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Episode Date: March 11, 2026

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm discuss Scottzilla helping to teach ScarScar to walk, break down Will’s Dad Hack or tricking the boys into dinner plans, and check in on the craze that is PTFit — all while keeping the episode fun, fresh and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with a PT6 Shoutout to a baby being born at the same time this episode drops before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: A friendly reminder about Saturday’s Holiday 👀 Discussing at what age we started to enjoy being around babies More and more dads are in PTFit Other highlights include: Will discusses how his mom passed The boys talk Dad Hacks for introducing your new baby to the first born 👉 If you’re looking for dad podcast humor, parenting real talk, and a strong community vibe, this episode of For The Dads is a must-listen. 🎧 Tune in for laughs, real talk, and unfiltered dad energy. 💬 Drop a comment, share with your dad crew, and don’t forget to subscribe to For The Dads with Will Compton for new episodes every week!  PT6, Going Dark. —-- TIMELINE 00:00 - A baby if being born RIGHT NOW !! 05:44 - Dad Brain - Recapping last episode  13:03 - Will gives advice on how to introduce your first born to the new baby 23:02 - Scottzilla tried to teach ScarScar how crawl 30:07 - Dad Hack for solo dads - have dinner with the boys  34:08  - At what age did you become comfortable being around babies? 38:56 - The boys FINALLY had Smith & Lentz / ScarScar hit the bar with Daddy 44:53 - Will talks about how losing his Mom helped him parent better 55:24 - Sherm dove into Will’s instagram captions / Laughing at our parents 1:04:00 - The origins of For The Dads and the community we have  1:09:42 - A hack to ensure your baby is a boy from a LEGEND / PT6 Comments 1:15:25  - PTFit is a MUST for the boys / Shoutout First Phorm! 1:29:40 - Cracking a cold one with the boys 1:38:16 - Hitting the PT6 hotline / His Wife Took The Kids! 1:46:01 - Some New Dads Shoutout 1:49:28 - Dan Gable Quotes and Lessons for PT6 —-- For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.  Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a recently new father who’s currently deep in the trenches of Fatherhood and loving every minute of it. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Olipop - Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store, and we'll pay you back for one. Works on any flavor, any retailer. Go to https://drinkolipop.com/BWTBSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Papa Team 6, welcome to another episode of For the Dads. I hope your trash is taken out. Reminder, as you are listening today, it is March 11th, March 14th for the dads, for the boys out there. The Goombay, Seaman Team Sixers, M.T. Sixers that are listening. And PT Sixers, March 14th is Steak and Blow Jockey. I'm just throwing that out there. Which is a great way to get the family together to pregame for a little St. Patty's Day.

Yeah, we love talking traditions, weekly traditions, holidays. You know, it's manual traditions. Just another one to throw out there. Absolutely. We have a wide range of topics that we are going to talk about today. Rue and mom went to D.C. Rue was very sad to leave dad. I got to say internally, I was like kind of stoked on how sad she was.

Because it made me feel like, like, okay, I'm doing a, I'm doing a solid job. Dang, you're going to be gone for a long time. You had a babysitter come over in game night. We have a lot. And I have an awesome, an awesome newsletter thing that I came across on X that I'm going to read at the end of the episode from a see here, from Derek Thompson. It's three reasons to be apparent. And the short little, the short little write up, the short little newsletter was phenomenal. We're going to hit that at the very end.

Guys, we love building community. we have a show starter here about a little one being born from the release. This releases at 6 a.m. This baby's coming out, what, an hour after release? And it was not planned around for the dads, but my man here, Marcus Sesson, on Facebook, said he didn't hesitate to push for a Wednesday due date knowing that this pod dropped for the scheduled C section. So I'm just going to read this to shout out the community.

Please. Sending this message to Deke Sherman for the dad's pod because in typical new dad fashion, and I currently only have Facebook for social media. Cry laughing emoji. Boys, been watching for the dad since day one. So it just happened that my wife and I had just completed Buds training prior to the podcast launching. If there's new listeners out there,

Buds training is breeding until dad status. It's been a while 38 weeks for us, which included a kidney stone, some fibroid complications. Did I say that right? Fibroid. Fibroid complications. Yeah, yeah. And multiple trips to the ER. My wife has been an absolute stud throughout the whole process and God has kept our daughter safe, healthy, and growing.

Currently seven pounds, two ounces at 36 weeks, going to be a unit just like her old man was. Good. Good. All to say that I didn't hesitate to push for a Wednesday due date when scheduling our C-section, knowing that you boys always drop the pod on that day. It would mean the world to me and my wife, Katie Joe, and what will be our first born daughter, Mia ever. to have a shout out that they will be able to revisit this for years to come. Our C-section is literally scheduled for 7 a.m. on March 11th. Central Standard.

Yeah, Central Standard Time. So my M.T. Sixer, that also doesn't miss an episode of the pod, will more than likely be watching it from her recovery bed. This community that you boys have created is exactly what dads and families need, a space that reminds us all to be present, intentional, and authentic for our children and our partners, Marcus S. Congratulations. Shout up Mia Everett. Coming into the world. I was just about to say, Mia Everett. Hello. Hi, Mia. Hi, Mia.

Picture, I'm grabbing your, I'm grabbing your little hand right now. If you can hear this right now, welcome to Earth. Welcome to the world. Welcome to the world. You're surrounded by people that love you. We're so excited to have you. Good stuff, man. That's awesome by Marcus. Congratulations to you guys. That's just a glimpse. The way he, the way he summed that up with the community and being present, intentional and authentic for our children and our partners is exactly what the show is about. It is. All while massively failing along the way.

I think we can all say that Papa Team 6, all of us collectively, the community that watches this, we are in alliance that this is also a lot about failing and learning from our failures. And just wanting to be the best, even though there's no barometer on what, like, being a great parent is. You intuitively know how well I feel like you're doing most of the time.

Yes. Because I have one here. And again, we read comments on this show, whether on social media at For the Dads Pod, Spotify, YouTube comments, anywhere else, email. If you want to reach out to us and be featured on the show, writing in, leaving comments, that's obviously the best way to do it. If you want to be a true Pt-Sixer and call in to our little hotline where you can vent, you can talk about a win, a loss, a dad hack, put dads on game that we hit later in the episode. our hotline number is 601 the dads 6.01 the dads. You call in, you leave a voicemail. If you get featured on the show, we send you free merchandise, we send you a little dad care package, pop a team six care package. Come on. If you want to write a longer version, whether it's asking us a question or telling us a story, anything. If you've listened to this episode, you already know what I'm talking about. But if you're new and you don't want your voice to be on a hotline or you are international and can't call on a, you know, call to a hotline on American soil. That number is, or that email is 601 the dads at gmail.com. You can write in an email. We read emails. We read comments. We listen to the hotline. We talk about our dad life, things that we're doing, things that we're going

through, learning as a parent, learning as a spouse, growing pains, everything. We break all that down. We have a lot of fun. We think of it as dad just sitting around the garage, having some cold ones, having some cold holly pop. And have, hey, maybe making an off-color joke. So why. Yeah, we joke. I said a joke about I ran last week. Thank God. There was no push. So why? Sue us. We told the guy to drive safe, where a seatbelt? Yeah, yeah.

But all to recall, any dads that kind of forgot a little bit about last week's episode, we have some dad brain every now and then. I had some fun little comments or we have some fun little comments. Yeah. To read here. But just to talk about a couple of PT-Sixers that tuned in last week, Noon and podcast, this is a comment on YouTube from Noon and podcast. As a Pt-Sixer, who's a single dad, I needed the conversation on No last week.

I struggle with my son when I tell him no and he gets upset. I need to do a better job of controlling my emotions, my own emotions during these tantrums so that hopefully that sets a better example for my son to hopefully learn from them. That's solid, dude. That is solid. Who was that again? This is from Noonin Podcast.

Oh, it was another podcast. I'm apparently at Noon Podcast 7201. Dude, I love that. Three days ago on our YouTube channel. Hey, shout out, no free shout out. That's the game most of the time is like, you know, we would always love to go in perfectly. It's like crystal ball, we do a little bit of breathwork before we walk into the house.

So we do a little bit of breathwork before this tantrum comes. So we're a thermostat. But a lot of times, you know, you can go sideways whenever it gets, it gets bad, or it gets a little too long for your liking. You're kind of sitting there with them in their emotion and you're kind of being stoic about everything. And then eventually it gets a little too long and you pop your lid as well. That's never a good thing.

You use all your skills. You throw the toolbox at them with trying to help them and be with them and everything else. But a lot of times as a dad, you walk away from a situation. I know I do where I'm sitting there thinking about how I could have handled something differently. You know what I mean? And then as I've talked about on previous pods where you circle back and do like a follow-up conversation, just to let her know, like, number one, it's like apologize if she feels like dad-ed was being mean. Or you yourself for a second, I did go a little sideways in that moment.

And then explaining the reasons why here's how we can collectively. you know, make progress, like going forward. Yes. You know what I mean? You're having like a, you're having like a performance review with them. Yes, everyone's learning in that situation. The stadium pulse of a tantrum, I'm being introduced to it with Scarlett's cries and screams are getting very loud.

And I'm already like, man, this is going to be scary when she knows how to formulate her thoughts into sentences with that volume and pitch. I'm going to be in the chamber. I got to be ready to go. Their little brains develop. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Their brains develop.

Spoiler, spoilers, spoilers for new parents. It's like they're thinking about everything. They don't have control over all their thoughts and emotions, obviously. Yeah. They don't know how to articulate them. And it comes out. It projects out as like tantrums. Yes.

If you can't adapt, distract and overcome, if you can't distract them, that's usually the best thing is removing them from a situation. Like going outside, looking at the birds, looking at the trees, getting the crying to kind of stop and then just kind of having a little conversation with them. Like, do you want to go back inside? Do you want to do this? Depending on what age that they're at. Yeah. That's always usually been the best. And that was distract. What? Adapt, distract, overcome. Tantrum happens. You have to adapt. Your perfect little child isn't being perfect in front of people in public to where you might be in your own head of like,

man, what are people thinking? Obviously, you want to block out that noise. But you are now seeing a situation where you have to adapt. You have to adapt to your toddler. You have to adapt to your little one. You have to distract them. Distracting is the best toolbox that you can use. Staying calm, staying poise, staying in the pocket. Yeah.

Let's go through our progression here. Yes. Let's adapt. Hey, there's an exit. Let's remove them from the situation. Let's just go talk to him. Get them calm down. Like I said, looking at birds, looking at trees, feeling the air.

Oh, do you feel the wind? Whatever it is. There's a car. Oh, my gosh. Look at that over there. Distract them. Yeah. Can you overcome the situation?

Overcome the situation. If you have an older one, Rue being almost four makes me sadder every, every, every day. That's a big number, dude. That's a big number, dude. That's a big number. Yeah. But Rue is one, adapt, distract. Distraction doesn't work as much because they have more of a grip of what their emotions and what their feelings are to where they're doing their best to articulate.

Or Rue's a big solver. She wants things solved. She's very independent. She wants them solved immediately. So if something goes sideways and she wants it a particular way, she can get off the tracks a little bit. So the distraction with her is almost like distract, removing her from the situation, getting down on her level, having a conversation with her, and talking through, this is why it's okay to ask for help.

This is why it's completely fine to fail at things or not. Like, that is tough. That is very frustrating. I know you want to get it right the first time. Then I'll bring up examples of her riding her bike or getting on the scooter or swimming, things that she's gotten better at to where there's, there was needed progress to take place before you could just jump in the pool. Yeah.

To where you're kind of leveling with them like, hey, that is going to be hard. I know that didn't go the way you wanted it to. But when we go back in here, we're all good now. I'm sure, you know, you start labeling their emotions. They're probably embarrassed that they were crying in front of everybody. Yeah. But you bring them back into the fold. And that is how you overcome a small little example of a situation.

Someone that also needed to adapt, distract, and overcome in a huge way from our last episode is Trenton Klein's. Yeah? He's the 137 missed calls guy. Remember that one? Yeah, yeah. I was the 137 miss calls guy voicemail on the pod today and wanted to give an update. So this is, this is live.

Not only was I three hours away, but my wife was also coaching a volleyball tournament in Tulsa about two and a half hours from home. She's an absolute sicko. That's it. I forget how many weeks pregnant she is, but like she was literally about to pop. She is a sicko. She drove herself home at around 11 p.m. Of course she did. Yeah, yeah.

T6 or just a, what you said. What a sicker. She thought her water broke. So she was like, oh, I'll drive home really quick, make sure if it did or not. Then finally got a hold of him at 4 a.m. when the water actually broke. They both made it to the hospital. Luckily, they already knew that they had to do. do a C-section because the baby girl was breach.

So they planned it as soon as they got on a call with the doctor and showed up. Everything was good to go. Baby and mom are doing great. And we got to come home on Tuesday. Thank you all. Love you guys. That's Trent and Clines. Thank you, Trent, for the update.

Two and a half hours away for a volleyball tournament. That is. Sicko. Yeah. And Oklahoma does have some good gays hunting. So that makes sense. That is, uh, that's a mentality. of I'm not adapting to the world.

The world will adapt to me. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm going, I'm carrying. Oh, we got a volleyball tournament. I'm close to pop in. Like, good.

That's it. As you love to say, that's a thermostat. Yeah. That's a thermostat. Oh, water broke. Let's see if I make it back two and a half hours home for a drive. Like, good. I dare you.

Let's play. Let's play this little game I like to call, is the baby coming or not? Low stakes. Low stakes. I also have from Joe Tom. You boys have been putting out the best sods yet these past few weeks. Appreciate the heads up for March 14th, which you so graciously brought up. Few days, few days from now.

If you're listening to right now, a few days from now. How many days away are we? So it will be three days when listeners are hearing this. That does involve this. Let me just check the calendar, March 14th and Saturday. Oh, great day of the week. That's a great day for some grilling of steaks. Yeah.

Whether you like to do a reverse sear, maybe you like to do chef. I know you love doing some steaks in the oven sometimes. Keep the juices in as long as possible. Yeah. On the steak. Yeah. That's what I was thinking too. Yeah.

On the steak. And then, you know, obviously we know what comes after the steak. And I believe the steak is prepared by Wi-Fi as well. You do not have to practice that if you want to practice that the PT sick-o. Butter up the steak. Butter it up. Butter. Butter it up.

Do it, uh, do it Chicago style. Yeah. Get some grilled onions on there. Uh, what's the, uh,

one where they put the oyster on top of it? What's that called? Of the steak. Hey, but sometimes a crack cake on there. Yeah, a little surfing turf. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, surf and turf. That's a nice little steak. Or maybe you like Pittsburgh is a Pittsburgh style. Pittsburgh. Yeah. The Pittsburgh rare.

Yeah. The Pittsburgh rare. Do you know what that is? They black in it and then it's just bleeding on the inside. Just quickly just get it rolling. Oh. Yeah. So yeah, steak and blowjob days coming up.

I put on my wife and I's joint calendar. Good job, Joe. She will be 37 weeks pregnant at that point. Joe, that sounds ideal for you and your sweet M.T. Sicko. Look, I know you're on the trial master. I was listening for the dads. You know what?

You listen to it. You just let me know what your thoughts are. I'm about to fucking pew. What is this from? I'm a podcast. Shut the fuck up. Who is Willie Wynchelf? What is a fat Stafford?

Let's hope the stars align for your boy. Baby girl number two is due on 326, but she might come earlier. Any advice for the second kid and how to get my firstborn daughter to adjust to having a little sister? She has quite the sassy personality. This will be interesting.

P.T. Sicko, P.T. Fit out. I feel good about this one. I do too. This one feels in my in my ballpark, Roo. She's got a sassiness to her very much like, very much like a firstborn type A, all the things. She wants to be involved. She wants things to go her way.

Yeah. You try and manipulate the game to make her feel like things are going her way. But second one coming in. What we did with Roo is making Roo a part of the experience. Like making her a part of this newborn, this next child, next kid, Scotty. She's entering into our family. Rue, you are a part of this family.

So when Mama had Scotty and we were sitting there with Scotty, whenever we were bringing Rue in to introduce her to Scotty, and I know I've said this on previous pause, my man is asking a question. so any new listeners, anything for your second child. As I'm bringing Rue into the hospital room to check on mom, the entire goal was let's check on mom first, and then we will introduce you to Scotty.

When Roo comes in the room, our nanny was holding Scotty. So that way, mom is just laying on the bed by herself. Nice. Crawl up on bed, hug mom, check in on mom, be excited for mom. So that way when Rue comes in, it's like we're dealing with very, you know, the developing brain. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're walking in the science or the research or the things that I was reading on this is that if your first one walks in and mom is holding the second one, this isn't like across the board, this isn't like an aggressive opinion that I'm about to

say. This is just what I was reading. I'm like, oh, that's fascinating. Like I can get my, I can wrap my head around that. But your first child sees mom holding the second one. The first child in their eyes and in their brain, they are your entire world. And now mom. is holding the second baby. Not that they throw a tantrum, not that they get upset, but just building the foundation of what this is going to look like. The whole tribe, the new baby is entering into our tribe. Rue was going, we wanted Rue to walk into where Rue was checking on mom first

and loving on mom and checking mom. Then we ask, hey, do you want to meet Scotty? And then Roo is like all of us go over together or around the area together, yeah. Meeting Scotty for the first time. And we're telling Rue, you know, we're fired up for Rue and how she's going to be a great big sister and you're going to love Scotty so much. She's going to love you. She's already been telling us about you. Even though she knows, like, she can't talk or anything. She's been telling us

about you. And matter of fact, Scotty got you a present for when we get home. We end up going out buying. This was shout out to Stephen Chey. He kind of gave me this idea before we had Scotty. And I went out and got Rousse some like jewelry from Frozen, something at Walmart. Let's go. And so when we brought everybody home, the gift was sitting there. Oh, Scotty already got this sent in and Rue opens it up so it seems like baby sister is giving big sister a gift already just to establish like the foundation and love and everything that's going on. Yeah. With Rue, the dynamic of having your second one, the dynamic of having two kids.

And a lot of times like a lot of our language when we had the newborn wouldn't be, Rue, I'll play with you or I'll get your toy or I'll get your milk or I'll do this thing for your first child. hey, I will do that for you when I get done with Scotty. A lot of our language and verbiage would be, hey, if I knew I needed to feed Scotty, and Roo was wanting me to play with her or get a toy or daddy, can you get this? It would be, hey, Scotty, when I'm done feeding you, I got to help Rue out, okay?

When I'm done feeding you, I got to go play with Rue. And then I would lean down and tell Rue, I just let Scottie know whenever I'm done with her that it's all, you know, I'm going to play with you or I'm going to get you your bottle or whatever the thing is. But we would change a lot of our language, so it's not like we're diminishing, Rue, wanting our attention. And we're like, we can't right now. I have to feed Scotty.

And they just, in their brain, they're seeing you, they're witnessing like, damn, like I was the kid. Or I was, I'm the one that you guys always mess with. And now this new kid comes in and you're with her all the time. Yeah. Or you're telling me no, because, you know, I'm getting punched down because you're holding Scotty or because you have to do things for Scotty. A lot of our language would be talking to Scotty because they don't know what's going on. And you're just telling them, whenever I get done doing this with you, I'm going to go attend Roo.

Yeah. I'm going to go Tend to Roo. Talking loud enough so Roo can hear. Yes, exactly. So Roo is witnessing the dynamic going on. So those were like little things that we did when introducing Scotty, our second one, into our world as a family. When we're thinking about the same things you are, which is how do we balance the dynamic or how's the first one going to feel? Those were a few tools that we leaned on to kind of help us introduce Scott.

into our family. And they're phenomenal together. Like Scotty kind of bulldey's rude, but. Scottie, we'll jump into it. But dude, Scotty is so funny, dude, with the way she plays. Yeah.

We had a little play date. I'm sure we'll talk about it later in the soad. But her dangling stuff in front of you and then pulling it away from you was electric. It was like watching Wilcompton play with Will Compton. It was honestly incredible. She's. fun to be around. But that would be, those are things I look back on and I'm like, I'm really

glad I learned those things and I'm really glad we incorporate them because it obviously challenges us because, again, you're kind of making a lot of reactive decisions where they're pulling at you. People are needing different attention. You can kind of get in your own head and then you just react. I'll get that in a second. I got to finish with your sister. Yeah. For as like, I'm like, okay, I'm coming across these things. I'm like, oh, that does make sense to me. Yeah. Like, let's try these. And then Trow and I are talking about them collectively. We're both kind of leaning on each other. Hey, I found this. You found this. I love that idea. You're kind of feeling like a team building out how you're going to, you know, grow this foundation

for Rue and Scotty. So you're also on the same page with your wife. You're doing learning things with your wife. And I'm sure. I'm sure that that exact same format of with Rue for the introduction of Scotty will be the same way of like during big events of Rue's first time trying out for a sports team. And Scottie's old enough to like know, no, what's going on and bringing Scotty along of like, we got to cheer on Big Sister and we got to, this is about Big Sister. It kind of like creates that whole dynamic of we, we, we.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then down the road when Scotty's going through her first things and Rue's wanting to go to the playground, or I don't want to do this. Yeah. And you're having those moments of telling her, hey, Scotty came to, comes to all your stuff like,

oh, this is all like, this is how we go about. This is Scotty's very first time. And how did you feel when it was your first time? and mom and dad, we're all excited for you. You felt good, right? You are now part of this with helping Scotty. Like, she's very excited. You've gotten to do your first time or you've gotten to do your ballet class and we love doing it with you. Yes. And that probably made you feel really good and really comfortable. And now we want to, we want Scotty to feel all the same things, all the same excitement. How do you think she would feel if her big sister had a smile on her face?

Watching her, helping her. Not too much. Don't get out there on the dance floor with her instructing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But helping her and just being happy for it and make her feel really good. And dude, I hate to jump ahead. But I think you're going to have no trouble at all having Scotty be willing to help. Will you please tell the sickos about when we ask Scotty to help teach Scarlett how to crawl and what commence? Because that was one of the best moments I've ever seen in my life. So on Sunday, we had a little play date with Scotty and Scarlett. Very quick play date between naps.

Eight months? Scarlet's eight months. Scarlet's eight months. Scotty's 15 months or 16 months. Scotty's actually, shout out Scotty. She's 16 months. She's 16 months March 10th. Come on.

So yesterday she was 16 months. But we're upstairs. We're in the playroom. And they're both sitting across with each other, you know, kind of playing with toys together. Scotty grabbing stuff or like trying to pull and we're like, hey, we share it. Can you give that to Scar Scar, Scar.

And she'd hand it over and give it to Scarcer. We're doing the whole thing where you're trying to do the whole sharing. And Scarlett is just fascinated with Scotty. She's fascinated to be there. Obsessed with Scotty. And Sherman was telling me that they're trying to work on crawling with her. Yeah. And like doing tummy time and doing all these things where it's like getting her up to her base,

like using her arms and using her hands and getting her up to her hands and knees. Yeah. And so we're like, Scottie, will you show Scarlett how to crawl? And I kind of put Scott kind of put Scotty on the ground. Scotty like crawls a couple steps and then like stops, you know, and then does the whole standup. Literally literally the loudest cry of all. all time. And so Shirm takes Scarlett and lays Scarlet on her stomach and we're trying to help her

crawl. Like, come on, you got to get your hips up or try to push your, you're trying to push your legs to where her knees get up right. And Scotty walks, just walks over there. She's fascinated by Scarlet too. She walks over there and she just starts grabbing Scarlet by the back of the onesie trying to lift her up. And then heaving, dude, like full on both hands and trying to just, yeah, like around the like around the waist, like grabbing the back of her. onesie and like lifting it up to where the the clothes are stretching. And then we're laughing. Like, hey, Scotty, like, give Scarlett some space. Like, she's got a, we got to give her some space. And then Scotty would like walk back over and get to where her hand is around like her

shoulder and around like the side on her stomach. And she's trying to like kick and lift her up. And bro, we explicitly asked Scotty before this. We said, Scotty, Scarlet's trying to learn how to crawl. Do you think you can show her how to crawl? So she totally received. that message as a 16-month old from you crawls over to Scarlett and she said Scarlet's not crawling so she's like, don't worry, I got this,

gets up and just is like, she's not getting her hips up. It was like watching Will try and teach somebody how to attack the egg up. She's like, get the hips off the ground. What are we doing? It was like watching. Dane Gables had enough in his wrestling room and he's going and helping position all the wrestlers on the mat.

Yeah. Scotty just, again, just waddles on over and she's trying to take control of the situation. Ah, grunting, trying to, like, lift her up all around, like, the hip area and everything else. Like, she's not getting too much where she, like, grabs her face or anything. That's what I'm sitting there being nervous about. I'm like, hey, Scotty. He was being very, which I, as a parent, I'm like, bro, I got no problem.

Like, Scotty even kind of fell on Scarley at one point, and Will was like, oh, I'm like, dude. Every parent knows the dynamic, whether you're with a great friend or whether you're around like a stranger. There's just, there's something going on that's happening in my brain. to where we all know we do things differently, even though we're all kind of aligned on same things we want to happen with our kids. And when my kids, like, standing over yours,

are grabbing or in my brain seeming invasive or getting to where she could, like, fall over her, or like fall on her head. I'm thinking of worst case scenarios and thinking, like, I don't want to just let this go and let this happen, because I don't know how you're feeling in the moment. I don't know how anything's going on. So you're just trying to think,

your instinct is control your kid a little bit because we're trying to have like some manners. Oh, of course. And you have no control over what your little ones are thinking. Of course. You're sitting there and you're both parents and you're standing there watching your little ones player go at it. And both parents are kind of standing there like were or any boundaries, this one seems a little bit more aggressive than mine. Like that parents probably thinking, I wonder if this is okay.

You're sitting there thinking, I don't mind this at all. But I'm like, does he mind this? What he's seeing is as at an eight-month-old, Scarlett is a perpetual dough and headlights. Like, all she can do is sit up straight. and smile. That's it right there, Will, was Vince Vaughn and Wedding Crashers talking about the dates. Is she happy? Am I at the date? Am I talking too much? Is she not talking enough? It's like the dad version of that. That is like the vibe. It's like you're sitting there. Do they think this is okay? I think this is okay. But I won't let it be okay if I feel like you don't think this is okay.

But if you think it's okay and I think it's okay and we just think if the worst case scenario happens and we're all okay with that together, we can allow that to happen. But if we don't want the worst case scenario that I'm thinking of my head to happen, then I can just, I can intervene and pull them off. But if you say to me, hey, I'm totally cool with this. I'm thinking, oh, I'm cool with this too. I just didn't know, you know what? Let them wrestle. Yeah, yeah. And I was the girl on the date that, that looked at nervous guy and just said, hey, it's all good. It's all good. No matter what happens. Sure, she did keep saying like, hey, it's all good. I was like, I know, and I know you're concerned. And I appreciate that. I just know Scotty goes about her business with a reckless abandon. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, it's, we're talking about Scotty's in her own. We're talking about Scott Zillian. She owned, yeah. We were at, we had a, oh, I forgot about that. We had a dinner on Saturday night with the boys. And for the first portion of dinner, like, I'm getting Scotty her snacks. I'm like, don't tell your mother I'm feeding you all these snacks.

And you wouldn't even knowing Scotty's really sitting there with us. We're chopping up, keeping up. Scotty's just like on her best behavior, just having a great time. She's smiling. Guys are engaging with her every now and then. But then the back half, when she's kind of getting a little restless or she's done eating. She won't eat her chicken. I'm like, sweetheart, you got to stop eating fries.

and you got to eat your chicken. And we kind of let her, I pick her up, I let her out of her out of the high chair to let her kind of walk around Pinewood. Pinewood's an opposite spot here in Nashville, no free shoutouts. But got a lot of space to walk around. And there's like bowling and other.

Yeah, yeah. And Scottie's just having a great time walking around, kind of work in the room, going around the wall. Like, hey, not that far. You can't like leave our site. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of getting on, you know,

other people were fascinating thinking she's adorable, but she's kind of like leaning on their booth. I'm like, Scotty, hey, come over here. But she's just having a great time. Ryan's messing with her. All the boys are messing with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was a lot of fun.

The best part, too, of the saga of Scotty training Scarlet to crawl was Will then coming in and pulling Scotty off of Scarlet fully and being like, hey, too much, guy, too much. But appreciate you. And Scotty didn't break down into full tears, but she was letting you know, dude, you explicitly asked me. me to teach her how to crawl. She wasn't getting her button there and now you're pulling me off of her. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't make sense to me that she can't crawl. Like, can't all of us crawl?

And you said, we got to get her going. Hey, Scotty, teach her how to crawl and what am I doing? Teaching her. And then now you're pulling me off of her. Yeah. Like she literally was like, ah, she didn't like it. She didn't like it. Great dad act for over the weekend.

I was solo with Scotty. Mom and Rue were in D.C. for the weekend doing bar three steps. Yeah, yeah. Sight seeing doing a lot of things on moms. in with par three. And so a great dad hack is having the boys, I got a couple, obviously playdates, things that burn time. I take Scotty to the coffee shop, burn some time there, take it to the playground, burn some time there. We did a play date. That helps burn time before nap time. But also the boys, I con three of the boys from the shop to essentially help me watch or eat.

Yeah. Because I wanted to get her out of the house. Let's go get some dinner. Was it just going to be me and Scotty? I would be totally fine if it's just me and Scotty. But how can I also cross off a social aspect of my life. Like I haven't eaten at all or anything yet, like one-on-one with Derek or gotten to know him outside of the shop. Yes. I was hopeful you were going to be one of the guys to respond. But I reach out to all the guys who are from that work with Busson.

I reach out to all the boys that I knew were in town. Full chat. Yeah. Hey, meal on your boy. Who wants to come? Oh, really? Set it up. It's going to be an early dinner because it's basically going to be, it's going to be with me and

Scotty, but anybody interested. If you guys hit up, made a smaller group chat and basically told them. I just conned you guys and essentially helping me watch Scotty while we eat dinner. But great dad hack out there. Yeah, that is a good dad. Hit off some friends stuff. Hit off some work stuff. Hit off some Scotty stuff.

Yes, dude. Get Scotty around people. I went and got Pop Belly with BC4, my guy here with Scarlet. That was actually on Valentine's Day. That was our Valentine's Day date, a little daddy-daughter date. And, but dude, so easy and fun to just rip with a friend. Yeah. Like any parent that's sitting there that's like,

I'm never going to see my friends again. O'Contrere, it's very simple to go just grab a bite. I, they grab an olypop, grab a drink. Like I'm a believer in that. I don't see anything weird in that.

You didn't even need to. It was funny because like you texted the smaller group and said, ha ha, I've conned you into watching my daughter eat with me. And I think all three of us were like, we kind of knew that. Like we kind of assumed there was something. I was here, but like, that's, we, yes, we want to go.

It was just so funny because he was like, I got all of you guys. And we're like, all right. We were totally cool within the beginning. We kind of knew what we were signing up for. You said for your meal, though, right? But you're getting a check, right? Oh, my God. I was in Knoxville.

I was texting back and go, I was with Alex. I was like, damn, Will's having everyone out to eat and I'm going to miss it. And Alex is like, oh, it's great. Oh, he just said that he conned everybody into watching Scott. and she goes, that sounds even better. Like, what's the, that doesn't sound like a drawback at all. And I was like, yeah. It was a lot of fun, man.

Like, it fired me up coming in the next day. And some of the boys were talking about how fun, Scotty was and everything else. Because, again, like, as a parent and you, you just think in terms, you don't want to be, I don't know, you don't want to annoy people with your kid. And I know that's a fake assumption. That's a fake fear that we all make up. But you're sitting there, it's like, you know, number one, it'd be fun to go out and socialize. But you don't want to sit there and annoy people with all the things you guys. got to do with being a parent.

And I sound, now that I'm saying it out loud, I sound ridiculous. I sound ridiculous saying that. Yeah, dude. Unless you're like that type of guy that's like, hey, I, or gal of like, I really hate babies. I really hate small children. Why in the world is my friend asking me to hang out with them? I don't see who would not be like down and cool to hang. That you, I wouldn't already know going into asking the question.

Exactly. They don't really care to be around or they don't, for whatever reason, they want to draw a line and say, I don't want to be around. Hey, no kids. Yeah, no kids, man. Which there are those no kids situations, obviously. Yeah. Like, hey, we're doing this big golf trip.

We're doing this big hunting trip. And then you roll up with, you know, Scarlet on your chest. They're like, what in the world? You got a shout out from Demon. Because we were sitting there and Scotty was kind of operating and, like, ran over to another family. and this and that, this and that. And I believe the words Jared said, we're like hanging out with Shirm so much, like, I'm so much better around babies now.

Really? Because we were just all talking about, like, our comfortability with, like, children and things like that. And he was like, yeah, I don't really get babies, but like, Scar, Scars help me get babies. Really? Get a nice shot on. Demons 24. And when he explains some of that stuff, like being around Scarlet and everything else,

I'm like, buddy, I'm with you. Like, I completely understand where you're coming from. Before I had my kids, like, I wasn't a big. baby guy. Not that I didn't like babies, but anytime they wanted me to hold them, I was always very nervous to hold kids. I don't know how I didn't have like, you know, any game with like talking to the child. You know what I mean? Yes. Tori, I do the little baby voice. I never felt comfortable. Yeah. Doing it around people or like operating with kids. I was like, I was the same way as you. Obviously, I'm a parent now. So you're, you're way more comfortable. You have way more fun.

It's kind of like open your eyes like, man, it's weird how much I was just kind of uncomfortable around babies, but I wasn't a big baby person whatsoever until I had Rue. I feel like naturally people from birth to like probably around like Rue's age because Rue's like really out and about at three almost four. Like they just kind of only do stuff with the family or they're only doing stuff at the house. So like you don't really just run into a bunch of newborn babies all that awesome. And if I think back to me growing up like my dad was an only child. We lived in St. Francis County where my dad's parents, my grandma and grandpa that were talking about a couple of episodes.

Those are my dad's parents. So we grew up around. My dad was an only child. So there was no uncles. Like my mom, she lived away. Her family's kind of scattered across the country. Yeah. But I didn't grow up around, you know, aunts and uncles or where there's new kids coming into the fold. Like, Wyatt is six years younger than me. So by the time Wyatt was born. Is he the next oldest? No, Cody is a year below me. Oh, got it. God. God. And we were a great apart. And then why? Wyatt was the youngest who's six years younger than me. So, you know, that I just, we were never around babies or kids. Like some of my, like one of my best friends, Logan, they were like 12 of them. So he was always very good with babies, a couple different marriages.

And ultimately there's a full 12 of them. Summer step, summer step siblings. So he was just always comfortable because he's around the house and operating with a newborn or whatever it is to where he was always comfortable. But I just didn't grow up around where there's kids everywhere. I just knew what to do all the time. Yeah. Does that make sense?

Yes, and thank you for sharing that. That's actually really cool to hear from Demon and an ST Sicko. Yeah, he still thinks raising a dog is the same as the kids. There are those people again. And there are those parallels. I'll give them that. Yeah, there are. Yeah.

My parents got Conan named after Conan the Barbarian, a Rottweiler, who they trained and did all this stuff. They spent a year with Conan before they were doing that to trial before they had me before they had their first kid. Right on. So some people do think in a way, like responsibility of a dog, because there are a lot of responsibilities with the dog. Then when you become a parent, you almost laugh at the dog people, but I completely get it's like you sit there and trial run a dog. We had waffle before we had Rue. Waffle is, you know, she's pretty low maintenance. She's a bulldog. Yeah. But there are those parallels.

Like to those dog people that equated to having a baby, I will say this. If you are raising actual puppies. Like you get that dog when it is a puppy and you're having a house break in stuff. I do think it's a good training tool of like throw yourself into some suck. Absolutely.

If you're a Seamintin' Team Sixer, do you have a dog chef? Girl, uh, pseudo, I'm like a stepdad to my girlfriend's dog. Step dog. Yeah. Yeah. Dog stepdad. Yeah.

He's stepped up. But if you're a seaman team sixer and you don't have a whole lot of responsibilities going on to where you might have a job or you might be going to school or whatever it is. Absolutely. You want to get into what the world of responsibility. Not saying you don't have responsibility.

Of course. But if you're caring for a little puppy, like that is going to break you. It's going to make you think about how you structure your weekends, how you kind of structure your day to day because you do have to map out what a routine looks like to where it does pull from you in other angles. So you're like, fuck, I have this dog.

I have to think about my dog. My boys are going out of town. Who am I going to get to watch the dog? I got to start thinking about all these things. Yes, I got wait. up at three o'clock in the morning to clean up this pee and poop puddle. Yeah. Or they pooped in the fucking bed.

And I'm having to clean that. Yeah. Throw some newspaper on it. Throw some new. Spray some spray some from breeze. Say it. Sprice from breeze. Yeah.

Um, we got to just got off on a tangent there. We got to keep it under an hour. Yeah, we do. We do. Chef, did you have something? I just wanted while we were doing the callbacks from last episode,

Smith and Lens pizzas, many of y'all remember. Oh, Eric and Will got into it. Right. We got it Friday. I don't, I'll, I'll pass it to you guys. guys, but that might be the best slice of Nashville. It's going to be hard to argue that one.

Smith and Lins. Yep. Awesome pizza. And by the way, we got in a little tiff, we got in a little dust up last week. The under-arging theme there is we are allies. We are allies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need a DEC to be mobilized

more in previous engagements that we've had over the food topic. However, Derek crushed it with Smith and Lans, great pizza in Nashville loved every slice at about six of them he brought it to the shop how many box of pizza about eight boxes of pizza we ended up getting six and then a ranch for each one when it was all said and done yeah six all taken to prom and to put out there people who are ranch people with pizza one ranch per box we were light on ranch we were on ranch but with this type of pizza

and we can get into it we can get into it you don't need a whole lot ranch but this is my one note one, when I took my first bite, I completely understood where my boy Deke was coming from in three seconds. Yeah. I would die on that hill any day with you now. Like I went up to him. I said truly like top five all time. We had an artist in place back in Fort Worth that was like some big name pizza chef guy

from like one of the big cities, L.A., New York. And it was very reminiscent of that, if not. not better. I told him top five all time. Great pieces. To the point, Derek will tell you, too, when I got in the smaller group chat about dinner, I had options in my head, but I'm like, based on the resume that Derek is painting. You choose. With him and beer and food and everything else, I'm like, what are some spots? We ended up just obviously landing on Pinewood, but I have nothing but respect for Derek's, for Derek's palette. Derek blindfold me, spin me around and then just take something in my mouth. And put something in my mouth. I don't care. If you guys are free Saturday,

it's taking blowjob day. March 14th, blindfold me, spin me around and put something in my the only. Hey, Derek, what are you doing on the 14th? You only got to worry about the first part. Don't worry about the second part. When he shot me the text being like, hey, you know, I got some food ideas. I'd love, and he did say I'd love to hear what Derek. It was a good stamp of approval feeling. Like, I feel like I got a good stamp. Like, if I send you to somewhere or I show you a song or a movie, like I feel good about it. But the other side of it is, I brought this up at dinner, like, adding a kid to the mix, it threw off my whole scale. Because if you were like me and Char going to dinner or drinks or something, you know what I mean? Then you're like, hey, I'm like,

dang, we are bringing Scotty. Like, what would be, which is why we pick Pinewood, because there's a lot of room to move and like, it's a pretty relaxed environment. I was thinking about that. And you haven't been to the other spots I had mentioned. And you're like, whatever you think is going to be the best environment for Scotty. Yeah. Because I threw a couple Mexican, like, um, Fonda. Fonda on 8th Avenue or on 12th on one of them. I think it's Fonda on 12th. Very like a little more money, but great Mexican food. Also Mexican food. Massaro is another Mexican spot. Love Massa. Tex-Mex. Messera. Messero. TextMex on 12th. Have you been there? I've been to the one in Fort Worth. Okay. Love Maserro.

But that's a good one. I was, you know, I'm like, I wonder if they've been to this spot or somebody's going to be like, hey, let's go here. We ended up landing on Pyewood. But yes, nothing but respect for Derek's food. Just a little future note for any PT sickos out there that are going to invite me to a meal, but I'm more specifically talking to this group. I went to the corner bar with Jared and his girlfriend. And it was listed as a restaurant. We walked into it. It was very much a bar.

And now I might be speaking out of turn for other PT sickos. I felt very comfortable walking in with Scarlet. And we had her a little high chair thing. And I did get some looks from the people sitting at the bar top going, oh, that dude's walking in here with the baby. Was that going to look like? Scarlett was on her best behavior and, you know, didn't cry at all. But I just plopped her right there.

And we just, we sat and ate wings. And they had some drinks. I was driving. So I didn't partake. But like, I felt very comfortable in that situation. It felt normal to me. Yeah. I don't know if other people like, you know, whatever.

So. Do that thing, because you were bringing up about like dog people and babies comparing. I have the same thing that you described when I take, because my dog's a pit bull, to the dog park where he bites at other dogs. And I'm thinking, I'm cool with it or they cool with it. The dogs are playing. And there was a quote. I'm going to do another quote.

You aren't who you think you are. You aren't who they think you are. Which is a tongue twister to say, Sherim, you walk in. Say that again clearly. That is true. You aren't who you think you are. Okay. you aren't who they think you are.

You are who you think they think you are. So when Shirm walks into the bar with a baby, he's not just Shirm and everyone at the bar probably didn't care. But he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He goes, those guys are probably thinking this guy's bringing a baby in. When we're all, nobody cares. That guy's probably thinking about ordering his third beer or something.

So I get that a lot. Or they look like, oh, cute baby. They're like, I'll take another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is true. That is a really, really good point. It is a very good point. I am often, you know that about me too.

I'm an overthinker. I think everybody, I think a lot of us, people in general kind of overthink everything. I see what you mean. You're like a people pleaser. You think a lot about everything going on 100%. I don't have a problem. I'm just here for the food.

Yeah, yeah. All right. And I love my kids. Sue me. I have a nice little kind of a follow-up comment from last week. I have a better one. Yeah, yeah, this is a sad alert one. This is following up last week.

I have gotten several messages about the message I have with reading the book and my mom and everything else. Okay. But this is from Landon Fritas on Facebook. I just want to give a big shout out to Will for being so vulnerable about how much he misses and still thinks of his mom since she passed. I was watching the video of him talking to Roo about her and it got me really emotional. I lost my dad a while back two days after he watched me play football for the first time in college. Just like Will misses his mom, I miss my dad every day.

It's been 13 years, and I still think about him randomly when I'm sitting in traffic or when I want to talk to him about a cool fishing video I just watched. As Will probably knows, this shit doesn't get any easier. We just kind of learn how to cope with it in a little bit and get a little bit better with it over time. I'm a father of a beautiful four-year-old girl now, and I can't help but think of what a great-grandfather he would be. How much you would love spending time with his granddaughter, how much he would make her laugh. It hurts so much knowing that they will never get to have a relationship together, and I'm sure Will feels the same.

Absolutely, my friend. I guess the beautiful thing is that in a way my dad is still in me. It's still in me with the lessons he passed down to me and the love he gave me while I was still here. Maybe that's how my daughter gets to see him through me. Thank you for reminding me that it's still okay to miss him, and it's still okay to feel so emotional about it no matter how long it's been. Very good message, Linden.

I do appreciate that. And I empathize you with on all of those levels. it is it's dude when i want to keep myself in a in an optimistic perspective ripple effect on making myself feeling like i'm you're at peace with it or you have a happiness from it is like i i do think about because my mom is at the forefront of my mind a lot with a lot of things whether it's with parenting or missing or wishing i could talk to or send her a message all of that stuff um i do feel like i parent better because of everything that happened.

Because I feel so emotionally attached to it, and I think about it a lot, and it's helped me reflect on the mom that she was to me. When I do feel like I communicated those things to her a lot, like she knew how much, like we were tight. And things you still think about, you're like, ah, man, did she fully know that? I wish I could just tell her and articulate it so well,

one last time how much she knew. And I'm like, ultimately, I do know that. And I know it pours through me with parenting because I know how precious, Now that it's gone, I'm not saying I didn't, I took it for granted or I didn't appreciate it. Obviously, you battle with those demons all the time because you want such closure on a moment like that that you felt got taken from you versus you knew it was going to happen or this was the plan the entire time. And you kind of package it like, like, I am the dad I am because my mom was such an example. And I'm able to reflect on how much she meant to me because it's gone.

It doesn't happen anymore. So I get to think about what she absolutely did for me over time through all of my years of life, through all my communications now that I'm parenting and trying to be intentional and trying to think of ways to connect with Rue and Scotty and be a dad. I'm like, I know she went through all of these same things. And this is what this meant. And now that I see it from this perspective, these are all the things that she did on why the decision led to this once upon a time in my childhood. Like I think about all those things to where I know it gives me that North Star, that guiding light in my own parenting that I might not be if she was still here. And I say that I can probably be saying that because I'm just trying to

always wrap my brain around it. A nice silver lining. Yeah, silver lining with it all. Because I do, I get angry. And I talked about it, a podcast in the past. Yeah. I do get angry knowing that she can't be the grandma that I knew she was going to be. Like she would have been the best, though. Crush, crush it. Because it makes me laugh at my dad or, you know, get frustrated with my dad because he can't just come in for the weekend if trial and I are going to go out of town and do our thing

and our own thing and I can't just leave the kids with my dad. You know what I mean? And I just know it's like my mom would be up at any moment I wanted to. To worry you're almost, we would have had to create boundaries for my mom because she would have loved me and grandma so much or putting her input on things that she's not, not a part of her has to know like, hey, we're our own tribe.

Like she was a very A-type personality, badass mom. Yeah. And I do get angry knowing that Rue will never know her through her own relationship with her. She's going to know her through me, through my actions. And when I'm having my moments and I'm trying to like until I'm blue in the face, hoping that I can imprint on what grandma would have meant, even though you've never met her, you never talked to.

You never talk to her. But yeah, man, I empathize with all of that message. I appreciate you writing in, man. And knowing 13 years, somebody who's lost somebody super close not too long ago, it's been four years for me because I lost my mom when Charles was pregnant with Rue. And knowing that it can be as long as 13 years and then it just never goes away. And will, this might not be the time or place. So like, cut me off.

But what was the cause or timeline? I don't know if I've ever asked you that. So the cause was she had a blood clot. She got knee replaced. She got a knee replacement, her second one for her other knee. And she was so excited to get it done because her other knee felt so much better. And she got a knee replacement. And weeks after, I don't know this to be fact.

But in my head, I remember when we were talking on the phone, because that was the year I went to the Raiders for my last year of playing, where I went to Las Vegas. I was playing on the Raiders. I got signed. I actually went to my last moments with her was I went back home and visited. we went to a high school football game to watch Wyatt coach and we spent the weekend there and it was a lot of fun.

I went to the Raider Junior Football League and watched the kids on Saturday. We had a great time. And that was in, that was around, that was in October or November. Shortly after that is when I got the call to go to Vegas to finish out, I was on the team for five weeks to finish out the year with the Raiders.

Yes. Where Rich Besachi was the head coach. And I remember being on the phone with her, like checking in about, you know, her rehab, like the knee, like all the post. post-surgery stuff. And she was excited and bragging to me. She's not taking it. She's got off her Tylenol

because she's very much like a high pain tolerance woman, like a person who's, they want to be a badass. They want to do things faster than, hey, it's going to be a four-month rehab. She wants to get it done in two. Like, she was very, she was like that. Like, I'm like that. I was about to say Apple didn't fall far. And when it happened, it was, I, COVID was taking place.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. different date. We were flying out. I was in Cleveland. I was in my hotel room because we're about to play the Browns the next day and I get a call from Wyatt. I get a call. This thing happens here because obviously I go back to the spot. And we don't have to go fully into it. I want you, like you answered my question thoroughly. Okay. Just so you know. I got a call from Wyatt and she, he was. Yeah, let's move. Yeah. And, um, and um, all, essentially there, I was just, I didn't know, and you answered that question

fabulously. If I get beyond that moment, all of that that took place, Besachi comes, he's sitting in my hotel room with me, go home. They allowed me to be home for like two weeks because obviously it's like it's my last year playing. We know I'm there for being a culture guy, covering some kicks, covering some punts, like, I'm tight with everybody

in the Raiders organization. Yeah. The Raiders organization, the fan base, my teammates, were pivotal, pivotal for me in that in that moment yeah yeah guys speaking about me and to me members a jones a receiver he's mentioning me in the post game presser we they ended up beating Cleveland and guys had all the greatest messages like dude it was I my heart will forever Raiders will always have a piece of that because they help me through one of the hardest times

the hardest time yeah yeah and um I get to go home for a couple weeks and as you know it's very emotional very tough. It's it sucked, man. It was the most brutal time ever for a lot of us. Our family, everybody. Yeah. She was a centerpiece of a lot of things. She was a school principal for a Catholic school.

St. Rose of Lehman, Desoto, Missouri. And so she touched a lot of people. And as I'm doing my own research on the back end of finding closure, God, what fucking happened? Because it was sudden. Yeah. She made a yelp sound that my dad heard in the other room.

And she was just gone. There was no, there was no life. Ambulance came. They're hoping it's okay. You're hoping it's okay as they go to the hospital. I did not know that. It was gone. You know what I mean?

There's no, there was no like, can we be doing something right now? Could something have happened before that? And in my brain, when I wrap it around, it's like, maybe it would have been her getting off the baby Tylenar, the Tylenar, like, was she still taking her meds or things that like got the circulation going to where this blood clot didn't form? You battle through all of that shit, bro. And that is essentially what happened.

And that was in 20, was it a 20, 21? Yeah, Rua was born on April 3rd in 22. So that happened in December, December 18th, 21. Right before Christmas, my last message from her, and I still have it. It's, what's your address so I can send you Christmas gifts, you know? That's a good, hey, it's a good grandma, dude. Dude, she was fucking the best. Yeah.

You know, God, I get so uncomfortable doing this. No, you're fine. I hate the crying all the time. Yeah. I know everybody's okay with it. Yeah. But it's just, man. Not to cut you off or segue,

but one thing that I meant to tell you this off the pod was when I made that video either a week ago or two weeks ago where you were talking about your mom. I just went through your Instagram and I was like ripping images off of your Instagram for like some great pictures of you and mom were you reading some captions dude Will

it was so great because it just gave me an insight into the relationship with your mom just a tad bit because I've never heard her voice I've never met her nothing and you had a caption on there that they were having a family dinner the Comptons were

and you made an extremely off-color joke. About putting her in a home? Yes. And I love that his mom's reaction that he put in the caption was, William! Yeah. Because I have done that around the office and others have to, whatever will, like,

goes too far with a joke, do that. Oh, Will! Yeah. Dude, that just made me laugh so hard. So I just, I thought that was hilarious that she, and you play it in the caption that she, She was smiling when she said William, too. Yeah.

That she loved your humor. Right. Like if I'm putting that caption out there, be like, oh, why you treat your mom like that? It's like, dude, we have, I bust their balls all the time. Like the running joke that we'll still try and laugh about

with my old man is, I would literally tell them, like if my dad is having like a brain moment, something where you're laughing at your old man. Yeah. I just back, dad, man. I'll be honest with you. I hope I hope you go first.

if anything happens. And this is back before, obviously, everything took place. But you're just making those jokes because it's like, what are you going to be? How are you going to do anything without mom around? I'll be okay if you go. I don't want you to go. I'll be okay if you go first because at least mom, we know how to operate. My dad has done an incredible job picking himself up.

And, you know, that's a process as well for anybody who's gone through something like that or similar. They understand this dynamic. that I'm talking about. My dad's relationship what I think is so funny is like I never joked with my dad. Or well, I did, but like I didn't do

that type of joking with my dad. And when I was on the phone with them the other day, I just love how like you keep that same will like sense of humor across the board. Even with you like not really having any personal relationship with my dad. I'm on a phone call with them.

and the shirt contest is going on. And I called my dad, and he had graciously offered to buy some of the shirts and was wondering which shirt he needed to buy for the PT6 shirt to win. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which it won. So show it at the PT-Zsik.

Which it won. And it's not like my dad bought a crazy amount, as the story will tell. But my dad, when Will gets on the phone, he walks up mid-convo, and he sticks his head in the car, and he's like, Mr. Young, you know, blah, blah, blah. He's just like being with.

Will and my dad is very proud to tell Will that he's buying four shirts, four PT6 shirts. He's like so excited to tell Will that. And Will goes, four, get 35. Those are rookie numbers. We got to bump those numbers. And my, dude, my dad went you on my dad. And he is like, oh, well, there. I'm like, dad, he is kidding.

I is. But dad bought all the tumblers. His dad bought every single for the dad's coffee. Tumblr and we were talking to the merch team and they're like, yeah, we ran out of that. By like 35. Did you hear that story? No, no, no, no. He bought it as a Christmas gift for his office.

That is amazing. And your dad is awesome. And even when I'm saying it, I almost now understand the dynamic that's happening because number one, your dad's so proud of everything that you're doing. And he also wants me to know how much it means to him. Yeah. And how much like it's like a, he almost, he wants to be, we are on the personal level, but it's like a moment for him.

And I am just like... And you're my boss at the end of the day. And boss in his mind is like this. And, you know, he's like, man, like what you're doing for my kid. And then you also are Will Compton. So you have like these jokes that you'll throw in that will just catch my dad so off guard. It's hilarious. It is fun, dude.

It is fun. It's very funny. That made me laugh really hard. Did you ever come across the first pitch? video with my mom. Yes, you showed it to me the other day. Yeah, we're at the Cardinal game. It was my, it was the second time I got to do a first pitch for the Cardinals. And so I was fired out. My mom grew up. She loves the Kansas City Chief. She loves St. Louis Cardinals baseball. She loved it. Like, we go up and we just randomly on a weekend, she'd be like, let's get in the car. We're going to

go up and scalp tickets. And she just worked the streets. Like, she was very much like that. Where you're going up, we don't have any tickets. We're going to scalp tickets. I got to watch Dantrell Willis with the Florida Marlins. I love fantasy baseball playing triple play on computer. Backyard baseball. I loved baseball growing up. Backyard baseball.

And the Florida Marlins were in town playing the Cardinals and Dantrae Willis was throwing. And I love Dantrae Willis because he had this arm action, this sidearm action where he just kind of had the swag. He had the juice. And so we got to watch him. We got to watch him play that day. But I knew my mom loved the Cardinals so much. So the second time I got to do a first pitch, I'm like, hey, mom, I want you to do

the first pitch. Like we'll walk out together, but I want you to throw the ball because I know she's in heaven. Yeah. Getting to go and see all the stuff. They're taking us behind the scenes, showing us facilities and doing all the fun things. And we get out there and I know my mom's about to throw and I kind of know her arm motion. You throw the ball like the, you throw a ball like a girl. You throw a ball like a girl.

You throw the ball like a girl. Sorry, they took a moment to get out. But I'm busting her balls. We're doing quotes from, what's the movie with Tom Hanks? the women's baseball movie. A league of her own. We're doing quotes from a league of their own. She goes out there and I'm recording.

And she throws the pitch in the dirt and I'm like, oh, trash, trash. She's like putting the camera in her face. But that's a video I always like look back on just to see moments of videos that I record. That is a funny clip worth chef putting into the episode, dude. All right, going out for our first pitch. He's going to make me go to them down.

I got to bring her all the way out the mound. This is the Mother's Day gift, everybody. There you go. There you go. Oh, wow. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. Damn, mom.

I might have been worse than a girl woman. Are you to call it a trash? Trey. Because it's, yeah, Will is just unabashually will in that moment. You were showing me that dude. I got a lot of cool messages over the last week from friends of the family, like friends of my mom. Oh, good. Just like writing about that message.

I woke up to another one this morning from my boy, Foster Moreau, who was to tie it on the Raiders at the time that saw that clip. And he sent me a really nice message. But yeah, man. Number one, I appreciate your guys is you guys sitting here with the boy as I talked through some. Yeah, dude. One call out just to say, people were asking in the comments if it was. was like a templated book she wrote or if it was like an empty notebook that she filled because a lot of people were curious. There's like books that can happen nowadays. So I don't know.

It was a templated where there's questions from her past growing up. Thanks her parents taught her old friends that she spoke about. Like she's answering questions in like a templated book. Then it gets my birth, you know, what she envisioned for me when I was young. And it seems like she stopped writing in it when I was a senior in college. Because there's no mention. of like, you know, the NFL or anything like that. She talks about how proud she is or getting to play college football and playing in Nebraska.

But it's a very much like a templated thing. Part of me I took so long to even look at the book or even think about it. I never opened it to where I'm like, did she write? Is this like a journal to where she wrote to me in it? You know what I mean? To where I had no clue what I was about to open.

Yeah. There's New Roo was having such a hard time and I'm like, man, I've been talking about doing this. It seems like the moment to do it. But yeah, it was a templated book. Because there's a lot of them that are kind of sold out there, which I love that. And I like tell myself I need to do that for my kids.

Because I think it's a really cool saying, oh, buddy from a way past episode, putting us on game with a journal. Remember in the Spotify comments? In the email account, too. That's been a dad hack that's come up plenty of times of create a Gmail account or whatever email service you want to use and just email it every single day.

And then once the kiddos is old enough, give them a password and the email address. and they can go through and read through that. Yeah, yeah. Dude, honestly, it's a, I feel like, I don't know this to be a fact, but I feel like this was, this was a situation that really helped incubate this show. You know what I mean? Like from a position of it impacted me in such a way,

especially with Charles being pregnant and having Rue and articulating what I wanted to be as a father and gravitating towards all the dead content in the world out there because I just love it. I love getting whatever new ideas are out there when people write in with questions. And I might not have the answer, but I like see myself in those questions because I would gravitate to a lot of dad content that goes on. Yeah. To our being in the podcast game and everything else, it's like, man, this would be, this would be really cool. Like essentially you're making a show speaking to your old self that, you know, my mom made

such an impact on me that it has impacted me in my own journey as a dad, which having the show has been, has meant the world. Like whenever you guys reach out, whenever you guys reach out, whenever you guys do comment about this stuff as awkward as I feel crying or when my mom's stuff comes up in my brain I'm like man does this stuff come up too much am I crying too much about this you people I you don't know how much uh joy and um how much value you guys do bring to me when I see that it does help impact or help somebody that has missed their dad for 13 years like it was it was nice seeing that understanding that we all do we all go through this shit

together yeah And you're kind of one listen or one conversation or one comment or right up away from connecting to something that feels like, yeah, I should see it this way. Or yeah, I am feeling that anger and you just feel like you're not alone. You know what I mean? Yes. And it's great to be able to smell the flowers from a standpoint of being able to see the community that has been built from this. We talked earlier about the Jared Ladd's Twitter group, the For the Dad's Twitter community that he's. started and a lot of dad up to a hundred ninety eight members now which that's let's go that's sick um

but in that group like these dads are just like posting pictures of like them hanging out with their kids like it's the most dad coded group ever like we got our own Facebook now it's like on Facebook for these dads to be like I took my kid fishing we went to this pizza spot. Like blah, blah, blah. But like the, just to be like entered into that world of being surrounded by other people that are like, man, family is so important. And being a good dad is so important. And having that constant reminder. Yeah. Being a part of this show like kind of puts the blinders on because it is my job to like

do the show and to interact with that community. But it is also a nice refreshing. sometimes of like, man, I'm so lucky to be a part of this community and see all this positive. I have the most positive timeline on the internet, quote graphic. Like I really do. It's crazy. It's awesome. So shout out to you for ideating this show, but shout out to the community. Shout out to the community aspect because it does.

It's like it helps you, if you just think of the brand or the community and you factor it into one scene. person. It feels like you almost have like an accountability. Yeah. Because there's a lot of times where if I'm getting frustrated or I'm thinking because it's obviously it's an ongoing cycle all the time. I'm almost like thinking about stuff we've set on the show or thinking of a right-in that somebody had. You know what I mean? To where you're dealing with it in real time of you know what? The Willie One shelf. Like anytime Charles talking about hanging up something now or doing something like that now impletrates my brain to where if there's no, if there's no none of that, who knows whatever cycle

it would have created if like I don't want to do this. I'm being so serious when you say that prepping for this show, we used to have, or not used to have, we still kind of have it. The, the trenches segment that we'll do sometimes. And the trenches segment that I would have sometimes is solo dad weekend. That was like something that I was like, man, I'm going, I'm really going through the shit. And not to make light of anything that's been submitted to us, but like now in my head, I have these ride-ins of, oh, my dog died. I got in a huge car accident, almost died, had to get surgery, blah, blah, blah. At least I get to hug my kiddos though. And I'm like, man, what am I doing right down the trenches? I had to have a solo. Oh, woe is me. It was just me and my daughter

this weekend. Fuck. Like, it really did shift my perspective so much of like, bro, I'm so freaking lucky.

It's unreal and like, yeah, I could get emotional if I went further, but that's it. I'm very lucky. I need somebody else

to grow on this show. Well, I do have some build out there. I see it. Oh, I see it. That counts. We did have a ride in

if we want to go into some quick dad comments and then maybe we hit a crack a cold one yeah let's do it my um so what is this what is this preface as is this this an this i see email uh yes but it was prefaced as like uh general comments okay general comments okay so um this one is fun because uh although it is an email it's quick katelyn's husband wrote into the show last week and i forget his name his first name um but he like he

He casually, Zach, he casually was like, you know, there's this great, this great quote from my old ball coach back in the day, Pete Carroll. And Will and I like laugh very hard at that because we're like, oh, yeah, his old ball coach. Yeah, you're just nonchalantly Pete Carroll. Just a little old Pete Carroll. And so, yeah, man, one of my old mentors of mine, Vince Lombardi. My old fishing. You don't know who he is. My old fishing buddy, Nicholas Sabin, West Virginia guy.

back in the day. He goes by Nick. Yeah, he goes by Nick. He's got this great quote. He just spoke at the White House. But his wife wrote in, and this is what she had to say. Her name is Caitlin. I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly, A Bear, or Heberer.

M.T. 6 here, mom of three, married to the hottest USC offensive lineman to Everett foot in the Coliseum, 2006. 2010 did he play in the in the Roseville game that means he would have played in the Roseville game. 06 right

that's that was oh it was 05 it was 05 it was I'll tell you he was he 100%

was um yeah Zach Abert is that Reggie yeah Zach Abert number 74

and no hot offensive lineman is not an oxymoron single ladies Courtney Strong in parentheses See, she actually wrote that. Shout out, Courtney.

Caitlin's obviously an M.T. Sicko. Find yourself an offensive lineman. They get the job done. Best husband and best dad. Two comments, M.T. Fit. I'm a nurse. Shout out Jilly Bean. And I made it a priority to wake up at 5 a.m.

before work four times a week to get my workout in in the garage. Squat rack dialed in. Waits ready to go. and let me tell you M.T. Sixers, it's a game changer for my mental health, my physical health. And hey, if I'm being honest, it's kind of an empty shockwave for the hubs. Works both ways, crying, laughing face. Hashtag, put a bow on it. Let's go.

A siko. That's a good looking boy right there. It's a hunk. He is kind of hot. I wonder if he has that flow still going on with the air. He's hot. Did he play with Clay? Oh, six, or 10? Yeah.

That would have been Clay. Yeah. Yeah. God. We got to ask Clay about Zach. Yeah. Like, oh, the haughty number 74. And what's her name?

Caitlin. Caitlin. And God, she's, I'm sitting here listening. It's like the PT fit world. It's not even done. Oh, we're still going. We're still, no, but continue your thought. No, no, finish the.

It's seeping with all these. I know what you mean. Other comment for the girl dads out there. We have two girls and got our boy two years ago. Our family is complete and so full of love and joy. watching our girls love, their brother is incredible. I'm going to share some advice that someone told us when we decided

to roll the dice for one more. Don't make eye contact when you're trying to make that boy. I'm going to read that again. I'm going to read that again. Because that, this is, this is breaking. This is raw game. This is breaking.

Don't make eye contact when you're trying to make that boy. That's all I got to say. It's evidence-based. This is backed by science, essentially. Love what you guys are doing. Keep it up, NT6 out. Put that in a frame.

Put this one in a frame. That's a great one. That's as good as it gets right there. I'm going to put it on the shelf. I'm literally in. Don't, hey, you want game on how to make a boy. Don't make eye contact. I wonder if that came from her or came from him.

Like, think if it came from her. and they're about to hit the shockwave and she's looking at him and she's like, don't make eye contact with me, trust me. And the 14th would be a great date to test that theory out. I mean,

well, you get a little bit of low. You're hitting a different, roller coaster. No, no, we're in a different coaster. Oh, for sure, but who's to say?

You know? I don't just go to six legs and go, oh, I'm only going to do that one. I'm only going to do the Mr. Freeze. Oh, we're just going to do, Metzor Freeze like five times, guys. That's the only one. No, we're going to work our way over to the Titan.

We're going to do Batman a little bit. And you know we're going to hit Shockwave. But just know when we hit that Batman, don't look me in the eye. Don't fucking look at me. Don't you fucking look at me. You look away right now. That's hilarious.

That's amazing. Shout out Caitlin. Shout out Caitlin. A quick, quick clarification. The National Champion, that game was 0506. So we're both, we're all kind of right on that. Okay. Thank you for the.

clarity show. Good update from chef. I got a couple here on Spotify. Jeff, four days ago, new listener, dad of two beautiful girls four months and 27 months. That's two, brother. Can't believe I'm just not discovering you guys better late than never. Stoked to be a PT-Sixer. Let's go. Jeff, thank you for joining the brand. Thank you for joining this army of PT sickos. Jeff, better late than never, better Nate than Lever, Jeff. We're glad to have you. Yeah, we're glad to have you. Nick Dito on Instagram.

The boy's mom is fighting for her life at night with the three-week-old. But tomorrow morning starts the war, my war at home. The toddler is ready for potty training and mornings are dad's responsibility. Good. We have to start this on the right foot. Tonight, I move the kid potty in the right position, covered the couches and blankets, and studied the material, I think we're ready. As a U.S. Navy sailor, thank you for your service.

Thank you, sir. For 14 years, now we have sailors around the world kicking ass right now so that I can be on leave to take care of my family. Thank you for their service. So is potty training important? Yes, but will it break me? No.

God bless the U.S.A. Good. Shit on it. Shit. But yeah, the new comment this week, hashtag shit on it. Yeah. Oh, dad, that, that, good. Shit.

Dude, keep going. It'll just stop with B. Make our life hell. This is how we learn. The obstacle is the way. Put a bow on it. Put a blindfold on it. Yeah.

If you're trying to have a boy. Yeah, yeah. Don't look him in the eye. I do have a quick new dad one. I only have one. I still got. I still got. Still got another one.

Still got another one from William Dusa on Spotify. Oh, Duce. Fellas laying here watching the podcast with my three week old baby girl on my chest talking about PT fit. There is such an accountability op for P.T. Fit. It's staring us in the face, shirm. It is. I've already been called out.

We can touch on it. In the face. Something we can do is sign up for something. Here we go. Oh. Now we got an idea, man, with William. I signed up for a half marathon in May. Oh, God.

So this is a half marathon. That's a slow burn. Do so. And it's helped me get out and work out and go on runs. Since I signed up, I've really felt better with my health. And it helps that you have something to work towards. Once that event is over, the routine is set. Thank you.

My mind has never gone. Listen, this is Dan Gable quote. My mind has never gone very far from what I wanted to accomplish. He threw a Dan Gable quote And too. Can I see that? Yeah, absolutely. Gotcha. Well, this one will go somewhere as well.

Okay. We'll just start hanging up comments. We're just going to start hanging up comments. That's a new thing. Dude. PT Fit has got to be a reality. It is. Did you see the call out that I got online?

I don't think so, no. Remind me. Or not remind me, tell me about it. Somebody wants to race. me to a sub 200 weight. He's at 230 and he's six foot. I'm at 225

or 215. And I'm 5 foot 8. So I feel like I 100% have the leg up on him, right? Possibly. Who knows? Possibly. This dude could be a genetic freak. Isn't it kind of, it's kind of

harder for the link your guys to drop? Or is it harder for shorter? guys to drop weight. It just depends. Depends. But he wants to race me to you sub 200 for diapers. Depends on, that's a, that's a good challenge. That's a good challenge. But as far as PT fit goes, we think about routine and structure.

Because I've been hitting my zone two this week, but that's about it. I have a sore necks is outfitting the weight room at the end of this month. Zone two. Zone two is staying within a heart rate. Zone two heart rate. So mine is like 125 to 135. Okay. Or 125 to 140. I stay in that zone. the structure right now is getting 150 minutes a week, so five 30 minute sessions. And that's light work to what I need to be at.

Okay. But PT fit, there's an opportunity for routine and structure for this community to where you might have that challenge. But what is the overall framework that we can give ourselves? Yeah. How will this be implemented into my life? What I think in my head is I think of, you know, form energy. They're a partner of ours in the Bustin with the Boys universe.

Yes. First form or Andy Ficella had a framework called 75 hard, which is like more of an extreme. Like it's, it's an awesome framework and formula and everything else. But it's almost like, how can you do an iteration to where this PT fit is not only a movement, but an accountability thing for dads, like for us in our community? Yes. Whether it's, you know, smaller things, whether it's like, you know, hitting strength workouts X amount of times a week, zone two or car. cardio X amount of times a week. Steppes, getting your steps in. People are big on getting their steps in.

Who knows? I'm opening this up. But I do think there's something there because, bro, I know for me personally, I've got to get right. I've got to get on it. Like, Charo crushes it. She got her. You know how I said I did my Dexa and I'm like 27% body fat?

Yeah, yeah. 600 grams of visceral fat. She does the same thing as I do. Her stuff came back after essentially seven months. she's down like 4% body fat, her visceral fat is way down. Like I have 600 grams. She's got like 100 or 85 maybe. I have no clue.

She's fresh off kiddo number two. She's grinding. She's being a great partner for me right now on like, because she knows I've been a little disappointed in myself about all of that stuff. Like I sit there, I use jokes. I do all these things for my insecurities and everything else. But she's been a great partner on like, how can we structure stuff? Yeah.

Essentially it's like waking my ass up. Earlier than, you know, we already wake up at like 6.30. Yeah. Or 7 o'clock. Get the kids going. She does the kiddos upstairs. I'm the dad who, you know, will, whoever gets out to feed while for us, but I'm making breakfast and lunch for Roo and getting breakfast going for Scotty.

Like, we have our roles to where our suits. We crush it together. Yeah, yeah. But it's like, man, how can I own the morning? Because I know it's just me going to bed earlier. And I know it's just me waking up earlier. True. And getting the work in.

Because she even brought up, I feel like you need to be around. an accountability buddy or a group or something because you don't have that now that you're not done playing football. And clearly I've fallen off the, I've fallen off the bike when it comes to my own self-care with me being the only individual doing it or taking control of what my structure is going to look like. She's like, I think it'd be good if you, you got around other people, whether it's me and you, now that we have our little room set up in the house, like if we do stuff in the morning together, she's been all time about it. Yes. A running group, a online group. Yeah, yeah.

And she's like, I think you just need the team aspect. And my brain just goes to it's like PT fit, man. Yes, dude. I think we have a huge opportunity. And also a side note, a very funny moment with Will being at your house. I was asking you about some financial advice. It then turned into you talking about your health and stuff. And you were almost like trying to explain like your health situation and how you're

wanting to get back on track. And it wasn't like you were defending yourself to me. But in that moment, I wanted to be like, Will, do you, do you see who you're talking to? Like, you got nothing like, hey, don't worry. You're preaching to the choir, buddy. I'm right. I'm right there with you. I know.

But not to soften the fact that you are very passionate about this. And I equally say, can I very. very quickly just because you like hit so many buzzwords talking about first form talking about 75 hard all that stuff i have a really great email from emitt rodriguez that touches on all that stuff i read no shit yeah yeah um rip it so emit says what's going on boy's been a long time listener and now want to start by saying thank you the last the cries the advice you have shared have given me a great perspective and better feeling going into my first baby boy let's go emit i want to talk about pt fit i was once 315 pounds at about the age of 18 around the uh that period in time

i began having uh arrhythmia's in my heart my heart would spike all over the place despite being an athlete in middle school and high school i was severely out of shape during this time I was hospitalized for a week and I had to have two ablations and coded during the second one. Coding is very serious for anybody outside of the medical realm. That's when the little thing beside the hospital bed starts going, and everybody in the floor runs in. Coding is a big deal.

Thankfully, I had a great cardiologist and nursing staff that shocked me back to life. While waking up, I would come in. and out of sleep and listen to my parents talk about me and how they didn't want to lose me. This was the first time I saw my dad cry. Being the oldest, I quickly understood how they could have easily buried their child that week. The amount of pain and guilt I had created for them, I knew I had to change. Once medically cleared, I began my fitness journey dropping to about 250 over a year. 315 to 250 in a year.

then I found first form became a legionaire while applying for physical therapy school and committed to 75 hard through that I got down to 185. Oh my God. 185 from 315 to 185 and probably the healthiest I have ever been. He's now 29 years old and exercise is his career now. As a physical therapist, I prescribe exercise so I have to look the part by. I had to let myself go a bit, currently 220. But now that I'm expecting my first son, I have recently been moved by living to see him grow

and being able to play and run with him, show him how badass his dad is, and inspire him to always prioritize health. He doesn't know it just yet, but he has already made my life so much better and I'm so grateful that I get to be his dad best from Fort Worth, Texas. I'm telling you, there's something in the water. Um, he also, that juices me up, man.

He provided these pictures. That's Rusella right there on the right. The guy, he's in the photo. Oh, no way. That's a dude. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

They're awesome. They're awesome people, Missouri boys. Really? Yeah. When we went out to do the H-Q. Yeah, HQ. That's, we went to their place. Like, I was on his Andy Ficella's MFCEO podcast like back in 2015.

Or I'm talking about like redskins, football, leadership, like all this stuff. Like, I'm a massive first form. love the Fasela brothers. Shout out Sal and Andy. They're awesome dudes, man. They are awesome dudes. And that culture is incredible. It's an A plus.

Like people that finding go on to and buy into it, it's all time. To compliment them, if there's any first form people listening, when Will went and visited their office, you said something to the effect that it was like touring a, football program, like when y'all do the spring tours, and that it was the best run football program that you have come across as far as team buy-in and mentality within the door. Their culture, operation, people, the way they do anything is the way they do everything. Yeah. Core values. It's, it was fun to go to because you almost get inspired with our own

business culture and everything else because the way they do everything is very, it's very tight. also everybody is bought in because they do personal development stuff with their company. It's clean. It's beautiful. It does seem like a like someone sunk money into a perennial D1 university. Yeah. It's as close to a football facility in college, Division I, as you would get, in my opinion, to any company culture. That's not like in football.

You know what I mean? There's supplements. They're fitness. There are all these other things. But it is, it's incredible, man. Truly. It's incredible. That's so sick, dude.

love how much it got you amped from coming back. You talked to individually everyone in the office and I got to hear you each time telling a different fact, but the word is in fact. It was like a different thing about, yeah, attribute about their company that you'd forgotten, a detail. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A different detail that you'd forgotten. And you'd be like, oh, a bro. They don't even, they don't even have cleaning. They don't even have a cleaning crew in the the office. They pick it up. They pick it up. You don't pick it up. They dock your pay. Imagine, hey, imagine if I did that around here. What do you think what happened? I'm sitting there with like eight like cups on my desk. I'm like, yeah, you're not wrong.

I mean, good call out. Last, this is the last new dad comment. I'll just read it really quick. What else do we have? Because I know we've been, we've been rocking. Yes. We can we can hit this. Because I, there's, there's six over here I haven't read. Sometimes you just got to think we're rolling. You just got to have an instinct to be like, okay, we don't. Crack a cold one. Let's crack a cold one. P.T. Sickos, M.T. Sickos, S.T. Sickos, and Goon berets. Goon berets.

And the goon berets. I feel like we haven't been mentioning them enough. But somebody we have been mentioning enough because we can't stop talking about them is, Ollipop and Will, I have your, and this is a bit of a spoiler. I have your third favorite flavor right here. You do. According to our taste test video on Olipop, our blind taste test video that will be dropping later this week potentially. I have an update. Update me.

Classic grape is now back in two zone. They're number two now. Whoa. Really? That's been over the weekend. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

I think I've hit the watermelon line way too much. Yeah. And honestly, tasting the classic grape. on the taste test led me to drink another one over the weekend. And I'm like, I mess with grape. I mess with grape heavy as well. And that was from the blind taste test, funny enough. I walked away with the classic grape and the cherry.

I was messing with the cherry heavy. And I've never messed with any cherry flavor. If I'm picking flavors, cherries never at the top. But with olive pop, yeah. I mean, it was maybe number one. I forget my rankings. However, Olipop, it's one of our favorites we talk about all the time. I'll take a little sippy poo.

And just while he's taking a little sippy poo, Christian McCaffrey, he posted a carousel over the weekend on Instagram, and my man's ripping an Ollyop. No, he was not. I promise, yep. That's facts. Is that on Instagram? Yeah, yeah.

We met this man. That community is growing. It with Oli Pop. It is. Arm and arm. Arm and arm. And what, Ollipop is still, guys, still. still doing the buy any two cans of olypop in store

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They vim-m-m-you. And even if you buy olypop, you're getting free happiness in return. You're getting free happiness. It's a Bogo deal that you can do anywhere. You don't have to shop at any certain type of store. They're in all types of retailers, all types of gas stations in the drink section. You just send them your receipt and they pay you back for one of the cans. You're cooking right now.

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That's including Costco. That's including Whole Foods. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen. I'm on my number three right now. Still love it. Just had a lot of it. I have my grape. Franklin Cole one brought to us by Ali Pop.

Brought to us by Alip. Olipop, absolutely delicioso. That's Spanish for delicious. Delicious. My crack of cold one is going to go to the weekend with Scotty. I've watched Scotty solo before when

she was a lot younger and Charles took Rue to London. Charles takes Roof everywhere. Why she's taking you? Well, she did off and I was like, I could have people of guys. You're going to take Rue though? Not my firstborn. But getting to rock with Scottie.

Scotty's again, 16 months. And I feel like the 15th, 16th month part is where personality really starts coming to life. If you're a parent, you got a younger one like with Scarlett. I know I've told you this. But it's like I remember back to Roo around 16 months is when their personality and everything comes life because they can walk. They can do all the things to where they know what they're trying to do. And they're starting to look at you and try and listen and everything else. Yep.

So it was kind of my first weekend or a few days with Scotty where it's just me and her. like taking her around town going eat with the boys getting her around different people because on Friday clump and jerry came to the house too and them just just interacting and socializing her with my buddies with my friends yeah and um it was just a lot of fun like being on a routine playing with her again taking her around town it was just a lot of fun to connect with scotty where it's just me and her and not the whole tribe of the entire family where it's me mom rue scotty like it's just me and her connecting me and her doing everything getting in know her, her waking up from her nap and be like,

dad, dad, dad, dad. And her, in her mind, like, dad's the only one here. Yeah, that's the only one here. Banging on the crib. Like, dad, da, and I'm thinking I talked to her. I'll be up in three minutes, sweetheart. And, uh, Will, it was just fun, man. I had a good time with Scottie. So that's what my crack of coal one goes to. And congratulations on that crack of coal. And I got to see it personally. And I'm glad I did because you were operating. I just want to shout out this one moment when you had

both oven mitts on and you were making Scotty's pre-nap lunch and the chicken nuggies were not ready yet in the oven and she was letting you know from the high chair da da da da da da da da da da with the hands going and you had both oven mitts on you go honey they're not in it hey i know i hear you listen but they're not ready they need three more minutes and her kind of make a face like ah shit And y'all like having that little communication with each other. It was incredible to see. She could put down the fruit too. She put down the fruit, the fruit.

The point I keep opening up these little, the little oranges, what do they call? Cudies, tangerines, little cuties. I'm ripping them, oh, I ain't shirmy one of these. She's running through them right now. Scarlet sucked that entire one. In her mouth, I had to fish it out of there. I got some notes from mom. that's the number one way to make them choke.

You did not put your finger in there and pull it out. Did you actually do that? I was like, babe, my fish hooked it. I went in there. I didn't push it more in. I got in there. I scooped it out. Yeah, there wasn't a problem.

How else am I supposed to get to go? Suck it out? I mean, what are we doing? My crack a cold one was couples date night. And it would have been playing at your house, but I was guessing that might have been yours. so I wanted to differentiate. I equally, that would have been my crack of cold one.

Okay. We had a date night, a couples date night with a babysitter. We're talking full-fledged, the real deal thing. Jill and I got to go to Popstroke in Antioch. And if you've never been to Popstroke, it's a nice little puppet, kind of like adult put-put thing where, you know, adult bevies are flowing. They got the waiters running out to the course, like mid-end, put putt.

It was so much fun, dude. Really got to turn off dad brain. Got to celebrate the couple that we were with, Brian and Hillary. She is very pregnant. Due, like, towards the end of May. So we're getting to like celebrate that. Just fun getting to be out there, dude.

And get to- Let your hair down. Let your hair down, dude. Jill's coming up to me. She's got some little drinky-poos in her. She's coming up to me. And she's putting her arm around me and looking up at me

and doing the, I'm like, come on, man. Hey, where'd that been, man? Where'd that shit been? You trying to put a bow on it, and age your sweetheart. Oh, yeah, dude. Wink it and my boy, Brian, giving Jill a kiss. Hey, I'm going to take this one home. And nice, see that one over there?

I'm taking her own. Hey, nice putt, babe. Nice putt. Yeah. But yeah, dude, it was huge. It was a great night. And shout out Julia or babysitter again. I am not doxing her because you're not taking her from me.

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but I hear that you have a lesson of the week as well. I have an awesome one. And we're coming up on an hour. So do we want to jump into some voice. Yes. First one is I guess I'll eat the pizza. This comes from Jared Ladd. Jared Ladd. Come on, Jared. Hey, guys. I don't typically work Sundays when I have to. I can call my wife. Can you stop that? Start it over. Can you turn it up? It's all the way up. It's all the way up. You want me to move it closer to you? Just go again. Go again. I'll focus. I'll focus.

Okay, okay, okay. Hey, guys, this is Jared Ladd. Hi, Jared. I don't typically work Sunday. I had to. And when I came home, my wife left with his six-wives. And I was devastated because now I have to give me. And no one here to play with.

Don't need the whole thing. I don't know what on the couch. Watch your feet. No. I don't know what to do, but. appreciate all the support you guys give us for the dads. But again, I just don't know what it will do. I guess I'll just sit here and eat this pizza by myself.

I'll tell you what it is, we go through a lot of storytelling. Yeah, yeah. On this pod, people have write-ins where it's, it makes you reflect and think, why do I sweat the small things when you hear stories like this? and to me this is another example of perspective. You know what I mean? Yeah.

To where it's like why? I don't know. You remember that group on Twitter that I was talking about where everybody's sending photos in of hanging out with their kids? Who's the one that's sending the most photos with their kids in there? Jared Ladd.

Jared Ladd. That's like the only thing he likes to do in this world. Like I cry about my mom all the time and when Jared Ladson's in a a voicemail of my wife took the kids at Six Flags when I got to sit in the house, a quiet house,

and have a whole piece of myself. It makes me think, why am I, why do I even get caught up? Hey, I understand what I went through with my mother. When I have a PT-6er out there right now with a house to himself. Yeah. And nothing but time,

nothing but boredom and pizza. And cheese and sports and video games. Oh, March Madness? The conference tournaments were starting up. Oh, my God. And dude, silver lining, I just want you to know. I get how you could feel like that. Jared doesn't want you to feel like that for a second.

Like, he understands how you could feel that way. Yeah. Jerry, we appreciate you calling in, man. Thank you, dude. You guys talk about our vulnerability all the time. like to call in and be that vulnerable with us about what you're going through. Papa Team 6 for the dads.

We're all thinking about you. Our heart is with you. We're all praying for you. Yeah. Yeah, man, I almost don't have words. That's all right. Hey, just before this gets too sloppy, I'm just going to move into the our second voice round.

Okay. If that's all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This one's titled, when they're crying again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This one's titled, We Made It. What's up, boys?

Andy here down in Florida. What's up, Andy? Just bought my family a lake house. Yeah, you did. That's all I had to say. Yeah, you did. Brother, is that it? Let's go.

Let's go. Dude, that one right there. You just go out and you stand and you look at the lake and I got this house for the fam. Like, that is a goal that he should be so damn proud of himself. And brother, brother, it's a. a sea do, a pontoon, whatever it is, that very first time that you're pulling out into the water, get that deen-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-d-scrilla. Get that bumping on the boat, dude. And also grab the most sentimental song that you have and just stop the boat somewhere out in the

middle and just stop it, have some peace and quiet, play the most sentimental song you can, and just maybe a tear rolls down in your face because you should be so damn. proud of yourself for getting to a point to where I bought my family a fucking lakehouse. And fucking belt that song too. Like all the sacrifice, the responsibility, everything. Yes. Feels so worth it when you're going to have that moment. Grindr. Grindr. Grinder. Very quick note, Jill and I did like our own little vows like

separate of the wedding ceremony before and that was like the dress reveal too. And you, hey, you know your boy. So I'm sorry. And I'm crying. I'm crying. Man, I'm getting through it. Number four on that list. Jill Young, I promise to you that I will purchase waterfront property and we will sit on that front porch and we will be wrinkly and old and we'll be holding hands and rocking chairs. Vowed it. I love that. On God.

On God. And when you guys are sitting on that front porch and looking out during the on when when the sun, when the sun. Sunset, golden hour, halfway sitting there. You see all the different shades of orange and purple and red and pink. Reflecting on the water, you just suddenly. Can't play it too long. Can't play it too long. And we may even have to supplement it with another song and just say that we are playing scryla,

but here's a nice little, you know. Are we love the copyrights for you? In a clip, in an edit? Hey, you know. Hey, I don't think so, but what if, what if, what if, what if, what if, what if I did it? What if it comes from my account? Yeah, you can do that. Wait, really quick, hold on. I'm sorry. Um, yeah, we got to get Pete. Yeah, we got to get. We got to get right. P.T. Fit. Um, I just wanted to say, uh, that sunset sounded really beautiful. It sounded like a spring sunset, maybe even a sunset on, like. like March 14th per se. I feel good on voicemails. How does everyone else feel? Feel great.

Will Compton, you said you had a lesson of the week. Can I parlay to you? I will skip my lesson of the week and do it next week. And instead, I just read a quick little Dan Gable quote and then you pop into your lesson of the week. I don't think any PT-6ers have a problem with getting fed a Dan Gable quote,

especially Big Ten tournament, the conference tournament's just finished in wrestling. We're now looking at the NCAAs coming up. Okay. I think Dan Gable is necessary. Yeah. For this time. Matt Madness.

March Madness. Could I twist your guys' arms? Tell me if I'm wrong here. Twist your arms. You each do have a new dad shoutout that are some version of surprises that are very fast, very fast. You each have a new dad

that chose to write in for the show and congratulate. So if you don't mind. I would love to shout out, Trevor Smith on X. Trevor Smith, hey fellas. He sent just hey fellas at 12.10 p.m. in the DMs. Then at 1212, another message comes in.

Wanted to give a shout out to one of my best friends and new dad, Alec and his wife, Tori, on the birth of their baby girl, Scotty. No doubt he's going to be a great dad and he's been a PT sicko since the jump. Also just wanted to send him some thoughts and prayers. He's got a lot going on with having. He's got a lot going on with having Bofa, mind goblins, and room 40 all at once. No! No!

And he's ugly as hell. Oh! Just kidding. Love you, brother. Congrats. Wait, what is Bofa? What's mind goblin? Chef tell him.

You're the Seaman Team Sinsuit. Wait, what's room 40? What? Tell him. What is that? What's Bofa me? What's a Bofa? both of these nuts.

Oh! Dude! Who wrote that? Who the fuck wrote that? Who wrote these nuts in your mouth? Yeah, who the fuck wrote that? Trevor Smith, man. Oh, my gosh.

Dude, I was actually worried about him. I was like, he has three illnesses at once. Are the other ones, are these nights jokes as well? I mean, mind goblins. I think that's like, it could be like a movie. Sounds like it. It sounds like it. Sounds like a movie.

It sounds like it. Mind gobbling. balls. Oh, we joke. And we're joking. We're joking. Um, hey, do you remember when I said that I had a no dad thing to read and you said, hey, you know, I get it, but we got to, you know, we got to move on and then I threw it. Yeah. I don't know where it went. You want me to. Yeah. I'm so sorry. You want me to read it or give you the. No, you, yes. This is from read it. Lane from Spotify. Lane, long time listener, first time commenter. The wife and I found out a few weeks ago, we're expecting our second kid.

March 14th, we're going to announce to the family. Great day to announce. My two brothers, Tyler and Jordan, claim to be sickos. If they are truly sickos, they'll see my comment or hear it on the show and get to know first. Love the show and use a lot of the hacks with my two-year-old son. Peas, don't tell mom or my wife, I told the PT6 world before the family. I love that if they're real sickos. they would obviously hear that because you could be tuning in.

And in the moment your comment doesn't seem like it's getting read because we moved on, the real sickos stay tuned in no matter what. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? They're not like looking. They're there until the very, very end when we say, hey, dude, hashtag put a ball on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hashtag medium rare, honey.

And I just realized I say, you know what I'm saying a lot. Listen, buddy, I hear you. That's okay. Yeah, buddy. Okay. Listen. Hey, listen. Also, I found the late one mid-read.

I do say it a lot. So sorry about that, Deke. So sorry about that. But well done. Well done on the read. Lesson. Oh, Dan Gable quote. Then lesson.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dan Gable quote. This one comes from Dan Gable on the Joe Rogan Experience episode number 1,627. It goes as follows. you know, I was crazy. I was crazy. I was definitely crazy. And I used to run to work sometimes. It was a couple miles away.

Dan Gable. Gable is a sicko. He's a sicko. He was sick in the head. He's admitting it. He's crazy. You have to be a little crazy. You know what I'm going to run to work today.

Why not? It's a couple miles away. That's fine. I love Dan Gable. Love him. This one comes from Derek Thompson. On X, it is at DK. Tomp, T-H-O-M-P. I bookedmarked this one because when it came across my time,

I'm like, this is damn good, man. And it's a, he captioned it new newsletter. It all caps, three reasons to be a parent. I opened it up. It's got a short little, short little something, something. Okay. The baby you bring home from the hospital is not baby you rock to sleep at two weeks.

And the baby at three months is a complete stranger to both. In a, Jesus Christ, in a, we might have to edit this up. In a phenomenological sense, is that, that sounds great. Phenomenological, phenomenal logical sense. Okay. Let's start that over. The baby you bring home from the hospital is not the baby you rocked to sleep at two weeks. And the baby at three months is a complete stranger to both.

in a phenomenological sense, parenting a newborn is not at all like parenting a singular newborn, but rather like parenting hundreds of babies, each one replacing the previous week's child, yet retaining her basic facial structure. And this is a quote, parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship

with a stranger that Andrew Solomon wrote in far from the tree. Almost parenthood catapults us into a permanent relationship with strangers, plural to the extreme. That's a love, we got a lot of verb. It's a, yeah.

When you become a parent, you meet your child, and then you meet your child again. And again, and every day after that, you will never stop meeting your child. That is the one reason to become a parent, to have a child is to fall in love

with a thousand little beautiful strangers. And I think that is... That could not be more true. Yeah. I definitely, feel that way. I feel like I'm getting to meet a new person every single morning. It does feel that way. Yeah. And just again, like just all the thinking about all the new versions, like now I think back to my crack of cold one and getting to spend time with Scotty at 15 months compared to when I watched

her when she was a lot younger. Yeah. Because I know I'm hanging out and building a connection with a completely different person because she's a little bit more with it. So there's a, there's an element there that I'm getting a lot more joy from. Not that I didn't have joy when she was a little baby. Yeah. But you do feel like you're with a completely new person. But I love that perspective. He does have a,

it's a newsletter. You'd sit there and click on the link and read all three reasons. One being loving strangers. The second one being Ride the Rides. And three is titled Another Way. So this is his whole write-up on being a dad. That's sick. And that's just getting,

straight posted to Twitter. Yeah, yeah. And then under it, like, you know how you'll do the thread. He's got his link to the overarching all three reasons why and he dives in on what it's like for him being a dad. Oh, got it. And that was kind of the surface level, which again, a lot of verbiage. I would have sit there and had to type

in and Google some definitions on a couple of these words, you know what I mean? The phenomenon logic at them out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I do love the perspective on you are always meeting your child coming across a different version every day. And they all pour into every day that you have with them,

it pours into the next day, which pours into the next day. So even as a parent when you think they're not going to remember this or because you as an adult now can't recollect all these memories from when you were before, what, four years old? Maybe somebody has a phenomenological memory when they were two. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. but just knowing that everything is so foundational for the next version that the kid's going to be. It is. A very kind of scary eye-opening experience was I've mentioned on this show. We'll do very small amount of screen time with Scarlett with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. And that's really it. We've only done Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to this point.

Jelly Bean's at Target and shows Scarlett this mini Mouse. doll, Scarlett went ballistic. It's her favorite thing in the world. And there was like actual Jill could tell that she was like, I know that thing. Yeah. I know that thing. Yeah. That's crazy, dude.

How many months old eight? Yeah. And that's not to say like, oh, Scarlett's a super smart eight month old. It's just that, yo, you might not think that stuff's impressionable. Obviously, she's, you know, recognizing something. And just witnessing all the development is just so fun. Yeah. Fascinating for the parent when you see the next iteration of like, oh, damn, she knew what that was.

Yeah. And you're seeing them grow up in real time. It's, dude, it is the best. It's the best. You know what I'm saying? What else is the best, Will? If there was a date on the calendar, just to, like, put a bow on this episode. If there was a day on this calendar, you said.

If I don't think too long term and I just, what's in front of me? What's the micro? The micro is March 14th. Oh, really? For what reason? Steak and Blowjob Day. That's a national holiday? Yeah.

Okay. It is. So that's an official thing. Yeah. If you, if you Google what holiday is March 14th, let's just look at it now. Yeah. So let's go ahead and get on the Google machine. what do

people celebrate on March 14th? What was the internet say? Fuck. Pie Day. International Day of mathematics, Genius Day, National potato chip day

and bake a pie in solidarity day. So now I get a snake, a blowjob and a pie. Damn. Son of a page. You can celebrate both. That's okay. Let me just, I'll hit the dive, dive deeper in AI mode.

Oh, okay. What about? It has you on March 14th, well? What? Wikipedia's Stake and Blowjob Day. It's also Staking Nobber Day for our friends overseas. Yeah, Nobur Day. Nobah.

Okay, you're staking a nobah. You got to give me a knob job. I just asked the AI. I said, what about Steak and Blow Job Day? Steak and Blowjob Day, often called Steak and BJ Day, is an unofficial, satrical holiday celebrated on March 14th, exactly one month after Valentine's Day. It was conceived as a male response to Valentine's Day, which some feel is a holiday primarily focused on women. Oh, okay, okay. So I'm not saying that that's true, but I'm saying that's fair.

I see that. I see how they land on that. Yeah. That's like I said. Well, some take it literally is widely considered an internet meme or a joke rather than a legitimate holiday. Oh, okay. Whatever. Okay. Well, it's near and dear to some people's hearts. It's not recognized by any government or greeting card company and remains largely a viral internet phenomenon.

Oh, okay. Is it recognized by any like podcast? I think, oh, whoa, I don't think we need an answer. It is recognized for the dad's podcast. Okay, cool. You see what the response to the response for Valentine's Day is the female version of Steak and Blow Job Day? Oh, there's a follow-up, follow-up? There's a follow-up? On the 14th of April, I'm going to pronounce this thing correctly. It's cake and conalindges day.

Oh, Kenilangus. Which is the female fallatio, if you will. So it goes Valentine's Day, steak and blowjob day. Canalangus. A little trip down, sir. Get on down there. I'm good with that. That feels like a really great place to finish the set.

Yeah, wrap the episode. Yeah, to wrap the episode. That we will keep the M.T. Sixers in mind when we have this next April 14th coming. Cake and Cunnelangus. Yeah, cake and Cunelangus. You get some on Valentine's. I get some on Steak and BJ. You get some again.

And then, well, that's it. We need to invent another one. What's next? March 14th and April 14th, we head south. We just head south. We just head south. A little bank came, man. You don't have to move down, man, dude.

You just visited. Yeah, put a blindfold on it. Hashtack put a blindfold on it. So take out your trash. We love you. For the dads, man. For the dads. Hey, guys, it's us.

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