- All right y'all. We're back and I'm hanging with
an audience of dads and Joel McHale for our rad dad hour.
- Oh, thanks dads. Thanks rad dads. Rad dads.
- (Laughter) My next guests are doctors whose patients
often confuse them for one another. That's because as
father and son they share the same office, in the same field
at the same hospital. I think they just wanted to like play
people right off the bat. That was just mean to do, right?
Um, but in fact they're actually there right now,
So everybody say hello to Dr. David Randolph senior,
and his son, Dr. David Randolph the second.
Hi y'all.
(Audience Applause)
- How's it going?
- Hello.
- Meet Joel.
Joel, one of our rad dads.
- [David Sr.] Hey, Joel.
- And you guys got the same names, too.
- I know it's all very confusing, it's awesome.
Um, so, David, the second, um, tell us where you work,
and you're there right now, right?
- We are here at the Johnston-Willis, uh, hospital at the
Sarah Cannon cancer Institute here in Richmond, Virginia.
Uh, we're both radiation oncologists. A lot of people
are probably wondering what it is that we do.
Uh, so what we do is we actually use high powered radiation
to focus in mostly on cancer cells and,
and treat them effectively. And can I just say that,
you know, this is my father here and it's such
a tremendous honor to work with him.
- David Sr., why does your son have a tag on him that
says doctor, and you don't?
- (Laughter)
- [Joel] Have they taken, has he taken that away from you?
- Oh, there it is
- [Kelly] Oh, there it is. There it is. He got- he's like-
- Pretty small.
- (Laughter)
- [Kelly] So wait, to David Sr., Your road to becoming
a doctor, it wasn't easy. I actually love your story, in the
sense that you overcame a lot.
Can you tell us about your story?
- Sure. I grew up in the foothills of Virginia
and I was one of, uh, I was number six of 13 children.
I was a sickly kid. I suffered immensely.
Um, I had horrible asthma even saw the light twice.
- Oh my God.
- [David Sr.] During my childhood.
My father had a second grade education.
My grandfather could neither read or write.
Um, but I wanted to go to school. I wanted to further
my education so that I could help suffering children.
- Yeah.
- [David Sr.] And in the course of college
and medical school I ended up in a family
practice residency, and from there I decided to go in
and do another residency in radiation oncology.
And when I was applying to radiation oncology and, uh,
and while I was in my residency, we used to have
a standing joke that we could have a convention of
black radiation oncologists in a phone booth.
There was literally like four, five of us in the nation.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Joel] Wow. Where is this phone booth?
- (Laughter)
- Big phone booth.
- So wait, to David, the second. This is, this is so cool.
You have a daily tradition.
Can you tell everybody what it is?
- Yeah, absolutely. So in my family,
we were always raised to let each other know often
and frequently how much we loved them.
And so every day before we leave for work
whoever finishes first, we go into the other one's office,
and we, we say that, that I love you.
And, and can I just say that, you know
my dad has always been my hero. A lot of people have
pictures of sports heroes on the wall.
I literally, to this day have a little photo of my dad
when he was in medical school, uh, which has served
as my motivation, and that is, he's literally everything
that I want to be as a human being, as a father,
and even as a husband, and so-
- Wow.
- Getting the opportunity to work with him
and learn from him and sometimes even correct him
is just more than I could ever ask for.
And so I, I'd like to take this opportunity
on national television to just tell you, you know
I'm so grateful for everything that you have done
and everything that you have meant for me
and for my family, and everything that you've done for us.
And, and I love you. And you're the best dad ever.
- And, I-
- I am fine. I'm fine.
- (Audience Applause)
- Wow
- I'm fine.
- [Joel] Yeah. You made Kelly cry you guys.
- Best son anyone could ask for.
Oh, I don't, I don't, I don't buy anything anymore.
I just tell him what I want, and it arrives on my
- And it does
- It arrives on my front porch.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- I don't know how much the car I drive costs
cuz he bought it for me.
- Aww
- [David Sr.] Yes, he's been awesome.
- Absolutely. And I do have to add that I'm, uh,
a father of David the third now. And so honestly
my perspective has shifted a little bit.
And so now that I know what that relationship is
like from a father's perspective it does make it
extra special to be able to look at him,
have the time with him, and just tell him that I love him.
- [Joel] Wow.
- [Kelly] That's so cool.
- Wait.
- What?
- Is David the third already an oncologist too?
- (Laughter) That's what I was like-
- No. Don't be silly. He's in medical school.
- (Laughter) (Clapping)
- I know. I was about to say, I was about to say if,
if David the third ends up working at the same place
doing the same thing, I think y'all just like
messing with people too. Like that's a lot.
Thank you so much doctors.
Thank you for all that you've done.