Bussin' With The Boys - Christmas Traditions For Your Children + Mom vs Wifey Battle For House Supremacy | For The Dads

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm talk about family holiday traditions around Christmas time, Will saves the day by fixing his HVAC, and Sherm’s caught in the middle of a Mom vs Wifey debacle— all while keeping the episode fun, fresh and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with Will breaking down Rue’s new “look at me!” phase before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including:  Sherm’s Daycare throwing him under the bus ScarScar rolls over for the first time Talking through new Christmas traditions Other highlights include: Some Santa talk amongst the boys Will has a bone to pick with the Polar Express 👉 If you’re looking for dad podcast humor, parenting real talk, and a strong community vibe, this episode of For The Dads is a must-listen. 🎧 Tune in for laughs, real talk, and unfiltered dad energy. 💬 Drop a comment, share with your dad crew, and don’t forget to subscribe to For The Dads with Will Compton for new episodes every week!  PT6, Going Dark.   —-- TIMELINE 00:00 - PT6 is infiltrating group chats 4:55 - PT6 Comments? GOOD 8:07 - Will talks through Rue’s new “look at me!” phase 15:33 - Managing Momma vrs. Wifey convos 20:56 - Willy One Shelf Saves The HVAC 27:33 - Will had a Boomer momenet on PubG 33:39 - Sherm’s family will be gone for a week… 36:40 - The Daycare sold out Sherm 43:59 - Shoutout the new dads in the trenches /  the truth behind chefs train story 1:04:42 - How do you break pregnancy news? 1:12:32 - Is the Polar Express a Felony? 1:17:43 - Crack a Cold One - Scarlett Rolled Over & XMas Traditions 1:22:20 - Embrace Christmas Traditions / Santa Talk 1:38:08 - Elf on the Shelf Help & Wedding Pop Quizzes  1:51:11 - Checking in on PT6 Emails / A Real Shitty Story 2:05:57 - You create the majority of your misery / Lessons of the Week   —--   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.  Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing. Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a recently new father who’s currently deep in the trenches of Fatherhood and loving every minute of it. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world. Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way. -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Liquid IV - Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout.    Olipop - Get $2 off any 4-pack of OLIPOP at https://drinkolipop.com/BUSSINSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Pt Sickos, Empty Sickos. We're about to get into Santa Claus Talk. We're going to talk a little Santa Claus Talk in case there's any little ones in the room next to us that could maybe hear us. We're about to talk Santa. Papa Team 6, welcome to another episode of For the Dads. I hope your trash is taken out. I hope you're sitting around the fire in the evening. I hope you guys are making Christmas cookies with the fam.

This is a show for the Dads by the Dads. My name is Will Compton. I got Fat Stafford over here, Sherman Young. Hello, hello. He's a father of five-month-old Scarlet. I am a father of a three-year-old Rue and a one-year-old Scotty. We call her Scott Zilla. This is a pod for dads, new dads.

Maybe you're part of Seaman Team 6 with Chef Jack where you're young. You're just slinging the lead for fun. We like to call our army as fathers, Papa Team 6. If you want to et yourself into the fatherhood of Papa Team 6, you can go to bwtb.com. You can buy merch. I'm rocking it all right now. I have some Christmas busing merch. We have Christmas merch for the dads.

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Yeah, they're PT sicko's. They're PT sickos, which is the elevated version of PT6. Yeah, Papa Team 6, PT6. And we say that, though, because we know the group chats are getting louder. This podcast is starting to get shared around. I know Pt6 is out there working. there's this dad podcast out there. I think you like it.

The boys, they talk shop, they talk a little noise. They talk about being a father, being a husband. They laugh a lot. They talk about how bad it sucks, how awesome it is, all at the same time. We laugh. We cry. We smile. I'm getting tagged on Twitter.

I got guys in my mentions. They're saying, oh, Sherman, my wife leaned over to me and said, hey, when's Santa going to build that pink jeep? I saw somebody hit us up on social. they were out in the garage trying to put that thing together. I said, hey, tell her, hey, Santa's got a Heisman ceremony to watch. He's a big CFB sick. I feel that to one couple Christmases ago when Rue was like, when Rue was one,

my dad got her this Chevy Soperado that she could ride her, that she could drive her under my dad. Dad, she's one. She can't be in this thing yet. Yeah, yeah. So just sat in the garage for like an entire year. And I'm like, well, all right. I'll just pull this thing out of the box and we'll get it going. I open the box and all the parts are laying there in the box.

Son of a bitch, I got to put this thing together. One shelf's knees or buck. I put the tires on wrong a couple times. That's taking apart. Oh, man. I interrupted your intro that we were talking PT Sickos. We were talking going to bwtb.com. Yeah, whether you're a veteran father in the game, whether you're a new dad,

whether you're an aspiring dad. Look, it's just a, we're a couple of dads. With Chef Jack back there and Derek, the funkel of the whole group, we just, it's basically like pulling up a chair in the garage, ripping a couple of allie pops, maybe a couple of bud lights. Yeah. And just talk a noise about our week, the week that we had. And speaking of new dads, I have a couple shout-outs.

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Again, you can leave comments on YouTube, Spotify, shoot us, DMs, all of the above. We do a hotline where we play voicemails at the end of the episode. That is at 601, the dads to get featured on the show and get free merchandise. If you're international and you can't call into the hotline, you can also reach us at 601 the dads at gmail.com. And shout out again, the next. new dads. I have some comments right here. One from JJ Smith on Spotify. 30 degrees changing a tire good. Nine degrees in Michigan and under my car replacing my muffler after shoveling and salting. Good. I get to be a physically, mentally and emotionally capable enough male to be able to do this and

whatever else needs to be done. Good. Good. I got also new dads a porch on Spotify. We're seeing those Spotify comments. My wife is one of the cryptic one, fellas. But the most important lesson I've learned with her is if she doesn't want to get up and get our boy overnight or in the morning, she'll tap me on the shoulder and ask, hey, do you want to get them or me? And fellas, let me tell you about the cold shoulder I got the one and only time I asked her to get him. I learned quick that if she's fine getting him, she's just going to get up. But if she taps me and asks, buddy, it's Dad's turn, no questions asked. I'm being called up.

Calling in the lefty. I love that because that's a pocket there where you have some choices to make because sometimes Charles hit me with, do you want to go up and get him? And if she tosses me the question, I know it's like she's wanting me to go. Oh, yeah.

Because if she was fine doing it, she'd already go up there. Oh, yeah. But every now and then she'll be like, do you want to go up and get them? And I'll just be like, I think you'd be a great fit for this moment. You know what, Charles?

love the way you do it. I wouldn't depraved the kids of that. Or are you asking me? If you're asking me, I'd rather not. I think I'd like this is game. Yeah, if you're letting it be up to me, I'd rather not. I will if you want me to. I'd rather not. I think you're, I think you'd be great for this, for this moment right now. And thank you for communicating with me and like asking me beforehand. And by the way, for a shout out here to Charo, Gabriella Sestra on Spotify. laugh my ass off. M.T. Sixer here. That's Milk Team 6. That's our female audience.

I am Charo. Mommy can't play yet. I have to do X, Y, and Z. A subtle hint to my husband to get his ass up. Oh, shout out. I saw a lot of those from that video. There were a lot of M.T. Sixers resonating. Mason Cole on Spotify says Pt6 member with an almost two-year-old baby girl Kennedy. boys i'm on the trenches taking heavy fire wife is in her first trimester with our second and feeling like

absolute shit 24-7 no morning sickness we're talking all day sickness every day afterwards she gets home and basically goes to bed and i know it's time to put on the eye paint and go to war nobody is coming to save me getting dinner ready clean up playtime bath in bed time but i get to do this i don't have have to GBR wolf emoji GBR wolf mason call man I a dog there's so many times now Derek to where I got to just say in my head like I get to do this because buddy over the weekend I was a little I don't know if you can hear the hear the nasal on my voice but I was a little under the weather same little under the weather yeah and I had the kids a couple times solo because God bless my wife.

She went and did some volunteer work at the food shelter. Oh, that's awesome. For some repackaging, some organizing, some sorting. Oh, the canned sorting stuff? Oh, I believe so. I love doing that. I believe so. So she was going for a nice chunk of time on Saturday,

and I got the two minions, bro. And look, Scotty, she's one. And she's all over the place. I was saying it alluded to it last week on the podcast. She's climbing the Christmas tree. She's tearing down ornaments. She's getting in every cabinet. She's got to put everything that he's.

is organized. It's got to be on the floor. And God bless her. And Rue, she's in this phase as a three-year-old. And the dad's out there with the toddlers right now. They probably feel my pain. The parents out there with the toddlers. But Rue is just in this phase where everything is. Look at me. Watch me. Dad, look at me. Watch this. Watch this. And then what does you do? She'll hit a few reps. I'll go over there. I'll be like, oh my gosh, it's incredible sweetheart. And then it's like, I'll go over and try to like just nustle up on the couch or something. Like, Hey, do you want to color, you want to do this. I got her coloring.

We went to stay golden on Saturday morning. Oh, yeah, yeah. And she was busy coloring Christmas trees and ornaments on these worksheets. So I made a heady play. This is a dad hack right here, too. If you're kids, you're at a restaurant or you go somewhere and they got some stuff for kids where they can color, they can use crayons. Make a heady play. If you see them very involved and focused in coloring on this worksheet, go ask them for extra

worksheet so you can bring them home. She was fired up to color this Christmas. and ornaments. Yeah. And so I brought like four home. So I'm like, all right, when mom's out,

if Rue's not, I'm not going to have her do, or if she already used up her TV coupon, she's going to have to do things that keep her busy. Yeah. I'm trying to, I'm trying to manipulate this to where when Scotty is down for her nap in the middle of the afternoon in that one,

two, three, three, 30 range, that could be some father quiet time since mom's going. Yeah. So I got the worksheets out. And this whole look at me,

watch this phase. that I'm about to get to. I give her the worksheet. She is elated. We got a full box of crayons. And I get her set up because I'm trying to go and watch this documentary that I've been consuming the Diddy documentary? By the way, that documentary is...

Binged. Binged it. Wild. Wild dog. And as she's going, dude, every 30 seconds, she color an ornament or a flower or a part of the tree. She colored one little thing. and I'd have to get up and walk over there.

But, Dad, Dad, come look. Come look at the ornament. I'm like, oh, my gosh, you use blue. And then I'd go and say it. Like, sweetheart, you know, focus in. I'll come check. Get the whole tree going. Lock him.

Let me want to come over. Let the heart turn black on you. Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, come here. Come here. Check this. Oh, my God. Use yellow. And I'm like, sweetheart.

Like, just color the whole tree and then let me know when you're done. And then I'll come. I'll come check it out. I'm sitting there watching the documentary. and she's locked in and she's like, Dad Dad, Dad. And I'm like, yes, sweetheart. She's like, will you come sit with me?

I'm like, yeah, yeah, sweetheart, I'll come sit with you. Pause the documentary, go over there and sit with her. I got to watch her basically the entire time. What color do you think here? Can't use red, can't use blue, can't use orange, can't use green, purple, pink. I'm like, sweetheart, you got to be able to mix. You got to be able to repeat some colors. Yeah, yeah.

Talk her into it. But this phase, man, is, I mean, it'll beat you down. Yeah. It'll be, Sheram, I'm talking. Hey, Dad, Dad, Dad, come here. Watch me.

Watch me. And I'm like, I walk over there. I'm like, what is it, sweetheart? And she'll be like, just that.

Yeah. And I'm like, I'll stare at her and I'll say, is that it? She's like, yeah, watch. And I'm like,

oh my God. That's incredible. You're going to have to practice in the mirror like 20 different reactions to her. stuff. You got to, you got to expand your bag. Like, sweetheart, you got to, what are we looking at? Tell him, tell him what you said about the Christmas cookie that she made when you

texted into the group about the Christmas cookie. I put that one out on Twitter. I put that one out on Twitter. Did you say what you said in the group? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be telling the boys like, hey, man, I'm telling you. I think Rue is going to be, she's going to be smart, bro. Like she's ahead of the game. And I'm like looking at her making this little Christmas cookie.

And just it's all different colors. It's just plumped of plumps. What are we trying to call it? Like mounds of icing in different spots. It's uneven. It's very below average. And I'm looking at this cookie. And I'm like, sweetheart.

I look over my wife. I'm like, we think she's going to be smart. And then she makes a cookie like this. It's in the group message. With the PubG, like Coop and Jared, and both Coop and Jared go, what's wrong with the cookie? And I'm reading this way later

after y'all had this conversation. Will's like, she's using all different types of colors. Look, there's three different types of glitter on it. I told her she was grounded. He told her she was grounded. He was obviously kidding. Up until now, I thought he was really, really proud of it. And I didn't, I was just like, it's a cookie will.

Obviously, when we're sitting there doing our Christmas cookies, I'm fired up. But I'm like laughing to myself because I'll look at her. She's like, check this one out. I'm just like, they don't look. What are we looking at? Sweet, that shit is trash. Oh, my gosh. I'm trying to find true goons.

There it is. Our group chat's called true goons. I dropped the picture in. And you can put the tweet up too, Chef, but I dropped the photo of the cookies. in there. You know, like me, man, I'm telling you, Ruse smart as hell for a three-year-old, Ruse Christmas cookie.

Jared laughs and then he goes, I don't even know what's wrong with it. I said, that icing game is trash. I said, three colors, three different types of sprinkles, clumpy. And then I just, then I randomly put after that,

she's grounded. And then Jared goes, which, by the way, I looked at Charo, and I said that before Jared even sent this message, I was like, sweetheart, what are we doing with yellow icing? Like, that's not a Christmas color?

Like you could have just left the icing white. Because you know, you put the food coloring in it to change it up. Like you, we could have just done red, green, and white. Because I'm sitting here trying to build sandas. I'm trying to build all these different things. They just got yellow sitting there. And Beeman goes, honestly true. Also, yellow, it's Christmas.

I said, yeah, my wife got a verbal lashing for that as well. I was reading those laughing so hard, dude. People are out there, what are they talking about right now? It's late. It's Sunday night. It's Sunday night. What time we're at? It's about 9 p.m.

Oh, yeah. After the kids went down. Talking about I get to. Yeah. That's what we were talking about. On Saturday night, bless my mom's heart. I love my mother, Ms. Amy. She listens to every episode, Ms. Amy, I love you.

She came in town to hang out with me and Jill, help take care of Scarlet, let Jill and I have a little more relaxing time. My mom is very talented. artistically. She has a, uh, her own art company and she had a gallery for years and, um, at Amy Young Art. And that's, uh, at Amy Young Art with one Y. I always told her that makes it a little complicated mom because it's at Amy Young Art, but there's just one why. Um, so I, but I still want to give her a shout out. Shout out. No free shout out. Shout out. No free shout out, Ms. Amy. Am Young Art. Um,

But she's extremely creative. She did a lot of interior design work back in her day. It's about 7 p.m. on a Saturday. And she's like, Sherman, now I don't want to upset Jill, but I'm looking at y'all's living room and dining room set up. And I really think that we could really rearrange everything. Oh, no. I go, oh, she goes, I'm thinking the couches move here, the dining room table moves here. granted, I'm feeling like shit on Saturday,

and I've not communicated this at all to my mom or my wife. So now I know it's too late for me to cop out and say, hey, I feel like shit. So I don't know if this is a good time. Cop out what? Cop out on what? Cop out on helping with the redesign. No, no.

Oh, wait. I want to, like, you know, RIP my mother. but if my mom would be over at our house and pull me aside being like hey you know i think we could do a lot of redesign in the living room i just put my hand on her shoulder and be like hey mom i love you if you feel confident enough to tell my wife that's what i did that we need to redesign this house i'm letting you know right now you're on your own and when that grenade happens because it's going to be explosive. Yeah.

I'm going to be on my wife's side. But if you want to step into the jungle, be my guest. So I tell my mom, I say, you know, you're really, you're kind of pitching the intern right now. You got to talk to the lady upstairs.

I got no say in this situation. But, you know, if you sell Jill on it, then, yeah, you know, we could look into it.

Thinking around 7 p.m. on a Saturday that, you know, and Jill was all, all but so excited for the redesign ideas. Loved Miss Amy's ideas. And she loved them for real? Loved them for real.

And we got to Cracken. We got to Cracken. Oh my gosh, bro. When you brought that up, I was like, oh, my God. How is this going to go down? I thought we missed like an entire portion of the argument because when you were like, and then I was going to miss out on the redesign, I thought there was a whole story about them at Conflict.

I wrote down four title names for the episode about the conflict. Oh, oh. There was zero. You tell me there was zero conflict. Zero conflict. Mother-in-law comes into the house. A, I think I don't really like to look at this place. I think we should redesign some stuff.

She approached wifey and wifey Jill, Queen Jill. She was just all on board. It was smooth sailing. Hey, I will say this. As far as the redesign stuff, she was exactly right. Like, she really was exactly right on all. And it was more so. So you're calling your wife stupid?

Not at all. No, no. I'm joking. No. Did you see it? You see his eyes? No, no, no, no. I'm just kidding.

I had flashbacks of my cage waiting for me. But you said what? You know what? My mom was exactly right. That place was a dump. My house looks like, shit. I do have some before and after photos that I'll send to you, chef. But it opened up a ton of space.

But, dude, I lifted up two chairs, re-hung some paintings. And I was just sit there on a Saturday just thinking late into the evening. Oh, my gosh, I get to do this. I get to do it. What happened with this? It sounded like there was some conflict when you were feeling under the weather and you should have told him you didn't say anything. Yeah, I just had to nut up or shut up.

And then I got really lightheaded and like super pale. and like honestly was starting to feel a little dizzy. And I was like, honey, I have to sit down. She was, she was great about it. She was like, hey, let's sit down. It was a huge bummer note, though, because we were going to have a date night that night. And so we were going to move all this furniture around

right before our kind of late night date night. And, yeah, I was just feeling like crap. So we miss out on that. That was kind of a dad loss. But I'm feeling a little bit better. Good. getting on the other side of it as well. Yeah.

But hey, dizzy, good. Good. You know what happened at our house is you talk about a really one shell story. Your boy got active over the weekend. And, you know, I'm talking heavy lifting. What were you doing? Something with the heat went out. Not out.

But the upstairs got like north, like around 80 plus degrees. So it was really hot upstairs. God. Not downstairs. And we shut the system off. Yeah. but it was still blowing hot air. Something.

And what the, what's going on? Yeah. And so I hit up my boy, shout out Robbie. And he's giving me all these little instructions, go up in the attic, you know, check this, send me the serial number of that. Is he an HVAC guy?

Yeah, he's an HVAC guy. Yeah, yeah. He's like, check the breakers. I go to the main breaker circuit, and I don't see heat or AC or anything on it. I see like living room, bonus room, bathroom. I see, I shoot him a picture, and I'm like, buddy, I don't see.

I don't see the heat or the AC on this thing. And he's like, you might have to go outside by the unit. Run outside by the eye. Hey, sweet-ar, you stay inside. I'm going to throw the shoes on. I'm going to go outside. Was it behind some bushes, too? He was next to a bush.

Yep. I go back there. The AC units run. It's like, mm-hmm. And I'm just kind of do one of them, kind of do one of them lean back. And I'm looking at it. You adjust your hat a little bit? Yeah.

I think that's the breaker circuit right there. Open up, wiggle the breaker circuit. realize there's just a little latch on the side, open that up. I see all it says is AC breaker. So I just send him a photo. I'm like, so just flip these off. And he's like, yeah, flip them off, step back, AC. The unit shuts down.

And I'm like, all right, I think I got to. Went inside. I looked at my wife. I was like, I think we just wait now. Go upstairs. Let's turn all the systems off. All systems off, breakers off. It says you can go quick.

You can do a quick reset, five to ten minutes. We're going to wait 30. Yeah, yeah. Because we're going to make sure this thing, the systems are, you know, systems are going to be a go when we get this thing spark back up. Go upstairs. Hot air is still blowing out. After you hit the break? After I hit the breakers, bro.

But the people who are true HVackers out there, the true sickos that understand this game, they're probably like, oh, Willie, it was probably just the AC unit, not the heat one. There's a heat one as well. Oh, you have two units. One for heat, one for AC. Yeah, I believe so. There you go. Call up Robbie. Hey, bro.

Heat's still coming. All systems are off. I flip the breakers off. Heat's still coming. It might even be hotter. Yeah. Will, you got to go up to the attic. There's going to be a gray box sitting there by the unit.

Yep. You'll find it, open it up. If it says heat, there's your heat one. Get the ladder down from the attic, you know. And I'm feeling like people talking about Willie one shelf, Will is handling business right now. You hit the Peter Pan Pose again before you go up. He said, sweetheart.

I'm going to have to go up in the attic. Do the dramatic click of the flash. I'm going to go north of the wall. Where's a tape measure? If I'm not back, it did. Hey, you know what? You start feeling around my pockets. Before I go up there, let me get a hammer and a tape measure.

Flip off the breaker, you don't know what you're going to need. You just go up there with like a little thing of dirt and dust and just put it all over yourself after you get the breaker. I flip down the ladder. I'm climbing up. on a ladder, you know, kind of a fragile ladder, and I'm like holding on. Oh, yeah. Sweetheart, you got the kids down there?

All right, you guys, you guys stayed downstairs. Don't come up here. This is big boy stuff. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, don't come up here. Don't come up here. I'm looking at the unit up in the attic, and it's a big boy. It's got the big silver tubes going out everywhere,

and I'm kind of like looking around. Send him a photo, the serial number. We're checking to see if we're still under warranty. Because he's like, it might be the masterboard. It's not communicating. correctly with the system. Yeah. But you got to shut it down, Will.

You got to shut it down up there. I see the gray box over there. I kind of prop it open. I see that's just a simple switch. Heat says heat, big written. I'm like, all right, here we go. This is the heat. Like, you know, I don't want my wife to know.

This ain't some big boy stuff. I'm just, I just randomly yelled. God, damn. It's all good up here, sweetheart. It's all good up here. Compton, lock in. Yeah. Flip it off.

System shut down. Text Robbie. Yeah, I shut it down. He said, all right, now you just wait. So we waited. I'm going around and I close. So we wait like 30 minutes. Kick it back on.

But this is when my wife was out volunteering. So I kick it back on. I'm keeping her posted. Like, hey, you know, I think I got the systems reset. I think we might be good to go. Yeah, yeah. But it starts blown out hot air again. So we might have like a, like a master board issue.

Yeah. With the HVAC unit where it's like not, it's not communicating with the system correctly. Yeah. and you can't, I don't want to go too deep into it for anybody not interested, but I do have a legitimate question for it. Something that my parents did with the heat rising, you have a lot of open air space in that house. Do you have floor vents in the upstairs? No, no floor vents in the upstairs. All ceiling vents?

Floor vents on the first level. Okay. And then ceiling vents on the top level? If it's easy for you, you can close all the floor. the ceiling vince. Closed them, buddy. And that didn't even help? No, that ended up helping because again, it's blowing out hot.

I'm like, you know, you were about to have, we had like a really cold Sunday. Yeah. But it was still like, it was like 30 to 50 on Saturday. And so as we're about to do bedtime and everything else, we're opening the windows until they actually go to bed. But we got the windows open trying to like funnel through. And then I'm standing on beds. Like I got this metal pole and I'm closing the vents in the ceiling.

Yeah. I was working. You were working. I was working. You crushed it. Thanks, man. Hey, that's actually a huge dad hack, by the way. We have a very small upstairs,

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Oh, yeah. Because he got, yeah, it eventually got pretty damn hot in there. And I'm sitting there sweating when we got our chicken dinner on Pub G, shout out the boy, shout out the Goon Squad. Shout out the Goon Squad. It's a fat dub for the Goon Burrace out there. Can we get a little chef Jack, get his thoughts

on playing with the boys the other night? How was it? It was good, man. I didn't play video games with like a group of friends in a long, long time. He got called up to the big leagues. You were out. You were, you was rocking with mom and wifey. It was fun. Will had kind of a boomer moment with his headset

that took about. You think I was. I had no boomer. Wait, wait, wait. Because I did hear a little something, something about this. I read, I read. No boomer moment, man. If I can give you all.

It said, turtle beach, top of the line. And it wasn't communicating with the discord. I couldn't hear the boys. If I can tell you all, my, my side of it is I'm passing in and out of sleep. I'm sweating out some stuff. I'm not really checking my phone other than just kind of surviving through the night. So I wake up the next morning. And it seemed like y'all's plan to play was like 8.30-ish.

Like nine. And then I just see a string of text, which we could provide to you, Jack, of Will, we can hear you. You can't hear us. Will,

check, check this system. Dada, I do the thing where you like scrolled the text to the left and see the timestamps. It was like an hour and a half affair, it seemed like. The boys are sitting there hating on me,

you know, just like, hey, I think it's a will issue and Coup's like, yeah, it's definitely a little issue. Coup says something about that age, man. That you get up there. I'm like, I text. She ain't got nothing to do with age.

Coupe. I got a TikTok, Coop. I'm with it. I'm on TikTok. I ain't just on Facebook. That's incredible. And then Coupe with the eight kill game. Yeah.

That's crazy. He crushed it. We got a chicken dinner. How did Jack play? Chef Jack played awesome. Okay, good. We got in there with a six. squad, a dude who was in the Marines

when we had a fourth, because Scoop got off, the Marine joined us and he was telling us about how it went down. He's like, I like to use the stuff that I use for real. And I'm like, I like to use the stuff that I think I would do for real. You know, that's a really good point.

That's a really good point, because I think I'd use this M-2 mutant. You know, if I was in the shit for real. What was his username? name, but you got to shout him out. What was it, recon? Yeah, recon, Rob or something like that.

Interesting guy, but he was cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I got on eventually like 930 because I, you know, I was gone, was it Wednesday early through, yeah, yeah, I got back like Thursday afternoon, and then Friday we had that double date night. So I met, and then we streamed on Thursday night. So I missed bedtime on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. My wife's hit me with like, you got double bedtime duty on Saturday and Sunday.

I'm just like, laugh out loud. She hits me when I'm not around her. Like, I think I was over here or something. She just texts me. So you got double bedtime duty on Saturday and Sunday, and I'm just laugh out loud, sure. I guess. But on Saturday, before I could goon with the fellas, I'm going up there with Scotty at like seven. And then I come out when I get Scotty down and Charles down there, that's when they was doing the Christmas cookies.

Oh, we're doing Christmas cookies at like 8 o'clock. I'm like, hey, it's bedtime, bro. But Rue was all fire to do Christmas cookies. I know it's kind of like a tradition. I know, like in this episode, we're going to be talking about Christmas traditions. Oh, yeah. Holiday shopping, but we were in the tradition of making Christmas cookies.

Then she hits me, it was like, oh, you should have made the dough while I was gone. You should have made the dough while I was gone. Sweeter, I don't know how to make the dough or the whatever. What is it? Yeah, the dough, the cookie dough. That is correct. Like the butter and the eggs and the flour or whatever. I don't know.

You got this mixer out. I don't know. Hey, listen. And I ain't going to sit there while Root bosses me around on how to make cookies. What the hell's a kitchen aid, babe? What do you mean it's in this cupboard? I've never seen this thing before. Yeah.

And that kitchen aid can take your hand off if you're not careful. Yeah. Got to be careful with that thing. So anyway, I'm putting Roo down to like 830 at 9. It was probably like 9, 930 when I left a room and ended up joining the boys. What? There you go. Solid weekend.

I had a... Tonight I finessed. It is Sunday night. I finessed Rue because Rue was like, Mama, you're going to do better? Because Charles was gone. She was working this morning, so I had the kiddos making breakfast.

Just being dad, just being an All-Star dad, dude. Yeah. Being a rock star as usual. Just crushing it with the kiddos. And the in-laws came over for dinner. And Charles, like, it's bath night for the kids. I'm like, oh, she's like, what was the nose-touch? Like, not it or something.

something like that. What's the nose thing? Nose goes. Yeah, yeah. Nose goes you. And I'm like, yeah, I figured it was me.

So you want me to do, you want me to do bad time for both of them and, you know, double bedtime. I'm logging this in my brain. I'm not saying it out loud. She's hearing me say it out loud

as she listens to this episode right now. I'm in there scrubbing the kids. You don't get the bad clean, right? You know, seeing into them, playing with them. Yeah.

Splash, splash, splash. Oh, there you go, there you go. Don't drink it. Stop. Cover your eyes. Waterboard. All right, let's go get you ready for bed. But I finessed with Rue because Rue one and a month.

She's my mom, it's your turn to do bedtime tonight. And she's like, she's like, will you do my bedtime? She's like, I guess so. Oh, that's a good point, Rue. Yeah, you know what mama should do bedtime. What if we turn to? We need to flip the switch. We need to start sub-tweeting a little bit.

Yeah. Maybe we start something. I got to find a way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to figure out a good way to do that. I got to figure out a smart way to do that. Speaking of dad losses, I have a pretty severe one. Okay.

So tomorrow is Monday. Jill is actually going with my mom and Scarlett to the airport. And they're going to be flying to Texas. She's not going to be flying back until Thursday. So I'm essentially going to have to hold down the fort From Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to like midday Thursday. So I guess that's three days without my two girls at home. So you're going to have the house of yourself?

Yeah. It's okay. I don't need to like talk about it. I've already processed it. So you're telling me your selfish-ass wife is going to take the kiddo. Yeah, the five-month-old. and fly out tomorrow on Monday Yeah, with my mom.

And be gone Yeah. For three days. Yeah. And you're going to have the house to yourself. Yeah. I know that y'all were talking about like PubG earlier and stuff.

And I was like, a part of me was like, shit, that's probably something that I'm going to have to do this week. Because what else am I going to do? Just sit at home, sit on the couch and just kind of like watch, you know, previews of the upcoming college football playoff. Nothing pisses me off more than my mother wants

to take the kids and leave dad home alone for days at a time. Yeah. I'm not holding it against her. I know we're talking about like scoreboard stuff. I'm going to do my best to not like keep score on this but you know I hope

they have fun. I hope she gets to spend quality time with friends and I'm just going to do my best to try and hold it hold it down hold the fort down all by myself at the house I'll probably have to order a pizza probably two medium pizzas from dominoes you know what you got to do what when she flies when she takes off you let it sit for a couple hours and then you just shoot her a message you feel good about taking my kit from me I hope you're happy I hope you're happy it 70 degrees in Texas right now I hope you're happy leaving me alone at home for a few days.

Yeah. Hurried in 70 degrees, you'll be outside all day. And then I'll be inside because it's freezing here in Nashville. I'll be inside. I'm going to have to bundle up with some blankets, make a fire, and probably play some video games. Fuck. Oh, this is where we need PT6 more than ever.

Eat some pizza and wings. Maybe we try and get a PT sick out on the sticks with us. Oh, my heart goes out for you, bro. Thank you, dude. Thank you. What a selfish bitch, man. Hey, oh, hey, speaking of selfish. Taking the kids, man, you're going to be begging for him to come home.

Speaking of selfish bitches, the employees at the daycare sold me out. A little belated dad lost from last week with Jilly Bean was sick and dead. And I took Scarlet all by myself on that last second, you know, oh, I got goodter. Jill lays out an outfit every single day for Scarlet with a big old bow, pretty outfit. I didn't have jilly bean. So the outfit that dad has laid out was built for speed. It was built for getting to work by 8 a.m. Yep.

Is it a nice little onesie, cute onesie with some cowboy boots. Did I grab a bow? No, that's not aerodynamic. Do I grab socks? She doesn't need it. She's wearing a onesie. She doesn't need socks in her cute little gold glittery cowboy boots. And I drop her off at daycare and she had a great day.

And then they run into Jill like three or four days later and they go, I think dad picked out the outfit on Tuesday. Dude, that's such bullshit. When people start commenting on, oh, it looks like dad dressed them today. I thought they were on my side. I do all the pickups and drop-offs.

I'm the face that they're seeing every single day and they sold me out like that. What's wrong with the onesie and some cowboy boots? Like, Troy. She looked cute as hell. Yeah, like Troy was getting on my eyes today. Like, oh, Scotty, let's get some clothes. on you is about four in the afternoon.

She's still out her PJs. She's still on her PJs from the night before. Was there any poop or pee on him? Hey, sweetheart. It's lazy Sunday. Yeah. And she looks like she's having fun. Does she?

Is she covered in her own poop or her own pee? Oh, she's not? Oh, then she looks pretty good to me. Yeah. I do. Don't even get me started, bro. It's like I'll put shorts in a t-shirt on Rue and like my nanny back looks like daddy dressed through today.

What does that mean? Hey, what if he did? Yeah. You don't like shorts and a t-shirt? What if dad fucked around and picked out an outfit? Yeah. You know? Oh, God forbid.

I'm a father. Don't let a white boy get out now. Yeah. Yeah. But in all seriousness. God forbid, dad's got some motion. Shout out to Crystal and Miss Angie because y'all are angels and I love you. Hey, hey, everything I'm saying right now.

Yeah, I need your help. Please don't hate me. That was for laughs. That was a joke. It's sweetheart. you're selfish. We don't think you're selfish at all. The picture is hilarious. I'll compile some pictures for the pod of outfits of Jill and that has picked out. And then they sent a picture like of Scarlett and her little onesie outfit.

Yeah. It's brief. The contrast is funny. This is dumb guy brain. Why does Scarlet have clothes she's not allowed to wear? That's a great, Derek. You know what I mean? Derek, that's a great question. Dumb, dumb, funcle guy brain. But why, why would she have an outfit and boots that you're allowed to put her in. Derek, that's a great question. Hey, why would she have a whole closet? Why would she have an entire closet with outfits that range all the way to like a two-year-old? Why would she have that at five months old?

And then why do we also buy new outfits like every couple weeks? You know, these are good questions. That's not a dumb question. Listen, you asked that question and my brain is saying I don't even know if there's an answer. Yeah Like I'm thinking Yeah I'm with you

I don't Shouldn't all of her outfits Be fair game To be put on Her body if they fit I'm genuinely Like I'm not even trying to make a bit Like I'm asking

Makes sense to me Dumb guy brink Well she's got to have Derek She's got to have Her cute morning fit For maybe a picture On the

On the chair That Will provided us Not in point five Yes And look if you don't want To dress the kids in certain clothes don't have those clothes in the drawer.

So Rue's three, so she'll wear her 3T. I thought 3T meant 3 tall. It means 3 toddler. It sure doesn't. I learned that the hard way too. And so one day Rue comes out and I got her in some pants and these pants, the bottoms of them are like midway up her calf.

And they're like, well, what are you doing? You got her in some 2T pants. And so I'm like, okay, I didn't know that. Like if they're in the drawer, I'm going to see them as a viable option that I can put them in. God, brother, you were me just two weeks ago before we made the big change. Because Scarlett was at the zero to three months, but now she's at the three to six months. But the zero to three months were still in the drawer that I go off of orders from my five-star general jelly bean.

And so if I don't get orders that everything in the right side of the drawer is off limits, and now we have migrated to the left side of the Chester drawer. You got to let me know. You got to let me know because I'm still going into the right drawer. And yeah, I'm fighting Scarlett. And I'm going, oh, this thing's a little tight. Little snub. Mama needs to get you some bigger, some bigger outfits.

She's growing. Yeah. There you go, Scar, Scar. I don't know. Listen, hey, we're on that. I agree wholeheartedly. Like dads that are trying and doing their absolute best. You can't just, it's like Ron Burgundy reading the teleprompter.

Well, if it gets in the drawer, it's fair game for us to put on. Like, do you remember when we were doing the put in the lefty thing? And I was like, I see the Bobby sitting there. And I'm like, hey, we never use Bobby formula, but I'm just going with it. Yeah, yeah. Pass forward to two nights ago. And Jill's like, hey, can you just make her little two ounce, like extra little two ounces? I think she's still hungry.

And we usually use the baby breza machine, which for any ST-6ers out there, funcles, that is a baby formula dispenser. So it's just this ultimate dad hack machine. We talked about it in the first couple episodes. You hit make, it makes it. What Jill is now asking me is to make just two ounces, which I could have done on the breza. But I was like, oh, that just means one scoop,

put it in a bottle, heat up the bottle. I could do that pretty easily. And I'd go to open up the Bobby. And Jill goes, oh, no, no, no, honey, don't use the Bobby. We never use Bobby. I go, oh yeah, that's right. That's right. Remembering that I made, pre-made three bottles for daycare of Bobby for Scarlet.

Oh, yeah, yeah. My dumb ass. He did not tell you. I did that. Of course we don't use Bobby. Holy shit. I just made her three. I've been sending her daycare with Bobby bottles for the last week.

And she's been going. Scarlett hasn't been drinking her bottles very well at the daycare I've been using the wrong formula and that just came out that's breaking news here on for the dads yeah so yeah Ron Burgundy

fuck you San Diego I have some other new dad in the trenches comments do we want to go into that some comments again if you're following along on YouTube Spotify. Do you see the clips on social media? Leave comments. We love to read them on the podcast.

We sure do. I have Marsh RZF 90s on TikTok. Boys, we are currently in the four to five months trenches with our daughter, Sonny. That's my mom's grandmother name. Shout out Sonny. I'm talking no sleeping at night, spit up, screaming and crying, only wanting to be held. We lost our dog recently and I feel as if she knows that she's gone. Dad's struggling through it. She can sense it. Only wants her mom.

Being a new dad is a wild ride. My identity changed five months ago and then changed again this week. Excuse me. When I lost my best friend, he's talking about his dog. It's just been dad loss after dad loss after dad loss. When do the trenches in? I listen to your podcast all the time for words of advice and encouragement, but God damn, this shit is difficult and I feel as if I'm failing.

How do you guys cope with all the change? Marsh RZF 90s. I have some advice for him. Do you have anything you want to say? This is why I would say, Marsh. The losses will keep piling up. You are not failed. The losses will never stop.

They'll never stop. They'll keep piling up. And you are not failing. You're just working through it. Find those small victories. Hit those small victories. Start small. You can't eat the elephant.

with one big bite. You got to take little bites. Get those little bites in. Get those little victories. Now, I do have a cheat code for surrogate best friend because I've lost some dogs in my day. Christmas is the best time for a puppy, dude. And I know you have a four to five month old. And so you're probably thinking, Sherman, what the hell kind of evil are you trying to put on me? You don't have to get a puppy, get a nice little five or six year old, you know, shelter dog that needs a nice home this Christmas and find a little surrogate best friend. I think that's the number one way to go when you're really feeling it with the dog loss. And of course, get a proof with wifey, but get some shelter dog that's sweet as an angel just to like have a new dog in there.

I do see a lot of people say that they get a puppy when they have a child too, like their first kid and I think the timing is probably a little different maybe the puppy before the child right before oh so it's not as much chaos but a lot of people say that a kid who grows up with a dog ends up pretty happy kid that is true that dog's gonna love that that toddler that is true yeah yeah that would be my advice do you have anything well number one the losses will never stop coming yeah being a parent is very hard work it will always be very hard work. That's why on this pod we talk about embracing the suck, the whole good mantra mentality, the whole, you know, flipping your mindset from this is happening to me to I get to do

this. So a lot of my advice would just come, would just come down to like what conversations are you having with yourself on a day to day basis. Like when you wake up in the morning and you're feeling down or you're feeling a little depressive or already defeated, that is. a very, that to me is a sign that you need to have a very hard, like, look in the mirror and conversation with yourself about what's motivating you and, like, what your why is behind everything. Because again, it's like, even with fatherhood, even with any area in life, like career, anything that goes on in your world, that is day to day and it's going to be habitual, the environment you're around, stress is never going to, stress is never going to

stop. So my advice would be having a very close. look, a very close conversation with yourself on what is motivating you because there's a lot to be grateful for. Again, we're going to talk and we're going to laugh and we're going to joke about a lot of the suck and the things that is tough about parenthood or being a husband and what's shitty about work and yada, yada, yada. But no matter what, at some point, you've got to flip your mindset and figure out what motivates you, figure out what you are grateful for. You start with gratitude. Your entire mindset will start to shit. So as simply as I can possibly put it is understand the conversations you're having with yourself,

like right when you wake up in the morning, right when you wake up, when you're doing everything, whether either you work out or you don't work out or whether you're making breakfast or your wife needs help with doing something. Like are you kind of down and having like a negative voice in your ear when all of these things are happening? Because if so, that to me is a tell sign that you need to start with yourself. Yeah. Because right there, that'll begin to once you, once you, once you, once you,

have that little subtle two degree shift because that's really all it is. It's it's like, you know, life is essentially a bunch of choices going through your head when things are happening to you, right? Like, yeah, it's like, oh my gosh, woe is me. Life is happening to me. The moment you grab a hold of that and realize that that's going to happen no matter what. So once you filter it out there's something differently and really check yourself on how you're speaking to yourself or how you are filtering the world and shifted to something, whether it's gratitude or something positive, or you just catch yourself like you know what i am being kind of a bitch about this i am being kind of soft about this i am kind of looking at this in a way different way than how i should be if

you're listening to this right now and thinking like you know what i do need to i do need to figure out like what type of filter i'm using if you start there you'll be able to figure out like what you know what then you'll start to get excited about what then like okay like let me start with gratitude let me start with what i get to do throughout the day like derrick having that having that monologue you had several episodes ago on like hey i I get to do this. Yes. Because the minute that happens is when things will start to shift for you.

Yes. Because I know it's tough, man. I know that shit's hard. And I'm just telling you like life is never just going to seem easier. You're going to get a pay, raise, a promotion. You're going to have a moment where you feel good. And that is just as fleeting as a song lyric from any major hit. Like there's going to be other problems that come the next day or the next week or the next month.

You're going to lose somebody. Something's going to happen to you with the family. your wife's going to be pissed. She's going to be in a mood one day. Your kid, it's not going to go the way you're going to, you hope it goes at certain times. No amount of money, no amount of possessions is going to fix it either. Like you were saying with the promotions and all that stuff,

it's a I feel like the number one way to get in the mindset of being able to say good after a shitty situation or being able to say, hey, I get to do this is when you are actively trying to better yourself and giving yourself some self-love, giving yourself some opportunities to win, but to also grow and develop as a person. I currently am going through that. I've talked about it on the pod of like, bro, I am going through the shit right now. Like, this is hard. This is like the last couple weeks for me, I've been really, really shitty.

It's been bad. And I had a conversation and sit down with Jill of like, let's, it's not like, oh, things are really shitty. Well, what if I got like the biggest promotion ever? What this podcast is blew up. And we had 5.2 million views per episode. Like, oh, then I would feel less shitty. No. It's like, Sherman, where are some actual things in your life that need to change?

Like, one, I am not sleeping well. I'm on a terrible sleep schedule. I'm not eating well. I'm out of shape. I'm taking in way too much caffeine just to keep afloat during the day. And then that makes me feel even shittier and sleep even worse. And it's like, Sherman, you have to break this cycle. It is going to be a hard cycle to break.

But you need to lock in for the benefit of your wife and daughter to be a more present father to get out of these funks and stuff. You need good sleep. You need some good energy. so you've got to have a better diet. You got to take care of yourself. Like, that is like the example I would apply to Marsh. It's like find those things in your life that you can better yourself on.

Because then ultimately that is going to make you stronger and able to say good in the shitty situations. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. That would be nice advice. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Yes. And I would say, too, you have self-love for yourself for a second. but the minute you have a little bit of self,

self love for yourself, like be fucking hard on yourself. Yeah, challenge yourself. Change isn't going to happen. Like, the moment change happens. And again, every area is when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Yes. And, dude, for me, it's just, I, I take an approach of just being hard on,

of, like, just being hard on myself when it does get to that point. Yes. It's like, hey, you don't want to get to a day where it's like, oh, I'm seeing a lot at the end of the tunnel. It's like, no, be the fucking life. in the tunnel. And just that's how you approach it. That's just how you approach it to a whole

nobody's coming to save you. Like that is to me the entire mentality about it. Because you might have every reason to justify every feeling in the world that comes through your mind. Yeah. Every justification, every excuse. Hey, you might be right in the situation you're talking about. But no matter what, unless you take full responsibility

and accountability, you know what? All of this shit starts with me, then nothing's going to change. And you're going to continue to be a finger pointer. And I'm not saying Marsh is a finger pointer. I'm almost just getting in this this mentality of like, you know, when those conversations have, because they're happening

and toward the end of the year, like it happens with me all the time where you talk about, you know, not taking care of yourself, not sleeping well. I haven't worked out like a month and a half. You were talking about the caffeine intake. I'm on my ninth or 10th cup of coffee.

It's fucking 9 p.m. at night. That's me. And there's a part where I'm sitting there looking at my pale naked body in the mirror and I'm just like, God, you are a piece of shit. And at some point, I just know in my head,

dude, when are you going to be sick and tired of being sick and tired about it? and start waking the fuck up early in the morning and taking care of your business. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news?

Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts.

We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And, well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get, your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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Yeah. So yeah, Marshfucking. And the self-love, like, I would say to that the self-love can be the working out, like the suck. like the stuff that does suck to do that's hard to do. Like when you are bettering yourself and you're taking those moments of like bettering yourself, that can be the self-love. So to your point, don't let the self-love be like, oh, I, you know, I'm great. Everything's great.

It's these people's fault. Have that self-love be more like pouring into yourself for improvement, aka therapy, aka going to the gym, aka pouring into positive hobbies, positive people in your life, etc. Yeah, yeah. So that was a good point of like,

don't let self-love distract you. I didn't want to... No, not at all, not at all. It's just for my approach, it's more of just the way I get in my own face. It's like, get in your face about it. Picture yourself grabbing you by the throat and putting yourself up against the wall

and be like, when are you going to wake the fuck up? Let the heart turn black. Let the heart turn black. Yes. Let the heart turn black. It's the only way. It's the only way I know how. It's a good way.

It's a good way. I've come to adopt it and I enjoy it. I got so. Sorry, real quick, we have a lot of dads that say the word failure a lot, like phone calls and stuff like that. And I would love to hear you guys talk about that for two seconds off that comment.

Because the guy's like, dude, I don't want to be a failure. I think you guys are a good example that I get, having a loss doesn't make you a failure. Like preparing for it and coming out of it. Because that's what I got from his is him being like, dude,

I'm a failure because these things are all happening. Like, you guys are a perfect example. and continues to say it's not about the losses that come your way, it's about preparing and what you learn from it. Just that was the coolest part I thought from the comment. Yeah. A failure is someone that is failing to act in the moment.

Like when you don't take action or something needs fixed and we're not taking proactive steps to fix it, I think that is the only definition of like the word failure. Hard things are going to happen all the time. You're going to mess up all the fucking time. You're going to give your kid Bobby for a week. You're going to give them the wrong formula. But like that is not like when you have those hiccups or when you are beating yourself up,

like you're not a failure. A failure is exactly what Will was saying, quitting and going his fault, his fault, his fault, my job's fault, my wife's fault. Yeah. That's a failure. Taking the failing to act and more of, like I would I would the wrinkle I would say is the failing to respond because it's all about it's it's it's at the end of day it's going to be all about how you respond in every moment because again we're we're

nothing but a makeup of all of our failures and it's it's truly like how did we respond in those moments where we didn't show up because fatherhood parenthood in this area of parenthood that we're talking about is it's not about being perfect not about looking back and back look at all these wins I had no it's just it's finding a way to to be consistent and show up like Like even if you do have a bad day or a bad moment, you're never defined by that moment, that bad day, that bad weekend might last a month. But if you wake up the next day and go about it, go about it a different way and respond the right way,

that to me is where you're going to ultimately start having progress. It's all about progress. It's all about showing up because, again, it's never about chasing perfection. It's about showing up because that's what parenthood is. Because you're going to have bad words. Like, you know, I mess up all the time with how I feel like I talk to Rue every now and then. And I'm like, oh, that didn't, that didn't come out the way that I thought it would or the way I wanted it to. Like, I'll have another opportunity.

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excitement when Jeff Jack becomes part of PT6 one day. It's going to be sick hopefully not anytime soon I need to hear some stuff out I feel like I will say I feel like it goes without saying being on a dad podcast is the 24 year old I am excited for that one day um it's super cool it's cool to watch you guys interact and talk about it and stuff and I think it's like, I think a lot of guys, some of those isn't even talked about a lot, there are a lot of young guys out there

that really aspire to be, to be dads. And it's not talked about because you're 24. It's like, hey, it's Saturday. Let's go, let's go hang out or do stupid shit.

Yeah. But it's like, I think there's a lot of dudes out there that it never really gets communicated as much where I feel like women, you see it all the time where women are like, I can't wait to be a mother.

I do think there's a very strong contingent of young men out there like myself. They're like, hey when that day comes it's gonna be a sick fucking awesome ride and you aspire for that so it's cool well said ST6 yeah that's your captain ST6

seaman team sticks right there he's definitely having a boy first by the way you think I 100% I've always said if I have daughters I'm fucked hey by the way here's one from from Josh Josh Raib

for on YouTube BT6 data hack for the Christmas tree problem to piggyback off chef the train works. Does the train work chef? Because we got an interesting video from chef last week. Running. Yeah. Let me put... So I get home. This is

Wednesday, Wednesday night. And for those listening, I don't know, I just moved back in Nashville. I live with my mom and dad. Shout out. It's really awesome. Saving on some money right now. But I get in there. My mom, she listens to every episode. And she was laughing. She goes, hey, I listen to the episode.

The train doesn't work. the train like we didn't put ornaments on the bottom half of the tree when you're a toddler because you destroyed everything oh no and i'll play the i'll play the video right now we have no ornaments down below you didn't have ornaments down below because me grab them yeah no and welcome back we're welcome back so to my surprise that was a great way to start you know my wednesday when i get home and so i take a little video and send it to the fellas and I'm just sitting there thinking, I should have thought that through because my parents, my whole life,

told me that I was a fucking menace. Yeah, look, the only dad hack out there just seems like don't put ornaments on the bottom half of the tree. Yeah. I will say we got, I do have Scott Zill in check.

She'll go over there. I'll kind of tell her gentle. Because Charles is always sitting there like whether she's pet and waffle or like, you know, doing something she doesn't want to rip off. She's like,

gentle, gentle. And she'll kind of like look at you and be kind of soft about it. But I've been keeping her, we've been keeping her in pretty good check with the ornament. She hasn't been too much of a problem to society recently.

Yeah. When it comes to the ornaments. I got some Love This Pod comments that we can run through really quick. I'm out of the comments. So go ahead. Tristan Morris R79 underscore on YouTube. Fell has been listening for a while now, but this episode hits a little different. Wife just let me know she's pregnant yesterday and we are ecstatic.

Question. How did y'all be? break the news of pregnancy to your family members. Thanks for all the advice that's going to come in handy real soon. What I did when we were having a room for the first time is I went on an old Amazon and got the coffee cups that says like Grandma, Grandpa, and then they have like the stats, the stats below. It looks like a nutrition, a nutrition label on the side of a food box.

Yeah. But got a little coffee cups. They opened it up, had it. And then I want to say I got a T-shirt. like I got these t-shirts on Amazon that said like something with like uncle or Tyrannosaurus

I can't fucking remember I don't know but anyway that's what I did I got gifts they opened it up they saw tears Jill went on a FaceTime rampage when she found out that she was pregnant

because she was nervous and so she faced time one of her nursing friends of is this a positive pregnancy test so now that nursing friend knows she facetimes her cousin that's basically her sister. Shout out Megan, who has a child.

Is this a positive? Does this look positive? Yes, that's positive. Okay, now cousin knows. Well, now that those two people know, my mom has to know. That's my closest person to. FaceTime's her mom.

So by that time, when Sherman got home and she laid out the pregnancy test, which fun little wrinkle, we weren't able to post our video because I come in and I see the pregnancy test on the sweater, I yelled out, I fucking told you because I told Jill that we were going to go one for one. And doing the math in my head, we went one for one. So fun times there. So I just FaceTime my mom and dad.

Yeah. Listen, there's no perfect way. There's no perfect way. They're going to be ecstatic. They're going to be ecstatic. And shout out Tristan. My next comment is actually about a person that is announcing number three. Will and Sherm. I'm a father of two amazing boys, four and two.

my wife and I recently found out that we're expecting our third baby to add to the anxiety of the whole process, wifey wants to wait until birth to find out the gender. That means agreeing on two names and not being able to mentally prepare. Would love to hear how you fellas would handle the situation sincerely, Nick H. from St. Francis County, Missouri. Howlett? What? He's got a third one.

Let's fucking go, dude. I'm assuming that was planted to be a... That was planted. It'd be a surprise for a Willie 1 shell. Yes, sir. Nix has a number three. Yo. Is that not crazy?

Yeah, that's awesome, dude. I want to sit here and FaceTime him. He texts him and he goes, hey, man, what's the plan if Will doesn't pick up that it's me? You know, what? Are you going to have to jump in there? Spotify? Is that Google?

What's that one from? He goes, you know, that brain plus CTE. We don't know. I said, I'll hold his hand and guide it to him. If it didn't click, I was going to be like, hey, St. Francis County. Is it that? Will, isn't that where you laid that one up for me?

I think you might have said Nick H first and then first I'm thinking, oh, I did say the text. It's the name of my boy. That's name of my best friend. I said the text. I said, if he doesn't get it, I'm going to be really worried for him. But yes, Nick. Nick's having his third. So,

congrats to Nick and Rachel. Yes, absolutely. I'm thinking in my head, like, yeah, Charles brought up waiting, like,

I want to say with Scotty maybe because we did a fresh transfer to where you don't know the gender through IVF, but she was like, do you want to wait until the birth? I'm like,

no, no, we ain't waiting to know. I got a know. Really fun story for you guys. My mom and dad decided to do that with me. My mom's going to hate

that I'm telling the story, but I love my mother, a very spiritual gal, and God told her she was having twin girls. And so because of that, she then told everybody that she was having twin girls when all fat staff was bacon in the oven. So she is looking people dead in the eyes and saying, I'm having twin girls. All the gifts are coming in. they paint the nursery pink and yellow pink and yellow nursery and then sure enough she had a she had a follow-up dream where an angel came to her because I am the second born I'm named after my dad which was very rare she had an angel come to her in a dream

just a couple nights before I was born and said it's actually a boy and you need to honor your husband and name them after your husband and man, I was wearing pink onesies in that pink and yellow nursery. I've had that angel can say, hey, hey, listen, we fucked up. I see you've been telling everybody you've been getting way too many games. Amy. Big man was joking.

Big man's joking or Amy. We need a cute thing. Big man was joking up there. We got to fix that antenna when we're praying a little bit. I love you, mom. That's a very fun story to tell. Oh, that's awesome. So, yeah, very surprising when she came out.

to the waiting room and said, it's a boy, actually. It's not twin girls and his name Sherman. So, yes. Let's do one more comment. And then we can go into our call-ins. We like that. How are we doing on timing? We're good.

Do crack a cold. Oh, sorry. Then we'll do crack a cold one. This comes from Stephen. Stephen Carapone, 4-715. on YouTube. I love this guy. Repeat offender. Sikko Steve here. You are a sicko, Steve. Told the wifie, I wanted for the dad's merch for Christmas. I come home to a package plastered and bustling with the boys tape. I play dumb like a champ. Next day, another box

appears. This woman's out here double sickoing me with surprise gifts. Now I got to sit here for two weeks pretending. I'm not thinking about those boxes 24-7. Hashtag wife's bro Stephen Carapone is a true PT sicko so wife got him some some merch got him some merch for Crimbus shout out joining the PT6 father shout out man shout out joining the PT6 father and shout out our merch bwtbdb.com being like hey can you guys have a package option next year as a gift because their hubbies were bringing the boxes in with bust and with the boys tape on it and so we got a lot of pictures from the wives of their husband holding the box where they're like well They know what they're getting this year.

So we might have to talk to you about a gift option next year. Oh, yeah. That's kind of, that's sneaky. Just put it under the tree. You don't know what you're getting. And maybe a little gift bundle. A gift bundled package would be kind of fun too around Christmas. Yeah.

Comes with the hat, a shirt of. Pay measure. Tape, oh. For the dad's tape measure. Which is old Willie one shelf on there hitting the Peter Pan. Honey, stay downstairs. honey there's bats there's bats in the attic it's crazy up here um all right awesome oh that's all read the tweet right i got a willie one shelf tweet special here that i would

um this might have to be a new segment will if that's okay with you you're saying um you found a tweet that you read in my voice and it made you chuckle yes may i take may i just take a shot in the dark on which one it might be before you do, I just want to preface for PT sickos out there that don't follow Will Compton on Twitter, go ahead and change that. It's at underscore Will Compton. And sometimes he tweets a lot about football, but sometimes he'll put out these tweets where he has a internal dialogue with the internet. And Will, what you get off to, you enjoy him. I love them because I read them in your voice and it makes me so happy.

What tweet do you think that is this week? I'll take a guess too. Let's let Will guess first and then you can guess, Chef. I would say, Polar Express. Okay. Polar Express. Ding, ding, ding.

I knew it too. Whenever I fired that one off, I was like, I bet Sherm sees this. This was tweeted on... But you're telling me. This was tweeted on December 12th by Will Compton to the worldwide. Web.

Buller Express, a great movie. But you're telling me a train pulled up in the middle of the night and conned a bunch of kids to get on board by saying, hey, it was headed to the North Pole? Magic or not, that has to be a felony written all over it. Such a great tweet. It was Pizza Friday. It was Pizza Friday movie night, a nice weekly tradition that we have. We were watching Polar Express.

Yeah. Great movie I've seen it before. It's a good movie. Oh, yeah. And I'm sitting there. And I'm sitting there watching it this second time through. It was my second or third time seeing the movie. You know, Roos fired up.

We saw it last year, but she kind of doesn't remember where I remember. Pauli's supposed, yeah, but she's enthralled by this movie. Not a lot of words throughout the movie. Yeah. A lot of just fascination and imagination going on. Singing and dancing. Yeah, singing and dancing. and his train comes in the middle of the night.

And this kid is just outside in his backyard, not really bundled up. And he stands there and sees Tom Hanks, the, what is it called, the engineer, the train conductor. And he's just like, headed to the North Pole. Hey, kiddo. And the kid just gets on. And then they get on the train and the car is just a bunch of kids.

You don't think there's no adults. There's no nothing. It's just, hey, you got this golden ticket. We're going up to the North Pole. Get to meet Santa Claus. Get to meet Santa Claus. You're just gone in the middle of the night. That's crazy.

That's crazy. That's crazy. I know that Will had one eyebrow up, one eyebrow down. I looked over my wife. I looked over my wife. I said, could you a mask? Because you know, we got the train. We got the railroad basically in the backyard.

could you imagine if Rue just got up in the middle of the night went outside and got on a train because she thought it was headed to the North Pole Bro, I want to watch any fantasy movie I want to watch any fantasy movie with Will like the Goonies and at the end they go yo there's a fucking pirate ship's real

there's a treasure? Imagine if you're looking for them Hey and just to confirm I went to Google and I was like it's Polar Express is that based on a true story No, no, no, no, no, no. I typed in, I was like, because I kind of missed, I kind of missed a part that I was trying to get confirmed,

which was right before that. I'm wondering, is that based on a dream? You know what I mean? Like, kid goes to sleep and then it's a dream, but they're telling me like, no, this is just, it's just like magic. It's just like magic. Hey, magic or not,

that sounds like there's got to be a felony. Dad comes in, kiss them, good night, like alludes to a couple subtle hints that the train's going to be coming at midnight. the clock strikes whatever it is and then the kid just goes outside but it's not a dream yeah so I think all right maybe this is a dream

and I missed that part before I fire this one off I confirmed that it like wasn't a dream and the kid just went out in the backyard and got on the train because he thought it was going on the North Pole that's crazy because we're driving my wife and I were driving to that double date

I'm just like sweetheart Deadpool Express and buddy he wakes up at the end of the movie and he goes was it a dream but we just teach it our kids it's okay to go outside in the middle of the night when they're snow on the ground

waiting for a train is a you guys going to the North Pole? She said, baby, you know, it's just a movie. Like, we're ain't gonna. Let's go enjoy, let's go enjoy our Saturday. Our Saturday brunch. It's okay, honey. I just caught me off guard.

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The original video was two minutes longer. You seem about to go and you kind of push them back over. Hang on. Give me a second. Let me get the camera ready. This arm's going like this. And I'm like, come on. We've been going for two minutes.

I can't get him a push. And I go run out of memory on my phone, Scarlett. She's going like. this and then dude my dad voice I was cringing listening to my dad voice I'll play it really quick if we want we can react to my dad voice that ain't no yay get over there oh there we go celebration I love it what am I doing you got to your back kid oh you got to your back kid and the first time I don't know if I touched on this on the pod the first official flip by herself was unseen because dad-daz was doing tummy time with her and she was getting so close to flipping over.

This was when Jill was, I forget, oh, she was working. It was on one of my solo Saturdays. And I'm doing tummy time. She won't flip. I'm like, oh, I'm hungry. I got to make a PB&J. So she's her play pins right there by the kitchen. So I'm able to keep an eye on her.

I go get the bread and the peanut butter and jelly out. And I swear, I look into the playpin. and she's on her back. I was like, you gotta be kidding me, too. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news,

huge news? We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a podcast. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend.

But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call. it and oh we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas brothers was this is how you guys remember it going down yes I have a very different memory of this we were talking about a thing a bit for the podcast people could call in and say hey Jonas

and then I wrote down on my little notepad hey Jonas and offered it up as a potential title but thanks for remembering that guys listen to hey Jonas on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened.

That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear.

The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered. SportsClyce brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to SportsClyce on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slical Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. The French Open is one of the toughest tests. in tennis. And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I just sat there with you for almost 30 minutes. And as soon as I get up, and it was because she wanted to see me in the kitchen. That was like what her... You go flip her back over? Yes. She never did it. I was sitting there like, so then I go stand in the kitchen.

I'm like, scart, scars, scorn, look at dad. Look at dad, flip over, look at dad. She never did it. And now I finally have evidence. I'm not crazy. You look at that, dad, look at that. You ain't shit, man. You ain't shit, man.

Man, you ain't your daddy, girl. My cracker cold one. Christmas traditions. Yeah. Christmas traditions. My wife, she loves to do. What are them calendars called? the advent

yeah the advent calendars yes where she has these little slots you know entire month of December and she likes to get this throwback camera to where it prints out the little the little photo oh that's such a little polar

or whatever it is but every night some kind of photo whether it's me and the kiddos her and the kiddos the kiddos tonight was the inla oh was the grandparents

low lowland open the kiddos yeah take a picture every night throw it in the advent calendar we do Christmas cookies we're making them I told that story on Saturday night Christmas cookies. Yep.

Obviously pictures with Santa, whenever you have, but just overall Christmas traditions that you do as a family. I love that. Putting up the trees and an easy, obvious one, that was always my favorite

because of the tradition of my godparents sending me a custom ornament every single year. Yes, bro. So that's when I got to unbox my newest ornament. Bro, and you don't appreciate

custom ornaments. Just in my, until you get a lot, older. Yes. Just the way it is. You get one and you're like, damn, why they just send me an ornament, man? I wanted this toy. I wanted you know, this video game. I wanted this or that. He just sent me an ornament.

But now that you're older, like we still have that 1989 Willie C ornament from when I was born. Oh, yeah. A couple ornaments from back of the day, the annual ornaments that Charles and I might have when it was just me, Charle and Waffle, the Me, Charles Waffle and Rue, and now all of us was Scotty. Yep. There's always an ornament every year, man, that I just

appreciate. We did busing ornaments one year. I got a couple buses hanging. There's one hanging on Rue's little tree. One hanging on ours. Massive Star Wars fans. I got to get the, you know, I got a Yoda ornament. We got to talk some Star Wars one day. I didn't realize that you were so into it. Dude, I love

Star Wars. Keep going, though. I'm sorry. But overall, just Christmas traditions. There's just nothing, tis the season. There's nothing that just brings life together and the season together like Christmas traditions. Like, Rue, we have another like Advent, I believe it's an Advent calendar where there's like

chocolates inside. So she's got this little, you know, she's got a crack one open each night. She's always fired up and sitting right next to her for dinner. Can I open this one? That, you know, what fires me up about this Advent calendar is she's kind of got to sit next to her at dinner. And it reminds me of like, you know, kids these days, they're sitting there in the mornings. Like, for me, we grew up on the cereal boxes. We were sitting there eating cereal and you'd be looking at the box the entire time because you didn't have the phones. You didn't have everything else going on. But she's all fired up because she's got this Advent calendar sitting next to her. You know, I'll try to have her spot these animals or it's got all

the numbers on us. I'm like, find 13. Like what, you know, what two numbers are in 13? And so she's looking at this box all the time just salivating at the opportunity. Like, hey, you finish your dinner. You get to eat the chocolate. She'll want to pop the chocolate out early because she just want to see what it is, whether it's just stocking, a deer, Santa Claus, an ornament, a snowflake. Yeah. She just wants it sitting right there. Like, okay, I get that if I eat my dinner. But just Christmas traditions, man. My, uh, to throw on to the traditions talk, my parents, I was that kid at school. I don't remember what grade it was, maybe fourth or fifth,

that my parents had me believe in so hardcore, dude, in Santa. They were so good just to give some dad hacks, some tips. Dad would get his big old work boots, and he would stamp them real hard in the fireplace. He'd build a fire, and then he would stamp it on the fireplace, and he would put ash footprints throughout the living room over by the tree, where the gifts are. Oh, that's amazing.

He would go over to the cookie, where the cookies were. And my mom would get the cushions and sit next to the cookies and push the cushions in. So it looked like Santa was sitting there drinking and eating the cookies. They even did it for the Easter Bunny. People don't even do that for the Easter Bunny. They leave glitter, rabbit paws, like with glitter around the yard and on our front porch.

I'm like, oh, well, they, when I found out Santa wasn't real, in full tears, I go, is the Easter buddy not real either that's how bad day had me dude it was how old how old were we when you found out about Santa Claus a big fourth grade yeah I was close to that too like I would look my friends in the eyes and be like I don't care what you say I swear to God and you know when you're a kid saying I swear to God like that's the biggest of the biggest yeah I swear to God San is real I've seen him with my own eyes like when we lived with my grandparents um my grandpa would dress up as Santa Claus

and then my mom would wake me up in the middle of the night. I remember this so vividly. She woke me up in the middle of night. My brother and I are like sleeping together on this full-sized bed. She wakes me up and she's like, hey, come look. And she took me to the crack of the door

and just had the crack of the door open. And I just see the back of Santa Claus. Like putting down presents. I'm just like, holy shit. And from that moment, I would, whether I'm at the cafeteria in class, whatever it is, I back, guys, I

it makes sense what you're saying, but I shit you not. I have seen this man. I have seen this man. I'm like, maybe, maybe he doesn't bring all the presents, but I'm just telling you there's got to be one there at least no matter what. And old Billy two shelves just sitting there dressed as Santa,

just laying the presents down. Yeah, laying the presents down, dressing a full Santa suit. Yeah, I was about fourth grade as well. maybe maybe a little bit later i don't i don't know but dude i would go toes with my boys man for the ones who try and break it to me and i'm like i don't believe you like i get it i get it everything you're saying about the optics at night time and everything else i get it how's he going from abu dhabi to st francis missouri in the same day yeah they're like you know they'd be tracking them on

tv and then my dad we'd always read this story at night before you know as christmas is coming and he'd go out he'd be putting there he is and I'm just like oh my god it'd just be some star apparently I don't fucking know The airplanes Yeah yeah it's a different color Maybe it's got a little orange in the star or something

I'd just be like Man yeah I guess that's him And my dad would go in the backyard When there's an airplane out in the front yard And mom would take us out Look it's him My dad would be in the backyard going T-T-Ting T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T with the jingle bells

I mean, bro, they had me. Also, for editing purposes, we can put this at the beginning. Smart, because it's a family show. It's a family show. Santa warning is necessary. Yes. Do I tell you guys that when my brother was in fifth grade, I was on a family vacation with him, my dad,

and that's when I decided to tell him Santa. It wasn't real when I ruined the entire vacation. Fucking chef, man. Busy is a one-year-old. I was really, really proud of that one. Kidsterner as a middle schooler. My brother did, if I'm remembering correctly, my brother was the one that told my parents,

you need to tell Sherman. He's catching flack at school and he's like, he's coming to me about it. You need to tell him. It's time. I'd get made fun of for having pointy years in elementary school. My mom told me to tell the kids that I was an undercover elf that would go tell Santa who was on the naughty list.

And so then making fun of my kids, my ears, that that's a surefire way to get on the Nany list. Did it work? No. This kid has point of years, Andy thinks Santa's real? What a fucking goofball? My sweet mother. Yeah.

Because she set me up for success. I mean, you like, do like, say they have Santa, or we had like a picture thing at school one time and I'm like, this is a bullshit Santa. That ain't. This ain't the one I see. the one. There's this reindeer had like a mascot head on. I'm like, who's in there? You ain't no fucking

reindeer, man. What is that, Ricky? Yeah. You Ricky? I know that ain't Santa Claus. I'm big as shit. Santa's love. Hey, I want to get one thing straight. I know you ain't the real thing. So just come clean.

I've seen the real. Got my scratchy boys going. The real one, he's around the same size as my dad. Eddie. Yeah. You ain't as big as my daddy. Did Denise have a situation where she started to, which she watches it, but she had a situation where she goes, hey, mom, why do I got to tell Santa what I want again when

I just told him last week what I wanted? Like, why doesn't he remember what I want? And the lines that they danced on to get around that one was basically the whole like, oh, there's a network of people that help Santa get forward. That one wasn't the real one. The first one was, so he's going to tell him again. But she just goes, why do I got to tell him again? I was like, ah.

Oh. She's on to it, man. It's a tricky dance. It's a tricky dance. But embrace Christmas traditions, man. Yeah, embrace them. Because again, as you get, like as parents being older, you're going to think like, I'm speaking more so to dads because life gets moving.

Like, you might think, oh, we got another year. Like, bro, you're only, we're only going to have so many chances with our little ones. Yeah. In traditions, it's like, traditions matter because they slow life, they slow life down. Like kids grow fast, you know, life is chaos. A lot of the times our day to day feels just like, you know, that organized chaos with the Google calendar reminded on it. Yeah. In traditions, they remind you that, hey, this is home, the sense of belonging, the sense of community, just the sense of embracing, you know, whether it's gifts, and gifts don't even matter. It's just the feeling that you have

from having family traditions, from having these Christmas traditions. It's like when Charles wanted to do these few these things that we do each night, it just fires me up because this is how we are molding our kids for how they feel when they get older and have a family. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like the big gifts, the expensive gifts, like I remember when I first got my Sega Genesis. I remember a few different gifts that I got along the way, but it's not the gifts don't matter. It's the feeling you have that what your parents created when you were in these moments. It was the letters of my grandmother lived in Florida.

And when she got really sick, we'd do Christmas there. Well, Santa would always leave a note. Jordan Sherman, I almost missed you guys. I was in Texas. And you guys weren't there. I said, hey, they must be at grandmas in Florida. Yeah. So I went and double check, found you guys, glad we got everything figured out.

Love St. Nick. Those are the little details. It doesn't have to be some big grand. Gios get. No, man. It's just the magic of the... Yeah, it doesn't have to be big. It can be the same movie you watch every year.

Yeah. The same meal. The same dumb joke. Jingle all the way, dude. Such a banger, dude. Yeah. It's the repetition. The repetition builds that safety, builds that culture.

Yeah. Because, again, it's not going to be the gifts. It's going to be the feeling that you gave them that they are one day going to pass along. Yeah. They're one day going to pass along. Because, man, we're only going to get what. what, about 10 opportunities with our little ones. Like if you're a new dad or you're in it with a toddler

or you have a six, seven, you know, and I would love for parents to chime on, to chime in in the comments that have been through this entire process. Now you have grown kids that are now adults. But I'm thinking to myself, like you get on Instagram, you see all these things, like how many summers you have, how many opportunities we're going to have with our little kids. Yeah.

And usually the age, the common age that all the dads, that all the people that kind of speak to parent culture they talk about is these 10 opportunities. it's like we're going to have 10 Christmases. And then, you know, as they get older, that fourth grade, they're going to, it's going to be about their friends. When you get done with Christmas, they're going to be ready to get out of the house. Hey, Mom, Dad, can I go here? Can I go there?

Can I do all these things because they're going to have other things going on externally in their life to where the parent's side isn't as cool anymore. You'll still have those foundational traditions, which is why it's embraced them now. So that way they know what it's going to be like, they know what that repetition is going to be like year in and year out. But with our little ones that's here for us right now that we get to enjoy, we're only going to have about 10 of those opportunities. So it's like embrace those things, embrace those things, because that's the legacy you're going to leave for them that they're going to carry over when they are parents one day. Yes. Like, dude, every year for me, because like when I was busting Matt Malone's balls or somebody's balls the other day on the stream when we had the Christmas story playing on the left. I think I was sitting right next to Jared and I was kind of walking through all these scenes because that is the you're a quote.

The movie was on mute, and I'm kind of telling him, you know, I'm like, I'm like, mouthing the quotes that are going on right now. Hey, here's what's going to happen next. Kids going to start swinging on him. He's like, oh, cry for me, when, when, cry. I'm like, he's about to jump him right now, start swinging on. Watch this. Watch this. But every year at Christmas, Christmas story is on T&T, 24, 24 hours around the clock.

Yeah. And my mom just always had the Christmas story on. Like, that movie had to be playing around the clock all day long, like, while we were doing Christmas. Uh-huh. So it's something that I, I, I, I, I, I remember the feeling of all these traditions that we had. You know what I mean? To where you're wanting to carry those things over.

So that's like the thing that you're going to leave with them as you build out these traditions with your family. And again, we're talking about holiday season right now, but this goes for all traditions you have. We do like pizza Friday, moving night. You know, we're going to do things annually, set whatever it is to where they're going to know that we are going to repeat some of these traditions year in and you're out.

So it's like things to look forward to as a family because you hope that one day they, carry it forward. And then that's how they remember mom and dad when mom and dad are no longer around. Yes. So shout out to, uh, shout out to Christmas traditions. Embrace them. And dads, if your wife sitting there bugging you about doing, wanting to do this certain thing all the time, whether it's every day or once a week, whatever it is, dude, embrace it. Because you don't know how many times we're going to have these, these moments, these seasons like with our kiddos. Yes. And shout out, uh, shout out jingle all the way. Shout out Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Yeah. His son is actually. in the terminal list, Dark Wolf, by the way. No shit? Yeah. He is. Who? Yeah, Patrick Schwarzeneg. And in White Lotus season four.

And in White Lotus season four. Patrick Schwarz. Don't watch that one with the kids. Is Dark Wolf the one that just came out? That's the prequel. Yeah, that's the one that I think Patrick Schwarzenegger's in. He's in Dark Wolf? Is that what it's saying?

Patrick Schwarzenegger? Yeah. I don't recognize him. I see the terminal list. Oh, okay. He's in the terminal list. Not Dark Wolf. He's in the original.

Oh, the OG. He's in the OG. God, that scene and jingle all the way. I put it together. Marles Swerz singer. Jamie, your dad is so proud of you. He loves you. Well, he's not here.

How do you know that? Because Jamie, I'm your father. Do that jet pack scene? Oh my God. I showed cat for the first time that movie the other day. I didn't realize or remember how. crazy the jetpack scene was because in my mind it's all could happen and then he's

flying around on a jetback dude in 360s above I'm like crazy shit Ultraman is that what the guy's name was? Was it Ultraman? Turbo. Turbo man. Oh great called dude. Oh it's turbo time. Oh my God. Let's hit the voice mails. 6-1 the dads

call in for a chance to be featured on the show again whether it's a dad win a dad lost calling to check in. Give us some game, put us on a dad hack, something to put in the survival kit, whatever it is. Colin, 6-1 of the dads, we will feature you on the show. Let's rip them.

Shocked that no dads have farted into the voicemail, by the way. Oh, don't challenge them. I'm just saying, I'm shocked that we haven't got a fart voice mess. Help on a shelf help. Here we go. What's up, boys? This is Kenny from Georgia. Huge fan of the show.

I'm a 26-year-old, soon-to-be father of two. Got an almost four-year-old little boy right now. And the wife and I are expecting the second one coming up here at first week of March. Super pumped to be a dad again. Can't wait to dive head first back into the newborn trenches. I did have a question, though. With Christmas time coming up, this is the first year that we have been participating in the Elk on the Shelfield. I'm absolutely on a heater right now.

I've bought in. We are producing and it's going well. But I'm starting to get to the point where I'm shed. shooting off the hip and I'm looking for some new ideas. Curious to see, are y'all doing the elf thing at your houses? If you are, maybe you've got some stories, maybe you've got some advice, need some new ideas looking for some fresh content in the house right now. So appreciate it.

Thank you all. A couple questions. Kenny, by the way, that was Kenny. Shout out, Kenny. Kenny, thank you for calling in. Listen, your boy, I was never an elf on the shelf, guys. So I don't even know the rules of Elf on a Shelf. I was the type of kid to where, since I didn't know what was going on.

I got older, my boys were talking about Elf on a show. Man, that shit sounds gay, bro. Will, let me introduce you. Hey, that's just being honest. That's young, that's Young Will. I'm not saying that now. I would love to embrace. Yeah, Elf on a show.

That's some pushing shit, dude. You're talking about Elf on a show? Will. In elementary school was essentially just Shane Gillis. You just kind of gay. It's kind of gay. Dude, that shit sounds sweet. Bro, this elves fucking up your house

and your dad hasn't done shit about it. So that's my first question. What is? Explain the elf on his shelf because I don't even know what it is. Charles brought it up this year. We didn't do it or we didn't get into it. I don't know if we're too late. Like if you have to do it starting on the first.

Not at all. A prime example. Yes. Too late. Too late now to do it. But next year you can re-out. Yeah. Okay.

You just, you buy the elf on the shelf. Perfect example for this. right here, our studio, if we had our own elf on a shelf, you would have all these feathers scattered all over and you'd have the elf sitting right there so that the kids go, who made this mess?

And then little elf sitting there. Oh my gosh, the elf did it. And he only operates at night when they're sleeping. And he goes around and he does little mischievous things around the house. But he also watches you to make sure that you're being good or else he'll tell Santa Claus. Yeah, it's kind of a tool that... It sounds like a horror movie.

No, it's great. You can have an elf. Listen, hear this out. You can have an elf around, right? And let's say Rue is acting up for whatever reason. You'd be like, hey, you know elf, whatever you name him. He's watching all the time. Like, if he's going to repeat, every night,

whenever you go to sleep, the magic in the elf is that when they go to sleep, the elf reports back to Santa, tell them what he saw for that day. And then that's when you move them around the house and stuff. And like you said, sure, you can have them do fun. stuff, but it's like, it's a tool that like, you can't touch him or else the magic goes away. I did see the video where this mom, like put the chicken bones and you killed him because you touched him. Yeah.

The idea that came up for Kenny of just creative stuff, I would go nuclear with it. I would park the car a little bit in the front yard and just have the elf sitting up there on the steering wheel. Who parked the car like that? Who moved my car? Honey, look at the elf. park my car like that. That's crazy. Yeah, their car stuck there all day because you can't move them. That's true.

If you get good videos, parents at home, please tag us because we would love to be a part of it. Because the best one I've seen is the kids will get drawn on and the elf will be sitting there with a Sharpie. And the parents are like, who, why did you guys draw on your face? And the kids like what? And goes to the bathroom and they got glasses and like a mustache. And the elf did it with a marker. And the parents, oh, dude.

If you do it at home, please tag us. I'd love to reshare that. That would be fun. It's the one with Irish girl. I can't believe you done this. Speaking of kitchen aids. So basically the elf is just the authority. Yes.

Yeah. It's a tool. The mechanism. Why is the elf calling the shots and not Willie Smith? No, no, no, no. I'm not. I'm just trying to learn this game. So you just have the elf sitting somewhere randomly.

It's like, hey, Elf saw you do something. That elf's going to tell Santa if you mess up, but the kid can't touch it because then it breaks the whole allure of the elf being a real thing in your house. But parents do it in a way where it's like there was one we got tagged in. It was like a bathtub and there was dirt in it. And they did an elf on a shelf monster jam. And it was all these monster trucks. And it was like, oh, look, the elf when you were asleep had a monster truck jam.

And it's just cute and fun. But it's for the kids to believe that Santa's watching them all the time. So they'd be good. So some sicko parent was like, I don't want my kid fucking around anymore, elf. I saw a seaman team sixer with a got a kitchen aide. And they put a Barbie doll on the kitchen aid and turned it on slow. So it was spinning. And the elf on the shelf was sitting there with some dollar bills in his hands.

I was like, what are we doing? Elf on the shelf is gone full of eel. He's gone full of eel. But it's crazy what people do. So I could have the elf just sitting on Rue's dresser. And Rue wakes up in the morning. And I could have the elf just sitting there with a knife. Yeah.

And Roo wakes up and sees this elf. And now I'm just next to Rue. like he saw you didn't eat your dinner last night. I don't think that's a little extreme. That's hardcore. That's a horror movie. You don't have to do it like that. But wait, hey, but you're good.

But you're good. She just waged up. It goes to the bathroom, brush her teeth. He's sitting there with liner fluid in one. Honey, oh my God. Get out on a shelf. You put a little 51 jerse. you on it, that's, that's Willie One Elf right there.

Oh, no. Honey, he must have seen you ask me to, hey, come look at this a bunch of times. He must not like that. He must want me to be able to watch the B-Divvy Doc. I think he wants me to watch the Doc, honey.

Oh, I'm thinking about the Willie One elf now. It could be good. Just always standing over the elf. Every time you move Elf on a shelf, it's just Willie One Elf standing over it. Willie one elf standing over it. Willie one elf.

elf on a shelf. Hey, next year could go crazy with Willie one elf on a shelf. That could go crazy. I would buy one. Wedding Pop Quiz's is our second call. Sure.

Will. Brooks here from Mississippi. Currently in Dallas. Seaman Team Sixer right here and I love it. Getting married in May. So, pumped for that.

the fiance told me expectations didn't have she wanted to do the planning I didn't have to worry about it I get some stuff here and there you know what color flowers do you like

do you like this linen tablecloth opinions are all wrong yeah just shake it off keep going but you know getting closer to time

getting around family and friends yeah everyone's asking how the planning is here I am just standing there you know just nod and talking here it comes out of left field quizzes

hot pop quizzes talking about where is it at what's our band name what's what's all this this and that hey I know it's in Mississippi I know it's in May May 16th

yes sir that's pretty much it everyone laughing I'm the butt of the joke oh Brooks I just got to sit there Shake my head. Hey, sorry about that. Sherm, as you know, Wiener Dog. Here's something that goes crazy.

Yes, sir, Brooks. Shake my head. They're laughing at me. This is a different type, but good. This is what's going to be like for now on. Yeah. Brother the joke. But hey, we're going to keep going.

Love y'all boys. Keep moving. Seema Team 6 out. Brooks, to quote last week, to the fucking show, brother. Brooks is on his way to becoming a Bill Compton. This is the dad

that you just, you laugh at, you laugh with. Look at Brooks over there. Look at him. He don't know what to. He don't know how to unlock this door. But I'll tell you where Brooks will be on May 16th.

He'll be in his penguin suit, standing right where he needs to stand in order to say I do, and do the ring. he knows all the main things that he needs to hit. Everything else. You know people are hitting him with

you write your own vows and he's like, what are you talking about? We got to write our own? I thought you just in sickness and in health. Yeah, those are vows you can say, but are you guys, do you know? When are you doing the wedding dress reveal?

Wait, what are you like when she walks out for the ceremony? You talking about that? What do, uh, dudes do the, uh, diaper party? Oh, yeah, like a bachelor party? No, no, no, no, diaper. Like, don't guys do?

Yeah, like a diaper party. Oh, for when you're having a baby. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's when you're having it. Yeah, yeah. There we see.

Right there, books. There we go. There we go. Yeah, you're talking about the wedding shower, I believe. With the kids. Oh, you do the diaper party. Yeah. You have any.

You do it? Hey, make sure y'all bring the newborn diapers, too, when you come to the diaper party. It's right after the bachelor party. party. They got sizes on these diapers? I know you just. Just get the all that is,

we're going to be a Shady Oaks Country Club. Tea times at this time. Y'all be there for the Bachelor party. I don't know what the Bachelor's are. Apparently I got to get my bachelor some gifts, but I thought my company was enough.

Yeah, yeah, Gruzman, the Gruzman gifts. Oh, yeah. That'll shock you. That'll shock you. Yeah, get some good groomsman gifts, Brooks. I did some cool Buffalo

hide leather wallet. with like guys initials in it. Real nice and easy. Price tag-wise, it leaned more to the expensive. But it wasn't like terrible. I got the boys this like whiskey smoker. Oh,

that's nice for like old fashions and stuff. That's sick. I think Nick is probably the only one who used it. Nick would hit me up. I just smoked this bourbon. Bro, Nick? Nick is, I really want to meet Nick in person.

We could talk about that off the pod. But I really want to hang out with Nick. God, that's no surprise to me. No surprise. Yeah, he, yeah, he's the man. He's a purist. You get him a gift. He was like diving into all things whiskey. Yeah. All things whiskey. I'm trying to think what else, dude. Yeah, there's going to be so many little things. Hey, if you want to sound smart, dude, just find out like the little things about your, uh, your wedding. I would even kind of push for like one big thing of like it's going to be the guy's thing. For us, Jill's mom was like, hey, what if we had a cigar cutter there that was like rolling up cigars and cutting cigars?

I said, absolutely. We should do that. So then I like leaned really heavy into that. And I would talk about that when people would bring up the wedding. So I didn't have to answer a lot of questions because I'd be like, hey, we're going to have a cigar, a cigar cutter there. It's going to be kind of nice. And then nobody's really worried about anything else because you just told them the most exciting part of your wedding. Yeah.

Yeah. You won't be involved in a whole lot. No. Which is okay. All I cared about is we got a couple of apps that I wanted. I wanted, I don't even know if we got toasted ravioli, but I was like, I want either toasta ravioli or Rocky Mountain Oysters. You've read a Rocky Mountain Oysters?

Oh, that's right. The bull testicles. The bull testicles, yeah, man. They're tasty. Yes, very, very. We got emails here again, if you are international and cannot, don't, or you'd rather just write in instead of leave a voicemail. 601 the dads at gmail.com.

And here we go. We got one here from Luke Jones. Shout out Luke. Men, after four months of buds training, I am now standing by for orders to PT6 in June. Good. Wifi has been in the trenches with morning sickness. Not so good, but also good.

We've tried all traditional approaches, nausea bands, cold wraps, broad diet, preggy props, pregy pops. It doesn't help that the military has us living 26 hours from home. So family support is tough. I fly for a living so the wife is home alone a lot.

She's going to be one tough MT6 member. We're looking for any intel on things that help your spouses or things from fellow PT6 members. We don't care how weird they are. We will try it. Much love to the boys in the studio. Started listening to the show a couple months ago and your

boy is caught up. P.S. Ali Pop, Chris Bapple is the fucking shit. Sorry for cussing. And the Dark Wolf before terminalist recommendation is elite. Very respectfully, Luke from North Carolina, Florida, L.A., now North Dakota. Luke, hopping around. Hoping around.

The morning sickness, I don't have, I don't have anything. I feel like Charles got it for a little bit, but not too badly. And I could be, listen, I could be messing that whole thing of. She could be sitting there right now. Like bullshit, dude, I was. Yeah. You just weren't any help. pregnancy pops are a real thing.

Jill didn't have it too terribly, but she did have some morning sickness. Pregnancy pops are great, but the thing that really helped her, they sell them at Walmart, Target, any grocery store, it's like these little candies. And you can find them in the, like,

pharmacy aisle, but it's like these little pregnancy morning sickness candies that are almost like a jolly rancher. And those really help Jill. She would throw two of those in at a time, and they taste like candy. those were the trick, Luke. And that's just for Jill.

I don't know if that's going to solve your M.T-Sixers issues, but hang in there and your M-T-Sixer sounds like an absolute. Yeah, we need P-T-6 to sound off in the comments to help our boy. Yep, please. That would be huge. I have a comment before the emails that I forgot to read. This one comes from an M-T-Sixer boys. I cannot tell you how much I love this podcast.

My husband, Trevor, put me on while I was pregnant. with our first child back over the summer and I was hooked. I love y'all's dynamic and banter. We now have a three and a half month old little boy named Cooper. Shout out, and listening to the pod is a part of my daily routine. I stay up late to pump and listen for 30 minutes at night while I make bottles, clean the kitchen,

and mentally prepare for the next day. Keep doing what you're doing. Much love from Milk Team 6. Thank you. That came from Sarah Clegan. Shout out Sarah. Dude, M.T.6 is showing out, man.

They really are. They, like, actually really are. It's awesome to see. I meant to read that one earlier because that was a really cool one. Yeah, I got another one here from an M.T. Sixer, Katie Witt. Will and Sherman,

I just want to send a quick message for hubby and I. Maybe we get a shout-out on the pod. My husband is currently Seaman Team 6, and rounds are literally getting shot. This pod gives us both hype for the next chapter. Hopefully soon. We've already been to use.

using embrace to suck and good in our house and we are fully bought in. With team just wanted to give you both a huge shout out. You guys truly rock and your podcast means more than you know. Thank you for everything you put out there. Keep doing what you're doing. Andrew and Katie. Andrew and Katie, shout out, especially Katie writing in from an MT-6er. From the MT-6 squad.

Absolute sicko, Katie. Andrew, enjoy shockwave, brother. Y'all just keep on, keep on shoot. Yeah, look, keep on shooting. You are, as the man, you get drained. You know what I mean? Make sure you're eating a lot of steak. Make sure you stay hydrated, man.

Make sure you drink a lot of water, eat a lot of chicken and steak. Yeah. And when the women are on, they're going to wake me up and about it. They're going to let you know. They're going to say, honey, it's time. Yeah. Get your old six flag tickets. Get your flash pass.

We go, we go ride. We're going to ride that shockwave. Two loops on it. Two loops. This one comes from Aaron Swandle. Hey boys, new listener as of last month, but part of PT6 for four and a half years. We've got a four and a half year old girl and almost two year old boy. Just wanted to share a little reminder that we're all out here embracing the suck together. Today was dot dot dot a lot.

Started with a morning meeting before daycare drop off, whatever normal chaos. But the real storm came later. My wife and I only have one car. So I pick her up from work. Then we get the kids from daycare, like usual. Side note, we also have an eight-year-old dog. And because we apparently hate peace, we added a three-month-old puppy two weeks ago. Aaron.

We get home at 4 p.m. My wife has to leave at 4.15 to get our daughter to dance. We let the dogs out and they're buzzing. I'm unloading the kids lunchboxes and one is completely destroyed. Good. I'm trying to order a new one on my phone while my wife is changing our seat. son's massive diaper situation. This guy's in the trenches. My daughter's dancing around me singing, clinging to my arm while I'm trying to buy this lunchbox. My wife comes out, hands me the dirty

diaper. I toss it in the trash and immediately notice it kind of splattered. Interesting. I look up and the puppy is licking something off the hardwood. It is in fact the shit. Then I see it on the rug. Good. Then I look at the puppy again. Also, shit all over. Good. I'd run her upstairs for a fast bath before my wife has to leave. From downstairs, I hear the other dog has shit on them too, honey.

Good. Send them up. I bathe the both dogs. Look down and realize I have shit on my pants. Good. It's now 415. I come downstairs with the dogs and my wife is washing our daughter's hair in the kitchen sink because, yes, she also had shit in her hair.

Good. only thing that got me through was your show, especially Shirm's story about the dog locked in the nursery. I felt so seen. Anyway, appreciate what you guys do. You seriously make me feel less alone in this dad journey. Much love. I love the storytelling too.

Nothing gets me going more. The people sitting in their stories with good. Yeah. I got one more. I'll go speed tour on it. Via email. Like, up, Will, Will and Shirm and the boys. PT6 are here to an awesome nine-year-old stepson and a two-year-old boy who I can only assume has CTE from his wild stunts.

Just wanted to say what you guys have done creating this community of support, honesty, and showing the fun in less than ideal moments of fatherhood has helped me more than you can ever imagine. Every week, I look forward to listening in and getting a break from reality with a laugh and some dad advice. me and my amazing wife decided it was time to head back to buds and have one last kid we found out in mid-November that she was pregnant and last week had the first ultrasound let's boys i feel like i have been dropped into a war zone as the radiology tech gave us the news that my wife is pregnant with twins the only reaction i could get out was just laughter that turned to do a thousand yard stare as I realized we are not prepared for twins at all. Now I need a little advice in parentheses, probably a lot of advice, but we'll stick with just

one. I think I'm most worried about me and my wifie being caught up in everyday chaos that comes with four kids and three of them being under the age of three. How do you guys manage to make time for each other and prioritize date nights or just one on one time in the chaos? Any tips or things you guys do to keep the flame alive while in the trenches of newborn and toddler phases? Much love for what you guys have created in the community that you've grown. Going to keep this one anonymous as we won't be announcing until sometime January.

So let's just make a note that blank, that last email, wants to remain anonymous. Yeah. Ooh. Twins. Twins. I said his name while I was. while I was reading the email too. If I got the news of twins,

fear would just take over my body. I don't see how parents of twins do it. Like Roan from Barstool. Yeah, I was about to say, you know who is somebody that I really want to have a conversation with and talk with is Roan.

Dude, we should get Roan on. That would be awesome. He would be great. That was their first shot at it was twins. So all he knows is twins. So that's basically what he says. It's like,

I don't know what I don't know. Like my first experience. is twins, so I don't know any other life. Like, yeah, it seems difficult and hard. But I'm just thinking, dude, no one, like, again, you have Scotty five months. Like, imagine twins, bro. It was great. I look into what Roan is going through with twins at the Super Bowl.

We have the pleasure of having dinner with him in New Orleans. And that was super. Yeah. And while we were saying there, I happen to be sitting next to him during the meal. And Will says, hey, both you all are having kids, blah, blah, well, that's just hits it off. We start talking about all the shit we're going through and we're laughing. We're talking about, oh, I'm doing this. I'm dealing with this. Blah, blah, blah. And at the end of it with perfect comedic timing, he just goes, Sherman,

think about everything that you just said, though, and multiply that by two. Yeah. It's like, oh, shit. I could not imagine, dude, the double, not like the double bedtimes, but like, say you get one down and the other's still awake. You know what I mean? Like, you finally get one down and you're just like, gosh, dude, you're going to wake up. your brother, you're going to wake up your sister. Yes. I was thinking about those solo Saturdays I do. Jill and I were laughing.

I was like, could you even imagine me with twins on one of those solo Saturdays? They have like one, you know, one's sleeping well. The other one's not, but the one that's not is always waking up the one who you are assuming is sleeping well. Yes. Oh, man. God bless you, bro. God bless you. Good luck out there.

Good luck out there. I don't have any advice for Jacob other than. recruit an army, dude. Recruit an army. Get the, get the in-laws. Yeah. Raising kid takes a village. The twins. Like, get three under three. Dude, he's a sicko. He's gone through it. He knows what he's doing. But twins is going to take an army. Yeah. Call you got calling. I'm calling the goon berets by God. Like, I'll take any help. If you can hold a baby, you're a part of the army. Come join. This is one where you're having them conversations with God. You know what I mean?

Because he's got the stepson. He's got the one that's how old, two or three? Two. Yeah. That's two years old. So he understands the suck of like raising, like embracing the suck of raising that first. Yeah. Like getting through sleep training, whatever it is, getting them to sleep through the night.

The tantrums. He's in the thick of it right now with two-year-olds and their tantrums. That nine-year-old stepson is about to become his best friend. Yeah. He knows the world of one, of raising one. Now he's sitting there thinking, how in the. fuck am I going to do it with two? Nine-year-old stepson is a part of the army now.

Yeah. Or you're just looking at... Welcome to the ranks, brother. Why did you have to do this to me? Hey, you're pretty funny. I'll give you that. Yeah. You're a funny dude. But yeah, that...

He was asking, though, prioritizing the relationship, prioritizing wife, which we do talk about that often. Very. It's truly just, it's just intentional prioritizing with the wife because your relationship with your wife as far as that. fun flare, all of that stuff where it's you two against the world. That is like that priority basically falls down to the bottom because you're both in, you're both in your brain sacrificing everything for everything else to function.

Whether it be work, whether it be the kids, whether it be, I'm worn out, I'm this, like you're all prioritizing each other while you're trying to handle your own business that we always forget to prioritize the relationship, the marriage. And speaking on, this is the perfect episode, because you had brought up tradition. I really, really, like, I have to set a tradition of a date night with Jill. And I really want to make that happen, whereas in the books, this is date night. We have date night. If you don't do it and don't set it on a schedule and make it a priority, as Willie

oneself says, it ain't going to happen. It ain't going to happen. And by God, we have to do it. And I think that's probably the move for anybody. including myself. You have to, bro. You have to do it. And I'm hearing you talk and it's like my boy

who was earlier in the episode is it a, what's his name? I'm blinking on his name. Oh, the, who wrote into us? He's not doing well. Yeah. Yes. Like you just have to

take yourself by the throat, put yourself against the wall. I'm talking to you Sherman. You just say, wake the fuck up and do it. It's like Tony Robbins at this quote that I would, I will always think about

where it's like you've got to turn your shoulds in the must. Like you just, you got to stop saying, we need to do this. We should do this. Blah, blah, blah. Just you've got to do it. You've got to prioritize and be intentional or it'll never happen. And it takes both of you to prioritize it because calendar, schedules, kids, work, everything.

Life goes fast. And next thing, you know, like I'm sitting here at the end of the year right now. Like, man, I ain't do shit for my New Year's resolutions. Yeah. I can't wait to reset the clock and say all the things I'm going to do next year. And now I'm in my head thinking, I'll be letting myself down again next year. And it's like that conversation right there is where I got to proverbially. Perverbially?

Yeah, proverbially. Right there is where I just got to grab myself by the throat, bro. And just will stop fucking talking to yourself like this. Stop already planning for the failure that you're just basically putting a quarter in the machine and you're going to do it again. No, it's got to end. You got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired about it. Yeah. That's, I digress.

I'm, uh, you got a lesson? I do. Because I'll be honest with it. It's 1036 right now. I'm starting to get sleepy. I'm starting to get sleepy. We got a big Monday tomorrow. Same.

We got to get ripping. I actually have a, this is one from an Instagram that I follow called the Stoics. So this isn't parenthood. This is, this is just to me something I have bookmarked that I feel like plays

into a few of the themes we've been talking about tonight. Okay, so the Stoics on Instagram. You create the majority of your misery. Your opinion takes harmless moments, and poisons them with fear, insulting catastrophe. Nothing out there is destroying you. Your own opinion is you become the enemy inside your own mind

and you feel every blow you deliver to yourself. So just a simple quote from the Stoics. With two Cs if you want to follow that on Instagram. Strong internal dialogue. Keep a strong internal dialogue. It's all internal dialogue, Sherm. It's all internal dialogue. This one is basically,

around the 400 meter dash. I ran the 400 meter dash in high school. I have a lot of love for track. And I thought it'd be fun to compare the strategy of a 400 meter dash with fatherhood. Okay. With parenting. I'll keep it quick.

Give us some game. Give us some game. So recently passed away legendary coach Clyde Hart. He coached at Baylor. He coached Michael Johnson, Jeremy Warner, Lashon Merritt, and Most Decorated Track Athlete in U.S. history, Allison Felix. Those are basically the four biggest names in the 400 meter.

This guy knows what he's talking about. Coach Hart said the 400 isn't about how fast you can run. It's about how slow you can slow down. We'll break it down for you. the strategy of a 400 meters from the zero to the 50 meter mark you want to have a fast powerful start but not go all out sprint to start how does that work with fatherhood that's waking up on purpose not in the panic getting the kids moving while staying calm cool and collected being present eye contact jokes hugs at the door you are setting the tone for the day not trying to win the

entire day in that moment, but setting the tone for it. 50 meter to 200 meter mark, this is the most important phase of the race. This is where you have to run hard and stay loose, upright posture, smooth arms, controlled breathing. You should feel fast without forcing it. For fatherhood, that's locking in at work, being productive, reliable, focused, no unnecessary stress carried from home, having that strong internal dialogue, staying poised in the moment. You're running hard, but you're in control.

200 to 300 meters. That's when you attack the curve and I fucking love. Do you run track? Yeah, in middle school. I did my freshman year, but not a not a lover of track like yourself. Yes. My favorite part of the 400 meter race is attacking the curve. Attack the fucking. It's the 200 and 300 mark where you are starting to feel tired. Yeah. It's starting to hit. But you have this curve and this natural inertia that you can lean into and use that pain with the momentum that you already have going into the turn.

The race starts to bite at this moment. Focus on maintaining mechanics and not speeding up. How does that apply to fatherhood? Mental shift your gears before you pick up the kids or before you get home. Take that extra breath in the car. Get in the right mindset. if you are not currently in the right mindset, check yourself a little bit.

Put the phone away. Remember your kids don't need exhausted you. They need present you. They need you to show up. 300 to 400 meters. That's when you finish strong. That's when you make sure you're still kicking up your knees and have a good evening at home

if we're going to apply it to fatherhood. Asking your kids about their day, asking your wife about their day, being patient, even when you're drained. help lead bath time, dishes, bedtime, homework, dinner, any of those routines. No quitting mentally just because you're home. And I applied his quote from earlier. It was the 400 isn't about how fast you can run.

It's about how slow you can slow down. And in dad terms, the best dads aren't the loudest or the flashiest high octane 24-7. They're the ones who slow down the least when it gets hard. well done that was really good thank you great analogy thank you the old proverbial 400 me to prefer proverb proverb proverb proverb proverb proverbial story the proverbial pumpkin hell yeah hell yeah good so boys great so make sure you take out the trash we love you we appreciate you continue to leave comments make sure you are subscribed again you can go to bwtb.com to get for the dad's merch.

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