The Try Guys Re-Create Photos Of Their Dads • Fatherhood: Part 1

- We used to go to bars topless. Striptease shows. - That? I had no idea you used to do that. - It was fun, I liked it. - Fatherhood! It's Father's Day, coming soon. -About two years ago, the Try Guys did a motherhood series for Mother's Day. - So we are doing a whole series about

fatherhood

. - A video every day that is about

dads

. (crying) - Oh oh. - Is it rude of me to say that I want to go out? - The Try Guys will become parents. We will become parents. Or at least invite our

dads

from all over the country to come and let us know how terrible it was to raise us. (upbeat music) - So today we are going to re

create

photos

of our parents. - With the aim of better understanding who they were when they were our age. - I think that many times the father/son relationship is the least developed in the family. - His life begins when I was born. - But before that he is like us? - I don't really know much about my dad, that's why we wanted to do this whole series. - Let's go make daddy.

Potatoes. - Is rare. There are some

photos

. I look at my dad and say, "I don't recognize that man." And there are some photos where I think, "Wow, that's my face." I doubt he knows what day this photo was taken, but my dad sports a wicked porn mustache. Is it weird to call your dad's mustache a porn mustache? It's a porn mustache. I think my dad and I are very similar in many ways. My dad and I talk about music and we talk about football and that's it. When I talk to my parents about how my life is going, I call my mom.

I want him to advise me and we don't do that. I know my mom always says my dad was funny. I do not see it. Apparently that's how my dad beat my mom and God knows if I find someone that's how I'll do it. - Many of my memories are playing outside with my dad. My dad is a doctor, but it took him some time to realize that. In fact, he was a professional tennis player for a time. I always think of my dad as a clean guy. His hair is long. My dad has never had long hair.

I definitely inherited my competitive nature from my dad. We played a lot of sports growing up and he always beat me. My dad played the sports he was good at. We played tennis, we played squash, we played ping pong. We never really played football. Hmm. -I love my dad, he's great, he's a big nerd. Because when people were always talking about how tall I was, he was like, "Yeah, he's grown a little bit." Do you think your dad loves word games? My dad invented word games. I don't know much about my father's life before me. All I know is that he is a mining engineer and he was

part

of a barber quartet called Four-Ever Yours. (drums on hoop) I mean, come on.

Music is really one of the biggest ways I think my dad and I bonded. So I thought if I was going to do something with my dad, I should do his iconic quartet with my iconic quartet. -How different the Try Guys could have been, you know? - When I was a child, I hated my dad very much. He was never home. He had to work about two hours away, so for much of my childhood he was never there five days a week. Every time I saw my dad, he had to play the disciplinary role. In retrospect, I feel really bad for him because we had a lot of problems growing up, but I think a lot of them were just the expectations of what a man in his family should be.

And then my parents got divorced. My dad versus Jae are two different people. Jae is the man who came out of the divorce. He became everything I believe he was meant to be: a good person with a great sense of humor. I am very excited to know what that moment was like in this hammock where he is, looking dreamily towards that sky that would justify that smile. When I was a child, I never saw that expression on his face. ♫ Dad, dad, dad, dad. So say "Hi Adam." Yes, call me Adam. - I'm Adam Kornfeld and I'm Zach Kornfeld's father.

Hi Zach. I wanted to be in the music business for as long as I can remember. I was eight or nine years old. I used to listen to American Top 40 by Casey Kasem and I was hooked. -He loves rock n' roll. I remember listening to the Beach Boys, the Beatles and Bob Marley. - I look like Freddie Mercury's chubbier brother. - I'm about the same age as you now in that photo. He was on the beach on Fire Island. One of my favorite places in the world. In fact, your grandparents met there in the late 1950s.

That is a photo of happy memory. - I'm Jim, I'm Ned's dad. And then I don't know what I'm talking about after that. (laughs) I have played practically all sports. It's not as popular today, but in the '70s tennis was huge. - God, it's a very action shot. We're like, jumping at this. We sometimes joke that I'm really obsessed with marriage, but I think I inherited it from my dad. He will do anything for his family. - Every summer, in fact, I have never missed a summer in my life, with my dad and my mom we go to this place called The Thousand Islands.

The crowds would come out to see these tournaments we would have. This photo is of me in one of the tournaments. (grunts) - To the left. You know, even just recreating this in a photo studio is difficult. I don't think I fully realized how good my father was at tennis. - I know this smile of my dad very well. He has a smile. -I'm Don Habersberger, I'm Keith's father and he has two other children. I have said that? Let's start all that again. I recently retired and spent over 40 years in the mining industry. I was in choirs since fourth grade.

I started going to barber internships and got into a quartet, the Four-Ever Yours. (drums in the hoop) It's kind of a play on words. Music was the

part

to balance my life with. ♫ Sweet Adeline ♫ Sweet Adeline - I'm Eugene's father. I was 41 years old when he was born. A little bit old. -I guess he is relaxed now because he is retired but he had a pretty stressful life. Even in this photo, I have no idea if it was taken in Korea. I think growing up in a war-torn country does something to you. - I used to be a bit of a dreamer.

The only thing I thought about was John Wayne and cowboys, that was all I liked, movies. It wasn't like that when I came to the United States. It is a very conservative country, you have to work very hard to earn money. Trying to support the family. - For an Asian family and for an immigrant family, to begin with, we don't share stories. So, forcing my dad to come here and talk about that stuff on screen is pretty awkward for both of us. He seemed happier before becoming a father. - I was so happy. - Hello Dad. - Hello Zach. - How are you? - I'm great. - Welcome to Buzzfeed. - Thank you. - This is where I work. - Wow. - Yeah, wow. - Great choice of shirt. - I like yours too. - What would you normally be doing right now? - Playing golf. - I really don't know about you between university and my birth.

The intermission is really foggy and confusing. - Yes, for me too. - (laughing) Yeah, I bet. Show us that photo. (laughs) We have the same belly, the same chest hair pattern. - Very handsome. - You only say that because I look like you in this photo. - Yes. - I have bigger nipples than you. - Yes, bigger than most people. He was probably listening to Bruce in that photo. - I should have known. You're an East Coast dad. - Yes. ♫ Baby, we were born to sit. You and mom are crazy workaholics. I think that's why you love the beach so much because this is the only place where you disconnect your brain. - That's true.

This is my relaxation time of the weekend. Your work, like my work, is your life. - Yes. - That children are similar to

their

parents. - It is awful. (laughing) - Okay, let's see it. (laughing) - That's a good resemblance. What a pretty wig you have there. - Thank you. - Where did you get the racket from? I don't have those rackets anymore. -Ariel had a racket that he bought at a flea market. - So this is during a tournament. - Oh, a tournament? Suddenly this photo has risks that I didn't realize. - Yes - Were you the reigning champion? - Yes. - Wow.

So is that something that impressed mom? - No, she's not impressed by that kind of thing. This is how I looked when I went out with her. - Oh. (laughing) She liked that. -What was the deal with her anyway? I was very immature. - How is that? - I made some jokes. I would get very frustrated easily. As I grew older, I became wiser than I used to be. - MMM interesting. I'm about to turn 30, y'all. (laughs) - Looking at the original photo, I already look quite similar. So here's the new one. - Oh. - Check it out. (laughing) - Is it different? - Good? (laughs) I'm definitely not adopted. - We had many outfits, I don't know how many we had, but this outfit, a few years later, was the one I got married with. - I don't think he connected the two. - Good.

And these were the ones who were the best man and the ushers at the wedding. After the wedding, we performed. ♫ On our way And the last song we performed was a song called "The Auctioneer" and I got auctioned off and Patty, your mom, got me. She bid for me and got me. -Did any other woman compete with you for her money? - No. They wouldn't dare. (laughs) - Like one of them said, "I bid on Don, too." Our voices blend very well because we have the same voice. - Yes. (laughs) - These three

guys

are part of my groomsmen, so we decided to use Photoshop for your photo. - Oh. (laughing) That's funny. - So are you ready to see it? - Sure. - Okay, let's see it. (laughing) - Wow.

That's you? - Yes. - Just like me. - Yes. - Well, I looked better than you. - Yes that's true. Can I start asking questions? - Yes, good. So where in Korea was this taken? - No, it was in Houston, Texas. - That? Why were you in Houston? - I was studying medicine. - Where was mom? - I didn't get married until the end of... - Didn't you move to the United States with Mom? -No. She was single. - Were you single in the United States? - Yes, for five years. - Are you single here? - Yes. - You never listened. - No, you never told me.

Did you have sex before mom? Well, there are many girls. - Wait, plural? - Huh? - More than one? - Yes. - Were they all Koreans? - No what? - That's not on video, is it? - No, it's all in-- (laughs) What were you thinking about in your photo? - I was thinking about my future. I changed a lot since I was a child. You know, I became a person, I have to do it. We went through many fertility clinics. - Actually? - Yes, I also took a sperm test, like you Try Guys. - I didn't know you tried so hard to have children.

Somehow it explains a lot of things. - We try to keep the child. - That? -Yes, then she got pregnant. It was the happiest day of my life when my three children came. - Why haven't we talked about this before? - Well, anyway, you know, we're getting old, so there's nothing to hide. - That's true. - Okay, um, great, dad. Cool. (laughs) - I enjoy being a Try Dad, I want you to know that. - Try with the parents. - There are many more because we have four more, you already know, yes you know, I told you. - In fact, we're doing like a whole week of videos with you, so hold on tight, dad. - Alright. (upbeat jazz music) - Yes! - Oh.

I tore my pants. - Uh oh. - Right on the other side of the butt. - Yes, I am a caricaturist. If you tell me a scenario, I can draw you a cartoon in a few seconds. - Oh man, I would like to see a monkey eating cheesecake at a fancy table. - I can do that.