Bussin' With The Boys - EP #045 - Debunking the Dumb Dad Trope + Will Teaches Rue About Fear | For The Dads
Episode Date: April 15, 2026In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm proudly show off our brand new Mother’s Day Merch, read an email from an ST6er and the “Chit C...hat Chair” and talk through Sherm’s amazing encountered with a man who told him he’s in the good ole days — all while keeping the episode fun, fresh and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with a comment from a user who wants us to stop PRETENDING to be dumb dads before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: Will discussing Fear with Rue Will alsmot destroying Sherm’s Housewarming Gift Chef calling our Will for losing his iPhone…again! Other highlights include: A HUGE Dad Win from a caller Sherm recaps a wonderful solo dad weekend 👉 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 - Mother’s Day Merch Is LIVE! & Sherm Forgot To Take The Trash Out 07:11 - We got a comment from the BRAVEST man in America 16:59 - Will recaps his trip to 1st Phorm and receiving a Nebraska FTD Jersey 32:33 - Will lost his phone…again 37:40 - Sherm Got Will a gift over the weekend 44:47 - Will spent his weekend at the park with the kids 51:00 - Sherm CRUSHED solo dad weekend at a birthday party 1:05:19 - Will had a HUGE Dad Win last friday / Overcoming Fears 1:15:50 - Checking in on the PT6 Community 1:22:35 - a HUGE Dad Hack from a Nebraska PT6icko 1:31:33 - Hitting the PT6icko hotline 1:37:12 - A Beautiful write in from a daughter of a Girl Dad 1:44:20 - Lessons From The Driving Range —-- 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 Drink Olipop - Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store, and we'll pay you back for one. Works on any flavor, any retailer. Go to https://drinkolipop.com/BWTBNanit - Use code FORTHEDADS at checkout for 20% off the Nanit Smart Baby Monitor with Floor Stand, Wall Mount, or the full System. https://www.nanit.com/discount/FORTHEDADSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Episode 47.
45.
Okay.
I think that's why I'll need to say.
Papa Team 6, welcome to episode 45.
For the dad, we are stoked that you're here.
We hope the trash is taken out.
We hope your home is thriving.
Also, I hope that there's some bickering
and some things you're trying to solve right now
because you have to be active and intentional
because that's a good thing.
That's what life is.
Sherrym, you're upset right now.
Should you forget to take out the trash?
Yeah, dude.
It's okay.
Dude, hey, I forget it.
More often than I'm proud to admit.
Yeah.
But that's life, man.
That's life.
But if you can just remember just the small things.
And I'm talking to myself too.
I'm not just talking.
I'm not talking at you.
I'm talking with you because I'm included in this.
Yes.
These are the small things that you just, you get a win early.
You take out the trash.
Maybe it's the nighttime.
After you clean up, you take out the trash, you clean the dishes.
And you think in your head, our wife, he says, hey, tomorrow's trash day.
And you have an option.
right there. Most of the time I choose, hey, I'll do it in the morning. But the, the, uh,
the consistency that we need to get to is just taking a couple minutes, taking a stroll out
to the end of the driveway, setting up the trash. We have good news on this episode. We have great
news. Mother's Day drop is live. Yep. Live right now. Live right now.
Live right now. M.T. Sixers for the moms out there, our Mother's Day drop is out. It's live right now.
BWTB.com. BWTB.com.
Yeah. For the moms. For the moms. For the moms. Guys. Matter of fact, what do you got? What do you want to show them? I got some little teasers of some of the mothers saved merch. Show them the teaser. All right. Here's the deal. With the mother's saved merch, I do, I got a note. I got a note. And it's right here. Hurry up faster, fast. We're losing it. We're losing them. We're losing them. Here's the deal. All right. The moms did a great job for the fathers, for like the past stuff. Moms have been buying these husbands.
a lot of merch. We love to see it. But this show, what's the name of this podcast again?
For the Dads. It is for the Dads, isn't it? Yes. And why not, why not today go, hey, my wife
he got me that PT Sicko hat. She got me the bear with the cigar hat. She got me the shirt
with the For the Dads. Dude, my wife hooked me up. My wife is constantly hooking me up all the time.
What if I hooked her up? What if I put a bow on it?
What if I got intentional?
I went to the website, wtb.com.
I bought her a gift without her knowing
and gifted it to her on Mother's Day.
Look at that little stuff bare for the mom sipping a little.
What is that?
A little pinia collada, something bubbly.
Or maybe a little olipop.
Yeah.
Maybe a little olipop in a teeny glass.
A little stuffed bear.
Maybe it resembles the kid.
So if it's a kid now, maybe that's just apple cider,
some type of carbonated.
Maybe that's Chris Apple,
Olive Pop.
Chris Pebble, hollypop in the cup.
Yes.
And they got their phone.
It's for the moms.
It's a crop top.
Yeah.
A lot of comments.
Hey, Willie Cee, can you put the crop top on?
Hey, Shurn, Fatstaff.
Can you put the crop top up?
Yeah, yeah.
Dude, I love that shirt.
And again, you can see it in a multitude of ways.
If that's mom, because the phone, but then you're like, okay, if that's my kid,
my kid should be having that iPhone right now at three years old.
Watch that screen time.
Yeah, watch the screen time.
But that's just a taste.
There's another one.
We also got a crop in comfort color as.
well, like a more loose-fitting crop.
Yeah, when you wear around in the night-time,
maybe you get a little comfortable before you get in bed.
Maybe you're laying on the couch.
You want to watch some TV, some soaps with your hubby.
Ew.
It's a great shirt.
Hey, what if it's like real cold outside,
or maybe it's really hot outside and we're blasting the AC,
so it's kind of cold inside.
I want to cozy up.
I want to curl up next to my PT sicko on the couch.
Yep.
Do we have anything for that?
Do we?
Do we have anything for that?
Oh, here we go.
I got it right next to Willie's.
We have a wolf mom with her pup.
We have full matching sweatsuit.
We don't have the back.
That's the back.
You got the front too and it's embroidered.
Embroidered, high quality, high fashion for the moms.
Guys go shop till you drop.
And ladies, that comes with matching sweatpants.
It's a full sweat set.
We're doing it.
We're laying it out for the moms.
Moms love the sweatsets, dude, when they're around the house getting comfy, cozy.
They love their jammies.
They love their sweatsets.
Yeah.
Love holding their coffee with it or their tea.
Come on.
Reading a book.
My wife loves a good book.
Ew.
But shop, bwtb.com, our Mother's Day drop is officially live for the MTICOs out there.
We got to take care of them.
They're the heart and soul of the entire operation, boys.
And the entire, go ahead.
No, they are.
I just don't want the moms to out there.
the dads is all I'm saying. Like this really is a challenge to the dads because I see all these
wifie sickos out there, all these mommies that are getting their husband's step. It's constant.
And you know how the dad brain works, boys. Fellas, listen to me. You just heard this sermon
I going back and forth. And I've been the guy where it's like, yeah, I need to get on it. This is a
great idea. Yes, but that's as far as my brain goes. And then I continue to drive. I get to where
I'm going. You chop it up with the boys. You bust balls. You forget all the things happen.
Yes. Then you get home. Sweetheart, when you're going to take out the boxes. It's long gone at that point.
It's long gone at that point out of your brain. Until you get reminded and you see the shirt somewhere after the fact, after Mother Zane, you're like, damn it, I meant to buy her a shirt and I forgot to do it.
And now you're scrambling and try to get to Walgreens to buy a little flower set in the front.
That's way. You know what I mean? That's way more difficult too, dude. And I'm talking from an internet shopper myself. You can literally go.
to bwtb.com.
You got the Apple Pay set up, whatever.
It's sent to your house.
It's done. It's over with.
I just knocked out of the freaking part for my wife for Mother's Day.
Yeah.
And like probably a minute.
We got some good action coming for Mother's Day.
We do.
Wifis are coming on the show.
They are.
Rumored. This is alleged.
We're looking into it.
We're looking into it.
Wifee's looking to come on the show.
And also mark down circle the date.
Circle the date.
May 30th.
Yes.
Circle the date May 30th.
We've talked about Papa Team Fit.
There's been the message boards, the Discord, the Reddits,
the Papa Team 6 community on X, the comment sections all over the place.
There's talks of, hey, should Bar 3 and Papa Team Fit or should Bar 3,
the wives and the husbands do something together somewhere?
Maybe it's an outdoor class.
Maybe it's indoor.
Who knows?
All we're going to tell you right now, circle the dates May 30th for National Tennessee.
Circle the dates.
dates May 30th, Nashville, Tennessee. It will involve PT sickos and MT sickos. That's all I'm
going to say about that. Yeah. Correct. Correct. It's a pot. We embrace the moms, man.
We embrace the moms. Matter of fact, I have a comment right here that moms will love to hear.
Will, before you read that, how did they get on the show for us to read it? So you,
Papa Team 6 community knows. They know. And if you're new here, we're so happy you're here.
Make sure you are subscribed and following on all channels. We're on special.
Spotify, Apple, Google, YouTube.
We drop comments.
This community is the best community on the internet boys.
Yes.
However, you want to be featured on the show.
We got, I got so many comments here.
I got dad hacks, follows from last week, general comments, shoutouts, emails.
We have a hotline, 601, the dads, you call into that hotline, leave a voicemail.
You can vent about everything.
You can talk about a win.
You can talk about a loss.
You can talk about learn.
Whatever it is, we feature you on the show.
We ship you merch.
But we read comments and engage with our community all throughout the episode.
They can come at random.
I'm about to read one now from Ryan Hammett on Spotify.
Spotify. We love Spotify comments.
Dive in on them.
And this is for talking about Mother's Day, this right here,
moms are going to love, they're going to love to hear this comment.
Fucking love Spotify.
Ryan Hammett, this was six days ago on Spotify.
I know it's all for laughs and jokes,
but can we please not act like our wives are the boss or in charge of us?
I'm not saying let's talk shit about them,
but they're not immune for being wrong or messing up something.
They're not immune from being wrong or messing something up just like us.
If you disagree with her about how something went down, then just say it.
I'm 33.
I've been married for 10 years.
Been married in 10 years in November.
Been together for 15 years since we were 17.
Sorry for the wrong,
the long rant laugh out loud.
but I hate the dumb husband dad trope
if we're being honest
it ain't us laugh out loud
I'm not an idiot
does he know our wives listen to the show
I appreciate him so much
but am I really not an idiot
like is that true
you're saying did he really write that
no no like he's saying I we're not idiots
yeah we have it all figured out
I guess we come off as the dumb husband dad
like we're doing a trope
and let's stop joking and laughing and acting like our wives of the boss.
Did he not tune in last week?
And we saw Jilly being on the phone.
We know who runs the ship.
We know anything that comes out of my house.
So when we do an after pod report,
we know who runs the ship.
It's Mama Bear.
Buddy, I'll take you down to my house.
It's just down the street.
And we can go look and see the Christmas tree
that my wife told me to throw away three years ago
that's sitting in my trash cans right now
because I didn't take the trash out.
Yeah.
And Wifi's going to love seeing that.
Yeah.
I don't know what this guy's thinking.
I don't know.
When you write a comment like that, are you showing, are you showing Wifi?
Hey, sweetheart.
I just dropped the comment.
I'm sick of these boys.
Hey, would you agree that these guys laugh and joke too much about you guys acting like you're in charge of us?
Isn't that funny?
You think you're the boss of the house?
Go do the dishes.
Did you feed the dogs?
Hey, when's the game on?
Honey, give me the TV Digest.
What was the cable thing?
Was it the TV Digest?
I don't know.
I'm just smiling and pretending to play along.
When's Hannity on?
When's what on?
Hannity.
What's Hannity?
It was a political show that my mom hated.
My dad would just blast it.
It was on Fox.
It would piss my mom off so much.
The problem is, and look, I'll just talk from my own experience here.
Yeah, yeah.
Because Charles and I, like, we both, number one, my wife and I, we have a very strong relationship.
Believe it or not, very much respect, we both know we're at the top of the food chain in the household.
But if you're talking, if he's talking about jokes and let's not act like our wives or the boss or are in charge of us,
Charles would sit there and tell you, like, Will it makes a lot of his own decisions.
Will, will does a lot of things that lead the way for the family.
Tell him, Will.
She does as well.
But when you're talking, when you get all the way into the box of it all, if you're going to be somebody that's, that is in charge, I'm not because I'm like the most forgetful, like, things that we think about.
We talk about the mental load all the time that we as dads and men have to like teach ourselves and learn through in real time because we're like, we got dog brain at times.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
oh, we got to bring this with us.
Oh, we got to pack that.
Oh, we got to do this.
Oh, we got to think about this when we're going on a trip.
Oh, this is the schedule this week.
Oh, no, I didn't think about it.
Oh, did I get childcare?
Oh, I didn't get childcare.
Like, there's so many things.
Oh, dear.
Mom's the boss.
Not only, my mom's not the boss.
Like, she tells you what to do and where to be at
and all those things.
Happy wife, happy life.
Yeah.
But the respect factor of knowing,
A, the mom runs the ship.
They're the heart and soul of the team.
They're the heart and soul of the team.
And it is in our mission statement,
we are not experts.
And if you are tuning into this pod,
I'll speak for myself,
and you can go next if you want,
if you tune into this pod
and you expect me to have glasses on like this
and I'm putting you on some crazy good dad game
that I know is fact
so that you could go
tell your buddies, well, actually, we don't do that with our kids.
You know, Sherman Young podcaster, he believes that you should be doing this with your child.
You're in big trouble, buddy.
No, I think you're seeing it all wrong.
Will and Sherm, they spoke about this idea, 30 minute coupons for screen time.
So if you're going over 30 minutes, they do six a week.
I see you have eight there and they say 45 minutes at a time.
That's bad for your child's brain and their development.
You're doing it wrong.
Oh, you did not receive fallacious?
on your birthday.
You know, I actually listen to a podcast that ends out some free coupons.
Your wife's not giving you the gluck-gluck-luck-9,000 on your birthday.
It's steak and blowjob day, and you're not getting any of that on steak and blowjob day?
I listen to this podcast, and it's steak and blowjob day or die.
You know, Harrison, it's funny that you bring up that you haven't gotten late in months.
Listen to these two intellectuals.
and Sherman. All that to say...
They talk about shockwave maxing.
I've been putting a bow on it maxing lately.
It's actually been really great for my marriage.
But yeah, that's all to say.
That's not what the show is.
Or like in my brain knowing like we talk about all the things,
dad life, like learns, wins, losses, things that we're just...
We're figuring it out as we go as we fuck it up along the way.
A lot of that is the partnership with your wife.
Yeah.
And learning about all the things that we need to do to be better partners for them along with us,
like thinking about ourself and things about that we need, how we can communicate these things with the wife versus like simply,
hey, I'm the breadwinner of the household.
These are the, all these things that you do with the mental load as a mom or as a wife.
Like, yeah, that's the expectation because I'm the breadwinner of the household.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
We're not back in decades ago where you have a few channels on TV.
Your wife's at home all day while you're out at work.
You come home.
And everything's expected to be done, clean, cooked, all that stuff.
And there's more access now.
There's more things that where we've developed and grown and evolved over time to where it doesn't work like that anymore.
Yeah.
And then if they get out of line, you might give them a backhand.
And then if they think about going and telling their friends outside of the house,
you fear monger them in that side of the house
to where they don't talk.
Then they're trapped in this eco.
You know what I mean?
They're trapped in this operation, this machine
that just isn't healthy.
You know, a lot of your friends, Barbara,
they're all bitches.
You know that, right?
And when you start acting bitchy,
that's when I know you've been hanging out with them.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, you want to work where you've been hearing that?
You've been hearing that the hairdress?
You've been hearing that the hairdresser you go too, huh?
Julie's working now, huh?
Where are you going to be working?
Who's going to hire you?
Good God.
Dude, Ted,
Ted, the show, by the way,
have you been watching that at all?
Ted, the movie?
No, Ted the show on Peacock.
Have you been watching,
like, there's a new series?
Ted Lasso?
Love me some Ted Lasso.
Ted the show may be better than both films.
Is it with the bear?
Dude, the dad, it's with the bear.
The Mark Wahlberg character is in high school.
So it's like back in the 80s, early 90s.
And dude, it is really good television.
And that dad in that show is literally that character that we've been playing.
I'm watching the Ted series.
I'm like, oh my God.
Like he's, yeah, that's who we're playing.
Anybody that's a watcher of that show will know when I'm talking.
Okay, okay.
Ted's in the chat.
Ted's in the comments section.
Ted's in the comment section.
Yeah, Ted, throw a little teddy bear in there.
Oh, hey.
There you go.
Yeah.
Matter of fact, I just, as I looked over for the comments, I saw this jersey.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chef and I had an incredible visit on Saturday.
We went to first form headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.
Got to do some speaking there.
Will you break down that whole?
Please tell that whole thing, because that seemed like a really, really cool moment for you for a multitude of reasons.
So, Ben Newman was a sports psychologist mentor of mine early in my NFL career.
I found him over social media.
I DMed him to see if he would work with me on sports psychology
and the mental side of everything.
Like as I prepare for training camp,
as I prepare for all these things,
like controlling what I can control,
not getting caught up.
And if I don't make this team,
there's 31 other teams that I can make
and to where you start doubting.
I wanted to work with a sports psychologist
or like a performance coach
because he's not a psychologist.
He doesn't have his degree in psychology.
I don't think, Ben,
if you do my apologies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we would meet halfway between St. Louis
where he was, Clayton, Missouri, and Bontair, we'd meet in Arnold at a Panera or St. Louis Breadco
every Monday in the offseason during the summertime as I'm preparing for training camp.
And he'd take me through exercises, worksheets, stuff to write down like law of attraction things,
goals, how I need to operate on a routine from a daily basis, like getting it all down
and mapped out so I could practically have something to review and look at every day and reflect on
it every day, like when I'm going about my unrequired work or going about my price fighter day,
as he would call it.
That was over a decade ago.
That was about 13 years ago.
Over time, Ben worked with me with me a lot throughout my career.
Ben is now, Ben Newman is now big in the sports performance world
to where he's worked with.
He had a job with Nebraska last year.
He's worked with Sabin at Alabama.
K-State Coach Climing when he was at North Dakota State,
went with him to Kansas State.
Yeah, he's worked with Coach Ruh.
Coach Ruhl was there.
He speaks with like, on the panel on this one,
so now full circle over the weekend, Ben hosted an
Unrequired event were 200 to 250 like high-level thinkers in the networks of all these people that got
together were there listening to keynotes. I was one of the five or six keynotes. It was me. Coach Rule,
coach, Coach Climmon, Coach White, who is the head coach of the Indiana fever and Caleb Clark,
Ray Lewis and Sal Fursala at first form. Sal Fersela is the CEO at first form. South Fersela is a dad I love
to follow business-wise and fatherhood wise on.
on Instagram and we've been boys since I went on the EMFCEO podcast with Andy Fricello back in 2015.
So it was a big full circle moment for a lot of people that were there.
And your boy, just really quick, the Friela has then put on this event, your boy did?
Ben put on the event.
The Fersela's allowed him to host it there because, again, the network and everything else,
like they are super tight.
Ben that has done work with First Forum.
Okay.
So people will hire Ben to come in and work with their teams, work with their high-level teams.
he'll have his own boot camp events to where it's days at a time he's built an incredible business he's
done incredible things and i've been around his family and him for 13 years he's like he's like a
big brother of mine and i've spoke with him on a few different occasions like back when i played with
washington we would go to different spots whether it be in Nebraska we spoke in vancouver we spoke
in seattle together we spoke in Vegas together to where he's like he's like brought me with them
on a few things to talk about my undrafted story and everything else so he wanted me to
be at this one. He wanted because he wanted to talk about Bustin with the boys. I sat down with him
and Sal Fasela. We did about 30 minutes, just kind of like a podcast style. We each sitting down in chairs.
I did a 30 minute keynote to where I talked about like creating evidence and a couple of my
pivotal stories in my undrafted career and frameworks that I've used that allowed that helped me
have a nine year career in the NFL and that I use frameworks that I used to establish Bustin with the
boys for the dads now as well.
And so I got to speak on that for 30 minutes.
And each keynote went 30 minutes.
And then I, he wanted me to introduce Ray Lewis because Ray Lewis indirectly affected my career in my position as a linebacker as long as I can remember.
I mean, I've consumed every piece of Ray Lewis content because I've always been a YouTube, listen to podcasts, listen to speakers, like listen to seminars.
I've just always been fascinated with how people think if they're established in a world to where I want to be at one, uh, one, uh, one.
day. And so it was sick that I got to go and be on a panel with ever, all these guys that I know,
like Coach Ruel obviously go big red Nebraska. That's self-explanatory.
Come on.
Coach Climman had me out to North Dakota State during their national title runs. I went out with Ben
because Ben did a lot of work with him in the North Dakota State.
But I went out and spoke to the team and did a lot of whiteboard work as far as like I had
the defense with me and picked on how I watched film, how I studied the game, like things.
that I could give them to where, you know,
I really got to know Coach Climman.
Is he as much of a stud as he seems?
Coach Climman is awesome.
Good as it fucking gets, man.
He seems like it.
I'm talking.
I hate to sidetrack you about.
Character integrity.
Yeah.
What he's about.
Dude, I love Coach Climing.
I was really sad when you retired.
Yeah.
Really sad.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
He, dude, he is a stud.
Coach White,
I met on the flight to St. Louis,
because she was on the plane with us flying out there.
So we got to know Coach White.
The fever coach.
The fever coach, the head coach of the Indiana fever.
South Rasella, I've had a history with him about a decade now
because, again, I was on the MFCEO when I was playing and got to know them.
They're Missouri boys.
And then over time, we've just stayed in touch.
South Rasella helped me when I was starting to build Bustin with the boys.
I DMed him and asked for if he had a set of equipment or like an equipment list,
like advice.
And he sent me a DM like this long with all the equipment I need to be getting.
Ways to think about sponsorships, ads.
Like he helped me when I was putting together,
like how to stand up busting with the boys.
Yeah.
And now that we're years later on a panel together talking about it,
just a really cool full circle moment.
So we kind of had that event in front of 200, 250 people,
did dinner, did a meet and greet their locker room.
It was really cool.
But ultimately what I was going to get to,
because what I love is when we're out in the wild,
and PT Sickos come up to me,
or people that are fans of the show for the dads come up to me.
And we had a couple of them there,
Succo, who is there,
shout out Succo who gifted a for the dad's Nebraska jersey that he got made.
And he gets that to me like when we're doing the meet and greet, he was stoked about it, bro.
He wanted to hit the flex post.
He went to all the things.
And just talk about dad life.
Yeah.
And talk about the pod and how much he loves the pod.
Was he stoked to see chef to him?
Oh, yeah, man.
Succo is a dog.
And then I asked, I asked Succo or Succo?
Succo.
Succo.
I'm like, why the 25?
And he was like, well, that was the year you guys started it.
And I was like, bro, that is looking awesome, man.
So we're going to get this in a frame.
We're going to have a hand up somewhere.
Maybe it hits right there.
We remove that photo.
Put it up somewhere on the set.
Yeah, I got a couple of things for.
Yeah.
But we got that.
Another dad came up where his wife, she has, is it MS?
Yeah.
And she writes children's books.
And he gives me a couple children's books for Roo and Scotty.
No way.
And he was just very genuine talking to me.
And it was just so cool getting the, I love getting to know the dads that listen to the show that come up and just talk highly of the show and then just talk ball, like talk shop.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
You've been a part of it when we were out at Nebraska to where next thing you know, we're standing on a, standing on a fence talking to a couple about marriage and parenthood and the last that we share.
Yeah.
People bring it up the time where I talked about Rue missing mom and the full circle with me talking about my mom.
People were mentioning that clip to me.
But it was awesome.
It was awesome, man.
There is something different.
I will say I've only had a tier one shout out once by myself,
but I've seen a lot of tier one shoutouts with Will and Taylor out in the wild.
Those are always a ton of fun.
The four the dads ones are really, really fun, dude, because they, it's just funny how much personal stuff they know about our life.
And it feels like you're already talking to somebody that like you went to high school with.
Yeah.
Because they just know a lot of information about you.
Yeah.
And I just want to like learn about them way more because I'm like,
you already know so much about me.
Tell me about, you know, your family, your kid.
It hits different because another example, I was grabbing a coffee last week.
And I saw somebody who was a fan of for the dads.
They were a fan of bus.
And then we're sitting standing on the parking lot talking for,
30 minutes.
Really? Just about dad life,
about marriage, about a lot of things
of just connecting with them.
And those moments hit different
on the For the Dads, the PT sickos, and the
PT-6ers that are watching, listening,
wherever you are. Yeah.
They hit different because it's not like
with Bustin with the boys,
fan base is incredible. They feel like they know us.
We did something that they love
and respect, and they might have
fun questions on what was this coach like?
Or man, what was this like? Or this story that you guys
spoke about, they dive into the weeds there.
With for the dads and parenthood,
those people are doing these same things as we are.
You know what I mean?
So there's just more of a conversation because we're either going through the suck
and you come across parents that have been through that part and they're laughing
or having good stories or storytelling about,
hey, you know, when they get to this age, what to look for.
Again, you have laughs, but you're just connecting on a deeper level.
Or you're talking with a couple where they're currently in it.
We're talking with a couple.
They have a newborn.
We listen to your stuff all the time.
And we really appreciate the stories that you share,
the vulnerability that you guys have
because we go through the same things.
Then you realize, like, this is just one big group
and we're all going through this shit together.
Yeah.
So you just have a deeper, more meaningful conversation.
Not to say that the ones with the bustle with the boys aren't.
They are.
No, they are.
But as far as family dynamic,
we're all going through the same shit.
The amount of times with the PT-Sick-O-1 ones,
if I'm with Jill and they're with their wife,
the guy that came up to us at the restaurant,
at the golf course,
we start having our own conversation
and his wife and Jill are having their own.
And I just hear them start dying laughing.
And I overhear Jill go,
oh my gosh, Sherman does that all the time.
Like they're already.
I'm like, there you go.
Yeah, there you go.
But it was really cool, man.
Getting those gifts, getting connect with BT Sickos.
on things aside from like, you know, there for speaking,
there for like on beat, like bussing with the boys.
Tell the part about the game ball, dude.
That was such a sick moment.
I know that you touched on it on the bus.
I would love for any PT sickos to hear that story too.
So there was this game ball that I got.
And Derek, if it's in my truck on the passenger side,
if you want to grab it so that way I can just show them the prop.
But so Ben Newman, as I was talking about,
Ben and I met 13 years ago over the internet on social media.
We had some common friends.
People thought like,
hey, Will, you would like this guy.
And again, I was searching for, like, somebody to help hold me accountable and give
me some direction in sports psychology because I'm massive into psychology of everything.
And so working with Ben, fast forward, that was in 2013.
I got this game ball in 2015, I believe, because it was one of the first games that I ended up
taking over for the starting job.
We were playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And it was the You Like That Game by Kirk Cousins,
where we have a big comeback in the second half.
You guys know the meme or the video
where Kirk's coming down the locker room.
And he's going, you like that.
You like that.
That game was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game
to where we had a big comeback.
Maybe one of the biggest ones in the franchise history.
No way.
That's it.
We had a losing record.
We ended up turning it around,
going to the wild card, losing the Green Bay.
But we made the playoffs.
We ended up winning the NFC East that year.
And during that game as well, at halftime, they made the switch to make me the starter as the mic.
So that was a memorable game for myself because I started playing a lot more after that.
Yeah.
But I got this game ball, biggest comeback in Redskins history.
We ended up winning 31 to 30, October 25th, 2015.
And so a lot of the guys got game balls.
And so when I got this game ball, one of the next home game or the game that Ben Newman,
my performance mentor was coming to, I got in his hotel room and laid this on his bed.
So that way, when he came in there and saw it, like, he realized, like, I was gifting him this game ball.
And I wrote him a note that basically said, like, I wouldn't be here without your help.
And it was very much like a personal, big bro, little bro.
Like, I want you to have this because you've been a massive part of my journey in the NFL.
Classy move.
And he got real emotional with the game ball.
When we spoke about it after the game, because he started to get emotional before.
and I was like, hey, we got a game coming up.
Like, let's, hey, tighten up, bro.
Let's lock in.
I'm in Warrior Will Coffin mode.
Yeah.
I got to paint the face right now.
Hearts got to turn black.
It's not full of blood.
It's got to go black right now.
It's got to go dark.
Gates are closed.
And we were speaking after and he was like,
he just, I remember, or I actually, I did not remember telling him this, but he's telling
in a story as he's gifting this to me at the event on Saturday.
He's like, if we'll remember, as I told him, like, when you have a family of
your own one day, I'm going to.
gift you this ball back.
It's the good news is I got a replica made so it can still sit in the same spot that I have it
in.
But he gave this game ball back to me because now I have obviously a family of my own.
So again, another full circle moment that took place there.
That was really cool.
Yeah, man.
And this is my very first game ball.
Can I hold it?
Absolutely.
Oh, dude.
That's so epic, dude.
Yeah.
That's such a cool story.
The fact that it's the, you like that game.
just adds so much legacy behind it of like on the field but the off the field story behind
this guy now is unreal and also full circle moment that you guys know about me it's knowing that
lavante david's on the field as well no way i'm took him down yeah this is this is buggy bro
it's levante levant that's right that's right because i ended up saying like you were deeming him some
some shit after the game because he wasn't responded he's talking a little shit to him
But, yeah, man, great, great Saturday.
You're very deserving of that.
And you are, I know we say here and we say like, oh, we aren't experts.
If there is one thing that you are an expert on, it is grit, determination, and working for a cause that feels greater than yourself, something that may seem out of reach and like your belief in, no, it is obtainable.
if you work at it every single day and you work hard.
Like you could speak to that for hours.
I appreciate that.
I'm very uncomfortable.
You giving me a massive compliment.
I know how the fellows get.
I just want you to hear that, dude.
That makes me so happy that you're being celebrated
and you're given that opportunity to do that.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate that.
Sherman, you know what he's not an expert in?
Keeping track of his phone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I forgot the iPad again today.
Chef, what happened?
Oh, yeah, and then the phone over the weekend.
We got two stories.
You forgot that you forgot your phone.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
The phone, the phone.
Come on now.
Okay, okay.
Don't do that.
I won't do that to you.
I'll explain.
It wasn't 100% Will's fault.
We had it lost in the couch situation.
Oh, okay, okay.
100% not my fault.
No, it's not your fault.
Say it.
It's like,
on the show, we're about taking it.
accountability. It's like, I'm not taking accountability. I would give you 75% not accountable.
The other 25 is knowing that it was 100% in your pocket when you went on stage.
Basically, uh, at the panel, they had, uh, you, Sal and Ben did like a busting with the boys
episode and they brought out these, uh, these kind of like recliner chairs, really cozy.
By the way, first form, incredible facility. Uh, Sal, if you're listening to this, I walked into
one of the bathrooms that it was spotless. Uh, one of your employees walked in after me. I was taking a
pissed and I saw him scrubbing the place.
And I literally looked and I went, this place is spotless.
You couldn't make it any better. And he was still
putting in work. So shout out. It was wild.
And he's not lying.
Not lying at all. He's pristine and spotless.
They don't hire cleaners. It's all
standard. We do the work. Employees,
nobody.
They clean. From the photos,
it just reminds me of that
first year when like a new
building on a college campus gets. Bro.
That's what it looks. Unbelievable.
It's legit there. And they run.
As far as core value standard, I'm so excited for when Sal Fricela comes on the pot.
Obviously, we'll be talking dead life, but I just want people to understand that this is
that this dude, their team, because there's a lot of them.
This isn't just Sal, but the way that they operate on a daily basis,
their foundation of thinking, their foundation of values, their foundation of principles,
how they think, how they go about everything, man.
The details, all of it.
I aspire to be like it.
I get like a sponge around it because I'm so fascinated with how that trickles down from top to bottom.
Because they got a ton.
I don't know.
How many employees do they have?
Shit, man.
That place is huge.
Hundreds, if not thousands, employees.
Like, the place is massive.
But it is crazy, man.
It is crazy.
And Sal is super intentional with his kids, too.
Again, I love follow him on Instagram.
He had me FaceTime in a couple weekends ago to give his son a pepestown.
talk before they played a black football game.
He had me thinking on the spot. I was talking about attitude and effort.
But Sal's just the man, bro.
I love, but we bust each other's balls.
But dude, I'm a big, I think very highly of Sal Fursela.
Yeah, yeah.
He's a dog.
Yeah, he's a dog.
But to go back, Will lost his phone in the couch during the episode.
As I'm sitting there, the phone slipped out and falls in the middle, right?
On stage.
Like on stage.
So then when I get done and I'm looking for it, I can't find it.
I'm retrace.
I didn't go.
very far like my my my my my trail from where I was I was like okay maybe it's in the bathroom because
I went to the bathroom could just be sitting on the urinal like when I took it out scrolls something
set it on the year yeah yeah wasn't there I couldn't find it we look in the chair four or five
different times for a while yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah on production they were like I was like hey will doesn't know where his phone is they were
hell been on finding your phone almost more than me I was like I know it's gonna show up yeah
it's like I don't know it's that's it's gonna pop up they were scrambling it'll pop up it'll pop
I was like I literally had, I remember looking at it before I went on stage.
So it can't, it has to be around here.
You would have thought that Will's the president and we just lost nuclear football.
Yeah.
The way, the way this team is acting.
Shout out.
We had the chair turned over looking getting in the bottom and everything else.
And we couldn't find it.
But a couple, a couple tier one sickos are just in the crowd and they see us looking and he just hits his boy.
His name is Zach and Justin.
Actually, you're based on Nashville.
It's like, hey, should we go look for his phone?
and they find the phone in the chair
by not only lifting it over,
but they started moving it
and could hear it sliding.
No.
So it was just trapped somewhere
that was just tough to get to.
So I don't fully put that.
You know what I mean?
Like it fell out of the chair.
This doesn't, Deke, how do you feel?
You look like you're thinking about it.
Now I forgot my iPad at home today.
It's getting dropped off of the house.
That's, that's, that's.
So, like, I'm not out of.
I would, my, my, my,
Why I said 75, 25 is that if the 25 is like, you know that it's in your pocket, it's in the chair.
I know it's in the chair.
I had it before I went on stage.
That's the, hey, if we're doing the full accountable, like Ray Lewis said, he starts today.
Yeah, Ray Lewis is speaking.
Ain't no coincidence.
Ain't no coincidence.
That's all.
Oh, yeah, Ray.
Ray didn't say that.
Ray didn't say that.
But the event was awesome.
The gifts are incredible.
Thank you guys, Papa Team 6 members that came up.
gifted us some stuff got another gift of the weekend from shirm yes got a gift from shirm
did you open it bro yeah yeah yeah yeah and there's a funny moment about it oh really that char and i had
so shirm like him and jill uh gifted charr and i a gift and i gift and um it's an awesome gift
it's gonna hang up right over my cold tub no way yeah yeah yeah yeah but we open this gift right
and just like thinking us like their transition here like parenthood friendship all that stuff
that or joe wrote us a card jill corner to corner all throughout the car jill has her own card
and it's a bigger card it's like this and she's writing cover like all over the place there's no
space on it had a table of contents yeah it had a table of contents shirm writes a card too and it's
it's a smaller card because it's the only card we had yeah you can tell what i wrote on it
I can't remember, but it was above.
Like, you had a nice joke where I belly laughed out loud.
Because Shirm is playing like, you know, I'm basically writing on this little shit card.
Like, Jill, she took up all the stuff.
So this is the only card I guess I can use.
And Shirms, like, making a funny on the card, but basically thanking us for a lot of stuff.
And open the gift, and it's this frame.
It's a nice, like, a glass or...
Acrylic.
Acrylic frame.
and I'm thinking the way Jill's talking about family,
when you see this, I want you to think like family, foundation,
all these things.
So in my brain, I'm thinking we're going to get a cool photo of Jill, Shirm, and Scarlet.
And so we open this frame, and inside this acrylic frame is a piece of art
that is essentially like stone or a rock.
Yeah.
But when I open it, it's like this charcoal color.
it's got texture all to it
and to where if you go back to the card
and read it's like this should look like a rock
like foundation like everything that puts
that encapsulates a family
it's this artwork of a
essentially like a rock texture
thing yes I'm starting
to try and pull off
oh well well I'm starting to try
and pull off the arts
because I'm thinking it's just like some foam
thing over the photo
and I because Charles like
reading Charles like oh that's really sweet
and then if the camera pans over me, I'm going,
hey, how do I go about getting this thing off?
Because I'm like trying to pull it off in the corners and on the sides.
And she's like, no, no, no, no, sweetheart.
You don't pull that off.
Like, that's art.
Like, it's just, they gifted us a piece of art.
And I'm like, and then I kind of hold it out.
I'm like, so it's this, it's just this.
And she's like, yeah, it's art.
She's like, look at what Jill wrote, rock, foundation, all of this stuff.
I'm like, oh, shit.
This is kind of dope.
But I'm thinking, I thought that there was a picture underneath.
Bro.
That is.
Very thoughtful gift, by the way.
That is the most legendary.
The fact that just knowing my mom's process of when she layers like paint makes it that much funnier.
Yeah.
You read it feeling it.
Because I look at the back and there's like that like canvas material.
Yeah, that canvas netted material to where I'm pushing.
I'm like, man, maybe it's like a painting.
of the family or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, I just got to get this
thick textured thing off of it. I don't blame. Okay, I'll be careful how I phrase this.
My mom's pieces are very bright and colorful. And the pieces that she wanted to do for you
and Taylor from how Jill kind of described y'all's taste in y'all's colors and like,
not minimalistic, but like y'all's sense of design.
My mom was like, I want to go with like a real neutral kind of dark thing,
like something I don't usually do.
Right on my alley.
And so she went with that, but it quite literally looks like obsidian or like some kind of rock.
Like it, I can see.
It's dope.
Now that I know what it is, truly.
I can see where you went.
Knowing me, you can see where my.
I'd see where your brain was going there.
But it's not like, you know.
My mom's howling right now listening to this, by the way.
The coolest wrapping paper ever.
Hey, that's the part that was the, that Scarlett helped with the wrapping paper.
Oh, I love that because the wrapping paper was awesome.
The tape on the back was hilarious.
What was it?
Just like this white thick tape that's just all over the place.
Like it's your first time.
Like say, I love that.
I figured, say you figured out how to really do a clean one side of a Christmas gift.
Yeah, yeah.
First time wrapping a Christmas gift.
And you get the, you get the sides, you get the top part really clean.
And then you kind of flip it over and you're like, oh, shit, what do I do with this back part?
This is a whole, this is a whole thing.
But, dude, great presentation, great gift, awesome card.
Awesome.
It's going to hang over the cold tub.
Oh, but amazing.
That was, I think Scarlet's first painting was the wrapping paper.
She did the painting on it.
Oh, she did that?
Yeah.
Let's go, man.
That is awesome.
It was fun, dude.
And that kind of goes with like the, I don't think it was my crack of cold one, but it was something on here.
Because we put it in the show notes of just my mom has been talking day and night about wanting to get Scarlett into her art studio.
And that was like my mom's Super Bowl was getting her in there.
And all three of the girls, that was back when Jill was home for Easter.
So I was getting a bunch of FaceTime's a bunch of photos of the girls just in my mom's art studio in her garage.
She's had other studio spaces in the past, but like right now it's in her garage.
And it was just cool, dude.
It was like cool to see those three generations like working together.
Really fun that it was a gift for you and Taylor.
And the gift was because they gifted me for any new listeners, night nurses, during my paternity leave.
when we had Scarlet.
So, like, that was the thank you of, like,
it was very belated, by the way, nine months belated.
But I'm glad we got y'all something finally.
Yeah, Mama Sherm, thank you so much.
That gift is awesome.
Everybody, the whole family, Jill, Scar, Scar,
even put a little twist on it, your card.
Yeah, dude.
Thank you, man.
Yeah, dude.
I didn't quite know what to write to Charo.
I didn't, I didn't, because I, like, don't know her.
like on the super personal note.
And I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to brag about how cool my wife is.
And then just say, I know that Will thinks that you're that cool too.
There you go, man.
There you go.
That's, I was like, that'll do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That'll do it.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But it was, thank you for the gift.
Absolutely.
It's some dad life.
Charles had a birthday party, a classmate's birthday party on Sunday.
Oh, yeah, for Rue, right?
Yeah.
So we did the full thing on Saturday to first form.
We get back the next day on Sunday this past Sunday.
We had like a classmate.
So Roo's classmates and her friends in her class,
we invited them to just basically go to the park.
Have cupcakes, do some games with them.
We did like, was it sack race?
I did a sack race.
We did pin the tail on the donkey,
but called it pin the crown on the princess.
And it was just this photo of Roo.
It's one of Roo's photos where she's just going.
And all the, you had sticker tape on all these little crowns,
blindfold them, spin them around a couple times.
I like that rendition.
They're playing hide and seek. They're playing on the playground.
Dude, it was a blast.
That looked like so much fun.
Just the one tweet that I love the most was like that was at the Shelby Bottoms, you said?
Yes.
Just that video of you like I got these kids in a blender playing hide and seek and how wide
open and green it was, dude.
And I'm like, for any ST sick of.
or soon to be if you're in buds and you haven't had kids yet
and you miss those parts of your childhood
of running around in a big open grass field and playing hide and see
tag and you're like oh man I wish I could go back you get to
yeah you get to watch it with your kids man because I'm going up I'm like
sweetheart are we good to do cupcakes because I tricked them earlier because they were
about to go to the playgrounds like are we going to do cupcakes soon they're like yes
I was like hey kids cupcakes and they're like we're not doing cupcakes for like
another five, ten minutes.
But I had already yelled cupcakes and the kids just immediately turn running.
Yeah, they're like, cupcakes, cupcakes.
I'm like, okay, hey, I was joking.
It's going to be in about five minutes.
Cupcakes in about five minutes.
I see, I was like, how about you guys?
Instead of going to the playground, you guys go playing the field or something.
Then they start playing high and go seeking, and then the cupcakes are ready.
So I'm like, all right, so I can do the cupcake call.
She's like, you can do the cupcake call.
So I start walking over and I see one dad already getting out of his phone.
And he's like, man, this is going to be good.
And I was like, dude, I was thinking the same exact thing.
They're like in the middle of plague hide and go seeking.
I'm like, you know, on the video, kids, cupcakes.
And they all just stopped.
They were all getting ready.
A lot of them hide behind trees and stuff.
You heard one kid like counting out loud or saying ready or not here I come.
And then just immediately, once they heard the cupcake call, they just swarm like zombies.
Like zombies, bro.
It is like, oh, they're all running from different angles of the field.
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, guys?
I honestly don't remember.
I think it was on a call about what we should call it.
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,
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The best part with kids to you is
you could have yelled out the, like,
worst thing, the worst thing in the
entire world, not even cupcakes. You could have been like,
Like, hey, the bubble blower things here, the bubble blower.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's so stoked for anything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was fun.
You see, hey, you know, I, dad brag, did you see the Rue hanging up with one hand?
Come on.
Break that down.
Oh, Roo.
Oh, my gosh.
Very good, Roohoo.
Not a lot to break down.
We got video running right now.
Chef's probably showing the video right now.
But Charles was like, hey, did you see Rue hanging?
with one hand and I told her yeah but thinking man do I remember hanging with one hand I remember her
jumping up like holding on when we were doing the monkey bars and when she's just wanting like hang on a bar
and then she shows me the video of rue like jumping up for this little this metal ring and trying
to grab with two hands at first but then going like you know one two three and then jumping up and
grabbing it with one hand and I'm like oh get my piss hot yeah it's there dude she doesn't know you know what
She doesn't even know what she's doing the dad.
But it's there.
Yeah.
Dad was doing that back in Bonteer.
Yeah.
Who knows if I was.
Like, to me, I'm just, I'm just impressed.
I'm like, you know, she just turned four years old.
And this dude is like, you know, I'll get her to where she's wanting to play on monkey bars.
I'll be, hey, you want to see how long you can hang?
Like, to where in my brain, I'm like, let me start, like, training her grip.
Yeah.
Let me start, like, training a couple things in, like, a fun way.
Now, back, let's see if you can do it for 20 seconds.
Or I'm like, you know, and then she wants to do it again.
and then she might fall like,
like, well, your grips worn out.
We got to get a couple rest.
Like, go get to slide a couple times.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She'll have to slide a couple times.
Hey, sweetheart, you want to try again?
Like, yeah.
Like, how long do you want to hang?
She's like, as long as for a hundred seconds.
And I'm like, okay, let's try 100 seconds.
Dead L count for you.
I remember one time she was hanging, bro,
and she got like 52 seconds.
Hang in from the bar.
Dude, that's very impressive.
And she gets out, I'm like, dude, you were such a beast.
You don't even know it.
You're a beast.
I'm not a beast.
Honey.
Yeah, you don't get it yet you're a beast.
Yeah, you're the princess beast.
Yeah, you're a princess.
You're a fairy beast.
And there's four gummies.
Will, aren't those your creatine gummies?
No, no, Flintstone gum.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dude, it was sick though, man.
It was fun watching her get loved.
Don't have all the little kids seeing her dynamic with her friends.
Seeing that she has friends at school.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And meeting all the parents, getting to see them around and all of us function together.
Getting the sack race going.
You know, I'm basically like, hey, eyes on me.
me like I'm lining up, hey, stand over here.
Hey, Leo, come over here, man. Come over here.
Roo, I know you're going to go first. Everybody goes at the same time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I need you to stand right here. They're all talking. Hey, guys, I need you to listen. I need
you to listen. I'm down on a knee looking at looking at all of them.
Getting in my coach speak with them. Yeah.
Tell them, hey, hey, here's how we're going to do the cadence. You're not moving
before I say go. How many sacks are we working with?
Probably. How many are going at once?
I'll give chef the video so we can see, but I want to say it's about like seven.
Oh, that's a sack race. Yeah. Oh, it's a full sack race. That's a sack race.
Yeah. We're not playing around.
Yeah, yeah. But just watching the whole thing take place.
You know, we catered in, Lady Bird, shout out Lady Bird, no free shout out.
The Lady Bird.
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Yep. Oh, come on.
But awesome, awesome weekend.
Awesome weekend on my end.
Was that, was that your crack of cold?
one? I believe that's my crack of coal one. That's my crack of coal one. Crack a cold one,
hanging with one one at her birthday party on the, on the, on the, on the metal ring. Come on. Well,
the only reason I asked is I was like, it don't get much better than that. Like, what's this
guy's crack a cold one? That's the, you're right. That's a classic great crack of cold one right
then. Shout out allie pop. My crack of cold one was also a birthday party. It was Brady's,
uh, which is Jeremy Klump, our chief of staff. Yeah. PT sicko. Ptie sicko. Uh, his
four-year-old son Brady's
fire truck themed birthday party.
That is my first
little kids birthday party
in attendance with my daughter.
It's very fun, dude.
I'm glad you guys made it.
Oh, yeah.
He was on the rocks for a second
that nobody was going to come.
Other buddy, people are going to come.
Listen, buddy, it's solo Saturday.
Yeah.
And I have a reason to get out of the house,
nonetheless, a birthday party?
Just know this, bro.
As far as Papa Team 6 members,
having other PT6 members back.
I had your back.
You did.
Going through that conversation with it
because we were flying,
we did the spring tour
at Notre Dame in Miami last week.
Notre Dame blogs out,
Notre Dame interviews with Coach Freeman's out.
That's on bus with the boys' channel.
Come on.
We were traveling around.
You obviously weren't traveling with us,
but Columbus is kind of talking about this.
And I'm like,
have you asked Sherim?
He's like,
well, Jill's out of town for the weekend.
He's got Scarlet by himself.
And I'm like, bro.
Bro, even more reason.
What does that mean?
Like, you're not giving enough credit
to your fellow Papa,
Team Six or you think he's just going to sit at home and think he has to do everything at home.
Entire routine has to be home.
Like, no, bro.
You're talking about a Papa Team Sicko.
Like, Shirm is more than dialed.
He gets out all the time.
You went with him to the zoo to where he operates solo.
You guys, he goes out to eat with people.
Like, he operates.
Did you listen to last week's episode?
Are we recording right now?
Last time I checked, yes, we're recording.
I'm sorry.
Keep going.
Keep going.
That was a wild get off the derail.
Are we good?
Oh, no.
I'm saying I'm fucking stoked with what you're saying.
Oh, God.
I hope we're recorded.
I hope we're recorded.
Yeah.
Oh, bro.
I'm like,
this man is dialed as far as operating a mission solo.
You think he's what?
He's got to drive 20 to 30 minutes out to your place.
He ain't going to be ready to go.
Backpack, bottles, snacks, toys, anything to operate.
Oh, JJ and Brady want to play outside.
You don't think he's got some mat to just go out across the lawn
and she can operate solo by herself while he kicks it with you.
By the way, Clump, it's your birthday, even though you're throwing Brady a birthday party.
It's your birthday.
Sherman would be more than happy.
If you just let him know that, like, you know, I would love to have you there.
He wouldn't think twice about it.
Well, there's no question.
I texted him and I said, hey, Jill's not going to be there, but we're there.
We're there.
That's a walk in the park.
That's a walk in the park.
And not to make the birthday sound like it's not something I would want to go to.
It's a solo Saturday with Scarlet.
I'm dying for a.
an excuse of a controlled environment to get out of the house and take my daughter to you.
I am dying for any excuse to get out of the house.
And I'm like birthday party, free food, friends, a bunch of kiddos running around,
a bunch of people that want to interact with my daughter.
Comerottery.
Comority.
Can I come?
Like, hell yes, dude.
I did too, uh, bright, this is by crack a cold one part.
But to brag on myself, I did pack her bag.
Do Jill didn't pack the bag for the birthday party?
I noticed that she, all she did was just lay out an outfit that she wanted Scarlet to wear to the party for me to take a picture of Scarlet with JJ.
You're telling me your wife, the one who's in charge of you, the boss.
Yeah.
Didn't tell you what to do, how to do it.
Trusted you fully.
And you not only took that, you not only took that, received that.
Yeah.
You operated.
And I have a statement here from Jill that I get to read.
I don't have to read it.
Sherman gets to do what.
Careful reading it coming off like a dumb, dumb husband, dad, don't do a trope.
Don't trope.
This isn't a trope.
She wrote this.
Don't trope.
I'm not tropein.
She wrote this.
Sherman gets to do what he wants and he loves me very much.
Signed Jill Young.
I get to do what I want.
yeah man hell yeah
you know
yeah of course
yeah yeah come on
I get to do what I want
I want I want to know
if this man Ryan Hammett too like
okay he listened maybe he listens to a clip
like do women go on the can you put your wife in the doghouse
does this mean that he just puts his wife in the doghouse
would love to understand how that works
yeah how does that work
because my whole thing
and don't don't only say yes
break down how she gets to the dog house
yeah
so that way we
He can easily poke holes in probably everything that went on for her to be in a dog house.
Yeah.
Would love to be a fly in the wall and see how he actually handles the situations.
Yeah.
Like is he actually just being like, you're doing it again, honey.
Or is it like, you know, imagine is one of those things like she finds that comment on Instagram.
And she's like, you know, comes home and she goes, oh, so you just, you put me in my place all the time.
Yeah, Ryan Hammett just seems like he lets his wife out of the cage when he gets home.
Yeah.
Is she doing the three P's?
Like, I didn't even know that women could do one of those three P's.
So, like, yeah, yeah.
I'm just like, what's going on?
Like, I don't understand.
He did put LOL, so he's trying to be as lighthearted as he can.
He put L.O.L.
Maybe he's doing a bit.
He could be doing a bit.
Maybe he's reverse bidding us.
Because we don't want to make, we don't want to put them in the Phoenix box.
No.
Oh, no.
He's not even close.
I feel like that's Sherm's Burner account.
It could be.
Oh, this will get the boys talking.
Yeah.
This will get them talking.
I, um, what was it?
Oh, I packed my own bag for the birthday party.
And I remembered all the essentials, dude.
The only thing I forgot was a straw.
It's that same water cup deacon chef that I forgot at the barbecue spot.
But Scarlett is a pro with just fill up a cup with water or get a little water bottle and stick a straw.
Any type of straw in there.
And she rocks it.
But I have the sunscreen.
I had the sunglasses.
I had the swimsuit because they had an influx.
because they had an inflatable in the backyard
with like a water slide on it.
Oh, dude.
Was ripping around on that with Scarlett in my lap.
McKinsey, Jared's girlfriend, was there.
She is obsessed with Scarlett,
and Scarlett's obsessed with her.
And she's like, can I hold her?
Like, that's the worst thing she could ask me
on Planet Earth. I'm like,
take her. Keep her.
Here you go.
I got to have a couple of lollipops.
I'll see you in a sec.
Yeah.
If I could,
if I could break down from the lens
of Orion listening to this.
It's real.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's real.
Because there are dads that the Papa team sickos,
the ones that know the standard,
that listen to you that talk about the straw.
Oh, I packed my own bag.
Oh, I did this.
Oh, I did that.
And those men that are on the standard of those,
yeah, no shit you should.
We know that,
but there's also those.
Those dads need to know that there's a lot of new dads or dads out there that have, that might have no clue that these things get thought about, that they need to be prepared for.
That in the humor of it, that's a win.
That's like a win for the group of like understanding and learning all the ins and outs of what goes into like, say, a solo mission.
Does that make sense?
We're talking.
To where if you're sitting there and you listen, I brought the straw.
I forgot.
I didn't forget this.
And it's like, oh, yeah, no shit.
Yeah, we're on the same page with you.
but there are also a lot of,
there's a, there's a lot of dads out there that might not even know that this stuff goes on.
Or dads out there that just stay in the house and stay routine from what they're,
the list that their wife might have wrote them down if they're not fully trusted at the house
to know like this is how you operate.
Need we meet, uh,
need we need reminding.
What's that phrase?
Hell yeah.
Keep it going.
Need we need reminding.
That I forgot my freaking diaper bag.
when I went to that Stars game with Coupe and his girlfriend and had to,
we parked and got out.
And I forgot the diaper bag.
We had to get back in the car, 20 minutes back to the house,
missed the first period of the game because Bozo packed the diaper bag in the house
and didn't put it in the car.
Yeah.
Like my baseline was like below this tape.
If you know the story arc of Shirm.
Yeah.
And you're a sicko on this pod.
That's a big deal.
My man, look at the way he's grown since the times of like,
having some mess-ups.
Yeah, dude.
And did I forget the stroller?
Yes.
Did I need the stroller at the party?
No.
I didn't need it.
But I did intend to pack it.
I did forget it.
It happens.
It happens, man.
Yeah, we're not.
Nobody's perfect.
Nobody's perfect.
But that was my dad with.
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I did dad win last week
when we got back from Miami
on Thursday
I was putting ruin beds
like last week you know
I was telling the stories
of like story time
making up stories
using the Disney outline
bear
this one I was telling her
like we need
dad has got to sit down
dad's brains exhaust
it's not firing on all cylinders
like let's do a book
and so she wanted to read
the big red less red the big red slide
the big red slide
is essentially a little pup
who approaches this big red slide and he's scared for days at a time.
He sees it.
He sees the long line.
He sees how high it is.
He gets nervous.
He says,
I don't want to do the slide anymore.
Mom,
maybe tomorrow.
She says,
maybe tomorrow.
They come back the next day.
He climbs up to the top.
Once he gets at the top,
he looks down and sees how far down it is.
And all of a sudden,
he's brave climbing up the ladder.
Now he stops.
He doesn't feel so brave.
So he comes back down and says,
Mom, maybe tomorrow.
So mom takes him home.
They do a little concrete slide like off the,
like off the stoop.
in the front, little pup builds these.
Have I told this story?
You did during our pre-production meeting.
That's where your deja vu is coming from.
I was going to say, I'm getting massive deja vu.
That's okay.
Because we were sitting just like this.
Yeah, little pup builds a cardboard slide
for his stuffed animals and tells him to be brave,
have courage, like going down the slide.
Yeah.
Attacking your fears, all that stuff.
And he's rooting them on.
So later down the road, he goes to the park again,
sees the big red slide, but he meets this friend.
This friend's name is Little Duck.
They talk about going on the big red slide together.
And Little Duck, they stand in line.
They go to the big red slide.
He gets to the top of the big red slide.
He doesn't feel so brave anymore.
And Little Duck, he helps him go down the big red slide.
They go down the big red slide.
They have so much fun.
Rue loves this story.
And I got to tie it into, I was like, hey,
Dadda wasn't so brave today.
Dada has a story to where I went really high up
and I got really scared and honestly, I wanted to go down.
I just couldn't because I was so high up.
I forgot about this element to the story.
The white will's about to tell next truly shocked me.
So we're at Miami and they have this 10 meter diving board.
I thought it was like a 10 meter pool and they have like a diving board.
So I'm like, hell yeah, let's go off the diving board.
We're doing the tour and we get to this pool.
They're like Olympic pool or their swimming team pool where they have a 10 meter, 30 feet in the air.
Is it 30 feet, three feet?
I was about to say for any of those at home, the metric system meters a lot longer than feet.
So don't think 10 feet.
Yeah.
I know it's three feet in a yard.
3.28.
3.28.
So this thing is up there, bro.
And I'm seeing it.
And I'm like.
It's like 35 feet.
Right?
Yeah.
I'm like not as young as I used to be like I used to like not have a fear.
Like being a lifeguard having a high dive.
I'd rip gainers.
I'd do one and a half.
I'd do things off of a diving board.
Like I'd jump off cliffs.
But I wasn't like, I didn't get like, I'm not like an adrenaline junkie,
like bungee jumping, stuff like that.
I get scared of being high up.
I'm scared of heights.
But once you get comfortable doing the diving board stuff, it feels like, oh, I'm jumping
in water.
I'm jumping in water off of a cliff when we go cliff jumping.
But I'm looking at how high this board is.
And I'm like, yo, this is, I'm kind of not wanting to do it.
But I said I wanted to do it.
And now you kind of get peer pressure like Taylor's doing it, Jack's doing it.
the boys are going up Brett Mays who went with us who's a Miami Hurricane sick oh he
did he did it before you yeah they all did oh will I'm climbing up this these diving boards right
because you go up one then there's a diving board you go back you go up another ladder there's another
dime up you go to the side climb up climb up climb up to the top bro and as you're climbing up
I'm scared shitless because everybody's getting down climbing they're climbing it up so the
light is like wet and it's like a tight climb yeah so you could slip you could do anything I'm just
kind of looking off the side. I'm like, yo,
I don't want to do this.
JP, like, I had a GoPro.
JP's like, bring this up with you. So I put the GoPro
on my pocket as I'm climbing up. And I get
to the top and you just know the feeling like
when you're on a platform and it's just nothing
around you. It's just, you got jumping off.
You're on a, you're up high.
Like, just a feeling you get in your
cajonas, bro. I get this tickly
feeling in my balls. And just
the vibe you get like in your sides,
like in your head.
And I'm just looking and I'm like,
I'm thinking in my head, I don't know if I can jump.
I'm like looking over, guys are jumping off.
I'm up there for four or five minutes as this GoPro is going.
It takes me that long to jump off.
Taylor ends up jumping off.
All the boys jump off.
The women's diving team, they start chirping me at the time.
Like, come on, we don't have all day.
And I'm just like, I'm legitimately scared.
And you're trying to like play the game, be humorous about it.
I know I can talk myself into it.
But internally, like, I'm like, I'm terrified.
Taylor gets out of the pool and comes back up to the very top with me.
He's a little duck.
I'm a little pup.
It tells like, hey, I'm going to count to three.
And then when I hit three, you go off.
I'm like, I got you.
I'm like, I got you.
But also like, I got you.
You count the three.
I'm going to jump off.
And I'm like holding this thing up.
And I like, look, going over.
He's like, one, two, three.
And I like, take a step.
I'm like, just give me another.
Just give me a little bit more time.
I'm going to go.
I just need a little bit more.
He's like, I got you.
I got you.
So we do it on the next time, one, two, three.
I have the video, I can give it to you a shot.
But I just jump off the whole way down.
I jump in, get out.
And like, hey, how did you feel?
I was like, dude, I was terrified the whole way down.
I was like, do you want to do it again?
No, I don't want to do it again.
Like, even when I jumped off, I thought I was going to, I knew I was going to, like, lose my stomach.
I was going to lose my body.
But it happened.
But then you have like a come two on the way down to where it then it feels fun.
I didn't have the come too.
I'm like going down the whole time.
I'm just like, ah!
Hit the wall.
But I'm fired up that I did it.
Yeah.
That I was brave little pup in this scenario.
But I was, I'm retired from jumping off a 10 meter diving board.
Good career.
Good career.
It was a good career.
But as I'm coming home, I'm telling Ruth this story.
Fortunately, I had video too.
I'm like, watch that.
She's like, Daddy, you were scared?
I was like, sweetheart.
I'm not messing with you.
I was terrified being up there.
She's like, I could do it.
No, no, no, no.
You cannot do it.
She's like, maybe when I'm 10?
Maybe when you're 10, you can jump off the diving board.
She's telling mom the next day, mom, when I'm 10, I'm going to jump off the diving board.
No way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She'd be terrified.
I'd be terrified for her.
Yeah.
Like, bro, I'm not a big, I'm not a huge heights guy.
I love roller coasters, but that's controlled.
You're like in a seat.
You're doing all the things, but not a big heights guy.
Not a big heights guy.
You'd be terrified for her, just like Keanu Reeves was terrified for G-baby as he stepped to the plate.
Amen, brother.
But he faced that fear.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
face that fear. I will say with the cliff jumping, I resonated with that. I saved it for the pot. I didn't tell you this before. That was my biggest fear as a kid. I was the kid that sat there and cried and didn't end up jumping like three or four times because we'd go to Possum Kingdom Lake. Shout out the Tabor's every 4th of July. And they have a bunch of cliff jumping. And I would always cry. I would never jump. And I went to summer camp. And I was like, I got to get over this. I can't.
can't be that kid at this summer camp because I saw a kid doing the same thing and crying
and everybody down below being like, oh my God, if you just jumped, he'd be fine.
And so I swallowed that fear dude and I went up there and I was like, they don't know that
you're scared.
They don't know.
If you just jump, they're not going to know that you were scared the whole time.
And I just forced myself to jump higher and higher and higher like cliff jumping.
And then I got so into it, dude.
I was like throwing gainers and stuff off of like tall cliffs.
And the last time that I tried to throw something was when I was actually a counselor.
I was like 23.
And I tried to do the squirrel dive where you jump forward and you front flip into a dot.
One and a half.
Yeah, that'd be one and a half.
I'm thinking squirrel dive, you might be like,
grab your ankles, come down, grabbing your ankles.
Oh, sorry.
But one and a half.
Impressive, absolutely.
So I'm like, yo, because I saw this guy do it before me,
and he did like full extension, like feet together,
kind of like squirpy and down.
And you like, you dive.
Yeah, yeah.
Like you dive first and then hits the flip and dives in.
You hit the flip and land feet first.
So you dive forward, hit the flip, and then land feet first.
So like a swan dive into a flip.
Yes.
Okay.
And I'm like, oh, bro, I'm going to hit that.
There's some cute girl counselors watching.
I've already hit some gainers.
I'm like, oh, buddy, I'm about to nail this.
I had blood seeping out of my back, dude.
It was like a 40-foot cliff, and I fully landed on my back.
Fully will.
Like, could not.
The people that were watching were like, Sherman,
if you had tried to land on your back like that,
you wouldn't have been able to do it.
You were perfectly flat.
One of the said cute girls that I was crushing on
had to help me to a boat.
because
they're sure but you good
yeah yeah
they give me in the boat
they lay me on my stomach and I had blood
oozing out of my back
and my entire back
was purple dude
it was crazy
and that was the last time I tried
so I need to face my fears again and go
so you retired from that moment you've been retired
yeah I might not do a front
flip but I mean how high is the cliff
that one yeah there's like
40. That's crazy, man.
But the way I would hit Gainers is I would do it like real slow and I felt really in
control. Yeah.
Like that wasn't scary for me.
It's the front flip that I'm not able to like spot the landing.
Yeah.
Oh, buddy.
And that was really afraid of the dark.
And so like once I got to college, I was like, I got to face this fear.
So I'd turn off all the lights in the house at night.
And I would stand in like really dark rooms and like try to make myself scared and like face it.
and like stand in the darkness
because I was like
it worked with the Heights.
Yeah.
And it kind of worked.
I don't need a flashlight anymore in the house.
I can kind of walk around in the dark.
For any listeners at home.
It's a Goomburee win.
That's a Goomburee win.
Goombay win.
Yeah.
I don't even know where I was going.
Let's read some comments.
Let's read some comments.
Let's read some comments.
You were resonating with the heights thing,
retiring, jumping off the heights.
Yes.
From the story.
Big Red.
Great children's book, by the way.
God, great book.
I do have a really funny comment that I wanted to read off from,
this is our flashback comments, but that's not our word for it.
Oh, I have a flashback comment.
What do you got?
I got one from Hunter Robertson on Spotify.
We did that hack for my daughter's second birthday and baby's first birthday.
All the animals had a party hat sitting on the living room floor in front of the birthday presence.
It's dad to a two and a half year old and 15-month-year-old girls.
Hashtack Pt DeSico.
So if you listen to last week's episode,
the dad hack of the week was you want to find a way to really heighten the start of your birthday.
You go up in the room when they're sleeping in night,
like as they're sleeping on the night right before their birthday.
You get a bunch of stuffed animals.
You have them sitting waiting in the living room for when they come out of the room.
You put them in party hats.
We went as far as where they're each holding a balloon.
And Roo comes out.
We just talk.
We just get so excited about how the animals snuck out like Toy Story and are waiting for her on her birthday to like celebrate them in their birthday.
You need to evolve it every single year.
Like you need to add more and more stuff like try and put some little apparatus where they're like holding party poppers or like blowers on their mouth and stuff.
I hit the button and it doesn't go off and I'm like, damn.
Or when she becomes a teenager, just, hey.
When she becomes a teenager and she's like over it, you know.
what I mean? To be like an OD dad, just like hire people, characters like Elsa and everybody to come in and be
sweetheart, they're all here for your birthday. Oh my God. That's, that's Bell. That's Bell from Beauty and the Beast.
Your bell. Dad, you're- That's really her. That's really her. Dad, you're yelling. That's Deborah from
church. I know. Hey, I know she's being tough. Just stay in character, stay in character. It's what I paid you for.
Deborah, don't break. Don't break. She thinks you bell. Jordan Ford on
Spotify says the section with Jill was too good.
Absolutely laughing out loud.
Keep it up, boys.
This pod keeps me pushing in the right direction.
PT6 official in June.
Cheers.
Congratulations, Jordan.
I had another flashback.
The last one.
This is my favorite comment of the week, by the way.
This comes from Coach Webb.
9903 on YouTube.
He said, I can't believe I just listened to the CTE champ.
Tell a 10-minute reprise Bugs Live bedtime.
story. This pod is ridiculous and I don't miss an episode.
That's what this pod. I mean, that's what this pod is.
That's the pod. That's the pod. That's the show.
Coach Webb gets it.
Yeah. I would love to see what Ryan's thoughts. Like, was I doing the dumb dad and husband
trope with telling that game of storytelling?
Wait, so you tell your kid a story every night? You don't just tell him to go to bed?
ain't telling you a story kiddo
I got a dad lost here
a dad lost right in it's Bonesy
Massa fumble
this is from the Reddit channel
Bonesy
yeah on the For the Dad's podcast
Reddit channel
and this plays well
because we just went to Miami
this is somebody who's in
around the University of Miami
No way
yes I've been listening to the pods
since the first episode
and have loved it
so much so that I decided
to get my girlfriend into listening as well
sort of a film
study for a couple of ST-6ers.
She's an athletic trainer at the
University of Miami. And as
some of you know, the boys were just there
hitting their spring tour. In the middle
of my workday, I got a fantastic text
from her saying, you won't believe
who I part next to. It was all the
boys. In her excitement, she forgot
to say hi or get a picture
or sneak in a little call sign
shouting out, letting the boys know
that we were some ST-6ers.
What do I have to say to that?
Good.
Anyways, there will be another chance, I'm sure,
but most definitely going to need to run this one up the chain of command as a massive fumble.
Oh, dude, I'm just telling you,
any ST-Sikko, M-T-Sikos female audience out there listening,
if she had hit you with some terminology, dude,
that's all you got to do.
You would have geeked.
You would have geeked if it was coming from an M-T-Sikko.
Yeah, absolutely.
Any, again, P-T-Sikko, M-T-S-S-T-S-S-S-S-E.
sicko. You hit me with one of those. It's, it's, it's, you're stopping and looking.
I had a dad lost this week. Very quick story. Dad lost this weekend, we set up a tea time to go golf.
As we're walking up with Scarlett, they're like, hey, for liability reasons, is she coming with you on the cart?
I'm like, uh, yes, sir. Can't have it, man. So sorry, let's get you in the clubhouse. We'll refund you.
I was like, oh, damn, dude. I didn't even think about that. But okay, we're going to have like a family outing.
It's fine. We went to, good. Hey, good. Good.
Anyways, as that, like, kind of bummer thing happens, this one guy comes up to me,
apologizing, he's like, dude, I'm so sorry, but just recognize you and, like,
fucking love the pod, dude, love for the dads and gave me a dab up.
I was like, dude, thank you.
You kick me off five more times saying something like that.
Dude, thank you so much.
And I tried to ask him for his name, but he was, like, walking away so quickly that I fumbled.
I fumbled.
I was like, I got, y'all have a good one.
I walked off.
I was like, oh, I'd watch that.
You just from the Raptors, just yell, for the dads.
Like, I'm going to stop in my tracks.
I'm going to be like, hey, give me a second.
Walk on over there.
Those footsteps were, like Stevie Griffin on the family guy.
Hey, you list of the pot.
I appreciate you.
I have a dad loss here.
Mother-in-law parked in front of me,
or in front of the trash cans last week,
which prevented the six.
for picking up the trash.
Good.
Yeah, great.
I should have foreseen this coming.
It sounds like this was Brent,
uh,
Kiello's fault.
Uh,
Brent should have seen this coming.
Guys,
don't be like me and plan accordingly.
That's not his fault.
Or sorry,
that's his fault.
Yeah,
that's his fault.
Good.
Mother-in-law should have parked there and did park there.
You see how my,
I'm all,
Ryan's got me fucked up.
Yeah,
dude.
Ryan's got me fucked up,
dude.
Those dumb motherfuck.
Didn't plan good.
Good.
Wrong thing happened.
Right thing happened.
You didn't plan for it.
Good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dad hack.
You had a really good dad hack from Kuso.
Oh, no.
The one that he told you.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Succo.
Succo.
Not Kuso.
Succo.
Shout out the boy Kuso.
Shout out the boy Kuso, but we're talking about Suko.
Who's Kuso?
Chef Kuso.
Oh, shout about Chef Kuso.
Yeah.
So Succo had a great dad hack in the locker room at the first form event.
The man who gave us this, who gifted us this jersey,
the for the dad's jersey, Nebraska, GBR.
GBR.
And he said, hey, got a dad hack for you.
I was like, bro, feed it to me.
Chick's like, hey, we got to get going.
There's somebody, you know, we got to get the pictures, blah, blah.
Just, ma'am, just give us a minute.
He's got a dad hack here.
This is, I want to hear this conversation.
This is a business comment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's like, got a dad hack.
He's like, you talk about traveling all the time.
I hear the dad guilt, the sadness, like, you know, Rue having meltdowns, like if dad's not there,
here's a good dad hack for you, because I heard you talk about storytelling and reading bedtime stories
and doing all that.
He was like, take out, do the voice memo, record yourself, or even do a video if you want to,
record yourself reading her a bedtime story.
So that way, if mom's handling a breakdown and she wants dad dad and she can't reach you on the phone,
she's got to go to for, hey, dad has sent in this story for you to read you a story for bedtime.
You can just sit the story up next to her
and obviously she'll be fascinated with it.
It gives mom a breather while she's sitting in the room
to do whatever she's got to do.
Succo.
Yeah.
She's like,
mom can just chill whether she wants to be on her phone,
go handle some business or a troll,
whatever it is.
Yes.
She can just sit there for a few minutes
and listen to dad tell her a story for bedtime.
Suka, well done, dude.
Great dad hack.
Great dad.
And he's like in another one for you
because you were talking about doing the Disney storytelling
with Princess Rue, Tygey, and Zui.
Yeah, yeah.
He goes, you can tap into AI to give you a layout.
Like if Rue gives you a few things, you put it in there,
it can spit you out something to where if you are exhausted
and you're not wanting to think on your feet or anything else,
it gives you a story that you can tell that AI might give you.
Which I was super into.
People could be turned off by the AI.
I thought I know my wife's turned off by the AI thought right now,
sitting in her car, she's probably beating her steering wheel.
But the thought of like knowing that something could be coming and you're like,
okay, I won't be prepared this way.
Or I might be exhausted by the time I get here.
But putting the intention into asking the right questions,
Bill not the right story, and be like, I love this story.
Hey, it's us to 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 our first people to do podcasts.
Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there.
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.
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.
Another podcast from some SNL, late night comedy guy, not quite.
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Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.
This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter.
Where does your group perform?
We do some retirement homes.
Those people are starving for banter.
Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The French Open is one of the toughest tests in tennis, and I know firsthand because I competed there myself.
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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports.
Welcome to my new podcast.
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It's like, dude, it's a home run.
I have done that.
I have done that.
When I'm already feeding forgot to get the book and I'm doing solo tuck in so I don't have
Jill to like help or whatever, if I can't get up and go to her books across the nursery,
I've gotten on chat, GBT, and I'm literally, I use the voice thing.
And I just go, hey, a story about a young princess named Scarlett that wants to fly and touch them in.
Money.
And it just, it will start talking.
like you could have them do it or you read it like it's kind of sick nice i thought it was a great day
shout out suco shout out suco hey gBR gbr go big red go big red go big red go big red nico taunty on
spotify nico says dat hack for the nana users you can go to the memories in the app i highly
suggest this by the way and get a free slideshow of your little one growing up as my son is
about to turn one. I recently found it and got kicked right into the fields. That is,
that is a true story. Dude, Nanit rips. Like, it tracks all this different stuff and it'll be like
anniversary of the first time your kids slept 12 hours. Like, and you're like, what? Oh, no shit.
Oh, dude, it's crazy. Like they, Nanit rips. Obviously, they, they, they're friends of the show.
Oh, friends of the show. Friends of the show. For a great reason, this is alignment.
This alignment.
This easy.
Yeah.
We don't just read any mom and pop shop.
I mean, this is nanny.
Yeah.
Rose Sparks.
We don't just read anything.
Bigger, thicker, longer erections, guys.
We do have, I have a quick shout out that I'll summarize.
I got a wifie shout out.
I see you're holding a book.
So I'll just hit a quick wifie shout out.
Hit the wifie.
It's from HTT.
This from HTT town on YouTube.
Wifi shout out.
APR, as of Saturday after this pod,
this sicko will have proposed to his old lady.
What?
Let me, wait, wait, whoa, whoa.
H.T. Town.
APR. as of Saturday, after this pod,
this sicko will have proposed to his old lady.
Huge shout out to the future.
Kinsey Lafielier.
Lafahlier.
Lafalier.
Lafalier.
Kinsey Lafalier.
I say it with a French accent.
It'll sound right.
La Follier.
Yeah, yeah.
They don't say harsh.
That was it.
La Follier.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
There we go.
Kinsey.
La Follier.
La Follier.
La Follier.
Misses.
Heart emoji, fire emoji.
Hashtag no.
Then free shoutouts.
He put the roller coaster emoji on there?
He didn't.
Did he put the bow emoji on there?
He didn't.
All right.
We'll send him some coupons.
Can't send him some coupons?
We'll send him some coupons.
congratulations.
Yeah, congratulations.
H.T. Town.
H.T. Town, very quickly, before we get into Collins,
Elizabeth Gilmore.
Do you mind if I go potty while you do this?
Go potty while I do this.
I'm so sorry that I'm checking out of this one,
but I just need to go back.
Before you go, happy birthday, Nathan.
Nathan, happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Nathan!
Let's go.
You could go potty.
Dude, happy birthday, Nathan.
Happy birthday, Nathan.
How sick was the recording of that video last week?
No, is it?
Wifi recording hubby watching the show.
That was unreal.
Going back and forth.
He's got like,
it's like an emotional vibe
and then we hit him with the fun coupons at the end.
And he's like,
oh,
they said it.
Bro,
I can't tell you how much that video juice be up.
Unreal, dude.
That was like we got invited into their house
and got to like hang out
and like interact.
And you used to know if he's behind the phone
smiling like as she's,
yeah,
here we go.
Bro, Deek was so proud of that video.
Like, just,
going around and showing everyone in the office that video.
Like that video truly meant the world to us.
Like, thank you.
M.T. Sicko and P.T. Sicko.
Gracie and Skyler.
Gracie and Skyler.
Brown low.
And my favorite part of the video was you going,
Brown Low.
How now, Brown Low?
And just seeing his face feel like,
I've dealt with this shit while we're fucking like.
So I'm going to go potty.
You go potty.
You give me a quick summary.
Happy birthday, Nathan.
Because I don't want to, I'm not trying to, Nathan,
I'm not trying to check out at the bladder.
It's light.
I got them.
Okay, Willie Wanchel Fatt staff and the rest of the PT sick goes over there.
My name's Elizabeth, a proud milk team sixer of over seven months now.
To be honest, I'm not a diehard follower of the pod, but I've loved the episodes and clips that I've watched and listened to with my husband, Nathan.
He's the reason I'm reaching out.
His 28th birthday is on the ninth.
Happy belated birthday.
And he be beyond stoked if y'all could give him a birthday shout out.
even if it's late due to my poor planning.
Y'all have helped get him through the early chaos of the newborn trenches
and have given him insight as a fellow girl dad of a now seven-month-old.
He loves the pod so much.
He recommends it to friends, coworkers,
and even acquaintances that are dads or soon-to-be dads.
He even got his own dad to start listening,
and now they both own a few T-shirts between the two of them.
Dude, Nathan.
Hey, happy birthday.
I know that we said it before,
but happy, happy birthday to you, dude.
Thank you for supporting the pod.
And we're going to move on.
We're not going to say happy birthday to Nathan anymore.
Happy birthday, Nathan.
That was a summary.
So what was the summary?
I heard I did hear off in the distance.
She doesn't listen all the time,
but she watches our clips.
She's like, hey, like, I'm starting to get it.
Like, he's a sicko for you guys.
I didn't plan accordingly.
This is a belated birthday thing.
but like, you know, I got a shout out my hubby.
I got a shout out my little seven-month-old.
Look at that, dude.
They even got the good onesie.
I mean, this guy's a sicko, dude.
Nathan's a sicko.
And look at little man, dude.
Elizabeth, thank you for writing in.
And also maybe become an empty sicko
and I just won't go piss during that.
Yeah, maybe Nathan, maybe Nathan gets his girl.
Nathan, if we're going to get her fully,
if we're going to get Elizabeth fully balled.
in, maybe we
need some Mother's Day merch,
bwtb.com.
BWTB.com, BWTB.com.
Uncle hats are available as well.
Let's do voicemails.
Let's get into them, bro.
Let's get into them.
Because I already have them.
Yeah.
Oh, just one voicemail.
And thankfully, we're just losing cams.
We're losing cams.
I already have the voicemail
pulled up and ready to go.
Let's go.
So we'll go ahead and play it
because it's right here and it's ready to go.
15 weeks pregnant.
What up, boys?
Day one listener, my name is Wyatt Brinks. I'll be honest with y'all.
Kind of stop listening to you for a little bit. My wife and I went through a miscarriage,
but this year I'm proud to say that my wife, as of today, April was in nine.
My wife is 15 weeks pregnant, and I couldn't be more excited.
I'm jumping right back to your podcast. I love all the stories. I just, I want as much advice
did you guys give me?
I am pumped up, but man, am I scared?
But I can't wait for it.
But love the podcast, you boys rock.
Peace.
You crying?
Yeah.
This is where you go, man.
No, you go.
Hawaii, thank you.
And, yeah, I can imagine.
We're going to have our wives on it at one point in time.
I don't know how freely I can talk about everything.
But just know that I understand and I empathize with what you and wife you went through.
with your guys
miscarriage, so happy that you guys
are now pregnant, 15 weeks,
fingers crossed, knocking on wood everywhere
that everything goes well, everything goes healthy.
I know that is a, dude, it's massive.
Love that your name's Wyatt.
My little brother's name's Wyatt.
Wyatt, tombstone.
I feel like I'm connecting with you.
Thank you so much for listening since episode one
completely get out, you know,
it's almost like I haven't listened in a while
and then my head kind of goes up.
Then you hear why it's, dude, love you, bro.
The boys are with you.
we're thinking about you. We hope everything goes
well, dude. Sincerely, we hope
everything goes well. Because that stuff is not
easy, man. You don't know
know, and you don't know as a, you
don't know what, you're number one, you're sad.
You're mourning. You're grieving.
Yes. And also for Wifi, like,
we've talked about this before, but as men,
you always want to figure
out a practical solution for the way
forward. Like, moving past
whatever said thing is, whether it's
an inspo or a quote or something that helps
all of us compartmentalize and
go forward. That's what I feel like as men, you always want to solve, you always want to solve
what's going on. Whereas a lot of times, wifey, what you learn over time and with relationships
and everything else over time, a lot of the time it's just sitting in it with them. And it makes
you uncomfortable because you feel like you want to get out of said thing or you want to move
forward from said thing. But then you realize like just being in said thing and knowing like,
you know, there is no answer right now. But I'm not, I'm right next to you this entire time and
we're going to be sad together and we're just going to keep talking about it, no matter
or how long it takes.
Yes.
Because, again, as the dude,
or you might have a practical solution,
and they don't care to hear that thing.
And then you get upset.
Like, I'm just trying to help you.
Yo, I'm not needing you to solve a problem right now.
I just, this is what I'm communicating.
I just want you to sit in with me.
Yes.
So, dude, I can imagine.
That is a very hard moment
that I'm sure you guys both went through together.
You obviously, you have experience.
You, like, you'll be better from the moment.
because you went through the moment
so fired up that you guys are 15 weeks right now
and this little one's going to come into some awesome parents
it sounds like.
The reason I teared up is because I,
when he said he was scared,
the very first thing that I thought is I was like,
I want to hug the fuck out of Wyatt.
I want to dapp him up.
I want to go to the best wing spot in his town,
crack a cold one with them,
and talk about how scary it is.
It's okay to be scared.
you've gone through stuff dude
and I hope that
Wyatt if you haven't reached out
to any of your friends
to talk about
that you're scared
or any of your family members dude
I encourage you to do that
and just
like you were saying
embrace those feelings
with your partner
but also like
reach out to people in your net
that love you that are close with you
and your boys
and just tell them you're scared dude
because I want to
I want to dab the fuck out of Wyatt
I'll be your huckleberry
and you want to
give them a cheers and you say, you damn right, you're scared.
Yes.
We were all scared.
And the moment it gets closer and closer, you're like, yo, I'm about to be, there ain't
no going back.
Like, you're not ready to be a dad.
And then at those moments when you're scared, you just think to yourself, billions of
people have done this and I'm made of the right stuff for this.
Yes.
Or if you think about, hey, what stuff am I made of?
And if you don't like the stuff that you're made of, then you're you're made of,
then you immediately know, I know what I don't want to be.
And I can change all of it now.
Yeah.
I can change all of it for this next iteration.
I just got to figure out like, who do I want to be?
What stuff do I want to be made of?
And hearing it in his voice, I know he's got it.
You know he's got it, man.
And he, hopefully, is named after another, I know another Wyatt back in the day.
He was outmanned.
He was outgunned.
And he still showed up to that train station.
Yeah.
shooting that shotgun and saying,
you tell him I'm coming.
You hear?
You might have to name him Doc for Doc Holiday.
You gotta name him,
dude.
Oh, that would be so sick.
Anyways, that's all.
Shout out, Wyatt.
Thank you for calling him.
Shout out Wyatt.
Email.
Email.
Mine's a sad alert.
What's yours?
I have Aaron Donnelly.
No alerts on it.
No satellite.
Let's go with yours.
Hi guys. My name is Aaron. And I don't know if there is a label for me and for the dad's universe.
I'm not an M.T. Sixer, but hope to be someday and just found your content through clips on social media.
I've loved catching up on the pod and am almost officially caught up.
Yo, that rips.
That rips. That's insane.
Yeah.
Over the past few weeks, I've heard you all talk about being girl dads and the fear of losing the open communication or close relationships with your daughters as they get older.
So I guess I'm writing with a dad hack, courtesy of my dad, shout out Dennis.
I'm the oldest of four.
When I was little, my dad would read books to me in this one love seat in the house.
After reading, we would just talk.
He would answer my unending questions about life and growing up.
And at some point, that chair got the name, the chit-chat chair.
As I got older and no longer needed to, no longer needed his help to read, he would still make time to sit in the chit-chat chair and catch up with me.
this was always our time,
especially as all my siblings came into the mix,
as I hit those preteen and teen years
when life and emotions seemed to get so much more complicated,
I was always able to go downstairs
and ask my dad if we could sit in the chit-chat chair
and he would always join me.
He listened so intently,
sorry, something's in my eye.
I'm not actually,
something is in my eye and it's burning,
but I'm also starting to cry,
so it's a tough mix right now.
He listens so intently,
then talk through my worries,
and always made me feel better.
For some reason, having that space established
made it easier to approach him
with bigger problems,
and we never lost our line
of open communication.
Now I'm 29,
and while we haven't sat in the chitchat chair
in a while,
my dad and I talk all the time
as he continues to be my biggest supporter
and voice of reason.
Thank you guys for all the laughs
and keep up the awesome work,
raising your daughters.
Very, very lovely.
Aaron, thank you.
Bro, that's great right in.
Aaron!
And just knowing that Aaron's got
no rhyme or reason
to be even on this show
to, like, be watching.
watching this show. Do you know what I'm saying? We geek out about binging like Game of Thrones
on the bus and he just binged us. That's crazy. That's crazy. She. She just binged us.
Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. She just binged us. That's crazy. It's nuts. There's, again,
zero rhyme or reason. It's like for the dads. We got Papa Team 6. We're built through
Papa Team 6 Foundation. That includes M-T6, Mama Team 6, Milk Team 6. We got.
got Seaman Team 6 for the young guns out there.
Goon berets. We got Buds training in a relationship in it.
But no rhyme or reason that a female just sees our content, enjoys the content.
It's like, y'all, I'm going to follow this podcast and watch this brand.
That's why I didn't cry because I didn't realize it was a girl.
I want to know what clip.
Oh, you didn't realize it was a girl.
I didn't realize there's a girl.
And that's why you got got got and I didn't.
Yeah.
Because this is one of the few times on the show that you got got bad.
I didn't even flinch.
And I'm like, oh, it was a girl.
Something was in my eye.
Something was burning in my eye.
I was getting the motion.
You had something in your eye, though.
Yeah, yeah.
My right eye was burning.
Hank, I tell a really quick story.
Very quickly.
I know the cameras are overheating.
I put Scarlett to bed last night.
And for the first time, she's either wanting to play or she's asleep.
There's no, like, just laying there awake and, like, falling asleep.
Like, she just kind of, like, bundles up and she's out.
Yeah.
Because she's a baby.
Yeah.
A little baby.
A little baby.
She laid on my chest last night, dude, and I was rubbing her back and I was humming
Edelvice to her.
And she started playing with my beard.
She was rubbing her fingers through my chin hairs.
And I'm sitting there.
I'm going, is she doing that in her sleep?
And this pitch black room.
And then my phone lit up because I got a text.
So there's a little glow.
And I just see her face like right here.
And her eyes are wide open.
She's just looking up at me with her.
Fassie in her mouth and she's just slowly just playing with my chin hairs.
Bro fucking bottled that forever.
Oh my God.
Dude.
I got whatever was in your eye flew over here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Flew over here right now.
Maybe it's the overheating of the cameras.
This sad alert, I will summarize because I wanted to be read.
this comes from Hayden Hawks.
He essentially tells a story about how his
empty sicko was an absolute
beast dog legend during delivery.
She had something that happens to one in 50,000 women
with a 15% mortality rate,
which is a uterine inversion that happens during delivery.
Very serious.
She had to go to the operating room.
She is fine.
She made it.
she's good.
But it was this whole situation where they're dealing with the,
they want to celebrate the birth of their child.
But then he's like, my,
my empty sicko, my other half.
Is she going to be okay?
She's getting rushed off to a room.
And Hayden just sharing that story with us.
I just wanted to thank Hayden and all the awesome stories that we get of,
you know, stuff that can go sideways.
Topsy-turvy, it's not always a perfect delivery.
and our audience rips.
Yeah, imagine it be so celebratory for like having a kid
and then some unexpected things happen,
like in the delivery room.
Oh.
Or like as you're, you know, as you're about to deliver.
And then it's just, it feels like it's just a whole different ballgame
on how you even feel outside of terrified for your other half.
That's so crazy, dude.
Just you can't help it.
and then like you're just imagining the worst.
Can I operate without this without my other half?
That would be tough, man.
Yeah, I legitimately, unfortunately, I have that thought sometimes at night.
Like when I'm going to bed, I really do think about, especially on those solo Saturdays.
I'm like, dude, if this was every day.
Yeah, man.
I miss Jill so much in those moments at that birthday party,
all I wanted was for Jill to be that.
I still had fun, but I'm just like,
oh, dude.
Yeah, man.
Scarlett officially crawled at that birthday party
for the first time.
And Lindsay,
yeah, she did.
Lindsay saw it.
And I told Lindsay and Jeremy, I said,
we're going to lie.
We're not going to say shit.
She did not crawl.
I'm going to plop her on the floor when I get,
when Jill gets home from work tonight and go,
whoa, whoa, whoa.
What did she do?
So she's crawled.
She's so excited to see.
Record it, recorded, recorded.
Did it work?
No, I couldn't lie to my wife.
I was too excited.
There's the lesson of the week.
Don't lie to your wife.
Don't lie to your wife.
And treat them well.
Treat them well.
Treat them well.
Don't, you know.
We're talking about Ryan.
Ugh.
I did have a very quick lesson in the week, or do we want to wrap?
Yeah, do you hit it?
My, mine's basically, I had that tweet that I was very glad that it got a bunch of clicks.
I don't have a lot of stuff go viral about.
my personal life. I'm a meme guy.
I live and die by the memes.
Big meme guy.
Old name used to be CFB memes.
Used to be CFB meme zone.
And I had something kind of go viral that was my own personal life.
I was like, oh, that's actually really cool because it was a great message.
We went to Smyrna golf course.
Shout out Smyrna, where I do first tea and volunteer there.
We, because we got kicked out of that golf tea time that we had at another place.
So I was like, I know a golf course where we can just go to the practice range and hang out as a family.
And Scarlett's done up in this bonnet, dude, I'll send picks the chef.
I mean, cutest little outfit in the entire world and we're sitting there.
And I see this old man staying off to the side.
And he is 100% watching us.
And the way I'm set up, like hitting balls, I can see him.
And I thought that he was just watching me because we were the only people on that side of the range.
I was like, I don't have that good of a swing.
So I hope this guy doesn't come over to give me swing advice
from my wife and child.
Like, that'll be embarrassing.
And he's like late 60s, early 70s.
He walks up and he already has tears in his eyes.
And he's like holding golf clubs and he's standing in front of me.
I'm like, what?
It's about to happen.
And he said the part that I quoted that is like the lesson of the week is
you're in the good all days.
These are the good old days right here.
It does not get better than this.
but he was like I would write you like a check for any amount a blank check whatever to be in your shoes right now I got a 32 year old and a 35 year old and buddy what you like right now like that's it like this is it it was awesome it was awesome I didn't tear up in the moment but I'm tearing up now it's hot in here but it's hot it's fucking hot in here dude but like just seen it on his face and then
And me being able to like look at Scarlett and Jill like in that moment.
I'm like, he's right.
Like this is so cool.
How lucky am I?
And that's it.
Hell yeah.
Crying. Cron's dumb, dude.
Oh, they're doing the cry trope.
Crying's dumb, dude.
Yo, what's your boys name, Brian Newman?
Ben Newman.
Quit fucking talking to me, dude.
I'm trying to do a pod.
Quick grind.
Ben?
Fuck.
Hey, that is cool, bro.
Oh, it was electric.
That is cool.
You know, too, that old man, he'd be a PT sicko.
Sicko, dude.
He was, he went and started hitting, like, far away on the range from us.
And I'd see him every now and then, like, looking at our family.
You could just see it, dude.
He was like, oh.
What'd he do to go back?
Oh, yeah.
Enjoy it, guys.
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