Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton Teases Scottzilla’s First Steps & The Boys Discuss Using The Women’s Restroom | For The Dads

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm discuss Will’s nature walk with the fam, hear a PT6 voicemail about a LEGENDARY Milk Team 6 member, and dive into some amazing comments from PT6 —all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with the boys showing off the latest For The Dads merch before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: A Recap of Will and his Wife’s Staycation Sherm talks weekend bonding with ScarScar Scottzilla takes her first steps! Other highlights include: Dinnertime Routine Updates with Will A phone call that has us DYING with laughter 👉 If you’re looking for dad podcast humor, parenting real talk, and a strong community vibe, this episode of For The Dads is a must-listen. 🎧 Tune in for laughs, real talk, and unfiltered dad energy. 💬 Drop a comment, share with your dad crew, and don’t forget to subscribe to For The Dads with Will Compton for new episodes every week!  PT6, Going Dark. —-- TIMELINE 00:00 Intro  7:58 - PT6 Comments 27:04 - Dinnertime Routine & Expectations 36:42 - Back to Comments 44:02   - Sherm Recaps Solo Weekend / Crack a Cold One 55:43  - Scottzilla Attacks 1:03:45 - Will’s Dad Losses 1:12:37 - Sherms Dad Loss 1:13:45 - Wills Crack A Cold One 1:16:43 - Wills Survival Kit - Halloween Costume 1:22:05 - Sherms Survival Kit - Merka Baby Flash Cards 1:26:26 - Wills Staycation Recap 1:35:24 - What are the Odds 1:37:32 - PT6 Call Ins 1:47:51  - Quote, Topic or Lesson:   —--   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 True Classic - Upgrade your wardrobe & save at www.trueclassic.com/forthedads  KiwiCo - Get up to 50% off your first crate at https://www.kiwico.com, promo code FORTHEDADS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Up at Team 6, happy Spooktober. I hope the trash is out. I hope the flannels are out. Your boy's on his fifth flannel of the week. You're killing it with the flannels. I had fought when I was there on Monday and I was looking at, what am I going to wear? The weather's breaking a little bit.

I feel like I can put some pants on. I look down on the bottom row, the bottom rack, and I'm like, it is flannel season. It is Spooktober. Like, let's start getting out the flannels. And if you're not looking, I got the For the Dad's merch. Oh, yeah. Rocking all the merch, the merch, the hats, the shirts.

You look over at Sherm, he's got the Spooktober hat on, bust with the boys. He's got the For the Dad spooktober shirt on. Those are at BWTB.com. Support and represent the boys, guys, this show, as you know, we could have new listeners. We could have new viewers on YouTube right now. but this show, look, this is a show for dads who truly want to get better, but at the same time,

you know the phrase like, that's a guy's guy. That's a, that's a boy's boy. That's a dad's dad. This is what this show is. We enjoy having fun, whether you're in it, where you're preparing, whether you're preparing to be in it. We love fatherhood. We talk about our highs and lows of fatherhood. We tell stories, but we also don't take ourselves too seriously. We are not experts. We just love having us good, oh, silly goose time. being dads being husbands we'll get into some conversations with the wife he had a couple and i'm gonna have to i'll have to get corrected on the show i'll have to get corrected on the show but the feedback has always has been incredible guys the engagement there was a hater in the comment

the other day shirm that i think i was promoting for the dads or i was doing something maybe he was one of the clips and by the way chef derrick you guys absolutely crush it shirm i know you make clips as well you guys crush it with making clips um but i had a commenter the other day that I was talking like, you guys only get 10,000 viewers or something. Like, he thought he was taking a shot. And you know, like, we're on, what, this is episode 18, 17, 8. This would be 19. As you're listening to a day.

10K is good. Yeah, TVA. For a new brand, a new pod is good. But also, when you look at it, the entire universe of Bustin with the boys, like, when you look at viewership and then comment, like the ratio of viewership and engagement, For the dads, it's popping off. Like the community of Papa Team 6. And again, if you're a new dad, welcome to the Papa Team 6 PT6 community.

Yeah, yeah. I love to have fun on social media. We talk about Papa Team 6 being a PT sicko, being a PT-Sixer. We also have the Seaman Team Sixers, which chef, Jeff Jack, or guy in the back, he's the head of Seaman Team 6. Seam and Team 6 is you're not a dad yet. You're shooting for the love of the game right now. You're spraying led or across the yard.

He's the commander of Seam and Team 6. You could also be a dad, and maybe you're in Bud's training. breeding until dad status. So again, if you're joining the show, if you're in tune with the show, to be a better father, be a better husband, you'll get some of those tidbits and advice and conversations, but we also love to just have a good time. And fun uncles. We got the fun uncles. We got the funcles with Derek back there. But yeah, he thought he was taking a shot at the at the viewer show. Our buddy, I like, listen. Oh, Will, your new podcast only gets 10,000 views on YouTube. Yeah. Matter of fact, it was on Instagram. And then I

I replied to him and I said, buddy, if I took your advice, I'd be working at the crematorium next door. You stay on that side. You want to be here. You're fine. Don't let PT6. Don't let the PT sick go see this comment because they'll come after you. Hey, we love the crematorium, by the way. We love the crematorium.

Very nice people. Very nice people. With some fun. Come out, you know, dust, body dust all over them being like, hey, love the episode this week. They got a pretty good sense of humor. Yeah. You have to if you're going to work at a carpent. Oh, yeah.

They came up to me. They said, hey, I heard you got a new weight room in there. Said, yeah, we do. And they go, yeah, we lift a lot too. So really? They go, yeah, we do a lot of dead lifting. And I chuckled. That's a phenomenal dad joke.

And phenomenal dad joke. But yeah, man, this show, as you guys know, free, free on all platforms, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, we would truly appreciate. If you just considered being a real sicko, and following and subscribing on all of those platforms for the voice truly helps us out. Podcast Zone.

Podcast Zone. Galaxy Pod. All those platforms. All the apps. All the apps. Anywhere you find a podcast and you see four the dads out there, go ahead and hit the follow and the subscribe button.

And then, I say it every week. You want to et yourself into the PT6 community for real. We shout it out at the beginning of the pod, buy the merch. We have a lot of cool stuff. Papa Team 6. We do have the second. iteration, the second version of Papa Team 6, hand up accountability. I need to, I need to be

running that on my socials. I need to be running. The new PT6 shirt? Yeah, because we did the first Papa Team 6 drop. We did. Everybody loved it. We sold a shitload, one of our bestsellers throughout the year. Yeah. Now we have, we said we were going to get better. We were going to add the young pup to it. Because again, the dad in the first one, he was kind of solo, Dola, almost preparing for war. But now we have a different iteration. Papa Team 6. We ride at Dawn. Davidson issue.

Three. You got the dad. You got the cub. You got the right lawnmower in the backyard. Got swing set behind a little soccer ball in the backyard with it. Just a dad. Just a bear in his cub. A wolf and his guy.

Is that a wolf? Yeah, it's a wolf. That's a wolf and his pup. Wolf and his pup. It's Willie Cee and old Scotzilla. Yeah, old Scotzilla. By the way, I have some good news. I have some fun updates with Scottzilla.

But yeah. For the Dad's channel, bwtb.com. That's how you do that. Continue to engage and have fun with the boys. We appreciate. We got comments. I mean, I'm holding about nine, ten comments. I'm sure Shirm has a lot as well.

I have nine. Yeah, we have a lot of comments to get through. We have our voicemails. You can call in to 601, the dads. You want to be featured on the show. You'll get free merch. We have two call-ins later. We also have a quote, lesson, or topic that we love to dive in on at the end of the episodes

and then in between the meat of it all outside of the engagement. The comments and everything else. We talk about our wins. We talk about our losses. What we'd crack a cold one to. Survival kit, dad hacks, the whole kit and caboodle. So let's dive in. You want to hit some comments, bro?

Hit some comments. Before we start, can I give a shout out? I want to do this before we get into comments. Yes. We've been talking about it. Shout out to the guy in the Chipotle line at 1130 on Monday, wearing a PT6 shirt,

blonde hair, glasses. I saw you. And you were in the middle of ordering line. it was packed and I bitched out. I didn't say hi. I walked out. I know. But I wanted you to know that I saw you.

Did he look old? Did he look like a dad? Yeah, I looked young dad. Young 30s. He'll know who he is if he's listening. Just know I saw you. If he's rocked a PT6 or a Papa Team 6, you know he's tuned in weekly. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. He had the first iteration, the first drop. Yeah. So shout out. He was a sicker. He was loading up a bowl. He's somebody who he's listening to me, talk about this hater in the comments on

Instagram. He's like, what? Let me go find this. What the fuck? Hey, you got to do better, bro. I know. I got, I got nervous about it. You're the leader. You're the captain of Seaman Team 6. He was in the middle of putting something on his bowl. Like, he was in the middle of the line. I was like, ah, like I should say something, but I just, it was packed. I didn't want to be that guy. Were you picking up an order? I was picking up an order. So I wasn't. Oh, okay. Either way, pop a team six. And then he looks over. Just give him a little. And that's noted. Everything is said just in that interaction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything is said. Yeah, I agree. I was at this point with myself. So whoever you were, I saw you and hell yeah, that was awesome. I saw you. I love you.

My masculine insecurity got in the way. I was like, he knows. It doesn't matter. Yeah, he knows. That's Papa Team Sid. Whatever, man. Aidan Dollens on YouTube, boys love this. Got married two weeks ago and I'm looking forward to fatherhood. Can't wait to be Papa Team 6 in the coming years. The boys about to hit Bud's training. I also got only the junior on YouTube. I've got my group of friends that I've had for two decades hooked on this pod, the amount of good texts. I get now is amazing. You guys have brought us closer together as dad's not just buds. I just had my third kid right about when the Shermanator had his first. Two girls and one boy outnumbered. Good. Nick. Nick Measel? Nick Measel on YouTube? Measel the Weasel. Ah, you know that's his

nickname too. I'm sorry if and if I'm mispronouncing it. God, that sucks. Writing home, writing home, listening to my favorite podcast when my wife sends me a video of my son, leading his middle school football team out in front of the school for their pep rally, and I'm tearing up. Damn it, I have to remind myself that crying is good. Crying is cool, boys. I have a 12, 10, and 3 year old, all boys, and damn our kids break us and make us proud. Keep crying, boys, keep crying PT sickos. He had a 12-year-old leading the high school in the middle school. Middle school, middle school. Leading the team out in front of the school and the pep rally.

Leading them. That's juicy. Juicy. You know, ain't nothing like in middle school and it's pep rally day or game day and you just got the jersey on because you know the varsity rocks that you're about to get initiated in the high school world one day down the road. and you're kind of playing that cool senior on pep rally day. Oh, yeah. You know the young man's horny. You're talking about eight. He'd be talking about eighth grade.

I think that's like, I think that's like sixth grade. You know, middle school is eight, seventh and eighth, right? You have a 12. Yeah. Yeah. We have fun. Oh, like I said, we have some fun. That was a maybe a little bit over the line.

That's some garage. That's some garage talk with your boy. I'm talking about myself when I was 12. I'm thinking old Willie C. back then, I already know. Man, I got to get home for this. Oh, my God. But we love that you're crying.

See, you can. Yeah. Oh, man. It's a good thing this segment ain't on ESPN now. I got a comment from Yogi Bear, 1127 on YouTube. I was never close with my parents and seeing y'all be great dads. It really heals my kid heart. Hashtag GBR.

Hashtag GBR. And then we got another one. Kevin Livinggood. And Kevin says, Hey, sure. My name is Kevin. Last name pronounced Living Good. Yeah.

Because he is living good. I discovered for the dad's pretty late in the game. So I started at the beginning. Just got to the episode where you are getting blasted for the couch situation in the hospital. Just wanted to give you support from the privileged dads. When my now two-year-old son was born, I had a plunder couch in the delivery room

that had a built-in recliner in our post-delivery room. I got a freaking hospital bed. Kevin, you are living good, son. He gets on the hospital bed, he's like, do. They come up to his wife. Sweet, are you comfortable over there? They come up to his wife. Is everything okay?

Contractions have started. You name me, baby? The TV remote ran out of batteries, by the way. He said, stay strong, king, and I know that you, or just know that you aren't alone. Kevin Living Good, thank you so much, dude. And then I am J-Soc. I'm a PT sick.

I've been watching since the first episode. I just wanted to say to the 21-year-old, I have my first daughter at 28. I still felt too young, maybe not ready, maturity-wise. financially wise but when your baby comes that is your world you just simply figure it out that is your priority that is your nuclear freaking bomb that you protect with all your might but everything comes you figure it out it's going to be great the best feeling in the world when it uh when it's their first day out just keep it moving with all obstacles brother pt hashtag pt6 hashtag ptcco hashtag baby daddy

Team 6 hashtag BDT6 Hashtag Baby Dad Sica Thank you I am J-Soc. I just had a come-to while you were reading because you had a laugh and it made me chuckle just because your laugh makes me chuckle and just hearing you tell stories. The comment was coming after you

on Instagram. Did you guys, I'm going back in the archives now. I know what the comment is. It was like removed Shirm from the show and it'll be much better. I wish I could have just grabbed. that motherfucker by the through the screen. It'll be better. And Will said,

if I did that, I'd be working at the agreement. Yes, that's what it was. And the guy says, the 10-K views describes otherwise when you see. Yes, that's what it was. That's what it was. And I'm sorry for the curse. And I know this, I know this a family-friendly show. Maybe bleed me out, Jeff, when I dropped the EMF like that.

But that's what it was. They came after Fat Stafford's laugh? They came after Fat Stafford's laugh? Well, they just came after Fat Stafford just randomly. In totality, just randomly. I don't even know if you were, I forget with the clip was, but I don't even think Shirm was in the clip. Damn. That was the craziest part. He wasn't in the clip. Yeah. And listen, we

talked about the hundreds that DM you now, and I love how you engage and go back and forth with everybody on a personal level. So just all the people that fight for fat staffers just know there was somebody in the comments on my Instagram, one of the clips that I had posted going after the boy. Do we

mob them? There's going to be moments where we have to get PT6 mobile. We haven't called upon to Goombardt a minute. Because I know dads, probably a lot of the dads that listen to the show probably aren't the most active on social media. I'm not saying that boomers anything else. I'm just saying the majority of people who root for you, they're not in the comments. They'll give praise every now and then or when a big moment happens and talk about I follow it or they'll DM you on the side or message you because they actually care and they are rooting for you. It's the

haters that are loudest in any comment section. So it's we got to get the boy. We got to get PT6 focused at times because we love having fun on the internet as much as anybody. And we get them mobilized and get them. The good news is we're recording this on a Friday. This episode won't drop until Wednesday of next week. I'll find this. I'll find the comment.

That way we can put it on the screen. People know exactly where to go. Do I give them the full meme treatment? I think so. So when memes, so when Sherm, former name on Twitter was CFB Memes Zone. Oh, yeah. It's a massive. He made his name in the game making memes and meme videos and trolling and doing all this stuff.

So if you're wondering what does meme him to death mean, you'll have to follow Shirm on X, on Twitter, and this is where you will see all this stuff go down. He'll start meming them. This where you flood. This where you get in the comments. We're looking to delete people. We're looking to get profiles deleted. You know, now this is all coming back to me because when I saw that comment, I said, ah, I'll put it. side because we know we love Sherman

I guess but I usually am good enough to do that but for whatever reason when they attack my boy when I see just something just directed at one of the boys you know what that's where it gets me sideways you know what made me fucking laugh about that dude I clicked on his profile and his bio was

say something nice to someone I swear to God it was something along those lines I chuckled I said wow the irony must be lost on him bro it was funny too with a lot of people who hate on the internet, you will click on their profile

and it'll be something, their bio will be something like that. Like, you know, positivity and... Wolf and Sheep's Clothing. Yeah, Wolf and Sheep's Closing. Yeah, absolutely right. Let's get back to the comments. I went sideways there.

I kind of came to while I was listening to and your laugh made me chuck on a mic. You know what? That's what that was. Well, I held back because his name was, I am J-Soc. And I was going to say, speaking of Forney Middle Schoolers

with the J-Soc. We know about that side. Little Jackson. Go on. Yeah. And I held it in. And that's what made me laugh. And I was like,

maybe not. All the BT-Sixers used to have that baseball sock that, you know. Hey, come on. Joey Estrada, 3887 on YouTube. You boys really know how to run a podcast. Oh, there we go. Shout out Joey Estrada. As someone who listens to a podcast,

10 plus hours a day while at work, obviously top podcast being for the dads, busts with the boys and inside the bus. you guys just really know how to give it a good family feeling some of the most best and realistic advice I've heard and stuff will carry on for years and pass on to my children whenever that day comes I appreciate all the good laughs and cries it feels so good just to let the emotions out sometimes buying some merch next week when the paycheck kits you guys continue the good work and meeting blessings to all and you to all of y'all and your families

joey thank you bro what last name of joey what was it estrata estrata that is he is a fan that we like to call around here a tier one sicko. Yeah. He just named every single platform, every single show that Bus and with the boys. And when you are in the inside the bus world, which again, inside the bus podcast is a show by all the guys on the back of the bus, guys behind the camera, back in the production area doing the work, they also have a podcast of their own. So when you are covering it top to bottom that way, that is what we call a Tier 1 sicko. That's a Tier 1 sicko. That's a tier 1 sicko. Thank you, Joey Estrada. I can't wait to tell the guys in the back the bus. Yeah. On for the dads, they're talking about inside the bus. Yeah. And first and foremost,

this pot is for the boys out there, for the dads. I know we get a lot of moms and a lot of wives and women kind of listening with their significant. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one, this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with the name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should

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

But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions,

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And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs. And on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening at Roland Garris. Every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on clay. Jen should win. I mean, she went down in three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay.

Listen, Lena Rubakina is arguably the best player in the world right now. And I actually can win on any surface. Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I love that the dads and the men are so tapped in that all these nicknames, they kind of make sense or they might chuckle.

And the wives are like, man, they just have so many, so many code names, so many nicknames. Like, is this just what guys do? It is what the boys do. We need nicknames for everything. When I'm cutting clips, speaking of cutting clips, I'm like, some of the clips, when I look through the lens of somebody that doesn't listen to this podcast, I'm like, they think we're speaking another language. Oh, yeah. If you got boomers out there to listen, which I'm sure some older dads out there listen,

they're like, you know, there might be fascinated or curious and everything that we're talking about. We're also putting them on game. But all the young dads out there, the young males, the ST-6ers listening, even the goon, a goon-or-barrays that are out, the goon berets that are out there. Like, this is the language in our world. I will very quickly. Very quickly. Got to keep it under an hour, and we do have comments to get through. We do have comments to get through. I got this video. sent to me from a PT-Sixer.

Speaking of an older kind of boomer crowd, he went up to his co-worker and asked him if he caught the latest episode of PT6, and this is what he said. Have you seen this? No, I haven't. Okay. Yo, Carl, you catch for the dad's podcast yesterday?

What do you think I am, a goon beret? Of course I did. Will's less of the week with straight gas, homie. I knew you'd be on. Is that not crazy? That's crazy. Even the boomers. Even the boomers.

What, you think I am, a Goombere? I thought you were going to tell me, too. He went up, we have an older gentleman that listens to the pot. He went up to his buddy and asked him if he could, like, teach him how to make a video so he can make a video for us. That'd be incredible. All right, let's dive back in. Adrian Hernandez, the second junior here. What's up, boys?

This is on Instagram. My name's Adrian, new to PT6. I'm a father to a three-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl. my wife just broke some horrible news to me. She said she's packing her bags and taking away the kids from me for the weekend. Wait. Not the kids. Adrian's going to have to be home.

Basically home by himself having to just like take care of the house. By himself. Wife's leaving. She's taking the kids for a weekend. And she won't be there to help him. Derek, Derek. It's. Here we go.

He's got more. He's got more. Derek's losing his mind back there. It's all right, Derek. I was at a loss for words. I couldn't speak. How do I survive a weekend without them? We feel that.

Been there. Am I just supposed to grab my favorite bottle of whiskey and just play video games? I hate so much all weekend. Am I just supposed to enjoy the games now without interruptions? Football games. Oh, God, it's football season. Any help or guidance would be much appreciated through this hard time. Anyways, cheers to the boys for all the laughs and cries.

I love how much emotion you all put into these episodes. I'm going to sincerely miss my wife and children as they leave for a weekend. And she basically rips the heart out of my chest. And I have to hang out along for a weekend. We do joke around. We have a lot of fun on this podcast. Yeah. I can just give it a good.

No, that's all right. It's okay, chef. That's all right, chef. We don't blame you. But go on. We like to have a lot of fun. We like to have a lot of fun in this podcast. We like to joke around.

One thing I do want to say, moms. First off, don't go out of town. And don't take the kids with you. If there's one thing a dad needs and wants most, it's for their wife and kids to be in town on the weekend while football is on the TV. But you know what the kid. That was what the kicker was because I was like, hey, you know what, Adrian, you can make it through. It will be okay.

Yeah, you might have to get that favorite bottle of whiskey. You might have to play that video game. You hate so much. But then when I realized that she so selfishly chose a weekend in the fall during football season to leave. Yeah. That's the part that hit home. Adrian, man, tough times don't last. Tough people do.

This isn't the right way to go about it, but it's a way that works for me at times. And it is. It's grab an ice cold butt light out of the fridge. Yeah. Crack it open. Yeah. Kick your feet up in whatever couch, recliner,

whatever you have, man. Watch that football. Because as much as you don't want to do it and don't like to do it while your wife and kids are out of town, that'll help keep you together and keep help. and keep the pain at bay. Yeah. Maybe get a full 12 hours, 10 hours of sleep.

Maybe stay up and play video games with your boys. There's not a wrong, there's not a wrong decision to make during a time like that. Just know that we are all with you and we are all thinking about you. And man, dads hate when their wife and kids go out of town for the weekend. Adrian, I'm so sorry, dude. and I know that staying up late like that, that's going to cause him probably to sleep in. So then he's going to be behind on meals.

When he wakes up in the morning, he's probably going to have to order takeout for breakfast. He's going to have to order takeout for breakfast. Takeout's not the answer, but sometimes takeout is the answer. It might be his only option right now. Maybe it's pizza. Nothing gets shittier than having a weekend solo,

watching football, playing video games, staying up late sleeping in with ice cold bud light and wings and pizza. Can I tell you guys why? We're like a circle of trust. You guys are my three best friends on the planet. Can I tell you why this hits home so hard to me?

Yeah. I don't have a kid, but my fiance is going to Cincinnati for the weekend to a wedding dress shop. No. And my mom's meeting her there and she's taking the niece and nephew from their dad

and they're all going to Cincinnati together. So he's always always. alone too he's home alone too man I'm home alone all weekend and I have 10 guys coming over it's a little support group to play poker they're they're showing up yeah and I guess I'll just

drink beer tomorrow and hang out yeah so I'm dad but it hits hope when everybody leaves town get your boys over man and shout out that group of guys man that's what this podcast is built on is that that kind of community shout out

I got a, on a lighter side. I got a comment from Kyle Pt6 for life from X.com. That's his username, by the way, that I just read. Kyle, PT6 for life. Let's add sync in. Yeah, I love it. He starts it off with fuck boys. That last episode got me good.

You guys got the mailman out here crying on ring cameras. Not cool. Will, thank you for sharing such a personal moment. This show has helped me in many ways as a new. dad of six-month-old aria thanks for everything been listening from the beginning get the trash to the curb boys wolf emoji i got another one that's one that's one that gets your piss that will get your piss up when melman's crying yeah end you your electricity bill running from the dog mark gonzalez 2698 on youtube says as a 25 year old dad i had my first when i was 18

I can say 100% agree embrace the fatherhood. Of course, I've come a long way and got ways to go, but I've always tried my best, which is all you can do and also learned to want to learn. I wish I had this podcast years ago because this podcast gets me absolutely pumped to go home to my kids. And last but not least, we have Ray Maddox on Instagram. He says, love the pod and have a question for the boys. How do you get your kid to eat what's for? for dinner. My daughter's a one and a half year old and a few months ago, she would munch on

anything from ribbones, steak, chicken, anything. Now she won't eat a thing, but bullshit fried food from restaurants or fast food chains. I appreciate the help fellas. That came from Ray Maddox. I love the Ray Maddox because I have, um, I have some, one of my updates that I was going to talk about is the dinner time routine and the expectation that we've kind of set at home. where you kind of motivate her a little bit with a cookie. And when I say cookie, it's like these little cookies. And when she gets a cookie, they're that big. Yeah, yeah.

And they're broken in half. And then that's her one cookie for the night. Yeah, yeah. But that question right there, one and a half, this is a good phase where, A, eat your food or the tickle monster is going to get you. And you get out the, you know, you get at the little spider hand and you crawl close and they start giggling, hurry up and eat your food. If it's like broccoli or chicken, whatever.

you're having for dinner, whatever you're wanting to get them to eat for the main entree, that's worked for me. Getting up out of my seated dinner time and kind of like giving her a moment to chew and I go around the table and I slowly start to approach her as the tickle monster is going to get her. But if she eats the food quick, tickle monster falls down. A tickle monster goes away. Takes the power away from the power away. But then at the end of the chewing, the tickle monster starts to get power again, come back.

Come back to the one and a half year old. That could be a method. It is tough. Dude, it is like negotiating with the terrorists, man. Yes. Are you trying to get your kids to eat? But my update on Rue is now it's got, you know, you know how I said like we had those moments where I just tell her. I'm like, okay, yeah, you don't, sweetheart, you don't have to eat.

You can be all done eating. But then she's like, she kind of feels that we're not giving her anything that she's wanting in that moment, which is maybe some pushback or resistance or kind of fighting with her about it. or negotiating with her about it. She kind of just pauses and looks at me and she was like, do I get a cookie? And in the beginning, it was like, no, sweetheart, you won't get a cookie

unless you're part of the CPC, the Clean Plate Club. Yeah. Now, fast forward a couple weeks, the standard is the standard. Now I just simply, you know, mom or dad, we simply, all we have to do is like, you know, if I'm about to tell Rudy eat something, Charles will stop me or Charles about to tell her to eat something,

I'll stop Charles. We'll just say, hey, They don't have to eat. They don't have to eat their food. Sweetheart, you can be done eating. You can go to sit on the couch. You can play. You can do whatever you want.

You don't have to eat anymore. If you want to be done, you can be done. But you know there's no cookie. And that is what usually gets rude to kind of think about it for a moment. She might take a minute, but she comes back around. She eats her food. And now we don't even have to say the cookie part. Sweetheart, you don't, listen, you don't be part of the clean plate club.

That's fine. But you know what the cost is. As long as you know and understand that, you can be done if your belly's full, but you won't get snacks. You can go play. You can go hang out. But if you want to be done eating, you can be done eating.

And that's working. It's working. It's working. Rue is three. I have a three-year-old and a 10-month-old for new listeners out there. Yeah.

That's huge. Big time. We feel really good about it. She's always fired up when she eats her lunch too, like when she comes home from school and she's like, oh, cling play club.

Or like yesterday, she's like, I'm like, sweetheart, how, you know, we were able, we land from New York early afternoon. so I got to pick her up yesterday from school.

Yeah. So I went picked her up and surprised her. Surprise her. I was going to surprise her with a flower, but I went to Walgreens thinking that there would be flowers there. You know how they're like Valentine's Day? Yeah, there's usually flowers. Like get her a cheap little flower, bring it to her.

Hey, sweetheart, give her a flower. There wasn't any flowers there. So I got her like the small little snack, like a little snack piece of candy just to like fire her up. Yeah, yeah. You should be pumped dad. It was coming to pick her up. And then we were kind of talking on the way home.

I was like, where you part of the Clean Play Club? She's like, no. I was like, you weren't part of the Clean Play Club. What happened? She's like, I didn't eat the cucumbers. Because you didn't eat the cucumbers. We kind of slice them up,

yeah, yeah. Because she usually enjoys them. She's like, no, I was like, did you eat, did you at least eat a few cucumbers? She's like, no. I said, you didn't eat one cucumber? No. Sweetheart, you got to eat your cucumbers. Hey, listen, dad-dad is not there when you're doing lunchtime,

but just know if you got cucumbers in your lunchbox, you don't have to eat all of them, but it is great. You don't have to eat all of them. It is good for your muscles. It's good for your brain if you eat some cucumbers. Yeah. It's just food for thought. Kind of just drive it home.

But yeah, so that's an update on some great question, by the way. Great comment that we got to hit there. Great question. But that would be my advice for a one and a half year old. Around that time, you can really tickle monsters alive and well in that stage of life. So it's like utilizing that leveraging that power to get them to that is going to come. Quick question for the boss man here. As she gets older, will you implement the you're not leaving the table and I'm not leaving

either until you take a couple bites plan. I don't know if anyone had to deal with that as a kid, but that's a war of a fucking attrition. I'll sit here until you move. We're not leaving anywhere. Yeah, I mean, we don't like, Rue's always the last one to finish

eating, right? Like, Charon and I, we, well, like, foods down, we're hungry, we're ready to go. And Scott Zillow, she's an absolute menace with the food. And when she's done, it's just, she just, she knocks it off. We just, you know she's done. You know she's done. Oh, yeah.

But Rue always takes a moment. But, yeah, we sit there until she gets done. And I'm like, sweetheart, we want cookies too. I can't have a cookie until you eat your food. And we don't, like, we don't leave until she's done. Unless it's like, you know, something pressing is happening. Or say we haven't eaten dinner around 630 instead of 6 or 545. And we got to get Scotty to bedtime, start doing the dishes and everything else.

But usually one parent's there until she gets rolling. Yeah. But if she's like, I'm too tired or having a fit and she starts, you know, she knows when she is getting tired or she's using it as an excuse. We'll say, okay, we can be done eating, but we're not. There's no TV coupons tonight. There's no, you know, you name all the things where she might get you. There's no juice. There's no snacks.

There's no cookie. Like, there's no playtime. If you're tired and you're being this crazy, like, let's go upstairs right now and get ready for bed. That might be. A couple times that's happened or she takes us up. on and she goes to bed and then she sleeps you know she's like 13 hours of sleep and she was tired but you'll kind of stop her in her tracks like hey i thought you want to go bed come on we got your milk let's go upstairs and she's like i'm hungry it's like well you have your dinner so she'll eat her

dinner so there is like that yeah there's a lot of patience sitting in the pocket five-year-old me has had some battles as she i don't know maybe when i was younger i can't tell you but when i was like six or seven when i was like seven or eight um old john used to sit there and just stare me down and goes, I'll sit here all night. And it would just be, we would sit there in dead silence. And he was like, all you got to do is take five bites. And it would be something I hated. And I'd be like, no.

And he'd be, all right, I'll sit right here. And it's like, that's it. And he knows that it's like, it's a, what's in Wolf of Wall Street? Whoever talks first loses. Yeah. Yeah. And he would sit there. And I mean, we've for a long time.

And eventually I would get, maybe I would give in or I would go up to bet. My dad would finally be like nine o'clock hits. my dad's like just go to fucking bed. Yeah. There's only going to be two options from it. Yeah. And it's as a parent. You're thinking of all the things like they won't do in between dinner time and bedtime.

And it's like, all right, march your little ass upstairs or march your little ass in the room. Yeah. But yeah, you're sitting there. And we're parents like where I'll break, like the parents leverage is bites of food. Say, hey, three, give me three. Yeah. Give me four. Yeah.

And whenever his one and a half year old, when she's able to start kind of counting and they kind of don't know the negotiate. It's like when you witness Charo doing the jumping in the water or something that Taylor's. Like how many more times do you want to jump in? They can't count very high. So let's say, listen, you don't have to eat a lot, but how many bites would you be willing to eat? Like, you tell me how many bites and that's what we'll do. And they'll just randomly say like three or four. And they're like, all right, we can do that.

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Katie, Joe's and Hans from YouTube. I'm so happy to see Jill's instructions while she is away. I am this mom because it makes me feel better to leave lists and information. I don't do it because I don't think my husband can handle it. I do it for me and I know it's crazy. I want to put a, I want to just put a pause on that one because that's a great one to talk about recap. your weekend. Yes. As a solo parent. Yes. This one's from Black Parsons, G1E on YouTube.

Love the podcast, boys. Just want to say the wife and I have been trying to have a baby for the past year and a half. It's had its ups and downs and definitely a stressful time. I listen to Bustin all the time while delivering my UPS truck, but my first For the Dead's podcast was episode 17. Y'all got me crying and laughing looking goofy on everyone's ring cameras. Second little ring camera shout out today. but more importantly after listening to episode 17 I found out 24 hours later I'm going to be a day.

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Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for hopefully being a new listener who sticks around. I think you'll get a lot of, have a lot of fun with this podcast. I think you get a lot of stories and tips and realize that you are part of a sick community. My advice, we can give a couple easy ones, but you can go back. I would say it would be very fun for you to catch up on the podcast because, again, we're only, what, 18, 19 deep now as you're listening to this podcast.

Yeah. But there's a lot of good info coming up because Sherm, he wasn't a dad yet when we started this podcast, correct? I was six weeks out from Scarlet's birth. Yeah, six weeks out from Scarlet's birth. So there's a lot of things before that where I'm telling Shirm's stuff. He's kind of telling me what he's going through or dealing with with the pregnant wife, not in like a negative way, but just as we're sitting here talking about supporting your wife and everything else. Obviously, right, when he has Scarlet, we've been getting to go through Shirm's journey in real time.

And Scar, Scar is now three months old. Three months and some change. Three months and some change. Almost three and a half. Three and a half. You can say three and a half. Yeah, you can say three and a half. Yeah, you can say three and a half.

She is, it's been a lot of... 14 weeks? Yeah, July 3rd. And then we're October 10th. So yeah. Yeah, we're somewhere in a week. Yeah, but she, um, it is fun thinking about when we started this podcast

and all the questions I did have. And it does help me still some of the lessons that I learned from either comments, yourself, uh, are the lessons of the week. So I would highly advise going to the beginning of this podcast because there are like a lot of good nuggets in there that I still to this day, like this is such a fun show because we do have fun on here and we joke around a lot. But there are a lot of lessons that still to say, I'm like, damn, I'm so lucky that I've kind of found my way into this little community and that all these little lessons are kind of floating in my brain now. Yeah. There's a, and we are not professionals.

That's the best part. No, no, no, not experts. Not experts. But we got a little golden nuggets. We got some nuggets every now and that. Maybe a little hack, a little dad hack for finding some of this advice. I would advise, if you don't want to listen to all of them, go through each one and scroll the comment section on YouTube. All those are sticking out with dad tips, whether it's like if they're alluding to us talking about your pregnant wife or anything else.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Maybe it's like, okay, in this episode, it seems like they're covering these topics. Another one I would recommend, my wife just actually got a DM yesterday, like a long DM of somebody who found our IVF podcast. We did an IVF podcast, a Mother's Day pod on the busing with the boys channel, where my wife and I go through IvyF podcast. VF and we talk a lot about supporting during pregnancy and a lot of those ups and downs during a process like that. So I'd recommend something like that. But that could be an easy way if you don't have time or you don't want to go through back, go through the entire catalog before that's what would recommend. But just skim through the comments and see some of the topics that are talked

about when one kind of hits home, then assume that it's probably going to be in that episode. I love that. And be there, be there for your wife, have fun. It's going to be a crazy journey. You're going to absolutely kill it. connection not strength yes connection that's the biggest takeaway if you can have one mantra it's but not about staying strong being strong kind of being that male monotone keeping everything suppressed inside it's no talk about talk through your emotions talk about her she wants to be seen felt and heard and it's not about staying strong it's about reconnecting with your with your gal that that was great where was that you it's about connection not sure ain't we yeah we had a lesson we did a lesson on that one that's great

that's a perfect example. I'm like, damn, that's really good. Going back to Katie Josin Hans. She loved the instructions while Jill's away. She's a mom makes her feel. Basically, I feel seen when that gets said on the podcast. I don't do it because I don't do it because I don't think my husband can handle it. I do it for me and I know that's crazy.

Give us a recap, bro. Break us down last weekend. Well, first off, is that the same Josin Hans from last week? We had a Joseph. Didn't we have a Josin Hans last week? Maybe. So repeat a Fender. Repeat a fender. Mrs. Josahons. Mrs. Josahons. I love it. Yes. I, because I would come out like Lino DiCaprio and what was it once upon a time in Hollywood.

Just coming up out of the chair. I do that. That's exactly what I do. Because I was reading it and then we decided it was Yosen Hans and then we went back to Joe Zan Hans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Probably Yosen Hans. But yes, to dive into that, my crack, cold wine, was the weekend with Skar Scar, Scar. It was Jill coming home to me absolutely obliterating the weekend alone with Scar, Scar. The stories and the videos from hanging out with Will at the pumpkin houses and Jill calling me. That's a good time. You have a great time.

That was very fun. It was kind of surreal. like a weird moment of being out in public with a friend, but like it's all about your kid. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like that was my first time really kind of being out there in the wild. But like my, I don't know if you could tell, but my brain was on Scarlet the entire time from a standpoint of like. Oh, yeah.

That's when I started to rip the backpack. Yes. Remember when I put the, through the backpack behind? You're like, buddy, you don't have to put the backpack on for you. Oh my gosh. I mean, I was so. Sure. I mean, can you turn around?

I need to get this out of the bag? And I'm like, you know, I turn around for him. And he's unzipping, getting stuff out of the bag. I was like, no wonder Jill loves this. Yeah. That was the most convenient thing in the entire world. And shout out you for throwing the backpack on. But I was so in my head, dude, because Jill wasn't there of like,

I just kind of had her, like, voice in my ear. Just like, would Jill be okay if I was doing that? Like, would she want me to do that? She'd probably want me to turn. The stroller said the sun's not in Scarlet's face, and I'll sit with Scarlet while Will is, you know, dancing with Roo and Scotty and Charo was killing it as well. But it was fun. I did enjoy it, but the entire time I was just kind of like, oh. You're operating.

Yeah. I was like weirdly nervous with Scarlet like out in the wild. But she crushed it. She did a really good job. She murdered it. And I was overthinking the her falling in a sense. sleep in the car on the way there. And then I'm rolling up and Charles like,

oh, is she taking a nap? And I'm like, oh, fuck, she's not supposed to be taking a nap. Sherman, what are you doing? This is on the list. She sleeps at these times. Yes. I'm picking up, Scarlett, and I'm like, please stay awake. Please stay awake. But I mean, I was overthinking it, you know, because they all ended up great.

She slept every single day. It was only two nights. I was by myself. But she slept all the way through the night, both nights. Which is crazy. Shout out the murder. We put a graphic out for Will Howard and his parents. Hey, shout out the Steelers, Pittsburgh Steelers. Future Hall of Famer Will Howard. But, dude, the Merlin rips.

Scarlet's sleeping like a champ in it. And I'm not going to lie that first morning when I woke up. I legitimately was in a panic because I was like, I slept through all of her crying. Yeah. She had to have cried last night. Did I have the monitor up? That's happened to me a couple of times when I'm so low.

And I know that Jill has that app, even though she's in Miami. She can get on the NANID app and you can go through the highlights of the night on the NANID app. That's a dad hack in itself. Yeah. Surveillance kit. So sick. Survival kit. But I went through the highlights.

Did not stir. Didn't stir. So I had the monitor on. I had the volume up. Which is big time for parents out there that kind of either remember those days or kind of just got out of them or in them right now. Scar, Scars around, you know, three months and some change. You're kind of around that moment to where they could potentially start sleeping through the night.

Shurram had a couple big dubs over the weekend, which fires me up for you. Jill's calling me. She's like, you haven't really told me about like the park with Will. Like, how was it? Like, how was hanging out with Will and Charo? Check out. Have some fun in Miami. Yeah.

He's back home and he's got it. Gizumettos. I was like, yo, chill out. It's all good. Like, we have fun type of shit. You don't need to worry. We crushed it.

And then obviously when she got home, I told her all about it. Because too, when you're so, like when you're going out and hanging out with us, it's, you know, it's Spooktober. We're at the,

we're at Cheekwood. Sick little setup with the pumpkins everywhere. The food trucks, the live music. There's a part of you, too, that's like, oh, man, like, I know my wife would love to be here right now. And I'm getting out and this is like my first time going to this park. It would have been a great first family time to go to this park.

Yep. So I feel, and then when you're on the phone, you're like, we had fun. You're not trying to, dude, it was awesome. You don't want to bum them out. It's more like, hey, this is a place we got to go. Yes. And I did have a different dad loss, which I can go into when we get there. But a small dad loss, I learned very quickly was after I dropped off.

Jill at the airport on Friday and then recorded with y'all. And y'all remember how I was bragging of like, yo, Scarlett killed the morning nap and like, yeah, killed it with the babysitter. Scarlet went into a two-hour scream session. Full on like starting to turn purple scream session. I'm just sitting there, you know, holding there so close to my chest and rocking up and down,

trying the walking in the neighborhood. That's not working. Jill gets on FaceTime as soon as she lands. Is everything okay? Well, well, you know, she gave me hell for two hours there, but she's good now. What does that mean? What do you mean she gave me hell? I lied to her so fast.

And she knows when I lie. Yeah, I'm a bad liar with Jill. I was like, I'm kidding. I'm sorry, that was not a funny joke. And she did not give me hell. She's been great. She's been great. But that was a dad loss that I let her know.

I was like, yeah, she was screaming. it real bad and not switched up quick how was your mental throughout the scream fest because i have a scream fest i have a scream fast story um mentils were good as far the only thing that i hate about it is when scarlet screams so much that it uh this is going to be really bad radio but it like literally turns into like a and then the face just turns purple because she's not breathing like because her scream that has gone so long that she didn't just sits there like and i'm like breathe Please. Oh, my God.

And then she'll finally go, do like a big breathing and then scream more. And that was the only part that really freaked me out. But we'll get into it with the survival kid. I found out that Scarlet is a sick of for the baby flashcards. That's what got me through the weekend. I'm not kidding. Yeah, the little kid.

They love the flashcards. Love the flashcards. And so it all figured itself out. And I was trying like some of the stuff that I used to do when she was younger and not as attentive of just like, hey, let's go outside. That kind of gets her happy or let's put her in the stroller. That kind of gets her happy. Or put her in the baby was yore. That kind of gets her happy and bounce her.

But she wanted like interaction. She wanted to play. And once I got her in that playpen and started doing her little foot to hand stretches and push her in and doing the rotisserie chicken rolls. and then started going, Apple, moon. Yeah. Apple, moon. And she's like sitting there like, each time I flip over the card, she was loving it.

So like, mentals were, eh, during the screaming, but it was a quick fix. And then she didn't give me any trouble for the rest of the weekend. Why, I've come home to a clean house? Yeah, but like she also said that it was like, she was like, you did a good job. I just want you know you did a great job and I see where the effort was made in the house. And you're sitting out, yes, coach.

Yeah. I'm saying, I'm sitting. Yes, sir? Yes, sir? I like the picture. You're like sitting in the chair and you're like leaned up on your elbows on knees and she's like standing. I want you. I see.

She's walking. She's walking back and forth. Yeah. I see where all the effort was. You did a great job. Yeah. Now deliver us the butt. And when I, but when I come home and I say.

that the bottles are still in the washer and the washer hasn't been started yet. That's the kind of things that we need to be perfect. When I see that the, you did the laundry, you did the laundry, but it's still in the dryer. Why is it not folded? Why is it not put up? Yeah. I'm looking around and I see, okay, he did our laundry. Let's go check Scarlett's laundry.

And I look in Scarlet's hamper. And man, it's full of clothes. that's the shit that will get you beat. Yeah. I'm saying, yes, sir. Yes, sir. But sweetheart, no, no, no. You're not hearing me.

We're going to build on the good. You did a great job. I see the effort. We're going to build on those. I'll patch you on the ass. Yeah, yeah. We got to eliminate the bad. Bottles aren't all the way clean.

Laundry's not all the way folded. It's in the dryer. That's bad that we got to correct. Yes, sir. Those are fixable. Yes, sir. But the clothes and the hamper, that's the shit that gets you beat

and I will not hesitate to send I was going to say something really and I will not hesitate to send your fat ass packing down to Texas and you can live with your old man sir yes sir I thought it was really going to take a turn

you're going to say you're like send a little tip to the tip line to CPS Put your name on. Oh, Jill. So we're all good. It was good. Things are correct.

Yeah, I mean, like the pillows were fluff. They were chopped. The blankets are folded. They're, you know, on the top of the sofa. Tight. Tight. Play pin. The cards are put up.

Everything's kind of in order. Like, I hit all the big stuff. I hit all the stuff that coach is going to sit there pat you on the butt. But little details here and there I did miss. I did miss. I wasn't upset with you. Did you receive the coaching? I love how we both touched our hats at the same time too.

Did you receive the coaching well? Or are you handling it like, I've been making plays all season. Coach missed me with that stuff. She was coming at me like Sabin, where like we're up 30 in the Natty and like we had a false start. And hell yeah, I had a false start coach. Hey, hey, Cody, that just means he love me. When he yelled me like that, that just means he love me. Yeah.

He doesn't yell at the guys on the bench. He yells at the start. Like, that's how it felt. Yeah. And so I felt great. I did, I took no offense to it, and I got like always on my report card. And I was, I was on cloud nine. Yeah.

I feel you on the eliminate, you got to eliminate the shit to get you beat. Mine was that a couple weeks ago when that oil, that, what's the oil called? The oils that sit on the, like, essential oils. Essential oils. Yes, yes. The essential oil spilled and I missed it. And I remember when Rue knocked over the lamp, but I fixed the lamp. I'm like, all right.

I forgot about that. And kind of left the old sitting there. Yeah, that was a tough one. My coach, Saban at home. Love you, sweet hot. Yeah, that's all me, coach. That one wasn't on me. Wait, what was your screaming story?

You said you had a screaming story. So, yeah, this is, this is, this is, I have a few dead losses. Oh, no. Screaming story, Scott Zilla. So it was Sunday. We had a great little family weekend. Obviously on Saturday, we went to the cheekwood. met you there.

Had a great weekend. Sunday we had the Titans Watch Party. We had to go to down the Brooklyn Bowl. That's right. And that was around, what, 1.30? Yeah. That kicked off. So in the morning time,

we're juiced in the morning time for family time. What an opportunity to get better as a family. So we go down to Franklin, hit one of our, I think it's called Hanks. Oh. Great. Got some lot teas. Had some great vibes.

I believe I saw a PT-6er in there. Or no, no, no, no, when I came up and ordered at Hanks, you know, I was like, I'll take the yogurt. I'm going to get two. I want a seasonal latte and I also want an iced Americano. Two drinks for myself. Wife got something.

And then we're talking about Rua or something. I'm like, which one of these you want? Like, let's, we got a line behind us. And she's like, do you do a podcast like bust with the boys? Like, yeah. She's like, oh, my husband or boyfriend, whoever was. It's like, loves you guys. Oh, shout out.

So call it tier one. Okay, shout out. Okay, shout out. ...moment, possibly in the wild. But after Hanks, we want to go on a nature walk. Wife loves nature walks. She's like, if I have a core value for my wife or something that I love about her, that goes, this is like an opposite of what Willie sees about, but it's being adventurous.

Yeah. You know, your boy, I can, I can sit at home all day long. Hey, that's okay, man. But my guy loves nature walks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we love nature walks. Yes. and what I'm saying, yeah, we can go do this nature walk.

I'm assuming we're going to go to a nearby park or something. I haven't heard about it. And we're going to skip around the pond, take a few family photos, enjoy the fresh air and sunshine before NFL Sunday kicks off. What time is this, by the way? We're probably 10 o'clock when we leave Hanks. Oh, wow. Okay.

So we're pushing it a bit. This nature walks 45 minutes outside of Franklin. This drive. 40, 45 minutes. I don't really say nothing. I stay composed. I honestly never bring it up. This is probably the first time.

So I know my wife, trust me, my wife listens to these episodes. As a matter of fact, it's a couple of my dad losses in here. So we're driving. And Scotty's pissed off. Like,

during throughout the entire drive, Rue's doing a great job being a big sister, staying composed. Sweetheart, we can't listen to the Claw song anymore. The Claw song is the Halloween theme music song with Michael Myers. She wants some spooky music going. Like, sweetheart, we got to put

on the sleep time song, the good night song that Gracie's Corner. We got to play that song for Scott Zill so she can calm down. She doesn't calm down the entire drive. She's sideways, bro. Sideways. Can't get her calm down on the drive. I'm trying back there. I'm trying

to like hole and I'm trying to like rattle the goddamn car seat. And I'm like, you got it. And we get to this to this park or for the nature walk and stuff in an awesome spot. And she's still screaming the pretty much the entire nature walk. Oh, Tro had her strap to her body. Yeah. And trial wanted to go.

Me and Rue, it's kind of like a story. It's kind of like a storybook trail walk tour. They have stuff for kids at like, you know, every 20 yards. There's like a little story as you're reading about nature and stuff going on. And so I'm enjoying that for a few months. moments with Root, but we're like, Scotty won't calm down. This ain't the Scotty we know and love and appreciate and respect and admire. Yeah. This is 0-180. Her heart's black and there's no, it seems like there's no light at the end of the tunnel with her. It's like a year three Max Crosby.

Yeah, the year three Max Crosby. Relentless effort to be pissed off. And we're trying to feed her the bottle and she's drinking the bottle a little bit, but then she starts crying like, start screaming again. It's like, man, what is going on with her? You can tell she's tired. She's like trying to fall asleep. She needs a nap and she just won't. She's either overtired. She's going bad shit, bro.

And Charles, she's like, Charles gets a point where she stops. She's like jumping to kind of like calm her down to rock her. We look like crazy people. People are walking by. How are you doing? You guys are going to figure out you love these times. And I'm thinking, we want to get you. They're saying that to you.

As they're like, say somebody's running. Yeah, yeah. You know, they're coming by. They might chuck. or there's a family walking by us. Oh, I miss with mine with that. Yeah, miss, yeah. Miss what the,

I miss those ages. I bet you fucking do. Yeah, yeah. Oh, tough. When you guys will figure it out and I'm thinking, we have not figured this one out yet. And so I'm like, sweetheart,

let me, I'm getting, I'm getting frazzles. I'm like, let me take her. Yeah. Like I'll, I'll strap her.

I'm thinking in my head, I'll get her to sleep. Yeah. I'll put this child down. Yeah. And she's like, she's screaming. sweetheart just I think I can get her down and you wanted to do the nature walk you should enjoy

the nature walk aspect as much as you can't even though she's crying back you right now like let me deal with uh like let me deal with all this so I get her I can't calm her down I'm getting bro I'm telling you I'm doing my I'm doing some zone two cardio like I'm getting frustrated to the point to where I'm doing the same things as charles because I'm thinking all right charles getting a little you know just charles starts jumping and I'm like hey let's say let's hang on now she's 10 months old I get her and I'm dealing with you. with her. I get that point. I'm like, yo, you've got to relax, bro. Just fall asleep and go to, like, just go to sleep. You drink all the milk. You should be good. Yeah. And she's not. I'm like,

you know, I'm patting her. And then it gets a little too loud. So I pat her a little harder. I'm like, you know, I don't get you one that's to sleep. And I'm getting to her. I'm basically, I'm basically running the whole time trying to get her calm down. I realize. And here's a dad hat comes out of it. A dad hat comes out of it. Because we love to dress up our little kiddos. Yeah. Scotty's 10, 11 months old. Here's what I think it was. We won't know until I guess it happens again.

Yeah. But she's got shoes on. So we got it in her little outfit, but she's wearing these little Nikes. Yeah. And, you know, when they're that young, they're not used to having shoes on. So I'm thinking in my head, like, what if she just doesn't like shoes and stuff on her feet right now? Like, as she's trying to fall asleep. Take off her shoes, take off her socks, put them in the backpack.

She's out within five minutes. So a dub comes out of it. A little dad hacked where I'm thinking, I go to trial. I'm like, she's like, if she's sleeping and, you know, I'm covering the sun any angle. So nothing can wake her up because I'm like, yo, this has been an hour legitimately, an hour of hell with her. I'm like, hey, I think it was the shoes. She's like, you think so? I'm like, I don't know.

She's asleep. Now I did take them off. And when she was getting a little frazzled, like I just, when she was like starting to fall asleep, but I just like constantly feel her like kicking her feet. I'm just like, sweetheart, just go to sleep. But whenever I took her shoes off, she was out. So I'm thinking it was the shoes. The toes were just a little scrunched maybe. Yeah, yeah, probably.

Like, you know, again, they're babies. They're not used to having. You might dress them up and stuff like that. And they're good. But once you get them in the car seat and everything, I'll just say if you're wanting to fall asleep, just make sure the shoes are off. That was my, like, takeaway from it.

But it got dicey for a minute. And I'm wearing the good hat. So fortunately, I'm like, I am trying to constantly remind myself because I'm starting to get pissed off about it. I'm like, yo, what is, what is happening right now. We can't even enjoy.

We can't even be there that long because we got to drive all the way back so that way I can get to the watch party. Yeah. But got her to sleep. She was knocked out the rest of the little nature walk, whatever we had left, and was knocked out the entire car right home.

But praise. Praise. A couple other dad losses. My wife. Yeah, you got a list going. Yeah. What's going on? I forget exactly what we were talking about last week.

but it was where one of them was like maybe one of the kids were struggling. I'm thinking, oh, poor daughter. Oh, oh, dad guilt of being away and the kids being all being tough. And I'm feeling bad for the kid. I'm all poor Scotty or poor this because we got over at like handmouth foot. Like, sweet I hear you talking about like, oh, poor the girls. But what about poor wifey? I go, you're right.

Are you listening to that episode? I didn't mention you at all. I could have sworn you didn't Lizzie. Yeah. But she's right. Times when we're thinking about the dad guilt and everything else. And like, oh, poor little kiddo. Dad guilt.

I feel guilty. Hate it for the kid. Yeah. Wife's going through it at home. So I want to shout out, sweetheart. Charo, I know you're listening right now, probably in the car. Because anytime we get into a family trip and we turn the car on, these episodes kind of pop on first from what you recently listened to.

I'm like, oh, you're checking out for the dad. So I know you're listening right now. I love you. I do appreciate you. I see you. And it is always empathy with wifie. Why? I just want to say that.

So not shutting out my wife was a dad loss. Shout out, Chara. Shout out chara. Another just dad loss is in general for the dads out there. Not getting home when you say you're getting home. It's a dad loss. Yeah. Like my wife might hit me up.

Hey, when you think you're going to be home today from the shop. I might just throw her a number. Like if we're doing this pod right now and it's 1152 and she's like, hey, when do you think you'll get home? My dumb ass would probably say like 1230. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1245. Then come rolling in at 1.30 or something like that or you get the text after the time you're supposed to be home. Like, hey, was, you know.

Everything good? How far out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything I write over there. What are you up to? I know what you're doing. You're kind of checking in. Am I almost home?

But that's a dad loss because a dad hack. Don't ever tell your wife when you're coming home. Yeah. Don't ever give her a time. Yeah. you know, we got a couple of things to do here, be home under promise over delivered. I'll be home at 8 p.m. I'm missing dinner. Then you get to show up like a superhero when you're walking through the door around 4.30.

You ain't going to see me for a week. I'm going to be gone for a week. Yeah. I cannot agree with you more on that. And I need to start because, shout out to my loving wife, Jilly Bean. Shout out to him. In full accountability. accountability because I do the old hey honey that party we got to go to it starts at three o'clock

yeah we got to be there by three because I know we ain't gonna be ready and out the door till 345 sometimes because it jilly bean love you jillie bean I need to do the same for when I'm coming home I need to put the shirm time on it yeah because I put the jillie bean time on it sometime. Either put the shirm time on it or again, because we're not going to tell our wives when we're coming home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or just hold yourself true to when you're going to be home.

Also, like last week when we were talking about going to the little pumpkin deal, I said what, 11, 12, we're going to be there at 11, 11, 10, 1030. He don't show up until 1215. 12.15, 1220. But we didn't get there until 1145. Yeah.

Or Charles and I, after our little stay-gation. Well, and I will say, I should have done a better job of reaching out to you that morning. That was on me. This is exactly where the dudes mess up. Yeah. Like you're saying that. I fully empath.

I understand what's going on inside your brain and your body, your mind, heart and soul. Because I don't want to pressure y'all into going if stuff is... You don't want to pressure. You don't want to let down. You're like, I'm going to say this time.

And then it happens. You're like, ah, traffic. It's been 45 minutes. What kind of traffic? You didn't see that wreck? Oh, yeah. Well, no, I should have called you guys and been like, hey, are we still on for the pumpkin patch? Because when it was like rolling to the time, I was like, oh, I haven't heard anything. Because we hadn't talked after the text.

Yeah, because there's no pressure. There was no pressure. It's just like we're talking in the theories of these examples. Yes. And so I needed to do a better job because I was excited to go. I should have texted you and been like, bro, stoked for the pumpkin patched. stoked for Cheekwood. You guys still thinking 1130, 12, blah, blah, blah.

I had one just this week. You know we had to do George Kittles podcast? Yes. That was supposed to go at three. We told them hard out at four. Podcasts doesn't start until 3.30. Four is there. I know you guys have a hard out.

We're like, ah, we can keep going. Rue had a swim lesson. So I had to be home for the nanny at 4.30 to take over for Scotty. Oh, no. I don't leave the shop until 4.30. Oh, no. I get off the podcast, which we got done with the pod around 420. Yeah.

And I had a text from my wife around like, let's just call it 407, 410. On your way? Yeah. Hey, you're going to be home at 430, right? Like, I'm at the swim lesson with Rue. I just text my wife because I get off the bus, run to my truck boys. I got to go leave my iPad here. I just text my wife.

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Let's get back to this episode. Crack a cold one? Crack a cold one. I had a quick dad loss. It's the Scarscar is just in between diaper sizes right now. Okay. Size one. Too small.

Size two is too big. And so it's like where overflow the poopie and size one dipeys. Comes out because it's so compressed. Because it's so compressed. And then size two, it's leaking out the legs with the peepee. And you got the coterie, right? Yes, dude. Just strap them motherfuckers on.

We are. I'm talking. Oh, the size two? We, I mean, that thing is, you know. Yeah. And we're folding the leg parts out. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah.

It's tough. It's tough. But yeah, that's my dad loss. So, uh, crack a call one. Carcaccault one. I already went with crack a call one. Look, you get into the story. like the entire story of the nature

walk had some dad hacks some losses some way a W from it the trenches you just tell the story and if you got a loss or a hack within that there it is I'm done I did my crack a cold one but I have a real crack of cold one what happened Scotty's starting to take a couple steps

wait really yeah yeah got a text on on Wednesday from Charo like Scotty took Scotty took her first step or something like that. What? And, you know, I'm thinking,

I push her down. Don't let her. Like, Dad has got to be able. No, let her take some steps. But yeah, bro, she's like taking, she's like very, they're like very small,

but she's figuring it out. You know, I thought she was going to walk early. I saw this, dude. I could see it in the five minutes that we were at Cheekwood, the way she's pulling herself up on our stroller, your stroller.

Just crawling, leaves all over. It crawled over to a, another family sing and starts climbing up on their legs, letting them know, hey, Scottzilla's here. Yeah, yeah. Shout out. Shut up.

Hey, shout out. But yeah, so Craig Cole won Scotty's kind of taking her first step. She loves to hold like these little, like, you know, I might take objects she's playing with because, of course, she doesn't want to try and walk when we're trying to get her to walk. She wants to just fall down on her butt and crawl. But like taking little object she plays with him, kind of like holding them. If it's something small enough, I kind of hold it in my teeth. And I'm like, holding her up.

And I'm like, Scotty, I'm like, come get it. and she's like standing there and she like, you know, hands up. And she like takes like two little ones and falls down. But bro, she's getting there. She's getting there for first steps. And by the time this pod comes out, maybe she will have taken her first steps. So try to get some video so we can loop it in here. But bro.

Can a, hey, crack a cold one. Crack a cold one. And also I cracked a cold little form energy into one of our PT6 whiskey glasses. Yes. So my man who was talking about wife's out of town. He hates it. Should he crack open the whiskey and pour. it into a nice glass. There are some nice glasses for the PT6. It goes out there.

Holiday season is coming up. Pt6 whiskey glasses at bwtb.com. I also have to give a shout out of Crack a Cole one to Scotzilla's dance moves. I don't think I've ever been inspired by an infant's dance moves like that before. The sheer energy that's coming off of Scotzilla, it's palpable. The one hand off. whatever she's holding to bounce herself. And then this hand is doing almost like a booty slap, but not quite. Yeah. And then also the head.

And she'll look up at you at Charo. She even looked at me. She'll stop while she's dancing and go, yo, you see him this shit? Once you lock eyes with her, then she, yeah. It's crazy. She's out there riding the horse, man. Riding the horse. She's letting people know.

Scottsill is here to stay. Yeah. Here to stay. Yeah, that's the new draft class. Yeah, yeah. It's the first round pick. You've seen those rookies coming up. You say, hi, he's starting for a long, man.

Got to keep the shoes off of her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, she's a stud, man. Survival kit, mind simply, survival kit. What a time of the year and a shout-outespeed-tober, just a Halloween costume. No better time as a new parent or as a parent and getting your little one in a costume that they love.

I was trying to talk Rue into... Deadpool? being Deadpool Oh to be Deadpool Yeah I try to talk her into some cool costumes I think would be funny or cool Yeah yeah We ended up on a fairy dress

We were ordering a fairy dress I'll have to post it but She loves princesses You don't want to be Shrek Yeah Rue Ru You want to be Batman?

Yes Hey Rue You want to shave your head like your dad We put you in a wheelchair You'd be Professor X Yo dad had gonna be Bain You could be Batman you want to be a joker?

You want to be the beast? Paint you blue. Why are you trying to dress up as the beauty when you could be the beast? My wife and I were looking right now we're trying to find a little Wolverine costume for Scotty. That would be unreal. That would be unreal.

I just had to find her a Godzilla costume. Yeah, just put a dinosaur costume. Yeah. I mean, literally would be perfect. She would crush. But Halloween costumes for survival kids. Just an absolute must during Halloween. The parents know this.

Like there's, it's so fun to dress your little one up in a costume. We got a good one for, I think I told you on the phone, but we got a good one for Scarlet. Jill found out on Etsy. It's creative. It's fun. It's easy. Throw a little white onesie on them. Get some cotton balls.

You dip them in some pink. Spray pan them in pink. So she looks like cotton candy and then you put a little cotton candy cone on her head. Gosh. You guys are going to be obsessed. And then you put aprons on the parents. with cotton candy all over our aprons because we made the cotton candy. That's kind of funny.

Yeah, that's awesome. It's kind of fun. When Rue was her first, like around one or whatever, I want to say we had her as like the Michelin Man. That's genius. Something where she just, you know, arms out, just puff all around her. And she was adorable, bro. Like Ralphie from Christmas Story?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yes. And he's got all the. layers on Christmas story, bro. So on Christmas, every year growing up, my mom, it was mandatory that Christmas story was just on loop throughout

the entire day. That's a call. That's a must have every Christmas. Oh, yeah. You'll shoot your eye out. You shoot your eye out. Nothing more adorable than some costumes, but because you know, you just, God, you love kissing your little one so much. Like so much, you just tell them, like, I could take out a steak knife and eat you up.

I could put your cheeks in the oven at 375 for 10 minutes and eat your little cheeks up. Consume you. Yeah. You just love on them so much. You know when they're a little like, it's going to sound weird, but when you're just giving them kisses and smooches and their like cheek kind of gets in your lips a little bit, that sounds wild.

But bro, it sounds wild. It sounds wild, but you just, you're, you love it. I will say Scarlett has now begun. This is breaking. This is breaking. We've been doing kisses for a while now. And she is just now starting to realize what kisses are. Jill and I will give kisses to each other in front of Scarlett.

And she like kind of lights up and it's like, yo, what, hey, what's going on? And now when we go in to give her kisses and go, go in to give her kisses, she doesn't know how to do like a true kissy thing, but she goes like this with their lips. She's trying. Yeah. She's trying. It's the cutest thing in the world, dude. Bro, the arc of kisses are is the best. Because you and your wife, you'll be showing, like, you know, whether it's hugs.

Like, anytime Char and I is doing a good, like, eight second hug at home, like just in the afternoon. When we're both home, we see each other. Or if somebody's doing the dishes or something, and you're just like, hey, it's hug time. You just give a long hug. Roo sees, and she's always like, family hug. And Rue runs over, and it's just me and Troll hugging. And Roo's got her arms around both of our legs. We do family hugs all the time.

But kind of showing them, it's like, you know, the affection in front of them. Rue now she knows how she knows how to kiss and it'll be like hug and kiss and she knows how to aim and just give you a kiss, bro. I will say that's the other like huge win from the weekend with Scarlet is Scarley and I are way closer. Way closer. Yeah. Like truly she is like, yo, he fucks. Like that's rude. And you're kind of sitting there like, sweetheart, whenever you need.

she's kind of becoming a daddy's girl. Yes. You do feel like there's like the gap is closing. Yes. You better recognize it because it's closing fast. Jill got upset. She was like holding Scarlet right when she got back from the airport. And as she's holding Scarlet, Scarlet is tracking me everywhere throughout the wherever

wherever dad goes. Her eyes are going and Jill's like, oh, okay, so I just don't exist anymore. Yeah. I'm like, sorry. Our guy just like, let her know. Let her know. Dad has always kind of been. She's just on game now.

Dad's coming. More ways than one, man. Hey, come on. I got a crack a cold one. We did dad losses. Oh, the survival kit, my survival kit officially is the Merca baby flashcards. You can find them at Target.

They're very cheap. They're like 10 bucks. And dude, I'm telling you, like, if you're a new parent and you need that little something where like you're interacting with your kid. Yeah. It's not distracting your kid.

It's like truly my kid needs something going on because they are bored. They're crying because they need something to play with, to interact with. These flashcards, dude. And you feel like you're teaching them. Even though I'm like, there's probably no way that this is being retained right now. It will though at some point. Like Scotty, you know, when she's sitting there and we do the flashcards, whether it's balloon and shoe.

It's like you lay them in front of you and we'll be like, where's the balloon? And she'll just like, she's like lean and hit and whether or not she's actually knowing, I guess you don't know. Yeah.

We like to think because she'll hit a few in a row. You go, yeah. And like now she's, again, 10, 11 months. You know, be I go get the ball. Like the ball will be sitting somewhere by and we'll be, go get the ball and she'll crawl over and get the ball. So she kind of knows what things are. Yeah.

You'll see it. It's fun, man. It's been a blast. She loves. Shout out the lightning flash card. There's one with the lightning bolt. And dude, I'm telling you, every single flash card, she's kind of like, ooh, react to it.

When the lightning one comes up, she truly does a, like, blinks and kind of is like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, you're going to love the movie cars. Let me tell you. Yeah. But yeah, shout out that. And then also you shouted out Charo. I want to shout out Jill of when she came back in town.

I was still doing the morning like wake up feed and stuff but she was like, hey, I'll do the morning wake up since you had her all weekend and she did the morning wake up three mornings in a row and cooked breakfast during the morning wakeups was bringing me breakfast.

Like truly as I was waking up out of bed I have a plate of eggs and toast in my lap. I'm like, what is going on. This is incredible. Shout out Jill. Shout out the wifey. I'm trying to think of what her angle is here. I know. Because the game's always being played. Is it like, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, did I do something?

Yeah. Like, is it really? Like, if she takes the three wakeups in a row. Yeah. To me, that screams, I'm trying to get back up on the scoreboard. And this is a mommy's girl. But the breakfast move, that's where the antennas go up. That's like, oh, keep him at bay. Yeah. Because he's like, oh, I got food. Yay. And he's not thinking what I'm really trying to do. Become the favorite parent again.

Yeah. Yeah, she's going to hit you over the top of something. You got to be ready. I should bring her lunch after we're done recording. Yeah. Which I tried. Shoot her of Venmo right now too. Okay.

Latte on Daddy. Yeah, that is, you got me kind of worried. now. I think. And I also say, say, how was Miami again? How's Miami? Anything I need to know? Yeah, what did y'all do?

You'll go to one of those magic mic shows? Yeah. You get a Latin names, I don't know. Hey, what are you doing? Yeah, who I went? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is you with? Who's bachelor's out?

Oh, nothing's just, you know, breakfast and toast, three days in a row. Some of the girls were crazy. But I didn't go out with them. Oh, really? Really? So, Vitex her right now? She did.

Yeah. Oh my gosh. Or she's leveraging up for the first moment that you, you know, you hit below the mark. Well, not anymore because I just sent her a $25 VINMA that said latte on daddy. And that's a nice latte. That's a nice latte. That's, hey, go ahead. Put the extra in your pocket.

Get you something nice. Gascar that Halloween costume. Got to stay on it, man. Okay, I also have a, sorry, you go ahead with your survival kit. I cut you off. Halloween costume. I already said it. Already said it.

I will say last weekend I was kind of covering in real time a little bit to an extent. Stacation was unreal. Yeah, go through the staycation. More of just highly recommend just to couples. Like if you're a mom and dad, it legitimately, like I was texting. Charo, we were talking about, because we left here around 220 last week. Yeah. Got home like 2.30, 2.40.

Got the overnight bag. We were in the car and we got down to the hotel, the four seasons at like probably a little after three. Yeah. So we were at four, we were at the hotel from that time all the way until the next morning at 11 when we left and went to go meet you at, meet everybody at Cheekwood. That's why I wasn't texting you. I remember now. There you go. Because I was like he's on his staycation.

Yeah, which I do appreciate. It was a fun to check out. And like the feeling I had driving home, I'm texting, I'm like texting my wife. And I'm just like, yo, I feel like excitement. Kind of like like butterflies excitement. Like I'm just fired up that we're having a night together. Like I feel like back in the day where you come stay with your boy, whether we were at a hotel or we get, you know, back in our dating days. Yeah, yeah.

I like had that excitement. Hey, back when I was with. What? was that Washington Washington? Yeah, when y'all started dating. I text her, you know, a moment of time she came. When she got back from Japan, she came to visit me down in training camp

and we're at a hotel. Oh, yeah, you know. You guys can read between the lines there. I thought that there was going to be like, a story. There was a story, but for another time. Sweetheart out Cheetos. Shout out to little Easter egg Cheetos. Okay.

But it was a highly recommend. It felt like we went from mom and dad, mom and dad to boyfriend and girlfriend. Yeah, yeah. And it was a great, like we had a little spa day like I had. It wasn't a couple's massage or nothing like that. Like my time was set like four, hers was 430. You got access to the spa like steam room, relaxation lounge. And knowing that we were checked out from the kids.

We're right down the road, obviously. Yeah. But it was fun. It was a really good time. got, you know, got dressed up for dinner, went down, had dinner in the restaurant at the hotel. We had dinner for probably two and a half, maybe pushing three hours.

We got real parent mode, like you went up. We had a little bit of fun and, like, we're going to watch a movie. Yeah. Then you kind of, the parent, the adult kicks inside. You're like, let's just go to sleep. Yeah. Got, we watched about 11 previews, 11 trailers. And we're like, do we really want to spend $25 bucks on a movie in the hotel

room. None of them seem like they're going to be that good. Let you know what. Let's get some shut shut-eye. Did you have leftovers from the restaurant? No, we were so fool, bro. Yeah. Because it was like the staycation when my wife was like, hey, what do you want for your birthday? My birthday was on September 19th. She's like, what do you want for your birthday? I was like, honestly, bro, it would be sick if we just do a staycation. Like me and you, like, we'll do a staycation. So we got the staycation set up. It was kind of like a birthday gift. So when it got put in, it was like in the computer as a birthday. So I'm getting like birthday stuff from the, from the host at four seasons. That's sick. So we're getting extra appetizers. They had a little birthday card signed by everybody when we

were sitting there. We didn't want dessert. They're bringing over all the dessert. So there's a tequila. Some wine. But it was a great time, dude. Slept in. Yeah. FaceTime with a Roo when you wake up in the morning. We slept until about 8 o'clock when we woke up and it was a we went downstairs, got some breakfast, went laid out by the pool, read, had a couple books. But it was incredible. It was a plus. I cannot recommend enough for mom and dad to just be intentional about where they could have a moment in their schedule to just go down the road and do a staycation, get child care, get rid of them for a night and connect with old wifey. It feel young again.

Yeah, Jill was even one to go to Waffle House this morning as a family. And I wish we could have swung it. But I was in the back of my mind, I was like, we do need to do stuff like that more. Now that Scarlett is in a stage where we really have heard down to like a beat on the schedule where it's like, hey, after that first morning wakeup feed, we could go to Waffle House very easily. Dude, we go get a family breakfast. 100% man we were at we haven't been to Ethan Roost as a family it feels like in a while because we're actually talking about the other day but Rube basically grew up at Ethan Roost like we'd have the morning routine we'd go down the road hit Ethan Roast as a family like she's got the little they got the little duckies in there yeah yeah but we would do that all the time and like even yesterday we had that pocket we fly in drove home uh you picked her up yeah drove home had the afternoon at home Charles like Charles home everybody's home and we kind of have it's like 430 don't have to be at the shop until 6.30 for the stream and everything else. And she's like, what do we want to do?

Yesterday, it's been beautiful around Nashville. Weather's been beautiful when it's sunny. The fall weather's kind of kicked in. And she's like, do we want to like go out to eat for dinner? So we went out to, have you guys been to Fonda? It's a Mexican spot down in 12 south. Great spot. But we just went off a whim like, hey, 430, do we want to get out of the house?

We want to go to the playground. We want to do X, Y, Z. Or do we want to melt inside the house when it's beautiful outside. I just on a whim, got the family. We were out at Fonda having a little family dinner. But yeah, bro. Stication was great. Highly recommend you and Jill.

Families doing that. Like once the routine is down, because again, when they're little, when they're like Scarlet's age, like Roo is at an age where it's like, you'll have pockets in the afternoon. Let's go to the park. Get outside,

go to the park, whether it's in the afternoon, after work is over and everything else. But when they're that young, you kind of feel glued like you're glued inside. The routine kind of, you want to stay on such a routine. But now that you're identifying pockets, like, hey, we have the routine down.

There are these moments throughout the day, whether it's on the weekend or anything else, where you can get out, go have breakfast. Like, you just get out and about. Do the family stuff. We need to do way more of that. And that is Jill's love language. We did it for our one-year anniversary. We did a stay vacation.

That's such a cheat code. Like, at the end of the day, is really fun. Jill, like, personally loves hotels. And I was going to say, dude, the move is when you eat at the fancy restaurant, the hotel, you get them to box up, whatever, you take that up to the room, dude. And then right when, like, you're just about to fall asleep, you go, oh, wait, I do have a little bit of that short rate of life. What's that doing? What's that all about?

I feel you. I'm thinking by the time we fell asleep, it was probably around 11, 11.30. We came up from dinner around 9.30. so you're sitting there after a stuff. Yeah, we are, our reservation was at seven. We were there from right before seven, because like we'll go sit at the bar if the reservation's not ready.

They're from seven till about 9.30. Yeah, yeah. There were stuff going up to the room. Different strokes, different phones, man. I would have had that short rib. I know you would. That's why I'm laughing. Go, fast average.

That short rib kind of sitting over there. Like, how can you be hungry right now? No, well, jilly beans the number one culprit on that. was her move. And I was like, yo, I'm going to adopt that. I love that. Hey, sweet. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Hey, Jillie. We always hit the leftovers in the hotel back. Eat this on my tummy. Hey, come over the fast hour. Yeah. We ain't mom and daddy tonight.

Oh my God. But highly recommend, man. We were talking about the anchor and sale stuff last week, which again, I think that philosophy is all time. Yeah. And the whole wife thing being one of them. And you're right on the love language part. It's like I feel like as dudes, like we'll get caught up in the work style.

We have sports to look forward to everything else. But mom does love when you guys all get out of the house together, when you're doing stuff, when you're having fun, you're taking photos, take photos of mom. I'll always call your house. Like, I know you want to, why are you looking so nice today? You know, I don't dress up. You know, I don't dress up a whole lot. I'm thinking, ah, you dress up enough. But I'm like, you want a photo, don't you? All right. Let's take a picture. Come on. Let me get you. Let's do a mirror selfie real quick before we go down to the restaurant.

Yeah. Should we get the phone calls? We should. My, what are the odds are, is very, shout out, Fanduel is very quick this week. week. I wanted to tease something that's in the pipeline. We're going to be doing a little story time for Halloween this year. And we're going to see how it goes. We may implement this for all the holidays throughout the year. Okay. But we're trying to think of a way to incorporate something that is for the dads, but it's also for the little ones. And maybe on Halloween night, you're like, oh, man, we've watched this Halloween movie a couple times, whatever. You're trying to put the little one to bed.

Maybe if you had Willie C, Derek, chef, shirm, fat Stappard, Willie one shelf. Willie one shelf, if you will. Yeah. Reading a little bedtime Halloween story for the kiddos. I love that.

And so we're going to give it a shot this Halloween. We're going to see how it goes. I love it. I got a little story. So we basically for the dads on our channel. On our channel. We'll have a story time coming out. Yep.

Halloween themed for when you're in the week of Halloween. You're going to pop something on old YouTube for the little one. And you can hear our voices and there'll be, I'm sure you're going to crush it. Yeah. I'm sure you guys are going to crush it with the storytelling, whatever the script is, but we will have a story time.

We're going to watch our language. Oh, of course. Because this one's for the little ones. Yeah. This is pre-bed time. This is when the kiddos are up and you're watching this show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you pop on for the dad's episodes.

After bedtime. We're going to sneak some references in there. They're going to go over the kiddos heads, but the parents are going to know what we talking about. Fun voices. Fun voices? Yeah. Chef.

I'm really excited about it. Chef has IMDB. He's got some VO work. I do. Yeah. Fourth grade. Fourth grade. Your own IMDB?

No, no. I'll make them. You can't just. That's on me. What? That's on me. But I will make an IMDB for Jack Hand.

Where we had timewise, Jack? We're at 15 minutes. I'm just kidding. Hour 30. All right. Let's get to the phone call. Voice mess.

Boys, mails. 601, the dads. 601 the dads. This one is titled, Get the Dub. Willie C. Big Sherm. Chef Jack. What's up, guys?

It's Dustin from Palaka. We always talk about the Papa Team Sixthos, but I've got to get to the number one milk team six sicko, which is my wife. So I'm a high school football coach, and we have two boys. Youngest of the year old, last year we scheduled a C-section for my bi-week, of course, because, you know, priorities. But. You got to.

My boy decided to come a little bit early. Come on. And wife goes into labor Thursday. Not the buy week. Has our youngest Friday morning around 1030. So, you know, I'm not thinking anything of it. This absolute sicko looks me right into my eyes, the windows of my soul, and says, hey, babe, what time are you leaving for the game tonight?

It is at that moment I knew my wife was infinitely tougher than me, and that I had married the right one. So my in-laws and my parents stayed at the hospital with Wifi. me and my dad go to my game we get the dove come back to the hospital share the news and now we have a team

full of football sickos in my household we're always riding for the ball I guess appreciate what you guys are doing and love all the emotions in this show man it really shows guys that you know it's okay to be emotional

love you boys take care love you too Dustin that's an awesome story shout out the wife and again coming early you can't Lee you got Michael Parsons

on the sideline you can't just let him be patient yeah you can't expect patience yeah he's coming godly it reminds you of the the Rocky that's exactly what I was about to say

Adrian tells Rocky you know leans in and goes Rocky one more thing what is Adrian what is it anything when and then

what are we waiting for what are we waiting for. He's chasing the chicken. He's catching the chicken now. Best sports montage of all time. Dustin just puts on his coaching hat. He's just walking out the hospital.

That's how you need to cut up that video too. Oh, yeah. Wife looks at me dead in my soul. What time you're going to the game tonight? Time you're going. That's him being nervous. What do I do here? Like, oh, man, this didn't go according to plan.

Yeah, yeah. He's kind of not bought in. He's kind of getting pulled different directions, and the white just looks at him. What time you go into the game tonight? What are we waiting for? Dustin, with that being said, Dustin, if you could DM us the huddle game tape from that game,

from that game, we'll make something special. Yeah, oh, certainly. Dustin, please send us that. Now, the game would be reaching out to him before we could reach out to him. if he could get it over like hey we we did your call on this week's episode which we'd be fun to put the actual it'd be fun to put the actual highlights of that football game in I don't know where Dustin's coat where do you say he was that was he say

Pulaski you know a little bit about let's see big shirm chef Jack what's up guys Dustin from Palaca Palacca Palacca Laplica Palacca Palacca It's got to be down south somewhere. He's like, Pilatopus?

Where's Destiny's friend? That's awesome, though. Yeah, I guess I taped Dustin. Yeah, that'd be sick. Shout out. Hey, congratulations on the new baby boy as well. Also that. Also.

Getting initiated on a game weekend. We have a new name for farting with this one. New name for farting. Hey, boys, this is Mr. James. I've got a funny story because I assume that somebody's probably cried already somewhere earlier in the pod. But my two-year-old son is starting to talk. He's starting to really put words together and say some things.

The other night, he was watching me brush my teeth. Right? I'm sitting there and brushing my teeth. Your boy got a little gassy. And I farted. And he pointed at my butt. He tried to say, you farted. But it came out.

You fucked. So now you got to figure out what words. to change it to. My wife wants to go with Toot. I'm not quite sure what do you guys think? Appreciate you. Love you all. Take out the trash. Did you say you

fucked? Yeah, you fucked. You fucked. You fucked. I almost hear like an L in there. Yeah, maybe a little. You flucking over there, dog? Yeah, I guess you go with what, Toot? If you really want to tone it down,

like here's what my sick old brain would do I would fart fucked it comes out the little one's mouth yeah what dad just do you fuck

oh yeah dad did but we remember we want to call it and just in their brain they never catch up to it just keeps going you

oh what daddy or what mama just do it says it I thought we were trying to give him to say to I've been trying to get him and say two but you let him say

you know what he wants to say first yeah yeah just have a little fun Have a little fun. Mix it up. I'm dropping bombs. Yeah. Bombs. There you go. Bombs a good one. Dudes. Boms away. Rip the heater. Big old stank. Yeah. Yeah. Give them a couple options to choose from. I don't think you can really go wrong when your name is farts. But's barking. Yeah, the barking spider. I've heard you reference that. My dad called him barking spiders.

Yeah. But you get the little one to say barking. Yeah, yeah. Barking spiders might be going too much in his brain. You keep it simple. bomb barking heater toot we had a yellow lab sugar growing up and we had always just you know if you had a loud one sugar oh my gosh he's got a little sugar coming out the keister

is that you oh my god that was a good one dad now that I look back at my dad I'm like dad had some good ones yeah he had some funny ones they usually do they usually do um all right lesson quote or topic of the week. I have a fun one that

go ahead, Derek. I was just going to say, there was the comment that I had shown you if you want to read that while the lesson is pulled up. Yes. I just don't want you to forget.

It is a shout-out for something that is coming up, nothing crazy, but just wanted to throw that out there. Is it the J-Paw Instagram? I believe so. There is a birthday in that one, and that's just the only reason I asked.

Yes. Okay. This comes from J-Paw on Instagram. Hey, Will and Sherman. I'm reaching out to crack a cold one for my husband. He is a huge fan of Ford the Dad's podcast, and he got me hooked on it as well since we road trip a lot and love to listen to you guys along with our nine-month-old son.

My husband, John, has called him before, and he also recently sent you guys a letter with a few gifts inside, which I believe is the one that we got with the patches. And John, if that was you, thank you so much for your letter. I sent a letter inside to show's appreciation for the community that you all have built for dads. It truly is something special. My husband, John's birthday, is coming up on October 18th, and I know it would mean the world to him to be featured on your podcast or even just a shoutout. John is a first time dad, and I couldn't be more thankful for such a hands-on partner and role model for our son to have.

I already ordered a for the dad's pinn, pinnant for him for his birthday. Shout out. For our son to have. Sorry, for his birthday so he can probably hang it up in his man cave, aka our garage. But I know it would be so special for him if you want it, mind shouting him out. Thanks for your time and all that you do for the dads. John, happy birthday, bro. Happy birthday

Thank you for supporting the pod Thank you for being a big fan Thank you for getting your wife on board And what a sweetheart your wife is Yeah what MT6 sicko Yeah For getting the penit You know he's in there embarrassed right now

Honey why did you Did you imagine them? Come on Babe What are you doing John We love you dude And honestly if that was John's letter That I'm thinking of with the patches in it

Wrote such a heartfelt letter I still have the envelope on my desk because I want to write back. So I do have your return address. If that's you, John, I can't wait to send you a letter back. If mom and wife, you could just take out the phone right now and give us his reaction. Yeah. We can put it at the end of next week's episode. We can play at the end of next week's episode.

Yeah. We can play it right now. And then we just got done watching that video of John's reaction. Yeah. How would she have known? Yeah, I think it's next week. And she's going to see it and be excited. So the right now thing only plays.

Yes. Sorry, I was saying like we clipped us referencing that and then played it in the credits of that future. Oh, yeah, yeah. Meta brain. You are meta brain. Meta clip that. Because I'm thinking we can let her know,

yo, we're covering this moment on the pod. They can be tuned into the pod. This pod will come out on the 15th. His birthday is on the 18th. So it's going to work out kind of perfect. MetaBrain. Clip that. MetaBrain.

Pt6 clip that. You got a quote topic or lesson, my friend? Yeah, I have a really quick one. This one actually accompanies a video. And we can make this into a clip. It's like very cool video. Basically this dad breaking down being a dad out in the wild with your girl, your daughter, who needs to go to the bathroom and basically how to,

How do us as men go about our daughter needing to go to the bathroom in the wild? Do they go to the men's room? Do they go to the women's room? This guy breaks it down beautifully. So as a girl, Dad, I'd like to answer this one because I've been there a thousand times myself before. Now, over the years when my daughter was little before, she was too young to use the restroom herself, anytime we were out in a public setting and my daughter needed to use the restroom, I would always take her to the women's restroom. Now, in doing so, I also understood that not every woman wants to open up the women's restroom

to find a big old scary man like myself staring back at them. So here's a couple things I did to make sure that that didn't happen, and also that my daughter got to use the restroom. So what I would do, if possible, is I would try and find a woman near the women's restroom and politely say, excuse me, my little daughter needs to use the restroom, I need to go in with her. Would you be kind enough to watch the door so another woman doesn't? and open up the door to find me and get scared or nervous or uncomfortable.

I never, never, and the thousands of times I did that, never had a woman say no to that request. It was always met with, oh, yes, of course, absolutely no problem. Yes, I'd be happy to watch the door for you and your daughter to go in. Always got met with a yes. I always asked politely. Never had a problem with it. If there were no women around that I could ask,

what I do is I take my daughter in, I'd prop the door open with my foot, and while she was using the restroom, I'd stand in the doorway, blocking so that nobody could see in, but also at the same time, if a woman happened to approach the restroom, I'd say, I'm so sorry, I've got my little daughter in here. Could you give us just a moment? Once again, always greeted with a yes. No problem.

Happy to do that. Thank you for letting me know. I never got told no to these requests because, and this is just my opinion, but I'm guessing every single woman out there understood that I was just trying to be a good dad, getting my daughter into use the restroom that she needed and I wanted her to use the women's restroom because it is safer and cleaner. Gentlemen, if you were out and you have young daughters, take them into the wooden's restroom. We all know it's cleaner and you're probably never going to find a woman that has a problem with you being in there if you do one of the things that I told you and if you're polite and respectful.

From one girl dad to another, just trying to help you guys out. I hope this might help somebody. Anyways, you guys let me know what you think about this in the comment section. Like and share this video. I'd appreciate it. Dedicated after that. The daughter. Oh, I think he said like five, like four or five.

Because Rood just goes in the men's room with me. Yeah. I take her in a stall. Which that's another option that he talks about. I keep them eyes down. Yeah, yeah. I'm just kidding. She's three.

Hey, you get there. Don't talk to nobody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're doing our business. Yeah. Which I did. I wanted to ask you, like, what your approach was, too. Yeah, it's more of like,

cave. She's got to go to the bathroom and I got to go potty too. She just goes with me. She's going to stall. Get her all hooked up. I feel like she's young enough to where she literally does not know the difference. I'm assuming. Well, she'll know that, you know, why can't you go in the mommy's restroom? Dad has a boy. Yeah, yeah.

That's a boy. You got boys' restrooms. You got girls' restrooms. And Dadda can only go in this one. So you got to come with Dadda. That's just how we go. Yeah. But a question that I've asked myself plenty of times. I was like, what do you do in that situation? That's interesting.

It's like an initial thought, I guess, when it first happens, but then you just don't really, once it happens the first time, you don't really think about it. Because you're just thinking, like, you know, it's your little one. Any, like, we haven't been in like, I guess, where if we're at like a game or something like that, and it's very public and crowded, we've been in a situation like that.

So every bathroom we've kind of went into, It's, you know, whether adults are in there or whatever it is. Like, you know how you're used to seeing kiddos come in with their parents. Oh, for sure. So just go in, hit the stall. Rip it. Rib it. You need to go poop or pee?

B.P. or poop? Yeah. But yeah, that was my lesson of the week. Love that. Because a lot of young dads that may be thinking about they don't have their kid yet. They could be wondering that that could be a question on their mind. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Love that. Mine is, so we had the one last week with the anchors and sales.

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But my guy, he ended up, he still were very close to this day, but James Dobson, he was our strength coach. It's something he always said that resonated with me. I'm sure a lot of guys on the team, but it's like no matter what is happening, you can always control two things in life. And it's your attitude and effort. And this was a mantra his at all times.

I felt like it's something that really stuck with me. And after it's like the anchors and sales and having some of these philosophies, like getting back to the, getting to the foundational thing that it's like, you feel like you get pulled in all these different directions and a lot of things affect you throughout the day, whether you're running late to something, you have a bad day at work, you have a lot of whatever

your stressors are in the world. The two things that you can always control is your attitude and effort. And how can we relate this to a family atmosphere, a parenthood, fatherhood, whatever the case may be. And attitude, attitude sets your emotional temperature of your home. So just like, again, when you think about attitude and effort, your attitude, no matter what, you can always choose what kind of attitude you're going to have. Whether it's a pissy one, any negative attitude you ever had, I bet you can go back to that moment. If you could have anticipated that moment, you think to yourself,

I could have handled this situation or had a better attitude walking through the door at home. Your attitude set your emotional temperature of your home. If you walk through the door, frustrated, distracted, or short-tempered, it is felt in the home without any words being said.

Think back when we're all young kiddos or when we're all growing up, if mom or dad or somebody's got a bad attitude or even a buddy, if you feel that bad attitude without anything being said, a lot of the times it's like, oh, dad's coming home.

He's kind of seems like he had a bad day at work. Yeah. Like we all know that feeling as kids growing up. If you walk in grounded and present, people, it feels safe. When you walk in, it's like Shirm's a great example. I feel like when Shirm always comes to the door, no matter what's going on with our boy, it always, you always just feel like you're in a fun environment because I feel Shirm always walks in with the right attitude.

You could have a lot of stuff going on, but I feel like your attitude, I always enjoy being around you because you're like, I've told you before, I always feel like I'm in a good mood when I'm around you. Yeah, yeah. Appreciate that, by the way. Thank you. Yeah. Attitude isn't about pretending everything's great. It's about choosing how you respond when it's not great. So, when work is heavy, attitude decides whether you bring that way at home or leave it at the door. When your kid spills their drink for the third time and you get a little frustrated, you get a little pissed off kid and won't go to sleep when you're trying to rock her to sleep for a nap and she's got our shoes on and you're starting to get really flustered, attitude decides if you correct them or connect

with them. When life test your patience, attitude decides whether you react or you lead. And as a dad, your attitude becomes the model your kid's copy before they ever listen to what you say. The second one being effort. So again, the two things you can always control at all times, especially if you were conscious of this, is your attitude and effort. Effort is intention in motion. It's not about how hard you work for your family. It's about how intentional are you show up with them. So effort as a dad looks like, you know, choosing to get down on the floor and play even when you're tired. I'm guilty of this. I'll be sitting there. It's like, I want to take a load off, long day, whatever it is. Yeah. And I might feel mom in the kitchen or upstairs with Rue and I got

Scotty. And it looks like she's wanting to play a little bit. I just think to myself, I just need to roll off the couch and get on the ground and start doing the crawl with her, whatever it is, whatever gets her excited. Yeah. Or choosing to play. Like, again, if I'm wanting to watch the game, or if it's after dinner. And again, I'm just like, oh, I just want to like lay on the couch and Rue hits me with, hey, you want to play chase. And I just think in my mind, okay, I need to get my ass up and I need to play chase. Unless the back, unless the back's in a bad spot.

A sweetheart, daddy's backs in a bad spot. But again, this, we're talking about effort. Listening when your wife fully talks to you, not just hearing them. Guilty, guilty. Sweetheart, I know you're listening. Guilty as charged the comment of, I don't know why I waste my breath sometimes because you Never hear me because I'm the of what guy. Was that, sweetheart?

Or I'm just not paying attention. And then I finally just hear the comment. I don't even know why I try talking to you sometimes. I'm making up whatever excuse it is. Sweetheart, we'll just tell me what you said. You hear the juicy part of the story. You go, wait, wait, who's saying this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I am enemy number one with that. Yeah. But fully listening when your wife talks, not just hearing, taking the time to explain instead of snapping in frustration. We've all been in those moments to where something gets said. And we're just, we want them to feel our frustration that we might not want to get into a conversation or might not want to get into a moment when it's like sit there, be present. It's not about being strong.

It's about reconnecting. Finding that connection, getting back in the pocket, showing that effort that you're not just wanting to push it off with frustration or whatever you might be projecting from whatever attitude you had. Making the space for making space for family moments, even when the schedule is packed. you were talking about the routine stuff earlier. Like yesterday, we're sitting there and like, okay, got to go do a stream, got to do stuff. But if you find the space and you find the time, like making the effort to, yeah, let's get out of the house. Let's go to the park.

Let's go have a family meal. Like, let's go do something as a family. Or maybe it's you and your wife, whatever it is. Like when that space happens and you know that space is there, being like prioritizing it and doing it, even though you might feel this packed schedule or stress circulating around you. just like, how can you pull yourself out of that? How can you check your attitude? And how can you put forth effort?

Effort doesn't mean perfection. It means presence. That's something we've loved on this episode since the beginning, that it's presence, not perfection in fatherhood, because we fuck up all the time. All the time. And we're going to continue to mess up all the time. But it's how you show up in the next moment,

how you show up in the next day. Because, again, your kids won't remember a word you say. They'll, they will understand what you model to them before you say anything to them. in the lesson and all of that. You can't control everything in your family's life, but you can control the spirit you bring and the consistency that you show up with. If you keep a strong attitude,

you teach your kids how to handle it when life is unfair. If you keep steady effort, you teach them that love is built or showing up, not just talking about it. And in the end, your legacy as a dad won't be defined by what you achieved. It'll be defined by how you carried yourself and how you made your family feel.

Yeah, dude. So there we go. that's a that's the lesson that's the topic of the week it's a really really good one the attitude and effort one like a few in the world of uh that i've just like learned or gravitated towards or things that have always stuck with me in sports is attitude and effort there's this four quadrant like belief potential action results thing that's always stuck with me um there is the nobody cares work harder and nobody's coming to save you. Yep.

And so the challenge that I've had with myself, especially in fatherhood or parenthood, and even for this brain, wanting to come with like a lesson or topic or something like that is I'm trying to pull from the footballisms that I've learned. It's like, all right, how do we gear this towards like parenthood?

So that's kind of been my, it's been like my homework or challenge, like when trying to come with lessons or topics because I feel like all of it is carryover, all of its crossover, right? Like everything they tell you, what you learn like when you're growing up playing sports sports are the best teacher for life so it's like how do you bring all the the sports methods that is what I know yeah and how am I carrying it you know

when I went from football to the branding and podcasting the business side of everything how do I bring that into whether it's the locker room on the bus how do I bring that into my personality how do I bring that into being a leader and manager for the squad yeah how do I bring that into fatherhood how do I bring that into being a husband because it all everything test you along the way. Any organized team thing, and that could be like academic decathlon

type stuff or like doing a school play, anything where like a group of people are coming together for a common goal, you have to hold up your responsibilities. If you don't, it's going to cause others to misfire and misstep. And I couldn't agree more.

It's all applicable to work performance, family performance, friend performance. Like, how are you performing? in your life. Yeah. Are you showing up for all these things? Especially when you're an ambitious, an ambitious person as well.

Yeah. Like you really, you're an ambitious career-minded person. And you want to do really good work. We, a lot of us will do anything, we try to figure out everything possible to be a really good teammate.

If you're in a leadership role, be a really good leader. And a lot of the stuff in the back end that's kind of in the back seat can be the family stuff at times. and where I've like, you know, had a couple like, aha or think, okay, how can I marry it to this? Like the family time and everything else is operating the same way at home. Like, am I being, like the way I am around my team, the way I am at work, the way I am in my career, I am in my ambitions, every philosophy or thing that I kind of tie to that motivates me or keeps me discipline.

Am I doing those same things at home in the role that I have at home? If I'm in a leadership role, everything that I feel like I'm doing, whether it's for a team, for, uh, the shop? Am I being the same guy? Am I being that dad at home? Um, so yeah. I'm, I was kind of going to where I was like, oh, I would be a, where's the bow tie on that one? Man, my brain kind of just stopped. To throw a bow tie, I guess on how I apply it to my life. We always joke about like, Charo being like, you know, you have this dad podcast. You can't even put up a shelf. I ask myself that a lot. There are a lot of times around the house where I'm like, dude, you got this podcast where you're like, or you got people writing in the comments

these life stories and about how great this podcast is, blah, blah, and you can't get up. I know you hear Scarlet crying and Jill's having to do that by yourself. In those examples, the Willie One Shelf where that came about and in the Scarlet one that you're talking about too, it's like if I just think of the two things that you can sit there and talk about controlling, because you can't control outcomes, you can't control a lot of external that other people have control on. But if I think about attitude and effort, it's like such a poor piss,

such a piss, poor attitude and effort in that moment. If I think of it in a team environment, it's like if I have these big goals of like hitting PRs in the weight room or doing X, Y, and Z on the football field, that's essentially a teammate coming up. Hey, you have these goals and you're not living up to these goals right now.

The brain's doing it again. And bow tie. Boatie. There you go. That was a good point. Yeah. Hey, you're not living up to these goals right now. Boat.

Boatye. No, but you did paint a good picture. I don't know what kind of book in or bookmark you're looking for to sum it all up. I think you summed it up perfectly. It might just be the moment where I stop and then there's just a second or two of silence where it's like somebody else might come in and go off that. And I'm like, okay, finish it up. Yeah.

Get the walk off music for like a award show. the wrap-up music. Yeah, they're playing me off. They're playing me off. I thought you wrapped it pretty well. I don't even know if you need to put a bow tie on it. It's more of like the pocket of space comes in and maybe that's when just the John scene of music drops.

Oh my God. I feel like if Will does all that, he's a big great at home because you're a good boss. And I mean that I'm not, hey, you know, he signed my checks. But I really do mean that. You're a badass boss. And like the way that you operate and stuff,

it's like the most fair, just genuine, like once you succeed kind of, you know, feeling like working for Will and Taylor too. So if you apply it at the home, like, I feel like that's a hell of a way to approach it. Yeah, it's the attentionality to you that you bring. I've said that before to you of like you come into this office with intention every single day. and just seeing that, I've always been an employee that wants to do a good job and press, impress, impress, but it really is fun when you come in and it's like, oh, the guy that's the shot caller

is also kind of, you know, in the weeds, moaned the yard too. Like the- Never feels above. Yeah. Never, like you don't feel like you're, I've never felt like I'm talked down to on, which is like at the end of day, like you make the decisions. But I will say from an employee, side that you want to like you want to do good that kind of stuff motivates you like hey this guy

has your back at all times wants you to do good and you want to fight for that too like so it's a great agreed uh you know and with that intentionality applying it to the home life like the kids are going to see that yeah if ours me oh thanks boys there's like um honestly it's like that's rat poison that's rat poison you live for the cheers you die by the booze yeah yeah but i feel um it I feel like in this with the platform that we have too, like getting to go through topics, lessons, call it advice, whatever you want to call it. I feel like this is a fun platform to kind of get thoughts that I've had,

kind of jotted down and journaled or on paper because I genuinely feel like I've gotten to learn from so many great people that were stuff that they say. Like, I'll be the kid when, or if you're the person up there trying to give lessons or trying to do things and say you're in a leadership role and you're just wondering if people out there are like, taking it, you know what I mean? Or, hey, is this sticking? And I just know, like, I was a young,

I was a young cat or a young athlete in every room that I was in. If, if, if there was a coach that I admire, like getting to listen to get talk from coach Bo Polini, James Dobson, like my mom and dad, like, I've been around so many great people to where that stuff really resonates with me. And when I've thought about being ambitious and successful, I think to myself, like, when I listen to to whether it was Tony Robbins videos or anything. of those videos on motivation or success or ambition. Like I was a guy who consumed a lot of that stuff when I was young. And I would try and put stuff into practice.

And when things like worked or paid off, it's like I'm trying to remember these things. Like when I get to the next level or the next thing, especially in football, again, it's like being undrafted. Like you're very salty and slighted about it. But if you take a lot of these things that have been taught to you and I can just, you can just remove the noise and try to focus on the day to day stuff or the half. habits or the things that I'm going to still challenge myself to versus getting down on myself and think like, oh, man, they don't think I'm good or that I belong in the league. Maybe they're right or I get a little, the whole attitude and effort thing. Or if I take a lot of these philosophies, and it's like, okay, how can I pull myself out of my own emotion? Because you're just,

we're all emotional just constantly if a result doesn't go our way. And when those things started to work out or pay off and it's like, man, I need to remember this stuff somehow for whenever I become a starter or whenever I'm a starter, whenever I'm a starter, how to, how do I become a pro bowler. It was never that. But then, okay, you don't get the result that you want, but how do you take the same things that have always helped me get there through listening to these people and being like, man,

they're right about this shit. Like I need to, how do I box this in or hone it in? And no matter what happens, after football, how do I carry the same approach over to X, Y, and Z? To the things that you guys are talking about and stuff at home, it's a constant,

I feel like I'm constantly trying to learn and think about those things. So I've been very, I've been just fortunate being around a lot of people that, you know, I guess that's all to me for being a sponge. But I was always, I've always been a very curious individual. Yeah. And how is it like, man, I want to be where that person is? How do I, even if my boys might be doing inside jokes on why are we doing this dumb meeting or this dumb shit? You know, all those, you know, all those groups that have this seems uncool to want to listen and, you know, take something away from it.

Yo, Will cares about this shit? Yeah. He's trying what an idiot. Boy, you're trying way too hard, man. Like, that ain't the cool thing to do. Yeah. But I was always, like, kind of, I guess, like, that kid. Like, again, if Bo Polini was telling you something,

I'm thinking, man, I want to be a head coach one day in college football or the NFL. Like, I need to listen to everything all these coaches say to one day, hopefully be where they are. Yeah. So, again, very trying to receive the compliment. also very grateful, been around a lot of great people. Yes, and shout out. I do have one extra thought, but also shout out your boy James Dobson. He's the AD at Oklahoma for player performance.

That's kind of cool. Yeah, Dobson is the fucking man, bro. Legitimately, another father figure in my life. I busted his balls. He was at Vandy. He was like the head athletic guy, like over all of athletic performance. Left to go take a two job on the strength training for Oklahoma because he's kind of, the thought was he'd be the successor at Oklahoma.

because he was a one. He's been the guy. He's been the head strength coach. He was my head strength coach at Nebraska. Very hard. Like tough guy, very hard. He loves you hard. The guy's guy, but taught you a lot of good analogies and theories about life that kind of got you showing up even when times are very hard. Like being in a being in a world to where, you know, this is fucking football. Yeah. Like it's going to be fucking hard. That's the whole point. Nobody feels good at this point in the season. He would always have great storytelling ways, but a constant was always attitude and effort. And he was the head guy at Vandy after Nebraska. To when I was on Tennessee, I got to train over at Vandy and still be in his life around him.

He's actually one of the first guys where I'm like sitting at, you know, I'd work out and then I'd go bust balls. We'd be in the office hanging out and everything else talking about the old days and what's going on at Vandy. And he was one of the first guys where I was like, hey, I'm starting a podcast. Like it's a bus. So he was there when I'd have to print out documents to get signed, use his printer. But Dobson is like, shout out James Dobs. and he's a he's a legend. Shout out.

And to put a bow on your lesson, you said something that I really loved about the saltiness of being a walk-on, or not a walk-on, a undrafted, free agent. I love what you said of, like, pulling yourself out of the emotion of, like, wanting to prove people wrong,

like pulling yourself out of, like, whatever kind of angst or anger or sadness that maybe that causes, because that was huge for me. of like going the way that I did career-wise and kind of a lot of people being like, why the heck is he going into video production? Why in me kind of getting this like jaded spirit of,

oh, I'm going to show them. I'm going to prove them wrong. I'm going to do that. And once I pulled myself out of that, it was just able to enjoy fully ingratiate and gratiate into like video production and chase after it and work hard and put forth the effort.

have a good attitude, but enjoy what I was doing as well. That's when I started, like, really finding success. Yeah. Because you're right, it is tough, man. Like, when I didn't get invited to the combine, that was a hard moment. Like, again, because then you're searching your name on the internet and you see rankings. And it's like, man, I'm just feeding into this thing that's honestly not good for me. Yeah.

And no matter what, the sun is going to rise tomorrow and you've got to put your feet on the ground. and it's like, what attitude and effort are you going to have about the day? And are you going to be glued to your vision? And are you going to be glued to the disciplines and the routine and what you're eating and all these things you're going to do? Or are you just going to kind of feel sorry for yourself,

kind of shy away? Come up like, man, maybe they are right. But yeah, bro. Because I'll do that even with parenting sometimes. I'll be like, God, I fucking did so bad that last morning. like whatever I didn't do or like, yeah, I was being lazy or blah, blah, blah. And I'm like in my head, I was being such a bad dad. And it's like, well, here's an opportunity where I won't be a bad dad, where I'll, you know,

I'll change my attitude and what is it called the memory, have a short memory? Goldfish memory. I think that's important as well with the attitude and effort. It's like, you will mess up. You will not be perfect. but it's just being able to learn from that loss, hey, let's move forward and let's have a good attitude to attack whatever this next thing is.

And no, yeah, that's a great point. And knowing to like, let's just say in this hypothetical, you have a laundry list of a bad resume. Oh, as I do. And knowing, but yeah, yeah, yeah. But let's say like something where you don't feel, you don't feel like a whole lot of self-worth because you know it in the back of your mind

like man I've been a shit X for a good amount of time the power you you truly have to tomorrow there's going to be another opportunity and you can change it like that if you're truly sick and tired of being sick and tired yeah that to me is power bro that's yeah it is as easy as

when I was like going through a really a tough period in my life that therapist that I would see in Fort Worth the man, dude, he felt more like a dad than like a therapist. There was a point in my life, I don't know if I've shared this with you, where I didn't get out of bed

for like a stretch of like two weeks. I didn't get out of bed. And my mom had to like come over to the house that I was living at and like basically was like, you need to go therapy, blah, blah, blah. And the therapist, the very first thing he said is he was like, when you wake up, shower and put a nice outfit on.

And what else can't you do? If you go clean yourself up and put some nice clothes on, why not get out of the house? Why not go have a good day? Why not go do like you get that small victory, whatever that is, and you can change it, dude. And it's like,

I'm a loser. I've been laying in bed for two weeks straight. And, you know, I don't know what I want to do with my life and blah, blah, blah. And well, hey, I showered and I put clothes on. on today. So I guess I'm not going to get back in bed with all these clothes on. I guess I'm going to have to go, you know, do this. So I like that mentality. Yeah. Make your bed. Make your bed. Small wins, bro. Jill sitting there going, tell them, tell them, Will.

Tell them Will. Charlie on my ass. Hey, I thought we said the rule is last one to get out of the bed, makes the beds. We know, you know, I had it. You're right. Hey, you right, babe. Rue up here making the bed. We're up there making her own bed, bro. Making us look bad. Making it look bad. Dad, come upstairs, sweet I got a fish break. Come upstairs.

All right. Close your eyes. I'm walking in. Okay, look. And I open. She got a perfectly made bed, stuffed animals in place. Massive smile on her face.

I'm like, Good job, bro. I like, all right, let's go downstairs. You better eat your chicken sauce and chicken. But I'll look and, you know, you put my hand out for a high five and like, yo,

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