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Giannis Pappas's Special 'Mom Love' and Dad Love vs Mom Love Theory
from #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show · #300
2 min
Guest
Tim welcomes Giannis Pappas to promote his new stand-up special 'Mom Love,' which they discuss as being about the theory that dad love is conditional while mom love is unconditional empathy gone too far.
- Giannis Pappas's special 'Mom Love' is available on YouTube and covers transgender issues.
- The special's central thesis: society has too much mom love (unconditional empathy) and not enough dad love (conditional, performance-based approval).
- Dad love is conditional—you do well, dad loves you more; you struggle, the love diminishes.
- Giannis illustrates conditional love through his own father, who called him once every two months after moving in with his brother.
- When Giannis was living on a couch in someone's kitchen, his father told people he didn't know if he had a son.
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