Rob Riggle

And so I give them a lot of credit because those intangibles, people always say, well, Marines and comedy, how does that go together?

It doesn't necessarily.

But the intangibles do.

You know?

There's a moth in their toolbox.

We denied them the ability to become resilient.

Right.

Because...

You know, and I'm a dad and I have to try – I balance this.

I have to try to be – try to forgive myself a little bit because as parents, we want to help our children avoid the pain that maybe we endured.

But we think by coddling them and carrying them over the obstacle, it somehow helped them.

All it did was make them weaker.

Their resilience is atrophied.

And so they don't have the ability to do those things because we denied them thinking we were doing them a favor.

When in actuality, you know, you got to let them get the bloody nose.

You got to let them fall out of the tree.

You got to let them get kicked off the team or, you know, not start in a game because they didn't practice hard.

You got to, you know, these are the lessons that you learn that allow you to say, I'm going to try harder.

I'm going to come back.

You know, we've gotten smart.