Bussin' With The Boys - We Received Our First Hate Mail & The Boys Prepare for Snowmageddon | For The Dads

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm react to their first true piece of hate mail, the boys prepare for a snowy weekend in Nashville with the fams, and tease some brand new Milk Team 6 Merch (let’s go!) — all while keeping the episode fun, fresh and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with Will running through the Action Podcast Report for everything we messed up last episode before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including:  An amazing Dad Hack from our new favorite caller Will ask Jill permission for Sherm to game with the boys The boys chat through the hardest part of parenthood Other highlights include: Will tells us he knows how to spell “illustration” Another amazing Dan Gable quote 👉 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 - Running through what we got wrong last episode - The APR  05:31 - Valentine’s Day Prep + Milk Team Six Merch! 09:12 - Checking in on PT6 / Shoutout the Shoutouts 14:28 - What’s the hardest part about parenthood? 28:00 - Are we leading our kids in the right direction? 31:40 - Hey, have you guys heard of Land Man?  33:26 - Sending the kids off to “college” talk 38:33 - We got our FIRST Hate Mail Comment 42:51 - Will asked Jill permission for sherm to play games with the boys 47:34 - Shoutout to the new members of PT6!  51:49 - Cracking a cold one to the new dads! 56:45 - Will talks prepping for the big snow weekend in Nashville 1:05:27 - Sherm recaps zoo day & The Youngs found a babysitter! 1:11:44 - Zootopia 2 gets GREAT reviews from the boys 1:14:55 - Sherm shares a CLUTCH survival kit to Will for his big move  1:15:34 - Reading off some Dad Hacks from PT6 1:19:22 - PT6 Hotline - 3 Of our best calls ever!  1:37:36 - Make sure you marry a BADASS / Reading some emails 1:44:12 - Dan Gable’s Lesson of the Week —--   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a 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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Hey, come on. Come on. Salzutopia 2 over the weekend. I hope the trash is taken out. I hope the lunch boxes are packed. I hope men, I hope you were doing your job. If you have a newborn, I hope you're doing your job in postpartum. Dude, I hope everybody out there.

I hope you're being an awesome dad. This is for the dads. Again, a show with myself, Willie One Shelf. You got Fat Stafford, Sherman Young. Over here is the co-host. We have fun with fatherhood. We embrace the suck. We talk about the highs and lows.

We story tell. We are not experts by any means. But this is just a show for the dads. By the dads. By the dads. By a couple dads. I got a three-year-old and a one-year-old. Shirm has a six. Six going on seven months old.

Yes, sir. Let's go. You can find us on social media at For the Dad's Pod, all social channels. By the way, Instagram's up right now. We just hit what, 50,000 followers on Instagram. That's amazing. Shout out everybody in the comment. shout out to everybody following.

And again, we're on, we're on all the channels. We're even on for the, for the older PT6 members out there. We were on Facebook. Very active Facebook page. Very active Facebook page. Yeah. And that goes with the brand. That's very dad-centric.

I love that. And you know the one that's been firing me up is, again, if you're listening right now, audio channels, if you're watching us on YouTube, the one that's been firing me up the most, so you guys know, Spotify. I went in last week. I know we had our episode. By the way, shout out. to all of PT6 for consuming that episode.

I told a story about Rue having a seizure. I got a couple things wrong on the story. My wife, my beautiful wife, Charles, she corrected me almost immediately. Oh, good. Yeah, coming in. She was laughing. She said her stomach was hurting about the bearer story that we told.

Yeah. But she had a report for me after hearing the way I told that story. Oh, okay. A lot of it true. I just got a couple things off, a couple facts off. And I did go in. I went into the Spotify comments, which, by the way, 96, last I,

look 96 Spotify comments that's crazy people are flooding Spotify people are flooding the youtube comments um but I went in I woke up and when I got the mt6 APR and if you guys aren't familiar with that that's the milk team six after pod report so once I got the APR she kind of told me she's like a sweetheart Rue wasn't a year and a half a year old she was eight months old like okay I missed big miss on that so I went into the comments pop of team six is Willie one shelf here hand up I got it wrong Rue was eight months she wasn't wasn't a year and a half. And another thing I did get wrong, which makes sense because as I was telling the story,

it was bringing a lot of emotion into going in and having the emotional, the emotional moments I was having, like, once I got to the hospital. Yeah. I didn't know, I said the firefighter told me she had had a seizure. We did not know what was going on with Rue. We just knew that she was unresponsive for a big amount of time. She started talking, but she was very out of it. They didn't know what was going on.

So, you know, as she's going over there in the end, ambulance and you were sprinting to the hospital did not know at that point that she had had a seizure because I was like, I want to say last week, if I remember it, I was like, hey, the firefighter whoever had the phone was telling you that. Yeah. But that wasn't the case. That was the case. You had gotten out wrong. We were, yeah, we were in the dark. And so when we got there, and again, I explained this emotional story. So I'm kind of keeping it lighter so I don't get into that box again. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, going over there, we had no clue. what was going on with her. So then when we get into the hospital in the moments that I'm talking

about where she's plugged in with IVs and needle and they're getting all of their vitals, we have no clue what it happened. So when she's doing, whether it's a blood test, a urine test, all these things to try and eliminate what it could have possibly been. Yeah. Again, it's like we're just kind of subtracting things as we, once she was in the hospital and got, you know, the brain stuff attached to her head, that's when we're learning that it could be, that it could have been a seizure. So again, that's the empty. APR. So if we're just going to grade Will on his dad brain there, I don't think too bad.

You were only eight months off on her age. Yeah. And then you learned information later in the story than what you had told. Yeah. Hey. But again, all dads know we have the ability. I wasn't trying to exaggerate the story in this particular sense to make it funny or anything else.

But all dads know they do their best on telling stories. Yeah. Then their wife comes into the room. He said this. Like, that's not what happened at all. And he's like, what are you talking about? This exactly. You missed this part.

You missed that part. Oh, okay. I might have missed that. But I kind of got the overview of the entire story. You just unlocked a memory of when we were at that Halloween party and you were holding Scott. And you're telling Jill some story. And I forget, you're like, oh, yeah, she was six months in Charo from the Raptors. Will. She was like a year and a half.

Yeah, six months year and a half. I died, dude. Oh, yeah, it was something with Rue. I forget what that was. But she's on the other side of the room. She was not six months old. She was a year and a half. It was one of those. She was a baby.

Oh, dude. Good times. But we got a look, big snow day. If you're in Nashville, Tennessee, big snow weekend coming up. This weekend we'll get in the next. Yes, yes. Sherm went to the zoo over the weekend. Again, Saw Zootopia 2. Boys, just a fleeting thought.

Derek, the Funkle brought this to our attention. If we want to start thinking about Valentine's Day, and we should start thinking about it now. Ooh. I say this as advice and encouragement while also knowing in my heart of hearts, that won't probably happen until maybe the Super Bowl happens. And then it's like, oh, shit, we got Valentine's Day next weekend. Yeah, sports take a pause for just that hair of a second.

which is perfect timing for Valentine's Day. It's a nice little window right there. Then all men get reminded that, God, it's a holiday, man. Oh, yeah, you got to do the dinner thing. Chef had a great note on his Valentine's Day debacle. He already signed up for a pretty... Yeah. You got reservations for it at a very expensive spot.

You didn't know it was an expensive spot, but now you're learning after the fact that you booked the reservation, like you're going to need some coin going into this place. These Saturday after a week long trip to Miami. not only that. Oh, chef. But hey,

Valentine's Day, the Mrs. deserves it. Yeah, she's the best. I love her dearly. Yeah, I'm very excited

and it's okay. Money will be... Follow up with me on this because we all know I'm going to forget, but for the dads, we can support you on this day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's not why you're asking. That's not why you even told us, but I'm just telling you now we can throw some support your way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But follow up because I'll forget. For dessert. I'll.

And don't feel like you're nagging me like, hey, you said support. Does that mean you're going to throw me some cash? I know. Don't be afraid to see that. The stubbornness in me is like, no, it's okay. But I will follow up with you. Okay. Good news on Valentine's Day.

We're dropping some new merch. We're wearing it right now. We got some new busing gear on the back. What's it say on the back again? It says busing your... Hold on. I took a picture of life forever. You're my forever rodeo.

You're my forever rodeo. Dude, imagine gifting that to wife you on Valentine's Day. I got to be honest for any of the PT sickos that are listening or empty sickos on audio, please go to some kind of video format, whether it's YouTube or Spotify. You have to see the shirt that Will is wearing.

I told Garrett, who's in charge of our merch here at Busson, that is officially my favorite shirt we've ever made. Hands down. And if you are a pop-a-team sicko out there and your wife is aware that you consume this show and maybe you're a little much with the show to where you might not have bridged the gap for her to come on board fully for Milk Team Six.

Maybe she's flirting with Milk Team Six. Or maybe she is an MT-Sixer. Yeah. But Gifton and Hey, Sweetheart, you know I love this show. Dude, look at this merchandise that they have in the store. BWTB.com. BWTB.com because I'm telling you, you will be repping the show, obviously,

if you wear that shirt. but that is a cool shirt. Yeah. In Hinao Mente, which is Spanish for in general. Yeah. You can embrace the brand while giving all the praise of your wife.

You were my Forever rodeo. Yes. And I, for any PT sickos out there, they're going, Will, what about my wife? She's an M.T. Sicko. She's already bought in. Look no further. I got a milk team,

milk team six shirt. Just simply in the front centered, written Milk Team Six. And then on the back, on Milk Team Six. on duty all day. All day. Yeah, yeah, you can see.

You're doing a good job. Thank you, sir. You're doing a good job. And we have some new Girl Dad hats on. These are new? Yeah, don't sleep on the new Girl Dad hats. Fires me up. Come on, man.

All the new merch, BWTB.com. We have a lot of things to get through. We proposed a question on last episode, just threw it out there. Hardest thing about being a parent. We have a couple comments that we're going to read from that. We also have our voicemail or hotline that you can call in 2601, the dads,

where you jump in, you call the hotline, you tell a story, whether it's a win, loss, a dad hack, something you're cracking a cold one too, like a good quality moment. You're just telling us something, a little story about you and embracing the Pt6 fatherhood.

You can do that, and when you do get featured on the hotline, the voicemail, or now email, we will send you merch. Yeah. So if you get featured on the show, we will also reach out to you, send you some merchandise for free.

And all you got to do, engage, with the pod. But we got comments from YouTube, Spotify, the hotline, the email. Again, if you can't, if you're international and you can't reach the hotline or you simply don't want to call in and tell a story using your voice, you feel much better articulating it and writing it down via email 601 the dads at gmail.com. You can do that. We have emails. We got a wifie shout out here. We got new dad shoutouts. We got a lot to get through. We got husband shoutouts. I have a a husband, a PT6 shoutout from his wife.

I love having that iteration in our show. Yeah. Because now we have been getting shoutouts, whether it's a mom or a dad's birthday, or they just want to throw love to their partner's way via through a show or a platform like ourselves. We did get some pushback last week. Wasn't somebody upset that we didn't read,

that we didn't read like a shoutout for her husband? Is that the one that in question? I believe so. we had, and so I have reached out and everything. We had a happy birthday shoutout on Christmas Eve from an M.T. Sixer that I tried to explain it. We missed because the episode had dropped that week. The next week was best of, and then we came back on the first of it. The guy got lost in the, it got lost in the sauce. It got a little loss in the birthday. It happened. And so. And he's, he's not blaming me. He's being very kind too, but I have an added weight in this because our last two

episodes. Because of time, I cut an email on both of those episodes. It just so happened to be this one. They got, but what was the, what was like the reaction or the empty six or being like, the guy wrote us and said, hey guys, just want to let you know. I just got an earful through text. Basically, the wife's like, look at all these birthday shoutouts they're doing. She's like, I swear I wrote one in. I swear. And she sent it on every channel in a good. way. And so I reached out to him and I just said, man, we have it. I was like, here's why it didn't get red. It will get red. And send me your address. We'll send you a shirt. And so that guy is getting a little bit of merch. He fought the hard fight. He said, look, I love you guys, but I'm getting

an earful from the wifey. He got an earful from the wifey. It was supposed to be a surprise to him. Surprise that happened. He gets earful from the wifey because he's probably like, oh, man, it'd be cool if maybe my wife writes in. But we also can't have that pressure put on us. No, no, no. We can't have the expectation if we miss a couple birthday shout. Like, this is, this is a growing community. And what we can't do, we're just guys. And what we can't do, we can't start acting like toddlers. We're parents. We're adults. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to know that some stuff we're going to miss. It's going to get lost in the fray a little bit. We do. We hate that. Trust me, we want to shout out everybody. Hate it. We hate missing moments for people.

Yes. The best issue to have because we have so many awesome people writing in. And in turn, we can't get to everyone, but we want to. Derek's a beast on the phone. If any of you guys were here for the early days when I was running, I had the phone. It's, we've improved a lot. This is a band of four right here. It's a band of four. Four idiots. Yeah, truly.

We're figuring it out as we go. Every time you say we are not experts, I want to say, and we're, and we'll prove it to you too. Stay tuned. We're also currently figuring out the email hat situation. So in the juxtaposition of working with it and we're figuring out, we have been jumping through some. Have you told him the solution for that?

No, we're going to have to get a bundle of hats and mail them out ourselves here, my guess because we can only ship to Canada. And so thank you guys all for making life hell. We're going to send some to Scandinavia. We can't ship from the warehouse internationally. So we have to send that to this office and then

we will ship them internationally, which I love that solve. Again, a group of men. It's a group of men and all dads and all moms don't listen to this. This is how things can operate at times. We write checks our ass

cash at times. We get ourselves on some pickles. To where them we're getting a year full from Wifee. Yeah, I could have done that a lot better. I could have went about that a lot better. I did say I was going to do this for so and so I just forgot. Yeah. That brain kicks in. Oh, she was eight months old. She was a year and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Do we, do we want to

do we want to talk about. Let's get into. Let's let's do some parenthood before the birthday shoutouts. Let's do some parenthood. Okay. Please don't forget. Yeah, we can't forget. And by the way, fellas, we do got to keep this one under an hour. We got to keep this episode under an hour. Perfect.

Perfect. All right. So last week, posed a question. Hardest part about parenthood. Oh, yeah. Something that we juggle with in our brains as we're driving. As we try, you know, anytime I feel like new parents or parents, you're in some of these deeper conversations.

You're trying to articulate what parenthood is, why it's hard. A, it doesn't seem fun to do. But it's also the greatest thing in the world. It's always hard to just, I'm always. trying to find like an articulation of how I would answer that question. But we had some right-ins. This one's from Caleb Gross. Just got a chance to finish the sewed early Monday morning, my opinion on the hardest thing about parenthood. Aside from all the sleepless nights and arguments with the independent toddlers, it's definitely watching them grow up. It's the best thing

and the hardest thing at the same time. You want them to stay little forever, but you are setting them up and teaching them to be their own little person. Dude, I could not agree more. I don't know how many one-on-one conversations I have with her. When we talk about, like when her third birthday was coming up, I remember a car ride. We were doing pizza Friday. So we were on a drive going to our pizza spot shout-out at home team. No free shout-outs to home team. Very big shout-out. Yeah, very big shout-out to them. But we were on the way back and we were talking about a birthday. And it's like, I know you're going to be three. And I was trying to be more optimistic about her turning three. Even though I'm battling all these internal battles, oh, I want her to say,

my little girl. Absolutely forever. I want her to be my little bundle of joy forever. Because we also have this digital picture frame at the house that goes through a lot of old photos. So every day I'm seeing all these old photos of Rue and I just smile. I'm like, oh, look at little baby

Roo Roo Roo and Roo comes over and looks. So I'm being optimistic to her about her turning three. And we're kind of sitting there and we're on the final stretch down, cut that part out. We're on the final stretch down to the house. and um rude just hits me with De De Dei you're sad that I'm turning three

and I'm like sweetheart I am said that you turn three why you said I'm just like sweetheart it it's hard to explain like I'm so happy you're getting bigger and you're able to do the things that you're wanting to do whether it's put words together sentences together like write and get better climb stuff jump off things grow taller get stronger get faster she loves and faster, get better at dancing.

But Dad Dad struggles with the fact that you are growing up in front of me. Because one day, she's like, oh, Dadda, you know, she said something about, I'll be little for you right now. And I'm like, I know you will, but I just play this story and movie in my head of you're going to grow up one day and you're not going to be with Dadda anymore, like in our house. Like one day you're going to grow and you're going to be like Daddy. You're going to be like Mama to where you're our size and you're that age. And you're going to have little kids.

of your own. And that makes me sad. It makes me happy and it makes me sad all of the same time. I feel all of these emotions like as you continue to get older. And when you're there with Scarlett now, but when it's scarlet, it's it's one month at a time. You just get sad that months are kind of going a little faster. And then it gets to the year marks. Yeah, dude. Two and a half, three and a half. And it just feels like time flies, bro. And so Roos like, so Dad has happy and sad. I'm like, yeah, I'm both happy. I am really happy that you're turning three. I can't wait for you to be three. It's going to be an awesome year.

But that it gets really sad just seeing you grow up. It's the saddest thing in the world. Yeah. And I love Caleb's writing because that is very hard about parenthood. Because you just get so, family's incredible. You just get so connected, emotionally, everything. And you just pour into your little kiddos. And just seeing them get older and put their first sentences together

and teach you things when they come home from school. And you just see the development happening. and because she's right she went into school today and they have to bring in something every week to do like the alphabet this week was the letter I so she's at dinner last night like I i i i book I like oh that doesn't start that doesn't start with I

she's pretty close yeah and she said like I-e-e-e-e-and-she-beck igloo like that that is one that is one we can't make an igloo we can't bring an igloo in the school but we got to figure out the the the what you're going to bring in for like show and tail or go over the letter i could do a marshmallow egg glue with toothpicks yeah yeah just saying in this morning uh at breakfast she got done with breakfast i kind of scoot her a little chair over because she's going to do an illustration so she draws basically the family she draws mom mama dadda waffle rue and scotty

and then i'm walking her through writing illustration on the top oh she knows the alphabet pretty well She knows how to write every letter. She's got her own little way of writing. It kind of reminds you a toy story where it's got the writing on the bottom of each foot. Yeah. Kind of the broken, the broken letters. Yeah. And I'm like, I, L, L, I can spell illustration.

But she writes illustration across the top. And as a three-year-old, they write big letters. So it's not all going to fit across the top. So then for illustration, the T-I-O-N, she has to skew it down to the side. She just writes T-I-O-N down the side. Epic. And I'm just sitting there looking at this, this. illustration with illustration written over the top down to the side. And I'm just staring at it

trying to take it in because it's like, man, she's just growing up and her handwriting is going to get better. Her drawings are going to get better. And at some point, she's going to be, she's not going to be satisfied with having to bend the word. And she's going to want it to fit on the top of the page and that's going to make her frustrated. And I'm just going to remember the times where there was so much innocence in you trying to figure out how to write illustration across the paper. You know what I mean? She's going to, have a ruler, she's going to be spacing out the letters. No, I got to redo this.

And then one day it's going to be writing your name and date and it's out the top left of the top right corner because you're in grade school or you're in middle school or high school. And I'm just going to be thinking about back to the time where we're just trying to figure out how to fit illustration on the top of your construction paper. I'm only at the beginning points of it. You brought up with Scarlett. I have felt it, but to a very minor degree of what you're feeling right now.

But it's it's starting with her hair growth. I know that's like a weird place to go. But it's like very visible. It's like being able to mow your lawn and like seeing the work that you've done. Her hair growing, it's every day. I'm like, it's longer every day. Yeah, you go, score, you're a new person. I'm like, I hate this.

Yeah. But I'm so excited that her hair is. coming in and that we're playing with it in back time and stuff. But also I'm like, you were just, you were bald, you had no hair. I know. Oh my gosh. Scottie, now we're messing with a little ponytail to where it just, she looks like a little who from Dr. Sue, like a Dr. Seuss book where she's got her little ponytail, but it's

stick straight up. And you get, you just, you love them because it's so adorable. It is. It is. Like, oh, you're getting hair now. Yeah. And even though, like, to you when you're like, oh, that's kind of mine, like, mine feels minor in comparison.

what you're going through. Dude, it's all whether you have a newborn, a toddler, and I just have a toddler right now, but I'm assuming every parent that goes through whatever iteration of life that they're in, it's all the same emotion and the same feeling. It's like when she rolls over to her belly for the first time. It's just like, it's pandemonium in the house. When her hair is growing, when she starts saying dad they are mama for the, or just their first word, or just consonants.

They're just making sounds. It's like pandemonium in those moments. Yeah. You got to try and bottle them up because there's going to be the next thing. Yeah. The country, I will never tell you to put a country song on

and I will never tell you to turn off a country song. That's where I stand with country. Yeah. I know it and I like it. But those like those don't grow up little girl type of like songs now. They're hitting, dude. They truly are hitting. We just had Luke Combs on the bus.

which will release in like early March, I believe. But you're sitting and talking with Luke Combs and you can tell he's just, he loves fatherhood. Yep. And he brought up this album, which I was fired up about, but it's called father and sons or fathers and sons. Yes. Another one that just like it just has you living in all the,

like your relationship with your parents, like you being a parent, ties it all together. There's that one from Post Malone that I brought up about his baby girl growing up and she's getting married that I'll just have you. If you're a girl dad, you're in tears listening to that song. That is the exact song that I was referencing.

I didn't know if I could say Luke Combs, but I'm glad you brought it up. I hope he doesn't find out that I didn't hang the moon, that song about his son. Jill, that was like her song during pregnancy, and she would cry every time. I never cried, not once. And then when we booked Luke Combs,

she was like, honey, he's the guy. Like, I'm obsessed with him. He's the guy that, but I was like, we'll play the song. I don't remember the song. Bro. Oh,

I made it to the first chorus. And I was like, holy, dude. I'm starting to feel these things now. Like, this is. And those feelings are the greatest thing in the world. Yeah. Even though, like,

as men, you feel weak. Like, it just, it feels weak to us. Yeah. But, bro, the amount of times you start crying as a parent,

I feel like I cry at least. once a week if you add up the average throughout a year absolutely brother our little two-month stint whatever that was where it was at least on this show we were crazy the um uh jill and i were talking about the moment of when she told me that she was pregnant uh i told her that i wanted to go to target and go to the baby section and just go walk around and driving to target she wanted to drive. I put my hand on her stomach, and that's when it really hit me.

I didn't really tear up, like, looking at the pregnancy test, but I put my hand on her stomach, and as we were driving down 65 to that Brentwood target, and bro, it hit me like a brick wall. I broke down, and I was thinking about that exact moment very recently with Scarlett of, like,

you were in there. Like you were like a little chicken nugget back then. But like that was you. Like my hand was on her, her belly and you were cooking in there. And now you're here and you're this person. And I thought I loved you then when I was like crying. But now I have to like physically kind of hold back when I squeeze you because I literally

might pop you. Yeah. I could suffocate you. I could kill you. But. I, you're right though. Those cheeks on your face right now, Dadda could put them in the oven at 375

and take a knife to them because I want to eat them so badly. I like, truly, it's insane. It's insane. I was even happy. I got home. Got tears. You're glossed over right now.

You're glossed over. I got home like later than you. Mondays are just like crazy days here. That's usually my late day. But I would, I would, I would, so excited that I caught her before she got in her crib. I was like stoked on that. Yeah.

I used to come home to like Scarlett, like you would kind of like walk in with, and I'll do this for the rest of my life. Like you kind of walk in and you're like, oh man, you know, fatherhood doesn't stop. I got to keep being a dad. I got all this stuff to do. And yesterday it was like,

I got to get in before she goes into the crib. I got to kiss her. Yeah. I have to kiss her before she goes in that crib. And the hard part about that is when they get older, like Ruby and three, she very much gets sad when Mama and Dad Dad, like leaves the house.

We're like wondering when we're coming back. Like, hey, Dad, are you going on a plane? Because if she knows I'm going on a plane, I won't be there for that time or anything. Dad is not going on a plane. Like, Dad is just going to work for a little bit. I'll be back. We'll be hanging out the back half of the day.

But then there's this like guilt, this sadness that creeps in because you just feel like you're letting them down because they don't fully understand yet. And the fact that they don't understand it's so innocent that they're just sad that you're leaving. You're like, I feel so bad. that I feel like I'm taking something away from you right now. Yeah.

Because when they're little, you have all those things. I've got to get back, like, just to give them a kiss, good night. But also, you know that their brain doesn't fully comprehend that Dad-Dat has gone for the day. They're just, they're happy to see Dadda. It just gets worse, bro. Also, that was from just one email response to our... Oh, yeah, yeah. And, again, got to keep this show under an hour.

And I was also thinking, too, like when you were telling the story about driving down the highway and your hand is on wifey's belly on Julie Bean's belly and now they're sitting in the car seat and the back seat but just if you think about when you're you you know you go through buds training

yeah they're pregnant they're about to pop all the fears and unknowns that are weighing on you as much as you're enjoying the moment of putting your hand on it also appreciating like I'm so fired up to be a dad but I'm also terrified

so fucking scared and now they're just sitting in the back seat and you're like you're a family yes like how nuts is this yes Anyway, got to keep it out. I got to keep under our I got Donnie Ma's on YouTube.

He says first time, long time, not really first time. But father three, four year old and 20 month twin boys from Staten Island. Dude, I want to meet Donnie. This is a PT sicko. I think the answer to Will's question about the hardest thing is just knowing that you're doing it right. We all have these goals on what and how to raise our kids to be hardworking, respectful, and responsible people in this world. old, but the reassurance of what you're doing is correct and right and in the best interests of our children, ourselves and our family.

Yeah, he's starting to have those thoughts because he's got a four-year-old. Yeah. He's got a four-year-old. And like the four-year-old's starting to like develop that personality. I could totally see that of like, yeah. Am I pointing them in the right direction? That's a whole other vault. Yeah, all those fears that you probably live with like as they are going through because

ruse and she's three at school right now but it's not you know you're not dealing with all the the social issues of them coming home and you know somebody might have said something mean to them or there's actual drama or beef going on with a friend or a situation happened and you're trying to coach them through yeah like am i leading them the right direction but i love that that response from donnie and statin island you just innately know that you're doing it right but doing and doing it right too is just man and it's just pain It's so sad, man. Right?

Yeah, it really is. Right. No, it is sad. It is sad. Because that is true. I'm not even close to being there. And I'll stop saying that. But like,

Scarlet's only six months. But I'm already starting to have those thoughts in my head of like the person that she's going to develop into. Like, will she be excited for school? Yeah. Or will mornings be a drag? Like when I'm, I'm getting her ready for daycare. And in my head, I like to tell myself, oh, she's going to love school.

I just have a feeling. Yeah. I have a feeling. Like when he's like, you know, you're doing it right, I think over the weekend, Matt Leinert had a tweet or a post that he put out because he's taking his boy, his son. Boy was in the fields. Yeah, his son, he's a quarterback, right? He's going to TCU.

Is he really? I think so. Like, he's a, he's got what you want. If you're a former athlete, you raise an athlete. and I love just his vulnerability of posting that he's struggling going to drop. Is that right? SMU. SMU.

SMU. That kid right there. That's probably a rivalry in itself. It is. But he's going to drop his boy off at school and he's like he's kind of posting through it. Yeah. And I loved it because this is like, you know, this is a former quarterback. This is a guy.

You know what I mean? This is a man's man. And his boy seems to be like. he's becoming a man's man. He's a quarterback. He's on scholarship. Probably has an NIL deal. Going to SMU and he's got his dad just tweened about how sad he is that he's dropping his son off. Like, ah, dad, come on. But they probably have such a bond in a relationship that it's just so hard. When you get to that point, I'm sure he had so many tears. That's how you hope to feel when you send your kid off to school. And that's probably the most painful feeling when you are dropping them

off at school because you know like man I was so intentional and we did this right and I wish I could have all these moments back and you're not becoming a grown man and you're going to college to where I'm going to be far away you know I'm going to be a flight away I'm sure he's going to go to a lot of his stuff but it just feels like it's a very emotional time

yeah do you watch land man I've watched episodes in season one okay I was doing I was you guys watch land man you guys at home watch land man yeah up until a very popular show three episodes of season two. Someone's been tweeting about Lamb, man. I forgot who.

Talking about the season finale. Finale is incredible. The finale is incredible. Anybody who is wavering off a lamb man because I understand that the audience is feeling because it's such a good show. And some of the story arcs, you get off on these side missions

that you're just like, we don't need any of this. I don't need the old people's home. I don't need the relationship with the son and the gal who just had the baby. I don't need. any of that stuff. Got soap opery. Yeah. I don't need Rebecca and the Australian guy. I think he's British. People are kind of correct to me. He's a British dude or an English dude. I don't need

the little love interest going on. I need Rebecca to be a shark as a lawyer how she is in the season finale. I'll, I'll, I'll know. Lame is great. But there's a, there's an episode where the daughter is going to TCU. She's going off to school and her mom. By the way, the mom is the from the movie not the varsity blues she is for the Sunday the whipped cream

absolutely but the mom is sending her to TCU and she's just broken down as she's dropping her baby off and she's calling Billy Bob like so you're just not going to be here with me today like you're just going to go off

to work and pretend none of this is happening and you know Billy Bob he's got his one-liners to where he just goes off to work and does his thing is like Christ these women and their emotions fucking playing up all this year yeah yeah yeah Yeah. And mom just feels like she's going through it on her own.

But that's how I envision what those days are going to be like whenever Roo and Scotty go off to college. Oh, yeah. Just a mental pretzel. The mental pretzel of Scarlett needed to be under Billy Lights when she was born. And we had gotten no sleep. This was like day two in the hospital. And they're like, hey, for y'all to get sleep and for her to be under the billy lights, we can just take her to the nursery. It's two rooms down

From the room we're in And bro them wheeling out Scarlett From our hospital room You would have thought she was going off to college Jill and I started weeping And we had only known Scarlett for Maybe 16 hours, 17 hours at that point It's like I told Jill in that moment

I was like if this is this feeling College is not going to be okay I mean, daycare was emotional. Daycare is emotional. Dropping in the roof of a school for the first day. And Charles and I just got to go park in a parking spot just so we can have a good cry for a second. I see her tearing up and I'm like trying to hold back tears.

I'm like, hey, you know, we ended up, we were ended up like laughing from it. I'm like, here come the waterworks. He's got to kind of take a moment because she's like, oh. Do you see Leinert's other post about his kids he made? I think it was like last week he has a video of him sitting at the table and his wife's recording and the kid goes over and says, Hey, Alexa, who's Matt Linerd? And Alexa goes, Matt Linerd is a great college quarterback that played at USC and did this national.

Da-da-da-da-da. His pro career did not amount to much. It just shuts off. And Matt's like, what the fuck? That's hilarious. No, I did not see that. Oh, dude. He's talking with dad content.

Dude, he does, man. I enjoy me some Matt Liner, bro. Enjoy me some Matt Liner. He offered him up some olipop. People like, oh, you're doing an advertising post, everything. Hey, we're trying to get our PT sickos right. man. Nothing like an ice cold olipop, a crisp apple. Tell me

you've never had an alipop without telling me you've never had olipop. Will was putting out a legitimate help for a dad. Yeah, I'm trying to, yeah, I'm trying to help my fellow PT6 are out in that moment. Yeah. Buddy, I know it's hard. All PT6, we got our arms around you. Yeah. Because you lose one

off the college, we're all sad. I'm now like in it with all these dads who post about their stories. I'm in it with them. For sure. Got to keep it under an hour. Gotta keep it under an hour. I got Jason H. 2876. He says PT six or two girls, a five and three year old. Hearing Will talk brings me back to when my oldest was diagnosed with type one diabetes. As a father and man is the hardest thing to be in this situation where you have no control over anything. One thing I've

learned in the past three years of her living with this is that you have to take the little wins. Maybe you can't control everything, but be the best of what you can. My wife and I have tackled this as a team and her A1C hasn't been over seven in the past one and a half years. That's very hard to do, by the way. Yeah. Very hard to do. Yeah. Well done by Jason.

Well done by Jason. I have another one here from Alex Briscollino. Oh. A for the dad's crew. This is Alex Briscollino. I'm from Chicago and I'm a father of two absolute studs of children. My oldest is two and a half year old boy named Bennett and an eight-month old daughter named Reagan.

After listening to the episode this week and listening to old Willie One shelf talk about the parts of parenting that are the hardest and asking the PT6 community what they think are the hardest parts of parenthood is. My answer is that both the greatest and hardest part of parenthood, he is putting a double stamp on it for all of us, watching them grow up. This thing hits so hard because as a parent, there are so many times that you reflect on the accomplishments of your little one where it makes you so proud of them. On the other hand, it makes you sad because all the moments that we remember from when they were little are now gone. I tell all the PT6 community to cherish every moment that you spend with your kiddo because it all goes by way too quick.

From the midnight feeds to my toddler wanting to have ice cream for dinner and then wanting to listen to Scrilla on repeat. All the emotions, tears, frustrations, crying, laughs, and love are all worth it because at the end of the day, your kiddo loves you with every ounce of their being. Never forget that. And just a reminder too, because I love this right. I appreciate you, Alex. Shout out Alex. But his oldest is two and a half years. Like we're talking about it.

My oldest is three. You're oldest right now is six months. And we have all of these emotions. Talk about the memories that we have right now. And you know there's PT-Sixers out there that have kids that are now off to college or they're now grown or they're listening to us and just thinking about they would reiterate and say all of the same things. And they almost envy that we have a three-year-old, a two-and-a-half-year-old with Alex,

an eight-month-old with Alex, a six-month-old with Scarlet because they would either they would love to go back in it and envy what we get to go through again. they wish they could relive it and maybe they don't maybe they're like man i poured everything in towards the most beautiful time ever i wish i could relive these these moments these memories and moments but i also feel great about where everything's at but boys the young pt-sixers out there cherish all of it um but yeah good good good good a good good good day gay good sod good so yeah good son Yeah, good son. Good so.

Are we under an hour? I think we got to cut it off. We can't get to these new dads. I do have a very fun. I thought we could jump into the hate mail really quick before we go into the positives. Hate mail? Hate mail. We have our first hate mail for the dad's podcast.

There's a lot of excitement that you have with this. And here's where my brain's going. I'm in fighter flight right now. Does PT6 need to be in fire or flight? Do we need to think about barricading up? Hey, and going to war. Here's the deal. People can get mad at this.

PT6 can deploy on this guy. I'm not against that. But I have to say, I think this guy pretty much kind of nailed his summary of our podcast. Okay. Like, he's not far off. This comes from Phoenix 138 on Spotify. Oh, you didn't need to say his name for everyone here. Phoenix 138?

Yeah. Don't say it is the user. That's P-H-O-E-N-I-X-1-3-8 on Spotify. Phoenix. Phoenix-1-3-8 on Spotify, yeah. This was two days ago. He said, one-star podcast. Oh.

Oh, one star? One-star podcast. Go back to the drawing board, guys. It's like dumb, call-a-duty sport betting bro. talk. It's like dumb, cold duty sport betting bro talk goes, well,

I'm a dad now. He nailed it. That's the full comment. That's the full comment. I'm like, hey, you got the premise of the show. At that point,

the show's just not for you. Yeah. That's all it is. It's just not for him. It's just not for him. So we could go after him for sure. Well, we had to set of balls he dropped

his social, his social name. bro read the comment again one star podcast get back to the drawing board go back to the drawing board oh no it's like dumb call duty sport betting bro talk goes well i'm a dad now i bet his wife was right behind when he wrote that just like see this is this is so dumb he's talking about sports she probably loved the show let's bring it out i probably loved it for the people who that do sports bet is sports betting fun Oh, yeah. Does it have its moments of adversity?

Yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah. Do dads love their bros? Yeah. Yeah. Are there moments of adversity with their bros? Yeah. Is Call Duty fun?

Is it called duty fun? Is it? Yeah. He's getting a great KD ratio fun? Yeah. Can it be shitty at times? Absolutely. It has its adverse adversity.

Boom. Fun. Embracing the suck. Embrace it to suck. He did nail it. He nailed it. He nailed it. I guess I've,

star. If we nailed what he thinks we are, why wouldn't that be a five star podcast? I was about to say he broke down pretty much, I mean, minus the sports betting. We don't really talk about that in the show. But, you know, yeah, welcome to the show, Phoenix. Welcome to fatherhood, Phoenix. Yeah, Phoenix might not be a dad. He might be an ST-6. But it could be. It could be. Oh, yeah, I guess it could be. Could be an MTV-Sixir. Hate the negativity. trying to be negative. Yeah. We like to have fun.

We have no clue what we're doing. That's why we sit here and talk about with our community. Absolutely. We tell our own stories. Yeah. Make light of it. That's what we did before fatherhood. Now we realize how serious it is.

Yeah, true. And if we did come with all the receipts at all these studies and stuff at the end of the day, I am just a bro. So who am I to tell you what to do? At least I'm just hanging out on this pod and just saying, hey, I cry alive when I see my daughter getting older. Yeah. It makes me sad. Yeah.

Because that's about the only thing I'm an expert in is crying. Yeah. I'm a dude. I'm a bro. I love football. Yeah. I love video games a lot of my past life. I still love dabbling in some video games in this life where I can find time to do it. Tell them what I enjoy having fun with life. Tell them what you said to Jill on the phone. Yeah. So over the weekend.

Caught a pod because again, football season is kind of coming to an end. So there's not a lot of games on, which by the way, I love. I love the NFL. I love playoff football because games are done by a reasonable hour. It's not like Sunday night football or Monday night football kicks off at like 7.730. That is a great take. Central time. It's happening out like 530 to where you get to enjoy the game and by the time the game's done, it's still about nine, nine o'clock at night. Yes. So we had a pocket to where it's like, oh man, there's not a whole lot to prepare a whole lot for the next week to where you're trying to gather all this information and storylines going on in the football world so I can be prepped

and ready to go for all the shows that we do the next week. It kind of felt like it is a good weekend. We get to watch a couple games of football. We kind of have an open night because Sean and I finished his and hers. By the way, if you're a couple out there and you're looking for a show on Netflix, a limited series, his and hers on Netflix, good. I love that actor. I forget his name.

John, yeah, yeah. That's right. He's a STTR guy. He's a Washington fan. I want to say we had it back and forth one time back on Twitter in the early days. Love him. He's the most fascinating man ever. He trained professionally in Russia to be.

an actor. Like his story's crazy. And he loves being a dad. He's got a, he's got that famous pod, that viral podcast with Shaila Buff, where they kind of talk about parenthood and motherhood. Highly encourage, recommend that as well. But John and I, we finished his and hers.

Like, we finished our show because it's only six episodes long and I'm sitting there. I'm like, oh, let's we got an opportunity. Tonight. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast. Hey Jonas.

We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down. Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad,

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a day we alluded that could be a possibility absolutely comms are quiet throughout the night so i just shoot the eyes where are we at tonight boys jared kind of gives us uh i could be on i'll be a game time decision it is looking optimistic yeah it is looking like an opportunity is upon us yeah and shirm hasn't answered yet but i know shirms been doing trying to have intentionality behind not being on his phone like screen time and everything else so i'm thinking like okay how do i get a hold of shirm because he hasn't hit the chat back. However, I see Shirm respond to somebody on X. A PT-6er out there dropped his psychotic meal with Oli-pop.

Did you see that with the shrimp cocktail and the pizza? Alipop pizza. I loved it. A-plus. But then he also had some cold-strim cocktail on the photo, too. And he's got some cold-strim cocktail pizza and Oli-pop. Kind of a, you know, that's a different. But, hey, we're not here to judge any P-T-Sic.

We're not here to judge. But I see Shirm respond. and be like, oh, this is awesome. And Shirm is responding to that on X after the group chat has been hit up. That's weird. People have been reaching out to Shirm. So I'm like, okay, that's a little weird.

Maybe Shirms, maybe he won't be able to go tonight, which would be fine, but we just need some comments. We need some Pt6 communication happening taking place. So I'm trying to scroll and figure out. My phone had died and I turned it back on. So my messages hadn't loaded, because I'm trying to type in Jill and see where I can find Jill's old number so I can reach out to Jill myself.

So I can't find it. So eventually I just call Shirm. Shirm picks up. He gives me a debrief on the things have been going on the last couple hours. He's been apparently ripping up a resume. I was operating. I was operating. He felt good.

And I'm like, I want to talk to Jill. So he puts me on speaker with Jill. And I want to get, I want to see if Shirm can play with the boys. She's like, hi, Will. Hello, Will. Jill, it's so good to talk to you. You sound beautiful. Hey, listen, do you think Shirm can come out to play with his friends tonight?

She laughs. She goes like outside? Yeah, like out. Yeah, like come outside and play. This is me knocking on the door. See him sure can hang out with his friends tonight. And she gives him the go ahead. She gives him the green light.

It's up from there. It was up from there. We get on comms. We get on the controller. We have, again, not call of duty but pub g oh yeah phoenix would have been pissed with how much fun we're having it was uh in just a little backstory of the uh leading into that phone call i basically um or i'll save it for crack a cold one actually okay or i could get it i could get into it for

the crack of coal one i know we have other comments let's just shout out a couple new dads let's shout out a couple new dads bt6 frank underscore apple podcast okay it's bt6 frank this is on a Apple Podcast. You can leave comments on Apple Podcasts as well. You can. Good. If I've been listening till day one, fellow's been listening, I think he meant since day one, and I'm living in the best times. Baby Girl woke me up at 4 a.m. and didn't go back to sleep. Good, good. It's currently 429 in the morning right now, and I'm on the couch with her while she eats pancake and sausage on a stick and watching Mickey Mouse. Wonderful. That's awesome. She doesn't know Dad I went to sleep at 1 a.m.

But I'm here and ready for that lefty on the mound. Love the show. Keep up the good work. And hopefully there's no bears in the restroom when we go shopping later today. God, dude. He's locked in. Shout out Frank. Shout out Frank.

Congrats on being a new dad. Hey, shout out the pancake and sausage on stick. Forgot that existed. Yeah. That was fire in elementary school. Blake F.13 on, this is an email. Okay. Boys, bravo.

For this idea. And congrats on all the success. my wife and I, um, had a loss at 19, uh, weeks last year. Rough time for the home team. Fast forward a year and we are expecting a baby boy in June. Come on, Blake. Let's go. Thanks so much for the content and encouraging stories for members as well as yourselves.

Let's go, Blake. Dude, shut out, Blake, man. Yeah, that's big time. Boom. Can only imagine, dude, 19 weeks along and getting some bad news. I have another one here from Blake This one is Blake James Oh

Shout out Blake We got a photo too Shout out the new squad NT6 and PT6 Hey boys this is Blake James Two weeks ago I became a PT6 member Good

Official girl dad My wife gave birth to our baby girl at 1 08 in the morning On January 1st We have a New Year's baby She was the first baby born For the start of 2026 Yo

Yes Yo Got to give a huge shout out to my gangster-ass wife, Gracie. She pushed for a little over two hours. Good. Good, Gracie. But they put us in the newspaper and I had the merch on.

Love the podcast. Hope to get a shout-out. Hope the boys and their babies are happy and healthy. And here's the photo. They put us in the papists. They've got them in the papists. Blake and Gracie, shout out to you guys. That is awesome.

Blake made the Papes. Come on. That's so sick, dude. Two hours. Two hours. First baby of 26. My wife was pushing for 40 plus. You talking gangster ass wife.

Come on. That was kind of soft. I'm just, hey, I'm just, I'm just. We're just, we're busting balls. This is where Phoenix is right. Hey, we're busting balls. We're joking. We'll go back to the drawing board.

Connor, Connor Shaw here. Some of my shits have taken through us. We'll go off, thank you. We're joking. We're joking. We're just having fun on the podcast. That's all we're doing. Congratulations, please.

Jeez. Connor Shaw says, boys in all caps. Wifi and I are expecting our first tomorrow, Saturday. Dang, so this was just three days ago. And we couldn't be more excited. Hashtag girl dad. This pod has not only helped me prepare,

but it's encouraging me that there's a community of other dads out there who are not experts in parentheses, sharing their wins, losses, and tips. P.S., the hospital is humbling me with the chair that I am pretty sure they just moved from the way. room. Connor. He said good.

Connor Shaw, if you are still in said hospital or you actually probably just got home with your little bundle of joy. They had them

on Saturday. Congratulations to you guys, dude. Congratulations. Try to get some sleep. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. Dude.

Be locked in. BTC welcomes you. I kind of, I forget everything that comes with these new dads because I'm like so excited for him. and then I kind of get a little PTSD flashback to like my little trench.

And I'm like, oh, man, those first four weeks. Yeah. But shout out the new dads. We've been crack a cold one to the new dad. Yeah, crack a cold one. We got some, our crack a cold one always brought to us by the wonderful olipop. Olipop has a new flavor, Shirley Temple. Yes, they do.

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olypop um forward slash bw tb to see how it works but essentially you get a free can of olypop right now if you buy any two cans at an olypop store and olypop will pay you back they will literally pay PayPal or Venmo you money. If you send them your receipt that you bought two cans of Olipop at a store, they'll pay for one of the cans. No shit? I swear to God. And I want to do it this week because I'm like, that's, that is like actually a ton of fun. Like I want to, I want to see how it works. I want to get a Venmo from

olipop. And what you need to do too, because this is, this will be, these are going to be future retweets. Oh, yeah. But you brought up the Valentine's Day theme. imagine having a couple cans of Shirley Temple Olipop sitting there packaged with the new bus in Valentine's tea we didn't even bring this one up

did we bring this one up when we talked about it you keep my heart busing and a lot of the fun little Valentine's Day hard candies that you used to get from your little secret crush says for the boys down bad for you. MT6 no free shoutouts locked in

all written on the little heart candies Tier one lover Tier one, dude. If I had one free to speak. Yeah, free by one iteration. You own the company, permission to speak. I feel like we should have more of Valentine-themed colors versus the black. But that could be a cold take.

It could be a cold take. I think there are color options. I don't know about color options for that one. I know this black shirt that is the same as Sherms will have pink text. Yes. Yeah, Sherms got the white one on. The white with pink. There will be.

black with pink text. I know that shirt. And then I do believe, I do believe I could be wrong. There is obviously additional bus and merch that, I don't know if it's a hat or something that I believe is pink. It would be terribly wrong. Love it. Either way, what I'm talking about for the retweet? Like, say you had this shirt right here.

My forever, what is it, my forever rodeo? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you had this shirt nice and folded with a couple olipop Shirley Temple sitting there, that's a photo. That's just ding ding ding ding ding. That's retweet. Yeah. That's Retweet. If you want to Willie,

Willie C retweet, that's your edit in the right direction. That one's going to fire me up, that that's the gift that the boys got for their wives. And guys, again, that works on any flavor at any retailers.

It does not have to be the Shirley Temple. It could be Will's favorite, classic grape, could be root beer. Crisp apple. It could be crisp apple. Watermelon lime. Any of those flavors.

Cream soda. Olipop is everywhere. Has anyone tried lemon lime yet? I have not. I saw it. I was going to go lemon lime. but I also saw orange squeeze. So I wanted to try like the orange soda style of olive ice.

I went to go get my pub sub and I saw it in Publix and I grabbed it. Quite delicious. Oh, God. That one does seem like a good light one. Like not one that doesn't feel like it's a like a syrupy taste. Like a lemon lime feels like a good. Very. And compared to other competitors that we will not name.

It is, in my opinion, doesn't have that that syrupy taste. Yeah, dude. It has that really light. It's really punchy. with the lime taste, which I love. It's incredible. I was blown away and I was wondering if any of you guys have tried it. No, have not.

Not yet. Can't wait to get my hands on it. There's going to be a two hand grab too. Didn't even know they had an orange flavor. To be honest, I'm big on like orange flavors. So that is the next one I want to try. Do they have a full roll decks, man. Crack a cold one to hollypop.

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Come on. Optimism. Yeah, what are we doing? When a big snow is coming. Right now we're looking at last I saw 15 to 18 inches on one. on the weather app? I saw up to 19 inches on weather.com.

It's going to be nuts. Some people dislike snow days. Yeah. That's okay. That's okay. We just like, hey, we know it's coming. We can't control what's about to happen to us. We control how we respond.

Yes, sir. You want to be a thermostat, not a thermometer. Come on. You don't want to be sitting there just because it gets cold. Now you get cold. You get a little cold-hearted. you get a little pessimistic you get a little anti-snow you don't want to do that

hey snow's coming what are we going to do about it pro snow we got here's here's here's how we are equipping ourselves okay let me get right now you're going to assume that you can't get out of the house that's what you have to assume because when we get to a hill we got the sleds sleds ordered ready to go they're going to be coming in you got to get the outfits ready the boots the heavy outer wear for the kiddos they're going to argue with you about one to put gloves on I'm more of a dad that'll take the approach.

Okay, go out there and find out the hard way. Oh, you want to wear a dress outside instead of all these layers. Go ahead. Be my guess. Yeah, frostbite's actually really cool. You should check it out. Yeah, step outside. I'm telling you right now it's freezing. You're going to hate that you're wearing a dress.

But go outside right now and find out for yourself. You're going to come back in. You're going to be all right, dad, dad. Let's get the outer world. Oh, dad was right. Hmm. But building a snowman, I'll be on the docket. Getting on the sled.

I'll be on the docket. maybe get a little snowball fight in, just kind of see where Ruse Mentals at because she might, I might send her in a blender. Do you have a carrot for the snowman nose? Great note. I just want, I didn't want to tell you how to do it, but, hey, this is Pt6 game.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're thinking about, well, you're in Nashville, you're in a spot where it's going to snow this weekend. Maybe you're in a spot where it's snowing right now. Yeah. Again, be a thermostat, not a thermometer. We can't control, we can't control the weather. It's happening to us.

Yes. We get to have a snow day. also I have some extra charcoal for you if needed I can put it in a little Ziploc bag because I know you got a propane yeah you were telling me yeah yeah great game from a PT6 right here so if you're preparing prepping for this snow day and you think you're going to build a snowman go out and get what's needed for the snowman get some charcoal get some maybe black buttons get the carrots for the nose yeah maybe a little cute hat oh a scarf scarf get make sure you get the scarf have to I have a quick I have a quick tip on game here

Oh, please. If you're a big sledding person, learn this one when I was a little kid. The old man made one of the best calls he's ever made snow day wise. Don't get the saucers, you know, the saucers and everything, the little plastic sleds are great.

Get you an actual wooden sled with the iron railing, the old school style. Yeah. Those things, especially if you're on a hill, ice is over, fly.

You want to talk about having fun on a sled. Those things, especially if you got a little, boys. You know, toddlers, you might want to be a little more careful because these things go. But I'm telling you, once you start on a actual old school sled, one that goes up to like 25 miles an hour, you will never want to go on like a plastic saucer again in your life. Once you start, you're never going to stop. You'll never stop. That's my. Would you order? Just wondering, what'd you order for sleds? For sleds. Yeah. Ordered. I'll have to look at Amazon.

I did not get that one. You don't want to go. You don't want to go. You don't want to go. too fast with Rue. Yeah, true. She'll want to go fast, but I'm saying that that's older. The boys, I think three-year-old boys would love something like that. Probably. I would say like five to six and up is probably when my dad got one. Because they

will like, if you're on a big hill, especially out here in Tennessee, like you it could be potentially dangerous. They will actually, especially if it's an icy road, those things go. Yeah. To me, to me you want a beginner level sled and create the hunger for wanting something better.

wanting something fast. Yeah. You start off too fast and you have a bad moment. Then you're shy and I'm away from, hey, dude, snow days are fun. Sledding is awesome. Yeah.

I got a, I have a snowboard here at the shop that very easily you just sit towards the rear. You hold up the snowboard a little bit. It's a great little makeshift sled for now. Because Scarlett, I mean, we're talking six months. She's not going to be.

Yeah, you're kind of just seeing what her reaction is to all the snow. And you're like, look at the snow on the ground. Watch that day, slay. Yeah. Oh, look at that they eat the snow.

Do you want to eat some snow? Can I feed her snow? Oh, he's got. Like, can she do that? She's water. She drinks water, right? It's fun. And then, yeah, what else?

As far as the snow day goes, you're talking snow day prep. And it turned, what was your last note? You said, outfits, boots, gloves. Outfits, boots, gloves, snowman, sled. Build a snowman. Yep. Make sure you have soup ready to go. Oh, yes.

What do you want to do, chili? Just know whatever you're going to need, whatever ingredients you're going to need inside the house to assume we're not going to be able to leave the house. Okay, so I just the not leaving the house part remembered. Firewood. Firewood, firewood, firewood. Yeah, get the fireplace going. Maybe get the kids down, get the kids down early.

And then an opportunity. Come on, man. Come on. Scrilla starts playing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't even know if that's our song for writing Shockwave, but maybe it applies. And for people I'm familiar with Scrilla, just go to Spotify right now, type in Scrilla, sit back. That's the, that's theme music for Papa Team 6. I love that. I am very excited for the snow day. It will be Scarlet's first snow experience. Scotty's first snow experience?

Yeah, because Scotty was only like a couple months. months last year. Okay. So yeah, Scotty's first real experience. She's going to love this. Oh, man. I can just see it now. I hope Scarlett lights up, dude. We have- was a little, little iffy about the first snow day. Oh, really? You had to get her bought in. I do remember that. Yeah, she was having a little trouble with the snowman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're a winner over this year. I think Scotty's going to love the snow. Oh, Bruce going to love it now because last year she had a lot of fun. Uh-huh. Yeah, no doubt. Scotty's just going to be pounding

the snow. She's going to be out there going. Snow angels. Oh, yeah. She's getting rude to just lay on the ground. So we know, yeah, it's going to be a little cold, it's going to be a little wet, you just got to embrace it. Don't be a thermometer, Rue? Yeah, don't, hey, come on. That's a Dan Gable original. I don't even know. I don't even know if he said it, but I think he did.

The thermometer thermostat speech is one that if you're worth a shit as a coach, you're telling it to your team. Yeah. Parts of the year where guys are starting to bitch, you're starting to feel it a little bit. Listen, we can't control all this other bullshit. Yeah. Old man Dan's done that speech once or twice. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure Dan, yeah. There's a good coffee bean speech out there. Google is saying that is a Martin Luther King Jr. quote. Oh, there we go. Out of yesterday. Yeah. I don't have the

dayday was on Monday. There we go. That's wonderful. Well done, dude. Well done. Yeah, also weatherize your house. That was a big one for me last year around the snow day. are pipes froze. And if I had gone underneath the house to check, I would have seen that some of those pipes were running on the ground. I needed to get them up in the beams or whatever they're called.

Okay, yeah, that's smart. You're putting some young dad's own game. They might need to go check the pipes. Open your cabinets. That's a big one. I know that's a big one. Open the cabinets. Oh, yeah.

For like keeping the sink from freezing over. Yeah. Apparently it helps the temperature to kind of enter into like the underneath of the sink and keep those pipes warm. That's good game. Let's just a little that game. I'm no expert.

My pipes have been frozen multiple times. Texans have no idea. We've got to get the community involved. When this drops, it'll be Wednesday morning. It's obviously you're listening. Hopefully on Wednesday morning right now or Thursday. Snow hasn't come yet. Yeah.

So just drop any tips for snow days to prep work, whether it's weatherizing your house, winterizing? Yeah, yeah. Winterizing. Do you say weatherizing? No, I think I said, yeah. Either way, winterizing your house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Whatever games out there. We got to embrace the snow day. Yes, dude. And speaking of winterizing things or weatherizing them, I took Scarlet to the zoo this weekend. That is my crack a cold one. She just absolutely crushed it, dude. It's so much fun getting to hang out with people outside the house.

I don't know if I touched on this last episode. Babysitter went absolutely fantastic. Let's go. Absolutely fantastic for Jared's show. So we have her schedule. We know her openings. We have two date nights scheduled for this month. Yeah, dude.

Let's go. Are you kidding me? January 28th. How was the feeling when you left the babysitter the first time? Dude, really, really well. I'm so glad that we did. Here's a little dad hack. Meet the babysitter in person before said babysitting night.

That way you can just- Is that a dad hack? That just feels like you should probably just meet the babysitter. Oh. parents, yes. Sorry, parents, yes, meet the babysitter. Have kid meet the babysitter. There you go. Good clarification.

Well, thank you for asking for clarification. How tall are you? And they said you were pretty good. So I think we're going to go with you. You available here? All right, we'll see you there. Honey, you've met her, right? Yeah, honey.

I mean, come on. What do you think I am? When you get here, just say we. Hey, look, I told my wife about you. I said I met you. I know we haven't met. Just whenever you come to the house, just say, Asia, I'm good to see you. If you thought you met me, I'll have a pizza there for you.

We'll buy your pizza. Okay. But she was great. Have your child meet them. Scarlett, like, hung out with her at this coffee shop for like an hour and a half and was, like, getting on her chest, playing with her hair, yada, yada. So when she came over on the night of, Scarlet. one, friendly face. Friendly face.

Scarlett was super sleepy and she just melted onto Julia's shoulder and out like a light dude. So leaving was the easiest thing in the entire world. I mean, she was PTO. Where was I going to? Trip to the zoo. Trip to the zoo. Trip to the zoo.

So anyways, yeah, just getting out of the house is absolutely incredible and getting to hang out with adult humans. got to meet some new friends. They were a couple friends of Jared's. That was very fun. They are actually about to enter into PT6 here in May. Oh, let's go. I told Jared, I was like,

we got to hook up your boy Adam with some for the dad stuff. Lovely couple. Mom, dude, mom was asking me some questions about the strollers because guess what Sherman did? He forgot to bring his stroller to the zoo. So I got to rent a stroller from the zoo, got to pay money. That was fun. That was so fun.

I forgot the stroller good. Good. Got a stroller that's built for a four-year-old, not a six-month-old. They had to pack all these blankets in so she would fit. You're sending Jill photos. What's that stroller? What happened to the stroller? What stroller?

Sherman, the Nuna or the Duna? We have two strollers. Where are they? I forgot them. And I'm going to, I'm going easy on Jill. they're in the back of her car, but I did not know. I didn't know that. I didn't know. Hey, I didn't know that.

You still Jill under the bus? I kind of did. Everything she does for the family? I, I, hey, I was operating under the assumption that I had messed up is the funniest part. So all of my pictures were very strategically not Scarlet in the stroller

throughout the entire day. And then realized when I got home and the stroller was in there, I was like, oh, it's in her car. So this one's on Jill. This one's on Jill. Finally put up the graphic where it's like a thousand to zero

and just put a one for Sherman. Hang the banner. But dude, the zoo was just a ton of fun. Jared and his girlfriend, McKenzie, they're a wonderful couple. We love hanging out with them.

It was very fun just to get to see Scarlett interacting with them to get to see Jared and ST Sixer. interacting with Scarlett. Jared might be in a little bit of trouble. He told us later that night, he kind of fucks with babies now. Exact quote.

Yeah. Kind of fuck with babies now. He kind of fucks with babies now. Because Jared's a Goomberee. He's a... He's a... He is. He is.

He is. Oh, that's T6. Yeah. Yeah. With Goombaeigh tendencies. And yeah, it was just... It was really fun to watch McKenzie interacting with Scarlet. Yeah.

And Scarlet loves girls. loves girls. We were at Buffalo Wild Wings the other night and there was a little table of teenage girls. Scarlett watched them the entire day. Entire day. Thought she was one of them and wanted like, mom, dad, you go away, put me at that table.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, dude, just getting out, going and doing stuff, the zoo. It was a ton of fun. Didn't winterize Scarlet very well, though. She just kind of got a little like stuff in the cough. You know what I'm saying?

She's got like some stuff in her lungs. So I kind of got a little talking to from Jilly Bean on that. We'll work on. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news.

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I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You are winterizing. her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got a molder. I'm building up her strength. Yeah, you're building up the strength. Got a little thing that a little cough that's good. Honey, why her cheeks chapped? What's going on with that? You didn't

put any lotion or Vaseline on her? No, I didn't. Good. You know. Hey, did she have a whole other layer underneath her jacket? No, she didn't. Good. I forgot to communicate about the stroller. Good. Good. Forget to put moisture on her. Good. She got a cough. Good.

Thought I was taking it. Everything went great, though. Everything went great. I was taking her to a restaurant. It was really just a bar that served food. Good. Dude, the guy, the host that was like at the door to the place we walked in when I walked in with Scarlett was like, oh, okay. They're doing a baby. They were very nice and accommodating. Shout out the corner bar. Yeah, shout out the corner bar. No free shoutouts. No free shoutouts. It's a great spot if you're in Nashville. Yeah. They were very accommodating. Speaking of zoo, we saw Zootopia 2 on Friday night. Tell me about it because I freaking loved Zootopia. Bro, Zootopia 2 is a banger.

Great story. Great story arcs with characters. Great twists. Rue was engaged the whole time. We took root of the movie theater on Friday night. Got us in it for Scotty. So we had a little, you know, mommy daughter or mom and dad taking Rue on a little date night to the movie theater for a movie night and pizza Friday. Didn't get the pizza.

but dude ru loved it she's like sitting up on her edge of the seat the entire movie to the whole point to where probably the back third of the movie was left she had to go potty yeah but she didn't want to go potty she wanted to watch the movie oh it's like all right sweet art here's what we could do now this little a little trick in movie because we can't pause the movie like we do at home we can't pause while you go to the bathroom ever we get there's there's a crowd in here we can't pause the movie was she asking to pause it yes you see if we could pause the movie I love that and I was like But what we can do, this is a part.

We just got done with a big moment. There's still a little bit of the movie left. If we run, we can run right now and go to go potty. And then we'll run back and we'll be able to see great parts of the movie left. Heck, yeah. I was thinking, but if you don't want to, you're going to have to hold it. You're going to kind of wrestle around and hold it. Yeah.

She's like, I want to hold it, Dad. That's a big moment. She held it. That's a big moment. I thought for sure she was just going to pee. She's going to pee through her underwear and we were going to have a little code red, get some napkins. And she held it. Yeah, she held it.

to where after we run into the potty, she goes body. But Zootopia 2 is phenomenal. Any parents out there who've seen Zootopia 1, Zootopia 2 is incredible. If you haven't seen it with your toddler yet, take your toddler. Yeah. If you haven't seen Zootopia at all,

you can just go watch Zootopia 2. You can start with Zutopia 1. It doesn't matter. But Zutopia is the move. That's what I was going to ask you. As far as Zutopia 2 goes, I am a bit of a snob with movies. I just wanted to make sure it's not too many callbacks

to the first. It's kind of its own original storyline. Yeah, it's kind of its own original to where Fox and Bunny, like, you know, they just, they saved the day in the first one. Yeah, yeah. To where they are like vet cops now. And they kind of go off and do their own thing. I like that.

The friction with the, with the chief. What is he, a bull? Uh-huh. Yeah, water buffalo. Yeah. But they have like all those little ties to the first one. But it's like a newer, it's a newer story. It's a fun.

It's a good one. It's a good one. You'll like it. Dude, Daniel Tiger would be very proud of Rue for holding it during the movie theater. Yeah. He's somewhere just... Yeah, Daniel Tiger would be pumped

and Tagie was sitting there just holding her hand through it. God. But she loved it, bro. Shakira, she's like the... The Antelope. Yeah. Shakira has another banger song

to where we've been hitting that song. We've just been going back and forth on a repeat from the first utopia and the second one. But she's got another banger song. I forgot that that was an original piece that she did for that first one. and when the credits were playing, we were watching Zootopia at the house.

Yeah. God, I forgot what a banger this is. It was good, though. I highly recommend all the parents. I love that. Everybody wants a good, a good kid's movie. Yes.

I actually have a dad hack or a survival kit for you specifically will before we get into emails and call-ins. Okay. I know that you're going to be doing some moving here very soon. Yeah. I know the back has given you trouble in the past. Yeah.

I got some KT tape for you. I think it's something that should be in every dad survival kit as far. It's not going to help with anything structural. This is more of like a muscular thing. But just to keep you loose, to keep you operating during your move, I got some KT tape for you. I appreciate that, man. Shout, no free shout out to KT. Yeah, no free shout out to KT.

Yeah. Should we get in in some, the hotline? I would love to. I do have a, I guess before we get in the hotline, I have a dad hack here. We'll do the birthday shoutout after the hotline and email. This one here, I got a dad hack from Colin on Spotify, Dad Hack. Use a pillowcase for stuffed animals in the winter or in the washer and dryer.

Love you guys. Pillow case for stuffed animals and the washer and dryer. Love you guys. We had a little bit of a situation last week where Roo is coaching me up on, hey, you need a bag for Lama. Yeah. Lama in the dryer. This one here, another dad hack from Alex. That hack for those out there that may be.

be a little tight on funds. Start yourself a little emergency date night fund. I love this. I love this. Emergency fund that screams Dave Ramsey. Love Dave Ramsey. I've been setting aside a few bucks each paycheck, knowing a time like this would come. Daughter just turned eight months old.

Sleep progression is in full effect. And mama just stopped pumping so hormones are all over the place. This is great awareness. Good. In coverage right now from Alex. Good, Alex. She's getting some flowers sent to work on Friday. Alex.

Dude. What a gangster. Sunday night we are going to get some margaritas and tacos. Staying in a hotel and then massages on Monday. What? Mom has been through a lot and now time for a little pampering. Yeah, we got out. No, we got to cut that from the episode because that's going to get me in trouble with Jill. We can't let Phoenix hear that one. That's crazy work by Alex. Because that's a Pt6 are operating that standard. Phoenix is going to hate that. He's going to hate it. What a cold duty bro, Alex. I have Mighty DR 82. He's on YouTube.

He says for sleep training, and I have heard of this book. I've heard good things. For sleep training, we did Taking Kara Babies. Yeah, I've heard about that one too. She's got like that huge brand taking care of baby.

Yeah, yeah. Lifesavers. Sleep training, your baby is foundational for staying sane. And I have Jay Bald, 1992 on Spotify. Shout out to my brother, Matt Delaney,

for getting me onto the, this podcast, Dad Hack. Find bros that are in the trenches with you. Matt and I are both teachers and both have the joys and stresses of spending our summers with kids. We both have three. Sometimes we get together with the kids and sometimes we get together for some ice cold dad juice once the kids are all in bed.

Either way, it's always a good time. We might have to cut that comment. For some ice cold, allie pops once the kids are in bed. Either way, it's a lot of. always a good time. We might have to cut that comment. Oh, really? Yeah. Because he said, find yourself a dad bro. We can't find dad bro's Phoenix. That's what Phoenix wants. I love a look on your face is so serious. Oh no. What, whoa, what just happened? He reverted back to like, oh,

no, I said a sponsor competitor. I went so, I would so producer brain. I was like, I don't know where Will Compton thinks why, why should we cut that? Our dad bros. You don't, but it's, you can't find, you can't find dad bros. You cannot do that. You cannot do that. dude. Especially if you're trying to do a five-star podcast. You can't love any bros in fatherhood. Not, dude. That's back to the drawing board. Yeah, right there. Get back to the drawing board. What was his name? Jaybald, back to the drawing board. Back to the drawing board. Good Lord. Hey, in your brother, Matt Delaney, same message to you, dude. And quit putting your bros on good pods. Yeah, quit putting your on one star pods. Yeah, where are you doing, Matt? Oh my gosh. God.

Let's dive into the hotline 6-01, the dads. If you want a chance to be featured, I'm for the dads. This is Andy with the dad hack. Boys, you got Andy here. Real quick, I got a pro tip for it. Bro, I'm so excited for this. It's one of my favorite calls we've ever received. Just because of the voice and what he says.

What do he say at the top? I'll start it again. Boys, you got Andy here. Real quick, I got a pro tip for expecting fathers, which is the situation I'm currently in. But before that, I'm going to let you know I'm a day one listener. I started listening the first episode, and then I was like, well, I probably do this because I like these boys. And I figured to give me some wisdom for expecting a child two or three years. A week later, my wife's like, hey, I'm pregnant.

And I'm like, well, good news. I'm prepared because I'm going to listen to this podcast. So fast forward here we are. everything about this. Proteel for the expecting fathers. You're probably going to have to go on some daycare tours. And if you've never been parents, you have no idea what to ask these people. Yeah.

Where in there asking them like, where they play at? Where they sleep? Are the doors locked? We've got nothing. Man, before you go in, give it a quick Google. You look like a hero to your wife. You go in there and be like, what's the certification of the teachers? teacher's like, what a question from this moment.

She gives me an answer. I didn't hear what you said. Sounded good. Followed up. It was like, who's CPR certified and what do we do to make sure you keep taking the courses? Hell yeah, Andy. They love that question. So, yeah, give it a quick Google.

That's my pro tip. And y'all have a good day. Day. Bro. That's a plus phone call from Andy right there. That's a plus phone call from Andy right there. Andy. Yeah.

Yeah. Dude, the fact that a guy that sounds like that loves his pot, Phoenix would piss his pants of Andy walked into a room, would piss his pants. Andy's so on it. Dude, he's on it. You come through the fluff right there, Andy, his hack, his pro tip, is any situation or conversation you're about to go into. Use Google. Hey, what are new questions to ask? Yes.

When talking to so-and-so as a parent. And it is true. I talked about that on an episode with you guys of our shot. experience. I was the first guy that he described. I didn't Google beforehand. Yeah. I didn't know anything to ask. The only thing was the security measure, which was like, you know, do the doors locked. He's exactly right. Dude, he's shout out, Andy. Yeah. And like I think to times where we might be sitting with somebody that maybe babysits the kids or potential nanny or a doctor, whatever it is. I'll rip all some of these questions

and then what kind of sit there because I'm kind of quiet the whole time and try I look over it to me and we kind of just both smile at the show and she's like, do you have any questions sweetheart? I feel pretty good but that game right there

I need to yeah go to the fluff, use Google hey I'm about to meet with this about to meet with this pediatrician what are some good questions to ask as a father oh yeah you had a situation with your new house where you did the blue tape

thing where y'all went around and you kind of blue taped everything. I know renters do that all the time too where you go through and you take pictures of stuff in the house. Any of those little things where it's like dad could either go in completely blind or could go in and look

like he did his homework. Well done. I need Andy calling in more. Yeah. I need that voice in my life. Yeah. I've and also Andy here. Andy, please. Andy sounds. Any Andy sounds like an older dad. Did he say how old his kids were?

Well, daycare. He got to be younger. Yeah. But he has that voice of like a seasoned. Oh, like a season. Like late 50s, early 60s.

Who loves the AGAAP? Who loves watching AGAAP football? I just don't run the damn ball. Yeah. I don't know what we're doing. I don't want to be that guy, but just guessing his accent, I feel like he's anywhere from

Abilene, Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas is going to be my guess. And that could be somewhere in Oklahoma. too. Andy, if you don't mind sharing your location, you just sound like my kind of people. You just kind of sound like a text and Andy. I like those boys. I'll listen to it.

That's your neck of the woods. That's my neck of the woods. He really throws for a loopie. He's like, all, fellas I'm from Minnesota. I'm from Fresno, man. I don't know exactly like, damn. Okay. California. This is from V. He says, I thought I was ready. Boys, it's V again.

Left-Age voicemail about an hour ago, hung up. My wife looked at me and was like, you really just butcher that. So I'm calling back because when it was happening, we watched someone go off the road because I see his hell out, so everyone be safe.

But just what my thing was, is I thought I had all this together because we're expecting our first in April. Let's go. And then I listened to an episode where you guys are talking about sucking eucas out of noses, and I look at my wife, and I'm like,

what are they talking about? And then I finally realized, like, I have no idea what I'm doing here. So my question is, is there's all the basic stuff that, you know, expecting fathers need. But what is the stuff that really threw you for a curveball that you really had to adapt and learn how to do? Appreciate you, boys. Talk to you soon. Pee-D sickers out. That's a good phone call. That's a really good question.

The first phone call he sent in was much more mild and generic. The second one, you could tell the wife was like, you suck at that. And he's like, no, I'm calling back. getting and it was an hour on the dot. He thought about it. He pulled in Andy and he said, what's a good question? I can ask these boys. Naturally, that's a great feeling and thought

that you felt when hearing about the mucus and the snot sucking. Because again, that was news to me. It was like, oh, hey, kids got a stuff. You know, it's like, how do we get this stuff even out of their nose? Oh, we got this little bulb right here. That's when we first learned about the bulb. Then we go to the manual snot sucker. And then I'm learning through

Scherner, that there's this machine of a snot sucker out there that you don't have to sit there and feel like you're torturing the kid they actually probably have fun with it or love it yeah we're still in the process i need to get my hands on those bro i ripped some mucus out this morning by the way ripped some out with that electronic and all well she oh yeah and dude i'm talking so much and guys we don't get any money from that company of whatever that it's crazy how much you pull out of their nose like when i'm doing it with the tube the manual one it's crazy how you'll keep hearing the noise and you're like you got to take a breath and continue to go because like my god they got

so much up there they do sorry i cut you off no i was gonna say i felt like that's a natural like you we have no clue we don't know i want to say my first my first moments is just always having the diaper bag ready and being and like thinking ahead more i'm very poor at being able to think ahead so stuff that's charo is sitting there saying i'm like or she might whether you want to call getting an earful or we're just having a conversation about it Trump's in there. I'm like, yeah, I haven't been able. I don't know how to get my brain the forward think about some of this stuff. To where I'm like learning on the fly, there again, no matter even what we tell you, there's going to be things that come up that we're not even currently

aware of. There's going to be things that I've already forgotten that you're sure threw me for a loop. As far as if he's talking about, he's about to be a father, correct? Is the whole point of this. There is a multitude of things that you're going to have to learn, that you're going to need to learn. But as far as your basics of like getting started swaddling, nose sucking, feeding, and putting down for sleep. Like if you get that figured out, if you can go and changing diapers, Duh. Changing diapers. Changing diapers. You're going to do more than you think. Yeah. It's not going to be like you let one go and you let it sit. No, you want to change your diaper asaph so they don't get diaper ashes. Having a cream on their little bum. Yes, dude. A little. A little

cream on their bum, like as you get done kind of wiping them with a good clean, what are those things called? The cleans? The little wipes? Yeah, a little clean wipes. After you get done doing that, putting a little cream on their bum. For wifey, I don't know if she's pumping, breastfeeding, you guys are doing formula. Yeah. But Charo was a mix of breastfeeding and pumping. So trial getting done, as many times I could think about it or think ahead, it's like washing out, washing out all the things for the breast pumping. You have to be the guy to do that to help take that off, take little things off of their play

because again, postpartum's a real thing. So being there for your wife, having constant communication and conversation, you don't always have to be like over his shoulder. How are you feeling? How are you feeling anything I can do to help? Are we done, honey? But just knowing your presence is there

and you're thinking about these things around her world and her life, to her whether it's cleaning out things with the breast pump, being like, hey, I'll go change. or you take a load off. Yeah. Okay. Can I throw a little extra dad hack that Ride in Alex would do?

The date night guy? Yeah. Jill had a snack bucket for whenever she was pumping. Bro, put together a little snack bucket for your girl. You know all of her favorite snacks. That's a good. That's a good game right there. That's good game.

I didn't do it. Jill did it for herself. But hey, maybe I could make V look like a real PT sicker. Yeah. And dude, just get all of her favorites. favorite snacks. Hey, what's this? We already have cheeses. We already have Welch's gummies. Yeah, but, you know, for when you're pumping. Yeah. Got your little snack basket. Snack bucket. Being on type of diaper bag.

Understanding cream going on the bum with the baby when you're changing the baby a lot. And you can never use too much. Now, if you're on a tight budget, you can absolutely use too much. But you really, that's my one tip on the cream. Yeah. Decluttering the house. There'll be a lot of stuff going on when the comes to where, again, wife, he's going to be in it. So decluttering the house, cleaning up the kitchen, picking up things around the house, making sure she has a clean space because the women are essentially like locked in the house for like the first eight weeks, it feels like. Yeah.

Little stuff like that, a little interest your wife has, like maybe there's a sweet treat you can bring her home. Maybe she's a latte girl. Maybe she's a coffee girl going out and getting the coffees. If you don't have a rocker at your house, there is a really nice rocker at Target that I swear is $100 on the dot. It looks like a white rocking chair that you would have on your front porch. It comes with a nice little footrest on it too that sways back and forth as well.

That's like separate of the chair. It's $100 even. I know that's pretty expensive. But if you're in the furniture game, you know that that's a pretty good deal. Yeah. And get a nice little booty cushion for it, dude. And that can be her little pump station. That could be our little rock station.

having a good rocker, boom. Yeah. Getting, becoming a pro and swaddling. Have to. I'm trying to think of anything else. In the swaddling game, for any like new dads that are listening and are like,

oh man, I gotta get on the swatling. Just on YouTube, that's what I did. I looked up a video, like almost how to tie your tie type video. Swaddling's not too, it's not crazy.

You just got to make sure you have a big enough blanket or a big enough towel for sure for sure get them nice and tight yeah understanding the schedule it's like uh eat sleep poop you're trying to get them to sleep for two and a half two to three hours at a time yeah understanding what shifts you guys are going to be taking if you guys are talking about who's going to be doing what shift yeah um those would be the things in the beginning yeah and these start shopping for uh car seats like you're shopping for a car that's how you could really impress her yeah honey i'm looking at these you know i got four options here here. I'm like this one because of that one, da-da-da. And you can't go wrong with the car seat.

All of them are great. It starts shopping car seats in front of her on your phone. Let her kind of see it over your shoulder. Yeah. And what are you doing? I'm just looking, just to have one. Trying to figure out what car seats best. I've heard so, you know, Will says he's got a duna and an anuna, but we don't know. Sherman's got a duna and a nina, maybe. We're going to have pressure cargo in the car now. I'm just trying to make sure we're safe. We're right. Yeah, yeah. That's a good foundation. Good foundation. We got one last one from Max. All right. Got to keep it under an hour.

Have to keep it under an hour. Boys, Max here, PT6 member to a nine-month-old baby girl. I have a dad hack in response to your question at the end of your last podcast. For me, the hardest part of being a parent doesn't have to do anything with my daughter, but instead has to do with self-care and that change of identity. My wife and I were fortunate enough to both be home for the first five months of our daughter's life. And being excited first-time parents, our daughter was our focus 24-7. Especially in those early months with learning curves and figuring everything out,

it just zapped all of our energy. This is where my dad hat comes in. Regular happy hours with other parents. Now don't judge me because I do live in good old Wisconsin, but meeting almost every Friday at a brewery with a couple other dads and moms has been a game changer. Sometimes as parents, we forget about the outside world, or even what day it is, but having some close friends that have kids, close in age and can relate brings you back to earth just like having this podcast hearing relatable stories and other experiences makes you feel like you aren't alone happy hour might not look the same as they used to as we have our

diaper bags snacks toys and everything else for the kids but I think as a parent we appreciate the time with other parents and it's worth it level up this dad hack even more if you have all the wives and meet up beforehand while the The dad stay back and keep the kids for an hour, give those moms an hour of time to themselves. The moms deserve that and appreciate it. Thanks, boys. PT6 forever. Appreciate it.

I hate to do this because that was a really great call, but we will have to actually cut that chef. Because Phoenix is going to hate the fuck out of the voicemail. You made that way too serious for a second. he said we're actually going out of that. Hey, that's a great phone call. Great call in. And he is a thousand percent right. I want to say the biggest thing. I know listening to Charo is like going into motherhood and everything else. It was like the loss of identity of the life that you had before. And feeling like you just get boxed into just being a parent 100%. Like that becomes what your identity is. Yeah. So having that those tips right there, what was this

name again? Max. Having those tips right there from Max is spot on. Because it is. It's a 24-7 gig. You kind of like lose yourself a little bit. And then when you're in the suck and you're around just your partner 24-7 the entire time like bickering and some some things are just going to happen, whether it's resentment, whether it's subconscious, whatever it is. You're just going to be around each other at all times. Your roommate, you're locked in the foxhole together. And that's awesome that he got five months off. But as he's sitting there putting everybody

on game, it's like just being around that person at all times. can cause some just internal chaos. Yeah. Internal dialogue that you have with yourself and just feel like, man, is this what it's going to be like forever? It is crazy just talking about the corner bar that I went to with Jared and McKenzie.

I'll send you the picture and you can bring it up. I brought her little upright seat that we've talked about before. Yeah. Had that on the table. She's sitting there. Jared and McKinsey are having drinks. We're living life. We're being humans in the wild.

and Scarlet's right there. And, like, that was my first time being out and getting hot wings and fries and, you know, a drink with friends and stuff. Like, you feel like your battery just gets recharged a little bit. In the biggest way. And you think, like, everything I was thinking leading up to this, I can, I can start throwing this into the equation. And it'll just bring me much more joy. Not that you're not having fun and not having a lot of joy in your life. but it's like, oh, I can go out and do these things.

Scarlett crushed it. Yes. Yeah. Things I tell myself on, hey, I can't do this. I got to stay home. The kid, blah, blah, dude, if you figure it out and then the moment you do step outside or I love the hack too, the little tip on let the women go out for an hour before while the dads hang back. Pro move. Have a nice cool lollipop with the boys before they go out and meet the women for dinner.

I love that, man. Pro move. It levels up, bro. Again, that battery just fills up. Yeah. Just a humongous shout out also to everybody that's All these comments and emails and calls today have been fantastic They've been great.

Yeah, they've been really good. They've been great. Shout out to him too. You could tell he wrote, he intentionally wrote down. No question. It's a little bit of a script. But like, I love it. Listening to it, I was like, oh, this guy said, I'm going to get on the fucking show.

Yeah. And this is how I'm going to do it. So that's a great. And I'm going to give the dad some real game. Yeah. Also, shout out Wisconsin. When I was there, I saw a. in Madison, there was a Dennis office

where the Dennis also owned a brewery that was attached to his dental office. We don't, look, we don't shout out Wisconsin on this show. Oh, Will. I just, Wisconsin Badgers haunt my nightmares. Okay, well, shout out. Maybe he meant something by that.

Again, that's me. I'm taking that one person. Shout out Lincoln, Nebraska. I've never been by. I've heard really great things, and I bet they got some dental breweries. there. I bet they do. There we go. There we go. Come on. All right. We got a wifie shout out here. Wipey shout out before we end the episode with a lesson of the week, which is going to come to us from Dan Gable.

It's going to come to us from Dan Gable. Also, I have a lesson of the week that I've pushed three weeks. I can read if you want. You can read it, but we're still going to have a Dan Gable quote. I know, I know. I know. Here we go. Wipey shout out from Eric Yantis. fellas. Eric here from Godly, Texas. Oh. Had to write in to brag on my wife, Sophia, the ultimate M-T-Sixer

and former Alito high school teacher. She's an absolute badass. We have a photo right here of them. No way. It seems like they're out there on a hike with the little one or maybe... No, keep reading. It's very different than a hike like one. Okay.

They're probably... I see... Yeah, I see an animal in this photo. If he from Godley, if he from Godley and Alito, baby, they hunt. They get a hog? What they get? On December 17th, she gave birth to our twin daughters and watching her step straight into mom mode with two newborns and still love every second of it has been unreal. Ten days before delivering twins, she was still climbing into a deer stand and shooting pigs. Same woman, same great effort and attitude.

That leads me to my best piece of advice. Make sure you marry a badass. Very someone who's constantly pushing themselves to be better. When she's leveling up, it forces me to level up too. as a husband, as a dad, and a man. We love the pod. You all keep crushing it. Thank you, Eric Yantis.

So they were hunting. A lovely couple of gentlemen. Just to brag on the Yantis family, but also to brag on Alito, Texas, man. That's a bear cat right there. Mrs. Yantis, thank you for reping Alito High. Thank you for teaching those young kids. And thank you for going and splitting a hog.

Yeah, yeah. Just two weeks after giving birth to twins. Was that correct? Ten days before delivering the twins. very large belly in the picture next to a huge hog. I'm thinking they're on a hike with the newborn. Oh, hang on a second. This is 10 days before she's delivering twins.

Come on, man. Hey, honey, we got to get in the stand before we get into this delivery room. God, they just rep to Lido so well. And shout out Godly too. That's a great community. They're truly in my neck of the woods. That's really fun. Shout out the Antis family.

I love that. Big shout out. Big shout out to then. This, okay, before we end the episode, I have the bird. thing as well. But this is from Candace Hurt. Hey guys, my husband Shane started listening to the pod shortly after our son was born in July. He began referring to himself as a PT-Sixer and myself as an M-T-Sixer. After overhearing several episodes, it quickly became something that we now enjoy together. Shane is such a great dad to our now six-month-old Cohen and always embraces the good times,

aka the trenches. He refuses to comment until we are all caught up and we are so, so close to fully catching up on the podcast. Just had to let you guys know how much we appreciate listening. It's funny, it's entertaining, it's relatable.

And with so much great advice and added emotional intelligence, keep it up and thank you. P.S. We just bought our first allipops. So far, Apple crisp remains at the top. Indeed it does.

Lord, this might be an all-timer episode for Reddance. She wrote on five different of our channels to get her husband shouted out as well. I think it was an email, Instagram. I believe it was XDMs. I believe it was YouTube comment and maybe a Spotify comment as well. All slightly different, but she's a milk theme six. To that, I say, Shane Hurt, thank you for being an absolute sicko, for getting your wife onto this, for just celebrating everything that is fatherhood.

Dude, you're a legend, Shane. Thank you. Um, drum roll, please. We have Sarah Garcia who wrote in for her husband's birthday, which was on December 30th. Okay. Happy belated birthday. This is a make right. This is a make right.

Hold on. I mean, you're right. You're right. Let me read this thing. Sorry. This is from Sarah Garcia. This came in via email, Will. Hello.

I would like to request a birthday shout out for my wonderful husband, Tyler. right. His birthday is on December 30th and he will be 32 this year. Come on. He has been a huge fan of your show since 2020. We live in Nebraska. So he has also been a huge fan of Will's since his freshman year at UNL. That's how you know they're a true sicko, dude. Who calls it U.N.L? GBR. GBR. My husband made me say all of that in parentheses. He watches your episodes religiously and very loudly. Every year for Christmas he asks for merch from your shows, specifically the dad gear. And he is also the best dad to my son, who is his stepson.

My son has even said that he considers my husband his dad more than his biological father. He always prioritizes our son's needs over his own without hesitation. This birthday shoutout is the only present he asked for and he will shit his pants if he gets it. please please please give him this gift it will make me the best wife ever and it will mean that my birthday present has to be a good one this year winky face i love that man sarah garcia and what was what was his name tyler right Tyler you're doing good bro you're you're crushing you're crushing you're crushing it man and gbr baby gbr forever thank you for the sport but even that that that that right up right there you can tell that uh that you're crushing it right now yeah being a stepdad

all the things that she said in that note, big shots to you. Yeah. And Sarah, we're sorry. We did not see that as you. Sarah, we're sorry. And Sarah,

I did quite literally. Don't want an MT-6er on our ass. Hey, it just can't happen. We're moving on to our Dan Gable quotes and our lesson of the week. I still have two emails that we didn't read that we'll have to do next episode. Yeah.

That's just the way she goes. Yeah. And I'm sorry, Sarah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We are sorry. That is chef's fault. Just point the finger at somebody.

Sorry, Sarah. Well done. Apologize, chef. If I would just wasn't a fucking idiot, this would all be fixed. They've all gone over really, really nicely. Yeah, Will, what was your topic, lesson, or Dan Gable quote of the week?

You got a lesson. I do. Okay, good. It's brief. It's very brief. Love it. Dan Gable. This is a quote that I think just goes in well with parenthood.

Because we talk about the highest of highs in parenthood. And when you can, when you can like present what the gold medal of parenthood feels like, it's this quote right here from Dan Gable. It's gold metals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard to find, in a hard to find. Let me start that again.

Okay. Take a second. We'll cut that. The gold medal of parenthood. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. Bro, he's unreal with the quotes. It's Dan Gable right there.

That's Dan Gable. It's embracing that suck. That is. That's the gold medal. And what was it, a hard-to-find alloy called what? Hard to find alloy called guts. That one gets your piss hot. It does.

I actually want that one printed. Like that, that's cool. I love that quote. I had one that I thought applied very nicely to fatherhood, just life in general. Is Dan Gable? This is Dan Gable.

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together. That's Dan Gable. That's parenthood. That's parenthood. working together, communicating. That's what creates freedom. Come on. I just love that a wrestler slash wrestling coach

that was on his quotes page. A freedom across the world, man. Imagine being Dan Gabriel, knowing that what you do that's going to echo in eternity of wrestling is also going to echo to a For the Dad's podcast. Yeah. It's going to echo into parenthood.

Yeah. It's going to get the piss hot. Yeah, it's going to get the piss out. It's going to change lives. I um so shout out that was our dan gable quote of the week segment brought to you by dan gable and for the dads um last but not least it was very brief we i think this was even three episodes ago for my lesson of the week um so this was kind of like my new year's resolution um that i had for myself but uh staying in touch with those that you love i have a one hour round trip commute to scarlet's daycare, sometimes longer with traffic. I've decided during that time to call people that I love or people back in Texas that I just miss or want to stay close to and share life with and stories with.

There is something so grounding about speaking with those that you know and love so well, asking them for advice, helping them with their struggles, asking about their day and telling them about yours or just being a set of ears for them to vent and vice versa. Life moves incredibly fast and so far these calls have aided in slowing things down. Having a meaningful conversation with substance, being able to laugh at yourself while telling a frustrating story of fatherhood. It's sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Have I read that before? No. I think it's just been on my sheet. As I was reading it, I was like, have I read this on the pod before? Out off the press. Okay, cool. It's a good one. Thank you. And it's been

going, it's actually been going really well. These last like three weeks, it's been a lot of fun. It's a lesson I feel like I need to incorporate in my life. It's been good, dude. I've been catching up with a lot of friends I haven't seen in person and quite a while. And just, it's so much fun tapping in, just hearing the little quips and personalities of like their kids, they're growing up. Having a couple laughs.

Yes, dude. And just being able to like laugh about stuff that I could call you and you would have a completely different take on it than like, some. somebody that I've known since I was 12 years old. It's just like, I don't know. It's fun. So we're going to have to cut that. Oh, no.

You're talking about catching up with your bros? Not on this show. God forbid I got one of their gamer tags too. And like scheduled trying to introduce them into our PubG world. That would be a shame. One of my high school buddies from back in the day, try and get them to play PubG with us.

you better not play on the sports book either. Oh, no way. Oh, and we have a poll here to finish out the show. We have a poll. A poll. A poll. Well, last episode we did a break and shouted us some people that sent us things. And Shirm told Pt6 to send an emoji into the chat.

It was a very divisive decision which emoji Shirm said. And so I thought we'd just address it. Sherm, do you want to just read out what the emojis were? I did see in the comments last week a bunch of beach emojis. and I had no clue what was going on. I was like, did I miss something in the episode to where everybody just knows it dropped beach emojis?

At the, we did a little thank you segment for all the stuff that's been sent in. And at the very end, I did, in fact, and actually lost in the poll, which is hilarious. I said, comment a little peach. A peach. Peach. And I started seeing all these beach emojis

because I usually like checked the episode like 615, whatever, when it drops. I see all these beach umbrellas. beaches, oceans, and I'm like, what's going? When did we talk about a beach in the episode? I'm so, oh my God. Oh my God. I only saw two peaches.

Yeah. I think only two people got it right. Crazy as far as that everyone in this room heard peach. Yeah. That was not a. But I didn't hear anything. It got translated to me. Which is, that's okay.

That's okay. But I'm glad we got that soft. I'm glad we got that soft. That poll, so which one won, the beach? Beach. So, I mean, I would say that would mean that you were wrong. I think you're right. Now that I...

If everybody's dropping beaches and then the poll says, no, it was beach, not peach. That would tell me I didn't pronounce it correctly. You know, I think there's only one way to go about this to really kind of settle it. If you have watched it all the way to this point, to the end. I feel like everybody checks out. the majority like 99% they're gone the phoenixes of the world they're out of here they're out of here yeah they've left one star reviews but if you don't think we need to go back to the drawing board comment a little beach a what i said it once i won't say it again should it be a different emoji what do people just follow up from last week and stuff you drop a beach that's a good call comment let's comment a bear

let's comment a little bear face okay can't mess that up yeah bear face bear emoji face okay let's do that okay

I wish there was a Phoenix emoji that would be sick will's cooking up something I'm trying to ride run through the emojis in my head bear face bear face

bear face yeah that's perfect great sode great so wait wait one second happy universe Alex, love you so much.

Hope you have the best day ever. Okay. I forgot. Almost let that one slip. Three. Is you trying to sneak that one in when everybody's tuned out? I'm waiting to see if she'll watch the whole episode. Ooh.

Okay. Oh, chef. Daddy. Oh, chef loves Alex. What are you doing for the anniversary? It's today. I mean, I'm going to be working today. I called her.

I sent her a little Vimo for nails. Long text. one old boy wrote in about how he had the weekend prepped up yeah we've already discussed we went over it's just it's an unfortunate thing he got massages on Monday work week well she lives in Knoxville so that's the issue so I said hey go get your nails done I sent her extra because she does the builder gel not the normal normal nails hey he's kind of on it made sure I was on it

sent her nice texts you send her flowers I think I'm going to try to whenever we get done I'm going to try to get some flowers the game old boy is putting on flowers on Friday. Hey, hey, I want to work or tour work spot. Could for the dads get a singing gram for Alex? I'm

I'll send one too. She's at seeing graham. That would be, could we do a singing gram? She's, um, she's at work right now at the vet hospital. So wouldn't that be something? Get Elvis Presley go walk in there. This is from chef. I'm sure I'll get a fun

call. She's like, hey, you can't do that. I'm going to work. Sweet I just want the office to know that I love you and you're my number one. Everyone in there needs to know. And they just have Elvis seeing something not romantic at all. At all. Yeah, scurilla. Happy anniversary.

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