Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton’s Car Ride From Hell + Sherman’s Delivery Room Lessons | For The Dads Podcast

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

Former NFL Linebacker (10 years) Will Compton presents a Bussin With The Boys production, For The Dads! Along side future dad, Sherman Young, Will a father of two knows how hard the job of a father can be. Thus he created a safe space for dads to come together and talk about the insane shit that we see and deal with every day.    Sherman is now officially a part of Papa Team 6. On this episode, he breaks down the nitty gritty of he and his wife, Jill, experience welcoming their first child, Scarlett. Meanwhile, Will details his 4th of July weekend and the battle of keeping your composure.    We hope you enjoy! Let us know in the comments what you'd like to see more of.   Check out the merch at BWTB.com!    ..and as always BIG HUGS and TINY KISSES!   TIMELINE CHAPTERS   00:00 - Intro   15:37 - Sherm is officially a father!   35:51 - Dad Losses   55:00 - Crack A Cold One   1:02:49 - Survival Kit    1:16:47 - Call-Ins    1:50:17 - End Credits   -----   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a soon-to-be dad who’s currently enjoying his last few months of uninterrupted sleep and freedom. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / bussinwtb   Twitter:   / bussinwtb   Facebook:   / bussinwtb     LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Papa Team 6, welcome to another episode of For the Dads. This is episode five. You might be listening to me in your car right now. Maybe you're listening to me. Maybe you are in the rocker trying to get the little one back to sleep. Maybe you're at work just so you have one AirPod in listening during a meeting. Maybe you're hanging with your wife. Maybe she's giving you a little bit of an earful that you deserve.

And for whatever reason, you're tuned out a little bit listening to this podcast for the dads. This is episode five. We are on a new YouTube channel. Thank you all for showing up to this YouTube channel. But also, dads, boomer dads, listen, I know men, our attention span can be short and very fleeting. Please subscribe to this channel. If you're part of Papa Team 6, you are subscribed to For the Dads. There are wives.

There's mom. There's wives. There's a lot of people tuning in. Whether you're a dad that's in it, about to be in it, whether you just want to listen to the guys shopping up and talk. You want to be part of Papa Team 6. You are subscribed to this podcast. You're a real sicko.

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A lot more views than our subscriptions. I get that it's a little, it's a, it's a process. I know last week when we were shot off the podcast, it was super hard to find because you had to be specific on typing in at for the dad's pod. No space is nothing, just like a username in YouTube to even find this channel. Now you can just type in for the dads and find it. But again, make sure you're subscribed to the boys. We are on all socials at for the dad's pod.

Our YouTube channels at for the dad's pod. But yeah, subscribe, leave comments. The comments have been amazing. They've been nice. Comments have been awesome, dude. The community is growing. I was overwhelmed. I'll say this later, but I was overwhelmed by all the comments and people that reached out in my DMs. I was overwhelmed. It was crazy. You want to read a few? Yeah, I would love to. First off. Shout out the people jumping comments. They got to know that we're there, that we're showing up, that we're showing up. A hundred percent. And to your point, shout out to the 8.5K sickos that typed in at Ford the Dadspod. I like to think they all. typed in at for the dad's spot. They all typed it in. And their absolute sick goes, their pop of team six. I'll start out with Hunter Powell. He said,

Sherman, the best gift you can give your wife is being the dad she always wanted. My wife grew up with absent dad as well. And she has told me, watching me be a dad and her knowing our daughter will grow up with a dad has healed so many wins for her. Being vulnerable in the comments is sick. Shout out Hunter Powell for that. Do shout out Hunter. I'm reading this one from Blake. Blakely 464, And this is a little, this could be a little bit of a dad hack because I didn't even, I didn't even think about this one. Fellas, here's a major W from the first member of Papa Team 6. Chad G.P.T. has walked me through the absolute war zone of sleep training with my two and a half year old.

Slept nine hours straight by herself last night for the first time in two years. No. Four nights ago, I was asking myself, am I built for this? Am I built for the A-Gap? am I truly a member of PT6? And this morning I woke up and realized I might just be him at the huge dad W for this dad of two. Shout out the boy Blake. That was Blake that said that?

Yeah, that was Blake. Dude, shout out Blake Lee. Blake Lee 464 from PT6. In two years, dude, I'm sitting there two nights and I'm thinking, oh man, too, like I don't know how much longer I can do it. Two years. Two years. Dude, sleep training is hard, man. Like, I have, you know, knock on wood.

I was lucky with the first two. Rue took a little bit longer than Scotty. And again, shout out that 12 hours and 12 weeks book. But it's a war zone. It's a war zone. It's a process. Yeah. It's a process.

It's something that Papa Seal can only take on. And to that point, Mike Cody, 8-1, 8-2, he kept it short and sweet. He said, Papa Team 6 with the flex, and don't forget trash today. Remember what got us here. Trash Day got us here, but also shout out Papa Team 6. I took a photo today. Today is actually my trash day. We record on Monday.

I took a photo. I forgot to tweet it. That's the first thing I'll do. You got to stay on it. Papa Seals now. Papa Team 6, we got to get out there. That's the way we engage and build the community because people probably wondering, like I did see people wanting the fatherhood.

I think I saw a lot more for Papa Team 6. A lot of Papa Team 6. At first, I was more of a fatherhood guy. But then I got to thinking, I'm like, Poppa Team 6 is just more fun. Because you know me, I'm a little sicko. I like to rally the Army up every now and then. I like to just, you know, I never know what the, how to refer to it as. Just say like, hey, you know, for example, when I went to war with Expedia a couple years ago.

Yeah. It was getting the Army, taking our nation into a war and be ready to not come back. There's a part, there's a fantasy I have where you just rally Papa Team 6, whether it's in the comments. You have fun on social media. You know I have those little fantasy. but also like playing into it it's like you know you let's say for example you post a photo your kid it's like welcome to the fatherhood welcome to papa team six yes you see the fatherhood i feel like that feels way more universal and generic even though i think it's sick i think it's cool and i do think

we should get those upside down fatherhood hats made yeah um but it seems like something that's normal right if you see like welcome to pop a team six like anybody that's outside of the audience that for whatever reason might be on the page yes at for the that spot and they see welcome to Papa Team 6 it kind of makes you pause for a second like they're probably Googling it why is everybody saying Papa Team 6 it's kind of funny kind of like an inside joke kind of like an inside community thing and only popa seals understand you know you know who the real real sickos are in puppet team six are those guys that we have been doing PT6 on Twitter I've seen you do it I've done it myself I've seen a couple others people on my wife's

Instagram post posting a picture of scarlet and people in the comments, welcome to PT6, Shirm. I'm like, that's a sicko. We need in a good way. We need to mobilize Papa Team 6, not for the wars that probably will be had at some points in time with the TikTok bombs of the world. We might come across clips of bars and, you know, it's bound to happen at some point. It will happen. But it will happen.

Even for recruiting purposes. Yes. You just see somebody, you tag in somebody else's video, we need to get this guy on Papa Team 6. This is Papa Team 6 potential. Shout out chef to you. He had an incredible idea. for some merch of just some dads coming through, like, clearing a room, and you have one with a spatula, you got one with tongs, and he's like on a grill.

Another one coming in, maybe he's got the burp cloth, and he's got the bottle. But they, like, look military. They look like seals. Night vision goggles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That would be electric. Maybe a dad was strapped with a carrier with a baby on the chest.

Double strapped. He's got one on the back, too. Yeah, one on the back. It'd be so good. With the backpack on and then out of the side sleeve, you just see the top half of a bottle. Yeah, yeah. I love the detail. The bob diffuser would be just a guy with a baby breeza.

And he's like computing on the baby breeza. It'd be so good. BWTB.com. That's where you get our merchandise. And I do. I love the detail that our merchandise has. Like there's one. Oh, man, I was posting about it yesterday.

But I was kind of going through all the detail of the wolf working out in the weight room, like blood, sweat and beers. like on his shirt, like, for the dads or something and like, you know, something down off to the side. But there's a lot of like cool detail that I feel like we get to have fun with now that we get to make our own merch. A hundred percent. And just to tease the merch in general, we got a shipment of the busing summer beat the heat merch in last week, I believe. And just seeing some of that.

Yeah. And I can't, I'll just tease it. It's insane. Which product are you talking about? Because it's Wednesday. Like we have new merch that just dropped yesterday. Okay. Well, so we do have the Hawaiian matching set.

The Hawaiian theme matching set. Fire. Which is fire. And I don't, like, I really don't want to tread in water that I'm not supposed to on teasing this merch. Do I have permission to go into detail? Yes. There's some polos coming in that are unreal. Are we talking good material polos that some golf dads can wear?

Yeah. And one that is, there's some girl dad, uh, homage. with one of the polos that I'm telling you, I cannot wait to be on the golf course. This is not a pitch for the merch. I want to be on the golf course in this one polo immediately. So keep your eyes out for that. It's so sick.

So sick. Get us juice. Get the boys rocked up. Let's go. Get the boys rocked up on a Wednesday morning. Let's go. That's out there just getting the trash can, bends out to the curve, just getting rocked up.

Listen to that little teaser. There's so many Ws with the Ls, dude. There's so many L's. But there's so many Ws. Funny, there are so many Ls in parenthood. And again, if you're new to this show, we run over a lot of different things. We talk about our dad losses. You know, we talk about what we'd crack a cold one, too.

Yep. What are the odds? Yep. Shout off handle. Survival kit. What to put in the survival kit. Some dad hacks. Yep.

Some lessons that we're learning along the way in fatherhood to be a Papa seal. Quote, we go through voicemails, call in 6-1, the dads. People call in. We've had a lot of call-in. Chef Jack in the back. He has about, what, four lined up for us today? Four good ones. Yeah, four good ones.

Even a mom called in. Even a mom called in. She knows what we're talking about. He knows who we're talking about. And Chef got a shout-out on the voicemail. And just a little cheat code for anybody that's wanted their voicemail to be put on the show. You shout out chef at the top. There's a good chance he's probably going to listen to the rest of it.

That is true. Just a little dad hack. Just a little dad-hack. massage him a little bit. Yo, hey, and shout-out chef. Yeah. Hey, Jeff, Jack, I know you're listening to this right now, breaking down this voicemail.

Let me put a heater on you real quick. Oh, yeah. Let me put a question up for the boys real quick, yeah. That'll probably get you fast-track to the front of the line. That will fast-track you. He pulled one of them up, and the shout-out to chef was strong. And I started hitting Chef when I was listening to it. I was like, that guy knows what he's doing.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 6-01, the dads. You call in, that's our hot line. We go through, we go through calls. And at the very end of the episode, we roll credits. And the credits that we roll are moments of parenthood,

a fatherhood that you have with your little one. Maybe it's gender reveal. Maybe you're doing like you're acting and you're playing dress up with your daughter or your son. Maybe you're in the backyard running around and playing. Maybe you're having a nice dinner moment. Whatever it is, we like to roll some feel good moments at the end of the episode in our credits. Just to embrace. Just to embrace the fatherhood.

Just to embrace the fatherhood. Another quick shout out. We'll have a plug at the end of episodes, you know, moving forward for future episodes. But for the time being, the National Parent Helpline, we shouted them out last week. We'll shout them out again really quick. That's 1-855-427-27-37-36. That's the National Parent Helpline open 24 hours. Sorry, go ahead.

I was going to say the National Parent Hotline. That's where you go for real. That's where you go for real help, guys. If you're calling in and you got some actual issues, stuff that you need to get off your chest, you need some help at home. You will be matched with a master's in counseling that is there to help you 24-7. So shout out, natural parent. Yes, because we don't have a master's degree.

No. This is not an expert. This is not an expert podcast. Got a master's degree in PT6. Got a master's degree in PT6. You do. Which is fun, you know, a lot like you. We just, we talked through this stuff, all things fatherhood.

But again, we are not experts on the show. And to go off that, I did have a bone to pick with Chef Jack. Oh, no. Because I said it last week. I think I gave you a title or a caption for the episode. And I go on and I see Will Compton gives parenting advice for your first child. And for whatever reason, I get triggered by giving parenting advice being on, like, YouTube and coming across like this is where you go for advice. I don't mind that people enjoy and consume it and use tips, use stuff that, we're going.

we talk about and help, like, help relate it to their situation. And it might turn out to be advice for them. But it's more of like the positioning of Will gives parenting advice because I hate feeling like I'm like, you know, talking to a group saying, this is what you should do. This is what you shouldn't do. It's more of just like our own life experience. But that's a tip you can write down for yourself, Chef Jack, because I know you probably got it from somewhere else and they probably signed off on it.

We won't say who it is. Can I put Chef Jack? But I'll come in hot on a phone call and say, don't give a shit if the SEO and this wording is better for the YouTube algorithm, I personally don't like projecting that I'm the

expert and I'm the one giving advice. And two, I've been in that seat with Bustin with the Boys and to put you on game, Chef Jack. The best move you could ever do is as soon as they sign off on a title, copy, paste it, text it to this guy solo and say hey, team

likes this and this guy will rip it in five seconds ago fuck that go with this and then all you have to do is hit those people back and say Will's going with this you're good you're good oh yeah that's good advice that's expert advice

I learned you have a master's I learned I have a master's in keeping Will Compton happy with his podcast so if as long as you run it by Will you're good I just pop on and I just it's the first five words Will Compton gives parenting

advice and I was wanting to fucking break the screen. I didn't do it because I'm, I didn't want to hit up Chef Jack. We just started our Fourth of July break. I don't want bad vibes going on. It was a wonderful Fourth of July. A new intern. New intern.

I know, I know. I'm not trying to come up hot. You know what I mean? But some of my favorite texts are those 6 a.m. texts that you, uh, well, I'll wake up to. It's a beautiful book that you put together. And I, I truly, I giggle a little bit.

I am a little scared because I'm like, I want to make Will happy, but I do giggle a little bit. Imagine you in your garage weight room typing out that text message. In the middle of a set. Stewing on it for a couple sets. Just sitting there. All right, I got three minutes rest on this one. I'm going to fire this one off.

Sure. What the fuck? I'll type in like half of it and then go hit a set and come back and be like, all right, here. No, no, I can't say that because I told them. I told them not to do that. I know. I'll take a guess myself. Did I not say this?

I could have swore I said this. Been there. Been there. Yeah. It's a learn. It's an intern loss. It's an intern loss. And when you learn from it, it's something you crack a cold one to as an intern.

Watch him just killed this next title. Chef just sitting back there nod. Yep. The goat. The goat. Should we dive in? Yes, I'm in to dive in. We had, I mean, all an incredible weekend all around.

We went back home from Missouri for the Fourth of July, some good parenting stories from that that we'll dive into. you're a dad bro it's crazy you're all here a couple claps just a couple of us there's only three of us here and i apologize if you heard that thunder it is raining outside it is storming outside so i apologize if you're saying that was man upstairs clapping saying yo what uh maybe fired up for you maybe you're a new dad you're officially a pop a seal no more soon to be dad yep you are now in it yes in it in a way to where we got to keep this show under an hour dude we got to keep it tight

hey we got to keep it tight because I got to get back to my girls she'll probably see this when it comes out on Wednesday you have your first pediatrician appointment first pediatrician appointment honey I will be there I know that we're watching this in the future I will be there I love you and I just checked my phone I don't know if that was on camera I'm checking the phone and see if you text me

gotta keep it under an hour got to keep it under gotta keep it under an hour because I want to be a good pop a team six member you want me to run through it Just like really quick. Dad loss? No, no, like run through the day. Oh, yeah, of course.

I can just run through it. You know my brain. It's misleading. No, you're fine. You're fine. Huge shout out to everybody that reached out. That'll be my, what are the odds this week? But going into the day was incredible.

Jill's a nurse. She is always prepared for the worst because she knows what the worst can be. And we know that every single birthday experience is different. every delivery experience is different. We've got to hear about Will's 48-hour scenario. 48-hour labor. With Sweet Charo sitting at 4 centimeters.

And that... We're texting me and said, we're at 4 centimeters right now. I truly, I texted Will because we get... Yeah, let's skip to that. I'll skip to that point. We fall asleep. We both fell asleep the very first night.

So we get in there. I was blessed with a... recliner chair. You son of a bitch, I know. You had a recliner? I didn't even want to say it. Are you even a Papa seal? If you didn't sleep on the couch? If you have your master's in Papa Team 6, I am quite literally freshman year of my undergrad in Papa Team 6. We need to make something where you can put like the little patches. Oh yeah. And so you almost know like, oh, he experienced the couch. You're a five star general. That's what I'm saying. You ain't going to get that patch. No, I'm a private. I'm a buck private in Poppin' Team 6. And I'm sitting in my... You got to skip the line.

You get a recliner. Hey, let me say this. Good for you. I am happy for you. I am a little envious. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of dads out there swinging at the air right now, pounding on their steering wheel. Oh, yeah. He didn't have to sleep on a couch. I sent it to the boys in the... I have a college group chat. Shout out Mike Evans. They'll know what that means. But I sent that picture of the recliner. I'm sure some of those dads in there. Fuck. Fuck. Of course Sherman gets that. That's how you earn your stripes.

Oh, yeah. Now, that was the delivery room. I will say post-delivery room, no recliner. Couch was terrible. How long were you in this post-delivery room? Oh, a full day into the night and then another full day to about 7 p.m. So you slept on the couch? Slept on the couch.

Are you lying to me? Not lying to you. Are you lying to me? Not lying to you. I can call Jill if I need to... You slept on the couch. She might tell you that I slept too much on the couch. Okay.

All right. She might tell you that I slept too much on the couch. Buddy, anytime we FaceTime, you look vibrant. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. We had so... Wouldn't somebody... Somebody on here.

Yeah, Sean was like 12 hours is insane. You're talking about how you slept 12 hours last week. My nine-month-old boy's teething right now. And we woke up six times last night. It's all part of it. Hope everything goes well, Sher. Oh, yeah. Hey, let you know, Sean, it sounds like everything went very well for our boy.

For our boy, Sherm. Cherm's doing great. Shirms doing great. You got a Mani Petty while you were in there? I did. Hey, we had the Roku stick. Huge dad hack. We brought the Roku stick in there so we could stream.

Smart. It was incredible. We got Tommy Boy rolling on the TV. Jill had never seen Tommy Boy. Shout out Tommy Boy. Nice. But Jill's overall note was, I want to have fun and keep the mood light. going into labor. That is my only assignment to you, Sherman, is I want to keep it light.

And I don't know if people that follow me on Twitter, Instagram saw that, uh, college football hype video style. I put it to Scrilla. Oh, buddy, it was awesome. I loved watching it. Made that hype video. I didn't show it to her right before delivery. I'm, as I'm sure people that saw that. We're reading it and go this fucking. My question I have is, uh, was she the one filming you? She wanted to. Yeah. She wanted to film me. Okay. So that, shot. When you're sitting there in your headphones and going on, like, laughing to myself thinking, are they at the hustle right now? And it's like, hey, it's Jelly Bean. You might, you might just hit a little record for me as I just kind of sit with my headphones on. There's four people in the

waiting room. Watching it go down too. And they're probably looking at us like, these fucking idiots. Hey, just a quick time out. Are people hearing this? I would assume they hear the rain, but not to the degree that would be like, it's pretty loud. Right now. it is. Right now it is. But even with the AC that was like running in the back, oh, it just got even louder. I know. I know. We might want to wait for it to die down just a little bit or we can press on. Take five. We can take five, but we got to keep it under an hour. Fuck. We interrupt this episode. Make sure you're subscribed with the podcast. Just another reminder for the dad's out there, but we interrupt this episode because we are sponsored by Roe fellas. Are you ever sitting there some

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We had to improvise. We had to overcome, as is parenting. Yes. Welcome to For the Dad's new studio. Yeah, yeah. We had to just get on the bus because it helps with the sound. As the rain was getting so loud, I don't know if you guys were hearing it in your audio, but it gets so loud.

Shirm's voice gets a little bit more faint. So we had to make a pivot. We had to make a call because we got to keep this under an hour. We got to keep it under an hour. We got to keep it under an hour. I told Jill 230 it's 143. Yeah. We'll keep it.

We'll keep it under an hour. And if not, you know, I don't want to talk hypotheticals. I don't want to talk hypotheticals. Addy, I love you. I'm going to make it to that. But if you're home at 237. That's fine. It's a dad loss.

Dad loss. Good for the show. Great for the show. But we had to make a change. So we're in a different studio right now. We're on the bus with the boys studio. I appreciate you tuning. Make sure you subscribe.

But sometimes you got to adapt on the environment. elements get to you yeah we got some elements sometimes you're going to want to be at a pool thinking you're going to be at the pool for about four hours and it's going to cut short and go to two because someone's losing their mind i'm talking to you ruh but uh carry on with uh carry on with your story i kind of forgot where we were but i did have a what of the odds oh you have a what are i had a what are the odds i had a what are the odds i had a what are the odds i had a what are the odds Jill stayed at Fort I guess I'm like that.

Oh, is that Mitch? No, it's Matt. Yeah, we're recording. Hey, shout out, Matt. Entered Matt. What are the odds that Jill sat at four centimeters over under an hour? What are the odds that you had an incredibly smooth delivery?

One that a lot of parents would be jealous of. One that people legitimately would get angry about. Like when I FaceTime to you yesterday and you were checking in on the fam and how to go, blah, blah, blah. Like a part of me, it hurt a part of me to tell you how our experience went. Because it was so good. It was so good. Which is what everybody wants. Which is what everybody wants.

If you have an experience, like I'm thinking like mine, like who knows how it's going to go in there. Then you hear how great everything was. If anything, as a dad, I don't want to tell Charo House. move that went. Yeah. Because she's going to be, I'm just kidding. She's going to no, no, but truly. I mean, for some of these moms and stuff, like, they get there too late, they don't get their

epidural. Yeah, but everybody, everybody hopes for the of course, the liver you're about to tell us about. Of course. And Jill, I mean, absolutely kills it. One of my favorite moments I'll never forget is we both fall asleep. Jill, though, is like

sleeping in hour intervals or like an hour 30 interval because nurses coming in and checking her. Yeah. Because they gave her the induction in the mouth. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.

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And I forget the name of that pill, but that's not the potosin. Potocin? It's the one before Potocin. Pre-Petocin pill. So they give her pre-Petocin pill. It didn't really do anything. So during the middle of the night, while I'm snoozing on recliners, being dad of the year.

They, Hey, sweetheart, I just edited up this video. You did a great job in my pass off. Which is literally what I did. You good over there?

You might have like some, you might have like some show up. I'm doing great. I'm in the recliner doing this. I'm going like this here in the bed. I'm holding their hand. Like truly was so comfy dude. It's kind of insane.

How well it was set up. And this is you in the recliner. Yes. This is me in a recliner with Jill brought these, like silk pillows and I have a barefoot dreams blanket like I'll tell you what you hand you like your survival kit was ready to go because of jilly me I mean jill was so freaking dialed dude and when we have more time I want to do a full survival kit breakdown to everybody because it looked like we're going on a two week vacation with those bags that we were bringing in worth we use every single thing we brought

and I swear to God we did because the luggage it may look like that was all clothes. It was really like a ton of gear, burp gloss, diapers, what does it call, a preemie diaper? Because Scarlett was tiny,

five pounds, seven ounces when she came out. Five pounds, seven ounces. She's smaller than a baby doll. And so we're having to use the preemie dipees and all this stuff. But we'll do that another time. And like,

that could even be a great, like if Jill wanted to do a call-in or something of going through a survival, We need to have the wives on. People calling for it. It's going to happen. Yeah. Jill's survival kit was nuts.

So, dude. And so, like, we really were set up for the absolute worst that, thank God, never happened. And so my favorite moment was waking up at, like, 6 a.m. And it was truly like the scene in Saving Private Ryan where he loses his hearing on the beach and that guy's and says it, what do we do now, sir? Jill's like over me Netflix says are you still watching blah blah blah like on the screen And she's like Honey I'm contracting

Yeah yeah yeah and I get out of the recliner She's doing the So what unbeknownst to me in the middle of the night That thing that they put in her mouth They then did it in the downstairs later that night To see how that would go Well she went from two She showed up two centimeters dialing

And for the dads at home, that's just the cervix, which is kind of the gate that the baby has to go through to enter into the opening where the baby's going to come out. So she shows up at 2. That little thing that they inserted got her to a 4. Nurse comes in, checks her. She's at 4 centimeters. In my head, I go, oh, bud.

Because we have a family friend that's at 4 centimeters as well for a long time, not as long as Charo, but a long time. So I hear 4 centimeters. I think of you and I think of our family friend. I text you and I say, we're at four centimeters. And in my head it's like, we're at four centimeters. We're at four centimeters. I'm just like, oh, no.

That's like, oh. This is the trigger number. Oh, please, please. So then they hit her with the potosin. We go about three or four hours. All of a sudden, Jill is like, I really feel pressure. Like, Sherman, I feel pressure. And it feels like I need to poop.

And they say that you feel like you need to poop. You're going to have your baby. And so she tells nurse It's only been three hours since the Potocin So nurse is kind of like We'll get the midwives in here in a little bit We'll have them check you And then she kind of stopped

And she looked at Jill and she was like How much pressure? And Jill was like a lot of pressure Well she gets her flashlight out Goes underneath the hood Goes we'll get the midwives Midwives come in They go fully dilated

She went from four to 10 in three hours Oh my God To 10 centimeters in three hours The white walkers were at the wall At the wall And this water on the wall Was having to get in the zone in that moment It was like everything stops

And thankfully Jill had kind of like Train me and put me through the ringer To know what to expect So Do you have your coffee? No, didn't have coffee the entire time I was there But the one thing that I forgot to say dude Is Jill was like

I want to feel some of the same the contractions before I get the epidural. But Sherman, it's your job. Make sure that I get on that epidural. I don't want to miss it. Blah, blah, blah. When she was sitting at 4 and like contracting really hard, like before they came in to say she was at 10, she's like, I don't know.

Should I get on the epidural? I'm like in my head like Rocky 2 or Rocky 4, throwing the damn towel. Like I'm sitting there going take the epidural right now. Why are we waiting? She's like, I want to finish my yogurt because I can't eat after I have epidur. That's what that's what you think. I got the yogurt. I'm force feeding your yogurt.

I'm like, finish this freaking yogurt because you like, girl, you got to get the epidural. We get the epidural. They come in. She's out of 10. We got to start pushing. Right before we're about to push, they're like, hey, we don't have an OR room open for Jill in case things go south. So we have to suspend pushing as long as we can, Jill, until. an OR room, an operating room, opens up in case things go south.

In the meantime, would you want anesthesiologist to come in and give you another hit? Because it seems like you have a lot of discomfort. Jill is like, yes, that was the biggest blessing in disguise. They came in, dude, and mainlined some stuff into Jill. And Jill gives me that look after 15 minutes of getting mainlined with whatever they put in that cocktail. She's like, I'm ready to push. I feel good. Like I'm ready to go.

And they came in. They tell her, hey, you're going to do three pushes per round. It looks like this. Dad, you're going to hold feet. The other nurse is going to hold the other foot. You're holding feet. So you're south of the wall. I was a watcher on the wall.

I was able to see south of the wall where the white walkers were coming. And I was, sorry, north of the wall where the white walkers are coming. And south of the wall. So I was able to see. see both. Concentrating on Jill, but also, like, interested in seeing what's going on down there because Midwife was like, Dad, if you want to look, baby's head is literally right there. That was before we even started pushing. And it's because Lil Scarlet's so small, dude. She just positioned well. Positioned well. She knew her role. She knew her role. She was like, I'm ready.

We're doing this right now. I do, I've never been more proud of Jill. Jill was such a gangster, dude like such a stud during the pushing she did four rounds of three pushes and each time like on the third push i'd be like there's not a shot in hell she's going to give it what she did the first two the third one would always be the strongest scarlet would move the most on the third one you would hear the midwives go good there it is there it is and i'm sitting there and i'm like jill's a beast dude she just covered in sweat and each time just taking the biggest breast and and just bearing down i was like god i'm so proud of her like she's freaking killing it and then on the fourth round of pushes scarlet came out on the third round midwife looks at her um right before we start the fourth round of pushes and looks at

jill and goes hey it's a really cool moment for moms that i can get her out very easily i'm not worried i'm going to get her to her torso and you can reach down in physical pull her up if you want to do that. Are you interested in that, Jill? And Jill was like, yeah, I want to do that. She was like, okay, when I tell you, you reach it down, you'll grab her and you just bring her to your chest. And on that third push, they got Scarlet out to her torso. She was holding her umbilical cord like Batman doing his, you know, a little gun. She comes out like this. And Jill just reached down there and grab Scarlett and brought her to her chest. It was unreal. Dude, that is incredible. I'm looking at my wife. Like, who are you?

Like, that's so sick. Isn't it wild seeing your wife go through that? Yes. And I told her like beforehand, I don't know because I don't know childbirth, but I'm like, if there's anybody that can do it, it's you. Like, she's such a pusher. She's such a grinder. She, like, she just has that mentality.

But she also has a lot of fearfulness and anxiety. Yeah. And beforehand, I was like, if anybody's got it, it's you. You're going to destroy this. And then to see her going to go. out on the field and perform like you think she's going to make a coach proud make a coach proud dude and then that moment was scarlet man i i i can send you some picture chef if you want to put it on the episode dude i'm waterworks obviously y'all saw me last week dude it was amazing it was amazing

that's incredible bro and um yeah and um i i hope that on like everybody that has a delivery coming up expecting fathers and stuff you wish that on everybody but we were blessed enough to have that um and it was awesome any any any lapses on your part any any dad losses i did i actually have a dad loss but it's a it's a mother fucked this week oh do you have a dad loss i do have a dad loss do you want to go first or i can do my mother fuck yeah so my dad loss this week is going to go to a dad loss that i took losing i lost control of my dad loss myself losing control of Rue. Oh, no.

Yeah. So we got back from our 4th of July, from our 4th of July weekend. We got back on Saturday. And we went to the pool on Sunday. We were expecting to be, we got there early. So that way we had a good little spot, good little setup. And we're going to enjoy a little pool day. And we're hoping to be there probably around four hours.

And it got cut short two, two and a half hours. Because Rue ended up losing her mind. throwing a tantrum and it was one of those ones where she was she was throwing a tantrum and it was like all right we we told like I told her I'm like hey if you don't stop doing this I'm going to have to take you somewhere else we're going to have to leave the pool and walk somewhere until you can calm down oh no because she wanted she was very particular it's like you have a three year old and their brains they're just their vocabulary is growing they're they're understanding a lot more but they're also limited and how they can like verbally communicate so there's

They're just dealing with big emotions on how to communicate perfectly because she's very particular. Yeah. And we were like playing this game in the pool where, you know, she had this crab and she wanted to either drop the crab down under water and go down and get it by herself. But she couldn't do it by herself. So I'm like, do you want that to help you? No, I can do it by myself. And I'm like, okay, do it by yourself. No, no, I can't.

And so you're just caught in this argument of like, what do you want? Yeah. Like notebook. Look, what do you want? Rue. Yeah, what do you want, Rue? Like, you have to, you're telling me you don't want to help. But I'm like, okay, you go ahead and do it.

I can't. I can't do it by myself. Okay, well, then you need me. What do you need me to do? And we're kind of caught in this back and forth. So I figure out of my, all right, we're going to have to get out of the pool. I'm going to remove her from the situation, removing her from the environment. She's having a tantrum.

You can't communicate well when they're having a tantrum. So you're just trying to, you're just trying to like be there for him so that way they can calm down. You're getting her to the sideline. You're, you're showing her tape. Yeah, and these tantrums, bro, I'm talking fucking insane.

Oh, no. It's like, I hate to be like the dead law. You'll see you one day, but it's like, bro, they're like shaking. They're stiffening their bodies up.

Like you try to, I try to pick them up and I'm trying to like hug her and trying to force hug her and let her know to come down and she's just like full stiff. Like streaming. Yeah.

She's like, I want mama, I want mama. And I'm like, I'll take you to mom. if you can just calm down just a little bit. I'll go over to Mama because, you know, they're out. We're like, we're in public.

So you feel like you're getting the looks. You feel like you're getting all these things. Yeah. I'm probably in my own headed about it a little bit. I'll take you back over to Mama when you can calm down. And she's fucking screaming. Like, Mama, see Mama, see Mama, like this, that. The other way, you have to calm down.

Like she wants to see Mama. Yeah, you're going to work yourself up. You're going to, it's going to hurt. You're trying to, like, say all these things to her. Try to get her to calm down. And I'm standing there. And she's just, like, sitting down in the corner. and she continues to scream and I just fucking I lost it.

No. I lost it. What'd you do? There's like a like a demonic part of my soul started to fill up. I was getting so angry inside. I was trying to stay calm. I was trying to stay collected. I lost it, bro.

She saw that NCAA impact player at Nebraska. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, for me watching, they can just see my face. They probably know what I'm talking about. And I just reached down there. It's like, it's like I'm sitting there.

I'm thinking about all the times my dad would just spank me. And I'm thinking, I'm not going to spank her. And I just, I just grab her. I'm like, Roo, hey,

I'm going to, I'm going to go to Mama. We are going to go to Mom right now. And she's like, looking away. I'm like, look at me. And she's like,

looking away. And I grab her by the face and look over. I'm like, look at me. I'm going to take you to mom, but you better stop right now because this is bullshit. And she's, you know,

know she's I have her face grab looking at me and she's trying to like calm down because she's like hyperventilate yeah yeah so she's not really making noise anymore she's just kind of like breathing and I like take her she's got her goggles on her little rainbow goggles and I like rip her rainbow goggles off and you like you just like grab them and pick them up and you're like whipping them around on your body you're like I'm gonna take you to mom but you are going to calm down as I walk over here you're not hurting her but you're also showing her hey dad has got some strength Yeah You want to play with Dad Us?

Yeah, yeah It got to a point to where like All right, we're stuck This whole I'm gonna be calm And we're gonna be nice And be this parent That you're just gonna stay poised

And you're gonna just gonna sit there with them And be there with them No, that turned off My heart turned black That's good So far this kind of sounds like a win I know the part where you feel like It's a dad loss

Is you feel bad about it When you're driving home or I'm like thinking About it all day Because I got down there I got on her level And I grabbed her face I like I like put it over to mind. I'm like, look at me.

You were going to stop this shit right now. And picked her up like, you know, like grabbed her goggles, ripped it off her head. And I'm like marching over to my wife. And I can just hear her hyperventilation, her like little breasts. And that's what makes me feel bad is I'm like, I'm sure I shocked her in the moment. Which it's like she needed that. In my brain, I'm like, hey, she did. That's what the moment calls for.

That's what you had to do. I had to stop the bleeding. I walk over there and I just like kind of toss her. kind of like toss her down on the chair here's your daughter yeah yeah yeah she wants you she wants you i can't do this right now i like go and take a walk and we have to leave because she like she like she works herself back up again and we're just like hey oh really we're like hey we're leaving we're not doing this we're not doing she's got to know that she cannot act this way she cannot behave this way we are leaving yeah and so we end up going home and everything else and

i was so upset we were both charlie and i both we were both upset we both did a little bit of and you're just disappointed. At y'all or her? At her. Like we're getting in and she's still like worked up. Charles snaps at her. So Charles on your side in this moment. Yeah, because she's, she's,

well, of how you. Oh, yeah, but of how you handled it. Oh, yeah, yeah. She didn't mind it. She didn't mind how I handle it. We talked later and we were kind of like laughing about it.

And I was like, hey, I got to tell you like, I went down. I got on her level and I grabbed her by the face and like jerked it over to mine. Oh, yeah. And it's like, you want to, I wanted to tattoo her ass, bro. Oh, yeah. And, um, do I've, I think you did a great job in that moment of expressing.

It's like those TikToks of like the parents that tried to exhibit that like, I know you're feeling bad right now, but how can I help you in this situation as you're having a tantrum? Yeah. Can't do that. Yeah. No, you're right. It called for it.

Yeah, it called for it. It's just like, it's like you're thinking about it the rest of the day because. when I'm reacting, I'm not doing it as like a predetermined this is the right move to do. Yeah. I'm like losing my, I'm like losing all my emotion to where I'm like physically like grabbing her and jerking her around and turning her face, ripping her goggles off. And I'm like thinking on, I'm just like thinking back to my. I'm like, man, I lost full composure because I was fucking pissed off.

I know that's going to happen, but that's like my dad. Because it's funny because your little, your little boy, your little girl, whatever it is. They're like the only being in the world where you can be so fucking mad. I'm talking so fucking mad to where you will stay mad. I'm like I wasn't cool with Rue for a good couple hours. Yeah. Or a good hour to where it's like, hey, no, if you want to apologize to us, you're not going to do it sitting on the couch over there and just say, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for acting that way. No, you're going to walk over to me and you're going to look at me. You told you that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to say sorry to me and you're also going to walk over

and you're going to look at your mom and you're going to say sorry to mom. You're going to give us both hugs. She did good. She did it. And it's like it's and then later on I had to get a sweat in. Charles knew I kind of needed a moment. She's like, hey, I'm going to take ridge at the grocery store. Yeah.

You do whatever you got to do. So I kind of had an hour to like decompress and everything else. Yeah. And what I was going to say is like this little human. They're the only one, they're the only beings in the world that you can be so fucking mad at. But the minute she gets home and. I'm upstairs and I hear from downstairs like, Dad, where are you?

Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad. Look, come, come you get this. Come yoke at this. And you like have a smile on your face because you're like excited to see them again. And you're just like, well, their brain just move on because they're dealing with so, you know, they're dealing with all their big emotions.

And I'm kind of, you know, you kind of go from all the way at 100 to where it's just completely gone when they come home and like, Dad, Dad, da, come yuck. Dad, where are you? And you're just like, oh, sweetheart, it's good to see you. Yeah, it's good to see you. stand a chance in a good way yeah i chalked it up as a dad lost now talking through and talking to you now you've made me feel better about what my decisions and actions were good but i just felt like it

got to that moment to where all this this what do you need for me bullshit was out the fucking door yeah hard had to turn black pop a seal pop a seal had to go in full effect in the trenches a hundred percent dude and like for my dad i feel like had a very healthy dose of discipline with my brother and i have a older brother of four-year shout-out jordan um very healthy discipline it was never too much or anything like that healthy relationship with dad growing up but all mom had to say sometimes was you wait till your dad gets um from work yeah and bro that's all i had that was that was my kind of i mean he would tan my ass bro oh yeah he got to the point where that's all she had to do, I'm up in my room bawling. And then I hear the garage door open,

I'm cooked. Yeah. What the hell was I think? Yeah, yeah. And so like, I think, not that you like showed force, but like you, you showed her that, hey, if you get to a level like dad as might be your favorite person, but he is not cool with that kind of behavior. Yeah, I strongly believe it's like, yeah, they have to, they have to understand there's going to be consequences. Yeah. I think it agrees with that. A hundred percent and she never got... Like we're not going to sit here at the pool. We're not going to stay until this is all kumbaya and then you're going to go back

in the pool. We're going to have fun because then to me, in my brain, I'm thinking we're just enabling a hundred percent. That behavior was until you got what you wanted. Yeah. Because once she started working back in like Charlie and we were both wanting a pool day. Like I'm wanting to sit out there and catch some rays. I'm honestly pissed that we're having to leave.

But I'm like, we have to leave because she has to know that this shit is not all right. Yeah. Because Scotty was being great. And again, the vibes were good. And man, we wanted a good pool day. That's the. That's the dad loss in it all. Yeah, that's the dad loss.

Losing out on a good pool day. Yeah, that's the dad loss. That's the dad loss. That's the dad loss. You need a good pool day. Yeah. And I love that like she didn't get what she wanted in the moment slash didn't get the residuals of that moment. Because she's getting to the age where she realizes, momas and dadas wanted to be at the pool too.

And I'm guessing family friends were there, right? Was this? No, it was just us. We just did. Oh, this was in Nashville. We got back in the Nashville. on Saturday. We went on Sunday morning.

Okay, cool. But, I mean, still a fun time. She knows Mama's and Dad has one to have a fun time at the pool too. No, talking this out, you're right. You're right. The loss was not having a full pool day for the family. Okay, good. Was the parents not having a pool day.

Good. Because you're right. Yeah, as you were going through that, I'm kind of like. Right by the face, guys. I was waiting for like the spanking or whatever and when it never happened. It's more like, you feel, it's more of like, you know, you, you, you beat yourself up when you fucking like, I like lost myself. You know what I mean?

Yes. Even though it's like talking through it like, hey, that's what the moment might need it or that's how I'm just fighting in my head. Yeah. Could be right. Could be wrong. Whatever. It's like I'm thinking back like I lost full composure of myself because I got so fucking.

And I know I know that I'm speaking way out of term. We just said I'm a buck private for Papa Team 6. But I know for a fact that Papa Team 6 doesn't sit in that helicopter with a little air horn calling down going, hey, you better stop that. Don't do that. Yeah. That helicopter's landing. Ropes are coming down.

We're descending. And we're getting in the shit. We're getting in the firefight. Yeah. This is a moment where you wanted to, I wanted to waterboard. Yeah, that's okay. That's okay.

Hey, you might think it. You didn't do it. I thought it. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. What was,

we got to keep this under now. Yeah, we have to do. It's 20. We have 20 minutes. Yeah. Okay. Uh, my. God to keep it under.

My motherfucked is actually really quick this week, which will help. Left, left Scarlett this morning unattended for five seconds on the changing table. And what did you have to do? What was the, what was the situation? I was changing her and I didn't have the right diapers. We have the newborn diapers. And like we talked about earlier, Scarlett is quite literally the size of a peanut. So we're having to use pretty mean diapers right now.

Or else you're having to use the. actual newborn diapers and you're rolling those suckers over like three times. Yeah. Just to get it to wear like it's fitting on it. So I go, oh, the preemies are on the kitchen counter. And her nursery is right there. I mean, I could get there and eight steps max.

So I'm like, oh, go grab it. Just not even thinking like she's on the changing table. It's the, you know, it's shaped like you shaped. It would take a lot for her to roll off in my dad brain. I'm like, hey, she's a good to go. I got to get to work. I got to get her change. And so I left the room.

And Jill goes, what do you need? I go, I need the premium. And then she sees that I have no baby in hand. She goes, where is she? And I go, she's on a changing table. Full sprint. Full sprint. And like we have hardwood floors.

I mean, it sounded like the mama bear was charging. And she held back on me. I thank her for whole. holding back on me. I did when Sheparder didn't tell me you didn't say sweetheart they can't roll. Oh no I I'm you got to zip it up. I knew I fucked up real quick because that's a pure that's just a

motherfucked moment with the wife wouldn't it's like you know you went and grab the day you could grab the preemie diaper yeah they're really not going to go anywhere it's a few seconds but we're not going to say that matter of fact if you're listening right now Jelly Bean you do not hear us say no baby's not going nowhere in five seconds

no and also if Jill and Charo had their own podcast, that's like Jill's dad loss, essentially. It's like, what the fuck was Sherman thinking? Like, why did you think that was okay? Which I understand that now. I understand that now. And, um, chef heard me on a phone call with Jill before we started recording. You heard a lot of yes ma'ams in that phone conversation, I'm sure. A lot of yes ma'ams. Yeah, you got to be dialed right now. I'm a little bit. I'm not in the dog house, but let's just keep this thing under an hour. These are moments you're just going to have to. take in and accept and absorb.

Yeah. Whether right, wrong, indifferent. Oh, yeah. Did not fight her. Honey, I am so sorry. Honey, I really am so sorry. What I also didn't know, this is kind of a dad loss too.

I do have a dad loss. I have been waking up at the feeding time. So I had a 230 feeding time, a 5.30 feeding time last night. Yeah. I woke up at the feeding time. unbeknownst to Jill. So I really wasn't feeding her until like 3, 330, 6, 630.

You got to get the ball. You got to get it ready. Yes. And get her change and stuff like piss her off before you feed her. So then she's like awake and, you know, ready to feed. And so Jill realized that this morning because I had a seven o'clock feeding time. And she walks in there and it's, you know, like 745, 8. And she's like, are you just now feeding her?

I was like, yeah. like so proud so proud so proud in that moment yes honey i'm feeding her and she honey she's taking it down she already got one ounce down she's only got another ounce to go and she i could tell and just so much rage in her mind she did a great job of just in that moment stopping and communicating you need to be waking up at least 45 minutes before the 45 of you're five of Oh yeah, 30 to 45 minutes before the feeding time because she needs to be changed and bottle in mouth by feeding time. Because like y'all know, it takes me a while to get out of bed.

So 45 minutes, she's going off. She's going off Sherman's time. Yeah. She was like that bottle needs to be in mouth at feeding time. This is where you harness for the dads that they're listening. You harness these motherfucked moments. Yeah. And these are nice little conversations in chemistry builders with your little one.

Yeah. Hey, mama didn't like that I left you for five seconds. We're going to keep the secret between us that you're going to be okay. I know you know that. I know I know that. You're not rolling? Yeah. She's doing a great job.

She just, she went through a lot. There's a lot going on that she can't control. We're just going to keep this between us. I knew you were good. You knew I was good. You knew I was going to be back quick in five, 10 seconds.

Hey, those 20 different babies that came into her hospital when she was a nurse that had skull fractures because this exact thing happened? I know you're not going to do that. I know you're not going to get a skull fracture. What? Come on. And she's telling me that very calmly.

Yeah. Very sweetly. Honey, I have seen over 10 cases of this myself. You cannot do that. Okay. Yes, man. I'm so sorry. I didn't know that.

You handled it great. Yeah. You handled it great. And what stunk do you? Can I segue that into my crack a cold one? Before we get to the crack of cold one segment, we are sponsored by this segment. is sponsored by Bud Light. We know how people would do anything for a Bud Light.

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jill has got me fully dialed on uh feeding like i feel good dude and i know it's a day-to-day thing people are probably listening they're going sherman thinks he's got it all figured out but like i got to find the winds where i can find them and i'm I was so freaking nervous and scared about dippy changes, feeding and stuff. And Jill has me like a well-oiled machine. I'm just going off her playbook. Yeah. And I love that all the feeding techniques are named after football terminology.

You have football. Three points of contact. You have sideline. Yeah. I'm like, I can roll with this. Yeah. I was like, I'm going to go with football. I'll do football.

And they're like, all you got to do is piss her off, change her tires, her diapers. get her pissed turn all the lights on wake their ass up wake their ass up take the onesie off let them sit there a little bit on the

change of tail let them get cold yeah they start doing the yeah they're trying to spas and then as soon as I see that mouth go

I get her in football and bottle in mouth dude and she's got a really good suck even the nurses were like weird terminology but the nurses

were like yo you gotta You got an eater. I got an eater, dude. She is a peanut, but boy, she likes foodies. That's good. That's good. Like you're saying, it'll change, and you got to find the wins where you can find

them. But it's better to be absolutely dialed every step of the way. So that way, when you get a little off track or something happens or something changes or she starts to get a little pissed off or adversity is going to strike. Yeah, yeah. You're going to be so dialed in on step one that, hey, you'll be ready to learn step two. Yes. You'll be ready to roll with the punches.

We'll be ready to roll with the punches. So that 530 feeding, that's my crack of coal one. We got Bud Lights here. Shout out Bud Light for sponsoring the podcast. Sponsoring the podcast. Yeah. My crack of cold one's going to go to speaking of cracking a cold one and drinking a lot of Bud Lights and some neutrals. The Fourth of July party.

I think there is a moment where we're all sitting around. And I made the comment like this, the party now looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. Because a few years ago, it's like you're not married. Maybe somebody has a young kid or like a newborn or something. But other than that, some of the friends that we have, it's like their kids are like in high school. And we're all these not married men still boys like introducing our wives or girlfriends or whatever it is. And now years later, we're sitting there and I'm looking around. And you got one of the boys that were in high school.

He's graduated high school. I got two kids of my own. My best friend Nick and Chuck, they got two kids of their own. Like we have all these little kids. We have all these babies. That's so sick. Adam Furtle, shout out the boy, Adam, who is our, you know, host at the St. Louis Cardinals. Oh, yeah.

He's up. He's, he's with the Cardinals. But he's got, he's got four kids in his, like, eight or nine-year-old McKinley. She's helping out. You got people like Scotty's sleeping on Caitlin, my brother's girlfriend. It's more of like this tribal mentality. We're having this party. And I'm sitting around looking and mentioning McKinney and everybody, like how different

this party looks now that we all have families and we all have kids because there's a water slide up now like the annual cornhole party still happens and where do you all host this again at kinney's house shout at the boy kinney farcis but we go to his spot he's got a spot dude yeah he's got a great set up he's got a garage to where you can have the cornhole tournament out there in the gravel we got the backyards up to where there's tents because we've learned how hot it gets every year you need more tents there's tent there's tent the tailgate tents there's big fans because you know there's there's going to be kiddos and little children because you're wanting you know the parents to stick ground as long as we can until it's bedtime.

And it's just one of those moments to where you just crack a cold one to the moment because you're looking around and you see all your friends to where there's new families. There's the friends of ours that has their kids and they're graduating there later in high school. You got some kids that are helping out with the other kids. Everybody's kind of lending in the helping hand knowing that everybody's got kids now. And you're kind of just sitting there with your boys that you grew up with that you're having all these, whether it's barbecues or whatever to celebrate.

us graduating high school, us going off to college, just graduating college. And now we're at the point of where we're all sitting there with our families. And even though it only happens once a year, it's like you're cherishing those moments because you don't know how many times you get to see all your friends and all your close ones in the same spot with each other with the kiddos around the same age. And they're making friends and you hope it continues to be something where we get with each other more than just once a year. Yeah.

So you just know like, hey, we're going back to Missouri. we're going to have a Fourth of July party, and she knows she's going to go back and see Hudson, Grady, Chip, all of them, dude. To you, I think this will make that even better for you, not to make it about myself, but I grew up with a very similar situation. Shout out Possum Kingdom Lake for all the 817ers and 214s in the DFW area. We'd go to the same lakehouse. I'd see my two favorite, or like same favorite friends, Natalie and Emily.

we'd stay at their lake house and dude i'm telling you fourth of july is my favorite holiday because of that i mean we did it for like almost 10 years straight yeah and so rube and scottie are going to appreciate that like a tradition and just look forward to even you know you get the once a year to get around yes dude that's going to mean a ton to them when they get older yeah but crack a cold a cold one to those moments yeah i could call one of those moments man because we're all we're all grown. We're all in the parenthood. We're all in Papa Team 6 together. We are. Do you mind not to put Jill on the spot, but do you mind if I call her and see if I can't get 10 extra minutes? 10 extra minutes. Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. Papa Team 6, this is an example when you are up against the

clock and we've all been there. We've all been there with our boys. And you know the time's going to probably get pushed a little bit and you're trying to do some damage control. So postpartum mother, a few days postpartum. Shirm is making the call right now. He's dropping in with some night vision. Hey, honey. How did the chairs go? Oh, okay.

So I'm calling on the podcast because I'm looking at the clock right now. It's 220. I just wanted to confirm what time did you want me home by? 2.30. Is there any way that that could be closer to 240, 25, 250, if we're almost done? Yes. I, let's do 245.

Is 245 okay? Yes, we're just gonna, I just want to have extra time because it's raining and it's our first appointment, so I just don't really know where to go and we're going to have to sign paper, so. Absolutely. She's right. She's right. She's right. Absolute max, 245.

I love you. Thank you. Will wants to say hi really quick. You're a saint, Jilly Bean. You're a saint. You are a saint and we love you so much and we are so happy you're doing well. Oh, Jill, you are the best. Thank you, sweetheart. We love you. You are my priority and I love you so much and I cannot wait to see you. Okay. I'll see you soon. All right. 2.45. Love you. Papa Seal mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Oh! All right, we got to lock in. We got a lock in. We got lock in. Survival kit. Survival kit. My Survival Kit

Edition will be go-to music In a Long Car Ride So, preface this We drove back to Missouri On Thursday morning Okay On Wednesday, our AC upstairs went out Both kiddos were getting over sicknesses

Good Yeah Gotta be dialed in, good We were in the trenches I had to get an H-Pag guy over Shout out the boy Robbie They fixed the problem We needed like some compressor

Or some new part that broke or whatever it was. Yeah. But the upstairs was sitting in 90 degrees and it was blowing out hot air, bro. Thankfully, the first floor was good so the kids are napping on the first floor. But all to say, like,

you're kind of backs up against the wall. We're about to travel again. Long car ride to Missouri. About a five-hour drive. Recently we went to Florida and that's like an eight-hour, eight, nine-hour drive. Yeah.

Both of them, there and back was absolute hell. And all I'm thinking of... I thought it was kind of another way. Hell, hell, bro. And so you're going into this five-hour car ride and you're just hoping for the best. Yeah. I shit you not. It was one of those situations to where I would conservatively say at least three and a half hours of that five-hour drive, one of them were screaming.

One of them was screaming. Oh, well. It was mostly Scotty and it was bumming me out because she's her little seven-month going on eight months old. A little saint. Yeah. Yeah. She's the best, dude. And it's like, she's starting to get a little more wiggly.

She's starting to not want to be confined to the car seat. And she was just blaring, bro. And Charles back there, God bless her. She's trying to rock her and sing to her and do all the things because you're not wanting to take them out of the car seat. Like, that's a bad thing. Yeah, yeah. And she's like shaking a couple hard extra times.

And I'm up there. She's like, Scotty, come on. Come on. Like, I'm right here. I'm right here because she's a big mama's girl right now. Yeah, yeah. And I'm singing Twinkiecky. twinkle twinkle little star just on repeat up while i'm driving and uh i'm doing the sh trying to create

white noise we're playing white noise we probably get them both down for an hour but it was it was hell man because it gets so loud ru is doing a great job trying to be patient she starts off really rocky we're like dude we can't do this yes it's a long drive she's like i don't want long drives why is this so hard and she her phrases right now is why is this so hard and i can't do it and it's like you're sitting there you're like it's only as hard as you make it rue because you start to get worked up and you're trying to like talk him down like dude we're locked in the car you think dad wants to be locked in a car you think i want to drive five hours locked in four doors with you guys screaming no dadda doesn't want that but is daddad crying is dad dad saying how hard is this no you got

to embrace the hard rue you have to embrace the suck we're in the sock let your heart turn black rule yeah yeah apply yourself and you can do anything what can we look at out the window can we start trying to guess letters what's on this sign what's on that what's on that what's on that what's on that's on that's do i don't do it i can with this kid i can't with this kid I can't with this kid right now. She ends up getting calm. But then Scotty is pissed about being in the car seat. And you can't talk Scotty for it.

The Roos like, you're yelling hurts my ears. It hurts my ears. I'm like, Roo, sweetheart, that's not helping her. She's a baby. She doesn't know. You did this when you were little. Mama and dad had to sit through.

You got to just, you got to try and calm her down. No, stop. It hurts my ears. Well, if you're yelling, it's going to hurt her ears too. It's hurt my ears. You're just going back and forth. God, help you.

God help us all, dude. And finally, Oh my God. The white noise helped and knocked them both out for an hour because we're telling her sweetheart, just fall asleep. You said you're tired. Like just close your eyes. I can't.

Why is this so hard? Dude, stop with that shit, man. But she ends up falling asleep. They're both up for an hour, but the last probably 45 minutes home. Scotty's upset. But Roo, this is where the survival kit go to music and a long car ride. She ends up talking like,

I want the word song. I want like the phonics song. It was the phonics song by Gracie's Corner. Ooh. And she just like goes to the alphabet. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. A stands for Apple. Apple.

I don't know. It's this phonic song that we just played on repeat because you get to where you might have a roll of decks of song, but the only want to listen to one song over and over and over. And it was Phonic song by Gracie's Corner. Nice little catchy, kind of hip hopish song to where you can kind of dance a little bit who doesn't want you to sing the words. Don't help Ru. Dad, day, you don't have to say the words.

I got you, sweetheart. It's just catchy. I want to sing it. No, I don't want you to sing it because she's trying to memorize the song. Oh, hey, shout out that video that you sent me of her memorizing the book. That was crazy. Bro. Tell the listeners about that.

So Rue can memorize her books and kids have a very good memory when they're around that age. And it's weird, like, situations that they can recall, whether it's a year ago or an old memory, whatever it is. and you're kind of just surprised by them being able to remember that. Remember that. She does better with names, like remembering people's names better than I do. Yeah. And she can memorize these books, dude.

And sometimes it's like go dog go, old hat and new hat, you know, smaller books like that. But bro, she has this book, Ziggy and the Three Pigs, you know, the three, the tail of three other pigs with the Big Bad Wolf. Yep. Well, in this day and age,

there's now a fourth pig. His name is Zicky. Cool. who doesn't live in a house at all. He lives under the stars. And he wants to go swimming. And he goes by his three little Fred, Ned, and Ted, who have the house made a straw, sticks, and bricks.

He asks them. You want to go for a swim today? Haven't you heard that Big Bad Wolf is coming to town? I would be sheltering up if I were you, Ziggy. No, I don't want to stay. I don't want to go inside. I think I'm going to go enjoy the water. Suit yourself, buddy.

Big Bad Wolf comes and blows every house away. Even the brick house. Even the brick house. because old Ned, Ted or Fred, whoever lives in the brick house, he's got a new grate that sits on top of the fireplace. So, hey, Big Bad Wolf,

don't even think about coming down the fireplace because I fix that too. And I'm going to huff and I'm going to puff and I'm going to puff and I'm going to blow your house town. House made of bricks, they're all gone. All the pigs are squealing. Where do we go? They run to the ocean where Ziggy was having to swim that day.

He was built insane castles. Now he built a little raft out in the water. Ziggy, hey, just swim out to the shore. Let me do the talking. And if he blew down our houses, what do you think he's going to do to you? He used us for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He's going to have you for a midnight snack. Just swim out here and let me do the talking.

Big Bed Wolf comes out. He's out of breath. If you don't come off that raff, I'm a huff and pluff. I'm going to huff and puff and blow you to pieces. And do it. Ziggy starts talking shit to the Big Bad Wolf. Hey, last I checked, I heard you don't have a strong enough breath to blow out a birthday candle. Gets the wolf all worked up.

And right when the wolf's just about to blow. Blow that wrapped the smithereens. Ziggy lifts the sail. The wolf blows them out to sea. They have a pool day and they're happy that Ziggy went swimming that day. But this book has, I'm talking like eight to ten lines. Multiple lines. Multiple lines.

And Rue knows the entire book, word for word. You need to send that video to Chef and let it play out, like for listeners of, like, viewers. We'll play it right now. To the beach. Ziggy stopped down there. house. Nett was printed gray on this chimney. What's that for the Ziggy?

Jesse O' actor by Wolf Protection. They would know and come down on the chimneys, you know, but this gray is guaranteed with Bruce. I would imagine you're near and staying going to swim, said, Viggie. What was the video when I sent it to you? Absolutely unreal because as I'm watching it, I'm like, yo wait is she reading i was like how is she reading at the eight wait how old do you learn to read can't read can't read they don't know how to read because i remember you being like she can't select

music on spotify she doesn't know how to read chef going or well you just watched it going word for word i'm going down the line with her and it's word for word dude dude she's got a noggin and she'll read the page and like look up when she turns and looks up at me with this biggest smile and it just it just lights up the room dude i'm like oh rude that and It's awesome. That is so proud of you. That takes a lot of focus and effort and hard work. And you're trying to like, you know, encourage them and pat him on the back for like the attributes and characteristics that go into it other than being like, you're so smart.

But it is, it's fascinating seeing these little kids and what their what their memories are like, bro. It's crazy, dude. It's hard being biased. Not thinking, yo, is this kid going to be, his kid's going to be something special way better than their own man? I'm having that issue with, I talked to you this morning about Scarlett. I think she potentially could be the cutest baby of all time. Potentially. Potentially, because my baby's also the cutest baby of all time.

And see that and their lives is the problem. Viewers right now, their babies are cute. That's what I'm saying. So you say that. I'm thinking, okay, let's have a little cute off.

That's the, that's the question I've been asking Jill is I go, honey, I think she's so cute, but is she really that cute? Dude, it's the best feeling in the world, man.

You're just so enthralled and so in love. Uh-huh. With your child, man. It is the best feeling And I was telling you this morning That you are because you were talking about how it's just the best And it's the greatest thing in the world And the best thing is is

And parents know this too Like you are in the best days And the best days just get better Like I felt like every month was my favorite month And they just keep getting better Now I will say I'm at a point to where Three is the hardest age that I've dealt with To where it's my favorite

Because I love being in these moments And I love that we only have so many years but also three is a motherfucker right now at the Compton House. Yeah, yeah. Because Roo, she is independent, wants to do everything on her own. But they are like, bro, it gets better every month. And when people are like, oh, wait until they get six months, or wait until they get eight months.

Like, I'm sure I'm going to make those comments to you. Go until they get 12 months or 16 months. Not the good ones, but it's like, it's going to get even better. And you're just going to be thinking, yo, Scarlett at two months, rips. Like, why weren't they saying two months is the best month? Like it just it weirdly gets fucking better dude It's awesome

I'm so fired up for you She rips right now She rips right now I'm like you you sleep like crazy You're awesome and sleeping You eat like crazy You're awesome And look how small you are

Yeah Like oh my gosh Okay so we do Survival kit We gotta keep it under an hour Survival kit I might skip survival kit Cause we have eight minutes

Skip it skip it Go to Dadak Skip it Get it Dadak Um Pulling the burp cloth All right You put your baby right here

if you're burping over the shoulder. Yeah. One thing you can't do is baby's face into your shoulder because then they can't breathe. Yes. How do I adjust my baby's head? I'm scared I'm going to break her neck. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Burp cloth.

Baby, then grab burp cloth. Pull out. Ooh, move their head. Good dad hack. And that comes to be a Jill. But it's such a good dad hat, dude. Don't your dad hack. Well, I've been doing it.

I've been doing it. And it, dude, you feel like, a pro you put her on there and then you pull that out and that head turns and then you just and you hear that oh when they get the burp through it's a celebration because sometimes it's a battle getting that burp out and you're just like sweetheart just burp it's going to make you feel better yeah and as soon as she burbs back down to football and then wait wait wait boom yes and just easy she got from somewhere Dad hack.

Unpack the suitcase when you get home. Yeah. Unpack the suitcase when you get home time and time again. Listen, I've been two and oh with the last two times, but it'll be times when I get home, you just want to kick their feet up. We're finally home. This is nice.

Like, you want to kick your feet up on the couch. You want to maybe enjoy a snack. Don't do that, fellas. Don't do that. Don't do that. Just unpack the suitcase with your wife because your wife's not going to stop. They're going to be going around.

Let's unpack. Sweetheart, why don't we? just, I got to get the, I got to get Rue suitcase unpacked. I got to get Scottie's suitcase unpacked. I got to unload. I got to unload the food and snacks we got back into the pantry. Yeah. I got to unpack my stuff. I don't like having. I don't like when it just sits on the floor. And you probably got it. You're probably fighting that car, that car ride shit. Now, everybody gets it. I will sneak in a little two. I'll sneak in a two. Sweet I'm going to go to the bathroom quick and then I'll be ready to go. But just unpack the suitcase. If nothing else

unpack the kid's suitcase and the stuff that goes back into the pantry and the refrigerator. So that way mom knows, hey, you're dialed in just the way she is. Yes. Teamwork makes the dream work. Because I'm still the cat that doesn't unpack my suitcase when I get home.

I'll leave mine sitting there at the edge of the bed or down by the side of the floor because I never know what I might dig back into to pull out. I never really unpacked the suitcase when I get back home.

No, I don't need. My own. I was about to say I'm terrible at that. And mine will sit in there until my next trip and then I'll unpack the suitcase and then repack it for my next trip. Pop a team six.

Puppet Team 6. However, Dad Hack, unpacked the suitcase. when you get home. Just put the head down, put the helmet on, dude. Strap up, get the night vision goggles on, and get ready to work. Get ready to work. For everybody else, do all the work. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Nick? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas.

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

before Jonas Brothers. 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.

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To hear this and more, listen to Reality with the King on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. With everybody else, with your wife, take the kid's suitcase to a room, unpack it, sometimes you look in the suitcase bag, I don't know where this shit goes,

wife will know where it goes, but at least place it out so she knows, oh, you're dialed in. Got something like in the fridge. Hand it to Rue. Yeah, you can leave your suitcase. For the dad, you can leave your suitcase packed just to be clear, but unpacked the other suitcase. Good call.

Compact the LSUcases. Good call. Call ins. We have four of them. Let's get to them. And we have five minutes. First call in. Dude, do I have this?

Do you have what? I'm scrambling. Oh, no, no. I have it either right here. You have them to play. First one. A lot of anonymous this week. The only one that wasn't anonymous is a mom.

Oh, let's go. First mom calling. First mom calling. Got to keep it under an hour. Let's go. Let's go. Boys, we're in a situation. soon to be father long time soon to be my wife's in the first trimester and she's feeling like

absolute ducky um so hope to be a first time dad but i'm also a first year head coach at the age of 25 so i'm just driving back from the school at 11 30 p.m. camp tomorrow morning i pull into the driveway literally sitting in the driveway right now being the hero in all realms you know husband coach teacher Hopefully, Father, no God willing. And I'm sitting in my driveway. Just got a bunch of crap done prepared for tomorrow, knowing that I told my wife I do the dishes today because she loves the clean kitchen,

and she hasn't been doing much since the first trim. God bless her heart. And I just know I'm about to go to battle with these dishes at 11.30 p.m. right now. And so I texted my assistant coach, told him be ready for violence in the morning. And to be honest, I don't know if that can wait until then. I just, yeah.

Anyway, appreciate you, boys. Keep up the podcast. Love you. Buddy, that calling right there is, I've always loved the idea of coaching. I love, I love it. I would love to do it. You'd be phenomenal.

And the only thing that's helped me back is just the time, like the time you have to pour it. Because he's hopefully, right, knock on wood, soon to be dad, hopefully all goes well, all goes smooth. but you're also like the dad of like an entire football team. You're also the guy that's operating the coaching staff. You have to get stuff ready. You're late nights.

It's early mornings. Everything in between. You also want to be a family guy at home. All of that stuff. I could not. I can only imagine the stress that man feels sitting, sitting in the driveway. 11.30 at night thinking I got to go Oklahoma drill and meet these dishes in the A gap. But he's going to do it.

He's a future dad. He sounds like he's got a dialed in. Yeah, 25 year old head coach. Hats off to you, bro. That is awesome. Shout out you for listening to the pod. Can't wait to open, can't wait to welcome you with open arms

and the Papa Team 6. I hope the dishes went well because you are right, bro. The ladies, they want a clean kitchen. They don't like clutter in the house. We have to declutter. We have to think about this shit because it's hard for us to think about this shit.

I don't always remember to get all the boxes. I've talked about the box issue before. Then they just start putting stuff away that you're like, I didn't even know we were taking time right now to put stuff away. but just you got to be on your shit he's somebody that's going to be away from the house a lot but you got to be dialed in you got to be dialed in you got to go full what is it um they circle

around bull in the ring you got to be ready for shots at every angle yep and you got to know you are walking into a bull of the ring situation when you get home because i know he cares about his career he wouldn't if he didn't care about his career wouldn't be a head coach at 25 years old yes you have to be fucking dialed i've got to want violence and expect violence Yes. I'm quite literally facing the exact same situation as far as I have two minutes. Yeah, let's go next one. We got to stay under an hour. Got to stay under an hour. Next caller, please go fast because we got to stay under an hour. This is our first mom call in. Okay. Betsy let's read. They don't know how to read. It's like music on Spotify. Chef going everyone going word for word. The line with her and it's, dude, she's got a nut.

The page and like look up when she turns mile and it just, they just got all rude. That is awesome. That takes a lot of work and you're trying to like, you know, I'm on the back for like the attribute other than being like, you're so sure. It is, uh, it's little kids and what they're, what they're, crazy dude. This kid gonna be something special way better. That issue with, I talk, Scarlett, I think.

Betsy, let's go. Minneapolis, Minnesota. And shout out her husband Tyler, a member of Seaman Team 6. Yeah, right now he's on Seaman or Seed Team 6. Yep. He's on that squad right now. Betsy is wanting to show him a positive. of test result asking asking for advice on how she should show him.

Yep. Who knows if he watches the podcast, but maybe that's the spoiler alert right there. Hopefully not, because what I personally would think would be sick, we get her, Chef Jack, this is on you, get her merch ASAP. Get her merch ASAP. Hey, I got you something. I know you're, hopefully thought he's a listener of Bustin' With the Boys. Yeah.

I know you're a fan of Bustin' With the Boys, so I went ahead and got you some merch. He opens it up and it's some for the Dad's gear. Dude, that's so good. here with a positive pregnancy test. And Betsy, sweetheart, I would love for you to film it. Oh, please film it. Please film it.

And I hope this isn't, I hope we're not ruining the surprise right now. Should we film a video and send it to Betsy of us saying, dial it in? We could, but this is also going to be on the episode. This is their moment too. The other,

and this is also on that. First mom call in, future mom, I hope everything goes completely smooth, Betsy. Thank you so much for calling in the, for the dads. fires me up that we had our first that we had our first female call in

I love it that's what we should do though Jeff we got it we got to dial that in we got to get her address ASAP we got to tell we got to tell we got to tell Garrett we got to tell the team we got to overnight this shit okay because I think that would be a great gift that would be sick got to keep it under an hour

got it can you play one more I literally I literally have to go you have to go I literally have to go um okay so really quick since we're on air technology How do I play? The two that you need to play is this one and this one. After you play this one,

double-click which one? Fireworks. Get out of you. I love everyone. I love everyone. Hey, call in your dad lesson. You said you had one. We'll video it in and we can put it at the end.

Oh, that's smart. That's smart. I'll video my dad lesson. Love everyone. Love you too, bro. Good luck out there. Thank you guys. Let me know how it goes.

Tell Joey lover. Well, we love Jill, we love Chef, we love well. For the dad, fuck me sick. I love that son bitch, dude. Two percent. Kids can't have that right now. Hang on, I'll start this over. That comes to be a Jill.

Dude, you feel like butter on there and then you pull that and then you just and you hear that. That hat goes. Sometimes the sweet heart just burp, it's going to make you. As soon as she burps, back and then wait, wait, wait. Boom. Dad hack

You get home Yeah And you get home time and time again I've been two and oh with the last Every time's where I get home You just want to get Finally home This is nice

You get your feet up on the couch Hack don't do that fellas Just unpack Wife's not gonna stop Yeah Sweetheart why don't we just Get a Rue suitcase on pay I gotta get unload

I got unload into the pantry Yeah I got unpacking I don't like when it just sits And touch it You're probably fried shit Now everybody I'll sneak in a two Sweet arm ready to go

But just unpack the pack. The kid's suitcase, the pantry and the refrigerators. Hey, you're died. Yes. Teamwork makes the dream of the cat that doesn't unpack. I'll leave mine sitting there at the edge of the floor because I never know what I'm up. I guess when I get back home. No, I don't.

I don't. I'm terrible at that. Next trip. And I'm like, all right, then I'll like it for my next trip. I'm six. Puppet team say. Hang on. You just hit Paws.

You hit Paws on that. What was his name? He was anonymous. That was a anonymous. Anonymous caller. Anonymous caller. That is a great dad hack and it fat W for the score. because you're not only going to walk back in your house with a game face on, you're going to walk back in the house a hero because you went and got the correct milk. Now the dad hack in that moment because he said something here that all dads and Papa Team 6 need to understand. When those moments arise, you're the first to raise your hand and say, I'll go get this because it is. It buys you a little break. It buys you a little break getting out of the house. Listen, maybe what you want to listen to. It gives you some alone time. Nice.

little freedom time because you're ultimately doing what needs to be done. You just want to be the first in line to say, hey, I will go pick up the milk. Hey, I will go get this grocery. Oh, we don't have frozen French fries for dinner. What kind of side do we want for dinner? I'll run down to Trader Joe's right now and go get that. And you get in the car and you enjoy, you enjoy that little freedom that you have for a fleeting moment because you're going to have a smile on your face. Maybe crack a window, but that is a dad hack. That is a dad W right there. And that needs to be in everybody, every dad's Playbook is if something's not right at the house and you can go get it. Go go now. Go get it now because you're going to get yourself a little window of a bit of a break. You're going to get yourself a little bit of a break. We don't need any moms to see this clip. We don't need any moms to hear this episode in that part because moms, they might throw back on us now. Now that they know this, now that they know that that's in the little playbook, moms might, they might be first in line doing something like that. Then you're stuck at home with the kiddos. Yes.

CVS was just a mile away and you're gone for an hour. What was going on? I'll take, sometimes I will take my time. You kind of sit in, catch up on a couple things. You know, work-related, of course. Yeah, of course. But then you pull in, you sit in the driveway.

I love that he's back in it. You know he's just sitting in the driveway, buying a few extra minutes before he walks back into the war zone. However, you got the milk in hand. You're a superhero. But appreciate that call. Anonymous caller. We can get to.

Oh, yeah. have to do the final caller yeah just click sure i'm tell you where to click fireworks anon yep knowing yeah yeah papa seal god told me ready for vile in the morning but you're also like papa seal I agree with them here. And that's like a turning of the tide. Like, yo, are we becoming Cairns by feeling like fireworks shouldn't be just, I mean,

two or three in the morning. If you're past midnight and you're hearing fireworks go off, I think you have, you have the right to step outside and go full dad mode on some kids. I think you have full on right to say, hey, fellas, pipe down a little bit. Trust me, I was in your shoes. I love blowing up slugs and blowing up fireworks late into. the night hours. I'm not a cop. I'm not going to call the cops, but I need you to tone it down because I got an 18-month-old upstairs. And these loud noises, I have to check on her every time

because it scares me that she's going to get woken up. And if she gets woken up, you can bet your k-d-asses, then I'll be out here and the cops will be called. So you brave, straighten your shit up, young man. Look at me when I'm talking to you. Yeah, you. Cut the shit out. I don't want to come back out here again, because I swear to God, I will rain hell if my 18 month old gets woken up by your little, by your little fucking fireworks. Because I'm with you. I'm with them.

I was that little degenerate kid that wanted to stay up as long as possible. My parents would always make me come inside. But if I did have the flexibility to be out as late as I possibly could shooting off fireworks, I would do that because you don't know any better. You don't know how to think of everybody else and that there's families going on. But even when the fireworks were growing up at like 10 p.m.

And Scotty's sleeping. Thank God she didn't wake up. But every time a pop goes up, I'm like checking down on her to see if, uh, does she, if she's going to get woken up because I'm thinking, God, we got to have some time with it. And then I'm like, oh, Will, you're getting a little too old. You're getting a little too. That's kind of some, some boomerism coming out of you right now. So I feel his pain.

That's how I would probably handle it is if it's going on past midnight, I think you have, you got to go, you got to go, you got to go, you got to go, uh, you got to go pop a seal. You got to go outside. You got to set the expectation. You got to let him know, hey, I'm on. on your side, I was where you were at. But if you keep this shit up, I don't want to call it. I want you guys to have a great time.

But if you keep this shit up and my daughter or my son wakes up, bet your sweet little ass I will be right back out here and the sirens will be going. Because I will call in the entire army on you guys for interrupting my daughter or my son's sleep. You have a dog too, right? Waffle. Waffle's terrified of fireworks. She goes in, like, nestles in a corner. That's the other one. Some people probably have dogs that bark.

I was with some dogs. Or get all worked up during the fireworks. Freaked out from the fireworks. It was the same thing. They were going off to like the neighbors. I was up with my girlfriend at her family's house. And they have four dogs and they were not. It wasn't good.

And the fireworks were going to about midnight. And it was right next to them. Yeah. Yeah. You're not opened up to all of this. I feel like until you kind of become a parent. Or you're an adult with real responsibilities where maybe you have to be up the next day. And some of this stuff's going off and you're thinking, you know, the loud music.

But when you're a kid, you're not, man, why are they got to be such a party pooper? Like, why does he, why do they have to be like that? Like, we're just having fun out here. Yeah, I don't know about you, but like, even at 23, there's a few things where I remember as a kid, I'll be like, my old man would get pissed off about stuff. And I'm like, dude, what? You know, you need to relax. And even at 23, I'll sit there. And I'll be like, that motherfucker's driving too fast down.

through our neighborhood. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, holy shit, I'm turning into my dad. And that's terrifying. But like, you'll be more and more, especially once you, once you get the family going. Yeah. Because now you'll be a lot more cautious driving faster down certain roads, driving down roads, driving in general.

Because you just never know. Like, you have your little one. And they're like exploring. They don't know. You're trying to teach them. But shit can happen like that, dude. Appreciate the call. though appreciate the calling and we will get into our last our last segment which is a quote

a lesson or something that has marinated with us that we would like to share or maybe something that we're trying to learn ourselves to become just better fathers in general and I came across something on um came across something on Instagram that I will just that I will just share let's see here children I do have a collection where it just says children so that way I can throw in the stuff that I see I'm like, oh, I like that. I want to come back to it. But I was thinking, too, because a lot of times as parents, you want to be able to provide your kids with, like,

great experiences or trips or take them somewhere because you think it's going to be an awesome memory. A lot of times it is because you're just there and you're just present. But I know there are a lot of people that can't afford every trip in the world. And they probably question themselves on if they are being the parent that they, that they should be, that they want to be, that they order their kid because their friends might be doing something cool and they might not get they might not get oh my wife's calling me hang on what i was going off of i kind of lost my turn of thought

talking about you have a kid's thing on your phone yeah yeah i was i was growing through instagram and i saw this and i know me as a kid growing up i didn't always get to go on cool trips that i thought you know my friends were going on and everything else so for those parents out there's something i saw on instagram that i thought would be fun to read shout out at modern parents guys Good follow on Instagram. You don't need a $5,000 Disney trip to build a happy childhood. You need a garden hose, a popsicle, and a parent who's present. And here's the science behind why the backyard is enough.

By each five, your child's brain is 90% developed. It's not shaped where you go, but by how safe and how connected they feel. The brain doesn't store luxury. It stores emotion and repetition. The moments that happen again and again. Become the wiring beneath everything. Backyard play offers the perfect. recipe for healthy brain development.

It offers predictable rhythm, emotional co-regulation, and sensory rich learning. When your child feels safe in your presence, their nervous system calms, and the brain opens up to learn, explore, and grow. This happens best in everyday spaces. So sprinklers,

mud puddles, bare feet in the grass. These aren't just fun. They build the sensory maps that wire attention, movement, and emotional control. A $1 popsicle lights up more lights up more joy than a $1,000 theme park. If it comes with attunement, your face is what makes the memory magical.

Children don't need constant stimulation. They need responsive presence. The brain develops best when life slows down enough to feel. And research shows its repetition with emotional safety that wires long-term regulation. That means the same swing, the same snack, the same smile. You're not depriving your child when you stay home more. you're giving them space to rest to attach and to trust the most resilient adults often had childhoods filled with routine attunement and calm nervous systems not expensive plans one day they

won't say my childhood was was magical because of where we went they'll say it was magical because of how i felt at home you already have what they need your eyes your voice your presence and yes your backyard save this for the days you wonder if it's enough because it is the little things don't just matter. They build the brain. Shout out at Modern Parents Guide for more insights on raising emotionally secure kids. So a little, you know, a little shout out to a profile that I follow. And I saw that too.

And I just think it'd be cool for, I thought it'd be good for just parents to hear because at times you battle with, I want to take him here or this would be really cool for them. And sometimes it might not fit the schedule. It might not fit the budget. It might not fit the madness. that goes on in all of our lives. But all those like reminders on the small things are the best things, those daily traditions or weekly traditions or monthly traditions,

just your presence alone, it builds, it builds who they are. So that was the lesson that I wanted to share, something that kind of resonated with me. It's true. I mean, you remember,

I mean, as a kid growing up, like hanging out with being with my dad and brother is what I always remember a lot, playing sports in the backyard, or whether it's going, riding my bike around or walking to the neighborhood pool you know I was fortunate we got to go

on trips and stuff because my dad traveled so much like for work that we were able to he got points and stuff and they always try to expose me and my brother but like the stuff that I always remember is like that time you spend and like you know sometimes you make you make fun yeah what you have and I was still I think I was like the last

probably generation or age where we didn't grow up with screens so I grew up I rode my body I got on my bike and you went over to, you know, my buddy Warner's house across the neighbors, the Edwards, and we'd go play football in the backyard and go build a fort. And it wasn't until like maybe like seventh grade now, probably fifth grade when like the iPod and iPhone started coming around. But that was still like, that's how we grew up.

We went outside and, you know, spent a lot of time doing that. And just making the most of what you have. Yeah. You don't need a lot to have fun. That's kind of the best part. And I hope that's, you know it better. like I guess kids nowadays with like screens and stuff like you put that in front of someone like I worry about like that kills creativity and like kills like imagination and stuff like yeah the

screen stuff is such like a unique topic because it's like you just battle like I feel like we do a pretty good job and it's almost like you know when we got done with that car ride to Missouri it's like Charles ends up making the comment to me like once we get to the the Airbnb that we were in it's like we kind of do it to ourselves because we don't like put you could easily just throw a screen in front of them and just keep them occupied but you think about the long term of you know in those situations giving them a screen then they're dependent they start to get dependent on the screen then anytime they act up or misbehave or you're having those moments where you just you'd rather just put a screen in front of them then leave the pool and then it's like that's how they start to co-regulate or that's how they start to regulate their emotions by being like oh I have I need a screen and then you chalk it up as like, that'll keep their, their attention on this and not present in the moment, or you're battling through boring moments,

moments of tantrums, all the things that like, it's hard for the parent in the moment. But the longevity of it or the long term from it is like, you know, you get to where I was reading something to where it's like if you're putting screens in front of them, and I'll have this sharpened up for the episode next week,

but if you put screens in front of them now and you're doing it to kind of, to ease the short-term pain, then they get dependent on those screens. And then when they get to school and they realize there are no screens there, the work that they can do that might not be on a screen, or maybe it is on a screen. But their attention is so locked in on focusing on a screen that they don't have the attention to stay locked in, you know, in a classroom or when they're in group settings to where,

you know, all the ADHD and stuff kind of starts to spike up or come about or come to the surface a lot more these days, I feel like. and then you know you're starting to medicate your kids all because it's like in the the building block developmental brain stages of just fighting like putting a screen in front of them just because it'll take their attention away from the current moment to put them on a screen and that'll just you know it'll be this bad ripple effect that happens like when they do get in school or when they're becoming adults because they just don't have you don't have that brain development that they should have when they were little i agree and it's kind of like i don't know about when you were up but like I never my parents were very adamant like no TV in my room like I know some parents I've grown up I have friends who had they had a TV and whether it was TV time or something my parents are like no TV because we know you and your brother you guys will turn it on it you'll stay you'll act asleep and then get up in like midnight and watch like a movie or something yeah but that's how we were that's how we were well they were adamant so I grew up and said

which actually like at the time you're sitting there maybe when you're growing up and you're kind of pissed off like Billy gets up TV. Yeah, you know, and you're going to, I have to. But then looking back at it, I'm like, oh, man, like, I'm kind of glad because I learned instead of doing that, I read. Like, that was a normal thing. Like, I read all the time to go to sleep. And it's something that even as I'm getting older, I'm like, I, I find myself on

TikTok and stuff and I'm like, that will keep you up. Like, I've learned that I've now, the doom scrolling. The doom scrolling, man. And I, I have to put my, I put my phone away. Like, for anyone that has issues of that, would I, started doing is that no TikTok no Instagram reels three hours before bed like I set a hard no and that's like I've started sleeping so much better yeah it's like I feel you on that where it's like you get worried about you're right though like if I even think about my like we I had a TV we had a TV in our room and I watch TV I'd fall asleep to the TV we've like even though we didn't have screens like you know once computers were a thing and you could play backyard baseball or Sims or roller coaster tycoon we'd be fighting over to have like computer time. And I just feel like with that,

I was in the generation of high school where the iPhone came out to where there was MySpace and Facebook just started. But thinking of myself now, like there'll be a lot of times, like I can just admit that the phone will consume me at times or where my attention is like fleeting. We don't have a TV in our room now. Like Charles,

a big believer not having a TV in the room and everything else. But Cody was somebody who had like the like ADHD, And if I think about my brain on how my attention works at times, I feel like I can think back to those things and like, yeah, I was like a menace with whether playing video games or watching TV, playing video games late at night, wanting to stay up late or sneaking it in the other room. Oh, man, never catch you, trying to play video games late?

Oh, yeah. You know, you get reprimanded from it and get disciplined. Sometimes on weekends, not enough or not like we probably should have. But if you're just thinking about the screens and everything else, like, Charles and I are big on. just, I guess just eating and leaning into the fray and just, it's like making it hard on ourselves, I guess, to protect what we feel like screens would do if we're putting in front of our kids all the time because we'll get pissed off.

She ran out of TV coupons last week. You know, we do that coupon system. And she used up her last 30-minute coupon tour. I was like, the next day, hey, you don't have anymore. Like, I know you want to watch TV. Trust me, I would love for you to watch TV so I can just take a break. But your 30 minutes, your coupons ran out. You're just going to have to know next week, hey, you're going to have to

spread them out a little bit better. Just deal with it. I, by the way, recommended that to a couple I saw this weekend. They have a little three-year-old boy, Shab Townsend, and the dad, Logan, great guy. He looked at me. He's like, I don't know, dude. He's a fucking demon.

Dude, I'm telling you. Because, like, she'll get pissed. Like, Dad, I can't watch more? Yes, sweetheart. You have, like, 15 more minutes. Yes, you can watch more. Like, she's always checking. Like, am I able to watch more?

Yeah, you have, like, 15 more minutes. But when it's done, it's done, you have to turn it off. Yeah. and sometimes it's a battle just because like you're giving them a little bit of screen time and again the screens are just like gravitating they love to be on those fucking things and so charl and i we fight our asses off not to not to like go to you know she doesn't know what an ipad is but like give her an ipad or give her a screen more in the car traveling um do you think it's inevitable that sooner or later yeah of course it is like just been growing up

but like you're going to just hold out as long as possible you know i'm not sure until we get there like again like my only experience right now is we i have an eighth month old and a three year old like i don't have you know an eight year old a nine year old a 10 year old somebody who's going to school and they might have you know screens and i'm sure that they'll you know with the AI movement just technology in general they're going to have they're going to have to like understand that world but i don't know we talk about it like we don't want them to have social media even through high school don't want them to have social media just the stuff i'm reading and the strong father strong daughter stuff the data um it's just scary to think about i i'll start i'll continue to put like a framework

or something to go by later like as she gets older but i know like right now we want to do whatever we can not to not to have them like depending on screens or definitely not social media or having their own phone uh that those are like what the conversations we're having now as she's a three-year-old so i don't know how it'll develop or adapt in the future future but i know it's like you know it's one of those things we want to be very we want to be very cautious yeah i think that's all good i think you guys have a good mindset of it as someone who's not a parent but i can that's kind of stuff that i even i'm like ah man like a lot of that stuff scary social media is a big one dude i know like depression is getting more real at the young

age you start to base your life off like that social presence yep and it's like it's just so dangerous and i'm like and that was i mean you said uh High school is when My space came out. When I was in like middle school, Snapchat became big, then Instagram. And those were ones. And then like just naturally,

I think my age is like some of the first that really like, you grew up and you started, I think I had an Instagram account when I was like in middle school. Yeah. It's like, yeah, you start to like, you know, look around.

You do a lot of looking. Yeah, you do a lot of comparing. Comparisons and just. And people can think it's, It's weird or like disagree with it, but I think even us as adults, like even we struggle with it. Yeah. You get caught comparing, looking at everybody's highlight reels. You want to, you know, post all the best things on your social media.

If you're not somebody who posts a lot, like I'm sure you sit there and you scroll, like even we struggle with it as adults. And it's like, you know, these kids that just don't even have a fully developed brain or they don't understand how the world works. And they're getting how the world works from social media and everything that's not even real. consume their brain. Yeah, I think it's like a slippery slope. So we've started having those conversations, but I'm sure we'll continue to formulate whatever it is. Yeah. And you both just approach you with teamwork, man. Yeah, man. Arm and arm. Staying strong. In the shit. We sure, we don't want to let her watch some blueie right now. We sure we don't want to let her watch something just to quiet down right now. You need to be parent team six. Yeah. Along with Papa team six.

Yeah, parent team six. You guys are both in it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But appreciate all of you tuning in. Please make sure to subscribe to our new channel for the dads on YouTube or on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, everything. If you want to support us and rep the merch, bwtbb.com, we will see you next week. Take out the trash. Love you. Boys, I shot this horizontally.

I hope it works. Chef, thank you for patching us into the episode. Will, here is my lesson of the week. Lesson of the week is to have a mentor that is in a, further along in fatherhood than you are. Will is that for me, and I told him this morning that he was going to be my lesson in the week. And I don't think Will and I ever really planned,

or, you know, I never really asked Will to be a mentor to me. It just kind of naturally happened through conversations that we had with each other about family planning and his kids and his marriage with Charo and my marriage with Jill. those conversations just kind of flowed very naturally and easily. But it has been a relationship in my life that I have learned so much from. And not that your mentor can't be like a father-in-law or your own dad,

because obviously they're further along in fatherhood than you. But somebody that's a third party, somebody that's like outside of your family, maybe outside the traditions of your family, that has their own thing going on with their kids. and just being able to see another perspective here, another way of doing things, seeing Will even interacting with his kids and seeing Charo interacting with their kids, it's cool. And so I've just learned a ton from Will over these past couple months and having these conversations with him

that it really has brought not only the confidence to start a family, which we've already touched on in the podcast, but it's probably a lot of confidence in just being a dad. Just in these first, I'm like what, day four of being a dad. So I hope that that message finds anybody well that is planning to start a family or is just started a family or maybe you got kids in high school, kids in college. I think that that can apply to anyone and everyone.

So just finding a mentor, finding a friend or accountability that is further along in the fatherhood process. And maybe for those PT6 sickos out there, finding somebody that is just becoming a dad, being that mentor to somebody,

I know it meant a lot to me, Will kind of coming alongside and teaching me and show me the ropes on a lot of different stuff and having convos with me. So any PT6 sickos out there that want to recruit their, friends into the fatherhood or just be a mentor or a guide to him, maybe actively seek out

some of those young gun future debts. That's my lesson in the week. I hope you all enjoyed the rest of the podcast. I know Will probably killed it. And again, Chef, thank you for patching this into the episode. I hope everybody has a good week. I hope we kept it under an hour. Peace of luck.

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