What Do YOU Value? The One Powerful Truth Sons Need From Strong Fathers | S6 E6

Steve Alessi:

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the family business with the Alessis because family is everybody's business. And today, my son, Christopher John Alessi, the father of Marino John Alessi and the husband of Richelle Alessi is joining me in the podcast because we're talking about things today that we don't get to talk about on Sunday. Yeah. Chris, welcome to the podcast booth.

Chris Alessi:

Good to be here. I think this is the first or second one since, I've been a dad now.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And, hopefully, by the end of the podcast, we can bring him in here and show him and show the potty and

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Our boy, Marino.

Steve Alessi:

We will have to do that. Now you and I just came back from a hunting trip, but we're not gonna talk about the hunting trip at our podcast today. We just want everybody to know We're one of us took the biggest animal and shot the most accurate shot.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

And we're not gonna let people know exactly who

Chris Alessi:

Who it was.

Steve Alessi:

Person was between the 2 of us.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. Gotta say I'm glad you're not telling anyone I do that.

Steve Alessi:

Wish you could vote on that right now. If there was a way for you to vote, who you think Took the biggest animal

Chris Alessi:

and who

Steve Alessi:

shot the most accurate shot. You should vote, and then we will let you know when we record the podcast Who won?

Chris Alessi:

Alan will figure out a

Steve Alessi:

way to Alan could make that happen.

Chris Alessi:

I'm actually glad you brought up the the the trip though because it's part of what can discuss today.

Steve Alessi:

We'll discuss it. No. I don't wanna get into that. I wanna save that for a future episode. Yes, sir. This started this conversation started while we were out Hanging together. Father and son, father and son in law. Weena was with us, and it was a real leadership gathering, but we'll talk about that In the future, AP, let's do that because that was really, really cool to be able to bond with

Chris Alessi:

That was a good time.

Steve Alessi:

Chris and, and Alex and, David and Tony have made some real special And

Chris Alessi:

our boy, Freddie

Steve Alessi:

Freddie, and you you were exposed to bigger vision. Okay. We're not gonna talk about that. Before we go on, let me say thank you to Maria Marie Angulo. We got your voice message. I'm glad the episode where we talked about taking care of our aging parents was a real blessing to you. Thank you for letting us know. We love hearing from our audience because we are informed of what we're doing right, And we wanna add value to your life, and so that's the way that you let us know exactly, if we're doing that or not.

Steve Alessi:

So feel free to reach out. You can Send us a voice mail. All that stuff will be listed right here on the page, and we'll make sure that you are given the right place to Respond. And, of course, if you like what you're hearing, please like it and share it. We like you subscribing to be a part of what we're doing And getting updates for every one of our new podcasts like the one we're gonna do today. So I'm gonna actually yield the microphone to Christopher For John Alessi, the father of Marino. And husband to Rochelle, son to Mary.

Chris Alessi:

That's What are we gonna be talking about? Brother to Stephanie, Lauren, Gabby. No. So about the hunting trip, not gonna go into detail about it, but I was actually just talking to Alan about it in the back. It was different for me. You know, we've been getting into the the hobby, I guess, you could say of it for couple years now, and I've I've gone along. I it's probably the best way to describe it. Right. Gone along with it.

Chris Alessi:

But this trip kinda changed it for me, and part of it was because of you know, now that I'm becoming a dad myself, and I'm Feeling a really large shadow, you know, of having to be what you were to me to this young boy. It's given me a new, you know, prism of thought, a new perspective. And so the hunting trip did something for me, and it's kinda what I think we should talk about today. But At first, I viewed it as a hobby.

Steve Alessi:

Mhmm. As your dad's hobby.

Chris Alessi:

As as a hobby that my dad chose to like.

Steve Alessi:

And you came along for the ride.

Chris Alessi:

I did it to be obedient.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah. And which by the way, that's an episode in itself.

Chris Alessi:

In and of itself.

Steve Alessi:

Because sons don't have no idea when they support their dad's ideas on doing things like this, How how encouraging it is to the father? Oh, well, it's pain in the neck when you're pushing your son to do something they really don't wanna do it.

Chris Alessi:

Well, the worst the worst thing about that is how more encouraging it becomes to the sun Yeah. Over the time. But that being said, I viewed it as a hobby, hobby that you liked. Mhmm. A hobby I didn't like. I had other hobbies that I liked. But the more that I went on this particular trip, There were certain things that caused me to come face to face with certain realities. We spent time outside, and I really needed Stillness with some of the new stuff that I've walked into as a dad.

Chris Alessi:

And what I realized is, See, this isn't a hobby of my dad's, and I'm going somewhere with this.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

This is something that has objective value for men.

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

And my dad is onto it, and he's valuing it. And I'm the moron Oh, boy. Living in the world of subjective value. Like, I'm the one that gets to decide whether it's valuable or not, instead of realizing, oh, no. This this object, this thing has value. It's kind of like the market versus what it actually costs. The market can set the value on things, but that's how much it actually costs. Sadly, the market undervalues true valuable objective truth.

Chris Alessi:

And the market undervalues it, but the people who come in and recognize know whether it's something like, And we'll get to this about men, and we really wanna talk today about what it means to be a man, how to handle our emotions, How to how to orient ourself to the world as men in a world where everyone thinks just being a man is toxic. I have to realize there are certain things that have objective value, and I'm a good man when I align myself with the things that have objective value. Mhmm. I'm a child when I continue to treat things like they have subjective value. Like, I'm the one that gets to decide how valuable they are.

Steve Alessi:

Mhmm.

Chris Alessi:

And so I think it's important because this trip helped me realize, dang. When I look at things, whether it's an opportunity to be on a podcast you know, sometimes if I'm looking at it through the lens of subjective value, I see how tired I am. I don't know if I have much to say. You know? I don't like the way the person asked me to be on or whatever, And I ruin an opportunity to speak to somebody's heart for 30 minutes and possibly bless them. Meanwhile, the other way I could look at it is every opportunity to be on a podcast has objective value. And I'm a man when I can recognize the value and come into an alignment with it.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So kind of this objective value versus subjective value and understanding, You know, your wife, I don't get to decide how valuable she is.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

She has objective value given to her by god, And I'm a good man when I come into alignment with how she deserves to be valued. So I think We should talk a little bit about that today, the things that are on their own valuable, like you were just saying, and we can we can start there if you want. When your dad comes in and says, Son, this will matter to you, that's not his opinion.

Steve Alessi:

Right. Right.

Chris Alessi:

That's objectively true, And I'm smart if I get on it early and say, oh, these are the things that will matter to me when I get older? Yeah. Right? Am I making sense?

Steve Alessi:

Sure. Well, you know, as you get older, that's probably harder to to to kinda determine. When you're younger, you go along for the ride. When you're younger, You're you know, you don't have much of an option, much of a choice, which is why a dad should probably start. I wish I would have started hunting A lot earlier to show you how fun it was, even though you still haven't bought in the boating because every time you get near a boat, you get seasick.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. It's 100% my fault. To the boat, you can see. The word boat makes me Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

Flare up. Hunting was so much better, And I can't wait for people to vote and actually tell us who they think shot the biggest animal and had the most accurate shot from almost 200 yards. But what I I see, like, I can call out this guy because we he's a hero of ours in our church, Jeff Childers.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

Alright? Jeff Childers is so intentional about introducing things to his boys, that is showing them at a young age, really, what is a value in life,

Chris Alessi:

what Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

What is important, what's a priority. So We have our Goodfellas group of men that hang out, sharpen one another, Go on, good fella camps, to call men up to be real men. We have a young fellas group, which is a bunch of young guys that are one day wanna be good fellas, so we have a program for them. Well, we wanna introduce something to it, And here's where Jeff jumped on it. We sent them out to Texas, put them in this environment where The father calls out to the son, calls out the man that is in that son even while that son is just a boy.

Chris Alessi:

8 years old, 9 years old.

Steve Alessi:

But put him in an environment for a full day, 24 hours, where he's having That fatherly son moment. Now I could tell you, that is so powerful. Right? But some people just don't value that Because their career is so busy, they got so much going on that's distracting them that they don't place a value on those things. And if you don't place a you wanted as a man, your kid will never find it valuable to them, which is why it's so important for us As men, yes. You know, when we got into hunting, it happened to me late in life. It happened to me when I was in my early fifties, mid fifties. And I wish the first thing I started thinking was, I wish I would've found this earlier because now hunting's not easy. I mean, hunting's kinda grueling.

Steve Alessi:

You're You're walking. You're in the the woods. You're you're climbing. You're picking things up. You're swinging them around, getting that animal, putting them on the truck. All those things, that stuff is tough. Feeding those feeders out there, opening those 50 pound bags, pouring them into the feeder, that stuff is Tough on a guy that now is 62. You know? They're like, I wish I would have found it earlier.

Steve Alessi:

If if we introduce those things To our our family as men. Yeah. We find out what's what's gonna be best for my kids in the future. We help them discover what are great hobbies or what good sports, get them away from their games, And put them out there in the real world as men. And if if we don't have sons, then look around, see a son. Who can I adopt? What single mom, needs help. What what what kid doesn't maybe have a father, of that that's around anymore? And as we as men can help Introduce them to some things that are really of value. Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

We show them before they get so old that now

Chris Alessi:

all is too early. Well, that's the thing. It's it's okay. So I like the analogy of gold in the river. Go. Right? So the truth is, If you think there's gold in a river

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

Right, somebody put it there. It's been placed there by someone. Let's say it's been placed there by God. Yeah. Right? At some point, someone finds it. There's gold in this river. Right? Too many people go through life thinking, I know there's gold in that river, but let me see if there's gold in any others. Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

When in reality, we have found out, no. There's gold in this one. So the Bible has told us as men that there's gold in certain rivers. The the the value is not in me. I didn't put the gold there, so I don't the the thing is The value of the thing is not found in me valuing it. The reward is found in me valuing it. Does that make sense?

Steve Alessi:

So you're saying everything I

Chris Alessi:

just said, I'm totally off. No. No. I'm saying

Steve Alessi:

I'm saying

Chris Alessi:

so confused. No. Listen. No. I got it. I'm pretty good. You didn't you don't make hunting valuable. Right.

Chris Alessi:

Hunting is valuable.

Steve Alessi:

There you go.

Chris Alessi:

You get rewarded because you value hunting. But hunting itself is valuable whether we value it or not. So the experience that I had this past week is valuable whether I signed up for it or not. And that's one of the things that I think we have to help younger men understand. But as older men, as a guy who's getting ready to, you know, really parent a son, The smartest thing that I can do is look to things that are much bigger than me, like my father, like experience

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

And say something like, Where's the gold in the river?

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

So for instance, one of the things I've seen you said I've seen you do recently, I have seen you handle So many relationships with so much grace. As young men, we think there's value In calling everybody out, in saying it like it is, in confrontation, we think there's value there, and there might be. There's always objective value in standing up for the truth. But I think what you're showing me now Is that long term relationships, perfect or not, are objectively more valuable than standing up for what you believe is right and doing life alone. And it's not that You value relationships. It's that the relationship is valuable.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And I'm seeing you do that. So marriage. No marriage is perfect.

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

It's not that there's objective value in women with certain habits versus women with others, and you happen to get married and find out she's got a habit, and now you're like, this marriage is less valuable because I don't like that habit. It's not marriage Between 2 imperfect people and staying married and and continuing to pursue each other is Objectively valuable.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And so, you see, if we approach something like marriage and from a subjective place, like I get to decide how valuable it is. Well, then there's you're headed for divorce.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

But if I if I go forward and say, no. There's gold in the river of a 50 year anniversary.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

There's then I will push past issues, And I will pursue the gold in that river, and the you you tell parents and grandparents all the time. No matter what's happened, there's value in their grandkids knowing their parents, and their grandparents are still together.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

There's value in that. There is. It's not subjective, which means I don't get to decide how valuable that is. I get rewarded based on how valuable I see it is. Yeah. And so for instance, let me just say this to the audience. You just heard my dad make reference to grabbing a kid who who is fatherless

Steve Alessi:

Mhmm.

Chris Alessi:

And fathering him. The truth is we may place a value on that or not, but we're gonna be rewarded based on whether or not we find that

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

But there's objective value in it no matter what. Right. There is a value in it, and we miss out if we choose not to.

Steve Alessi:

Mhmm.

Chris Alessi:

Am I making sense?

Steve Alessi:

Yeah. And I I think that that's where, you know, some of these biblical principles that we Choose to live by is helping prove this point. Exactly. Because it's only okay. It's valuable in itself. The the value of it plays out after you walk in it, Obey it. I'm rewarded by it. You're rewarded by it.

Steve Alessi:

But the challenge is Seeing it and deciding to step into it.

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Mary Alessi:

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Chris Alessi:

Yes. It's choosing to value the thing that has value.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And that's one of the things that I I you know, we talk about my truth first, the truth. Right? It's it's a thing. Well, CS Lewis writes about it In the fifties. Fine. It's always been this has always been a thing. This is not something new, not something a generation that's obsessed with social media has done. It is the tendency of us, of man, to believe that we get to decide what's true. Now maybe Some generations do it more than others, but we always flirt with, hey.

Chris Alessi:

You know what? Hunting is valuable to you, but my truth is it's not.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So here, I would get in a podcast and destroy anyone who says, you know, that they have a truth, And then I leave this room and operate within my truth. And because I think I get to decide how valuable hunting is or how valuable time with my dad is. And, you know, it it it really is recognizing hold on. There there's value in Getting away with my dad and some of his buddies and my brother-in-law. Is it hard because I have to leave my son for the 1st time? Yeah. But I'm shocked at how much value I got from this trip.

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

But you're not because you know where the gold in the river is. Mhmm. And I'm rewarded If I go to the rivers that you have found gold in Mhmm. If I have to leave and say, you know what? No. There's some other rivers. Let me go see if there's gold there. Maybe I'll find some Yeah. Maybe I'll come up empty.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And I think the questions that the younger generation should ask, How smart or how dumb do we think the people who came before us are? Because if we think they're smart, We'd look at what's important to them and say, if there were other things that were important, they probably would have found that.

Steve Alessi:

Mhmm.

Chris Alessi:

So if there was something as stupid as, like, more than 2 genders, I'm pretty sure the generations before us would have figured that out. And I love that it's the people who believe the Earth is 100 of millions of years old that also believe that we're the smartest generation to ever live, and you've gotten it wrong. You know, there's more than 2 genders. You're crazy. It's like so wait. You believe the world that human beings have had 80,000,000 years or whatever to figure out the best possible ideas, and they all got it wrong, but you got it right. So it's something is recognizing. There's no subjective value.

Chris Alessi:

There's no objective value in choice the way people think there is.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

There's objective value in identity that God gives you. So It's just some of the things oh, there he is. It's just some of the things that I think people need to realize, and I know we're using terminology that, you know, Might lose a person or two, but

Steve Alessi:

Really? The reality of it is should be in this chair because Alan's trapped in a lot more than I am. The reality of it is this what I have to live with, Patty and Sue? Do you see this kid, his head? I'm looking at him like he's not my son. He's got this stuff. You know what? And the crazy thing is he just read this book and this article get trying to get himself through his his master's class. He just read all this, and he's got a photographic memory that he reads it and he retains it.

Chris Alessi:

Michael, it's nice to meet you.

Steve Alessi:

Meanwhile, I'm over here. What?

Chris Alessi:

No. Okay. So here's the point. It's it's actually completely in line with everything you believe, that everything you've taught me, which is why I think it can get stamped so quickly.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Because it's like, oh, they're only saying what the Bible say. Okay. So God created things, so he knows how to value them. He tells us how to value them. I'm the moron who's like, I think you're wrong.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

But I'm rewarded when I come into alignment with the things that God says are valuable. So it is it is Seemingly insignificant, but it's actually very significant. Drawing a line between something has value, And I'm rewarded if I value it too, and drawing a line between that, and I get to decide what things are valuable. If if if I view that, at some point, I won't see my marriage as valuable.

Steve Alessi:

Right?

Chris Alessi:

At some point. But if I recognize no objectively, meaning it it's literally not tied to anything. There's no if, and, or buts. It's Objective. It's like this table. It is completely on its own. It can't be any bigger. It can't be any smaller.

Chris Alessi:

That's exactly the way it is. There's exactly that amount of value in being married the day that I die to the woman that I said yes to at the very beginning. And I think the the mistake people make is thinking that I'm rewarded based on the things that I decide to value. And it's like, No. You are rewarded based on valuing the things of value. So If I take a $10 bill that the government has said it it can give me $10, and I walk up to a place and they say, this thing cost $20, and I hand them the $10 bill. They're not going to give me that thing because the dollar has objective value. Well, in the same way, You know, I've seen you do this too lately.

Chris Alessi:

Like, I I've seen you operate in that proverb that, a kind word turns away wrath. I've seen you operate in that lately. There's objective value in a kind word. Mhmm. Even when you want to come out of your skin. And in your mind, you're thinking, no. You know what I should do? I have to put them in their place. They have to know they can't do that.

Chris Alessi:

They've crossed a line. They have to know I don't know 1 proverb that tells us put people in their place

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Outside of disciplining your kids.

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

The the proverb is A a a kind, soft answer. So I am rewarded, Right. When I choose to align myself with the things of value, and I think my job now becomes looking at What did you value? I have to teach my son to value that Yeah. As I value that.

Steve Alessi:

And, Chris, you know, that's that's one of the things that makes our job really hard because we only get to hang around people really The most the majority of people. We only get to really hang around in one day a week for about a 2 to 3 hour window.

Chris Alessi:

If that

Steve Alessi:

And we're trying our best to show them What's valuable? And what I do as a father in introducing you to certain things that I think are going to be valuable to you. I can't force you to do it or have the attitude that comes around and says this is fun. I'm gonna go ahead and do this. I can't force it. All I can do is try to model it and put you in the environment where all of a sudden, boom, a light comes on here saying, this is valuable. I I heard you over my shoulder while we're all out there Taking target practice and playing around with our little competition. I heard you talking to the guide, Freddie, to and and you were sharing this with him. And afterwards, I walked over to him.

Steve Alessi:

I said, keep talking to him. Keep talking to my son because, one of the things I wanted you to see was the vastness. It's really leadership. This was a leadership hunt. It was correct putting you around different people, you and Weena, around different men that have brought value to my life so that you can see what I see and what Be inspired by what I get inspired by is the last thing I really wanted to do. I got plenty of hunting I'm a be doing in November at the At the farm. Yeah? But to jump on the plane and to get that long flight and then drive two and a half to almost 3 hours to where we went and then to get up at 345 in the morning. Be downstairs at 4:15 to be

Chris Alessi:

ready to go. Till 7:30 at night.

Steve Alessi:

Long day. Right? You're exhausted.

Chris Alessi:

Days in a row.

Steve Alessi:

You know, I didn't wanna do it, but I wanted you in that environment. I was very excited when it on the front end when it was an idea. Let's do this and calling Freddie and organizing it all. I was very excited to invite some guys and, you know, that was it. When the time came, I'm like, oh, shucks. I should have Not done this,

Chris Alessi:

I guess,

Steve Alessi:

but there.

Chris Alessi:

And your son didn't help you very much?

Steve Alessi:

Not at all. Didn't even pack his clothes in Georgia, pack his gun. I had to bring all that stuff with us. But, Why do it?

Chris Alessi:

Because there's objective value.

Steve Alessi:

You in that environment. Even as a young man, You're not a child. As a man, I know your future, your stories. When I'm gone and you're introducing this to your boy and then your grandson, knowing this is going to help be better your life, make your life different, make your life more balanced, make your life stronger.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

Okay? Taking us out of the city like this and putting us into almost a desert environment, taking a shot almost 300 yards long. Okay? Putting us there, it it it's 2 totally different environments because we're busting our hump here, and everything's heavy. Everything's hard when we're here doing our job. It's a whole different kind of work, But then to go out there and stretch yourself, lay down prone, rifle in hand That was rough. You're looking across 3 to 4 football fields distance to try to, you know

Chris Alessi:

In a target about this big?

Steve Alessi:

Hit a target that is yeah. That may be 12 by 12.

Chris Alessi:

Your vitals are about this big.

Steve Alessi:

You better you better do your deal. Don't wanna wound it wound it, you know, and it run off and that's inhumane. No. Hunter's job is to do to put you in that environment, stretch you like that. It's leadership. It's what our church, invests in for us to be leaders and to grow ourself and be bigger Because of the value of it. You know what a lot of people will do? They'll look at the price and think, I can't afford to do that Because

Chris Alessi:

they get to place the value on it. They get to decide how valuable it is, and that's the thing that that's the important part. I don't get to decide what's valuable. Yeah. I get rewarded based on the things I value because they themselves are valuable. So, you know, it's kinda like we've always said, you know, why would you wanna make all the money in the world to go home to an empty house? No value in a lot of money if you have no one to share it with. The value is actually in the people. So today, I I just thought it would be cool to really Really start and probably have to come back to another point.

Chris Alessi:

But the important thing is recognizing that there is there there are things that are objectively valuable to men, And our personalities don't get to decide how valuable they are. No. I like that. Or are the things that we like, they don't get to decide or the the context or the circumstance. Yeah. Does not get to decide how valuable something is.

Steve Alessi:

Chris, I wish I wish we could get this in the younger generation about their education.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. There's value in education. It doesn't matter what you're pursuing. It doesn't matter what you're good at, and with all due respect, it doesn't matter what your parents said. Yeah. Doesn't matter What great CEO did not get the education?

Steve Alessi:

Right.

Chris Alessi:

What matters is the objective value in doing something you don't wanna do and pursuing it.

Steve Alessi:

I could talk to a father whose son loves soccer, and the dad's like, I'm just too busy to put him in a soccer, league. Well, that's a great you you place the value on it. You the discipline that sports, hobbies, Other things outside of our regular life, our regular job, our regular routine, putting, Showing what is of value to your kids is is huge.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Steve Alessi:

And and most of the time, we pick that up Later in life.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. There's no value in an extra hour of sleep, but there's value in getting your kid to a youth group.

Steve Alessi:

Hey. Somebody right now is being inspired by this podcast. They gotta share this podcast, Yeah. With others because if it's been valuable to you, it's encouraged you

Chris Alessi:

I found gold in the river here.

Steve Alessi:

Found gold in the river with this podcast. Share it with others. Just just share it. Oh, well, they probably won't listen. They they're too busy. Don't don't make a decision for them. Share it. Put it in their hands because you just don't know What even this podcast to do inspiring somebody to take care of their family better and be more present and Even consider a relationship with God, something of that magnitude because of what they're hearing in this.

Steve Alessi:

Chris, you're brilliant.

Chris Alessi:

Well, maybe it would make it easier to see. Is Marino still there? Maybe it'd make it easier to share if we bring Marino in here if he's still there.

Steve Alessi:

Oh, we need to bring him for the whole podcast.

Chris Alessi:

Bring him in. Let him go. He is getting he's a he he loves screaming these days.

Steve Alessi:

Leave us because Marino

Chris Alessi:

But Joe I will say unless he is

Steve Alessi:

his cute little outfit.

Chris Alessi:

If there's any truth to the last statement you made about brilliance, I think it's because Look. My dad that I do. My dad is because He likes my daddy. It's because my dad has taught me what's objectively valuable in life.

Steve Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And so now this little boy say hi, everybody. Marino. You want him to try to sit up? You

Steve Alessi:

want something

Chris Alessi:

to drink?

Steve Alessi:

Some coffee. Watch

Chris Alessi:

that he really likes is standing.

Steve Alessi:

He was eyeballing our pizza.

Chris Alessi:

But he really likes his Oh, he's touching the Oh, his ass. Oh. Bubble?

Steve Alessi:

Did I make it

Chris Alessi:

in? Penis. Perfect.

Steve Alessi:

That right there was Burrito Giandaleesi's first podcast, And he cried through it. Thanks for joining us for another episode of the family business with the Alessis, including The 3rd generation, Marino John Alessi. I hope you were encouraged today. If you were, share this With others, let's have fun at our podcast booth.

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