You're saying your absentee dad.
How much time do you spend in your room?
Most of the time, by necessity.
So you just go in and shut the door?
I have to.
Well, apparently that doesn't mean much.
I walk out of my room to have breakfast.
Do they break your door down?
I greet them gently.
Say good morning,
and the answer is, oh what do you want,
expletive, expletive, expletive.
Ge the expletive out of here.
They immediately start vaping,
and go in to the backyard to smoke marijuana.
I give you chances everyday.
You give him chances?
What do you mean?
He's written a whole book about this,
where he should know how to deal with
every situation with his kids.
You're a life coach?
Uh, in a matter of speaking, yes.
And you wrote a book about?
Success and happiness.
(laughter)
Well, it is ironic.
Yes, and I try to do my best every day for both boys.
They have no appreciation for it.
Did they read the book?
We were forced to.
No, no.
Yes.
What chapter listed baseball bats for being happy?
Oh, I have a chapter on anger.
They are classic examples of boys
that are angry all the time.
But you're the one with the baseball bat.
You have three in the room.
Why do you have three baseball bats?
To defend myself.
We're not trying to break into your room.
Okay, well I have a hand up in the audience,
and this is your 17 year old son, right?
He can't protect himself
just by using his hands against these boys
'cause they will literally team up on him.
You live with your mother?
Yes, I do live with my mother.
So you're not in the house
when all this is going on?
No, but I have a very good idea of what's going on.
And you believe this guy?
This brother and that brother were holding me down
with two arms, and you grabbed your cane.
You're lunging back with this cane,
are you really gonna stab me with this cane?
I remember trying to separate you from your brother?
I was the only one high that day,
how do you guys not remember that?
(laughter)
Exactly, you were high.
You have delusions.
Did I make it up?
Did I make it up?
Yes.
I made it up?
Okay, I made it up.
If nobody else remembered it--
I'm crazy, I will continue taking my meds.
You made it up.
Let's up the dosage.
What is wrong with you people?
(laughter and applause)
You're talking about this like it's ordering lunch.
Does this seem normal to you?
We've been through
this fight so many times.
Yes, 'cause we've been through this fight so many times.
I told him oh, you're crazy.
What's this picture here?
Oh, I think I was brooming up, er,
I'm not sure.
So this is not you going after your father with a broom?
No.
Behind him, Dr. Phil, is evidence of our glass table
that he just broke there on the patio.
I dare stepping out of my room, take a picture,
and he said hey, don't expletive take a picture of me,
and eventually he hit me after I took this picture.
So you seem like a pretty passionate sweeper?
(laughter)
This is you just sweeping up?
Yeah.
You're hot threatening your father at this point.
No, no. There's glass on the floor,
I don't want to get hurt.
I had to make sure it all got cleaned.
Jonas says his father is setting him up to be a failure.
Take a look.
You are drugging yourself,
you have to give me those meds.
Do you want the Serocort or the Adderall?
Both.
Nope.
Not gonna happen, buddy.
I will tell the doctor
and he will stop prescribing them.
Okay, I'm fine with that.
I'm fine with not taking meds,
I'm fine without doing anymore asking,
I'm fine with doing no more smoking weed.
But you, you want me to (beep) up.
You want get at me, you're in for me.
I thought I hated you, you hate me.
I am disappointed.
I feel that he is not cooperating in continuing--
No, I don't hate anything or anyone.
Okay, how is this so off the rails?
They have psychological problems.
Jonas has been diagnosed, as well as Tristan,
but Jonas has a formal diagnosis, and uh,
he has to take meds but often refuses to take his meds.
The effect it has on him makes him just spin out of control.
They are drowning, they are drowning,
and they are dragging me with them.
I am here on this show to ask you,
when is it okay for me to let go
if they don't want to help themselves?
I wanna get back to the surface, swim to shore,
and move on with my life.
