 Shooting another Q&A with my dad! Hi! My dad's in town right now, and so I thought, hey, I don't have any content. Let's make a video! I'm whoring you out for views! How does it feel? So I asked you guys on Twitter to leave us some questions. It was very cute. I was like, yeah, dad, do you want to make a video? We'll do a little Q&A. He was like, yeah, but doesn't that take a while for people to respond? And I was like, dad, you don't know. OK, here's a good one to start off on, actually, from Francisco. First video game you ever played? First video game I ever played. Yeah. Oh, OK. I thought this was going to be a Q&A by you. No, it's a little bit of both. A little bit of both. The very first video game I played was Pong back in 1976, probably. Black and white TV. You guys probably all know what Pong is. The whole thing was self-contained like this. Like, one device had two paddles on it. I like an on-off switch. Was that on the Atari? One player, two player. No, it was just Pong. The machine was Pong, and you connected it to your TV set. I didn't realize that Pong was a console. Yeah, you had to sit like right next to each other, because you had to use the controls on the thing. I think that's how it was. That's my memory of it anyway. How did you decide Ethan's name? What Ethan's name would be when he was born? Also, somebody else asked. That was from Brizio 4. Somebody else asked earlier. I don't know where it is in here, but somebody else asked, were there any other names that you were thinking about? I know that if I was going to be a girl, I was going to be Alyssa. Yes, with two Ss. Was there any other boy names? I don't think there were any other boy names. We were convinced that you were going to be a girl. Your mom, you were your mother's second child. So your mom was like, this feel, it's caring different. When I had Andrew, his brother, he carried, it was up. I don't remember if it was high or low or left or right or whatever, but she was like, it's caring different. So I think it's a girl. So we focused on girl names and then... What were the other girl names? I don't remember. And then we had a sonogram. So we picked out all the folks on girl names. She said it was going to be a girl. We go have a sonogram. Yeah, you're having a boy. Oh, shit. So then we focused on boy names. And then I remember like the first boy name that was like, well, how about Derek? I didn't like any of the boy names, but I don't remember what they were specifically. I'm glad you didn't name me Derek. No offense to all the Derek's out there. No, the wrong with Derek. But I don't like your name. So the how we landed on Ethan, I don't know. It's kind of cool. It's kind of, is it? Like I wish that the story was, oh, my great-great-grandfather who invented ice. His name was Ethan. Who invented ice? Yeah, my great-grandfather did not invent ice. That's just made up, but... I'm pretty sure nature invented ice. So anyway, so I was watching the first Mission Impossible movie. And so I had never heard that name before, oddly enough, or at least I don't remember. And I was like, Ethan. That's it! What would you and Ethan do together when he was a child? Pulled me out of school for Harry Potter movies? Yeah, that was really... I thought that was pretty cool. I went to pick up Ethan once. I probably was with the second one. I don't remember. And I was like... Yeah, because me and Granny went to the first one. So I said, Ethan, you have a dentist appointment tomorrow. And he's like, as most people do. And so I lied to the school, of course, and say, yeah, I have to pick up Ethan. Which you don't need to do. Yeah, I could just say, I'm taking my child. Yeah. So I go to pick up Ethan and he gets in the car. I was like, you ready to go to the dentist? You're like, yeah. You probably asked some questions about it. Maybe, I don't know. But and then... Why would I have teeth? I only have a tooth. And then I was like, we're not going to the dentist. And you were like, you were in the back seat. Because you were in a car seat until you had a senior in high school. So, Ethan, we're not going to the dentist. And I was like, we're going to go see Harry Potter. And you lost your shit. You were like, it was very exciting. We went to every Harry Potter movie. So except for the first one, we went to every Harry Potter movie, either at midnight or opening day. Mostly opening day. I think the last two we went at midnight. But did Ethan ever have a special stuffed animal toy, blanket, et cetera that he carried around as a kid? So you had blue guy. Blue guy. It was a blue bear that I named blue guy. Another parenting of the year moment. In a way, if you sat him, like you're in your, like when you were a baby, baby, like if you were in your carrier thing, but it had like a thing like this or we blankets or whatever and we would prop blue guy just right and we could put the bottle in your mouth and then we like at restaurants or whatever and then we could eat and you would just sit there with the propped bottle in your mouth. What were your thoughts on Ethan becoming a YouTuber instead of going to college? Did you believe in him? You can answer honestly. I mean, honestly, I wanted you to go to film school. It's not like I wanted you to go to normal college. Normie school. And get like a degree and you know, nothing or whatever. But you know, I was concerned that, you know, well, I never, I didn't think you'd get necessarily to the level you are now, at least not this quick. I mean, you know, it's like, my kid likes to play basketball and he wants to be in the NBA. Okay, great. Take it all your games and practices and stuff. But the likelihood of that actually happening. Pretty slim. Pretty slim. So I thought, well, wouldn't it be great if you had something else to fall back on? And it was something that you like to do. Like you're still very interested in film, obviously, and behind the camera and all that kind of stuff. So I was nerve. So he took a gap year as he's probably talked about before and then he took a gap year, turned into gap two year. So Ethan, when Ethan said, hey, this opportunity came up, do you think I should do it? And I was like, absolutely 100% you should do this. Because I don't think, you know, these types of opportunities don't come up every day. And so I was 100% supportive of you coming out to LA. Thanks dad. Chasing your dream. How old was Ethan when he stopped peeing the bed? Have you stopped peeing the bed? What was Ethan's favorite show to watch as a kid that drove you crazy? When you were like one and a half, you got pneumonia. And I had to stay with you in the hospital, like around the clock. And your mom had the flu. So a friend would come in for like an hour to stay with you while I went home and like took care of your mom and made her food and whatever. And then I would come back to the hospital. And all we watched was fucking blues clues, like around the clock. I was like... But why though? I'm like one at that point. Like I'm not going to remember. Wow, you were very... You were very interested in it. But then you watched... Like it wasn't so much shows. You watched a lot of Elmo stuff, but it was more movies that you watched. You wore the tape out. We had a lot of VHS early on. So you wore the tape out on Lion King. You wore the tape out on Balto. Did we have Benji on VHS? I think we had some sort of ghetto Benji. I don't know if it was the original one or not, but... And then you had Simba the White Lion. Was it... No, it was Kimba the White Lion. Oh, sorry. Yeah, Kimba. Kimba the White Lion. Did he ever go through any phases? Like how some girls have a horse face. Well, I had a horse face actually. You also were super into dogs. And so this one Christmas you were convinced that you were going to get a puppy. And every box that you opened, every present that you opened, you cried if it wasn't a puppy. Like even boxes... I did the same thing with horses, right? No, I don't think you cried over the horses. But like you legit thought like a box that was this big had a puppy in it. And so you opened it up and you're like... Kids got a strong imagination. And you were like... You just started crying and you were like, oh, wow, okay, this is going to be rough. There's like 19 more presents left. What was Ethan like as a child? Is the level of crackhead energy the same as it was or worse when he was younger? Crackhead energy. You were a really good baby actually. Like you were not... You were not hard to raise. But as a child. Well, that's when you raise a child, when you're a child. You were very, very easy to raise. I was pretty talkative. I talked a lot. You were very talkative. And you could hang out with adults no problem. Yeah, we have a lot of like home video of... It was when we were like... When we first got the house and we were going to just like see it for the first time. Of just me in the backseat of the car just rambling to myself. Mika asks, how good at bowling are you? I am not good at bowling. You're pretty hitter man. I'm hit, like sometimes... Sometimes you bowl really good. Sometimes I bowl really good. Like I think my best game was like a 1-7. I would say you're pretty average and you're inconsistently good. That's pretty accurate. Yeah. How do you feel that your son has put content on his and another man's YouTube channel of them fully nude, doing things like painting each other to be super villains and them drawing full body art for a profit? I don't know, but this kind of seems like porn. How do I feel about it? Well, I know what context it was done in. So I didn't really answer the question other than like I knew what context it was done in and it was all done and sort of good day to shoot. Those are the videos that you show to people though when you're like, what is your son do a living? Absolutely, you're just like this. Yeah, exactly. And they go, oh, that's great. Because I want to get out of the conversation. That's perfect for that. If you could live anywhere else, what would it be? Like in the world, I would have to go scope out some places to see if it was somewhere I would like to live. But within the United States, San Francisco would be cool. I think Austin would be cool. I wouldn't mind having like an apartment in New York City, something like that would be cool. Lots of cool places around the world. There's so many cool places around the world that I've not really been to. Were there any words Ethan couldn't pronounce as a child when he was growing up? Almost all of the words you couldn't pronounce. I still can't pronounce most of the words. What was your reaction when Ethan decided to move to LA? But do you remember your reaction? Because I remember your reaction. I got the call from Mark and then you were at work and so I called you and I was like, or I texted you and I was like, hey, when are you going to be home from work? That was kind of a weird question because usually it didn't matter. And so you were like, I don't know in like 20 minutes why and I was like, well, because something happened and I want to talk to you about it and you were like, is it something big? And I was like, yeah. And so you were like, okay. And so you came home and then I told you and you thought that I had gotten the girl that I was dating pregnant? Yeah, that must have been a fun ride home. What is your favorite memory of Ethan when he was younger? I could give you one of my favorite memories on the day you were born. Ooh, the day I was born. I think you know what it is. A little background first because that'll be why I was dressed the way I was. Otherwise it might sound weird, but so pregnancies, I mean, the birth is moving along, you know, like the, and so the doctor was like, well, why don't you get in the hot tub which sometimes that helps move the process along or whatever? And I was like, cool. So I, you know, we had known that that was a possibility. So I had a bathing suit. So I went and put a bathing suit on and we get in the hot tub for like 10 seconds and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, what's happening? Oh, so like, you know, we didn't have time for margaritas, which was kind of a bummer. I hope your mom didn't have time for a margarita. And so we, so we, you were born, I was in a bathing suit, no shirt, sort of half wet when you were born. And so, well, I was fully wet. So yeah, you had stuff all over you. Was I, I looked like a blueberry. Didn't I? Yeah, you look like a blueberry. You look like someone beat the shit out of you with a stick. After you, so you immediately went up on your mom's chest and then I cut the umbilical cord. And then shortly after that, I had you on my chest and I was holding you and you had your very first poop. If any of you are familiar with the first poops of babies, there's something called merconium, which is like tar. Sounds like a toxic like, it was pretty toxic both in smell and texture. Like it was like goopy growth. Like it was, oh, it was like, so I had to like go take a shower. I was holding that for a while. Yeah. Yeah. So that was one of my cherished memories of, of you right out of the box. Did you laugh it off though? I guess so. I think you were trying to tell me what you thought of me. Like did you throw me or? Yes. What the fuck? I was like somebody take the, it was almost like taking this. It was sticking. So there was like, there was like this connection of poop tar. And boy was there. But it was like well, well, well. Yeah. That's how we bonded for the first time. That's right. That's right. Well, the SD card is about to marry a man in memory. So we got to go fam. Dad, how was your time here? It was great. I wish there were more snacks, but other than that, it's been swell. There's new Mimi merch that's in the description. Give me that sweet merch plug. There's some sweet, sweet merch. I don't know that I've seen it. So how do I know? It's in a box upstairs. I'll go check it out. But I did see that the samples came. So when is that merch going to be available? It's available right now. Where can they get it? You can get it right now. Crankhamplace.com. Now check out the link in the description and go and get it. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for watching. Hey, thanks. Thanks for having me. Everybody, let my dad know. Happy birthday. Hey, thank you. Even though by the time this is up, it won't be your birthday anymore. Well, we could like just like birthday month. It's a 2% we got to go. Okay. Bye, everybody. Bye.