Jacoby Shaddix

home's home you know I never lived in LA you know I just go down there to make records and so I live up in Sacramento I've lived there for you know for the last like around the area for the last 30 plus years you know when we started having babies and stuff like that my parents my mom and my stepdad stuck around the area and so we got a tight village you know when I go home it's like I kind of got a small circle you know and so it's like I spend more time with my parents than like I care to admit

Oh yeah, we do.

We do all the, I mean, it's a regular thing for us.

And that's what really is like, who's calling me?

Yeah, if you don't mind.

Sorry, let me just.

Oh, dude, I'm fucking dad as fuck.

I'm a rad dad.

Yeah.

I'm not even gonna lie, dude.

It is just.

Being a dad is like.

It is just the joy of my life, honestly.

And I think part of... One of the cool things I think about being a father too is like... How can I say this?

A lot of like my partying, like my raging and I did it on the road and I would come home and I would try to dry out and like just like white knuckle it through it.

So my kids...

although there was a lot of dysfunction, I really did my best to like hide it from my kids.

And, uh, my older sons, you know, there's, there's not a lot of, a ton of recollections of me like being like drunk, shitty dad, you know?

And, and, uh, so I'm really grateful that like, I didn't really damage my kids through all that.

Um, and Brixton, my youngest has never seen me drunk.