The Quarterback DadCast
Fatherhood: Hilarious Misadventures, Heartfelt Memories, and Life Lessons - Jason Puckett
Ever had a moment where a high-number jersey nearly swallowed you whole? Today, we welcome one of my childhood friends, Jason Puckett, who has become one of Seattle's best-known sports media personalities. After spending 22 years with KJR sports radio, Jason made the move to bet on himself as he launched the successful PuckSports.com with episodes that drop daily!
In today's episode, you will listen to our hilarious and heartwarming chat with Jason as we reminisce about our less-than-stellar athletic escapades from Meeker Junior High. From fatherhood mishaps like my son's over-the-top flag football celebration to Jason’s son getting ejected from a baseball game, we share the laughs and lessons of guiding our kids through their own sports adventures.
Parenting isn't just about the funny moments though; it’s about the heartfelt ones too. We dive into the touching story of my son's final high school golf tournament and the joy of Jason's son finally wanting to hit the driving range. These shared passions keep our kids engaged and create those irreplaceable bonding moments. Jason and I reflect on the influence of our own parents and the importance of cherishing the unique personalities of our children.
You’ll also hear about the power of storytelling and family values that have shaped us into the dads we are today. We talk about the mottos "You do you" and "Eyes up, let it rip," which serve as our guiding principles. Plus, we touch on the emotional journey of losing a pet and making bold career changes. With a mix of humor, heartfelt stories, and valuable lessons, this episode is a celebration of fatherhood and the enduring bonds of family.
Don’t miss our fun lightning round and Jason’s admiration for Denzel Washington and his dynamic relationship with his wife.
Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts! Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!
Ever had a moment where a high-number jersey nearly swallowed you whole? Today, we welcome one of my childhood friends, Jason Puckett, who has become one of Seattle's best-known sports media personalities. After spending 22 years with KJR sports radio, Jason made the move to bet on himself as he launched the successful PuckSports.com with episodes that drop daily!
In today's episode, you will listen to our hilarious and heartwarming chat with Jason as we reminisce about our less-than-stellar athletic escapades from Meeker Junior High. From fatherhood mishaps like my son's over-the-top flag football celebration to Jason’s son getting ejected from a baseball game, we share the laughs and lessons of guiding our kids through their own sports adventures.
Parenting isn't just about the funny moments though; it’s about the heartfelt ones too. We dive into the touching story of my son's final high school golf tournament and the joy of Jason's son finally wanting to hit the driving range. These shared passions keep our kids engaged and create those irreplaceable bonding moments. Jason and I reflect on the influence of our own parents and the importance of cherishing the unique personalities of our children.
You’ll also hear about the power of storytelling and family values that have shaped us into the dads we are today. We talk about the mottos "You do you" and "Eyes up, let it rip," which serve as our guiding principles. Plus, we touch on the emotional journey of losing a pet and making bold career changes. With a mix of humor, heartfelt stories, and valuable lessons, this episode is a celebration of fatherhood and the enduring bonds of family.
Don’t miss our fun lightning round and Jason’s admiration for Denzel Washington and his dynamic relationship with his wife.
Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts! Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!
Hi, I'm Riley and I'm Ryder, and this is my dad show. Hey everybody, it's Casey Jaycox with the quarterback dad cast, and, as I promised, we do finally have a new and exciting sponsor that's going to be joining us over the next 13 weeks or so, and they it is called the authentic edge podcast, which is going to be launching very, very soon. It is a podcast that is led by the fantastic and successful Jason DeLuca and executive sales and people leader at Dexian, as well as with a Paul DeFrancenzo, who is a global sales leader at indeedcom. This podcast, authentic edge, as I mentioned, is, is launching in the next month and it's really about a journey into the heart and genuine relationships into the workplace. So they're going to talk about uncovering the profound impact that authenticity has on establishing instant trust, fostering long-term partnerships, as well as creating serendipitous connections that evolve into endearing business and personal relationships, which is exactly how I would describe my relationship with Jason and Paul. So, without further ado, let's get right to the next episode, and I hope that you check out the authentic edge wherever you consume your podcasts.
Speaker 2:Hey, everybody, it's Casey Jaycox with the quarterback dad cast, and, uh, this next gap, this next episode, believe it or not, I had to go through like four or five agents Uh, there's an NIL deal involved. But we finally got him, and he's one of my buddies from the late 1980s, the pride of Meeker Junior High. We both proved that limited participation basketball players can once make it in life. We're proof of that. He spent nearly 20 plus years at our friends over at KJR Radio, but now he's the host of PuckSportscom and I couldn't be more proud of what he's doing. He's been a familiar voice for us Seattle folks. But I'm hoping that once this episode goes live we're going to learn more about Jason Puckett, the dad, and how he's working hard to become that ultimate quarterback or leader of his household. So, without further ado, mr Jason Puckett, the host of Puck Sports. Welcome, mr Jason Puckett, the host of Puck Sports. Welcome to the Quarterback Dadcast.
Speaker 1:Hey Cox, what's up? Buddy God, it's been too long. I'm going to tell you those limited participation games. I think it's still a lore of past. I would always say to myself, going into it, I'm not going to do anything other than shoot the ball because this is it. This is the only time we're going to play. It's going up every single time I touch it. I'm not going to pass the ball, I'm not going to play defense. I'm getting shots up True story of this one.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you remember this. I remember I'm 48 years old. This is 30-something years ago. I think it was like a minute something left. I don't know who we're playing, but I like it was just delay and I'm like 15 feet above the three point line and like pretend like I'm calling a play and I'm hearing freaking Eric Anderson rest in peace yell, yelling at me. I'm like I don't hear you coach, I'm just calling. You know, call, yeah that's perfect.
Speaker 1:What else? What was the punishment? Not gonna play, right, that was already not playing anyway, so who cares? You know? Whatever, oh god, I just the only thing I remember about that is that I always had to wear even though I was a guard, I had to wear like a high number. It was always like 55 because those were the bigger jerseys. God, no one plays shooting guard and wears 55. Nobody does that. But, because it was the sizes, because the higher the number, the bigger the size.
Speaker 2:Well, my son in eighth grade wore 53.
Speaker 1:Do they?
Speaker 2:still do them that way? I don't know. I think he just got screwed and just like.
Speaker 1:I'm like hey who wants 53?
Speaker 2:He didn't, didn't and he did not. He let us have it too. But I'm like sorry dude. Yeah, I don't have a other option, bro, you can wear no shirt and then get ejected for not having the clothes. Do that?
Speaker 1:has your kid ever got ejected from anything?
Speaker 2:um, almost by me in a seventh in a i-9 flag football game for celebrating doing doing the Victor Cruz in the end zone and I had to teach him about not just handle the ball to the ref bud.
Speaker 1:What, victor Cruz is the salsa dance right, yeah, yeah, okay, I mean come on.
Speaker 2:He's a little. How old was he? This is like eight, seven or eight. It was really good, but I had to like you had to nip it in the bud.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my son just got ejected from a baseball game. 10 years old, lupinella, this kid, he's playing and we're you know, we're you know, and that made your kids play baseball like majors division, like the, the high level right, the, the kids that go to like the little league world series, that age right. So we're facing like a 12 year old and this kid is just gassing it. I mean just bam, I mean it's, it's coming in hot and heavy and so the first couple innings he's, you know, striking most kids out and but it's a close game. We get in the third inning he's starting to tire, so he's throwing the ball all over the place.
Speaker 1:Oh jesus okay so it's randy johnson. It's coming over the head.
Speaker 1:It's hitting the backstop and it's like you know, kids are a little freaked out. So my son's sitting in there and he's got three of them come at his head, okay, and and where he's brushing him back and he's falling down. Now my son, he kind of has a little bit of a temper and like the third one or the second one, he glares at him. The third one, he's like I'm thinking I think he's gonna charge them out. I'm pretty good because I know him and I know he thinks because he watches a lot of baseball and he goes. He thinks he's throwing out him on purpose and I'm like in my head I'm like he's 12, he has no idea what he's doing. He's not throwing at you on purpose. So anyways, the, the fourth one comes and dots him in the ribs.
Speaker 1:Oh, just dot and so he falls to the ground, throws his bat and I'm like, oh, my god, I think we're gonna see the first charging of the mound. He starts walking the first baseline and he, he flips off the pitcher. But this is the best part, he doesn't really flip him off. He uses the, the ring finger to do a trick. One trick, tricky the trick, and so the umpire kind of sees it, but didn't really doesn't see it. But then there's some parents on the coaches, so I'm like, oh, he flipped him off. And then I kind of saw it, but I knew what he did. I'm like, oh god, he's gonna get ejected and uh. So anyway, long story, I'll wrap it up.
Speaker 1:But he, he gets, he gets out. But they don't kick him out. But he says he's out on sports, my conduct, and I'm like, okay, actually that's a win. Yeah, because he really, I really I'm coaching. So I really should have pulled him from the game at that point. And but we ended up, you know, benching him for a couple innings. But as we're going back to the dugout, he's arguing with me and crying that I didn't do it. I swear I didn't do. I didn't flip him off. I'm like, buddy, I saw you do it, like it's obvious to everyone and there's like three cameras up there, because we can't have a little league game casey without, without game changer, right oh?
Speaker 2:yeah, have it and scouts watching.
Speaker 1:Scouts are watching. Yes, I'm gonna post youtube clips up of johnny's swing at 10. We're gonna send it in for everyone. And so we're arguing back and forth in the dugout, he and I. The umpire thinks he's arguing with him, oh jesus, and tosses him from the dugout, and and so then I come. I'm like hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. And I'm like 20 feet apart. I'm like, hey, he's arguing with me, he's not arguing with you. You've already, you've already called him out like we're good, but you can't now eject him for that. He can argue with me all he wants. And then I, he goes to the umpire and he's a good kid, he's like 19. He's really good. Actually. He goes one more word out of you and you're out of here. And then all the parents are like oh, and I'm like and then I could I can start seeing this from a couple of the opposing parents. They start pulling out their cameras, oh God. And I'm like no.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to become that guy bucket and I won't say a word. The rest of the game well, I love it. This is in in season 5 240 something up, 50 something episodes. This is our first little league ejection story, so that is that's.
Speaker 1:That's a win I don't think we ballard little league is where we play and we're celebrating 70 years of little league. I've done some research and I think I'm pretty sure that he's the first and only kid to be ejected from a game.
Speaker 2:So he'll still he'll tell that story when he takes over puck sports in 30 years. Yeah, Proud dad moment.
Speaker 1:What would you have done? I should have pulled him, I should have kicked him out myself is what I should have done.
Speaker 2:Uh, I don't know it's. I think you did the right thing. You talk to him. I. Uh, you know I I had a story where me and my buddy, steve, his son, showed up late one day and had some issues. I remember I'm in the dugout, probably the same age as your kids. I'm like Steve. I think he's learned his lesson. We could use him in the fourth inning, buddy, let's go.
Speaker 1:Hey Steve, we really need to win this game. Lesson learned, let's get him in.
Speaker 2:If I have any chance of getting to Tacoma, the PCL this is. This is my chance. Don't ruin it for me.
Speaker 1:What this it's. So what happens to us when we're coaching this stuff? It's supposed to be fun, and 98% of the time, 99 it is. But God, there's that 1%.
Speaker 2:We all have it in us.
Speaker 1:It's getting late and I'm like, hey, I know everyone's got to play, but we're the starting nines out there right now. We got three outs to go.
Speaker 2:That's the best part about like when the kids even get. How old are your kids? Uh, 14 and 10. Okay, so, like I'm in the middle of like AAU craziness and Ryder my son's off to play golf in college and the small division of NAI school called Southern Oregon Awesome In the fall. So anyway, I'm way off track.
Speaker 1:Hold on, though, your your son is already going to college. Dude, I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jeez, yeah, I'm getting old, bro. Old you started. Young is what you did I did. Well, you'll get the senior discount with the child discount, that's true.
Speaker 1:That's pretty much accurate, but your son is playing. How's the AAU stuff? It's fun, it's fun, it's good, cause you hear horror stories about it.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, I mean there's, there's, it is everywhere. But, like, I think, the same point too, we've knock on wood, it's been, it's been fun, it's there's some, we've had some ups and downs, but it's all life experience. And um, it's itops. I mean, my daughter plays hoops and she's way better basketball player than I ever was. I don't know how or where she gets it. Sure, it wasn't from Carrie, but um, uh, it's, it's a blast. And um, yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, it's just going by way too fast.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So she's in eighth grade? No, she's a, she'll be, she's a sophomore and they're going to chicago. Oh, dude, she's been to virginia, chicago, multiple trips, california, this summer. Yeah, it's no joke, just wait dude, how do you afford this?
Speaker 1:you're gonna be working for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2:I just stand out front and ask people they need me to wash their cars. And yeah, oh man, but she's loving it. She's having a ball, eats, drinks, loves, hoop. More than anything. It's the best. It's. That's her boyfriend. I say it's good, so she's always busy. Just ask for it. Wants to. Yeah, she works her ass off and it's fun that's really good.
Speaker 1:Probably gets a lot of your work ethic I hope so I mean, you know.
Speaker 2:I mean I grinded for those that know my story I grinded every ounce of athletic ability to get division two level, but um had a blast and but anyway, brother, this is about you. We always start each episode with gratitude, so tell me, what are you most grateful for as a dad today?
Speaker 1:Ooh, most grateful that I've got good, funny kids that have good personalities. I would say I think they are. They have such a combination of me, a lot of combo of me and my wife, but like I really love the little things that they both have that are me, and so when I see it and then, if I like, correct any of it if they do something wrong and I but then I pull myself back and I go, uh, I did exactly that. I acted just like that. I need to just remember, like their age and where they're at. But, um, I just enjoy they have big personalities and that they not wallflowers and that there's nothing wrong with being a wallflower, being quiet or anything like that.
Speaker 1:I'm not trying to say that, but I'm just saying that it's it's just fun to see how outgoing they are and, um, yeah, they're just, they're just great kids. I mean, they have their moments, like every kid has their moments, like I did, like you did, like everybody listening, watching all that. But yeah, um, they're just a, they're a blast and I just I focus on more of like the good things they take away from me rather than the bad things. I hope they don't dip into the bad things that I did, but we'll see it's.
Speaker 2:It's a journey, ma'am, it's. I just feel like whenever I'm not my best version of me or I quickly try to fix it, like own it, not like in the moment, but like maybe let it die down and realize, hey, that was an absolute tool right there and let's walk through it. So it's like I can teach the ability to apologize, teach the ability to like hey, no one's ever going to be right 100% of the time, and far from it, because you're right, we did dumb stuff too. I remember our good friend, chuck old, chucky B, chucky Lewandowski. I remember thinking it would be a good idea to like play bang a racquetball as hard as I can and like drill into the neighbor's antenna and it got bent just around and then, instead of like dealing with it, we thing got bent just around and then, instead of like dealing with it, we both sprint inside and hide.
Speaker 1:It's like that was, that's just, that's what you do. That's what you do. You break things and get it in trouble left and right. I don't, I don't feel now. I mean maybe it's happening and I'm just not seeing it. I don't feel these kids get as much trouble as like and maybe I'm a bad example. It's like, maybe what I did or what you did or what others did, like, and I don't know why that is. I don't know if it's you know technology or you know they just got other things that kind of occupy their time a little bit more. But I don't know, at their age, especially my daughter's age, I'd found myself just doing stupid stuff and I'm kind of glad that she doesn't do that. But we keep them busy.
Speaker 2:We keep them busy, we keep them busy.
Speaker 2:For sure. I think that's you nailed it. I'd say, man, what I'm grateful for today is May 13th If I can read, I have glasses now May 13th and tomorrow, Ryder, my son, is having his last district high school tournament. If the team, the Manitoba bears, if they do well, they'll go on to state his senior year, which will be just a. It's a fun journey and being a golf parent's hard, because you there's not a lot you can do other than just watch. And when he plays, great it's fun. But he plays struggles, Like we all struggle in golf. It's like a paper cut that just won't stop bleeding and you just like you can't talk to him, you can't like give him a hug, you can't go, caddy.
Speaker 1:You can't help him. When did he start playing?
Speaker 2:His game changed during COVID when he kind of got shut down in hoops and then we played a shit ton of golf.
Speaker 1:So when did he first pick up a golf club and start playing Two? Oh, so he'd always had an interest in playing.
Speaker 2:Yes but not competitive.
Speaker 1:Oh, not competitive. See, I had a very you'll appreciate this as a golf dad and a golf fan a real golf moment. So we recently, in our backyard, because here in Seattle I don't know if you know this like you can't water your lawn in Seattle Because if you do, it's a million, it's a million dollars to go broke. So everybody's getting rid of their lawn. Anyways, we put I did like a synthetic turf, I did a turf in our backyard and I put a four hole or three hole putting green. Love it, cause I mean I need to putt and I love golf. So we put it out there and this, this kid is out there all the time putting and he's shown a little like I've taken the first tee and stuff like that, you know just, and he'd been okay with it. No, I don't like it, it's. I'm like I'm not gonna push it on you, but I want him to play golf because I want to grow up like father's son go play golf, trips and all that kind of stuff would be fun and but he's been out there all the time putting left and right, and it's finally about two weeks ago he come, we're home alone, it's like a friday night. He's like hey, uh, you think we go to the driving range. I mean, I, I think I started to tear up.
Speaker 1:I couldn't get the keys fast enough to the car. Yeah, we could go, let's go. And I mean, we went there. I didn't even hit a ball. I said you just go hit a bucket, I'm just going to sit back and watch, didn't say a word, nothing. All I said was just yeah, just hit as far as you want, you know. And then I just resisted Get that elbow, tuck that elbow in a little bit. Can you move your feet? Don't do that, because I know once you start doing that, right then it's over. Yep, he's not going to like it. So I was like I want to make sure that he likes it and make sure that once it wrapped up, hey, let's get a hot dog, let's get some ice cream and have some fun.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I'm envious of that because that's got to be a blast. It's a fun sport to share it with, like a daughter or a son. And you're right, I would imagine watching that is just nerve wracking.
Speaker 1:I get so nervous watching my son pitch and then I coach and that's I hate, cause you're out there on your own and it's just you and everyone's watching you and that's miserable. I, my daughter, does gymnastics, and so when they do it, it's all individual, especially when she does gymnastics. And so when they do it, it's all individual, especially when she does the beam and they're up on that beam. It's you know, I don't know, four inches, five inches apart, I don't think it's that big, four inches apart. They're doing all these flips and it's.
Speaker 1:You can't breathe for about a minute and a half and I would imagine it's to say like that a minute and a half is in golf like four hours of it.
Speaker 2:I talked to God a lot in those four hours. Can you caddy for you can't caddy form? No, I did caddy form recently and I like a really, like, really cool high school event. That's kind of tough to get into. But my friends down at Sumner high school they, ryder has buddies he's met from there and their coach is a great dude and he got us remember Mark Shampoo yeah, former, uh, quarterback dad cast listener, he's Ryder's high school coach. Great, yeah, wow. And so Shampoo helped get us in and, uh, unfortunately, all of our boys did not make the cut. The cut was 76. So I mean, there's some freaking sticks best, some of the best players in the state go to this thing. So, um, but yeah, he struggled, he hit the ball great, but he probably had one of his worst putting days he's had in his life and I'm on the bag just trying to like be the Ted Lasso of Skagit Valley, you know.
Speaker 1:So what do you say Like, what do you? Are you do you say anything Like cause, now it's like do you go in dad mode or what do you go and?
Speaker 2:do? Do you want me to try to get the Amazon Slayer clubs? I mean, what do you want me to do? No, I just say I'm like hey, dude, you haven't seen this course. Uh, all you can do is, um, he goes to have lost. Feel. I'm like there's nothing I'm going to say now. All we can do is be your best, your best. Not might not be the best, which is fine. Um, let's just be. You know, make it fun. Um, I never want.
Speaker 2:I, I'm big into mindset and body language. That's the one thing. If you want to see this dad loses shit, it's when I body language, whether you see it good or bad. I said your competitor should never know. It's kind of Gary Payton. Uh, the Gary Payton Stockton story with with why he had him announce him for the hall of fame, it reminded me of it. What is it so, Stockton? How? I heard it was Gary Payton had John Stockton announced him to the hall of fame because Payton said Stockton was the only guy that he could talk shit to and he never, would never respond to him.
Speaker 1:No, that's, that's you know what. That's a great message, cause that's something I try to tell our baseball team all the time, cause they'll get kids that that mean clearly my kid and others that will get frustrated and get all mad. I'm like the second they see that they know they've got you. Yep, exactly, you can't allow them to let you see that. I mean mumble under your breath and in your head and all that kind of stuff, but don't let them see it. And that's a hard, that's a hard lesson, man. That's.
Speaker 2:It is because it's such an every sport is so emotional yeah, and golf is like and so, but like he didn't, you would have never known it. He shot whatever he shot. We played. He shot 71, beat me by four. I'm like what the hell? But then two weeks ago he shot 86 and wanted to quit the game. I mean, he didn't want to quit the game, he was super frustrated. But I'm like, what are you going to do? But now it took a lot of effort, just not going to worry about it. And when did he beat you for the first time? He beat me on father's day, two years ago. On father's day we're playing his course called desert air in Eastern Washington and our superintendent got him.
Speaker 2:Craig Benson is a where we play golf here at home and he was over in Eastern Washington too and we're playing, and now I'm, I birdie 17. He part, he bogeys eight, he bogeys 17. So what? Two strokes swing, I tie him. We're going to 18. I'm like you know we're tied right now. I want to. Now I'm tripping a little bit, which is the exact opposite of to see if he can get focused. We both hit great drives. Now the wind picks up and I think I'm good. I hit too far. Bounce off the green over the green OB. He lays up like with nine iron to like 150. I'm like you, little effer.
Speaker 2:Yeah smart move. I love it. Yeah, smart move and pars hole. I take seven. Lose by two.
Speaker 1:Best, proudest day of my life but the worst moment too, because I was pissed. You're pissed, and, but you never at any point ever thought when you were playing with him to ever kick a shot.
Speaker 2:Let him beat you let him win and that kind of stuff. No, never. I wanted him because he would have known and like, even like this past weekend, uh, we were tied going into 16. He drives a par four, cuts I mean just crazy line. I'm like what is? He? Drives a par four, cuts a crazy line. I'm like what is he doing? Drives a par four, puts it to three feet, makes eagle. I take five Three-shot swing.
Speaker 1:Good Lord.
Speaker 2:What's his carry? He can hit it far. He's probably I don't know, he probably hits it three, 10, three, 15. It's crazy, dude. And he's five, he's six foot, buck 70.
Speaker 1:So what is he carrying? He's carrying what? Two, 80. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Jesus, it's long and lanky and gets after it and um anyway, so, man, it's been forever since he's so good. I feel like I were right where we left off. Um, for the for people, let's. We've talked a little bit about each, each kid. Talk a little bit about each member of the squad, the pocket family and and maybe a little bit how you and your, you and your wife met uh.
Speaker 1:So yeah, let's see I'm not gonna do math and I hate doing math on the, how long have I been married? Uh, two thousand seven uh, 17 years.
Speaker 1:How did I? You want to know how I met her? Yeah, I walked. Uh, I had a buddy of mine, darren robb, who were college buddies at washington state and then we, when we graduated, he had a job. I mean this was years after he had a job, we were both in. I had moved back up to seattle. I was working in portland. I moved back up in seattle about uh, we were hanging out and I saw a picture of my wife, kaisa, on his fridge that they were at some Christmas party. They worked together at a TV station. I just said, well, who's that? And he's like, it's my friend Kaisa. I'm like I'd like to meet her.
Speaker 1:And then, I don't know, weeks, months passed, and then I was living in Fremont. He texts me or calls me and said, hey, I'm out in Fremont celebrating her birthday. I would just pop on down here. So it was the ball. If anyone remembers the ballroom in Fremont, it's different now. It's not there anymore. Well, it's there anymore, but it's a different bar. And so I just roll up there and well, my kids aren't going to listen to this, it doesn't really matter. She's out there by the fire pit, just, you know doing her thing and she's just got a big heater in her mouth and she's just hitting it.
Speaker 1:Like she's just a biker gal and I'm like I knew her right. I could recognize her right away. But with the picture and I said, oh, that's my girl.
Speaker 1:I love a girl with a good dart in her mouth, just just started talking to hanging out. Nothing really that night. But I could, you know, I could tell there's a little bit of interest and then it just kind of you know, went from there and took her to a sonics game and, uh, just kind of. The rest is history. Yeah, so that's how we met and been together since and see married in 2007. Daughter was uh born in 2009, uh, maria and um, and then owen was in two, 2013, he was born.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of the clan, yeah you said amaria and owen maria maria m-a-r-j-a and owen, and then my wife's kaisa k-a-j-s-a norwegian, norwegian, slash swedish names. We tried to find, at least for her, the most confusing name for everyone. So every time that she's gone to any class it's Marja. What would be your?
Speaker 2:Swedish, like if we had to translate Jason, what would that go into? I think it'd just be Jason Yasson maybe Just shake it up, maybe add an X in there. I would like that. That would be great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we wanted, if Owen was going to be a girl, it was going to be Tova girl, it was going to be tova. Now, that would have been really good t-o-v-a, which I would have loved that one, but uh, yeah, so now she just goes by, mari, because she can't. No one can pronounce it, even people, my, my mom, still cannot pronounce my wife's name. It's always kaisa, like with a z. I'm like there's an s it's not hard it's just really is silent.
Speaker 1:It's kaisa, it's not hard I mean it's not hard, it's just really, it's Kai Sa, it's not hard.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's just not difficult for people, so oh, I actually had my stepdad, uh, big Al, he actually would call me, remember Greer Smith. Yeah, yeah, so Greer's wife is Jana. He used to call her Jenna. I'm like the E silent, it's actually J A N, a, jana, Same thing I can't figure it out. He used to call ibuprofen ibuprofen. He'd go to Quizninos. It's Quiznos, but just do your thing.
Speaker 1:You know what I think, casey? I think when we reach a certain age and I'm looking forward to it you just don't give an F anymore. You can top it up, mom, I can't wait till you just don't give a fuck anymore about anything. Yeah, I mean I'm getting there now, but I mean I can't wait till, like, I'm 60 and 70 and it's like you can say I think there's at 70, you can say whatever you want yeah, well, my dad, rest in peace.
Speaker 2:Mike jay cox, he passed away in season. We dedicated an entire episode to him, entire season to him, every episode, and so that, so to that point though his his last four weeks on earth, I'm in the assisted living facility with him. You writer went and saw him and his this larger Hispanic nurse, which was she was this wonderful lady. She walks in and my dad, who was literally in and out of dementia, like he was, we thought he was like going to be gone two weeks ago. Then he has his rally and she walks in. He's like hey, what are you doing, big mama? What are you horny or something? And I'm like, oh my God, dad, you can't. And I was like and Ryder, I've never seen him laugh harder in my entire life. He had to go to the room and I'm like I'm so sorry. And he's like no, we love mike. He's. I'm like he can't say that.
Speaker 1:I'm like dad, I'm like but he's 79, about to die, you know. But like I laughed, I mean what a great moment before he passed away, like that story. Yeah, that you should be. I love that. That is, if you're gonna go out, go out, go out guns, a blazing like that's next level, just very aggressive he might have been he.
Speaker 3:That was a great guy mikey, you had so many, so many.
Speaker 1:I know you, you have probably memories, but he kind of was, I loved him all.
Speaker 2:I mean just everything was jude's is, yeah, jude's is now the pride of tri-cities over there nice loving it beautiful. Uh, yeah, rain perfect, yeah, exactly, exactly. Um. Well, I want to go back because I don't. I mean, I remember playing some outstanding street football Nintendo but I think I want to relive and educate myself here.
Speaker 1:So talk about the impact that your parents had on you and what were some of the biggest lessons you took as a father, now that you're a dad had this conversation with, uh, my sister about this and we were talking about like lessons we learned from our parents and all that, and this is gonna I there's not a, there's not a ton I've taken away from my parents. My dad was so much older, like when I, you know, but when I was born, I think my dad was I gotta do the math he was like 48 and so, and my dad was so much older in such, from a different generation, right, so he was from the generation of like you don't show any emotion, you don't tell your kids that you love them. You know, there's just, there's no like, there's no emotional. I'm dad, you're the, you're the child. That that's our relationship. We're not friends, we're not hanging out, but there was, there was always like little things that he would do, that I knew that, that he had cared, but I think the thing that I would take away from him was one just to be like um present is present, not in present, not in terms of like being like around, like of our um everyday life, but present in like the moments that counted, cause he would never as much as like he wouldn't show like emotion, like you know, hugging and telling you love you, but, like he would, every sporting event he was there. Um, I remember I used to coach basketball, uh, in like senior year of high school he would be the scorekeeper. You know, I mean just little. So there's like little stuff like that that you know you look back on and go, oh yeah, that, oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And he was there.
Speaker 1:Even though you thought he wasn't there, he was a great. I mean I get a lot of my storytelling from him. He was an unbelievable storyteller. I mean he would sit back glass of scotch with his buddies and I mean it's just hours and hours and hours of telling great stories. We had a fishing cabin up in Canada. We'd go fishing and it was just like me I'm probably, you know, 11, 12, 13. He's got his buddies up there and it's just us out there and just the jokes and the stories and you know all the off-color jokes and just everything. It was like being in a you know a fraternity before you were actually, you know, in a fraternity. So that was awesome experience. And then I think, the greatest thing that he ever handed down, that I've handed down to my son myself, my father, uh, uh, william Puckett, rest in peace.
Speaker 1:He would get up from his chair in our house. He would walk by the bathroom to go outside. If you remember, you remember that our backyard he'd go outside our backyard. He'd walk. We had a pool. He'd walk around the bathroom to go outside. If you remember, you remember that our backyard he'd go outside our backyard, he'd walk. We had a pool. He'd walk around the pool and then behind the pool there was a garden. He'd walk all the way out there and I just every time to go pee, because the man loved to pee outside I asked him.
Speaker 1:I said why do you? Why do you like to pee outside? Because I just like the freeness of you, don't got to hold anything. You just kind of, you know, wiggle around and shoot it everywhere. And my son and I do it. I and I do it in the city. For god's sakes, I've got neighbors. I don't get the space like you guys got down there. I got people on top of me looking. I'll go outside at night, go in the bushes. My son does it. That's the first place he learned how to pee was just outside. We were camping and he does it all the time now like all the time, and so I don't know if that's what you were looking for. That's kind of a funny story from him.
Speaker 1:My mom, you remember, sweet, my mom is about five foot one and shrinking old German lady and just you know the conversation still to the day. Oh, jason, I don't, what do you do? I don't, what do you do? I don't understand. This was 20 years on the radio and she went. I don't understand, what do you do? What? What channel are you on it's? You know like early on it was 9, 50 am on cage. I'm on 9, 50 am. I don't understand. How do you get that? Is that on the radio like do you, do you go to the?
Speaker 1:I look and I can't find. I'm like my god, it's, it's the same time and channel. And then then when we went from am to fm, it was just a lost cause. I'd be like we're not on 9 50 anymore, we're on fm. I don't understand, you were on this one channel, now you, I can't find you and you, and now you're on this fm. Like, yeah, it's, it's just a different radio signal.
Speaker 1:Now that I've taken on this new adventure of of doing podcasts and youtube and things like that, I just I don't even I she's. I don't understand, I don't. You can't go on the radio anymore and listen to you. No, it's on a I got. You can listen to me anytime. It's just on this different platform. I just I don't know. Friends are asking and I just give up.
Speaker 1:And still to this day she lives by herself in paulsbo. She has always been a pack rat of food and again, she's about five foot one, weighs maybe 95 pounds and has more food than costco. You go over there. She's got three fridges in the garage that are well, one freezer, two fridge that are stacked of everything and you go over there like when it ends, I'm going over to Paul's Bow and I'm just going to live off her land.
Speaker 1:I think what I learned from her, casey, is that she it doesn't matter who you are, she just treated everybody kindly and was just so nice to everyone. And you could do. I mean, I got away with so much crap as a kid and every time she's like, oh that's, it's okay, it's okay, I'm not mad. I got suspended from school. I think you were probably in the right, you know, but she just was the. You know, the sweetest mom is still the sweetest mom and and I have never to this day have met anyone nicer than her. So I think, kindness, I try to be kind as much as I can because of her.
Speaker 2:Remind me what your pops did.
Speaker 1:He was a CPA, he was a, he was an accountant forever and that was kind of the main job. So he would do that mainly on the side. But then he started a it's called vision quest. It was a vision optical business like make eye lenses and stuff. Yeah, uh, way back in the day. And then um did that forever, eventually sold the company you know, and then once he sold it, you know was basically done kind of working like 655 probably, but then did like accounting on the side, like during tax season would do everyone's you know tax work. And um, another thing he was just so good with money and finances and, just like you know, he's got what four kids, I mean our kids. He had four grandkids that he put through college. I mean it's just remarkable. And so I think, like you know, planning and budgeting and finances he was so good at that. But yeah, accounting. And then, uh, then fishing and scotch drinking and golfing. He showed me how to play golf. He was a great golfer.
Speaker 2:You know what I used to. I used to think I love scotch and I realized I just like the word scotch, I love whiskey.
Speaker 1:You don't like it?
Speaker 2:I don't. And I, my friend, did the best meme at my expense. I took a drink of scotch in Nashville with like a. We went to like a fricking I don't worry where, but I had this like looked like a face I'm going to vomit. And she wrote I just liked the word scotch, it's true.
Speaker 1:I just you feel like you should like it yeah.
Speaker 3:And that's how you have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whiskey, bourbon, all that kind of stuff, but there's just something about it.
Speaker 2:Scotch is really. It's going to burn the nostrils really in a not a good way. No, he liked it.
Speaker 1:He liked. I used to love this was always my favorite part. So he'd have, like you know, different time, so don't judge. He'd have like three or four of these a night before dinner, okay, and I mean like four finger pours with a splash of water and it was. He wouldn't even drink the good stuff and, and the best part, he'd use because you know you got to conserve the glass he would like, you know, rinse it out a little bit and then he would pour for dinner. He always had a glass of milk for dinner. Then he poured the milk in there. Oh nice, okay, still has a little bit of that scotch in him.
Speaker 1:But, and my dad, he was, he was in shape, he um, ate like a rabbit. He didn't eat a lot of meat, he ate a lot of vegetables, like a ton salads, vegetables and all. Just he ate healthy, really healthy. He smoked and that was kind of his downfall. He would smoke cigarettes a lot but then smoked a pipe forever. Uh, eventually. But it was lung cancer why he passed away. But he ate great, he was. I was like 65 or 70 and he got gout and he couldn't figure out why he got gout. He's like because you get gout by either a poor diet or drinking. And he'd be like I I just don't get it. I don't get how I have gout I eat so well, I go, I'll fucking tell you why you have gout. Yeah, you eat a salad every night, you have four, four finger pours of scotch a night man. And you've been doing it for I don't know long as I can remember, so probably 50 years, maybe that's it. It, no, no, can't be it. Have you ever had gout?
Speaker 2:No, so, uh, two years ago I go to a golf tournament and a golf tournament. Sometimes you have the variety of beverages little, little fireball, little beer here. That's beer, that type of beer, this type of beer. We go to dinner there's some shrimp, there's some salmon, there's some steak. So I'm hitting all the gout triggers. I like walked the car. I'm like God, I tweaked my ankle. I don't remember like doing anything the next day. It's like hurting more and all of a sudden I feel like the sheets are like rubbing up against it. I'm like what is wrong? Next day I take a step out of the bed, out of the bed and I fall and Carrie's like oh my God, are you okay? I'm like, I'm like so much pain, but it took my breath away. But then I'm laughing. I'm like what did I? I feel like I'm going to get amputated, like I'm done.
Speaker 2:I go to my daughter's basketball tournament. I'm on crutches, people are making fun of me. What is wrong with you? I'm like dude, I don't know. I go to the and I started laughing. I'm like I do not have gout. Same answer as your dad. There's no way I have gout. So now I have these stuff called uric acid pills that I take whenever I know I'm going to have a few soda pops and then I have dark tart cherry juice, which also can get the uric acid down. So I've met more people that now have had gout, that are like gout and I think, by me just being a proud gout guy, you're a gout believer. I've only had it once.
Speaker 1:I never want, I would not wish on my worst enemy and it's it, and is it all alcohol that triggers it, triggers it it can be diet, it can.
Speaker 2:It can like heavy beer. So I could have 400 miller lights and be fine. Yeah, if I have a couple ipas done, I just and I've been a couple times, I've definitely tried to push the envelope a little bit like third one looks pretty tasty, that does, uh, but then I don't. But then if I feel like I just, you know, a couple days, get her back to normal, just cleanse the system, maybe fire up it's just rinse and repeat.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be good, you know, until about thursday, then I'm gonna let it rip on friday and saturday and deal. That's the thing I hate about getting older I'm gonna be. I I'm real honest with you is like you cannot. It takes days to recover after you like, like rip a long session, and that pisseses me off because when I was 20, no problem. Well, I actually on the horse, the next day.
Speaker 2:Do you work out at all? Does it look?
Speaker 1:like I work out, casey. No, I walk, jesus, no.
Speaker 2:I don't do anything.
Speaker 1:You know what I still do, and you know what I still do. You'll love this. And as as uh we were. We record this on a Monday. I play in an old man hoops league Monday nights. Whoa Every Monday and that takes me two days to recover. Tuesday, I'm okay, it's Wednesday, it's the two-day effect. A lot of zone. Oh dude, there's no. You remember I am three-point line to three-point line. Yeah, that's it. Well, you know your strengths. Well, I'm not going. Here's the thing. You know where you get hurt In the paint.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not trying to guard anyone hard, I'm not trying to call out screens, just give me the ball set a pick and let me shoot, and I'm not rebounding Because you get a rebound and I'm coming down on someone. No, it's it's over.
Speaker 2:The last time I played basketball is with you. You might've remember the one and only Kelly Hanson. Oh sure, His ankle did something I've never seen a leg do and he's like put it back in. I'm like the shit. No, I'm not touching that thing that I should amput's it and that's it. Shooting constant, I don't zero. My fitness goals are don't get fat, don't get hurt. I want to go play golf.
Speaker 1:You know what, though? It's so addicting though, and I just I can't stop. And I just, it's just.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's so much fun and it's just like that you know. Know, because you work out or whatever you do, like there's very few things that you can do as you get older, right, that ever and you know this more than I do because you played at a high level, a collegiate level but like there's very few things that you can do. That just gets that like competitive juices out, like we were playing last week and it's a, you know it's a competitive league, but it's, you know, it's also just fun. And but last week you're like it got like I find serious, like I mean people were like calling people out and I mean it was physical, but it there was something real fun about it. And it takes you back to when you were younger and you know, when you were just so much more you know juice and competitiveness, that was that was flying out of you. And then you know it's still in there. So, um, you know, if I miss a week, I get like really I get mad.
Speaker 2:Cause.
Speaker 1:I just that's the best.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think that's. Those are lessons you teach your kids, that they see dad's committed, he's, he found a passion, he's, he's working hard and um, well, I'm not really working hard, but you're.
Speaker 3:Hello everybody. My name is Craig Coe and I'm the Senior Vice President of Relationship Management for Beeline. For more than 20 years, we've been helping Fortune 1000 companies drive a competitive advantage with their external workforce. In fact, Beeline's history of first-to-market innovations has become today's industry standards. I get asked all the time what did Casey do for your organization? And I say this it's simple. The guy flat out gets it. Relationships matter. His down-to-earth presentation, his real-world experience apply to every area of our business. In fact, his book Win the Relationship and Not the Deal has become required reading for all new members of the global relationship management team. If you'd like to know more about me or about Beeline, please reach out to me on LinkedIn. And if you don't know Casey Jaycox, go to CaseyJaycoxcom and learn more about how he can help your organization. Now let's get back to today's episode.
Speaker 2:Speaking of sense of humor. So where do you think you said I want to go back to your dad. Where do you think he got a storytelling skills?
Speaker 1:You know, so I didn't. I'd never met his dad and so I never met my grandfather. So you know his mom was. So my grandmother, who I met a little bit, she was, she had a, she was a storyteller.
Speaker 1:I just think that he was in sales, like he started, he went to, it was the military, went to college and then it was right in the sales. So I just think that you know, you, look at, he was in that era of like Mad Men, like that was it. It was the scotch. You know the cigarettes, it was Rat Pack, and so I think that he just got it from from, I think, that environment when we, when we were real little, like before I was born, in that till two or three you know we were, we lived out in federal way on twin lakes, golf and country club, and so I think there's that element to it.
Speaker 1:So there was that whole environment of you know just everything that surrounds that type of atmosphere of of just joking and storytelling and hanging around and and. But I think it's just his profession that he was in. You know, you, when you're in sales, you got to have the gift for gab, and if you don't, I mean it's not so much what the product that you have, it's, they're buying you, and so and he was, he was just really really good at that and just talk your ear off forever.
Speaker 2:I spent 20 years before 20, 20 and change before going out and I do my own thing and I I want to get into that. But I want to still dive in some of your um dad stuff where I think, like you know that, even though you talked about the um, that competitiveness like the business world gave me that high of competing and teamwork and gave me that high of competing and teamwork and I think, yeah, being in sales for you to storytelling is really how you tell customer success stories and you have to learn to really slow, play it and articulate a message and but at the same point too, they buy you. But the other thing too that have to check the ego as a dad is I've talked to a lot of people about this is the world moves on. You know, when I left corporate they didn't go out of business. Uh, we've are not. They're still doing fine.
Speaker 1:They are, they're still plugging along. Yeah, you, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's absolutely right, so I like telling my kids those stories. Um, okay, so storytelling uh, being nice, going out of your way to just do the right thing to help people. As you think about values you and your wife both took from both your parents, tell me what are the top two or three things that are most important to the Puckett kids. These are things that maybe a dad listening at home has had fun listening to our banter, but they can take some um advice away from, just like, yeah, things they might not be teaching their kids yeah, well, I live and die by the ethos of ice cream every night.
Speaker 1:It's good for the soul. Uh, we have a, we have. We have like two sayings you know they're kind of, they're cheesy, but whatever um. And one is just you do you, that's we. I mean I've said that forever and just you know. That means a lot. I think it's pretty frankly obvious what it means. But you do, you just means don't care what anybody else says or does or what your friends are doing. What do you want to do? Like, how do you want to act? Who do you want to associate yourself with? What do you think of something? If it's against the grain, if it's different than what everybody else thinks, then that's fine. As long as you have you know you're convicted in that, then have that, have that opinion or choose to do that, choose to hang out with that person. Don't get influenced by other people. So you do, you is just just be yourself. Um. And then another one.
Speaker 1:I mean we we've we've kind of used it for sports a long time ago, but I also think it's just a um. I think it's a good message for life, cause I think there's just a lot of things to it. But we always just say we use it early on and and and uh, baseball, uh was uh. Eyes up, let it rip, and eyes up, let it rip, and he's just get the. Get your eyes on the ball and when you see it, just let it rip. And but it's the kind of the same thing for life. Like you meet somebody, don't have your eyes down, you know, make eye contact and then you know when you, when you go out and do something, whatever it is that you do or choose to do, or choose to hang out with, or every day, like you know, let let that day rip, like have fun with it, cause shoot.
Speaker 1:I mean you don't know if you get another day right. You know it's sometimes that you're tired, you don't want to go do something and, uh, I don't want to hang out with my friends. I'd be like just go, cause, you don't know, you don't know what tomorrow brings, right, I mean, I had a good friend in our neighborhood about a year ago that passed away and young, 44, two kids and heart attack, was in good shape and I mean that's the scary stuff, that that you, you know you got a whole life planned, you know, and kids to grow up and a life and all that kind of stuff, and that's, I mean, snap of a finger, that's all over. So those are kind of the two things that we talk about a lot and I just want them just to. I don't you know, whatever decisions you make, just make sure that you, you think about them a lot and that you stay true to those, um, those opinions or those decisions, but, um, just make sure they're authentic to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a hundred percent. I think there's um that there's so much life advice in that that they're going to have. There'll be faced with those challenges that you never know what's gonna show up. And I think you know, unfortunately I've had I have the thing on my resume that's that I think I've had five friends lose wives before the age of 40, which is brutal. You know, it's like the worst feeling ever of like fear and um, you know my wife had some health challenges over the last during the whole covid shit show and um, we actually did an episode on it.
Speaker 2:Um me, I met a fantastic dad and so, like my always thought, like my mind, you let your mind go some of these places. You're like god was, I was god of the universe prepping me for what I went through with my buddies and how I was there to help them. Now I gotta go through it. Like that was like my biggest fear, um, but you know, knock on wood, we're healthy and doing well. But I don't know Carrie actually has I've said this on multiple episodes before it's like she says we have 18 seasons to get them ready. It's like 18 years of minor leagues and it's like you got to get them ready, and so it's like you get summers, but and our generation? To your point, I'd be talking to your.
Speaker 2:Your dad, like my dad, wasn't a super, like he was.
Speaker 1:The same thing went to every sporting event, but I don't remember a lot of love, views or, but we say it multiple times a day. I think it's just that I think you evolve a little bit. I mean, maybe, maybe people that you know 30 years ago they probably still did that, or 40 years ago, but I think that you just learn from your parents and how you probably wanted them to. You know, act to you, to you, and if you, if they didn't act that certain way, then you just well, I'm going to, I'm going to flip that, I'm going to, I'm going to be a little bit more, you know, you know lovey-dovey, I guess, so to speak, and a little bit show a little bit more emotion.
Speaker 1:It's just nothing wrong with showing emotion. I type of a sign of weakness and I've just never, I've never understood that like why it's no sign of weakness, it's just it just shows that you're, you're vulnerable and you're human. I think there's there's strength actually in showing that more, more than anything. So I mean I always go back to that valvano speech where he's just like you laugh, cry I can't remember what the third thing was, but you laugh or or cry every day, and it's right. I mean that's, that's kind of an awesome day when you think about it, cause there's, it's kind of cool to kind of go up and down with um, uh, with those types of emotions.
Speaker 2:My kids have seen me cry probably more than I've ever seen my dad cry and like if you get a good AT&T commercial or a punky Brewster, comes on, you know.
Speaker 1:I'm going to.
Speaker 2:but, like I had, well, we had our. We had this great dog, jenny. We called her the Joe Jenny of all time and she passed away in August. Jane died in August and we were up on stairs and we had this new um, we had this new couch. We were like breaking in watching a TV show, a movie, and I had Jen next to me and all of a sudden it felt this sad poem would come on, sad part, come on me. And all of a sudden I felt this sad poem come on, sad part come. I was like, oh shit, here we go, felt it. But I kind of looked to my right, looked to my left, they didn't see it like happening. So I grabbed her tail, just wiped a couple off like, hey, good, doggie, you know, got busted dad right, look, he's crying again how?
Speaker 1:how old was your dog?
Speaker 2:she, jenny, was shoot 13. Oh, she's a beauty. Best. Now we have a young one, harley.
Speaker 1:She's a nine-month-old golden tree where Irish setter Probably going to be the first Hells Angel from a dog, most likely. What was the oldest one? What was her dog?
Speaker 2:Same thing, golden tree, where Irish setter 50-50.
Speaker 1:Best breed I've ever had. Okay, yeah, I got a 13-year 12 year old black lab right now. Oh boy who's like my, like my best friend, Like I choose the dog over the whole group, Like the whole group can go away, but that dog's got to stay in there. Like she's okay now. But I mean like, yeah, there's my daughter. What happens when she goes? I'm like you don't talk about that right now.
Speaker 3:Because when it happens, like.
Speaker 1:I got an old, like like Westphalia Volkswagen van dad's driving in the van, going to be gone for a little while. Yeah, I'll be down by a river. It's going to be down by a river for a while. But you're right, we got a. We got a. We got a younger one about a year and a half ago, a chocolate lab. It's kind of put a little pep in her step. Yep, no pep in the the step. She's so annoyed that she's here, so fucking pissed off. Why did you bring another dog in here? I'm like, oh my god, we ruined it. They're kind of they've gotten a little bit better now, but man, yeah it's we went through the exact same thing, you just went through.
Speaker 2:Now they're, now they're like they're buddies, their best friend, she totally takes it so that's good.
Speaker 3:Hopefully your poochie will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully um, okay, uh, as you evolve. So I think one lesson that I love to talk about, that spoke to me. So when I saw your journey, you know you go out you made the decision to go out on your own. That spoke to me. I went out. I did not plan to be a sales leadership coach. I did not plan to be. I knew I wrote a book. I knew I did that. I knew I started this podcast just for fun and now they're all like just intertwined and it's like so fun. So I know what it takes to hustle and get it set up. So maybe talk, talk about the journey that that's been. And you're to a mom or dad out there that's thinking should I do it? Obviously they got to make their own decisions, but like maybe I'd love for them to hear about like lessons learned and your journey has been on the way.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I mean I. I mean I leaned a lot on the you do you kind of mantra, and I remember there was, you know, the one night when I decided, you know, to leave radio, there was, and I was kind of going back and forth and I just reminded what put me over the edge was I was talking to my kids actually about it, because they had known anything that was going on and the decision that I was, that I was weighing, and I just said and I finally told them and they were like, oh, okay, well, well, you do, you, I. That's literally what my daughter said. I said, no, that's, that's great. And then my son was like, oh man, that sucks, because now we can't go to the radio station, because at the radio station we had this pop machine that every pop was 25 cents. It was like the greatest deal in the world. He goes does that mean we can't go back there and get the 25 cent pop pop anymore? I go, yeah, and he goes ah, that sucks, um, but yeah, I, just, I, I really just kind of looked in the mirror and said, if I don't, I'm telling them to do them and and and make their own decisions and kind of don't be afraid of the.
Speaker 1:Um, you know, take a risk, don't be afraid of the. You know, take a risk, don't be afraid of what happens after. You know the worst thing you can do is not take a risk and then look back, you know, 15 years, 20 years down the road and go. I wish I would have done that. You know regret I mean, we all have regrets, I always. Just a side note I hate when people say, oh, I just, you know, I don't have any regrets in life. Really, everybody has something. There is something that you regret and it's okay to admit that there's a regret. You're not some flawed person If you go. Yeah, I've got some regrets in life. So when I hear people say, well, I've, I've lived my life with no regrets.
Speaker 3:BS. It's just such a lie.
Speaker 1:But, um, yeah, so I just, you know, I just said that you know, this was important to me to move on and I did it, and scary, and probably the same thing that you went through, and but I was, you know, supremely confident in myself and just kind of what I had envisioned, what it was going to be.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was something that I think you know, a lot of us that maybe are in this business you kind of have in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1:But you know, I just think the way the circumstances went, I mean I didn't want to leave, but then, kind of when it was, you know, put forth, uh, kind of the decision I had to make and it was made easier by my decisions they made that I just said you know what, fuck it, I'm going to go and I'm going to rip it off and I'm going to do it, and if it doesn't work, I'm going to give myself two years.
Speaker 1:If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work, but I don't want to sit back and go. Hey, I didn't try, but, um, I was always pretty confident that it would, that it would work, and uh, it's been great. I mean, it's been a lot of work and you've taken on a lot more responsibilities than I ever had, you know before, and just you know, people helping you out and things that I didn't have to worry about before that I've got to worry about now. But yeah, there's an excitement in that and you know, because it's all on you, so there's a lot of pressure, but I kind of like that.
Speaker 2:I kind of like that it's all on you, so your kids understand what you're doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so. I think the 14 year old does. I think the 10 year old just kind of still thinks I talk about sports but doesn't know what kind of where, where it goes. Yeah, my daughter teenagers, you know, she's on her, she has a phone. My 10 year old doesn't have a phone so she sees it, so she can, like follow along on Twitter and Instagram and YouTube, so she sees it all. And yeah, my son's on YouTube, on TV, so he gets a kick out and sees it, um, uh, and then his kid. You know he's got buddies who who like will listen to it, which I don't know why they would listen to it. I don't think it's probably age appropriate for a 10 year old. And, uh, you know parents around that you know he always hears from. But yeah, I mean, I think they they get it to a degree like what I do and, um, I think they get a kick out of it.
Speaker 2:I love. I love that you said that, because one I think I, when I went down the entrepreneurial path, um, I walked away from a lot of puck, um, um, but I was ready. I was like there was a voice in my head that just said and I had a couple of clients that said, go, do that. I was like I didn't know what this was, but like I have no regrets and that with that decision I'm sure I've worked out some life, some things I've made, mistakes I've made, but like, um, what, the what?
Speaker 2:The lesson I I've continued to learn about this journey is like I've said this to many dads for people either I'd mentored in business or life, but I like, whether we think how important we think we are, our kids could give two shits, yeah, whether you're the quarter, whether you're john fors, who I've had the blessing to talk to, or um, levine or Dick Fane or Ian, or it don't matter. Like, yeah, we think we have these fun, cool jobs. Or like I was an executive and pay dad, can you get me to rise on time, can I go? We go play golf together. I care about that. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:And I think like, having a, I think being a dad grounds me. Often I try to stay as humble as I can. Great mentors in life and Marty Osborne, glenn Dacus those names ring a bell. Vulnerability drives me, curiosity drives me. Those are like foundations that we teach our kids all the time about, because I think those are like just superpowers that do not get talked about enough. If anything, ted Lasso retaught a lot of those lessons you know did you make him watch it?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, I can see that I mean, hence the belief sign behind me. That's. It's also a little Rick Riz. Um, actually it's from Mariners that, but I use it now for, like business leadership work I do. I always ask people do you believe what you do matters? Yeah, powerful question that one of us, most of us, don't. So I ask my kids all that like how you say you do you? Always? I always tell my kids, whatever you do, just believe that what you do matters today and believe you can make a difference in someone's life on some environment. Do something, but, um, I love it. So how can people learn more about puck sports? Where's the best way? For I can make sure I send people so they know more about what you're doing.
Speaker 1:Let's go to puck sportscom. It's kind of all up there. It's a you know kind of one-stop shop. It will list, like all the you know different platforms you can be on. You know Apple and Spotify. You know which is my new? It's funny because when I was radio and I'd hate all the ads that would come on, we'd have commercials. All right, you know, listen to. So you know, you know blow joe's podcast and even apple spot, wherever you find your podcast. We'd always make fun of it. And now I do that. And now I go, hey, listen on apple spotify, wherever you find your podcast. And then every time I say it I'm like you are a douchebag. I say that internally to myself every single time. But, uh, but wherever you can find your podcast, and then, yeah, I mean that's probably the one you know place to find. Uh, well, that is the, the number one place to find it all. But you know, of course you can on your phone and youtube and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:But uh, it's fun it's uh, how often you pumping out content every day.
Speaker 1:There's every day. Yeah, we do uh, we do uh something that drops at 10 am, because I needed to. Most of the time, when you start these, it's like it's once a week, it's twice a week, it's a couple times every two weeks. But see, the one thing I love about radio and why my show is always a little bit different, I think, than everybody else's was, I mean, yeah, sports radio is the vehicle, but that's just the vehicle. It wasn't what we were driving all the time, and a lot of it was just our, my life, our lives, and we were open book.
Speaker 1:All I've ever wanted to do was just make, you know, people laugh and entertain them. So sports just happened to be cause I liked sports, that was it. I mean, I could have done morning radio if I was a music fan. I just wasn't a huge music fan. So I've just I needed the juice of doing something every day because I, like, I've always likened radio to or this platform is to a Broadway show that you need every different night. There's a new audience, you got to come out and perform and I like that action of it.
Speaker 1:So we do something every day drops at 10 am. I usually do it about 9, 30 or about nine o'clock, edit it up. It's about a half an hour 35, 40 minutes. It's just whatever that happened the night before previewing ahead. You know today, you know in sports, and then usually have one or two guests, uh a day that are like regular guests that came over from the old radio days and yeah, basically it's just kind of taken the radio show and gone digitally with it. So yeah, we're doing something every single day, usually about two to three things a day. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:So cool, so cool. Well, I'm proud of you, dude. It's been fun to watch the journey and we'll make sure all this is all linked in the show notes so people can, uh, follow along and hopefully we get get you some new listeners and get people, um, uh, the same pocket you're seeing here. Everybody you're going to get the same same pocket. He is as raw and genuine as they get. And, uh, uh, taking me right back to the day, so I want to thank everybody for letting me go back in memory lane. Um, okay, last couple of questions. If we were to summarize that part of the shit show that we talked about, but then some of the real serious, serious stuff too, um, that moms or dads or anybody listening can take from our conversation apply to their everyday life, to kind of be that ultimate or quarterback leader of their home. Um, describe a couple of things that come to mind based on what we talked about today.
Speaker 1:I would just be as present as you can always be with your kids and I would just be always, you know, always. Listen to them. You know they're, they're they're smarter than you think sometimes and, um, they're, they're getting better. You know which each generation is getting better and better. But just be there for them, you know. And not not everything has got to be a lesson. All right, baseball dad. Okay, not everything's got to be a lesson after the game. How about? How about let's go grab some ice cream and just talk about anything other than the game that just happened, because the last thing those kids want to hear is you any parents are, you know, lecturing them about what happened in the third or fourth inning. But I would just be there, as much as you possibly can be, and tell them you love them. You know you said it earlier that you've told your kids more, that you've loved them more than in in now, and you know, since they've been born at a relatively young age than your entire life of your dad. So, yeah, just tell them. I don't think you can tell your kids enough how much you love them, like every single day, because you just don't know, no, when that day's over. So, um, yeah, hug them, squeeze them, just be there, always, be I never. As much as you can.
Speaker 1:I try to do this all the time. Uh, because my parents were there all the time. Yeah, as much as many activities you can go to, don't complain about the driving. I do it like I drive to bellevue five days a week, but but I tell my wife this all the time, I say in four years it's over, we'll never do it. And I and I said I guarantee you when it's over some weird reason, you are going to miss that 30, 40 minute drive over there because of the conversations you're able to have, cause it really is. I didn't get a conversation for about 40 minutes. You're going to miss that. You know all these baseball tournaments or basketball tournaments you go to oh God, we got to go here, this, we got to go this week in the year and that week in there. But when it's over you're going to look back and how much fun it was and you're going to miss it. So I would just cherish all that Gold dude, love it.
Speaker 2:Last thing I'm to coach baseball when he was your kid's age and I read this article that he wrote, called the Car Ride Home, which is about essentially doing what you just you, you're doing it the right way. The car ride home talks about you get your kid in the car and you're saying, hey, you know, fricking Owen, what happened? I play at 30 dipshit. How did you make that error? Right? And the last thing you want if you have a rough day on a puck sports, you don't want to get judged. You want to be like hey dad, try your best. It's like and it's not banging.
Speaker 2:This article talked about is when they, when they're, if your kid cares, if they care, they will come to you. Yeah, and what they want to hear is and he interviewed, like high school sports, college sports, pro athletes and they said the number one best memory was when their grandparents would say I just love watching you play. You know, yeah, and it's like, I'm sure should. I tried it after I heard, read this and I remember one time Ryder made an error that, like you, normally would never make. But I'm like dude, but I was like man, I'd love watching you compete today it was fine. It wasn't the outcome we wanted. We lost. But hey man, great way to compete. He's like made it play like bigger Jim Presley at their base, like what Presley was okay.
Speaker 1:Presley gets a bad rep. No, it's, it's great, you know? Yeah, it's, that's a great lesson. I watch a video all the time. You probably seen it, padraig Harrington. We're seeing the video, padraig Harrington.
Speaker 2:He was showing his kid how to play golf.
Speaker 3:No, it's awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh, I got to find that.
Speaker 1:It's so good he cause this. You know he was. He had. The lesson was about, you know, kids playing golf and and he's walking around and and he would say that he would never force it on him. And the second that his kid would say, ah, I'm kind of done. He'd be like, all right, let's done, let's go Like, just don't, we're not going to push it and that that, and I do this. I took this from him, and after every round it was always you want to get some ice cream because and his point was, they're what they're going to remember is the ice cream and just bullshitting with that, that's what they're going to remember. So I was like that's pretty good, I love that, dude. You got to remind yourself of it a lot, though, for sure, it's hard, it is.
Speaker 1:It is so hard.
Speaker 2:It's hard, and for us as parents, we are not judging, because we are guilty of this stuff too, but at least we're giving some tools on how to best handle this. Okay, last thing, I go into what's called lightning round Zero preparation. My job is to ask you questions as quickly as I can. Your job is to answer them quickly as you can and, I hope, to get a good giggle out of you.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, uh, true, true or false, you once beat b-lip in a race?
Speaker 2:I think true, okay. Um, that has to be true. Be wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. Um, true, true or false, you were in the meeker junior high hall of fame for limited participation.
Speaker 1:All-time stats oh, true for sure yep, guaranteed.
Speaker 2:No one shot more threes, nope 100. Um, if I was to go into your phone right now, what would be the one song that puck sports listeners would be surprised you listen to? Um, um, uh, it's something from taylor swift probably swifty there we go, something swift uh favorite 80s comedy movie of uh vacation 50 yards. Uh, if you and kaisa not kaisa with an s would go on a trip right now no kids, where are you going? Spain. Okay, if I was to come to your house for dinner tonight, what would we have?
Speaker 1:pork chops god, that sounds outstanding and the kids hate it, but that we don't care, but we love it.
Speaker 2:Well, me and my daughter will come over because we love pork chops. Um, if there was to be a book written about your life, tell me the title regrets. There you go. Okay now, believe it or not, puck regrets is killing it. It's in every airport, wherever you go. I can Now, believe it or not, puck Regrets is killing it. It's in every airport, wherever you go. I can't, I can't. It's in the King County Library system. It is blowing up. And now Hulu, netflix, apple TV they're all fighting for this. And you are now the casting director. I need to know who's going to star Jason Puck in this critically hit movie Easily sense denzel washington 100.
Speaker 1:I'd say it all the time. He's my favorite actor and I I talk about all the time like who's denzel? That doesn't make any sense, though it makes sense to me that's how I envision myself.
Speaker 2:Denzel, denzel, it is okay. And then last last question tell me two words to describe your wife. Oh, ball buster. That has never been said. It's fantastic. Not terms of endearment, everybody but truth. And there's some, I'm sure there's some love in there.
Speaker 1:She's a ball buster. She's just like. I mean that like in a good way though she's a ball buster Like she gives it, she gives the shit back to you, she does not take it and that's, I love it about her. That's why I mean she just she's like a guy's gal. She just is in the locker room BSing with you and just gives shit back to everyone and I just I fell in love with her immediately because of that.
Speaker 2:Oh that sounds good. Okay, you made it through it. We both giggled, we both laughed. It's been so much fun seeing you. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. I wish you nothing but the best, everybody. And to what Puck always says, if you're a first-time listener and you don't know what Quarterback Dadcast is, there's five seasons of this. We've episodes with some fantastic people Rick Riz Forslund, Coach Lorenzo Omar. We got many, many people. We got the normal dad who just stays at home, or the dad who's a business executive, or the dad who works at a healthcare facility. In the end, that's what we all are doing. We all have the same job. We're working hard to become create leaders in life. We're working hard to become, you know, create humans who are doing great things and hopefully we'll do it a lot better than we ever could. Dads at home. So, Puck, thanks again, brother, it's been a great having you on. I really appreciate you. Best of luck, man.