Happy Fathers Day | The HigherUp Podcast Ep. 84
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Why did Michael record an impromptu Father's Day episode?
Welcome back to another episode of the higher up podcast. I'm your host, Michael smoke and happy father's day. It is a beautiful Sunday here in San Diego. And I don't think I've really done this before, but I woke up this morning feeling as though I needed to record an episode. And I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I don't batch content. The episode you guys see, they come out as they are recorded pretty much or within a day. And I just recorded an episode and put it out, I don't know, yesterday or the day before. So I really wasn't planning on recording anything until a few days from now to put out for next week's episode. But I just felt called to do this because it's Father's Day and that is a significant day for many people.
And it is definitely significant for me. And I think... What I want to cover perhaps is the journey of grief, the experience of grief, and also I guess just talk about my dad and really just share the lessons that he gave me with you. And I do that already. I think one of the things my dad would be so baffled by now is So frame of reference here, looking back on my dad's life, he passed away on January 19th of 2025. So it's been about a year and a half since he died. And I went through the season, the year of firsts without him. So this will be the second Father's Day that my dad has not been here. My dad had this way of teaching. Looking back, he was a lot like a monk. He was almost Pavlovian with his conditioning towards me, Pavlov's dogs.
There was a repeated pattern of things that he did to elicit a behavior or response from me. And one of the things that was Pavlovian and really one of the things my dad was that I didn't understand or didn't really appreciate until he died was he was much more Christ-like than I realized. And I think that that's beautiful because that's what we're called to be is more like Christ when we're here on earth. And he had these things that he would say to me, these phrases, probably six or seven things that were like the pillars of his teachings that he wanted to bestow upon me if you will and i get dms of strangers that you got you saying have a good day be a good person be the kind of friend a friend would want to have because that was probably the thing that he said the most to me and
It was the last thing he said to me every day in dropping me off before I went to school. He drove me to school probably 60% or 70% of the time from the time I was little until I was in high school, with the exception of the bus. And then, of course, I got my license and a car, a truck. But he had these things that he would just say to me repeatedly that he wanted to, I think, serve as my moral pillars in the way that I view the world. And I'm really appreciative, and there's – more emotion involved in this conversation than I was anticipating for sure. Just revisiting that one thing I did is I haven't opened this since my dad died, but when he, when he got sick, I knew I would want to capture as many moments as I could.
And so here in my phone, you really can't see it because it's blurred, but And I started this when he got sick in 2024. And the heading is just lessons from pop and notes I take along the way to remember. I remember hating making this, but I knew in my heart and in the back of my mind that he was going to pass from what he'd gotten sick from. And so I just started documenting that. Little things that we did, little moments, rehashing conversations. I timestamped them. I dated them. Just little things. I revisited before this conversation or this podcast. I revisited this notes document for the first time in a long time. it's cool. And I'm really glad that I did this. And I encourage all of you, if you're sentimental like me and you just, it's amazing how much we experience that.
We forget that if we are able to revisit it, it feels profound. And I did that. And it just brought me into a state of gratitude and love for my dad and the relationship that we had. And yeah, I just think of all the little quips he would say, the things he would say.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why did Michael record an impromptu Father's Day episode?
0:00–5:37
2
What is the timeline and context of Michael's dad's passing?
5:37–9:17
3
Which daily phrases and moral lessons did Michael's dad teach him?
9:17–12:17
4
How did Michael document moments during his dad's illness and why?
12:17–21:40
5
How did Michael's dad model calmness and character during suffering?
21:40–24:44
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