00:00So my son gets on the phone, he doesn't know what he's doing, he goes, when you're coming home, dad?
00:03And my wife goes, who's on the, picks up the extension, it was very quick, she goes, don't know when, but we'll have a good time then, son, you know we'll have a good time.
00:10Now, bam, you know, here, have the arrow back, love.
00:28Harry Chappan, Cats in the Cradle, I'm pretty sure I've heard this song.
00:33And as he grew, he'd say, I'm gonna be like you, dad, you know I'm gonna be like you.
00:41Damn.
00:41Time out.
00:43I got paying attention to the lyrics.
00:45You know, Harry's whole thing was, his songs were about human beings.
00:48Harry had, lyrically, the human touch.
00:53I always think of him as a storyteller.
00:55One of the 45s we spun on our turntables had that Elektra Records logo with the caterpillar, and it was Harry Chappan's Cats in the Cradle.
01:05The sound of that record was just so inviting.
01:11And the lyrics mean something different to every age group, every generation.
01:17I was like, wow, do I like this?
01:20Wow, did you hear that?
01:21Oh my God, I heard this.
01:23Oh my God, I had to sit down.
01:24I had to stop driving.
01:25I was crying.
01:26Oh my God, my father came in and he was weeping.
01:28Oh my God, there's so many things to unpack in this song.
01:32We would sit and listen to Cats in the Cradle, and we wouldn't listen to it one time, we'd listen to it like, for an hour and a half.
01:46I think it's the greatest song you ever wrote, but I think his life was even greater than the song.
01:54He really taught us how to be alive.
01:57It's just, I mean, I've been away from home too much, and I'm about to blow my marriage if I don't get my butt home and start not being Uncle Daddy to my kids.
02:07Work smarter, not harder.
02:08Tomorrow's not promised.
02:10Hang out.
02:10When you're coming home, son, I don't know when, but we'll get together then, Dad.
02:16Donkey!
02:17Can you just cut to the part where you're supposed to make me feel better?
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