The blog has been on hiatus for several months, but I decided to bring you all some new content. My first ever podcast!

My first podcast guest was the star of a tweet that went viral in 2018. His science experiment shocked his parents and made the world laugh. Listen to this in-depth interview and learn how a 9 year old proved the tooth fairy wasn’t real.

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Below is a transcript of Podcast #1 — Deconstructing the Tooth Fairy

Note — this podcast was transcribed using free software then edited for clarity.  Please excuse any typos.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Welcome to the Rogue Dad, M.D. podcast. I am your host, Rogue Dad M.D. Giving you an Alt-brown look at medicine, money, faith and family. Welcome to podcast episode number one: Deconstructing the Tooth Fairy. I’ll let you know now that while this content is very much G rated, if you have small children listening, you may want to turn this off before I introduce my first ever podcast guest. Now I will give you one more warning later, but after that, I cannot be held accountable for what happens to your children.

Now, this is my first ever podcast, and many of you may not be familiar with my blog. So let me give you a bit of an introduction. I’m a second generation Pakistani American living in the Midwest here in the United States. I’m a father of three boys. I’m Muslim, and I’m also a physician. I work at a university in a children’s Hospital as a pediatric emergency medicine doctor. I started the website RogueDadMD.com a few years ago as a way to have a creative outlet to discuss a variety of topics of interest to me and hopefully of interest to the random people on the Internet who come across them.

Sometimes I am just talking about my job as a physician, oftentimes that’s talking about my children. Occasionally I go from religion to politics to personal finance as well as whatever other things crossed my mind. So I have not produced much content for the bog in 2019, but I continue to be very active on Twitter, where I pretend to be George Clooney or, to be more accurate, I use his profile picture in my account. For those of you not familiar, Clooney came to prominence playing a pediatric emergency medicine doctor on the television show E. R.  

Now, unfortunately, in real life, I am closer to Ray Romano With and George Clooney. But a picture profile of Romano would not been nearly as captivating. So the site does have a charitable mission, and while I generate almost no money off of this, 10% of every dollar I do earn goes to charity. Now that’s 10% of revenue, not 10% of profit. Because that way, anyone who supports my site knows that they’re giving back in some way.  In 2017 that money went to Hurricane Harvey Relief and 2018. That money went to Doctors Without Borders. For the just concluded 2019 that’s gonna be a local organization providing heating service in the wintertime.  

Going forward for 2020 I plan to donate to the Malala fund. Those of you not familiar with Malala She’s a young lady from Pakistan with an inspiring background story that you really should read about. She has a charitable foundation whose goal it is is to provide education to the tens of millions of young ladies around the globe who have not been able to receive it. No, As I said, I don’t earn much from the site. And if I ever start making seven figures, perhaps I’ll adjust that 10% amount. I currently do not have any sponsors, but if you think you would be interested in becoming a sponsor in some fashion, please email me at RogueDadMD@gmail.com

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Now let me go ahead and introduce my first guest, my oldest son. This interview was actually recorded the end of summer of 2019 but for a variety of reasons, has taken me awhile to actually put this interview online. I’m actually recording this introduction on New Year’s Day 2020. This is also your warning. If you have young Children, you may want to turn this off now. So in the spring of 2018 my oldest son went viral on the Internet because of a tweet, I wrote about an experiment he performed. If you go to my Twitter account, you can see the original tweet pinned to my profile. However, I will give you a dramatic reading of it right now, and it is highly possible you’ll realize you came across this tweet at some point in the last year and 1/2 as it went viral across multiple platforms. So here it is.  

Just learned our nine year old didn’t experiment on us. Lost Tooth, told No. One for three days, kept tooth under his pillow. No money. Then he tells us he lost a tooth next night. There’s money under his pillow, then confronted us with his scientific evidence that the Tooth fairy isn’t real.  

That’s it. That’s the tweet that went around the world. This was picked up by multiple platforms, multiple news outlets and was actually seen by tens of millions of people. He was interviewed by both local and international reporters and had a fantastic 15 minutes of fame. Now, as a brief note as we did this interview, I set a 30 minute timer to mark the end of the interview. I do have a tendency to ramble. So I thought having a timer would be a good way to keep me focused while also being respectful the time of any guests that come on. And I will say I think this is actually a pretty entertaining podcast, despite it being based off a 280 character tweet. So let’s go ahead and move on to the interview. I’d like to welcome my very first guest, very privileged that he’s here today. My son Armaan Ahmad. Welcome, Armaan.

Armaan

Oh, thank you for letting me be here, Dad. Um um I’m very excited. And what will be our first question?

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Well, this episode is entitled Deconstructing the Tooth Fairy. And in this episode, I wanted to take our listeners back to the tweet that went viral .The tweet I wrote on my Twitter account last year talking about the experiment you pulled about the tooth fairy. So let’s take us back. This was ah, a little over a year ago. Spring of 2018. Tell us about this experiment about the tooth fairy. What you were thinking at the time why you wanted to run an experiment. What? Your thoughts were about the tooth fairy and what you discovered.

Armaan

Um, well, so when I lost that to my to flip that let that night, um, I decided, Well, why not? Um, making experiment and see Well, is the tooth fairy riel or not? Riel. So I I just I also put it on my counter, too, but the tooth fairy did not seem to notice that

Rogue Dad, M.D.

way. Hold on. Let me just

Armaan

for my dad. Actually,

Rogue Dad, M.D.

let me ask this question, because this is something I was previously unaware of. So when you lost your tooth, you didn’t tell anyone. Correct. But you left the tooth sitting out on your counter in your room counter. Where? In your bathroom?

Armaan

No, on my dresser, actually.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Really? Okay.

Armaan

Hoping to also see if Well, the truth Does it have to be under my pillow? Or does it not have to be under my pillow?

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Interesting. I didn’t realise until just now that tooth had been sitting out. So how long was it sitting out?

Armaan

Probably about a week.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

What a week. You thought it out for a week? Okay, so then it was out for a week? No one said anything. Your mommy. No one said anything about you missing a tooth. Losing it to that being out on your dresser?

Armaan

No. Because I also wanted to see because I did not tell Mom. Um, you Because, um I also wanted to see you also have to tell your dad, because at me, trigger the tooth fairy. And then after a while, I realized Wait a second. The tooth fairy would have picked it up by now. And also, every time that I lost a tooth, I always told my mom or dad, which then the tooth fairy came. And also one of those nights I did put it under my pillow and that she still did not come.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So why did you not think that maybe it was just You have to tell your mom and dad. And maybe we passed the message on but the tooth fairy

Armaan

because, um uh, Well, because I thought the tooth fairy could sense lost teeth.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

I got it. So you have you had the tooth out for several days sitting out? No one said anything. Put it on your pillow. Known Still. Just anything you didn’t tell your mom and dad. No. Money came. Then what did you

Armaan

I finally told, um, my dad and he was very surprised about that.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

You are talking about what you told me

Armaan

that I’ve been, um, I’ve been I’ve had my truth out for a long time in the tooth fairy has not come yet. And then, um and then I realized, Well, it’s not It’s not riel. And

Rogue Dad, M.D.

let’s let’s take step back here second, because this is a little bit different than my recollection. So going back in between here, So at what point? You did get money. So I think we’re missing a step here.   You did end up getting money. How did you end up getting the money?

Armaan

Oh, so, um, when you weren’t here, I just told Mom Well, can I get my money? And she just threw teeth away.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, so let’s pick this story back up here. So you have the tooth sitting out on the dresser. No one said anything. You put it on your pillow for night. No one said anything. So then you decided to tell us that you had lost a tooth. And there’s on your input into your pillow. And so the next night you are. Next morning, you woke up. And then what? After you told us

Armaan

I got my dollar.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

You got your dollar. Okay, So you had finally told us you got your money, and I recall that you had a conversation with your mom. I wasn’t there. You told your mom that you’d have this to Dad. Don’t tell me what you told your mom.

Armaan

I told her exactly what I told you that. Well, I had my tooth sitting out for a week and one night I even put it under my pillow. And still the tooth fairy didn’t come. And then once I told you then the tooth fairy very did come. And that’s when I guest. Well, dude, there is not really knows. My mom and dad that are giving me this money.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So you told you Told your mom? Hey, I think this is just you. I don’t think there’s a really tooth fairy. What did your mom say?

Armaan

Um, she at first denied that before I told her my experience. So

Rogue Dad, M.D.

She tried to, play it cool and act like they’re still wasn’t a tooth fairy. And then you said, Wait, I’ve been pulling experiment on you. And how did she respond when you told her you’d run an experiment on her?

Armaan

She sounded super surprised and then admitted it.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

She admitted it, so she gave it up and she told you that there was no tooth fairy, that it was really just me and her giving you money when you told us you lost a tooth.

Armaan

Yeah. And then also,  once I figured out that she that that you’re very wasn’t real, Then I wondered. Wait a second. Where does the tooth go?

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So you’re wondering where the tooth has gone to. So what are you thinking? What do you think parents do with his teeth?

Armaan

I thought that she threw it away and I was right about that. They, um my mom and dad do throw it away.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Are you wishing we had held on to these teeth? Do you want this as a momento? Why does that matter what we do with teeth?

Armaan

Cause I can’t just wonder kinda what you do to do. You, like, ship it somewhere. Like where they make dentures or something.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So you’re wondering whether there’s someplace that all teeth can be sent to you that these get made into teeth for, like, people that don’t have teeth?

Armaan

Yeah.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Are you thinking like little kids or dentures for old people? Both. Okay, So you’re sort of wondering whether there’s some factory somewhere taking old teeth that have fallen out of children and are being recycled into new teeth that could be implanted back into people of all ages.

Armaan

Yeah. And then I came to a better idea that they just totally

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Well, I don’t know. You might be onto something. This might actually be your money idea. Recycling old teeth and giving the kids don’t have teeth or adults don’t come to you. No, that’s actually not that bad of an idea. If you’ve been taking good care of her teeth, have you been brushing off bossing? Maybe those teeth really are worth something. You know, maybe you really can make some money on that Dentures or a big business. Why would you say you’re pretty good teeth hygiene?

Armaan

Um, I guess yes

Rogue Dad, M.D.

As your dad I’m gonna go ahead and step in and say that your teeth may not be worth top dollar, but there may be some other kids around town or the country or the world where you could fetch a pretty penny. So let’s move on from this.  So youq uestion the tooth fairy, discover the tooth fairy didn’t exist. Did this lead you to question about the existence of anything else?

Armaan

Um, yes. It started me thinking off the, um well, the Easter Bunny and Santa, mostly the Easter Bunny at that time. Because Easter was closer, then Christmas. So I started thinking of a plan to try to figure out if the Easter Bunny was real.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Have you already done this plan or something you’re still planning on doing?

Armaan

I’m still planning on doing it.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So you have not decided yet? That is what you’re saying.

Armaan

Yes, but I was trying to do it last Easter, but I didn’t have the time to do it.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay. So what about Santa? Are you What? What? Your views on Santa.

Armaan

Um You’re my dad. Why would I tell you?

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Wait. Oh, well, I’m trying to just inform the reader, you know, or the listener, rather about what this experiment has caused you to listen or think, rather about other other creatures that are out there to see whether they’re mythical or real or not. So it sounds like you have ideas about Santa, but you don’t discuss it with me because you think what’s gonna happen. You think I’m gonna

Armaan

spoil it.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So this is an experiment. You want to pull on me to try and help decide whether I’m making stuff up about Santa. This Is that what you’re saying?

Armaan

Yeah.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, well, we’ll let that go. Maybe in the future, after you’ve run your experiments, we can have you back as a repeat guest to discuss those experiments and see what happens. I would think people would love to hear about that. Okay, so you have future experiments coming, but let’s talk about what else is going on in the house. You are the oldest of three children. Your younger brothers are how old?

Armaan

Um, one is a, um five year old, um, and turning six in September, and one is a two year old it turning three in September.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, so the older middle child, the five almost six year old has been losing teeth. He’s actually recently lost another tooth not long before this was recorded Now, you discovered about the tooth fairy over a year ago. He’s been losing teeth in that time when he’s lost his first tooth, lost a couple teeth. Now, what have you talked about with him?

Armaan

Um, I haven’t tried to spoil anything, because with before, um, I thought the tooth fairy wasn’t riel. Um, I thought it was actually kind of fun. Um, but luckily for me, I barely lost any. I only lost one other tooth after Dad’s experiment. So then so then I didn’t really spoil my fun nous because I kind of ended it all. So I held with a mirror.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So, um, here’s your middle. You’re older, the younger two brothers. So let me take a step back here. This is a point that’s come out online when I’ve mentioned this people. And we just passed over that. So you talked about spoiling your own funds? You don’t have a lot of fun. You actually had one more tooth left you. This was near the end of your last teeth to fall out your baby teeth. And so you did have another tooth fallout after you discovered the truth about the tooth fairy. What happened without tooth? Did you get any money? What did you tell us?

Armaan

Oh, um, so I lost it when you weren’t Well, I lost the one You weren’t here at home. And, Well, I just told mom that I lost it and she just I didn’t put under my pillow or anything because I just knew because I knew the truth. Very wasn’t Riel already. So I just told him that they lost it and she gave me my dollar, and I threw it away.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

You threw the dollar away?

Armaan

No, I think the tooth away.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, So what you’re telling me is you really didn’t end up costing yourself money by discovering the truth about the tooth fairy. This experiment didn’t cost you money. No. Okay, because I’ve had people questioned me saying, Ah, the kid is so smart. He cost himself money. The parents aren’t gonna know. Now that he knows about the tooth fairy. They don’t give him any more money. It turns out you only had one tooth left to fall out, and your mom apparently give you a dollar for that. Anyway, I don’t even think I knew that. That’s important information. Okay, so I’m glad we wrapped up. So talk about your your brother. He’s five? He’s lost some teeth. What conversations have you had with him about?

Armaan

Um, I mostly just said, Well, you can put this tooth  under your pillow and the next day you’re gonna wake up, and well, there you have a dollar. So, um, and I encouraged the tooth fairy for him. I didn’t try to spoil it.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So what you say when you say encourage it? Are you trying to build up the story? The truth?? What do you mean by that?

Armaan

Um, by that, basically. I mean, um, like, um and he will have grown up teeth in, so Yeah, I told my heel after he loses his teeth and he gets his dollar that well, now he has a growing grown up teeth.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So your your brother, you know, he’s pretty energetic, young man, for the listening audience that has not met him. You too. What would you say your relationship is like?

Armaan

a lot of fighting.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay. Like good fighting, bad fighting, having fun, fighting or angry at each other. Fighting? What would you say?

Armaan

I would say both because sometimes we just fight for fun. And then sometimes we get really, really angry at each other and bad stuff happens.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Bad stuff happens. That’s it’s own discussion. But what do you think he is going to do? When at some point, he learns the truth. I would say at some point he will figure this out. And you will then also learn that you knew it wasn’t real and that you were encouraging him to think it wasn’t real or that it was real. How do you think he will respond? Do you think he’ll be happy that you sort of preserved this fun thing for him? Or do you think he’ll be upset and say you lied to me?

Armaan

Um, I haven’t actually thought about that. Um, I really don’t know his reaction, but because I have been since I found it out during experiment, I don’t really know because I feel like at one point either mom or dad will either tell kids that it’s not really when we grow up. So, like if we have children of our own Weiqing do it on our own. So then if they lose teeth, we can give them the dollar.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So when it comes to your younger brothers, do you think it’s best to let them completely figure this out on their own the way you did, whether it’s with an experiment or talking with friends at school who had already figured it out? When do you think parents should just tell their children about these things not being real?

Armaan

I would probably either let them do an experiment. But if they don’t do one, um, probably wait till they are older and then kind of slowly kind of let them figure out like give him kind of hints that the truth, very was never really. And then soon nil hopefully process it in, figure out. Oh, hey, Mom, The truth. There isn’t really

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So what age do you think a parent should tell their children?  You figured it out. Some children figured out earlier than you. Some figure out later if a child assuring of inclination to they changed the belief for experiment or question it. If they’re just going along around what age should a parent start trying? Should they let the kids know, maybe hints so they can figure it out. You just

Armaan

tell him probably after the we lose all their teeth in, have the grown up eat and then maybe, like at least a year after that,

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Do you think they should lose all their teeth and have a full year with no baby teeth falling out? Just grown up. Teeth coming in so they could be 10 11 12 years old by them?

Armaan

Yes. What

Rogue Dad, M.D.

do you think that’s gonna cause problems at school if they’re 11 years old and still talking about the tooth fairy? I mean, you’re not 11 yet. You’re a 10 you’re going into fifth grade.

Armaan

Well, um,

Rogue Dad, M.D.

actually, let’s bring this back out back. So this brings up a point I didn’t ask you about earlier. You discover the tooth fairy wasn’t real. You figure it out. You still had friends at the time that didn’t know the tooth fairy wasn’t wasn’t real. What happened at school? Did you talk to your friends about this? And you tell friends have fights about this with your friends?

Armaan

Well, actually, some friends, um, their mom’s actually showed them the post, and they kind of figured out on their own that it wasn’t real.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So they showed they showed your classmates the tweet I wrote about you.

Armaan

Well, actually, some moms did. Okay? And then others know like, Oh, my friend Max, he actually doesn’t believe that about the tweet. He thinks it’s just a lie, actually,

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Does that mean he still believes in the tooth Fairy?

Armaan

Yes. He still believes in to third because he’s barely lost any

Rogue Dad, M.D.

interesting. I have not looked closely at Max. I know him, Max. Great kid friend of this family. I’ve not paid much attention to his teeth to realize that. And so just for the listener knows, I didn’t really go into this before this tweet. I say when viral and I wanted to get almost 700,000 likes on Twitter and get retweeted over 100,000 times, it actually made it went viral on multiple platforms Facebook Instagram read it, and now you know it’s been actually been seen by tens of millions of people across the world. And so it wasn’t just the original tweet that day, that first day that went viral. Even now it’s been over a year, Armaa

Rogue Dad, M.D.

n. I don’t think I’ve ever told you that. Even now, every so often, every couple months, something pops back up on the social media timeline for me that some random humor website, parenting website even actually once a dental website picked up this tweet to retweet it or re put it on Instagram. Actually, that’s where I’ve seen it more recently, and something gets 10,000 more likes, 20,000 More likes. So it’s been over a year. There’s still people tens of thousands of people, every so often, who suddenly pop into this tweet who will suddenly see it for the first time. It’s kind of the point now where I have friends who will tag me a different social media platform saying, Hey, it’s back because of this. So So it’s This thing is still circulating. I don’t even know if you realize that, you know it’s been over a year that’s still I don’t talk to you about this is stored randomly pops up across theater.

Armaan

I thought it just kind of, um people that followed you just knew about it and they liked it, but I never knew it actually went all the way across the world and showed up on so many different things.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Well, so you know, when I when I wrote this on Twitter, I had only 700 followers. This was early in  2018. I had 700 followers. It’s not a large amount, not tiny. It’s pretty tiny through the course of actually this going viral. Someone retweeted, then more people retweeted it. People started making comments on the tweet making jokes. I got into the comments and was making lots of responses to them, making jokes back with them. They were insulting me, saying, Oh, you’re a terrible dad. You didn’t know that your son lost a tooth. How did you don’t notice? You know the kids spoiled it for himself. He’s gonna cost himself all this money. It kept getting retweeted retweeted. More people were sharing across different social media platforms and eventually remember you doing news interviews with this right? You remember those?

Armaan

Um, yes, I do remember that. Um I got one news interview

Rogue Dad, M.D.

you actually saw. Actually, I think you had to write. You had one with our local reporter from the Post Dispatch. I think you had one from I think was buzzfeed, right? I have to go back and look, I said

Armaan

I think she put it on buzzfeed.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

I think she was a writer for buzz feed. Want to go back and look, I say these articles, but, um, you know, we’ll have to go back and look. But at least one international British website picked this up and was putting this out there, so it got translated. You people are commenting on this and other languages, reading the English for commenting and German and Japanese and things like that. So people across not just the English speaking world, but even the non English speaking world actually read about your tweet. Actually, you’re I think, think this a school. Last month, the Neal, the Greiss Taison fan Club instagram site, which has lots of followers, picked this up and tag me and said, Great job, you know? No, not the actual Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the scientist himself but his fan page, which is actually quite popular itself. And I bring that up also because I never mentioned this to you. A lot of people thought I made the story up, and a lot of people told me that they assumed I stole this from Neil DeGrasse Tyson. And the reason why is because apparently at some point, I actually don’t know when I didn’t notice it happened because I didn’t steal from him. He had made some comment on some new show, our interview show somewhere about how one of his Children think his daughter. Maybe it actually figure out on her own that there was no tooth fairy, and I didn’t know that. But people started trying to tell you being accusing me of lying sickness, told us from Neil DeGrasse Tyson. And so let’s just put that to rest. Did you steal this idea? Did you make up this whole thing? Or did this really happen?

Armaan

This really happened, and also I don’t even know who Neil De Grasse Tyson is first of all,

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So you don’t know the name. You’ve seen the TV show Cosmos, right? Yes, that’s Neil DeGrasse Tyson. There you go. So he doesn’t even know who he is. And he did not make this up. And I did not make this up either. So I think we’ve had a really good discussion here.  

Rogue Dad, M.D.

We have a few minutes remaining. I would like to transition to something else. So, you know, one of the things I talk about it right about is finance. Business of finance. I teach them personal finance stuff to people I work with. I’ve written some scholarly work on it and we also talk about money at home and business a home and trying to be responsible. And, you know, as a dad, I would say I have variable levels of success from to get you to maybe have certain values around money that I think are important. But you’ve also come up with your own ideas about money, which some of which are great. And you’ve actually look like you’re building in the internal entrepreneurial spirit. You’re interested in business and creation and artistic stuff. You have an artistic mind and you, but you’re not just sort of lost in the clouds. Have a practical aspect of this. And you actually have a business that you’re trying to create. Tell us. Tell us about this interest you have in the business you’re trying to create.

Armaan

Yes, I am making a business called Comics Association. And so basically, it’s a business where we make comics. We sell comics, and we do much more things in just comics. Um, we actually Ah, Do you like sometimes we make ah, we grab, let’s say old phone cases iPad cases, and we put stuff in it. So then it looks more like a screen, and then we use our and then we use markers and draw APS and make them look really realistic.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So this is something you’re doing is a hobby. What are you doing for the business? Are you trying to sell these on the web site or what is your goal here?

Armaan

Um, we may start selling them because but we only have a few right now because they actually are hard to make. Because first of all, you need a kind of a thing, really thin cardboard, which, um, we have not come by a lot.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, so so the comics association website Is it up and running yet?

Armaan

No, it is not, um it’s a work in progress. And, um, it’s probably about 1/2 way done. Okay, but

Rogue Dad, M.D.

so what? What ultimately would you like to see on this site?

Armaan

Probably definitely a store. So then

Rogue Dad, M.D.

suit yourself, Mercury. Gonna. So what? You show me some sweat shirt designs?

Armaan

Yes. And then I’m also gonna sell comics on their off course. And some other things

Rogue Dad, M.D.

are going a sell. Comics that you’ve made. Are you gonna sell comics from other people?

Armaan

Actually, I have not thought about that. Maybe I but I was sinking into selling our comics. But because, um, if I am gonna still coming from another place, which when I grow older, I’m definitely gonna do. But right now, I don’t think I have the money to buy comics from another place and then sold. Um

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, So you keep saying we and our is there are other people working on this with you?

Armaan

Yes, Um, a bunch of my friends, um, from school Sunday school. Um, have, um, have helped make comics in. I have opals. A lot of things in us. I have to especially give credit to Trevor. Okay. Because he was actually I am not a founder of common association. Um, because Trevor, actually, in third grade, and we made something called Jewelers Club which, um, we we make comics. But then, um when and then Trevor in me, um, did a bunch of stuff and renamed it Comics Association. And

Rogue Dad, M.D.

when did that happen? I thought I thought you had renamed it yourself.

Armaan

No, we actually, all of us. Everybody After you came up with the name and we all agreed on it and decided to call it comes association. Um and then he kind of gave it up to me. And basically, I’m the owner of it now, and Trevor is second in command.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay, So it’s you, your friend Trevor. This started his do those clubs trained former comics association. He sort of gave up control of it, give it to you, and it’s granted. I don’t talk to Trevor as much as you. My understanding is your sort of the one who came up with this idea of making the website trying to go online and make us into a business. Is that correct?

Armaan

Yes. So, actually, I probably done the most for Commerce association. I’m not tryingto like brag, but, like, uh, so Trevor, do this club. We kind of just make comic for fun, and then I kind of brain GED out with common association. And so how comic association runs is when. So we have branches and it’s kind of friends like the military, because the military, instead of the military, it’s called comic association. Okay, so

Rogue Dad, M.D.

basically the same thing with a different name, right? So the marines comics the army comics, you know, You know, Bailey was a comic and use in the Army, so it’s basically the same thing.

Armaan

Yes, but the different branches are dude Lear’s club, which, um, of course, is making pictures because, well, yeah, um, scribble knots,

Rogue Dad, M.D.

scribble months. What is that?

Armaan

So, um, no. Actually came up with this idea, and so you make. So he started making random scribbles and then making them into really cool pictures. Um, and they actually look really, really cool. So we decided. Well, why not make this a branch? Because he makes a lot of them and really, really cool you.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

OK, so So there’s do those clubs or scribble months

Armaan

scribbling that scribble knots. And then there’s comic creators which

Rogue Dad, M.D.

What does that

Armaan

make comics? Kind of obvious.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

So this is other people can make comics on your site. What is this?

Armaan

No, no, these are the different branches. Comics, The comic creators is one of them. Which you So all of my friends, everybody that works, um, basically participates in common Association has to pick. At least we’ll have to pick one branch and then also hosted. But they have to do comic creators, cause, um, so they can pick one of each of the branches in the other ranges are storytellers. What we what? You just make books like, for example, Harry Potter is just a regular book. It’s at a picture book, but and then, um, there’s a in in comics, Inc. Um, that’s our editing branch. So yeah, this

Rogue Dad, M.D.

is getting pretty complicated. So we actually have just had our 30 minute timer go off and that while this is our first podcast, something I’m gonna try and keep to as much as possible keep are the conversations that 30 minutes to be respectful of our guest, time to make sure that we should keep our discussions focused. Now, well, let’s wrap this up right here reminds definition describing his multi level layer structure for his comics association. Now again, this website is not up and running. As of this recording, it is I will go back and end it. But there is a website that will be available at some point, hopefully called comics association dot com. And through that Web site, you can contact the creator, my son, and potentially and hopefully at some day order merchandise. So is there anything else about comics association? The tooth fairy, the Easter bunny of Santa Claus? Your brother? Is there anything else you’d like to comment on to their month?

Armaan

Um, let’s just say, Well, I had well along a lot of help on, um, coming on, um, helping kind of stabilize comics, creators of uncommon association.

Rogue Dad, M.D.

Okay. So basically, just want to give him thanks to your friends. Okay. Well, every it takes a village, right. It takes a village to raise a child on. It takes a village to build on multilevel comics association company That is gonna take over the world, I presume. Eventually, this will take on Marvel, and you’ll have movies and TV shows and who knows what else and You know, the Avengers just became the highest grossing movie in history. That’s a marvel creation and both out of Stanley, the famous comic artist and writer who wrote so many famous comics. So be pretty amazing one day if you were able to do that as well. So thank you, everyone. This wraps up our first episode of the road Dad MD podcast. Thank you for your time. Hope you enjoyed meeting my son. Hearing about him here in the background behind the tweet that went viral again. This was episode number one Deconstructing the Tooth Fairy. Hopefully, we’ll keep these coming and u f time arises or other conversations come up, we’ll have him back again. Thank you very much. So there you have it. That is the end of the first Rogue Dad M D podcast.  

Rogue Dad, M.D.

One postscript. As I record this close to the holidays in 2019 Comics Association is an ongoing project for my son because he is now a busy fifth grader with a lot of activities. He has not yet finished the website, though he continues to do so. I will be sure to come back and update this or updates somewhere else online, once in his sight, becomes available