Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton Suffers From Falconia & an ELITE Dad Hack To Get The Kiddo To Take A Picture | For The Dads

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm talk a recap of their thanksgiving with the Fam and Friends, check in on the Compton Household Flu, and break down have arguably our most hilarious call-in to date — all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with Will & Sherm discussing how Will’s Daughter called him “Will” before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: Making up the word Falconia as a medical disease (Shoutout Sherm) Of Course, Olipop and Terminal List Chef talks Turkey Other highlights include: An ELITE Dad Hack for Kid Photos Will Compton's Reading His First Fiction Novel! 👉 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 - Rue likes to call Will by his first name 3:07 - Thanksgiving Check In 7:25 - Welcome to PT6 New Dads! 16:56 - Compton House Sickness Catchup 25:23 - Sherm Recaps His Thanksgiving / Date Night Is Here 32:35 - Chef talks about his eTurkey 37:26 - Some Olipop Chatter Amongst the Boys 45:43 - Will Shares an ELITE Photo Dad Hack 50:29 - A PT6er with an amazing perspective / Googling Falconia  1:03:02 - What are the Odds / Crack a Cold One / Wills Wholesome Story 1:11:12 - What are PT6ers family traditions? 1:15:25 - 601 The Dads - One in a Melon 1:21:07 - Name this kid /  A poem for all of PT6 1:35:06 - Have You Guys Heard Of The Terminal List? 1:45:20 - Will shares the River of Change as his Lesson of the Week 1:53:30 - J.R. Tolkein Closes Down The Show   —--   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a recently new father who’s currently deep in the trenches of Fatherhood and loving every minute of it. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   Liquid IV - Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout.    Wayfair - Get organized, refreshed, and ready for the holidays for way less. Head to https://Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I hope your trees are out. out. I hope the trash is taken out. I hope your Christmas lights are up. I hope you had a phenomenal Thanksgiving. And I hope you bought the hell out of our Black Friday deal and Cyber Monday deals running on our store, bwtb.com. This is another episode of For the Dads. This show is for fathers looking to, you know, have some fun. Have some fun. Let loose. Talk a little shit. Talk a little shit. I cost him the first couple minutes I'm sorry. Talk wins and losses, stuff that we're learning, working through with wifey, with the kids. I had rude fucking bitching at me for the last hour before.

She fucking bitching her. Yeah, she didn't want to eat her dinner. She was like upset. She didn't want dad to do bedtime. Oh, perfect. But we weathered the storm. And I kept my composure. There's a couple times I'm walking up the stairs and I just wanted to lose my mind.

And like just blow a gasket. But that would have helped nobody. So, Rue, you wanted to make me this little bracelet that I have on my right wrist. This one right here. But you don't want dad as to tuck you in. Yeah, and I didn't get it. And it was bothering me. One, because right now, as people are listening to us, it is Monday night for our recording right now.

It is after we got the kids down. It is 9 p.m. Yeah. On Monday. Six hours of recording earlier today for all the busting with the boys, content that's out there, went home, spent some time at home, put the kids down. And I'm thinking I got to get rolling. Like, Rue, you've got to help me out. We got through it.

You did bring up this bracelet. My daughter, Rue, she made some bracelets for us. I came home last week. And she's like, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad. Let me tell you something. Like, what is this, sweetheart? She's like, I made you a bracelet. I was like, oh, my, you made me a bracelet?

They said, yeah, come look, come look. And I go over and she hands it to me. And it's beautiful. But it just says, Will. Not Dad. Not Dad, Dad. I love Dad, Dad. Not Daddy.

will oh you got my first name i'm going to have to explain this to people and they're like oh did you who made that for you they might people might think if they read the name they might see the bracelet and start to think like oh did your daughter make you that but the minute they see my name in the middle of them thinking of that question they'll they'll switch from like oh did you oh who made that bracelet for you like oh my daughter she likes to call me will yeah you are just your buds yeah you're on a first name basis yeah and what that that's first name and And Charles, like, you know Daddette's first name. Hey, no, I don't.

Like, it's Will, sweetheart. You know how to spell Will. She even knows how to sign language. My, she knows how to sign language, her first name. I guess she's learning that sort of stuff at school. I don't even know how to sign language. They're teaching her that in school. I thought even though.

Teaching a sign language and shit. Hey, sweet. And the parent teacher conference. And she's hearing great in sign language. No shit. You don't teach them. That's crazy. I didn't know they did that.

Oh, how was your Thanksgiving? It was good. We got to spend some time together. We did. The Thanksgiving at Taylor's was very, very good. It was like very lifegiving. It was very, I am not homesick by any means. But like, I just wanted a holiday with family, like the food, all that stuff.

And thank God Taylor hosts that event. because I got like the perfect fill of what I was looking for during the holiday. It was honestly awesome. Dude, the spread, the desserts, boys. What was that thing you picked up? And you came over, you were talking to me and you took this huge bite out of it. And you like gave me a wink. Like it was just this massive pastry when we were in the kitchen.

Do you remember it? Cinnamon rolls that had like cream in the middle of it. It looked like a funnel cake with like. Oh, that's. from um shout out no free shout out at bright side bakery oh they got these pastries from bright side bakery over in west nashville and that one i don't even know what it was but it was magical it it looked magical will had a moment as he was like mid sentence with me he just takes a bite out of that and just gives me a look like oh god yeah i think i was like you gonna play war wolf with it

you did i think that's exactly what you said you took a bite and wink hey you play a whirlworth with us tonight man but uh dude it was incredible i know I talked about this on Bustin. For any listeners of the Bustin pod, but shout out Ryan, Nolan, specifically here at the office, bringing his fam, his mom. We got to talk with her like the entire dinner

and just learn about their family, learn about Jersey. It was like that nice little fill where like it wasn't my mom, but I felt like I was hanging out with one of my, you know, one of my aunts or my mom. And she's just gushing about her kids and telling all these, childhood stories of Ryan and his sister. Yeah.

It was awesome. Good family vibe. Great family vibe. It's a great feel. Like you said, it's like you get to go over the little ones. You don't have to do all the cooking yourself. It's already there.

You're ready to go. You're around the boys. You're around the families. You're around the kids. Can we talk about the to go boxes really quick? Because that wasn't even touched on the bus. You are right. We can't in one second.

We got to make sure everybody listening on audio right now. everybody watching at home on YouTube just make sure you are subscribed to the boys. It helps out this show a lot. A ton. Matter of fact, the last week we were talking about, hey, we're close to 10K, let's get us to 10K. We hit 10K last week by the weekend.

Now we're at over 11,000 subscribers. Derek posted some crazy gangbusters short on YouTube that's going nuts. We have two shorts that are at 2.5 million views and a couple other that are out of million views. They're the one of the uncles racing. It's three and a half right now. That and then the kid, this was a video that genuinely made me cry.

There's a kid that goes up to his mom and says, hey, I just wanted you know the kids in the neighborhood knocked. Like, you guys play with them. Have you seen that video? I don't think I have. My fiance sent me that and said, you should post this. And that's at about $3 million as well. Bro. A shout out cat.

Great call. Great dad content going up on the Four of the Dad's channel. And again, make sure you're subscribed. Absolutely love the Papa Team 6 PT6 community. I hope PT6 is ready to go for Christmas. Again, shirts, hats. We got mugs. We got the, what are these things called?

Like the Yetys? Tumblers. Yeah, Tumblers. Got tumblers. It says, For the Dads on it. Get ready to Rock Boys for Christmas. It's coming up. If you miss the Black Friday sale, that's okay.

Everything is still on the website right now, BWTB.com. I want to specifically shout this shirt out. This might be my favorite shirt that we have sold before the dads. Really? I just love like the faded look. It's a comfort color shirt. shirt. You look good. Dude. That beanie is nice. The beanie rocks.

The little stuff bare with the cigar and the whiskey rips, man. And Charles loves these hats. She started, she laughed the other day because she just realized it was for the dad's F-I-R. Yes. She had a nice little laugh. Not a parr-law. Not a typo. Yeah, not a type. Not a type. Nice little pair of love. Oh, that's so cute. I love

that. I don't blame some of the PT-6ers thinking we did. Yeah. But go shop to you drop. We do have a couple new dads to shout out. here. A couple new dads a shoutout. Again, a way to engage. We have a hotline 601 the dads that you can call into. Leave a voicemail, a win or a law, something you learn, something to add to the dad toolbox to get a new dad ready. Whatever it is, call in, vent,

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Couple new dad shoutouts right here. Nathaniel Campbell became a dad on Tuesday. What? Nothing. I had a joke that didn't land. I giggled. You say Galaxy Pod. Galaxy Pod.

Wherever you listen. Yeah. Wherever you listen. Damn, Zama. Sega Genesis. We got a pod on Sega Genesis. make sure you comment. When you laugh too, I was like, I swear I read Nathaniel correctly. No, you're crushing it. You're crushing. Nathaniel Campbell became a dad on Tuesday, November 25th,

and was immediately hit with a glimpse of the future as the nurses and doctors in the room started claiming they've never seen a baby come out with the broadest shoulders and big his hands and proceeded to nickname him, the linebacker baby. No. I now have a Will Compton on my hands, boys, 21 and a half inches, eight pounds, 14. now it's hashtag httr hashtag d1 baby hashtag boydette hashtag good good yeah congratulations to daniel hey shout out that mt6 here god bless him linebacker baby measure his neck measures neck is he built for the egg out i got a jones 7077 from spotify texas high school football coach here shout out. Full-time PT-Sixer to a beautiful four-year-old girl, Hallie Ray, practicing on Thanksgiving, then headed to the family Thanksgiving. I want to thank you guys for giving us the pod as a chance to not only help me be that

father figure to our players, but also encouraging me to be more attentive, caring, and strong for my little one at home. Listening on the commute home every day helps me recharge after teaching slash coaching all day, and be present at home as well for our daughter. And A Jones, where are you coaching? Where you coached? Yeah, Decatur. Yet, A, or you, Hornet?

I got to know. Tell me what high school you're coaching at. And shout out A. Jones. Shout out A. Jones. I got another one here. Brian Merlo. Brian from New Jersey here, my five-week-old finish eating at 3.30 has had the hiccups for over a half hour. Oh, God.

Got to love the trenches. Love the show, boys. up the great work. I got Brandon Moffitt 9 from YouTube. This is a repeat offender. Here to report that I tried the Chabani Sweet Cream with Banana Cream Oli Pop. What's the verdict? And I quote, Buddy, it rips. Shout out Jilly Bean for the recipe. Shout out me for fudging it up. How did you fudge it up again? Heavy cream. That's right. Heavy cream. Heavy cream. Heavy cream. It seems good. Heavy cream. Heavy whipped cream.

You ever done a shot of heavy cream with some glutamine? No, that sounds incredible. Apparently it's supposed to help curb your appetite a little bit. Like curb your cravings for sugar. Oh, that sounds good. You throw a shot of glutamine in there and then chase it with some heavy cream. Yeah. You get, hey, apparently.

Hey, another one. Chef will love this. You get a little Worcestershire sauce. a little heavy cream, you get some mushrooms and nice little sauce for the steak. You put it on the steak. Burgundy mushrooms is what that's called. That thing rips.

That rips. I have one from Benji Golfs on YouTube. Thankful for PT6 going through a lot of stress. I feel like is never going away. And for the dads, always comes in clutch, even for a few hours for my mind to escape.

That comes from Benji Golfs on YouTube. Shut up Benji. I feel you, Benji. I feel you, bro. The week, last week, number one, it's something I need to correct. Charles brought it to my attention that I wasn't the one that went upstairs

to Scotty when she puked all over herself. She was like, I think you said, we went up and got Scottie figured out at nighttime. Like, you slept. That's on me. Hand up. Hey, Benji, come here. Vince you, let me tell you about some stress.

You tell these stories on this podcast, and get corrected by your wife, hey, superhero that you think you are, but you're not. You didn't go up and clean up that puke. Mama did. Oh, I could have swore. I said it was you swear. No, no, you said something about we. You were sleeping.

She still woke me up, didn't she? Because we were sitting there going back and forth about the amounts of sleep we got. I'm like, oh, I'll just. No, honey, you didn't have to clean up? I'm like, well, they still, you all still woke me up each time. Honey, remember I sat up and I was like, hey, do you need any help? And you're like, no, I'm good. And so I was like, oh, okay, you're good.

Sweetheart, you know, I timed my, hey, do you need any help when I knew you were done with everything? And you just look like, no, everything's taking care of them. All right, sweet, all right. Let's go back to bed. Oh, you're already done. So I'll clean it up. Go you. Last one.

Do you have any more? No, I don't have any more. That one right there. You kind of flipped it. That seems like a long one. This is a long one. Buckle up. This is Jake Davidson.

Hey, fellas, just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for what you're doing. Your podcast has been a lifeline for me these past couple of months. My first born son Carson is two months old. He was born six weeks early and spent the first month of his life in the NICU. A week after he was born, I quit my job and decided to go all in on my business. My former employer wasn't willing to give me the time off I needed and completely disregarded what my family was going through. That moment pushed me to choose my family first and bet on myself. These last few months, I've been some of the hardest and most meaningful days of my life, juggling late night feeds,

NICU visits, figuring out how to launch a business from scratch and trying my best to take care of my wife as we adjust to everything. It's been a lot. But you guys in the PT6 community have brought nothing but positivity, perspective, and encouragement right when I needed it. Thank you for showing up every week for being real and for creating a space that reminds dads like me that we're not alone. I'm grateful for you guys in a community that you're building.

Keep doing what you're doing. It matters. Jake Davison via email. Jake, thank you, bro. Thank you for that email, man. Yeah. That's a war right there. Oh, yeah, dude.

Trying to start a business from scratch. NICU visits. Late night feeds. Just how all of that shit weighs on you. Yeah, that's got to be the constant. And just like all the different punches in that of like boss isn't willing to help with the, and, you know, taking the silver. lining of it of using that as an excuse of, hey, I've always wanted to start my business.

Maybe now's the time. Yeah. But that's still so hard. Oh, yeah. That's what too where like the boys, like you could be consoling with somebody and there could be giving you, be it some advice or encouragement or whatever. And it just goes through one here and at the other because you're, you just feel like it ain't nobody coming to save me here except myself. Yeah. Like ain't nobody. Ain't nobody there for me at the end of the day. When I'm laying my head on that pillow, wife, he's going through it. I'm going through it. Everybody's going through it. And It's awesome that he finds some joyless to the boys. Yes.

That makes it feel worth it on the nights where we're up here at 9 o'clock and we're tired. But like it is still fun. It is still like. Hey, tired of grinding. Tired of being a beast. Tired of being a badass dad. That has to come home and hear his wife go. That's not at all how it went.

And I'm not just talking about you. I'm talking about me. Oh, dude, it happens. That's what I... You know, you forget some parts of the story sometimes. Matter of fact, oh, man. Buddy, there's a... There's a comment.

Somebody came. Somebody had a perfect one. There we go. Hey, what they say? It's from Mighty D.R. 82. This one's on YouTube. When my wife questions are scoffs at the accuracy of my stories, I just remind her, I refuse to let a little exaggeration get in the way of a good story.

Edit. She saw me write this and said, you've literally never said that before. There you go. What's that from? Mighty DR 82. Great comment. That's fantastic.

What's funny too is I didn't even read the edit part. I saw that and I was like, I'll have to bring that in there whenever. I'm like, hey, hand up. I wasn't up there. Just got he peeped on herself. That makes even better when it. It's like an actual edit.

That means that he literally had to go back and put on there. Like his wife literally read, that and said you've never said that in your life. But that's a great comment. Yeah. Dude, the week we had last week overall, just in the trenches a little bit balancing like Thanksgiving and everything else. Obviously, I was on the pod last week. You good. Cherm, do you need to get you right? You got, you just got me for something special, by the way. You're looking at that cup. That cup is for later in the show. Oh, perfect. Don't drink

that yet. Okay. I was looking for some reinforcements. Maybe a little liquid. Maybe something the wet the beat. He was looking around. Yeah, yeah. He's like looking around. What do you got? What do you got? But, bro, the week we had, obviously I was on the pot last week talking about everybody being sick and everything else. And when we shot the pie, was Charles, was sick too? Was Charles sick yet in that podcast? She was. So she just started getting sick. And I want to say it was two Monday, Tuesday, whenever our nanny, she's pregnant. I tell that story, too. Where the nanny was pregnant, she couldn't come or we need to get the sitter over, a sitter came in clutch, sitter traveled home to go to go back home to Louisiana

for Thanksgiving. She got bopped by the sickness. Yeah, she got bopped by the sickness. Next morning, I want to say it was Wednesday morning. Our nanny, she's coming over Wednesday morning. She's like, I can do Wednesday. I feel comfortable coming over yada, yada, yada. She walks in the house. I'm standing there, Roo's going to the bathroom. I'm like doing the morning routine and everything else. I want to say Charles was out of the house by this point. During the morning routine, like Roo's going to the bathroom. Scottie's standing there. I'm trying to keep her from like climb it up on the on the on the step stool stepping stool get to the sink and i like scotty like go go go go going where you go and i turn around look over and i thought she puked on the ground oh no she

shit on the ground runs just on the ground and i'm a nanny walks in there's a part of me in my mind i'm like should i tell her to get out of here because i'm thinking symptoms are over yeah wasn't want to get sick because she's, because she's pregnant. I'm like upstairs, like, I put Scotty in the, I put Scottie in the sink

and I'm just, like, washing her off with the faucet water because I'm not trying to touch it. I get weird about, like, oh my God, there's shit everywhere. It's runs everywhere.

I'm like, hold myself back from throwing up. I'm like, Audrey, are you here? She's like, yeah, I'm here. I'm like, hey, we got a bit of a deal going on upstairs.

And, um, Charles eventually comes in the house because Audrey's helping me out. And Charles, like, are you sure you're comfortable being here? And she's like, yeah, no, I feel good. She gets popped on Thanksgiving, bro.

So everybody, everybody goes down. Everybody goes down on Thanksgiving. Obviously, we had kind of a late night on Thanksgiving, staying over at the Loans. We kind of stayed past bedtime. We're all fussy. We're trying to rush them home. They're screaming.

We get them down. It was all handled well. Next day, Charles breaks out full body hives. Full body hives all over her body. Oh, my God. Everywhere, bro. It started off as like a little rash or whatever. She's like, man, could have been something.

Like do they have like, do they have cats over there? Like Charles got a cat allergy. Oh, they have a brand new cat or not brand new, but a newer cat. Yeah. They were telling me. And so it was in a couple spots where at first we were thinking cat, but then it was starting to go. It was literally all over her body, hives all over her body.

We don't know if something she ate, but she doesn't have like a food allergy or anything like that. Yeah. It gets bad enough to where her whole body's covered. She goes into urgent care just to get it looked, just to get it checked out, make sure everything's all good. She was fine. Like they like offered her a steroid.

She said no to that. and then she comes home but she was in hives. Then Friday night we're doing Roos bedtime and Chau finds lice in her hair. She comes on

I forget when Rue comes home but we find lice in her hair so we're upstairs like at the light on at nighttime it's Friday night trying to find these life we get like we get like four of them out Trugg gets this professional to come over to the house on Saturday morning she does the whole thing

where she goes through all of her your boy's good that apparently lice don't like men they don't like the testosterone that we carry we're a little too hot for life so we're never it's always like for i think it's like just girls like younger younger girls predominantly Caucasian girls that lice just cling to racist and that's that's what i was looking up that's what i was looking up and um charro didn't have any scotty was fine i was fine it was just rude so we got stuff in the freezer overnight we're getting all the stuff in the the washer and dryer and everything It was a deal. And then on it's either Saturday or Sunday morning, I can't, all the days are running together right now. Charles starts to get a little bit of a cold again. She's fine now, but it felt like one day after another.

Boom, boom, boom. And then you love, like we got home. I got home on Wednesday afternoon and I just could not wait for the Thanksgiving weekend. We didn't have to go to ESPN. We didn't have to stream. We didn't have any obligations as far as content goes other than promoting the Black Friday stuff. Yeah. So it's just like, you know,

You're watching TV late. You're, you know, you're sleeping. You're like kind of sleeping in. Kids come downstairs. Like, you're having all the family time in the world. But on Thanksgiving break and everything like that, dude, on Saturday and Sunday, when you got the kiddos, you're kind of like craving to come back to work. Because it's just been you and the fam for like four days in a row.

Yeah. Charlie got out of the house last night. God bless her. Her parents, they come over after traveling to the East Coast all week. They get, they're driving. They drive back on Saturday. Derek, I know you did as well. Yeah, that's right.

They drive back on Saturday. turn around Sunday, come over to the house, watch the kids draw and I dip. We leave from like four to about 637. Got out of the house and went got some dinner. She took a little breather. Talked about the week coming up. Kind of excited to get back in the routine of everything so that way we can go to school. And we get some help back over.

Everybody's healthy now. Knock on wood. Your boy didn't get snipped, though. Yeah, you're, you look good. Your boy did not get sniped. You don't have time. Don't have time. May. Yeah, you told me, you said it last week.

We don't have time to get sick. No, we don't. But for whatever reason, I came out on scathed, bro. Came out on skates, slept to the pukes. Like, buddy, I don't put in a house money over here. You really have been dodging bullets. That's crazy. Yeah, it was a weekend, man. It can truly become a cycle too. Jill has talked about it before, like, in a family, especially a family of four,

where the, yeah, the virus, Derek's over there going like that, but it literally just keeps on, keeping on. And this person gets sick, then this person, then this person, then this person. It can be like a month long where your house is just flu-ridden or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands.

Just wash your hands. The virus comes from school, got the little one, got mom, got the sitter, got the nanny one by one by one. And I'm just in the corner kind of waiting. Is it going to happen to me? Never touch me. Yeah, we've only have one scare so far with daycare. And it was like a little email that was like, hey, one of the kids might have ringworm.

Look out for the ringworm. Watch out for the ringworm. Wrestling, wrestling with the kids. They were just wrestling. But it ended up being like some little spot on the arm. You got to be careful, man. One time I was I was wiping rue. maybe I didn't wash my hands after

and then I caught Pink Eye Yeah, cleaning room maybe a little bit got on me I don't know wiping my eyes Next hand oh pink eye This is such a gross story But it's a good lesson

If you have pets in the home Is don't leave waters out Like for a long time And then like drink it later Because I had a roommate with a cat In college And I got this nasty case of ringware and I go get it checked

and the doctor's like, do you have any pets in the home? And I was like, yeah, I do. He's like, yeah, well, go check the pet for ringworm. And then do you leave, like, waters by your nightstand and leave your door open at all? Maybe the cat got in and, like, drank out of your nightstand water and then you drank it.

And sure enough, the cat just had this, like, massive ringworm on its belly. And I was like, Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news.

We created a, our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend.

But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And... Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers... Mm-hmm.

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

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And Jill's probably listening to this and it's like, Sherman, you leave waters on your nightstand all the time. The dogs can't get up to it. We don't have a cat. So I already beat her to her giving me. me notes when I get out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, my Thanksgiving, it was really good. The, the break, uh, Jill worked all of the break. So it was like solo time with Scarlett on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. But it was really good solo time. That's brutal. She had to work,

bro. Shout out the moms out there. Yeah. And her in health care on call, had to work the weekends. It was hard. And that, that, I would say that's kind of like the main. takeaway from the weekend is I was already, I think I'm just really, really drained and like energy, emotional why, just like fully drained. And so going into that week, I was already kind of drained. And then during the weekend, I like almost just have like a mental break from just being like, yo, like this is like, oh my gosh, what I sign up for? But also in the same breath, like being really appreciative of what I signed up for. And like Scarlett, just that time with Scarlett was really incredible because now she

like is being held by mom, but she's like reaching out to me and kind of like being like, nah, nah, which she always did that vice versa. Because you had someone, you had all those, you had the time with her. Oh, so much time, dude. And just like her falling asleep on my chest and stuff like after feeds and I would like time out. I was starting to kind of like learn her, hey, you know, you're looking like you want to lay on dad-dust chest and you might want to take a little napy and sure enough, I was right. And she goes down for like a little hour nap. And so it was a really hard weekend, but it was a really good weekend.

And just a lot of good conversations out of it with Jill too of kind of like breaking down my weekend and how it was hard. And I'm sure it's hard for you having to work on the holidays and us kind of coming together and being like, we need some time for ourselves. So her mom came up and is up here this week. And Jill and I are going to get to go on a little date night. Yeah? This, oh yeah, two date nights.

When? Probably tomorrow and Wednesday. Nice, dude. We're going on two date nights. We're going to go see a movie. You know which one? Don't even know. don't even care.

I told her I'll go see Wicked too. I don't give a shit. We saw the first one not too long ago. Which I'm... Second one good. Yeah. I have nothing against Wicked. That's just like me saying, we'll go see your movie.

Like, you choose. I do not care. Tell her Predator. Go see the new Predator. And I told her as long as I have a... I'm still pissing my wife. We didn't go see Predator that one day. Hey, we'll go see it.

we'll see the new Predator without fanning Wait, sorry, what? We'll go with you to the movie show. Oh yeah, dude, we should do like a little movie night. Yeah, that'd be fun. Listen, I'm down. I always love a good theater visit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go check out a flake, eat some popcorn. Bro, that's Jill and I's like guilty pleasure date night is dinner and a movie. Yeah. Oh, dude, and just only order apps wherever you go. we only get like appetizers and go somewhere like chilies or something, you know, just fast, easy, whatever, get apps, leave some room for popcorn. Jill might want a hot dog.

Sue me, honey. I said it. You might get a hot dog at the theater. You might get two hot dogs. She gets the little kid box with that comes with the popcorn and the candy and the hot dog. I get a large popcorn every time. Quote me. Call up Tremo.

my boy. Okay, I'll call a little. Always get the large popcorn. I get the jalapinos too. If y'all've never done jalapinos with popcorn. But anyways, I've got a couple date nights coming up. You got a little date nights. So as PT6 to listen to this right now, you just went on your first date night last night.

You got another date night coming up tonight. Yeah. Follow Scherm. What are your social media? Shirm stew underscore 2. Yeah. It's kind of fun. It kind of rhymes.

Shirm stew underscore 2. Come on the live updates on date nights. And that's stew, STU, not STW. A-R-T-E-N with the shockwave. Oh, buddy. If I get the ride, I'm not even trying to be funny. I'm not even trying to be funny. If I, in these next two days, if I go to the movies and eat a large bucket of popcorn with alpinos and then have a steak that I did not cook, that someone cook for me, and then ride shockwave, take me.

take me to heaven. With the good night of sleep? And I get to sleep in? Holy shit. Buddy. Morning two is going to be nice the next morning. And that shockwave dopamine hit and then you just, and you're out and then you sleep in that next morning.

And for any new listener, shockwave means coitus, which is Latin for sex. Not to get too dirty on it But it's the late night We'll be cracking a cold one We'll be cracking a cold one I digress I'm sorry I just got excited

What are you sorry for man I don't even know Yeah like be excited bro I'm fucking stiff They're nudging their their misses right now Baby the shock wave Oh Sherman what kind of steak you're gonna get

Talk dirty to me Probably a rib eye And I eat all the fat too I don't even care Like, ugh, I'm bloated and I have cramps, not tonight. What's that, what is that, Hall Pass? I need to watch that movie. You've never seen Hall Pass?

It's with Owen Wilson and, um, Jason Siddakis. You've never seen, bro, you've got to watch all the way through. I've never fully watched it all the way through. Where he's like, he's like wanting to get late. He's like popping her on. He's like popping her on the ass and she's going upstairs. Oh, stop and bloated and I have cramps. When they get caught on a security camera and he's like, hello, I'm a wide, bro,

I'm a joke. He's like, sure, all right. You're a movie. Yeah. All right, I guess I'll go out. The car it is, and he's just jerking off in the car. That's where he goes? Yeah.

God, what a spot. Bro, you have to watch Hall Pass, man. I have to. Great movie for PT-Sixers. I've always seen. It's one of those where I probably always caught the last 30 minutes or something. I couldn't tell you any scenes from it. I need to sit down and fully watch it.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you'll like it. That's a good movie. Also, the vibes are so electric in here. like just the lighting is incredible. Yeah. Shout out chef. Yeah.

Shout out chef. You've crushed a lighting, bro. I've been seeing people even comment. Go other way to comment about the lighting on the show. That's when you know. Like, why the hell are people in our comments talking about the lighting?

Because it's that good. Yeah. It's cozy. We have rain just gently going, teat, te, te, on the roof.

We're having some good laughs. Some good laughs. What else is that to talk about? Barty. Fatherhood. I don't know. What are you all? to talk about.

Can I talk about my turkey? Sure, chef, you call. Talk to us about your turkey. And just keep it under an hour, chef. Talk about the turkey. I just want to say that to all the Pt-Sixers out there that commented under the video that we posted, giving me props,

I can't tell you how much that means to me because there's a lot of pressure. First turkey, first turkey in my life. And Thanksgiving is a big deal. You screw up the turkey. a big thing. You know, it's a debauch. That is a big deal. It's a prime time spot. And I was very happy with how it turned out. It needed like 10 minutes less than the oven. Chef. The rest was just a little dry. Do you mind doing me a favor? Can you put an image of your turkey right there? Yes, I can. Because I want PT6 to see it because it deserves screen time. And then tell us a little bit about

your family's reaction to your turkey chef. What were the people saying? It was really good all around the board. My dad's very happy because he doesn't have to cook a turkey anymore. And now it's my responsibility, probably. Got compliments from the parents, grandparents, a little brother even put in something nice there. Had a couple nice words. That's, you know, that's a big win. That's big. I was happy with it. I'm usually the person that will shit on my food the most just naturally. So overall, I was, I was, it was kind of, it was a big win. So on to next year. And we're going to elevate. We can get better. Congrats on the turkey.

Congrats on the turkey chef. Maybe an underground oven. How's you and your bro? How's you and brother? Dude, we had the best Thanksgiving we've ever had. Nice, man. We sat there, we ripped a couple parlays, watched the ball a day. It was genuinely the best Thanksgiving

I've had with him. Really? We're in that sibling spot where I think we're a little late to the party, but we've had that moment where we were like, hey, you're actually really awesome. Like, as a brother and stuff. You know how like when you're younger, you get in that stage

or you fight a lot. I think we finally hit a big, a big swing over. Is he in his 20s now? He's 20. About to be 21. There you go. So we had a,

just a young goombrey. We hit a parley on Thanksgiving. Actually, I did. He added Mark Andrews anytime touchdown, which didn't hit. So I was celebrating,

but he was happy for him. But it was just the feeling of like, oh yeah, we got to bond a lot. And we don't get to see each other a lot because he's in college. college. So overall, that was... Remind me your brother's name?

Grant. Grant. Shout out, shout out Grant. Shout out Grant, man. I'm glad you had a good Thanksgiving, chef. Thank you, Will. I'm glad. Derek, what about yours? Did you have a good Thanksgiving? I know you drove out to the East Coast.

Yeah, Wednesday, I drove up to Pittsburgh. Wonderful Thanksgiving. We do about a noon for my mom's side and then a five o'clock for my dad's side. So I saw everyone in my family. what I will say is the red solo cups in front of you are a gift for my father. Oh. I forgot. What is that?

Allie pop. I forgot in the fridge. And he said, hey, I packed you a to go back because I left at five in the morning. And I zipped it up and it was waters. It was everything in one single ridge rush. One single clip. So this is Ridge Rush right here. From old chip.

From Chip. For everyone to try. He said they'll know what I meant when I said Skittles on steroids. So my Thanksgiving was wonderful. I come back bearing gifts from a bunch of things that I had on my desk but then redress for the boys from Chip. Can I just really quickly

shout out Chip I fucking love that he did that and cheers to the four the dad's crew cheers to a nighttime recording to cheers to the shockwave. That's pretty good. Skittles on steroids.

Hey, I got I, this is my full review. It honestly doesn't hit near as hard as what his description is. Like skittles on steroids. I taste the skittles, but not in such a way

that it kind of turns me away from. If you put this in the hands of a 21-year-old Sherman and you threw some vodka in this shit, this is like the ultimate like Red Bull, Vegas bomb, you know, whatever, any of those bombs. It's akin to something that I,

and hey, we're all I pop here. But it's akin, it's a familial. familiarity that has a really good taste to it, but it's light. It's good. It's a dad show. This is a family show, bro. We don't want to be talking about vodka and olipop.

You put some vodka in this, all right? Easy. Hey, hey. Hey, can I tell you about a, uh, so. That was the gumboree sneaking out of it. Yeah, yeah, old goo, yeah, old gung barret shirt. I think I'm talking a little bit too much about. So I want to, listen, the cream soda,

olive pop. Incredible. So Wifee and Rue had to make a target run yesterday. I was home. Scotty was upstairs taking a nap. Your boys getting the tree out, getting everything set up because we were decorating for Christmas over the weekend, which I hope all of you got to do.

That is a great time. That's a great family building moment is getting the kids. Like Rue loves putting up ornaments. You got to kind of take your time with her. She clusters the ornaments together in the same spot. You got to kind of talk her into, hey, let's put it over here, sweetheart. We need a little bit more on this side. They took a little break.

They went to Target. I whispered to Rue before she left, and I said, hey, I said, hey, Roo, come here. Let me tell you secret. And I whispered in her here. I said, don't let mom forget my olipop. Chris Baple, make sure to tell her, don't let mom forget my olipop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charles, she forgot the day before.

But I tell Rue, I'm. I'm like, sweetheart, you'll carry out this mission for dad. And I look her in the eyes and I say, do you got that? He said, yeah. I said, tell me it again. I said, what do I not want you to forget? And she, like, cleans it in my hair. She's like, Ollie Pop.

Go tell your mother. There you go, kid. She, like, goes over to Mom. She's like, hey, mom, we can't get for, we can't forget dad's, we can't forget dad's olive pop. Apple, apple, apple. Like, it's crisp apple. They laughed.

the store, come back home. And I'm sitting over by the, we got the fireplace going, get the fireplace going. And she comes over. And I think I'm like on my phone and she comes over and she's like, Dadda. And that's when like she's starting to get, she's starting to get this sense of tone for delivering news. Like she would have ran and said, Dadda, I got you. Alipop Apple or Chris Bapple. She goes, Dadda. And I look up. I say, what is it, sweetheart? And she's like, They didn't have the apple. Oh, no. I said, oh, sweetheart, that's okay.

That did this. She's like, but I got you a different one. I said, oh, my gosh, you did. Can you go show me? We get up and kind of go over there. She, like, pulls it out and shows me and kind of shows me in a way, like, she has the face. Like, is Dad-Dad going to be happy? Because Charles said she was bummed in the aisle.

And she's like, sweetheart, they don't got crisp apple. And she was kind of losing it a little bit. Like, we got to get the, we got to get the crisp apple for Dadda. And it was cream soda and I was so fired up. And I tried it for the first time. buddy yeah emotional reaction top of the list really now that i've had time to sleep on it i it might still be at the top what crisp apple listen so i've had i've had a classic grape so much that the new flavors are kind of turning me on a little bit yeah yeah crisp apple it's

it just it tastes so fresh and light and it's got the perfect carbonation what is the name of this one That's Ridge Rush. Ridge Rush. And I've seen people are fans of it. This was a good drink. Ridge Russ was a good drink. To what chef was leaning to, there is a green beverage owned by another company we will not name that it emulates. And I think this is a better version of it is what we do.

Oh, got you. Cream soda. But the cream soda, bro, is so damn good. I need to try cream soda. I've had banana cream. I've had grape. That's what I want to try banana cream. That seems like one that really gets my shit going.

It was very, it was very strong. I'm big on the tropical flavors of like coconuts, bananas, like all that kind of jazz. So it might not be your fancy. But as a fan of those types of flavors, the banana cream is strong. I do want to say, though, with the Ridge Rush, but to y'all's point, not even close to as sour as I thought it was going to be and actually really light, easy. Yeah, Ridge Rush was good. Yeah, no, which means it was great.

Ridge Rush was good. It was good. quality drink. We need to do a full PT6 breakdown of our favorite flavors. Yeah, because I feel like PT6 is really buying into this olipop wave. Oh, yeah. Like we're setting a tone. Like,

PT6 is setting a tone out there with olipop right now. As a consumer, I don't remember how many times I've ever seen a podcast with a sponsor or something in the buy-in from a community in terms of a product or something that is supported. Because I think it's, we all love it. We're all big olipop fans there. but to see the community, then go in and back it up too. Yeah.

And also fall in love it. Just like we have is pretty freaking sick. You got to think, bro, it aligns. It aligns with like the family vibe. You got kiddos who like soda. Like as far as alternative for a drink, like, yes, we promote Olipop and read advertising for Ollie Pop, but it is. It's two to five grams of sugar per can.

It's nine grams of prebiotic fiber. I can list at all. I don't even need. He's not going off of the script. I don't even need the script, bro. So I would see why family. means we want to have it stocked in their fridge. Number one, what's mom and dad get a taste of it?

It's like, oh, shit. We talk about staying hydrated, drinking water, all that stuff. Sometimes you need a little new, something a little new to get the taste buds going. Yeah. And you get to put away the diet bullshit, the Diet Coke, the fake sugar stuff, the soda. And you got Ollie Pop in your fridge with all these different flavors, the variety, the range. I haven't even had more than, I've had four total.

I haven't had the vintage coal yet. I haven't had the doctor, whatever it is. I'm walking through. I had a true Will Compton tweet moment because I was walking through the store and I saw an Ollipop holiday pack and I'm like, you tell

me the Oli Pop had a holiday pack and it's not even on our ad read. Yeah, bro, you and this Will Compton tweet. But I know Shirm thought of one too. We were standing outside the Luans and we was, I think Shirm was taking a picture. We were doing like a famous photo

and Shurman was taking that. chairman was saying something or I might have been saying something and I was like hey I'd get up there and he started to have. Bro, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That was it. That was my story. That was it. That was my story.

I'd get up there. He asked me to take a picture. I'm telling this to our guys because they would find it equally hilarious as a World Compton moment of there's one single ball like glowing ball pretty big in each one of the Luan's trees in their backyard and it's very, very high up in the. tree. Nobody has mentioned these balls at all. Charo is having a conversation with me and how to work her camera that's very in

depth. And Will just all of a sudden just breaks that and just goes, hey, how did that get up there? Putting up the ball. And I just belly laughed for like a solid 30 seconds. And I think Charo may have just found it funny that I found it funny. I don't know. But I just, dude, I belly laughed at that.

We had to be out there because we had to go to Roo. So you got a toddler. You're trying to get a family photo in. We're holding Scotty. So that's going to be, hey, let's get a family photo before it gets too dark, whatever it is. Someone's going down. And Roo's out there swinging outside. So you know, when you're a little one, they're out there doing their own thing, you've got to kind of go to them.

Because if you mention, hey, let's take a photo together, they're not about it. They all of a sudden want to shell up. When they started getting their own little personality, their own little attitude, they figure out with family like pictures and everything else. They don't want to smile. So we had to go out too rude to do that. Now a dad hack that I hit. So on Black Friday morning,

morning after Thanksgiving, we went over to Bar 3 and did a workout. I worked out. I'd hit my annual quota for working out of Bar 3. By the way, it was a phenomenal workout and my back felt better all weekend. Oh, really? Not like good and healed,

but in a way to where I wasn't like when I'm leaning down into the crib, I'm not like having to lean my whole body on the crib, put my hands on my knees. Like, my back pain is real. Yeah. But it was a good enough work out to where I'm thinking I might want to put bar three in my life weekly. Oh, really? Because it had me that, it had me feeling that good.

Now that my dad hack for the family photos is after we got done with the class, Charles, I wanted to get a family photo, you know, holding the balls like just a family pick at bar three. I knew Rue wasn't going to be about it. And Charles was about to ask her and I stopped my wife. And I said, hey, don't ask Rue to take a photo. If we ask her, she's not going to want to do it. What we need to do is act like we're excited holding the balls. We're going to take a photo and just tell Rue, hey, we're going to take a photo with Scotty.

She was like cleaning the mask. She was doing something that had her attention. But if you got a little one, like Roo is three. And so if you have a three-year-old or like an abrasive toddler that doesn't want to take photos, you just tell them you're going to take a photo with Rue, whoever else, oh, we're going to get a photo together and pose and do this fun stuff. And you do it in front of them, they all of a sudden, once it starts happening, they don't want to miss the photo, they want to run over,

they want to take it like you're doing. They want to be performative now because they feel like they're missing out on the other. So a simple dad hack, don't tell your little one. I don't know if it's going to work on boys. Boys are nuts. Boys are a different animal. There could be parents like, like, nah, like, yeah, boys are a different beast. but you got a little girl and they're kind of abrasive taking photos.

You just don't tell them. You're like, hey, can we get a photo with you? You just go and start taking the photo and let her know, hey, what we do is, hey, we're going to go take a photo with Scotty. We'll be back in a second, like right in front of her. And then all of a sudden she wants to run in and take a photo. And it was beautiful. Simple dad hack.

Simple dad hack. And it goes along with the law of the picnic that's a lot harder to talk somebody into coming with you to the picnic. Whereas if you just laid the picnic out and you, you're sitting there and you got all the nice food and it looks nice, somebody's way more willing to come sit down there. That's called the law of the picnic. The law of the picnic.

Okay. You set the picnic up and then it looks good. It looks fun. Law of attraction. They come in. They want to join. Boom. Hey,

that looks kind of fun over there. Yeah. I feel that. I love that. Also, another dad act was Rue swinging on the swing and we go to take the picture with their and, hey, Ru, Ru, you got to get off the swing. We got to take a picture. No, no, no, no.

And I just instantly go, actually, you know, what, Rue, stand on the swing. Yeah. You don't have to move, you get to stand on the swing. Yeah. And she jumped on that. Yeah, she was about that. And then the next day, I was thinking about the same element of her not wanting to do it. I'm like, hey, don't even ask her. Let's just say we're taking a photo. Let's look like we're having fun. She'll run right over to us. Let's go. A flawless execution. We have some further readings. I know you have some. And then I have

some thoughts and prayers comments. Okay. I got some positive show comments. I can rip this. from Harrison Coon 8303 on YouTube. Grateful for the dad. Shout out Chef Jack. Shout out a home team pizza and pizza Friday. Oh. Cheers. I got another one here from Kevin Kuklinsky.

Yep. Haven't been listening for long, but had a comment from the boys a couple of pods ago that hit me, that hit me hard. I don't have to do these things. I get to do these things. Shout out Derek. Shout out Derek.

My girl and I have separated for the time being. and we have an almost three-year-old boy. This was the first holiday where we are splitting duties and not together. I showed up to my ex-in-laws and saw Sarah cooking by herself. My first thought was, I get to help out. I got a three-year-old occupied with toys and went straight to work cooking, doing dishes, prepping the table. It made everyone's day better and made a very tense situation relaxing.

No matter what the future holds for us when I get in a situation where I used to get upset or do nothing and walk away. I now remember that I get to do this. Thank you for all the advice, support, and love PT6. That is a comment. I was not expecting to read. I know. I was almost ready to bust Derek's boss because Derek goes through the comments.

And it's got another, another Derek shout out in here with the I get to. But that is a phenomenal comment that I was not expecting the reason. That was my favorite comment of the week by far. Also, yeah, I thank you guys for saying my name in it. But I was like, how can I actually deliver a comment that that guy's perspective is one that I will choose every day of the week? That guy has a really good outlook on that. That's an incredible perspective of separating your ego from everything else. It's like if I'm in that situation, you hope to have that outlook on everything.

Because I'm sure that is very abrasive, very tense. Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast.

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band.

Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

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We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's very uncomfortable, especially if that's the first time, the first holiday, and you're on, you know, you're in, like, enemy territory. Yeah. You know what I mean? You're at the ex-in-laws. You're with them.

You're on that side. You can sit there and make it awkward. You could make it weird. You know, but instead you're, like, looking like, let me go see how I can help. Let me go cook. Let me go do this. And what a great example for the kiddos

because I'm sure those are going to be hard conversations as a three-year-old gets older. Yeah. And that dude right there, say that example is carried out for the rest of time. What a phenomenal example for their three-year-old as they get older. Yes, dude. And see what something like that looks like

if they were to happen to be in that situation. Yes. Or if they're seeing a bad situation with one of their friends and they're reminded of how their parents acted even when you know you get old enough and have some perspective and look back and back damn they they really they really kept it together yeah for the sake of me a very humbling reminder to you

that I'm sitting there solo with scarlet and you know not woe is me but being like oh man this is rough and tough but like my wife is coming home at the end of the day like I get to sleep in bed next to my wife that night and we get to talk about how much we love our daughter Like, yeah, this guy's deep in the trenches, finding through a hard situation and is still finding the positive. That's awesome.

Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, 100%. I got one more here from Alexa Santa Maria on Instagram. This is Milk Team 6 here, Mama, two daughters, one and three heading to Dayton, Ohio to see the family for Thanksgiving. Listening to this episode with my husband, huge fans. So we have people listening while traveling.

It fires me up. Sitting in the backseat with the girls to keep everything. Everyone calm. Here, Will's family is fighting a bug, throwing up everywhere. Two seconds later, my three-year-old is puking all over the car. Oh. iPad. I tap him in the driver's seat.

I tap him in the driver's seat. Speaking of throw-up, oh shit, she asked. What was that? Throw-up, honey. Right on cue. Too funny not to share that in the moment. Happy Thanksgiving. Wishing you all safe and happy holidays.

Picture attached post-puk. Just smiling in the car. Wait. So literally, as you're telling the puke story, she pukes. Two seconds later, three-year-old puking all over the car in the iPad. Oh, my God. And they're listening to the episode in the car on a road. Yeah.

Tap them on the driver. So you're speaking to throw up. Oh, shit. Bro, that's so brutal. Brutal, man. Especially too, like when kids are thrown up and it's like their first time throwing up and they kind of don't know what's happening. and their faces kind of panicked a little bit.

It's like, it's okay, sweetheart. It's okay. You're doing just fine. Just keep yakking if you got to, yeah, keep on spitting. That also reminds me we got to do some kind of breakdown of road trip prep and like road trip strategy, diaper changes during road trips. Yeah. Because it's no easy task.

No. I thought you were going to keep going. I did too. No. I had something really good, though. I had something good. is how you pack the bag is how you pull over

we can talk about another pod it's like you know it's nothing um I have some thoughts and prayers comments this one comes from Crutt 17 on Instagram he said boys sure you won't see this

LOL we did but little update I just commented on last episode's YouTube posts and told you all about how I'm supposed to get a terrible week all alone because the girlfriend and boy are headed off to Disney. Well, here we are Thanksgiving morning, and she's in the most pain I've ever seen her in.

I brought her to the ER, and we have been here all day. She's got kidney stones and an infection and is going to get transferred for surgery. They're going to try to get her in early tomorrow so she can hopefully still make the flight Saturday, even if she's not able to do any rides at Disney. I'm by her side trying to give her whatever little comfort I can. Feels so awful not being able to ease her pain at all.

But she's an absolute trooper. While crying in the ER bed, she looked over and said, good with a very little giggle to follow. I might have turned her into a Milk Team 6 member, looking for some good vibes sent our way. Our luck has been down these last few months. Crut 17. Crud.

Not only shout out to you, but shout out to M.T. Sixer that's going through it. Yeah. Kidney stones are no joking. I know, bro. Thankfully, never, never had them. And I have a family member that has passed double digits of kidney sounds. I will leave them anonymous. Oh, buddy.

Buddy. It's bad. And that certain family member is female and did compare it to childbirth. Really? Yeah. Was like very, very much. The sharp pains are like close to childbirth, which is just a crazy thought. Crazy thought.

But thoughts and prayers out to that family. Positive vibes. Positive vibes. Positive vibes. I hope they got to go to Disney World. I really do. I'm sure she gutted it out. You know what kind of trooper like Lina over saying good with a little.

A little chuckle. Give them the little wink like you eating that pastry. Yeah. Good. Dequan Brown 68. This comes from TikTok. Hey fellas,

I just wanted to say thanks for all you got thank. Hey fellas, I just wanted to say thanks for all you guys do for dads. My wife just delivered our twins via C-section at 34 weeks. The twins are in the NICU growing awesomely. my wife was released from the hospital and men it back in the same day for what she thought was a stroke. Turned out to be Bell's Palsy and Preeclampsia. That's serious stuff.

We have been away from our three-year-old son for almost a week. Your podcast has been a saving grace keeping me calm throughout all these events. Dude, that is really, really hard. Yeah, man. Preeclampsia is very serious. What is explained? Eclampsia to me. That is,

I cannot go into the medical cause, but that's what Jill was, uh, had potential for preeclampsia. And, um, it has something to do with, uh,

the failure of the, what's what the babies feed on, the placenta? Yeah. It's like a failure of the placenta. And then there's some kind of thing where it basically like, poisons the blood of the mom, I guess. If somebody wants to Google it.

The exact cause of, I'm not going to preclampsia. Preeclampsia is unknown, but it's believed to begin with problems in the development of the placenta, such as inefficient blood flow. It's complex, multiple factors, including looking for what can happen. But yes, very serious. Yeah, very serious stuff. So thoughts and prayers out to them. Absolutely. And their son too, like Nick you,

that stuff's never easy. Yes. Like, Roos and Nick you for like a week, a little over maybe like 10 day. I can't remember my wife's going to be listening. I've just swinging at the air right now. Yeah, because she had, where they come out and she's like,

she's basically got like her shit all over her. So it's like in her lungs. Oh, yes. Yeah. Um Falconium Yes sir Is that what it is?

I don't know it is I don't know I was giving it too Yeah I was part of it for a second I know Ficcone that starts with an F Yeah

something basically Her shit was all over And got it along So she had to be in NICU And it was for Yeah she was in there For a little bit Falconia is a fictional city

In the manga Anime series berserk Falconia Hey we tell people on this show, we ain't experts all right. Hey, hey. Hey, there's a couple of dads trying to figure it out. Oh my gosh. Look that up. They're the born in the

Erigorn, actually. I'm going to Google that the baby comes out. Shit all over them. The baby comes out in this shit everywhere. Um, I don't know what to Google, Will. I'm Google

baby pooping self and I don't I don't know what to Google. Is it a meconium asperation syndrome? Maconium? Moconium. M-O-O-S. M-O-Conium. I'm Googling this on a work computer.

What the hell? Moconium. They basically got shit off. I literally Googled the baby comes out and there's shit. That's what I googled to. What would it say for yours? Maconium aspirations syndrome. I'm so sorry I'm laughing about this because we're at it.

But that is what Rue has. Yeah, yeah. She had falcodia. You already know when they hit me with that. I was like, what the hell are you talking about? Basically shit's all over all. You can't just say that. Like, they're born in their own shit.

Let me get the cord. The fear around the doctor and there's a doc that sounds like they might have a little falconia. He sounds like falconia to me. I'm no expert. to falconia. Can I talk about my turkey? Yeah. Let's talk about your turkey.

Can I talk about my turkey? Every time we record at night, this thing goes off the rails. Okay, do we want to jump into emails? I do have a very quick, what are the odds? because we didn't do it last week. Hit the water of the odds. I have a crack of coal one from JV.555-5. And guys, I am so delirious that I legitimately,

I need y'all to check me on whether or not I did this, what are the odds, but I swear to God I don't think we have. Did we talk about twins and the likelihood of twins and types of twins? No. Harvard. Harvard and we did one more. Okay. So we have not, okay.

then I was the likelihood of hopefully it's so nice that we did it twice is the worst case scenario but what are the odds brought to you by Fandul thank you Fandul

twins what are the odds twins get back on here what are the odds that one has it one does let's break down twins

what do you all think is the most common type of twin. I'll break it down for you guys. We have identical. Multiple types. We have multiple types. We have identical twins. Yeah. We have fraternal twins that it's either

correct? Yeah, fraternal twins. Falconia twins. But the fraternal twins, they could be boy, boy. What's fraternal mean? Fraternal means that they are in the same womb, but they are not from the same egg. two separate eggs. Oh, wow. Identical twin, same egg.

Then you got Siamese? Then you got the Siamese. So you have either identical twins or you have fraternal twins that are boy, boy, girl, girl, or boy girl. What do you think is the most common type of twin? Identical. Okay.

I think it's fraternal boy girl. Okay. Oh, so you guys. got to do the option inside the fraternal. You can't just say fraternal. Yeah. Do you want to change your answer? I'll go with identical, just to mix it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll go identical. Identical. Yeah. I hope the mic, please juice the mic on that. We have to get some audio of that.

Will literally just gave his chair falconia. We're off the rails right now. What's the answer? Fraternal opposite. Derek wins. congraternal opposite sex 35% chance I got a crack a cold one here please by our boy JV 555 crack a cold one when your kid gives you an unprovoked unsolicited I love you

or tells you how much fun they're having with you the good shit I actually have a I actually have a very wholesome story I was in there it was last night it was Sunday we got home from from date night we're hanging out with the in-laws We're hanging out with Lola and Opa.

It's about 6.30 at night. I'm sitting on the chair closer to the fireplace. Scotty is catty corner across the coffee table. And I got Scotty throwing a roll-a-d-dex of verbiage, which is like, ah, dad-da. Yeah. Ah. But anyway, and I'm like, can you say kiss? Because I'll say, can you say, can you say, ah?

Can you say dad, dad? And I'll back, can you say kiss? She stops what she's doing. She was like holding a toy. She puts the toy down, walks around the coffee table, and just has a massive smile on her face, thinking like she knows what kiss means, thinking like he wants to kiss me.

So she just comes over, open mouth of the big smile, I lean in and give her a kiss. Then after I give her a kiss, mind you, I'm just trying to get her to say kiss, like I'm trying to test her for a bitch. Yeah. But the fact that she just stops what she's doing when I'm like, can you say kiss?

She stops what she's doing and she just kind of waddles, walks around the coffee table, comes over, he gives me a kiss. And then like softly, she's like looking at both my hands. And she puts one of her hands and like slides it like under my hand because we have the rhythm of hug, kiss and three squeezes. One, two, three, I love you. She like puts her hand under my hand. And I'm thinking to myself, she wants me to do three squeezes right now. And I'm like, one, two, three, I love you. And she's just smiling.

And it was, it melted your boy, bro. It melted your boy. that's epic where i just continue to like bring it i'm like yo how sweetheart charo how crazy was that like i'm like going through the words and i'm like can you say kiss and she stops what she's doing and walks around like i'm gonna go give dad dad kiss and then like looks at my hands and softly puts her hand on it just to get three squeezes dude is that your crack a cold one that's got to be my crack a cold one that's something like that and it sparked that sparked me remembering that last night yeah that's my crack a cold one bro my crack a cold one goes to

Scarlet meeting Santa today. And I sent a little image to chef and he can pull that up. But I haven't gotten the full breakdown. I haven't gotten the full story from Jill yet. But it looked like no tears. That's amazing. Which is huge.

So you'll have that cracker call one. Show the photo. Show the photo. And also run the video of Rue meeting Rue meeting Black Santa for the first time. I have a photo sitting out in my car. Like Roo cried. We went to the mall.

saw Santa. She cried the first time. Second time we go to the mall. She cries on that one. We will play this video. This one is just so funny. It is just so funny. It's an instant bus and classic. Yeah, yeah. She's been scared of Santa. Like, Roo's very weary. Like, she's very shy. Yeah. We did Halloween this year. She's three this year. The first couple of years, I got her in the rhythm of saying trick-or-treat. She was like the sweet little girl who state trick-or-treat and stuff. But she's also, like, very reserved and shy around new people. She's never wanted to meet Santa. We went to this like lights, you know, where they have all the lights set up and you walk around. They got the hot chocolate.

We're checking out lights. There's Santa back in the barn. And we go out to meet Santa in the back of the barn. And she's like, she's gripping me screaming, doesn't want to meet Santa. So you don't, she's never wanted to mess with Santa. She likes the idea of Santa. But once Santa's there and in front of her, she ain't about that. Yeah, yeah.

It's stranger danger. But this one of the ball. And it was black Santa. It's just the funniest. I did it on, I think, I did it. I put it on social media. I put it on TikTok, I think, last year a couple years ago. And it was banged.

Oh, it was nuclear. Yeah. Because everybody's playing the whole racing and everything else. I'm just laughing because she's that way with all of them. But it was just so funny that it happened to be this moment. And I filmed it. So when we got to the mall, I'm like taking videos. You ready to go meet Santa?

She's like, yeah. She's all excited. Then we go up to meet Santa. And I'm like, oh, this is going to be perfect. Yeah. And just complete meltdown. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It was so funny, bro. Oh, my. You're watching it? Yeah. It's the way she runs away and she's not even within like 50 feet up. Oh, no. It's funny, man.

It is funny. So we'll see how she does with Santa this year. Yes. And of course, liquid IV crack a cold one is brought to us by Liquid Ivy. And the show is sponsored by Liquid Ivy. Guys, don't let the grind, drain you, ditch the glitch with zero sugar, zero crack. from Liquid IV, tear, poor, live more. Go to Liquidiv.com and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout.

That's 20% off your first order with code Bussin at Liquidiv.com. I forgot what flavor I gave you, Will. What are you rocking over there? I got the firecracker. I believe you gave me the strawberry lemonade. Ooh. My favorite, you know. Cotton candy.

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She loves taking Root to the Nutcracker. She asked if I wanted to be a part of it this year. Because last year she went with just Rue and I kind of felt some type of way. Oh. She got to snuck it on me. Because I went with them a couple years ago. I enjoyed it. I love seeing Rueh fired up.

Yeah. But I was like, yeah, go ahead and throw for December 26th seeing the Nutcracker here in Nashville. I was about to jump in and be like, bro, the nutcracker rips. Rips, dude. Yeah. And Roo loves it. I've gone with Jill. So much fun.

But love to hear. love to hear some family traditions around the holidays. Yes. I love doing the Advent calendar where each day you take a different photo and slide the photo in, you know, along with the month of December. Like last night we did our first one and it was ruined Scotty in front of the Christmas tree. But you take a little photo with like a Polaroid somewhere like it spits it out. Then you like put it in the calendar.

Something fun that we're doing this year. This is just to throw an idea out there for PT6 listeners. is we got Scarlett her own tree. We got her little... Nice, bro. That's so fun, man. And my mom bought a bunch of ornaments for Scarlett. Oh.

And it's all set up. And she was like... Jill storied it on Instagram. I'll send you the video so you can throw it up. But Scarlet's looking at the tree and touching it. I'm like... Dude, it is the best time for little ones. I did a...

You know, I got the video... I still got to post it, but I got the video of us putting up the tree and turning the lights on for the first time and getting Scotty's reaction. She just didn't have much reaction. It was super funny. Rue loves it. But dude, shopping, getting a Christmas tree, putting them in the little one's room. We were doing some shopping the other day at one of the local spots.

And I saw this little Grinch tree that I just feel like I have to have. We didn't get it because I don't know why. And what, like, what makes it a grinch tree? It's just super green. It's got the little who, like the bend and everything. else. There's a lot of Grinch-themed stuff there. But it was just like this perfect Grinch tree that I feel like I have to have. You should totally get that. Yeah. But just shop and the ornaments that start to come in now that you have a family, like you have all these family ornaments. I still have my ornament from when I was born, like 1989 Christmas ornament that we put up. But you have all these little ornaments that now you'll start building since you have Scarlett. That'll be, you know, when Charles and I, it was us in our first place. It's like me, Charles Waffle. And you have that one. Now we have one that was me, Charles, Waffle, and Rue. Now we have one with all five of us.

And just year after year, you start just building on this toolbox of ornaments to put on the tree. It is the best, man. I will also, I will shout out my godparents, Allison and Terry. Their gift every single year to me was an ornament when I was a kid. And they told me when I was a kid that I probably wasn't going to appreciate the gift at the time. But one day, I would really love it. and Allison and Terry, you were right. And I fucking love my ornaments, dude.

And I have like 20 of them and they're incredible. And maybe PT sickos, MT sickos out there. Do that for your kid because I greatly appreciate it. Bro, you could not be more spot on with like, hey, you won't appreciate this now, but you will later. Like, because I sit back and I see all the Christmas stuff and I see the ornaments. I love the ornament stuff. And I just think to myself, man, an ornament is like an underrated gift that I, like,

I want to get multiple people. So incredible. And last thing we will play this voicemail. This is very quick. Was in Franklin and in this little shop, this little boutique, they had upside down tiny Christmas trees. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what?

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We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. but this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

We were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in

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on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier with like the ornaments and the lights on it, it looked sick. I don't know how many BT sickos or empty sickos got vaulted ceilings, but that look was so sick.

I'd never seen that. Have y'all ever seen that before? No. It was like a Christmas tree chandelier and it looked unreal, a silver Christmas tree with all the stuff hanging. I digress.

Let's get into these voices. Let's get to the voicemail. Six and one of the day is the hotline. You want to be featured on the show. Good afternoon, boys. Brian from Omaha. Sure, I'm chef. Will,

good to see and hear from you. But tonight's the night. Long time coming, you know, nine months. The due day has came and passed. She was technically due last Sunday, the 23rd. But here we go. We're about two hours and some change from going to check into the hospital to start the induction process. Only thing I asked for,

Obviously, Mama needs everything. Not everything, but respectfully. The only thing I asked for is that Popper Team 6 shirt and she delivered. So I can't wait for the milk team 6 stuff to come out. So I can surprise with that stuff as well. But yeah, about two and a half hours until the process starts. And by tomorrow at this time, you know, I will be a father. I'm a little nervous, but more than excited.

I don't have the words. No tears yet, but I know they're coming. I know they're coming. It's not if it's when. But I will keep you guys posted, send some pictures. Um, love this pot. Definitely, uh, you know, the dad hacks, uh, all that stuff. It's, it helps.

It definitely helps. And I know it's going to help me in the next month, three months, six months, nine months, et cetera. Uh, always in forever. Pop, team six. Out. Let's go, man. Congratulations.

That's so huge. Yeah. Congratulations. And shout out, no team six. Shout out mom for coming in clutch with the PT6 shirt. Yeah. There, there, there was a DM, uh, that this call remind me of, uh, that Derek, he was reaching out to you too is who we got those Christmas for the dad photos from.

A guy was reaching out to us, Will. And essentially his for the dad's Christmas merch came just in time for him to have it on with his child. But it arrived after the birth of the child, but they're still at the hospital and they live close to the hospital. And he asked his wife, can I please run home to go get the merch? And she said, of course. Of course. go and he ran home, got the merch and then took these pictures. And I'm like, bro, that is so crazy. Awesome.

I like, I love the buy-in. Yeah. The joy that these dads are getting. I know you're in pain right now. You might if I run home and grab the mail came in. My Papa Team 6 shirt is sitting on the front step. And you know, these porch pirates, you know, fat staff guy is shit taking? We got to be, we got to be careful. there was one I'll see if I can find

it and ain't nobody ain't nobody stealing gonna steal your shirt he sits over in the corner pulls up the part of the episode he's like listen to listen it's just me going fuck more Spires I'm so sorry there you're saying something this episode there's a picture of I'll see if I could find it there was a picture of a guy who did something similar

but he had the shirt but it was to hear because they had bought a small and he was a large man but he had to wear the shirt or something like that I'll see if I can find it in the archives. I thought I had shown you it. Let me see if I can find it, but they're sickos. That's hilarious. Yeah.

God, I love that. Congratulations, too. Congrats. I'm going to try and get his first name. Good afternoon, boys. Brian from Omaha. Brian. Brian.

Bery from Omaha and the Brains. Go big red. He's probably not a Creighton fan. He's in the go big record. This one is called One and a Mellon. One and a melon. One in a melon. Okay.

Hey, boys, I'm calling in a Loner Team 6 here. I'm a foster parent, so I'm tossing that name out there for the foster parents, Loner Team 6. Love it. I'm a few weeks behind on the pod trying to catch up. I'm currently listening to November 12th episode. I'm talking about the one-year-old birthday parties. I thought I'd share this. Our first foster child was a one, we got her about a week before.

she's home one. Oh, Haitian little girl, beautiful. And me, my wife, we're wider than Willie C.

Wider than Sherman, okay? We are right. The first birthday party, my wife wanted to do a one-in-a-melon theme, but we quickly realized you can't put

a black baby in watermelon-themed outfits surrounded by nothing to white people. You can't do it. Oh, no. It's not a good look. It wouldn't. have been a good look. So we went strawberries instead. So dad hack, very specific dad hack from anyone

out there. Keep going, boys. I'm really glad you are doing this. Oh, my God. Oh, let's get her in this shirt. Hey, hey, hey, anyway, sweetheart. Sweet are, we can't do this shit. Honey, I'm wider than fat staff. You can't be doing this shit. And that is quite white. If you're wider than that, than me and Willie C. You, why? One in a melon, just a watermelon t-shirt. You mean?

That's so funny, dude. Yeah, for any foster pants out there that are extremely white and do have a Haitian one-year-old, use the strawberries. Go strawberries with it. Oh, that's funny. That's fantastic.

I think he remained anonymous, correct? I'm pretty sure he remained. Yeah, let's keep it that way. Lonerty. owner team six. Boys almost fucked up. Almost put a watermelon t-shirt. Yeah, I just have

emails now. And you have some emails as well. Yes. All right, here we go. Jake, Florida. This is Jake from Cincinnati. Longtime listener, Bussing, a proud member of PT6, getting ready for my second deployment with a baby due in December.

We haven't found out the gender, My wife and I only agree on girl names. We are totally fucked if we have a boy. Please give us some ideas. Here we are again. Here we are again. Here we are again. And that one guy went with Violet.

We talked about that, right? Did we think about that? I don't think so. I don't think I was just in the office, but thank you for bringing that up. Yes. He went with Violet and he tagged us. Okay. Which is crazy.

Shout out. Bonus points for unique names. I played college football and with Willie C's boy Yoshi while I was in the CFL. Jake, that is awesome. You shout out Yoshi, too. He's still doing. I think he got offensive linemen of the year. No way.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super good athlete. Should have been a guy in the league for sure, but a stud. So I correlate, I correlate names with guys from the locker room that I wouldn't want to name my kid after Lafout out loud. Thanks, guys, appreciate all you do for the community. And as a reminder, to hold yourself to a higher standard as a dad. Good. PT6 out.

Let's see, we just want us to throw names at him to name his boy? I was waiting for it. I was waiting for the options. There are no options. Please give us some ideas. He just gave four psychopass an open-ended answer. Yeah. We might have to get back.

I say we get back to him next pod. Social video. I'll just go around with the tiny mic in the office and ask everyone to give us a guy name and that'll be. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. That's what we'll do because I honestly want to think on it a little bit. I want to think on it a little bit.

I love the name. I will just show this out there because it's a family name. I love Charlie. And I love the nickname Chacha. Here we. Hey, I just threw in Google. Give me some unique tough boy names for a locker room for a baby. Here we go.

Knox. Sounds like he was born with a linebacker neck roll. Yeah. Speed, swagger, a little bit reckless. Two T's. Holt. Short, sharp, all grit, Troy,

classic warrior energy. Yep. Bain, Rhett, Duke, Axel, Stone, Gage.

More rare but strong. Maddox. Ah. Conan. Conan? Just imagine naming your boy Conan, man.

Conan the barbarian. You don't know what I'm talking about. Oh, I do. I do. The cartoon. Correct? Conan the Barbarian. Falconia.

We talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ford, Zane, Kane, Rocco. Rocko's modern life. Rocco. Crew, Beck, Mac, Vaughn, Blaze, Striker, Slade. Breaker Ridge

Bruin Titus Say Falconia Jagger Falconia Wells Paul Heath

Tate Larry Colt A lot of good names in there A lot of good names right there So let that help my man

So also who What was his name? Yoshi Or what was the guy who wrote in Jake Okay, cool. Jake Floria.

That's so sick that you play with one of your boys, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In the CFL, man. But we need, I will truly think on it. We should all think on it, but then also do the social video and everyone could give their answer. I love that. Okay, I'll read this email. This one's interesting.

Okay. Derek gave me a breakdown of it, but I didn't want to, like, fully read it. I kind of wanted to, like, read it open-ended on the pod. this is a poem Will a poem that was written by a PT Sicko by the name of Jay Blair

who's not written by PT Sicko the author of the poem is in the first card that you have it says if by somebody my apologies my apologies

this is I'll just read it I'll say apologies boys Justin Blair Seaman Team Six are here I feel this poem

will resonate with any parents out there My dad would read it to me as a child, and I revisit it any time I am facing a challenge or adversity in my life. Much respect, boys. This is if by Rudyard Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating. And yet, don't look too good nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with womb out tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sin you to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you if all men count with you, but none too much. if you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run yours is the earth and everything that's in it and which is more you'll be a man my son fabulous phone that's strong yeah fabulous phone thank you for writing that in who wrote it what I'm sorry Rudyard Kipling

what's the one no I thought that was funny it's runyard Kipling and that came from our friend Justin Blair, who's a seaman team sixer. Okay. That's into poetry. And I love it. No, I just laughed because it was like a will. It just will making me laugh. Hey, who wrote that? Kipling did.

Kipling did. God. Oh, you remind me of like the way I feel with Ryan Whitney. Like I could just watch and observe Ryan and listen to him say stuff and it just makes me laugh. And that's what you have going on with me because it's like I don't know what you're laughing at. You do you do just make me laugh. Before the pod when you and chef were getting into college football and you just getting up at mid-sentence housing a crispy cream and like never broke from how Nebraska is like going to pull itself out.

And I'm just like there's only one Will Compton. But I digress. Can I, you, you're ready? Yes, sir. Shout out the poem. Hey, shout out. Who wrote that poem? Kippling.

And he's a big old poet sicko. He's written a bunch of them bad boys. Okay, P.T. Okay, here we go. This is for Derek. I appreciate the warning. Pt6 difficulty level hard. This is from Ron Holmes.

Star, asterix, sad alert. Okay, here we go, boys. Hey, boys, this is Ron. I am new to the For the Dad's podcast. I've been riding on the bus with the boys for a while and decided it was time to hop on this one. I just wanted to write in and tell you all where I'm at right now. The last episode, it was mentioned that we need to talk about the tough thing, so I figured why not talk about it here. I have a stepdaughter who you can't tell me otherwise.

She is mine. I am just being technical for the story. My wife and I found out a couple months ago that we are expecting PT6 all day. Well, a few weeks ago on a Monday, my wife called me at work crying. She just woke up on her bathroom floor after she passed out. We took her to the hospital and found out she passed out because she wasn't hydrated enough for two babies. That's right. We found out we were having twins.

Both heartbeats were good and healthy. That same week on Friday, as I was getting ready to go to work at 4 a.m., my wife gets up to go to the bathroom and she sees that she is bleeding. thinking we lost the babies, we take her to the hospital and find out it's a hemorrhage that is fairly common during pregnancy. We were told both babies were healthy and both heartbeats were there. Flash forward to Tuesday of that next week, which was Veterans Day. After all the hospital visits, we go to see my wife's OB and they do an ultrasound. Knowing our babies were good, we could not wait to see them on the screen.

During that ultrasound, we found out that we lost one of the twins. The only thing they could tell us was its heartbeat just stopped. We were devastated, confused, trying to still be happy and excited and excited for the one healthy baby we did have, but we're sad for the life that we were expecting to have with twins. Now, going to last week, my wife called me from her job telling me she was going to the hospital because she was bleeding a lot again. We thought we lost another baby.

Praise God, our prayers were answered, and it was just hemorrhaging again. and yesterday we found out through another appointment with our OB that the hemorrhage is shrinking and the baby is growing and healthy. I just wanted to share because sometimes life sucks. When my wife and I found out we lost one of the twins, we told each other that if we believe who God says he is, then as long as baby B is still in there, we will pray for God to restore the heartbeat. And if he decides not to, God is still good.

if he answered our prayers we would thank him for the miracle and if he if he hadn't we would rejoice that our baby was in in his arms of the father some might call us delusional and that's okay but we call it faith so pray and hope with us that our baby and mama stay healthy and get to meet our child and talk about the hard things my few takeaways from the pod i thought allie pop was gross but because of will i tried apple crisp and god is good terminal list is great watch it um other shows i recommend shrinking your friends and neighbors ted lasso uh the last frontier parentheses all on apple tv i was about to say thank you for writing in ron um it seems like baby number two is growing and healthy right now did he say how far along they were uh it sounded like two months is that what he had said at the very beginning they found out two months ago they're pregnant yeah man our our thoughts and prayers and positive vibes are definitely with them

I hope it does you guys I can only imagine and God bless you both for staying strong and shifting that perspective around when you're getting news like that I can only imagine how angry it makes you thank you for sharing bro yeah thank you for sharing

thank you for starting to listen thank you for feeling like you have a space to write into the boys. I'm glad we read this. I hope you're listening to this right now, Ron, and we do positive vibes, thoughts, prayers, all of it headed your way, you and your wife. I hope everything goes well. I hope you're writing it again one day with positive news, man. Yeah, I cannot wait for that baby to come out healthy and the heartbeat restores on the other twin. I can't wait to hear that news to you. And for anyone at home that is listening right now, that's also just going through whatever, any struggle. You, there are people out there.

There are people in your life that you can share that stuff with. I think it's just really good to share that stuff to get it off your chest. And thank you for sharing. What was his first name? His name was Ron. Ron. His name was Ron. Thank you so much, Ron.

Because on that note, too, like, to your point, it's like they're, so I'm sure people listening right now going through, whether it's something similar, law, that they just went through, hope that they're trying to cling to right now because of anger that might be happening. So thank you, man. Yeah. And I love at the end, too, he's just bringing a little bit of, bringing a little bit of life. Like, we can laugh about a couple things.

Like, hey, Ollie Pop, I thought it was gross. But will he see, I tried the crisp apple. God is good. And those wrecks, too, on Apple TV. Big Apple TV guy. Big Apple TV guy. By the way, Terminalist, hey, you guys would be proud of your boy. I am 90 pages in.

Really? 90 pages in my first fictional book of all time. All time? All time. I've never read or I've never read a fictional book. I'm mostly like a nonfiction guy. In adult. To me I'm like it's got to make me better.

Yeah. Never just like, I don't know, had my own time, had my own like, let me just enjoy a book on my own. Yeah. But I'm into it because I watched the TV series on Prime. phenomenal series. Again, strongly recommend Terminalist Dark Wolf first, then going back to the 2022 original Terminalist.

But knowing that I've seen it and getting to read it, I am now seeing the light on book readers who read the books, then watch the movies in the shows, and like, oh, the books way better, and you're kind of like, they shut up. Like, just enjoy the movie. Yeah. But the detail, the amount of detail and other things

that the like Hollywood can't quite fit in all of that. Yeah. I do, I do see what readers are saying. Not saying I'm a reader now. Yeah, yeah. But I started a book over the weekend and your boy is 90 pages in. And I have enjoyed it.

Reminds me of Mark Wahlberg and the other guys. Where'd you learn to dance like that to make fun of the kids in the neighborhood? They would dance. I don't read. Hey, I'm not a reader, all right? I'll read. I posted that, I posted the shout out to, uh, who's the Jack Carr? That's right.

And the books and everything else in the comments are so funny. Like, how bummed were you when you realize it wasn't a pop-up book? Yeah. Oh, no. Like, oh, Willie C, it ain't a picture book, bro. Oh, come on. Willie, when did you, you can't read? Those aren't PG-s.

Come on. I can read a couple words. And, uh, for any new listeners, uh, terminal list. Dark Wolf is a prequel to Terminalist. Yes. Yeah. If you're new tuned in right now, if you've listened to, you know, it's 10.30 right now. If you listen to 92 hours in, you're still with us.

I love the terminal list. We love it. Dark Wolf is the newest release. It is a prequel to the 2022 version. I highly encourage you to start with that prequel. It starts up for a spin. At the end of the original tournament. I have to watch the show because then you'll truly want to go to lunch with me and probably talk about it.

Yeah. You ever take me to lunch? Jesus. Truly. I tried getting him. I'm going to text the other night said, I missed the teams. And when he watches Terminalist, he knows what he'll know what I'm talking about because they'll just, you know, Taylor Kits just randomly. They're on the boat.

Just having a beer. And he's like, I miss the teams, man. Just the Navy SEAL team he was on, that they were on together. Here are you in the terminal list. Who do you resonate with? These dudes are badass. Yeah. Like, of course, I love to pride myself on badassery, but we're not even fucking close to these guys.

The Navy Seals, man, they are a different breed. Like, these guys are assassins. Yeah. The Hell Week that you learn about, read about, hear about. You might see a YouTube video and get a little motivated. But when you try to actually get some context and try to actually picture yourself in that world, they are different fucking animals. So I went to school in San Diego my freshman year and the island Coronado, I believe. Yeah, it's something like that.

The ships and everything else that you get to kind of go around and see. We went to the holiday bowl up for San Diego. we got to go and like tour that stuff and kind of be around them. You got to go to the movie base on Point Loma, which is where I went to school. And then there's the island of Coronado where the seals train. And I was on Coronado Island. And I saw the seals and those inflatable

kind of looking boats that you see in the movies and it just has the one mower on the back. Yeah. Or the one motor on the back. And all these boats take off. And this one boat stops. And it looks like, complete engine failure. There's not smoke coming out of it,

but I just see this one guy ripping this cord, ripping this cord. I'm talking 20 minutes of him ripping this cord with a guy just in his ear yelling at him the entire time. And he sat there for 20 minutes ripping that cord. And finally, the motor started back up and they went. I was like, dude, I couldn't even do that 10 times. Think about ripping a boat motor for 20 minutes straight.

these guys are psychos. Bro, they are. In the best way. In the best way. Yeah, of course. In the best way. Yeah. Well, you're asking me, who do I picture myself as in the show?

It's like, I love to have fun about it. I'm Chris Bradder, Taylor Kitch. But dude, these guys are different animals. They are. Different. You're a different animal on PubG, though. PubG, we're talking a bit of a different game. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Are we talking about I'm a warrior. You are, sir. I'm surgical. You are. You are. I, um, I don't kid you. yourself now you can you sling some lead hey come on you're only as good as your team yeah only good is your team and we got a stream for the pt sickos uh i i do have this email this is from t johnson

t t t t t i'm a two-up fellas t t tcco with a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter i listen to the podcast every week and always pick up something new it's powerful hearing from mother, dads in the trenches, embracing the suck and trying to be intentional. I'm in the army. So I'm away from home more than I'd like. A few weeks ago, my son fell and hit his head on the arm of a couch. Friday night, right at bedtime, we made the classic ER run for a staple. Good.

He handled it like a champ. I cried more than he did. Dude, I love that. That Monday, I left the training knowing that the day I got home. the first thing I'd have to do was taken back to have the staple removed. After a week away, all I wanted was to walk through the door to two screaming kids and my beautiful wife, but in the back of my mind, I was dreading another hospital trip. It breaks my heart to see fear or pain in my kid's eyes.

On the drive, I threw on the podcast to finish the shifting your perspective episode. A few minutes in and Willie C is talking about exactly that perspective. Something clicked. Instead of thinking, man, I just got out of the field and now I have to take him straight to the doctor. I shifted to how lucky am I that I get to be here for him when he needs me most. I get to comfort him when he's scared. I get to carry some of the weights so my wife doesn't have to do it alone. Today was a good day.

And once again, my son was a trooper. Ice cream at 10 a.m. on the way home was non-negotiable. I'd be remiss to not shout out my wife. She holds down the house while I'm away, off in solo. and far from family. She deserves a first round bid to the MT-Sixer Hall of Fame, coined and created by Troy Johnson.

She's the strongest woman I know. I'll leave you with the dad hack. Mary a partner who pushes you to be the best version of yourself. Amen, brother. My only real fear is that our kids are going to love her way more than me. And honestly, I can't blame them.

The three of us are blessed to have her. Y'all motivate me to be a better father and husband. Keep crying boys. P.T.6 out. That is awesome, bro. And amen to that dad hack. What a dad hack, dude. What was repeat exactly what he said with the dad hack?

Like marry a partner that pushes you. Mary a partner who pushes you to be the best version of yourself. And that partner, again, when they're pushing you, it's going to piss you off a little bit. Oh, when you have that perspective of you got to ride or die. Amen to that. And what a, it fires me up that he's able to shift, you know, his perspective in times of like, you know, thinking,

this dude's in the army. Yeah. Like this dude's a hero. And to come home and shift back in the dad life, I can only imagine that's not easy. It's not easy. Like when you have a career and you're coming home, after all the stress that you're way,

you're thinking about a billion different things. And then shifting back in the dad mode is a very hard thing. Shifting back into mom mode, paramo, whatever it is. It's always hard to do. But it fires me up for him because that, that dude is a badass of the world. and also like his kid

like he the kid is going to see him like such a hero one day and what a position he's in to teach whether it's resilience and toughness because you know that's what he wants to do with his boy yeah you know he's ready to do all these things where you see him hit the he's he hits his head

he cries you're probably you know you're very masculine man I assume he's as masculine as they come but what an opportunity in pocket he's going to be when those moments and lessons do come, when your boy feels so safe and secure with you, like when you are, you know, having kind of those positive disciplines or, or nurturing him in a way to where, you know, it's not like soft and weak, but your dad, like he feels safe with you. And those moments where he has weakness or wants to learn lessons, like what better example to learn from than somebody who's in the damn military. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's just really cool. It's cool to hear him write that in and talk about kind of his perspective shift and everything else because I just, I like to view it as he's going to be in such a great spot when his kid does need him for some real lessons that he will be able to teach him like when those times come and just enjoying the moments he does get with him because I don't know what is scheduling and everything else is it's got to suck to be deployed it's got to suck to you have to leave your family um so appreciate you writing that in yeah matter of fact for the uh for the lesson there's one that I I was reading on again I've read the last couple days from the daily dad that I threw in my bookmarks um but it's called the uh the river

of change and forgive me if I've read this one before but again this is one that's kind of came back around into me kind of like looking at it the last couple days it's just it's been the one that's been in front of my face but it's called the river of the river of change and this is this was posted by the daily dad and this is advice from the parents tau te Ching you can get a copy from the bookstore painted porch bookshop but this one is called river of change the child you see today will not be here tomorrow. The child arriving home from school is different from the one who left from home this morning. Every moment is a death of all that it's gone before and a birth of all that is to come. You must jump into the river and let it carry you on its journey.

If you try to stop it, you will drown. Now that I'm reading that, part of me thinks I've read that one before. Yeah, I don't think you have. Okay, because it's an awesome one. I got in my bookmarks, which by the way, look at the boomer alert here, like the bookmark stuff. on social media that you can kind of follow away into different little subjects. You might be laughing. You might be thinking that's a funny willism right there. I don't know people's on top of that. Like that's something you should for sure tap into. No, I was thinking about how I haven't gone into my bookmarks

folder in a while. I need to go look and see what I have been bookmarking. It's so great to kind of organize everything. It's like I got stoicism ones. I got a children's bookmark thing. Oh yeah. You broke it down into different categories. I got like. I have rehab one from my low back. Like I got all these different little, it's like my Pinterest board. I love that. You'll laugh too.

I got so many on, on X on Twitter. Like I got a college football, NFL leadership for the dads, quotes, content ideas, Nebraska receipts. I wish so badly. Money, books, fatherhood,

stocks, diet movies. I just want to be in Will Compton's brain for just like 30 minutes. I just want to be in your brain for 30 minutes. Oh, it is going to be a good one. Some of the breakdowns of the social media stuff that Will will do with me of and Sherman, I'm telling, I'm telling them this two weeks in advance because I know the Broncos are playing the Chargers.

And what they're going to, this is what they always do this. And this is what they're going to do. I'm going to set them up for this. And then when Bo Nixon's up beating the Chargers, I already got it ready for him. And that's when I bring it out. And I'm like, holy shit. He really is a savant with the social media stuff in a way of like, how are you game planning this two weeks out?

My bookmark list would put me on an FBI watch list. From just all the memes that I bookmark, I'm like, oh, that would be good. Oh, that would be good. Mine's very memes and I'll save and I'll just go into my albums and move it to a memes. A memes album. But that is smart to just bookmark have a. I'm going to do that. That's easy.

you're we're we're not two extra clicks. Yeah. I have got to file stuff away. Gotta file stuff away. I have a quote. Can I say one thing about Wills? Have you ever heard of a guy named Gabber Mottay? He's a very famous philosopher recently.

He does a lot about the body and how it like, it's not, he didn't write the book, he keeps score, but he was on a podcast lately. He said something that no siblings have the same childhood. And it's this thing that comes out that like the, the children, it reminded me of what you said about the, child that you let go doesn't come back the same way. And he said, it's very important to remember that just because two kids grew up in the same house, no, they didn't. Like, the parents treat them different. And what they come home to is different. And the way things are different because of each other.

It just reminded me of that where, like, everything that your child will do seems to, like, change them than the person that you let go. It was just really cool. Yeah. Send you the clip. That's always fascinating, too, because, like, you know, you'll grow up in the household. It's like, I got two other brothers. Like, if some, you know, if one does something out of the ordinary that's bizarre. It's like the parents are sitting there talking like we all grew up in the same damn house. Like how is so and so being this way when we all came from the same damn household?

You know what I mean? Yeah. But I'm also realizing that too with Rue and Scotty. And again, it's like going to thinking of all the first you go through with Rue and then all the things that Scotty's doing that it was different than with Rue because Roo was our only child at the time to her char and our child. I'd be like, hey, do we have the, you know, the age appropriate toys that Scottie could be playing with. Scottie's a minute.

She's all over the house. She's getting a cabin. She's all over there. Hey, sweetheart. You can't be, you can't be climbing all over this. The guy, she'll be grabbing all the olipops that are on the lower shelf in the pantry and she'll just be knocking them all off. She got in the water bowl again today. And she's just everywhere.

And I'm just like, do we not? We got toys, but I'm thinking like, oh, have we dug in and got the right ones? Because when it was just rude, it's like we were both so intentional. with Rue and all the stuff she was doing to keep her occupied and giving her attention and everything else. Not saying we don't give Scotty attention, but it reminds us that like, hey,

like we had all this certain time that we spent with Rue. Like we need to be making sure that we're doing the same stuff with Scotty and the same excitement and the same everything else. Because they're going to grow from a lens of Rue is always the first child. And they're going to be seeing us experiencing first with Rue. And then if we have a lapse or we have a few lapses with her,

that will like subconsciously be in her brain of that whole second child syndrome that I feel like evolves over time that if you're not sitting there watering the plant kind of the same way it's not like we're wanting them to be the same but it's almost like as parents being very aware that you want to kind of have the similar reactions experiences things that you're doing with scotty like when she gets old enough like you know i'm taking the rue on lunch dates but making sure i take it's just me and scottie and mom has time with just scotty to her it doesn't seem like ruse the leader of the whole thing and scotty just kind of fits in with us yeah you know what i mean you bringing that up it's like that's always a very fascinating thing to think about. Because I think of my household, when something goes sideways with any of us, it's like, it's just crazy because we all grew up in the same household. I feel like you grew up in the same discipline, X, Y, and Z. And now that I'm having my two kiddos, and I'm almost putting myself in the shoes of Scotty a lot of times, I think of my younger brothers on like, oh, I could see how some of this stuff kind of shaped who they were when I'm the oldest brother. And they always talk about like, you know, first child syndromes,

all that stuff. You feel like you're the more responsive one. You feel like all. these different pressures that the first child has. Then you feel like the youngest one, oh, dude, you have it so easy. Mom and Dad never cared about, blah, blah, blah. You got to do X, Y, and Z the other time, they weren't as strict on you. Yeah.

And then probably from their vantage point, they have a much different lens of like, yeah, but you were taking care of the absolute most. They checked in on you the most and didn't care as much about me. That might be their story they tell them, whether it was the reality or not is whatever. But just constantly, like, thinking about those things,

like when you have multiple children, now that I have to, I'm like very much, hey, Scotty, we got to make sure like we're just as, you know, give her this, not like same amount of attention, but you're giving her that intentional time all the time because she, we got a little try before now. Yeah. I mean, it will be different naturally too, just from their DNA makeup of like, you know, Rue might go lean super heavy into the art stuff. Scotty might be a sicko soccer play. and she's got her soccer set. Like,

yeah, everything will paint its own picture, but I know exactly what you mean of just like, my brother wasn't allowed to watch PG-13 until he was 13. And then my mom comes home and I'm six years old on the couch with my dad watching Gladiator. She's like, what are you doing? And he's like,

it's just great movie. Like, what do you mean? What am I doing? It's funny. It's funny. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have a, I have a quick quote. You read one from C.S. Lewis last week. I have one from his good friend, J.R. Tolkien, who's one of my faves. This was a letter that Tolkien wrote to his son, Christopher. And it's just a quote about fatherhood. He says, a man who is wise and good can learn from his own children. And a parent's task is not to dominate but to guide.

to help them grow straight, but not to force them into any shape. I just like that whole idea of like, you know, not trying to force some kind of idea or some kind of what they need to be and you just kind of let them go. It's like the horse trainer guy that we talked about in that video. Like there's some similarities with training or breaking a horse. and then also like raising a child as well. Right. Being next to them. Yeah, be next to them.

Yeah, yeah. I like that one. Great stuff, boys. Great sewed. Great sewed. Pt6. I hope you loved it. Again, we got merchandise, everything,

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