Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I had an interesting lesson to teach my daughter the other day. It was my birthday on November 7th.
[00:00:06] Speaker A: And she wanted to celebrate my birthday with the cake and a present and stuff like that.
[00:00:12] Speaker A: And.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: I had to work late and didn't get home till late at night on my birthday.
And.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: She was real sad. And I said, look, we can celebrate my birthday tomorrow, you know, the day after my birthday.
She's like, but today's your birthday. How come we don't celebrate it today?
And I was like, well, my job just doesn't care about my birthday.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: And I saw her, the look on her face, like.
Like, it's like she snuck. It snapped, like, oh, your job doesn't care about your birthday?
It's like, yeah, they don't care about my birthday. They just. They just want me to go work.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: You know, for their company, and I make money to provide for the house, and it's just how it is. Yo. My work doesn't care about my. My birthday.
And then you can see her face like.
Like, think about it, process it, and then be like, oh, okay, we can celebrate it tomorrow.
Like, she understood. I was like, wow, that's so cool.
But just being able to explain things to my children, to my daughter.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: The things that are happening, the things that.
That I go through as an adult.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: I'm noticing that it will help her or my son in the long run.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: Whenever they leave the household and have their own jobs or their own families and stuff like that.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: So just. It was cool just to be able to see that look in her face like, oh, I understand your job doesn't care about your birthday, but we do. Like, but. But you can tell. She's like, but I care about your birthday.
So you're saying that we're going to celebrate it tomorrow, then we'll celebrate it tomorrow, which we did. They. They had a cake.
She got me a.
An energy drink that I like for a present. It's pretty cool.
I got candles on the way home from work on that day, the day after my birthday, and brought some candles. And then that was pretty cool, too, because my son, he's. He's afraid of fire.
He doesn't like fire. He's very.
He's like autistic, right? He's, like, kind of autistic on the autistic spectrum where sounds. Like, he covers his ears for certain sounds. It's. He's not like, severe autistic, but you can tell, like, sounds, and he'll cover his ears or touch and, like, you know, you can tell.
And he. He hasn't liked fire for he's five years old.
He hasn't liked fire for, like the past couple years that we've been celebrating birthdays. Every time we light a candle on a cake, he gets scared and he goes to. Runs to the other room. And then one day, one birthday, I think it was his past birthday of his, we didn't light any candles. We just sang Happy Birthday. And I would tell him, you know, look, happy birthday, no fire. And then he understood, okay, happy birthday, no fire. Cool. I can do this. You know what I mean? I can do this.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: But this time around, this year, we celebrated my wife's birthday, we celebrated my daughter's birthday. And every time we lit candles, he would go to the other room, we would sing Happy Birthday, they would blow him out, and then he would come back out of the room. But this time I had bought some candles that said each letter was a, was the candle H, A, P, P, Y, B, I, R, T, H, D, A, Y. Right.
So I thought that, I thought he would, that would help kind of ease him into, like, being able to be around the fire because he's learning how to spell words and stuff like that.
So having those letters and then lighting them, I think that helped him, like, oh, okay, cool. There's a letters and there's fire, and the fire is not going to hurt me. You know what I mean? It's pretty cool just to like, ease them in that.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: To something that is. That he's maybe afraid of for whatever reason. Maybe it's a visual thing, because I hear that people that are artistic have a sensitivity to, like, light and, and the fire is.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: Something that he's sensitive to. So he was able to. For my birthday, he was able to, to be around the fire.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: And be cool with it. And that was, that was awesome.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: And, and I think having those letters as candles was helpful for him, for his little, his little mind. So it's awesome.
So anyways, you guys, I want to. Just want to share that about my daughter and my son and my birthday and that, you know, your work doesn't really care about your birthday. You know, they may tell you happy birthday and this and that, but if you, you're supposed to work on your birthday, you're supposed to work on your birthday whether it takes all day or not. You know what I mean?
And sometimes in my line of work dispatchers, if they don't like you for whatever reason, they'll make you work all day on your birthday. They make you work all day on your holiday, whatever it may be, and sometimes it's uncomfortable and it's not fun. But anyways, that's my Spiel for today.
November 11, Tuesday, 2025 Happy Veterans Day. Have a good one.
