Saying Goodbye to a Father

Mike Gioseffi· Host0:00

All right, guys. We are-- A different episode, a little send-off. We just did one of these for, uh, Uncle Russ a few months ago. Uh, this week for stepdad, uh, Jack Cassidy. Um, I've got some notes. We'll see. Last time was a mess having to mute in and out with Russ and say... You know. G-good news, I just had a total fr- [chuckles] freaking breakdown in the car and had to pull over, so maybe we'll be dry for the next 20 minutes and get through it. But, uh, yeah, this has become, like, my little therapy session, my little, I don't know, paying of respects, I guess you could say. Um, so yeah, my stepdad. [clears throat] The voice will crack, too, so you can have your, get your memes ready. T-typical... We gotta start with this, just a typical Boston... I was gonna say Boston sports fan. Jack was literally the typical Boston person. I mean, he- j-his name was John Joseph Cassidy. So right off the bat, just, like, the triple, just the Irish through and through. Um, I'll get into some of the other crap, too. But yeah, just, that, that was the first thing that comes to mind. And the typical Boston fan, no matter what the Patriots did, super hopeful, uh, every year. You know, 'cause we, we had a ton of success. And no matter how good the Red Sox played, it was just, like, the epitome of, "Oh, yeah, but they're gonna, they're gonna screw it up and bail." And same with the Celtics. Like, we didn't... As soon as Bird left town, like, the old guys were just done. Uh, he would've been 76 this year, so he was just from that old school of basketball's terrible and, and the Bruins, it was just the hate the Jacobs brothers and the ownership's terrible. We're never gonna spend money. But yeah, just, like, the stereotypical Boston guy, which was just so