Bussin' With The Boys - My Kid Is A Sore Loser + Sherm's Newborn Chaos | For The Dads Pod

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Former NFL Linebacker (10 years) Will Compton presents a Bussin With The Boys production, For The Dads! Alongside 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.    In this weeks episode, we see Sherman and Will discuss the week one dad wins and losses for Sherman as he starts his journey into fatherhood. Will berates Sherm for keeping him up playing video games as he was on the night shift for Scarlett. Then, Will talks about his daughters competitive nature growing and becoming like her dad, even going as far as trying to cheat to win. Will and Sherm then talk about dad hacks, including adding protein to food for kids and singing to pass the time by late at night. The boys then listen to call-ins with the first ever international call in, hailing from Australia. To wrap up the show Will shares a lesson on the importance of showing resilience to your child.    Buckle up, this week was a doozy… Hope You Enjoy!   This week on For The Dads, Sherman opens up about his first full week of fatherhood, sharing both the early wins and the inevitable dad fails that come with newborn life. Will doesn't let him off easy, especially after finding out Sherm kept him up late playing video games while he was supposed to be on the night shift with baby Scarlett. The conversation takes a hilarious turn as Will shares how his daughter's competitive spirit is ramping up—so much so that she’s already trying to cheat her way to victory, just like her old man.   As always, the guys drop some practical (and questionable) dad hacks, including how to sneak protein into kid meals and why singing random songs at 2 AM might just save your sanity. Later in the episode, they react to listener call-ins from fellow dads, featuring the show’s very first international call from Australia. To close things out, Will delivers a heartfelt reflection on how important it is to model resilience for your kids, especially during the tougher parenting moments.   It’s a raw, funny, and honest dive into what real-life parenting looks like. Whether you’re a new dad, a veteran parent, or just here for the laughs, this episode’s packed with relatable  moments and dad wisdom you won't want to miss. We tried to keep it under an hour.... and we might've once again fell short of that goal. Hope you enjoy!   TIMELINE   0:00 Intro    28:36 Dad Losses    35:30 Crack A Cold One   52:06 - What Are The Odds   1:04:44 - Survival Kit   1:18:34 - Call - Ins   1:44:26 - Lesson Of The Week ____ For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a soon-to-be dad who’s currently enjoying his last few months of uninterrupted sleep and freedom. 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   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify   -----   SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   Bud Light - Easy to Drink. Easy to Enjoy. Stock up now on Bud Light! https://www.instacart.com/store/brand...   Ro - Connect with a provider at https://ro.co/DADS to find out if prescription Ro Sparks are right for you and receive $15 OFF your first order. -----See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He comes in, he comes in two days a week. I haven't seen Shirm in a few days because he's in the trenches right now. He's got a what? One week old? One week and one day old. One week and one day old. For everybody I wondering, why doesn't Papa Shirm? Why doesn't Papa Shirm get paternity leave?

We're too thin at the office. to give people paternity leave. I'd step them aside and say, we don't believe in paternity leave right now. Even though we want to embrace fatherhood, we don't have the bandwidth to let you go on a three-month paternity leave. Absolutely.

Don't get paternity leave? Good. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you don't get paternity leave? Good. Good. You have to come into work.

Your wife's mad at you. She's cussing you out. Good. She said, how long is the recording? How long is the recording going to be today? That was an actual question. good yeah you tell her sweetheart under an hour if you watch the if you watch the show we always try to keep it under an hour but you never go under an hour so what do you need to say to yourself sweetheart

you need to look in the mirror and say good welcome to for the dads welcome to four the dads only two times a week i come in but i still find a way to interrupt your introses i think that's like my fourth intro to interrupt well the problem is you ordered us some some some gasoline here shout out a than rose coffee in nashville no free shoutouts but you ordered uh cold brew, which I didn't learn until right before we started, but you put in an extra shot of espresso in cold brew. Yeah. I spiked Will Compton's drink this morning. My teeth are vibrating. We were sitting here silently, like, preparing for the show. It was so quiet in here. And then as soon as the 8th and Rose came in and we started just slowly drinking it, all of a sudden, we're like doing

South African accents, watching line videos. I'm itchy my arm right now and I'm not even itchy. Your teeth were vibrating. I could tell when you were just sitting there. Chef tells us he only drinks one cup of coffee a day. He's doubling up today because we got chef who's an intern. How old are you, chef? 23 years old. We got Big Cheese who's an intern.

He's 19 years old. They were kind of talking about their caffeine intake. They sound like rookies on caffeine intake. It's like, boys, I'm going to be a couple form energies deep into coffee by the time the afternoon hits. But you only have one cup of coffee a day, which I think is psychotic, but good for you. I think it's a healthy habit. Yeah, it's good. And chef doesn't have, he doesn't have a mic back there, so it's kind of tough.

Is it in an Adderall? He was three cups a day and an Adderall for those listening. What were those jitters? I'm like sitting here interviewing Chef on the podcast. People can't hear him in the back right now. He's interesting. Did you see the comments about Chef? Yeah.

He said he felt like, but you just like to control your caffeine intake. Yeah. Got you. And sorry for the listeners out there. Look, we saw all the comments last week. Audio was low. Audio was low on Apple and Spotify. Yeah, good.

Hand up for the brand, not hand up internally. Hand up for the brand, though. Hand up for the people. We will get that fixed. Because once I see the first couple, I just hit the group chat. Hey, audio. The audio's low. Audio's low.

You guys check in your phone. Hey, what's going on? Why are you doing? I don't know. I thought I hit the mute button again. And I didn't. But we'll keep the, uh, We'll make sure the audio waves, the sound and everything is good.

Look, this is a new show. This is a new podcast. It's a new podcast. Unfortunately, Shirm, when he's on paternity leave, you know, five out of the seven days a week, that's kind of the deal we're at. It's like, hey, you just come in a couple times whenever we got to shoot bus with the boys and we got to shoot for the dads. And then that, be at home, be in the trenches. Weirdly enough, chef Jack, who's a summer intern, has kind of taken on the entire production. The entire production of Four the Dads.

He's coming in and learn a couple things about something in this industry. He, in this industry, he's running the entire operational for the dads. We very quickly, as we were launching the show, Will is looking at me as the owner of bus and in general and just going, I think we need a full-time employee for For the Dads. And I'm sitting there doing most of the For the Dad stuff before the Show's even launch. I'm like, oh my God, that's the greatest idea of all time. And then we just slowly pan over to the right and we see five, five, first. interns sitting there. We're like, thank God.

We're just a full-on social person because I love the foundation. I love the foundation where I right now with For the Dads. Like we're kind of roughly around the average, like on YouTube, it's like 10,000 views. People keep showing up. People keep leaving comments. The comments are fucking awesome. We'll get to the comments here in a minute to shout out more people. Yeah.

And there's a lot of opportunity for engagement on social media just because it's like, dads are wanting to share. I, dude, I dropped a roll call, Papatine. team six roll call. Yes. On Twitter and my Instagram story the other day and everybody's just comment under. They're dropping their photos. They're showing off the kids.

Hey, we're in the trenches. It's about that time. About that time for bedtime. Or they're just showing a photo of them outside, whatever it is. Yeah. People are responding to the roll call. People are bought in to Poppa Team 6. The length of the comments too.

Yeah. It's not just like a, ooh, P2, exclamation points. It's like, hey, father two. Yeah. Four-year-old, eight-year-old. We did this. And you're just reading all these comments. it's incredible.

Yeah. We're definitely consuming all of it, but just the engagement and nurturing that I feel like this brand needs, you kind of need another. You need a full-time person. You know, chef Jay, he's a summer intern. As of right now. As of right now.

And he's only one summer intern. He can only do so much. Yeah. You having the kid, it's like, you know you're going to be, you got to do what you got to do. Yeah. having a couple kiddos knowing kind of how it how it all works at home no one how much you know you put in the amount of time you can at work and then you go home to do all the responsibilities

with being a dad for whatever reason it's it's still shocked to me more knowing your absence because again you're you're also even though you're co-hosting with me you became probably more of a co-host and I think both of us anticipated yeah in a good way like in a just a natural fun way like it's it's been awesome but The assumption was you also being the producer. You're also a social guy. So there were some things that I'm thinking, all right,

Sherman will be able to do all this stuff. And I'm sure you think that in your brain. But the amount of the responsibility you have at the house right now, it's kind of like, oh, shit, we need to get our ducks in the row. Yeah, we need to get our ducks in the row. And I don't think that we anticipated the amount. I mean, obviously, you want to shoot for the SARS. Aim high with like, how's this show going to perform?

How's it going to do? But I, from our conversations, unless I'm mistaken, I don't think we fully anticipated the buy-in of the comments and the reach-out and the dump the fucking voicemail again because the voicemail is filled up. And my personal DMs on the delivery night, just the amount of people that are just like coming into my DMs wishing Jill and I, good luck. I'm just like, dude, this is overwhelming in the best way possible. but it's overwhelming. It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't think we anticipated that. Yeah. And you just don't want to get caught like chasing from behind. It's like we had the example with Buss and we've had the example with standing up the locker room. It's like we've identified that this could be something really fun. Yeah. It's really cool for everybody. So you just got to we got to pour into it.

Yeah. We got to pour into it. But appreciate everybody tuning in. This is a show where we embrace fatherhood, the love, the suck, everything in between. shout out everybody getting their wives bought in. There's like, there's moms in the comments and it juices me up. We had our last female call in last week, which again, if you want to call into our voicemail, that is 601 the dads, whether you have a dad loss, a dad hack, something to crack a cold one too,

like a positive moment, a tough moment, whether you want to remain anonymous and just vent a little bit to the boys, 601, the dads. We do a little hotline call in, which we get to toward the end of the episode. But again, we talk our dad losses. We talked great moments that we crack a cold one. to a lesson quote or topic that we're kind of leaning into and either struggling with or embracing

by no means is this show expert advice. We almost need to put a disclaimer at the very front of the show. Some like funny little humorous that saying we aren't experts. This is not expert advice. I was thinking about that in the shower and I truly was like we do need to do that. I think

to avoid some sort of lawsuit. Yeah. I do. I do. I do like that. We could we could make something fun, but all of our channels on social media at For the Dad's Pod. That's where you can follow us everywhere.

And look, I'm juiced about Papa Team 6. The Papa Team 6 roll call. We had a comment that fired me the fuck up the other day. Right when the last episode dropped, within hours, I had a BJL down south on YouTube.

Popat Team 6 shirt idea. quote, we ride at dawn with a lawnmower and some fresh grass getting slung. Just that idea, the detail that you can have in some of these Papa Team Six shirts, whether we have like a little patch that could go on the hat, maybe there's a patch or something that we can do on the shirt, maybe there's levels. Yep. Because it's been, we've had good laughs talking through Papa Team Six, Seaman Team Six, Seed Team Six. Seed Team Six.

Seam and Team Six is incredible. Seam and Team Six might just be for the, the same thing. out there. It might just be the guys who just aren't dads yet and maybe the guys who are trying, maybe they're part of Seed Team Six. Seed Team Six. To quickly define, to break it down, Seaman Team Six is dad vibes, but not a dad. Not a dad. But he's fucking. You're throwing lead. You're throwing lead. Seamon Team Six. Yeah. You're healthy. You're healthy. You're a red-blooded American boy. Yeah, yeah.

Seed Team Six, you are actively in recruitment of Papa Team Six. Yes. You are trying to become a Papa Seal. Yeah. Yeah. You're at Buds. Yeah, you're at Buds. You're at Buds.

You're in the Seed Academy. Yeah. You're at the road in lead. Dude, the amount of ties every single time you bring up Seamen Team Six, I legitimately belly laugh, dude. Seatheed team. And there are people in the comments are like, not a dad, just seeming Team Six. I'm a huge fan.

And I love it. It's like the most casual way to be like, sexually active, single guy. Healthy, healthy. It's incredible. It's incredible. I don't want to go down this path. But if a creative, funny, humorous female mom wife out there wants to create another, whatever their team six would be. Please.

please please don't hesitate to have a little bit of comments we won't try to have some fun the moms the moms can very much join the regiment we're building an army we are one of my favorite comments and i wish i'd screenshot it was uh sherman's left on a recliner definitely didn't get his couch badge i just love the idea i saw that too i love yes love the idea of earning your badge like being on the couch. You wouldn't have it. I wouldn't have my couch badge and I like hand up. I did not earn that couch badge. And I don't know if we talked about I just want to clarify something.

Because there was a lot of comments on that quote tweet that we put up on Instagram. And I want to run this by you because I want to be like you're my accountability accountability buddy. Yes. You're mine. Thank you. That makes me happy.

What is it? I know. I'm trying to. I'm trying to butter you up because I feel like I'm going to disappoint you. Okay. The couch in the room, so delivery room had the recliner. Then we went to like the post-delivery room. That's where you slept on the couch. That's where I slept on the couch.

But what I didn't emphasize in the episode, I went back to watch the episode, is that that couch did fold like horizontally. Like it kind of hot dog bundled out into a bed. Damn it. It's just, damn it. Number one, I was already at that place mentally with you because you already, I mean, you had said, like, I slept on the couch in the, like the post, in the post delivery room. Yeah. You're like, I slept on it for a day.

So it's like, yeah, he slept on the couch, but he didn't sleep on the couch, like in the delivery room. Like, where the men, where boys become men, where you earn your stripes, where you get initiated, you get initiated on the hospital couch. And there is no fold out. It's, you're on the hospital couch with whatever they get. of you. Maybe you bring a blanket from home. That's fine. But you're getting, you're getting acclimated. You're going through, you know, when you start training camp and coaches kind of preface it with a few acclimation days to the heat before they back off. That's how you get acclimated to the fire is being on that delivery room couch. Now that I've understood that not only did you

not sleep on the couch, like at least one day to earn some type of stripes and hearing that, it was like you had a fold out, you had a bed. Yeah. And he just, feels fraudulent to me. I'm happy that you're a dad, but I personally don't think you earned it. I don't think so. Through pregnancy, through like actively trying to have a child going through all nine, 10 months with your wife. Now you're in the trenches. And I still, in my brain, since you didn't sleep on the couch in the hospital, I still don't believe that you're a true dad. I hate it because you are Will Compton. Like, you're everything that is like, earn it.

walk, not a walk-on at Nebraska, but, you know, free agent, undrafted, practice squad, practice squad. Practice squad, sorry, sorry, sorry. Went through buds. Yeah, went through buds. Went through buds.

In football. I'm Shador Sanders. In college, essentially. Hey, he's starting. I just want to, hey, Diego, we'll bring you on at Colorado, but you're going to be backup. Shadur's starting.

Yeah. Like, I got treated like a five-star NIL Cinderella. You did. I just want to apologize. I'm not that guy. Did I take full advantage of it? Hell yeah.

But I'm not that guy deep down. And I apologize to the dad community. To Papa Team Six. To Papa Team Six. I feel fraudulent. I want you to know that. Maybe there's something you could do. Listen, you're still going to,

you're continuing to earn your Papa Team Six stripes. Like you were there because you're in the trenches. Yes, sir. You pissed me off the other night because you kept me up a little later than I wanted to. We had a, for those out there listening and watching right now, We, uh, it was one of those nights,

feeling a little frisky, feeling a little horny for the video game. Real horny. And Jared Demon, one of our guys and one of our guys, producers in the shop. Seaman Team Six. Yeah.

Yeah, he's Seam and Team Six. Yeah. He's a young cat right now. And, um, he put out the bat signal. Hey, tonight we ride.

Tonight we go. We get on PubG. Mm. Rip the parachute and we go. In a couple landing spots. Oh, yeah. I've been in a good routine with sleeping and exercising. A good routine.

One that I'm honestly proud of at this moment in time. Yeah. One like a two-week heater. And so we get on, Shirm gets on. We're elated. We're fired up. Papa Shirm. He's in the house.

I had a fired text that I put into the group text. They were like, I let them like talk for 15 minutes about gaming. And I just did a little dot, dot, dot. I heard y'all need a fourth. Yeah, he's like, I got the night shift. We're fired up. We're fired up that Shirm gets to get on. So we're playing this video game.

We're having a great time. We're having fun. We die a couple of those times we had to die because you just died in the storm because Scarlet was acting up a little bit. I was like, hey, Scarlett's going to keep interrupting this video game right now. Put her on the headset. Put her on the headset.

Let me talk to her. Let me talk Dragonoff with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Shirm finally got in a rhythm to where he got Scarlett down Because we're you know we're playing he's like hey guys I got to take a I got to go I got to I got to step out Scarlett she's moving around I got to change her diaper got to get her going Yeah yeah yeah yeah and Shirm kept us up till one in the morning We wanted to get off probably around what 1130 we were like you know and I knew it in the back of my head

Like we did a lesson a few weeks ago on this with the daily dad just go to bed just go to bed And Shirm kept us up till one in the morning and I woke up the next next morning. I want to say Scotty, we, Charles was in, uh,

we were in the bed feeding her, Charles was feeding her at like 6.45 and I woke up. And my first thought was, I was so pissed off at Sherim that he kept me up to one in the morning. Because I didn't wake up. I didn't work out. That's snowballs. What time did you wake up there?

6.45 and I'm just like laying in bed. And you know, you're, you're tired because like, well, I did this to myself. I chose, I chose this.

Yeah. I allowed. the excitement of you, me like knowing, you know, you're up for the next, the next couple hours. You're on, you're on baby duty. Yeah. And I was kind of just weirdly fired up about it. But we didn't get a chicken dinner. We didn't win.

We didn't win. You kept us on. I kept like falling to the excitement of, I'm going to stay on because I'm going to, because Sherm's on. You want to take advantage of the moment, have fun with the boy. Yeah. And we were playing super well. Shout out to Tommy, childhood friend of, uh, of demon.

Yeah. Who was our fourth that night. and before anybody would die in the game I knew I had Will when I kept on doing the bit of I can't play one more I mean there's no way That'd be so irresponsible to play one more game And I would just hear him on the mic just

I knew I had him right where I wanted Oops I'm readied up Oh fuck my Xbox Redied up I was going to bed What the fuck I knew I had him. I was so stoked. Yeah.

You want to go through your comments? Dude, let's read some comments. Yeah. Let's read some comments of people engage in. And also, the cats out there, Joey. Joey Estrada, 3887. Seems like he's part of Seaman Team 6. 23 years old, no kids, but watching y'all gets me fired up.

Can't wait until I find the one and finish what I need to do to give my family the best life that Agap going to hate to see me coming. Holy shit. Let's go, Joey. What's his name? Joey Estrada, 23. Dude, Joey's out there. He's like a captain. He's like a corporal in Seaman Team 6.

A lot of potential with Joey. I love that. Can you read that one again? That one got me fired up. 23 years old, no kids, but watching y'all gets me fired up. Can't wait until I find the one and finish what I need to do to give my family the best life that A-Gap going to hate to see me coming. Finish. Finish.

I have Zane Boland. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. D-empt me. Huge shout out to Zane Boland because two days ago, he officially joined Pt6. D-Med me on night duty with his one day old

in the delivery room and just essentially said, love the show. I'm listening to the show right now in the delivery room. Freshly became PT6. He was waxing poetic, dude. He sent me like a book.

I just, I hit him back. I was like, Dude, this got me so fucking stoked. So, Zane Boland. Shout out the boy, Zane. As a 23-year-old dad, this podcast is really clutch, and I hope every young dad finds it. That's from Top Flight, 88, 55.

Another one from Kenny Anderson. This is awesome for dads. I have three kids of my own, seven, six, and two. Hearing Will's story at the pool and setting the tone with your daughter rings so true. You have to show the children that their behavior at times is not acceptable. Then second after that your kids say, something so loving to you making you forget all about it. Hashtag fatherhood.

Hashtag for the dad's pod. Run another one because we got to keep this under an hour. Billy Bourbon on Instagram says, Sherman looks like he drives a Subaru Outback. Dude, I saw somebody being like, Sherman already in one episode looks like a dad. Oh, I love that comment. I love that comment.

I'm either getting that or I'm getting like fifth grade P.E. teacher. And Fat Stafford. I honestly love the fat Stafford jokes. Matt Stafford, Mega Dad. He's got like five kids. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He might be King Girl Dad. Ooh, King.

Philip Rivers now. Philip Rivers got about all girls? Eight or nine. Eight or nine girls? No, no, no, no, no. He's got a lot of boys mixed in there. But what I'm saying is he has a team. He has a roster.

He truly almost is starting a lot. Well, that would be 11 if he had nine with he and his wife. Yeah. Good for him. Nick CN2FB on YouTube said Papa Team 6 sled dog here. Single dad got my three-year-old girl dropped off for a four-day trip to Charleston playing for the dads and Scrilla on the 10-hour car ride. Let's go. So female right here, a mom, is a tough one.

Oh, no. It's probably shortened up. Oh, okay. De Begardini. Oh, the name was a tough one. Yeah. Oh, okay. 380.

My labor nurse had a recliner brought into my room for my husband. Initially, I thought it was for me. My labor was so long that she felt sorry for him. Great example of how you earned the recliner after a long military tour in the delivery room. You just had one waiting for. you i was gonna i know i was gonna try and spin that in like hey i didn't even ask for a recliner it was just there but yeah true uh j jrrujuraska um single dad of nine year old twin girls dot dot dot dot dot need this pod papa team six for the win let's go let's go last one here um mutsa mutza

mutsa 8 big shirm love that you're having a smooth integration into pt6 both of you i hope know some of us child free sickos are part of the team because of year 10 and cfb underscore shirm are just two of our favorite personalities in the podcast space appreciate the game for if i ever decide to become a father love you guys uh parentheses shout out patsy whoa Seaman Team 6 Mutsa? Yeah, Mutsa 8 Mutsa 8

Dude, shout out you for the kind word GOOT from GUNN 1195 here This Goon 1195 Or he actually throws out a dad hack Dad hack would be a sleep sack And listen to this one, Shirm

It's basically a swaddle without going through the motions If you can use a zipper, you're good It is still snug around the tummy and chest Also once they get bigger and start rolling over. They make some where you can put their arms out and it's still be swaddled but have the freedom to move around.

That's big. That's big game. Yeah, that's huge. Do you have a zipper one yet? I do. The only problem is Scarlet is just too small. Right, right, right. I was going to say correct. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Because we were doing the same thing like you're in such a swaddled game because you're trying to mimic the womb and everything else and staying in tight and close. But as she gets a little bit bigger when you get the ones that just, it velcrows to where you're not sitting there. You know, you change her. You get her rocked. Yep.

You feed her. And then you're about to put her down and you hear the... That's literally what it sounds like, chef. Truly what it sounds like. You just hear it running through their little body and you're like, God damn it, I just got you swaddled. You just got to sleep. Now I'm going to have to change it because of not this guilt, everything. Diper, you know, diaper rash.

So you got to take them out of the swaddle. However, when you get into the Velcro zipper game, massive. Massive dad hack. Massive tip. out there. I cannot wait for that. Chef, it truly is like

there's a 12-inch sub in their diaper and they just turned on a milly. And it's just you like feel the vibrations. You talk about

Lil Wayne? Amillet. Amillet. Amillet. You dig. Boom. That's truly what they do to you do.

You shit. Boom. Boom. Boom. Oh, we like to have fun. We do. We like that. Last one for me.

This is a tough I'm going to give it my best shot. Kyle Vuktsich. Kyle Vuxich. Kyle Vuxich, 3-8-5-1. I'm not a dad yet, but you know I'm Papa Team 6. Well, technically, you'd be Seaman Team 6. Not to correct you, Kyle.

We're giving it levels. People, you know, we got to teach him. We've got to educate them. We're growing too as his podcast grows. We are. So you are officially Seam and Team 6, Kyle, just so you know. But Kyle is subscriber number 57 on the new channel. Let's keep it under an hour, boys.

Keep it under an hour. That's a good point. We do have to keep this under an hour, so we'll start getting into our dad losses. However, very fired up. There's a theme here. He's a young cat. He's subscribed.

It's the boomers, the actual fathers or the wives, like the moms and wives out of here listening. Your husband enjoys the show. Make sure on his phone he's also subscribed. Yes. That's a great call. People might be watching on their TV right now. Maybe they're subscribed.

They're watching on TV or maybe they just go to YouTube and type it in. But it would do the boys as solid. I don't know the TV game. Like if you can subscribe on TV, I'm sure you can. Make sure you're subscribed on TV, but just know you have two other, two other weapons next to you. Your phone and her phone where you can pull it out and just throw in a nice little subscription for the boys.

Yeah, teach the kiddos how to subscribe. Teach the kiddos. It's a little learning lesson. Teach the kids. Hey, this is how you subscribe on YouTube. Turn off Miss Rachel and put us on. Not experts. Ball.

Now we're going to switch this. Seam and deep six, Papa Thu, D's D, D, D, Seam. That means they fucking. Honey, what do you have on in there? It's a kid show, honey. It's called for the dads. I'm on dad duty right now.

Oh, my God. Dad losses. Let's dive in. You have a dad loss? Do you want me to lead? Would you like to go? I would love to go. Go.

Okay. My dad loss is last night. Scarlet took, me for the ringer at 2. I'd say 132 a.m. We got to change her before the feeding time. Right before I'm about to change her. So it's like 130.

I start at 130 for all the dads there to have her changed and ready for bottle and mouth by like 145, 150. So then she's feeding at 2. And that's coming from the wifey. That's coming from mom. So I pick her up to go change her diaper. as soon as I pick her up. Hey, that was perfect.

Was that good? Leading up, because... The moan? Yeah, the moan part, the graveling noise you made was perfect. Oh, yeah. And just, this is terrible radio, so I'll describe it as I'm doing it. Just legs out so straight, arms out so straight, and just head back, and just the angriest face, and then a, they make like a little Derek Zoolander face.

and then you just hear the, and I'm just feeling the vibration. So I'm like, okay, that's great, because I was already going to change her. That's great. Good job, Scarlett. Take her to the changing table. Do, do, do, do, do.

Get that done. All right, let's start feeding. Put bottle in. She's destroying it. She's really starting to eat now. Nice. Really starting to eat. It's positive that you got to need her.

Oh, yeah. That's really good. And she does, like, the big yon. Like the, like, I talked about it last week. And then just shove it in there. And then she's going crazy on it. And then right when I start feeding her, again, just a massive one. The second one was huge.

So I'm like, all right, finish feeding her. And then I'm going to change her. Change her. This is my last. So I'm the night shift, but my night shift ends at 2. Because then she's not going to feed again until 5 a.m. Yeah. So I'm so excited to get in bed.

I'm tired. I know that I have this today. So I'm like, I'm going to get some good Zs. Yep. Right after I get done changing her, I'm stepping over the doggy gate that we have outside of the nursery. Oh, no. Because we don't want any accidents on the new chair. Right, right.

The new chair provided by Will, shout out. As we're going over. It's a nice little. Oh, dude, it's so great. Nice little rocker. I'm literally mid over the little baby gate, dog gate, and she hit me with the third one. A little. No shit.

I swear to God. It was a, but I honestly, it was a dad lost. because I'm like, oh my God, I'm so tired and I got to go change her again. But I was honestly kind of proud of her. Like, I kind of thought it was sick. I was like, you're really, you're really about it, Scarlett. Like, you're like that. Yeah.

That's a, yeah, that's a, it's a tough one to handle in the moment. Yeah. Because you're just like, God, damn it, what are you doing? What the hell are you eating, kid? I know it's milk. I'm feeding it to you. It was crazy. Because I was going to catch you in like, you know,

I thought you might say she wasn't. wasn't going to go back to sleep yet. Because a great move always is when they're shitting, like mid-bottle, just to get the bottle out of their mouth and change them. So that way they're finishing on the bottle as they doze off and go back to because they'll be falling asleep on you. Of course. Of course.

But man, that third one, there would have been no playbook for that. There's no playbook for that one. There's no playbook. Because she's also milk drunk as fuck on that third one. I mean, she truly like arms were to the side. Eyes are like this. And I just go over that baby gate. And I guess that extra little oomp as I'm lifting her up,

It truly just... It was legendary, though. Still a dad loss. But legendary performance by Scarlett. Great story. Yeah. Great story. That's a first couple weeks.

That's an infant toddlers. Or infant toddlers. That's a good infant story right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I feel like all the dads empathize with that one. Where they're just shitting now. So why are you choosing that or shit? You're really putting your dad through some adversity right now.

I'm going to have to take this out on your mother later. Oh, they? I can't throw it anymore. She just keep shit in my arms. I just know, like, Boston people or people from the North East. They're like, what the fuck? Whatever they're a bad dad, they sound like me. What the fuck?

Well, did you change her? No, it's past 2 a.m. It's your turn. My shift's done. Yeah, shift's done. I left her up there for you. Yeah, you can wake up. Don't leave her up there.

Don't leave the baby alone. Don't leave the baby alone. Would never. my dad loss is not being able to hit a little squishy ball for volleyball my daughter Rue she was excited about we have these little squishy balls

and she calls it bang ball she wants to play bang ball Yeah To our our nanny she used to be She was a volleyball player in college So she's kind of teaching her how to hit it But she wants mom and dad to get involved Yeah yeah we can hit we can hit some volleys

We can volley this ball around But we get into a situation where Rue She's very particular she wants Rue's going to toss it to Augie Augie's going to bump it to me I'm going to bump it to mom

and mom's going to bump it to Rue and Roo's going to be able to hit it awesome because Audrey's like throwing it to her and she's like learning to hit it and she's like fired up to hit it but she wants it to go all the way around in a circle it's like sweetheart listen I can volley

I can bump but accuracy could be a problem with all of us sitting here in a small space with a little squishy it's like a little stuffed ball yeah yeah But she wants it done. And Audrey had hit it over to me, and I'm trying to hit it over to mom.

Sometimes I'm able to do it. Sometimes I'm not. Oh, no. But when it doesn't go correctly, she's losing her mind that we can't get it right. I want that, no, Daddy, you got to hit to mama. I'm trying to hit it to mama. What do you want me to do? This game is hard.

But she actually getting mad? Oh, yeah, bro. This chick, she's a perfectionist. Yeah. She's competitive. I think she's going to be a competitive monster, bro. She's like her dad. Yeah, mom too.

Mom's competitive too. Yeah. But right now those competitive juices aren't harnessed. I'm talking she melts down if shit doesn't go right when you're like doing an activity or she wants it to go a certain way. No, I throw it to Audrey. I'm like, I understand the game suite. You just don't know. Volleyball's a tough game.

The bang ball's a hard game. People mess up all the time. We're not going to get it correct all the time. They want to go sideways. She drops to the floor. She's sitting down. I just want Dad and then to hit to Mama. Or just want Mama to hit it to me.

Or say we get it all the way around and hit it to Roos doesn't hit it. She, like, sees in the air and has a slow reaction to her. She's like, oh, why is it so hard? Sweetheart, this is a hard game. We're up here to have fun. Can we just have fun trying to hit the ball? Yeah. She couldn't do it.

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I think I got a competitive little psychopath. That's good. And it fires me up. Yeah, yesterday we're kind of going back and forth, and I'm more of like defending. Sweetheart is tough. I can't just hit it. um however it fires me up charl tries to get her you know you try to get them corrective

and they're just melting down over the dumbest shit but i met i shouted out this game a couple episodes ago but sharing sparkle unicorns where you got your unicorn friends you're trying to take down the the troll who you're trying to get everybody's trying to get their board of gems filled up before the troll gets his bag of gems filled up it's a fun little multiplayer game to where you and your kids or your wife, four, it's like four or five people can play, and you're all trying to take down the troll. So you're all on the same team trying to do.

There's no like one winner. It's either the troll wins or the team wins. And don't pull the redstone. Don't pull the redstone. Then you have to flip a card and you might have to give, you might have to give one to the troll, or you give one, you take one out of your bag and put it in the bag. Yeah.

You're trying to take down the troll. And there's some good parody. It's it, this is an even game here. It's not set up to where the team always wins. wins. Troll gets his licks in, sometimes more often on days than not. That's good. It's good. It's a great game. Yeah. And it's one there too if you're a dad watching, if you're a mom watching, like, you know, when you're doing these activities and your kid want you to do something, you're just like, oh, God, like, you know, you want to play the memory game.

Actually, the memory game's kind of fun. I do love the memory game. Yeah. It's what I'm thinking. What's the one game like a pretty pretty princess? Oh, yeah. Okay. We had a role on that where you just kind of spin the thing and you just pick jewelry out. He dresses you up. Yeah, and you kind of get dressed up. And if you have the crown, you're the winner. But the crown can get taken away. She'd be pissed if I laying on the crown.

I'm like, sweetheart, that is going to get that. Yeah, because apparently when Francis Ellis came in town, he was kind of killing it. Yeah, pretty pretty princess. And Rude did not like that. Yeah. Yeah, Rue did not like having to give away the crown if she had the crown. It's all about the crown. Okay.

You're wearing necklaces, jewelry. But there's no, like, you know, when you're an adult and you love playing board games or you love a competitive spirit, there's no, like, a true way of winning. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's not like a fun game to play. This one is like you can feel you can feel excited. Yeah, let's play some, let's play Sharon Sparkle Unicorns. Yeah.

Let's play it. And buddy, when we lose to the troll, I'm talking, Roo can't take it. Crying, melts down. We got to let it. Hey, the troll is going to win. It's okay. The troll won this game. She takes it so serious.

She tries cheating. she tries cheating like if it's like psycho bro and I love it it makes me feel alive I'm like oh I might have a little winner on our hands yeah yeah yeah yeah because it might be like her turn and say

her unicorn is filled up and she's trying to fill out dad dad's her mama's and she rolls a three and the troll might have two left and we might have one left each and it's like oh okay rude like you can you can win this the game here the big roll big roll yeah she might pull one out

and it could be the troll. Like I don't have the color, or my colors are filled out. Charles colors are filled out, so she has to give the color to the troll. Because troll takes on all colors. Because she's got to get a specific one for us. Okay.

And we got to put it on the troll and she's like, you start seeing her face. And then it's like, draw another one. And as she's drawing another one, she like looks in. And we're like, you can't look. And her hands already going in. So she just like looks up at us and grabs

and kind of pulls out one that we need. But she's got like a like a little like, weird smile, not like a full smile of excitement, kind of like, yeah, I looked and picked this one out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck that troll. Yeah. One time, like, the first time it happened, this was a while back, he kind of celebrated

and let her do it and then kind of talk about sweetheart. You have to keep your eyes up, you can't look. Yeah, yeah. But if we're like, sweetheart, you cheated. Like, you got to put that one back, like draw another one. And she kind of fights you, but then she draws another one. Troll wins, and it's just full on meltdown. Oh, no, real. Charles was trying to talk her down, but I'm weirdly smiling.

As she's crying, and I'm like, I love that this pisses you off so much. I love that you're in physical pain because you think there's no beating this troll. That the troll won. Yeah. Because I can work with that. Yeah. We can work with that. The troll got a red stone?

Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good. Oh, we lost to the troll three times in a row today. Good. That has neither of blue stone. You got a green one?

Good. Oh, got caught cheating. Good. Put it back. more time to get better. Cheetahs never prosper. They never lose. They never lose, honey.

But that's my crack-a-call-one. I think, yeah, having a competitive kid. That gets seeded in them early. Yeah, dude. Well, you've been planting the seeds, little videos of 30A where you were having to run up the street. Yeah. High knees, high knees.

Pump the knees. Get the arms going. Jesus. A lot of work to do. Yeah, that gets me stoked. My only note is maybe a great future pinata for a birthday is the troll. Really see what she's got, dude. Oh, I like that.

Really see what she's got. You go, oh, honey, look who it is. It's the troll. Here's a little baseball bat in a blindfold. Let's see what you could do. Yeah. You know how the troll would beat a sweetheart? And you'd be crying.

You'd be in tears because you couldn't physically reach into the game and choke this. motherfucker out. Now you can beat his ass right here. Here's the bat. Here's the stick. If you don't got no legs, I don't think he's going to lead him to the same time soon. Go up to that troll,

that pinata, and whispering his ear. Now he's can't leave. He's stuck with me. You ain't going nowhere today, buddy, hanging from up there. Oh my God. I would love to see that.

I hope I get, I don't want to invite myself to Rue's birthday party, but I would, if there's a troll pinionioner, I have to be there for it. I almost have to do that now that you brought up that idea. You got to do it. Got to do it.

She looks back at that day day with the stick and you're just sitting there and you're like, also. Hoard him. Oort him for what he's taken from this family. Shout out to, what was the game that you, it was at her birthday party, you were filming her and you're like, hey, Roo, if you aren't going to take this serious, like we could go home. What was it? You said I filmed it?

Yeah, you were filming her at a birthday party. I remember I laughed so hard. You pulled her off to the side and you're like, hey, if you're not going to take this serious, we can go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of remember that. We were at a Dicey's Pizza.

I believe in the back area. I forget what game or whatever is being played, but she's so young, they're like having fun. I'm like, hey, sweet I'm worried. You're going to go play that game? You're here to win. I feel like all the joking, like it really did plant the seeds because she didn't know Daddaz was joking.

So in her head, you're just molding her into a winner. Yeah, just like when you get to another personality too, you can tell that she's like a, if things go off kilter, it's something that we need to get her right on. But she's very, wants to do everything on her own, has to be perfect. She's got that like perfectionist mindset that could be an Achilles heel at some point if she doesn't know how to, her biggest enemy is going to be her. Yeah, yeah. It's going to be upee. It's going to be a mind game. Just like if we just go Italian.

Because she's got the jeans. Yeah. She's got the jeans. Yeah. Also, I want to let you know, it's 100% the espresso, like nitrous oxide that is running through my body that keeps on making my eye twitch whenever I'm looking at you. Buddy, I got an eye twitch too in my left eye. Wait, really? Mine's in my left eye.

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For full safety information, go to row.co slash safety info. Crack a coal one for us. Crack a coal one. In that case, I'll take my time with my crack a cold one. I had to, okay, this is a fun crack of coal one. I kind of had to, you know, get creative with this one, but it was a very fun moment. We've been hearing some noises up in our ceiling for quite a while, but not super long of what we thought was an animal on our. roof. Right. I remember being at the house and you were bringing it up. Yes. Well, that little raccoon up

there. Yes. Okay, it's in a crawl space. So above our patio is like a separate crawl space from like what would be our attic. So it's not the true inside of our house. It's just like a decorative little outcrop that comes from our roof that somebody just or some little animal varmint like ripped a hole in it and they're getting up in there. So I call it. I call it. A little outcrop that comes from our roof that somebody just, or some little animal varmint, like, I called the wildlife expert team whatever to come set a trap. Wildlife Team 6. Wildlife Team 6. WT6 came to set up a trap on the roof.

Shout out to them because since they set up that trap, we haven't caught whatever it is, but whatever it is is too scared to go into that crawl space now because of the trap. So like it's kind of fixed itself, but the best part is they came yesterday. Or no, they came on Wednesday. to come set up the trap, and I just hear this, do, do, do, do knock on the door.

Dogs start going ballistic. Jill and her mom left me home with Scarlett, just me and Scarlett. It was the very first time that Scarlet had been left with just one individual in her life. And who was she left with? Papa Sherm. Papa Sherm.

So I got that badge. I got the solo babysitting badge. Yeah, I love first time in her life. First time in her life she's been left alone. with one individual. First time in 10 days. And it's this city. And so knock on the door.

So I'm, oh my gosh, and she's getting all flustered because the dogs are going crazy. I'm kicking the, you know, moving the dogs around with my feet. I get outside.

The wildlife guy was awesome. I think his name was Riley. Shout out Riley. He instantly was, oh my gosh. Oh, I'm so sorry. He's like,

I noticed the crane in the front yard. I didn't even think because we have one of those newborn cranes out front. but it was incredible dude he's like talking me through setting the trap up how the process goes and i'm just standing there like bobbing scarlet up and down in the front yard just standing out there and i'm kind of pointing and you know oh okay yeah yeah so there's the opening i'm just like dude people driving by if they're looking i fucking look like a dad like i'm holding my baby

talking to this guy with like knee-high boots and he's got his hand on his hip and we're both kind of like pointing at the roof and it was like my first time that I really like I felt like I looked like a dad yeah like not only am I the part but like I looked the part you look the part and you're executing the part and I was executing the part how did he uh let me ask this how did he address you he called me sir okay did he salute he did not salute he did not salute oh Papa shirm pt6 oh my god I didn't even put the two and two together oh my god I didn't even put the two and two together Oh my God For the dads

Yeah The hit podcast Yeah that's me That's me But yeah he did call me But then we We chummed it up He's got a 16 month old

He was telling me about ASL You gotta get her started on ASL man I mean they're telling us They're hungry Or they want something blah blah blah Oh the ASL is the sign language Yeah

Yeah more more more Yeah more more And he was like talking a big game about the ASL. His daughter, I forget his daughter's name, but she's like apparently just a savant with the ASL is doing like full sentences.

ASL, good dad hack. Good dad hack. Good dad hack. Great dad hack. Getting them in. Like, I'll get done feeding Scotty the the hell they call. Why is my why am I getting dad brain right now? Baby food? The soft food. Yeah, the baby food.

Yeah. The purees. There it is. You get done feeding her and I'll be like, all done. And try back, sweetheart, you got to, you got to, got to elevate your voice. I'm like, all done. Then I'll just get carried away with it. Because I'll like intentionally tell her all done like, you know, for the hand signals.

We do with rude. It's like more. And like what was it? Water. Uh-huh. All that different stuff. Uh-huh. Poop going to the bathroom.

Yeah. Bullshit. Is that bullshit? That's bullshit. Oh, I like that. That's a good one. And so we're starting to implement, you know, it's got to start getting the all done So I'm going, all done, all done.

All done. You think they do better with L.D. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All done. You got to elevate your voice. I'll make, all done. Like, lean into her face. All done.

That good, sweetheart? I fucking do it right. And then Scott, he was just being sitting there looking at me like, Dad! All done. That's incredible. Did she mean go up an octave, or was she talking volume? Yeah.

I mean, she's laughing because I'm going, all done. You know, you just mess around at dinner time. I'm like, you know, you. Yeah, yeah. Oh, does that taste good? You're doing all this stuff. I'm like, you're doing it. She's back, don't forget the sign language.

You'll be like, you gotta see all done with her. I'll be like, all done. You're doing your Santa impersonation. All done. That's incredible. Yeah. But, good times. Oh, it was my crack of colon.

So you're, we're kicking it to the next thing. What is the next thing? I forgot. What are the odds? You're part of Papa Team 6. The brain gets fleeting. The brain is fleeting. Where do I leave my keys?

We're only 10 minutes in. Only. Keep it under an hour. I keep it under an hour. Keep it under an hour. What is it? What is it? Do you got one?

I got one. Let's hear it. Okay. Thank you, Fandul. Thank you, Fandul. Shut off, Fandul. What are the odds? This one is a stretch, but it's hilarious, dude.

What are the odds that the little nickname that you give your sweet child happens to be just the most explicit term of all time. I saw this one on Instagram. A buddy of mine actually went to Baylor with his wife, her name Sky. His name is Nick. He storied

on his Instagram that his wife, unbeknownst to her, she was not aware what booffing was. And if there's any boofers out there or people that are boof adjacent and are knowledgeable of this term,

Boof adjacent. Do you know what booping is? We're going to explain it. We're going to explain it to the... Yeah, let's get a Webster's Dictionary for PT6 out there. Oh, or urban dictionary. Here's the AI overview. Oh, okay.

Boofing is a slang term with a few different meanings that have evolved over time. One meeting of booffing popularized in the 1980s refers to anal sex. Oh, okay. This meaning is believed to have originated from a shortened version of a more explicit term for anal sex. References to this usage can be found in the 1980s popular culture, including music and film.

In the 2000s, another meaning of Boofan became more common referring to the practice of inserting drugs or alcohol into the rectum. Of course. This method is sometimes called butt chugging or plugging. It is believed to produce a faster, more intense high due to the rapid absorption

of substances through the rectum's blood vessels. This method is reportedly employed for various substances including methamphetamine. Oh. Okay, all the drugs. We start off drugs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The meaning of boofing gained significant intention during the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavana as the term appeared in his high school year. Oh, Brett Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh. Yeah, yeah, Brett Kavanaugh. Who's that? That was the, yeah, U.S. Supreme Court.

Of course. Yeah, yeah. He was the one that was talking about how he had a beer here and there. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. Additionally, in some circles, boofing can refer to concealing contraband in the rectum, especially in prison slang. Among dog lovers, it can also be a playful term for barking. Oh, you're just boofing.

Oh, you're just boofing? Waffle, stop boofing. Say, all done. All done. But, so, Sky was calling her son Axel, her little newborn boy, her little boofer. Oh, my little boofer. Oh, my little boofer?

That's my little booffer. That's my little boofer. And so she's doing that, unbeknownst to dad, Nick. Nick comes home and here's her calling, or sorry, comes home and like four-year-old daughter is going around the house and going, oh, Axel, you little boofer, you little boofy booper. And they're just throwing it around. And he had to quickly, he did the same thing as you, he pulled out the, uh, AI definition. It was like,

honey, you got to chill on the boof-doll this one in. What are we doing? And she had no idea. He, like, re-storied her story. And that's where I saw it. It was so funny, dude. Get the comments going if you have a funny little nickname. Mine's not too. It's like

a booger, nugget, bean. My little rubel. My little bell. Ooh. Yeah, because it's Cyrillian Bell is her. Yeah, Cerulean Bell. Yeah, the ocean waters. The blue cerulean waters.

Dude, it was sick whenever Charles came up with that name. She knew she would go back and forth with me because I was like, you know, I don't want it to be crazy, blah, blah, blah. But whenever she said cerulean, I was like, I actually don't hate that. Call her Rue for short. And when we were kind of going over, if that was going to be her name or not, Cerulian Bell, when we went on our, when we went on our money, our honeymoon, where she was conceived. Oh, really? Because as I dropped in, maybe, as I dropped in Seaman Team 6 on the honeymoon and got it right that first round, we were in, we were in Bora Bora. And when we were going over, so obviously fast forward, we're kind of coming up with names.

We like Cerulean calling a Rufus short. And we were kind of sitting on it. The spot in Bora Bora reached out to Charo seeing if they could use her photo. she like did this photo where she was like laying in the water and kind of like you know her back on the water and you got the views behind it yeah in borbora at their hotel i did a remake of the photo where i'm just face down butt naked took off the short i'll go i'll shoot you too so you can pull that up on the screen and but they asked her they requested if they could use her photo for promotion which i was like yeah sure so they promoted it like the next there within the week and it was like come enjoy the cerulean waters of borrador and it was like come enjoy the cerulean waters of borruby and Bora. They didn't know that we were thinking about naming Rue. That's crazy. So it was like that moment was like, oh, we have to name her cerulian.

It was like a... I love that y'all were talking names that quickly too. Yeah. That's always fun. I can't remember when it, I mean, you know, once you get pregnant, dude, you're just so excited and then you say, you know, is it going to be a boy? Is it going to be a girl? You know, your boy was wanting a boy, and the line was drawn in the sand.

We're getting William Earl Kopp from the fourth. Charles fights it. She still fights it if we happen to get a boy one day. Yeah. if we get a boy she's like you don't want to go off we could kind of call it back in the middle name and I'm just like sweetheart William Earl Compton it don't work like that yeah he can't be the four lineage if it's a call my grandpa loved him William senior Willie senior um I love that you know everybody gets excited doing the names and yeah breaking it down we're down to three I wanted for

scotty um Scotty so it's serulium Bell and Scotty Jolie. I want to say Bell in French or something over there. Something over there across the seas. Bell means beautiful. Jolie means pretty. It's one of those or it's reverse. A bella.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that beautiful? Yeah, in Italy. Beautiful girl. Yeah. So that's how Scotty got Jolie. But I wanted to name Scottie. We were down to two. Scotty Jolie and Billy May. So going through number two, obviously, we went through IVF. Yeah. For those that I don't know, I did an IVF podcast with my wife on bus with the boys.

You can find that. That was back in during Mother's Day, which is in May. Like and subscribe. Like and subscribe. So we went through IVF, not knowing like, hey, we could only do two kids. It was going to be a girl. I was crippled when I saw that pink. Come through the cake.

Crippled. And so it's like if we don't have any more, we'd love a call back to William. like Billy May. Like Billy, she wanted like a boy name for a girl. We got Scotty from binge watching suits. Love suits whenever that came back around on Netflix. It was a couple years ago or a few years ago. Awesome show.

I need to sit down and watch it. I've only seen little... Yeah, it's an awesome show. It's a great show to binge. Yeah, great show to binge. But we love Scotty, the Scotty character in that show. So we were down to Scotty and Billy for a call back to William. And Billy May, Charles' middle name is May.

kind of a callback to both of us, but one of Charles' best friends, her sister had a baby and named the kid Billy May. You're kidding. When Charles was like five months pregnant, and we were down to Billy and Scotty. I wanted Billy, Charles wanted Scotty. But once that sister of her best friend had Billy May, the women, they just, they don't want anything to do with it. If there's like a name in the aura or in our circle somewhere out there, people don't want like

the same names. Can I be honest with you? Please. This is a safe space. This is for the dads, man. I think you dodged a bullet. Because when I hear Billy May, I think, Billy May's here with the flex seal.

Dude, I think you dodged a bullet. You think so because I love Billy May. Billy May's here. That's what I think. As soon as I hear Billy May, I just, I saw this bow to nap and put flex seal, and now it floats. That's what I would think if I heard Billy May.

But I don't want to, like... Well, names already chosen. It's Scottie Joe. Yeah, Scotty Jolie, we're good. Scotty Jolie, we're good. We're good. I hear what you're saying, though. I get that.

I think you dodge a bullet. Okay. Charles does too. You're on Charles' side. I really want... It's tough to hear. I want a Will Compton the fourth. I want a Willie four so bad.

Are you all going to go for number three? Can we write here right now on this pod? Not confidently. Okay. However, we do talk about it. Like, I don't think we're out of the woods on talking about a third. We just don't know. It's like...

I'm sorry. That was inappropriate. I put the pressure on you. It's okay. That was a bit inappropriate. You could ask that question. I can handle it however. I can answer it however I want to answer it.

You know what I mean? Like I don't really feel comfortable to talk about it. Maybe not. I don't know. Yeah. And just keep it that way. I just got excited. Now that I'm a dad,

I'm like baby fever. I want to say when Charles was pregnant with Scotty, it was kind of the thought was, you know, you see what happens during IVF. And it's just, the women go through so much, dude. It's a different ballgame.

And people would ask me and like, dude, it's honestly, it's completely up to my wife. because they have to go through everything. Whether it's IVF, even pregnancy in general, they have to go through all the stuff. And we had a tough labor with Rue.

So you're just, you know, you're just trying to stay afloat. But it's definitely a conversation. I think she gets excited about it at times. We both do. And then when we're both in hell, like at the pool, the pool story last week that I told. Like when you have the three-year-old and the chaos happening, like, man, do we really want to throw a third into the mix?

But it kind of just depends, dude. Yeah. Because I'm really hellbent on wanting a boy and you can kind of get one through the IVF process. But if we could happen to get pregnant naturally, maybe, I don't know. I don't know. I want it for you.

I know. For you to have a boy. I know. And for all the dads out there, there are like Sherman, you lucky bastard hearing the delivery of Jill and how smooth that went, it took five seconds of little scarlet on her check.

I swear to God, five seconds. She has just come out and Jill looks at me and goes, we got to do this again. I swear to God. That's awesome, dude. That's awesome. So second one got confirmed five seconds into Scarlett's life. Yeah, she's on the Pupp list right now for about eight weeks. Yeah, she is.

And for anybody that's not privy to what the Pupp list is. Yeah, for the young Seaman Team Sixers out there that don't know what we're talking about. Pup list is physically unable to perform in football terms. And they're on the Pup list for eight weeks because they have to heal. So there's not, you know, there's not really any sexual activity going on. There's no Seamen Team 6 or Seed Team 6 activity going down. Right. Can't go down.

I try it. She has a medical waiver. Yeah. He tried? Not tried, not try like that. But, you know, when you get a little sexually pent up, sweet I eat you. Honey, it's eight weeks now. No, it's eight days, honey.

Oh, shit. I know you're recovering. You haven't got a lot of sleep. You're operating on knee, but, you know. You got other body parts. Oh. Oh, sorry to the moms out there. Yeah, sorry to the moms.

And I love you, honey, if you're listening at home. I love you. Yeah, I love you, too, sweetheart. I love you, too, Charo. My analogy begs, Babe, like, just because just because one roller coaster

shut down doesn't mean you have to shut down the entire theme park. Exactly. The Titans down? Will the Texas Giants still going? We got the scrambler over here. We can stick to the carnival rides.

Superman's a thrill. Yeah. That's so much fun. It doesn't even have to be a coaster. Yeah. Yeah, that's a topic for another day. Yeah, good for y'all. Good for you.

you know, survival kit. Yeah, let's get into survival kit. Let's talk about what's in our survival kit. For me, I think this is more of a learn that Toronto and I would be implementing with Scotty. Because Rue will have, you know, I'm sure a lot of parents out there could, what's going on? Oh, okay.

Okay. We're going to pause for HDMI. Pause for HDMIs. We're all good? Are we all good? Yeah, we're all good. Is it back on? Okay.

Oh, we're back. HDMIs are in. Love it. One thing we're going to operate that I think parents out there with toddlers might resonate with is like just the struggle and the negotiation it takes for Rue to consume. Like, really it's just like her protein options. Well, like, whether it's meat or yogurt and so like she loves yogurt. Yogurt's more of like a morning thing for her. But she'll have these tantrums and we're, you know, obviously talking about number one, she's just three.

So she has all this big vocabulary in her head and her big emotions and everything else happening. So it's hard for her to connect all the wires of times. We totally get that. But thinking about, yeah, we'd love a water too, chef. Thank you, chef. But thinking about like other things, like how she kind of operates when you look at her, the journal from like what she's having for lunch and things like that. She, you know, consumes a lot of like snacks or carbs, like sugar and fruits and stuff like that. But I'm thinking like, hey, if she gets like more protein in her system throughout the

the day or earlier, that could help. I've seen, you know, these Instagram videos out there where they talk about how protein helps with regulation and just the overall your mood throughout the day. So we're obviously in that little war with Rue and something that I wish I would have done as she's transitioning off the bottle to like, you know, she still has milk with, we do whole milk, but transitioning off the bottle to other options, whether it's milk or mixing in with milk is involving the survival, in your survival. Bible kit protein, just like powder protein for kids. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I think that's something I'm going to try doing with Scotty, just because, again, it's like Rue will only drink whole milk. I try to get her, you know, try some chocolate milk to get her from chocolate milk to, hey, just create some variety. So then if I were to mix in protein powder, she would like, you know, she loves milk or loves all kinds of milk. She knows she does, so she'll drink it. Yeah.

But if she knows she doesn't like it or hasn't tried it, she's hard on trying new things. We're always got to say, hey, what's Daniel Tiger saying? It's time to try new things because it might taste good. Daniel Tiger says that? Daniel Tiger says that, bro. Daniel Tiger's a good show. Daniel Tiger's a good show. Maybe that's another one that's thrown into the survival kit.

But survival kit that I will try to be implementing with Scotty or that we might be trying with Scotty is getting like that protein portion early in the day or when she drinks her milk, just throwing a little bit in there if she enjoys like chocolate milk or something. Does she like the chocolate milk? Rue? Yeah. She hasn't tried it. Oh,

have you tried to give it to her that? You were saying earlier? Yes, bro. That's crazy. And she didn't want to talk about. We had to fight for our lives for her to try, like, just something different. Like, if we'd go out to breakfast and they just had orange juice as an option and no apple juice. Yeah.

Back, did they have orange juice? Do you want some juice? Because she has her water bottle and everything else. We had the fight to get her going just to drink some orange juice if there was no apple juice available. Is it bad that in my head my instant go to in that situation is. Oh, you don't have apple juice, but you have super apple juice to the waitress. We might get some of that super apple juice. I can't believe, honey, you get to get super apple juice.

That's crazy. But what is the actual juice? Orange juice. I do love that. It's super apple juice. Yeah. But is that bad that I'm lying to my kid? Like, that was my instinct go to you.

Listen, you're going to get in there. It's going to be a lot of mind games getting played. Okay. You're going to have to figure out. those ways to make it creative and make it sound fun and in their wheelhouse to explore and experiment other other things yeah yeah it was breaking my heart just watching her say no to the maple syrup to you at breakfast right that hurt yeah on the inside knowing how much she would just love it if she tried it yeah because we'll do like protein pancakes or something on sundays

or waffles it might be waffle day i'm just like sweetheart you're gonna you would love having some of this this maple syrup you just got to try it dude yeah but that's that's my survival kit like implementing protein like finding various ways and i was looking too i was researching for people out there that are probably leaving comments that are some fun snacks i'm looking at like thrive market for potential snack options yeah because they're just snackers dude like you got to shut her down an hour before hour and a half before dinner with the snacks because she'll start she knows dinner's coming and dinner's usually charles and i eat scotty eats yeah ruse in there

finding other ways to just not eat. Whether it's I got to go walk and do this. Oh, Scotty dropped this. Got to get off her chair, sweetheart. Just stay seated. We have Scotty. Don't worry about Scotty. Let's eat your food. But I don't want to eat. Did you say that Rue liked hummus?

Am I making that up? Yeah, you're making that up. Okay. I don't think she does unless you saw something that I didn't. No, I'm probably making that up. I was just trying to think of like anything else that you could put the protein powder into. Like just a little bit of water into like, any type of dip type thing that she likes

a little bit of water and some protein powder. Yogurt, dude. That thing would dissolve so fast in yogurt. Yeah. Because I have this, like, when I do my Greek yogurt, I have like this, the Jaco protein. I have like the banana. Good.

Yeah, good. The banana cream and I'll mix it in my Greek yogurt. And I tried with her one day. So I want protein like you, and I kind of put it in there and mix it up and then she just doesn't eat it. Oh, no. Yeah.

So she has some strong taste buds. Like she knows when something's different. I don't feel like it's out of the ordinary. I mean, she eats, but you're just sitting there negotiating the whole time. Yeah. Some kids out there eat good, dude. Yeah. I feel like Rue ate everything before probably in the twos hit.

And then just outside of there, then you just got your go-toes, man. You try to get the healthiest version of chicken nuggets. Like, you got your chicken fingers and mac and cheese. Yep. I was like, Roo, we can't have mac and cheese, bro, every day. We can't have mac and cheese that much. Yeah. I don't know if this is a dad hack.

I don't know if my mom just lucked out with my brother and I, but she was introducing crazy shit when we were a little kid. Like she was giving us pesto feta pizza. Yeah, man. I'm telling you, Roo would be a little. Roo would do that stuff because that's what Charles would do with her, introducing all these things. And she just, her taste buds would tighten up.

Oh, really? Now that she's three and we just got to like get creative. Like, oh, Tickle Monster's going to come get you if you don't take a bite. Stuff like that, yeah, to get them going. But it's like, yeah, because you offer them as much as, you know, you offer them a full plate. I want to say, hey, eat this, eat that. Like, don't, you know, just let them, hey, whenever you're ready, she gets too pissed off.

I'll say, we'll go sit in your room. Go sit on the couch until you're ready. Yeah. She destroyed those eggs when we were sitting there at breakfast. Yeah, I'll get it to eat eggs because you'll talk about, you know, you want to grow taller or you want to, you love jumping and doing ballet. your spins will get faster, you'll start running faster. You get on your tippy toes better, all those things.

And sweetheart, you're so, you know, you do such a good job focusing. And with your memory and reading, eggies, protein makes your brain better, makes your brain stronger, smarter, you grow taller faster. I try to, you know, you try to explain the why behind it, so it kind of gets their brain. Okay. So she, that would get her to start taking down eggs. friend of the pod of the Bustin with the boys' pod

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Yeah. Keep it under an hour. Keep it under an hour. My survival kid, this is a quick one because it's just a fastball right down the middle. It's called the Snuggle Me. I'm sure dad's out there with newborns or maybe even infants as well, like early infancy, are aware of the Snuggle Me, but I am a new dad, so I'm just going to throw it out there. fastball down the middle.

This thing is crazy. It's a little bed that, you know, nothing out there like prefaces, this is safe sleep because they don't want to get sued or whatever. But it's a very safe form of like this little bed and it kind of mimics like rolling up a towel or rolling up a blanket super tight around your baby. It's basically like a little dog bed for a baby.

Do we put Scarlett in this thing? We don't even have to swaddle her. We just place her in there. Sometimes we don't have to put a blanket down. And she is night night instantly. When we were playing PubG together that night, I had Snuggle Me on the couch right here to my left. She is on my hip.

Like the Snuggle Me is touching my hip. She's right here. I had the headset because I'm a good dad, halfway off my ears. So I kind of hear what's going on. There's a great playlist on, and maybe I already referenced this, but it's a harp covers of like pop songs.

So it's like fun 20th century pop songs, but played on a harp. I have that playing. I have her little, God, what are those little noise makers? Sound machines? Yeah, but it's the one that everybody has. The white noise?

The hatch. Oh, yeah, yeah. The hatch. And we got the portable hatch, dude. Do you have the portable hatch? I don't think so. That thing is sick. That might be my honorable mention survival kit.

It comes with like a little keychain hanger that you can put on a backpack. I like that. It's sick, dude. Four different settings like Ocean, Hatch Sound Machine. It's got, you are my sunshine on repeat, like on piano. But it's great. I got to add that one to the bag. Dude.

It seems like a great one to travel with. It's so good. You can hang it from anywhere. So like if she's sleeping, you're not worried that it's like laying down next door. The long car risers, it's now chiming in. you just have it hanging from their car seat. I love that. That's a great dad hack.

Our great survival kit. Yeah, great survival kit. Kind of my honorable mention, because the snuggle me is like the true survival kit. But dude, it was great. I was like able to be with you guys. I'm attentive to her. She's right there.

She's getting good sleep. If she's kind of moving just a little bit and doing a little, I just kind of gently place my hand like on her arms and chest, just to let her know like, hey, dad, da's here. Daddice here. I'm right here. and she's got those cushions on either side of her, so she feels very contained, very swaddled, peaceful sleep, dude, peaceful sleep.

So snuggle me? Snuggle me. And portable. And portable hatch. Portable hatch. Portable hatch. I love those. Do we want to hit the hotline?

We can do the hotline. My dad hack is so fast. I'm just going to say, just sing. Just sing. It helps with anything. Love that. Change of diapers, sing. Sing.

You're feeding? Sing. Sing, yes. I mean, I'm only a week and a day in, but if you're singing, you're winning. Yeah. Them go to lullabies, man. Go to lullabies. I found one because Scotty's a big twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Twinkle, twinkle, you know the song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know the bars. Well, and I've heard that you're a champion of twinkle, twinkle, little star. I found her song. Oh. A twinkle, twinkle, little star. Oh, really?

Would you like to hear? Yeah. Okay, sorry for those out there that don't want to hear the boys sing, but it's... Scotty, Scotty, Scotty, Joe, you have a family that loves you so. Mama, dad, they're waffling rue. Yeah. Singing you a song because I love you. Scotty, Scotty, Scotty, Scotty, Joe.

You have a family that loves you so. Yes. That's really good, Will. I was in my bag on that one. That's really good. I did, you are my sunshine, but you are my scarlet, my little scarlet. You make me happy when skies are gray. A little something, song.

You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my scarlet away. I love that. Come on, dude. You were deep in the bag with that one. I was deep in the bag. And then I was singing in the middle. by Jimmy Eat World.

The, it just takes some time. Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride. Everything, everything will be just fine. I like that. Oh, yeah. During diaper changes, she doesn't cry anymore if I sing Jimmy Eat World. The best, too, is as she gets older, like when you're singing her those songs, she'll just be, her eyes will just be on you. Five, I'm going to sing it.

Dude, I'm fired up. Yeah. You'll love it, dude. That's a great dead hack, though. Oh, yeah. Call ends? Yeah, go call-ins for my dad-hack. My dad-hack kind of goes into the lesson.

Okay, cool. This one comes in. So just a reminder for our international listeners, you have 601 the dads at gmail.com. You can send in a voice recording, a video, or just written down email to 601 the dads at gmail.com. This one comes from Australia, from our boy Nathan, down under.

Down under. Bro, listen to this shit. He killed it. So he sent a voice memo into the... Sent a voice memo into... Into Gmail. Okay. 601 to Dad's at Gmail.

Okay. Sam, Will. How are you, boys? I'm loving this new Dad show. That's Nathan here from Australia. I'm a long-time busing fan and a proud two-time girl dad. My oldest daughter is nearly four. And my youngest daughter is about six months.

And, mate, it's all happening down here. Pause it. It, mate, it's happening all down here. It's happening down here. It's happening down. down here. Oh my God, I could listen to this guy every week. Big fans, mate. Down under.

Listen, mate. It's all happening. Two and a half year old. I'm kind of getting some Irish mixed in with that. But I love this guy's voice. Oh, dude, he's crushing. He has a great call in, too. My oldest daughter is nearly four, and my youngest daughter is about six months.

And, mate, it's all happening down here. I've got a question for your voice How is your hair and outfit game? How's your hair and outfit game? How is your hair and outfit game? All about making sure the girls look cute when we leave the house. I'm talking matching outfits. I'm talking hair done, little bows.

But when it's just me on Dad Judy, mate, it's survival mode. I'm talking crooked ponytail. Could you understand what you said? No, what did you say in that? When it's just me on Dad Duty, it is survival mode. It is survival mode. I suck at the Australian voice. I suck at the...

Keep him going. Keep him going on in the wash. Any tips for me for stepping up my solo, dad's styling skills? I should just call it how it is and embrace the chaos and call it authentic toddler look. Thanks, thanks, nice, boys. Have a good one. Cheers. What's his name?

Nathan. Nathan. you know that fired me up i love that call in he's nice please call in every week please call in every week he signed off on his email cheese legends Nathan round of applause yeah round of applause for nathan what do you have for it i really don't have any advice for him because i'm not

he's doing it embracing the suck embracing the trenches like it at the end of the day you're your uh your wife loves the matching outfits kids love the matching outfits. Rue loves wearing dresses. She's in the dress theme. And Rue will get a dress on her. And be like, you get to wear a dress today, sweetheart. She picks out a dress.

She picks out a bow and the, whether it's a bow or a, what fuck's it called? Headband. Headband. Yeah? Is that it? Yeah. Headband with the bow. Headband, like the thing that like arches over their head.

Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah, not like the headband like a wraparon. Yeah. Chef, do some Google info. I'm such a guy, dude. That's all right. But headbands, you know, whether it's matching or not matching, whatever Roe, whatever she wants

to pick, we kind of let her wear. However, Charles loves the outfit game. She loves getting new outfits, and she does such a good job picking them out. I took Root to, when we were in New York, I took her through a store so she could pick out a dress. It's headband? Oh, perfect. Bow headband.

Yeah, we got a couple of those as well. Oh, yeah. I love it. Just because anytime you leave the house too And you're out in public You know you have strangers that are complimenting them And they just feel awesome What do you say? She's like, thank you

But as much as it sucks at times Because I'll just want to throw shorts and a t-shirt on her Let's just get shorts and a t-shirt Sweet Art We wanted to go shorts in a t-shirt Trying to get her out of the house I laid out an outfit Oh screw your outfit

We wanted to go shorts on a t-shirt To make it quick and easy But there are times especially holiday season Matching PJs All of us. I'm big on, you know, if we got to get her a new pair of shoes, I'm quick to go on, you know, whether it's StockX or a website for shoes and get like matching shoes because I like to rock the new balance.

Rue has a pair of new balance shoes where we all, me, her and her mom, we have some matching new balances. Fit game is big. Getting swagged out is big, dude. And Charo loves it. It's, you just got to embrace it. But as far as crooked ponytails go, the ponytail game is hard. I'm a one-trick pony.

Okay. I'm a one-trick pony. We can go, actually a two-trick pony. We can go high pony. We can go low pony. But outside of that, you want Dad-a to braze your hair? Dad, I don't, I haven't figured out. I haven't had the patience enough to learn the videos because I know Dad's out there.

They are savants. You guys are savants at braiding the hair. There are some. You'll probably be leaving me some tips on braiding the hair. My fingers are just. That's a badge, dude. It's a badge, bro. If we're talking PT6 badges, that's a badge.

It's a badge. It's a badge to put out there. Yeah. The braid badge. That's just not in my bag. Your mom's got to do your hair. But any of the buns, too, like, you know, you flip it through the ponytail and you put in something else where it looks like a little bun.

I'm not, I don't have that in my bag. I can put on a headband, put on a bow. We can go high pony, or we can go low pony. Yep. I've gotten solid, though, at the ponies, brushing their hair tight, get it in, four hoops. But anytime it's a bun or anything else, like I can get out the braid. It's pretty easy to get out. Yeah.

But anytime it's in a bun. and you see her hair kind of in a certain type of maze going on up there. I tend to stay away. Hey, sweetheart, can you help her get her bun out? Because I feel like I hurt her when I'm like trying to pull it out. She's like, ah, dad, that, you know, and she starts like crying. I'm like, go to your mother, go to your mother. This contraption, I don't know how to figure it out.

You start pulling on the wrong spot. You know what I mean? You start pulling on the wrong parts. I can't even brush Jill's hair. Like I really like how you're saying start low and then you like kind of work your way up. you were talking about brushing ruse hair. Like, I had to learn that with Jill when we first started dating. Yeah, like when you don't have it tight enough and you're just getting out the lows.

Like, if it's a little too loose, it'll yank. It'll yank on their head. Or Jill had hair. She's okay with me saying this, but she would get hair extensions for like weddings or like big events and stuff. And do taking those out, chef, have you ever had to do that? Take hair extensions out? It's like surgery. They have like the little brackets in there.

and I'm in there with a needle-nosed plier trying to break these little, you know, metal brackets to like... Oh, shit. Oh, dude, you're like, I don't want my wife to go bald. Like, you know what I mean? Because you're ripping... You feel like you're ripping so much hair out.

You're like, golly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's nerve-wracking. Something we can all work on, Nathan. You're Nathan. Nathan.

Keep grinding. Nathan. That was awesome. Just keep embracing. it, dude. Yeah, dude. Just keep embracing it. And Nathan, please call in again soon.

I have Nathan Jay just like saved in the email now. So if Nathan J comes in, he's a friend of the show. Friend of the show. Nathan, Nathan, first friend of the show. First friend of the show? First friend of the show. All right, let's go. I hate to derail us, but how the hell are we going to get him his merge?

Are we just going to go ship international? Yeah, if we can, absolutely. We got to get Nathan his merch. He's going to be a friend of the show and he's part of PT6. He's going to embrace the boys and he's a fan of the... Of course we were getting him his merch. Nathan, please send us a picture of the merch box. Yeah.

That just juices me up that's going to another continent. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, Nathan, anytime you're alone too and your daughter's not excited about you not getting it right with a crooked ponytail, you just got to embrace it. You got to embrace. Hey, Dad doesn't always have all the answers.

Dad is doing his best. But look at your hair. Your hair looks gorgeous. And just remind your daughter that it's all going down here. Yeah. It's all going down down here. Survite. I keep going like a European.

Because of the Lion Tamer. Yeah, the Lion Tamer. The Lion Tamer videos we were watching. Is this moist base? I don't even know what accent I'm in. Yeah. But that was awesome. You just got to have fun with it.

Yeah. That is trying. That is doing his best. And I guarantee you the teachers at school when, like, you're dropping off daughter and she gets out of the car and ponytails crooked and it's dad obviously dropping her off. I'm sure the teachers love that. Yeah. They're like, oh, dad gave it his best guy. He gave it his best shot.

He's got to love the dad's out there embracing and trying. Yeah, dude. It's new for all of us. Oh, yeah. Because Rue has a bunch of hair, bro. She does. Yeah, she's got a bunch of hair. So when it got to the place where I'm having to learn how to do the ponytail

and everything, I'm back there like, what the fuck is going on? Because I didn't have any sisters. Oh, same. Yeah, I would be the blind leading, the blind, if I gave any advice in that. Yeah, yeah. Let's get to the next caller. All right. Next caller, this is Nick.

Will, what's up? My name is Nick. I'm a dad of an 18-month-old. I live in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, just out of the Twin Cities. First off, just want to say, you guys have a great program. I love listening to your show. been following ever since you've been on bar stool, go Huskers. Anyway, just hear me out for a second.

I think all dads when you're in the trenches. I'm talking like kids less than two years old. You need to be afforded a Dennis Rodman night. You just hear me out. Just hear me out. Maybe it's a weekend, Dennis Rodman weekend. Flashback to the last dance series, Dennis Rodman, middle of the season, says, I got to go to Vegas.

I'll take anything to give me. I just need to clear my head, 48 hours there and back, and I'm ready to roll. Could you freaking imagine? 48 hours, honey, I'll help you. I'll help you get care. I'll help you get everything set up. I'll help you get bottles, everything ready to go. I just need 48 hours.

And when I come back, I will be championship Dennis Rodman in the house, around the house, changing diapers, staying up late. I'll take night shift. I don't care, but I just need 48 hours in Vegas. Call it Vegas. Call it Minnesota, Montana, wherever it is you want to go. I think every dad needs a Dennis Rodman night or a Dennis Rodman weekend. Let me know your thoughts.

See you guys. I love it. Love that call. You need your personal time. You do. When you're getting to that breaking point, the communication needs to be really good with your wife. It needs to be planned because your wife's going to think about all those logistics that you just talked about. Child care, help.

Because they're going to be rocking solo. He has an 18-month-old, so it sounds like he only has one right now, which is a positive. Could be worse. You could have a couple. And then you've got to think about it even more. 18 months is an awesome age, too. 16 months is where I felt like Rue's personality was coming out. So I know he's in like some really good.

He's in like a really good moment. I'm sure his little one in the personality's coming out. I would assume walking, maybe not walking, probably around there right now. Yeah. But that's a fun age. But yes, bro. I'm on board with that. I am too.

Every man needs his time. Every dad needs his 48 hours. They need his Dennis Rodman moment to where again, call it Vegas, call it the mountains of Montana. Call it wherever. You're just out of town. You're unreachable. You need to decompress. Yes.

You need silence. You need a hotel room. Would you just you and your? yourself, maybe a couple of the boys. But you need your own space, you need your own quiet time. Your wife also needs that as well. So I love the idea and I'm on board with the idea, but also know that you got to get your wife active in her dentist Rob.

It's two-way street. We are pro-dads. It says PT6. We are Papa Team 6 and when all the Papa Seals have their time. Yeah. But we can't just talk about what the dads need without also talking about what mom needs as well. Oh, yeah.

Because we can't talk out, you know, we are pro-dad. And I'm on board with you. Very pro-dad. And that gets me fired up because Jill's friend group, there's a lot of babies already born and being born. Yep. And talks of Girl Trip 230A, you know, with the little ones is already in the works. And when I hear that, I'm like, okay, so hunting trips are in my future. Golf trips are in my future because she's going to be going on Girl.

trips. Yes, 100%. That means Dadaz gets to go get his freak on. Yeah. Gets to go shoot his dove birds. Yeah. You get your 48 hours. I get my 48 hours of piss missiles right down the fairway. Yeah. It gets me fucking fired up.

That is what you have to think about. You got to think about, okay, I kind of have a need right now. How do I communicate this? How do I plan for this? A great way to think ahead is how, where the wife is going to get her moments or maybe it's a day where you're taking care of the kids all weekend you send her off somewhere you have it already mapped out and planned out got a spa set up for you here yeah you'll go get your feet rubbed here manny petty little venmo shot men mower do she leaves the house venmo hits the account

should we venmo our girls right now oh i like that move but to finish on our boy to finish on our boy think about those optics as well because that's what's going to help you win this dennis rodman moment. That's what's going to help you execute and succeed and find your 48 hours wherever it is. He's on the right track. Nick is his name. He's on the right track because he's saying all the right things when he gets home. I'll be doing this. I'll be doing that. Love that. But also think about whether it's before your trip and just setting the pieces in place. Listen, this is Game of Thrones. There's some strategizing involved. And to do that, you have to not just understand the mind of your opponent, but be your opponent. What do they want? What do they need? What are they interested in?

How do you scratch their back? Chaos is a ladder. Amen. How do you put yourself in their shoes? Win the game for them to win the game for yourself. That's a quote graphic. That's a quote graphic. Put it down. Yeah. I got this weird email. It says veiled this year is going to be half off. on all ski lifts hotel stays I don't know just something to look into honey I was role playing it was a bit but but do your thing

yeah yeah do your thing you were talking about this VEMO I'm getting this VEMO cooked up right now okay what are we sending here okay I was gonna send manny Petty and then like what are we thinking though because those Manny Pettys just got one toes look fabulous because I always sometimes I got her running a sweetheart and dogs are barking down there

would she go with like bubble bath or Is she like... What does that mean? Like a light pink, I think, for the color? No, it's like a vibrant, orangest red, like in that... Ooh. Yeah. That's sick.

Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Big fan. Okay. So mine's out the gate. Every pop a... A, Papa Team 6, this is a call to action.

Pull out your phone. Get out the Venmo. Get out the Venmo. Or Cash app. Whatever it is. Whatever you use. We're a big friend of Cash app. Big friend of Cash app.

We're a big friend of Zell. Zell, just whatever. Whatever you do. Pull out the phone. Pull out the phone. Charo loves, she loves lattes. Mm.

I'm going to send her five. I'm going to send her five bucks. $2.50? Yeah, yeah. $2.50? How do you spell Manny Petty, dude? I got to Google this. I'm going to send her $10 and just say,

dude, go treat yourself to something nice. Mani Petty. Oh, there's a guy. named Manny P-E-P-E-T-Y. Okay, okay. I'm sending her 25, should I send her more than 25? Manny Pettys are kind of pricey. Manny Pettys?

You say 25 bucks? Yeah, should I go higher than that? Yeah, I think Manny Pettys. Fitty? Probably a couple hundred, right? That's a couple Hondo? Manny Pett. Maybe not.

Maybe I'm fucking wrong. Send her 100. Send her 100? I'm sending Toronto 10. Go treat yourself, sweetheart. Bro, this is it. Oh, okay, there you go. 20 to 40 bucks.

Oh, for Manny Petty? I just sent Charo here so you can see it. Sent Charo $10, the subject line, whatever. And then I sent her a text, go treat yourself, sweet. Go treat yourself, sweetheart. What a move. Midday latte on me. I just sent her 50 bucks, Mani Petty with a heart.

Midia, there you go. Boom. Golly. Pop a team six, pull out your phone, send them some. send them a few bucks it's like what chef was talking about with that video before we started recording the dad that just vacuums for no reason he's like a hundred a hundred days still kick off yeah you gotta prepare you gotta get your reps in yeah yeah you gotta think about that stuff no response yet that's okay that's okay that's okay that's okay sweet art um you have next voicemail

yes next voicemail okay how long we've been going 30 minutes got to keep it under an hour 30 minutes. Not too shabby. Hey, my name is Justin from Vancouver, Washington. Pause. Pausing. Cameras are overheating. Do we lose anything? Take six. We're coming back from a break and for those just catching the tail end of that conversation.

No, no, we won't have the conversation. No, we won't, but I was just going to say that chef was pouring his heart out about Tennessee. Chef was pouring his heart out about Tennessee. Yeah, Tennessee balls. Tell them to temper the expectations. Yeah, yeah. Temper the expectations. Chef is a true vol.

Yeah. We want GBO to be successful. We do. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. GBO after GBR. Yes, sir. All right, dad hack lesson.

So my dad hack. Wait, wait, we have one more call in. Oh, oh. I'm so sorry. Just cut it all down. Cut it. All right, let's get to the last call in. All right, last call in.

this one's a doozy. Hey, my name is Justin from Vancouver, Washington. What's up, Justin? Frikin awesome. Just wondering how you guys deal with some of the stuff that your kids say in public that either sounds wrong or they shouldn't be saying.

For example, my daughter's three, just turned four, huge Lions fans. She got a kitty this year, named it on her own, Jared Goff. But we'll be in a line Jimmy John to get a sandwich. She talks real fast.

She's like, I got a kitty. Little lady's like, what's the kitty? What's your kitty's name? Jerk off. So sounds like jerk off. Everywhere she's telling us, you know, what the kitty's name is. Jerk off. I'm like, uh, no, I got people staring at me in line.

I got the sandwich lady, you know, now thinking I'm a deadbeat tad, yelling at this kid's cat, calling it jerk off all the time. I was like, no, no, no. We're lions fans. his name is Jared Goff just seeing what crazy shit your guys' kids might say in public you got to do some explaining about

keep up the fucking good work you guys are awesome killer to have some podcasts like you guys go lion Justin thanks for calling in bro I think that's adorable oh yeah I don't think there's an issue at all you can have a nice laugh

you're laughing behind her a parent might be looking at you a little weird oh she means Jared Goff his name's Jared Goff comes off his jerk off because when he was saying like what happens when your kids say stuff in public that they shouldn't be saying I'm thinking oh no like what what what she's like she's probably getting it

she's probably hearing it at home yeah I think that's adorable oh I love it I love it shout out JJ Jeremy's son when they're on Broadway somebody was pulling up to a stop sign

and their breaks were super squeaky and JJ's like four and he goes you might want to check those bud And you know where you heard that Straight from Jeremy Straight from Jeremy I can't wait till a little Scarlet's

Just yapping I'm gonna love that Rue hasn't said anything yet That not that I can remember She did one time say like Charles phone number To somebody And she's like you know

reciting the phone number and stuff Oh perfect And so you know It's like hey sweetheart you know Don't just be Don't just be saying you know phone numbers to people you don't know.

Uh-huh. But she, like, Roos, she engages. If we're, like, talking, shows come out, she'll be like, I'm Rue. Like, oh, yeah, that's right, sweetheart. Introduce yourself. She'd be like, I'm three. It's like birthday, age, name. Uh-huh.

Check out Scotty. Scotty, seven months. That's Rue's conversation. That's Rue's bag when she's talking to people. Uh-huh. Her name's Scotty. Oh. Did the hell with Scotty?

Seven months. She's seven months. God. I'm three. But we haven't had a running yet with something out of pocket being said. But if it is, I feel like we'll just enjoy a good laugh. We'll enjoy a good laugh and then explain what she's actually trying to say. That's something bad.

Like, you know, Dad has hit me. Oh, sweetheart, just put your hand around and around. I thought you had a hit. Dad thought you how to hit. Dad, they kick waffle. I had to keep her from going outside. No, no. I was just moving her with my leg.

I was moving her with my leg. that shot someone with Dragon Knopf. That's on a video game. Yeah, yeah. That that kills people. Oh, sweetheart, sweetheart, hey. She's talking video game. She's talking video game.

Oh, man. I still remember my childhood telephone number of, like, the house that we grew up in. So I'm sure my parents had the same issue. I was probably going around just that-da, that-da-da-da-da. At the dome. Yeah. That's hilarious. Yeah, I love it.

I don't think there's much. There's not much coaching there. It's laugh, I enjoy it, celebrate. Yeah. There was, so you know Brad, Uncle Brad.

Oh, love, friend of the show. Friend of the show. He was the dad in the trailer. So Brad, his son Ben, who's,

he's in college now. He's like a young adult now, but when he was really little around three or four instead of kitty, he would say titty. Let's go. Which is so adorable.

You know, we're giggling, chuckling. I'm trying to get him to say kitty all the time because I'm well I've been now Ben's like 18 years old I'm like in my I'm like 18 19 myself back when he was that like four years I'm like young 20s

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah just setting them up Ben tell him about your kitty tell about the kitties you have how you love snuggling your kitties I'm totally gonna be that dad yeah dude and we had a neighbor that she rode around on her scooter a lot and she called it a cooter and so she we would just hear her out front you want to ride my cooter and you're like oh my gosh we got to we got to work on the

pronunciation of scooter you got work on those s's that's hilarious oh ru used to when she was when she's like memorizing her books oh man she would say something where it sounded like you were talking about this the other day dick or what was it I can't remember it was something yeah oh oh it was

the things in the bedroom the things in the bedroom and you were pointing you were saying what is that what is that and it sounded like maybe fuck

I can't remember god it was bad brain man dad brain god I'm starting to get it too yeah

starting to get it to it'll happen it'll pile up on you it will and it's got to be your excuse to your wife whenever you're forgetting stuff love you sweetheart enjoy that 10 dollars should we get into um lesson yeah lesson dad egg yeah yeah i would say all right so my lesson of the week um saw something again shout out instagram shout out the app of instagram but um i saw

something then i put a little put a little pin to paper or keys to the keyboard Show your kids what resilience looks like. I find myself falling short with this at times, communicating with Rue while a tantrum is building up. Maybe I had a long day at work. Maybe I let myself down, not working out or eating well because I was up late at night with Uncle Shirm. And it's weirdly built up in your mind.

Maybe you're just exhausted and feel like you don't have any patience. But something to keep in mind that I have to constantly remind myself is that our kids are watching. They're watching how we handle things. they're watching how we react to adversity around the house. They're watching how we handle our communications with everyone around us, and we have to stay aware of that. And when you're going through it, when you embrace the suck,

know that you are teaching your grit. Know that you're teaching them how to stand tall and stay in the fight. And also, this goes into my dad hack. Challenge yourself to tell your kid how your day was. I find it's helpful because when they start, when they're starting to struggle and melt down into the abyss of a tantrum with no return, you find yourself like wanting to hold your line of defense or wanting to hold your boundary really strong you might start raising your voice and losing your composure just like you know i was talking about losing my composure last week even though the moment called for for something like that um but go into the mode of fully empathizing word they are because you can still hold the boundary you can still hold the boundary there like a few episodes ago when we were talking about you know negotiating with kids or you feel manipulative when you're telling them this they're like you know one of example, Rue like hurt herself or she had like a scratch on herself and she was using it like I can't do

that. I can't walk. I can't I can't do this and that. I can't go to my bed. I can't put my PJs gone. I need you to carry me. Or like I don't want to do X, Y, and Z before bed because I have a scratch. I have a boo-boo and my legs don't work. And you're at that breaking point of like get your ass upstairs and you're putting your PJs on. This is what we said we were going to do. Flipping it into fully like empathizing where they're at. That example would be, oh, sweetheart. I know dad has got a bunch of boo-boos on his legs. Like I got these scars where I got gashed. I had to tell her this story. She was showing me this little scratch she had. My patience was running thin.

And I thought to myself, all right, how do I completely go where she's at? And I will get to my boundary because we still have to execute walking upstairs and getting our pajamas on. versus raising my voice, hey, this is what we're doing, picking her up, whatever it is. I fully went into like, oh, dude, I feel you. Dad, Dad, I got a massive boo-boo. Back when I was your age, like, I was outside. I was playing with friends, and you know how Daddell, like, spin you around or pick you up or grab your hands and pull you in the circles. I had that happen to me one time, and I got this massive gash on a nail on the fence.

This is actually a real story. I'm not just, like, making it up to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm like, Dad Dad was playing around and the adult, they grabbed my wrist and were flinging me around and I was close to this fence and this nail was sticking out and gashed me in the knee. And, you know, at that point when they're melting down, they kind of stop because they're listening to you. They're like, oh, Dadda went through something like this. Yeah. And you're like, I still have a scar from it.

Do you want to see the scar? Yeah, yeah, I want to see the scar. And I, like, show her the scar on my knee. Like, oh, it's still there. Dada was bleeding everywhere. Did you cry? Yeah, De Da'i cried a lot. It was really painful.

But you know what I had to do? I still had to go upstairs. I still had to get my pajamas on. And my legs, dude, my legs won't working either. I'm like yelling for mom and dad. Can somebody help me? Can somebody help me? But mom and dad wasn't a,

they weren't available to pick me up and help me out. And I had to find a way to stand up and walk upstairs. Do you think you could stand up and use your legs to walk upstairs? Dad, dad wasn't able to pick you up because you know my back. My back's got all these issues. Ten years. Yeah, 10 years in the league, sweetheart. I was on practice squad.

Here's the you ever seen the Georgia pick six? Here's the Georgia pick six. That's back hurt. So it's hard for me to pick you up. Yeah. But I'll tell you more, I have other scars. I have other stories where I had big scratches. I can tell you when we're getting ready for bed.

Would you like to go do that? Yeah, yeah, we can go do that. And the next thing you know, she's walking upstairs. No. To put a PJs on. So I would just say, like, teaching your kid resilience, a lot of the times it's not like holding the line in such a stern way. Because when they're three, again, when they're young,

It's like they're developing brain just cannot compartmentalize and connect the wiring that remains calm or here's what you're saying. It's more of like a lot of it is like getting yourself completely in their shoes, telling them an old war story about yourself to where you're sharing stories or tough times with them. Maybe their legs don't work and you just make it up in the moment. Oh, Dadd'A's leg stopped working today at work. Or Dadda wasn't able to get this today at work. Or I couldn't walk. She might want to walk downstairs. Get my water by Rue.

I'm not getting it. your water bottle it's time for bed we're going to do this yeah um dad i couldn't get to his water bottle that worked today i had somebody you know then it's like um i had somebody come bring it up and then i still executed what i needed to do the next time and you're kind of telling them an old adversity that's like completely empathizing with what they're going through in the moment now you didn't want to get the water bottle your heart's like okay i should get the water bottle but not in a moment of her being pissed off i'm going down to get and she drinks him and manipulates you and they're doing something else you sit there and talk about it and you're doing something else you sit there and talk about

a time or make up a story about how you couldn't get your water bottle. And Uncle Sherm or Papa Sherm, I couldn't get my water bottle. He ends up bringing over to me. I got my water. And then I had to do my next thing, which was, you know, you make that up. Had to do a podcast. Yeah, yeah. Go to work.

Had to take a nap. I had to ask Uncle Sherm very nicely. Yeah, yeah. I had to ask Uncle Sherm very nicely. And then when he brought me in my water, I got my water and took a nap. So here's what I'll do for you. I'll go downstairs. I'll get your water.

But once you take your couple of cups of water, it's time to go night and night. It's time to say good night. and like Dad, I know it's time to tuck you in a kiss, a hug, and three squeezes. And Dad is going to leave the room. Can you do that for me? Yeah. Can you do that for me?

Yeah, I can do that for you. And then you go down and get the water bottle and take a couple of sips. Like, okay, good night, Dad. I love you. And then you kind of execute what your boundary was, even though you removed outside and went and got that water bottle. Yeah. So that's my lesson.

That's the lesson of the week is just how to show your kids' resilience when they're kind of being aware and watching you from afar, just being conscious of like when you are having those hard moments because it's tough, dude, because your patience runs thin after a long fucking day and you're just running on fumes. It's just knowing that they're watching you and seeing how you handle everything. And then also in those times where in their developing brain, they're having a lot of struggles, using the resilience as like sharing a moment of your resilience or adversity, whether it's a made up story, whether it's a real story.

If it's something that sounds that they're just making up like, dude, you got a bug bite. It's going to go away tomorrow. I know it itches. Yeah. You showing them, oh, my gosh, I got bug bites, too. And then it completely disarms what's had the meltdown that's starting to happen in their brain because you're not trying to give them. You're not trying to listen to them.

You're like, okay, I got it. You got a bug bite. It's time to brush your teeth. It's time to brush your teeth. I can't bug bite, bug bite, bug bite. It's like, stop thinking about the get her into brush your teeth. Just go into complete. Dude, I got a bug bite, too.

And then they kind of stop and look at it. Yeah, it's itchy. It's itchy, but you know what? I know it's going to feel better tomorrow. And even though I have a bug bites and I just don't want, my legs aren't helping me out right now. I'm still going to brush my teeth and we're going to go to bed. So after I show you this bug bite, you know, can we go in and brush your teeth?

I say, yeah, we can go brush our teeth and then it ends up happening. So that would be, that would be something I'm consciously trying to stay aware of when I feel like my patience isn't there. And then how to flip the script in the middle of, a of a tantrum and kind of tell them a story of something that you're going through with them or have went through that they are currently going through. I bet it's so much easier to go the other direction. Scarlett's obviously not talking yet. But I'm already starting to sense that within myself, that battle of like when I was talking about the dab loss and like the third blowout that she had in a row of just like, oh man, you know, I could sit here and be like, dude, that really sucks.

Or I could laugh at the fact that my daughter just pooped her diaper three times in a row. We're going to sing even more. Just kind of like I'm starting to build that resilience in my head because I'm just at the beginning chapters. And I'm already sensing that as a weak point for me of like I got to bring that positivity or I got to bring that, you know, resilience and that ability to, hey, this is hard. but like here's how we're going to attack it. Yeah. I love that. Like, hey, this is hard.

Dude, I know it's hard, man. I can tell it's making you angry and frustrated. And dude, same thing happened to me yesterday. Then they kind of stop and they're kind of attentive about like what you're saying. Then you talk through how you handled it and how you went through everything else. You know what, I bet. I bet if we do X, Y, and Z. Let's do this for a second.

You know what? Let's pause. You know, let's pause. having to go upstairs and you just make up some like remedy some side quest with them I bet if we do this I bet it makes it feel better I bet it helps you going back going upstairs to execute what the mission is oh yeah then you kind of take them on a little side quest then you get them going versus sitting there battling it gets to where your patience is so low because it happens to me all the time to where you're just like you just get fed up you just get fed up voice starts elevating

or you're just like hey sweetheart I can't do this anymore you want mom Yeah, go find mama. You go find mama yourself. That is not doing it. Huge shout out to my brother. You just reminded me of a core childhood memory. My brother's four years older than me. I was very lucky. He was very kind brother to me. And very like fatherly too. He loved being an older brother to me and like teacher me and yada yada. I was really scared of monsters under the bed and like scared of monsters in the closet. and I would fight mom and dad of going to bed. And he had the wherewithal too.

My dad had aerosol deodorant back in the day. And my brother said that it was monster spray. And it was like if we spray it in the closet and underneath the bed of like that side mission. Yeah. Like we're all good. Like dude, I've never seen a monster before in my life after I sprayed that thing. I started going to bed like that. It was crazy.

I love that. I love that because those are good little fun games to play. Yes. When you're in it, it's kind of early in the phase of like if I catch Rue soon enough or if I'm thinking about it, like doing that side quest of like, you know, she's always scared of the mask because she saw a Michael Myers mask that she was young. That's right. So she's always been like the mask.

Like, oh, hey, sweetheart. The mask comes. The mask comes if we don't do X, Y, and Z. The mask comes Yeah but all we got to do Is we got to go in the It's the bonus room Yeah yeah

We'll go in the play room And we'll do this And that'll keep the mask away But after we You know make something up Say it's the spray Yeah After we go in and do a couple

A couple sprays She's got this little water bottle After we go in and do a couple sprays That'll keep the mask away But then we got to do We got to brush her teeth Because if we don't brush her teeth It won't hold

And the mask will come So then you make it that little game So it's like do you want to go Okay we sprayed Do you want to run back And brush her teeth real quick She's like yeah yeah let's go Let's go and you start running to the room

You get the bathroom you brush her teeth Okay let's run on the couch Let's run on the mouth Because then you might pause And you're like oh my gosh Do you hear that? I think the mask might be coming And she'll get all

She'll get all like excited Because she knows we're like we're playing a game Uh huh Like oh my gosh the mask We got to run out of the bed We got to run out of the couch We got to run on the couch Uh huh

And then you go run on the couch Okay I think we're safe What book do you want to read? Like, fires me up, dude, you're going to get to be, get to be doing this stuff. I cannot wait to play make believe. When we went to your house to shoot the trailer, she showed me the pillow for it. She was showing me and Garrett the pillow for it in y'all's a bonus room. And I said, oh, what's this pillow?

Is this the door? And she said, yeah, it keeps out like that I couldn't tell what she was trying to tell me. But she was telling me that it keeps out the wolves. Yeah, yeah. She was telling me it kept stuff out. Yeah. And it was very essential part of the pillow for it. Yeah.

I was like, God, I love that. It's a taffidi from Moana. Keeps out taffidi. Mm. Keeps out the Grinch. Oh, good. Yeah. Good.

Keeps out the Grinch. The mask, of course. The mask. Yeah. Of course, the mask. Uh, the bear. Mm. And the wolves, because I'll play, like, wolves growling on my, on my YouTube.

I'll, like, pull out my phone. They're like, oh, my God, do you hear that? There's wolves right outside. And then when she gets a little too scary. Oh, that is just playing. This is just a phone. There's not really wolves. Hey, don't forget, your dad's a wolf.

Daddaz is a wolf. Dad would never let a wolf get in the house. No bad guys. Okay, okay. Cameras are heating up. Cameras are heating up. Got to keep it under an hour. Hey, shout out Evan Kube for sending the boys

before the dads. Shout out Evan Koo. Shout out Evan Koo. Thank you, sir. Huge help. Huge help. They look great. Yeah.

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