Shauna Lake Interview with Jon Gosselin

Below is a transcript of more sections of Shauna Lake's interview with Jon Gosselin. Jon and his wife Kate have eight kids; a set of twins and a set of sextuplets.
Jon: Our show is very successful. Jon and kate plus 8 is pretty successful. And we're just giving back right now and it is so rewarding to see a family and be like here's our clothes, here's our stuff. What can we help you with.
Shauna: People want to know, they are dying to know actually, why your parents and kate's parents aren't as involved
Jon: Well my dad died four years and he was like the most involved parent ever. Like mattie and cara miss him so much it is ridiculous and so do i cause he was cool. My mom, she got remarried and moved far away but she does not want to be filmed. And kate's parents are just not involved.
Shauna: In your life's? How come?
Jon: It's just, and they have 19 grandchildren and they aren't involved with any of them.
Shauna: With any of them?
Jon: Any of them
Shauna: But are they part of kate's life?
Jon: Nope
Shauna: So they aren't part of her life either?
Jon: They don't even talk to, it's weird. it's like they left the nest and they left the nest.
Shauna: So is there a chance that you could be moving to utah?
Jon: No, i mean i would love to get a place up here yeah.
Shauna: What do you love the most about here?
Jon: Well i'm like extroverted and love meeting people. And here, and is anyone boring here. It's kind of like california.... but it's kind of cool that everyone comes from a different walk, everyone has their own story.
Shauna: A lot of people in Utah, as you may or may not know, have big families.
Jon: Yeah i know. I get a lot of e-mail from here..
Shauna: So having a family of 8 is not that unusual. How would you articulate having six kids
Jon: All the same age, that's different.
Shauna: Yeah talk about that a little bit
Jon: With eight kids, singling, like the older can watch the babysit the younger ones. not us, like you've got the twins and you've got the six and like they're all going through the same developmental stages. So it's kind of tricky.
Shauna: So you're mr. mom?
Jon: Oh yeah, i hang out with all the moms
Shauna: Does it bug you that..
Jon: I'm not going to lie. At first it really bugged me because it's a prideful thing for a man to like go work, provide for your family. But kate explained it, you are providing. She's like, if you weren't home, then i can't work in new york. You know, so your role is almost bigger.
Shauna: But you have to feel immensely blessed with the life that you have?
Jon: Oh my goodness. The kids, when kate, When Kate was pregnant, they wanted to reduce our kids. and we were so anti-that. um, you know we think god has been blessing us ever since, becasue we stuck it out. Yeah it kind of was hard. I'm not going to say it was easy. We have a show and we have to be parents at the same time, but I just, you can't get hung up on things you have to do it, and you're going to fail. I fail every day. But you have to just keep getting through it.