Tom Pelphrey
👤 Speaker
906
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
My parents got divorced when I was still pretty young.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
We still got to see my daddy coach my basketball team.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
I played all the sports and I was terrible at all of them.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
But you know, he's the coach and I'm his son and he had to play me.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
I was good at like fouling out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
But when I got older, we started to get closer.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
I think that when you sort of become a man,
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
or start to, the world takes on much more gray, less black and white.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
You start to understand a little bit.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
You start to get a taste a little bit of, you lose this sort of childish simplicity or naivete.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
And I think I can meet him there on a more even level.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
And we started to connect then.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
Unfortunately, he passed away when I was 25.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
So a few years after that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tom Pelphrey
He passed away in his sleep.