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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.

  • For an asian family, and for an immigrant family,

  • we don't share stories to begin with.

  • So to force my dad to come here

  • and talk about that stuff on screen

  • is pretty uncomfortable for both of us.

  • He seemed happier before he was a dad.

  • I was so happy.

  • [Zach] Hey dad.

  • Hey Zach. - How are you?

  • I'm great.

  • [Ned] Welcome to Buzzfeed.

  • [Jim] Thanks.

  • [Ned] This is where I work.

  • Wow. - Yeah, wow.

  • Great shirt choice. - I like yours, too.

  • What would your normally be doing right now?

  • Playing golf.

  • I don't really know about you in between

  • college and my birth.

  • The in between is like really foggy and hazy.

  • Yeah for me, too. - (laughing) Yeah, I bet.

  • Show us that photo.

  • (laughing)

  • We got the same belly, same chest hair pattern.

  • So handsome.

  • You're just saying that 'cause I look like you

  • Yeah.

  • [Zach] I have bigger nipples than you.

  • Yes, bigger than most people.

  • I was probably listening to Bruce in that picture.

  • I should've known.

  • You are an east coast dad. - Yes.

  • Baby we were born to sit

  • You and mom are both like crazy workaholics.

  • I think that's why you love the beach so much

  • 'cause this is just like the only place

  • that you turn your brain off.

  • That's true.

  • This is my weekend relaxation moment.

  • Your job, like my job, it's your life.

  • Yeah.

  • Sons being similar to their fathers.

  • It's horrifying. (laughing)

  • Okay, let's see it. (laughing)

  • That's a good likeness.

  • That's a nice wig you got there.

  • [Ned] Thank you.

  • [Jim] Where'd you get the racquet?

  • I don't have those racquets anymore.

  • Ariel had a racquet that she picked up

  • at a flea market.

  • So this is during a tournament.

  • Oh, a tournament?

  • This photo suddenly has stakes that I didn't realize.

  • Yeah

  • Were you the reigning champion?

  • Yeah. - Wow.

  • So is that something the impressed mom?

  • No, she isn't impressed by that kind of stuff.

  • That's what I looked like when I dated her.

  • - Oh. (laughing)

  • She was into that.

  • [Jim] What was her deal anyway?

  • I was very immature.

  • [Ned] How so?

  • I did some pranks.

  • I would get really frustrated easily.

  • As I've gotten older, I've gotten

  • more wise than I used to be.

  • Hm, interesting.

  • I'm about to turn 30, y'all. (laughing)

  • Looking at the original photo,

  • I already look pretty similar.

  • So here's the new one.

  • Oh. - Look at that.

  • (laughing) - Is it different?

  • Right? (laughing)

  • I'm definitely not adopted.

  • We had a lot of outfits, I don't know

  • how many we had, but this outfit,

  • a few years later, was what I was married in.

  • I don't think I connected the two.

  • Right.

  • And these were the ones who were the best man

  • and ushers at the wedding.

  • After the wedding, we performed.

  • Down our way

  • And the last song we performed was a song

  • called "The Auctioneer" and they auctioned

  • me off and Patty, your mom, got me.

  • She bid on me and got me.

  • Did any other woman give her a run for her money?

  • No.

  • They wouldn't dare. (laughing)

  • Like one of them was like, "I also bid on Don."

  • Our voices blend very well because we have the same voice.

  • Yeah. (laughing)

  • These three guys are part of my groomsmen,

  • so we decided we would Photoshop

  • all of us into your photo.

  • Oh. (laughing)

  • That's funny.

  • [Eugene] So are you ready to see it?

  • Sure. - Alright, let's see it.

  • (laughing) - Wow.

  • That's you?

  • [Eugene] Yeah.

  • [Jae] Just like me.

  • [Eugene] Yeah.

  • Well I looked better than you.

  • Yeah, that's true.

  • Can I start asking questions?

  • [Man] Yup.

  • Okay.

  • So where in Korea was this taken?

  • No, it was in Houston, Texas.

  • What?

  • Why were you in Houston?

  • I was medical training.

  • Where was mom?

  • I didn't marry that time

  • until end of--

  • You didn't move to America with mom?

  • No.

  • I was single.

  • You were single in America?

  • Yeah,

  • for five years.

  • You're single here? - Yeah.

  • You never listened. - No, you never told me.

  • Did you have sex before mom?

  • Well there's a lot of girls.

  • Wait, plural?

  • Huh? - More than one?

  • Yeah. - Were all of them Korean?

  • No.

  • What?

  • That's not on video, right?

  • No, it's all on-- (laughing)

  • What were you thinking about in your photo?

  • I was thinking about my future.

  • I changed a lot since I was a kid.

  • You know, I became person, I have to.

  • We went through a lot of fertility clinics.

  • Really?

  • Yeah, I did a sperm test, too, like you Try Guys.

  • I didn't know you were trying so hard to have kids.

  • It kinda explains a lot.

  • We tried hold up the kid.

  • What?

  • Yeah, then she became pregnant.

  • It was the happiest day of my life

  • when my three kids came.

  • Why haven't we talked about this before?

  • Well anyways, you know, we're getting old,

  • so nothing to hide.

  • That's true.

  • Alright, um, cool, dad.

  • Cool.

  • (laughing)

  • I'm enjoying being a Try Dad, I want you to know that.

  • Try Dads.

  • There's a lot more because we've got four more,

  • you know this, yes you know, I told you.

  • We're actually doing like a whole week

  • of videos with you, so hold on tight, daddy.

  • Alright.

  • (upbeat jazzy music)

  • [All] Yeah!

  • Oh.

  • I ripped my pants.

  • [Keith] Uh oh.

  • Right across the butt.

  • Yeah I'm a cartoonist.

  • If you tell me a scenario,

  • I can draw you a cartoon within a few seconds.

  • [Keith] Oh man, I would like to see a monkey

  • eating cheesecake at a fancy table.

  • I can do that.

We used to go to topless bars.

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