John B. Allen (MrBallen)

It was like literally a couple of days away.

You know, there's not a chance we're going to do that.

And I remember I talked to Wolf separately, so not the guy whose dad died.

And I said, Hey, you know, just between you and I, obviously we're not going to go, you know, right.

And he's like, yeah, no way.

But, um, I ended up getting a call from, from Nick and Nick is, he was always like a very stoic guy, sort of like a tough, quiet reserve kind of guy.

And he's like, Hey, uh, like showing almost no emotion or anything.

He's like, Hey, you know, we're just, we're just going to go, we're

I remember thinking that I actually really didn't want to, because I'm thinking about how uncomfortable that's going to be.

The absence of his father is going to be so obvious.

But I also was thinking that, for all I know, this is their way of sort of honoring his late father.

He loved the cabin.

And maybe it's one of those things where it's like, he would want us to go, still do the trip.

And so I called Wolf separately and he sort of agreed that he's like, I feel like it's our responsibility to go and be supportive and just let this be whatever it is.

You know, it's not meant to be a fun vacation.

It's meant to be there for the family and just go.

And so me and Wolf agreed to go with Nick.

And the deal is it's gonna be the three of us, the three friends, Nick's mom, like usual.

And then she had two much older sons.

They were in their thirties at the time, were 16.