Me and my dad

00:01 Hello. It's. It's me, Josh. I am 12 years old and it is May 23, 2022. And this is my dad, Stefan Ghan

00:11 Hi. How are you?

00:13 Hey, Dad. I have some questions for you.

00:16 Okay.

00:17 What does your favorite. What does your future hold?

00:22 I hope my future holds a lot of success for all of my kids and my wife and I. I don't have a crystal ball to tell you exactly what it holds, but I think that we're all going to be successful.

00:42 Okay. And let's move on to the next one. What are your hopes for me and for my children, if I have some?

00:54 I want you to be a good dad and make sure your kids have the opportunity to go to college and succeed, just like I am doing for you.

01:11 Thank you.

01:12 And bring them over to visit because I will be their grandpa and I will spoil them.

01:18 No.

01:19 And make it so that they don't want to come home with you and they want to give you a hard time. No, I'm just kidding.

01:31 But that's good enough. Okay. Well, it's still unfair that you would do it to them, even though I don't get to eat candy that much. When was the last time you cried? And why did you cry that last time?

01:48 The last time I remember crying was in 2014 when your grandpa died. So that was a pretty sad day. And I don't think I've cried since then.

02:00 Oh, that's actually. I remember that when I was five, but I don't remember it actually being that bad.

02:08 Well, it was sad for me.

02:10 I'm sorry. And onto the next one. Do you have any regrets?

02:16 Tons of regrets. I regret not finishing my finishing college and regret, oh, not taking certain jobs. But generally I'm pretty happy. But I do have lots of regrets. You can't go through life without them.

02:36 Yeah, even I have regrets. All right, on to the next one. If you could hold on to one memory from your life forever, which would it be?

02:50 It would be the memory of the day you were born. That's a pretty special one. I would want to keep that one.

02:58 Yeah, no, I'm gonna do that, probably, if I have kids.

03:02 Yes.

03:04 All right, on to the next one. Can you tell me about one of your happiest memories?

03:13 Well, like I said, I can't say the day you were born because I already answered that, so I'm going to say the day I married your mom.

03:20 Oh. I wasn't out there that time because I was a baby at that time.

03:27 That's right, you were three months old.

03:29 Yeah. I was probably just sitting on the couch.

03:32 No, we weren't sitting. But you were. You were asleep in your. In your.

03:37 In. Yeah.

03:37 Baby bed.

03:38 Yeah. In the. What's it. Whatever it's called.

03:41 Yeah.

03:42 Yeah. All right. How would you like to be remembered?

03:48 Oh, as a good dad and a good person. I would like to. I don't really care when I'm dead, but I would, you know, I won't need to worry about what people think of me, but.

04:03 Okay.

04:03 I would like to be remembered as a good dad and a good husband and a good person.

04:08 Okay. All right. What are you proudest of in your life?

04:24 Well, I'm pretty proud of where we're at now as a family. I think that things have turned out for all of us way better than I ever expected. So I'm proud of that.

04:37 That's nice. I didn't expect it to be like this in the future. It turns out it is perfect.

04:45 No, I wouldn't call it perfect, but.

04:46 But it's good enough.

04:47 Yes.

04:48 All right, onto the next one. What is your memory of me?

04:56 My favorite memory of you?

04:57 Yeah.

05:01 You were one year old at your one year birthday party and I was holding you and you had blue cake frosting all over your face. You were eating a cheese dog and there's a picture of it that we have somewhere. I like that memory very much.

05:22 I don't even remember eating a cheese dog.

05:25 You ate three quarters of it. You had a tiny stomach and little, little one year olds can't eat much. But that was a lot for a one year old eating a hot dog. It was like a Johnsonville cheese dog.

05:38 Dang.

05:39 It was your birthday party and you wanted to eat it, so you got to eat it.

05:43 Yeah. It's not, it's, it's, it's not my fault that I didn't want like it.

05:49 You did like it. You wouldn't have eaten. Yeah, you might not like it now, but you did then.

05:53 Yeah, I probably do do. All right, on to the last one.

05:58 Okay.

06:00 What type of military branch did you serve and how long were you in there for?

06:06 I was in the army for six and a half years. Medically retired because I got asthma. While I was in the army, I served in Desert Storm. I went to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. And so you, when you have a disability like asthma, the military tells you it's time for you to retire. Even though I was only in for six and a half years. So that is why we live here. Here. I'm. We're allowed to live here on base with many of the active duty parents that live here. They also lease to disabled veterans and medically retired, things like that. So that's my story with the military.

06:54 Okay. Also, I really like doing this with you, dad.

07:01 Thank you. I like having you interview me.

07:04 You're welcome.

07:05 Thank you very much.

07:07 You're welcome. All right, bye.