who are not very close to him although he lives 45 mins away from most of them

...they're good people, well some of them are, but my dad does not talk to them like that...i used to come up to MI from NC to visit every year or so and ask about ___ relative and my dad was like "i ain't messing with them, so we ain't going over there"...LOL...

...my uncle moved down here almost a decade ago and i heard he wanted my number so we could reconnect, my dad basically forbid it when i talked to him about it...he knows his brother more than me and i trust my pops so i haven't talked to that uncle outside of my grandmother's funeral....but that uncle is alot like that one brother you mentioned that's always in trouble, and he's past 60