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Ben Fogt46min

Ben Fogt

00:00

This is episode seven of the Ask Dad Labs podcast recorded on April 15 2021. It's simple you ask questions and dad's answer. When we need to actual answers. We do find the experts. Today from Austin, Texas, we have clay. He has kids who are from high school up through adulthood. We have Nick from Louisville, Kentucky. He has two kids ages six and 13. And we have a special guest, Kyle, Kyle's from the same town. I am an island called Grosse Ile Michigan in the Detroit River. And he has one child who is just about a year and a half. We'll hear more about him soon. And I'm Ben, I'm in the Detroit River just south of Detroit, Michigan. My boys are 11 and 12. Let's get to the show. Hey, Nick, how's Louisville? How are the kids? Oh,

Nick Dawson

00:53

great. Kids Are All I'm not fighting with them this week for homework and everything. So that's been great. I am 100% huggable now. I've had both of my shots. And it's been 10 days to the second shot. So no worries for me on that front. So well. Good for you ready to go? Quite.

Clay Nichols

01:17

Hey, Nick, how you doing, man? I'm doing really good. All right. Glad to hear that. You know, I'm also two weeks post my second shot. So I am now fully in the land of the immune joining all of my in laws. My wife, my oldest son, who I saw video of this week, signaling helicopters while wearing a banana yellow suit aboard a Coast Guard cutter. And that was a pretty cool thing to witness. It was awesome for my oldest and he's doing just stellar. And my daughter's college is returning to sort of a less locked down status and, and as of this moment, she is actually going to get to play a field hockey game, her first in a very long time for her college on Saturday morning. So I'm very psyched about that. My youngest son had a little bit of a COVID setback. Although here in Texas, we've come back to normal a lot of ways and he's had a fantastic sports season. We're very much a sport family. Kyle, are you just going to be so bored hearing about my kids and sports it's like, it's like this ridiculous rare that I can't get off of. Anyway. So my youngest is a lacrosse player. He's a you know, good player and then loves the sport. And they've been so lucky to have a spring season. And they played they've played 11 games and they've had a lot of success. And they've made it to the championship game. You can't championship game is to be played tomorrow. And a kid on the team tested positive for COVID.

Ben Fogt

02:57

So they have to forfeit, are they going to reschedule it?

Clay Nichols

03:00

Well, in a in one of the most impressive shows of sportsmanship that I can even remember the opposing team, even though they could have collected a championship on a forfeit, agreed to reschedule Two weeks later may 1, which was such a class act that I did not expect we sports down here in Texas. I mean, this is a blitz blood, you know, I mean, it's it's so serious and for that school and for that athletic director to say hey guys, yeah, let's let's let's play this game. Let's Let's decided on the field a couple of weeks from now, was was a pretty huge thing. So that was good news for heads off. And I'm looking forward for two weeks they are going to forfeit some games, but they'll get to play that championship. So we're okay. We're okay. Yeah, so Kyle, how are you doing?

Kyle de Beausset

03:49

Doing? Okay, speaking of shots, I'm on my first I don't get my second until the 28th. So I'm still a little bit further away. But But grateful to be there. And I think we're going to be talking about teaching cultural diversity. I think I don't know if Ben's mentioned, but I was born and raised in Guatemala spent 18 years of my life there. My parents are still there. My sister's there. They actually came up, we had a vaccination event here on the island that Ben and I both live on. And they that was a chance for them to be able to get a vaccine, which the rest of the world truthfully doesn't really get a chance to have. An article I saw in Guatemala said it'll be four years before they're able to get some of this under control because of that. So they saw an opportunity to come up and get a shot and they did that Johnson and Johnson one and done. I know there's been some controversy around that since but they're very grateful for it don't have any side effects and I'm grateful to have my parents and within their mid 60s a little bit safer. And I will be the last one in my adult family to be more safe but but grateful to be there soon.

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