Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton Tackles SOLO PARENTING 😤 & Importance of Communication with the Wifey | For The Dads

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm discuss dealing with dogs and kids in the house, discuss Will’s week solo parenting, and walk through some recent gifts from PT6 members —all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with the boys talking about the Bussin Bowl this weekend before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: A returning commenter updating us on a MAJOR situation The boys announce our Wayfair Giveaway Winner Sherm brings the heat with a wonderful new quote Other highlights include: A terrific question for the boys from a PT6 caller Will talks about meeting PT6ers in the wild 👉 If you’re looking for dad podcast humor, parenting real talk, and a strong community vibe, this episode of For The Dads is a must-listen. 🎧 Tune in for laughs, real talk, and unfiltered dad energy. 💬 Drop a comment, share with your dad crew, and don’t forget to subscribe to For The Dads with Will Compton for new episodes every week!  PT6, Going Dark. —-- TIMELINE 00:00 - Intro 6:15 (ish) - Bussin Bowl 10:58 - Reading Comments from PT6 35:40 - Quick Potty Break 38:35 - Shoutout Wayfair 40:07 - Highs and Lows of the Week 41:33 - Will’s Dad Loss / Heartbreaker 55:40 - Talking to Kids like Adults 59:48 - Doggos in the House 1:07:00 - Sherm’s Dad Loss 1:17:34 - Crack a Cold One 1:37:50 - What Are The Odds 1:46:20 - Survival Kit / Dad Hack 1:53:23 - FTD Hotline 2:07:34 - Sherm’s Quote 2:16:34 - Wayfair Winner —--   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a soon-to-be dad who’s currently enjoying his last few months of uninterrupted sleep and freedom. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify   -----   SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   Wayfair - Get organized, refreshed, and back to routine for way less. Head to https:www.wayfair.com (https://www.wayfair.com/) right now to shop all things home.    True Classic - Upgrade your wardrobe & save at www.trueclassic.com/forthedads    Phorm Energy - Zero Sugar. Natural Caffeine from Green Tea. Mental Focus. Learn more at https://www.phormenergy.com/    Liquid IV - Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout.    KiwiCo - Get up to 50% off your first crate at https://www.kiwico.com, promo code FORTHEDADS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcasts. Papa Team 6, welcome to another episode of For the Dads. Look, boys, we're, we're, yeah, good. Look over at Chermshirt right now, good. Wife left town, five days. She's in Portland, Oregon, doing an owner's summit with Bar 3 and their entire headquarters, their national team. All the owners are out there for like a five-day event.

I don't know what they're doing. They're probably learning some stuff. But your boy, I know what your boy's doing and your boy's in the trenches right now back at home. I'm being a father back at home. Solo dad rocking with two kiddos. Good. Good.

Nanny's out of town also. Good. Rue doesn't want to sleep in her own bed while mama's gone. Good. Good. Oh, Scotty's crying. Roo's crying because she misses Mama. I got to soothe Roo.

Scotty's in the crib crying because it's bottled. time and she's ready for a bottle to go to bed, but Rue doesn't want me to let her go to bed. Rue wants to go to bed first. Dad, day, you do bedtime first. Don't do Scotty. Good. Good. Because Scotty can put herself down.

But she's only, what, eight months? She's 10 months. She can't put herself down. She can put herself down. I love Rue's logic. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Rue, I'm pointing at Scotty in the crib.

Roo, look at Scotty. She's, she's, she's. This kid is Michael Parsons on third down. She's hanging on the rail and she's looking at me. Like, Roo, look at Scottie. Dadda has to put her down. I promise I'm going to put her down as fast as possible. That's year three Max Crosby that I'm dealing with over there.

She got in the water bowl. She's destroyed the pantry, but the pantry I built it. Like the foundation I have in the pantry is solid. Water bowl, dog bowl, the mat and everything's on top of the counter. and she's just rummaging through all the snacks or rude snacks. She's like, you know, she's got to like throw everything out. Yeah, yeah. It's not like the play.

It's not to open and try to eat. However, she did get her hands on some puffs and somehow figured out a way to open the top. I walk in. There's puffs all over the floor. She's eating them with a little grin on her face. I go, Scotty, and pick her up. She's like trying to grab. She's trying to grab as many puffs as possible while I'm picking her up.

But I hope everybody's doing well. I hope the dads out there are doing well. I hope other dads are moms. You guys are sitting there laughing, having a good old time. as Willie tells that story. Yep. We're in it right now, but it's the life.

It's the life I have chosen. It's the life we live. I have an ambitious woman who is an owner of Bar 3 studios here in Nashville. Come on. Who wants to, she wants to be a grinder. There's times where I'm at home, and I'm like,

sweetheart, you know, you ain't got to do nothing. You don't have to if you don't want to. But I know she does and she loves it. And it's just, it's a grind between, between us trying to raise these two little demons, bro.

Yeah. I have a story for you, too, as I continue to. kick this off everybody we have cue cards we have comments everywhere we actually we also have an update with Chuck you know if you guys have been following this podcast

and a couple weeks ago we've cried basically on every episode but a couple episodes ago Chuck talked about his wife rupturing and everything else we actually have an update from Chuck that we will hit you guys with but this show is for the intentional dads if you're looking to be more intentional we have

a lot of fans dude that just enjoy the podcast They're not even fathers yet. People tell me, I can't wait to be a dad one day. Like, I'm like a sitting duck. I was telling you this. I was at the nearby park the other day with the wife before she flew out. And we were hanging with the kiddo.

She was hanging with Roo. Scotty was napping. And I'm sitting there on the bench. Scottie's napping. And the PT-Sixers are out, bro. They're out. I'm talking there's a Hawkeye fan talking to me about the, you know, where the program's at right now.

They need to be expecting more wins for their football team. It's like, oh, here we go. We don't have much of a quarter. We're going to be eight, nine win team again. We're having a great conversation. Ended really well. Told him, I loved him. You know what I mean?

Like, hey, I know I say stuff about the Hawkeyes, but I do, like, I respect you guys. And you guys have had our number. Tennessee fan, basically, Chef Jack. This is in, like, this is like 35, 40-year-old chef Jack. Girl Dad, he sits down next to me. How are you feeling about the Falls in Georgia? I love the dad podcast. He sits down next to me.

Yeah. Like, we've just been. friends for years and it felt that way we had a great conversation fortunately scotty didn't wake up but the pt-sixers are out there so this um love all the feedback from the show continue to leave comments drop them on youtube again this is how you get the comments on our hands to be featured on the show we love reading the comments we love engaging with you guys instagram twitter uh tick to the amazon one the amazon one make sure you're subscribed and following all channels it is football season so i know

everybody's busy trying to consume as much football as possible. I try to consume as much football as possible until Roos like, hey, let's go throw the frisbee outside. And I look at her and give her like a long five-second stare like playing the game in my head. Will, you're a dad, you're an intentional father. You have a podcast for the dad's like, what would this dad do? Is he going to say, sweetheart, let's finish this two-minute drill? Or is he going to get up and go play Frisbee and then just turn the game on on the phone

and just play it on audio so I can hear it while I'm playing Frisbee? I'll get up. All right, right, we'll let's go outside it. Let's go outside and play Frisbee with a huge smile on my face. Let's do it. You're not going to get this time back, Shirm. She's not going to want to play Frisbee with me all the time. Not always.

She wants to learn how to throw it. But nothing gets us more fired up than the comments. You guys subscribing. If you really want to be a PT6 or a real sicko, buy her merch, I'm rocking. I'm rocking the Pt6 merch right now, BWTB.com. We got hats. We got good shirts. We got onesies.

We got hoodies. Hats. We got the entire. roller decks we got the for the dad's pinn it which people are begging that you hang that up back there it's starting to drive people crazy i've seen a couple comments shirm can you this one can you or really one shelf hang that back up i thought i want to say you guys put that project on me and god knows that's why it's still hanging right there uh but wtb dot com this is for the dads man this is for the dads and for anybody that's like man will's juiced up

i do want to remind you it is bus and ball week and we're it's This isn't a football podcast. Not a football podcast. This is a dad podcast. But it is Bustin' Ball Week. Please keep that in mind during this episode. Yeah. There's a lot of juice.

There's a lot of juice. Wife left during Bustin Bowl Week. Birthday week. It's birthday week. It's Will Compton's birthday week. And birthday week's not going to count if we lose this game. And that's, hey, that's okay because we'll have a birthday next year. That won't happen.

But I'm just saying there is a birthday next year. The Huskers are in position to rewrite this last decade, decade and a half. Yeah. However long it's been since we've had success in a season. Last year we had our first winning season that we had. Taste of it. Just a taste. Can't win the big games.

And one-score games, the records are not good. We grid it out of one-score game against Cincinnati. Yeah. Now you're going against a real football. team. Yeah. Bryce Underwood. Superstar.

He's going to be a super star. He's going to be, in my opinion, a number one overall pick. If, like, the kid's 18 years old and he looks good. They can run the football. Yeah. So this is a fist fight this week. This is a dad's podcast, but we got a fist fight in our hands this weekend. And there's an opportunity for Huskers, for the Huskers.

Matt Rule, year three era. Like, there's an opportunity. in front of us. Talk about generational dad, by the way, Matt Ruhle. Generational father, Matt Ruhle, yes. I'll be going on his podcast House Rules later today. Really? Yeah, so that'll drop this week as well.

We'll be talking some fatherhood. Check that out. Yeah, the football journey, the old Willie Husker back in the day. So check that out. But we're in a position as a football team, as a fan base, as a state to start turning the page to greener pastures. And it's this weekend. This weekend also happens to be the bus and bowl,

a rivalry between myself and Taylor. So that's one. It's like on a personal level, you want to win that game just for the bragging rights. They beat us the last four times we've played. We haven't beat a top 25 team in the last like 23, 24 consecutive times we've been in the game against the top 25 opponent. This game is huge, man.

This is a dad's podcast. This is a dad's podcast. And just a reminder, this is a dad's podcast. We are not professionals, but this is a huge week for Nebraska. And if you want to send some love to our boy, Willie C., because look at him. I recruited Mike Echler from the University of Tennessee

to take over special teams for the University of Nebraska. Yeah. On PFF, you know where Nebraska is ranked right now in special teams? Oh, got to be top three. One. Come on. One. Like, we're all in man

if I didn't have a mic in front of me I have a whistle hanging from my neck and I'd be at the University of Nebraska that's God honest truth yeah God I believe that so guys leave some GBRs down in the comments for all Willie C leave some GBRs down in the comments

the boy needs it he needs the juice this is a big week it'll be tough game I like our ball club yeah and it's all it's It's about not feeling the lights, not feeling the stage. Yep.

And Memorial Stadium being an electric factory, all game, all game. I was there two years ago. They drive it down, 14 play drive, put it in for seven. We come out, ball gets tipped. They pick it off. Place was dead after that. I was disappointed in Memorial Stadium because it was third and one in a red zone. and you needed the juice

because they had Corum, they had a Joe Moore offensive line. Yeah. You needed the juice. Juice was nowhere to be found. They ended up beating her ass, you know, 40-something to three or seven. It was bad.

And I'm out there at the second quarter or whatever. We're down like three scores maybe. Like, hey, Will, you want to do the T-shirt cannon? Pick the stadium up a little. They ain't no save. What's me and a T-shirt canning going to do? Mr. Compton? And I'm out there just faking until I make it.

It just, you know, face going, T-shirts flying, screaming, yelling, knowing we're getting mopped right now. Yeah. What do we got? That's our first comment. First comment comes from gabriel.fabio from Instagram. Hey, y'all, daughter listener here. Can we get a name for the daughter listeners?

DoF, Team 6, daughter of a father? Do A-D-D-T-6, daughter of a dad. I'm willing to workshop it. I just wanted to reach out and say I'm a day one, episode one listener. I started listening because I'm a longtime fan of Will & Sherin from Bussin, but I keep listening because it was truly given me standards to look for and a husband and future father of my children. Besides my own dad, of course, he is amazing.

You are both wonderful examples for me as a 21-year-old girl trying to figure out life and boys. I truly mean it when I say, I look forward to this every week. And although I am not a dad, L.O.L, I am taking lessons with me while laughing and enjoying the episode. Good. As an adult daughter now, who is best friends with her dad, I am so excited for your journeys as girl dads

because it is truly an amazing bond. You are in for a treat, old Miss Rebel student, haughty-toddy. Damn. Are you starting to tear up? No. I think you know. What the fuck? No, it's a...

That's special, dude. It's really cool that, that daughters are chiming in and letting us know how much their dad rips. Yeah, dude. And if I get emotional, I'm emotional because there's just, there's too much going on

on in my body in my head right now. Yeah. Giving fatherhood, giving the Huskers. Like, there's, there's too much going on in my system right now to just, be stable whatsoever.

We just talked about a two-quarter rounding for Michigan, and I just read a comment from a 21-year-old girl, and I started crying. Do we go, uh, DG6, like Daddy Girl 6, Daddy Girl Sixers? Yeah, I don't see. Why not? I'm, like, running it through my head, like, why wouldn't that work? We can workshop and we can let the audience, like, any of daddy's girl.

out there. Yeah, you're a daddy's girl. Any daughters out there. DG6. Yeah, DG6. And then just shoot a text of your mom. Hey, Mom, I love you too. I just, this pod rips. You know I love dad as well. But I want you to know you got a really special place in my heart. That is sick. I do want to say, I don't know why I'm saying this, but Derek does pick out these comments. Derek picks out these comments. Thank you for picking out that comment. You're welcome. She had sent that and then I said, hey, this is great. Like I plan on it. And she said, can you make sure Will and Sherms see this comment? next direct message just to say throw it in there. So I'm definitely wanted to get in front of you. I don't know if the next thing you're about to say is good or bad.

I didn't know what do you know. I just, I didn't know Derek picked this comment. I didn't what does that mean? It's a great thing. I just made that I didn't I didn't read that and go, oh, I'm definitely reading that about me on the podcast. That's all I meant by it. I picked it because of the impact that you guys have on people that riding off. They're not your demographic, but yeah. I will expect it. You're saying, You're not picking that about you. Yes. Oh.

I just didn't want listeners. You're in your own head. I'm in my own head. Okay, okay. I'm in my own head. I didn't even, I sat there and like, I like slowly looked over at Derek. I'm thinking, what's behind? What's wrong with Derek picking the comments?

He's crushing it. Yeah. And I love that he picked that comment because if I had seen, like if this had been sent to me personally, I would not have read it on the podcast. And there are really nice things like what Gabrielle sent that we like get in the DM. Sherm, we can confidently tell you, Shirm does not handpick these comments. I think this would be a good one for me to muster up some tears. And said, like from some moral high ground.

Yes, Shirm does not do that. Thank you. Yeah. I don't even know why I needed to preface that. But I don't know. I'm so in my head. And I'm so glad you picked that comment, dude. That was awesome.

Dude, you're a stud. You're a stud. You are a stud. You're not, you're not. Yes. You're not doing that. No, I don't, nobody thought that. I just want you to know.

Chef was thinking it. I saw you. I'm just kidding. No, it's great. Other than the hot-toddy at the end. Yeah, and hottie-toddy time. I got one from Ryan Delaney on Instagram. A-O-1-Shuff, Papa Team 6.

A-Yo-Yo-1-shelf, Papa Team 6 here, soon to be the, Mrs. I'm assuming he says Mrs. M-I-S-U-S. Mrs. Mrs. Water just broke. Look, he just might not. The Misses, because there's no periods, there's no grammar whatsoever.

It's just, this is all basically one line. A-O-1-Shelf, Papa Team 6 here, soon to be the Mrs. Water broke. Water just broke as she's induced, sipping on a nitrous oxide cocktail as she goes through hell. Secured my girl dad hat on 30 hours and no sleep. Good. I love you guys. Keep killing it. Delaney, or Ryan, congratulations, bro. The trenches are just starting.

And a newfound love is just beginning as well. Truly. I love that nitrous oxide cocktail. Yeah. Maybe he was just rip it. Like, again, 30 hours no sleep. You can't expect perfection. Yeah.

With sentence structure there. That's incredible. Ed Daniel 69420-0. What's up, fellas? Shout out Derek and Chef. My name is Daniel. I wanted to say I had a similar interaction with my son, as Will had on Sunday night football.

Is that correct? Sunday night football? Last weekend was the first football game. My boy, Caden, too, sat down and was engaged and watching the game with me. I think the best thing was we came up with our own touchdown dance. And now every time I yell touchdown, we do it. Grip it and rip it, fellas. Have a badass week.

Let's go. And that came for me. YouTube. That came from YouTube. Shout out YouTube comments. And by the way, quick time out. That last comment is on me. Mrs. Is that is the correct spelling for misses. I'm used to just seeing MRS. You know what I mean? MRS. Mrs. Yeah. And that's a very normal way to think of it. I think he probably 30 hours. He was just a 101 show. We're letting it rip. Yeah. Yeah. He did spell it correctly. M.S.S. US was in my

head and then I'm thinking to myself that's like misses you missed the shot let me type this in and figure it out figure it out that one's on me so I should have done a better I did I did not know that that's truly I love that the spelling of miss yeah yeah yeah I love it too Britney Underwood 16 Willie one shelf and fat Stafford no kids but I'm such a fan of this these last few episodes have had my eyes feeling so spicy they're tearing up oh no I lost my dad at 14, but he was the absolute best girl dad. And hearing your stories of being girl dads always makes me smile and sometimes cry

and remind me of him. Shout out, no free shout out to the girl dads. Keep the content coming. It's not a good week for me, man. Hey, I just want to say this really cool podcast and those comments, that's crazy. And it is a joy to wake up and, like,

know that we were going to record today. Like, I feel it too. I do. And comments like that, damn, dude. I know. And there's no laughing about any of that. It's just all of the emotions that are happening, the way we've started off this podcast, everything else,

and how we've cried every week with these comments. Like when I'm driving over here, because it's like, you know, you're in the trenches at the house, getting the kiddos up, which I got to talk about Rue's sleeping with dad the last three nights, and I'm setting a bad habit right now.

I'm sitting a bad tone because dad is weak, and I can't say no to my little girl. But you're sitting there scrambling, get the kiddos ready, get Rue ready for school. get Scotty ready. Make sure she's make sure she can't

crawl around anywhere. So I make sure she is confined in a space. I get her up on the island. I'm feeding her. I'm feeding the kiddos. We're getting lunches ready. Getting myself ready. Trying to think about,

oh, we got for the dads today. We got the team meeting. We got the Kay Adams show. We got the Rules podcast. We got to do the second part of For the Dads. Driving over here, my point I was going to make is driving over here.

It's like I get excited to do this podcast because I feel like it's such a break from everything else going on that you just get to talk about fatherhood. I get to laugh with a good buddy of mine. And you gentlemen in the back as well, chef and Derek, I feel like we have a good crew. And it always fires me up thinking like, I wonder what the comments are going to be like. I wonder what we'll see today. I wonder how much we'll get the laugh with PT6, how much we might cry with PT6 because they just send in comments like this that just tug on your heartstrings because of how real shit is. especially with stuff that happened last week. Just everything, man.

Everything is just very precious. And to see everybody taking the time to write to us and tell us and be vulnerable with us, whether it's encouraging words, whether it's, hey, I lost my dad at 14 and he was incredible, whether you're talking about situations that are personal to you and your wife, and you're going through something at the hospital. It's all, it's, I really do appreciate it. I know we both do. Yeah, we do.

it is a pleasure to read these comments. There's like no part of us that's sitting in a corporate think tank that's like you'll get more listeners to your podcast if you read the comments at the beginning of it. We truly just love reading these comments. Yeah. I also selfish shout out. Just want to shout out everybody in the comments of everybody that is DM me about my dad loss last episode. That was last episode? I think it was a couple episodes ago.

You're talking about the big one. The big one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Flying home, the Baylor game. Yes. Or after the week off. Yes.

Yeah. Because you felt very uneasy after that episode. Yeah. Like I knew that it was going. The only thing I was uneasy about is I checked in with you and was like, did I overshared there? And you were like, I didn't think so at all. And then in my head I was like, did I overshare there with Jill? Told her everything I said.

Yeah. And she was like, no, not at all. Yeah. a weird game that doing the podcast like you have yeah in your head on stuff at home like am i oversharing reason i loved it reason i loved it so much which i'm glad that you're getting a bunch of feedback from is because i feel like that's like a a real situation that you you break down and again this is not some expert show this is like us talking about real life experiences in our lives that i feel like is relatable to everybody because everybody goes through situations that we've both

gone through, especially with yours in that situation where you're like, man, am I oversharing? Am I seeming like a bad husband or a bad dad with that one? It's like, bro, all of us have bad moments. So that fires me up that you've gotten a lot of feedback from that. Yeah, and I remember telling you because we both started laughing when I was telling you the day after that episode dropped, I had a DM of some guy that was like, Shirm, I'm so glad you told that story because literally this last week, same thing happened. And hearing you say that made me feel so much better because I consider you a good dad.

And it makes me feel that much better. And I told Will, I'm so glad that guy DM me because hearing that he also, that's it. Yeah, okay, all right. I'm not dealing with me. We're both feeling the same thing with each other. We're good. And I'd DM him that back. I was like, bro, I hate that that happened.

But I'm going, you know, we're in this. Yeah. And Brittany, by the way, thank you for sharing this comment. Thank you for sharing this comment. Yes, thank you, Brittany. from YouTube. Hambonious Rex writes,

wife 33 weeks pregnant, just screamed yes about the wives designing an M.T. Sixth year. People are serious about it, Will. I did see a couple of the ladies being like they love the idea

of the wives designing a milk team six. Just having something come to us that's from the women that they would be fired up about. I think that could be a fun little, that's a fun little bonding thing for our wives too. That could be like a, hey, you guys

have fun. Yeah, leverage our podcast and brand to do a bonding thing. Hope you all have some fun designing this shirt. Yeah, yeah. Chef, can you turn the camera on while we do? Start rolling. Start rolling. Oh, y'all like each other. All right, chef, cut it. We got to go. Huskers

are kicking off here in 10 minutes. We got the bonding moments. Do we get it? Perfect. I got one here from from Logan. And I'm saying at the top that this is a real one. I need this podcast today.

I also took a huge dad-out last night and got into a big fight with my fiance. And listening to Shirm, be so vulnerable and open about the struggles of finding that balance between work, family, and me time. I had to shut it off and take a minute to take my own accountability and let her know that I was being a fuck-up too.

So shout out to Fat Stafford for being that example that being that example that me as a younger man needed. did today. Shout out Willie One Shelf, chef, and balls deep, Derek. He put the hammer for Willie One Shelf. He put the little chef emoji for for chef. And he put the cherries for Balls Deep Derek. Pt6 till I die.

Pepinones forever. Pepinones. Logan, thank you for this comment, man. And just like that, we were just talking about you a couple weeks ago and there you go. And shout out everybody that was commenting Pepinones. Pepinones. YouTube. That made me smile. This one comes from via email. This comes from Jonathan McMahon.

That's 601 the dads at gmail.com. Correct. Correct. Okay. Excuse me. Jonathan McMahon writes Sherm, Will and Chef, three absolute goats, I would say four with Derek, veteran gune bray captain checking in. honorably discharged after finding my own jilly bean slash charo i'm now proud girl dad to ivy three and ila five and now a fully pledged papa team six member this is huge my name is johnny and i'm from dublin ire a rare college football NFL fan over here and i've been riding the i've been riding with busting with the boys since the beginning which obviously deployed me over to your podcast without question. As I sit here listening to the latest episode, I'm buzzing that the international listeners can now interact. Just wanted to send some love. This podcast is the

real deal. It's raw. It's relatable. And it's exactly the kind of authentic content dad slash future dad's need. And guembray's, it sounds like. No need for a reply. Just wanted to say you genuinely make my Wednesdays better. Keep doing what you're doing. And I will rep the for the dad's merch over here and spread the word. Johnny, you said? Johnny, Jonathan McMahon. Johnny, thank you for the comment, bro. That's a sick comment.

Ireland, too. And an NFL CFB sicko. Yeah. International. Boy of the dads is international, man. Oh, that's so sad. And congrats to him. Well, he says a girl dad, three and five.

Three and five, Ila and Ivy. Also, shout out Ila and Ivy. Shout out Ila and Ivy. that age right there too is one that again love stay present in the moments now because scotty at 10 months old is an absolute blast i sit there and mess with scotty and play with scotty dude and her personality her crawling all over the place her like unbotheredness and just happy she's just a happy little girl oh yeah ru is too but she's a three-year-olds the emotions like she's very intense with her emotions right now um ru is an absolute sweetheart as well but Scotty like I play with her at 10 months. I always think about you because I'm like, man, Sherim's really going to love when he gets to these moments. And then I quickly, I'm like, he's also, he's got to, he's got to love the ones that he's in right now. But at three and five,

I'm excited for those ages for Scott and Rue, Roo's three. So it'll be like six and three to where they can play with each other. They can teach each, you know, Ruby teaching her a lot of stuff. They'll be getting each other's way, pissing each other off. I'm very excited for that when Scotty gets to be three where Rue is right now and you know they'll be like best friends. That is truly, I'm so looking forward to that because Rue is so good with Scotty now. Not now like she wasn't, but she's always been. And it's always like a work in progress, right? Like if Scotty's up on the couch and trying to pull the blanket or doing something that Rue doesn't want, you got to catch Rue and continue to remind her, hey, she's just a baby.

She does not know what you're saying. Like every time I say no to her, what does Scottie do. She continues to do what she's doing. She has no clue. She's just a baby. We have to learn to be sweet. We have to learn to be kind to. If she's doing something you don't want to do, either you know how to disarm the situation.

Like if she's getting in something, she knows like grab her legs and pull her back if it's on a sliding surface. I got to see a video of that. And she did it one time when Scotty was on the bottom stair. And so Scotty kind of hit her face a little bit. It wasn't bad. Yeah, yeah. But Scottie was crying.

And that was like a teaching moment of, hey, if Scotty's on a step, you go up and just wrap your arms around her, like around her chest. and just hold her there. If she cries, that's okay. Dad, Dad, Mom are Dad, Dad. I'll come over and help. But you just wrap your arms around there and hold her. Because unless you feel confident, like picking her up and moving her, which she doesn't right now.

Yeah. You just sit there and hold her. And the other day, she was literally, you know, hey, Dad, Scottie's on the stairs. I didn't have the barricade up. I didn't have jumbo package out there, the goal line defense where I barricaded the stairs. And for people are like, oh, why don't you just get a gate? We do have a gate, but it's at the top of the stairs. Because Rue, if you remember in the first episode, she went crashing down the stairs.

So we got a gate for the top of the stairs. Rue didn't have a whole lot of an issue with like always wanting to climb the stairs. Scotty always wants to climb the stairs. She's Scott Zilla, truly. She's Scott Zilla. And Willie one shelf hasn't put a gate in on the bottom. So I have this barricade that I put up at the bottom of the stairs. But Rue's holding her.

She's like, Dad, Dad, Scotty's trying to climb the stairs. And Scotty's crying and fussing. And Roo's just sitting there holding her and kind of got like a smile on her face because she knows she's doing the right thing. But that's kind of the stage we're in now. And I'm really excited for when Scottie gets to be like Rooz. and they can actually play together. Yeah. And I, too, to, like, reiterate what you're saying about how excited I'll be,

it goes into my dad win, so I don't want to spoil it. But I am very excited as well. Okay, we'll hold on the bad win. You can always tell your stories and just say, hey, this is the dad win. That is true. But we'll hold it. We already said it. I got, we got three minutes.

Yeah, my wife has a dress like dad themed day at work coming up. She'll be wearing my PT6 shirt, no brainer. This is from Turtle 19XXX. Thank you for the comment turtle, and I am fired up that she'll be rocking a PT6 shirt. I got one from Kim Hickey 416. Kim Hickey, Tim Hickey is very much a tier one. Shout out Kim Hickey. She's been rocking with Bustin with the boys for quite a long time, maybe since the beginning.

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Good. I have my PT6 shirt ready for the hospital and can't wait to share a pick with me in it with my baby boy leaving the hospital. Good. Thank you guys so much for the weekly podcast. It has helped ease the jitters of becoming a father. and it's helped me prepare for wife on the puppet list. Go big red.

Go big red. And then this final one, here's the update from Chuck. So if you guys remember, Chuck sent in a comment a couple weeks ago talking about how his wife ruptured. There wasn't a whole lot of context. I assumed the worst had happened. But this is a great update from Chuck It Up 04, three days ago. Boys, I wanted to thank you for the advice about my fiancee who ruptured.

Mama and baby girl, Charlie, are being strong as ever. plan is to be admitted to the University of Michigan. Shout out Taylor, the hospital in two weeks to monitor for premature birth as they have the highest level NICU around. Going to be an absolute battle, but I know both my girls got it. Thanks for just being there. Means a ton. The community has been a lifesaver.

Fatherhood is a blessing. Chuck, man, you are in our thoughts and prayers, bro. I would love if you update us. I completely understand if you don't want to update us. Like, again, I know. Rue was in the NICU for seven days, but it wasn't premature. Like, that's a world that I'm not as familiar with. I know it can be dangerous.

I know that it's a weird pocket to be in of optimism and hope, trying to, you know, not think about what the downside could be. I hope everything goes well, man. Again, the rupture thing a couple weeks ago, my brain saw that and just assumed the worst. So my fault for misleading that comment. And I am very fired up to hear that you guys are being strong right now and that you guys are good right now and that you guys will be at the hospital here to monitor for a premature birth. Hopefully all goes well, man.

Please update us if you want to. But thank you for the update. I'm sorry. I fell silent. I connected the dots that the daughter's name is Charlie. And his name's Chuck. So she's named after him. I just think that's really cool.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, but like, oh my God. That's a tear. No, you're right. I'm more so laughing just here in Germ. That's so cool. You're right. That is a, yeah, man.

Shout out Charles and shout out Charlie. They got this. They got this. Prayers up for Chuck in the chat. buddy what the heck i know these comments wreck us man it's it was the the the collins that used to wreck us and now it's the it's the it's the comments too yeah what in the world i need Kleenex cleanex please shout out no free shout out we can that we can um guys thank you for sending in comments sincerely like it is really it is really cool to be part of this community yeah

And you guys are amazing. Yes. And Chuck, thank you, Derek. Thank you. Chuck, so stoked, so excited, and wishing the best for y'all. Yeah. And thank you for sharing.

Yeah. I know. We can, number one, so you can get yourself together. We do have a team meeting on the busing with the boyside in the shop. We'll take a quick break. And we will be back to talk about our weekends. talk about our last week in fatherhood. I guess so.

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601 to dads. Come on. We'll talk voicemails. We'll round it off with a lesson quote coming from you. I have a quote. Great. Great. Yeah.

It's hard to kind of find quotes with the chaos over the weekend. Oh, I know, dude. My quote actually came from like in-person conversation. Been hanging out with Jill's stepdad at time they're in town for Jill's birthday. And he's just, he's full of one-liners, dude. Like, he got to write them down. Dad one-liners, you got to put it in the notes app. And you got to start jotting them down whenever you hear from the generation above us.

Because they have some gold. He was telling me about a fight. He got in way back in the day. He was down because we were watching the Monday night football game. We were talking about Houston. He said, man, last time I was in Houston, and this big old guys walk through the parking garage. Somebody's cat calling his wife.

He thinks it's me and our group of guys. And he comes barreling over. I just looked at my friend. I said, this is going to fucking hurt. It's like incredible. But the guy missed the punch and hit the car, like the actual car for him and broke his hand. So Cody got out unscathed.

Oh. I know. They do. He's a legend. Blue collar type. He's owned towing businesses. butcher shops like all different types of stuff he's a cool cat i'll talk about him more later okay all right um getting into my weekend with the girls so my dad loss is more of a dad heartbreaker

than anything else so as i've already told you i've been solo with the kiddos we're solo with the kiddos until you're listening to this on wednesday so tonight the wife gets home tonight okay but been solo with the kiddos since saturday and um dude nothing breaks your heart more than your little girl or your I would assume the little boys are like this too especially if mama's gone being little mama's boys but seeing your little girl miss mama being gone and that happened over the weekend it was night two so the first night ru and i had a sleepover we had a little slumber party where she slept in my bed we usually do it like once every now and then maybe once a weekend maybe every other weekend just every now and then we hit a little sleepover where ru can sleep

with mama and dad death so he did a sleep over on night one on something. Saturday to just to keep her hype about something because mom was leaving and we're dropping her off at the airport you could see the her thing and like how many sleeps until you get home and like oh dang like mama's leaving we're dropping her off at the airport it's like oh we get to do a sleep over tonight we could do this and that and getting her excited to where she's not fully going down that emotional rabbit hole of mom being gone yeah night too comes so it's Sunday night and it was a it was a great afternoon um called over reinforcements talk about operation in-laws I had that them over to help with the kiddos.

And Lola, Opa and Lola, they're playing with Rue, keeping her busy. Lola's holding Scotty. Daddy gets to watch a little bit of ball. I'm watching ball with my father-in-law. And we're having a good time. It was a great afternoon.

They leave around five. Rue's so tired. She ends up sleeping a little bit on the couch. I wake her up because it's like, hey, I don't want you to sleep too long. You know, we need you tired for bedtime. And we're going to eat dinner. And she's having a hard time,

like getting over to the dinner table. Yeah. in eating dinner. And I just ended up like, sweetheart, like, what's going on? Like, why is this? Why is this? You've been so good today. You've been, you've been so patient.

You've listened really well. You've had a lot of fun with Lola and Opa. And she just says, I miss mama and starts kind of crying. And I'm like, oh, man. And so I'm hugging her. And so we get through the dinner and where I have to, you know, I'm just like talking her through the dinner and everything else. And then we get to bedtime.

And this is where it really goes. This is the real heartbreak moment. Yeah. And I'm trying, so my operation, or I'm in my two-minute drill with bedtime is seven o'clock rolls around. I get Scotty down hopefully within 30 minutes. Feed her the bottle, rocker, read her a little nighttime book and get her down. And then I usually like, rural just be hanging out. She might get a TV coupon.

It depends on where she's out with the TV coupons. But she'll hang out. She'll play pretend. She'll do things like either in her room or hang out downstairs. while I'm putting Scotty down. And Rue does a great job like, hey, you want to help that out? Can you get in your PJs while I'm putting Scotty down and kind of challenge her on like being a big girl? And I know I can trust you.

Like I can trust that when I walk out of this room, you're going to be in your PJs. You're going to be in your pull-up. She does that. Yeah. And I'm trying to get Scotty ready for bed. I'm putting her PJs on. I'm getting her in her sleep sack. I'm like setting the room, setting the mood, the same operation we have every night.

And as I get Scott in the sleep sack, Roos just crying. like really starting to pick up like a tantrum like breaking down and I go out there I'm like sweetheart what's going on I put scotty in the crib and then I walk out into the hallway and I'm like hey sweetheart what's going on and she's just crying she's like I miss mama I miss mama can you put me to bed first like I don't want you to put scotty to bed first can you put me to bed first and I'm like sweetheart like I have to get scotty it's her bottle time I got to put scotty down I got to get her to bed I promise I'm going to go as fast as I can so then I can spend it's just going to be me and you tonight

And I'll spend time with you. I'll read you three books. I'll read you the story. We'll do all the stuff. We'll do all the things. And she's struggling. Like she's breaking down and having a tantrum. I'm just like,

I'm starting to get stressed. I'm just like, gosh, Damon, man. Like, I need, please, like, get a hold of your emotions. I'm like saying this in my head. As I'm trying to soothe Rue, Scottie. Micah Parsons on third down. Scott Zed.

Demon. That's when she's on top of the crib. Like, ah! And she's crying. And I'm like, sweetheart, look at Scotty. Like, I just,

just please let me. put Scottie, I promise I'm going to go fast. She's like, no, you're not. You're not going to go fast. You're not going to put Scottie down. Like, I want you to put me down first. And a whole thing's going on. I'm like, hey, sweetheart, I know you miss Mama. I miss Mama too. Like, Mama's the best person in the world. Mama is that's favorite person. I love her.

I love her and miss her as much as you do right now. And I know it's hard. I know it's hard. I'm like, but if you can just help me for a moment, like, just you can go lay everywhere you want to. You can go lay in your bed. You can go lay down on the couch if you want to because I know she's tired. She was like trying to take that nap and everything else.

Like you can go lay in our bed. If you miss mama lay on her side, go lay it anywhere you want to. I promise I'm going to get this done as fast as I can. Just you look at Scotty Jojo. I got to go help the little one out right now. And so she's sobbing and she ends up like walking away and her like shoulders are down. I just feel bad because I'm like, I don't know how else. I'm like, you can come sit in the room with me and Scottie, but you can't be making loud noises because it'll keep Scottie awake.

But whatever you want to do, sweetheart, go lay anywhere you want to. So I go in to put Scotty down, feet of the bottle. And Scotty was pretty smooth. I get her down like within 30 minutes. And as I'm feeding her the bottle, I'm just hearing Rue, the echoes of her cries from downstairs. And the cries are like, I miss you so much. I love you so much, Mama.

Like she's talking to mom. And it was just a heartbreaker, bro. And I'm just like checking the bottle. And I'm like, she's dozing off. I hope she goes to sleep because I need to put her down. I need to go down and really get with Rue. Yeah. So I get Scotty down.

Dude, I go downstairs because I'm hearing the cries. I'm like, I got to go get to her. And I walk downstairs. She's not on the couch. So I walk into my room. I'm like, okay, she's probably laying on the bed.

I walk in my room, bro, make a left and look down on the floor. Rue is laying down on the floor. And she's holding our family photo. Just yelling that I miss you so much. I love you so much, Mama.

I love you so much, Mama. And it was the saddest thing in the world. Oh, dude. It was so sad. It was like, it's just a heartbreaker, man. And Charles checking in.

How's everything going? And I'm like, it ain't like, Rue struggling right now. And she's like, oh, does she miss me? And I'm like, she misses you badly. Like she's like, she's like hurting. She misses you so much. So I like, you know, I get on FaceTime.

We're getting on FaceTime with her and we're talking to her. You can just tell Rous sad. And then I'm like, hey, do you want to sleep with Daddad tonight again? Like you can sleep in the bed. You can sleep in Mama's spot. I'll put the photo right here by you. We'll FaceTime with Mama. I'll read you some stories.

I'll show her some mama videos on Instagram. Oh, yeah. And that calmed her down. We get her to sleep. but that's kind of like my dad heartbreaker. Like, it's not a loss, but it's like my heartbreaker of the week. Like that was so sad, bro. Such a heartbreaker.

And such a dad win, too, though, of like, God, she loves y'all. That's awesome. Yeah. It's, like, I know, like, as I'm telling Charles how everything's going down, it's breaking her heart that I'm telling her the stories. And I know as a dad on the receiving end of some of the, hey, she's missing you, she wants you to call back, this, that the other. Just like, when you're removed and far away and you can't be there,

it just makes you sad because you know you're going to be coming home and they just can't wrap their mind like everything's okay Mama's right here look you're talking to her like she's just she's just somewhere else right now Yeah, but anytime we want to call her we can call her I can show you videos I know you miss her and like you know you're giving them hugs but you know the the mom guilt for my wife is kicking in like as all this stuff's going on Because it's just a heartbreaker to be away from the kiddos especially when they're struggling they just don't they just don't be like get it And what a cheat code uh FaceTime is yeah thank God for What a cheat code. Jill has a little nephew that, I mean, she's face-timed with maybe 5,000 times, has hung out in person over the last year with, maybe twice.

But Jill is still one of his favorite people that he instantly, like, sparks up when she walks in the room because he's face-time in her every night. Yeah. And G-G, G-G, G-G! I'm like, that's crazy that even over FaceTime, they can, like, make those connections. Yeah, yeah. But that was a heartbreaker, man. And the habit that I was alluding to is last night, so Monday night. Yeah.

I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, I can't do three days in a row with her in the bed with me because you're just starting to create. You're getting into different, you're starting to dip your toe in water in waters that you don't want to set this standard for. Yeah, yeah. Hey, you need to sleep in your bed. Yada, yeah. Grooes upstairs.

She crushes it with bedtime. I put Scotty down. I walk in her room. She's got all the piece. She got the pull-up on, the PJs on. She's playing pretend. She's got her little princess crown on. She's got her purse strap over her shoulder.

She's got all this stuff on her body. And she's like, you know, plain imagination in the room. Let's go, real. I walk in the room and I brought up her stuffed animals and sound machine and toothbrush and toothpaste, hairbrush. I brought all that back upstairs, like, into her room. Yeah. And I set it all down. I go downstairs to get the monitor for Scotty.

And as I go downstairs, grab the monitor for Scotty, go back upstairs. go back upstairs and put root out for bedtime. I walk in the room, Roos got all the stuffed animals in her arms and the hairbrush and the toothpaste and the toothbrush. And I was like, sweetheart, let's get the bed. What are we doing? And she was like, I want to sleep downstairs with you. And I'm like, baby, this is, this bed is for you to sleep in.

Like, we got to start doing it. We don't want to create a bad habit. Like, we don't get to do this all the time. Like, you've got to sleep in your bed. And dad that sleeps in his bed. And she's like, but I want to sleep with you. and I just look down at her and she's looking up at me

and I'm just like, okay, let's go downstairs. Dude, how do you say no to that? You can't. You can't. We go downstairs and she gets them all. I'm like, hey, do you need me to help you? I'm like carrying all this stuff back downstairs, plugging it in in my room,

setting up shop in my room. Because I'm thinking to myself, like I tell my wife and she's like, babe, you're going to create a bad habit. And I'm like, I know, I know. But I did tell her. I said, hey, when mama comes home, you sleep in your bed.

Like this bed is for Rue to sleep in. Yeah. The bed downstairs is for mom and dad, dad is sleeping. When mom comes home, you can't sleep with us. Do you understand? And she says yes. But, dude, I'm a, I can't say no. And I love it too.

Like, yeah. I love Little Roo's sleeping with me. Like when I... Right on the nose. When I go out, because I'm like, all right, dad is going to go out and sit in the living room, watch them, like study up for tomorrow, watch some TV show.

You're going to watch football. Yeah, dad is going to watch them football. But dad's going to be hearing to cuddle you whenever. you know, whenever I get done. Yeah. And just to come in and snuggle up next to Roo, like, it's so awesome. I love it more than she does. And so when my wife is like, you're kind of, I'm like, sweetheart, I know, but I also

enjoy it too. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So we got one brewing. I think it'll be, I think we'll be sleeping together. I think she'll be in my bed every night until mom comes home. Hey, if that, if that's what it turns into, like, let's say worst case scenario is that when mom's out of town, Ruru and, you know, Scotty, whenever she gets that, whatever.

Sleep with dad. I don't think that's that big of a deal. It's not. Maybe some people, hey, Sherman, you got hold your boy accountable. He's doing bad habits. What's going on? If I saw little Ruru holding teddy bears. Bro, I'm telling you.

Stuffed animals? She or her arms were like this fool with the, she had the hairbrush in her hand. She had her like five stuffed animals that she had. five stuffed animals that she wanted to bring down. She didn't have the sound machine. And then she was like holding her toothbrush and no toothache. And I was like, what's going on here? And she was like, we'll go downstairs.

No shot. Sleep in your bed. I want to sleep downstairs with you. No shot. No shot. Answer is yes immediate. And there's just, you know, we talk about being in this time frame. She's going to get bigger.

There's going to be, you know, there's going to come a time to where she doesn't want anything to do with sleeping next to that or being around dad-da. Oh, yeah. And I love it. But I am just a sucker, bro. Oh. But what can you do, man? I don't blame you.

What can you do? I don't blame you. So that's going on. That's happening. That's a really good dad loss. Like, I know we joke around, we say good a lot. But, like, that is a good dad loss. Or, you know, whatever your low was of the week.

The importance will be when mom's home or we're both home because whenever mom gets home, I got to fly out Wednesday night to New York for ESPN. Oh. And then I'll be out Thursday night for the Thursday night football stream whenever bedtime's happening. So I think the big thing is like she might want to sleep with mom whenever I'm out of town. I was supposed to sleep with mammas on Wednesday night. But it's when four parents are there, it's like we got to. Hey, hey, no, no, no.

You got to sleep in your bed. Uh-huh. Well, you can do some kind of incentivizing of that. You'll come up with something. I had to come up with something. Something on spot last night. I was like, hey, sweetheart, let's brush your hair. And she's gotten into this new.

I want to read a book before I brush my hair. And it's like, you don't want to sit down, turn the lights off, read a book. Then you go in to brushing their hair. Then she wants to read another book. Then you do brushing your teeth. It's like, I want to brush your hair. We read the books while you're drinking your milk. Then we go in and brush your teeth.

Yeah. And she was down in my room. She's like, no, I want to read a book first. I said, sweetheart, you're in Daddaz's room. That means you go by Daddaz's rules. Oh. Daddow wants to, we can brush your hair after a book. but if we brush your hair after a book,

we're going to do it up in your room. So we can brush your hair now and you can sleep with Dad Dad, or we can go upstairs, read a book and brush your hair. And then she just sat there and stared at me and kind of, was thinking about for a second.

Then she just walked over and handed me the brush. Yeah, yeah, this is one win. I can, I can say, there you go. You chalked it up. I, dude, there's not a chance. I'm just trying to, like, run any situation through my head of just where I could sit there and be like, no, no, no, especially at that age, at that age.

Yeah. That's all right. Especially at that age, but when they're just in a really good mood or when they're very much cooperative. Because again, three years old, the three-year-old era, they're very intense with their emotions, which I think is ultimately a good thing. You want them to feel their emotions. You want them like working through their emotions and everything else and kind of guide them through their emotions. But the three-year-old era is very much like very intense emotions if something kind of goes sideways. Hang on a second.

What are we doing here? Here's all you have to say. I got to catch myself arguing with her. You know what I mean? Because she might, like, lose it or getting to the whiny voice or something. And I'll just basically say out loud how she should be talking to me. Like, let's just say, for example, she, I want a pouch. I want to, I want, she's whining about a pouch.

And like, hey, sweet, da-da, da-da doesn't accept the way you're talking to me. And then she might keep, let's just say she keeps whining. But I'll go and get the pouch if it's like snack time or like, hey, yeah, she should have a pouch right now. I'll go hanged to the pouch. Hey, hey, da-da, could I have a pouch right now for a snack? And then when I hand you the pouch,

you say, thank you. Like, that's all you need to say. We're on the same team. Yeah. You don't need to wine. You don't need to get in all this, like, emotional state of, like, not getting something.

All you guys say is, hey, dad-da, hey, De-da, can I have a pouch, please? And then I might say, yes. I might say no. But either way, that's how you need to be talking to Dad-Da. And, like, you know,

their minds are kind of like going and thinking about it. Because sometimes, bro, when they get in that whining phase, it's like, I just boil my, bro, what are you doing? What are you doing right now? You don't have to sit here and whine, but you got to try, I'm like, okay,

she's three, the emotions, the brain, the development happening right now, something just, you know, she lost her sticker. It's almost like what you said earlier about, like, how you have to tell Rue sometimes, like, hey, you can't, you can't be talking to Scotty like that because Scotty's just a baby.

Yeah. Like, you're having to tell yourself, you know, I, you know, I got to teach Rue how to talk like an adult because Rue isn't there yet. Right. They don't understand. Yeah. And you're kind of showing them they're very, very observant. Like they. And smart.

Yeah, they're thinking through a lot of things. They just need to know what it looks like and how it's done. Because a lot of times, like, where I connect with Rue on a lot of levels is I just always bring up a past experience to match whatever experience she's having. Like, again, I brought up like losing a sticker. She lost a sticker. It's like me just make it up a story about me losing stickers all the time. time. Yeah. So that way you can like get on their level and they start listening to you like, oh, De De Dey goes through stuff like this. Or like Scotty and I got to tell her, dude, how many times

do I got to tell Scotty, Jojo not to go do that, not to go do this? Oh, Scotty, Jojo, don't do that. Or you know when we get frustrated when Scotty gets into X, Y, and Z. But what do we got to do? We just go over there. Hey, Scotty, no, we don't do that. And we just bring her back over to the mate. Like, you have to be patient with her sweetheart. Yeah. And she, they're listening. Yeah. It's just getting through that barrier of those like reactive moments as a parent on. like wanting to immediately correct them because you're upset by the way they're talking to you. Oh, big time. Big time.

I'll have to bite my lip or bite my tongue on that for sure because I am very quick to, you know, jump on something that I don't like, especially with the dogs. Like I'm very big on like the, you know, real loud and like kind of nip it. Yeah, dude. And I just, the patience will be some, you know, something that I'll have to dive into. but I love the story aspect of it because just thinking of like my dad was big on that as you were telling that story

I was just thinking of myself like my dad did that a lot now that I think about it and it does work did what a lot like leveling with you like getting on your leveling with you or like hey like I wouldn't do that

here's why when I was 14 I did that it turned out like this just want to let you know and then I'm sitting there going okay like that awesome that one like dad you know kind of told me something personal or whatever but two yeah that does sound like something i wouldn't want to do so i'll take his word for it yeah i was one thing you'll

learn too is um how you are with the dog in front of your kid oh really yeah because like you know waffles she's a bulldog english bulldog lover yeah stubborn oh yeah i got my taste when i was on the beanback chair. Yeah, yeah. To, you know, I can like lose my cool with Waffle and she's not like listening to me. Yeah, yeah. Whether it's get her off the couch, there's like a challenge moment going on with the dog. And to where pre-Rue, it's like I'm, you know, more reactive with Waffle. Yeah. Or like pushing her off the couch or like doing something to get her off. And then if she snaps at me, it's like we're both kind of posturing over and I'm like standing over with my fists and everything else. He does that. That is not to be funny on the show.

I have seen it with Waffle was like getting on me and was like manhandling me. Yeah, yeah. Pulled her off and he started just standing over and Waffles looking up and going. Yeah, yeah, growl. Wills, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Waffle, Waffle, get off the couch. Move. And to where I'll see Rue start trying to be snappy at times with Waffle.

I'm just thinking, oh, no, no, no. This is because of me. This is because I've been the example for it in front of Waffle. She thinks this is how you have to handle the dog. And I've been a very poor example in front of my daughter. But that's one thing you learn to balance. However you are with your animals, I'm not saying, like, if you're like an abusive person. But I'm saying like the times that you do react to the dog because patience is low and it's just you guys at the house.

When you do have kids, then you see it coming out, you know, flashes in the kids. And I'm thinking, okay, I have to change my style with my dog in front of Ruby. because Rue's just mimicking the way that I will be with Waffle. Because Waffle is stubborn, bro. Like Waffle, it's like she'll be on the couch and she tries to get to the highest point. She thinks she's the alpha. So what these dogs try to do. Oh, yeah.

It gets to the highest point, lay on the highest cushion, and she just looks like a beanbag sitting on top of the cushions. I love Waffle. And, yeah, dude, I love. She's an awesome dog. She loves love. She wants to cuddle. Oh, yes.

And I'll be like, Waffle, can you get off the couch? And like as I'm walking over to Waffle, you just kind of see the, you know, the growling start happening because they're very, again, they're just stubborn, bro. And if Roo's sitting there, I have to completely, like, rewire my thinking because if Rue's not there, I'm thinking, okay, you want to, you want to shot at the title right now. Yeah. Here we go again. What are you over? Who's undefeated in this match? Make a mistake. But Waffle, like, won't move. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Now I just go out, like, walk in the pantry. I'm back, Waffle, want to treat and then shake this. a tree. She comes running. I'm like, all right, got you. Yeah. Who's the dumb one now?

My big one. I was going to ask you, too, what Waffle thinks about Scott Zilla just tearing up her water bowl. But my big one right now is when guests come over, we've really implemented, especially with Scarlet now in the house, and it's funny you bring up dogs. That's actually my dad loss. We have a baby gate.

They stay downstairs whenever we have guests over. and they're real yippy behind the baby gate. But they do a good job of listening to Dad. I just got to show a little bit of force. And so I will literally, to my houseguess, I'll go, guys, I'm so sorry. I'm just going to be loud just one time, but they will not bark for the foreseeable future if I do this.

Walk over to the baby gate away from the houseguess. I just go, hey! And they sit and they're silent for the rest of the night. Is that bad? I don't know. I don't think so. I get the same issue where I'll yell when I go to Knoxville to see Alex, we're all going, hey.

Nah. And she goes, don't yell at him. And I'm like, look, she's not moving anymore. Yeah. She stopped. Anyway. I can't wait. You got to find your own song again.

I can't wait for him to be a dad, by the way. Cannot wait. In a good way. Like, I'm preparing. Chef's going to be ready to yell. Such a good dad, dude. He is. Oh, my God.

I just love the impersonation of Alex. Don't yell at him. Oh, she'll get at me. And I just something about it bubbles in me where I'm like, it's an immediate. But it works where you get it. It's like a snap gets their attention because if you go, hey, Scotty. Scott, but Alex's dog's name is Scotty. And him, hey, come over here.

And she'll, she'll, nicest dog ever, but she'll kind of wander over or maybe won't listen to you. But then, you know, eventually it'll be a. hey Scottie. Works like a charm. Yeah. Every time. Yeah. Those are like, it's like two things that I've changed with Waffle.

Is one instead of diving into that altercation with her on the couch, it's go and like, hey, Waffle do you want to treat and she comes back. And the second one is, you know, when you have your kids, it's like people say, hey, you love your dog. I'm taking photos with Waffle. I'm doing all these things with Waffle before the kids come. And I'm telling Waffle, like you'll never beat my number two, yada, yada. But the moment your kids come, it's a different story. They go down the totem pole. They feel it as well.

The dog feels it as well. And what I had to switch with Waffle on the second note is like say she's over in the area around the kids or with the kids or potentially bothering the kids. Instead of like getting on Waffle and moving her out of the situation because they're going through their little dog goes. They're going through their own little process too of just being sad that they're not the thing anymore. But instead of like removing Waffle from the situation or getting on Waffle for kind of being in that. being in their space, it's been more so teaching the kids how to be sweet to waffle and be kind. And hey, she's just sniffing. She's just curious. She wants to play. She sees you playing with the thing. Yeah, yeah. You're having a lot of fun. And the way she senses everything, she uses her nose.

Yeah. So you just got a pattern. If you don't want her there, just mom or dadda, can you please move waffle? And then in a sweet way, it's like, we'll get waffle away. But those have been the two things that I've had to kind of check myself on as a dog owner being an example in front of my kids is the altercation moment on the couch, like getting her off the couch. and then when they're in, when Waffle just kind of mosey's over and she's kind of in their space and they start like, when Rue will start like snapping and yelling and I think to myself,

she's just, she's mimicking dad right now and I've got to change something up because she's got to like learn that, hey, Waffle doesn't know either. You know how Scotty doesn't know? Waffle doesn't know. She's a dumb little doggo.

She doesn't get it and you kind of like softly remove them. It's kind of rekindled something between me and Waffle as well because there's been moments where I've had to like look in the mirror and be like, yeah, she's not getting a lot of love

from dad right now. also can I just reiterate just to clarify too I don't scream at my dogs a lot it's just more to get their attention got to be careful with the parent the dog parents out there because as soon as scott it comes over hey cute come here girl come here oh you're so cute positive reinforcement immediately it's more just to get their attention yeah before people just come in I promise you we got we got PT sixers very nice sixers and you got some some dog team sixers in here you got some dog parents in here is like this will kind of just challenge waffle at all times and swing on her I've had to check myself in some situations, but those have been the learning curves in parenthood with your animal. Couldn't have asked for a better segue into my dad lost this week. And also for any PT sickos, I'm seeing the PT6 echoes on the internet, by the way, I'm loving it. So the PT sickos that are also chef sickos,

look out on socials for our USF unboxing video. Chef absolutely killed this unboxing video. can't wait for you to see it. I'm excited to see it too. We got another box from USF? We did. We got a whole package from USF. Shout out Bulls.

Shout out the Bulls. You're from their equipment manager. For the Dad's Pod's going to, it's the unboxing stuff. We're going to be like Coach Gruden over here in the Dad World. Truly. People just teams are just going to start sending in boxes for Dad culture. I'll sport it. I picked up one of those USF shirts so fast.

It was so soft. Don't do it. Some of the sickos in that audience are those. say you're copying. Yeah, we'll have to be careful about it. Oh, you guys are copied. 100. I already saw it, Gruden, comment.

Yeah, did we not, what are we supposed to do? Just throw the box away? Yeah, yeah. Free clothes, damn. Got throw it away. No, go ahead, Shep. What were you guys? Oh, I was just going to say shout out to USF.

And yeah, we don't want to copy Coach Gruden, but this is, we did shout out all the equipment managers out there. Yeah. And they want to show love. So we wanted to reiterate that. But yeah, shout out USF. and Arkansas for sending us. Inspired by Coach Gruden.

Yes. Inspired by Gruden. Yeah. Which is that such a cry. Don't forget where he was before Barcel and that was coaching your boy. Hey, come on. My dad boss. Who's got the Gruden grinder shirt hanging in his closet?

Who is the OG Grin Grin Grinder? Week one, 2016 season. People forget about that. People forget. And you were like top 25 hottest player in 2016. I think I was number seven. Some are saying. I, some are saying.

Derek. If you Google it, it's the best Google of all time, by the way. It's the best Google of all time. Like the most attractive players, I was like on the list. It was just pre-veneers? Yes. Oh, yeah. But I don't have a smile going on in the photo. Like, I'm just kind of sitting there. And then, you know, whenever I was promoting, whenever I was like having fun with it back in

2015 or 16, whenever that was. Yeah, yeah. People are talking about, you know, the teeth and everything else. Because Julian Ellumman's on it. I might have been higher than Julian. You were hired. Joe Flacko was number one. You were higher than. some NFL quote hoddies. Some hoddies. Some hoddies. You were up there.

Uh-oh. I found an article that says, uh, we're referring to actual looks. Fanatics.com is compiled a list of the most attractive teams. The Redskins ranked third. And then the very next paragraph, linebacker, Will Compton, was voted the most attractive player on the skins and the fifth best looking in the league. Top five? I didn't know you're in top five. Buddy. And I shared a locker room with, uh, with Ryan.

Ryan Kerrigan, who's a specimen of a human being? A piece of meat, if you will. A piece of meat that you want to cut into. A human meat missile, as they say. Compton, look at Derek holding up. I love that we have the producer camp. Fifth in the league.

Fifth in the league. Can't take that away from me. That's what the five in the... They can take your 10th year, but they can't take fifth-th-looking in the NFL. The five in 51, they don't know. It does mean top five. Top five, top five. Type shit.

Tisha. My dad lost. Your dad lost. Kicking your dog. Go ahead. I kick goose again. No, dad loss was forgetting the dogs. It was exactly what you were talking about.

We had a great night on that would have been Sunday night where we did a no, it was Saturday. I'm so sorry because college football was going on. And I was grilling up a bunch of steaks. I was grilling up chicken. We had some jalapeno poppers.

Fantastic night. And honestly, I was in my dad bag as far as like spending a ton of time with Scarlett. Pouring into Jill. We're coming off of a bad weekend. This is like a make-up game. This is like a we got to lock in. This is a, we know what this program was built on. And I'm just hitting everything full force, killing it as a dad in my own brain.

Got too cocky. got way too cocky because what I forget to do walk the dogs what did I also forget to do that night put that new baby gate up that we've implemented so goose

who goose is very attached to me he was a rescue he was tied to a pole behind a liquor store during COVID yes he's our little schnauzer doodle he's a little schnoodle he got very attached to me

because mom's favorite is Wrigley and it's very well known in the house. Jill loves Goose. Jill loves Goose. Like Goose and Wrigley are watching the episode right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jill loves Goosey. Mom loves you.

Mama loves you. But Dad kind of has to step in there and be a surrogate love factory for Goose because he doesn't always get it for Mom. So, anyways, I digress. He's a little jealous of Scarlet and Dadda's in Scarlet. And do you want to tell the listeners

what gift you got Jill and I or y'all's family got Jill and I for Scarlett Do you remember? I've gotten you a couple. You have got it. This one's in our nursery.

Oh, the rocking chair. The rocking chair. It's a good chair, isn't it? I think about it every night when I'm sitting here rocking and I hear, you know, maybe a squeak at the end or at the far back

and I just think to myself, I wonder if Sherm's rocking right now too. Every freaking night, Jill and I are in that chair. We love that chair. And Goose knows that that's the chair that Dada sits with Scarlet and tells him, no, whenever he's trying to get up and get his pets. And there was a massive mark. On top of the, he jumped on the chair and just gave it up, mark the top of it, like where your back would go.

Oh, no. As like a, F you, you forgot to walk me. You didn't put the gate up. So I'm going to show you. This is goose territory. This is a goose house. Do we have a standoff? Oh, bro.

I was livid pissed. I swallowed it because I was like the right thing. Because they forget after they do it. Like I, you know, I've heard with dogs like, if you catch them in the act or something. Yeah, dog brain. If you catch them in the act, you can, you know, correct the behavior. But, I mean, I'm waking up the next morning and we're finding the huge peace staying on. the rocking chair.

Oh, you didn't see it until the next morning? Yes, this was at night because we had gone to bed and I forgot to walk them because we stayed up late, grilling, and we're doing Skarskar Tuckins and... E.P. on the chair? Yes, dude. He went in there. That's the one thing I was scared of when I got that color.

I know. In the middle of the night. That's the one thing I was scared of when... Yeah, it's a white white. Jumped up on it. This one that had to get ordered too and there was, you know, it didn't get there right in time for the birth and job. He, like, special ordered this.

very nice chair now however i was thinking do you want the way it can get dicey just so you feel good and everybody at home if you're on you know the edge of your seat stain did come out we got some thank god yes stain did come out we do have some utensils and stuff and steamers and whatever that like we're good but it was a good reminder of don't don't forget about the dogs we got a love on the dogs it's a hard reminder bro it's a hard one And I was so mad at Gooseby, I understood, and it's also hilarious how the dog brain works. He's like, Dad has totally forgotten about me. This little crying thing all the time.

He's obsessed with it. Yeah, this dog, this little thing can't sit. He can't spin. He can't do anything. Can't stand and dance for a treat. And he's getting, and this thing's getting treats every three hours. Yeah, you can't let this thing out. You got to change him all the time.

You just let me outside. And he sits in that chair all proud with his new little thing. He's giving it treats all the time in that chair. I'll fucking show him. Yeah. Where's that thing's dog collar? Just imagine. Imagine just him going directly to that chair in the middle of the night.

Showed him. And then went back and crawled underneath our bed because they sleep underneath our bed. Yeah. But that was my dad loss. It's a quick one. Did you lose it on him the next morning? Is it just happened? No.

Just because, like, with they are doing a really good job with the new system that we set up of like, the baby gate. You guys sleep here. You eat at these times. You do walks at these times. The accidents in the house are completely gone pretty much. I mean, like, we've really cracked down on the dogs. And they've been doing a great job. So I really didn't want to hold it against them, to be honest. Also, another dad loss. This goes with forgetting about the dogs. We hadn't given him a haircut in decades. And he's a schnoodle. So he's all matted up. And after the actual, accident. Then the next morning I'm kind of rubbing on them and stuff. I'm looking

at his mats. I'm like, I've completely forgotten about you, dude. I spent four hours on Sunday. Remember when we were trying to connect and get together? I was like, hey, I don't think it's going to work. One, we had this. We were trying to put together a little dad day. It's like, hey, bring Scarlett over. Let's do something where it's the dad's watching the kids. It didn't work out.

Oh, and it would have been epic, dude. And I'm, I've gotten two separate DMs of people saying, Sherman, is Scarlet potentially going to become Scarzilla if she becomes friends with Scott Zilla? And I'm like, I would love it too, bro. If she matched that energy and they became two little peas in a pod, I wouldn't hate it.

Scarzilla. We're just both there, like, making them play fetch with stuff. You see, saw the videos with the marker over the weekend. Go get it, go hunt. Scarlett beats out Scotty. Will just leaves the room. Oh, God. You can't snap on them.

They're young. They're not going to get it. So, yeah, you've got to remove yourself from the room. Scotty, you're eight months older than her. What are you doing? What are you doing? That would break me. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, that was my dad boss. Do, um, where are we even at right now? I crack a cold one. Yes. Would I love to crack a cold one. I got a little ad read that goes along with it.

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And I know that this is an ad read, but true story was feeling a little lightheaded, a little peckish. I like had a little snack. But we have some liquid IVs at home that Jill bought. And I popped one of those. And I was boom. ready to go. Like, I truly felt it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, just one stick and a 16 ounce of water hydrates better than just water alone. Liquid IV has three times the electrolytes of the leading sport strength. It has eight essential vitamins and nutrients, always non-GMO, gluten-free,

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I was going to say the fly landed on this good one or before the dads when I wanted to pop it, but I couldn't get it. But we had gifts come in. We had some major gifts come in. And if people remember from one episode, I thought this was just next level performance. I quoted King Theoden of Rohan from Lord of the Rings, Return of the King. You did.

And he printed out this mug. He printed on a lot. He printed out a time. Is it Justin? This is. This is Justin Clarner. Justin Clarner. Thank you for the gift.

Thank you for the little gift package, bro, with all of these different little. I don't even know what you call them these little discs. Drink coasters. Drink coasters. Oh, there we go. Discoasters. There we go.

Yes, sir. Got to keep it under an hour, which, by the way, we do need to keep this episode under an hour. Look at the Nebraska one that you printed out for you. That's why that one's propped up. That's hard. Bussing week. Hard. Buss it.

Big week for Husker. Not a football podcast. Not a football podcast. Big week for Nebraska. Big week for Nebraska. Also, Justin wrote us a letter. Do we want to read that very quickly? Sure.

Read the letter. To The For the Dad's Podcast. Hope you enjoy. these coasters I made for you guys during my paternity leave. Congratulations, Justin. Apologies if I went overboard, but my quality control and R&D team, my wife, have me create multiple variations of the designs. There are all 3D printed and I designed all of them, except for the college plaques I found online. I found you guys shortly before the birth of my daughter and was instantly hooked. The first episode I listened to was episode four. I had it on while I was out doing yard work and I kept stopping inside

to replay bits for my wife. We both love the show. So now every Wednesday, my wife, my one-month-old daughter, and I watch it together. I love it that I get to follow Sherm as he goes through his journey through the PT6 ranks

a couple weeks ahead of me. Love the show. Please do not keep it under an hour. All the best from Justin, Michelle, and little Emerson, Clarner. Let's go. Shout out the fam. Shout out of the fam.

It's good PT6 unit over there. Good PT6 unit. One con I heard in that note. What's going on? He started with episode four. I wonder if he went back and went one through three. Printing off these many drink coasters, I guarantee it. Because I know our new PT6 it goes.

Like you'll be seeing people I went all the way back and I'm caught all the way up. Oh, from episode one. I had some by DME just the other night about that. I sent him a little voice message back. I love that you sent, yeah, you sent the voice. Oh, my gosh. What happened? I'm thinking of a voice message

I had to send for this dude's birthday on September 3rd. Oh no! I responded to the gal and everything. It said I'll have this video cooked up for you. It was like late at night when I was like, it was like when I was putting the kid, when I was putting Skydye down, I'm going through some DMs.

Because you're trying to keep up with everything. And I'll try and click on the ones that seem longer to where like, you know, if they're sharing something with you, try to hit them back with a message. And gosh, dang it. Is he GBR? If he's GBR, I think the,

make good is on House Rules. Give a little belated birthday shout out. I'm scared I won't be able to find it. Because if I was GBR and Will Compton is on Matt Rules podcast and he goes, oh, by the way, happy belated Cameron, I would lose my mind. I don't even care if it's four months after my birthday. I would go nuts. But yeah, the DM that I got was a guy basically saying, hey, I'm so glad that I found you guys. at like episode eight because I'm still to the point where I don't have to wait till the next week for like a new episode and I hit him back in the voice message I said that's crazy that you say that because I got onto Game of Thrones in like season four season five and that's how I felt about Game of Thrones so the fact that you feel that way about this show that we're doing tells me everything I need to know about how you feel about the show with Game of Thrones

Yeah, dude. And I was like, what an honor to like be that for some listener that they're like, yes, I don't have to wait another week because that's a good feeling. To the gal, I'm supposed to send a video note too. Please, for the love of God, DM me back so it gets to the top of the inbox. I was just trying to scroll through to find it. I'm on my mic. I got anxiety right now that I didn't get back to her and didn't send that video. That's okay. Oh, damn.

To make him feel better, I will also brag on Will over the weekend. And I think I shared this with you briefly. Somebody came to our table at Jill's birthday dinner and basically just said, hey, I just want to let you know. Love Bussin. Love the brand. Just want to shout out Will really quick because I reached out to him when I was going through a rough time. And the words they had for me via DM, we were going back and forth. It really helped me out a lot.

I was like, dude, what a cool thing to like hear about your boss. It makes you really happy of the place that you work. at. I appreciate the words of affirmation in a time of meat right now. Yeah, you need to get that. I let, I let this couple down right here. Dude, you have so many of those types of things coming your way that

if you missed one, nobody's perfect, dude. Yeah. And maybe I'm going too easy on Will. You might be. Rue can sleep in the bed. It's okay to miss the birthday shoutouts, but I feel that way. Yeah. I feel that way. I got to find it. I got to, I got to make that right. I got to make that right.

Oh, crack a cold one. Crack a cold one. My crack a cold one. And will you give me a liquid idea? I would actually love to make a little liquid. Would you like Firecracker, the popsicle? Or would you like the... I'll do the popsicle.

The mango passion fruit. I do like mango passion fruit, but I'll do popsicle. Oh. Somebody shot and somebody giving a little honk to the voice. A little PT sicko. A little PT sicko. This one is Firecracker. They're like the bottom.

So my crack of cold one this week is going to be getting that alone time with your kids as a parent. I think it's always like you're in the trenches when your partner's not with you and they're doing their thing, you know, out for a work thing. Like I'm out a lot of the times, like at least once a week to where Charo's handling bedtime duty and you're doing the day. You're doing all things with the kids. I get kiddos.

It's a full-time gig. It is. But it's like having those soul. times that you do with the kids because you just build your relationship, your personal relationship with them a lot more. I feel like with Rue, there's a lot more of those one-on-one teaching moments that happen because it is just you there. So when chaos is kind of breaking out or something's happening, and you know it's just you, like nobody's coming to save you. It's been a favorite quote of mine forever. Nobody's coming to save you. Nobody cares work harder. It's like stuff like that

that you get reminded of in those moments to where you have more intentional time, getting the sleep, but they do the sleepovers at nighttime. Her feeling like, you know, calling her, I'm just saying little things like, hey, you're my, you're my best friend. You're like my favorite little heartbeat in the world right now. And just like stuff like that to where you're connecting with them. What a line. And they're like, you know, you're just, you're giving them words of affirmation.

Like when they're being a good teammate and telling her, hey, we're on the same team, it's just me and you here. Like, we got to do a good job with Scotty. We got to do a good job of Waffle. We got to do a good job of picking up stuff, picking up after ourselves. But so my cracker cold one is like having those solo times with the kiddos. because it is. It's like, oh, I'm in the trenches right now. I really wish wife he was home. I wish there was some help here. But when you grab that perspective of, hey, nobody's here.

This is you. Or those moments where it's like, I would rather watch for my three-year-old wants to play right now. I need to go, I need to play with her because there's going to be a date where she doesn't want to play with me anymore. Yeah. Moments like that. And I'll also say another crack of cold one is operating while your wife is out of town. Like being, I take pride in like being the partner for my wife. to where I'm not hitting her up about stuff. I know like she, she probably doesn't like consciously think about that,

but I'm sure I know she has perspective on, you know, if she talks to her friends or when their husband's hitting them, hitting them up all the time about needing someone, where's this or where's that? Or how do I do X, Y, and Z? Like, you kind of leave them on an island. And they need help, like, while the mom

and while the wife is gone, I take a lot of pride in not being that to Charo. Like, hey, trust me, I know you're going to have a lot of guilt. I know you're going to miss the kiddo. doesn't travel near as much as I do. She has a lot of that mom guilt, but I'm like, dude, you need to go have your own time. You need to go sleep in the hotel room and know like, oh, it's 10 o'clock and I can go to bed and I don't have any responsibility. Like,

we'll do the face times and everything else. But dude, you go take like whatever time you need, I will handle this at home. I will operate at home. I know everything to do. Yep. To worry, you don't have to worry about that. I feel like that's a big crack and call. And to the PT-6 out there, and if your wife is sitting there watching this, episode and thinking, hey, mama needs to take a trip. Mama needs to, Mama needs to Vegas. I forget the call in or whatever the win was, like episodes ago. Yeah, the Rodman, like, where you might need a Rodman trip. Like your wife, he needs a Rodman trip too, or they need to go do things. Your boy has been able to operate. There was a nine-day Italy trip.

Yep. Dad had it on lock. A few-day Arizona trip in Phoenix for another work thing. The Italy trip was with their friends, the Arizona work thing. Daddy had it on lock. And this one too is another one to where it's like, yes, it is stressful. I do get tired at times because we have all the shows that we got to do in the week. And like you're just, again, when you're at home, you're solo with the kiddos. Yeah. But another cracker call one to the, to the Papa Team Sixers out there that man the ship whenever mom or wife he's out of town.

To where you don't, mom doesn't have to worry. They might worry on their own because that's just the nature of the beast. But to where they know like, oh, dad, P.T. Sicko. He's got it back. He's dialed right now back home. And to your success, you have a chance to, as a mentor, to help a boy out. Because there is a bachelor's party that Jill will be attending first weekend of October. That we can talk about it, you know, we going into that episode and make it a big thing.

But there's already some talks and Jill's probably going to hear this episode. So I'm glad she's hearing this as well. Do we need to get a night nurse on Saturday for you? Do you think you'll be able to wake up and you'll be able to, you know, do all this stuff? Because Scarlet's making it. And you look her in the eyes and say, don't ever disrespect me like that again. Jill Ann Young, did I not? And now her mom was there.

So I was very sweet about it. So well, maybe we'll talk about it when we get closer to the week. Yeah, we could talk about maybe that is a good idea. But I'm in my head. I got this. You got this, bro. You're built for this. Let me, don't.

And selfishly, these are opportunities for the dads to get on the scoreboard when those opportunities come up. Like, I don't say the nine-day Italy trip, the three-day Arizona trip, the five-day Portland Oregon trip to, like, you know, flex my stats and run up the score a little bit. But all to say is, like, these are opportunities to where if you stay dialed and you do it right and you handle the correct way, there's also some scoreboards for PT6 that start to stack up. I'm going to six flags. Yeah.

Guaranteed. Guaranteed six flag trip. It's season pass. Season pass. It's the fast pass too, baby. Yes, sir. I'm right up the front of the line. Come on.

They're taking me through the back door, maybe, you know. You did we just see you? What are you doing back up here? Fast pass. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. But no, I want to prove myself.

I'm like, a part of me is sitting there and I appreciate them with the night nurse stuff because we're talking about Scarlet. I mean, this is precious cargo. But in the same breath, I'm like, man, I want it to be synonymous when you talk about, you know, Sherman being home alone with Scarlet that also in your brain, he's got it. He's got it. When you get those opportunities, this is no different than an opportunity that the Huskers have this weekend. Like, this is a big game opportunity when the PT-Sixers have the chance to man the ship for the weekend for a few days, whatever it is. And you almost challenge your wife back to where, hey, I don't want to hear.

from you. If you have anxiety and your stress is high, like, I just want you to know that's going to be on you because I'm going to take care of business back home. And the line for this Nebraska, not a football podcast, but the line for this Nebraska game is plus one and a half. And what'd your boy do? You move the line minus 13 and a half Nebraska cornerhuskers and you put a bomb on it. Responsibly. Responsibly. And that's what I want to do with this. I know that the lines right here and that if, you know, if I just do the bare minimum and we do have a nightnors come in. Yes. They expect.

Yes. And night nurse comes in and night nurse, you know, leaves great notes and all that. And Sherman did great during the day, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I'm going to get Pats on the back. I'm going to, you won the game. You did great, Sherman. But if I solo it and yeah, honey, I did get, you know, a total of nine hours of sleep over the weekend. But you know what?

I loved every fucking second of it. and I'm ready to go into the work week. I feel juice. Yeah. Don't let her like, hey, put me on an island. I don't need Chipper help. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know this pass rogersers nice.

Yeah. But slide away from me, I'll handle them one-on-one. Yes. You don't need to put a tight in there. You don't need a running back to chip. I'm coming out of the back field. I want when they're running a crossing route, I want her to be able to switch and know I got it.

Yeah. No, I got it. Trust your guy in that zone defense. She doesn't even have to yell switch. Yeah. Because she already knows, driven's got it. Yeah. We're switching here.

And what an opportunity to too, because your wife, it's like, I know when Wednesday comes, she's going to come in and this house is going to be the way she left it probably better. Oh, it's going to be better to where they come in and the house, because women, they hate clutter in the house. They hate clutter. Like men can kind of live a dorm room life at times. Like, okay, that's kind of organized chaos that I got going on around the house. They come in and the clutter's gone. Yep.

That's what the wife you really, hey, you handled your business back home. They walk into a decluttered house, a clean house. Yep. To where when they put their luggage in, it's just on them getting their laundry out and everything else. But they're not worried about the boxes sitting over there. They're not worried about dishes sitting on the counter. They're not worried about whatever mail stacks or something. I do still have some mail stacks sitting on the counter.

Bro. Those will be gone. You came over to our house one time when she was out of town, but I'm pretty sure the house was like neatly put together. But Jill runs a tight ship. What an opportunity. What an opportunity. Every Saturday and Sunday we're cleaning the house on top of the house.

of she hires cleaners to come once a month. For the deep clean? Deep clean. Because a clean house is like that is it for Jill. I think that's it for women out there. And dude, if she, if I rocked that weekend and she comes home and the

hardwoods just reek of fabuloso and the counters are clean. Oh, daddy's going to mount you tonight. That's when they can walk in the house and you're just at the top stair. No clothes. on. I just picture Jill walking in, and you're just standing at the top stair naked.

Looking down, it's daddy's time. Riding Shockwave hands up the whole ride. The whole ride. Okay, where were we? Yeah, where were we? Crack a cold one. I'll go quick. We have a couple friends here.

He was the best man in my wedding, Brian Cox. He's also one of my best friends from high school. and I'm so lucky that he lives here in Nashville with his wife, Hillary. Brian and Hillary came over last Wednesday. And, dude, it was just awesome. We had Scarlett fully operating, had her in bed, fed by like 7.30. They come rolling in at 7.30. I smoked like four chickens on the Rectek smoker.

And we had a dinner, and we were kind of holding Scarlett at the table, and she's doing great and she falls asleep and then Jill goes, puts her in the crib, she doesn't make a peep. And it's like we're living life. We're talking with Brian and Hillary and we got the little monitor going and we're laughing and Jill like it's just beaming

the whole dinner. The dinner set up was beautiful. We're just making fun of Sherm off of his dad loss of that week of how, what a shit show I was to my wife, Jill. And Hillary, Brian's wife is just dying. laughing at the story because she knows she's known me for a while and she's like I'm shocked they were we were too we were too and we're like laughing and there's great banter they're telling couple stories of oh well shirman you think that's bad Brian did this you know me and Brian are

sitting over there at the table just taking it and they're laughing I mean it was so much fun dude it was just a great reminder of like yes we are in the trenches yes it's hard but God you can still live life and you can still do the things that you want to do you can still have those friendships and it was sick dude i love that man a good catch-up it was a great catch-up and it also reminds you as a couple too to where it's like we have to be intentional with our social life i have to do getting to talk with brian is truly like i'm sure it's like with you and nick like when you got on the phone with him for his birthday you waltzed off for 15 minutes with my phone that's how it is every single time i talk to brian

We're speaking our own language almost. We're not even like. And it's, dude, that is so cathartic in itself. And kind of what I've been talking with with my therapist of just like, you got to hit all those poles, man. You got to hit every single one of them, all those pillars because they're important. And that was just a great reminder of that. Yeah.

And if something's going on, it's like you checking in on what these pillars are. Like where have I not filled the cup up? Yeah. Yeah. I love that, man. That's a good crack of cold one. It was a good one. It was a good one.

I have a great, what are the odds this week if you want me to jump into that? Go ahead. Okay. What are the odds? Now, this one is a more serious one, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I just mean that it carries like a heavier topic. But this one came in from Instagram. He did say that we could use his name.

His name's Ethan Lawn. So first off, thank you for DMing me, Ethan. Secondly, he said, Scherm, I need some help. I'm already the loving father to a beautiful four-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy. Congrats, Ethan. Both of my children have been born by C-section, the first medically required, and the second not. My wife and I have been struggling to conceive our third child for the past year, and we've recently discovered that we are pregnant with our third.

Let's go. Come on. We are still very early in what I consider the anxious phase. However, for the third kiddo, my wife. wants to undergo a vaginal bird. So, and this is after two C-sections. So after two C-sections, I need some help from you guys and the community. How do I best support her?

What do I need to know? What do I need to ask our provider? I'll admit, thus far, I've not done a great job supporting her wishes. Because he's probably a little nervous, and I get that. But I want to do better. If you could shoot this out to Papa Team 6 and Mill Team 6 community, I would greatly appreciate it. Cannot wait for the next episode to drop.

So to bring this into, what are the odds? Shout out Fandul. And I'll start with this and then we can break down however we want to answer this. There are 60 to 75% successful vaginal bursts. And when I mean successful, I don't mean unsuccessful like the bad unsuccessful.

I just mean that they had to go to a C-section. but there's 60 to 75% of females that have had two C-sections that their third one is a vaginal birth. So the chances are high. It's something that can be done. So I just want to start with that and lay that out. And then we can answer this question, however. So will, what what would we say to our friend Ethan as far as just like that support side of things? Because we are no medical experts at all on this matter. Where did you find the data and the research? You just kind of Google and

through chat GBT and they cited Right, the links that you can click on. Number one, I think that's a good pool. It's like if that was going on with me and I was nervous and I was worried, I would very much be diving into those WebMD rabbit holes

on what this could look like. I would say, number one, again, express your concern to your wife, not concerned in a way to where you're resistive to it, but just say, hey, I'm down to support you. I'm down to do whatever you want to do, sweetheart, if a vaginal birth is what is something that you want to do. Listen, I'm on board.

Here's where I get nervous. But again, maybe it's my ignorance. I don't know a whole lot of data on it. I'm just nervous that since we had to do a medical one first, we did it the second. We did a C-section the second time. I'm just nervous about what that looks like. And maybe I just need to do a better job of diving in the information. Maybe wife already has, right, to where she feels comfortable enough to do it.

And I think the stuff that you pulled, too, is good data as well. To me, it's always going to come down, fellas. Every couple, and everybody knows this, but it's always going to come down to communication. Yeah. You know how to support. Like, if you're on board, you're going to know how to support what you get on board. The thing that you don't want to do is you're just figuring out a way to support, get on board by suppressing whatever your worries and concerns are in anxiety. True.

So the first big thing for me would be like, hey, you feel comfortable to express in a very, in a very, like, constructive way, like what, how you're feeling about the whole thing. Because you're, you know, the men, if you, listen, if you have a good marriage going on, dad's men, you guys are part of the equation too. It's coming from a place of love. That one hundred percent is coming from love. Yeah, absolutely. So that would be more so if I had, like, you know, non-expert advice.

Yeah. is I love that you're on board, get fully on board. You know how to support. It sounds like you know how to support and how to get on board, but don't do it at the expense of suppressing whatever your worries and anxieties are because I would say, hey, whatever you're feeling like, bro, share it with your wife.

Yeah. I'm sure she'd love to have a conversation with you. She might be nervous too. Yeah. Maybe she and her mind's thinking, I've done a couple C-sections in a row. Who knows whatever outside noise or outside influences that she could be subconsciously putting on herself

to feel like she has to do a vaginal birth. Yeah. Maybe it's something she fully wants to do and is on board about it and doesn't have to think twice. But maybe she's also nervous and just feels like this is the route she has to do. You have no clue unless you communicate with your wife. It's a great point. And to speak on it because we are not professionals, we're not telling the wife or Ethan either way to go on this. Right.

Like they are doing whatever they're going to do. What we can say to Ethan, because he did say in the DM, recently I've done a poor job. of supporting her in this. If you have done a poor job, Ethan, and maybe there were some hurt feelings on wife's end of things of he's not supportive, I would also, with the communication, try to show her that, hey, maybe I didn't communicate it well,

but just know that those words were coming from a place of love and worry for my wife's health and safety, my baby's health and safety. I love you to death. And I'm team wife. I'm team baby and let's get this thing. Yeah, absolutely. No, that's a great opinion on it.

That's great perspective on it too. Because if it's like I've done a poor job, all we can do is assume. Yes. On what this conversation is. Yes. If you assume that there's been a poor job, how do I support? Then my assumption would be the conversation probably came up and you guys got into a conversation or debate or whatever it was to where it feels like you're sitting on opposite sides of the table. A kerfog.

Whereas, yeah, kerfuffle, to where you want her to know this is coming from a place of love to do that. It's like, how do you go from sitting on opposite sides of the table to sitting next to her on the table and her with you as well? Yeah. Because again, I don't know. All I can do is assume. Like, she could have fears as well. I don't know that she's not communicating. And, dude, after you're done having that conversation, slip her some cold hard cash.

Enough with the Vimovs. Slipper some cold hard cash and say, hey, the two. little guys, I got them for the next how many ever hours. Have fun. Yeah. Go get your nails done. Go get your hair done. Do whatever.

And just end that conversation with that and just be like, I love you. I support you. And if I hurt you, wasn't my attention. And also treat yourself. Yeah, not if I hurt you. Not if I hurt you. That's a good call. Yeah.

I can see I hurt you and that was not my intention at all. The best thing you can do leading into a conversation. like that is completely anchor where you were wrong and like exact like you can even go into an exaggeration mode of I've truly I've done a very poor job of communicating this topic and conversation. Thank you for saying. Like I've done brutal. My egos got in the way. When you brought this up, my worried side came out and I more so lashed out at you on why it shouldn't be happening. But we need to be sitting next to each other. And I honestly, I did a very bad job because I can see that how I came off. It could have hurt your feelings. Again, I don't know what their conversation was. I can see

that it hurt your feelings. And then I did an even poor job because I'm getting my heels in the sand even more and the ground even more on defending like what I want to see when I need to, this needs to be, we're on the same team. We're on the same team. And that is a good reminder too, because we talked about like what a full-hearted apology looks like. And it's so true. Don't ruin an apology with an excuse. Don't. And the, I'm sorry I made you feel. I know we're rehashing something, but oh, man, it sucks to hear that. I'm sorry if I made you. Yeah.

Yikes. Yeah. You just completely own it. Go into full accountability mode. Yeah. Should we get to the call-ins? We do have a survival kit and dad hack, but I'm going to say the survival kit and dad-hack needs to go to Kiwi-co. Yeah.

It does need to go to Kiwi-co. Yeah. Yeah, we got it like an un-like, we're revealing gifts. that we got from KiwiCo who's a sponsor of the show and these gifts are awesome to where hey if you're looking for survival kit methods

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Another one I picked up is one that I actually do have. And it is called the play and go lockbox to where you might not see it on the photo, but around the entire block is like different ways to open and close doors. You see a little lock on the side, a different lock over here, a little knob to pool. This is 13 plus months and the focus is on motor skills. Shirm, do you have any? Well, first off, they sent these huge, and you can see Will's stuffed Kiwi Bird. Oh, this is you.

That's me. What do you think this one is? That's Fat. It's either Fat Shafford or a Kiwi bird. This is Kiwi bird. This is a Shiwi bird. It's Sherman Kiwi. It's a Shiwi bird. And then we have a nice little panda bear here.

His name's Poppy. Does that one have a name? Oh. I don't know if that one has a name. Let me open him up. Yeah, check them out. You've got to keep them. We're subcating them right now. Let's feel how soft these things are.

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This one comes in from? This one comes from Mr. White Chocolate. Okay, Mr. White Chocolate. Will, Shirm, this is Tier 1, Mr. White Chocolate speaking. Today is my daughter's birthday. She is now a teenager. It's going to be some rough and tough years coming for your boys, coming up soon. So please pray for me.

My question for you guys is, what are you two looking forward to most when your daughters become teenagers. Love you guys. Can't wait to see this. Mr. White Chocolate, thank you for calling in, man. What a question. Roos 3 right now, I feel like I don't have to think about it for another 10 years.

Because those are like, it's like those are scary hours. I think of all the moments that I'm having with my little girls right now and it's like, what if? What if this is just the relationship for the rest of time. And there won't be those tough teenager moments of where they don't want that anymore.

But I don't know. Maybe I am number one. Maybe I will be number one her entire life over her friends, over the, you know, her love interests that are out there. I have my answer. What is it? If you like, Jill and I were joking about this

that I was saying I'm actually looking forward to those days where I picked Scarlett up from school and there's some friend group drama. and there's no advice that dad can give her other than just listen. Emily said, what? Oh, my gosh. And how did Rebecca respond to that? Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah. Well, that makes sense because Rebecca doesn't like that. Yeah, can't have that. No, can't have that. Oh, good. You hugged her and you told her that you loved her and you want to be your best friend. Scarlett, I think you nailed that. Yeah.

Just like. Matter of fact, you should invite him over for Pizza Friday. They can do a sleepover. You guys can stay in the room. We'll lock the door. you don't have to go anywhere at nighttime. Dad, we're not doing pizza Friday. I'm 13.

It's going to break my heart, dude. I know. 13. We don't want pizza Fridays anymore. No, she will. And I'm sorry I even joked about it. I'm sorry I even joked about it. But you're right that could come.

I am looking forward to those little, like, teenage girls scuffles and just trying to navigate it. And I won't know what to do other than just listen. Just listen to her and make her feel heard. and like those are very important stories that I need to and just learning all the nuances of her friends so that I can be a good wall for her to just bounce her thoughts and emotions and stuff off of and Jill and I were just kind of joking about that of like and Jill was no drama queen at all she you know she'll tell you that like any friend group just like guys have an equal amount of drama but we're both pretty drama free so whenever it does come down the pipe we're always like oh it's kind of some juicy tea what's going on i can get on board with

that i feel like as you're saying that i feel like i'm looking forward to the uh the debriefs and the breakdowns with my wife like when you know the kiddos are you know when the girls are in bed uh-huh and you're kind of talking about what you might have heard and what advice you were given how should we do this i'm hearing there's some stuff going on at school like the debriefs and the preparation with your wife of how you might handle these situations because it's going to be like i feel like in the parents out there with teenagers or adults that live through the teenage years, I'm sure that they'll have some good comments about this, but I feel like it's going to be like it's an art form in motion

when trying to prepare for whatever these conversations are. Because I'm weirdly, you know, when my daughter starts to have crushes and relationships, I'm like, you know, what could be knocking on my door on some of these evenings coming up? Oh, what young boys are going to be asking? and you'll be asking permission to take my daughter on a date. Yes, sir. And keeping that standard to where it doesn't create the friction with your girl, with your daughter.

Yeah. It's like a song and dance I'm like weirdly like looking forward to. I'm like, which one of these? Well, in our dad. Which one of these slapies? Oh, yeah. Our dad brains, it's going to be like, you're going to go up to Char. You know, how's a rube, blah, blah, blah.

She seemed upset. Well, Lindsay borrowed another one of Roo's tops. and she hasn't given it back yet. Oh, is she going to call Lindsay and get it back? No, Will, she can't do that because Rue got cheer captain, Lindsay didn't, she's upset about that. Oh, okay, yeah, you're right. Yeah.

That's a good. I'll call Steve right now. You don't get that popped up back. No, you can't go over her. You can't go around her. Yeah, you can't do that because then Lindsay's going to do this because Lindsay has a crush on Brian. You know, Brian has a crush on Rue and it's just a whole thing. But does Rue have a crush on Brian?

Well, you know, whenever I bring up Brian, she gets a little bash rolling, gets a little red in the cheeks, but I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I don't feel prepared for stuff like that. That's what I'm saying. I'm going to have zero. That's just where dad shuts up and just sits back and watches. Gold number one needs to be how do we get this friendship aligned?

Yeah. Because that's potential problems, just waiting and stewing. And my brain goes exactly where you are of like, have her over for pizza Friday. We'll watch the ball, but they used to love that when they were kids. Will, you need to start working on your dad, you know, when you don't, and you know it's like this is gone out of your wheelhouse. It's going to be a good luck, sweet I.

You let me know, because I want to help, honey. You just let me know what I need to do. I'm on standby, okay? So you're telling me Rue is upset because she didn't get invited. to the movies. Well, yeah. So it's Lindsay, it's Rachel, it's Chelsea. It's all that group of girls that she went to summer camp with.

And they just been hanging out a whole lot. And they, I don't know. Rue didn't get the invite. We could do pizza Friday at the house. Well, it doesn't work like that. You're telling me she's upset that Charlie won't go with her to the dance. And she's tore of about that. Is she seeing the stats that Charlie's putting up on Friday nights?

Fucking. He's the backup running back. Pulled this Charlie kid up. Was he have one of those Facebook? No, they don't have Facebook. He has TikTok bro. He has 80,000 followers, Will. He's kind of viral.

He might have 80,000 followers, but he can't, he can't have a four-yard run to save his life. Just have her. We're just watching film. Hey, so you're in love with this Charlie guy. You're breaking down film with a love interest? Let's see how you think Charlie's a tough guy. Let's see how he responds in the A gap here.

this is the guy you want to you want to attach your attach the wagon to you see the third and long blitz there honey you see how he looks like he's in a blender he's bouncing around yeah let me talk to you about tony over here the quarterback i mean he's get some looks from from d1 schools he's only a sophomore oh dad tony's not hot he may not be hot but honey it's about the heart yeah it's about the heart but dude i i'm stoked for that type of stuff once they're like developing that socio, you know, like, uh, whatever, like just those friend groups and navigating it and, um, the one tree hill drama. Yes, dude.

The one tree hill, smallville. I rocked them all, dude. Oh, yeah. The drama in those TV shows. And I'm not saying every girl is girl life, teenage girl thing is drama filled. I hope it doesn't sound that way. But I just know that like in their world it is though. Yeah.

And it is important. and it's like a big deal to them. And I remember when my dad would get a friend's name wrong, dude, oh, that used to bug me. Like I have this best friend named James. And I couldn't tell if he was like doing it to me on purpose to like mess with me. When's Josh coming over? Dad, James.

James is coming over. I know that. I know that. There's a guy at our high school named Cole Lofden. And he always called him Cole Loflin, drove me nuts drove me nuts and so I'm like in my brain you gotta get the names right I gotta get all of her

girlfriend's names right I gotta you know I'm ready to do like the like the dumb dad step over the line stuff like hey what's going on is it something are you doing the is just the you get the period now mom told me something's going on this week.

Mom told me something's going on this week. I just want you to know, honey. It's just making no eye contact. Yeah. Just want you to know. If you need ice cream, if you need extra movie time, you can do that.

Actually, I got to go downstairs. I love you. She's got to invading their privacy. I thought to your mom. I heard you kind of have one of the milestone deals in your life. You know, I'm not too familiar with that stuff. I'm sure your mom tells you a lot of good things.

You know, whatever you need for me. Just let me know I'm here for. you're a beautiful young lady just like your mom i don't know if that's what you want to i don't know honey i love you i love you i love you i'll see you tomorrow yeah yeah i can tell him saying a little too much right now i feel stupid like just forget everything we just said right there okay what are we going to do i don't know man oh the great question by mr white chocolate you already know that's going to be a reaction when we're frustrated is this is that time of the month for you right now it's silent treatment for a week.

Oh, yeah. Rue's going to be like, you're done. You're done. Yeah, man. Scary hours, dude. Yeah, it's all like coming through my head right now. Like, shit. And we got that coming down the pipe.

But the good news is, and you've kind of been talking about this like all podcasts. I feel like a good lesson for us dads is we are learning too, as they are learning. As Rue is learning to communicate. with Scotty or Roo's learning how to deal with, like, mom being out of town. Like, Will is also learning how to deal with Rue while mom's out of town and also dealing how to tell Rue how to communicate with the dog and Scotty. And same with me. I'm learning how to show Jill that I am capable of her being out of town.

Yeah. And so, yes, that stuff scares these shit out of me, but I'm also like, this old dog can learn new tricks. I'm learning. And maybe, hey, it does, you know, take me to go crazy and, you know, make a mistake here or whatever and, like, to learn a lesson. But we're going to be fine. Because you care. Because you care.

And you want to be intentional. You don't want to be the guy who kind of steps off, you know, fades into the, fades into the shadows, falls back. You want to be on the front lines with your wife. Yeah. Learning and immersing yourself in this stuff. Because I can only hope we're sitting here. 10 years later. And I'm like, boys,

Papa Team 6, my daughter just turned 13. And here's a situation. And I got to be careful because my root could listen to this stuff. Oh, yeah. But I got to tell you, I got a relationship with the PT-6ers out there,

this community. And I'm going to need some help. Yeah. Honey, you don't want me talking about you making the cheer team. I won't talk about making the cheer team. I'm proud of you. I just love you. And your mama was a cheerleader.

You're a cheerleader. I love it. You start crying. Yeah. You're always crying, dad. Quit crying on the podcast. My friends keep pulling it up. Golly.

Yeah. I know. It's going to be interesting. All these moments on the internet that they will have access to. It's just going to make you a legend, if anything. Imagine the first time my daughter comes across me with my pants off. doing a case race. As Darth Mall.

As Darth with Darth Mall face paint. And honey, there's this great- Talking about I just want to shake the Uber guy's hand. I just want to shake his hand. Honey, there's this burner account on Twitter. It's called Will Compton's Bulge, and it's actually in reference to that moment. Yeah.

He's a great follow. Just want you to know it's not your father. But you are going to see some stuff on the internet. By then AI will be so crazy. you can kind of might spin zone it. That's AI. Are they making those AI videos?

You all come up with something. Are they making those about your dad again? I can't believe that. Yeah. Yeah. The NFL ones. It was a real. Yeah.

The highlight. Hey, the highlight. Yeah. Hey, that touchdown that I scored as a wide receiver in the NFL, that's real.

That's not AI. Yeah. Great call in. Did you have a lesson or a quote? I do. If not. Go ahead. Okay, cool.

like I could muster one up I could find one but dude take the floor bro this is we've been going for a good amount yeah a good amount okay um so going into this quote

uh I've always had a good relationship with uh will stepdad Cody but uh him coming in town for Jill's birthday it has been incredible we the girls uh went out and left the house last night her mom and Jill uh to go to home goods shout out home goods

shut out Baby Scarscar was by yourself with the boys, me and Cody. We got to watch Baker Mayfield perform a miraculous comeback on Monday night football. And Cody and I are jumping up. We're standing up. We're clapping. We broed out. It was really kind of the first time of us broying out.

So much fun. To brag on him, super interesting guy. Very interesting guy. Doesn't have like the college education that most have. of like, you're no business savvy entrepreneurs, but he's a self-made man, blue-collar man, owns a ton of companies, has sold a ton of companies.

And I feel like every single time I'm around him, I'm learning something new, but he's never trying to teach me anything. Jill has this surprise birthday party, or not surprise birthday party, has a 30th birthday party coming up. And it's kind of last second we're throwing stuff together. We're trying to figure out how to do it in the front yard.

And Cody's like, oh, sure, man, I'll go to Home Depot and get a couple two by tens and some two by fours. I'll set up two pillars. We'll get the twinkle lights going from that oak tree y'all got in the front yard, throw some duct tape on it, kind of get it right there. It's just all those little, like, nuanced moments. I'm like, dude, you're such a legend.

So just getting to know him better and getting to learn stuff from him has been fun. This was my favorite quote that came from dinner. We were talking about things that we wanted to instill in Scarlett. And I'm sitting there going, oh, I wanted to have. a part-time job in high school. My parents were big on that. I wanted her to have that. And I really wanted to try to do this, try to do that. And he came in with this and said, it took me a while to learn this as a parent, but it ain't about fixing the shit that was wrong with you in your childhood. That's a different human. Or sorry, it ain't about fixing the

shit that was wrong with you in your kid. That's a different human. That's a different story. Be better than what came before you, like your parenting, and write whatever parenting wrongs were done to you, but don't try and force your kid to be someone that they're not. And I just thought that that was a banger little lesson from Cody of like telling me the first 10 years he was just everything that he saw wrong in himself and didn't want his son to, you know, do. He'd just riding him, riding him, riding him and he was like yes he's my son he's my namesake but he's not me and he's not going to automatically want to lean towards these mistakes and blah blah blah um that i just thought that that was a cool message yeah i i love that i feel like i come across quotes like that on instagram where it's like

the the fears and the insecurities that you have will show up in your kids life if you're not you know looking at yourself and fixing yourself but you're right i love that quote yeah i love that quote. I feel like that's, it's going to be, that's such a song and dance for parents because, again, it's like, all you know is your experiences and what you have done in the past and things that you might have hated that you might be lashing. You might not know it, but you might be lashing out doing certain things and setting certain examples to where, yeah, I feel like if you don't check yourself and ask like, what's the principal behind this? Like, what's the actual goal? Is it, no matter what I'm going to, they're going to have a responsibility like a part-time job in high

school, I feel like on paper that sounds amazing. Yeah. It's like, but I have no clue what life is going to look like when she is a teenager, when she is at that age. Yes. Because you feel like it's a good responsibility and it's a great principle to teach at a young age, but making sure you're doing it through the right lessons and teaching the right things and guiding them that way to put that responsibility on them instead of like, you know,

you're just saying this is how it's going to be. And as long as you're under my roof, you go by my rules, you're going to have a job. Yes. Because you're, it's like you're just saying that because there's not a lot of contexts or teaching or lessons that you're trying to give them through what you learned. Yes. By addressing whatever your insecurities or fears are. And whatever learning lesson you're trying to instill in them with the part, just for example,

that's the example. We'll hang on. Yeah, it is maybe Scarlet is a Thespian and takes theater super serious. What's Thespian? An actress and stage theater. It's like musicals and stuff. And she's taking that super serious and she's trawitian. and she's traveling and doing these shows

and like the hard work and dedication that she's doing to like memorizing her lines, showing up early to rehearsals, being the last one to leave from rehearsals. Like that's the same thing as what the part-time job would instill. Right. Yeah. Like, hey, you are being held accountable. People are relying on you to perform at a high level

and you're doing everything to prepare for it and I'm so proud of you. You're doing such a great job. With like, and yes, it's not a part-time job. She's in, you know, the musical, whatever. Yeah. But it's the same thing. I feel like that's really good, man.

Yeah. I think that's really good. Because to me, like, what it comes down to is, commitment. Like, what are you going to be committed to beyond going to school from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon? Yeah. And whatever that is, I don't, that's, again,

as you observe and see your kid and see your teenager, or whatever that is. I know, like, in my mind, it's just like, you're going to have a commitment to excellence somewhere, whatever that might be. Maybe it's in the arts, maybe it's in athletics. It's video games. Yeah, yeah.

Streaming. Imagine. With this day and age, I'm like, it could truly be anything. Yeah. You look at it, when you listen to Nick Merck's story, I'm bustling with the boys. Yeah. Because it's like a wrestling family.

So I see like why dad was the way he was. My dad was kind of the same way with me. And I could imagine the friction that'd come up if like, hey, I want to be a video gamer and everything else. Same. But to me, it's like, yeah, what is your, what's the commitment looking like for your kid? Because again, you want them committed to something. Yes.

Because at one point or another, man, it's like, mom and dad's not going to be there forever. Yep. Mom and dad's not going to be there if you go to college. Mom and dad's not going to be there when you're in the real world and making your own decisions. And it's like what fundamentals and what principles. and lessons are you leaning on that we taught you at a young age whether it's a part-time job,

whether it's you taking theater very seriously. Like, I want my kid to understand what commitment looks like. So that way you're not surprised and caught off guard when life doesn't go your way one day because it's not going to. Life's not going to go your way. And what powerful lessons on the theater example

of not memorizing your lines, you're on stage in front of hundreds of people and you don't know your lines. You froze. in front of everybody. You'll never want to feel that again. And being able to then in those moments in their world, who they are, be able to find those learning lessons of,

hey, we'll get it right. We're going to go through your lines again. Let's practice your lines here at home. We're going to get this thing straightened out. In the personal story, hey, you don't think your old man was embarrassed? Like, let me show you Thanksgiving game, Dallas Cowboys, 2016. Two mistackles on Ezekiel Elliott.

They go down at school right in my face. Like, sweetheart, yeah, we know what embarrassment looks like. It's like pulling those stories to level with them and just, you know, let them know, hey, this isn't going to be the first time you're embarrassed. It's not going to be the last time you're embarrassed. What matters is how you respond to how you're feeling right now. Yes. That's so great.

And I showed him the, for listeners from last week, I showed him the bar soap clip. And he goes, yeah, man, hell yeah, man. Only way to teach him the fire hurts is let him put their hand in there. Yeah. And you say, I told you. put your damn hand in there. And so we ran the campfire clip? Yeah.

Oh, I love that. Yeah. It's a good clip. Yeah, we played the clip, I'm pretty sure. Love that. Or if it hasn't gone out yet, it will. You know how the brain's fleeting. Yeah, yeah.

Great episode. I hope you guys all enjoyed it. Popa Team 6. Keep doing your thing, man. Keep leading from the front. Keep asking questions. Keep engaging with us. This community is incredible.

We truly love it. And we are, we're grateful, man. This has been awesome. Pt6 out. make sure the trash is taken out and let's have a hell of a weekend. Go big red. Go big red. I'm sorry.

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Derek did a great job going through all the submissions that we have for the $250 gift card from Wayfair. If I could get a quick drum roll, please. It will be going to gauge Balman. Shout out Gage bombing. Shout out, Gage bombing. Dude, tons of cool stuff on Wayfair. We already talked about the memorial. Plaque over there.

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