Speaker 1: Welcome to Carefully Reckless, the production of Our Heart Radio
Speaker 1: and the Black Effect. And just like that, we're back
Speaker 1: with another episode of Carefully Reckless. It's your Girl, just hilarious.
Speaker 1: And today I want to talk about fathers. Now listen.
Speaker 1: I did an episode about fathers recently, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: like this. We got Father's Day coming up, and whether
Speaker 1: you are a father or a dad, you deserve to
Speaker 1: be celebrated if you take care of children, whether they're
Speaker 1: yours or somebody else's. But there are a lot of
Speaker 1: great dad's out here, So grab your t grabby holes,
Speaker 1: because it's story time now. Growing up, I had a
Speaker 1: family member right who did not know her real dad
Speaker 1: until she got older, she found him. He did never
Speaker 1: look for her, but she had someone who took her
Speaker 1: in as his own child. That was one of her
Speaker 1: siblings father. When he would come get my other cousins,
Speaker 1: he would come get hurt. Although she was the only
Speaker 1: one who didn't have her real biological father and her life,
Speaker 1: he took her and he took care of her. He
Speaker 1: raised her, taught her about her periods, taught her about boys.
Speaker 1: I mean, because my mother was absent. So this family
Speaker 1: member kind of grew up without both biological parents, you know,
Speaker 1: in her life. But however, someone who wasn't even really
Speaker 1: her blood took her in I'm talking about, moved her
Speaker 1: in with him and her siblings. He could have put
Speaker 1: her in a foster and he could have put her
Speaker 1: in a system, but he didn't want to break her
Speaker 1: up from her siblings just because her father didn't want
Speaker 1: her and the mother just was doing whatever. Now, this
Speaker 1: particular family member loves everything about family because she didn't
Speaker 1: really have a complete one growing up, so family means
Speaker 1: a lot to her now. They can go both ways.
Speaker 1: You could either be generationally cursed and treat your kids
Speaker 1: the same way your parents treated you, or you can
Speaker 1: make something better. You can break the curse, break the chain,
Speaker 1: break the cycle, and do everything to give your child
Speaker 1: what you didn't have grown up. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: my family member did and is doing still to this day.
Speaker 1: Fast forward, she has her child, beautiful little boy. His
Speaker 1: dad and her are still together. She wanted it like that,
Speaker 1: That's why I took her so long to have a child.
Speaker 1: So she set out to find out who our real
Speaker 1: dad was. You know, she couldn't get the answers from
Speaker 1: my mother. So she set out to find and she
Speaker 1: found her other side of the family. And her real
Speaker 1: father died years ago, so she never got to meet him,
Speaker 1: never got to know him, but she see pictures and
Speaker 1: she see now where she gets her looks from. And
Speaker 1: she talks to his side of the family and they
Speaker 1: tell her about him, and she realized how she relates
Speaker 1: to him in so many ways, and that she was
Speaker 1: is seeing this as a child. However, her siblings dad,
Speaker 1: the one that took her in as his own child,
Speaker 1: showed up to our baby shower. He was there the
Speaker 1: whole time up until he just died recently a year ago.
Speaker 1: And then you got to think about it. What makes
Speaker 1: a father a father? So a father is someone who
Speaker 1: believes that by donating his sperm for your creation, that
Speaker 1: he has done his duty in life. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's what a father is. A dad, however,
Speaker 1: is someone who gets up every day and does whatever
Speaker 1: he can to put a roof over your head, clothes
Speaker 1: on your back, food on the table, teach you life lessons,
Speaker 1: pick you up, dust you off, tell you to try
Speaker 1: again when you fail. To teach you that failure is
Speaker 1: not necessarily bad, that you need to go through trial
Speaker 1: and error to get that victory. Sometimes a fail is
Speaker 1: a victory because you still tried. That's what a father is.
Speaker 1: You know. A dad is a good disciplinarian. You know,
Speaker 1: he allows his kids to make mistakes. He's open minded.
Speaker 1: He teaches his children appreciate things. He makes you earn
Speaker 1: things and makes you work for things. He gets you
Speaker 1: ready for the real world. The dad is a beautiful
Speaker 1: person to have in your life. A real dad, a
Speaker 1: good dad, spends quality time with his children. He leads
Speaker 1: by example. He's supportive and super loyal. I love it.
Speaker 1: Having a dad is a beautiful thing. It's it's a major,
Speaker 1: a major attribute to your life. It's a major asset
Speaker 1: to your life. That's why I feel for the people
Speaker 1: who didn't grow up. Not sorry for y'all, but I
Speaker 1: just feel for you all because a lot of people
Speaker 1: who didn't grow up with their dad very well suffer
Speaker 1: to great lengths. It affects you as a father when
Speaker 1: you become a father, if you didn't have your father,
Speaker 1: it affects you as a mother. If you didn't have
Speaker 1: your father growing up, it affects you greatly. It affects
Speaker 1: your relationships that's why I want to send a lot
Speaker 1: of love to the people who didn't grow up with
Speaker 1: a dad, and y'all had to find your own way,
Speaker 1: because it's a lot of y'all who are strong and
Speaker 1: who are strong enough to raise yourself without your dad.
Speaker 1: Now we got a commercial, and if you click off
Speaker 1: of this podcast, I swear I'm gonna beat your ass. Listen. Now,
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of having a dad. You don't need
Speaker 1: to be a person's biological father to be a good dad.
Speaker 1: And I learned that. I even learned that in my
Speaker 1: own dad. My dad raised boys around our neighborhood who
Speaker 1: didn't have fathers. I grew up West Baltimore, West Baltimore City.
Speaker 1: Now it was me and my brother for a long
Speaker 1: time before my little sister got here. My dad that
Speaker 1: the best he could do. He got up, he worked
Speaker 1: every damn day I'm talking about. He wasn't perfect in
Speaker 1: his marriage, but he was a perfect damn dad. And
Speaker 1: that's what he implemented in my brother. That's what he
Speaker 1: implemented in the other guys that he raised around the
Speaker 1: neighborhood who are also good dad's. Now, because of my father,
Speaker 1: you know, and because of his guidance. He was there
Speaker 1: for those kids. My dad raised my cousins. I had
Speaker 1: an aunt who had eight children. Guard Rest her soul.
Speaker 1: She didn't have any of them. She just kept having kids,
Speaker 1: but didn't take care of any of them. One of
Speaker 1: her sons and one of her daughters came to live
Speaker 1: with me, my mother, my father, and my brother. My
Speaker 1: father raised one of her boys and one of her girls.
Speaker 1: Until this day, my cousin's look at my father as
Speaker 1: a father figure, as their father. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They don't call him dad, they call him uncle Kevin.
Speaker 1: But still if they need anything, they call him. For
Speaker 1: their weddings, he walked her down. My father has never
Speaker 1: been absent in my life, and I can honestly and
Speaker 1: truly say I was raised beautifully by my father. He
Speaker 1: did a great job. There was no wrong that my
Speaker 1: father could do in my eyes growing up. So fatherhood
Speaker 1: really really means a lot to me as it relates
Speaker 1: to me having a father and my dad showing me
Speaker 1: what fatherhood is to him. I asked my dad, I said,
Speaker 1: what does fatherhood mean to you? Because I knew that
Speaker 1: I was gonna do this podcast episode, you know, leading
Speaker 1: up to Father's Day, and my dad answered very old school,
Speaker 1: my dad fifty years old. You know that's my best friend.
Speaker 1: Y'all know this about me if y'all are avid, just
Speaker 1: hilarious watchers and listeners, y'all know my dad means the
Speaker 1: world to me. I look just like a period. You know.
Speaker 1: That's where I get my handsome from. You know. He said,
Speaker 1: fatherhood to me is showing love and dedication. Boo Boom,
Speaker 1: that's my nickname he called me. My mom calls me pumpkin.
Speaker 1: But this is about dad, so I'm Boo boo right now.
Speaker 1: He said, the best thing about being a dad is
Speaker 1: the pride and raising someone. Knowing that you raised a life,
Speaker 1: you chose to have a life, you and your brother
Speaker 1: were planned. Raising you and your brother to be a
Speaker 1: leader and support your own children made me the best
Speaker 1: teacher possible. Making my kids somebody made me somebody that
Speaker 1: meant so much to me. When he said that, he
Speaker 1: doesn't know how that answer triggered some tears, because that's deep,
Speaker 1: you know. He said, making us somebody made him somebody.
Speaker 1: Men take pride in being dads, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's been this stigma put on
Speaker 1: black dad's, or they always leave. They never stay. They
Speaker 1: get you pregnant and they leave. They you know, they
Speaker 1: don't like paying their child support. They don't, you know.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of good dads out here, man, Seriously,
Speaker 1: all the good ones are overlooked because we got the
Speaker 1: deadbeat ones. I've been saying, a lot of dads stick up,
Speaker 1: you know. I have family members that went to court
Speaker 1: fighting and still are fighting for full custody of their
Speaker 1: children or joint custody. My family member who I said
Speaker 1: didn't have her her father, I commend her, and I
Speaker 1: commend the man who raised her. I commend her dad,
Speaker 1: not her biological father, her dad. She had three other siblings.
Speaker 1: He took her in, he raised her. Now she's a
Speaker 1: good mother. She knows what to do because he told
Speaker 1: her ship that our mother didn't even teach her. I
Speaker 1: love my black Dad's a love of all dads. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the reason why I'm singling out black dads,
Speaker 1: I'm subjecting the black dads is because of the stigma
Speaker 1: that they put on our dad's, our fathers, our black men,
Speaker 1: on all of them, when all of them are not
Speaker 1: bad and even the people who don't have their fathers anymore,
Speaker 1: who fathers are now deceased or or now resting in peace,
Speaker 1: but did a great job while they were here living
Speaker 1: on this earth. I'm giving a shout out to them
Speaker 1: as well. And I'm sending love to you guys who
Speaker 1: don't have your dad's because I know you would give
Speaker 1: anything to have him back. I wake up and thank
Speaker 1: God for my father every day because when my family
Speaker 1: member lost her dad, she was lost. She was upset,
Speaker 1: but at least she knew what it was like to
Speaker 1: have a dad because when she found her real father,
Speaker 1: her biological dad's side of the family told her that
Speaker 1: he was deceased. She didn't really feel too sad about
Speaker 1: it because she had already grown up with the father.
Speaker 1: But she still didn't want to leave this earth without
Speaker 1: knowing who her actual, illogical father was. And that's an
Speaker 1: amazing thing that she didn't let that destroy her finding
Speaker 1: out that her biological father was actually dead, because she
Speaker 1: had someone that raised her who was a father figure
Speaker 1: in her life. If you love me, you'll listen to
Speaker 1: this commercial and then we'll be right back. That brings
Speaker 1: me to just fix my mess, So I asked and
Speaker 1: honor a father's day. Life lessons your dad taught you
Speaker 1: go and I'm just gonna read a couple off. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are funny, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: them are deep. You know, I'm gonna read a couple
Speaker 1: j Caimbria Chris on Instagram says, my dad taught me
Speaker 1: if all else fails, be with the nigga that love you,
Speaker 1: and not a nigga you love. It's something about that
Speaker 1: that I really really love. The nigga is throwing me off,
Speaker 1: but I love it because she put it cut and dry, straightforward.
Speaker 1: Be with the man that loves you and not a
Speaker 1: man that you love. Now I know he means not
Speaker 1: a man that you only love, because love goes both ways.
Speaker 1: If that man loves you equally like you love him,
Speaker 1: loves you the same as you love him, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about you can't love him more. He can't love you
Speaker 1: any less than you love him. That's the one you choose.
Speaker 1: I definitely get it. Can't being loved by himself. That's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest lessons that a dad could ever
Speaker 1: teach his daughter, because that means your dad taught you
Speaker 1: love already, so you don't have to go seek and
Speaker 1: and and and go beg for it from someone else.
Speaker 1: Giselle Milan x o x O says, always have your
Speaker 1: own money stashed the way in case of Nigga act dumb.
Speaker 1: Hey yo yo, you're funny is out all right? Just
Speaker 1: in case of Nigga act dumb. No, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. That's teaching you stability and independence. And
Speaker 1: your dad did just that by telling you that. I
Speaker 1: hope you'll following these daddy lessons because they're they're good
Speaker 1: so far, okay. Stefan James says, you don't need a
Speaker 1: dad to be great. I agree, and then I don't agree.
Speaker 1: It depends on the person you are, the drive in
Speaker 1: you because, like I said earlier in the episode, a
Speaker 1: lot of people read themselves. A lot of people didn't
Speaker 1: have it voice because they didn't have fathers. They didn't
Speaker 1: have dad's either. Everybody doesn't get that opportunity to have
Speaker 1: someone to guide them and to lead them. So I
Speaker 1: do second that you don't need a dad to be great,
Speaker 1: because my father didn't have a father and he wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure we did. Because he didn't. My dad
Speaker 1: raised himself and his little sister. Now my grandmother was present,
Speaker 1: you know, but she was an alcoholic, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: she was present, but then she wasn't and my dad
Speaker 1: stepped up and he took care of himself and his
Speaker 1: little sister. So no, he did not have a father
Speaker 1: or a father figure for that matter. So I do agree.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Shimmy Coco says, my dad taught me not
Speaker 1: to tell anybody what I'm about to do. If I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave a nigga, just leave. If I'm a snack
Speaker 1: a bit, just smack her. If I'm buying a car,
Speaker 1: just buy it. Ship like that, Oh, you're funniest ship.
Speaker 1: I don't even have nothing to say about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: just don't tell your left hand with your right hand on.
Speaker 1: Don't tell, nor don't put nobody in your business because
Speaker 1: you may a jinks. I guess I don't know. But
Speaker 1: the fly plug Jeremiah on Instagram said, my dad taught
Speaker 1: me integrity. Great, that's amazing. To have integrity as a
Speaker 1: man is a very honorable thing. And for those who
Speaker 1: don't know just what integrity means, and there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that, it's just the state of being whole and undivided.
Speaker 1: You know, the quality of being honest and having moral principles,
Speaker 1: strong moral principles, you know, moral uprightness. That's integrity. That's
Speaker 1: what a man should always have. You know, if you
Speaker 1: lack integrity, work on it. But that's what fathers and
Speaker 1: still in their sons, that's what they implement, along with pride.
Speaker 1: You know, they both go hand and had. Young Mills said,
Speaker 1: the world ain't gonna love you like I love you.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm whooping your ass. Love my pops. That's
Speaker 1: like the ultimate dad phrase. Before you get your ass
Speaker 1: with the world. Ain't gonna love you like I love you.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm whipping your ass. I love it. And
Speaker 1: I bet you are a great man to this day
Speaker 1: because your pops whipped your ass. A lot of us
Speaker 1: needed that ship. A lot of us needed that ship.
Speaker 1: My father never laid a hand on me, but he
Speaker 1: could look at me and put some base in that voice.
Speaker 1: And I was straating my ass up. I did not
Speaker 1: play with my father, you know. Piff and Wesson said,
Speaker 1: every man for themselves. Okay, your dad was a gangster,
Speaker 1: all right, Okay, your dad taught you every man for himselves. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's in the streets and business and in life period,
Speaker 1: every man for himself. I'll take it. Pokehon is underscore.
Speaker 1: Litchell said he wasn't around to teach me, but I
Speaker 1: learned to never let a man treat me the way
Speaker 1: he did. I love it. You took the high road
Speaker 1: and you made a positive out of your negative. You
Speaker 1: chose to not let a man treat you the way
Speaker 1: your father treated you because you noticed that you didn't
Speaker 1: like that growing up, or you know, even as a
Speaker 1: grown woman, you noticed that you didn't have a strong
Speaker 1: upbringing as it relates to having a dad. I love
Speaker 1: that you taught yourself a lesson, baby girl. I'm very
Speaker 1: proud of you. Liquida Bailey says, there is always three
Speaker 1: sides to a story. Your side, their side, and the
Speaker 1: truth is what my pop taught me amazing life lesson. See,
Speaker 1: that's why it's good to have a dad. They teach
Speaker 1: you awesome life lessons. Grants from d a O said,
Speaker 1: my dad taught me, if you come across, just marry
Speaker 1: her and keep getting her pregnant. One nigga, look by
Speaker 1: next any right playing with you only one? EBB says
Speaker 1: you are the prize. You don't have to give it up.
Speaker 1: Men gonna want you're regardless because you are absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1: I just want to say shout out to your daddy
Speaker 1: for that. When your dad already tells you constantly that
Speaker 1: you're beautiful, you don't need to run behind a man
Speaker 1: to get that validation. That's another reason why we need
Speaker 1: our fathers and why it's important that they're in our
Speaker 1: lives and that they spend quality time with us so
Speaker 1: they can build our confidence so we don't lack confidence
Speaker 1: and self esteem. Last one, big one, underscore firstborn said,
Speaker 1: you don't have friends. You got family, and you have associates,
Speaker 1: and when you fight, it's by any means necessary. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. Your dad was from
Speaker 1: the hood. He didn't give a funk. Look if you
Speaker 1: wanta smack a bit, smack a bit. I love that. Listen,
Speaker 1: those were all great responses. I want to give a
Speaker 1: shout out to some of the dads that show us
Speaker 1: more than often that they love their children. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Ocho Senko, Chad Johnson. Listen, he's great. He's a
Speaker 1: great dad. He he does great with his girls. He
Speaker 1: shows us, he puts it out there on the internet
Speaker 1: all the time he does his baby girls hair, he
Speaker 1: hypes up his girls. I love it. He tells them
Speaker 1: that they are beautiful in their black skin. Um, their
Speaker 1: skin is like milk and butter. I love the way
Speaker 1: Ocho Sinko caters to his daughters. Okay, he's a great
Speaker 1: dad and you can tell that he loves being a father.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Ji Herbo. He loves his son with passion. Honey,
Speaker 1: he loves yo son and he loves his new baby
Speaker 1: that he just had with Tina. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Je Herbo. Shout out to little Boosey. He is a disciplinarian.
Speaker 1: He is a good parent. Though he shows that he
Speaker 1: don't play with them boys. He makes sure he teaches
Speaker 1: his boys how to groom themselves and if they don't know,
Speaker 1: he grooms him that his damn self Boosey be combing
Speaker 1: their hair, fussing at cousin, asks out about their hair
Speaker 1: and their hygiene and how they present themselves and everything
Speaker 1: that is a good damn father. Shout out the Little
Speaker 1: Boosey money bag yil always present. He shows us how
Speaker 1: much he loves all of his kids, although it's a
Speaker 1: lot of them. He shows us he's a great dad
Speaker 1: the baby. Now, y'all know, if it's anything the baby
Speaker 1: gonna do of it and knocking out, is gonna be
Speaker 1: spending time with his baby girl. Russell Wilson great father,
Speaker 1: a great father, and a great dad. He's a great
Speaker 1: dad to baby Future, and he's a great father to
Speaker 1: his own children, his own biological children. And I love
Speaker 1: to see it. We love it. Little Future loves him,
Speaker 1: Seana loves him, that new little baby loves him. And
Speaker 1: they all look like he chewed them up. At them too,
Speaker 1: it's two biological ones. Look like he chewed them up
Speaker 1: and spit them straight out. Shout out to Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: fifty cents. It's like, no, y'all know, I gotta have
Speaker 1: some funny in somewhere. Moving on ice cube. Ice cube
Speaker 1: raised oh Shan Jackson to look just like his ads,
Speaker 1: but to also embody so much grace. He's a good man,
Speaker 1: you can tell, and always been present in his baby
Speaker 1: boy's life. You know what I'm saying. That's amazing. Shout
Speaker 1: out to little Roll Howary, that's my man, comedian, little Rall.
Speaker 1: I've seen firsthand, personally, up close and personal, what a
Speaker 1: great father he is. He would have his children with
Speaker 1: him on set while he's working. He would still find
Speaker 1: time to spend with them in between, you know, shooting
Speaker 1: episodes and movies and and and tour life. You know,
Speaker 1: like he's a great dad, great great dad. Kevin Hart
Speaker 1: another one. He's been showing us his his daddy duties
Speaker 1: and fatherly skills since before his second marriage. You know,
Speaker 1: when he would would bring his children on tour with
Speaker 1: him during his first marriage or whatever. Denzel Washington, his
Speaker 1: children does interviews and talk about how much of a
Speaker 1: great father he was still able to be even with
Speaker 1: his busy ass career shooting movie after movie, he was
Speaker 1: still a great dad. Shout out to Mike Epps, who
Speaker 1: is having another baby. Look, Mike said, I don't care
Speaker 1: how old I get. I'm popping these seeds out. Shout
Speaker 1: out second Nick Cannon, great dad. I don't care what
Speaker 1: y'all say. He got a lot of kids by a
Speaker 1: lot of different women, but he takes care of each
Speaker 1: and every one of them, and it's all love with
Speaker 1: him and his children. I want to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to Kobe Bryant, who is not here anymore, but
Speaker 1: who was a great father. If you lost your father,
Speaker 1: and he was a great dad to you. Shout out
Speaker 1: to you, and shout out to your father. Shout out
Speaker 1: to all the fathers who aren't here anymore who were
Speaker 1: great dads. Shout out to my son's dad, Jerome James, Lord,
Speaker 1: baby father, I love you, man. Couldn't have done it
Speaker 1: without you, obviously, I love you. And last but not least,
Speaker 1: shout out to my very own father, Kevin Moore. You
Speaker 1: raised me to be the best person I am right now.
Speaker 1: You raised me to be everything that you were and
Speaker 1: everything that you weren't. And because of you, I got
Speaker 1: thick skin. Dad. Because of you, I'm handsome man, pretty nigga,
Speaker 1: and I love you. And every day that I wake up,
Speaker 1: I thank God that I still have you, y'all. I
Speaker 1: really really do. And just like that, I'm gonna ended
Speaker 1: Happy Father's Day to all the beautiful dad's out there.
Speaker 1: I commend you, keep stepping up, keep doing what you do,
Speaker 1: and tune in next week because we got a juicy
Speaker 1: est episode next week. Happy Father's Day to all y'all,
Speaker 1: and then my deepest pain voice nice as Carefully Reckless
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