Episode 165: Professor G: The People Who Helped Raise Us

Episode 165 — Professor G: The People Who Helped Raise Us

What happens when you sit down with someone you’ve known since 7th grade and start pulling on a thread that goes back more than 30 years?

That’s what happens when Professor G stops by Yhea Foo Nah Foo.

Gino and I go way back. We talk about being teenagers who were basically raised by wolves, the nights I ended up at his house when I had nowhere else to go, and how certain friends become part of your village before you’re even old enough to understand what a village is.

We get into psychology, human behavior, 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI, evolution, and the idea that sometimes you have to let an old version of yourself die so something new can take its place.

Then the conversation takes another turn.

Travel. Getting out of autopilot. Why unfamiliar places can make you feel alive again. Parenting. Making memories with your kids. And that strange moment when you realize your children are growing up and the little family you built is slowly changing.

Gino talks about watching his daughter leave for college and what it feels like when the family “band” starts losing members.

And I talk about my own daughter, Kennedy, and how sometimes you can just feel when a memory is being made.

This conversation goes all over the place — which is pretty much exactly how a Yhea Foo Nah Foo conversation is supposed to go.

It’s about friendship.

It’s about growing up.