Bussin' With The Boys - For The Dads - First Episode | Will Compton Opens Up About Fatherhood & Being A Girl Dad

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

Former NFL Linebacker (10 years) Will Compton presents a Bussin With The Boys production, For The Dads! Along side future dad, Sherman Young, Will a father of two knows how hard the job of a father can be. Thus he created a safe space for dads to come together and talk about the insane shit that we see and deal with every day. With Sherman's first born just 6 weeks away, Will Compton is attempting to show him the ropes and call all dads together to join in a safe space for us to vent and speak candidly about the mental load and tasks we take on as dads. Will tells the story of his oldest daughter falling down the stairs, while Sherman is battling with a 32 week pregnant wife (not advisable). The boys then Crack A Cold Bud Light over the small victory of Will's family tradition, Pizza Friday. A VERY special dad calls in to ask Will a hard hitting question followed by Will introducing some "must reads" for fathers to have in their tool belts. Sherman breaks down what a "freedom baby" is to Will, and Will wraps it all up with a heartfelt "Lesson of the Week". We hope you enjoy! Check out the Father's Day Merch at BWTB.com! ..and as always BIG HUGS and TINY KISSES!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let's go. Let's crush. Let's crush. Are we already in it? Can we just go? Yeah. Welcome to For the Dads. This is a show by a dad by a soon to be Future Dad. Yeah, future Dad for the Dads. I guess we should start by introducing ourselves. Before we do, as you guys are watching this, listening to this, consuming this, I know at some point we will have a separate channel, whether that be on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Pods, wherever you get your podcast, be on the lookout for that.

I know you guys are listening to this on Bust with the Boys right now, but if you're showing up to tune in for some good Dad Talk, make sure you subscribe that helps support the boys. It's easy for you to do. Also leave comments because we will absolutely love hearing your guys' feedback as we go through this first episode. My name is Will Compton. I played guaranteed nine years in the league, debatably 10. I am the co-creator of Bustin with the Boys. I am a full-time dad.

I am a husband. And my wife, Charo, Charo Compton. Sorry, your boy is super nervous for this. This is a project that is very near and dear to both mine and Sherman. It's something that I know we are super excited about, but at the same time with this being our first episode, we're kind of in a different studio, lights are off. This being our first one, it's very nerve-wrecking. But my wife and I, we have two beautiful daughters, Surrullian Bell, and Scotty Jolie, and with me, who is the producer of the show. He will also be very pivotal for the show is

Sherman Young. Sherman, would you like to introduce yourself? Hello, my name is Sherman. producer here at Bustin with the Boys. I'll be producing on the show, talking a little bit with Will. I help produce on the bus as well, do some edits in the back of the bus with the boys, and it's been like two, almost two years now

that been with Bustin with the boys. You guys, you brought you in Jilly Bean. Shout out Jilly Bean. Shout out, oh yeah, a little bit about me, played one year of high school football, arguably two, married for a year and some change to my wife, Jilly Bean, or Jill Young, and future dad, have a baby on the way.

And I have some news on that. So I don't want to, like, spoil it. But I got some, uh, you got some updates. I got some breaking updates. But you guys came up from Texas. Came up from Texas from Fort Worth, Alito to be more specific if you're from the DFW area. And, yeah, just kind of was sending memes and stuff on Twitter to Will and Taylor. In barraging, we have Garrett here too that's helping us with the cameras.

Was in Garrett's DMs, everybody's DMs, just Bussin, please hire me. I've been in like film production for quite a while and then commercial production as well. Did some directing and producing and we'll get into that. Yeah, you have a badass creative mind and you crush it with Bustin with the boys. You're going to crush it off for the dads. I feel like you, uh, you're, your, positive energy that I feel like people have gotten glimpses. of I'm very excited for you to kind of co-host this show with me. I'm excited to you.

I, just to talk nerves as well, Logan. Both nerves. Both guys nervous. Both nervous. Logan, who's a third party guy that helps a ton with Bustin with the Boys. He kept on popping his head in before we hit the record button was like, hey, last bit of, you know, just some advice before y'all start rolling. And he asked you if you were more nervous, like first time with Bustin with the Boys or first time

with this and you said you were more nervous for busting with the boys yeah i feel like before the show i was more nervous for busting with the boys because that was a very brand new project it was the first thing i've ever stepped out and done anything else and other than football but now that i'm sitting here talking on this show for the first time i'm thinking the nerves might be a little bit higher for the dads oh really yeah yeah yeah just because again bro like we're we're very excited about standing up the show talking dad life and we will get into that i know we're kind of rambling a long right now. Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, it's just, it's sick. It's cool that we have, you know, we started with a vision. We've had a shit ton of help. Like, shout out the boy, Garrett, shout out Logan. Shout out. Yeah, shout out the whole team behind the scenes, like standing this brand up. We have merchandise. It's really cool.

And I feel like, I feel like there's a space for more like dad conversations. I always enjoy, you know, listening to Dad podcast. I enjoy consuming content. And we can get into like, why does this podcast exist? And essentially for me, it's spoiler alert. I'm really into fatherhood. I love it. I hate it at times.

I think there is a lot of suck that goes into it because there's a lot of intention you have to put into it. And that is difficult to do when you are trying to balance, running the business of bust with the boys, like work-life balance, you know, thinking about your marriage, not losing yourself so much in your marriage

because you're so focused on the kids, also trying to focus on communicating with the kids. Like I grew up in a household where it was three boys, boys. And my mom was very, you know, strong-willed and tough. And I grew up around a lot of a lot of boy energy. Football kid growing up, all the sports, all the things. And when you have your wife, who is a, you know, former cheerleader, she now operates the Bar Three. She owns the Bar Three Studios here in Nashville. Shout out. Shout out. My dog, my beautiful dog, Waffle, our English Bulldog, female. Two little girls. Rue, she is absolutely obsessed with princesses

right now. And you're also thinking about outside of the work-life balance, communicating and being involved, being intentional with your marriage. You're also thinking about how you communicate with two little girls where you have like no experience to do. So I find myself gravitating a lot towards, I've always been a podcast guy, but listen to podcast conversations, diving in the books, whether it's for sleep training, whether it's the daily dad. I find myself just gravitating towards a lot of dad content. And I feel like when I hear dads or people speak on parenthood, whether it's moms, dads, anybody, I find myself, you know, able to kind of grab a lot of perspective for my own situations to where you're sitting in the truck and you're like,

yes, you go through that shit too. And you go home and you kind of tell your wife, hey, you know, buddy over here, he was doing this, or hey, this couple did this, or here's a little wrinkle that we could be dealing with Rue, you know, my whole Instagram algorithm, I feel like it's all parenthood. And I've always been being in the content, being in the media space, it's you want to create things that you're a consumer of. And I'm a massive consumer of parenthood. I'm a massive consumer of fatherhood.

And I feel like that's why I had a big itch. And I felt a big pool to stand up a show like this. To echo going off what you're saying, with my tweet that I put out when we did launch the trailer, I typed that tweet out 500 times because I was trying to evoke, like, how passionate you are about this subject. and every single time I wrote it down I was like God I can't put it into words

but when I first started at Bussin and you would ask me to like connect and go to coffee with you it would initially it was about like Bussing and How's moving you know across the nation blah blah blah but our conversation would always land on

hey are you and Jill thinking about kids and we would just like you say hey you're really when you're posting these photos of Roo you're really getting you're really getting Jilly being in the fever right now I'm going to have to get you to slow down. Bro, Rue is way too cute. And Jill is like truly was struck with baby fever from Rue.

And that was a massive problem that I was facing. And in myself being like, I feel like I'm inadequate. I don't feel like I'm there financially. I don't feel like I'm there maybe like maturity-wise. Am I ready to be a dad? Like, I'm going to have to be my life is over. And now it's all about this other thing, this other human. but seeing the way that you and Taylor balance work and family,

I was like, I can have a career, I can have friends, I can be passionate about my career, but also be a great dad. And that's what made me really want to pick your brain and those coffees of like, hey, like how is it, blah, blah, blah. But the way that you lock in when you talk about being a dad, it's like you're breaking down being in the A gap.

Like you really do. Like you break it down like it's film. when you come back from like a great conversation with charo or some life lesson that you learn with rue hearing you talk about it with just people in the office that's what made me believe in the show i was like dude he does this every day already because you realize too it's like we're all gonna fuck it up often oh easy with the coaster we're all gonna fuck it up often and nobody has it figured out and there's no perfect formula and there's times where you're like in in the whole parenthood conversations and you feel like there's like a uh uh uh perfect way you have to come off. Like you're doing it right or maybe, you know, I know people deal with, like, you know, how much screen time should they have? When are you getting your kids down to sleep? Like, you know, you might feel like your child is sleeping well and you might know a friend

that has a child the same exact age and they're not getting a lot of sleep at night. And you just, you feel like whether it's guilt or shit, you just, there's so many emotions and you just realize we're all trying to figure it out. I feel like that's, uh, that's what the show is. Sharing your experience together, fucking it up together, figuring it out together. and just showing up the next day because that is like parenthood in a nutshell.

Yeah. Because there's just going to be all that chaos. There's a lot of fun. There's a lot of chaos. So I can get into our whole entire Rosemary trip last week because it was, you know, you got a three-year-old now. You have a six-month-old.

You're packing the car. You're doing all this stuff. You have an eight-hour drive. Like, it is chaos at times, bro. Yeah. For just little moments of when you're sitting on the beach and you're just like, and you finally have a calm moment.

And you're like, this is why you do it. And then you just, that night when you're trying to put them to bed, you're trying to do bedtime, you're trying to feed them, you're trying to do all the things. Can I watch, can I watch Little Bear? Can I do this? Hey, we got to go to bed.

And then it's chaos again until the next day. Until you get to that next moment where you're like, oh, this is, this is it right here. This is the life. Oh, yeah. And we could segue into actually, so how the show will operate is we'll have an intro like this. Yes.

And then we have like four to five segments that will kind of cycle through each week. Yep. It'll never be permanent of like which ones. But we wanted to give you all like a little taste, a little flavor of some of our segments. And to start out, great segue. Motherfucked. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what?

We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts.

Pretty, yeah, a 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. Oh, 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.

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Yes. And just to, again, what's the little, what's the caption thing at the bottom, the warning sign at the bottom? It's like this is in no way, shape, or form a podcast for expert advice on parents. thing. Yeah, yeah. There's, you're an expecting father. You're about to be in it. Is the camera good? Yeah, yeah. I was putting a banner. You're about to be in it. But at the end of the day, it's like, I have a three-year-old and a six-month-old. Like, I don't know what it's like to have a four-year-old. I don't know what it's like to have a teenager. I don't know what it's like to have an adult child. There's a lot that we still have to learn and figure out. But that's what this, that's what this show is here is for

to kind of deliver our own experiences in a very unpolished way. And also give a voice for the dads who carry their own mental load. We need it. We need it. In the comments, that was some of my favorite comments with the launch trailer, was like, boys, we need this. Yeah, yeah. The third party, boys, we've needed this.

The dads need it. Yeah, bro. Hell yeah. The dad lives matter too. The dad lives matter too. Come on. But yeah, we're going to share stories, maybe build around a topic of the week, build a community around call-ins, stories via email, engaging on social media,

as talk about our dad wins and losses, balancing life vulnerable shit. We'll be laughing a lot, things that we can crack a cold butt light too. And just having a good time. And at the end of every episode, we will close out with a quote, a mantra, or a lesson that we feel like we've enjoyed recently. And every now and then, this isn't going to be a show to where it's interview based and we're going to bring on dads every week, similar to what you guys recognize with Bustin with the Boys.

that'll happen at times when the time is right and maybe it's bonus content. Come on. But we really want this to kind of build community with the dads out there, share our stories and engage with everybody online. Are you going to kick off Motherfuck? Dude, Motherfuck.

So Motherfucked is a segment where it's essentially your dad losses, whether it's your wife giving you a stern talking to about something you might have done wrong or something you fell short for or whether it's those moments to where the words that come out of her, mouth is you always do X. And I just think in my mind, I don't always do that. I just fell short

this one time. But look at the growth I've had. You know, I'll pull back years. I'll pull back. you know, remember when we had the townhouse. I wasn't doing nothing. I was terrible. Yeah. Yeah, you get the report card out. You get the scoreboard. When you get in the scoreboard, that's when it more so goes downhill, you realize like marriage and parenthood's all about communication. Yes. But getting in our motherfucker segment, if I, um, If I explained my first real dad loss, I'm sure there were others, but one that stands out, is Rue was around, I'd say, eight to ten months old. She was crawling, and we were upstairs for our little morning routine.

We got the little birds playing on the sound machine. We're getting her ready for the day, and she's crawling around, and it's one of those things where I'm, like, giving her the faces, and I'm crawling after her, like I'm chasing her, and she's starting to get it a little bit. but she starts crawling for the door and I'm thinking she's going to go to the door turn around and come back like she always does and so I'm kind of waiting on the carpet

because it's hardwood floor like I'm on my hands and knees you know the knees got a little bit of damage from the old playing day so I'm remaining on the carpet 10 years she starts to leave the doorway crawling and so I'm like oh you know you think they're a lot smarter than they are at that age but I'm like oh she's hiding from dadda

and so I start crawling like I'm gonna get you and I go outside of her door and her room is on the second floor right outside, sits right at the top of a flight of stairs. Big flight of stairs. Is it the house that you're currently in? Yes. Big flight of stairs. Yeah, you guys are there shooting that trailer.

Big flight of stairs. So she goes around this doorway and I'm like, oh, Daddy is going to get you. And I go around like, okay, I need to pick it up because I need to get my eyes on her. And I get around and I'm still on my hands and knees. And she's about to step off. She's about to crawl off the top flight of stairs. And in my head, I'm like, sure. she sees that this is not good.

And so I started to stand up. How old? She's like eight to ten months out of her. She wasn't walking yet. She was crawling. So probably around that ten month bark. Yeah, yeah. And I see her start to go ahead.

So I stand up. And bro, she just starts, do, do, do, do down the stairs. I'm like chasing her down the stairs, like looking down, like I'm in a war movie running side next to her, trying to get to where I feel comfortable enough reaching down to get her up.

By the time I grab her, she's three-fourths of the way down that flight of stairs to where, you were, you know, she had some thuds. Like red mark, she's crying. My wife was in the room with us and we're standing down there and I'm just rocking. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I thought I killed her and I'm just thinking of my head like surely millions of babies fall all the time like we always talk about joke with your boys.

You must have got dropped on your head when you were younger. This is just one of those moments. This is just one of those moments. What was the initial? Like as soon as you pick her up like what was the very first thing you checked or very first thing you said? Nothing. I'm a hugging her. Sweetheart. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Dad is so sorry. I'm right here. I'm right here. She's crying. Like it's, you know, not a tantrum, but she's like screaming crying because she's clearly hurt. But she had like lumps that was like raising from her head in like three different spots on her head. But that was probably my first big dad loss. And, you know, I didn't get cursed out, but it's one of those where you were standing around mom.

Like, this was on your watch. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's when I felt really low as like, damn, this was all my fault. Is Chara the kind of energy where when she's quiet, it's even worse? like if you don't get that tongue lashing it's almost like the feeling of remorse of like

or of no because she'll let me know with charo what we'll talk about in our in our couples therapy is more of I can't take it when it gets to the moment that she is overwhelmed and annoyed by something that either I had done or something that's going on

to where she just starts like picking up the house hey what do you want to do with this and it's Sunday night I'm just thinking do we got to do this shit right now we just got the kids down like can't we just sit down and relax that's me we haven't you haven't i've told you about these boxes for for months i'm just thinking about don't mention the damn boxes right now i just want to watch a tv show because you're like taking a load off

but it's more of like those moments is where she's kind of like letting me know yeah uh but in that moment it's like we both know what happened yes i obviously feel terrible so i wasn't like cursed it wasn't anything like that you just feel like that that was my first big dad loss of of fatherhood well and she probably didn't want to like put all the blame on you in the moment because then that's something that's like going to live with you for you know however long yeah she handled it sounded like she handled it really nice yeah it's like if you know i can't think of an example where she's like messed up or if i hear her yell like when it gets so a point to where you're trying to communicate i mean these are little terrorists you're trying to communicate with very irrational they're trying to handle their big emotions rue is very determined and independent. So she has like that, she knows what she wants. And if she can't do it on her own,

she gets extremely upset with herself, which is extremely upset about it can't get figured out. And, you know, you get those moments where you kind of, you lose yourself and you just yell back because you're, you're just on a breaking point.

You're trying to be as patient as possible and you're just on a breaking point to where you're just like, I don't know what you want. And when I hear her yell, I'm like, all right, dad,

I need to go upstairs. I need to try to get the situation, calm down. And you're not trying to loan on the fact, hey, you know you shouldn't be yelling at her because it's like, we already know what's happening. You're not trying to cause more pain and blame somebody. But it's more like that's kind of how our conversations will go, like if we have a low moment. And it's like, hey, you forgot this. I literally told you so many times.

Like, you forgot this. And here's why. And it's probably because you were on your phone. Quick thing that you just remind me of during that story of like the patience that you've built up. one thing I've noticed about myself of a soon-to-be dad is whenever I'm around dads and their kids are there too I just kind of pick up on things like I'm looking for things like little learns and tidbits whatever Jeremy that's here in our office has two boys here and an older daughter but his two boys are in the office all the time and whenever he's talking to me JJ will be in the distance that dad dad Sherman dad

Dad, Sherman, and Jeremy's just locked in talking like this, nothing's going on. If I then, like, answer back to him and JJ's, Sherman, Sherman, I have to go, yeah, what's up, buddy? When we were at breakfast the other morning and Rue was doing the same thing to you and we were like having a serious conversation about this podcast, you're just locked in and you're looking at me and you're talking to me and Rue's like, I don't want syrup on my French toes and you're like, okay, honey, and you're still like, I've gone. Yeah. Dude, I looked away a million times. I could tell that even you were like, man, Sherman kind of folds the root pretty quick. Like, I'm what? It's so funny that you bring that up because I'm sitting there in my mind like Sherman stop talking to her. Yeah, like stop engaging with her. I could tell that you were like that. Because whenever we get to a break, whenever we get to a moment of a break, it's going to be a hey, sweetheart, you know, dead ass talking like let's have

let's exercise a little bit of patience. But I'm thinking, Sherm, stop looking over and engaging with her and putting her stickers on the little sticker book. Sherman, where's the elephant go? And I'm like, oh, right, here would be great. And you wouldn't move. You would just stay locked in. Like, once you do that sticker, come back. Let's talk. Do you, obviously, you don't have one yet, but with Jill, what are you guys expecting? Okay. Well, can we dive in. Can we dive in, but I was going to save it for the, what are the odds? Okay. All right. We can save it. Okay. But I was going to say my question. was going to be, yeah, like you and your journey of pregnancy right now.

Yeah. Obviously, hormones are flowing. Your wife works. She works a lot. She's in the, what does your wife do? She's an RN. So she's a registered nurse. Yes.

Works here in Nashville. She's a grinder. She's a grinder. She's in a grinder. Deals with a lot of her own stuff at work. She does. Having to juggle those hormones. You're, you know, you're a spark plug.

You're a ball life. You're a great energy. Yeah. How has it been for you in the, in the pregnancy journey? I, okay, so I hear it all the time from Jill that I get it really easy. She's like, I give you so much slack, I'm a pretty easy wife. Like, I'm a pretty easy pregnant wife, I promise you. Like, when I'm talking to my girls and I'm hearing stories, like, Sherman, you could have it way worse.

And it's not like I'm running around the house going like, why are you fucking blowing up on me all the time? Because she isn't. But a really good, it just happened to be the weekend before we record this. Do you hit her with, I think you got it pretty easy too? Like, I'm pretty easy going. I am pretty easy. I'm messy as fuck. But like as far as like a sunshiny disposition of life, like I feel like she's got

pretty good too. But I'm definitely the lucky one in the relationship. Don't get that wrong. Hey, no matter what, this podcast, we're going to vent, we're going to bitch. Yeah. But no matter what, we have to, we have to, you got to get that coaster. First episode, first episode. First episode.

But we're always going to follow it up with, hey, sweetheart, you know, hey, baby, if you're listening right now, you know I love you. You know, I'm the lucky one. You know, but this is also, I want you know, this is a safe space for dads. This is a safe space. We're going to pretend that our wives aren't watching this. Okay. We're going to do our best. Okay.

Because it is scary to think we could be in hot water every week. Oh, yeah. And I had to have a talk with her the other night, like before we were recording this, I was like, I have a really good motherfellie. story. You're like, are you gonna talk? Yeah, you're like, do you care if I share?

I'm just, sweet, I'm gonna let you know because you're always kind of having the same talk. I'm like, I'm gonna exaggerate some stories a little bit. Yeah, just know,

I'm always gonna find my way back to you, sweetheart. We're gonna find our way back. And she knew exactly what I was talking about too. She was like, you're gonna talk about daycare shopping?

I was like, yeah. She was like, yeah, you can tell that story. That's okay. Let's hear it. 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.

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Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, so we're shopping for daycares. Jill's 32 weeks, I believe, or like 31 going into 32 weeks pregnant. And we're looking at daycares. We're kind of new to the scene. I've been texting you a little bit about it. Tough world.

Tough world, dude. Got a plan ahead of time. Expensive as fuck, dude. Yes. The best deal that we have now, like the one that we decided on, it's twice a week and it's $800 a month. it's crazy but you go in dude these daycares when you walk into them it's like a cute zoo it's like a zoo but of just cuteness dude and they have them like it's almost like they have them fully trained

when you walk in to like look out the classroom window and be like in way so you're waving at all these like little two something three something year olds you're like oh my god they're so cute like that's what mine's going to be like it's kind of good table manners and yada yada that whole experience was phenomenal. I love daycare shopping and I selfishly am not going to shout out the daycare that we chose because I'm on a wait list and I'm trying to get in that mug. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I'm not going to name it specifically, but once we're in there, I will gladly shout them out. But yeah, the motherfucker situation was essentially I should have woken up at 630 and started getting breakfast going because my girl is wanting to look pretty.

She's wanting to take her time in the shower. She wants to pick out her outfit. She wants to have her makeup all done. So she looks like a really good future mommy. And she wants her husband and do the same. So it's like, we are normal humans. You should totally let us have our kid be in your daycare. Because we're going to multiple daycares that day.

Slept in. Like till the last second. That shirms Achilles heel right there. Achilles heel. This dude could have a tornado siren going off in his room and he won't wake up. Jill is literally going like this right now. She's like, thank you, Will. She allegedly, allegedly shook me.

Like, she's trying to get me up. But I gave her the once I was awake, I was looking at my phone. And I gave her the, honey, hey, just one second. I'm watching this last thing. And I promise you, I have my outfit picked out. We're all good. We weren't all good. We were late headed out of the house.

And for any guy out there that has kids, any dads right now, or future dads with a pregnant wife, cannot miss breakfast because that stomach starts hurting and she just turned into the angriest mama bear she has ever been and i got a tongue lashing on the way to uh the daycares about i'm not responsible and just like the you always do this hers is you never do that so she was saying it's always the permanent words always never never she said you have done nothing in the preparation of our daughter on the way to the daycare, which in my head, that is not true. Did it sting? Yeah, it's stung. But I swallowed it. Because I've learned like, you know, listen, this is your mental load. It's starting to stack up.

You got to take the hits. You got to take the hits. And I'm taking the air. You're in the A gap right now. Oh, yeah, dude. I'm like, death gripping the wheel and I'm driving down, was it 440 G, the heads west? I'm heading down 440 West and I'm just locked in and she's I'm getting it so bad and I'm like I just I gotta let her have her moment

and get this out but I did make the mistake of I said hey honey and she stopped and I go I want you to know I'm listening to you right now and I think about 85% of what you're saying

are really good points but you don't have to yell at me right now we can just talk and she that sparked it a bit more, which I Which is hilarious. I'm thinking, hey, that's a nice little. Yes. It's a nice little point. Of trying to

defuse it. But we get to the parking line. Men trying to figure out. I thought that was pretty good. I put you on game? I thought, yeah. I was like, oh shit, he kind of put me on some game there. You put me on game. So I'll take that. That's a compliment. But we get to the parking lot and long story short,

she's wiping her makeup, playing her makeup off. And we did a really good job of acting like we have we have never fought a day in our lives and we're the happiest couple ever and look at our little bundle of joy that's coming um and i had a great line she loves scary movies she loves a movie theater so we had talked obviously after the daycare we worked things out and she apologized um but at the movies when she was all happy with their popcorn i said hey i do just want to apologize uh i am a really bad husband i don't think i've done anything to for Scarlet. And she picked up some popcorn and tossed it at me.

And she was like, if that's my only blow up on you as a pregnant woman, like, consider yourself lucky. And I was like, all right, I'll take it. Yeah. So we're all good. You got out of the fire. We're out of the fire. You got out of the fire. Yeah. We can segue to crack a cold one. Yeah, let's talk about a positive. Let's talk about

something that we would crack a cold one to. Mine is going to be pizza Friday. I think having a weekly ritual with the fam is important. It's something that we started early because in the world, the world moves fast, man.

You talk to any dad, you talk to anybody, the generation before you, the consensus is always the phrase, it goes by fast, enjoy it. Yeah. And I think for me, in a world where everything moves fast

with appointments, work, meetings, phone calls, again, marriage, you're trying to juggle. A lot of the chaos going on. pizza Friday is something that that we've leaned on to where hey this is where we kind of show up

as a family you know I know like dads in our minds at times we think we have to show up for something big to matter whether we're fixing something whether we're providing whether we're saving the day and um

you begin to realize that parenthood and being intentional is about like showing up in those small consistencies. Yeah. And pizza Friday is one of those for us because I know growing up for me, a lot of my fondest memories are being in the backyard for barbecues. My dad loved throwing meat on the grill. My mom loved making sides. We loved having friends over.

And I just vividly have, those are some of my best memories. And it's something that I remember. Anytime that I'm grilling or at a grill out or a cookout, whatever the case is, it's like subconsciously in my mind, I'm always thinking back to when we had these family barbecues. Because we would have them often. At least, like, you know, when it's summertime, you're having them a couple times a month. And all the brothers are out there, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And so for us, like for Pizza Fridays, I always take Rue. She gets in the car with Dad. We order from our favorite spot, and I will shout out the local spot home team pizza. We put it in an order for home team pizza. I take Rue. It's kind of our time to spend together to where we go.

We go inside. She talks to everybody. We get the pizza. We bring it home. I let Roo carry the little, whether it's a little bag of Buckeyes, shout out, hey, home team you guys got some fire, shout out the Buckeyes. Whether it's the little bag of Buckeyes or the small box of like their little breadstick bites, Roo will carry the small one in.

And every time she walks on the door, Mama, we're home, it's Pizza Friday. And we enjoy whatever the movie it is. So it's like when my kids get older, you know, they won't always remember the toys or the, or the lectures that their old man gave them because I'll probably be giving a lot of lectures. But I want them to remember the times that they spent together as a family to where my daughters got in the car with dad. They drove to go pick up pizza and we brought home the smell of pizza

and we shared laughs, whether it's tears, whatever it was. We enjoyed a movie together as a family and that's how we show up each week as a family. We're not always consistent to where we hit it every Friday, but every Friday that we're home, any Friday that we might be on the road together at a vacation together, pizza Fridays is a staple for like a weekly ritual for the family.

So that's kind of my crack of cold one too. That's kind of like my one of the staples in our family. It feels consistent as hell, like seeing it on social media, just as a like third party outside of it. It seems like y'all are doing it every Friday. And I love the idea of like traditions to you, of y'all kind of creating traditions.

And you'll know too. It's like consistency and routine is big for kids, knowing like, hey, guess what today is? And, you know, it might be Monday and it's gymnastics day or Wednesday and it's swim day for Root. But anytime you're just like, hey, guess what day it is, she's just always like pizza Friday. It's like, okay, no, that's after two more sleeps.

But they know when it's Friday, it is pizza Friday. Yeah. So that's my crack a cold one? That's my crack of cold one. I actually, I wasn't going to do a crack a cold one, but I do have a crack a cold one for you. Go ahead and give them nice. Ooh. Yeah.

So you don't have one. You don't have one. First episode, you don't have one this week. I didn't. Well, I, like, had one that I was kind of finagle. Yeah. But to go off of, I'll crack a cold one to you, because you did an incredible job. You or Charo with Rue when we were over to film that trailer of when Rue wanted to teach me how she tells the world, good morning.

and that might have been a top five cutest thing I've ever seen in my life of her picking up a footstool, moving it to the window, throwing open the curtains like a Disney character. And she just said, good morning, world! So loud and so confident. And I love that Charo was like, we haven't done that in a minute with Rue. Or maybe you said that, I can't remember. But you did it enough to where it's in there.

Yeah. It's like when they're little and they're starting to figure things out and you're trying to like keep them in a routine of how morning works. Like we'll have the sound machine and when she wakes up we'll turn it to the birds chirping just to like get her psyche in the mindset of like, hey, we're doing the morning routine. So you pick her up out of the crib when she couldn't walk and you'd just be like, hi world and do all these things. So that way they know that you're starting to like you're starting to like manufacture this hard wiring of how each day works. But yeah, it had been a minute since I'd seen her do the whole good morning world. but I knew she wanted to show you her room. Dude, that was unreal.

She's wanting to give you an entire tour of the house and say, hey, sweeter, we got a film. We got a film a trailer. If you're going to be a part of this, we'll give you a role. Yeah, we gave her the director role. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Say action and you got to stay quiet. Because she's wanting to play the whole time. She's want to play hide and seek.

You guys are there. She thinks everybody's there for her. She loved, hey, shout out Uncle Brad, by the way. Apologies, we didn't shout you out before. That was the dad in the launch trailer, one of Will's good friends. But shout out Uncle Brad. Do you want to let him know what crack a cold one is brought to us by? Yes.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What a great ad for the dads out there listen right now. Or even the moms that might be tuning in, they just want to put their hubby on game. Dude, honestly, a little brouhaw ad read, a little lovey-dovey ad read. Like, I don't think there's anything more for the dads. Yeah. Truly.

I'm with you. I'm with you. I know we got a little product recommendation. Yeah. A little survival kit action. What guys are in the survival kit? We got dad hacks. We got dad hacks.

We got survival kit. We do just time-wise. I don't know if we want to skip over those and tell the audience a little bit about the call-in feature. because I feel like that's going to maybe we they have to come in next week to see how survival kit and dad hacks works yeah so for the dads out there listening right now for everybody watching this show the way that we're going to involve you guys is we have a hotline number it is 601 the dads 601 the dads you will call in you will leave a voicemail and it can be about something you crack a cold one too maybe a big dad lost maybe a time you got motherfucked by your daughter by your son by your wife or maybe you were motherfucking yourself and you're feeling in the dumps and you need to get something off your chest. You can remain anonymous if you would like. You don't have to say your name. You can just call in. We would love to play a voicemail each and every week for the

dads out there wanting to vent about something, having a recommendation. Maybe you have a dad hack. Maybe you have something that you can put in a survival kit for dads that dads might need to know. That a lot out there might not know. And now you have a platform. You have an audience to where you can put dads on game. Whatever it is. And again, it could be a quote. a lesson you've learned, it doesn't matter. You can remain anonymous. Yes, it doesn't matter. You are a dad.

You're trying to be here for the dads. You're trying to be here for the community. And whatever way you want it to be positive, negative, putting us on game, whatever that is, that is your voicemail. That is your phone call. I do think it would be smart to do an email one too to where people can write it up. And even with the call, it's not Zoom. You're not showing your face. You're not doing any of that.

You're calling into the hotline, 601, the dads. And you're leaving a voicemail. Will, what would you say if I told you, even though that number got connected three days ago, three days ago, we have our first voicemail. Oh, we have one. We have one. Would you want to answer it? Sure, go ahead and play it. All right, we'll play it live.

I'll play it into the mic. And then we'll let you take it from there. Okay. All right. Compton, this is Taylor. Big time fan of the show. so so to see what you do for the dads. Just a question, just a question from me.

If your best friend ever called you and asked you to play Santa Claus so his kid could keep the beauty and the magic of Christmas in their heart and keep their little childhood dreams alive, tell me how would you handle that conversation and what would be your best Santa impression? Once again, big fan, huge massive fan. Year 10, yeah. All right, bye. I don't know if you caught that at the beginning. That was Hunter. Oh, Hunter. That was Hunter.

Longtime fan of the show. Yeah. Close and dear friend of the show. Yeah. Well, he knew about year 10, so I'm guessing he's probably a tier one. It seems like he's very aware. So this man, Hunter, you know, what was this question again? How would I handle being Santa Claus on the phone to his kids?

If Hunter was to call you because his kids are, I don't know if I believe in Santa anymore. Well, let me call up Santa right now. and you're the person that he called. How would you handle that? Santa being real? No, no. How would you handle role-playing Santa if you need? I don't mind being a hunter's kid and we can just, we can run through it right now.

What's your name? Billy. Billy? Yeah. Santa? Oh, ho. Hey, Billy. That it is.

It is Santa. I'm hearing you're having some questions about myself being real. Oh. Well, ding it, ding it. Quiet down back there, Rudolph. I'm talking to Billy. I'm talking to Billy right now. Hey, my little elves, can you get Billy's gifts ready?

I know Christmas is coming up. I just have a couple questions that I've got to answer with him. Daddy's talking to the elves. Oh my gosh, Santa. I was just wondering my friends at school in the lunchroom. They're all picking on me. They're all telling me that you're not real and that I'm just a dumb kid for believing in you. Why would they say such a thing, Billy?

you're talking, you're talking to old Santa Claus right now. I know you're excited for Christmas. What would you like for Christmas, Billy? I love an Xbox. Here's what I would, Billy, listen to me closely. Here's what I'll tell you're going to go back to that cafeteria. You're going to go back to that lunchroom on your next day of school. And you're going to tell your friends, you spoke to Santa Claus on the phone.

Yeah. You ask for an Xbox. And if you get an Xbox on Christmas, you're going to tell them that that's their belief on what they're going to get for their toy. You're going to show them. You're going to prove to them that. Santa is real because you are going to get what you want. And can you do another thing for me, Billy? Anything, Santa. Ask them what they would like for Christmas as well. And also mark down their

address. Mark down their address and what their parents' name might be on where they could possibly receive this secret gift. But don't tell them. Don't tell them that Santa Claus is telling you this. And then we will prove to them together that Santa Claus is real. That's well done. That's well done. that was a great dude proving it by also getting their parents involved because their parents are going to be like who the hell is this from and it's going to come

and you were going to send me to say it was from Santa. So spoiler alert, Hunter is Taylor and Taylor a few years back when I did not have kids he needed me to talk to Wynn

because Wynn was having a bet issue and they were trying to solve it by her talking to Santa and then keeping the keeping the life of Christmas alive and maybe helping her work on wetting the bed and I wet the bed on the phone I was in the middle of a Whole Foods and I was shy you know you're doing all these different things at once so you can't like be intentional and focused on what he actually

needed from me yeah and so I handled it all wrong I told her that if she if she didn't stop if she didn't stop wet in the bed she might not get any breasts he had to kind of rush her out there and then he called me he said what was that, dude. I don't know. I don't know. I panicked. I thought you wanted her to stop wait in the bed. I'm trying to motivate her by, hey, you're going to get Christmas presents if you don't stop wet the bed. He didn't tell me about the wedding the bed part. He just said you didn't do a Santa voice at all. You answered it as well. And just went, yeah, hey, it's Santa. Yeah, hey, it's Santa. Oh, I win. Yeah, this is Santa Claus.

Bro. Thank you, Hunter for calling in. Thank you, Hunter for calling in. But that is kind the idea of what we want to do with the voicemails every week. So again, call into the hotline 601, the dads. We're going to wrap this up here soon. We got some, a little product recommendation for your survival kit. Myself, I'll keep it short. I'll keep it tight. I'll keep it right. Yeah, yeah. A go-to for myself is every evening we sit down at the dinner table and I have the Daily Dad sitting there by Ryan Holiday. Awesome guy to look into for the Daily Dad newsletter. He's got a book called The Daily Dad where it gives you like 365 days of different lessons in the book that you'll like learn and it's based on through stoicism big fan of stoicism but the daily dad

I would recommend for your survival kit and I would also recommend the book 12 hours in 12 weeks or 12 hours by 12 weeks I know I've tweeted about it before but parents kind of like getting into the thick of like hey what's a book I can read if you're a dad out there trying to figure out something you could do to support the wife I strongly recommend 12 hours and 12 weeks it's like a sleep training book that is not overly aggressive. It's the way the child can like adapt to your life versus you adapting to everything and catering everything around them. It's got a lot of practical ways for you to get them sleep trained by 12 weeks. I want to say Ruud took her about 16, 17 weeks and Scotty was like 12 weeks, maybe even 11. And it was all based around the teachings and everything inside of this book,

12 hours in 12 weeks. But those would be my survival kit recommendations for dads out there thinking about something they could do, like even for yourself, like trending toward having your first child or maybe your first one didn't go well and you might be looking for something in your second one or you might maybe in the thick of it now and you can dive in. Yeah. But those would be my survival kit product recommendations. In first book title again? The first book is just the daily dad. Daily dad. Yeah. Okay. And then the next segment being a dad hack, I would say, plan your solo time. You realize like you were already, you juggling this around in your mind. like, you know, life being kind of over, not like, not over, but there's going to be a lot going on

to where the life as you know it will no longer be. You won't have the freedom and the free time and everything that you kind of have. You even don't realize it when the baby comes home, then you start realizing all these different things that mom might know and understand, and you're just trying to figure out where do you fit in the whole puzzle. Yeah, I would say planning your solo time because you're going to be spread thin through work. You're going to be spread then through being at home, being supportive, to where you kind of like lose time for yourself. So planning your solo time, whether it's a workout an hour a day,

whether it's the time you want to pull out the lifeline, of taking a deuce at the right time or reading a book. Whatever your solo time looks like, you need to make sure to start planning for it because a lot of things change when you do have kids and if you're out there trying to think of ways that you might be missing how to feed yourself is plan out, schedule out your solo time.

I love that. Very quickly, I'll segue into one, I need to get that daily dad. I'm going to give myself a homework assignment. Okay. Of getting daily dad starting to read into that. Because our next segment is, what are the odds? Shout out Fandul. With what are the odds, we'll just be talking about anything that's crazy coincidence

that happened with the kids. Maybe they puked and they missed every single thing except for that one. really nice thing in your living room. That's the segment. But what are the odds is Scarlett is potentially going to be a

freedom baby pending that Jill is going to get induced on July 3rd. Explain that. What's a freedom baby? A freedom baby is a baby that would be born on July 4th,

the 4th of July Independence Day. Gotcha. You know how to do you. Hey, come on. Takes me a minute. Hey, that's all right. But Scarlett, potentially being a freedom baby, Jill called me today.

They said baby Scarlet is looking healthy. She had a stress test and a screening today. They said we want to induce you at 38 weeks. And that will be the week of July 1st. And we want to aim for July 3rd. So she will be born on the 4th of July. Oh, our little firecracker, dude. I am uh I'm uh I'm hype for you man we're gassed world's gonna change oh but I'm hype for you

bro yeah my life is over as as I know it as you know it right now as a somebody who gets to kind of operate selfishly with your wife yeah life's over life's over that life's behind you thus this podcast yeah yeah yeah that's why yeah that's why yeah that's why you have a safe space now yes sweet are we love you chili bean we love you hey I'm glad that you said that at the beginning because that did that took the pressure off. I was like, I do need to act like, you know, no one's listening. Yeah. We're just talking.

We're just talking. This is a conversation. This is for the dads. Only dads are listening. Only dads are listening. There's few things you can be charged with if you're just talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just talking about it.

We're standing around the garage, we're having a couple of vents. Okay, so to wrap it up. Yes, to wrap it up, quote, lesson, or mantra. And a phrase, because you're going to be a girl dad as well. Yes, sir. So this is more tailored towards the girl dad's out there. And one that you hear a phrase that you love and you don't quite understand it. And it's not like a moment that happens, but it's like moments in fatherhood that you begin to realize how important this is.

But my lesson that it's going to stem from this quote. Will's lesson of the week. Lesson of the week is that, and I have a little write-up about this. Okay. is that you are your daughter's first love. And it's not something where you're trying to be romantic. It's about being the first role model of what love looks like. You're the first man to hold her.

You're the first one to make her laugh on a hard day. You're the first one to show her that love doesn't have to be hurt or earn or beg to be kept. And that's a huge responsibility. It's a lot of pressure, but it's also a gift. because how you treat her, how you treat her mom, and how you show up when it's inconvenient or hard, she's watching, not just now, but forever. She's learning what does it mean to be protected?

What does it look like when someone listens to me? And am I worth someone's time even when they're tired? Because you are laying down the emotional hardwiring that she will lean on for years. And that's not to pressure the girl that's out there, but to empower you. Because when you kiss her on the front, forehead or you let her put bows in your hair or you say I love you for no reason you're teaching

her this is how love should feel did you write that yeah I put the pen the paper a little bit I had a little bit of help damn a couple articles on it I'm reading I'm in the middle of reading the book strong father strong daughters and there's a part in the book where um the uh the author she talks about this. And so, and it's, it's, it's,

yeah, it's, I think it's great. I, uh, one, that gets me fucking juiced, because I,

I have a little girl myself coming. Yeah. And two, maybe we didn't touch on it enough at the top. I, I want everybody to know I'm scared, shitless to have a daughter. Yeah,

buddy. But, yes, I have the most incredible wife in the world. She was raised by a single mother. Um, And Jill's the most incredible woman in the world. My mother-in-law is incredible.

Did it all herself. But I see the relationship that Jill already has with my dad, her father-in-law, and how special that relationship is to her. And it's a really tall order. It's a really tall order and I'm really lucky. And, dude, I'm fucking stoked to be here. to have met you and Taylor

and to really learn from you guys and have this like opportunity to prep myself because I feel so much more like mentally ready. But that message was incredible, dude. I'm fighting back tears pretty hard. But it's all good we can wait. You're always fighting them back there at the end.

Yeah, yeah. But I'm so juiced by that. I almost want to write it down and have it printed off and that can live on the set. I can't believe you wrote that, dude. That was like run through a brick wall stuff. Yeah, it's, I mean, you, you know the history a little bit anyway that I had with my mom. Yeah.

And it's like the same thing on the other side is like you're the same being a boy for a mom. So it does. It hits at a deep level. But, hey, this is an awesome. This is an awesome episode. This is an awesome first episode. I got to get out of this. I got to get out of this.

right now. One thing that we are going to do is I would love for the end credit scene to be gender reveals, whether it be positive dad moments. We're going to show a little something here for the credits with our own videos. But what we would like to see is fans, whether you guys are DMing us or showing us or tagging us in videos that we can use on your behalf to put in the end credits. We'd love to roll kind of a highlight reel of gender reveals and positive dad moments and just embrace the badass dads who are out there. Send them in. Send them in. But thank you for tuning into this first.

episode. I know we'd love to sit around the 40 minute mark. I want to say we're getting close to what, gee, maybe an hour. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, maybe an hour. So we'll watch the tape. We'll watch a tape and reel it in. But leave comments, subscribe, support the boys again. We'll be standing up a new channel soon. So be on the lookout for that. But thank you for showing up. What are you wearing? What are you wearing? Oh, what is that? We got hats, bwtb.com. We got sick dad merch. I know a lot of our logos and themes, which was done by people, none other than myself, but it's based around. wolves and I remember asking the question do you realize how much I love that this is themed around wolves because I am obsessed with wolves being the protector you know the pack mentality and everything

else but we have some sick merch it's on the site bwtb.com there's a bunch of shirts hats everything that you're not seeing here on the set right now but go check that out gawtb dot com your artist's friend's name brandon ohin finally bowen painted that painted this back here wonderful sign back there and Brandon, we love it so much, dude. Thank you so much. Huge shout out to Brandon. Yes. We love you.

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