Joe Loya
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, he admitted everything.
Oh, wow.
Everything.
Okay.
And he was contrite.
One thing I'll give my dad, after it was all said and done, obviously he never hit us again.
But when we went to foster care, because we went to foster homes and foster care, the county took us away from him.
Obviously, he was a delinquent father.
But he jumped through every hoop they told him to jump through to get us back.
And he humiliated himself.
He had to come into the homes.
I was not nice to him.
It's like the old Who song, like something about the new boss, same as the old boss.
You know, it was like...
Like, now it's my turn to be the jerk towards him.
I wasn't magnanimous.
And I had the power.
I had, you know, figuratively, I had social services on speed dial.
They came to see us all the time, whatever.
So I could threaten him with that shit.