WEBVTT - Labor Day at the Harrison Household 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:06.000 This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:12.280 Chris Harrison coming to you from the friendly confines of Austin, Texas. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.799 Happy Labor Day to all of you. Glad you joined 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.480 me on this Labor Day. I hope you've had an 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:23.040 amazing weekend. I hope you're enjoying this national holiday and 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.759 this day off. It is a national holiday, but what 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.880 a weird one. I mean, of all the holidays we celebrate, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.400 of all the national holidays, it's just Labor Day. It's 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.920 one of you know, Memorial Day, Labor Day, the two 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.400 big holidays we think of that, you know, ones in 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.240 the spring and then the other ones in the fall. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:47.080 Memorial Day obviously very understandable. I get meaningful for this country. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.839 The fact that Labor Day is a holiday rooted in 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:54.279 the late nineteenth century when labor activists pushed for a 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.800 federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.560 to America's strength, prosperity, and well being. That's Labor Day. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.480 That's still a holiday where we shut everything down. Half 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.880 the country honestly is going dove hunting because usually September 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.400 first is opening day of dove season and to all 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:18.480 those headed out, be safe and enjoy. It was a 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.679 big holiday or for me growing up in Dallas, Texas. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.960 But the fact that Labor Day is still still a 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.640 thing is really bizarre to me because it's just something 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.360 we do and it's something we say when I was 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.679 a kid, and I'm sure many of you are doing 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.440 this probably still today. On Monday. Labor Day is the 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.480 sports tournaments if you have kids, the big Labor Day Tournament. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.119 I was a soccer player growing up in Dallas and 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.440 we played in the big Plano Labor Day Tournament. I 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.400 think it was in Plano, Texas. I don't know if 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:53.640 that's still a thing, but I'm sure volleyball, basketball, baseball, soccer, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.680 football is starting. It's all going on, and so I'm 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.640 sure for many of you maybe you're on the road 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.200 and you're in it, and those for you know, I 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:11.280 remember fondly. Really holidays were the time when we would 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:16.640 be traveling. The Houston Thanksgiving soccer tournament, the Memorial Day Tournament, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:21.520 the Labor Day tournament, even Easter, a sacred religious holiday. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.000 Was the Dallas Cup, which is like the second largest 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.640 youth tournament in the world, and it's a huge, huge event. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.840 To play in. It was a huge honor, but it 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.799 was all of Easter week. So it's funny. I kind 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.280 of marked my holidays as a kid as these tournaments 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.800 went by, but it was time with my family, and 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.320 it's you know, I remember, you know, those times of 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.119 piling into a hotel room and running up and down 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.760 the halls, and you know, swimming in those indoor pools, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.760 the bacteria domes that are just over chlorinated to death. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.040 But those were great times in my memory. And I 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.040 had him with my own son when he was playing 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.880 lacrosse or whatever sport, when we would travel, and I 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.360 vividly remember his last lacrosse tournament when he was in 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.960 high school. We were out in Palm Springs, and we 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.800 always kind of made a tradition to swing by in 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.280 and Out Burger on the way out of town and 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.280 grab a burger and eat it on the way home. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.000 And I kind of welled up with tears as I 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.320 looked in, you know, in the back seat, and I 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.839 see this high school kid back there, this man now, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.639 and I realize, this is the last time we're probably 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.120 piling in a hotel room together. It's the last time 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:28.920 we're going to be on the road where I just 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.760 sit for hours on end watching him play sports. And yeah, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.880 I was sunny and hot and all those things, and 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.680 you're sometimes miserable. But at the same time I miss that. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.720 I really relish those times, and I kind of I 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.400 am envious of friends that have younger kids and like you, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:48.920 I'm like, what are you doing this weekend? Like, oh, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.280 we're you know, Alexa has a volleyball tournament. We're going 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.920 to watch her play five hundred volleyball games. And I 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.440 envy that because I really enjoyed that time of watching 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.640 my kids compete and watching them win and lose and 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.800 how they took it, and the camaraderie and the friendships 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.320 and the pizza parties and you know, all the goofy 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.600 stuff as well. So if that's what you did this weekend, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.880 I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you are recovering 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.520 from your sunburn and you have a chance to rehydrate. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.479 For many of us, it was just a day off 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.680 for me, very different labor day now that there are 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.560 no sports. I had a house full of college kids. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.640 Luckily the kids are only you know, two and a 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.279 half three hours away up there in Fort Worth at TCU, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.159 so instead of staying home for their first home game, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.120 TCU football and college football is on the air. It 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.880 started this weekend. If your alma mater was playing, I 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.600 hope it went well. We were rooting for the Frogs. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.440 Of course, TCU played Colorado and all of the kids, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.840 my son and his roommates, my daughter, her roommate, they 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.279 all came into town. So five kids piled in. It's 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.320 amazing how small the house can feel, how quickly, but 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.400 it's a good kind of noise, and it was awesome 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.120 to have them all here and to see your kids 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.279 growing in that way. It's a different time. You know, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.000 they go off and do their own thing now and 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.280 they go out, but to hear their conversations, to hear 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.039 how they're doing and see how they're doing, it's a 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.120 sense of pride. It's fun. And every stage, you know, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.039 I have friends who have young kids, and I have 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.720 friends who have older kids, and I'm of course in 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.560 that stage as an empty nester, as LZ and I 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:32.000 are with the kids in college. Every stage is phenomenal. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.760 When you see them start to walk, when you see 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.799 them start to talk, when you see them start playing 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.240 sports or start theater, whatever stage that you are in, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.479 it's fantastic and drink it in. And I am doing that. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.680 I'm drinking it in as much as possible because I 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.440 also know, like every other window and every other stage, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.560 it closes and they move on to the next. And 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.920 you know, this is senior year, so it is the 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:00.799 last labor day where my boy will come home from school. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.000 He's done. My daughter still has a couple more years left. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.880 But I really try to soak up these moments as 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.240 much as I possibly can. And this weekend was one 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.479 of those where you know, five college kids eating me 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.920 out a house at home and you know, pool towels 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.159 and you name it, constantly washing everything and picking things 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.479 up when they break. But it's so good and it's 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.359 so wonderful to have that, and I hope you have 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.960 had that as well and had a chance to barbecue 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:31.600 and cook out. This is you know, I go into 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.800 full dad mode, where go shopping before they ever get there, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.120 over by over purchase barbecue and everything because I know 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.680 these kids, you know, are going to come in and 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.640 absolutely crush it. It's also, by the way, about that 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.680 time and you think this is over right when your 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.599 kids go to kindergarten, they're five years old, six years old, whatever, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.160 first grade, kindergarten. It really goes all the way through 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.279 elementary school. You know, parents, I'm talking to you that 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:02.040 first week, you are a test tube. You are an incubator. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.760 The kids have gotten sick. Everybody has gotten back to school. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.920 There is a you know, herd mentality of getting sick. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.920 You know, the first colds that pass around and it 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.800 goes from kid to kid to kids. So you got 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.080 the snotty nose kids that are coming home from school, 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.800 and of course they get over it in like two 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.920 or three days. You get it, you go down for 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.240 a week or two. It absolutely kicks your butt. That 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.200 definitely happens when the kids are going off to school 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.880 for the first time in elementary school, because let's be honest, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.120 kids aren't that clean. We can use all the sanitizer 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.440 we want, but unless you're wrapping them up in Sarana wrap, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.760 that's just kids being kids. So they all come home, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.880 they've you know, given you their colds, you've been wearing 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.920 it out. Well, that doesn't change because now kids go 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.640 to college and the first couple of weeks, they don't sleep, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.760 they're not eating right, all of a sudden, they're away 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.880 from you, and their nutrition goes to hell, and so 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.880 does everything else and their sleep patterns, and so you know, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.720 they call it the dorm cough or the dorm cold. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.640 You know, they blame it on you know, faulty or 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.080 bad ventilation, but let's be honest, we know where it 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.400 comes from. And so you think you outgrow it, but 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.400 you don't. So you know already both my kids have 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.119 fallen prey to it. I'm hoping that you know it's over, 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.360 but no doubt, probably this week I'm expecting to come 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.880 down with it as well. So if your college kids 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.280 are home as well, I'm in the same boat. They 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.840 probably were just as sick as your kindergarteners were. And 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.160 if you have kindergarteners, just know that's coming. It doesn't change. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.240 Kids grow up, but they're still kids. But it's a 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.360 beautiful thing. And I hope that they can stay kids 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.320 as long as possible, because Lord knows, the real world 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.720 is coming, and there is enough time to be an adult. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.040 There's enough time for those life changing decisions and moments 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.920 in your life that will rock you and shake you. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.079 So the longer you can keep them a child and 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:17.680 a kid. We all try to do that. I hope 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.200 you had a great Labor Day. I certainly did. Elz 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.880 is on the road visiting family, so unfortunately she's not 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.120 here to regale us with her Labor day, but I 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.560 know it was a good one because she was with 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.120 the people that she loves very much and they love her, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.880 and so I guess that goes to show too, you're 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.240 never too old on Labor Day to go back home 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.079 and go visit mom. So happy Labor Day to LZ, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.760 her mom, Donna, and her family, and to you. I 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.960 hope you had a great one. And if nothing else, 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.560 I hope you just took a break whatever you did today, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.040 and you just shut down. You turned on a podcast, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.200 which I'm very thankful for because I do appreciate the 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.000 time that we get to spend together. I love the interviews. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.880 I love last week and if you didn't listen about 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:11.240 l Z's experience at Experience Camp, a camp for grieving children. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.520 It was a camp for kids who have lost a 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:20.320 significant someone in their life, a parent, a caretaker, brothers, sister, Lauren, 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:25.199 God bless her. You know. Only this woman found this 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.880 camp and it went from I'm going to go visit 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.920 for a day to I'm going to go be a 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.320 counselor and really dive in. And of course, only in 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.600 true Lauren fashion, she becomes Barbie at the camp and 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.640 is you know, the town favorite. And all of the counselors. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.760 It's not just Lauren. There were some magnificent counselors. And 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.160 we talked to another one, Jesse, who was on the show, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.079 and Lauren and her. I kind of just tried to 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.440 stay out of the way. I tried to ask a 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.480 few poignant questions, but I really wanted to listen to 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.560 them talk and share their experience at this camp because 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.000 it really changed them as much as it did the kids. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.720 But it is so beautiful that stuff like this exists. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:10.360 And Lord and I talked about charities and God bless 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.960 you if you are involved in one, and whatever cause 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.959 it is, you know, it's tragic that there are causes 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.880 that are near and dear to our heart because it 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.000 means that you have probably been shaken like that, whether 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.360 it's cancer, youth mental health, which Laura and I are 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.080 very involved with, in youth's suicide, which is something that 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.280 is near and dear to our heart. And thank God, 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.080 there are people who have been shaken by things and 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.800 then take that and do something with it and try 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.840 to change the world and make things better. And Lauren 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.880 is one of those people, as are all these counselors 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.000 and the people that have been running these experience camps 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.920 for so long. So if you have a chance, if 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.560 you're in the mood today and you're just hanging out, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.000 you're like, hey, I got more time. Go back and 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.400 listen to that episode last week with Jesse and Lauren 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.160 and I talking about experience camps and if you want 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.840 good experience camps dot org. It really it was moving, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.559 and so I'm glad Lauren's off with her family, getting 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.880 a little break and obviously probably a break for me, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.319 which is never a bad thing, but I'm glad you 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.400 didn't take a break for me. I'm glad you are 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.160 here for the most dramatic podcast ever, as you always are. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.680 We have some great, great interviews coming up this week. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.960 Super chef Tyler Florence is going to join me. He 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.120 is phenomenal, this guy. I tell you, you know, I had 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.000 known of him and I'm a huge fan. I'm a 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.200 huge fan of chefs. You guys, probably if you've listened 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.800 to me. You know, I love to cook. I love 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.560 to experience cooking. I love to try new things. So 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.120 I watch a lot of Food Network, and I watch 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.200 Tyler's show, The Food Truck Race, which is so fun 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.319 and so awesome and it's been such a huge success. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.120 So I wanted to talk to Tyler about Food Network 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.480 how he's crushing it, but also all his restaurants, and 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.600 I went to visit one up in San Francisco and 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.760 it was spectacular, and he took the time to grace 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.760 us with his presence and you know, de bone our 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.080 dover soul and deliver our steak and his passion and 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.240 you'll feel it in the podcast. You will feel like, 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.040 I want to go cook man, I want to do this. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.199 He is so into everything, and we even got off 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.920 on like coffee and just really got into this, got 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.120 into the weeds. You can't help it with him because 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.960 everything he talks about he is so knowledgeable, and so 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.800 it's a really fun conversation about life, love, food and 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.480 everything in between. So give that a listen. That's coming 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.040 out later this week. But thank you for your time today, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.280 thank you for celebrating Labor Day with me. I mean, hey, 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.680 if we started this in the late nineteenth century, you know, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.120 when labor activists were pushing for a federal holiday. I'm 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.800 sure we were all just doing the same thing of like, hey, 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.679 can we just have a day off. Well, thank you 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.640 for all those labor activists that gave us this federal 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.240 holiday and gave us a time out. Truly appreciated and 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.679 thank you for your support. It means the world to me. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.160 I love talking to you, I love sharing our stories, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.880 and we will do it again because we have a 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.040 lot more to talk about. Thanks for listening. Follow us 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.920 on Instagram at the most dramatic pod ever, and make 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.320 sure to write us a review and leave us five stars. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:23.840 I'll talk to you next time.