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  • We used to go to topless bars.

  • Strip shows. - What?

  • I had no idea

  • that you used to do that.

  • I was fun, I liked it.

  • Fatherhood!

  • It's Father's Day, comin' up soon.

  • About two years ago, the Try Guys

  • made a motherhood series for mother's day.

  • So we're doing a whole fatherhood series.

  • One video every day that's all about dads.

  • Uh oh.

  • Is it rude for me to say that I want out?

  • The Try Guys are going to become fathers.

  • We're gonna become daddies.

  • Or at least invite our dads to come in

  • from across the nation to let us know

  • how terrible it was to raise us.

  • (upbeat music)

  • So today we're recreating photos of our dads.

  • In an aim to better understand who they were

  • when they were our age.

  • I think many times, the father/son relationship

  • is the least developed in the family.

  • His life starts when I was born.

  • But before that he's just like us?

  • I don't really know a ton about my dad,

  • which is why we wanted to do this whole series.

  • Let's get daddy-ied.

  • Daddies.

  • It's weird.

  • There some photos I look at my dad

  • and I'm like, "I don't recognize that man."

  • And there's some photos I'm like,

  • "Wow, that's my face."

  • I doubt he knows what day this photo was taken,

  • but my dad is rockin' a mean porn-'stache.

  • Is it weird to call your dad's 'stache a porn-'stache?

  • It's a porn-'stache.

  • I think my dad and I are really similar in a lot of ways.

  • My dad and I talk about music

  • and we talk about football and that's kinda it.

  • When I check in with my parents about how

  • my life is going, I call my mom.

  • I wanna get advice from him,

  • and we don't do that.

  • I know my mom always says that my dad was funny.

  • I don't see it.

  • Apparently that's how my dad won my mom

  • and god knows if I find somebody

  • that's gonna be how I do it.

  • A lot of my memories are playing outside with my dad.

  • So my dad is a doctor, but he kind of

  • took some time to figure that out.

  • He was actually a tennis pro for a while.

  • I always think of my dad as a clean cut guy.

  • His hair is long.

  • My dad has never had long hair.

  • I definitely got my competitive nature from my dad.

  • We would play a lot of sports growing up

  • and he would always beat me.

  • My dad would play the sports that he was good at.

  • We would play tennis, we would play squash,

  • we would play ping pong.

  • We never really played soccer.

  • Hm.

  • I love my dad, he's great, he's a big old nerd.

  • 'Cause when people always talked about how tall I was,

  • he'd say, "Yeah, he's grew-some."

  • You think your dad loves puns?

  • My dad invented puns.

  • I don't know a ton about my dad's life before me.

  • The only thing I know is that he is a mining engineer

  • and he was in a barbershop quartet called

  • the Four-Ever Yours.

  • (rimshot drumming) I mean come on.

  • Music is really one of the biggest ways

  • that I think my dad and I have bonded.

  • So I thought if I was gonna make anything of my dad,

  • I should make his iconic foursome

  • with my iconic foursome.

  • How different the Try Guys could've been, you know.

  • When I was a kid, I really hated my dad.

  • He was never home.

  • He had to work about two hours away

  • so for a chunk of my childhood,

  • he was never there for five days a week.

  • Every time I saw my dad, he had to play

  • the disciplinarian role.

  • In retrospect, I feel really bad for him

  • because we did have a lot of issues growing up

  • but I think a lot of it was just

  • the expectation of what a man should be in his family.

  • And then my parents got divorced.

  • My dad versus Jae are two different people.

  • Jae is the man that came out of the divorce.

  • He became everything that I think

  • he was destined to be, which is a good person

  • with a great sense of humor.

  • I'm very excited to learn what this moment was

  • in this hammock where he's like,

  • dreamily looking up at that sky

  • that would warrant that smile.

  • When I was a child, I would never

  • see that expression on his face.

  • Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy

  • So just be like, "Hey Adam."

  • Yeah, call me Adam.

  • I'm Adam Kornfeld and I am Zach Kornfeld's father.

  • Hi Zach.

  • I wanted to be in the music business since I could remember.

  • I was eight or nine years old.

  • I used to listen to Casey Kasem's American Top 40

  • and I was hooked.

  • He loves rock n' roll.

  • I remember listening to the Beach Boys

  • and the Beatles and Bob Marley.

  • I look like Freddie Mercury's pudgier brother.

  • I'm about the same age as you are now in that photo.

  • I was on the beach on Fire Island.

  • One of my favorite places in the world.

  • Your grandparents actually met there in the late 1950s.

  • That's a happy memory photo.

  • I'm Jim, I'm Ned's dad.

  • And, then I don't know what I'm talking about after that.

  • (laughing)

  • I've played practically every sport.

  • It's not as popular nowadays,

  • but in the 70s, tennis was huge.

  • God, it's such an action shot.

  • We're like, jumping out at this.

  • We sometimes joke that I'm really obsessed with marriage

  • but I think I get it from my dad.

  • He will do anything for his family.

  • Every summer, in fact, I've never missed

  • a summer in my life, with my dad and my mom,

  • we go to this place called the Thousand Islands.

  • Crowds would come out to watch these tournaments that we'd have.

  • This photo is of me in one of the tournaments.

  • (grunting)

  • To the left.

  • You know, even just recreating this in a photo studio

  • is tough.

  • I don't think I fully realized

  • how good at tennis my dad was.

  • I know this smile of my dad's very well.

  • He has one smile.

  • I'm Don Habersberger, I'm Keith's father,

  • and he has two other sons.

  • Did I say that?

  • Let's start that all over.

  • I'm recently retired and I spent

  • over 40 years in the mining industry.

  • I was in choirs ever since fourth grade.

  • I began going to barbershop practices

  • and got into a quartet, the Four-Ever Yours.

  • (rimshot drumming) It's sort of a play on words.

  • Music was the part to balance my life with.

  • Sweet Adeline

  • Sweet Adeline

  • I'm Eugene's dad.

  • I was 41 years old when he was born.

  • Kinda old.

  • I guess he's relaxed now 'cause he's retired

  • but he had a pretty stressful life.

  • Even in this photo, I have no idea

  • if this was taken in Korea.

  • Growing up in a war torn country, I think,

  • does something to you.

  • I kinda used to be dreamer.

  • All I was thinking about was like a John Wayne

  • and cowboys, that's all I was into, movies.

  • It wasn't like that when I came to the U.S.

  • It's a very conservative country,

  • you have to work very hard trying to make money.

  • Trying to support the family.