Well, I prepared for this episode more than I ever prepared for any other episode. I read his book. I prepped a new app to record video and audio. I planned things about a month out with his publicist...and it all came crashing down hahaha. We adapted and overcame. Rob was awesome and the interview was a blast. Enjoy and thanks for listening!!
The Written Word
Brendan Roy 0:00We are just so excited for you to hear this episode. We invited Rob Kenny from Dad, how do I YouTube channel on? And he was just great. I mean, it was awesome. He was nice kind, you know, all the adjectives that describe some of that will put up would put up with our Bs and technical difficulties. So yeah, but truly just a great human being. And I just can't wait for you to hear it. We go over his videos, you know, the dad questions. And then he's got a book coming out and it is coming out. If you're listening to this on 517. It's coming out tomorrow. For people that are listening to this in the future. It's the books already out. Go get it. And I did hijack the interview. I'm sorry, Jim. Very sorry. But I had a great time. So I hope you have a great time listening to this and share with a friend. Thanks for listening.
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Brendan Roy 1:39Welcome to another episode of dads worldwide. I'm Brendan. I'm Jim and with us today, we're I've been humbled. I can't thank him enough for coming on today. A father a YouTuber. Did you think you were ever going to be called a YouTuber? Nope. Nope. But he is it's a it's Rob Kenny from dad. How do I thank you for coming on today.
Rob 2:08Yeah, thanks for having me on brand. And I said to an influencer, people are calling me that. And like, yeah. What is that even, you know, just trying to help some people was all and still trying to navigate it all.
Brendan Roy 2:21Absolutely. That was actually one of the things I was going to talk to you about your book. I like this could be a parenting book. I was I was I'm reading it. I'm just like, I was floored. So let's get into that later. But, uh, yeah. Why don't you start by? I think most people are going to listen to this. They're going to know but you're a dad. How many kids?
Rob 2:44Yeah, yeah. So I have two adult kids. My daughter. I was just talking to her on the phone. She'll be 29 this year. And she was already saying, Oh, my mom was 30. I said, Please don't do that. You know, when I was Don't rush it. Yeah. When I was almost 50. I was almost 50. You know, for a whole year I was almost 50. And then I'm 50. You know, it's okay. Slow it down. You know, you're not even 29 yet, so you're good. So and then my son is he'll be 26. This year, our birthdays are coming up. So her birthday is in June. My wife's birthday is actually this coming week. And then my birthday is in May my son's birthdays in May. So we got a lot going on Mother's Day, Father's Day. You know, it all happens in the next couple months. Oh, wow.
Brendan Roy 3:21Yeah. Yeah. Did you did you tell them the story about the silver ball with the gold strength? rushing? Don't rush it. Yeah. That's, that's great. All right. So what why don't we start with the dad questions. Jim. Would you like to go first?
Jim 3:39Yeah, you know, Rob again, thanks for coming on. You know, we always like to start our show with some questions about parenthood and Brendan has a set I usually tend to have the harder hitting questions things that uh, you know really make you think what is one childish thing you still enjoy doing?
Rob 4:05Oh, boy, put me on the spot. Can I get the questions ahead of time? Yeah. Let's put pause I you know, I still don't feel my age I'll be 57 this year and so I like to think I'm still young and so I get out and you know, play any kind of sport with my kids. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I've ever really grown up in some some areas. I'd like to do anything and everything or like like to think I I know how to we'll jump off cliffs together. You know, when we go over to Eastern Washington and go swimming. Well, you know, I'll do all of the above. Awesome. That's great.
Jim 4:44Yeah, we've had that discussion before Brandon and I kind of I was just gonna mirror what you're saying like we don't not feel our age right now. And let's at sometimes I you know, and Brenda and I get together. It feels like we're still in high school hanging out. Right? Yeah, yeah. There's definitely a mindset
Rob 5:02back to, you know, little Robby running around, you know, so I suddenly fall right in line. So I'm number seven out of eight kids. And so, yeah, it's the whole birth order. thing falls right. I fall right in line. I'm little Robbie. Again, taking orders from my older sister. Yeah.
Brendan Roy 5:20Yeah. The same way. I have three brothers and when I'm around them when I'm around, Jim, I been, you know, my mom. And yeah, I guess I just, I don't know. I just feel like a kid all the time. No, definitely not. You know, I sleep wrong in my back hurts for a week, you know? So? Definitely, definitely not. I sneezed the other day, and I'm like, Oh, here we go. That's it. Yeah. I'm sore for a week. Yeah, three days ago by back I swear. I don't know what it was. I could I couldn't even look to the right. Like, the whole muscle from like, my neck all the way to the my lower back. I'm just like, so I'm walking around. Like, people can't see this, but I'm just moving my upper body back. Yeah, it doesn't take much doesn't take much. Alright, so that might Yeah, the funny question is Jim, right. I've got him. Yeah. What's your proudest dad moment? I always tell people what, what's the first thing that that pops into your head? When when that question comes in? What's the first thing?
Rob 6:33Oh, yeah. I mean, my main goal for my kids was to raise good adults. And so to see them go off and be functioning adults, you know, I've joked about this before, you know, people talk about I don't want to have my kids living in my basement. But you know, It's bittersweet when, you know, send them off. My son's off in Virginia now. And my daughter moved away to Knoxville when she first graduated from college, and Oh, wow. It's a proud moment. But it's also heart wrenching. It's like, oh, you're leaving, but I know what's best for you. Yeah, but
Brendan Roy 7:08they're not even leaving. They're going across the country. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's tough.
Rob 7:14But I encouraged it for both of them. I you know, my daughter got graduated, met a great guy got married. And so I was like, you know, go make your own life together, get out of here and go do something somewhere else. And so they're able to grow together without, you know, interference from either the in laws, right? Kind of, you're off doing your own. Yeah. And then with my son, too, is like, I love having him around. But, you know, this is, you know, you'll grow up. But it both of them came with lots of tears. You know, it wasn't easy, but it was it was healthy.
Jim 7:48Right? Yeah, absolutely. All right, Jim. Okay. I guess I guess because the nature of your YouTube channel and everything. In in this is going to be a little challenging. But if you can in one sentence, how would you sum up social media?
Rob 8:13Oh, yeah. One sentence, Jim. Yeah, no, I will. I don't know if this is a question or a hot seat like we it to be honest with you. We've never had a social media influencer on our show. Down the street. When's he getting here?
Jim 8:38Or I guess we can rephrase the question, Rob. We can say what what is, you know, what is your What are your thoughts on social media?
Rob 8:48Uh, yeah, in one sense, I don't know that. I'm going to punt on that. But I will say, you know, you know, the internet can be pretty bad place for a lot of things, but also, you know, hoping to try to redeem it a little bit, you know, to try to bring, you know, have some wholesomeness where you can feel safe, calm, and I'm not gonna start all sudden, swearing, I'm not going to come in, I'm not going to, you know, preach at you. But I am a man of faith. And so I, you know, I want to be true to myself with that. So I'm not, you know, people early on, say, Oh, don't say God bless you. Well, you know, that's your opinion. Sorry. I'm going to continue to do it. If you know if it offends you, you know, then you're too easily offended. Because there's been worse things that have been said to you. I'm sure you know, um, so. Yeah, that's the worst thing you say. Yeah, I mean, come on. So, anyway, I think, you know, there's a lot of bad on the internet. And so if we can somehow redeem redeem it, you know, I don't know. I am hoping that we can set a little bit better standard for people, you know, so that people yeah, to try to build each other up and be kind to each other. That was the whole my first one My daughter and I first started this with it was to be, you know, let's try to be kind try to pour some kindness into the world. And, you know, I love switchfoot the Christian band, they got to know Yeah, good. Yeah. And one of the ones is, you know, is this the world you want, while you're making it every day you're alive. And I think that's so powerful, because it is true, you know, well, we can't point the finger. Well, you got to start somewhere, start with yourself, and let's try to pour some good back into the world so, so that we can Yeah, make it a better place. Awesome.
Brendan Roy 10:31I think some platforms are worse than others. I think as adults, we are able to segregate ourselves from you know, whatever we don't want to be a part of, however,...
