Travis (Big Yeti Kelsey)
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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I have two kids, and I seem to be able to experience all of the sort of negative emotions of parenting, over exhaustion, frustration, fear, responsibility. But I have yet to experience the real highs of parenting that other people talk about, sort of the joy that fills them up. And so I'm three years in and I'm starting to get concerned.
A couple of boys and they are both great. The first one was definitely a tougher baby, but you know, I don't know if that was part of just becoming a new parent, but I think he was just a bit more tricky. Second one has been pretty good, right? Like that's why I said good on paper, right? I don't really have a lot to complain about.
Tell me about it. It is. But I guess part of why it concerns me so much is that my wife derives so much joy from the children. Yeah. And it's hard for her to see me not sharing in that. Okay.
I grew up right here in the Valley. I grew up in a fairly religious household.
It's a complicated thing. There you go. All right. Let's put it this way. I'm not religious anymore. Okay. All right. My mother passed away when I was 11. Okay. Uh, the, I sort of have like a very much older sister. There's like a big gap to my older sister and me. Uh, so she's been more kind of like an aunt in my life. Uh, and then I have one younger sister is closer in age.
You didn't mention your dad. Where's your old man? Uh, he's still around. He's still like very helpful. He, you know, he is the guy that I can call at any time and he will show up. No questions asked. Um, if there's sort of a problem, like, but he, uh, there's never been like strong, like emotional conversations, if that makes sense. Absolutely. Right. Like very stoic, very helpful, very wise.
But, um, it's almost like he's, he's being the arbitrator, being the therapist. Like he's listening, he's taking it in, he's offering some advice, but like sometimes I feel like I don't know like what he actually thinks.
Yeah, and you are meant to be the pillar. You are meant to be the rock upon which everything is built on.
I was pretty all over the place. I was pretty wild. I was probably a pretty annoying child to a lot of people, but I was a big bundle of joy. I had fun all the time.
I mostly just didn't like, I remember I just like, I think I went to a friend's house that day. Like I just didn't want to acknowledge it. I just left. I just continued on my way.
I did. When I was in my 20s, I think I finally just let go of the guilt. I felt like I hadn't treated her right up until she died, but I was 10.
It took over a decade, but I think I finally got – I don't feel guilt when I think about it now. Good.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Can I recontextualize a little bit of that for you?
And the time when my body shut down had like nothing to do with like where I'm at now with like my kids. I don't think I'm very good at my job. It took me like seven years to get through college. I did get married, right? I'm a fiscally responsible person. So like we're set, right? There's not stressors there. But when my body, like when I noticed that like,
I kind of changed fundamentally was in college. I was really, really miserable comparing myself to like my fellow high school mates and my wife who were all doing really amazing in college. And I was just kind of struggling and floundering. And then at the time I thought like, Oh, you know, I have, I've, I've conquered it. I don't feel bad anymore.
But looking back, I feel like I have fundamentally changed since then where like, I don't, I just don't feel. That's it.
But I seem to only care when people look. I have a therapist, and the way I describe it is I kind of have this ramshackle house. There's stuff in the gutters. The lawn needs to be mowed, right? You could probably use a pressure wash. I don't mind it. It's okay with me, but I don't like when people look. I don't want to have them over.
Yeah, it's kind of both. I feel like I am a good dad.
So we started with about $150,000. Right now, currently, we make about $135,000. And in the middle there for a big chunk, it goes up to about $250,000. Okay, cool. What do y'all do for a living? We're both teachers. I'm a teacher and a coach. She's a math coach, actually.
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