Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton Shares His Story of Loss and Grief & Halloween Decoration Fail | For The Dads

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm discuss the origin of the Will C Pose, read an emotional comment that shatters the Anytime Cryer Parlay, and dive into some amazing comments from PT6 —all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with the guys talking about Will’s Bald Head before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: The beginning of Spooktober A call-in questioning a PT6ers Manhood A healthy convo about potential Baby Names Other highlights include: Sherm’s Laundry Dad Loss The boys talk about their first sip of beer 👉 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 Intro    3:13 - Papa Team 6 Meetup Tease   18:00 - Childhood Stories   26:13 - PT6 Comments   29:49 - Baby Name Convo   44:43 - More PT6 Comments   100:20 - Dad Hack - Quinn / Journal App on iPhone   1:16:49 - Dad Loss Sherm  - Sherms Laundry   1:25:23 - Dad Loss/Guilt - Will   1:31:30 - Crack a Cold One   1:36:25 - What are the Odds   1:40:10 - Survival Kit - Noona   1:42:47 - Call Ins   1:58:06 - Lesson of the Week   —-- For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.  Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing. Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a soon-to-be dad who’s currently enjoying his last few months of uninterrupted sleep and freedom. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world. Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way. ----- FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS True Classic - Upgrade your wardrobe & save at www.trueclassic.com/forthedads  Liquid IV - Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and the milk team sixers out there that are leaving comments engaging with the pod. Whether we can get feedback, just shout you out. We love to feature the community on the show because that is what the show is. The show is a community. Got a couple things. in the works.

A couple things in the works with four the dads. We, okay, we can't like fully tease anything, but that conversation that we are just having about potential PT6 meetup. First one. First for the dad's event. Let's tease it. Tease it?

Let's put the pressure. I like it. On us. Because here's what happens, PT-Sixers, is I was telling the boys, I was like, guys, I have an idea, but I just, this is every area in my life. I'll have an idea,

whether it's at home, whether it's people that are in my circle that I work with and business life, whatever it is here at the shop, I can have an idea. I love drawing the picture, but filling in with the colors, I don't do that. Okay. I'll have the idea, the vision, the thought about it, but I need others to rally around us and make this happen. But the idea is our first PT6 meetup would hate for the commenters here in local Nashville to put pressure on us in the comments to make sure this happens, but the idea is have a trunk or treat. Because it is, it is October 1st. We are in Spooktober. If you guys are not familiar with Spooktober. Bustin with the boys absolutely

dies for Spooktober. Spooktober, Halloween is not just one singular day, not one singular holiday. The entire month is a holiday. You decorate your houses. You watch some spooky TV every day, something that is in the theme of spook and Halloween. Doesn't have to be, look, it can be Halloween town. It could be something nice that your kids would enjoy. Doesn't have to be scary, but you watch some daily programming, something in the theme of Spooktober. What else you do? Decorate your house. Spooktober. Oh, and then you refer to the month of October as Spooktober. That is the rules of Spooktober. We're going to embrace it within every brand under Bustin with the boys. We will embrace it with For the Dads. And the first initial thought with Four the Dads is maybe

we get a trunk or treat. That could be an incredible lane that the Four the Dad's brand lives in. get the kiddos out get some food trucks that was your idea but again that's a lot like you know we got to get on it if we're going to do it i would hate if there were some pt sickos in the comments that are local restaurateurs that had food trucks and wanted to help us out first annual trunk or treat i would hate that we would hate to pay you but it would be so much fun and i haven't done a full trunk or treat since high school my high school did a really great trunk or treat for the first home game during October, and it was so much fun.

Imagine if we pull this off. Yeah. Which isn't, it's not huge. It's just like the expectation for us is low. Yeah. Right? But you saw what I did with Jill's birthday party. You give me a little direct.

You're good at painting pictures, and then I can go in and I can fill it. You can make it happen. I can fill the egg gap. You can fill the egg gap. You can fill the egg. Yes. Jill does it too with the birthday party Oh, I want twinkle lights, I need this and I want that

That's the keys you need to get the females involved Because they are better than us Yeah, big time Especially with fun stuff like this Involving the kiddos Oh yeah, dude Like I'm just thinking how do we get the dads to show up How do we create a good environment for the dads

Hand out some candy Trunk or treat Get some community vibes going I would be sick We know some local musicians, dude get some music going Throw a concert Throw a concert

All you really need is just a guy And a guitar That's all you need Or all you need is a park Or a park Just pull up to a park And an acoustic cover of the monster mash Yeah

Maybe cater some sandwiches Yeah Some jizzy mics Yes This is the most guy plan ever Yeah Maybe some sandwiches Yeah we could

Yeah We could grill. It's like, country artist. He did the man. He did the moms. We're just throwing shit at the wall and hope it sticks. Or we were talking about it. You collaborate with somewhere locally.

Gentry Farms. Yes. A pumpkin patch that has kind of all this stuff set up and kind of theme around and bring the families, bring the kiddos, the Papa team sickos. And Gentry Farms has a really big parking lot. Yeah. Very big parking lot. Great for trunk or treating.

Great. for trunk or treating and any locals that haven't been to gentry farms with the little ones. It is gas, dude. We're talking corn maize, big corn maze. The price on the pumpkins themselves

I thought was like very affordable, very fair price. Hey ride. What else did they have out there? They got everything. Put puttut? They have a puttut course? Swings, playgrounds, stuff to like play like, you know, not like carnival games, but kind of.

Yeah. Like a, you know, hoops that you can shoot on. Yes. Little rings that you can toss. Food to feed the animals. The animals. Corn mazes. Yes.

That corn maze was true. Like Jill and this was pre-Scarlet. Jill and I did that corn maze. It was kind of tricky. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good family vibe. We hit it every year.

They also in the spring have like, you know, they got the flower guards. We can go and pick flowers. They have a lot of cool stuff. Gentry Farms rips. You know, it's, No free shoutouts. I kind of hate shouting them out only because I love them. Yeah.

And sometimes it can get a little packed. It does. It gets a little packed. So people who might be hearing this, we got to get out to Gentry Farms. And I'm going to be out there just like, we did this. Just take the credit. Damn, man. We got it.

Or the Dad's Spot. Everybody heard that this was the spot in town. We putting everybody on game. Everybody listening. Yeah. But it truly, that would be a blast. And we, I think a for the Dad's meetup or event. would be so much fun.

I just love the idea of that in general. So I'm in. Paint that picture. We'll fill it in. Everybody's got some ideas. Everybody's got some ideas and not just ideas, but if you have like ways to help us, that would be the ideal message or comment to get.

Even if it's a, I know somebody that knows somebody. You can just shoot us their contact. We act like we're inept. We do a pretty good job. We can, We can put some stuff together. Yeah.

We're all right. And if there is, if you, we see the interest in the comment sections, wherever it is on social. By the way, at For the Dad's Pot on all social media channels, you see the interest there. Then it's like, hey, we've got to get this figured out because it would be cool for our first, like, you know, PT6 community meetup to be like a trunk or treat. Something in the theme of spooked over. It's so easy to get the kids involved with that, too. That's a no-brainer. Yeah.

The kids are coming out in their costume. competition? Oh my God. Can I judge? Yeah, dude, you're the captain of Seaman Team 6. I did. I got my first little costume. So yes, you will be a judge. Please, you know with the shaped head. I had to get the I had to get the Bain Knoss going.

God, you look good. I think that this is your N.A. Welcome to Florida Dats. Yeah. I do think there's stuffy is your Well, I. You merely adopted the stuffy. I gave it to you. You have to tuck in re one night.

Which book would you like to read? Are we doing four or five books tonight, right? Yes. She would be terrified. She hates masks. Hates them. Do you remember that time she was over here during Spooktober and she was playing

hide or seek and I almost hid behind those creepy ass dolls that we have in here. Yeah. You're like, sure, no. Like you're going to ruin my leave? It's like, don't. My life was going to be hell for like the next three months. Take this bottle. I want to creep everybody out on the show.

Yeah, so I think I've told this story before. But I've always had like a Michael Myers mask. And she saw it in the closet when. day when she was, you know, young. She's three years old now, but I want to say she saw it, like, in between one and two, and she's always been terrified of masks. Like, anytime she's in the closet is the mask, she'll like look around the mask, like she's got to get out of the room.

But any mask frightens her. Not a big mascot. She's not. Oh, she doesn't like mascots? She likes looking at them in photos, but she thinks they're the bad guys. Oh, no. Yeah. Because, again, when she was young and we took her to, was it last year or two years?

I think it was last year. Because Pauvey is only, this is his second year. Yeah. Okay. We were both at that Texas game. Yeah. And so she met the Commodore, the mascot for Vanderbilt, kind of came up on us when we were sitting down. And, you know, I'm talking, like reaching over, trying to get to the next parent.

I can't remember if she was on mom trying to get to me or she's on me trying to get the mom. But not, you know, then she saw the Longhorn in a safe distance. Like, I'm just trying to tell her that they're nice, they're friendly. Yeah. I get her take pictures. She ain't. I don't blame her that. that Commodore is a creep.

He's a little spooky mascot. And that was her first encounter with a mascot. I'll be quick on this. When I was five years old, my parents did a birthday party at Chucky Cheese. I had to meltdown. And I had to leave the place because I thought Chuckie came out.

And I thought you know how the ticket counters. No, they had the live mascots. And the ticket counter was Munch, Munch the ticket monster. And he would eat all the tickets. And I thought Munch was going to come out and kill me. Oh. Oh, no.

Bro, hey, that is to me, I think everybody can resonate with Chuck E cheese. Back when Chuckie Cheese was Chuckie Cheese, like you're going to Chuckie Cheese. You are up for that day. As you got older, get other coins. But when you're young, those mascots are freaky, bro. Horror series based on the animatronic, and I know the name of it. Five Nights of Freddy's. Thank you.

Oh, yeah. I blanked on that. I didn't even know that they had like movies or a show all. on it, but I'm thinking, like, as we're talking about, I'm like, they could easily make a horror film on those mascots of Chuckie Cheese. And always, there was always one that was, like, under, like, maintenance whenever you're there,

so the entire band's playing and the one just doesn't have it spotlight on. And it's just... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Truly. I mean, it was the scariest thing in the entire world. You're like, oh, why is the duck not playing? It's like, oh, okay, honey. God.

And you're like trying to listen to the music But the whole time you're just staring at the one That doesn't have the light Spotlight on them Like Jesus Christ Is that thing going to move? I have to bring this up Because I loved it so much

You all remember the Star Wars arcade game That they used to have at Chucky Cheese Where you were on the speeder by Yeah yeah Oh dude I would spend a whole birthday party on that Me I was in the Jurassic Park That's a good one

When you're like inside of the Jeep or whatever Yes Oh bro And the curtains You have to go inside You're finally stepping in there. You close the curtains. You're like, well, Velociraptors, T. Rex.

Big time. Big time. Chucky cheese was the very first time I experienced a drink a beer by accident. I was super young. And I was obviously a massive fan of apple juice. And I thought it was apple juice. And I just remember taking a big gulp. And then I just dropped the whole cup, kind of spazzing out.

Kind of started to cry. Parents are laughing. That's not apple juice. Yeah. What the fuck? fuck they give you the old like yeah remember how that tastes and when you get older oh yeah away from it it's good it's good they took a drink now they're gonna eat it when they're older my first one was a margarita thought it was a sprite thought it was a sprite

that's what i would that be a terrible first taste it wasn't it wasn't bad but i definitely was kind of like oh that wasn't sprite and then my dad was like hey whoa that's not yours i don't want to out old john but uh in a coke bottle was crowning coke I'll pay four or five one seven sorry dad my parents used to own a gym when we lived in Park Hills

and I think it was called Max Performance it was just me and my dad there one day he like took me with him into the gym wait they owned the gym they owned the gym that's back when Billy C was like an amateur bodybuilder

like he's always been a weightlifting sick of I didn't know that yeah back in his that was back in his prime form he had i remember one time like when he was performing like doing bodybuilding and stuff i remember he had like uh he like cut his hair and everything else and he had a rat tail in the back no way we have to get pictures of that but they're photos of that probably oh my god i remember we're coming across it in a drawer one day because he had cut it off and i guess like put it in a drawer to keep like something that we would do you

you cut something that's super precious to you and you're just like, I'm just going to keep this in it. Yeah. Yeah, I remember seeing it one day in a drawer. I won't say where, but my bullet when I first got here, I did cut it off. It's still in the office. No one's found it. Yeah, no one's found it yet. I found it.

You found it? G knows where it is too. You showed me. Damn it. You just have it there to like as like burial. It is out like you can find it. It's in this office. It's there.

You're proud of it. I'm proud of it. Scar will come across it one day. Scar Scar. Who's this? I was playing out of drawer. Oh, honey. That's your papies mullet.

I used to be proud of it. I could tell you some war stories on that one. Got Billy Compton with a rat tail. Billy Compton with a rat tail, bro. I'm talking most muscular. The Jedi braid. Oh, my God. People talk about it's like they, I'm super over the top with the pose.

all the time. I made Oh, Shane Gillis laugh whenever we were taking a photo and Bert wanted to take our shirts off for a photo whenever we did a podcast at the Super Bowl. Yeah.

But it makes me laugh because I'm thinking of myself. I feel like there's a subconscious version where I just hit the pose because of all the PTSD where my dad would make me take my shirt off when I was a young kid just in front of his friends.

I know I've told that story before. Like, son, it's the most muscular. He's got like a, you know, what are the old cameras? Polaroid. Yeah, like a Polaroid camera just hitting. photos. Show me your back.

He's got his weightlifting buddies over. Oh, okay. So that's the other part of the story that makes way more sense now. These are weightlifting buddies. Oh, yeah. I thought these were just... It's my dad one to show me off whether I'm athletic. Whatever it is. Like my dad, it wasn't

just, you know, it was funny moments of him making me flex for him to laugh. Like he was a, he's always been a weightlifting guy. He was a sicko. Yes. Arnold Schwarzen Neger, Mike Mincer, all these dudes, bro. This makes so much sense now. It'd be photos of Dorian, all these people in her garage.

Yes. We're growing up working out. Leave no doubt. Leave no doubt. He'd have autographs from, you know, professional bodybuilders, whatever it is, where he was, you know, he was like boys with guys. This was like before I was born. Yeah.

Yeah, he was, he's a massive weightlifter. Okay. He's always been, he's always done. He's always been in the weight living. So much so. Oh, I wish I can remember this conversation. but it was back, it was when I was older and I was, my mom,

we were going to Colorado, I think, for a wedding, for one of my boys' weddings. And so we were trying to, you know, I had been whitewater rafting. I'm talking to my parents about how cool it is. My mom wants to do it. We're trying to get my dad to do it. And he's like, he's against it because he doesn't really know how to swim.

And he doesn't, so he's nervous to like fall off. He doesn't want to. I'm like, yo, dad, it is so fun. Like it's not hard. You sit on the raves. Like, you know, whether it's like level. three, four, twos, whatever it is.

Like, it's, uh, it's super fun. Yeah. And he was, he got to the point to where he was very defensive and super serious and he was like, you want me to risk, taking away the greatest joy in my life, which is weightlifting, because if I heard myself falling out, he's like, I'm not doing it. Because he's like, he can't leg press anymore.

Like, he, yeah. How old are you at this? Is this like, I'm old, I'm in my 20s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in my 20s. I'm like, I think I'm playing in the NFL. This is like my early years. So we're, we're, we're going to plan a wedding so we're going at the Colorado great white water rafting out in Colorado yeah he's late 50s early 60s at this point yeah so he would be one of my 35 so about 10 years ago yeah he'd be around 50 years old and he's still hitting the leg presses oh yeah to this day

to this day to the every day he's a weightlifter bro like he's a weightlifter not like exercise and he goes he walks and gets his steps in now and stuff like that yeah yeah but as far as like all the mobility stuff. He would entertain it, but it's like, he's got to get his lifts in. And he said, like, the biggest, you know, the biggest love of my life, you want me to risk taking that away to go on a raft. And he was dead serious. We're laughing now. He might be watching a home laughing behind the TV at this, but this was like, this was a serious moment. Yes, yes. This wasn't like, this was like, all right, dad, like. And he kind of just got to walk away from the situation. Yeah, got really quiet in the car for like the next 20. Yeah. Yeah.

Like he almost said it with his chest to where he's like, yeah, my number one love in my life and like looks at my mom. He had a little shaky voice. Yeah, yeah. To where you know, you know what I mean? Like you start to, your heart rate goes up. Your eyes start to shake a little bit. Yeah. To where he just has that look to where it's like, all right, I guess we're just not going to.

Billy. Hey. Buddy. Yeah, yeah. I hear you. Vacation to him is sitting in the room. which I have half of that in me I'm kind of like that at times soon

my wife has done a great job like being adventurous and getting me out and like doing all these things to experience stuff but we never did vacations growing up so him like us going on vacation he wants just like quiet time thinking we're going to sit by the river we're trying to put together these excursions to where it's like hey let's go

at the white wild rafting he wants no part of it I love I am so down for excursions I'm kind of like paint the picture for me and I'll do it Like, I truly, if you want to sit in the hotel room all day, I totally get it. But, yeah, my dad and Jill's stepdad, they love a hotel room. Dude. And there's nothing wrong with it.

But that, now that I think about it, is such a funny premise of just spending the money to go on vacation. And then you're just hanging out in this room. So he's, Whitewater rafts starts. Oh, he went? But after a few minutes, said pull it over, I'm getting out. No. No. Yeah, yeah.

I had life checking on everything. We had to drop them off and he had the bus had to come pick him out. I was the same. They bust you for those things. Yes. So they get on the walkie and they go, hey, mile marker, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, Billy C's going to be out there.

Big time vibe killer. Was he just muttering under his voice? Yeah, like, you know, it starts like rattles. You see him start to hang on the raft. A little bit. No. And I'm like this. I'm like laughing.

I'm laughing. All the boys are laughing. And the guy in the back on like the high chair and stuff. Oh, come on, dad. Bill, C stroke. See stroke, Bill. He's just two strokes on the right. Bill, we need you back there.

Bill, where's my anchor? Yeah. Oh, my God. That's so funny. In his mind, he's just thinking I'll never be able to leg press or squatting. again. Just imagining yourself in the gym. Dude, I love that.

I love that. I did not know that about your dad. I really did. Yeah. But it makes sense because he is in really good shape, like for his age. He is now. He wasn't for the longest time. He's like, he's somebody that has to just buy in to a diet.

Like he's got to do everything. Everything to a tea. Everything to a tea. Yeah. Because when he was bodybuilding, you're like measuring your vegetables. You're measuring all this shit. So if he fell off the rock or it'd just be like, you know, he's a, he's a, he's off the rocker. There's no like just getting course correct and getting back on. Yeah. So he'd go through

these phases where he loses a bunch of weight and then like I say he's like lost 30 pounds, but then I don't know, a couple cheat days later or something like that, he's kind of back on whatever he's doing because he was drinking for, I mean, he's drank forever. Yeah. But ever since he got sober over a year ago, he's been, he's been dialed. He has dropped it, dropped it. Because when I started, it was that dad come by. Yeah. And then you come back the next year and I'm like, oh my gosh, Bill looks incredible. Yeah, he's always been a weightlifting sicko. So that was, it was always performer.

Like when his boys are at the house, it's like, Will, come out here and I got to pause the game. Take off your shirt. Show me your most muscular. PT6, we interrupt this episode to bring you True Classic. When I want to look good, we have brought it up a ton on the show, Chef. We say it almost every single week. But the Wi-Fi likes the way I look in True Classic.

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classic.com forward slash for the dads. Trust me, grab one, and you'll thank me later. Trueclic.com forward slash for the dads. And let's get back to this episode. I'm glad that you brought it back to that because when you first told me that story, I just imagined like Friday night drinking buddies coming over and Bill being like, hold on, let me go get the kid. Let me get the kid.

and all his buddies are sitting there with a beer like, Bill, you really don't have to. You just let him play his game. It's okay. But then I'm like, okay, no, they're sickos and they're probably sitting there too going, oh yeah, he's got it, Bill. He's got it. He's got it. Show him your back.

Turn around. Show me your back. Oh, yeah, Bill. He's a chip off the block. He's a chip off the block. We're talking. This is potential Mr. Universe right here.

He's got the legs, too. Like, he's got his mom's legs. He doesn't have my skinny. like show him your legs. I'm sitting up there. Flux in my quads, kind of rotating him. Dude,

oh my God, time machines need to exist just to be a fly on the wall for the conversation of when you left the room. Yeah. I'm telling you, boys,

he likes the gym too. I don't even have to tell him to get in there. He gets in there himself. Let's get to some comments. Let's have some fun with BT6. Absolutely. I got a good vibe.

one right here. This one comes from Gabby Oney on YouTube. Mama Team 6 here. My husband and I watch every week on YouTube together after our 15-month-old son goes to bed. We look forward to this every week and really give us time to talk, laugh, cry, and enjoy our time again. We love you guys. Travis

and Gabby, members of PT6 and MT6. Shout out Travis and Gabby. Yo, shout out Travis and Gabby. Is that the same Gabby? Not the same Gabby. Different Gabby-Wony-7786. By the way, the odds, what are the odds by Fandle on this emotional episode? We're placed at what we've been strung together a few in a row.

It's probably at minus 360 right now. Yeah. All right, we'll see. Are you, is this a sad one that you're about to read right now? No, no, no, no. I have two coming in from the hospital. Do you have a good vibes one? I have a good vibes one.

Go ahead. Michael underscore Cody from Instagram says, wife being induced three weeks early because of high blood pressure. Also been there, Michael. Bad, but good. Had the absolute battle with the car seat base. Good. Whole house was a mess because we thought she would go the full 40 weeks.

Good. But PT6 shirt packed in my hospital bag. Great. Love the pod and truly appreciate y'all's vulnerability as dads. Excited to welcome our first child, a baby boy into our lives. Oh, baby boy, baby boy. Come on, Michael. That's so funny because you know he wrote that first line, that first sentence.

It's like, this is all bullet pressure high, good. And then probably as he wrote out, he's looking like, I don't know if that's a good thing. Let me go ahead put bad, but good. But good. Yeah. Oh, Michael. And been there. Jill literally had to do the exact same thing.

So I know how you feel and best luck to you guys. Yeah, absolutely. I got a couple more coming in from the hospital. I got a, I burn easy. 73, 79. Well, boys, tomorrow's episode hasn't come yet. But here I am. Just sat down in the hospital after the wife's warm.

Waterbrook. Just wanted to say thank you for hyping this man up to be the greatest girl dad he can be. Can't wait to listen to the pod tomorrow and probably comment again. In for a long night here. Good. Good. Dude, shout out you, man. Good luck.

I hope everything went well. I hope mom and baby are doing well and healthy. But shout out you for engaging with the PT6 community. I got another one from Maggie Ledesma. Let's go. Say Maggie Ledesma. This one's on Instagram. All right, bald batty and fat Stafford, PT6 and MT6, heading back to the trenches for a second tour after adding child number two, right in the middle of football season.

Good. Two and a half-year-old son and one-day-old daughter. My husband is now a high school football coach and has been a tier one listener of Bustin with the boys since his time in the USMC. 0331, fuck yeah. We love the For the Dad's podcast as like you guys have stated before. It brings a perspective that we all go through is normal, that what we all go through is normal, and we are all doing the best we can.

Thank you for all the last and getting us through the tough times. Parenting is hard, but the best fun ever, feel free to post this if you feel so inclined with a few good emojis. And they're both hitting the flex pose at the hospital. No. They're both hitting the flex pose at the hospital. Oh, my God. Mama's up and moving.

Hey, sweetheart, you know, baby's sleeping. Let's get out. Hey, come on. Hey, get out of the hospital. Come on. Let's hit this pose for the boys. Get up. What an incredible photo.

If there's any way that we could get that on the episode, too. Bro. Golly. The dads with the young men, the boys that are old enough, you just start witnessing dads. They take your shirt off. Hit the post. Hit the post.

Hit the post before the. This is for my buddies. This is for my buddies. Honey, what are you all doing? Hey, don't worry about it, sweetie. It's for the boys. At that age two, it's like, you know, I'm thinking of like second grade, third grade. I'm sitting there.

It's like I was a wrestler too, so I had the buzz kid. I had it all. In what video game were you playing that you're a hidden podcast? Back then, I mean, I played them all, bro. I played all the video games. I was a big WWF guy, WW, WCW. So the wrestling games, all the football games, like game day was a staple on PlayStation for me growing up. My parents got me.

the Sega Genesis and I had like Mad 95 or maybe it was just called Mad and I can't remember when you're tapping the two buttons doing the 40. Then it was Sega Genesis where your PlayStation had Jurassic Park. I was fired up about that one. I played all the video games, bro. I loved video games. Just like an image of young Willie C with some flaming hot Cheetos in front of the TV playing WWF and dad telling them to pause the game.

God. Hey Will. Yeah. Do you come out of here a second? Why? Just come out here a second. Set the controller down. Wired to the console.

Yeah. Hey, come here. I want to, I want to, I want to, uh, come here. I want to, I want to show you something. Because this is inside. We're inside. He's got to take me out to the garage where the boys are. He's like, oh, Dwayne, he's here.

I was telling him, he wanted to see your physique. Dwayne's out of you. We want to see it. Take your shirt off. Is this the same garage that's also in the wait room? Yeah. Oh, my God, dude. They'd have some classic rock, you know what I mean?

Some rock and roll playing. Oh, we got to get an AI clip of that story, dude. Like K-She 95, bro. It was like 94.7 was the rock and roll station. Do no, do, do, do, do, do, do. Why do I got to? Just come on. It'll only take a minute.

Oh my god. A great Halloween costume too for some of the kiddos out there. Be Willie C. Yeah. The most muscular. Dude, my mom, this was back,

you know, my mom was doing homemade costumes for us, but I was the ultimate warrior one year. Face pained, ultimately. Oh. She made me a little, like,

paper belt that I had. Yes. And who was the ultimate warrior? It was like a well-known wrestler that was dressing up as ultimate warrior? Or is the ultimate warrior? Ultimate Warrior was his thing. The ultimate warrior. What you see,

the tassels hanging from the biceps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The like Speedo, trunks, whatever you call, like the speedos on, boots on.

Yes. Champion, long hair, face painted, different colors. He was the ultimate warrior. The ultimate warrior. I was thinking, was it the Hulkster

that was like somebody else? Hulk Hogan? He had like an alter ego. Mick Foley had multiple. He had Cactus Jack and a bunch of stuff there. So is that who you're thinking of them? Maybe. Maybe. He had mankind and Cactus Jack and steamboat something or another love boat something. Okay. I don't know why. Not a big wrestling.

Not a big wrestling fan growing up. No, not a big one growing up, but enough to where like I was playing the WWE, WWF games like at friends houses and like play wrestling and stuff with couch cushions. Yeah. I'm sure, I mean, my mom didn't let me read Harry Potter because it was you know, her Bible study was like, it's witchcraft. Don't let them read. So I'm sure if WWE had been on the TV, she would have been like,

Sherman, which is my dad's name. What are y'all watching? What are you doing? Honey, the kids love it. Okay, this one comes from Instagram. This is Nick Spawnseller. He says, hey guys, I've been listening ever since I found out

I'm going to be a dad to a little girl in March, 2026. Let's go, Nick. Curious on how you guys dealt with the name situation, my fiance and I are at a spot where we have narrowed down the top two names. The problem is, she wants one and I want the other. I want to give in because after we are married, we want another, or I want you give in because after we are married, we want another kid.

And if it's a boy, we already have that name picked out because of me, thoughts. I know we both need to agree, but curious on any advice to get there. do you yeah this is one look if you want to have a second kid and let's you say the boy's names already dialed in your name of it after after yourself or whatever the boy name he has picked out that's going to be what he chose this is where it's like hey you gotta this where you bend the knee yeah like if my wife and I like you know we're going back and forth on a couple boy names because I've always been a fan of wanting the fourth and so I know no matter what even though she doesn't necessarily want that. Like I'm, you know, I think about both of the names that we kind

of have done. She's always trying to get me off the step of William Earl the 4th. Yeah. And so I know no matter what, like what I've done is number one, I loved cerulean whenever she came up with cerulean. When it was Scotty Jolie and Billy May were the two options. Ultimately, we named her Scotty. But when it was Billy May, but down to those two, I wanted Billy May because I didn't know if we're going to go for a third. I don't know if we're going to try again. Like this would, in a way, pay homage with Billy with my name. And then May is Charles' middle name.

So Billy May is how we came up of Billy. Dang. Okay. I like that. But unfortunately, you know, a friend that, her one of her best friends that lives in Chicago, her sister had a baby and named that baby, Billy May. So with the women, that's off limits. That's off limits.

So I had to ultimately bend the knee on Billy May and go to Scotty Joe Lee. So in my mind, I'm thinking it doesn't even mean. matter. Whatever the next one is, if we so happen to get a boy, like, I am naming this child no matter what. Yeah. Like, you have all the leverage. Like, okay, I'll do this for you, but I got you on the next one. I feel the exact same way. But my only thing was that I really wanted to name Scarlet. I wanted to name her Sterling. That was my great-grandfather's name. And Jill was like, love Sterling, but don't love it. As a first name, we'll do middle name. So we found like a common ground there. And so Scarlett's name is Scarlett Sterling Young, SSY, like Sherman Stewart Young.

Yeah. Nice. I like that. Yeah. That's how we, you'll find common ground. Yeah, because we're not in the war room. Yeah. You know what I mean? We're not in the conversation. Like, you're down to two names. Do you love your name and like the other name or do you love your name and hate the other name? Yeah. And is it the same with the wife. Does she love her name and hate your name? Or does she hate it like? And it's like, I like where his head's at because he's like, hey, we want to have another kid. Great. If you're having another kid, let her get this win. Let her have this win and be very like, yeah, let's go with that name because you're going to love the name.

Like once they're out in the world and like. Yeah, you aren't going to care. Yeah, not that I was ever like, oh, I don't like Scarlett because I did like that name. Yeah. But yeah, you're not going to care because then you're looking at your kid and you're like, that is Scarlet. That is Scotty Jojo Scotti Jojo Scotty Jojo Scottzilla

Which is such a good She has some really good nicknames Scotty Joe Yes Love Scotty Jojo bro But on this topic If I could simplify it As much as I possibly could

I think the lean is more the wife If it's a daughter Yeah Lean is more the husband If it's a boy Yeah I think that is just how you simplify it Agreed

And I don't know if they're telling people About names Like my wife didn't really want us To talk names With anybody blah blah blah But I you know When we were down to Billy May Scotty Joe. Scotty was the second one.

Scotty being the second one, I felt a little more open verbally for whoever came around that we trust. And I know Charles wouldn't care if they knew the names. I'd be, hey, what do you think of these two? If they said Scotty, I bet, okay, then we can, we can lean Scotty. We'll go with that. Because I'm thinking in my head, like, I think Billy May rips. Like, she just, she might need to hear other people say it.

She just doesn't get it. So you bring others in, you kind of give them a couple options. If they choose the one that you're, you know, if they choose the wife's side or they're like, hey, I kind of like this name more, you kind of go open. and ended. Hey, you're not going to know who we're leaning here. What do you think about these two names? And the minute you kind of hear a couple other opinions and they might stack up the tallies. It's like, all right, we can go that one. Yeah, and setting parameters. I do this when I'm trying to figure out what we want for dinner as well as I find out what Jill doesn't want for dinner first.

And so we set those parameters with name. We're like, what are things we don't want? Well, we don't want a girl name that ends with E. Okay. Okay. Listen, mine's Scotty. So what do you guys say? How are you guys talking about me and my wife when you guys are in your room?

I know. I know. I go to this stupid name. Well, that was Jill that said that. That wasn't me. Hey, buddy, you know it was. I love I eat. You know I love the E noise.

But that was just like a personal preference of hers. And she was like, I don't want E at the end of it. And I want something that's kind of. like old school. Yeah. And I was like, okay, parameters set. Right. My wife wanted like a boy name for Scotty.

Like we were kind of narrowing down boy names that can kind of swing the other way. So yeah, you're right. Setting up good parameters. And that's exactly what I wanted also because my grandfather's name was Charlie. And I really wanted to name Scarlett, Charlie. Charlie. Charlie was on ours for a minute. Yeah.

And Jill was like, not our first one. but I'm not opposed to it. She was like, I want to go. And so, yeah, I feel like I'm in a good place name-wise that this next child, and I say this next child, Jill and I do want to have another kid. But with this perspective next kid, I feel like I'm in a good place where I can my ideas and thoughts a bit more. Yeah, I would say this, unless it's a boy and you want like an heir to the throne,

in your masculine way. If it's a girl, outside of that perspective, it's you're taking a back seat to what wife he wants. Of course. And I am a junior. So like that is on the table, the third. But then Jill's maiden name is Rambo. So I do like...

Her maiden name is Rambo? Her maiden name is Rambo. Oh, man. And I, if we have a boy, I'm between Sherman Stewart Young, the third, or Rambo Young, and he would go by Bo Young. Rambo goes hard Rambo goes hard

Better hope I don't get a boy before you I know Quick question I were naming them Rambo Oh I would Then there would be two There would be two bows

There'd be Bo Compton and Boi Yard I would stick with it Why Rambo is it because you've heard of me Like no Bo Bo Polini No it's not like Yeah Bo Polini And you've ever seen the movies Rambo

Come on Yeah So much You know I love Rocky Oh you invented Rambo Good luck copywriting No But I truly, and sorry, Chef, I totally cut you up.

No, I was just going to ask the question of, as a non-father, I've only thought of, like, having a son. I've only thought of guy names. Yeah, yeah. I've never, like, I don't even know what I would do with a daughter. Like, what would I just give it up. Because I got a guy name that would have ripped. And I'm, like, kind of like, it's a live or die hill.

Like, I think if I had a boy. Do you mind sharing with us? By the way, shout out Chef. Chef has shaved his head. We know Derek's coming in October. where Shirm is still yet to do it, but he is rocking. I think it may even be a later today thing. Oh, that's awesome.

We did get, I think his name was Nathan. Yeah. I saw him tweet saying PT6, the inspiration, saw those, saw the shaved head. Yeah, is the trenches. Love it. Hit the most muscular? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sicko.

Yeah, had a couple of those this week. But do you mind sharing with us? Yeah, I'm a long ways out. So I think hopefully, oh, yeah, I'll share and then I'll make a decision after. But my great, on my dad's side, was my great, great grandfather's Frederick Law Olmsted. He designed Central Park Law Olmsted. Frederick Law Olmsted.

He was a famous landscape architect. He designed Central Park, the outside of the Capitol building, the Biltmore. He was like one of the, he's the godfather of landscape architecture. And what is he to you? Like a great, great, great grandfather, uncle situation. This is on my dad's side. That's. But I love the last name.

So I think the middle name. And I like a regal sounding kind of name for a guy. So I'm thinking Charles Olmsted Hanning. Charles Olmsted? Olmsted. Olmsted. That goes hard. That goes so hard.

Yeah. So that one is like, that's a die by name that I'm like, I will dive on that one. But if it's a girl, I'm like, shit, I don't know. That's like where I can't even. The girl. Again, it's like you have in your mind the heir to the throne. something that you love. I'm convinced I just keep telling myself, I'll have a boy.

Yeah. I'm just not going to have a daughter. I was that way too, buddy. And I'm two daughters later, man. So anytime, once it was a girl, it's truly, I'm like, yeah, you go ahead. As long as I rock with the name, you can choose the name. And the girl names are fun. Yeah.

Like, there's something weird about, like, I liked almost every single girl name that Jill was throwing out, but then I would like throw out a girl name. She'd be like, oh, no, I knew a. Yes, bro. That's where the women are tied to that stuff. So it's like, okay. I knew a Whitney and she sucked. And I'm just making that own.

But that is common. That's common. Yes. And there were some names that I think are so good. And Jill was like, oh my God, I went to camp with a, you know, blah, blah, blah. And she was the worst. And I'm like, damn it, that's such a beautiful name. Yeah, but there's some guys that I think of.

And I'm like, I know a guy like that. I can never name my son. So true. Yeah. Yeah. We could throw that swallorone. pill there. There are probably some names that you're just like,

we ain't doing that. I know what Tony. I actually don't know Tony that I hate, but. I was about to say, I'm cool with any thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a comment from Chance Roy on, or well, actually, first thought, well, I started reading it, so I will say this. Chance Roy wrote to us from Louisiana, shout out the 337.

He said that he loved hearing my laugh. He listened to us on Spotify and he was like, I got to see what Fat Stafford looks like. Started watching us on YouTube and he said, like even more on YouTube. So I love that comment that he was like, hey, I was just listening to the guys. Now I'm looking at them. And the listening experience is even better. You have a top five laugh, my friend. Thank you.

I will take it. I will take it. I do have another comment that I just wanted to make sure that we read this one because I thought it was so cool how the community came around. this guy. Okay, hold that one. Holding. Because I have a fun one. Fun. I listen to all my podcasts at work. This is from Papa John at Johnny D. 76

on X. I listen to all my podcasts at work surrounded by men, mostly assholes. I'm a big dude, but have strong emotions. Every time Shuram or Will cry, I got to make sure my face can't be seen. I cry with you guys every time. This is the best show. Shout up Papa John.

Yo, Papa John, friend of Tony, friend of the show. Friend of Tony. Friend of Tony. Papa John. Thank you, Papa John. It's good to know that we're not alone. Yeah, the tears. With that said, we have some sad alerts. Yeah, speaking up.

Okay, this one came from J. Tar, 671. This was our top comment on the last episode. This has been the hardest year of my life. My wife had a miscarriage in early January, and I lost my job two weeks later. My wife is a stay-at-home wife. Then, two months later, I lost 30 pounds, almost went into a diet, diabetic coma and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Two days in the hospital to get healthy and I came out still trying to find a stable

job. After scraping by for months, I got a job in August and finally getting stable again. Every day feels like it takes extra effort. Every meal and every workout felt like a chore until this podcast. That is awesome. Good. I'm tired and I don't want to go to the gym? Good.

I'm annoyed at my dietary restriction. good. My wife is 21 weeks pregnant with a baby girl and I couldn't be more excited. This podcast helped me shift my mindset to welcome the struggles. I know that mindset will make me a better father. Thank you. He's got a great profile picture too, by the way. He's out hiking with his wifey. JTAR 671. JTR 671. So first off, JTR 671, love that comment, dude, because there is a a lot of shit that hits us in life. Life is not easy. And we usually revert back to that.

Speaking of Rambo, that Sylvester Sloan Rocky quote of, you know, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. And there is so much beauty to life because of how hard life is. And I've read that comment

a couple times on YouTube, and it just hit me that he is uh his wife is 21 weeks pregnant now like that kind of just hit me for the first time and god that baby's going to be so loved because of the misfortune that that came before it and so shout out j tar dude yeah they're going to be kick-ass parents um this comment i'm so glad derrick printed these off the reason we read that comment to you is because all these and i'll fly through these but we had so many people underneath it uh chris break hey keep your head up brother goat cinccio said pressure makes diamonds with the flex emoji uh pessimistic uh you're a tough dad

keep it up jcheris let's go love to see the turnaround c jones gbr uh keep it up brother prayers to you and your family and so excited for the next chapter to come that's just that's ridiculous that that's going on in our comment section. Yeah. Yeah. It's a dude, a message like that fires me the fuck up. And again, I know he's been coming from a lot of hard times. Like the miscarriage, I did love the comment where it's like from Chip, hey brother, I too lost a child this year. Now my son is two weeks old. I'll tell you you can feel that guardian angel over your baby and your first will always be with your family. Congratulations. But it's stuff like that it's like you know this is a a prime example for everybody that ends up picking themselves up

when they're in a very dark time because the god's honest truth is when people start turning shit around it's when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired it's not because like he's not he came across our podcast and got say motivated right or say it was a breath of fresh air to see like a different perspective and kind of pick himself up but at the end of the day bro and it's a quote that i is always at the top of my head but it's nobody is coming to save you like it doesn't matter what your wife is telling you or people around you you know you can get all the influences in the world it's like motivation motivation will fail you the majority of the time it's it's discipline that keeps you going that keeps people going so him coming across our pot it's

it's a reason we made the for the dad's brand like you know when people are asking like what what made you think of this idea and it's like I love creating in spaces to where I'm a consumer in because a lot of the times it's not like you're sitting there you'll take advice from your boys or people you look up to and everything else but a lot of of times it's me in my truck when I'm feeling like, you know, how am I going to find a way out of whatever I'm feeling that's kind of got me in a funk or that's got me in or when shit is hard when I'm playing football or when shit is hard as a father, when shit is just hard with life. It's usually I'm grasping at things that I can listen to by myself or read by

myself to where somebody or somebody said something to where it's like it just gives you perspective on doing something. Then at that point when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired and knowing that it's nobody putting their arm around you or nobody's saying, here, I'm going to hold your hand while you do this. You're going to have these people in the comments, but these replies and comments aren't going to be with you every day. No. It's not those things that get you going.

It's you that, like, nobody's going to fucking do this for me except for me. Yeah. And that's why that shit fires me up because he came across this podcast and just for whatever reason was just in the right frame of mind where he's feeling down whatever it is. And just like listen to whatever part of the episode he heard. and was just like, I love this perspective or I love this vibe or I love whatever it is. And in his mind, not because of us, but in his mind, he's like, this is the moment I'm turning

shit around. And it's him. Because again, us, us, our episodes, whatever it is, that motivational fade. Yeah, yeah. It's all going to be that way. The replies, the encouragement, that's going to fade. And it's truly, it's fucking you. It's a one-player game in this world.

Yes. It always is. It's not for you to be the best husband you can be. be it's like you have the greatest support of a wife that you can have sometimes it's not always going to be that way it's you looking in the mirror and it's like how am i going to correct my shit and that's the ripple effect it's it starts creating and then it's the discipline it's you don't feel like it every day you don't feel like working out yeah don't feel like going home after a long day of sitting around assholes at work yeah and you're expecting everybody else to navigate or walk

on eggshells around you it's like no what energy are you going to intentionally and consciously bring at all times dobson always told us he's a Strength Coach at Nebraska. It always stuck with me. But a big theme was always, it doesn't matter what the fuck is going on. You control your attitude and you control your effort. At all times, 24-7 hard stop, period.

At all times. How are you going to show up when you come in the wait room? With classes going on, with you just got your fucking ass-wooped and you got embarrassed out there, no matter what it is, bro, it's you always control your attitude and effort. And for him to kind of shift his attitude and effort,

that's what fires me up about this comment. And what also fires me up about the comment is that this show, I know we say this a lot, but to this comment, this show, we do not have some pill we're trying to sell you. We don't have some book that has all the, like, we are two guys that are exactly like J-Tar that we wake up every morning thinking, man, how do I figure this out? How do I do I do I? And seeing comments like that and you saying I want to get into a space of that I'm a consumer in, I feel the same way when I read comments like that.

Or I feel the same way when I get on the show with you and I hear you talk. Like, it's, um, it's cool that we are all bouncing our stories off of each other and that this is kind of becoming a little ecosystem of dad's just trying to rip. And if they aren't killing it, that maybe they're voicing that.

Maybe they did kill it and they're voicing that. But, um, just being. in the mindset of wanting to do better to your life. Yeah, just community. Like a human need is community. Yeah.

When you feel like you're coming across one, it's like, we're all fucking struggling. And you can listen to what you said, like we're all J-Tar. It's like at moments in life, absolutely. It's like, okay, well, did you have a miss? Dude, the point is, stress is not factual. Stress is the meaning you give the facts.

And that is, it's all about how, like life is going to, no matter what fucking hit you in the mouth. We're not sitting up here as perfect individuals in every area of our life or any area of our life for that matter. It's you're gonna constantly get in the mouth and it's how you deal and it's how you respond to whatever the adversity is.

At all times, man. So people, when you hear stories and then you're able to pull yourself out, like, I got this shit going on my life, but it doesn't sound nearly as bad as what this individual is going through. How did he get out of that? And then you latch on to something

because you all realize we're all the fucking same. Yeah. And it's the meaning that I'm giving these facts in my life that's hold me back, Think about the meaning he could have been given to his stress and his facts if he really wanted to be down and out. But he fucking overcame that shit. Why can't I do it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it fires me up. That juices me up. That's everything. That is everything. That is this show embodied and encompassed and manifested in that comment. Yeah, yeah. Dude, shout out. Thank you for that comment, J Tar.

I'm glad you guys are doing well. I hope you guys are kicking ass and rocking. And even those hard times when you're not just constantly do whatever. you can to think about this shit. Maybe it's a few sentences. You write in your notes at, take a screenshot and put it as a lock screen on your phone to remind you. Because again, it's hard. It's like you have a vision of mind. You have the processes and disciplines that you're going to, you tell yourself that I'm going to knock this shit out of the park every day, but you got to be caught. You got to find a way too to remind yourself of why you started in the

first place. But shout out you, bro. I'm fucking, the piss is getting hot right now because I love this. J. Tor. This one's from Garrett Frile. This is on YouTube. PT6 checking in. I lost my dad on Father's Day in 2021. One month after having my precious baby girl, the odds they're not hitting. We're not buying the odds on this one. God damn it.

Will after hearing you talk about that book your mom wrote, it brought me to tears because, you son of a bitch, Garrett. Stay calm, stay poised. I have a voicemail for my dad that I haven't listened to. since he passed. You might have to edit it. I can read it for you if you want.

Do crying's fucking cool, man. Just cry more. He finally listened to it. And it was him telling me how much he loved me and was proud of me. I highly suggest you go read that because it could brighten your day

way more than it dampers it. Thank you guys for being so vulnerable. Let's see, I don't know how y'all feel hearing this voice, but it paints me having this. Thank you guys for being so vulnerable and inspiring us all to be better dads.

Appreciate you, Garrett. That's all I got, man. Shout out Garrett. Shout out, Garrett, dude. The odds got us again. Gary, Derek got some tissues for the boys. And again, I mean, Kleenex, you have such a big opportunity.

Just staring right at you, dude. Shout out, no free shoutout, clean X. And you know, Garrett, thank you for that. I'm fired up, man. I'm fired up that you heard something. And it wanted you make you, it wanted to make you go listen to that voicemail.

I can imagine how emotional that was. But I also, on that note, and my brother Wyatt texted me. I hit God, did he watch the episode? Wyatt says he's, he said watch for the dads. I'm low-keyed tier one fan.

I watch everything with the, with the laughing cry faces. And he's like, totally feel you on not wanting to experience the emotions. Boys, condo me, Garrett. Let me,

maybe I need to put on the Bain mask as I read these. I'm sure my brother Liar. But he's like totally feel you're not wanting to experience the emotions that come with opening that journal from mom. But she did write it. She did write it. And he's got to laugh out loud.

I'm just in a state of emotion right now that I just can't get out of it. Yeah. Because of old Garrett. And that, uh, thank you for sending that comment, Garrett. But he's like, but she did write it with the intent for you to read it. You should read it laugh out loud. That was, that was it. Save me, Sherman.

All right. Jump in here. I'll jump at it. One small note on the journal. I'd love that you talked about it and that it's something that's on your mind and just wanted to emphasize, find that perfect moment for it. And shout out Gary again for that comment because that was really cool, dude. What an incredible opportunity to get to be able to celebrate something.

body and remember yeah and gyrid i will say like that comment and i've done it several times with that comment in particular it's like i sit there i read the comment and i'm like i'm like you know when you're talking to yourself and you kind of just whisper out loud and i'm just like i got to read that fucking journal because like i'm reading that comment it's like i went back and listened to the voicemail and um yeah man i can't i can't wait for you to read it and i'll i'll move on but i can't wait for you to read it because i feel like some really cool stuff is going to come from it Yeah. That's the last thing I'll say about that.

But I'm excited for you, Will, and Garrett, you're the man. I do have a dad hack off of the journal, off of the journal reference because I did see, like, again, I logged on. I peeped into the comments that are on Spotify because you can leave comments that on Spotify. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Quinn sent this. It's a dad hack. The journal app on the iPhone. You can set it up, give you a reminder every day.

And it will also give you suggestions based on photos and locations. that you have visited each day. Most of the work is done. You just add a little commentary in there each day. I've been trying to write a little each time since my daughter was born last December. When she turns one, I'm planning to print it out. I'm planning to print out the journals

and make it a booklet and hope to have one for each year of her life. Oh my God. That is solid dad game, Quinn. And thank you for sending that comment. Yeah, solid dad game. And to that same point, Dan, more of it. This is a longer email. I know we've been doing a lot of these comments.

So I'll paraphrase. But Dan essentially wrote to us saying that his dad passed away when he was 23. And his dad was a very quiet man. He was very close with them. But the dad wasn't a man of many words. And he wished that he had had a bit more from his dad. And so to that point, he actually started, he set up an email and a Google drive. to Derek's point last week, for his baby girl.

He started riding and dumping picks in there for her. And I just think that that's so cool that he also says GBR. But I think that's so cool that it's something that you brought up on the podcast has other people wanting to do the same for their kids. And it's cool, dude. I can't stop. I can't get out of this emotional state I'm in right now. Do you want me to move on to Alan Tucker from YouTube?

Is that a sad one? That is that one? It's just, you know, if you've lost a parent and anybody that has heard me talk about my mom knows that I struggle. And it's like all of this stuff is great. And there's so much of a battle that goes on because it's like seeing people open up about you know the ones they cared about and my mom to me was she's one of the best people ever she was everything to me so there's like this uh in moments that like I'm having now um which happened every now and then but it just reminds you that life is so precious

because there's this like fight that goes on when I'm thinking about her to where I love that people share that I get to sit with my emotion on it. Yeah. Because there's also this person that's fighting that just is so angry that they're not here anymore. And so that's what this is.

This kind of feeling that I'm having. It's just you know, I'm sure I'll love. I know I'll love reading whatever's in there. But again, it's like another reminder that that she's gone.

on. And personally, it's, uh, I think to myself, like, when will I not feel so much emotion? You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, fuck. You know, the emotion will always, uh, the emotion will always be there because you love her. Um, and I can tell that there is anger. there, frustration there, because it doesn't feel fair. And there will be something that you have to let go in that moment that you read the journal.

Yeah. But it will bring so much life. It will create so much life when you do. Something will be bored out of it. No question. A lot of things I feel like have been from that moment. been bored out of it for good for the ripple effect the how she impacted me on my life and how I wanted to impact my kids and how I hold it so much closer now because that moment happened

that I'm like I sit back and I'm like am I who I am as a dad if she's still alive not like am I a bad dad but since this since it's happened it's like it's so much at the forefront of my mind at all times yeah it's one of those things that it's one of those things that's I'm sure people out there who have lost a parent that are truly so near and dear to their heart to where there's also a part of me that's like it upsets me how much I loved her because I have to feel so much pain. And I feel like that's a normal. I tell myself this is probably a normal thing because it's like, because quickly I'm like, I'm glad I loved her so much. But part of you when you're in those moments, you just you also get angry because it's like, fuck man. why did I have to love her so much?

Because you do feel so much pain. It's such like a double-edged sword when understanding how precious everything is and how much you just love on people. And they could be fucking gone. And it's unfair and it's not fair. Yeah. I don't know. This is just like the inside of my brain just talking from every angle right now.

Trying to talk to this on the podcast. And I do whatever is in this episode. I appreciate everybody being patient with me. because that was a, yeah, that was a real moment. I think that it's losing someone is sad. I think there is a blessing to be found in it of just like what a benchmark she set in your life and that you have full appreciation for her, that you just want to be such an incredible parent like she was.

and I think that's really, really cool. I think it's really awesome the way that you're able to work through your emotions on it and identify how you're feeling on it. And I'm just proud of you because it ain't easy. I know I cry at the drop of the hat, but Will Compton does not. Oh, based on these episodes, we've been doing it. I don't know. He's a crier.

Yeah, that one was a different. That was different. I just want you know that you're the man. And the love you have for your mom's a real thing. And I'm just excited to hear and see what, not see, but hear what was in those journals for you. Yeah. I am too. And it's like I sit there and I read Garrett's comment.

And he lost his dad on Father's Day. And it was one month after having his girl. his baby girl and that's just another thing that angers you because I just know she would have been such a kick-ass grandma and it's my kids will never get to know her they'll get to know her through me and it just sucks god that part sucks man so I'm sure it sounds like Garrett was super close with his dad yeah so I know that pain and that anger that you will sporadically have at times because that part just sucks bro yeah you can have all the teddy bears that are wrapped in, you know, her dresses.

Insane insanely awesome gifts to remember and remind and try and constantly talk about grandma, but just knowing that you never get to meet the person. And I would, it's like I'm hopeful that my girls, like, even if I'm this way for the rest of time, like it makes them that much more curious about how grandma was. Because like, man, dad, he, he. feels when he talks about mom well if it makes if it makes you feel any better my grandfather uh charlie who i wanted to that's where the name charlie came from he had parkinson's and he was in late parkinson's when i met him so i never really knew him knew him and when he passed my i mean my mom

she would share this is why i'm sharing it she was on the couch for three or four weeks straight and I was just coming to an age where I was able to like see emotion, understand emotion. So I remember laying beside her on the couch and why are you, you know, why are you crying, mom? And just the way that she spoke about her dad and the stories, it did make me more interested in Charlie. And I did go through his things when I got older and I wanted to know about he was an engineer and I wanted to know all about the bridges that he was building in Alabama and learning about the company they started. And I bet Rue and Scotty will have that same thing of like just wanting to know about her teaching and wanting to know more about your mom.

So I think that will happen. Just quickly, I actually exact same situation as Sherm. And I'll talk to my dad and see if he's okay with the sin. I don't see why he wouldn't. but my grandfather had Parkinson's died when I was five. It was the same thing. I faint memories, but he was, if anyone that has been touched by Parkinson's, they know how awful that disease is and it just takes away.

But as I gotten older, like, that memory through my dad lives pretty strong. And there's a real curiosity within my grandmother. I always got to talk to her about him. and whether it's stories or great memories, you know, you learn so much, and there's not a day goodbye that you're like, man, I wish I got to know them really well. But that memory that lives through others,

it's really important, you know, and it's not, it's one of those things that you grow up and you just try to take the good that you hear from others. And like, yeah, it's, you know, would you want another way? Of course.

But at the same time, like, having that presence through your parents is like an amazing thing to have i would never want it a different way where where no one talked about you know my grandfather yeah i would always you know wanted to be talked about and laugh and share stories and the best to hear about so i appreciate you guys man yeah seriously because it it feel like you know when that uh like there's an awkward part of me too that when I'm kind of breaking down but I appreciate you guys kind of sitting that with me and giving given your thoughts and encouragement you guys are good dudes you as well Derek I mean we've known each other I'm not even that long I look back I see I can't break it down

with me I don't know to make you in this state but I oftentimes like being the new guy here I like driving in I don't think you guys and I know you do but like realize the impact you have on just like everyday people and so I was contemplating that that common obviously but like the fact that you even going through your situation made someone else do that like I was I was crying reading it

like it's unbelievable what you guys and chef too like three of you have started and done here and you're changing people's lives just by doing something that you guys wanted to do it's fucking awesome Derek I felt composure

I felt very spoiled yesterday because Derek brought a message from a girl who was getting picked on at school and I'll leave names out of it because I don't know if he wanted it on the podcast or not but he had reached out to the Ford of the Dad's phone basically saying hey my little girl had a dead tooth from when she fell she was getting bullied at school we went to the dentist she got it pulled she was very brave and would anyone affiliated with the show want to send her a message

and just tell her what a great job she did because she watches the show with me crying's cool big dog the parlay we could have built with all these breakdowns the bar we're hitting the bar double touch set numbers did but just getting to send that video was very cool um and like uh truly who are we to be put in a situation like that it's cool it's very cool composure i can't even look at will i'm now just looking at

Eric and chef because they're crying less than Will is. But yeah, it's just really cool and his daughter stood a video back and

it was like the best two minute video I've ever watched. So this is you we're in a big therapy session right now I love it. I know. Whoever's been sticking with us and sitting through it off there's tears in their eyes and it should

We're just having, we're just all having a moment together, man. Yeah, dad loss. I haven't done my laundry in a while, and I think Jill's trying to teach me a lesson by not doing it for me. So I'm out of underwear. And shout out my friend Colin, who jokingly sent me a European-style swimsuit the other month. And Colin, I'm currently wearing that European-style swimsuit

as underwear right now because I'm all out of underwear. That is my dad loss for the week. Get on the laundry, buddy. I got to get on it. Buddy. What am I doing? Yeah, what are you doing? I'm the, bro.

The pile of my laundry, it sits all year round. Like, where, like, maybe once, maybe twice a year, it's like I'll have the switch will flip. And it's going to be a clean closet. But that's the only time it'll ever be clean. because I'll like, you know, I'll rip a couple loads of laundry. But once I'm like, okay, it's like the whites, some colors, and then I'll be good, I'll be good to go. And then I don't get to the stuff that I'm like, I need to do, you know, whether it's hoodies.

If it's spring and summertime, it's like the hoodie pile and jeans from whatever I ended on, the winter before, they sit there all year round until it's hoodie and gene time. Yeah. But I think a lot of the boys out there stroke with the laundry. Oh, dude. I end like got my pile that sits by the bed. I'm going to wear, you know, you without out of underwear, your underwear now is sitting on the side of your bed. Your underwear and socks. And maybe I'll wear these gym shorts again that's going to sit next to my bed.

Why don't you pick that up? I might wear it later in the week. Yeah. And I woke up this morning. I went over to our, Jill does a good job of like, we have a dirty clothes hampered for Jill, me, and then towels and sheets. And I saw mine as I was walking out of the house. and it's just like a volcano slowly oozing lava out of it. And I'm like, I get, hey, I got the message, honey.

I'll do my laundry. Yeah. You take your clothes off and you're like, all right, it's kind of looks like it might tip over. Let me just rebalance it by placing my clothes here. So it doesn't fall over. You kind of like mush it down a little bit more and you step back and look at it. And you're like, all right, I can, I'll do the laundry tomorrow. Tomorrow.

A very humbling reminder to you because I told chef this morning. I have like 25 pairs of underwear. If that lets you know how long it's been since I've done laundry. That's a scary thought. Yeah. If it makes y'all feel any better, the Alex came up. She got in last night.

But yesterday, before I came in, I was planning on coming in at like one or so because we had the stream. And ends up, I wake up, and I realize how no laundry is done, rim's a mess. I was pulling a risky business like trying to get everything clean as fast as possible so the girlfriend

didn't come up and be like you could have you know picked up a little bro also shout out that Alex That's a Seaman Team Sixer right there That is a ST6 Shout out that Alex is in town and we gotta get The girls on a Mahjong game

We have to make that happen That was crazy that they both play Mahjong Does your girl play Mahjong Derek? What is Mahjohn? That was going to be my exact question Is that the Dragon? Yeah, dude. It's like it's this, it's Chinese, I believe, of origin.

It's like Chinese board game and it's to like to record, I'm pretty sure the oldest board game that's like circulated still to this day. And it's basically like a Chinese version of dominoes on steroids of like you have these certain patterns that you've got to match and you have a card that's a roughly this. size that lets you know all the matching sequences that you can do. And each matching sequence is a certain amount of points. And you have some pieces. They have some pieces. You're trying to go for this one strategy that I could pick up that you're trying to go for it. So then I can go for another strategy because now all the pieces that you don't want, those are the pieces that I need. and so you could think that you're doing a really good job but really so it's a strategy game uh-huh it's very convoluted and it's a big learning curve

it's kind of like trying to learn how to play poker like legitimate like when you play with the actual people know but let me say once you get it down it rips and you get some highly competitive games you get some cold ones too because i like with board games i can just play and have fun i don't have to win and you it's one of those games that you can have some cold ones rip in the whole time or some wine it's fun dude well have you seen Crazy Rich Asians. Yeah. It's the game they're playing at the end with the daughter who's like,

you don't know me. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only way I know it. But yeah. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. Crazy Rich Edge. Of course, my wife sat Filipino. You don't think we were in there opening night watching Crazy Rich Asians. Hey, come on. Great movie. I need to see that. I have yet to see it.

That's a nine out of ten on the shelf scale. I need to see that. And it's like they're in, bro, you would love it. That's a great, great movie for you guys this weekend. It's a great. It's a great. It's a romantic. It's everything.

It's a really good movie. I need to watch that. I've yet to watch it. And it's like they're in Singapore, right? Yep. Bro, the food scene in Singapore. It's like, I'm looking at Singapore. I'm like, baby, we need to get out to Singapore.

Dude, could not be more correct on that. Any type of cuisine that's like Indonesian, Southeast Asian, like, oh, bro. Bro, watch Crazy Rich Asians. Good, funny. I need a laugh. Great rom-com. It is a great rom-com. Honey, how it's worked?

I wouldn't even put it to a com, like a rom-com. I think it's like, I always think it's a rom-com, but I've almost put it over. More on the com? No, I'd put it more as like just an, I feel like rom-coms are like, it's like when you say, I'm watching a whole. Like you don't call Get Out a true horror movie, like a slasher, because Get Out's like an incredible, it's almost like a step up because I feel like when you genre a movie like that, it's just, I'm weird ramble here.

I feel like you're putting it to like a shelf. I'd put crazy rich agents over. I agree with you. Like you were saying if people hear the rom-com tag, then it's like, all right, the expectation of the seriousness is down. Yes. Yeah, going to go a certain, and they all fall a very specific pattern.

I would put this movie like a step above. Yes. And I'm not a huge rom-com guy. I'd put it like stars born. Like that's another one I would, which that one's not in a comedy really, but that one's depressing. I have like how to lose a guy in 10 days

and in that like upper echelon. 10 things I hate about you and that upper echelon. Yeah, it's a great one. You and Jill should definitely snuggle up and watch it this weekend. It's that good. It's that good.

Like a, hey, weekend movie. We got to watch this one. I'm not trying to be TMI, dude, but Jill and I have been snuggling a lot, dude. Just saying. All right, big dog. And I don't mean it like that. All right, big dog.

We hear you. Hey, I don't mean it like that. I'm just saying. There's nothing better than snuggling and watching movies. Oh! Really quick. I'll keep this so quick.

We got to keep it under an hour. We have to do it under an hour. Jill would not watch severance. I couldn't get this girl on severance to save her life. And I'm sitting there. I'm talking about how great severance is. And she got five minutes into the first episode of season one. This was way back.

Like your sci-fi. Yeah. Keep it quick. Yeah. Anyways, Jared comes over. Shout out Demon. And he's like, hey, y'all should watch Severs. It's a really good show.

Well, all of a sudden, it's the best idea in the world. And Jill's like, we should watch Severance. That sounds great. I bit my tongue so hard. And then she started it like four days. I guess she already finished both seasons. Both seasons? It's the best show ever.

Yeah, well, I mean, she's on maternity leads. Yeah, you know. Good for her, bro. Sherman, it's the best show ever. I can't believe you didn't tell me about this. I'm just. What did you say to her? I said, bitch.

I literally, sorry. So into the mic, I said, bitch. But I truly was like, oh my God. And now whenever we see Adam Scott on TV, she's like, Markass. I'm like, you think you know. You don't know. You don't know. Let's talk about some dad life.

Yeah, let's talk about dad life. I did my dad loss. Did you have a dad loss? More of like a, not like a dad loss, but more of like a dad guilt creeps in when your kiddo's sick. and like we travel into New York Oh yeah yeah Having the stream that we have to do To where Charles was on

A boat Well she went on the bedtime The bedtime leaks over Whenever I have to leave to go to New York Yeah Because the way we try to fly to New York Plane doesn't leave until like 830 So that way I could do bedtime at home

And then she was on bedtime duty When we were doing the Thursday night stream Which it's like There's parts of you as a parent That's like oh You know Fortunately I'm not at the house dealing with this And there's the other side

that's the guilt side. Like that's funny, but that's also like a real thing too. No, truly. And it's like I'm feeling guilty because Scotty got like a hand mouth foot, which is like this sickness, is illness, this disease where you can have,

I typed it in too so that way I can give the people some information. The symptoms of hand, mouth mouth mouth, or hand foot mouth, fever, sore throat, painful mouth ulcers, rash with small blisters on the hands feet and butt, drooling loss of appetite.

and Scotty currently has that. So I've felt bad not getting to be at home on some of those nights. Like truly because she gets fussy. She's not taking a bottle. We have to feed her like kind of cold bottles now. So she'll drink it because of the sores in her mouth. She's been eating pretty good for the most part. And then it's like the things you worry about when they have hand,

foot and mouth is like hydration. So if they're not drinking their bottle or nothing like that, like trying to get her to drink water. Yeah. See on top of that because she's not like wetting her diaper as much. but just real fussy you kind of have them asleep in your arms

and then you put them down the crib and the moment you put them in the crib and you're trying to like you know get like a mission impossible sneak out they notice you're not holding them they start crying it's got he's been a tremendous sleeper like once you get her to sleep

put her in the crib done deal 12 hours and she's just been really fussy to where you put it down the crib the moment you like your hands leave her she wakes up a nose and starts crying or you get we just got a little you know like the little cracking noise

and our doors you're opening that little squeak. Oh, yeah. Once you open it, and then those next three inches might have a squeak to where you try and open it really fast just to get the other side, and hopefully they don't hear it. But then she'll hear it, wakes up,

just been really fussy and been hard to put down at night. Yeah. So the dad loss is more of like a dad guilt because, like, we're watching the fucking Thursday night football stream, and she's like, you can't, like, go late to it or help me out or, like, help out doing this. And I'm just like, sweetheart, I got a,

I gotta do X, Y, and Z for the stream, whether it's a social ad or thanks for Fanduil that we got to deliver and do. And you just feel bad that I'm coming home because the day that like we did, I go to New York, she's struggling with Scotty at nighttime to where ultimately she has to get Scottie out of the crib and she sleeps with her in bed throughout the night because she's only seeming to sleep when she's in one of our arms. Yeah. And then that the next day it's like we have get up. We do all the ESPN stuff. We have to fly back. It's early afternoon. and we have an interview we got to do with the Zach Brown band.

It was Zach Brown that's at like 2.30. So you're getting home and I'm only home for a couple hours to where I'm able to play with everybody to hang out and be dad, be husband. And then after dinner, it's like, I got to go into the shop and do stream. And you're just, she's on double bedtime duty. And you just know as a parent, you know how hard that shit is to kind of man the ship with the kiddos when your partner has to go to work or has to leave town, whatever the case may be.

And so it's more like the dad loss is like the dad guilt. Because say if it was like a one-off, it's like, oh, they're being fussy and you kind of like think to yourself, you might be leaning more. Oh, thank God. Like, I don't have to, I get to go and like sleep in a hotel at night. But when it's like the kiddo's sick and you just know they're in it. And like, you know, whenever we'd have breaks, I like texting her like, hey, getting a pulse check, please tell me you relaxing downstairs like by yourself. But it took her kind of an extra hour to get Scotty down. She's sleeping a lot better. She's eating a lot better. Good. cold bottles, just getting her going because it's so sad having a sick kiddo. It's sad. And when they just want to cuddle, you know, if we set her down or put her somewhere else or like put her in a seat to where we have to do something around the kitchen or around the house. And she's just kind of, you know, has kind of like a sour, sad cry going on because they just want to be held. It's the saddest thing, bro. The only experience I have with that is when Scarlett had jaundice. So she had to be under those. Billy lights, those blue lights at the hospital, and just not being able to pick her up and having

to just hold her hands. Yeah, man. And she's under the billy lights just screaming. And you're like, oh, I just want to. Saddest thing in the world, bro. So it's kind of like my dad lost. Like, Dad guilt is a little Scotty Joe is currently under the weather. Dang.

And just seeing the rashes on their little feet and stuff. Oh, I know. They're not bothering her, but it's just like a sad scene. You're just like, oh, poor little Scotty Jojo. Also, more important for you because you have a buzz head, it on adults can appear on your scalp. So just be on the lookout for that. Okay.

We've done a great job like staying. Like, I'm not able to get sick because I'm like getting, I would like get worried like, hey, got a flight in New York. I'm not going to be sick. Yeah, yeah. She's like, no, no, it's not like that. Well, it's only contagious when they have like, or have a fever with it.

Yeah. So like if she's past the fever, age, you're fine. Yeah, she is. Yeah. Um, but sad scene, bro. Oh, because you just know to your little kiddo, like, Scotty's a trooper. It's Scottzilla. So when she's down and out, it's like, you just know something's off. It takes something. Like if she's struggling, you're just like, man, you just know she's hurting. Yeah. Yeah. But that's been the fight. Roooooo, Roo, cry like her daddy. Roooo, cry like her daddy. Roo Roo, cry like her daddy.

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Let's get back to the episode. But my crack of cold one this week is when your oldest understands the mission. Like I was experiencing it when I was solo with the kids last week. And even like, you're getting Rue ready for bed and everything else. But when your oldest understands what's at stake, whether I've got to put the youngest down first and you're just kind of giving them the roll-a-decks of the rules or the timeline of the structure of what bedtime's going to look like. And Rue knocks it out of the park on her own to where they're excited and they want to come show you that they're dressing their PJs. You know, taking off their clothes, going potty, coming back out, putting her pull-up on, putting her PJs on,

coming at you with just the brush left because they've done absolutely everything to get ready for bed. They know it's like story time and hairbrush and everything else. But when your oldest understands the mission on how, hey, listen, mom and dad is going to go on a date. Our babysitter came over, took Charo to, Charo and I went to Oku for a little date night one night this past week. And that sounds sick, by the way. What is that? Oku. Yeah.

It's like a sushi spot, sushi, Asian, Japanese cuisine. Very good. Highly recommend. Good ambiance. Great scene. Yeah, definitely a finger snapper. But the babysitter came over and I'm like having a one-on-one with Rue and like, you know, how she's got to help out, Ava and everything else. Then Ava comes over and I kind of tell her the quick rundown with Scotty.

She's dealt with Scotty before, but give her to the quick how to change her like, you know, change her on the changing table, sleep sack, pajamas, milk, get the sound machine on, close the blinds, blah, all that, the whole rundown. And I'm like, and I just tell her confidently. And I'm like, and then you go in with Rue, like, let Rue use a TV coupon. like while you're doing Scotty and then when you get to Roo, Roo do a great job of walking you through everything. Yeah. And that sure is shit enough, like you get a text message when you're at dinner.

How was Rue? And she was like, she walked me through every step that she had to do. Oh. Yeah, every step. And then like, you know, read me a book. And then we go brush her teeth. Uh-huh.

Brush your hair, all that stuff. But Rue was flawless. So my crack and cold one is when the oldest understands the mission. Oh, dude. Well done, Rue. Shout out Rue. Shout out Rue and I would love to just be walked through the bedtime routine by Rue. I'm sure she does a fabulous job.

You know she is dialed in. Charles was like, did you feel like Ava's good with everything? Did you give her a rundown of Scotty and Roo? I was like, I mean, I gave her a run down to Scotty and then I just told her that Ruh will handle it when it comes to putting Rue down. No, no, Ava, we brush our teeth after. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Read two books first, then we go brush our teeth. Dude, that's so sick. And that's a shout out to you and Charo. I'll say that part. Because, I mean, y'all set up that, what's it called? Routine, structure. Structure. Thank you.

The discipline. Discipline. But yeah. That's so sick, dude. In those moments, I'm truly like, I trust Roos is going to handle all of this. Yeah. Then you kind of give her a one-on-one conversation before she comes over. She's going to really need your help.

Because she doesn't know. Because she doesn't know. Yeah. And that mom and dad, we don't have a go day night. And you know, mom and dad, always comes back home.

We let her know. She's like, I don't want you to leave. We always come back home. Yeah. And we're going to run right upstairs when we get home. We're going to give you a hug, kiss and three squeezes while you're in bed.

But whenever Ava comes over, sweetheart, she doesn't know how to do bedtime. So you got to walk her through the process of how you do bedtime. And I trust you. I trust that you know how to do that and that you can lead her in the right direction. Can you do that for dad, yeah. Okay.

Boom. What a step. Lockstep. Once I walk away from that conversation, I'm like, sweetheart, we're good to go. Rue seems like a true firstborn in her, like, rule follower. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, she is.

My brother was a true firstborn as well. So, which will help Scotty Jojo. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah. All right. Let's do, oh, what are the odds? Because I didn't do it last week. And correct me if I'm wrong if I didn't do it last week.

Either way, we have a what are the odds with us crying and everything? We do have a what are the odds. Yeah, seriously. Keep it under an hour. Keep under an hour. Jay Merck, who is Arizona State, Sun Devil. He bet me on the diaper bet. I am 0 for two on diaper bets.

For those that don't know on social media, I will take up a bet. College football-wise, Baylor was playing Arizona State. And they lost in a last second field goal. J. Merck, I am, today is Friday when we're recording this. I'm actually shipping your two cases of size four huggies today. No free shoutouts to huggies. No free shoutouts to huggies. And also just a huge shout out to J. Merck.

It was my first time doing this. But we're talking about the FaceTime and the call feature on Twitter. I called J. Merck on Game Day. So how the diaper bet works is usually somebody will call me out. on social media and say, hey, I'll take you straight up. J. Merr seemed like a very nice guy. And I gave him a little call on the morning of game day. And we just talked ball for a little bit.

But we were talking shop about Baylor, ASU, and then we started talking about PT6 a little bit, Nashville, and then he's in Texas right now. It was sick, dude. It was just fun, like getting to interact with a PT sicko. And he's a deserving winner. So we'll be shipping his diapers. I love that.

But what are the odds that I'll go over on diaper bets? No, you'll be a way. I have a Oklahoma State sicko that's in my DMs. I told Sherm, I was like, this is the week where you go all out. Hey, all you fuckers out there in Stillwater, he'll want some. Yeah. I would double down. Any dads out there in Stillwater, you want a piece of this shit?

Any pokes out there? they're dumb enough to take a triple down diaper bet. Yeah, I'm about to get like four months worth of diapers. Yeah. In the week that you play Texas Tech, you go, uh, yeah, if anyone wants to do it, we can make. Yeah. You know, I don't think we're doing diaper bets anymore, guys. I got a survival kit.

Yes. Pepinones. Oh. Pepinones, bro. Round of applause for pepponone. Round of applause for Pepinones. Round of applause for Pepinones. Pepperonies.

Uh, but if you want a nice little go-to-eathele's, uh, but if you want a nice little go-to, snack that gets some of their protein in. Pepinones is a good one. We get ours from Applegate, the Applegate Turkey Uncured Pepinones, the Applegate brand. Yeah. Oh, that sounds so good, dude. It's a staple in Roos lunchbox.

Any charcutte type of meat. Yeah. Oh. The peppononones? Roos big on cheese sticks. She'll get her P.B. and J. But it's like you want to pack a little extra protein. Um, pepennonies.

Keep it under an hour, but another layer to that dad hack, my mom always used to do poo-poo platters. And she'd get the pepponones, the cheese sticks, but she would cut up the cheese sticks. You get it real fancy on like a little board. I feel like Roo would go nuts over that. Yeah. Well, like when I'm doing her lunchbox, it's like I'll throw in the pepponones, slice up some of her cheese stick, mix it in there together where she has a couple little pockets. And she's always bragging. and she's in the CPC every day when she gets home from school.

What's the CPC? Clean plate club, buddy. That's from last week, Sherman. Yeah. On a show that you're on. Clean plate club. It's all about the clean plate club. You want that cookie, you got to get in the CPC.

Come on. Come on. You did Dad Hack. My survival kit. Scarlet's getting to the size where she hasn't outgrown the duna, but she's gotten to the weight where she can now be. in the Nuna as well. Nice.

The Nuna Stroller is just a game changer. It's nothing against the Duna, dude. Love the Duna. But the Nuna's like real high up, and it just kind of feels like the Cadillac of strollers. I really have to brag on it. I need to, let me search this up,

because I'm wondering if I have a Nuna. The Nuna, also, it has like a seat adjuster to where you can kind of go up and down, leverage-wise, on how, high up your child sitting. There was a comment. I did not print it out for it. There was a gentleman in the comment saying that the Nuna can be used with the base

and without the base for seatbelts. I know last week we talked about we'll talk about the Nuna base and things like that. There was a comment saying that. So I didn't put it in there, but to bring it up if we're talking Nuna, apparently, that's the thing. Nuna is crazy. And it is a more expensive stroller than the Duna.

Like you'll have to shell out and I will save this on the pod. I did not spend my own money on it. It was a gift from my dad. So shout out Papa Shirm. Oh, buddy, we got the Nuna. Dude, the Nuna rips. It rips.

And the weight-wise, like, I'm pretty sure Rue, like, Rue's probably not in a stroller anymore, but. No, we have a double. Oh, okay. I don't think it's the Nuna one. It might be hell, I don't. But, like, weight-wise, Rue being a three-year-old, like, she could still fit in a Nuna.

Like, they're, dude. and just pushing, like, I love doing walks, dude. And now that it's getting colder, oh, I'm going to be taking Scarlet on so many walks. I'm very excited for that. Yeah, bro, we got the, we got the Nuna. It is the Cadillac. We got the one that kind of looks like a bassinet too.

Yes. And that's a big dog. I'm talking about compliments everywhere. Oh, yeah. People like, oh, that's like the Ferrari of strollers. I'm like, your goddamn right it is. Yeah. It truly, like, if you're going to a car,

Like suspension to it. Yes. At our trunk or treat, the PT6 trucker treat, if people are rolling up in a Noon, you're going to have like eight dads kind of standing there with their hands on their hips looking at the Noon and going on. Yeah. That's pretty nice. What year is that?

What model is it? Yeah. It's 25. Yeah, Noon is good. Good shout out. Good survival kit right there. Do we want to do 601, the dad's call in? Yeah, because we do have a dad hack.

I heard it within the call in. So let's get into it. We do. Let's lean into the people for some. dad hacks. All right. This first one, I have heard tale that this first one is legendary. What's up, guys? This is Logan from Virginia Beach. I'm currently a member of Buds. I'm currently a member of Buds. I've got a story that reminded me a little bit of the Willie One Shelf story. So it happened about a year ago, but I could see the conversation coming back

up. My wife decided to attack my manhood. When I let her know, I did not feel safe hanging Christmas lights on our mansured roof. If you don't know what a manseured roof is, go ahead and look it up. I'm no task rabbit gooner like Willie One Shelf. I put in an outdoor couch last year, built it myself, hung the outdoor TV, built a fire pit. I like doing those things, but I'm no expert. Now, I am somewhat risk prone. That same fire pit I built. I called on fire. About two, three years ago, burned 22% of my body. Pretty good. We're back to 100% now. So what I'm asking is, is it unreasonable? And I told my wife, I did not feel safe hanging these Christmas lights on the second story of a mansured roof because she thinks that, you know, not quite a man

because I couldn't do that. That's all I'm asking. Let me know your take on it. Go Pat, go on Wisconsin. See you soon. Dude, shout out Logan. Shout out Logan, a badger. You don't want to get on that roof. You don't get on that roof. You take your ass up that roof, sweetheart lights. I'm past grapiting these Christmas lights. That mansard roof looks insane. You know I'm not getting on no roof. That's a sheer drop off. Like there's no, you can't walk on that. Yeah.

Logan, listen, if we need to get, if we need to get some kind of speaker phone, we all get on the phone and we just have a conversation with the wipy. We can corner. And we can, yeah, we can corner. Straight up. And we'll just act like we're friends from high school. Yeah. And they own a roofing company.

Let me call then. I mean, you know, let's bounce some ideas off. Yeah. now Logan did you say you have a mansured oh shit I don't know man you might have to you might have to get a tap right just wearing the bane mask while you're talking

standing behind you we're on face time you need a tap scrap it logan yeah dude fuck that straight up sweetheart this is pt6 and we are meeting you in the agap on this situation

if your man does not want to get on the roof dang Christmas lights because he's a little wrist prone. He burnt 22% of his body. He might be a little intimidated by heights. You take your candy ass up there if you want those lights on. But if not, we're dealing. We're, we're, uh, we're dealing this out. We're getting a third party involved. And listen, that you may be sitting at home going, oh, well, of course, Willie one shelf's going to say, listen, I've hung some shelves. I love doing it myself. But this roof is staring me down in the agap. Hell no. Hell no. I'm not getting on that roof. That's crazy.

It's a Clark Griswold roof. Yes. I mean, that's a fall off the ladder. That's a broken neck waiting to happen. And look, there's some one-shelfer's out there. My dad, my old man, he's a one-shelfer. Like when Christmas time was coming around, you know who's on the roof? My mom.

Was she really? Yeah. I love that. Belt needed to be fixed in the vehicle. You know who was doing it? My mom. No. Yeah.

by hand. Yes, bro. My mom would attack anything and everything in the A-Gap. What a legend. Not the old man. Not the old man. He's a one-shelfer. He's a...

That's where I get that gene. He'd take the hat off and kind of scratch the head. He'll, uh, shit. Yeah. Ah. Yeah. Give me a beer. That's great.

Logan, um, yeah, stay off that roof. Stay off the roof, Logan. Ten toes down, bro. Yes. And if you show her this clip, give her some context, too. Like, we're not actually coming at your wife. No. This is all in good fun.

This is all, just like I'm sure she isn't, you know, sitting there with the cattle prod trying to get him up there. Yeah. We love you, Mrs. Logan. We do love you, Mrs. Logan. But give your boy a break. Give your boy a break on that one. Just one thing. He does all.

It sounds like he's, this is a man's man right here. He'll do anything. He'll burn his skin for you. Outdoor sofa, outdoor fire pit. There was one other thing. I was like, this guy's handy. He's handy as hell. Yeah.

Yeah, not Willie OneShall He ain't no one-shelf gooner like Oh, Willie One-shelf demon This one comes from Ben Hey, what's up, boys? This is Ben down here in North Carolina Love the pod, it's been such a light in my life

Love hearing the stories every week Got me real excited for fatherhood Expecting a child any day now You know, It's very excited But I have a serious, unsurious question for you I grew up a Dallas Cowboys fan, unfortunately. For the last 30 years, I've just been miserable my entire life.

Yeah. But being here in North Carolina, you know, obviously the Panthers are the team, even though they're not really that good, but everyone's really passionate about it down here. And I was wondering, do I brainwash my child from an early age to be a Cowboys fan and be ostracized by their peers like I was growing up? Or do I raise them to be a Panthers fan despite the first? old man being a Cowboys fan, but accepted by their peers.

We'd love to hear the advice. Thanks, guys. Love the pod. Peace out. That's a tough question. It is a tough question. Because if the kiddos's growing up in Panther country, I feel like there's just more respect for people that grow up and they're fans of their teams.

What's his name again? Ben. Ben, I too was a Dallas fan growing up. I forgot about that. Indctrated by my old man. Come on. And I'm sure my man been there. Cowboys, all of their success was really in the 90s.

He's really hanging on to, God damn if Romo would have just held that ball down on the field goal. It's so true. They would have beat Seattle. Those damn Seahawks. Because I watched that two of my living room just jumping, like, yelling, because there's even a moment to where Tony gets and he's running. He's like, he's going to get the end zone. Yes. That's the last strong moment, right?

Or is it Des Bryant with the one-handed catch against the pack? Yeah, it's definitely, it's the Packers game. Those are the two moments that live in your head as a Dallas fan for if you have some kind of success. Either way, I think you're in a good spot. Here's where I know you're in a good spot because both teams are shitty. They are.

They will be molded by the darkness. Yeah. Which is what you want. You think darkness is your ally. You think Jerry Jones is a problem. As a Cowboys hand growing up, And I'm, anybody in this office would tell you Sherman saw a real Cowboys fan. Okay, I'll take that.

I grew up as a Cowboys fan, though. And all they did was break my heart. However, it was fun being a fan of the local team. That's my only two cents. Yeah, because I always, I didn't feel weird, but it just, I'm always asking, why am I such a Cowboys fan? It's because my dad was a Cowboys fan with his dad when it was like the Steel Curtain, the Dallas Cowboys going back and forth. And yeah, yeah, the steel curtain, yeah, Pittsburgh. And so that's how I kind of grew up.

I kind of just grew up a Dallas fan, like in Missouri, when everybody else, it's like I felt like a fraudulent Rams fan when it was the greatest show on turf and they're going to the Super Bowl. Yeah. So, yeah, that is a tough quote. Great question, Ben. Great question. One that you're going to have to figure out and handle on your own.

If I had to give an answer, I'd say, go Panthers just because I loved, like, going to the game. Chef said, what? I learned this voicemail for two reasons. One, Kat and I had this car. My fiance had this conversation about the Titans versus Steelers. And I said, if my kid wears Titans, he's not my kid. Not a bad.

Titan thing, just were Steelers fans, too. I came in this morning, Chef, beat me in. I was like, hey, chef, voicemails are in there. We always go over them together. He goes, cool. I'll check it out. A couple minutes goodbye here. Fucking neither.

I love how I said, be a Panthers fan. And please cut back to that camera to get his reaction as soon as I said it. He goes, what? I like I'm talking shit, too, and I'm a Titans fan. We're all miserable. Yeah, we are. My thing was, my thing was like, might as well make him a Cowboys fan. I was indoctrinated.

I was a Tennessee fan for, you know, we've had four decent. We've had four good years. I don't even know why I was about to say decent. Yeah. I went through shit my whole life. I was made fun of him being a Vals. and I lived in the state of Tennessee. That's how bad we were.

But I didn't have a choice. And that's what you love about it. Well, and there are those Cowboys fans. For any Texans out there, they'll understand this. I had buddies from San Angela that would, they would drive up for every Dallas Cowboys game. That's like a four or five hour drive. They'd drive up for every single one.

And it's got a really cool history. The Cowboys do have a really cool history. I'm spoiled by it because geographically, I was born in DFW, so it was just kind of like, Yeah, that's my team. And did he say he grew up in? It didn't sound like it because he said he actually was ostracized by his peers being a Cowboys Fitt.

So it sounds more similar to you. Yeah. That's a tough one, bro. That's a tough one. But it's kind of fun like when you do get kiddo to Dallas and you get him to Mecca and he gets to go to Jerry's world. Right. It's a cool spot.

Absolutely. It's sick. Absolutely. Yeah, that's tough, man. Yeah, that's tough. Because it's not like my dad went to any Dallas games He was just a Dallas Cowboys fan Has he been to a Dallas?

Oh, well, yeah When he did, it was when Washington played at Dallas So he wasn't a Cowboys fan That's right It was pretty easy for him In his words, it was pretty easy for him To just be on board of Washington And everything else

Yeah, yeah Yeah, that's a tough one, bro That is tough Yeah It's like if he grew up there Yeah, I don't know I don't know Because you could have more moments with your kiddo going to Panthers games.

Yes. And I don't, dude, so many people would be like, oh, come on, Sherman. But I'm fine with being a fan of a team and going and supporting the local team. I've been to three Titans games, worn a Titans jersey. I love it. Am I a Titans fan? No, but I have fun going to the games and cheering on the Titans and wanting them to win. Maybe that's the game you play.

You just, you know your old man is a massive Dallas fan. Yeah. You're not fully trying to ostracize them. They're letting you, like, you know, you're taking them to Carolina. You're taking them to the Panthers games. They're growing up. Maybe they just are a Panthers fan and they realize their old man is a sickle for Dallas. But there could be a part of the, there could be a part of the kiddo that just wants to be in the trenches with you when you're worried about Dallas all the time.

Yeah. And you're not growing up in like D.C. or like San Francisco. I was about to say if you're Pat, like, it's not like you're in Wisconsin or Baltimore. You're in Charlotte. Yeah. Love Charlotte. Great city. Great city.

But just it's not, it's like, I agree with what Sherm said on the NFL side, at least for me, it's like, unless you're in one of those cities that it's like, you know, the history of the team. College football is a different deal in my book. College football is, if you're in conference, no. Outside of conference, like I wear the, I have a USF, that USF shirt on. Yeah. That's fine. But it's like where I start to go is like, hey, we live in Mississippi, but I grew up in Baton Rouge, went to LSU. My son, I'm thinking about not indoctrining him to be a tiger, and he would be a rev instead.

I'm like, yeah, that's insane. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my kids are going to be Husker fans. And we had Zach Brown, he's the episode that just dropped on Tuesday, and he was talking to, he's a major Bulldog fan. He's got a kid at UT and a kid at Old Miss, he said. Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech Georgia Tech in Texas

Yes sorry I said UT I have a bad habit of that UT around here Tennessee evolves Yeah UT around here I learned about it differently here too It's Tennessee University Tennessee So sorry UT Austin

Or otherwise known University of Texas Yeah I'll sit up No daughter of mine If I'm a bulldog And no daughter of mine going to Georgia Tech your face too when he said that on the bus you're like

Georgia Tech he yelled it he needed the he needed the bedtime story you raise them up you the bad guys and good guys good guys are your team and that's what we if we're just going to give this thing an answer he just needs to cook up a little bedtime I don't know how old but again he's trying to make the decision of what should he do so he right now he's trying to figure out

who should the good guys be just well in that case, just make sure that the bad guys, if you're a sick O Dallas fan, the bad guys are, you know, the commanders, the 49ers, the Eagles, Giants, Niners, hit all those things. And then, yeah,

and then who's Carolina's rival? I'm so sorry. I'm blanking. And they're in the south, so the buccaneers, Falcons. Yeah, that's right. Saints. Yeah, I don't know. That's a tough one.

That's a tough one. Question for Olson. Question for Olson, man. But see, Olson, if I'm Olson, I would say it's Carolina because he played at Carolina. Yeah. He's a sicko fan of Dallas, not knowing if he grew up in Texas, like got ostracized in the Dallas community, which is a fun thing. Just be fans of both, maybe. Be fans of both.

And maybe it's fun to be ostracized. I know I see an Eagles Giants game and I'll see in the stands at an Eagles game just some sickos in Cowboys jerseys. Like the Cowboys aren't even playing and they're just there. Cowboys are definitely a much more fun like organization and brand in general because of the history, the Fawn, the America's team, even though they're not America's team right now. Jerry Jones, you got the documentaries, you got a lot more things to lean on to learn and grow fandom in the Cowboys universe than you do the Panthers. Yes.

And the bad side of that Cowboys fandom is I feel like there are a ton of Cowboys fans that love putting on that star and living in Philly and just walking into a Philly sports bar. And the chatters start happening and they're like, yeah, yeah. We're talking way too much about this Carolina, Dallas situation. True. Embrace them both. Embrace them both. Do we want to move on to Lesson of the Week?

We'd love to because we are times a ticking. Times a ticket. Times a ticket. Do you want to start first or I can start first? You go ahead. I don't really have one. I guess my lesson is living with your pain. That's a good one.

Mine's quick. Mine comes from Mike Leach, one of my favorite coaches. He has a book, Swing Your Sword, that I've yet to read. I really want to read it, but here's a quote from legendary football coach Mike Leach. It is Swing Your Sword. Don't sit around waiting for the perfect moment because it's never going to come. You have to live life with courage, cut through the clutter, and chase the things that actually matter to you. Half the people in the world are going to tell you it can't be done and the other half

will be too scared to try themselves. But that's not your problem. Your problem is whether you've got the guts to keep going when it's hard to embrace adversity instead of running from it and to keep swinging no matter how messy it gets. You don't win at life by being careful you win by going for it. Very well said. I think there's two good things, two things that stand out to me with you reading that, one, I'm thinking about the comment we got earlier from, was it J-Tar? Yeah, J-Tar. Swinging the sword in him, swinging the sword,

and knowing that adversity's always going to be there no matter what, and it's truly up to you. And I think the second thing that stood out, like, as a dad, you battle with conversations all the time with, am I doing enough, am I being enough? Am I who I think I am? You hear a lot of dad advice. You hear a lot of things that your boys do or your boys say, whatever it is.

And it's like something that jumps out to me when you read that is prioritizing. Like you can prioritize and this is something that you constantly have to work on as a dad. Because there'll be moments throughout the week to where whether guilt creeps in or I'm feeling like, man, am I doing enough here? here, am I doing it up there? And it's like, if I don't have it prioritized in my life, then I'm never going to be intentional about doing X, Y, and Z. Like, balancing work, being a husband, a father, a friend, all of those buckets that we constantly talk about. It's like, find your priorities and swing your sword from that lesson. Yes. Because I was watching a video and it was a dad basically talking like,

do any other dads out there struggle with, like you're wanting to provide and give them a life that they deserve. Well, at the same time, am I working so much that I'm working way, I'm working through years of such importance. And I want to say his daughter was two. It's like they're just,

they're developing and growing. And he doesn't feel like he's missing moments, but it's more so do I feel like I'm doing enough? And it's like those conversations I feel like every dad has. And it's just such a good reminder to constantly think, think that way and question yourself, but then direct it towards prioritizing your, your, your, your yeses, basically, things that you are going to say yes to. And anything that falls

outside of those boundaries, those are easy knows for you. Yeah. It's been a big learning curve in my life. It's something I'm still constantly trying to work through, like as we get new opportunities with bus with the boys for the dads, the locker room, the college, the NFL, the ESPN. and, you know, we get to do a lot of cool things, and we're getting a lot of cool opportunities. And again, it's like making a decision on if it falls out of this boundary, it's got to be a no. A quick example is like the other day we're like running through guests that we can have on the podcast for Bustin with the boys. And this one was brought up and it was a big time defensive player that, hey, we could interview him at 6 p.m. on Monday. And then we did the team meeting.

We did all that stuff. And then afterwards, I just told, I told Clump, I'm like, hey, the 6 p.m. interview on a Monday is a no. And the thoughts of it is like, you know, are you sure? It's like, you know, that work capacity or that work mind inside you is, are you doing enough like, hey, if we want to push the boat in the direction for the brand? And then I think to myself, the way I compartmentalize it is, man, I had these boundaries. If I'm going to be home in the afternoon on Mondays and in the evenings, those are my yeses. Everything else is a no. Yeah, it's an interview. could be an awesome one, but that's one where it's like, you've got to stand strong in what your

priorities are because my priority at that moment on that particular day is that priority is at home. And so it has to be. Whether or not it's felt differently anywhere else, it's like, man, interviews are going to come and go, bro. But if I'm wanting to be intentional about being at home, especially during the football season, this is where the power of no kicks in. It falls outside of my standard or outside of my boundary. it's this is why it's a no. Yeah.

So great lesson. That's a quote. Yes, great quote. Loved your addition to it. And the only addition I would give is Mike Leach has also a great quote about swinging your sword. To add on to this is he said that when you see the pirates in the movies or the knights in the movies, they aren't swinging their sword like this. And he's got like little alligator arms. He's like, they're like this.

And I just love that illustration of like, hey, and when you do commit and when you do, like, be confident. Yeah. Like swing your sword and whatever it is. Do it with confidence and that belief in self and belief in decision on your part. So like, you know, being able to have that. Yeah, absolutely. Conversation. Yeah.

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