Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton Talks How Crucial Communication Is & Thanksgiving Traditions | For The Dads

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm talk through Family Traditions around the holidays, give some advice on how to break out of the early morning slump, and talk about how crucial communication is to a being a good teammate —all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with Will realizing he left the base of the car seat in the truck this morning before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: Rue reading the Brothers Grimm Books Write ins from MT6 members with AWESOME Hubbies A true, natural love for Olipop and the Terminal List Other highlights include: A Crutch-By by Taylor Lewan A message from both guys about communication and refection 👉 If you’re looking for dad podcast humor, parenting real talk, and a strong community vibe, this episode of For The Dads is a must-listen. 🎧 Tune in for laughs, real talk, and unfiltered dad energy. 💬 Drop a comment, share with your dad crew, and don’t forget to subscribe to For The Dads with Will Compton for new episodes every week!  PT6, Going Dark.   —-- TIMELINE (00:00) - Will took the car seat to work with him  (06:06) - Breaking down the ranks of PT6 (09:00) - How to be a part of the PT6 Community / Reading through some comments (21:50) - Will Compton LOVES The Terminal List / Gotta Find Your Side Quest (31:40) - Sherm talks about being a team with the wifey and being vocal when tough times come (36:00) - Will breaks down the ways he needs to improve communication in front of the kids & how tough seasons can be on couples  (48:33) - Rue has begun to read The Brother Grimm / Using your imagination for storytime as a kid (01:00:02) - Sherm breaks down his weekend trip to the Farmers Market with the Beemans  (01:06:18) - Celebrating the new Dad’s of PT6 with some comments (01:10:23) - Sip A Hot One to Communication with Liquid IV (01:11:21) - Holiday Family Traditions with Thanksgiving Next Week / Splitting time between families around the holidays (01:25:36) - Talking about the RIGHT way to make a Turkey around Thanksgiving Time  (01:36:55) - What Are The Odds - Jill accidently pranks Sherm with positive pregnancy test picture  (01:42:39) - AHHHHH All Night & And a SERIOUS Code Brown (01:53:55) - Milk Team 6 members GUSH over their hubbies (02:10:18) - How to bring up the conversation about having kids with your significant other (02:15:20) - Taylor Lewan Crutches On By The Show! (02:17:20) - Will reflects on Scottie turning one and how quickly your life can change in even just one year (02:21:43) - Sherm shares Jill’s message on how the old you wanted to be exactly where you are right now  —--   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a recently new father who’s currently deep in the trenches of Fatherhood and loving every minute of it. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Liquid IV - Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code Bussin at checkout.  Olipop - Get $2 off any 4-pack of OLIPOP at https://drinkolipop.com/BUSSIN Wayfair - Get organized, refreshed, and ready for the holidays for way less. Head to https://Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the worst advice from the dumbest people you know. Listen to Help from Hypocrite Wednesdays on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Papa Team 6, welcome to another episode of For the Dads. I hope your trash is taken out. I hope the school lunches are packed. I also hope you forgot to take out the car seat

from your vehicle to give back to your wife so she can put it in her vehicle. That's what I'm dealing with right now. I got a text right before we logged on here. And it's my wife. Do you have Scotty's car seat base with this emoji? Is it to the point where it's becoming a joke now? It's happened a few times. It's happened a few times.

That's a good thing. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's good. Hey, forgot the car seat, good. Oh, what is it? Sue me. Oh, sue me. I took the kid.

It's the breakfast on Sunday morning. Needed the car seat base. And every time we get back home, I just, it fleet, it just goes through the brain. And I forget. And then it's in the weekday. Charles might be trying to take them to work. So the nanny can come pick Scotty up there.

And it's, hey, you forget the car seat base. Sweetheart, you got to remind me in the mornings. Heart emoji, hard emoji, heart emoji. I sure did, sweetie. I love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one where it's like, dude, the car seat bases, they make them so easy right now. Listen, I've blown, I've blown it with any brain that I use because I don't, I don't really know what I use.

I think it's the new. Let's go, let's go find out after the pod, by the way. We got to lock this in. But the car seat base is that you just kind of snap in and then you put the car seat on top. No, like using the seat belt and doing on the maneuver, like the wrestling in the backseat you got to do. So when the car seat base is in my truck. Yeah. She's got to be in the backseat wrestling the seat belt to get her locked.

then. But that's what I'm dealing with right now. Yeah, I'm dealing with forgetting to change Scarlett's diaper before I take her to daycare. I obviously change it when she wakes up, but I'm just dropping off a poop hand grenade to the daycare workers. And you, what's crazy too is you'll smell it and you'll just be like, I know what's going on. All right. I'm handing you a grenade right now. As I look you in the eye, I'm going to pretend that I don't smell anything. Have a good day. Yeah, or have a good day. Or they take her like, oh, oh, you got a little stinky type. Oh, she must have just did that. I just changed her before I got her in the car. That just happened. That's crazy. It's a podcast for the dads, the wins, the losses. We just

essentially talk about our experiences as fathers, my dog Shirm, also known as Fat Stafford on the show. He has a four-month-old, five-month-old Scarlet. Yep. Beautiful baby girl. I have a three-year-old Roo and a one-year-old Scotty who just turned one last week. Reasons. Reasons. Reasons. What are the reasons why people tune into the show, Shirm? Community. Community. That's probably, that's number one. Dads are just straight up in the comments, putting other dads on game, telling funny stories themselves.

I belly laugh at some of the comments. I do too. It almost feels like it's just refreshing that we know we're all going through this shit together. Yes. Like we're not the only ones who just forget to change or change the diapers or forget the car seat in the car. Yes. It makes you realize how here. human we all are and it just makes life that much easier as you're i keep on i'm grading myself too hard and

i see the pt sickos in the comments i'm like okay i'm in the church as well yeah yeah it's okay and for those new people tuning in our our community is called papa team six if you are a father if you are somebody who's trying to be a father that means you're going through buds training breeding until dad status if you are not a father or not looking to be a father soon we have those listeners we have that kind of community as well. We sure did. They just love to tune in and listen to Dad's Talk Shop, maybe excite them about becoming a father one day. Maybe they're like, this is the birth control pill that I need to not be a dad right now. Either way, that your community is called Seaman Team 6.

ST6, the leader that head honcho over that is Chef Jack over there. And then you got the funcles. You got the fun uncles. We got Deak in the back. He's been ripping. He's been ripping with the boys. What's so funny? I just love it. The captain is Seaman Team 6. He's the captain. He's the captain. He's the leader. He is. He definitely is. He's the leader and all. And the funkel's headed up by Deke.

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That's TikTok, Instagram, Twitter. Yeah. The Amazon one. Formerly known as Twitter. The Amazon one. Yeah. A Reddit. Is there a Reddit page out there yet? There is a Reddit page out there.

I kind of need a Seaman Team 6 Reddit page. Yeah. I think that one would be more fun. With a Goon Barrey adjacent. Yes, there's also Goon Berets out there. Those are our wildcards. Those are the young cats. Those are the young cats out there.

Is Matt in that division? Or did we put a man? I would say Matt, who's one of our social media producers for Bustin with the Boys. he is a thousand percent of gung beret. Yeah. Yeah, I have video evidence that proves that Matt is in the game berets. Yeah, fun dudes to be around. You know they're guys, guys, but they also got a little D-bag in him.

I could already see Matt's reaction. He's going to go, throw the hands up and make it way too dramatic. Oh, now they're talking about me on for the dad. It's okay. He'll never watch this. Maybe his dad does. A quick thing while we're on this topic. where's Jared Beeman, Deeman?

Did we discuss this? Because he wanted to know where he fell in on stream. He did. He was very, he unlike Matt, would watch this and would love to know. He was already interested in like, because we'll be on our Thursday night football stream. So anything we have going on with Bustin' with the boys say we're streaming. We'll have Papa Team Sixers jump in the chat, be like PT6 for life or shout out PT6.

So we'll start calling it out because we know we know what it is with Papa Team 6. Yeah. Oh, man, then it peaked Jared's interest like, hey, what do you guys got going on? We were kind of breaking down the communities and the tears to him. And I'm seeing all these sickos. Yeah, I'm seeing all these sickos. I want to be a sicko. Like, you'd make a good sicko.

He wouldn't. I personally think he's right now, he's in the Seaman Team 6. He's in the Seaman Team 6. He's got himself a lady. They live together. He's not in Bud's training. They're not, you know, it's not like they're wanting kids anytime soon. And so he's a prime candidate for Seaman Team 6.

He's not a Goon Barre. He's matured out of the Goon Barre status. And I have evidence that he is full Seaman Team 6 from this past weekend. We did a little hangout with him in McKinney. That's right. And Franklin. He was talking big about how he did this weekend. And I don't want to lean it either way.

About his performance. He was telling me about how well he did. So I'm excited to hear the truth. He did do one thing to how. did more than one thing, but he did do one thing to help me on Saturday. He looked at me and he goes, talk about that on the pod. And the difference, people might be wondering, like, you got a couple young cats, they're in their 20s. What separates Jared from being Seaman Team 6 and Matt being a Gumbrae? Jared has his own responsibilities. He pays his bills. Matt sleeps east. I think he sleeps

on a race car twin with his parents right now. Like, he's ripping around. I know he hate. If he listens, he's going to hate hearing it. But to me, that's the same. separation of a Goon Bray and a Seaman Team Sixers. No, I think he would fully agree. And when we told him that he was a Goombay, he got excited about being a Goombay. And I think that that is a telltale sign of a true gooner. Yeah.

Of a true gooner. And so I think he is not only happy to be in the Goombay's, but he could be an early leader of the Goombayers. Yeah. And they need one. Yeah, he could. You know he's going to be a good. to love this breakdown.

Rizzo. Oh, Rizzo. Oh, yeah. Rizzo's going to love this. Yeah, Matt. Matt's definitely go overreck. He's going to be sitting there sipping his coffee. I see Matt kids Instagram.

I forgot my car scene base, too, my, you know, in my truck. But that mad, sleeping on a race car bed. That's of a bitch. Them boys are funny. We kind of got off. We kind of got off the rails there a little bit. We did. Yeah, let's bring it back on.

ways to get on the show. Shirm said it. The reasons we love this community or reasons we love this brand so much is because of the community. We love engaging with the community. So if you leave comments across our social media channels

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If you are not able to call in because you are on international soil, we've covered that 601. the dads at gmail.com. You shoot us an email. We will cover those things toward the end of the episode. And so let's just shout out some comments.

Please. People that just love the pod right now. This is from DJK-2500. Good morning fellow PT-Sixers. Happy birthday, Sherm. Love the pod, Ontario. That's why I asked you when your birthday is, because I'm thinking, hang on, is it Sherm's birthday today? And we're not?

Hey, that's how you make sure your comment gets read, by the way. There was a lot of confusion about whose birthday it was last week, despite everything saying Scott Zilla, there were a ton of comments saying happy birthday shirm. So I have no idea. Okay, you are Scottzilla, but there are a lot of happy birthday shirm comments. That makes sense. Yeah, that makes.

I did get a DM of a happy birthday that I scrolled past because I thought it was a bot. And I thought like the, you know, I thought it was like one of those fishing things. It's like, happy birthday, join my crypto investment thing. Sometimes I just enjoy texting people happy birthday just randomly. And I thought that's what he's doing. being like happy birthday sure but dude what a legend what was his name again uh DJK 2 500 DJK I'm gonna bank that and I'm gonna remember that on May 24th thank you DJK we made a fun graphic we made a scotzilla graphic it took me like an hour and a half to figure out

the font to get the flame the flame bond came in I had a call in Cooper comstock so uh you know great birthday birthday birthday graphic oh yeah the the fear little head on Godzilla The fear Will Compton P&G is going to come in handy, I feel like, many a times. You talking about me, Dresses Fear? I know. With Scotty blowing the fire on you. This one comes from Jake Ryan on YouTube. Jake says, first like and top 10 and views on this one.

Going to be a good day. Only thing that will top it is when my kids run in and hug me when I get home from work. Keep up the great work, guys. makes every Wednesday at the office a little better. hashtag Pt6. Shout out, man. Shout out. I got one here on Spotify.

You can leave comments on Spotify, boys. Tom DeArment, I needed this podcast more than you all know. Thank you for always keeping it real and help me get out of this slump I'm in. Glad to hear I'm not the only one mentally going through it as a dad to a six-month-old baby girl. Yeah, he's in the trenches right now. He's in the trenches right now. Dude, yeah, slump. It goes in phases.

currently in a slump right now. I am as well. We talked about this. I have like a little bit follow up with my slump, but could not agree more with his comment. Yeah. Dude, I've been, I've been sleeping until it's time to get up and get the family rolling. Like I haven't been getting up early and working out. It just pisses me all.

Every time I walk to the truck and I've handled like, Charles go up and do get rude dressed and everything, I'll start whipping up. I do the, I'm the kitchen guy. Yeah. I'm getting breakfast ready for Charo, get breakfast ready for. Scotty and Roo. I'm packing the school lunches. I'm getting the snacks. We're in a great rhythm with that. But I

knocked that out of the park and every time I walk to my truck with my backpack on and it's about this morning it was like 7. Was it like 752 in the morning? Walking out to my truck, looking at my truck just sizzling internally. Like bro, you've got to get your shit together as far as taking

care of myself. It frustrates me when I'm not like on my routine. So the slump on me and it's like the time change. It's getting a little colder. It's getting dark sooner. I tell myself I'm going to work out at nighttime when the kids go down. I don't do it. I talk myself into, hey, I got to study for football. I do study, but also, it's like, I could get the shit in if I truly dialed it in and focused. And then I'm like, oh, I'll get up early in the morning because I'm getting to bed at probably around 11 at night. I don't wake up at 545 or 6am.

I don't even snooze it. I just turn it off because I'm like, I know Charles is going to wake me up when it's time to get rolling around 645 or 7. I sleep into that point. I get up, do my thing. And I mean, I wax it in the kitchen. But I'm in like that slump right now, just feeling my dog mentally. Like mentally, I know it's going to snowball on me, not to where I fucking project. I hope not anyway. It's going to be one of those ones where you're sick and tired of being sick and tired. And then I'm going to be.

And what I don't want to do is I don't want to wait until New Year's to be like, this is my New Year's resolution that fucking pisses me off to my core if I become one of those people that's like, oh, here's my New Year's resolution. Like, I want to start doing it. before and I need to. I need to. Shout out you, Tom, thanks for tuning in. I have a proposal for you. Fire call a minute.

I have a proposal for you. Go ahead. I just started a morning workout thing. I've been trying to do get up at 6 a.m. hit the gym before work happens because after work, I drive. I live a little bit away with my mom and dad. So getting, I just don't feel like it when I get done. If you want, we can be accountability buddies because I have to be a

pretty much every day, 545, to get to the gym. It's an offer. What's the proposal? We're just texting each other around that time. Yeah, we're just making sure that we're up and going. Yeah, I would love that. Should we all do it? I'd be down.

Yes. I think, hey, I think that's a great idea. We should all do it. Sure, sure. I'll look over chimneys. Can I actually tell you something? I gave chef this idea. Uh-uh.

Yeah. I said, chef, we should. should all be. You did. Accountability buddies with the morning workouts. That's right. Do you feel like that's where he was, like he was remembering,

that's where he's getting it from? Oh, for sure. You feel like you guys had a conversation and it's just, now it's manifesting to his own idea. Sherm came to me and he was like, hammered for you a button here. That's what it was.

You can get, you know, in with the boss. With the boss, man. That's the angle? No. That's all. Hey,

come on, Sherm. That's a Stephen Team Sixer looking out for his boy. I was more so covering for the fact that I could not be more not down for that idea, but I need to be down for that idea. Dude, let's be down with that idea. We need to be down with that. Or Sherman needs to be down with that idea. What time we start?

Yeah, what time? Five. Five, four. No, no, hang on now, chef. Hey, hey, chef, sir, that was Derek. Hey, well, hey, chef. Sit you phone on class back up. Hey, that wasn't Derek.

That was, that was shit. I'm kidding. 545. I'm down with that. 545. Grace period until 6. So 545 to 6. You have a grace period, 545 to 6.

I'm in on that. Yeah. If not, if you don't, you get swirlied. Oh, you have to start your workout. We're up. No, just up. You handle your morning routine, however you want to handle your morning routine. Oh, that's it.

Do not, you cannot hit the group chat, but then just go back to sleep. Yeah. Oh, that would be. That'd be diabolical. But that's how we do it. That's how we keep each other accountable. And maybe if the community, if they're like in with it too, like maybe we could just, whether it's a bat signal,

we put up some GIF in the mornings. Like, selfies out of the bedroom. Selfies out of the bedroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if we just drop a certain emoji or a GIF or whatever it is. And people can start engaging with it, whatever. That's the way we can all the community be accountable. I do like that.

I love that. And again, shout out Tom for bringing up this slump phase. We're all in the trenches together, bro. We are. I know he's got a six-month-old at home. Very similar to yourself. Yes. Yes.

And that actually goes into a little bit of my schedule change stuff that I've been trying to implement for the slum. So I don't know why I'm fighting this morning routine so much because I'm kind of implementing it and I already love it. Okay. So we'll dive into that. We're diving into it. We'll dive into it. Barker on YouTube said P.T. Sicko of three. three-month-old baby boy already starting to teethe and crying uncontrollably.

Good. Put on for the dads and he stopped crying immediately and was locked in on the pod. Much love boys. Wolf emoji. Shout out to PT Sicko. Come on Barker. We got one here from West Coast Savage on YouTube. First time listener, future a long time listener.

Ooh. Then E.K. Chimes in says, great soed. let's go that's it that's all that's all we got that's just great great so first time listener future long time listener i do it fires me up it tickles my pickle when it's like somebody they have a new kid and they just come across the episode they come across one episode or people say like they hold themselves to a standard of i didn't want to leave my first comment until i was all the way caught up because we're only what 23 episodes in yeah it's be episode 24 this is episode 24

Like we're new. We're newborns right now. We're in the newborn phase. But I love the fact that the PT sickos, they understand the assignment with Papa Team 6. And it's like, my comment ain't worth of shit until I get all these episodes. I got to earn my stripes.

Got to earn the badge. And I love all the intro stuff, like the comments that I'm getting from the dads who are very soon to be dads. And those guys are the ones that are really starting to like lock in. Yeah. I have another one from Toby Bradford. Read it.

6116. He said, Dad Hack, get a frame for your kids art. They make a frame that has a really deep backing so you can stack new pictures over each other whenever they make a new piece of art. I fucking love that.

That's a great dad hack. Because one thing that we've done, Charles got this big container, like this long container where basically all of Rue her art has went into and we've like, stored it and I just think in my mind because I saw some sicko out there like building this incredible

collage that I will never be able to put time and energy into okay be able that's I am too lazy to put that time and energy into making this collage type of art piece that he made I would love for that to be in my body of all the kids art is one art piece

like yeah but he did some design he's using a bunch of different so I'm talking Elmer's glue I'm talking massive frames pieces he's got a flamethrower out at one point but anyway hearing that dad hack gasses me up because i think that is an incredible an incredible idea because we have all the r pieces there's to be something we want to do and i think that would be i think that would be badass that would be badass that would be badass another dad hack that i've seen it's one of my favorite uh like tictox i've ever seen is these parents hosted an art show at their house of their little five-year-olds work

and they had them like hanging in all these you know like fancy frames and stuff and then they just had a projector shooting onto like their living room uh wall of like all of her work kind of cycling through and they got her a bar stool to like sit next to the projector so she can sit there to like answer questions for people that were coming to her art show it is awesome man bro it was one of the best things i've ever seen one of the best things i've ever seen my mom's an artist so i like love that kind of stuff. That's all time. Oh yeah. Sean Moore

3610 on YouTube. Sean Moore says, I'm hoping you can give a quick shout out to my boy, Jalen. Shout out Jalen. Why you ask, he's a fellow PT-6 or an avid listener who just turned 31. Shout out Jailen. Happy birthday, Jalen, 31. You'll love this part. In college, all we used to eat were chicken dinners.

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Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up the name Hey Jonas, guys. I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band.

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

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Keep up the good work boys. Y'all some dolls for real. That's Sean Moore. That's Sean Moore. And his boy Jalen, dude, some PubG PT sickos. nothing. Look, I've been in the group chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The PubG chat. I miss the teams. Oh, I've been sucked into this TV show, Terminalist.

And it is so badass, bro. It is a good show, boys. I'm telling you right now. Popa Team 6 community, community, military-based themes, having fun. Terminalist, Navy Seals. Oh, yeah, dude, you are in on this. You're tweeting about this. Not only tweeting and telling everybody in the shop about it, one of the guys, I think, from the, who's the author? Is it Jack Riggins? Is it the same guy that made the Jack Ryan books? Jack Carr, Jack Carr.

So this guy who reps Jack Carr, I guess he's got books coming out next year, and he sends me an email and says he wants to send me all the books for the terminal list. You're kidding. I guess he saw the tweet, because when I first read the email, I'm thinking,

did they bug the shop? Because I was going, I was just going off about how great this show was. Everybody kind of giving a synopsis of everything because I want people to buy in on the terminal list because I think it's an incredible show. It's got Taylor Kitch.

It's got Chris Pratt. Dude, it's a phenomenal show. Great, great show. Oh, and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Yeah, and he's emailing me. I love Patrick Schwarzenegger. Hey, I could get a, I could get Mr. Carr, Jack Carr, like on the bus if you'd want to have a mom.

I'm like, dude, I would be stoked to get Jack Car on. You're kidding. Promise, man. Car on a bus. Yeah, car on a bus. And I'm, my wife, I'm telling my wife about this. And she's like, I've never seen you read a fiction book in your life. And I'm like, what a great series to start with this one.

And a passion of your wives, right? Reading. Oh, she loves reading. She's always got a book in her hand. She loves fiction. She's like, could you tell me a fiction book you've read? I'm like, no. Oh, no.

I couldn't. I can't even recite the books we was required to read like in grade school grown up. Like those are the only fiction that I read. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? But I can't remember any of the books I consumed. I was a big series of unfortunate events, Harry Potter. Yeah, did all those.

My grandma sent me a Harry Potter book and it just sat there. I think it was the fourth one. Mm-hmm. I never took that step into, go ahead. Sorry. No, I was just saying you got to start at the first. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. On Terminal List, the set that comes in? I'll read it. Yeah, I think it's, I'm excited because I'm curious how they make another series with the way. So I watched Terminalist Dark Wolf first because that came out in 2025. And I was just kind of looking for a new show. Charles was, she had a show she was watching. And I could tell a football game was on one night.

And she's like, you're going to go upstairs and watch the game. I'm like, yeah, like she's wanting to watch this show, this show. But I was curious, like, what shows are out there right now that I could soon? so I'm on Amazon Prime and I see Terminalist Dark Dark Wolf and I see it's Taylor Kitch and Chris Pratt. I'm like, oh, I bet this is badass. I looked up the Terminal List on Google

and I see it was a 7.9 on IMDB. That's good enough for Willie C to watch a show. And I'm thinking the Terminalist, and I'm marrying that to the Terminalist Dark Wolf. So I watch Terminalist Dark Wolf. This show is incredible. This show is incredible. Government, conspiracy, SEALs, CIA,

like all this stuff. It's amazing. And I'm watching this and I'm typing, in like is there a sequel or anything else i see that the terminal list the initial rating that i looked up the 7.9 was from just the original terminal list there's one that came out in 22 that was the sequel or dark wolf was a prequel to the terminal list in 22 so i'm like oh shit i just watched the prequel now i get to watch the real thing i watched that the way that one ends i'm thinking how do you make a sequel off of that based on what happened one of the biggest twist of my life no spoil no

spoiler no spoilers no spoilers. Biggest twist of my life, dude. For any Will Compton sickos out there, I just, I want to tee this tweet up that Will put out because I thought it was the ultimate Will Compton moment of all time. I love reading your tweets and your voice sometimes. Will has been around this office talking about the Terminalist Dark Wolf on three separate shows. I've heard him bring up the Terminalist Dark Wolf. Boys, you got to watch. it to then read this tweet that was supposed to on November 14th. How come nobody ever told me about the Terminalist Dark Wolf?

And now I'm looking that it's a prequel and that the original series dropped in 2022? Bro, I died laughing reading that. That was November 14th. The Terminalist in 2022 was done on the 16th. That's crazy. Binged it. You were talking about the late nights of night in my routine. I was up till two in the morning. One night. I think I watched like four in a row, bro. Consuming this. How long are the episode? Like 45 to an hour? Yeah, yeah, 50, 55 minutes. Yeah, yeah. 50, 55 minutes. I walked in yesterday. Me and G were excited to talk to Will because we're all Landman fans. Shout out, Landman. And I was like, Will, have you, we talked about this like the upcoming week. Say, hey, Landman's coming out this Sunday. And I was like, hey, Will, do you watch the episode Landman? He does. Nobody.

Fully locked on this terminal list. You gotta watch it. You gotta fucking watch it, man. Maybe a little BT60, sicko watch party of the terminal list. It's amazing. It's amazing. I love finding a good show.

So I love seeing you. You've found something that you're truly passionate about. That gets me stoked. No, this show. No, this show. it's got you reading the original the original stuff. Like that's awesome.

If it gets me reading these fictional books because it sounds great in theory, I'm more so fired up that the dude reached out. I'm communicating back and forth with him. Feeling grateful that he wants to send me a set and potentially get Jack Carr on the bus because I'd love to pick his brain about what's in the, what's in the pipe for the next series.

Like you've got to make another one somehow. Maybe it's a prequel to the prequel where it's all based around their seals and their teams. Because what happens is they break off. Dude, you got to watch it. I will. I'll make that promise to you.

I'll watch that show. Like the synopsis of the first one, the original in 2022, it's about this platoon of 12 Navy SEALs, this Navy SEAL team, one of the best ones, the elite of the elite. They're doing a mission in Iran.

They, 11 of the 12 get taken out. Chris Pratt's the only one that survives. Well, there's another one that kind of survives. I need no further. I'm, I'm sole. and I don't say that like I don't want to talk about it. Let me tell you this part.

Don't spoil it. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not spoiling. This would be in the synopsis. They think it's a setup and he's trying to put it to how he got set up and there's so many different angles where the setup could come from. I'm done, I'm done, I've done, I've done. That's a synopsis. That's not giving it up.

All right. You got to watch it though. This is a good sign that I'm going to watch it. Yeah. I don't want it, dude, when there's movies coming out that I'm legitimately excited for, I don't even watch the trailer. Yeah. This is one where as I'm reading

these grim fairy tales to Rue while she's going to bed, and we'll get into the Rue in these grim fairy tales in a second. We'll get into it. But I'm sitting there and I'm when I walk out of a room, I'm thinking, oh, it's time to go put on some terminal list.

And I'm like, you know, go down my wife's like, oh, you got to go study? And like, yeah, I got to go study. And mind you, I do study. But once it's like 930 hits, I'll get in an episode. This was more so last week. Now I'm done with Terminalist.

Both of the series are done for me. But last week, like, bro, I was putting in some hours because it had me in captivated. It had me, right? Captivate. Captivated. This dude is an insane badass, too.

Which one? Per's Wikipedia, Jack Carr is his pen name. His real name is George Peterson. George Peterson decided at the age of seven when he found out about the Navy Seals that that's the career he was going to pursue. He spent over 20 years

in the Naval Special War Fair Command. There were two careers he wanted to have his whole life. Navy SEAL, author. This dude is like the baddest of badasses, too. So it's not just some writer fantasizing about this stuff. He's lived this shit. Yeah, that's amazing.

And we're just podcasting right now. What's that got to do of fatherhood? What does that have to do? Glad you asked. You got to have a side quest in your life. That you enjoy, that you feed yourself personally. Right now when I'm down in the dumps, It's like I'll latch on to some more TV.

Yes, dude. I was talking with you. I desperately need to pour into me more. Like I feel very selfish saying that. And I feel very selfish in doing it. But I also realize with how much I'm like about work and Scarlett's life and all these things. Like I need to have some balance for me. Yeah.

And again, we've talked about it at length before on past episodes, but it's truly, it's prioritizing it. Yes. It's like sitting down and writing some shit out. And I'll write stuff out. I'll forget. I'll fall into the slump. But to me and my brain, for it not to sound selfish, it's like, how, you know, how are you going to take care? If you're not taking care of yourself, how are you going to take care of everybody else?

You'll take care of everybody else, but you have zero energy for yourself. At some point, it's going to come to a boiling point. Yes. He's going back, you know, where's that come from? Where'd that attitude come from? What's going on? What's this? What's that?

Dude, Jill and I had, and this might be like the ultimate segue segue segue, but I'm trying to stay on topic. Jill and I have like the ultimate vomit of emotion and like I need support and I feel supported from you. But like, just a reminder that we're a team. It was so, it was sick, dude. It was on Sunday. And we went to Ruby Sunshine, had a great brunch. And we're walking around. And as we're walking around, we're talking and we're talking about being in Nashville

and being away from family and missing friends and being homesick and like finding our place here. And it's hard because we have scarlet and date nights. We haven't been doing them. And it was like this all of a sudden it kind of came to. ahead of Jill being like, Sherman, I know that you're feeling these types of way about yourself, because this is me talking like this. And Jill's like, I know that you're feeling these types of ways.

Like, I feel those types of, I feel that way too. And I feel like I don't get to voice that. Like you don't really ask me about that because you're feeling it. I'm also feeling that. And we need to be there for each other. We need to be better teammates. in this moment because we are the two closest people in each other's lives. And like, let's be here for each other.

Let's celebrate each other. Let's, like, we both do a bad job of communicating, I need help. Or I'm struggling. Yeah, because you guys, and give people a die of some context in your guys' work lives, too. Oh, yeah. Like, you're, you know, you put in work here at Bussing. Your wife, Jill, she's a nurse. Like, her hours are crazy.

Her hours are crazy She puts in a ton of work Today We're talking like the nurse schedule two Is like 12 hour days, yeah Oh yeah And it's like 12 hour day But it's really like a 13 14 15 hour day

Depending Yeah Yeah and she's You know Her schedule's crazy Like they switched her shift this week Um So instead of Mondays

How I always take Scarlet in on Mondays I took her in this morning, which I usually don't get here till nine. But I did the whole, I told these guys, I like prepped them for it, that I was going to get up extra early, feed Scarlett extra early and have everything knocked out before I even woke up Scarlett. So then we're ready to go. So I had that 5 a.m. wake up this morning and it kicked ass.

It felt good. So that, you know, I do want to do the workout thing, even though my body's like, I don't. Yeah. Stay on it. Stay on it. Yeah. But with the Jill stuff, with the wife stuff, it was just like a really, really good reminder that I not only am married to this person and I have a child with them and I live with them cohabitate. But like, this is my best friend. This is my life partner that we are in this together. And if anybody is going to have my back, and if anybody's going to have her back, it's each other.

And we have to have that for each other. And we just have this like, you know, she's crying, telling me how proud she is of me and thinks that I'm killing it. But also, like, I miss you and like I need you in these ways. And I'm sitting there. Like, I'm proud of you. Like, I can't believe that you don't think anybody's proud of you for being an incredible mom because you're literally the best freaking mom in the entire world. It's crazy. My mom's sitting there bragging about you. I'm bragging about you. But you just, you get so caught up in life.

You get so caught up with everything that's going on with the kid. It was like a good little reset button of like, man, we got to like pour into each other way more, way more and pour into ourselves. Yeah. She's got some stuff on her end that she's got to start investing in herself more. Right. Yeah, we all do. I want to say one thing I heard that you were saying is the whole like, you're doing all these things. I'm so proud of you're crushing it. But I miss you. It is like it's you get in these seasons and it happens. It happens with me and Charo all the time. Because she, you know, with bar going on, she's a business owner. We're doing all the things bus and bar. And the little time you do have it's at home. It's really all into the kids or the kid. Like you're trying to make sure they're all good. You're. you're quickly kind of catching up on your day, but you're not really connecting. You're kind of just checking the boxes. And then like when the kid goes down,

depending on what the next day looks like, you're either tired or you want to catch up on some sleep or some rest or you kind of feel bogged down or you have to prep for the next day, whatever that is to where you're not like spending that quality time to where it just comes down to like, you know, we live in the same house. We're more roommates than anything else.

Like I miss you. One thing that Charlie does a really good job of is like after, if I would encourage anything, it would be following up on that conversation and just getting something in the books for you too. So you guys can do one of these things, whether it's a brunch, a coffee, a date night, a steak, whatever it is.

Yeah. What Charlie does a really good job of is staying on that pressure of getting something on the calendar. Because it's for me, like, I'll just get going and I'm not like, she is very good at doing that to where, hey, we have this, we have a scheduled date night here. It kind of gets all set up.

but if you don't follow up it'll just kind of continue to happen and then weeks will go by and you'll have the same type of situation Charles and I had one last night like if I have a dad if I have a dad loss there was an intentional being there in the present moment

happening last night like it was we got done with dinner and we're all trying to catch up dinner's kind of it's not chaotic but ruin's attention we're trying to get rude to eat you know Scotty's eating she's throwing food off the plate

and I are trying to have a conversation I'm trying to tell her about Terminalist but us kind of like us just having time where I will Charles and I are actually trying to have a conversation where we're catching up we're telling each other stuff but Rue wants your attention while it's going so then you got to redirect your attention to Rue and we kind of our conversation gets kind of you know kicked off the tracks and then we're having a moment to where I'm watching the kids until Charles gets home around 615 I'll have dinner ready and everything else and then

trial gets home so there's kind of a moment after dinner where I'm kind of catching up on my stuff on the phone and the kids are having all these needs and we're going to take scotty upstairs or it's bedtime i got scotty on the night she's got rural on the night she's handling them both and i'm glued to my phone because i'm trying to figure out where lane kiffin's going yeah and i'm slowly going into the pantry to get the bottle ready for scotty and i'm kind of taken doing one of those take my sweet time i put it on there but i'm looking at my phone i don't really press the button to go and she's already said like hey let's get rolling on bedtime and then she's like um get the body I just hear from the outside.

I'm like looking at my phone. Again, Lane Kiffin. And I just hear Charles say like, hey, bottle, be present. Present moment, present moment. She's thinking in her mind, she could be saying it as like a joke,

but I kind of come out with an attitude. I'm like, hey, that's fine. You better make sure you're clean too from here on now. Some passive aggression came out of my, with my reaction. And we go up and we kind of go do our separate things.

I'm sitting there reading books. I'm putting Scottie down reading her favorite books. She loves this little flap book. We're Spott, the dog. And it's one of those where you can open up the flaps. Oh, nope, he's not in there. Where's the next one? So we kind of do her thing.

I put Scottie down. She puts Rue down. And Rue wants me to come up and scratch her back because she loves when dead ass scratches her back. Don't blame her. Back stretches are. What's funny side note, Charles laying in bed with her giving her back scratch. And she's kind of put her down.

She's like, all right, I'm going to go downstairs. She's like, can you send that out? She's like, why do you need that? She's like, I need that and scratch my bag. She's like, why you need dead ass, scratch your back? I just scratched your back. And she's like, yeah, but I love when dead ass scratches my back. He scratches my back every night.

And so she comes down, she tells me that. I'm like, oh, I love that. Kind of give Carl, Charles, a kiss. And she's like, hey, can we talk whenever you get done? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we can talk. Because I already know, like, I had a piss poor attitude coming out. Like, all right, yeah, make sure you're clean.

Like, I've seen you on your phone doing stuff. Kind of just tight. I was sensitive, being sensitive about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then after I kind of come downstairs and, she's doing her like pre-bedtime routine washing her face and stuff and she's like

like what do you what do you make of what happened earlier and just right there I was like hey sweetheart I'm sorry like you were right and I had a piss poor attitude and she's like oh okay but then we kind of have a conversation about she's like what is a way to where I can say something and she's like because honestly when I said it

I'm thinking you could come back and maybe have a joke but you kind of had this. I was like, I know. Like, I was aggressive. I should not have said what I said. Yeah. Because I'm just conscious when I am seeing it happen to her. Like, I'm more so just give her a little light.

Like, hey, sweetheart, like when Rue is trying to grab her attention and Cheryl might be like, hey, I have to get to this email, which I get. She operates the two studios. So there's a lot going on when somebody doesn't show up for a class or it needs immediate, urgent attention. And I'll kind of catch and just be like, hey, sweetheart, and then she'll get engaged with Rue. And this isn't something that happens all the time. This is us talking about our shortcomings.

Yeah, just an example of like where she could be busy. Yeah. And so I say that to her. I'm like, I try and do it in the salt, like just a soft, you know, reminder way, not like one where I'm putting it in the bank for whenever you come at my throat. Like I'm going to have these receipts that I'm now throwing in your face. Like I'm not actually meaning to do that. I was just being very sensitive when you're like, hey, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, this is how you know? We're trying to figure out where Lane Kiffin's going. Is he staying at Ole Miss? Is he going to LSU? I'm trying to break it down. Why, he could be leaving? he could be leaving before the Egg Bowl, not coaching the playoffs. Like leaving his team, that would be insane if that happens.

And she's laughing about it, but I'm like, I was like for me, if we just had like a word we could say out there to where it's almost a reminder. So it's like, hey, we need to be present in this. We need our presence to be right here in this moment. Like what if we just call each other Santa Claus or we just say Santa Claus or we both know what we're saying to each other and not doing it in a way to where she could be feeling something in that moment and I'm taking it as her jumping at me when in her mind, she was thinking she was like kind of joking with me or thinking I was going to joke back to her.

Like, hey, need your presence, needs you to be in this moment. Yada yada yada on getting the bottle filled. And I'm just thinking, yeah, make sure you're, you're clean. What's the Bible verse? Like the speck in your eye, you got a log in yours. You're throwing the sticks, but I got the stones kind of thing. But it was all the way back at the very end. We're just talking about I'm going up the stairs to watch Monday night football and get

prep for the locker room on Wednesday. and it's just we're just saying like hey we're same team because we had a good good hug good kiss she was surprised that I apologize I'm surprised that I apologize usually I'm I'm like I could be like my downfall is like I'll let something fizzle in my brain and hold it in internally to where I'll just kind of be in this I'll have this one million ready to go in any type of potential argument yep um and as I'm sitting there rocking Scotty I'm like I'm just having this self talk with myself because I'm kind of like stewing a little bit but I'm also playing the other side I'm like buddy you were like you can get to this information about link kiffin after bedtime or after this

these finite hours that we have when we do get home from a long day of work and we only have two hours really with the kids and i'm like you need to just apologize bro and i'm like yeah but she kind of said like she kind of meant it this one i'm like no dude you need to you need to go down here if you want to throw her off a rocker you need to look her in the eye and you just need to say hey i i apologize because i had a bad attitude because of the good stuff coming in my head. I'm thinking this is a moment where she's kind of like, hey, the four of the dad's podcast, like all this stuff's going to where I'm fizzling

but then I'm like, hey, she's right. But yeah, man, you just get caught up in your own bullshit. You do. You get caught up in whatever's going, whatever movie's going on in your life tomorrow. Hey, I have to have this attention here and it's like, no, you don't. You only got so many time. You know, I'll have a thing here at the end where we're talking

about, you know, how fast the early years go, especially when you a second kid and how first you know now you're on the seconds with scotty and being in these moments and how the presence kind of reminds you with the second one grounds you a lot more because you feel a little more urgent and pressure with the first one um but i don't i don't know where i'm going with that now i'm just going down a foxhole of i'll just word vomit i'll add to it by saying what you just described i have gone through with jill thousands of times hundreds of thousands of times. And I'm sure that any dad sitting at home listening is like, yo, that's me. Derek and I,

often we were joking two weeks ago, just like the little things that kind of set you off that like your significant other says and you're like, you know, oh, you get worked up over it. You're ready to put the gloves on. Verbaly. The best advice I can, I've ever gotten was from my therapist and something where I was, you know, always kind of we have this joke where catner like we're on eggshells with each other like she makes a joke and then i get sensitive about it and then the fun's gone so we try to keep the fun there but there was one day where she had said something and i came back and i had a receipt

and i was telling my therapist i was like yeah well you know it's something like i had beard hair in the sink and she has hair on the floor and my therapist goes dude that's so sick what did you get for winning and i just stay quiet he goes you know like you know that's a joke right and i was like thanks, John. Like, yeah, I know that's a joke. Like, I didn't get anything. He's like, not even a cookie. Like, you didn't get a ribbon. You won, dude. Like, isn't that awesome? I'm like, okay, John, I know. You're like, John, you don't see all this hair that's all over the shower.

John, are you on her side? Did she call you? Oh, I see what's happening. You're on her side here, huh? Yeah, I was just like, oh, shit. Like, I was so proud that I won. And then I was like, I didn't win anything. All I won was anger. And yes. And potentially going to bed with a little chip on your shoulder. Yes. And the, dude, we have come back to this thing five million times. Communication.

You say it all the time. Y'all say it all the time. I say it all the time. It's what it's always going to be. It's what it's always going to be. And those frustrations are going to come out in little moments of Derek getting called out about his beard trimmings. You getting called out about being on the phone with Lane Kiffin. Me getting called out or being on the phone looking for Lane Kiffin.

I know, but that sounds so funny. Or is he going? Hey, I'm seeing this. Somebody took a screenshot of a Snapchat that said he might, he's getting a deal done. Boys, are we on this? Me, me telling Jill that I need to get on my phone for work purposes, which I did for a little three-minute thing. And then now she's hearing TikToks and memes playing.

She's pissed. And we can all pop off in those moments, but like there is something that we want to communicate further beyond that of like where Lane Kiffin goes to coach is not more important than you, Charo, or more important than Roo or Scotty. And I'm sorry for putting that before Scotty's bottle. Like, I should have been locked in. You're totally right.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like that, uh, it's like the idea of you're both sitting across from each other at the table, like when these debates or when the ship on your shoulders kind of building and you're fizzling a little bit. And you want to get the entire goal is that how do you get from the opposite side of the table to sitting next to them. And to do that, you have to ask yourself,

why probably? Like, why am I angry about this? Why did I get mad? Why does this bother me so much? Why do I care about this so much? You almost ask to ask yourself like five whys before you get to, okay, I know where this is coming from from me. Then you also have to fully put yourself in their shoes. And you're probably going to find that answer after you ask yourself why five times. So that way, then when you do go back to the table with her, you're sitting next to her trying to solve a bigger problem because the petty bullshit that we get mad about with the hair, the phone and everything else, it's not, it's not that, it's not, we're making it way bigger. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news?

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Yeah, than what it should be. Yeah, because really it's about us. It's about ourselves at the end of the day. Yeah. And then when you have the reminder that, you know, we are teammates, we are partners for life. absolute badass with me on this journey of life. How do we get back to being on the same team? Yeah. Good stuff, boys. Can we talk about these grim fairy tales? Yes, please. So Rue's in a phase

right now. Roos in her three-year-old, like she's dialed in. We started to go to these fairy tale books, and these are like, it's like, it's like grim something fairy tales. And it's like this book, The Brothers Grim. The Brothers Grim. There you go. It's like 50 fairy tales in this book. And we've kind of move to like from all the picture like picture books and everything else it was the was the one that i hate fancy nancy stuff where you can see photos in every in everything to where hey thank god now let's challenge her to use her imagination like story time's going to be used in there laying we're going to read these stories there's only out like the 50 fairy tales each fairytale might have one photo and it's just this drawing it's not even that it's not even that like exciting to see

she still loves to look at them but the rest is all it's all written and so it's like hey story story time like here's where you use your imagination like as dad and mama are reading stories to you you get to now use your imagination and put some of these pictures together like as we read you this story downside the con for the parents is you're reading a much longer story these stories are this isn't the picture books where you have one or two lines on each page you're reading these stories but ruse in this phase where she's asking a million different questions and these grim fairy tale books it it's wild like people are dying in every story Like to where, you know, there's this one where it's like red rose and snow white and they're in this little side quest.

And there's this dwarf. And this dwarf stole a bunch of jewelry. He has this stack. He has this sack of jewelry in his bag because he took it from some prince or some king who now has to be turned into a bear. But along the way, this dwarf, this angry dwarf, he keeps getting his beard stuck in stuff. He got it stuck in a tree. You got it stuck in a fishing net. and each time you have to stop

and red rose and snow white who's wandering the forest they come across his angry dwarf and they're having this dialogue with him they have to get out scissors to cut his beard off and the whole time he was like well why did he have to cut his beard off well it got stuck in the tree well why did he get stuck in the tree

I don't know he's wandering around and got caught in the tree is he mean well I don't know if he's mean sweetheart we got to sit back and kind of read the story I haven't figured out if he's mean yet but why are they in the forest well sweetheart that's just where the stories the that's just where the story's based and his

beard had to get cut off and say hey sweetheart can you can you lay down and we'll just get through let's just get through this next paragraph and then we can ask more questions but this is the phase that ruse in and along the way this this dwarf then he gets his uh beer stuck in the net and then the third scene is he comes across this bear this old king who is transformed into a bear the bear wants to kill him. And the dwarf is trying to say, no, you need to kill red rose and snow white. And we can share this jewelry forever. Bear doesn't see that. He's tunnel vision doll in the dwarf because for the bear to come back to Prince or King form, he has to kill the dwarf and get the sack of jewelry and jewels and everything. Come on. Come on. And so why do they want to kill the girls? Well, the, um, he wants to

survive. We just found out he's mean. Yeah, we just found out the dwarf's mean. Well, why is he mean? Well, he just wants to survive and live and you're trying to explain all these angles to where somebody's going to have to die in the story. Yeah. And the bear, disacknowleds, doesn't care about the girls, goes to, and this is written in there, the bear swings his paw so hard. The dwarf die, the dwarf can't feel his arms and legs and eventually dies.

And this is stuff that's like in the story. Yeah. Not red, this one's called the seven goats, the wolf and seven goats. And the wolf comes in and eats all the little goat, the little goat. kids. There's one that survives. It's hiding in a clock. Mom comes home. The little baby, the baby goat that's still alive is saying like this wolf came in and ate all the goats because mom was saying, don't answer the door to the wolf. The wolf disguises himself, paints his black, paws white, puts on all the different stuff and ends up getting in and killing all these little goats.

The wolf is outside sleeping by the tree and the lone survivors telling the mom about it. They go outside, they take a pair of scissors and cut the wolf's stomach open. Oh, that's right. Free all the goats because they were still alive. Yeah, free all the goats because they were still alive. Wolf is still sleeping. They sew his stomach back up with rocks in his stomach, stones in his stomach. So he thinks he's still full. He thinks he's still full. He gets up and since his stones and not goats, he feels a little dehydrated because of all how dry all the stones are. So he goes over to the well to get a drink of water, but he's so heavy. He ends up falling in the well. sinking to the bottom and drowning.

And all the goats, imagine all the questions throughout that story. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the scissors, well, are the baby goats, are they still alive in the tummy? Yeah, they're kind of floating around a little bit. Well, can they breathe? Well, yeah, because there's a little bit of air on top of the stomach acid. And so they can still breathe. Why are there rocks in this?

Well, because they're trying to make him still seem full. Why did he fall in the well? Because he's so top-heavy, he fell in the well. Can he swim? No, he can't swim. that's why he sunk to the bottom and drowned. There were no rails because in her mind, her swimming pool has rails to come out of.

There's no rails? No, there's no rails. He doesn't know how to swim, no. He didn't do swimming lessons. No, he didn't do swimming lessons. Great question. Yeah, great question. No, he didn't do swimming lessons.

Do you ever? This is the phase that I'm in with Rue. And I'm sitting here reading some of these stories like, man, should she be here? Because she'll get home and she knows she understands like, good guys, bad guys. And she's like, Dad, we got to get the bad guy. deada tie him down to the floor

we time down dad you hit his face and I'll hit his legs and she's got this she's got a clothes hanger like hitting the ground where his legs are like you get his face I'm like all right I think he's done we got him like he died Rue it's a hot guy yeah yeah yeah

uh dad yeah get his teeth sweetheart I think we've done enough to this I think we've done enough to this fan you get his teeth I'll get his ankles oh we got to get his hands we got to get his arms his forearms get his forearms get his knee his fingernails now

yeah She'll be sitting there with a crown on. We got to get her into a dress. She's got butterfly wings on, just holding the hanger. We got to save the castle. And it'll be I'm Anna, Charles Anna, Ruz Elsa, and Scotty is baby Elsa. And we got to get everybody.

We got to save everybody and then get back to the castle. The castle's in her office. We got to close the doors. Yeah, yeah. And then she stays on the look for bad guys. Good. Yeah. Yeah.

She's like, oh, that bad guy. We got to go get him. Hold them down. Then we'll be kind of debrief. being kind of just relaxing. We'll finally get to the couch of the living room. Like, hey, Root, let's just take a load off. Let's relax.

We've done a lot of playing, a lot of chasing, a lot of running. We've been getting all the bad guys. Yeah. She's like, Dad, I just want to let you know. I tied him down. And I taped him down is what you said. Oh, I taped him down. And then he died because I put coloring all over him.

I put all the colors on top of him. Like, Sweet are, you saved. You saved the kingdom. Can I just say, one, I did have a question of when she's asking, questions, do you ever pitch it back to her? Do you ever ask her why she thinks it's that way? Like,

hey, why are they in the woods? Like, do you ever throw... That's a good. That's a good idea. I love that little dad hack within the storytelling. Yeah. That's a good idea because sometimes you get, you get caught up and fielding all these questions. And you're like, sweetheart, like, we got to start relaxing. She'll be, she'll be,

she'll be like laying on her bed listening to the story. And next thing, you know, she's like sitting up on the edge of the bed, like, listening. She's enthralled. by these stories. And her little brain's going, and she's asking all these questions and I'm like, sweetheart, we got to lay back in bed. Because one, I want to get, I want to read

the story. Like, sweetheart, we got to use, you know, I know you're asking a bunch of questions. I love that you're asking all these questions, but it's also bedtime. We need to get you laid down and let data continue reading the rest of story because we got about six pages to go. Yeah. You know what I mean? But that's a great call. Yeah, well, I just thought

that could be something fun to just like throw a question back to her and be like, I don't know, why do you think they're in the woods? Yeah. You're like, well, woods is where the animals are and there's a wolf. You're like,

a great point, Rue. That's a good point. Let's keep reading and see, see if you're right, see what comes of it. Yeah, yeah.

Or like, do you think he's mean, or is he mean? I don't know. Does he seem mean? Challenge her to use that creativity on her side. I love that.

That fits what you did with Rue and her outfit where she comes down the stairs and you say, why'd you pick those cards and things? Yeah. That's a very good connection. We've been doing a much better job

with all that stuff. like just holding in the first comment of, oh my God, you look so beautiful. Charles, when she came out over the weekend, it was like, hey, brace yourself. Rue looks like a poodle the way she made me do her hair. She had like a couple braids here, goes down into a ponytail.

The ponytail is also a braid, and she wanted all these, all these ribbons, all these ribbons, all these bows just in her hair. She comes down, I'm like, I'm glad you kind of preface that and told me because it's not as bad as I was thinking, but she's kind of decorated like a poodle right now.

That's so epic. Yeah. You were talking about the storytelling. You were talking about, I said, do you ever pitch it back to her? And there was one other thing that I wanted to say about the storytelling or the reading of books. Oh, the whole tying her, I tied them down. They're dead now, blah, blah, blah. Like I know that maybe some people listening are like, I don't know how I feel about that.

My personal opinion on it, I think it's pretty cool. year old is starting to understand the concepts of life, death, bad guy, good guy. Like, I think it is a good time for those types of story arcs and like real life things. Yeah. She's getting a small grasp of it, but she's getting a grasp of it. Yeah. I don't mind that it's happening. It's more of the shock as a parent with your first one is starting to familiarize themselves

with those concepts. Yeah. And you just kind of feel out of your depth. and like, should we be, should we be talking about this? Look, we got the story. Charles bought the book. So I guess this is okay.

This is on mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Does she know that this is, we're pretty, like, we're talking scissors and we're cutting open stomachs of wolves. Like, yeah, like, we have to read the story

of the wolf just coming in and taking over the village and eating all the children. That's pretty cool, dude. Yeah, step moms, witches, bad guys. Yes, dude. The only thing I don't like

is how the king or the prince. They always get the girl with zero work. And now I'm starting to understand it as a girl, dad. Like, yeah, some of these stories, I kind of hate him because it's not going to be some prince charming that shows up whenever he bedazzles you with something, you fall in love with them. That's how that shit goes down, bro.

Like, this dude ain't working at all. He's just the king and he's got the world. So he's like, hey, I want you to come back with me and be my wife. And she comes back with him because of why I'm thinking, That's not how shit works. Stuff doesn't just get handed to you. Yeah. I'm excited for when those questions come.

I don't know how I'm going to handle them, but I'm going to handle them. I think the king could have done a little bit more. What do you think, honey? Yeah, that girl, they're snow white. She's pretty weak mentally. This guy kisses her, and all of a sudden, she's going to get married to him. And she gets all goo-go-go-gaga. What do you think about that, honey?

I want to hear a little bit about Dear Deere Demon. Seaman Team 6, we talked about at the beginning, and he said he did a couple things. Damon. Yeah, just getting to the couple of storytellers. All right. So we went down to Franklin. First off, the Beeman's.

That is McKinsey, Jared's girlfriend, and then Jared Beeman. They live together. They're just down the road from us. And I've been meaning to hang out with these guys like purposefully hang out with them because of our proximity. But we also very much enjoy their company.

Jared's a gym. For anybody that's listening to for the dads, if you want to see more content on Jared Beeman, check out anything busts. Yeah, there's a lot of Jared Beeman lore out there. A ton of demon lore, which is what we call him. But was very excited because it was going to be his first time really hanging out with Scarlett. And so we brought Scarlett to Franklin. They had the best attitude because Scarlett was having a tough morning, we had to postpone departure time to Franklin, which ended up making us miss the Franklin Farmer's Market, which was the whole point of us going to Franklin. But the Beemans had the best attitude ever. We got down there, grabbed lunch at culinary food dropout. Is that the name of it? It's something like that. It's like culinary dropouts. Yeah. Fantastic brunch. But it was really a that Jill and I got to let loose and we're having some drinks at brunch.

Oh. We were walking around outside with like Scarlett and the stroller and demons like, Hey, yo, Kyle, carry that backpack. Yo, Kai Push. Let me know what you need, man. Let me know what you need.

I'm here. Hey, let me know what you need. And he was being so helpful. Yeah, here you go. Go change your diaper. I think I, did I tell this when we're recording of him being like, he helped with one thing while we were in Franklin

and he goes, yeah, make sure you're telling about that on the podcast. Yeah. Because what do you do? I think it was literally like helping me hold the backpack. Like it was something small. He claimed to me was that he, and I don't want to quote him incorrectly, pushed the stroller the whole day. Or like he pushed the stroller a ton is how it was worded.

He pushed the stroller a ton. He did. He helped with, hey, can, you know, can I help carry this so you can concentrate on Scarlett? He was putting on a great display of being a Seaman Team Sixer friend, but very much felt the pressure from Coop's performance, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and it didn't feel fake at all.

It did feel fake at all. Didn't feel performative? No, it did not. But you could tell there was some pressure there of like, hey, Coop said a bar. And I need to make sure that when Sherman's on the podcast, it's not going to be like, well, demon didn't do shit. Yeah. Demon stunk. But, dude, it's very, it was a very great day from the standpoint of just a reminder to Jill and I that we can go out there and live life.

We can hang out with friends. Seeing Scarlett interact with McKinsey, she was obsessed with McKinsey, just staring at her the whole time wanting to hold her, wanted to hold on to her fingers. seeing Jared who Coop has identified as being a baby guy. He is very pro baby. He thinks babies are cute. He wants to hold him.

Jared is not a baby guy and he would tell you that. But seeing him throughout the day and he even said something at the end of the day. He was like, yo, I kind of get like this whole baby thing. He was like, yo, you baby's kind of ripped.

Like I can see why people have these. So it was very fun to like kind of see him going into the day of like, how is this going to go? And then Scarlet had like an all-star showing. Zero cries, zero blowout. I love to see it. So there, you know, Jared's probably sitting there going, oh, Sherman's had two beers and now he's, you know, having an espresso martini. And we've been going around all day and hanging out all these little shops. Like nothing's changed for him.

This is great. It's kind of a good life. Yeah, he's kind of ripping. You're doing a great job, you know, indirectly recruiting a Papa Team Sixer. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But, you know, reminding him behind the scenes of like, hey, it is not all sunshine and rainbows. And this is quite literally my first drink, I think, in, I mean, six months, seven months.

But it was a good, like, that was a great day for me to get to kick back and. Yeah, let the hair down. Oh, dude. Feel the wind. Yes, and that day is what helped lead into that conversation that I had with Jill on Sunday. Tone-setter. It was a tone-setter. It was a complete tone-setter of like, hey, we're in love.

And like, we love each other. Let me mount you. We love having. I love you, baby. Hey, I love you. And I'm going to remind you tonight. I'm going to remind. Let me give me a little reminder.

That shock wave opening another. And let Daddy remind you. Real cool. But it truly was. It was just a reminder of like, we do love each other. And we are together for a reason. Like, we enjoy each other's company. And we get to continue living life with each other.

And it's not just a bunch of checklists of things that we need to check off of for Scarlet. Yeah. Hey, Deke, we got to put the pressure. Chef. We got to put the pressure on him. Make sure he follows up. They get a date night logged in. Have to.

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

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We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title

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Just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drink. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it.

Do you want a white collar or something here? Just take it. What are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a wrap? Alba. I would. Come on.

Can you believe? I would buy it. Cut through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are.

I'm lucky I'm not a killer. I love this team and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts. We got to help our guy. We got to help our guy in the teams. Please. Please. But I love that you were kind of recruiting a little bit. I love the demons getting in the mix. The Seaman Team Sixers, as the captain back there, like fatherhood, it

rips. It has its very low moments, but it creates a bunch of extreme, your best moments in life. We actually just shouting out some more comments. We have some new dad comments. I got one here from Jonah Maggard on Instagram. Maggard, Maggard. It doesn't matter what your name is. He's a PT-Sixer. Been a short-time listener, but already addicted. As everyone else says, Wednesdays are now my favorite day of the week. I'm a PT-Sixer with a three-year-old and a one-year-old. Both girls, oh, shout-out Jonah, my type of guy. Hashtag Girl Dad. I've been in the trenches since day one and hate missing out on any event or opportunity with my girls. They're my number one priority. Love that y'all can be so relatable, genuine, supportive, and other dads that have daily

struggles. I personally struggle with the transition from one to two kids. Our first daughter is a big dad-dad girl. It's hard for me to bond with the newborn girl for the longest time especially since she was boob especially since she was boob okay uh but fast forward to a year later and now we have a great bond and i can balance time for both of them and still help mom out love what y'all are doing look forward to seeing what other dad hacks and advice y'all have p.srs or one-year-old stills and sleeping through the night and i've been meaning to try the cabbage trick soon if it works i will let you know shout out jonah shout out fatherhood i go through the same stuff with my one-year-old Scott Zilla.

We have a great relationship, but she's addicted, addicted to mom. She's addicted to mom right now. And we got another one here from Brandon K. Muffitt. Muffitt, Brandon Moffett, maybe the K. Silent. Nine on YouTube. Fellas, got introduced to this spot by my buddy and wanted to get through all them before I commented. This guy gets it. He gets it.

Happy to be here and happy to say I'm going to be a first-time dad to a baby girl in March. Shout out Brandon. She's an IVF baby. Let's go. And we're so grateful to finally be parents. Thank you, Will, for sharing your experiences with IVF. And all that comes with it. Stoke to be a girl dad and member of PT6.

That's big time, boys. We're lucky to have you, dude. We're lucky to have you. Yeah, man. And shout out you and your wife, your wife in particular for the IVF journey. We got Anthony Petron 4-631 on YouTube. Yo, Sharme.

Fellow PT-6er with a five-month-old and a wife who was a nurse here and my wife's nickname is jelly bean. Oh, L-O-L. L-L. L-L. L-L. My jelly bean is also having a really hard time dealing with what she sees at work and relating it back to our daughter. Do you have any tips to share

on things that have worked for your jilly bean? Would be awesome if she could talk about it when she's on the podcast. Love you, boys. You help me through these first five months. First off, congratulations on the five-month-old. Shout out. Shout out.

And as far as advice goes, I actually was taking the dogs on a walk last night and was answering some DMs. And a guy reached out to me, essentially saying that his wife is in nursing and also struggles what she sees at work. Being open, Anthony, being open with your wife to have those conversations and talk through those things with your wife. but asking her the questions that will help prompt that, instead of just expecting her to bring it to you and then you have the conversation and be open to have it, ask her some questions that kind of like help open the floor for her of like, how was work, blah, blah, blah.

Do that as like your first kind of, hey, how was work? See how she answers that. And then do you see anything hard today? Are there any kids that were just like kind of breaking your heart? etc. And giving her the opportunity to go, oh my gosh, you know what,

there was this one and da-da-da. Because I feel like being able to be that person to bounce off those feelings with somebody, that's a great first step of helping them process that. I love that. That would be my advice.

That's great advice. I'd crack a cold one to that advice. Dude, speaking of crack a cold one, Crack a cold one does go to communication, by the way, for this week. Okay. Let's dive in. Crack a cold one to communication. Or this week is more of like sip a hot one. Yes.

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Listen to the first epi on the way to our first imaging appointment. And now we are in the hospital awaiting the birth of our first little girl, Hayes. flooded with emotions and watching love of and watching the love of my life be an absolute warrior as they poke and prodder for this induction four centimeters and counting the bed quote unquote for me sucks harder than a shop back good baby mama soon to be wifie can't eat anything and is starving good prayers up rain down pt six out pt six out i actually have an uh one getting admitted to the hospital as well. And shout out you, baby Hayes.

Welcome to the world. Welcome to the World Hays. Milk Team 6, Mom. Come on. We just got a minute. This one's from David Gutierrez. Gutierrez. David Gutierrez.

We just got admitted to the hospital. My wife's water broke. Now we wait for our sweet baby girl to be born. Shout out girl, that's man. Ready to earn my couch badge for the second time. Good. Staring at you, Sherm. Repeat offender.

This is baby number two, but first girl. very excited to be a girl dead i love the podcast i wanted to call leave a voicemail but baby girls about 10 days early with the holidays right around the corner what family traditions are you looking forward to it's a great topic we all what we got we got thanksgiving next week we holiday seasons holiday traditions yes um i'll tell you what i'm not looking forward to please the pressure that comes with gift giving the stress that comes with giving as a guy it's like my love language is not even close to gifts. Like I always appreciate if I do get a gift, if there's a thoughtful gift, it kind of reminds

me. He's like, fuck, I wish I thought, you know, I wish I could put my intention toward a very thoughtful gift for somebody. It's just a reminder that I suck at gifts. And so the stress of are you talking about to Charo or are you talking about in general? In general. In general. Okay. It's a little like, even, even with Charo, like, I get to where I'm two months out and I'm like, I need to get on gift giving. I need to get on. And then I procrastinate. So a tradition I'm not looking forward to is gift giving.

The family, as a new parent, I would say the family dynamic around the holidays is a lot different. You get to, as the parent of the kid, like say, you've got the grandkids. I'm the only one. I'm one of three boys. I'm the only one with kids right now. So I almost have the leverage of making people come to me. Yeah.

Because then you've got to travel with kids and you definitely like don't want to do that. If family members have other kids, I know when my brothers, when they have kids, that'll come into the fold. But the family dynamic kind of shifts because maybe you had a tradition of going to your parents and maybe that's a few hour drive or you've got to get on a plane.

And now that you have kids it kind of all that goes to your head and then if you're married to your wife, she might have family traditions to where you're trying to balance what the scheduling looks like. And God forbid, there's other siblings that also have kids.

So then you're trying to map out and plan all these things. That's where a lot of stress and pressure comes into play for the families and for yourself individually because you want to, you want to care for and make sure

it's a priority for your parents or your family that want to see the grandkids, but also prioritize your wife's parents who also want to see the grandkids. So I'm not looking forward to those scheduling conflicts. Right now we don't have them. Right now, we hold the leverage. Yes.

Charles is the only one. She has a brother. She's the only ones with kids. I'm the only one in my family with kids. So now you have the leverage of getting your family to come to you, which is a nice, which is great leverage to have. Needed that reminder, by the way.

You have said that before maybe two or three episodes ago of like Sherman, you hold all the leverage. Like you got the kiddos. You got the kiddos. This is how you approach it. The parents, they'd be on you to pressure you to still come or making it. It's like, hey, listen, I love you. I hear you.

Here's how our world has changed. And you just got to know in the back of your mind, you got the kids. You got the kids. And you can metaphorically hold them hostage. Yeah. And be like, hey, you do what I say. You come this way. You don't have to be that.

aggressive. Maybe you can. Maybe you're at a point to where you do. Say like, I got the kids. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? But creatively, like in their brain, it's like, hey, we got to solve this problem. This problem is hanging in the balance. Ultimately, they have to be the one that bends the knee because they want to see the kids. Well, and thankfully, look, we're going to do our own Thanksgiving. Look, we're going to do our own Christmas here. We'll love for you guys to come. My wife's parents, they're coming in. What are you going to do? Yeah. And thankfully, you said that to me. And it opened up a great conversation with my mom of like, you know,

because my mom wants to know like, hey, what are y'all's plans? What are y'all's plans? And I just straight up said, mom, the learning lesson this year is Jill and I need to do a way better job of making plans. We need to do a way better job of telling people what our plans are. And thinking about what us as a family wants first. Yes. And my mom had the most epic answer of all time. Oh, and goes... Tell us more.

Well, Sherman, you know, just keep in mind, you guys are the shot callers. You're the ones with the kids and the full-time job. Shout out your mom. I know. I was like, oh, yes. Because she was like with you.

That's what you needed to hear. You could hear some pushback. You could hear something different. I know people are, there's a lot of family dynamics out there and God bless them all. Everybody's trying to figure it out and try to like win with their situation.

But shout out your mom for that answer. I know that probably gave a lot of relief off your shoulders. Oh, much weight off. She, and then she followed up with a great follow up. She said,

all I need to know is dates. That's all I need. She was like, I have no dates that have been thrown to me. If you just give me dates that work, then I will come to you,

I promise. She comfortably put it back in here, court. You hold the cards. We want to be around you guys, no matter what.

You just let me know what dates. Mama bear is going to be there. Mama bear will be there. Because she's like, I don't want to be in Jill's hair. I don't want to be in your hair. What's a, what's a week?

Respecting the other parents on the other side, the in-laws on the other side. Like, hey, you guys just let us know. We're down for whatever. That's the fluidity and flexibility. Literally a million kisses to Ms. Amy, because I, you know, we have done a poor job of planning. Yeah. And taking your philosophy, putting it together with Ms. Amy's, I'm like, we, we have a good plan going forward into 2026.

Yeah. Do you have any, so for Thanksgiving for us, since we've been in Nashville, one thing that we've done is we'll go over to the low ones for Thanksgiving we last year we had Scotty char was two weeks postpartum so it was hey we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna cater in a meal a Thanksgiving meal because we don't want char to do any work you guys can come over we'd love to have you you can see Scotty for the first time but we had a Thanksgiving at our house because charl was two weeks postpartum yeah the couple years before that I want to say we went to the low ones and it's been just a different dynamic because it was when I was transitioning out of the

NFL when I was playing football you know everything was based around the football schedule yeah we're getting into a world to where we can now create some of these family traditions for Thanksgiving for Christmas. I know what I'm excited about. Like we're getting into our new house. Our new house gets done here by the end of the year. So we'll be in a new house next year to where it's going to have a lot of hosting capacity. My eyes, my season to me goes to like whatever's easiest this year we're going to the Luwans. Parents just came down for Scotty's birthday. We had all the parents, the families over. So that way we're going to knock that out. Okay, I can't expect them to travel down again for

Thanksgiving. So I'm assuming we're going to do Thanksgiving apart. And then Charles' parents are on somewhere else for Thanksgiving. So it just makes it easy to go to the Luans. Just do a family thing. We got the food there. Our own tradition that we're going to start is your boys going to start doing bar three on Black Friday. Really?

Eat all the food. I'm going to hit a bar three class. You guys are more than welcome to join me. If you want to take your significant other and sign up for the class Friday morning, I'll get you guys the details. But we can sweat it out on Friday morning, Black Friday. Are you continually going to do bar three? Is that what you're saying?

I'm thinking in my brain this could be a good Thanksgiving tradition, follow up. I don't know what Thanksgiving is going to look like for. us traditionally moving forward once we're in our new house. Yes. Again, I know we got the kids. Brother just got engaged in his wife. I'm sure families will be getting created. Oh, congrats.

So traditions for Thanksgiving is going to be looking forward to the future. One tradition I have, it's I want to ask the audience, what is the best way on Thanksgiving to eat a turkey? Is it baked? Is it smoked? Is it fried? Is it bold? Is it all the above?

I love a good smoked turkey. I know people can break their foot off in a baked turkey. I grew up on big turkey. like the new flavors of a fried turkey or a smoked turkey. I enjoy a smoked turkey. Let's leave it there and pick it back out. That's a good spot to stop. Okay. When we come back, we'll go into the turkey debate. Okay, just know, that's how I ended. The energy, I enjoy a smoked turkey. All right, we're going to take a quick potty break. This potty break is presented to us by

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Hey, I like a good, do like a good smoke turkey. I smoked my first turkey last Thanksgiving. I think I told this story on the podcast, but Jill stepped out just cutting into that thing and taking the first bite and giving me the look of approval, not only the look of approval, but the head knot. Oh, just the aura of that smoke turkey going in your mouth, bro. And seeing the smoke ring, too, because I use cherry pellets.

So it gave it like a nice little, nice little pink. And when you're cutting it, you go, oh, my bird has a little pink on it. Oh, it's not cooked all the way. That's the smoke ring. That's really, shut your punk ass up. You knew the smoking birds, aren't you? Chef, what are you? So, Chef Jack, this is a dude who can, who can sling.

it in the kitchen right now. Where are you going with your turkey? I am a bake and roast traditional by the book the way our founding fathers intended it to be. That's how I am. OG OG OG, OG. We did a smoked turkey two years ago. That was my first ever like Wednesday night go hang out with all your friends and I had

one bite and threw up so we've never done that since. We're a roast turkey people. And this year is actually a special year, guys. this is the first year that my father is passing on the responsibilities of baking the turkey to me. My airline looks terrible right now, but I'll go ahead and take that out and give a clap for that one.

So little nervous. That's a true Seaman Team Sixer right there. That's a captain. That's entering into PT6. He's taking the right steps. His girlfriend is hearing, oh, dad's handed me the reins on turkey duty this year. Buddy, pressure's on.

I think I'm going to film it. So if you guys want to see that, I can film it and edit together and show you guys how I'm going to do it. Love that. But I'm traditional. I'm in charge of the gravy too. You ever take it outside and roast it over a fire? No, but that would be sick. We don't have to sit down.

You're talking about founding fathers and all this bullshit your feedness. Like you ever go outside out back and just eat in the woods. Like a musket. Yeah. Yeah. We can do an outside roast. But I think I think the way they would do it back in the day is find like a big Dutch oven type thing in there and then put the coals on top. like a true bake.

Yes. baking wasn't a thing just because the oven was invented. Yeah, it was, the Inkins and Mayans would do the underground ovens.

If you've never seen an underground oven, never have. It's really, it's actually very sick. Intricate. Intricate and really cool. That's what we need to see

from chef. We do. We need an underground oven. We need an in inking, underground smoke. I'm going to be in the backyard of my parents' house, my dad's going to,

to come home. What are you doing? I got to show out there. Like, I got to make a boss man's to make an underground oven. But you can't just buy a turkey from the store. You have to go hunt one. Oh, even better. Oh, dude. That'd be fun. I have my license for turkey this year. And Delaney Walker has given me an

invitation to come shoot one on his property. Can I get a day pass? I wish I can get a day pass very cheap. I'll come out there and we'll shoot turkey. You can use your hands, your bay hands. Yeah. if we were about it, that'd be sick. That would be safe.

And when I say we, it's chef. Yeah. If he bleeds the brand, he'll go out there and kill a turkey for Thanksgiving, make an underground ink and oven, and then roast one. You spent too much time with the mediator career. That's what they do. Chef, your co-owner in fancy football is the Lainey Walker, and you were sitting right there when he invited us to his property.

That invitation was for you as well. I would be happy to go. And the question would be How great do you want to be? I want to be the best. You got to shoot Delania text today. All right. I'll get in touch with them.

The opportunity's right there. I've never a turkey hunt. I've never hunted. Could he call Delaney right now and ask him? Is that okay? Yeah, I don't care. Do you want to call Delaney and see? Yeah.

We'll see if he answers. Because getting chef out there to shoot a turkey and cook it would be epic. Yeah, that's a Seaman Team 6th or right there. That's a sicko. Yeah. Oh, dad. And he can't, he can't look.

Dad, you're giving me turkey duty? Just go so far. You can't Google inking of it. You got to go seek out and inking. Is that what is? Is that what they are? That's what they are? Seek out.

You got to go down to Peru and Chile? Yeah. You can't take a plane. There were no planes back then. You got to go down and ask you. in inkin, how do you make these underground ovens? Because I got Thanksgiving next week. For the day,

it's pressure me to be great. I got to cook a turkey. My dad gave me turkey, did he say. Big deal. Did he answer? I'll dial him. Oh, dial him. Oh, we were trying to fill the conversation while you're calling. Oh, shit. Tommy.

Now you're fine. I don't think he'll answer. I'll get him a shout. Do you want to tell? Well, C.P. answers your call. is it ringing? Yeah, it's ring. We'll follow it up with him.

He's a busy, very, very busy man. Delaney's a busy man. It's probably odd that I'm calling him to because I usually text him fantasy updates. All the makers don't kick Peron and he's toes, though.

True. Is there a Delaney Walker Lane? Your call has been. That feels like an ignore. We'll get him on the horn. We'll see we can hunt some turkeys on his We'll see if chef can hunt a turkey. That'd be sick.

That would be so sick. Tell about making your old man proud. Just walking in with that bird. I don't. We're not a hobler. Oh, you're not a hunt family? No, don't let the accent fool you. The accent did fool me.

Yeah. No, I've, that's a big joke around my friends is I'm, I have a very southern accent, not by design, but I'm not like insanely southern person. I love football. I like beer. Yeah. I like a lot of things.

I don't know where this is fucking about. Hey, I will tell you all this. As far as, as far as getting your first turkey, I got mine with a rifle, not a shock nun from range. And you get one of them birds down and you get them nice and plucked.

They're ready to go. Right then and there. I'm all in. I like football. I like drinking beer. I like a lot of things. I like. I don't know where I was going with that

I like the American flag I like tradition I like God I don't I don't know what to do in my hands but I don't tell I felt like I never killed a turkey yeah but I'm open to it

are you open to it chef one million percent okay good good and for the comments too fried turkey smoke turkey baked turkey are you a fried guy Derek I'm a deep fried guy now that I live in the south we were we were ham people up north

we weren't really turkey too much So my dad make a ham, the matter what. I think smoked is great. I think baked is great. I think they're all great. Now that I've had a deep fried turkey with the crispy skin and the ease it takes

to get into it, which I know is a little bit of a, I don't know, taking the easy way out for it. But man, a deep fried turkey, I love that shit down. Love it.

I couldn't agree more. And to set up PT6 for next week's episode, just like Will said, let's know how you prep your turkey. Let us know if you're more of a ham family. maybe you're a Texan because I know my family did this a lot. Maybe you're a beef tenderloin on Thanksgiving.

My grandparents always had a beef tenderloin. My dad always did a beef tenderloin on Thanksgiving. Leave in the comments. What's the meat that you're going with? And hit us with some of those sides. Because we're going to do a full breakdown next to me. Full breakdown of what's going to be on the plate. Yeah.

We need videos of dads making turkeys. No, I'm thinking I'm going to Taylor's, but I just might make a smaller turkey. and smoke it up. Yeah. That would be fun. Get the monarchs on the feet. Safely.

Yeah, we're talking about Monday next week. We're trying to save Monday of next week, like in the evening, for some turkey shenanes. Turkey shenanes. Because I might throw a bird on Monday morning, let it smoke the whole day low and slow. Hey, by the way, Shirm, I just want to tell you look good in that merch. Thank you.

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We're talking about going to Delaney Walker's property to go shoot a turkey. last second right before Thanksgiving. Chances that happen. We get excited about stuff. And that priority is over Milk Team Sixers right now. Does that paint a picture for you? Yeah.

You have these grand ideas and then the weekend comes, the football's on and the Bud lights out. Buddy, wait for offseason. Milk Team Six, just wait for the off season. You're talking about Milk Team Six where my wife saw my ass for Lane Kiffin News. My wife's on my ass because I still haven't got the little cage for our dogs. They got to sleep in kennels now. Will, when can we get your focus for Milk Team 6 merch?

Tell me where Lane Kippin's going. Now I'll be able to direct my attention there. Tell me where I can get a kennel where my dog's not going to freak out and have PTSD throughout the night. And then we'll get the Milk Team 6 shirts. I do have a what are the odds that I forgot to do last week. And then we can jump into emails and calls. Yeah. Sounds great.

Okay, this was a huge thing on the stream. This happened on the stream two weeks ago. And Milk Team Sixers, speaking of, here's a really fun prank that you can pull on your husband. Jill did not have the intention of pulling a prank on me, but she texted me a year from the day that we found out that she was pregnant with Scarlett by sending me a picture of a bunch of positive pregnancy.

tests and just left it at that. It was just a bunch of positive pregnancy tests for about 25 seconds followed by a year ago today. And buddy, those 25 seconds. Bro, you were pacing. You were starting to sweat. She goes, oh my God. I'm sitting there seeing six positive pregnancy tests. Here we go again. I mean, thank God I'm on a dad podcast, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Buckle up. Buckle up because this one, I'm like Scarlett was not planned. Like this is it. Especially before you got to the weekend, before you got to the conversation on Sunday,

all the stressors, the stressors going on. You got pregnancy test popping up right in front of your face. Literally just sent me this. And I know right below it it says a year ago today, that was not there when that image first came through. I replied with, you just scared the fuck out of me. Holy shit.

She replied, Oh, Sherman. That's just crazy that I freaked out. You are silly. Oh, silly Sherm. So what are the odds is what is the chances? What are the odds that you have a child born on the same day as your first child? Do you all want to go ahead and take a guess at those odds?

Say, yeah, dear. I just want, are we setting some parameters? What are we giving you? We're giving them an answer. our guess of prestige, right? I think I won last time and there was a lot of anger towards me for winning. Okay. There's a comment that broke

down the math. I will say no, no, no, no, no. He's talking about one fucking comment. That had mathematical equations in it. They did. They proved mathematically that Derek was close. No, he wasn't. Yes, it was. No, you weren't. No, you weren't.

Is this a percentage? This is a percentage guess. This is going to be another fiasco. I would say, point. 0.00273. Locked in. 0.0273. I'm going to go 0.25. So you're 0.25.

0.25. Yeah. 365 days in a year. 0.25%. Go ahead. Yeah. 0.0. Is this assuming that is this assuming that the couple tried to have kids

on the exact same day the first one was born? This is the odds of your second child being born on the exact same day. But it, well, that's... Not that you're trying for it, but just what are the odds of that happening? 0.025. Okay. And just to reiterate, just to reiterate, they're doing the deed on the same day.

Just to reiterate, you are saying 0.025% not 0.025. Okay. 0.50. 0.5%. It is 0.01%. There's a 0.01% chance. You won. You said 0.0.0.

I said 0.0.0.0. So it was chef. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, until your fucking comment. Your burner account comes in and says, hey, here's the map. This is what's going on.

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Yeah, that makes me sad. I'll find that. Okay. I'll find that. And that's an apology not only to your father, but to PT sickos. I took, not of true sabbatical, but I really tried to chill on social media and like being on it when I'm at home. I need to prioritize time reaching back out to these PT sickos. They're sending me some really cool stuff and the DMs. and I did some last night and it was it's always fun dude

getting to read through those I forget that those are there I need to dive back into that so please tell Billy I'll tell Billy that I will find that and we're going to figure it out and we're going to get them on the voicemail okay

we should have an episode where it's just all of our dads do a calling yeah that'd be fun that would be like a fun special episode where we'll dedicate like half the episode to it bothered that's what I was thinking too Good Father's Day episode. We have one titled, Ah.

Okay. Just, ah. Yo, what's good, boys? Uh, just got off my leave. First day back to work. It's already been crazy. We are in the trenches. Like, dude, I'm telling you, we are, we're in them.

Three to four times last night. I just wake up and it, but it's a beautiful cry. And you know what I said? I said, good. Good. I'm glad that I didn't get enough sleep. And I had to drink a freaking cold brew this morning. Good.

You know, he's already pooped on my wife's hand about three times. Good. Embrace it. This is you only have about, man. What, two years of this? And it's over. So I'm excited. I'm pumped up.

Got home from the hospital a few weeks ago. And now we're back into the swing of things. I'm actually heading to work right now. But love you boys. Hope to hear back from y'all on the show soon. Shout out, man. You're in the trenches. Look, Scotty right now, 12 months old.

She's a year old. And I'm wondering if there's a 12-month sleep progression out there. because there's a couple of few times over the weekend. We didn't get a whole lot of sleep over the weekend because she just, I don't know if it's like the separation anxiety when she wakes up, she realizes mom or dad, mainly mom isn't there. Like she's been clinging the mom.

But I'm talking just yelling, bro, screaming. Oh, no. I had to go in there on Sunday night six times. And after the last time, I hear her screaming and, you know, I'm laying in bed and I just let it go. She probably screamed for like 30 minutes. And her rhythm would go down to where she's falling asleep. A couple minutes go by.

So I'm getting in that light sleep and then I just hear it again and I'm just like Scotty Joe just go to sleep sweetheart go to sleep man She just kicks kicks back in to it Like you know I'll go in there

And I'll try and pat her and soothe her Without picking her up So it's not like you know Creating that comfort if she has to be in somebody's arms all the time Yep And I would get her to go down And two out of those six

I would say I picked her up And she immediately goes to sleep When you pick her up So it's like this this What is it? What's the word I'm looking for? This like The clinging? Oh, the, you're just trying to break the clinging, like the contact?

So, yeah, yeah, the contact. Yeah. Needing the contact to be picked up out of the crib to go to sleep. I'm like, we can't have that. You got to break, like, it's always been a mission. You're leaning on other things where they can help self-soos themselves back to sleep. And she's been a stud at sleeping, dude. Yeah.

So for whatever reason, I'm like wanting to look up. Is there like a 12-month or a year sleep regression? Because I'm just like, bro, she's had to. in hell for a couple nights. Last night she did phenomenal. Thank God. But it's like an hour into her sleeping. And then after the hour in like every 30 minutes, she'll just get up like screaming or upset about something like sweetheart. Just go to bed. You know how to do this, bro. There's your llama right there. There's all your stuffies. Yep. Snuggle up to him. Go back to soon. I know four months is a big sleep progression stage. That Scarlett has somewhat hit, but it's really just kind of turned

into her like waking up super early now. Yeah. Like she's still sleeping, but she's like waking up super early. And this dad, he remained anonymous, but what he'll learn is the next stage, which I kind of loved, is when they are crying in the middle of the night and you go in, like Will is talking about for any new dads, they'll say instead of picking them up, because then you'll have to pick them up every time. Right. You set the standard of just going in there, placing your hand on their stomach or on their chest and just kind of lightly rocking them back and forth. And you could do a nice little like, shh,

or you could sing to them, whatever you want to do to put them back. But that moment that you know you're in some deep shit is when you step over their crib to put the hand on the chest and passies out

and they're just smiling. Bro, when they're just smiling, you're like, oh, I'm cooked. It's got to be trying to roll over to like grunt and sit up. I'm like, no, no, no, no, you got to go back down. It's like, this is not play time.

Yeah. Because you're right, you're trying to do your best to train them to kind of self-sooth. Like you let them know that you're you're there, you're not making eye contact with you. I'm like kind of looking away and I'm on a knee. Because Scotty likes to sleep on her stomach.

So she'll be like, she'll be like, her little butts tuted up and stuff. And I'm like patting her on the butt. I'm just like looking away. And I'm like trying to seek to look. And if she's looking at me with a smile or whatever, I'm just like going to look away. You're trying to help get it to where they're not just dependent on needing contact from you.

Because you pick her up and put her in your arm and she'll just be like, and their little brains. You know their little brains when they've been crying and then they see their favorite person. They're like, yes, it worked. Yeah. Crying works.

Scotty will start like what I'm thinking of how she's manipulating in the system, she'll take the stuffies and, like, throw them out of the crib. And they'll be like yelling, standing up in the crib. And I'll be like, hey, there's a camera up there. I see you, bro. You're trying to do this to get us to come up here. You leave these out. I will not come back.

You did that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There ain't nothing else that did that. You did that, Scott. Lay him down. She starts trying to sit up, pick her up. No, it's bedtime. I can just picture her doing a Will Compton grunt as she's trying to get,

they're done as here we go. Well, you get to a point two where you'll go so much and you'll just be fuming that you can't get any sleep and I'll just be, you know, they're like in your arm like this and they're trying to like hyper extend their body and you're just wrestling them squeezing. I'm like, no, no, you're not getting out of this pretzel. You're shaking them.

Patting them extra hard. You are my sunshine. My only sunshine. Like waterboarding him with the passing. They'll be like shove it in their mouth. Jill always gets so busy. She doesn't want it. She doesn't want it.

She's going to take it. No, she wants it. Trust me. But yes, good luck to you. Good luck, sir. Trenches never stop. They never stop. Cote Brown is our next.

Collin. Hey, boys. My name is Troy. I'm from Wisconsin. I'm the dad of a two and a half year old daughter and a five-month-old son. calling just before 7 a.m. central time just before the kids wake up. I got a couple minutes of peace and quiet. I just wanted to share a funny story that just happened this past week.

So my two and a half year old daughter is in the midst of starting potty training and has been dealing with some constipation issues, which apparently is normal for the potty training age. and we've been trying all sorts of different things trying a lot of high fiber foods prune juice reached out to her pediatrician all this fun stuff it had been about five days

since she had pooped last and it was you know Dada's turn to to give the bath and I took her up there she had prune juice earlier in the day and I think you can see where this is going

but something between what we have been trying in the previous days and that warm water relaxing the bowels let it all out right there in the bathtub and unfortunately it happened to be Dada's turn to give the bath so I had a cold brown up there and that was a wild experience on one hand it was good that she finally pooped on the other hand it was bad for Dada dealing with the cleanup so a little bittersweet moment, just like many things of being a dad. It's the greatest in the world, but it's also literally shitty sometimes. So thought you boys would like that story. Love the show.

Just picked up my first piece of For the Dad's merch, excited for it to arrive. Keep doing what you're doing. My favorite podcast out there for sure. So thanks again and talk to you again soon. Troy, with the kind of words at the end. Nothing like shitting in the tub. Nothing like it. And talk about a frenzy that happens mentally.

If you're the dad on, if you're the one on the wall for bath time, it is scary. Like for me, nothing more terrified, nothing more of a nightmare than just shit everywhere. Nobody's coming to say. Then you got to pull him out of the tub. They're dripping. Stay on the towel. Stay on right here.

Get cold. Oh, that's what happens when you shit in the tub. Put this towel and stay warm. Drain it, refill it. Oh. He didn't have a super. Wisconsin accent. But I loved how it came out whenever he said, dada. Yeah. Oh yeah, you know, Dada. It's Dada, stern. That's a man that eats some cheese, man.

That is a man that eats some cheese. And hey, good on you, Troy. Way to stay in the trenches. Way to fight it. Battime is such a sacred part of our, like, night night time for Scarlet. She loves it. And if anything goes a ride that makes her have to come out of the tub, like if I'm about to put her in and the little ducky, thermometer. I look at it last second. I go, oh, 109, that's too hot. You know, Scarlett, let me adjust the temperature. Well, I already held her over the water. She thought she was about to go in. She goes

ballistic. He's trying to get some action, some splash zone action. Put me in the damn tub. I don't care if it's 112. Yeah. Do you warm up to them? Do they like bat time? They love bat time. Scottie loves bad time. We'll get them in the bat together where Scotty's on her little, our little seated thing and they splash each other

back and forth. Oh, dear. Roo loves and Roo's always trying to check the temperature. Too hot, it's not too hot. Okay, it's a little spicy, but it'll warm up to it. She said that or you were saying that. I say it to her. I'm like, just stand in there. Like, just stand with your feet in first and warm up.

See, it's not that bad. I'll start splashing her. She'll spaz out. I don't know. Can't get out now. I want to see you in the trenches more. I'm sure you want to see me in the trenches more. I was laughing. this morning carrying out those boiled peanuts and holding Scarlett's backpack and her little milk bottles. I went to open the front door and the boiled peanut juice just all over my jeans.

And the first thing that shot in my head was, I wish Will was here to see that. You'd be like, oh, buddy. The trench is good. Yeah. It sucks at times. It does. Troy, makes it great.

Thank you for calling in. Thank you for calling in, Troy. Also, go ahead. Just another reminder. I feel like we haven't said this on the show in a while. while, but for any new listeners, when you call in and we select you for the show, we send you free merch. Yeah, we have forgotten to say that.

So Troy, he just bought his first piece. He's going to be getting some more merch now. Yeah, you're going to be getting some more stuff. So when we reach out to Troy, we'll make sure, well, you know, hey, what did you buy? Because we want to give you something that you don't already have. And again, if you want to be featured on the show, let your voicemail be heard, 601, the dads. We'll get into these emails.

Again, if you're on international soil beyond the pond, you can write in or email us at 601, the dads at gmail.com. I have one here from Megan Paxton. Come on, Megan Paxton. Milk Team. Milk Team 6 here. Ever since we had our little girl in February, my husband has been locked in on For the Dads.

He's such a huge fan. He even wore the Pt6 shirt to the top of a 10 and a half mile hike in Montana for our honeymoon. Just so we could take a picture and tag you photo attached below. This is our beloved PT-6er right here on top of the mountain after a 10 and a half mile hike. he's always talking about which Pt6 piece of clothing accessories he should get next. He's been trying to give me to listen to an episode, which happened to be the one where you share of Jill's sweet treat and Sherman's misunderstanding.

Olly Pop and Chobani Sweet Creamer. Let's just say, obsessed is an understatement. No! I have had one of these drinks every day for the past 10 days. I've tried five flavors so far and am definitely planning to try more. Classic grape is in the top three. So shout out Jill because this drink is seriously phenomenal and something I look forward to every day now. And if you could do a shout out to my husband whose name also happens to be Will.

Shout out the boy Willie Pt6. That would mean the world to him. He's a rock and we couldn't do it without him. He just started a new job and is working so hard to provide for our little family. And we are so grateful for a dad like him in the examples like you two to follow after. You guys do an amazing job. So excited for the next episode coming straight from the good life. Go big red.

Go big red. Go big red. That guy. Shout out Will. That got the eyes watering a little bit. I love hearing Milk Team Sixers being proud of their hubbies. Yeah. That's pretty sick.

You sound like a stud Will. Yeah. I mean, Will. He's got, I mean, come on. He keeps crossing it. Top of a 10 and a half mile hike mountain Montana. Honey, honey. Get a pick of this.

Yeah. Oh, now he really wants pictures. He doesn't want pictures our entire relationship, but now all of a sudden he wants pictures. And again, it's, I talked about it on social media. They're now a proud sponsor for the dads. We're trying to get the Oli-Pop a team six drink made. Oli-pop continues to show up. They continue to show up.

Classic grape, her top three. You got one right now. I got one right now. Crack it open. This is your first taste of a classic grape, yeah? This is my very first official sip. You should feel a lot of pressure. Of a classic grape, Oli-Pop.

Here we go. Oh, you have a classic grape, too? Cheers, my friend. Cheers. You got you. Hey, Cheers. Cheers.

Yeah, dude, that's strong. Hey, come on. That's strong. That reminds me of like childhood, like grape juice flavors, but like with the pop and fizz of a soda. Like, that's very strong. Come on. I'm telling you. Nine grams, prebiotic fiber.

Two to five grams of sugar. You like a little, you know, if you're on a little, I'm not drinking soda, but you like to switch it up from water or something bland. Oli Pop is the move. And we have to get crisp apple in here. Yeah, that's crazy. Because that one is changing my life from the inside out. And that's not anything to be said, like how good SpongeBob is. Oh, we love SpongeBob.

Love SpongeBob. Love SpongeBob. Love SpongeBob. But whoa. That was, yeah. Yeah. So we got a calling. Now you see why we got a call in last week.

We got an email this week. I want to hit up Adam. I saw they hit us up on Instagram. I want to hit him up and say, hey, I know what you're talking about now. Olipop sent him a care package. No way. Yeah, they had reached that on X and they said, check your DMs. We want to get you some.

Which started a X conversation about people overseas saying that they received Oli Pop to which Oli Pop said, how the F did you do that? It was a very funny little X thread. So shout out to Adam. Olly Pop needs to be arm in arm with four the dads. That's all I'm saying. That's all we're saying. That's all we're saying. Have you guys tried the classic grape yet?

Which ones have you tried? Vintage cola, root beer, the strawberry vanilla, cream soda. I, grape, I hadn't tried it until your obsession with it. Unbelievable. I'm not a grape guy with it. So good. My favorite's still 10 toes down cream soda and the strawberry vanilla was delicious. Chef, what are your favorites?

Yeah, what are your favorites? Yeah, chef. Oh, that's so nice you guys asked. Fellas, I have a confession to make. Don't do this. I have not tried dolly pop yet. Okay. I would explain, but that's, I don't believe in, you know, making excuses.

I just haven't been good enough. We got to change that right now. That's got to change right now. May I ask why? Just because, look, look, look, look, for the dads, we're small. We talk about small businesses. This is a small podcast. For the ads, we got a couple of brands taking shots with us.

Brands that we love. Wayfair, Ali Pop. There's been a couple we said no to because it's like we want stuff that we enjoy. We want this community to trust everything that we're kind of saying. We're collaborating on. We're engaging with fans with. And Ali Pop is one that has came to the forefront and sponsored this show that we are beyond excited about, that we are belated about.

Belated. Sponsoring means giving it. us, giving us money. They're now like, we would be, you know, shout out, no free shoutouts. This is what we do for Oli Pop. Now they're like, no, we want to, we want to support this brand. We want to be arm and arm with this brand. This brand gets us going because they love our product.

And we got a group of four. Four. A group of four. Four. For the dads that in my mind, I go home and I, my wife's like, how's work today? And I'm like, the four the dads guys bleed the brand. and are truly on board with the vision. They represent everything we're about.

You're the captain of ST6 of Seaman Team 6, and you want to tell me that you haven't tried a brand that is in the foxhole with us. Do you got their six? You don't. Will! No, no, no.

He is, he's right. Am I not spitting facts right now? He's right. I think you're making really good points. I think you're making really good points. really good points. Here's where I would jump in. Okay, I can't wait to hear your leadership right now. Has he fallen short so far? Yes, but he is willing to redeem himself. And he is willing to do it right here on camera to show us and to show Olipop that he may be belated to joining us

in the Foxhole, but he is elated to join us in the Foxhole. That's the word I was searching for earlier when I said, belated. No, truly. Hey, I might not have a brain, but I have an idea. I do where you were going. I do where you're going. This brain that is belated. Dude,

I lost it when I was like, they're belated. They are. I do it with you, man. I'm so passionate when I was it. It was one of those things. It's not intentional. at all. I just hadn't gotten around.

I've been on a no soda thing, which the wonderful leader of this podcast is let me know that this is actually not a soda, but anything carbonated I've tried to stick away from. So that was kind of the intention behind it. But let me just say, guys, I'm all in now.

And just to prove it, I'm gonna try, we'll try the classic grape and I'm also gonna try the vintage cola. Come on. And give you guys some thoughts. oh he's going to love it. Holy shit, that's good. That's actually really good.

Yeah. That's really good. That's very solid. I just want a graphic. I just want a quote graphic. Yeah. Chef on a holly. And the people that know me know that whenever I think something's really good,

you'll get like three or four words out of me, and then I'll go right back to whatever I'm eating or drinking. Yeah, you're right back to sipping that. Vintage cola. Vintage cola. Oh. Buddy. That is incredible. And Will, what were we saying?

It's in it? Nine grams, prebiotic fiber, two to five grams of sugar. So it's, you got botanicals, you got plant fiber. You are a guy that's wanting to stay away from soda because of all the sugar that it has. Like, I completely understand that's- drinking if I'm wanting to get away from soda. Yes. You like people, you love a good change.

Like my wife, she's water all day long and she'll ask me how much water have you drink. I have pure water. And I like, sweetheart. You know, it's like, I'll drink some water. but I need something different. I just need something different when I'm drinking, when I'm having a drink. Yeah.

And where OliPub goes above and beyond is you could just have flavored water that's like sparkling water. I've seen those like imitation sodas. Yes, they do that part very well, but they also have a ton of healthy stuff, a bunch of biomes that are really great for the gut as well. What's crazy is we are giving OliPops such a shout-out.

I hope they're too much. A crazy shout-out. But it's coming from the heart. Like we genuinely are like... Yeah. I'll go rate. We'll start vintage cola. I'll get that in 8.2 out of 10.

Okay. Which, by the way, my scale is, there's no such thing as a 10. I'm a very serious person. I'd give this like an 8.9? Very good. Refreshing. Doesn't feel heavy.

That's a big thing on a soda. For those... When it feels therapy and you're like, I can only have a couple sips. This is... For those listening and not watching, that was an 8. 8.2 for vintage cola and 8.9 for classic grape.

And you have the grape flavor and the difference here because it's like a soda substitute or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Whatever concepts in your brain. But the sizzle, it's a light sizzle. Light sizzle. It's not one that's like attacking your mouth as it goes in there. It feels light sizzle. I swear to God, wait until you get your lips on the crisp apple.

I'm pumped. I'm not shitting you. He's like, hey, Will's not trying to be funny. That's serious. I got an email here from an MTCSixer. I got Lexi Morris. She says, fellas, I'm a proud Milk Team 6 member and weekly listener. My husband got me hooked months ago.

He's a PT6 sicko and fellow girl dad to Emerson, our eight-month-old baby girl. One to ride in and let you know that the wives love to gush on their husbands. We see the husband, teammate, and father you're trying to be. We appreciate that you want to be an intentional husband and father and actively display your effort to us. While as women, we may carry a lot of the worry slash load for our children. We couldn't do it without you. My husband, Michael, is truly the most amazing husband and father. We've not had an easy go as first-time parents and my experience postpartum and my experience postpartum.

and as a first-time mom has still been amazing because of him and how well he has loved me and truly met me where I am. He's one month post a life-saving stem cell transplant. So just have to give him the shout out he deserves. Michael, I know you're listening. So just wanting you, I'm so sorry. It's okay. I feel in my nose too, brother.

We haven't cried in a while. We can get some tears going. I know you're listening. I just want you to know that your girls love you endlessly and you're our superhero. What an incredible man to fight for your life. So you can spend the rest of it with your girls. Take care, fellas, and keep putting in the effort like you do.

As a wife of an intentional partner, I can tell that we appreciate you. I can tell you that we appreciate you. Dang. She provided pictures, of course. Let me cover my wet eyes with the pictures of Michael with his daughter, Emerson, and his wife. What a legend, dude. What a legend.

Thank you for writing in. That is a. Milk Team 6. What are you doing? Why'd you have to do that? Yeah. Why do you got to jerk the tears? Let's see.

What do you got to do that? The women have infiltrated our brand. And now they just give us stories that we just tear up about now. golly and Michael you are very lucky it sounds like you have a fantastic wife I have another one

I think if I read it will kind of take me out of this okay hopefully says boys just got the news that my wife is pregnant I've been listening to Boston since the first episode in 2019

I've listened to a couple episodes of For the Dads but hadn't deep dive just yet with the news coming out for the dads will be my number one podcast. I'm over the moon excited to bring a little one into this world and I was born for the trenches. My question for y'all, my wife is only two to three weeks along. We found out November 14th and now she wants to do a big shabang to surprise everyone on Thanksgiving. This is a brilliant idea, by the way. I love this. With the close relationship I have

with my father, how do I not tell them? I'm not great at keeping secrets. and we talk every day. What do I do and how do I act? I know if I ruin the surprise, my wife will be absolutely livid. She will. She will. We'd hate to start fatherhood in the doghouse.

Please help. Can't wait to be a part of the PT sickos. Also, cream soda, OliBop is better than grape. Yeah, I said it. It always comes back to Ollipop. Do you say they're how far along? Three weeks.

Three weeks along. And they just found out four. days ago. And he's saying, I got zip the lip until the 26, the 27. We didn't say his name, did we? Oh, we did. Well, we'll knock that part out. Got to knock that. That's a good note from chef. We'll knock his name out. You better be a bear trap. Yeah. This is where you just got to remind yourself, this is beyond you, beyond you and your insecurities of keeping a secret. Like, you better be a bear trap. This is, again, you want to feel like, you know, you love to film the moment, the reaction. and capture it because your dad's going to be elated.

He's going to lose it. He's going to look like old fat Stafford reading Lexi's email. He's going to be bawling. Yeah. Or he's going to be trying to hide the tears. He's going to be so excited. If you are as close as he's saying especially, it's like loose lips sink ships is what they say.

And I would say that this is a great time where you're just going to, you're going to have to eat the secret, dude. And he'll know something's going on. Maybe, yeah, maybe. Pour your excitement in to just being excited that everybody's coming to town and seeing them. And don't do it so much where he's like, it's something up and then you're kind of putting a weird spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Just make it. And if you have to make up a little lie to keep a secret for a really fun thing, you know, I'm all in favor of lying to protect a surprise birthday party or lying to protect a gender reveal or we're pregnant. Yeah, yeah. It's like a Santa Claus lie.

A little Santa lie. It's a little Santa lie. A little white lie. Anonymous. I have an anonymous right in here. Papa Team 6. What's up to the starting lineup for the bus and dads? Number nine, QB, Fat, Thu Stafford, Young Jr.

Number 51, Mike linebacker, William Earl, one shelf, Compton, the third. And team water boys, chef Jack a lot and Derek Drinkwater. That was my favorite one. I was like, we're water boys, baby. let's go. Chef Jackalot. Holy shit. That's pretty great.

I just got married on October 25th. See a picture below for the boys. My husband and I want to have, oh, this is a female just ripping shots. No. That's a milking six. Yes. She knows how to hang, boys. She knows how to hang.

She knows how to drink a beer and an olipop. Come on. my husband and I want to have kids but we don't know when we want to start or what that conversation is like any advice for an aspiring member of milk team slash milf team six who brought up the conversation first

how did it go what questions did you have etc any guidance will be helpful and appreciated I'm a day one listener of for the dads and a tier one of Bussing as well thanks so much for reading and GBO just taking a shot at old fellow Vol chef Jack a lot it's forgiven

Hey, us Tennessee fans, we look to banter. Yeah, yeah. Hey, we just have a little fun, man. That's how we do it involved. We like to goof around. That's a great question, by the way. That is a great question. How did it come up with y'all?

I think we both kind of knew we wanted to get started. Yeah. As soon as possible. I know it's not the same for everybody. Everybody has different conversations. At the end of the day, I don't think you're not going to figure out the perfect setup or the perfect time. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Like if you think back to everything that worked out for you, that wasn't a perfect moment. Yeah. That ended up resulting in favor to where you look back on those moments and you think, ah, I'm glad so-and-so forced me to do this. I'm glad this person said no to me. I'm glad this, you know, these people gave me a shot.

I'm glad I'm glad I ended up doing this and not the perfect moment or the perfect time. and it comes to work out. You think of all those moments. It's no different with parenthood. I mean, you're not going to be able to time up everything. Some people get lucky and they're able to. Yeah, yeah.

But dude, I'm telling you right now, the perfect moment is going to be the moment when they come. It's not going to be what you planned on, what you thought about. It's just getting into buds training, breeding until dad says. We got to get into buds. That's step one.

And I think pre-step, if I can add anything, of healthily pressuring your partner. I think Jill absolutely murdered it by just sending me pictures of you and Chara with Rue looking so happy and just the cutest photos of Rood that she could possibly find. Screenshot in that, sending it to me. She's adorable.

Oh my gosh. That's a good point because you were a guy that didn't know if you were necessarily ready. Yeah? And thinking of the conversation advice she's looking for, like yeah, as the female, wanting to get your your guy on board. Send cute baby pics, dude, of like happy couples that you know he's a fan of,

or maybe it's y'all's friends. And look how precious this little baby looks. Oh, my gosh, do you think ours will have blue eyes? Do you think ours would have blonde hair? Do you think, you know, asking those little questions, because then me, very happily in Seam and Team 6 at the time, I'm reading these texts and I'm looking at Rue and I'm thinking to myself, when mind having one of those.

That is, she is adorable. You gotta stop posting. Photos of room. You had me in hell. It was the you laying in bed next to her, like selfie video. And at the end she giggles and kisses you on the cheek and says, love you, dadda. Jill sends me that.

I'm like, okay, this is at this point, I think Will and Jill are in cahoots. I think they're working together. I think that's great advice. But yes, that's a really good way to help pressure your husband that maybe is thinking too much about his college team at the time. Maybe he's thinking too much about the golf trip coming up. Yeah, maybe the career. Or maybe the career and just sneak in those little,

what is that called? Like the fascist governments loved using it. It's propaganda. Oh, some good propaganda. Some PT6 propaganda. Yeah. There he is. There he is.

Taylor 1. Hey guys. How are you, sir? I'm in hell, sir. Thank you. He is fighting. He is fighting torn ligaments. Gout.

He is fighting gout. Gout's no joke. And he's fighting the good fight of also being a PT-Sixer. Yeah. On top of everything. He's poor kid. I know the big guy, man. he said he was on all four's crawl into his bathroom last night.

Wait, are you serious? Yeah. And then the dog had to go out. So he had to crawl to the back door, let the dog out. He says he's banging on the glass, begging the dog to come back in so he can crawl back in bed. No, you're kidding. I'm not joking. I'm not joking.

Dude, poor guy. Well, I would guess that in his mind he probably wish a sniper would have been at the top of a hill and just took him out. Because that's how much pain. It seems like he's in. Oh, my God. He's fighting right now. He is fighting him down like. this. I was about to tell him to come on the producer camera on my cam. Now I'm like,

have you guys had gout? No, this guy's had gout, right? Yeah, I've had it two flare-ups. That shit makes you wish your foot just fell up. Like, it makes you wish a car ran over your foot and they had to get rid of it. Yeah. It swells up. It's gnarly. It's nasty. And like, it's just enough pain for you to be like, I have to do something about this. But the doctors are just like, it's just gout. Take this, you know, pill and hopefully the criminal breakdown. It's, Oh, God. Narlie. Yeah, all I can compare it to, I had a Liz Frank injury.

So I was out for, I was like a, felt like six, eight months. And then the, what's it called? Your arthritis. Yeah. After held on for a while. But yeah, dude, when your foot is, I mean, any injury sucks, but when your foot can't work. Damn, dude. Hey, leave some comments.

Yeah. Tees and peas to the big guy. Tees and peas to Taylor. leave some comments and let's hope for the best with the torn ligaments and the gout. Yeah. Yeah. Did you have a lesson of the week for it? Yeah.

Yeah, I got a lesson. So Scotty turned one last week and I was, I took some time to sit down and think about and reminisce on how Scotty has like changed our lives because when you have two, I know leading

up to Scotty being born, Charles being pregnant, and thinking of the bond have with Rue. There's a part of you that's like, number one, you learn how much your heart expands to love your firstborn or your kid when they come. And then the next, when the next one comes, you're like thinking, am I going to even come close to loving this one the same way that I love Rue? Yeah. But I wrote a little something down. And essentially it is, you don't realize how fast the early years move until your second kid turns one. With your first, you're just trying to survive it. the pressure that comes with every cry, every phase, every sleepless night that feels like it's taken forever.

But with your second, you know how quickly and you realize how much at all, how fast it disappears. My three-year-old is suddenly this little human with jokes and opinions and asking me all these questions at bedtime from the Grimms fairy tales. And my one-year-old is still clinging on to us like we are her entire world. More mom-so than dad right now. But she is still very much connected to us at the hip with the smiles and the laughter and wanting to be held and all of these things. And somewhere in the middle of that chaos, I caught myself thinking, this is it. This is our family, not someday, but right now. Your oldest teaches you how to be a dad.

Your youngest teaches you how to slow down. And both of them, without knowing it, are raising a better version of you. So if you're in it, the tantrums, the teething, the long nights, the regressions, all of it. Take a second to breathe it in. These aren't the years you get through. These are the years that you'll miss. and the version of you they remember later. You're building that guy today and in those moments.

So that's a little bit of the reflection piece. It's more like, oh, thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Well said, dude. Well said. But you're still like learning on the go. Like you have all the firsts with your firstborn. So you're like recreating this capacity for your second.

They're having their first and like having the same excitement, having the same intention, you know, spending that quality time that you know the first one had, even though the first, or even though Rue, she's like wanting you to paint with her, do arts and crafts, she's Scotty wanting to get in the way and kind of hit because she wants to be involved, be like her big sister, be in the mix. And like taking those moments that like helps you slow down to like, hey, she's going through her first two. And it just, it shifts a perspective of like slowing down in those moments because now that Rue's three, I play all the old videos and tears will come to my eyes when I listen to her

old voice memos, just when she's little and has a cute little innocent voice. Now that she's three and becoming this wonderful little girl, it just, as I hold Scotty, you just get reminded that these moments go so fast because I just wish Ru was, yeah, I know she's three, she's little, but I wish she was still one, two years old and having those moments that they're gone. They're now just bottled up in photos and in videos and voice memos that we hold on to and love to cling to like when we're scrolling at nighttime and we're just obsessed with them. like we've got our first photos in from being at school and we're we're clearly just over the moon about them we want all of them we want to hang them up everywhere and it's just such a reminder that having scotty like those moments are happening right now that we wish so much we still had rue with that we now have in scotty so it helps you to kind of slow down and just see the perspective of it all like when she is having this little regression at 12 months and you're hoping she's doing all right and you're just having those fun moments where she's laughing she's she's being a little scottzilla It's just appreciating because time fucking flies.

We're always going to talk about time. We're always going to talk about communication because we just, we lose it on. And hopefully one day we do for the dads for as long as we're dads, but this is like a time capsule that we'll get to look back to. And hopefully our kids come across it one day and listen to us, talk about how they were little, the stuff that we went through. And I think that would be sick if that happens. But yeah, man, kind of some reflection as I was thinking about Scotty Turner 1 because I want to do a video and do all these things.

and I should probably just give it to chef so he can make something, but it's tough with how quickly and how much, how busy the schedule gets. Yeah. I love that lesson of the week. I have a short quick lesson of the week. Rip it. Mine actually comes verbatim from Jill on Sunday

when we were having that little powwow come to Jesus, husband, wife talk. And we had talked on the podcast last week where I was like, I am having trouble having excitement in the morning to like get out of bed. I love you, Taylor. These and peace. I am having trouble having excitement to get out of bed, to go attack the day,

to be excited just for the day-to-day stuff. And Jill just with tears in her eyes had a really great message to me of when we were back in Fort Worth. and you were a contractor and you had all the time in the day to have a nap, you would sit there and you would call me and you would cry about how you want all the responsibilities and all the opportunities that you now have at your job. You would have done anything to shoot the commercial that we got to shoot yesterday on Monday to be able to direct that. And now that you're in it and you're,

and you have new responsibilities with our child, you have new responsibilities with me as your wife, sit back and really find the things in your life that you are thankful for and really highlight those and run those things through your mind and remind yourself how good your life truly is. Because life is good. We do have a lot of stuff that is hard. We do have a lot of obstacles in our way.

But God, we have a cute little, family of three and we get to go to Franklin, Tennessee and go, you know, yuck it up with the be bemoofs and just be goofballs. And I have a great job that like I'm very excited to like be a part of this place. And I have a daughter that lights up when she sees me. And when I'm still asleep in the morning, Jill was telling me, I might tear up on this part. I'm going to fight it though. Jill was telling me that Scarlett stares at me while I'm sleeping because she can't wait for me to wake up. Life's good.

There's really good things in life. And we got to press and lean into those things. That's my lesson in the week. Be thankful. And what a great time of year to be thankful. I love that, man. That's a great gratitude and perspective from Jill. Yeah, good call.

Dude, it's she's right. Like, that's like the correct way of thinking about. Like, we used to beg for a lot. life that we have or opportunities that we now have that you slip into the monotonies of everyday life so you start to like take them for granted. And you get these phases of these mental lulls or these lapses and you just forget that we are living the life that we want to live. Yeah.

And so that's a great perspective. That's a great way to wrap it all the way back to gratitude or starting with gratitude because that's she nailed that one. We will always be going up that hill. And when we get on top of that hill, there's going to be a new hill that we have to go climb. And there are times that we should take of being at the top of that hill and being happy and leaning into that before we then press into that next hill of responsibilities, problems, issues, whatever.

Because life is not going to get easier, is going to get harder, as you often say. Yeah, there's always going to be issues and problems that we face no matter what. Well said, man. Thank you. Yeah, well said. And well said on you. No, no, no, well said on you, bro. Okay, before you start chef, jackalotting me,

I love it when you write stuff. And I'm just going to leave it at that. I love it when you say stuff. He's not cut his mic. Dude, that was well said. Cut his mic. He's done. Is that it, poison?

Is that it? Feels like it's it. A great sode. What a sode. as always. It's a great time, great community. Great time to be for the dads. Yep.

Let's gear up for Thanksgiving. Christmas merch is out right now. Yeah, Christmas merch is out. Crush the rest of your week. Go be great, as my daughter Rue would say. Oh, dude, another one. Matter of fact, before we go, when you were talking about,

she sits there and waits for you, she's excited for you to wake up. A fun one. Like when you're in bed, this is dad hack, whatever you want to call it. But doing the whole, you know how they get the peekaboo phase or I'm sure Scarlett's probably getting in that phase a little bit.

She's getting into the funny face. I was putting Magnolia Leafs in front of my face. Yeah. Revealing it. So starting to learn about that concept a little bit whenever they're able to sit or crawl and like carry themselves. Like when you bring them down in your bed like in the morning time, it's just you, wife and the little one. But sitting them there and like doing peekaboo where you're like under the covers and mom and, and you know, Charlie would be like, oh, where's daddy? Where'd dad at go?

And she like lean up and try and like lifting the covers. She'll lift the covers and see my face. and she gets all excited. Dude, that is, uh, those, that's a, those are memories that I'll literally always finally think about is when they're that little, like playing the peekaboo game in the bed where you're hiding under the covers, it's the best. It's the best. It's so magical, dude.

It's truly magical. Yeah. Those moments. Yeah. But being a dad's pretty cool, dude. Being a dad's pretty cool, man. Being a mom's cool, too. Being a mom is pretty badass, dude.

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