Is Chuck a Hub-Son?

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the new trad of 'Hub-Sons". These are guys who stay home with their parents and do all the chores, cooking, etc. without having to pay for cost of living. Chuck imagines doing this for his dad and his son doing it for him.

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00:00This new board game is hard.

00:01What is the game?

00:02You have to match the 5-hour energy holiday flavor with their holiday.

00:07You're an idiot.

00:08Pumpkin Spice, Halloween.

00:09Cranberry Lime, Thanksgiving.

00:12Gingerbread Sap, Christmas.

00:13Are you a wizard?

00:22All righty, here's something I had never heard of anyway until today.

00:28HubSons.

00:30Where my brain went, I don't like it.

00:35But I have possibly watched too much stuff.

00:38It's not like Oedipus.

00:40Oh, hell.

00:41It's a stay-at-home son.

00:43They grocery shop.

00:45They cook.

00:46They clean.

00:47Imagine that.

00:48They fix things around the house.

00:49Could you imagine that?

00:50Because that's not what you normally get.

00:52They'll stay.

00:53They'll stay.

00:53Oh, they will stay.

00:54But they're not fixing anything.

00:56They're not doing the pool.

00:58They're not.

00:59So they live with their parents forever?

01:01Yes, they do.

01:02They never leave.

01:02Lake Parkhurst, one of the guys that you can check out at DaveAndChuckTheFreak.com.

01:07He is living the dream.

01:08He's 34.

01:09He is living jobless and rent-free at his mother's house.

01:14Oh, God, Dave.

01:15Be careful.

01:17Be careful, Dave.

01:18But it's not a totally free ride.

01:20It comes with the homemaking duties of basically a stay-at-home wife.

01:24Rather than loafing about all day, eating bonbons and scrolling through social media while his mom works, he's taking care of business around the house.

01:34He says he's a stay-at-home son.

01:37No girlfriend or wife or anything.

01:40No chance.

01:42He grows the shops.

01:43He cooks steak for dinner.

01:44He cleans the pool.

01:45He fixes things around the house.

01:47He's an unpaid worker, but it's a position that's rising in popularity among Gen Z and Gen Y2K guys called TradSon by some or HubSon by others.

02:02TradSons like Luke, who was a former door-to-door salesman, who ditched the $170,000-a-year job he had and moved back into his mom's place this summer.

02:17That's a bold-faced lie.

02:19Says he's not leeching off his parents.

02:23Instead, he earns his keep doing housework, running errands in order to maintain his status there.

02:29I'd rather be a door-to-door salesman than clean up my parents' house.

02:35Live with your parents and clean up after them and cook for them.

02:39I'd rather knock on doors high and get shot at and be told to F off and get the hell out of here.

02:47I'd rather that than I am stuck in a home with my parents and I am cleaning up.

02:55I'd rather do repos.

02:57Yeah.

02:58You know?

02:58Yeah.

02:59There's so many things I'd rather do.

03:00I'll go take people's cars back from them.

03:02I'll gladly cook a dinner for my family or do something, but I will not work and live there and just do everything for them.

03:11Right.

03:12Unless they were incapacitated.

03:14Yeah.

03:15Right?

03:15That's a different situation.

03:16I'd rather do that anyway for them later in life, but it's usually not when you're younger.

03:20Not when you're in your early 30s.

03:22Well, the trad wife, the payoff is that you're in this relationship, like a sexual relationship.

03:29You know what I'm like?

03:30It's your wife, right?

03:31Yes.

03:31You're doing it for your partner.

03:33Yeah.

03:34The trad wife stuff is kind of, it's just like a throwback thing.

03:37Yeah.

03:37But trad son.

03:40The trad son movement, they say, can enhance the family dynamic, offering young men the emotional support they need in giving their parents help around the house.

03:48I don't need my mom to tell me, like, I'm doing a good job.

03:53What to do.

03:53I think you do, man.

03:54Very Norman Bates.

03:55I really don't.

03:56They did it enough when I was young.

03:58They pumped me up, so that's why I am the way I am.

04:01I'm a mess.

04:02They pumped me up too much.

04:04And Patty, that's his mom's name, says that footing the bill for herself and Luke is one of her favorite pastimes.

04:10Oh, see?

04:11She works in real estate and as a flight attendant, so she has two jobs.

04:14She needs two jobs.

04:15She needs them.

04:15This guy.

04:16To support her grown son.

04:17We got to save Luke.

04:19We got to save Patty.

04:21Who do you think is the problem?

04:23She loves them.

04:24Luke looks pretty happy.

04:25Luke is happy.

04:26Luke's loving life.

04:28He doesn't need saved.

04:29He gave up his job to do this.

04:31You don't think it's Patty?

04:34You don't think it's a mom who wants his son?

04:36Yes, that's 100% what it is.

04:39I mean, he's fine with it too, but these are one of these moms that can't let their child go.

04:46It happens all the time.

04:48That's what I'm saying.

04:48They can't look at this.

04:50Oh, my God.

04:51If my mom's legs are on my crotch, get me the hell out.

04:58This is a mom who's in love with her son.

05:03Ew.

05:03Oh, that is so weird.

05:05Luke is sewing her socks or something?

05:08He's knitting.

05:09He's knitting something.

05:10I think he's knitting while his mom reads.

05:12Do you think he gives her foot rubs?

05:15Save Luke.

05:16Why are her feet on his lap?

05:17Save Patty.

05:18Patty wants it.

05:20I think this is...

05:21Listen, you only get a son like this if you allow it to happen.

05:25Yeah.

05:26And that is 100% true.

05:27My dad would always...

05:28Boy, get the hell out of here.

05:32Because I stayed way too long.

05:35With my parents.

05:36Way too long.

05:37Does it mention if dad's in the picture?

05:39It doesn't mention if dad's in the picture.

05:40Oh, I'm sure dad's not in the picture.

05:41There's no dad.

05:42That dad said, get me the hell out of here.

05:44Or he died.

05:46Or is that him?

05:47Who's that?

05:48No, that's another guy.

05:49Oh.

05:49And he does it for his dad.

05:51He chauffeurs his dad around on a regular basis.

05:55That Mark Ruffalo-looking guy could do well out there.

05:57Exactly.

05:58Imagine driving your dad around, Chuck.

06:00You're his driver.

06:01Keep going.

06:04Well, hold on.

06:04I want to...

06:05I'd like to...

06:07I want to go to the Home Depot.

06:10Take me to the Home Depot.

06:12Okay, that was fun.

06:16All right.

06:17Well, what do I want to do now?

06:21It's early.

06:22Let's go to Walmart.

06:25Let's go to Canadian Tire.

06:29You want to get a bite?

06:31You want to get a bite to eat?

06:33Does he complain about the prices of everything?

06:36Oh, my God.

06:38I'm not doing it.

06:39I didn't buy anything.

06:40Did he complain about your driving?

06:42Oh, God.

06:44He didn't even think about that.

06:45Slow down.

06:46Speed up.

06:48Go.

06:49God, let me drive.

06:50You can't, Dad.

06:51You're not allowed to drive.

06:52Shut up.

06:56Shut your face.

06:57That's trans son Chuck driving his dad around town.

06:59I would watch that show.

07:00I would, too.

07:01Chuck drive his dad around.

07:03Driving Mr. Breister?

07:04It'd be awful.

07:05I would 100% watch that show.

07:07No, it's my mom's life right now.

07:08I can't even imagine it.

07:10I can't even imagine it.

07:13Don't take this route.

07:16I can't.

07:17I bet it's every, like, honestly.

07:20I bet it's, oh, man.

07:21I don't think you would last a day as a trad son in your parents' house.

07:25I am the furthest thing from trad.

07:31I'm yelling at you, Charlie.

07:33Charlie!

07:34There's laundry on the ground.

07:36It's your job.

07:38Charlie!

07:41Charlie, why is the dishes not put in the dishwasher?

07:46Charlie!

07:49Answer the phone!

07:51Complaining that you ate stuff you wanted to eat.

07:53Oh, my God.

07:53Who ate?

07:56Where's my hostess cupcakes?

07:58Charlie!

07:58That'd be the only upside.

08:03The only upside is their snacks.

08:05Their snacks, yeah.

08:06I mean, but I would die from it.

08:07Oh, man.

08:09Oh, God.

08:11Yeah.

08:11That's terrible stuff.

08:12Chuck's not going to be a hub son anytime soon.

08:13No.

08:14And I'm not rubbing my dad's feet or anything like that.

08:17Charlie, they're getting, they're burning up.

08:22They're sore as can be.

08:23Chuck's sitting on the couch playing video games with his dad's feet.

08:26Oh, my God.

08:26Are you on that video game?

08:28Are you gambling again?

08:35Shoot.

08:36Someone said, I have two friends that live this life, but their parents have lots of money,

08:39so they have an inheritance coming.

08:41That's fine, but, like, make something of yourself, I guess.

08:44Yeah, how can you live life like that?

08:45That's the part I don't understand.

08:46No matter how much money you have, you're just not going to do anything?

08:49No, and I often feel like, you know, like, sometimes parents, they work real hard, they start a business, they do whatever, and they're like, their dream is one day I'll be able to pass this down to my kid, and then your kid is a jackass.

09:04And he's a trad son.

09:06And then it's like, you think this guy who, like, does the pool work is going to be able to take over the family business?

09:14And he's got the work ethic that it takes to own something like that?

09:18No.

09:19They drive a company into the ground.

09:22That's what happens.

09:23I guess the one good thing for you, your dad doesn't get up early, so he wouldn't be pestering you to get up early.

09:28My dad would be up all night.

09:29I'd have to wait on him until about 3 a.m.

09:32Charlie!

09:323 a.m.

09:33Hockey game's still on.

09:35Hello, Charlie!

09:37And I'm up.

09:38I'd be up.

09:39Yeah.

09:41It is a bizarre thing.

09:42Hopefully no one listening is in this situation.

09:45You should not have a hub son.

09:47No.

09:49And that, Luke.

09:50Calling it hub son to me is like husband.

09:54It's mixing husband.

09:57And so that, that, if you've decided to call.

10:00Hopefully just in the husband duties, not anything sexual.

10:04You see the duties?

10:05So you see the duties?

10:06You know what the, you know what a husband's real?

10:08Her feet should not have been on his lap.

10:09No way.

10:10I'd be like, listen, we're not, yeah, we're not taking that photo.

10:13No.

10:14Your ankle can't touch my penis.

10:16Oh my God.

10:17Well, it is.

10:18It is.

10:19It is.

10:20Come on, man.

10:20You're right.

10:22If a woman put her legs on my lap like that right now, I'd be thrilled.

10:27I mean, the one positive thing is, Chuck, I mean, you could always have Rowan do it for you.

10:31Well, I mean.

10:32Oh my God.

10:36Luckily, I know he would never do it.

10:38I would never sign him up.

10:40And like, he was like, dad, I want to become a trad.

10:42I'm like, you're not.

10:44You don't get to be a trad.

10:47Nothing would get done.

10:47You don't, you won't cook.

10:49You won't clean.

10:51You won't get a job.

10:52He won't.

10:53You're not a trad.

10:54Get out of here.

10:55Go talk to your mom.

10:56Nothing traditional about him.

10:59Oh my God.

11:00No.

11:02Yeah.

11:03You're not in good situations either way.

11:04Dad, there's no way I could get a job.

11:06It's impossible with all of the baseball I'm coaching now.

11:10He's coaching.

11:11Coaching?

11:12Yeah.

11:12He's got his own team.

11:13Oh, nice.

11:14I can't.

11:14Oh, God.

11:16Busy, busy, busy bee.

11:18He's got school to pay for too, though.

11:19Yeah, he does, Desi.

11:22Oh, boy.

11:24Yikes.

11:25Yeah.

11:25Oh, no way.

11:27All that study time.

11:28Can I get a scooter to scooter on?

11:32So crazy.

11:35God.

11:36Trad.

11:37Not even close.

11:39Not even close.

11:43Chuck life.

11:44Yeah.

11:45Dad.

11:47Playoffs.

11:49Oh, God.

11:51There's like no way you could somehow pull some strings and get like, I don't know, like 30

11:58playoff tickets.

11:5930.

12:0030.

12:00That's reasonable.

12:00Just the boys.

12:02That's reasonable.

12:03Just the boys.

12:04Pull some strings.

12:06No, I can't pull any strings.

12:08There's no strings, son.

12:11There's no strings left.

12:12Oh, God.

12:14I told everybody.

12:16My dad was totally going to stick up.

12:18God.

12:19My God.

12:20Oh, God.

12:21Oh, God.

12:22Oh, God.

12:24Oh, God.

12:25Oh, God.

12:26Oh, God.

12:27Oh, God.

12:28Oh, God.

12:29Oh, God.

12:30Oh, God.

12:31Oh, God.

12:32Oh, God.

12:33Oh, God.

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