confused and he said I want to make it to my birthday, I want to make it to Melissa's birthday and I want to walk Melissa down the aisle. He damn sure did.
Speaker 1:But, dear Jesus, y'all Barely. I got married the weekend the world shut down. That Wednesday, before March 21st 2020, I was still going to Costa Rica. My whole family was texting me and they were like Melissa, you're not going on your honeymoon. No, I got to rewind because the date even changed, because the first venue completely shut down. It's true.
Speaker 3:Pearl in the.
Speaker 1:Wild, if y'all heard about it. That shut down so I had to scramble with all these other brides and pick a different date. So maybe it was March 20. And then we changed the date again as it got closer to COVID because you couldn't have so many people, and then it was a Saturday versus a Sunday, but then we had the rehearsal house booked, so then we had to change it back. So I think we went back and forth like four different times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and every time it made my heart sink right, because our dad was not good at this point, like he was super weak, but he was committed. He was going to walk you down the aisle period.
Speaker 1:And I remember calling you and I was like listen. I don't know what's happening when I'm getting married. Whatever I was like, dad has to walk me down an aisle. Like I'm not just putting this on hold.
Speaker 2:Well, no, no, no. Let's say that you called me freaking out, crying Absolutely, and then told me your wedding was off because the government had shut the world down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause it slowly was like oh, no more than this, many people, oh, no more than this, and then you can't do anything. Life is closed.
Speaker 2:And you called me and I said I'm going to need you to take a deep breath. There was no way in hell. One, I wasn't letting you get married to your wonderful husband and two, our dad was not going to walk you down that aisle. He had held on for over a year. We basically said bump the government, you and Jen were just a godsend. We took that house and we made an incredible three days.
Speaker 1:So that was Wednesday, yeah, and then on Saturday we got married. So my sister-in-law, jen, and then my sister had three days to plan a yeah.
Speaker 2:And it worked out. That was one of the happiest moments I've ever seen in our dad's life. He got to walk you down the aisle.
Speaker 1:Mind you, misty tried to cause me to have a panic attack right before we walked down the aisle because we were over an hour late. That's true, easily. And then she just comes down the stairs and she's like do you know what time it is? I'm like you don't ever say that to a bride. And then that's when I had to lock myself in the bathroom, hyperventilate and then showtime. Yes, but then dad had to do God how many breathing treatments?
Speaker 2:Yeah, a ton of breathing treatments. But he did it, and your brother, married you officiated it and, funny story though, your marriage license was in Georgia.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's so many hiccups to this story.
Speaker 2:I could do a whole section on this, but dad walked her down the aisle.
Speaker 1:It was incredible.
Speaker 2:He got his moment Because I got it in great detail.
Speaker 1:He even danced with her. So he was on Oxygen.
Speaker 2:Tank.
Speaker 1:So aren't you the one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, literally. Yes, yes, I danced with an Oxygen Tank.
Speaker 1:Yeah, misty's having a Vanna White moment where she's literally doing the tango with his oxygen bottle, and then we're swaying and you can start to see him slowly slip towards the end of that song air supply.
Speaker 2:Many of you probably do not know it, but it's a goodie.
Speaker 1:It's yeah, it's incredible, yeah, so that's what's so funny is like we struggle with thinking of our memories and then one pings another and pings another. I'm like how, how did I almost forget my wedding?
Speaker 2:him walking down the aisle well and it was even cooler. So I don't know what it is with these three days, but you had your wedding and then Alexis, my daughter, was supposed to get married in that December. She saw grandpa going down. She called after that and said I need to get married with grandpa.
Speaker 1:And she gave us three days.
Speaker 2:She gave us three days literally. She gave up this big, huge wedding she was planning. And we created a beautiful wedding at dad's house beside his bed.
Speaker 1:Well, and even then, like we were supposed to be marrying her outside, we got a tent. And then the day of I went and got flowers at Trader Joe's, like we are scrambling and we're getting it done, and then Alexis all of a sudden is just like he can't make it down there. So we're like, okay, we set it up right there in the living room and he was about three feet away, so it was perfect.
Speaker 2:It was incredible, yeah, special treat for everybody. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1:Our first guest? Our first guest? Yeah, it's our first guest.
Speaker 2:And we love him.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's pretty cool we and we love him.
Speaker 3:yeah, he's pretty cool, love him, so we're gonna welcome our brother ryan sullivan is joining, so let's get him in here. Welcome, welcome. Yes, test, test, what's up. What's up, hello?
Speaker 1:I'd like to start our little initiation with our guests with a little pepsi cheers. That was our dad's drink. Through and through coke products. No, thank, no, thank you. Alright To Bobbo we love, ya, love. Ya.
Speaker 3:As the officiant of both of these weddings y'all were talking about when I walked in, though, can I just point out that you were saying it deserves its own like episode. Your fiasco deserves its own podcast. Okay, like I don't even know how many times I officiated your wedding, I feel like you.
Speaker 2:I think we need another one you guys are going to have to tune in for that, because I'm telling you there is epic midnight at the county line cops showing up Like it's a whole thing. Tune in for that one. Let's get back to our dad, who loved these stories.
Speaker 3:True, oh, he loved all the stories. My man was staying on the news. I could. If dad was still alive, we would know exactly what the weather was in Monument, Colorado. You're so right when our sister Christy used to live. My dad was Even after she moved. I mean, that dude was on top of international weather patterns. Why would you even be talking about Bob Sullivan if you were not talking about TVs, gadgets, laser discs, bumping stereo systems?
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, I told them.
Speaker 3:His volume was never below 75, like ever when you got a laser disc you got to bump it okay because we had the good lazy boys too, with a little vibrating function so you could kick back on a sunday, put the chairs in the middle of the room, put on like top gun days of thunder, footloose. I mean you might as well take if it goes up to a 10, put it on an 11, because we want to see the windows shake yes and we had all those tall windows.
Speaker 3:You know, on gibbs, yeah, shout out to that house that what they rebuilt was ridiculous.
Speaker 1:But our house was cool because dad you know he built 75 of it with no permits. But he said you know what we just got to expand which, which is why that house no longer exists, because it was condemned just so you know. It was not condemned. It was not no, no, no, they just started fresh.
Speaker 3:It was not legal in any way, shape or form. A friend of ours was an inspector and he's just like Bob. Bob, I literally live three blocks from you. You are clearly building on a whole garage. He's like I got a game room too. You want to?
Speaker 1:come play pool.
Speaker 3:You know it's like yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't really go into the depths of that. I said dad was big into Feng Shui, but I only talked about furniture. I mean he'd all of a sudden have a brand new driveway randomly. He'd have a whole section like an addition of the house, like within a weekend.
Speaker 2:His whole VHS wall that you know, walls, walls, the great wall of tape. Well, he liked building stuff. I mean. Another fun fact I've got the pictures that Ryan and dad helped build the bar in Potbelly oh, that's, true you guys actually tore down that building. Originally had two fireplaces in the center and you guys tore those fireplaces down and helped Dan build the bar in there. I just saw those pictures for the first time last weekend.
Speaker 3:I just see it in my mind because I think I was like nine and I had a sledgehammer.
Speaker 1:You had like an oversized tee on.
Speaker 3:Every time I drive by a popular place, I'm like mm-hmm, y'all are welcome, your little dance floor.
Speaker 1:I knocked that out for you. My heart and soul is in there.
Speaker 3:Like the shirt says spread good vibes. You know Good vibes. Let the people dance Foot loose. But can we get back to Laserdisc, because I don't think the audience really appreciates what's happening here.
Speaker 1:I don't even know Laserdisc, honestly.
Speaker 3:After VHS and before DVD, was this big?
Speaker 2:vinyl record.
Speaker 3:It was a vinyl record size digital video disc and you'd have to flip it over halfway through because I was thinking about DVDs and laser discs and stuff. And when y'all used to play softball and mom supervised up at what's that, messer, yeah, and dad would get off work and pull up, just be blasting the hits man, just open the doors, cranking it.
Speaker 1:I was like I will always think of the sign you dropped the bomb on me and one other when he'd come pick me up from gymnastics. He didn't care what anyone's taste in music was, because his was obviously superior. He's like I will blast it softball.
Speaker 3:One I really remember was always that wild west Janie's in the back room looking for the big boom. I'm on the bedroom waiting for my bae. It's an obscure one, but if you grew up at Messer Park you definitely heard it Right.
Speaker 2:What's one of your favorite memories with him?
Speaker 1:My personal favorite that you're tied into is the touch of the doorknobs. Oh my Jesus, there's some force field that happened. So this is when dad was sick and we all made like this calendar. We'd trade off shifts but honestly it didn't matter, because on my nights everybody would show up and vice versa, so you'd be there. It's not like we'd stop by 10 minutes. We're there like three hours, four hours, like we're there a long time. The night is ending, we have to go to bed. We have to, you know, go to work. The next day we'd go to touch the doorknob. He'd wait till you touched it. You're leaving. Oh I, I just started this whole new movie. You gotta come sit down and watch it. Oh, did you see that? Did you hear this? Like you wouldn't have even been talking for the last 30 minutes and that was his way of just not wanting you to go. But zach got got more than any one of us. He would text me and be like hey, I'm so'm so sorry. We just started a movie. I won't be home till midnight.
Speaker 3:Because we'd be watching Westerns for hours, right, old Westerns, black and white stuff. Yeah, you ain't talking about nothing. Maybe every now and then you talk about something completely, absolutely random that he found on his phone, but then every time you touch the doorknob oh, I got to show you this, dude.
Speaker 2:You could have shown me this in the past three hours but that was all way better than like all right.
Speaker 3:so I'm going to need you to go to Whataburger Y'all. I love me some Whataburger, but Whataburger on Northman Road Street is incredibly, incredibly, incredibly slow.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'll never go to that. You get trapped in that drive-th one time for over an hour and a half and I just wanted to leave the bill, the one I shared in the group text.
Speaker 1:The man had the audacity to text me while I'm in the arby's line, already there for 20 minutes, and he says I need donuts and I'm like please spare me, kind, sir. I'm not even at the window and it's already been 20 minutes and he goes, but, but I need.
Speaker 3:And and if you can swing by Dairy Queen and get some ice cream for the dogs, I'm like no, no, I cannot.
Speaker 1:Zach was appalled the first time. He waited in that water burger line for 30 minutes and then he gets there to dad's, he's chilling with them and all of a sudden he sees him hand two of the Justa burgers to the dogs. He was in pure disbelief of what just happened.
Speaker 3:I'm still in disbelief. When you were like what's the best memory? And you bring up the doorknob, I'm like. I mean, I love hanging out with my father?
Speaker 1:Was it you or you that finally got smart and bought a whole carton.
Speaker 3:Oh, that was me definitely Genius. I am a bulk buyer. I have that stashed upstairs.
Speaker 1:He would never text you on the way Again. He'd wait till you had to go home. He's like need some cigarettes.
Speaker 3:But see, I had to be sneaky about it and not let him realize that I had a carton, or else then he would just know there was a carton there.
Speaker 1:But there was a.
Speaker 2:North Carolina trip. So we rented this cabin. We had all gone up and it snowed 12 inches of snow. It was like their largest snowstorm they'd had.
Speaker 1:No, that was so fun. We were driving up whatever parkway it was and we all found it's the Blue Ridge Parkway. Well, I don't know if it was the Blue Ridge that time, because I feel like it was just like the side of the road, but we found like cardboard cutouts and we grabbed them. It was me, you, dad, I think it was us three that slid.
Speaker 3:I think we might have slid Aiden's little baby down. Yeah, probably. I mean, why would we not?
Speaker 1:But it was mostly ice, honestly, and there was, like this one solid hump and you got way too much air than you should have and I think we almost all cracked our tailbones on that one. But I mean, dad was thriving on that trip. He had the puffiest jacket one could possibly imagine, but he, he was in it. I mean he was throwing snowballs left and right and then he this is when we were by the big old sign that we were getting out to take a picture. This is what you have now, which is the red truck, misty's truck at the time.
Speaker 1:We're shoved in the back and I'm in the middle, dad's here and he's getting out and he's, you know, hopping out slowly and then all of a sudden he's gone, like I see his whole body and I see nothing, and he had stepped on the running board and I guess I saw I still man down, man down. I have never seen someone fall so fast. And then I look out and he's just in his little marshmallow on the ground and then, like five seconds later, he's on the very top of that big old sign sitting up there like a little leprechaun. So he's just like a sprite fellow.
Speaker 2:You know, this is what we love, right? So we're just able to sit, talk and just be us. I mean, there's nothing greater, you're right, nothing greater than us.
Speaker 3:I think she said it, you heard it.
Speaker 2:Here live people. You know it was always my favorite with you and dad and cars. You like to blow them up. He literally left cars all over the country. This is an ambush. No no, I mean, dad just smiled.
Speaker 3:It's just facts. My father was also a race car driver and an auto mechanic, and my family owned more different cars than, like you could even imagine, like every week it would be a different car.
Speaker 1:Wasn't it like in Spain or somewhere, that he would do like legit drag racing and stuff in the street? Well, yeah, he'd drag race here.
Speaker 3:But then in Spain, you know, there were some really fast go-karts and stuff. But see in Spain the stories he would tell because he was old enough to drive, I mean because it's Spain in the 60s, yeah who even knows how old he was he?
Speaker 3:was probably like 12. Back then, according to him, the people were really into long tailpipes on their mopeds. You know, these things go in phases, like the mods. In England they were really into side view mirrors and then when I was in Japan, you could see motorcyclists drive by. They were really into these elaborate pipe metal stars, stars and stuff as like the back of their motorcycles. Like you know, there's always something that's like, you know, low rider bikes, whatever gorilla bars. You know, back then they had these vacuum cleaners that were like horizontal cylinders that then had a long hose and a separate vacuum head. Well, they had this really long metal piece as the vacuum head.
Speaker 3:So dad cut it off to put on his moped and his mom was not stoked and then he was a fabricator. I think statute of limitations is long gone and this was another country. He also said how, like, he installed a switch on the car to where you could shut off the brake lights so you flip this switch and when you hit the brakes the brake lights don't go. So so that way, when you're possibly driving quickly away from the police, you could flip off this switch and then they don't know you're slowing down and you can like take these quick turns. So fabrication yes, and and how? Like? Okay, it's not really my fault, I wrecked my car in the first week do tell.
Speaker 1:Why are you giving me that? I'm just curious how it's not your fault. Who was behind the wheel?
Speaker 3:The genetics. Anyway, I'll let Jesus take the wheel.
Speaker 1:What else did he do in Spain with the donkey?
Speaker 3:He like blew the tail off a donkey statue or something, and you're just really trying to get him arrested.
Speaker 1:Good thing you cannot get arrested in heaven.
Speaker 3:In Madrid, which was his favorite place he ever lived, and he lived in French Morocco, but so in Spain. Back then you could just like go to the market and buy a cloth or a paper wrap or whatever, of gunpowder, dynamite. You know you would make your fireworks by the gram Him and his hoodlum buddies. You know, because these are military brands.
Speaker 3:Right, and so they're just living on bases across the world. Yeah, you know, they bought some dynamite in their little paper wrap and then there's a famous sculpture of Don Quixote and so they stuffed, used their chewing gun, they stuffed the explosives in the donkey's rear end, the ass's ass, if you will, no-transcript. They were also known to put soap in all the fountains that line the avenue. Which one thing I thought we should mention is how you'd be at his house. You know, when he was like bedridden or whatever, the TV was on in this room that he was like laying in front of, and then the TV was on in the other room and then the projector was pointing at the ceiling.
Speaker 1:He had one off of his phone, so it was like a handheld one that he had.
Speaker 3:Oh, but then he also had his phone. Yes, yeah absolutely, and then also simultaneously trying to have a conversation. Yeah, and you're like hanging out with this for like hours just completely overstimulated, and then you go to touch the doorknob and it's over. I grew up on the other side of the wall of the living room on Gibbs, the living room on gibbs.
Speaker 3:Again, it's like a school night, it's like 2 am and it's rambo and you're like yeah, it was always an action movie, and so we turn it down and then you go back to bed, and then it would get progressively louder and you're like this guy is a 12 year old well, and let's talk about his lights.
Speaker 3:So he was into lights, which you now have I mean, he's the reason I now like doing massage, have laser lights in my office, put the people in that meditative trance state, because I had a birthday party one time and I was like, hey, let me borrow some of your laser lights. When I was supposed to return them, I was like, wait, I could put these in my massage office and it would be awesome.
Speaker 2:And he did think it was awesome.
Speaker 3:Well, and he also helped me install speakers in my massage table so that you could feel the sound. We had laser lights, we had speakers in the massage table, and you know he's real crafty. So he's like all right, here's what we're going to do. We're going to take these plastic Tupperware containers. Those are going to be like our little cups for the speakers. Use some mom's old cotton batting that was stashed upstairs and hot glue or silicone. Use silicone so that way it could vibrate and not fall off again. It was that engineering and you guys were just making it happen.
Speaker 3:Well, and speaking of a low-key engineer for sure, speaking of his lights, I definitely know what some of my friends favorite story would be is a buddy of mine. He was driving. I don't know if they still have. They have these electric golf carts. Holler at my girl gainsville, kate, because it was her brother, austin.
Speaker 3:But we were like let's ride out, and so we were gone. We were off campus. We were gone, we were off campus. We were, I mean, we were driving across Tallahassee, I think.
Speaker 3:We went up by Seminole bowl, up like high road, like we were working this, this charge, and Austin's like dude, we are about to run out of juice and I was like all right, my dad lives over on Sharon and so we go over there over by Godby and all that.
Speaker 3:We pull up and dad's ready for it. I mean, we got this is like an extended cab, limo, golf cart, and we got it loaded up with us and we pull up and he's like yeah, of course I got an extension cord Plug right in. We come in and my man just puts on a full 1960s light show. But like also, you know, because he kept it retro and he was always on the newest stuff, so it had those old like kind of lava lamp lights that you used to see and we all just sat there like, and then it was charged up when we left and years have gone by and they're still just like yeah, your dad is dope, so that's right but he's so cool but like with the lights, he won best neighborhood for christmas, big into that and yeah, I feel like he was just very animated in that stuff.
Speaker 1:He liked decorating, he liked lights he liked animatronics.
Speaker 3:Everything at our house moved for Christmas.
Speaker 1:It's true, but yeah, that's funny what you said. He was a perfect blend of vintage but yet always excited about whatever was new.
Speaker 3:I mean because we always had reel-to-reel players, 8-tracks, vinyl, vhs, but then always had the newest stuff too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he even rigged his Chevy because he liked to watch movies while driving. Again, he cannot get in trouble now, so like we can let some cats out of the bag that was definitely the first dvd player I ever saw in a truck yeah, he took out the center navigation area and put in a dvd player and he would watch movies. I mean, this was probably 20 years ago, like yeah, easy.
Speaker 3:Oh, I mean, I got pulled over driving his truck because instead of red guards for the brake lights, he put on clear guards. And the cop is like that is absolutely illegal. I was like look, my dad is crazy. Okay, this is not my truck, you know. And he's like all right, all right, just go tell him to to put some red ones back on. I was like yes, sir yeah, that's what's funny.
Speaker 1:I feel like I couldn't really get in trouble that much because I was already like the most tame out of all of y'all at this point. That's what I'm saying, though I would. I would be doing something with dad and he'd be the one about to get in trouble like I'd be driving his car. We got pulled over. He's like you gotta switch with me. I'm like what do you mean? I'm like 15, what do you mean? I gotta switch. He's like get in the driver's seat. I'm like okay, so it was like always roles reversed. It's like I was always like should we be doing that?
Speaker 2:Dad's a mechanic. He had a boy. He immediately probably thought you were going to take his shop over, right? People say that this is literally what we get. Y'all didn't have a brother. Yeah, we had a brother. He's a badass, but he didn't want to deal with all of you. He went very far woosah route.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he went very far which, funny enough, in part came about due to my inability to deal with these people on this phone, because I remember when one of our great employees and friends who recently passed, when his son passed, y'all had to go to the funeral and they were like who's going to answer the phones? And missy goes, ryan will, because he will just tell people straight. And I was like facts, like I don't have time for this stuff. Yo, I didn't break your stuff, I didn't make you wait till the last minute, like I don't know what you're talking to me about right now, so you can chill and wait, or what. And so you know that that leads people down certain paths where they they breathe deep.
Speaker 2:They meditate.
Speaker 3:You know they do massage and not to mention see y'all got it different too, because y'all are girls. I'm glad y'all think dad was like Mr Instructional man. I'm like, all right, let me fix this. I was probably really annoying like hyper and blah, blah, blah and he's like here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Man, is you're going to shut up? And I'm justest to that, though there are certain things that I was like I want to learn this Driving the boat. He would start very strong. He's like, yes, I will guide you and I would give him about 45 seconds and he will, I'll just do it. So he did not have the best patience when it came to teaching. He's more of a doer and he did great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's great. He's a master at everything that he did. See, I am the teacher in the crew.
Speaker 2:It's true, you are Absolutely. It's like literally what I do.
Speaker 3:Another aspect was because I grew up at an auto shop in the front of the house when I did decide I wanted to like really do mechanics he's like to really go mechanic max three days until I had to be back on the computer and answering the phones because I knew how the business side of it worked and, like everybody else, was a talented mechanic who this is their profession. So they went into it and I got stuck back up front. Business owning is its own entire universe and see, I work for myself. But like I can't even imagine corralling all the characters that have come through Bob's Auto Repair's doors in the years, I just don't think I'm really equipped to well manage a group of hard-headed people. I grew up with all sisters. I've spent my entire life you're better for it dealing with hard-headed people.
Speaker 2:You are better for it.
Speaker 3:My blood pressure is higher.
Speaker 1:I officially out salted dad one time that was. I got it on video too. I tried so hard.
Speaker 2:Mayo has told me to eat more salt. So shout out, dad.
Speaker 3:I mean I thought he would never die, cause I thought he was preserved, like you could sit there and like a slice of pizza, for instance. Be like man, I just put a lot of salt on this. If he did not visually see you put salt on it, he was making it rain. At the same time, if he did see you put salt on it, he was still making it rain. He's like no, no, no, you don't know how to salt, like I know how to salt.
Speaker 1:That's why it was so satisfying. When he was like a little salty there, girl, I said yes, it is. I think I poured like half a bottle. No lie, I did I was like he ain't going to eat this one. I bet you it wasn't vicious. It was an experiment, all right.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, one story I thought about when y'all mentioned like coming up with the story is the first one. It's not like funny or exciting or anything, but it's one I remember the most is where we were having like a family reunion in Navarre, you know, which is what like three and a half hours away, and it was with all dad's, family and cousins and all that. And he came driving over and we were all already there but then my mom's dad, who recently just passed Al Clark he master fisherman was going to show me some more fly fishing techniques, right? So I called dad and I was like, hey, if you haven't left yet, will you bring my flyer on? And he's like, sure, no problem. Well, come to find out. He was already halfway to Navarre and he turned around and so like hours later I'm like, where are you? He's like I turned around to get that. You know I'm running late. I was like, well, why did you do that?
Speaker 1:he's like you said you needed it, yeah, and I was like I'm like, well, that's crazy, you should have just come on that's one thing that Zach mentioned when he first met me and I think he I got it from dad is he's like nothing's ever a huge inconvenience for you, because I think he would inconvenience us so much like minor inconveniences that you then just realize it's like it's no big deal, like he would just go drive five hours for you, yeah, like he literally would do whatever it is that you needed.
Speaker 3:I mean one time when I was in Boy Scouts camping, I think maybe at Torreya. I forgot all of my clothes. I remember the food and the football, the most important things and then he drove my clothes over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was just the coolest. I was telling Misty in the beginning that you just don't really hear about him complaining about people talking shit about people. He was just always present. I don't know, I've always wanted to live more like dad in that way, where he was just he loved life Like he really did. He loved the people in it. He loved doing the things. I mean he lived a very well-rounded, exciting life, even the mundane. I feel like he found cool stuff in it.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, he was about that Puerto Vida life you know Costa Rica you'd be like yo. Let me get a hammock and a hut.
Speaker 2:Because that's what he taught us, you know, when he was sick, when he was down, when he was out, when a lot of people would have maybe not had the greatest attitude, he always did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the cool thing about dad. Is you never question how much he loved all of us? Like you just knew, he showed in all kinds of different ways, like the doorknob.
Speaker 3:Getting a motorcycle on top of the roof for Melissa's Christmas present.
Speaker 2:Yes, Santa delivered the motorcycle to the chimney on the roof.
Speaker 3:I still don't know how he got that motorcycle up there by himself.
Speaker 1:It was by himself.
Speaker 3:Yes, you know, he weighed like a buck, 20 or something.
Speaker 1:I assume there was other people involved. Yeah, no, it was dad himself. Yes, you know, he weighed like a buck 20 or something. I assumed there was like other people involved. Yeah, no, it was dad. Wow, yeah, I remember I got a call on the landline from Santa and Santa said it could not fit in the chimney so I had to go outside. And all of a sudden we go outside and dad's doing circles on the roof.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's true, he was whipping it, he was. I'm like what the heck? You see why it's genetic that.
Speaker 2:That dangerous stuff happens.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. But oh, you know another point. I wanted to bring this up because I was making excuses that you know it's in the DNA why I suck, I mean why I'm all messed up or whatever, why you're the coolest we'll tell you that?
Speaker 1:why you're the coolest?
Speaker 3:but you know, your son, esley, is totally the doorknob king and it's funny because he's named after, you know, our dad. This one time I was over there and it was way past his bedtime and like they're putting him to bed, but I was like leaving he's like all right, good night, bye.
Speaker 1:He's like two at this.
Speaker 3:Literally I would touch the doorknob. You go, uncle ryan. I was like what he's like?
Speaker 3:and he'd run off, and then I'm like all right, esley, good night. And I touched the doorknob and he's like all right, I'm like what's up? He's like, and literally every time I touched the doorknob, he came up with some other way to try to get my attention and I was like you are just little Bob huh. Yeah, I cannot just leave this house in peace. You gotta keep hanging out, which I did, of course of course you know you can't not.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like none of us were ever just like, anyways, bye.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this is so much fun and I think that you guys are going to enjoy coming along on this journey. Ryan's going to be another guest and he's going to bring us on the whole healing journey To the highest level, to the highest level healing journey, and, yeah, so it's exciting guys, thanks for joining us.
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