Gabe Wooton

Born on July 30th, 1976 in Houston, Texas.

Like I said, I have a six year old now. It's different man. What I say now is like, you know, my time is not my own. Especially trying to play, you know, shows and stuff, and going, you know, if you get out playing somewhere and all of a sudden something else pops up, “Yeah, we'll go do that. Whatever.” You can't do that anymore, man.

And it's fine.It's cool. It gets, it gets a lot - He has recently gotten into Pokemon, and I missed all that. I didn't understand it, and I still don't understand it. And, I caught myself getting frustrated the other day. And I'm like, man, I'm glad that you're in to Pokemon. Not to be an asshole, but I could care less. Like, I can't, I can't understand what you're telling me half the time about it, like I don't. I didn't realize the names are these weird made up names, so I thought maybe he was having a seizure or something, ;ike the first time he's talking to me about it.. “Well I gotta, you gotta have these cards.” And I’m like, well I think it's a game, dude. Isn't it a game, you know? “Oh, yeah.” Well, how do you play the game? “Well, well, I don't know.” All right. Let me look it up. Let me see how to play Pokemon.

And I'm talking about I had zero interaction with this stuff. It was way after I was a kid. And I start trying to read to him, like, I guess, how to do a battle or whatever. And I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ, there’s math involved, dude. So then I was like, ah, you know, Pokemon’s a scam. Do the old codger dad thing. That didn't work. All right, well, let me do the reverse psychology. Let me get into Pokemon with him. And he couldn't be happier and I’m all, shit. So now I've got a Pokemon shirt. You know what I mean?

But just like, you know. Spending time is spending time. It's not so much about what you're doing, but how you do it, I think with kids. And it's. You see people who who have kids that once they’re older, you know, they don't have a good relationship with them or whatever. Well your kid doesn’t talk to you? “Oh, no, why would he talk to me?” You know? So my mind, down the road, I want our little man to be able to come talk to me about whatever. And I think you set the foundation, the groundwork for that, for getting into Pokemon because he's in the Pokemon, you know what I mean? And just.

And I don't want to be one of those dudes that’s like my kid’s my best friend, because I think that leads to trouble down the road, too. But, but I definitely want to be somebody that he can come to, you know, if he's in trouble or whatever. And I think that comes through dumb, simple acts like just being into what he's into, even if you're not into that.