Mike Melton helps a wealthy father reconnect with his estranged 13-year-old son over a weekend. The father buys a Sur-Ron electric bike, a shared interest, and they start building it together. Melton draws on his own childhood with a drug-addicted parent to push both toward an honest conversation.
I changed somebody's life this weekend, right? It was this guy, he's a multi-multi-millionaire, he's got everything, he has it all. Has a Maybach, Rolls-Royce, all kinds of stuff. You know what he didn't have? A relationship with his son. Who changed that? I did. You have to be able to make a difference in somebody's life, and that's what I tell you guys all the time. That's what I'm about. I can change tires all day, that don't make a fuck to me. I want to change people's lives, and that's what I did this weekend, right? His son just wanted more time with his daddy. I told him that I want to talk to your son this weekend, um, because I understand what he's going through because I did the same thing when I was a kid. I was him. So I talked with his son and I understood everything that his son was going through because everything his son was going through, I was going through, but a little bit deeper because his dad used to do a bunch of drugs and crack and all this stuff, but his son was born after all that. So I had to deal with that stuff as a kid. After I had that talk with his son, I said, tonight you need to have a talk with your son tonight. And so he did. I haven't even listened to the message yet. I don't even know what he said. So this guy is a big influential guy, like self-made millionaire, has it all, but he didn't have that one thing. And that one thing was a relationship with his son. So I saw videos this weekend. I didn't even talk to him. I didn't send him a message or anything. I saw what he did. They went and bought another bike. They had like a Sur-Ron, the electric bikes, right? That's what his son likes to do. His son's 13 years old. So they went and bought a bike and they did all this stuff together. That meant everything to me.
Thank you so freaking much for having that talk. Um, meant the world, dude. It really did. Uh, me and Kai got home tonight and he sat at our island in our kitchen and talked for the first time with an open heart. And told me what he wants to do with me. Um, that's never happened, brother. So I appreciate it, man. God dang, tonight was needed more, more than you know, or maybe you do know. But, uh, I love you, man. Thank you so, so much for having that talk. And, uh, he literally just poured his heart out telling me, you know, Dad, this is what I want, this is what I want to do with you, this would make me happy. So we're going to start building a bike for from the ground up. He wants to go out and ride with me. Um, I sat and listened, gave him a hug. We told each, you know, each other we loved each other. And yeah, man, can't thank you enough for that one. Um, there's one thing I want— it's a little, little guy to be proud of who his daddy is, that's for damn sure. So, um, and you're right, we say we do it all for them, but it's like, what are we— what are we really doing for them if we're not not there with them.
You can have all the money. Money don't mean shit. That's what I tell you guys all the time. I've had it all. You're going to have a kid one day. Everybody here may have a kid one day.
