I always wondered why Ketchum's lapband procedure failed, what the motivated him to uncontrollably gorge himself on food even after he had lost all the weight.
Today, we know one of the main reasons, in his own words:
TL;dr, Ketch's dad is a borderline pedo who wishes he was never born and is still ashamed of him. Ketch is a literal ******* with serious daddy issues.
Today, we know one of the main reasons, in his own words:
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On Tuesday afternoon, just a few miles away from the San Francisco airport at a restaurant called Mokutanya, I sat alone eye to eye with my father for the first time in my life.
Some of you will know this about me, but many of you will not - I have a complicated relationship with my biological father. He was about to graduate from Baylor in 1975 when he went on a few dates with my mom, who was a junior in high school at Waco Reicher at the time. Somewhere along the way inside of those dates, yours truly was created. While my mom decided to raise me on her own as an 18-year oldhigh school senior, my dad went off to California and started a new life that was different from anything he'd every known in Texas, eventually emerging as one of the most successful men in the entire high tech world over the last 30 years.
Over the course of the first 37+ years of my life, we'd never met, despite the fact that he paid child support until I was 18 and helped with a year of my college tuition when I was at Texas. While I used to spend weekends with his parents when I was a child, he just never had an interest in really having a relationship with me. Obviously.
All of that changed when my twins arrived in 2014, as we met a few weeks after they were born and he visited them the next day while they were in the NICU. That was followed up with another luncheon with Heather (my wife), Hendrix and Haven roughly two years later . Although we weren't on steady speaking terms, I was under the impression that our relationship was one that was growing, albeit at a very slow burn.
That impression changed in July when my grandfather, who I had spent the last few years redeveloping a relationship with, died in Lakeway about 15 minutes from my house in Cedar Park. Even though my dad had apparently been in town for almost two weeks, he never called me. No one did. Feeling that my grandfather would have wanted me at the funeral, but knowing that every person at the funeral wouldn't have wanted me there, my wife and I sat in our car for nearly two hours on the day of his funeral at his grave-site until everyone left so that we could pay our respects.
In an effort to cut this "Dear Diary" moment as short as possible for you guys reading this, I ended up requesting/demanding a meeting after a series of insulting emails from him that I'm sure weren't meant to be insulting but couldn't be anything but. Anywhere, any place... just tell me and I'd fly to him for a one-on-one. He suggested we talk on the phone. I told him I deserved an in-person conversation.
So, there I was in San Francisco at a Japanese restaurant that he said had five-star reviews online. Face to face.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to know that the things he was going to say to me were going to be rough, but damnit, I felt like it was time to stop *****footing with the situation and just be real with each other for one time in our lives.
And he got real, telling me over the course of an hour the following:
* Wished I had been aborted and still feels that way today.
* Views me as one of the three worst mistakes of his life (we didn't discuss the other two)
* There will never be a future relationship because it's too much trouble for him and he wouldn't want to have to try to explain me to his friends.
* Basically doesn't view me as his son and certainly not someone he would claim as family.
There was actually a lot more, but I'm sure you'll get the point after those four small examples. Honestly, it was a lot to absorb, especially with nothing but time on my hands in the 8 hours that it took to get back to Austin. It was quite humbling.
TL;dr, Ketch's dad is a borderline pedo who wishes he was never born and is still ashamed of him. Ketch is a literal ******* with serious daddy issues.
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jamey, 3/13/20
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"They log into each other's accounts and post. They probably are two different people but that doesn't matter much when you log into other peoples accounts."
"Now you're suggesting uncleanliness during a viral outbreak? What other great ideas you got Typhoid Mary[?]"
jamey, 3/13/20
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"They log into each other's accounts and post. They probably are two different people but that doesn't matter much when you log into other peoples accounts."
