Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton On Embracing The Suck & Men Decoding What Our Wives Are ACTUALLY Saying | For The Dads

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm talk about their recent morning struggles, reply to a comment from an MLB player, and talk through the commonality of men not understanding what their wives actually are saying — all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with Will getting a late start to his day and almost sleeping through the episode before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including:  Chef and Derrik not receiving a Compton Christmas Card Answers to the question “What do I talk to my kid about during bathtime”? A Dad-Hack to keep your Christmas Tree safe from the kiddos Other highlights include: A Christmas Themed Lesson of the Week Rue conquers her fear of Santa! 👉 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 - Will Almost Slept Through The Sode? GOOD - 12:08 - The Young Household is Ill - 18:51 - You gotta live in the suck / Advice for an MLB Player - 28:03 - Protecting the oven from Scottzilla - 32:38 - Understanding the way our wives talk to us with Willy C - 38:34 - New Dads Write Into The Show - 42:02 - Will only got Sherm a Christmas Card / Where to send us your wPT6 Christmas Card - 45:03 - Social Producer Flat Tire? GOOD  - 47:24 - Sherm & Will put their brains together and forgot about daycare - 58:44 - Rue conquered her fear of Santa / Crack a Cold One - 1:04:56 - Bathtime Discussions / How to keep the kids away from the Christmas Tree - 1:21:01 - A Christmas Spirit 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 Liquid IV - Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout.  Wayfair - Get organized, refreshed, and ready for the holidays for way less. Head to https://Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and I actually can win on any surface. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. P.T. Sicko's one last reminder before we get into this episode, something that is near and dear to our heart, something that is super important to us for the dads is teaming up with Vanderbilt Children's Hospital this Christmas season. Yes, we are Monroe Carroll Jr. Children's Hospital here in Nashville, Tennessee.

And we would love to invite you to also give if you are feeling in the giving mood. There are two different ways to do so, guys. You can either go to bwtb.com and you can donate to the Monroe Carroll Jr. Children's Hospital. This is going to be supplying them with the necessary tools to get these kids gifts, toys, get their families, gifts and toys here around the holidays, but also take care of these kids all year round. So first way to do it, directly donate on bwtb.com. There's a link on our site. Or if you are looking to get some merch, some FTD merch. Yeah, before Christmas. gets here. Before Christmas gets here. Some bus and merch. Anything that you buy on the store up until Wednesday night, 10%. Tonight as they are listening. Until tonight at 11.59 p.m. Eastern time.

Yes. Then 10% of that purchase will be donated directly to the hospital. So it's a great way for PT6 to kind of team up together and donate and do something really fun for these kids this holiday season. So again, if you're feeling encouraged, Bustin with the boys is also matching those 10% of net proceeds. If you buy an item from our store and just to walk you through it again, directly donate at bwtb.com to the hospital or simply buy some merch. $10 of those proceeds, go to the hospital and Bustin with the boys is matching every dollar that is raised through our merchandise. If you're feeling encouraged this holiday season, again, BWTB.com, donate to the kids for the kids, for the dads.

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We love the interactions. We love the community. This is, again, a show for the dads by a couple dads. I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old. Sherm has a five-month-old and little scar-scar. Five months, baby. Shout out Australia for those international writing emails. We've been getting a lot of Aussies writing, and come on.

And again, man, we just talk about our ups and downs, highs and lows of fatherhood with our wives. I showed up about 30 minutes late today. that's okay that's okay well uh yeah your boy was in your boy was in it a little bit i was i was backed into a corner this morning yeah slept a little bit longer than i thought i would wife wakes me up at seven o'clock she had a workout at six in the morning and i'm kind of i thought i had my alarm set for six 20 i believe yeah and don't remember hearing it or feeling it waking up and um so a couple things did you have a true blood rush type wake up like a oh look

What time is it? No, she woke me up and she's like, good morning, sweetheart. Look what I made you. And it was an, it was an ice latte, bro. An ice latte. Like my wife's getting up working out at six in the morning. She asked me last night, fire was going, lights are up inside.

I hope all your Christmas lights are up. The vibes are high in the Compton House. So especially in the evening time when you got just the Christmas ambiance going. Yeah. And she asked last night, can I go work out at six in the morning? Absolutely. Of course you can. She'll probably be back around seven, help get everything rolling.

I'm like, I got to hit four the dads. I got to hit our podcast. The podcast starts at eight. We usually rock between 8, 8, 8, 15. Yeah, yeah. So I'll have to get out of the house by 7.45. And I'm thinking of my head, she's going to get up and roll. I'm going to get up early and get knockout lunch, make Rue's cassidia,

do a little something different than the people. Breakfast cassidia? Not breakfast cassidia for lunch. Oh, for lunch. You know how she loves her peppinones. She does. For everybody in there. out there tuned in.

Rue loves her pepperonies, her peppinoni. She likes to call him. God bless her. And so I'm going to get up. I'm going to knock lunch out. I'm going to knock all the things out. So that way when Charles walks in the door, I'm in the middle, basically on the tail end

of having morning routine done for school and everything else. And we'll both go up together to wake up the kids, to wake up Scott Zilla and Rue. Yes. Didn't happen. So last night, middle of the night, 232 in the morning I hear on the monitor, Rue's crying.

She said usually Charles The one who hears first Dad's second I hear Charles picking it up And I just hear her rude She's not crying loudly But kind of like maybe she had a bad dream And she's just sad

And so I'm like Oh I'm gonna get up and go up there Comforter and everything else So get you know Wake up 1 30 in the morning good Good Hey let's get on the dad hat Let's get upstairs

Let's go be a hero tonight And go and go laying in bed with her And like sweetheart What's going on? Why are you sad? And she just talks about missing mom So I'm thinking in my head, like she probably had a bad dream, woke up. He's just missing mama.

Well, mama's downstairs sleeping right now. She, we want to let her get some rest. Do you mind if Dad-D-L-A. is with you? And she's like, yeah, that's okay. Oh, there you go. So I'm thinking, all right, now I'm going to have to lay up here for a little bit to make sure she gets back to sleep. Good.

Good. Let's have a, let's be a hero. Let's be a hero. Hero ball. Yeah, do you want Daddy-Den to snuggle with you? And she, like, shakes her, yes. And we just sit there and snuggle, basically, until she falls asleep. So I go back downstairs.

It's probably 215 in the morning at this point. Get back to bed. Make sure my alarm set for 620. And so apparently my wife wakes up. She goes to work out. I don't remember her getting up. And I missed my alarm. 620.

Good. Good. Sleep in good. Be shit husband. Be shit dad right now. Wife comes over. You don't want to get woken up any other way. She has no idea of what you were doing at 132 o'clock, though.

No. When I woke up, I told her. my age of hero. She's like, no, I didn't hear. She said, usually I'm the first one to hear. Well, yeah, maybe you. Not last night. Yeah.

That was the hero last night. But how else you want to be woken up? I'm waking up with a good morning. Look what I made you. She sold the ice latte in her hand from the espresso machine. We get up and I'm rolling. And then I realize I'm like, you've been up. You went and worked out, didn't you?

And she's like, yeah, you thought I was just wearing those workout gear for nothing. I'm like, it's just nuts to me that I slept until until she came home and woke me up. You were tired. Yeah. I was sleepy boy. You retired. Willie was sleepy. That's a prime example of like you needed that sleep.

As much as you might be angry at yourself, like your body was like, yo, I need rest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're probably right. But so we get rolling and I'm behind the eight ball. And I'm in there making breakfast, making lunch. I hear a little dust up going on upstairs. Roo.

She's apparently in a great mood until all of a sudden she's not. and mom's like hey do you want me to help you make your bed and then they make the bed together she gets mad no I don't want you to help me make the bed rips off all the stuffed animals good oh she's losing her mind we have no clue why good that's actually perfect that's ideal yeah she's three years old all of a sudden she's pissed off I thought you wanted me I thought you wanted mama to help help you make your bed not anymore then I come up I'm trying to like soothe it down because I need to know an answer hey what do you want for snack time I've already

knocked out your your peppinoni cassidia got you you a peppinoni cassidy, peppinones to top it off. Not top it off, but have a little side slug, granola balls and sliced apples. I know you love them flat. Dad cut them flat. Good. Excuse me, Ms. Rueh. I know you're in a meeting with mom. Yeah. What did you went for snack time? I just got done making your lunch. She didn't know. She didn't want to tell me. Don't have answers now. Even better. Good. I know that one I want my dick. That's all right, Ms. Rear. I'll let you handle that. Would you like freeze-ride strawberries? No, all right, good.

Terrible idea. Yeah, yeah. Dead is stupid. Listen, those suck. End up getting her snack together. I'm like, hey, I'm going to need you to come downstairs because dad has got to leave very soon. And she's like, are you going to leave without me?

And I'm like, no, no, no. Listen, I know we got to do hug, kiss, and three squeezes. Dadda's not leaving until I get my hug kiss and three squeezes. That's all she needed to know. I'm going to wait for you to come downstairs, but I need you to hurry up. Yeah. so that I can get wrong because that is already behind. That has already screwed up the entire morning.

Any question in your mind that's like, if this doesn't happen, I'll be upset. Just know, that's not going to happen because dad has on your side this morning. We are on the same team, sweetheart. I'm your friend. So I go downstairs and I'm trying to get, I'm trying to figure out my lunch and have everything set up

so that way she can come downstairs, hug kiss three squeezes. Yeah, yeah. Family comes downstairs, comes downstairs, give her a massive hug kiss three squeezes. Scott, he's just standing there. You know how I told the story last week. of the kiss and her putting her hand at her mind and doing the whole tight squeeze thing. So she's fully bought into the hug kissing three squeezes.

I'm giving Rue all the big, the big three. And then Scottie's just standing on the side, waiting for a hug from data for just a random reason. And the squeezes. I get up and roll to the fridge. I'm like, all right, I got to get my lunch. I'm like, man, where's a snack at? I try to pull out a container.

Container falls out, breaks all over the floor. Oh, perfect. Glass? No, it was plastic, car plastic. It cracks open, food everywhere. I wish it had been glass. I'm staring down to the ground and I'm just like, ah, ah!

I start pacing and walk around and it just hits me. Just say it out loud. Say good. Say good. Good. If only it had been glass, then it would have been great. Charles trying to clean up some stuff. Everybody's kind of around.

It's one of those moments where you're a little too. You're, what is it? You're like over, you're overstimulated. You know you have to leave. You're already behind late. I'm texting the boys. I'll be there at 820. I already know it's going to be 830.

The world's falling apart. I'm like walking around, you know, I'm like walking back to the fridge thing. Good, good, good, good. Namy walks in at this exact time. She walks in and through the garage and around the mudroom and she just sees me like sitting there walking. I'm like, good, good, good. Audra, great to see you. Great to see you.

Everything's all good over here. House baby. We're excited. Spilled food all over the floor. Don't worry. I'll pick that up. Yeah. Run outside. Truck's not defrosted yet. It's sprinting out there. I'm just barefoot. I put socks and shoes on yet. I'm turning that up. Good. Good. All good, man. I'm happy to be here.

You happy to be here for the dads right now. You and I had very similar mornings. Very similar mornings. I can jump into mine and then we can do happy comments. Yeah, we go. Look, I walked in. Derek, we has coffee ready. He's like, got your coffee ready, got the comments ready, coffee and comments. I sang a song to you that I rehearsed in the mirror last night for several hours. I would like to say, too, we should apologize to you. That doesn't happen with an accountability. Buddy's text, which we've only done one time. I got reminded from a buddy, we have not. So to our fault, we should have woke you up, Will. We should have us to.

The accountability text that we started, what was that two weeks ago? I said the first one. Maybe one that happened. I said the first one in and everyone goes, good morning, good morning. And then 45 minutes later, it's a text from Will going, oh, we're starting that today. And that's been the extent. Yeah, I was like, well, that's the end of that. That's true.

That's true. Chalk it up to me, not texting you this morning. That is, yes, we need to be better as a team. We need to be better as a team. Jill is sick. And yesterday I went into full panic mode, trying to figure out a way for us to record this today. And not even realizing, Derek said it beautifully off mic earlier.

Oh, I already paid. for a system that watches my kids, daycare. And I was like, we'll just take Scarlett to daycare an extra day. Check Scarlett this morning. She did not have a fever. I don't have a fever. Jill is dead. Jill's basically dead.

Shout out Jill. I love Jill. Jill, shout out you. I will say this about Jill. Sorry, you're feeling shitty. She has left work for as long as I've known her. she has left work only one other time. So I know it ain't good.

And so I come home or sorry, I get a text from Jill yesterday. She basically says, I'm dead. I'm leaving work. I'm like, okay, good, okay? Start playing with you guys. I panic. And then I quickly realize, okay, we can put Scarlett and daycare tomorrow. We got that figured out.

Now let's just take care of Scarlett and take care of Jill. So I go pick up Scarlett from daycare. I come home. Jill has been home since 3.30 and has been passed out in bed. She's just asleep. I go to the nursery and the door's not coming. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on with the nursery door? Look down.

The carpet is all like outside of the door. Like there's no carpet on the outside of the nursery. There's carpet on the inside of the nursery. But it's all sticking out of the door. Like, what the fuck's going on here? Lay my shoulder into the nursery door. Brigley explodes out of the nursery. So Jill locked Brigley in the nursery all day long.

There's shit and piss everywhere. Good. Good. So Scarlet, because she wants her, you know, attention. So I go get the carpet cleaner. And I'm cleaning the carpet and I got Scarlet up on the changing table with my hand right there. And I'm scrubbing the carpet.

Jill's dead in the bed. I go, I go make Scarlet's, uh, her bath, bath time goes great. Then all of a sudden she decides she doesn't want to eat her bottle, which she is never done at night time. That's her favorite bottle. And for parents at home, you know that is one of the most important bottles. One of the most important. And if they've been in a routine the whole time, your head's spinning like, what has happened?

I'm like, you, this is, we've made it. We've made it. I'm also thinking in the back of my mind, if she does not eat at least five and a half ounces, she is going to wake up in the middle of the night hungry and piss, which means I will wake up and I already have a 5.30. And you're going to piss. I'm going to be pissed. I already have a 5.30 wake up call tomorrow just to get her to daycare so I can be here on time.

So I'm like, Scarlett, we are not taking no as an option tonight. You will drink your bottle. So I open up her, Merlin. I open up her onesie and I get a wet white. I don't know if this is abuse, but I think it's a dad hack. And I'm just wiping her chest with the wipe to wake her up. She was basically just falling asleep and not eating her bottle. And I had the lights on.

I had music on. And I'm like, Scarlett, eat your baba. Eat your baba. And she wouldn't wake up. So I am doing this wet wipe on her chest. And it keeps on waking her up enough to where she's like, oh, yeah, I need to eat my bob goops at a time. Yes.

That ended up working. We got six ounces in her. Once we got six ounces, I say, good. And put her in the crib. Then I go into the bedroom and I just hear, and I'm like, oh, honey, are you okay? Jill's dead. And I'm a, what do you need?

I need Tylenol. I need ice. I need water. I'll go get that. I go get all of her stuff. And then I'm like, oh my God, I can't go to bed because Jill is usually the one, shout out Jill, who preps all of Scarlett's stuff for daycare.

I got to make Scarlett's bottles for tomorrow. I got to pick out her outfit. I got to get all of her stuff. So I pre-make all the bottles. At what point do you put the eye black on? Oh, we're like, you know what? I got to do all this. And you just start looking in the mirror.

You put the eye black on and it's like, let's get to work. Pull up Coach X, a picture of his eye black in college. That's where I was at. Damn near black face. He put the eye my god. And then I grabbed my hands and I smear it on my face. I said, you ain't going to bed tonight.

I said, we fucking got this. It's going to be good. And I wash all the bottles. I prepped everything. And then I made the bottles. And I put them up. And then this morning,

execution was perfect. We got Scarlet out of the crib. We got her in her new outfit. Bottle, bottle, bottle. she drank the whole thing, get her to daycare. Shout out daycare. Thank you for letting us. Shut out daycare.

Do an extra day. Oh, do you have $110 you got to pay up front? Had $115 in my wallet. I never carry cash. Boom. There you go. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what?

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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 do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about

what we should call it. We were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers 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 where people could call in and say hey Jonas, and then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. The French Open is one of the toughest tests in tennis.

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Listen, Lerner Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win on any surface. Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of I Heart Women's Sports.

Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Have a good day. I'm going to go record for the dads. That's turning shit and eliminate, son. Yes. And I say all of that to say, no one's coming to save you. And that's just a, that's a day at the office.

It's a day at the office. The parents out there hearing our stories, they have worse ones. Like, you're just, you're going to be in the office. suck a lot of the times. I actually have a comment right here from Eli McCarthy 92. We talk about I was mentioning, we were mentioning good throughout our stories. We have a good one right here. This one's on YouTube. So again, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter, your comments. We can read them on the show. We love the community. We love the engagement. TikTok, Instagram, Twitter. Dick doc. Eli MacArthur, 92, boys, I'm currently on the front lines in the Foxhole for my little

Princess first Disney World trip for her fifth birthday. Good. Good. It's pure freaking chaos. Good. The nephew is being an aggravating asshole. Good. Multiple meltdowns. Good. Baby girls' first rollercoaster scared the absolute shit out of her, but she

didn't let that stop her. Good. All the chaos and meltdowns are worth of special memories and smiles on wifey and baby girls' face. Keep up the good work. PT6. This show truly was a game changer for me. Love y'all boys. Love you too, Eli. Love you, Eli.

Layman, Sturman, Soutdoors 5123 on YouTube. Good morning from Northwest Arkansas, you sickos. Nanny called in sick today. Good. I'm home with a moody two and a half-year-old girl and a teething seven-month-old. Good.

I got to work at night shift tonight. Good. Love you boys. PT Sicko. He's grinding. He's grinding. And would you tell him earlier, nobody is coming to save you.

And Lehman knows that more than anyone. A sicko. A true sicko. It's just a simple one right here. Michael. A-A-B. Yes, sir. E-H-8-B-Y.

I've been seeing-N-H-A-B-Y. I've been seeing them everywhere on YouTube. Been seeing them everywhere. Need more night episodes. L-M-A-O. My mom asked me if I was drunk last week. Call me and asked me if I was drunk. I said, no, I was delirious.

Mother. We were hanging on. We're hanging on. We're hanging on. She said it wasn't a bad performance. You just seemed a little. Goofy. Lions Fan 73 on YouTube said,

Will, I will raise you one with a poop story. Daughter didn't make it to the toilet in time and dropped a deuce on the bathroom floor. I go upstairs for two minutes, come back down, and the turd is gone. Oh, good. Ask the kid where it went, and she literally points at our dog. I turn around, the dog

is licking its lips and immediately runs to its cage. That is fucking crazy. Body trading and dog. aren't for the week. Troy had one where she was doing bath time over the weekend when we were in

we were doing the old cast in Atlanta and Rue had to go potty while she was in bath time she's like mom I gotta go poop but she picks Roo up and as she picks her up to transfer her to the toilet or three year old she drops a two

right there on the floor. Come on the way over it was just coming out come on she couldn't hold it in just drops I think a durable a durable piece right there on the carpet. Just like her daddy. Just like a daddy.

I heard that. That's my girl. That's my girl. Good job, Root. Simple one here from Rico getting dough. 916. This has got to be a gun break right here. Rico getting dough.

ST6 are checking in. Great podcast. Always looking forward to a new episode. Shout out the boys. ST Sixers. That's your Seaman Team 6 led by chef right there. It's chef. Shout out.

Rico getting dough. That's great. RICO getting dough. I have one from Tim Reams. My name is Tim Reams. Hey, how are you? I've been in professional. Oh, shout out.

Rizzo apparently has been throwing our stuff everywhere in the MLB. Because we got another MLB guy. Tim Reams. He said, hey, how are you? My name is Tim Reams. I've been in professional baseball since 2012. For the last seven years, I've been at the major league level as a big league bullpen catcher.

My wife and I just had our first child, a baby boy. He's four months old. And he is our first any advice. We love listening to the podcast as well. I look forward to hearing from you guys soon. Tim Reams. Yo, that is awesome. Just casually writing in, writing a comment.

He casually also. I play professional baseball. I'm in the MLB. Correct me if I'm wrong, Derek. He casually bought a bunch of merch too. Did he not? Was he the MLB player that also storied? like merch on his story, I believe he got some bus and aim for that.

I will have to double check that. We had a first form athlete who was a hockey player buy some stuff too, but I can, I can, I'll make a list of all our people. Yeah, yeah. Form energy, maybe. What was the advice he said that he has, how old is theirs? Four months old. Four months old.

This is up your alley. Like, you know, for me, if I'm remembering, again, the time flies. So the fact that Scottie's won Roos three, I like think back to. of those dog days of a four-month-old. Four-month-old, like he's right around. Are we getting him down for 12 hours at a night? Are you still doing the night feeds? That's like a war that's going on.

Yes. Because four months is around where they can sleep through the night if you've been doing any of the sleep training philosophies that are out there. I would say this to Tim, because this is my lesson of the week as well, and we'll get into this. But if anybody knows this more, it's going to be Tim Reims, who is a bullpen catcher. there are sometimes when you are down and out and you got to call in the lefty and you got to get them warmed up you got to be ready to go in there

and not only pitch a hell of the game but you could even win the game be ready for when they called the lefty and get you in there because my wife is an absolute sicko and this morning and last night reminded me of that of just like holy shit

there is so much that I have to do to cover for my wife. She is kicking ass daily. How does she do it? And you're on the mound now. And I'm on the mound now. And now it's like, okay, not only am I out here trying to win the game, but it's for guts and glory too. Yeah.

Because I'm looking at our formula thing. And it's a different type of formula than what we've been using. I'm second guessing myself. I'm like, yo, where's the usual formula? And when you're looking around like a deer in headlights, looking at coach on the sideline or in the dugout, the look back is this is what we prepare for week in and week out. I don't know why you're staring at me this way.

Why are you looking at me? There's formula right there. What are you going to do? The starters hurt. The starters in bed right now. The starters hurt. This is a next man up mentality. Yeah.

There should be no drop off. If you want to be a big leaguer, there's no drop off when your number gets called. Yes. And what kind of shit? shit are you going to be thrown on the mound? What kind of nasty shit are you pitching? And if you're one of those guys that's deer in headlights looking around thinking you're prepared, thinking you're talking a big game about that life and everything else,

when the starter goes out, how are you going to perform? And again, if you're looking around for somebody to save you, you haven't been doing enough. And there is going to be a four-month-old mean some of the bitch staring you down at home plate, saying what do you got dadaz what the fuck do you got because I'm either going to and send it out of the park or you're going to strike this shit out

yeah what do you got yeah staring at you in the A gap staring at you in the A gap and what I'll say too it's like with the one in three now I think back to those early months where it's chaos at all times like there's the hard point

hard moments throughout all of childhood all of childhood now as a dad that has, Youngest is now one who can walk, who looks at a cabinet, it's like, oh, hey, this cabinet's unlocked, this cabinet's open, and everything's in the cabinet. Why would everything be in the cabinet?

Let me throw it all over the goddamn living room. Oh, and hey, that's not a cabinet. I think that might be a ladder. Yeah. Oh, all the cans and bottles of water and everything is eye level here in the pantry. What's it doing on the shelf? It should be all over the floor.

Oh, is that glass? Let's see if I can break it. Yeah. Oh, Dad had just filled up a fresh bowl of water for Waffle. She's not thirsty. She likes drinking it off the floor. As that dad's seeing that. Now, I just think to myself,

chairs the times where they're not mobile. And you can just bounce them in a little chair. Yeah. And watch a show, whatever, put the subtitles on it, whatever it is. They're immobile. Yeah. Enjoy those moments because it just gets more chaotic. your dog's shit and piss everywhere on the carpet,

but it's close enough to the changing table that you can put Scarlet on the changing table and keep your hand on Scarlet while you clean. Good, because what if she's mobile? Where would I put her? Yeah. And Scott Zilla, anytime we're prepping the oven, doing something on the stove, putting food in the oven,

whatever it is, anytime she hears, because we're getting everything heated up, she can now get, she's able to reach all those knobs. So all she does, I set it for 375, she tries to wheel it to 500. She's pressing buttons. Now I'm getting orange lights blinking

because the oven is shutting down or speaking of language. I don't understand. And I just got to turn everything off and wait for like five minutes and so I'm like, all right, let me see if I can heat up this food again or if I can get the oven pre-heated.

Because once she hears Dino, she's over there, she's met with the knobs and I look down. I'm like, Scotty, stop. And she's just like looking up at me. I'm like, no, no, you don't get it. Grab her by the arms. Take her over to the living room.

Sprint over to the oven. Get the oven where I want to. And then I just sit there, like a linebacker in the egg gap. While she tries to walk over, she tries to move, tries to like slide in between my legs. She starts getting upset. And I'm like, this is welcome to the show. You're not getting by the oven. Welcome to the show.

It's one of those ovens, Sue. It's like the knobs are on. Like if this is the oven, this is the top part. You open the door to go in. The knobs are like sitting right there on the side. so she can kind of grab the handle and mess with the knobs and push the buttons. Oh, perfect. God.

Oh, your house goes into auxiliary heat because it's so cold outside and now your nursery's 84 degrees. And you think that your baby's going to die and you don't realize that until 10 o'clock at night. And you don't do a good job of checking the nannad app because usually your wife does, but now she's dead. But I went in there, I closed the heat vent and I put a fan in there and we got down to 74 real quick. Yeah.

So Tim, welcome to the show. You've been in the show. You know exactly what needs to be done. Be ready for when they call on the lefty. Yeah, Tim. There's your advice. Don't be the motherfucker.

Deering headlights, staring at your wife, asking what do I do in this situation? Ask your questions now. As you're watching at home right now and you might be one of these dads. Let the wifey milk team sixers. This is the opportunity to our

hey, this is the page I want you to be on. And from that moment, from that conversation, Dad, sit there and listen. Because again, they're the starters. We think we handle all this shit. They know what it is for real. Yeah. You have to figure out a way and get on their level.

I'd like to come home to a clean kitchen. I'd like to come home when I'm out for an hour and you're watching kids. You know I love the toys being picked up. I'd love for you to pick up the toys. Yeah. How hard is that? I'm sitting there last night watching.

Monday night football. My wife's like, could you just not, like, you got a couple toys right here on the floor. Do you just, you enjoy? Just, is it comfortable just sitting in the chaos or sitting around the clutter? Hey, Will, do you just like looking at the toys on the ground? Yeah. She's on her hands. She's on her hands and knees putting them in there and then that kind of guilty conscience were, I'm going to continue to watch football because I've already kind of made this bed and just tell her I was born in the chaos. This is easy for me. But usually it's like when she's up there, say, say, I'm doing Scotty and she's doing a Roo and she has a longer time with Rue. I get done with Scotty.

I come downstairs. I see toys on the floor. The game, the mission, man, is get all the toys cleaned up. Put them under the table, put them back and cat, whatever, the shelves, baskets, whatever you guys have. Yeah. Have that done. So when they come down, it's a clean living room.

And you got a fresh glass of iced water sitting there for you ready to roll. Let's go. That's what it is, boys. That's what it is. And when you're four-month-old takes a deep 700-foot-foot. bomb hits a homer off you, don't be, don't go like this. Don't go a whole little shit, oh, fuck. Yeah.

And when your number's called for bath time, because it will be. It will. You got to be ready to go. I'm still the dad that if I can get away of another day of bath time without mom bringing it up, I might try to sneak in another day of bath time. Oh, I was not taking a bath. 100%. But when mom's like, oh, it's, let's just say, hey, it's Sunday.

They need a bath day. Or they went swimming lesson today. they need a bath. Once that said, you're ready to pick up and do your thing, hey, I will, I will execute bath time. Because again, even for a four or five month old, like even for the young ones, they just sit in a little thing, you get them wet. It's a very fast bath routine. Once a few toys get involved in there, they love to swim, they love the splash. Now you're negotiating how long you're going to say, do you want that end up pull the drain or you want to pull the drain? But what women are really saying is they would like you to just be the guy

who says, you know what, I think tonight's tonight I'm going to go give him a bath. I haven't got to that point yet. And hand up, I can just say it. As Charles listening, she knows that I'm not that guy. I had the buster chops the other night. When I was getting ready for bed and she reached out of the monitor

and was looking at the monitor and looking at Rue, Roo, she now has her own little twin bed, right? So no sides or none of that stuff. And so Charles was like, looks like Roo's about to fall off the bed and kind of like makes a chuckle. And I just look at it. I was like, does this mean you want me to go up there and adjust Rue?

Are you just making that comment? We're going to kind of laugh out a lot. I'm going to crawl in bed. We're going to snuggle together. We're going to go to sleep. Yeah, yeah. Because I'm tired. I'm, don't she's like, yeah.

She's like, I mean, you can't if you want. And I'm like, you got to tell you have to tell me. Women, hey, we can't read your minds. Like, you have to tell me. I know of a couple things Charles does that. I just know when my number is being called. Yeah. Like, Charles will get home.

We'll get home. We went and took pictures with Santa the other day. we get home. Charles wanted to change into our comfy clothes, like get, you know, dressed down, everything else. And she just says to Rue out loud, Ru, I got to go change right now. And I also still have to clean out the backpack. I also still have to clean up the backpack. So whenever I can change and clean out the backpack, then we can play together. Me, that's Q. I'm on the couch right now. Phones in my hand, or maybe I'm getting the game on because it's Sunday. Yeah. I think in my head, oh, this right here is Q. gentlemen, go clean out the backpack.

That's an out loud. Trow's doing something. John might be putting away the leftovers in the fridge. And I'm sitting there on the couch and I hear my wife talk to Waffle think Waffle can talk to her back or English Bulldog that's sitting by the door. Oh, Waffle, do you need to go outside? Do you need to go potty? I will get you to go out. I'll let you outside whenever I'm done putting away the leftovers.

Me sitting on the couch. Oh, summon. I'm summon, boys. that doesn't mean Charles going to put away the left door to go take her outside. That means, hey, Dad, you hear me saying your dog needs to go outside. Why don't you get your lazy ass up

and go let the dog outside? Yeah, that's called an out loud sub-tweet from your wife, which Jill often will sub-tweet me to do the exact same thing. Exact same thing. She's making chicken and dumplings two nights ago. Oh, my head hurts.

Oh, I feel like shit. I don't feel good I think dinner's about to be ready I hope you know I'll go take it off the the stove or whatever when the Alexa goes off I have to get Scarlett

to bat time oh my head I feel like shit I finally I go oh ding ding ding dad help Dad just sitting there Have you seen inside out Yes yeah Bro we're in the dad's brain

They're all sitting there like then Like what the hell is she talking about I finally go, Hey, you know what? It's 6.20. I'll get her bath going. I'll do bat time with Scarlett. I'm sure Jill and her head's like, what a novel idea.

What a great idea, Sherman. Hey, do you hear me? I feel like hell. We got to bathe our daughter and I'm doing dinner. Alexis telling us, it's time to take the food off the stove. Oh, Alex is going off. I feel like shit would like to not have to get up. Yeah.

Oh, I have to wake up at five tomorrow. morning because I work all day at the hospital and I'm going to be feeling like shit. I'm just over there on the couch. Yeah. And men, this is the way our wives talk to us. And a few things happen here in a man's brain. Yeah. You feel the indirect subliminal messages because they're not directly speaking to you and you're

just thinking if you just tell me I would know and they're thinking if you just know I don't have to tell you because these are some of the simplest things. And when we don't do those things in their brain, that's the only way they can kind of get around to talk to us or get our attention. And so a couple of things happen. You're either going to sit there. We identify and know. They're calling me out right now and they can't say it to my face. But they're calling me out right now. You can either boil and get a little angry and start to get a little passive aggressive back. Oh, that sounds fun. Yeah. You can do that. That'll solve it. I'm telling you. A slippery slope, boys.

It's a slippery slope. And sometimes you might win, but we all know at the end of the night or at the end of the day or the next day when you're driving. You don't feel good about yourself that it got to that point. Yeah. But there's another thing that can happen. You can just sit there with our dumb brains

when we finally figure it out. And you can just smile and you can say, good. It's my time. It's my time. This is where my number's getting called and I got to show up. Not only do I got to show up and hear the room and hear our wives talking to us. But also, let's try to figure it out and get better so this doesn't have to continue to happen.

Is it going to continue to happen? Yes. Yeah. Every day. Every single day, it will continue to happen. Like, we're watching the game, the little emotions in our brain. They're all sitting in our brain watching the game. We have no clue what's actually going on.

Yeah. But if you can just have some awareness and hear what's being said, they'll tell you, they just hate telling you 100 different times and it in a hundred different ways. That's true. Hey, the signs are there. And often I will tell my wife, well, maybe if you had just asked me nicely, you know, a while ago, instead of where we are now, maybe if you just asked me nicely. Oh, so I didn't ask you one, two, three, four, five different times. And then I rewind and I go, oh, shit, you know what? She did. The signs were there. The signs were there. But I digress. Yeah. Here's your advice, Tim. Yeah, Tim. Thank you for... Hey, Tim, thanks for listening to the show. Any new dads out there.

Matter of fact, I do have some new dad, some new dad life shoutouts. I got Cole Jacobs on Instagram. Say hello to Gianna Marie Jacobs. Had to spend two nights in the NICU to regulate her breathing, but she's tough like her mom. They even went to hook up an IV and say if they were having trouble because she has thick skin. Come on. Let's go. Good.

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Wow. Love that. Stephen Caraphone. Sico. Sicko Steve. Repeat offender. Sicko, Steve. We got Coy Anderson on X. This fucking place gave me a plastic recliner. Good. Today is the day.

Taking a pre-labor nap here. Wife has until 4 p.m. Eastern tomorrow to get Scott Zill out. Oh, there we go. Let's go. Let's go. She's going to learn college football Saturday is a priority in this family. Hashtag go Hoosiers. hashtag PT6.

We even got the photo where mom's taking a selfie doing a funny little pose while my man Koi is over in the corner just asleep in that plastic reclaimed. Absolute sickos. And is that the couple that they were like, hey, we're either going to name our kid Scotty or Scarlett? Possibly. I saw a comment of that.

That might be it. Was that off YouTube? This one's off X. This one's off X. Yeah, off X. It's for the boys out there too. Like moms, it must be nice to have this nice bed.

Look at us uncomfortably like let's laugh at that. They gave her a laugh at that. They gave her a bed. Oh, and they gave me a plastic recliner. I don't get a bed in the hospital. We get a plastic recliner. You think your life's hard? You ever slept in a plastic recliner?

DJK 2,500 on YouTube. Take a drink every time Sherm changes his accent. Laughing emoji. Benny, not Benny. replied, buddy, I'm wasted. Sherman Young replied laughing emojis. That is awesome. That, that legitimately, that made me belly laugh.

That was very funny. I got Cheney, Cheney Goddette, P.T. Sicko on YouTube. We got a PT sicko username out here. Okay. What's up, fellas? Let me tell you I got snipped. Baby girl brought home the stomach bug from daycare. Good. Quick dad hack.

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I'm doing it. I'm just going to do it. I'm going to nut up or shut up. I'm going to do Terminalist Dark Wolf because it's the break rule. There you go. I'm going to start with it. I'm telling you it's going to change your life. Also, one, shout out you.

I got your Christmas card. is very beautiful. Two, shout out Logan, Valenti. Oh, you got mine in the mail. Yes, sir. Okay, thank God. The way you just said that, I'm like, oh, Shirm got me a Christmas card.

I swear to God, I think I got his address for us to send him a Christmas card. No, no, you're telling me you got yours. We have yet to send ours. We still need to make our Christmas card. I send them to the families. Just whatever could be going on in your head. Cool, man.

Loans. There's a larger thing in play. Right there. You just brought that up. You brought up that you got our family Christmas card. To segue into this, but continue to continue. In front of Chef, who's the captain of Seaman Team 6, to Derek, who's the funkel, who's part of this brand.

They could be in their brain right now thinking, I wonder if our Christmas card's on its way. Maybe he just sent Sherman a Christmas card. I'm just saying out loud right now. The Young's got a Christmas card. Clump's got a Christmas card. LeWan's got a Christmas card. The Christmas cards went to the families of the shop.

as I sit here in a little bit of a panic, nerves, letting you guys know that you did not get a Christmas card from the Compton family. The Hannings haven't done a Christmas card in seven years, so I think you're all good. Okay. No worries on our front. I was about to run home and check the mail. Okay.

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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 do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

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

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Set up your co-host for failure? Good. Good. Slash, if you think for a second that he doesn't love you and appreciate you. That's what I thought. I'm going to say, I think the paychecks that come in twice a month or a pretty good substitute for Hall of it. Crazy you value the paychecks

over our conversations. He also left a note in the envelope. I threw myself into that one. He left a note in the envelope and he said, hey, my Charo wanted to send this. I didn't even want to send this. Charo sent this to Jill. I appreciate you swinging the sword for your boy. We are comfortably sitting in this pocket. Absolutely.

Charo hates us. No, you know what? You know what? Read the comment. Coffee comment. I digress. Logan V. 2855 on YouTube says, boys, do you have a P.O. box to where the PT6 community

can send our Christmas cards to the boys. To answer that question, yes. And if you are interested in sending a Christmas card to Derek and Chef or Willie C. and Cher, DM the For the Dad's Socials. That's on Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter. DM us for the PO box.

and we will send you the PO box address, and you can send us a Christmas card. We love that. We can get some cards hanging up on the set. We could put it on the fridge. We could put on the set, however we want to do it. Also, you could email a digital one, too.

If you want to, if you can email us a digital one, we can print it out and find a way to work, too, if you don't want to mail it. That's actually very, that's very hard. Nice solve right there, Derek. Hey, also, Derek, um, let us in to a funkel situation with the flat tire.

Because I feel like we've been kind of like, like, oh, let's just like expel this good. You kind of had a good situation as well. Yeah, yesterday we, so my fiancee works late on Mondays. And so I have a fantasy league where if you score 100 points on a guy, they have to buy you a pizza. And so last night she's working late. She's gluten-free.

All's lining up to go to show pizza in East. Super excited. Take a new way home. It turns into one of those off-ramps where everyone tries to line up next to each other. And I get a run off the road, basically, into a pot home. and do, tire done. So I drive about four minutes to a church parking lot, spend a half, mind you, the pizza's been ordered.

The pizza's been ordered. I have to pick up in two minutes. Spend about a half hour in a church parking lot last night from like 530 to 6 changing this tire. So put my donut on, get the tire in there, take a picture, post my stupid little funny caption of you don't have to change your tire, you get to. In 30 degree weather, mind you.

And I'm just sitting there and I'm texting. Cat knows me and she's like, well, just breathe. Like, it's fine. I'm like, no, like, it's, it's good. Like, it's good. It's good. Is it good that I have every penny budgeted out for Christmas gifts and now I'm going to buy a fucking tire to drive home? It's great. It's honestly amazing. So we do that. I get the fucking pizza. It's cold now. I go home and just upset. And I'm just sitting there. And she comes home and I will say cat came home on a face time

with her sister. And I was just like, let me talk to the fucking kids. I was like, let me talk to the niece and she shut it around. And the nephew has the T-Rex face on. He's going, and Amelia Stey, she was in a pageant. She's Little Miss, their area of the world. She was in a parade. She's reaming about that, how cool it is. I was like, thank God for these kids. Because, like, I was just sitting there so mad because it wasn't my, like, she's off.

I want to get a pizza. Why do I fucking want to get a pizza? I was angry. But it ended up being a really good situation. It was a nice little grounding experience. The ball club put up over 100 points. I'm getting a free pizza. Oh, yeah.

And now I'm paying for it. go out to pick it up, get ran off the road. The minimum is 15 in this league. And I said, if you guys can find me a $15 fucking pizza, then I'll buy that pizza. It's impossible. So I was already in the hole. And now I'm in the whole more,

all because I wanted a stupid little pizza. And then I wish the call had been recorded between us because I call him realizing I can just take Scarlett to daycare. Why am I freaking out? Because we were coming up with this hole. For the audience at home, we're coming up with the plan of Sherman will be home with Scarlett watching and zoom in and we'll try and do this, blah, blah, blah, I digress.

This is before or after our phone call. This is after our phone call. Okay. This is after our phone call. I then realized, oh, I can take Scarlet to daycare. So then I called Derek to then tell him, hey, I'm going to take Scarlet to daycare, I think, blah, blah, blah, to check in with him. And I start off the call with, hey, how's it going? And he then tells me about the flat tires.

And in the background, you just hear Scarlet going, whey! And I just go, well, Derek, you know, it sounds like we're both doing great. So I can't wait to see you tomorrow and give you a hug. Everything's okay. God. For the dads, man.

For the dads. So why the brand's here, bro? For the dads. I already know Sherman was trying to figure it out last night. Because we were on and off the phone. you know, I'm basically just like, whatever you say you can do, we're going to have to get done. But I know getting off the phone, I know getting off the phone, Shirm feeling whatever energy I had, he's thinking, this doesn't feel like it's good enough.

Because I didn't have the daycare situation in my head because I wish I would have brought that up now that it got brought up to like take them there. Because more of like after Shirm comes up and he's kind of asking about it or alluding to, hey, wife's sick. He had talked to wife yet. And trying to figure out a plan, game plan for tomorrow. And I was like, well, you're bringing me a problem. Do we have the solution?

And this is after, you know, going six hours on the bus and everything else, my brain is just like, all right, I got about 20 minutes here before to get on. Everybody's brains are fried. Yeah. And I'm like, hey, you figure out a solution, whatever we can do. If we have to move it, we have to come in tomorrow night. And then the boys are just going to have to grind through getting this out so that way it can land. at Wednesday morning as everybody's listening to this right now,

whatever we got to do, let's just, however you can come up with the solution, we can figure it out. The only thing I was, I guess, I felt like we didn't turn over every stone yet when you brought up the Zoom and everything else last night to do the Zoom on the bus is I got off the phone saying to myself, we don't even know what Jill has said yet.

Because you said you still hadn't talked to your wife. It still hadn't talked to my wife yet. But I know you're in the, you're in your own trenches. Oh. So I don't want to make a situation feel like make you feel shitty getting off the phone. But I'm thinking, bro, there's got to be a way that we could do it in person. And if we can't, then at least we would know, based on your conversation with Wifi, that we truly would not be able to do it. And when I didn't know, it was more of like this, Jill Zilla, Jill Zilla, he hasn't even talked to Jill yet.

Yes. And he's like, this is the solution. It's like, we don't even know if we can't yet. But hey, if this is all we can do, then we'll have to do it on Zoom. I'm also playing 4D chess in my head because I'm having a meeting with these guys. And we're coming up. Well, maybe Scarlett can come up to the office. Yeah.

And you go, like, that's a real picture into your life. And then in my head, I'm overthinking and going, oh, am I just going to look like a dad that's using his kid for clicks in this situation? And how does that look to Jill's parents that I brought my kid up to the office while their daughter's sick at home and I'm like overthinking. We got Seaman Team Sixers ready to go on the other side. That's true.

Coupe? It's not like Scarlet would have to sit here. Scarlet would have been sitting here on camera with us. Yes. But we got some fellows that are more than a quip. Yeah, that's true. All of all said and done had a great conversation. This was the perfect situation of,

to chalk it up, like Will was very helpful. I told him, hey, I am sorry that I'm not bringing any solutions, but it's more so. I'm talking to you less of will my boss and more so, hey, Will you have kids and maybe experience this? I've never experienced this. What the hell do I do? And we had a good conversation of like, okay, there are some options.

But all said and done, had a really good conversation with my mom. She has a best friend that lives in Nashville. We need a babysitter. We need a babysitter. A billion percent. We need a babysitter. My wife, or my wife, my mom is coming in town this week on Thursday to, like, help with Scarlet and stuff so Jill and I can do another date night.

But like our in-laws and stuff flying in, like that's not. Yeah, they live in Texas. They live in Texas. They live in Texas. That's not realistic for the future. They do miss us and they want to see us. But yeah, like that stuff's great. But again, it's for like young parents and young families who have young kids and you're

experiencing like, hey, we need to get. back into doing date nights and thinking about us a little bit more because it's bogged us down. Have it just be kid, kid, kid, kid or kids, kids, kids. Yes. You do need a rolodex of one to two babysitters that you feel like you can trust and call and that, you know, you're hoping that they would be available in a pinch. And so my mom has a best friend here in Nashville. And I was like, mom, put the word out.

Give me her number, but you reach out. And because I'm sure that they have a roll of decks of people that they trust. Yeah. Because it is, it's like very foreign. we love our network in Nashville. I love all this community that I have. But I feel some type of way, I'm not going to call Jared Beeman and his wife

to come watch my kid. Because Jared's my co-worker, he's not my babysitter. Like he's my friend, he's not my babysitter. So I want an actual, my title is I'm a babysitter, is what I'm looking for. And we just have been dragging our feet on it.

It's a hard situation because if we're in four, Fort Worth, I could name 30 people that I would take their opinions in of who their babysitters are and I would use their babysitters. Like you just have that network. We don't have that here, but we do. We just got to dig for it and find it and be purposeful. And so that was the learning lesson for this week. In the middle of the chaos, in the middle of the limited time you already have. So it's like, you know the answer. It's like Charles, like Charles is having to figure out who can be like when Audrey, she's pregnant. So we're going to lose her as a nanny. We're going to have to figure out who, like who's going to be the replacement. We know that answer. I know that

answer. Charles knows that answer. Charles's like, well, I know I'm going to have to be the one diving in and figuring out who the next name. He's going to be in the middle of all the chaos of kids, husband and wife, job, run the business, everything else. It's just like, uh, he has legitimately like vetting people, just going to that process that you don't want to go through. And that's another good example of Jill very like, sub-tweeting husband to help in this situation because she has brought up and we really need to find a babysitter. Man, we really need to find a babysitter. Oh, I really want to go on a date night. If only we had a babysitter and I'm sitting there driving, you know, nothing going on in my head just going,

yeah, baby surer would be good. Yeah, yeah. Pick up the phone and find a fucking babysitter, Sherman. But even things. So when I'll get into, and we don't even get into arguments. I was going to say if I get into that argument with why we don't get into those arguments. Well, and it wasn't any of, yes, to your point, it wasn't an argument. Right, right. But I'm saying if it gets, if it's like, I think to myself, sweetheart, I can find a babysitter, but I already know if I find it, like to me, as dad, as male,

as how my brain works. Yes. If you find a babysitter and you trust said babysitter, I'm not, I trust you. Yes. So if the babysitter walks in, like, I'm just trusting that we have a babysitter. Oh my God, we got a sitter for tonight. If I find a babysitter or if dads or the men, I feel like find the babysitter, no matter what, mom's going to want to vet and feel very good about said babysitter. So I think a million percent.

This, you'll have to, you might as well rip this job because no matter what, you're going to want to feel just as good as I do about said baby. There's no world where I get the babysitter, this person that you don't know and walks in the door. You're thinking like me in this situation, we just get in the car and go because you're like, oh, I trust a trust hubby here that he just landed this awesome babysitter that neither of us know. Yeah. Oh, how did you vet him?

They love college football, honey. She's a big college football sicko. She's great. How did they land the job? She said, go big red. And I was like, you're a Oscar? You think Dillera is going to hit the portal?

She has a good insight about it. Listen, you come over my house anytime. Truly. And yes, I know if I pick out a outfit for Scarlet. Her feet will be covered. She'll have a cute bow. She'll have a cute whatever. But Jill is going to be like, hold on, hold on. What are we doing using this outfit? She needs a sweater, blah, blah, blah. You know what? You dress the kid. So you dress the kid. So that's how I think in my head of if I pick the babysitter, there's going to be multiple notes on top of that, which is fine.

But I'm automatically assuming, oh, that's a Jill job because she'll want final check and say of who we hire. Yeah, let's take out, let's separate the person from the problem. Let's separate the idea of, does the man do this or the woman does this? Like, who's the most equipped? Like, who's going to be the most detailed in handling this said job? Yeah. Because if I interview, you're going to be interviewing me on the backside. And then it reminded me of questions that I forgot to ask or didn't ask.

Hey, you seem like the one, you seem like the one most well equipped to handle this said job. Yes. And again, there might be dead. who absolutely ripped that job and have are the ones that they're laying at the baby. So I have no clue. I'm just talking more from my, if when Charles brings that up, I hate sweetheart, I know this is going to be, this could be one that I could do. Look, I could do this.

But if I do this, here's what I would like not to happen. Because if you were doing this on the back end to me, I'm just thinking in my head, you might as well just go ahead and fill this role. Or at the very beginning, hey, honey, I would love to take on this job. Tell me all the tempoles that I need to hit as far as. babysitter and I'll find that fucking babysitter. And then from that moment forward, let me own my job. Yes.

Let me own my role. Let me be great. Which Jill will allow that, but I need to ask that up front of like, what, okay, needs to be a registered nurse. Got it. Needs to be local. Got it. It needs to, you know. Look at this, man. Just trying to figure it out and solve it. Dad's out there like, yeah, yeah.

Go, Willie, what show? Go. This is what I be trying to tell my wife. Shout out my favorite comment from the weekend. in was the clip of Will being like, yeah, I'm reading now. I read and somebody said, artists formerly known as Willie One Page. Willie one page. That's phenomenal. Willie 90 pages. Yeah, I'm over a hunter now. A hundred plus pages. Hey, Willie Bookshelf.

Willie Bookshelf, baby. That's a Derek original. That's a Derek original. What should we get into? voice mails crack a cold one I mean we've said a lot of stuff that's like hacks by the way you kind of slid that in there as a dad hack earlier when you talk about taking the baby wipe and put on the baby stomach yes sir

that's for a five month old so people in that world you're trying to keep them awake to drink the bottle that sounds like a great dad hack she didn't sound miserable like when I was doing it like she wasn't crying or anything it would rouse her enough to be like that's the game there ain't no yeah like whatever it takes

wake your young ass up They drink this bottle. Drink this baba. Yeah. Crack, okay, so crack a cold one. Uh, because what would it be if we didn't do a crack a cold one really quick? Uh, it'd be a shit episode. It'd be us for getting to take out the trash. Exactly. Conceptually. Conceptually. Can I do... Not like liquid IVs trash, but just conceptually. Yeah, you got it. Concentually, you got it. It's a, it's a thing that is so important that I want to do an overarching crack a cold one.

This goes to the entire For the Dad's extended network. I'm talking production team. I'm talking us to. I'm talking the moms, the wives, etc. Crack a cold one to us

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The hot cocoa has electrolytes. Crack a cold one. Shout out us. Shout out liquid IV, man. Shout out Liquid IV. My, uh, my, uh, my crackicle one's just going to go to meeting Santa Claus, taking photos with Santa Claus. And it went beautifully, boys, like, beautifully.

Rue conquered her fear, taking a photo with Santa, smiled. And Scotty learned from her new fear. Yeah. She learned a new fear of Santa Claus. Okay. And it was incredible. I caught a little video. And I already know to myself, I see Scotty hanging on mom a little tight.

So I'm, you know, as dad, I know a funny moment's coming. Let me slide out the phone and get the video rolling because I already know she's going to start crying. Come on. Boom. Take Scotty. Sit her on Santa Claus's lap and you just see it all happen. Faye starts to go. She starts to cry.

I'm chuckling behind the camera. And she just helplessly sits thinking she's about to this is her last moment on earth as this gentleman in a red suit and white beards holding her. Will's behind the camera. Hey, there you go, Scottie. There you go. Scandella. He means. Santa Claus, you're doing so good.

Oh, dude. Rue was nervous, but she met, she met, she met Santa. We took a family photo together, and then she wanted to do it a second time. And her and Scotty, Scotty cried again. Yay. Roo conquered her fear with Santa Claus this year. Good. And Scottie learned her fear of Santa Claus this year.

So it was, it was perfect. That's a cold one worthy of cracking, sir. Yeah. Do we want to get into Collins? Yeah, let's do it, man. Let's do it. Let's get into Collins. do dun dun dun dun dun do

again you want to be featured on the show six and one of the dads call in leave a voicemail we'll feature you on the show and we will send you some merchandise while sherman's pulling this up real quick a question for the audience did anyone listen to our Halloween story

because if you did and you enjoy it we'll do a Christmas one but I want to make sure we didn't get any comments on it when we posted it so I don't know if anyone saw it was at the end of the episode but I really want to do another because it was really fun. I've been waiting for the right. We posted the Halloween story and it got zero comments.

People might have listened. We don't know. But we didn't get any, we didn't really get any. I personally in my head. Did we get comments? Thought. Oh, okay. We got comments. I personally in my head thought it was going to be some like AI animated storytelling happening. Not just a kind of like where it's just, you know, a little song and then like. Yeah.

Yeah. We're going to expand on it. That was the first run. Like when I'm doing my character, I'm envisioning what this character might look like when the YouTube rolls out. But when it just kind of sat there on like a, you know, like a desktop background with a little bit of music while the story just went. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. And that was on, that was on me. But if we get a chance at a Christmas shot, we're going to go big. And it's going to be great. But we just need to know. If we want animation, I just need to do it early. Because I don't know how to animate, but I'll figure it out.

Yeah, again, that was just what I was thinking in my head. It was going to be. We kind of knew when we put it up. I was like, this is like the lo-fi YouTube. Yeah. So if we got no comments, I'm almost like, I can see why. If they just said people reached out, I read through. A lot of people sent in pictures of, like, we had a couple of Instagram images

that people having their kid watch the leaves fall and the story on and stuff like that. people commented. Oh, okay. Okay. I missed it. Derek says people reached out. Would you just say, you're your family,

the video and group chat, and they just thumbsed up it? No, I have a comment right here that says, Myla the bat fucking rips. Way to go, Willie.

Way to go Willie Steve. I must have read him like right when the episode came out and then didn't bother because I was like, I don't want to do this to myself. I don't want to. Who voice Benny the puppy

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What's up, boys? This is Taylor from Idaho. P-T-Sixer now. for, I mean, my little girl, she is 18 months old. Just need some advice here. My wife and I, as of the last, I think, eight or 10 months, we've been making sure that we switch off bath time every night, right? So whoever does the bath, the other person does the dishes.

And I won't lie. Shame on me for a little while. I was always like, oh, son of it. It's my turn to do the bath, right? But now I'm just, I obviously, I know that I need to not take the bath time for granted. It's some extra special time that I get to spend with my daughter, Emmy. And she's at that age where she's not, like, talking, like, she can understand me, but she's not talking. What the heck do I do in the bath with her?

Do I just, like, chat with her? Do I just, like, sing her some songs? Do I just, like, continue to play with the toys? Do I just let her go nuts? And I just kind of hang out. and chill. Like, I don't know what to do. Like, how do I make that extra special for her? Am I supposed to be teaching her things in the bath?

What do y'all do for bath time? You let him hang out for a long time. You get the cleaning done and get out. Like, what does bath time look like? God, what a call in. Hey, this is a man that needs some help. He needs some help, like we all do. I don't even know how to answer that question,

because I'm trying to think what I do during bath time. You just kind of play and talk to him. Yeah. Like I'm picturing my man. What's his name? A Timothy. Timothy. Timothy from Idaho.

From Idaho. Timothy from Idaho. Just picturing Tim just set the kid in the bathtub and he's just kind of sitting there looking at her just thinking, what do I do here? What did? So what, okay, we clean the baby. What's next? Wife, you come downstairs, baby's clean. Wife, you guys have fun with bathstime?

He's like, I think. I guess. I don't know. I just looked at her. I need to record myself. I think I'm going to record myself to where you just see me during back time to see what I do. Because I'm actually interested. I do a ton of baby talk.

Yeah. I know that for sure. You just sit there kind of conversing with them. Like I'm picturing especially if Rue back when she was 18 months because he's in a great, he's in a great pocket for age. Like I feel like 16 months sticks out as the month where Rue's personality really started to show up a little bit. Yeah. I'm just thinking, yeah, 18 months, you get your kiddo in the water. You know, is it too, oh, it's not too hot. Oh, it feels just right. And you kind of slowly get them in the water.

You're like, oh, is that warm and cozy? And you take the little cup. You start, like, pouring it on their little body. Like, oh, here comes it on the right shoulder. Boop. Or you start getting their hair. Oh, can I get, you don't want it in your eyes? Let me block it.

Can you look up a little bit? You got to look up or water's going to get in your eyes. You pour it on them. Oh, look at your toys with it's a little scrunchy ones. That's just like letters. Yeah, yeah. or we have a couple little fish, a couple of little things she can play with

that are kind of connected to the side of the bathtub where she can spin it or whatever. Again, trying to picture her at 18 months old because Scotty's one, we kind of have her sitting on that little, like trike thing where they got a little seat that you set them on. And those are quick, those are like quick baths, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you sit there and you dump the cup on them a couple of times. You get the soap at the rag, you go around there, you sing them a song or play with them or talk about splashing. It's like at that age, too, like Scotty, it's like,

hey, do you want to splash, splash, splash, splash, you kind of show them out of splash. and they splice. Oh my gosh, you love splashy. Under the neck. Oh, that tickles. That tickle the neck. And then, you know, soap their head, scrub it. Maybe a dad hack, waterproof book. We got one at Target.

Nice. It's fun. It's got little pictures in it. Then Scarlett's like just now being able to like hold things with both hands. I put the book in her hands and just holding it and putting it in her mouth instead of reading it. and I'm talking for Scarlett. Yeah. Oh, dad, guys, I like this book. Oh, really, Scarlett. Are you reading the book?

Yeah. Doing such a good job. Tim strikes me as a man who he's confused on what to do when the job is so easy. But he seems like a man's man to where he's pretty reserved and doesn't say a whole lot of words. Yeah. Doesn't necessarily care to communicate his emotions. Just wants to like feel pain or anger and kind of, you know, stay quiet. Yeah.

Be very internal. That's who he strikes me at. This is Miss Carsley during bathtub. Yeah, this bath game is easy. You got to think, flip the switch in your brain and think, I'm going to sound stupid right now and obnoxious, but I'm going to do it with my little girl. Yeah. That's all it is.

Because Scottzilla, the difference between Rue and Scott Zilla, Roo, she would have to tilt her head because she hates when water gets in her eyes and everything else. Scott Zilla, I'll dump the cup on her head. I'll damn near waterboard her a couple times because she's just sitting there. She eats it, bro. She eats it. I mean, dump it on her head. You know when you get a little curious, okay, if a little bit gets on their eyes, like, how do they react?

Yeah, yeah. She's like, smiles or whatever. And then I'm like, you know, get a little cup of water and then like dump it on her head. And then she smiles and, oh, okay, you got to mess with the water now. Let's get a little action here, Scotty. Oh, yeah. That's exactly like, Scarlett's like reaching at the, I like, you know, pour the cup on her. And so she's like reaching for the water.

Yeah. Gets on her face and she kind of like shakes. but then she's like, okay, I want more. Yeah, there's another little dad hack in during bath time. You should take the cup of water. Get you a big cup of water too and just do like a slow pour in front of them to where they have like that little stream and they just want to grab it and they're figuring out what water is, what it feels like, oh my gosh, is this going through my

hand? How is it going around? Whenever I take my hand out, the stream still goes all the way down to the water. I can't grab it and pull it and they're just kind of fascinating. You just stare at them. And Scarlet's- Is that water? Oh my goodness. Are you thirsty?

You can't drink it. It's got soapy in it. And Scarlett, her brain is telling her, that looks like I could drink that. And so whenever I like pour it under like her neck, the entire time she's going, eh, trying to drink it.

And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no. Don't drink the soap. Or they take some scrotching and kind of put it in my mouth. No, that's dirty water. You don't want to drink that water. You don't want to drink that water. No, no. Cut it out.

Stop. Sorry, that was. You're ruining bathtub. No, we don't drink that water. Then water's battery. No, that's dirty water. All right. Okay. Stop. Cut it out. You want to go to bed right now.

Yeah, yeah. So you just want to go to bed. Okay. Baby proof. Thank you, Timothy from Idaho. Babyproofing the X-Mist tree. Santa Willie. I need some advice here. Maybe you guys could discuss this one on the pod. As you know, it's Christmas season.

I got a one and a quarter-year-old son. He's at that age where he's walking, but not quite speaking English yet, just jibber-jabber. And it's Christmas tree time. House already is closing in on us because we got toys all over the fucking place, man. I'm tripping on little race cars, Legos, building blocks. We're watching Miss Rachel on a repeat, trying to introduce the young buck to the Charlie Brown Christmas special. things in that nature. This guy wants to tear down our Christmas tree.

I've tried fences. I've tried putting it on a table. It's a bad news bears type situation here. What's your Christmas tree proof of baby advice? What do you got for me? I need a life raft here because I'm not to go get my third Christmas tree because for some reason these things, they just keep getting fucked up. One of them was too pussy.

I went too light. and it fell, fell off the stand. I'm not about to rebuild a stand. The other one had bugs in it. Kid had bugs in his hair and stuff. Bad news bears. Maybe I got to get a fake tree. I don't know the issue.

But any baby-proof Christmas tree advice, hope you and Sherm are good. Merry Christmas. Brother, I hope you're good. Good luck with those bugs in the Christmas tree. They're coming from every direction now. I hate it. I grew up a real tree kid.

We'd go to the tree farm. We'd cut it down. My dad would. My brothers and I, we'd pretend to play deer hunter's six while we were out there running around looking for a Christmas tree. Yeah. But I'm a fake tree guy. Okay. I'm a fake tree guy.

I hate to admit it, but it is what it is. Yeah. It's easier. You get it going up every year. You put it back in the box. And it sounds like what he's dealing. dealing with a little demon. He sees a tree.

This is King Kong now going through the jungle, ripping off the tree and everything else. To me, the first one is, well, you can get a fake tree, but I don't know how to, I don't know how to stop the rushing attack to the Christmas tree. Scotty's the same way.

Scotty damn near, she did. She broke Rue's first ornament. It's kind of cracked all over. So it's very sensitive. It will fall apart. We do have it back on the tree. It's hanging on for dear life right now. Yeah.

But if it goes down again, it's over with. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Help me. Help me. I don't know how to stop my child from grabbing the ornaments on the Christmas tree. I have this off. I have this off. How high can she reach? I mean, shit. She could probably reach like this high. And that's about three feet off the ground. She can get to the lower part of the tree. You know what I mean? like I know you can get the ornaments up higher, but she's still grabbing at this stuff on the tree, and you just got to say,

Scotty, gentle, gentle. And you're kind of approaching them slowly. Go ahead, Shirm. Okay, really quick solve. Target has indestructible ornaments by the baby its own tree that it can fuck up and put the indestructible ornaments on it

and just let them have it. Now, hang on. These indestructible ornaments, can you still take them off the tree? Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. What's wrong with that? Just ornaments all over the floor. That's okay.

You still got to hang them back on the tree. Main tree's still good. That's what parents are trying to figure out here is when the baby gets close to the tree and they got a hold of an ornament and you don't just want to snap. Hey, stop. Sometimes I'll do that. Scotty. No, no, no. And you're approaching them like they're like they have a gun on them.

Yeah. Like Scotty, easy. gentle and you slowly start walking towards them gentle they start smiling a little bit easy she starts bouncing grab her no and then you grab them and just remove them from the situation and then you just hope you're sitting there playing your basketball in them guard them so they don't get to the tree and i just kind of guide her go over there go over there look at that over there go get the ball and that's where the fake tree the fake small tree comes in look at that little thing go fuck that thing up. Okay. I see what you're saying. To me, no matter what, they're still ripping off.

Like, if you get the indestructible ornaments, like, yeah, it sucks at the, that Ruse ornaments broken. But no matter what, she's ripping off ornaments from the thing. Like, I still got to, I get on my hands and knees, you got to put the little hook back in the thing. And then you put the ornament back on the tree. Well, that, okay, so what I, here's what I would do to explain it really quick. I would put a fence, like a dog-type gate around real, real Christmas tree with breakable ornaments to distract child by $15 tree that's only like two feet tall put a bunch of indestructible ornaments on it and then that's what they're fucking up all the time does that make sense yeah i want to get a gate a cage of some sort yeah and just put scotty in it like every time

she gets involved in something she's climbing up on rue step stool now like i'll look over and i just see her little head popping up from the island. I'm like, Scottie, how'd you get over there? I've told you you can't climb this. She gets around everything. She, she clears out every cabinet that has stuff in it. Yeah. This is every day. And I tell Char every time, sweetheart, this is why I want to get a cage for her. Get a little play pin. Yeah, she needs to be like, UGA during the SEC JABITGIP game to where she's just sitting in the kennel. You can't come out. Scott Zilla is Ugg. Scott Zilla, bro. She is Uga.

Yeah, and Chef, I'm so sorry, please. What was your thoughts on it? This might be a bad idea. Okay. But as a kid, my parents under our tree, we had a little Rudolph the reindeer electronic train. It's a train that just goes around the tree. And maybe it's a little bit of a smoking mirrors thing

that they're seeing like an actual moving train come around and she doesn't want to, they might. Because for me and my little brother, that was never an issue. I don't know if it's because we would turn on the train and watch it go around the tree. You're probably just scared of the trains. No, I don't think so. I think you're a pussy.

You were probably, no, come on, you know he was like, oh, I'm not going to get ran over by the train. My number one show is the kid was Thomas a tank engine.

I think you're a little kid, you were scared. I think you as a one-year-old, you was a pussy, chef. Mama took you in. How many, how many bedtime cases did you get,

chef? I come to you with a solution. You're, he's a little. your team. His on me. He's on your team. Oh, Lama Lama

Red Pajama. Was that your favorite book too, Jeff? No. Well, um, Jeff, because if Scottie saw a train,

that train's getting fucked on. Okay, I was about to say. But maybe it's the train. You buy the train knowing that the train's going to be a sacrificial lamb and then you hang all the,

all the ornaments that are breakable. You don't want those stay above halfway up the tree line. Yeah. Then I look, over and Scott Zill will be at the top of the tree, tearing down the star. Yeah.

Yeah, you might be a shit out love. You just look up there, Scotties up there. What the, you have K. Adams in 10 minutes. Okay. We want to, we can pick back up. We're pretty much good to rock. Yeah, we're pretty much good.

I got a nice little, I saw an Instagram post. And then I have, where I can read the lesson. And I have like a little lesson too. Or something I saw that was just like a great great little reminder, great little perspective piece. For my man, too, doing bath time. Like, hey, enjoying bad time. I know I'm going to miss bad time.

For me, the whole thing of bad time for me is just my low back, just getting down on the ground. Yeah. Like, I'll be whole chest hanging on the side of the bath, like reaching my arms up because it's like sometimes I just can't stabilize and support my low back. You need the third arm construction worker apparatus if anybody's seen that on social media.

Maybe a little Christmas gift. Maybe a little Christmas gift. All right. This comes from wealthy, healthy, and blonde. The profile on Instagram. We're 30. It's December. And he asked me what I want for Christmas this year.

Oh. I laugh and say, oh, I don't know. Sleep, silence, sanity. He has smiles because we both know I can't have that. We're 80 now. It's December. Oh. And he asked me what I want for Christmas.

this year. I look at the tree filled with handmade ornaments, now decades old. They hang quietly, untouched. I look at the lights glowing across an empty floor, no longer full of toy cars, Legos, and crumbs. I recall the years where everything felt alive, the squeals at sunrise, the torn open boxes, the little voices yelling, Mama come see me. I cry and say, oh, I don't know, just one more Christmas when they were little. He has smiles because we both know I can't have that. And that's when it hit me. I got everything I wanted when I was 30.

Turns out I miss everything I had when I was 30. The days are messy, but the years are magic. And you can't get him back. So enjoy them. That's a good one right there. It almost caught me on the last two slides. That is a good one. God, that's a good reminder of just enjoy the soccer.

embrace the suck. Mine falls in that as well. Here's my lesson of the week. This week has been, has reminded me of something simple but heavy. When man on man isn't working, you got to switch to zone coverage. As a dad, sometimes your number one job is stepping up when your partner can't. There are days where everything feels normal, routines click, kid is fed, everyone's laughing, life is on the rails. And then there are days when your partner is exhausted, sick, mentally drained,

burnt out, or just done. That's when it's your moment. Not to complain, not to keep score, not to point out whose turn it was, but to silently step in, pick up the load, and carry it. Being a good partner isn't about even splits. It's about coverage. When one person is down, the other fills the space. That might mean doing bath time without being asked. Handling bedtime routine solo. Cleaning the kitchen, even when you worked all day. Running errands so she can lay down for 20 minutes.

Taking the emotional hits so she doesn't have to. It's not glamorous. No one applauds you, but it matters. Because when your wife feels safe, supported, and seen, your home becomes stronger. Your kids learn teamwork by watching it, and your marriage becomes less about surviving seasons, and more about winning the seasons together.

So dads this week, just pay attention. If she's struggling, step in. If she's overwhelmed, anchor the household. If she's running on fumes, be the refuel station. Not because it's your duty, but because that's what love looks like in real life. Well done. Well done, my friend. Great sode today.

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I know Papa Team 6 will come. There'll be some mentions about the short episode. We covered a lot, though. We did. We had some fun. Yeah. That was quick and fast, but we hit all the bases.

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