Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton’s MONSTER Parenting Fail, Sherman's Goof & Enjoying The Magic Years | For The Dads

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

This week’s episode of For The Dads kicks off with chaos—Will and Sherm forgot to hit record for the first 50 minutes. But the boys bounce back and dive into everything dad-related with laughs, lessons, and a little destruction.   They start by breaking down the recording mishap, then talk fan engagement and the rise of the iconic “Papa Team 6” along with other hilarious dad community nicknames. Will shares a story from the park with his daughter and how parenting shortcuts (like saying “the monsters are coming”) can backfire. Sherm opens up about his biggest dad fail yet—losing his cool, destroying his front lawn, and going full raccoon assassin... all at 1 a.m.   The episode wraps with practical dad hacks, a survival kit breakdown, listener call-ins, and a thoughtful reflection from Sahil Bloom’s Five Types of Wealth, specifically “The Magic Years” and how to cherish them.   Subscribe, like, and join Papa Team 6. Going dark.   --   TIMELINE    0:00 - INTRO   2:05 - We F***ed Up    8:30 - Papa Team 6 is going MOBILE   18:50 - Dad Loss - Be careful taking toddlers on walks + Losing verbal battles   36:30 - Catching up with PT6   58:30 - Sherman went to war at 1am    1:30:30 - Enjoying the little moment on video    1:44:03 - Call-Ins - What to do when 20 min turns into an hour + Daddy Daughter Week   1:54:30 - "The Glory Years"   ----   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.    Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing.   Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a soon-to-be dad who’s currently enjoying his last few months of uninterrupted sleep and freedom. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify   -----   SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   Ro - Connect with a provider at https://ro.co/DADS to find out if prescription Ro Sparks are right for you and receive $15 OFF your first order.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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007 Sherm dressed for the occasion and there's a lot of laughter because something honestly very badly just happened we'll talk about it in a second I just need you to know whether you're washing me right now whether you are listening to me right now

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You might be, you know, a lot of dads, you're on the move a lot. So you're probably listening to me in your ear on Spotify or Apple or Google Play. A lot of people do love and do enjoy watching the show. Maybe you're watching with your spouse right now on the TV and you haven't figured out a way to subscribe. Yeah. If you can just stop, whether you're at a stoplight, whether you're a few cars back at a stop sign, or maybe you just want to pull over. I don't know what you're doing, but if you're listening to us on your audio,

Papa Team 6 would really. appreciate. You could just pull out your phone, open up your YouTube app, just type in For the Dad's podcast. Touch our channel, hit subscribe. You don't have to watch. Just the subscription would help immensely. Immensely. We love you. We appreciate you. We do. Welcome to For the Dad's. Sherm. Do you want to say what happened? I would love to say what happened. I owe an apology to Will Compton. And for people listening and watching, a big deal did just go down. Like a huge deal.

A deal where it's like, I don't know how to react right now because we still have to record our show and we have to bring the juice and I have to bring the juice and we have to be optimistic. Yes, dude. Because you're my mate, dude. Yeah. You're my teammate in the squadron. I'm in the foxhole with you.

You're in the foxhole with me, bro. Quite literally. And you said, and to be in the foxhole with somebody, you got to know that the guy you're in the foxhole with has your back. Fuck. Has every angle covered if that's their role. And I, I, I, I, I, I packed you on the back and you shit in my hand. Yeah, maybe you patting me on the back a little too much.

But I haven't. We did the performance reviews last week. I know. And that went well. We talked about details and we talked about structure. and we talked about my weakest point the fine details and having it written down

having it written down but this was something that doesn't need to be written down this is something that does not need to be written down it's right up there with breathing in the production world I would say or drinking enough water Papa Team 6 moms, dads, Seaman Team 6 C Team 6 need to know as they're listening to this

I'm very frustrated Yeah. I need to talk about my feelings. It makes me angry. I think this is healthy. And I feel alone when you do behaviors like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell them. Well, first off, would love to create a safe space for Will to continue to get this off his chest because I feel like that's the best way to deal with it. To dive right in, I forgot to hit the record button on both audio and video. We were recording for how long, Chef? Chef has a mic, by the way. Chef, who is the leader of Seaman Team 6 at the moment,

he has a mic now being able to chime in so you don't have to hear him from far away. We were going about 45 minutes. Great job of keeping it under an hour. We were just about to keep it under an hour. It was potentially maybe the first time ever. We were on the lesson. 45.

The episode was almost done. Will was getting into his life. lesson. I look over at the audio and the video and I see no red light like I do now to where it's rolling. We recorded for 45 minutes and it was

so much fun and it was going so well and Cherm stands up and he's like grinning at chef like pointing down at the little what's that called? Zoom recorder. A little Zoom recorder. I look over a Sherma like, what's up?

And he's like, I didn't hit record. So I'm like So we didn't get anything that we just The last 45 minutes Nothing Nothing He's like Chalked up to the wind

He's like I'm so sorry Why didn't I just If I can add It was dead silent for maybe Five minutes Yeah No one spoke That's a long time around here too

Yeah Because we got a lot of talkers Especially in this room Because it's Friday It's pizza Friday It's supposed to be up all this shit that goes down in the shop this is the safe space

this is this is the space that it's like get to go have some fun get to go have some fun with my boy with your boy that light you down I'm the one that stuck the night thing we play video games but don't get to see all week you're your bright light in the shop

yeah and I just came in I shit in your hand quite literally and I'm stuck because I'm like I have to accept this and get over it as fast as possible because we still have to record for the dads Yeah We still have to have fun Yes

We still have to tell people to subscribe We still have to read Re read all the great comments we loved in the comments section About Papa Team 6 Because Papa Team 6 is growing And we gotta tell the same story Again But that's okay

Because they're really good stories And I would love to hear it again and just say shout out this is not getting points from Will. You have recovered very well. You, 10 minutes ago, is a different you right now. You've recovered. How do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10?

I don't know, dude. You look like a feel in what way? We're talking like good mood? No, just able to go. Because you look like a 7, like a high 7. right now. Good. I believe it. Hey, he didn't hit record. Good. The guy that you put a ton of trust in to make sure everything operates. And he failed you? Good. Good. Oh, hey, Papa Sherm who said he was going to show up at 8.30 and get with Chef to go over the details and structure and line out a process

of the show. So there's no mishaps. Sherm didn't show up at 8.30. What time do you show up? I don't know what time you showed up. It is like 9-10. Guess what? Your boy doesn't show up. Good. Instead, he sent you a picture of a raccoon in a cage on his roof saying victory. Good. Good. He's trying to weasel way out of why he was. I texted Cherham back when he sent me that. I was like, great creative way of letting me know that you're not here at the shop by the time you said you'd be at the shop.

Drew. Worst part of that is I didn't even know what time it was. To which I replied to your text, fuck. Yeah. vibes are up man vibes are still up vibes are still up by

god do you want to get into comments yeah let's read some comments because I tell you what I love what we got brewing with Papa Team 6 we got moms giving out their names

we're hearing ovary ops chef you're going to have to read those again you're going to have to give the same shoutouts I can do that that's true that's true the gal and the con of comment section of our Instagram, the app for the dad's pod. When we dropped the Papa Team 6, I want you.

And she's like, I got, I got female team names loading. Check your DMs. We have some good stuff. We have Natalie from Southeast Missouri leaving comments on what the Delta Force, what moms could be called there. We have some good humor. We have people buying in, leaving comments, supporting the cause. Yes. And we want to deliver them a fun, a good, good episode.

A good episode, a fun episode. But PT6 is firing off in the comments. I'll start. We had our good friend. And you're wearing a tuxedo. But you know, I get a 007 episode. I love it. I'm like, let Shirm be Shirm.

He texted me. He's like, hey, we should wear tuxes. I didn't respond to him. I knew Shirm would show up and it tux. I love it, dude. I love it. But late to the shop today. Got his tux.

and didn't hit record. And it's just like, buddy, there's, Papa Team 6 is questioning. You're being in this unit right now. Yeah. Before this even happened. Before this even happened. The whole, you didn't sleep on couches.

You didn't earn your stripes the right way. Yeah. Now you're dropping the bag with the show. The comments are going to be crazy. And we love that PT6 will be in the comments. Yeah. Holding me accountable. Yeah, if we can get some Pt6, just support in the comments.

Yeah, dude. Yeah. Willie hate to see you like this. I know he sucks, but keep your head up. Willie, you're a good boss. You didn't lose it on him. Way to go. He dapped me up.

I said, I just need to dapp up before we hit record. And you were kind enough for that. Yeah. We hugged it out. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, Morgan Linton, 5275. He said, Sherman, you look great in your tucks, but you know what you look better in?

A Papa Team 6 shirt. What he really commented was successful C Team 6 member joining Papa Team 6 in October and need a Papa Team 6 shirt for my walkout hospital photo shoot. Which for dads out there, that's a big trend right now is when you're walking out of the hospital, you're holding the duna or whatever the baby carrier is. It's like from the back. It's kind of dramatic. It's cool. Yeah. It's a great.

I have an instapost for you. Who sent the comment? That was Morgan Linton. 5275. Morgan, number one, first off, congratulations on having a kiddo. Second thing, your prayers are getting answered, brother. We have our first pop a team six shirt dropping. You're listening to this or watching this right now on Wednesday.

The shirt drops tomorrow on Thursday. It sure does. First and only right now, Papa Team 6 shirt dropping. If you're not watched, we're going to have the graphic up so you can see it. But if you're just listening to us, this shirt is incredible. It is. You got a bear, a military bear, Papa Team 6 sitting there on a cooler that's labeled the details. BWTB cooler, busing with the boys, sitting there, military gear on, bottle hanging in the front of his carrier.

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And guys, it's a strong shirt. Strong first shirt. Yeah. It says at the top, mission, contain the chaos. Pop a team six. And on the bottom, underneath his boots, it says Special Ops, Dad Division. Oh, I love that Dad Division. but this right here

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Again, Chef Jack, he's part of Seaman Team 6 right now. If you're married, you're seeking to have a kid, you are now part of Seed Team 6. You're dropping seed, you're dropping bombs. Bombs over Baghdad. Bombs over Baghdad into the ovary operations, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's right.

Yeah. And then you'll be, you will be accomplishing Bud's training that's breeding until dad status. And when that dad status hits, that's when you're part of Papa Team 6. Because guess what? Papa Team 6 wants you. Papa Team 6 wants you. This is a show that embraces fatherhood, the highs and lows, the sucks, to love everything in between the fun moments, the bad moments,

the moments where you're in the fox and with your boy and he let you down and you just got to talk it out. This is that show. This is that show. So we also welcome to For the Dads. Yes, welcome to Four the Dads. Also, remember, 601 The Dads, if you want to call in, drop us a line, ask Will or myself a question, tell us a funny story. maybe you have a dad hack or a survival kit that you want to share. And if for our international listeners, we had Nathan here.

I'll grab this little Aussie flag that we made for Nathan. I love Nathan so much. Please tell me we're just going to run a call from him. I hope so. So we can listen to his voice. I wish for that. Nathan is really the only thing that could fix this situation at this point. If we had a call it from Nathan.

To empathize with you and give me a pick me up in support. Dude, he has a call. He would juice us so much. I kind of almost just want to call him right now. We have his number. Or no, we don't. Because he emailed, he's an international listener. So anybody that's abroad, you can email 601 the dads at gmail.com with your calling.

International callers, 601 the dads at gmail.com. Yes. And the high line gets active later in this episode. At the top, we usually obviously tell stories. We talk about dad losses. We talk about moments. We crack a cold one, too. Yep.

What are the odds? What's another segment? We got a lesson or a quote or a topic of the day that we come across and we might be leaning into to help just better ourselves as fathers because we go through a lot of tough moments, which we'll be getting into with some of the dad losses. Yeah. Yeah. And also survival kid, dad hack, we kind of go through, again, not experts.

I know we said that at the top. Not experts. But we try and put some people on game. Yeah. We try to help the dads out there. Full episode. Full episode day. We're going to keep it under an hour.

We're going to keep it under an hour. You want me to kick off dad losses? Please. All right. So, you're going to include this in the loss? Yeah, I definitely can. So dad losses this week. One, I took Scarlett on a walk with my mom.

She's in town. Shout out Miss Amy. She's helping us out with Scarlet. She's in town. Right after Jill's mom, My mother-in-law, Lisa, shout-out Lisa, was in town for a week as well. Miss Amy loves her nighttime walks, and all she wanted to do was take her newborn granddaughter on a walk. Jill was a little hesitant.

She didn't know if it was smart because of the temperature. A little hot outside. A little hot outside. The sun was down. Sun was down. And I talked Jill down, and I said, hey, it's okay. It'll be a short walk. Huge dad loss.

She had the onesie on, long sleeves. covering her hands, her feet. So by the time that we got home, she truly felt like a hot potato. And for like a newborn, or a dad to a newborn, I have no idea what's going on when I'm feeling her temperature that hot.

And she's screaming like I've never heard her scream before. And it just shoots like shockwaves of anxiety, worry, guilt as you're watching her cry. God, it feels so pain. And it really does, especially when you're, I knew for a fact that it was my fault, very similarly to me forgetting to hit the record button. But unlike me, for getting to hit the record button and being able to communicate with Will and us work through it, all she can do is cry. Yeah. And so you're like, you're just, you're holding them close. You're apologizing.

Oh, yeah. Maybe you're testing them a little bit. Hey, you're crying a little too hard here. You're like you got to toughen up at some point. All you do is eat sleeping shit every day. Yeah, get it together. What are we doing? Yeah, let's create some thick skin. Like, if I'm being, hey, you know what?

You step out of the world. If I'm being honest with you, you're kind of being a little bit right now. It was what? You're kind of being soft and lazy. You don't do nothing throughout today. You can't go on a little brisk walk and get a little sweat going? It was 81 degrees outside. You know, you know where Daddaz is from?

That does is from Texas. Yeah. Where it's 108 degrees outside. Oh, sweet. We don't cry over Tennessee heat here. I'll take you down to Texas. I'll give you down to Texas. cry about. Oh, the humidity. It's good for your skin. What is she two weeks? Two weeks. Two weeks. Yeah, two

weeks. And just cooking and Miss Amy's arms. And we didn't, we didn't realize it until you get home. And Jill said, I was beating myself up like really bad. I was pissed off at myself and just kind of like getting quiet, not shutting down fully, but just like started piddling around the house to distract myself. You had so much anxiety on the first recording we did before this episode when we were recording the other episode you had so much anxiety that you wanted to go to the emergency room. I did. No, I truly, in my head, I didn't go to the hospital.

I was like, we got to go to the hospital. And this was before I woke up, Jill. She's a nurse, RN. So she was able to take care of the situation very quickly. It was like, oh, just take off her onesie and go into the coldest room in our house and stand next to the AC bin. She'll be fine. Like she's going to be great.

And in my head, oh yeah, dude, I was wanting to do the thermometer, which that's a whole thing because it's an anal thermometer at their age. And I'm thinking in my head, oh my gosh, Jill's going to be pissed off at me.

Now we got to do this. We got to put this thing up her bum. She's going to be, Scarlett's going to be pissed. This is going to be. And my mom's here. Hey, mom, I'm a great dad. I just, you know, cooked my newborn child in the sun.

But it all worked out. at the end of the day everything was fine and jill said we learned best from our losses love her composure in that moment yes similar to yours similar to yours don't do that shirm hey come on don't do that papa sherm come on my dad loss is going to be i'm just laughing because we're just retelling my dad loss is going to be losing a verbal negotiation with your toddler. I lost a verbal battle with Rue. We usually eat dinner around 6, 6.30 at night. On this given day, it was a couple days ago. It's around 6.30. She did a great job. I was saying that on last week's episode, trying to get more protein going. Found these chicken nuggets. She loves the chicken nuggets.

Loves the chicken nuggets. Don't blame her. Had some broccoli. That'll be more of a cracker. a cold one situation because I found a couple good little, found a nice little move when trying to get your toddler to eat vegetables. She eats her dinner. It's around 7 o'clock. That's where we go upstairs to get Scotty ready for bedtime. Start to prep Rue. Like it's time to calm down. No, we can't watch TV. No, you know, can't do this. Like just it's time to start relaxing a little bit. So we can get you upstairs, get you in your pajamas and start doing the bedtime routine. Rue wanted to go to the playground, which is new. Usually, it's not like if we hit the playground, we usually hit the playground like when I get home.

We all go as a family and hit the playground. Everybody's out, especially on the night's days. It's been the hot as shit recently. So we have in the playground much. Or she'll go to the playground with the nami like in the morning. She had already been on the playground that day. But for whatever reason, the playground was on her mind. She wanted to go to the playground.

It's 7 o'clock at night. It's 706. It's 7.06. And I'm sitting there. It's been a long day. We were at the bus. Not all day, but got home probably around 4. 30, 5 o'clock, you hang out the kiddos.

You're playing on the ground. Scotty's little nickname right now is Scott Zilla because she goes and terrorizes anything going on. She's like army crawling everywhere. It's adorable. But anything she sees on the ground, she goes, like, it's not actual playtime until every floor is just pulled off the shelf onto the ground because she just wants to pull everything down.

Or she goes in a Rue's room and she sees a railroad track set up. She just goes right for it and just basically tears it all apart. Like, oh, no, Scott Zilla, Scott Zilla. She's all the way. Wait. I'm like grab her and drag her. Is Rele loving that too? Rue gets upset.

Oh, okay. Those are moments where it's like, hey, Rue, you were like this too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

You're trying to tell her, but she gets pretty worked up. Like, Scottie's going to get, oh, no, she, Roo's honestly started calling her Scott Zilla. No. So Charo will be downstairs,

say like, this morning. I'll go upstairs and wake her up and I'm kind of laying with her bed. We're kind of having some jokes and some smiles. I'm waking her up and everything.

Then mom will come up with Scotty. then we'll have all of us in there. And then, like, she puts Scottie on the ground and you see Scotty, just Army crawling for the railroad tracks. And Rue, like, leans up out of, like, her little bed, their little bed crib or whatever it is. She's like, oh, no, she's like, oh, no, I don't want Scotzilla. I don't want Scottzilla.

I start laughing. I reach and grab Scotty's little leg and just, like, drag her back. I'm like, nope. And then she'll, like, drag back, and then she'll just be army crawling again. Oh, no, Godzilla! But got off track there. Rue wanted to go to the playground. Yeah, yeah.

You know when you're a parent and it's just like, dude, it's close to bedtime. Like, no, we're not going to the playground. That's going to take like 30 minutes or 40 minutes by the time we get back. Like bedtime is coming up, dude. Yeah. And you're sitting there as a parent like, a couple things are happening. Kid starts to break down. You're in this like, all right, if I fight this war, because that's what it's going to be.

I'm essentially going to have to strong armor vocally or pick her up and take her up and take her upstairs and it's just going to be a battle the whole time because she's going to lose all of her composure. Or do I find this, do I find this route? Do I find a negotiation tactic that can kind of get her off, get her off topic, get her off kilter, but she's focused on going to the park. Yeah. Dadda, please, I just want to swing. I just want to go to the park.

Charles walks by with Scotty. And again, it's 706. Charles walks by with Scotty. She's going to go upstairs and sit in the rocker and just easily put the bottom. on her mouth and put her to sleep. Yeah. She's got the relaxing mission. She's like, why don't you take her to the park?

I'm just like, why would you say that out loud? Like, text that to me. Yeah, yeah. So maybe, yeah, I might think about it, but why would you say that in front of Rue? Because that's just going to confirm, yeah, the park, dead up park. And she's like, we can go fast.

Like, we can go quick. I was like, all right, now I'm starting to come around. Like, okay, I just need to embrace this moment. Yeah, yeah. Daughter wants to go to the park. It's only 70, six, it's only seven and ten at this point. Yeah.

We can go to the park quick because park's not too far away. I can just embrace this moment, even though I know I don't want to. I just want to go up. I want to have a nice, clean, fun bedtime. Yeah. I want to read a couple books and just put her to bed. But I'm now getting on board with going to the park. So I'm like, all right, how many minutes do you want at the park?

And she's like, five minutes. I'm all right, we can go to the park. I give her a few more. I'm like, hey, we can do 10 minutes at the park. Yeah. But we're leaving after 10 minutes. Do you understand? Yes.

We're going to have a good, clean bedtime fast when we get home. Do you understand? Yeah. All right, go get your shoes on. We go to the park and honestly, like a blessing of this guy. We get to the park. And she's like, dad, no, there's no kids there. There's nobody at the park.

It's just us. It was awesome. We get out. It's quiet. She's like, why aren't there any kids? You hear the bugs in the background. She's like, why aren't there any kids? And I'm like, oh, everybody's eating dinner or getting ready for bed.

like you should be doing right now, but your dad-da loves you so much. You got a cool dad. Popa Team 6th that he wanted to take you to the park and spend some time with you. Push her on the swing. Timer, it started on my watch. Sweetheart, you got about six minutes left.

What else do you want to do? We hit the slide. She goes down by how many times you want to go down a slide? She's like, she goes down once and she said, I want you to come with me, Dad-Dad. So I'm like, all right, I'll go down the slide three times. You know, low back trying to take care of it. Go down the slide three times.

Go three. One, two, three. We're flying down. We're having a great time. end up going five times. 10 minutes turns into 15th. She doesn't want to leave the part. Knew that was going to come.

Getting her in the swing, I'm like, sweetheart, we have to go. No, I want to, blah, sweet, Ru, we have to go home. You said 10 minutes. We agreed on that. Dad, I gave you 15. Because Dadda loves you.

Cool, dad. But now it's time to go. She's starting to, you know, I'm like, sweetheart, we have to go or the monsters are going to come. And for parents out there, just be careful with how you use the word monsters. Because at that point, I turned it into a game.

The monsters are going to come when the sun goes down. You got to race to the car for the monsters get us. The mask, the Grinch. Tefidi. The bear. All these monsters. Who's to feedy? Tefeity is the bad guy in Moana.

Oh, no. Is that the bat lady? Yeah, it's like the girl. She's also like the mountain, the volcano. Yes. Tefeiti. That's orange tofeiti. Nice to feedies.

He's the green one word. She turns good. But those are all of her mortal enemies. The mask, the Michael Myers' mask that sits in the closet. So I don't know if the monsters come out So we run in And you know We get home probably

8 o'clock A little past 8 8. Usually I'm hoping To be walking out of a room at from bedtime Around 8 o'clock 815 But we get home at 8 Like all right it's bedtime Dude it takes an hour

For me to get her to go to bed She's just got energy She's having fun She's like that I want to read these books I want to read them by myself I'm like all right You can't read But go ahead and look at the pictures

Is she saying good night to anything? No, she's just like saying, I guess what's on the picture. I don't know what she's saying. Yeah, yeah. Because I'm trying to get her. I'm going to make it easy for her. Hey, you read the book. I'm going to brush your hair while you're reading.

Knock that out instead of doing it last. Pro move. I'm going to lay out her pull up and her pajamas. Hey, these are pajamas whenever you're ready to go. Time to get out of your clothes and stop reading the book. And by the way, Fancy Nancy. I am so over Fancy Nancy. It's, fancy Nancy is so difficult for myself to read.

At times I find myself sounding like a fourth grader trying to read run. I'm reading Fancy Nancy. because it's these fancy, it's these fancy cursive letters or these, these, just me getting mad about these, it's these fancy letters that make it a little difficult to read. And there's a lot of verbiage. It's like, Fancy Nancy gives you a lot of fancy words and then gives you the definition of the fancy word, like, this is another name for doing this.

And it's teaching them language and teaching them vocabulary. I understand that, but there's too much going on with Fancy Nancy, and Fancy Nancy kind of pisses me off. Does it give you a good cadence? Like, is the, does it feel like the formula is the same on each page? Or is it almost like it's structured so wildly that... Bro, there's this one book that's structured so wildly. Like, she's opening up her, ooh-l-la, fancy, like, mani-peti store or something like that.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Read the few lines above and below, but there's so much going on in these books. Some stories are all right to read. You get through them. Fancy Nancy didn't get a part in the play where she wanted to be like a mermaid or something like that. Oh, no.

one where she doesn't go to bed early so she's cranky the next day and that's why it's important to get your sleep come on there's some good messaging and fancy nancy but overall fancy nancy has too much going on yes and it again difficult for me to read and i'm not going to say difficult like i can't read i'm saying difficult like all we have is a night light on or like a lamp on when i'm reading so it's a little darker in the room so it's a little it makes it a little more difficult to read nancy did what the what the fuck she's what what's she doing what's nancy doing it and it I will say Eloise at the Plaza. Have you ever read that?

Possibly. Okay. Because that book, and this may be a hot take, but that book is equally hard to read because of the breaks in it. I want, oh, the places you'll go, Dr. Sue style, and then they went to this. The new hat, da, da, da, da, da, and da-da-da-da-da. And I know when to inflect my voice.

Good flow. Yes. Fancy Nancy's kind of all over the place. Okay. It's just a tip out there for the parents. Some of you might love Fancy Nancy. I got a bone to pick with the little girl. Don't blame you.

So I'm going off on a tangent. I know we got to keep this under an hour. But the dad loss is losing a verbal negotiation with your little one after dinner time. I ended up at the park. The park turned into a win. The loss then was it took her an hour to get her down for bedtime. The other loss was the ripple effect of saying monsters at the park. Because at the end of bedtime, she wanted to ask about the monsters.

And can they get in the house? No, they can't use their hands. They don't know how to open doors. So they're not going to be in the house? No, but what about outside? They're not, you know, I like, they don't come out at nighttime. Are monsters nice? Yeah, monsters are nice.

Dead ass friends with the monsters. The Comptons are in good standing with the monsters, so they're not going to mess with us. Great family. The monsters are great family. Monsters know they're nice to us. Matter of fact, they make a movie about nice monsters. It's Monsters Inc.

We'll watch it on the next Pizza Friday. Okay. What's this pizza Friday? So we're listening right now. It's July. 18th Friday. Family and I, we're going to Canada tomorrow on the 19th of July. Don't get back

until the next Sunday. Yeah. So people that are listening to this show right now, your boys in the middle of Canada going on some hikes. I'm going with my I'm going with my best friend. Nick and his family. We're bringing both families. We're going to have fun. We're going on a lot of like nice excursions out there in the northwest. It's going to be a lot of fun.

That's what I'll be doing currently. However, today on Pizza Friday, as we're recording this podcast, we are watching Monsters Inc. tonight. Because of the Monsters ripple effect that this week has had because I brought up monsters at the playground. I was doing my gas station run last night. Charles was on rude duty, got Scotty down wonderfully. And so I went on my little gas station run to go give me a couple of drinks.

Give me some neck and things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charles, hopefully he's not listening. But I get back home and Charles was like, I had to stay. She had me up there forever because she had to turn her flashlight on and clear every part of her room. of monsters. Oh, no. Like hand up that's on me. I said monsters are going to come out when the sun goes down. Now she thinks monsters are everywhere when it's nighttime. Which is, a, healthy boundaries with outside and it being dark out. Yeah. And by a learning lesson as well.

I feel like, throwing the word monsters around just know how to use it. It's great. It's great ammo in the backpack. It's great ammo in the backpack. Just know how to use it. Because there's going to be a ripple effect with monsters. And having that extra lore already built out for when those questions start coming. Maybe on the drive home, you're telling yourself, okay, but the monster, they come at the park. They don't come at the house. It's a little different. Exactly. Because you got the park monsters. Exactly. My mistake as a dad was saying the monsters come out when the sun goes down. That's a blanket state. That's a blanket. Universal sun's down. Holy shit. Monsters are surrounding the house. Not our house. They can't use their hands. They don't know how to open doors. Dad had locks all the

doors anyway. Sweetheart, no, no, they're not me. They're, that has friends with them. A matter of fact, I just talked to him before I came up here. I said, hey, don't bother her ass. And I was just, sweet. I was saying all this stuff. Oh, no.

Also, a very selfish note, but you bringing up Nick, dude, it just, it breaks my heart that you're going to have to tell him what I did today on, on forgetting to hit record. You're going to have to break that to Nick. And that's going to hurt. Nick listens. He listens. Nick listens. And he said some very kind things about me.

Shout out. He did. You're like his favorite podcaster. Left me down and like outside the top 10. But yeah, we'll revisit that list after this episode. I'm sure he's going to be like, you can't do that to my boy. Well, he'll probably he'll probably scold me for, you know. Hey, be easy on him.

Did you yell at him? It's a good boy. What, you yell at him or something? Pop a shirt. I didn't yell at you. No, you didn't. You didn't. I was very frustrated, though.

Now I feel like we're getting to where we were in the first podcast. This is exactly. The exact point where shit hit the fan. So for listeners at home, these are all fresh takes. This is where the fun begins. Yeah. Now, can I tell you what we missed? Yeah, go ahead.

At the top. Please. Because we love engaging with Papa Team 6th. Yeah, dude, we got to. The roll call that's been going on on story and Twitter where I'm sitting there and I'm getting a little, feeding a little sky to the bottle. And I take a little selfie with a flex or a little selfie with a smile. Doesn't matter.

And you just hit Papa Team 6 roll call. and people just comment and respond with photos of them and their kids. I love it. I love it too. And again, if you're listening, like I said in my Instagram story, tag at for the dad's pod. So that way we can share those stories and share the roll call that you guys are clocking in. And it doesn't even necessarily have to be one of us that start the roll call. Yes.

Like if you're at nighttime, it's like, oh, I got to hit the roll call. Or you're having a little tough moment. You're like, you know what? I got to hit a roll call. A listener roll call would go crazy. Would go crazy. Yeah. if you want to retweet, if you're looking for some, what is that, word, where people are

clicking, well, clout, but they're clicking on your stuff, engagement. Engagement. You want an engagement farm? I know a quick way to get a Will Compton retweet, a little PT6 check in. Yeah, I do love them. When everybody's like tagging us about a dad story, whatever it is, whether it's hitting like a roll call, just checking in from the trenches, love this. message, love this, love the lesson or the quote or the story, the dad hack, whatever it is.

Yeah. When people write something, that's the fastest way to my heart. Also, it sticks out to me. I said this in our earlier podcast this morning of the posts that Chef put up of the I Want You, Papa Team 6. Yeah. Jill was mentioning that some of her friends are even seeing those posts and they're just like, I love the way that the podcast. does have this community of like checking in on the listeners like it's not only like hey you win a shirt or hey subscribe blah blah but just like the constant like a pt6 how we do dude the pt6 people saying st6 for c team six or seaman team six i love my seaman team six members love it love them i can't did i say the buds acronym you did yeah in the second in the second

episode but worth revisiting if you'd like i'm i'm just glad it's out there so people even start utilizing that when they say bud training it's like now there's another inside joke of uh breeding until dad status and then moms again to go back into the comments because we at the top of the episode we kind of glossed over that yeah yeah but uh natalie brown 2476 this is for some mom names out there she said a 30 year old mom of three checking in from southeast missouri that's your boy's neck of the woods come on bond my take on mom pt6 moms are without a doubt mom a Delta Force. hashtag MDF.

Pregnant moms are Delta in-course, trying to conceive, Delta intercourse, surrogate mom, Delta outsource, got pregnant but didn't intend to, Delta remorse, and then second crack at it. Do I go, do I hit the last one? You can. One of those Casey Anthony type moms, Delta N-force. Allegedly. That's a comment. Love the humor.

Love the humor. That's a comment. It's a joke. a legend. And then also there was one chef, can you read the mom that was underneath the, I want you, Papa Team 6 and she's like, I'm cooking up some names, check the DMs. Yeah, for sure. This is Kennedy LeBlanc. She sent a very nice long message that I will forward to you guys. Female listener squad names, ovary ops and womb raiders. Ooh, love ovary ops. Love ovary ops. And we were talking about it on the first one.

We were. But womb raiders, that's like a merciless. That's like a merciless. Yeah, it's like a mercenary group that doesn't necessarily work with all the military units that we're creating. You know what I mean? Wom Raiders feels like it's like an outsourcing. Yeah, it's like a special ops. From the private sector. What did I? I'm blanking again.

Did you say Splinter Unit? You said Splinter Unit. It's a Splinter Unit. Yeah. I almost think of like caretakers or like nurse types or nanny types or, you know, babysitters. like they, you know, they're coming in, they're helping where they can. Yeah. That's kind of where I, what I go to.

I wanted to add, if you think about it, too, if you're a woman listening to this podcast, you're probably a sicko, so it kind of fits the whole. You're probably a sicko. I mean, it fits the whole special ops. If you're a new mom, you might have to be, it might have to be Milk Team Six. I love Milk Team Six. Because milk is, you know what I mean? It's pumping.

Pumping. at least five ounces, six ounces is what Jill's getting out now. It's crazy. Yeah, new moms, Milk Team Six. Milk Team Six. I love Blue Raiders, ovary ops, all the Delta Task Forces. Oh, yeah. We'll let moms chime in.

Yeah, moms chime in. We need to have a mom podcast collaboration. I would love that. What was the name? We just became Milfs, was the one that Charo was listening to. Oh, yeah. My wife, Charo listens to. did we just become milfs, I believe,

what it's called? Oh, did we just become milfs? Yeah, did we just become milfs, I think. But I know there are a few out there, dude, it would be fun to collaborate on a podcast, bring them on for the dads. Talk some shop. Talk some shop.

My wife has been throwing out the tea. Apparently, that's a big one. The tea? The tea. She was like, if y'all collabed with the tea, that would, it would be the greatest thing to ever have. on the inner webs. Dude, it would just be fun.

Allegedly. Have fun. Talk about like both sides. Like, what's the deal with complaining about having to pump all the time? Like, that stuff seems enjoyable. Does it really hurt?

Yeah. Like, if I was pumping, it's like I was telling my wife when she was feeding and pumping and doing all that stuff. I just, sweetheart, I wish I could pump. Like, I'll have those things on all day long

and I'll just go upstairs playing PubG with the boys. Hey, that just turning out milk. Thank God you said that. That is my survival kit. I had a different survival kit really quick. I'll plug the wireless breast pumps. Do y'all have those? Yes, bro.

Those are crazy. Jill literally has a bra that she slips these wireless breast pumps in and she could be doing anything in the house that she would want to do. She could go out to Target and nobody, they would just be like, oh, wow, she's got a good chest. I think the little wire connector that's like, it's like battery app. that's that's what jill had and then we went to this wireless thing dude i'm telling you jill could be walking around target right now shopping and it just looks like she's heavy-chested you don't even see it you don't even hear it and it's just inside the bra just doing the do do do just getting milked

getting milked and then when you you take it out of the bra you pour it upside down to it's as simple as that and it pours out all the breast milk oh yeah dude Hey, I did try it I don't know if I told you that Not that bad, right? Well, it was a very small amount I'll do an actual sip But I did like a little

Like, you know, it leaked on the side of the bottle I did one of these and I was just looking at this drop And I went, it wasn't that bad It's not that bad It's not that bad Looks weird Looks very weird Like ah

Looks like some spoiled It's a little yellow Yeah, a little yellow Some spoiled looking milk Let me try it out Why not? I've drinking worse things Yeah

It looks like eggnog. Not too bad. Not too bad. But yeah, a little collab. I think that would be awesome. At Barker on YouTube commented 11 days until joining PT6. So damn stoked. Yes, bro.

Come on, Congratulations, Parker. That he's going to be in it. He's going to be in it just like you. He will be. He will be a Paupe Team 6 member. This one comes from Hambonious Rex. Seat Team 6th.

Team 6, twin boys inbound. Good. Wife struggling, so I'm building all the furniture, cooking, doing laundry, and the grocery shopping. Good. Good. Good. I love it.

You got to embrace it, man. I will say with the furniture building, and I think we've talked about this. You don't like furniture. Oh, buddy, I task rabbit to shit out. Charles, like, hey, it'd be fun if you built the crib. It would be fun, wouldn't it? I'm not going to. Which shocks me.

Which shocks me. I don't think it's a bad thing that you don't build it. But I get so much, like, it's almost cathartic when I build furniture. Like, I truly get so much, like, God, look what I did. And I'm able to point at it. And Jill can physically see the work that I did. And she's like, I hear her on the phone, Sherman put together this shelf. It was so hard to put together.

She's proud of me. I'm like, damn, I need to keep doing that. What makes me ultimately having to do? it because there'd be a couple furniture pieces and I'd want to task grab it but Charles wants to build it she starts building it I feel bad I go in and build it with her there you go but I draw a boundary sweetheart she took a little bit of time I'm task graviting the next thing yeah well especially if you have I painted a couple rooms there you go yeah painted Rue's room painted our office I don't think I painted

Scotty's room. I don't think I've been in Scott's room. But yeah, manual labor and will he see, look, do I think about, like, I built a couple things for the kiddos? Do I remember building them? No. You know what I mean? It's not like I look back.

Oh, Papa built that for you. Yes. I will say this. When I look at you, the way that you interact with the world, you do not seem like somebody that's not handy. Yeah. Like, you don't give off any type of, I've seen you around the grill. at the Father's Day, or Father's Day, at the Dad Combine.

Yeah. Like, you know what you're doing. You're handy. I love that you say that because as my boy, I'm sure he's listening right now. He's probably chuckling, knowing he's like, Will hates anything manual labor related. Now, who is this? Nick. Oh, Nick.

Now, am I competent? Can I read directions and get it right for the most part? Yes. Sometimes I might have to backtrack. Fuck, I got to pull this all back apart. I did the wrong screw here. Yeah, yeah. I just don't care.

I just, it's just not my bag, dude. Yeah, that one time. There's too many other things on my mind. Like, if like, hey, you know,

oh, let's build this thing. I'd love to just check out, take a mental break and put my hands on something and build something. There's no stress, but there might be messages

that could just come across my phone. Hey, forgot to press record on that entire episode. No, but truly, you do have way more traffic going on on your phone

than like, the normal human. And it does give me an opportunity to shut off my brain. But I feel like I'm able to afford myself that where maybe less so with yourself. So I get that. I get that.

But if there was a badge for like furniture building, I wouldn't feel right accepting that badge. Even though I've done a couple of things, I wouldn't feel right accepting that badge. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like the, if you came in next week and you said, Sherman, love you so much, fully forgive you for not hitting record and slash I thought about it.

You get your couch badge. You didn't really earn it, but I'm going to give it to you. I wouldn't slap it out of your hand, but I'd be like, I'm not putting that thing on. That's kind of, yeah, that's kind of my mindset. Yeah. I wouldn't give you the couch badge. No. But in that hypothetical, that's the mindset I'm on.

Because I know there's dads out there. It's like, it's a badge of honor. Yeah. You're building your kids like toy sets and doing all these things like for Christmas. I had to put together Roos Chevy and then the little red the little red car with the little yellow roof. Love those. Put those things

together. The Winnie the Pooh car. Yeah, it's not like I sit there and I'm like I'm ready to dive into this badge of honor. I'm like shit, Christmas is tomorrow I do. I've got to fucking build this thing. Yeah. Any other comments? Oh, it's fine. Oh, Benjamin.

Benjamin. My little girl is days from taking her first steps and being on the move. I look forward to watching these episodes it's such a more realistic way of showing how dad life really is so both of your family stay healthy and happy dude shout out the first steps man dude when Roo I got the video

I'm like sitting there in front of her and mom's got her little arms and it's like walk to dad dad like you'd seen her take a couple steps but now she's like she's about to walk to dad and I just had the camera sitting in front of her mom lets her little arms go and she's just like water on over dude it it warms your heart

man it's the best I watch that video so often it's the best I watch that video so often it's the best man video as much as you fucking can I I am already getting my heartbroken was seeing things on TikTok of like newborn to three months like look at the difference and it's like a little five second video of them as a newborn yeah and then it jumps to them as three months and I physically in my heart felt like a ooh when I saw that three month old I said that that baby looks way too old it's huge what's going on it goes man charro every month we'll do a monthly photo

with like a little sign next to him with the letters like six months old and get him to smile and she did it with the rude doing it with scotty the little growth chart yeah just capture as much as you can capture as much as you can i need to do a better job and to that point and uh i'll read out this comment too because we all did a good job of uh replying to him uh this came on Twitter. This came on our For the Dad's Check In, our Puppet Team 6 check-in post. Tim A said Seed Team 6 here.

We got our induction date today and man, I'm shitting myself. I was in the mindset that it was already real and had already hit me, but I was fucking wrong. Full panic mode, engaged, and damn near had an anxiety attack, but held it together for the Wi-Fi. I remember that one. Will you, will,

Will you reply to it with the great comments saying, hey, don't be scared and tell Wifi, you know, how you're feeling. You're not alone in this. I chimed in, said you're crushing it. The fact that you have anxiety shows that you care. You're going to crush it for the dad, chef commented on it. But I want to challenge myself, and we talked about this in my mid-year review. I was thinking about this last night when I was going to bed. I was like, God, I got to reply to more comments.

because we're getting so many comments that it's not like it waters it down to where I don't care, but there's just so many comments. And you say like, okay, I'll get to these in a little bit or something. And then you kind of forget because it can be overwhelming for sure. Yes. And then I think to myself, they spent so much of their time to put that out there. The least I can do is heart that and give some sort of reply to like show PT6, like, we're reading these things.

because I'm reading damn near almost all of them that I'm getting tagged in. That's the most fun part about this. Yeah. The goal is like building the community of dads, Papa teams. Even the females that are involved in comment and everything else. Which is so sick. It's cool, bro. Because you're right.

It's like we want to be doing these shows and pumping out content to where it's like, you know, we make dad fatherhood seem fun. Talk about low moments. and just connecting with the community because they're like watching something. There's Papa Team 6, right? You're part of it. You're taking a moment to like comment and do your thing because you feel like we're all part of this thing

because we are. And when old buddy sent that anxiety attack, that kind of panic attack thing, it's like something that because when I said, hey, share with your wife, like something I would learn or Charles and I would both learn like when we do therapy together

is like, you know, you want to keep on this energy as the man of coming off strong and coming off composed for them, right? Yeah. And then you learn, like, when we're in these therapy sessions and talking about it, like, hey, I'm nervous as shit too. Like, I'm terrified because I think I'm going to be a bad dad. Or you feel like, you know, she's going through so much.

So you want to remain strong. And that also creates a sense of like alone, like this lonely feeling for yourself, too. Because it builds up. The stress will build up in you at some point. and just communicating that stress with your partner because again it's not about strength it's about just connection it's about sometimes that is a strength it's just hey we're both fucking terrified yeah and we're both going through this and i feel like i want to help carry that for you but your partner also wants to know that you are terrified that probably helps them

feel a little more comfortable as well like you don't as a man you don't always have to come off strong especially with your partner so you tell her hey bro uh the the gentleman that sent that message yeah tim and in my reply to tim it's like dude share that with your wife wife like I'm telling you it's she wants to know what you're going through as well it's not about just like they're they're probably feeling like man I'm stressing out so much I'm doing all these things like he seems to have it all together like should I continue sharing all this stuff with them doesn't even want to hear about it it's like bro you tell her that you're going through the same shit or you're going through your own walk with it too like that's where you can both connect

over all that stuff then you go into the fire together because I promise you no parent feels like they're just ready for it all when parent comes everybody's excited and everybody's also terrified because it's like, am I going to be a good dad? Am I going to be a good mom? Am I going to come up short? I didn't have the best upbringing.

Am I going to be a replication of what I grew up in? Am I going to be carrying on the legacy that my parents were to me? Like there's all these different things that everybody has. Yeah. That's all justified,

but it's just like you're going into the fire and you want to do it, you want to do it with each other. And dude, the worries that I had, I said this to my friend because he was asking me, he's a seed team six member. looking to become a dad and he was picking my brain of just like shirm how's it going and how i broke it down to him is i was like the worries that i talked about with you on the show of like getting enough sleep

the diaper stuff all that stuff i like laugh about that now because i'm like it's like we got that figured out and we're on to the next thing like i got bigger fish to fry and to worry about and i told them it was like uh i'm from alito texas a huge football town in texas i remember trying out for the football team my freshman year and all the upper classmen being like you better get fucking ready dude because it's different it's fucking different out here

he's grown men out here he's grown men shit ain't no little league I don't think you're built for this shit and then you look up two months later and you're like halfway through the season and you're a football player on the team

doing your thing like it and you see the next crop going through the same anxieties and fears and it's like yes worry about it yes be nervous nervous about it, but I can't wait for you to see me do a diaper change. And I mean, you're going to be like, yo, let's fucking go. I see you, kid? Yes, dude. Yeah. I never thought I'd be good at that. And now that's just second nature. I'll do three diapers and one change because there's shit on that one, but then she peed on the clean one. So now that one's in there. And now we got a third one

in there. Now we're good. Just know that it's all normal and natural and catching yourself when the anxiety or the stress is building to where you can give yourself. grace of, hey, this is normal. Yeah. Think about the millions, billions of kids and parents that were before us. Look how many humans are on planet Earth, dude. And just being able to identify, exactly like you said, identify the anxiety. And if you're able to communicate that, neurologically, us dudes, us poppas, we are naturally not good communicators on that front.

Right. You default to that strength. I got to come off this way. And that is just, that is in your brain. That is literally built into your brain to do that. So when you're sharing that stuff with your partner, bro, they're going, that's like crack cocaine to them. They, they will be so excited that you broke down how you're feeling in that moment.

Like when I told Jill how pissed I was about that, um, dad loss of scarlet overheating. Yeah. Her being like, you're good. She's fine. Look at her. She's asleep right now. And like, it's not going to happen again. You're going to be cognizant of the heat.

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I titled it The Battle for the Belt. Jill won. Spoiler alert. She won the belt. Let me read a little quote here, and you guys can guess who this quote is from. listeners at home, this might seem familiar. Show your kids what resilience looks like. Maybe you're just exhausted and don't have any patience. But it is something to keep in mind that I have to constantly remind myself is that our kids are always watching. They're watching how we handle things and how we deal with adversity around the house

and watching how we handle our communication with everyone around us. That was the Papa Team 6 lesson last week. That was. Episode six. Episode six, that comes from William Compton, the third. I did not show good resilience. Oh, happens, bro. Telling you it happens.

More often than not. I'll break it down for you. For dads out there, if you are breastfeeding, or if mom is breastfeeding, Charo is a breastfeater, so you are well aware of this. They have to either feed or pump every three-ish hours. Pretty constantly. Pretty constantly.

That's why we wish we could pump. That's why we wish we could pump. Because if they don't pump, there is a bacterial buildup that can then make mom very sick. Not just baby. And create like a clog situation where that's painful. Yes, dude. But essentially, mom's got somebody on those milkers 24-7, whether it's a baby or it's a pump. Yeah.

And it is something to where Jill, the most sleep Jill has gotten in a set contained amount of hours is probably two and a half. That's probably the most sleep that she's gotten because she is just wanting to be superstar mom of if the doctor, the pediatrician, shout out, wait, can I say my doctor's name? If you want to? I don't know. there's nothing legally you can't yeah she can't talk about us but i could talk about her yes sure okay shout out dr stiglefest great name she says jill you got pump every three hours well jill's going to be like by god i'm pumping every three hours right because again it's like any type of buildup that happens if they miss like moms definitely want to stay on that stuff absolutely

milk team six milk team six i bet that there are a lot of moms that don't press feed and so they are getting some better sleep because they're, you know, feeding on formula. Or maybe there's some moms that like, they'll skip a pump because you can at the end of the day. You can skip a pump or a feed and go formula. But Jill is not that way. She's like, I want to feed whenever I can. I want to pump whenever I can. And I'm operating as I'm not sleeping the best either, but nowhere near two and a half hours of sleep being my best night's sleep. Yeah. And so when I'm showing signs of I'm kind of tired, I need a little bit of an escape. I need to play video games with the boys. Oh, honey, the boxes can wait till tomorrow. Oh, honey, this can wait. I'll make the bed for my mom coming in town later. Honey, I can't wait. I need a nap. I need a nap so bad. If you just let me nap for 30 minutes, I just need a nap going into this night shift. And I'm going to be solid. I'm going to be set. And so there's all this buildup of me kind of basically the whole day just showing signs of, hey, Jill, I'm exhausted.

And Jill's just eating it. And in her head, she's like, I've, most sleep I've gotten is two hours and this son of a bitch. So it all comes out when I'm- And when those stressors are high too, it's like that the scoreboard comes into play in your mind. Yes. Whether you wanted to or not. Because again, you're operating on E. You both are.

Yes. And she did a great job of being like, I want you to sleep. I want you to get your, but I look at you and selfishly, I'm like, damn, he got six hours. That's crazy. I wish I could get six hours. And so there's that comparison. So she sees her, you know, dumb, stupid husband go lug over to the Xbox and go, you know, turn on the Xbox and I got little scar.

over here next to me and scarlet's kind of and she's like are you going to pick her up and no honey she does that it's fine like well sherman you have the headset on like can you hear her crying yeah honey i leave the headset like partially off my ear i know when scarlet's crying well are you talking to people on there who you play yeah i'm playing with will and jared but but also a note they said that i shouldn't be playing they said i shouldn't be playing i don't think we said it when you were on the game. But when I was hearing everything that had happened and went down, I know in my brain I was like, my questions were, how is he on the game? And then my next thought, or I guess three, how is he on the game? Why is he on the game hearing this story? Or she might not know

that he's on the game at the moment. A hundred percent, which we'll get into. So I'm just about to get onto the game and Jill pops her top on me just loses it on me. You get to say why? What? Do we get to say why? Oh yeah. Of just like you're acting like you're tired, you're da-da-da, you get to have this nighttime shift that yes, it's hard, but essentially you just sit next to her and play video games

with your buddies. Like I have no community with like moms. that I'm alone in this. I feel like my husband's hanging me out to dry during the day because he's tired because he got to play video games all night while I watched our daughter. Riggily? Oh, I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

So to not go into full details of what Jill said to protect my wife, some things were said that I was like, oh man. I mean, I truly was like chin on the floor. I got ripped like five new ones. And I'm sitting there and I'm starting to get pissed, not at her, but at myself. And as she's going, I'm telling her everything's fine. She needs to let me do me. We have this system in place.

Everything's good. And as that's going on, we have a fucking raccoon, now confirmed, in our ceiling just. moving around and Riggily our sweet dachshund is just letting the raccoon have it so you have Jill losing on me

Scarlete and then Riggly well there's one thing of those three that I can control and it's Riggly I've been telling him no all night there's one thing that you can go full pop of team six on

that I can go full pop a team six on and so I go up to Riggly I give him up no and I on his butt, which we do that, like with our dogs.

I'm sorry for anybody at home. That doesn't like that. Lost yourself in the moment. You had a reaction to the dog. Had a reaction to the dog. I would have been the same way. Yep. Gave him,

because that was like his eighth no that night. Yeah. And so I wanted to enforce it. I hit it. She goes, you are in no mood to be watching our daughter

and goes and picks her up off the thing. I'm like, bro, that was. You're about to do nighttime. Oh, yeah. And lose it. All this is happening. You hit the dog.

Hit the dog. He ain't shutting up. He's making it worse. Oh, yeah. You hit the dog. You're about to do nighttime shift. And she's like, you're in no. You're in no mood to be watching our daughter.

I can see it in your shoulders. You're so tense. I was the monsters in the park that Rue was afraid of. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, I became that guy. Like, my wife is like scared for me to watch. my daughter. Like, am I a bad dad? Like, am I a monster? Like, what? Oh, my

gosh, I would never hurt Scarley. I would never hurt Jill. And I'm not reacting verbally to Jill. I'm eating everything she's telling me. Because the last time she lost it on me, like, what, six weeks ago? Yeah. 75% of what she's saying is right. Yeah. Which it was.

All of it's built up on you. Oh, yeah. Moment happens. And so she's holding our daughter, and I feel like I'm losing custody of my daughter. Like it was a, I'm just sitting there like, dude, I fucked up. Damn it. And she grabs the snuggle me in the blanket.

She goes, we're going to the room of, you know, blah, blah, blah, and take Scarlet into the room. And I just sit there on the couch like this. And I'm just sitting there, I'm like, fuck, fuck. Because I know I can't go in there and talk to her. It's over. Both emotions are way too high. Motions are way too high, but also.

Right move on that part. Yeah. I'm like, I have lost in this situation. Got to cool down. Not that it's a competition, but I've lost fully. So what can I do? But in your mind at the time, you're probably arguing your points in your head. Really, to be completely honest, and this isn't to score points with her, at this point, I'm just really mad at myself.

To be honest. Like, I really wasn't breaking it down of like, oh, like, the only thing that I was like, that's not true is like, you're being a bad father, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I know I'm a good dad. I might mess up but I'm a good dad so that one hurt a little bit but that's okay I'll eat it that's like the only thing that she really

said contextually that made me upset but I'm sitting there so fucking mad at myself and I'm like I honestly just want to talk to somebody it's late at night I know that the guys are on the Xbox so I'm just going to get on the Xbox

I know that my mentor Willie C is on there J. Rod's probably on there. He's great comic relief. Well, because we had planned to play. We had planned to play. We had planned to play. Shirm was late to getting on the game. We're kind of wondering what's going on and what happened. So I got on 1045? Like late. Late. Shirm was supposed to be on at like 9.30. He taught, remember when you FaceTime me and I was doing my back routine? It's like, no.

That was. Oh, the Kroger. I forgot about Kroger. Yeah. Again, I don't know how much you were wanting to share. So as your boy in the foxhole. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've missed a huge part of this story, guys. Kroger love Kroger, but the guy that packed are, they do a free pickup where they'll get all the groceries and you can go park in the space, they bring the groceries out to you.

One of our grocery items was six chicken breasts, and he put it in with like all of our veggies and fruits and like stuff that isn't fully covered. And the chicken liquid is just, just seeping out of the, it's covered in chicken stuff. So it's like, hey, if you want salmonella, eat anything in this bag, essentially. And I'm like, well, that's, you know, $90 worth of groceries.

I'm going back to Kroger and Jill was like, honey, your shift's about to start. I would really love you. And I'm like, honey, if I don't do this right now, it's not going to happen. And we're going to be $90 in a hole. And we're not pinching pennies, but we're trying to be smart with money. So I went up to Kroger.

I told Jill is going to take like 30 minutes. It ended up taking two and a half. hours or close to i run into jared anybody that follows me on twitter saw i ran into jared in the parking lot and i thought oh for the dads comes out tomorrow could be a fun little promo if i acted like i'm paparazzi and hey jared jill sees that oh so sherman's at croger working hard to get mom's at home jill's at home oh yeah and shirms like i'm going back to croger and i'm getting these groceries because the chicken juice has covered everything else going to take me 30 minutes Oh yeah

Shirm tells me Hey I can be on the game Around 915, 930 He calls me He's trying to talk to me in the plane And I was like buddy Okay So Jill's thinking

He's gonna go to the store For 30 minutes It's a two and a half hour trip So it's a two and a half hour trip You know she's doing What in the hell is going on? She probably gets on a social media He sees that he's doing a fun little content bit

With Jared in the parking lot Having fun As I'm waiting for Kroger To solve this issue ended up being this whole thing where we can't reimburse we can exchange but how we I don't know how we're going to exchange

Either way, two and a half hours Oh yeah Shirm comes home The Hornets Nest That's probably where all these conversations are taking place And what's the first thing I do When I walk in

After I put said groceries in the fridge I put on my headset I get Scarlett in her little bed Because I'm husband I'm dad of the year You started to try to play the game before the motherfucked moment. Yes.

Oh, yeah. That's what kicked it all off. That's what kicked it all off. I came home thinking I killed it at Kroger. Now it's my turn to watch. Here, honey, let me take Scarlett. You go to bed, love you, m'n. And put her in her little snuggle me.

And then I'm sitting there with my headset on and she's in her snuggle me and going, and not crying, crying, but like, kind of moving. And Jill's like, are you going to do something about that? And I probably very quickly was like, oh, yeah, she's fine. She does that. And go back to my game. And she's like, when I have Scarlet, I'm holding Scarlet.

And I'm making sure Scarlet's good. And I'm blah, blah, blah. And Sherman's doing this like havesy kind of. You're playing with Jared in the parking lot of Kroger. You come home and you just get on the headset and she's whining. You're not doing nothing. Oh, yeah. And Sherman's just, he's having the time of his life.

Fatherhood's so easy. It's just so much fun. And so she popped. I mean, she popped off on me, which totally... Shirm was on the game for like a total of five minutes. Well, that was... That was later. So you were logging on to play and then that happens.

I was logging on to play. That happens. You don't need to be... You know, pop Wrigley. You don't need to be watching our daughter. I'm going to the room. So I think that she's in there for the rest of the night. You're like, all right, she's on night.

She's on night duty now because she took it out of my hands. Because she took out of my hands slash I know, because I tried to get Scarlet's back like two or three times verbally, not like trying to get her back. But, honey, I'm sorry. You know what? You're right. I'm sorry. Just let me watch.

No, you're not going to watch her. She goes up to the room. Oh, yeah. So you're sitting down there. I'm like, I want to get this situation off my chest because I feel like the biggest idiot ever. I'm pissed at myself. I know my boy Willie C's on there, Taylor's on there, Jared's on there.

So I log in. And I just trauma dump on them for like. Five minutes? Yeah, yeah. Just trauma dump. Mid trauma dump. Jill walks in. And I'm hearing this whole story and I'm just thinking,

how are you on the game right now? Why are you on the game right now? I wonder if Jill even knows he's playing the game right now. Because I'm just like, she's bunkered into her room. Like she's going to be in there for the rest of the night. I might crawl in here in like 30 minutes, 45 minutes. And she comes outside and sees me on the game and goes, oh, great. you're on the game again.

And I'm like, fuck. So I instantly turn off the Xbox. Instantly. I mean, I'm sure I was probably talking to you guys and then you probably just saw. We saw,

yeah, we saw your name, leave the, leave the Discord. We saw the little plug logo next to your guy's name. We're like, I think it's bad.

Yeah. I think it went south for Sherm over there in the house. Shrimp needs reinforcements. So then I get a second lashing from Jill, understandably. Got to keep this under an hour, by the way.

Got to keep this under an hour. So in my brain, I then say to myself, you need to be a good dad and you need to start knocking out the things that you said you would help knock out for Jill. So I instantly go to the washer and dryer. I change out that load. I go outside into our front yard.

I put my gloves, my work gloves on. Oh, she wants the weeds. It's gone. The weeds about to be gone. Oh, she wants to fucking everybody on the Twitter. Say, oh, Sherman, what's that weed tree in your front of you go fuck that weed tree i got my handsaw and just i'm just fon go gunk go gum at this point it's probably like 11 30 close to 12 and i'm just taking down all these ways out there diabolically

killing the weeds covered and taking out all your anger and all your stress on these chores around the house oh yeah dude and because of the night shift i like had a little nitro like coffee type thing that like earlier in the night to help me but on an empty stomach so i'm out there and i'm starting to get lightheaded. I'm like, all right, I need some water. Going full rainbow outside. Full fucking rainbow on these weeds. And then in my head, when I was going inside to get a water, I hear doon-dun-dun,

doon, up in the roof. And I literally shot up and I looked up at that ceiling. I said, tonight's the night. Whatever that animal is, it's going to fucking die. I was raising a home where I hunted. I've killed Armadillo. I've killed rabbit, bare-handed. but with an object,

I'm going to kill what's ever in my roof. Yeah. We have a huge fucking ladder at the shop. I'm going to go get that ladder. Am I crazy? Am I psycho that I'm turning to kill something in this moment of anger? No, Sherman, you're not.

It's okay. The thing needs to die. It's ruining your life. It's all you hear at night. I get to the shop at like 1.30. I unlock it. I get the ladder. I go back to my house.

1.30 in the morning, Shirm is here at the shop, getting the ladder to go home. Getting the ladder to go home. should I use a hammer? Should I use a knife? You know what would actually be best? Let's get the fireplace poker.

That's sharp. It's got some length to it. I'm going to have to rip these wood slats off the side of my little enclosure to go in here and kill whatever this thing is. And I get halfway up the ladder to where I'm about, like, roof height. And I said to myself, these are the stories that you tell in the ER. Like, these are the stories that you tell the doctor and your family sitting around and you're laughing. because you have a broken tibia or fibia because you fell off the roof.

At 1.32 o'clock in the morning. At 1.32 o'clock in the morning. And just as that's happening, I see the porch light turn on. I'm like, oh, here we fucking go. Jill comes out. Sure, I'm just on the roof climbing and then the porch light comes on.

Jill's like, what the hell are you doing? What are you doing? I'm going to go up there. Honey, I'm sick and tired of whatever's up there. The trap that we have on the roof is not working, it's not catching whatever this fucking thing is, I'm going to go fucking kill it. This is the worst

thing you could possibly be doing right now. What is this going to help? I had to hit Wrigley earlier because you were lashing at me. Do me a favor and get back inside. I have a bloodlust that I can only be fed

with varmint blood. I'm taking care of the problem, sweetheart. You said I'm a bad dad. What makes me a good dad? Take care of our problems. what's our problem this fucking thing in our room and dude i was like in such a thought cycle of just kill sure me get that get your ass back inside inside like that picture just a neighbor like looking out the window that the porch light on in the back just like what the hell is going on i do i have a blue collar um neighbor that works like kind of laid hours and around like 12 when

i was ripping the weeds out his pickup truck slowly was coming into his driveway and he stopped in my yard 100% doing a is that that that okay Okay, it is the neighbors. So like no one's breaking into his house, but what the fuck is he doing? He doesn't have a kid. I feel that. He's just outside. Outside going crazy on these weeds.

Dude. Didn't kill the baby. Got down. You got off the roof. I got off the roof. As we mentioned before, I sent you a picture of the baby raccoon that was in our trap this morning. Found out the great news from the wildlife team that they had to release said baby raccoon back into our roof because really we wanted. to catch the mama raccoon.

So that problem's just still ongoing. So they're still there. Raccoons have made a home in your roof. Into the, they couldn't let him out in the wild? No. Had to be back in the roof? It was too young.

Because the mama raccoon is in the roof. And it was just the baby raccoon that they had called. And they're like, oh, we can't do this. We need to get the mom out. So we got to get the baby back with mama. Yeah. So they're both still in there. Oh, yeah.

What's it called whenever you're living in an apartment and you're not paying? but you're like, you're living there illegally. You know what I'm talking? Oh, a squatting? Squatting. Yeah. Yeah, the raccoons are squatting at Shrem's house right now. I just sent a picture to chef of the baby raccoon.

It's the cutest thing you'll ever see. I walk out this morning. I'm like, what the fuck is that? I didn't see it. I'm on the phone with the animal people, blah, blah, blah. So hang on, how are we getting the raccoons out? Because this is, this is, for Papa Team 6, this is a classified. document file that's going to now come across our desk that we have to extract the raccoon.

Can I tell you my plan? Yeah. Carson with the wildlife team is awesome. However, wildlife team is expensive. I don't want to build up too much of an invoice to where when I then show said invoice to my landlord and say, hey, let's take this off next month's rent. I was taking care of this on the house, blah, blah, blah. that if it gets up to a certain number,

I'm sure they're going to be like, what the hell are you spending money on? Because the first service I paid for is like $600. Oh, Jesus Christ, man. I know. So what's the plan? What's the plan? So here's the plan.

Carson's going to come on Monday. He's going to set up multiple traps. If we don't catch him by Wednesday with the multiple traps, then we are not going to move forward with said service. during these next couple days he said it's imperative at night and good thing I'm on the night shift to listen for noises

because if I don't hear any noises tonight I should go up on our roof during midday because it's too hot for the raccoons up there they will flee and go pillage and go get whatever food they need during the day I can go up and shut the enclosure

but you can't shut the enclosure when the raccoons are in there because they're, will die and then your house smells like dead animal for like two months i like this plan because the episode is releasing obviously today as people are listening on d day yeah that's so true we can get a follow up on this mission yeah it's it go ahead should we get an operation name i like that operation trash panda operation trash panda i like that i was more of going like like that i was more of going like

Operation Raccoon bin Laden. Oh, I like that. I just want to say this. We got to keep it under an hour. We got to keep it under an hour. I'm not fully a broken man. I am showing resilience from now on. The only takeaway, the only win was that I didn't argue back at Jill in that moment.

That is the only takeaway. But if I could get your thoughts on how I handled the situation. I'll open it for comments. The whole thing. Like, what are my thoughts on that story? Yeah. I think very bad move. Very, very bad move putting the headset on.

Yeah. Thinking after two and a half hours or two hours at Kroger again. to think the switch was just going to happen and you're going to throw on the headset. I think that was a very bad move. You should have done a couple things. Boys, I'm running behind. I'm probably not going to get on tonight.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Because it's like you go home, you put the headset on, when you're getting the mental lashing, and I've been there, trust me. Stuff stews in the boy's brain. And I'm going to, like, lose composure with the wife.

And in my brain, what happens is like when the lashings we're going back and forth verbally. And then when she, you know, if I were to hit the dog, I'm trying to think how to say this. See, yeah, say the verbal actions are going and I take it out on my dog. Yeah. When she goes upstairs and takes the baby,

what goes on in my mind is more of like, if I'm getting on the game, I'm getting on the game because I know I'm going to get another rise out of said situation. Because I know it's, honestly, it's a bad move to just get back to think like, all right, they're all upstairs. I'm down here kind of cooling off thinking about what to do next. Your first thought should not be,

I'm going to goon with the boys on PubG. Yeah. It should be calming down. It should be probably sending a text to feel out where she's at. Like, hey, hate how everything you just went down. Would love the opportunity to come up and apologize and help take on and help get a second chance with Scotty because I know you need your rest. And then there if you got Scottie or not Scotty

I keep Scarlett They're close They get Scarlett calm down And then I can join the game If the moment still presents itself But that would have been my suggestion Because I will be honest When I was listening to you

Give every all the play by play On the headset I'm thinking to myself It's a bad move to be on the game right now Bad move But I thought she was down But selfishly I was happy You're on the game

Because you talked to me into getting on So in my head, I'm like, Sherim wanted me to be on. And I told you, I told you, I'm doing my back routine right now. If you could get on at 9 o'clock, I'm on. You're like, oh, 9.15, 9.30. I was like, no, no, no. Because here's what you do. You'll say 915, 930.

At least it's 9.30. You'll probably be on at 9.50, 10 o'clock. You weren't even on then. And I remember being on the game. I knew I was right about sure I'm not getting on. So when you were on, you came in during a chicken dinner. We won. We're excited for you to be on.

but as you're telling the story, I'm like, this doesn't feel good. It felt like when you just spontaneously got off the game, it reminded me of Jurassic Park, the opening scene when the Velociraptor takes buddy. He's trapped in the cage with the velociraptor. Shoot a! And dude's just, like, losing his grip.

Like, you were a goner. And when you got off, like, I didn't even have any questions about it because I'm like, yeah, I'm sure he's getting, a validated lashing for being on the game. Got a text from J-Rod immediately after. I think I talked. I might have said something like, Hey, Jerry,

would you feel comfortable? Reaching out to Old Shirm. But that would be like, you know, thinking, listening back on all that, like that would be my advice to you. Yeah.

Like if Wifie knows, you're going to take 30 minutes, it happens to be two, two and a half hours. You were about to take on night shift duty anyway. Yeah. I wonder where the fuck are you at. She sees you giggling, goofing.

With J-Rod. With J-Rod. I get that. I get that on her part. I get where she's coming from. And, you know, don't condone when hitting your animal, but that was like the move in the setting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sometimes I look at Waffle, like, that's a sturdy. Bulldogs are sturdy now. Yeah. Doxin's a little different. Yeah. And usually it's one popping on the butt and, you know, he starts minding. Yeah.

And the pops are very rare. As I tell this story, I'm like to, yeah. I sound like I'm blind with rage. You get that way. Like, again, right wrong and different. Like, that in raging blackout. That's what for the dads is for. It's to not shy away, dude, we're fucking human beings.

Rage fills our soul at times. Dude, I'll get in standoffs with waffle. And it's fucking, and I'll stand over her like this. Yeah, yeah. like to where I'll popper and like you know she'll try to get to me but she's a bulldog so she can't like reach her butt area where I'll like drag her or something yeah yeah and she'll just like you know she'll want to get like oh we're in it and I'm like back to her peacocking up like okay yeah you want to fight you want to you want to you want to stab of me go ahead and try and I'll like

happens I'll like I'll like stand over and just stand like this until she's like you know looking up of me kind of like growling yeah yeah and then she'll kind of like turn her walk away and I'll follow her I'll follow her to the room or if she's like against the wall and I'll continue to stand over fist clench you're in my house waffle

yeah don't you forget that yeah which words she's barking and I'm trying to get it in the room it's like I will sit there and I'll dog walk her like walk her all the way to the room and I've done the Caesar Milan method where the you do the little that or the uh it's not

a full pinch, but you let them know that you're on their neck. Yep. And you slowly push down and you just pretty much like you were describing, stand over them. Yeah. Which is what I usually do with Wrigley, because he's our alpha. And you go a little harder because there's so much rage filling your soul. Oh, I bite my lip.

I bite my lip. But that night, I skipped all those steps and went. Or usually I'll do one of these. I'll go to let him know, hey, dad, I could do that. Yeah. Don't forget who the alpha is. And that will usually get them to be like, okay. Yeah.

I'm sorry. It happens, man. Dude, the text would have been great. That's great advice. I will say this. The only thing that did come across my mind that was saying was thinking back to your New York situation and just being like, don't say anything that I will regret later. Yeah.

Because New York, again, my body was filled with rage. the darkest part of my soul to where you're like saying things verbally back and forth to where we're not getting nowhere and I would just stay quiet. Do you want to go to bed angry? I got to go to bed angry. Yeah. So I bit the tongue there. How long we've been going, Chuck?

We're about 30 minutes. So. Buddy. In terms of... We got it. Yeah, we got it. Let's get into a crack a cold one. Crack a cold one.

My crack a cold one this week. Buddy, it's... I crack a cold one. a cold one to loving the videos and photos that you get sent when you're not home. The joy that fills my

heart when I'm on the road or on the plane or at the shop, I got one today that, oh, God, I want to show you. And it's just your little, it's your little one, bro. It's your little nugget. Your little booger. And they're like smiling or it's a video

of them having fun or whatever it is, dude. It feels your heart with so much joy and I love it. Like anytime I'm around somebody and Charles or a nanny like shoots me a photo or a video when I'm out of the house like I'm just, I'm over in a corner smiling. It's almost like you've got to step away just to enjoy

because it's like you're not trying to be the dad that shows everybody but then you become the dad that shows everybody because you're so excited and you love it so much. You're like, hey, check this out. I went up to Jared earlier today because I got a video of Adi or nanny just sent in a video

of little Rue just reading to Scotty Bro. Scotty's sitting up now she's army crawling everywhere but Rue just reading to Scotty Send that to Chef because we got to play that

as you just showed me that I sent it right now for the viewers because that was crazy cute buddy it just it warms my and I'm sitting there like Jared he's just got dogs he don't know what this

Papa Team 6 life is What was his reaction? What was his reaction? He smiled and loved it. But you know what I mean? It's almost like if a dad's showing you something, you're smiling and being like, that's awesome. I don't know if he's like thinking that's really awesome. Cute kid.

You kind of just can't help yourself, but that's my crack a cold one, is getting those videos in photos when you're out of the house. I love that. Because it's just, you get it. You get when the dad's back in the day and you were a little. They're showing you photos in their wallet. I love it. I love the stories of your dad playing the wrestling. videos whenever his friends would come over of you and your brothers.

Oh, buddy. It's like the same thing. Yeah. Hey, we don't go to this wrestling terminal. We want to come watch my friend. We can't even get back to my room to play video games. I'm like, Dad, come on, dude. My buddy's trapped on the couch with my old man, just watching VHS recordings,

camera recordings of, you know, sitting at side just showing arresting matches. It's like the James Winston story that I'm sure your dad's camera work is just horrendous. Like half the time. Yeah, my mom would be on the camera. My dad would be involved, like, coaching-wise. Oh, my God. He's just stuck with the old man watching full tournaments of wrestling over the weekend. I cannot wait.

I'll tell you what, he looks. Take your shirt off. Give him the most muscle. Dude, my dad would be in front of his buddies. They'd be at the house or in the garage. And I'd come out and, like, say something. They might be talking about either me playing sports or something. Yeah, yeah.

And my dad would start talking. like start talking about my physique it's like will pop up your shirt show him your most muscular and I'm like dad come on take off your shirt show him the most muscular and I'm like sitting there

I like take off I take off my shirt in front of my dad and his boys and I'm just like what are the prince saying yeah Billy you're right you got a kid Billy

all right you can go back in the house like all right oh my God dude Show him your back. How old are you? Like 10? Oh, bro.

Yeah, like eight, nine, ten. Yeah. God. To be a fly on the wall. And honestly, that Flex is almost like a callback because there's so many of those old photos that would like,

my dad would like hang in his gym or like hang around to where it's like me and Cody doing like the most muscular pose. You did it in that wrestling video that you posted. That's like my favorite part of that video is when you're standing before the match and you're... We might have to have

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watching this right now. Yeah, I selfishly, I cannot wait until Scarlet's like moving and operating and all that stuff. I found myself doing it with the room like, sweetheart, look at her calves. Like, gee, we might have a little athlete on her hands. Look at her shoulders.

Yes, that goes to my crack of cold one, the pediatrician appointment that we had. Yeah. She did say for her size, she was like, I'm not just saying this. She is spicy as hell. Like, she is, strong.

And I'm like, okay, and she's talking about the legs. I dabbled with a little bit of soccer and track back in the day. And Jill actually has some track stars on her side of the family, like legitimate, like college level. I was not. But I had a little bit of speed. So hearing that, I'm like, ooh, we like that. You just need another person to say it. And then it kind of validates like, maybe?

Yes. And she turned on her side, which she does all the time at the house. She turns on her side on the table, and everybody in the room was like, Oh, my- She's turning on her side already? Oh, my gosh. I don't know any different because I just know Scarlett. That's what they're saying.

And she not only turned on her side right as they're, like, bragging about it, she then goes, like, up here, and she's, like, looking with her eyes around the room, and turned on the other side. And they were like, yo, that's crazy. As you're changing her, just start working her legs. Okay. Start working some strange. stretches. I'm like, I got a little striker. I got a little forward here.

Buddy. She's going to be on the women's team. Come on. As she continues to develop that, so like it gets exciting. I'm going to put a soccer ball at her feet so freaking fast, dude, so fast. Yeah, and you just kind of put, hey, you want to play the soccer ball? Okay, all right, you don't want to play yet. You're just itching. See what kind of ability they might have. She's spinning pretty well out there. That does put a goal in the backyard. What's that thing? What do you do with that? Put on the little blocks, like if you go to gymnastics, like putting out the little blocks and they're like balancing on each one or separate across each one like she's doing it a little bit better than the other one she's pretty good i cannot wait be a stud

and then the cracker that was basically my crack a coal one but just wanted to highlight it was so sick um scarlet's tiny she came out five pounds six ounces yeah buddy she's two weeks old oh yeah but just like tiny in general i mean they were like she is tiny we go to the first appointment she was five pounds one ounce and they're like hey normal for baby to lose weight in that first week we want her back to five pounds six ounces at least for her next appointment she clocked in at five pounds 13 ounces eight percent increase and it's because jill has just been a superhero on feedings every three hours on the clock making sure she's getting milk making sure and it's so cool in that moment to like see jill to be able to like reap the rewards of that and like yes I'm hard on Sherman and I want him to be

attentive at night but like these are the reasons why so that Scarlet is developing well and like our pediatrician Dr. Stagelfest is sitting there and going like A plus marks yeah she's growing she's great huge win huge win milk team six is doing their job yeah as they always do as they always do survival kit my survival kit um once upon a farm once upon a farm snacks you got a little food they got pouches once upon a farm look them up get them in your life let's see here let's let's let's just go oh i've seen these dude it's got uh what's her name is it Jennifer gardner oh really I'm a big is that who I'm a big fan Jennifer Gardner yes yes she plays Elektra Yes, yes, yes.

So she's part of it. They have an awesome team. Their website goes crazy. But all clean ingredients, it's like organic. They go beyond the organic standard. Upholding the highest standard. Let me see here. Let me see here.

So I can give them a proper. Their website is crazy. Like crazy in a good way. The leader in transparency for babies to big kids. Yeah. Once Upon a Farm, though. That's what Scott. He's been crushing.

Once upon a farm. and puffs. She always been hitting I guess I'll say that for a survival kit um survival kit later yeah next week or something

but she's been crushing food bro little blueberries when you squash them and put them in front of her like she's operating with her hands Scotty is? Scotty's operating and Rue was a bit more of a picky eater is that correct?

Neither of them Rue wasn't picky when she was like a baby she's picky now they like get picky yeah yeah but she's been operating with these puffs, dude. She loves them. But once upon a farm.

This looks sick. This looks sick. It's like in a little pouch for people that are listening that looks squeezable. Yeah, those squeezable pouches. They got puffs and containers. They got little bars. That's a survival kit. That's awesome. How about for you? Gotta keep it under an hour. Got to keep it under an hour. Mine is very broad, but mine is a good diaper bag. It came in clutch when we went to the pediatrician the other day. Sturdy diaper bag. A sturdy diaper bag. A sturdy diaper. bag and one that can load up everything that you would ever need. Wipes, diapers, creams, lotions, blanket, maybe an extra set of clothes in there. Do you got the, uh, the little roll-up at the

bottom of the bag? Got the roll-up for the blowout on the go. Blowout on the go. I'm telling you, in the back of the Chevy where I have to drop the, I've dropped the tailgate, lay out that little mat that they got in the backpacks. Oh, yeah. And I've yet to use it, but I've seen your post on it. And I'm like, I know one day I'm going to be using you. It's staring back at me. And then what Jill went the extra step and she had the individual bags inside the diaper bag are labeled on the bag. So one bag says wipes. Other bag says diapers.

Another bag says, you know, whatever it's got in there. That's the ultimate dad hack of all time. I'm operating in that diaper bag like I'm mama bear. Yeah. Love that. Love that survival kit. Yeah. That's my dad hack slash survival kid.

My dad hack is how to get, how to get your kids to eat vegetables. I came across a little dad hack, a little W last night. Okay. And we're trying to get Rudy eat broccoli. She'll eat her main portions. She'll eat her fruit. Yeah. But getting her to get the veggies down is always been a pain point for us.

Yeah. But what I did last night is I'm sitting there trying to talk to her about broccoli. I'm like, sweetheart, you got to eat all the different colors. I was like green is like the most important color to eat. Green affects your, you know, like your brain, your heart, your muscles, your hair. She's like in feet? I was like, your feet too. Your feet too.

And every bite you take fills one of those, checks off a box or one of that. Can we get you to eat? If you eat five pieces of broccoli, we'll do one for your hair, one for your eyes, one for your brain, one for your heart, and one for your feet. Ooh. She took them down. No way. Yeah, man. Yeah.

And the next night, that was two nights ago. The next night she had broccoli again. And she didn't want to eat it. She was in the pantry, kind of be like, no, I want this snack. I want this. And I'm like, or she wanted her vitamins because her vitamins is like gummies or whatnot. Oh, yeah. It's kind of like a little treat.

So you know, you can't have your vitamins until you eat your broccoli. And then, you know, she's kind of going through it. And I had to remind her, I'm like, hey, sweetheart. What were the five things that I said that broccoli or green helps with? Yeah. She's like, I don't know you say it. I was like, remember the five things. I was like, your hair.

And then she was like, my heart. I was like, your heart, your eyes, your brain. And she's like, at my feet. And I was like, if you eat these couple bites right here, we check all those boxes and we can get to your vitamins. Uh-huh. So that is my little dad hack on how to get your kids to eat their vegetables. It's like naming the body parts or whatever might get them on board for like,

hey, this is what you're helping out. Yeah. This is how your body's going to operate better because you ate these vegetables. I love that because she's getting an understanding of like what food does as well. Yeah. It's not just to, you know, fill up your tummy. There's some nourishment there. Yeah.

They have a role. They do. This is how it helps you out. I love that she's like. You have all that pretty hair. You got to keep eating your broccoli. I love that she's stuck on the feet though. Yeah.

She's like, no, but the feet too, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, buddy. The feat, too. Goodness. Dad call-ins? Dad call-ins.

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Let's dive into our first one coming from... Fellas, Anish here. A niche. A niche from Dixon, Tennessee. Now coming to you from Chicago. I'm a dad of two beautiful girls, a five-year-old, and a one-month-old. I'm also a fellow podcaster in the dad's space, so I appreciate you guys bringing more eyes to the dad's plight in this parenting journey.

Let's go. I wanted to give a shout out to Sharon. I was listening to the latest episode when Sharon was talking about his wife asking how long the recording was going to take, and I was in a similar situation myself. It was a few days after my baby girl was born, and I was right before Father's Day, so I had to hop on with the boys to talk about this new bundle of the day. joy in my life.

God, my wife asked me how long it was going to take to record. I said, sweetheart, it's only going to take

20 minutes, 25 tops, hop on, give a quick update, hop off. An hour later goes by, I come out

to screaming baby, frazzled five-year-old, and a wife that was just staring a hole through my soul. First thing she said was,

I thought it was only going to be 20 minutes. Yep. We've all been there. We've all been there. Typical dad loss. That's okay. That was on me hand up accountability. Looking back, so I've hopped on recording four days after my girl was born?

Absolutely not. Do I regret spending quality dad time chopping it up with my best friends? Absolutely not. So Sherm, hang in there, brother, and keep finding a good fight. We're all in the suck together. Great call from a Popper Team 6 member right there. Great call. We've been there. We've been there.

we've been there. At least you didn't hop on PubG, you know, right after the recording. Yeah, at least like podcasting, it is the work, right? Yeah,

yeah. It's like when Scotty was born, obviously I'm taking, doing all the things to be at home, but it's like, sweetheart, are we got a, I got a couple recordings.

Like, I have to be at those. But doing the podcast for however long we've been doing it. Yeah. She knows it might take a moment, but I'll give myself, you know,

a cushion on when I could be home. home for sure but we've all been in that spot i'm in that spot right now i told jill one o'clock and then um i did a fabulous move of not hitting record earlier and now we're at 150 yeah center i was curious too if you had told jill a time you'll be home because i had to push we're you know i was going to go look at a site potential bus and move and i've had to push that back i don't even know if i'll be able to get to it but we've all been in those spots it's like if i go to the gas station charles like what took so long? And I know in my head, I'll like say, you know, there's traffic.

Honey, these drivers out here, Nashville. You know there's traffic at 8, 3, 9 o'clock at night. It's crazy. Sometimes I'll just be decompressing, like, just in my truck sitting out in the driveway. You do sit in your truck. Oh, yeah. That's a will move. Yeah.

That's a big-time move for myself. No, yeah. Pull into the driveway, just sit there, think about the mission at hand. That's a good, we had a graphic of like top dad escape places and we have like toilet, backyard, blah, blah, blah. Car is a good one, though. We didn't have that one. Car is a good one. A niche, correct?

A niche. We'll get the spelling. Yeah, we'll get the spelling from a niche, but thank you for the call in a niche. Yeah, Anish. Shout out you, bro. Keep fighting the good fight. Happens to the best of us. Happens to the best of us.

In the podcast space, talking dad issues. So also shout out there. shout out just being a member of PT6 and listening to us too. Yeah. You're a legend. Yeah. Sweetheart, trust me, I know I was trying to get off in 25 minutes.

I was even telling the boys, hey, I have a 25 hard out. And then one of the boys, he started breaking down and telling me something, he had something going on and I had to be there for him. She listened to the pod. You were just goofing around my time. But hey, you softened that moment. That was happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love that she was just staring a hole into his soul. 25 minutes, huh? as the kids are just crying. Oh, yeah. Second call in. What's up, boys? Will Shirm, chef. I'm calling from Columbus, Nebraska.

My name's Cordell. I'm actually currently underneath my car trying to change the oil here. Going to battle there. Good. Just wanted to give a shout out real quick. The chef sounds like he's the new producer of the show That's awesome. Congratulations.

And then obviously, shout out to Shirm for the new kid. And those shoutouts go in that order, by the way. I just got the text, boys. I just got the text from the wife. Her plane has officially taken off. And this Papa Team 6 member has checked in for the week going solo dad duty. For the week. One whole week with my three-year-old girls.

And I guess I was just wondering, Will? Um, is there any tips you have for an extended daddy daughter time, solo dad time, um, any tips or tricks, any things that you turn to. Um, also additionally, forgot to mention. I'm also two-time member of seaman team six with a 12 week baby on the way. Let's go. Let's go. Did he say three-year-old girls? Yes. Three-year-old girls. Oh, singular. Oh, one girl. One girl on the way. Okay, I thought he might have said three-year-old girls Like he had twins or something So he's got one three-year-old girl That he's operating the entire week with

Yep That's awesome Number one, hats off to pop a team six member right there Two times seaman team six Two times semen team But his wife going away for the week And he's taking on the role The caretaker role at home

And being on the wall, being on the watch I remember my first time When Charo went to Paris with her friends and she was gone for like yeah either a week or nine days or something like that she gone gone gone gone and it was um dude honestly uh some parts are easier just solo parenting obviously he's checking out with a week i don't know like what work child care and stuff like that's involved yeah but having the one-on-one time with your little ones honestly like uh it's a lot of fun because it's just you and he's a girl dad so he's spending time with his daughter daddy daughter time

Obviously, I know the guys out there have sons and stuff like that. Like, I'm sure that's great. Appreciate you guys bragging on that stuff. But your one-on-one time with your daughter is a load of fun. Like, I'm sure he's listening right now. He's probably had a great week with her so far. They get in more of a routine with dad. She's about keeping that routine going.

And my recommendation would be, again, I said it to you earlier, but videoing a lot of stuff. I know my first time watching Rue, I videoed a lot of different stuff that we were doing, like going into her room, see her smiling when she's waking. up putting her to bed reading a story when we're at the coffee shop, video on her at the coffee shop. She was only like, she wasn't two yet, but videoing as much as I could because I put a little video together at the end of it,

because it's just you and her. It's like all your attentions on her and gave me something kind of creative to do for when mom came home. But that's a great time. I feel like it's a great age too. Like if it was just me and Roo for a week, I don't think it would be too. I think it'd be fun.

Like obviously keeping her on the roof. routine of everything, but there's a lot of those wiggle room, those little gray areas that mom and dad might be strong on, but now that you're with dad, hey, here's an extra piece of a cookie. Hey, I'll hook you up with this. Uh-oh. Hey, let's go get some ice cream. Ooh. Okay, you can stay up 20 minutes later.

Hey, there's something cool on TV. Now for dad, we got some, we got a sport on. You want to watch with dad? You want to stay up a little bit longer or let's pop on this movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But embrace it, dude. Embrace it. That's, I think that's cool.

There was a video that you had, if I'm remembering correct, that Char I had gone out of town and you were with Rue and you moved some furniture like in your kitchen area for y'all to have like a little dance party. Yeah. There's some kind of little dance party that you're throwing. Love that. Yeah. Yeah, dude. It's just, you know, it's like a lot of times too, like you might come across where it's like the mom doesn't trust the dad to be on his own. Uh-huh.

And so it's like a nice little badge of honor that you can watch the kid's solo dolo or you can watch the kid's solo dolo. And that, I don't know if I talked about that on the line. The artist part, hey, prep for the meals, prep for the dinners. Because now you'll be kind of stuck. Oh, we ain't got this. Are you ordering something? Just being ready, it's like, oh, shoot, I got to order. I got to give the rice.

Because the big thing you want is you want to alleviate mom while she is gone. You don't want to be the dad checking in every five minutes. Hey, where's this at? Hey, what do I do here? Hey, what would you recommend here? I can't find this. She's giving me a tough time right now. No, let mom be fully out, be fully into where she's thinking, is everything okay back home?

And she wants to call and check in. Oh, we're having a great time. We're on FaceTime. You want Mom to feel the full freedom of being away. And I feel like she has to be away and have her entire pulse on everything that's going on back home. Yeah. That's how you be prepared. That's how you knock it out of the park.

It sounds like he's already in the thick of it, but I'm sure that he prepared and killed it. Yeah. Love that he's underneath his car too, calling us. Calling in. This guy's locked in. He's locked in. What was his name again, chef? I'll play the beginning part again.

Cordell. Cordell. And that was, that came in yesterday. So, so he's day one, right? As we're recording this. So he'll still be in it. He's got a couple days left.

Yeah. Let's go Cordell. Yeah. Let's fucking go Cordell. And shout out Nebraska. Always loved him. Chef might just be, hey, here's a Nebraska one.

Let's throw him in a minute. I think that's three weeks in a row. Yeah. Yeah. Not by design at all. No, they call in. Not by design?

You're a big Valls fan. That's a pretty easy to take it to. I did hear a Tennessee guy. First one. What do we have left? We have our topic quote or lesson of the week. Oh. Do you have one?

I did. And funny enough, it was just attention to details. Attention to the small things. And I was going to apply it to at home with my daughter. But it also applies to the office, as we learned today. I'm going to say. My meeting with Will for my mid-year review at Bustin with the Boys was there were a lot of good things to celebrate. But one of the things that since I was a kid that I've struggled with is the attention to the details.

The little things that you need to do right because the big things can't happen if you aren't doing the little things right. perfect example publish a podcast online you cannot do that if you do not hit the record button yeah and so it's just a good reminder and it's funny that like that happened today and that that was also my

plan um my lesson is attention to detail I did not oh will we didn't record we weren't recording for 45 minutes you're going to be late to your you probably won't even get to do the showing of the commercial space but um

that was my lesson for the week. It's a quick. It's a small one, but just, I love it. The attention to details. And with Scarlet... Just a good reminder, you can't ever say stuff like that enough. Yeah. With Scarlet is just being on on track with like, do we have enough diapers? Do we have enough wipes? Do we have enough this that just helping mom out because she can't do it all? That's my speed run. I love it. My lesson or topic of the week comes from Sahil Bloom. Oh yeah.

His new book, Five Types of Wealth. And he has a part in there called The Magic Years. Number one, if you're a parent, you're somebody who is ambitious, hardworking, juggle both things, what perspective on life, this book,

I can't recommend enough. It is called Five Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom. And he's somebody who has a young one too around. I want to say his son is around Ruse Age. He might. He might have two kiddos now. But he's someone who's that's like work-life balance. and having a lot of perspective, but there was this part of the book. It's called The Magic

Here. So I'm going to read this part of the book called The Magic Years. For 10 years, you are your child's favorite person in the entire world. And then after that, children have other favorite people, best friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, partners, and eventually their own children. But during those 10 years, you are everything to them. You occupy a unique place in their world and it is during this period that the foundation for the parent-child relationship so central to many people's social wealth is built it might be a strong foundation that is likely to last for decades or a flimsy or a flimsy one that's likely to crumble in years but there is one terrifying truth by the time your children are 18 you've already used up the vast majority of the time

you'll have with them. Unfortunately, we live in a society where children's early years coincide with their parents' peak working hours, travel, and other professional responsibilities. For many of us, these special years come and go in the blink of an eye. A blur of late nights in the office, meetings about meetings, emails at the dinner table, and weekend calls. In a viral Reddit post from May 23, a user wrote, a user wrote, 20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids.

Commenters responded with a motion-filled post such as the graveyard is full of irreplaceable and important people. And I've missed so many birthdays, plays, and events for work, and I can't even tell you why. I don't remember what I was working on. I can't tell you why it was important, but I can tell you how my not being there made my kids feel. I am of two minds on this. One, being present and spending time.

time with those you love is the most important thing in the end and two having the people you love so you work hard on things you care about is a principle they'll remember for the rest of their lives strong i love this book by the way you know i saw somebody somebody tweeted saying that uh he got the uh strong father strong daughters a staple in the papa six papa six philosophy if you're a girl dead for sure yeah but i love five types of wealth so he'll bloom um And I love his kind of description of the magic years and how we are in them and how he all, him explaining also how hard it is because it's also as a young parent, your peak years of work. And some of those quotes that kind of give perspective on when you get to some end point or when they're grown and out of the nest of, you know,

I can't even tell you why I was at those events for work. I don't remember what I was working on. I can't tell you why it was important, but I can tell you me not being there how it made my kids feel. just those like little things that again help you grab any perspective on what you might currently be doing and how I might currently be operating to where I need to get this and check a little bit more how can I structure this a little bit better so you juice out and take advantage of the magic years being young being a young parent embracing the fatherhood of it all yeah with your wife with your kids just taking in those fleeting seconds and just trying to hold on

to him a little bit longer, videoing everything, taking as many photos as you possibly can. Yeah. When I look at Scotty and I'm wanting to journal things down that she's doing, I'm like kicking myself because I wish I would have done that more with Rue. Like I have some of Rue's first, like in my notes app. And it's like you think in the moment, I'll remember to write this down or I'll remember this because it was so glaring in this point in life. But you forget a lot of stuff.

So it's like taking all of those moments in and then also having this perspective on how if you're somebody out there struggling with like work life balance, hearing something like this of the magic ears and just reminding you of what life is about and how you can maybe course correct in a few areas. Several things from that lesson. I'm sure my dad would say there's a lot of things that he wishes that he could change about how he raised. my brother and I. Work being one of them, he felt like work really kind of took priority. However, yes, he could have put work to the side a bit more, like in our years in high school, he would say that. But being at this age now and now having a daughter, I respect that that much more of just what he was able to provide for my brother and I and my mom.

And like, you don't see it because he's not at home. But being on that side now, it's like, I know that there is love in that action of working hard and wanting to provide for your family and wanting to do a good job. And there is a balance to it. Like you said, there's like two schools of thoughts. Sahil, correct? Sahil, yep. Sahil. So Hill.

There are two schools of thought. But I do think that it does show a tremendous amount of dedication. And it's really cool. It's really respectable. But finding that balance, I'm sure that's hard. Oh, 100%. Especially for you, dude, you travel so much. But I feel like you do a really good job of locking in when you're home.

Like you really, it seems like that to me that you were prioritizing those moments. Yeah. Yeah, because it's something that I'll like battle with because it's, like again bro we won't get these years back yeah like i know we're in the best times of our life right now work related home related it's like finding all of those all of those balances because even to your example with your dad it's like thinking about my parents and having people that you love work hard on things yeah um that they care about is a principle that i remember it's like thinking about my mom and dad and my dad being in between jobs and working hard to get another one and not being

home at times because he had the higher salary. It's like the way we had to kind of structure everything as a middle class or lower middle class family to make ends meet, you understand the love that goes into that, even though I know my dad probably has regrets that he wishes he would have been a part of more. Yeah, dude. And we will, we will too. We will too. Yeah, yes.

Yeah, we will as well. But it's just like those perspective things on knowing like, it's like that's why, like for myself personally. What I challenge myself on is what I'm wanting to say yes to. So that way, everything else I can just say no to. Like it's an easy decision versus sitting in like, yeah, some opportunities will be like, yeah, this is a big opportunity. I need to take this opportunity. And others where it could just be like we can relate it. And it's like, do I need this? Is this more? Because a lot of it too in the work related stuff, it's like selfishly, you love your work. You love doing all of these things. And we have a fun job. And we have a fun job. But it's like,

hey, do I need to do this? And is this going to actually move the needle? Or am I just wanting to do this selfishly? Am I wanting to do this just to get away or whatever it is? Sometimes it might be that way. And that's like a good communication with my wife. Like, hey, I need to go. I need to do something or I need to go get out or whatever it is.

Oh, buddy, he was talking about a Dennis Rodman weekend. But it helps me compartmentalize a lot of those things that I can easily say no to and be like, yeah, I don't care to do that. Like that would be fun, but I'd rather be home because, dude, he talks about 10 years. And you can break the numbers down however you want. But it's like in those 10 years, that's what? One summer per year, that's what it? 40 summers.

Yeah. When they're little and you have them all to yourself and they think you're an absolute superhero, let's just say five, right? Five summers that you have, five potential opportunities. to go on summer vacations, you know, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll feel this having, um, Scarlet as how old is she? Two weeks. Scotty is it. She's eight months old. And so she's eight months old for this moment time. They grow fast. Yeah. Like you were saying you saw the picture of a newborn and three month old. It's like, they're just different people. Yeah. They grow fast and there's

such fun moments in those when you're checking off eight months, nine months, 10 months. It's like, Roo, I can remember when her personality was coming to life at 16, months. When her personality was coming to life at month 16, there's only four weekends that she's going to be 16 months old. And each chapter is something different. And that's like how I try to compartmentalize it in my brain when breaking down all these things. It's like some things we're just going to have to do. This is what this is what we do with bustling with the boys. This is how it works going to have to be in these times. But everything else, it's like I try to have that perspective of, you know, she's only going to be two for one year she's only going to be this three year old this three major year

when i just want for one year yeah you know what i mean and then it's gone it's fleeting yeah and i never want to be in a spot to when i'm looking back like fuck i why did i go and do this when it's like i look at scotty and i have so much more appreciation of like living in her eighth month old body right now because i remember how fun it was with rue and i'm experiencing new things with Scotty at eight months old. And I feel like I have more of an appreciation in those moments because it's like the perspective of she's only going to be eight months old for one month. Yeah.

It's going to be four weekends we have with her in this age. And you want to take advantage. Yeah. If this scores you points at home, I hope it does. But you can see it written all over you and Taylor as well whenever we are traveling. You guys get homesick. Oh, buddy. And I've yet to experience that because I've,

I haven't had to travel for work yet with Scarlett here now. But I feel it even in moments like this of like, you do want to be home. And so I do think on the other side of it, like the work side of it, it does show your love that much more that it's like, hey, we have to do these things. Right. You're like you're subconsciously wiring in their brain.

When you commit to something and you want something and you're ambitious for something, like staying on course and showing that resilience, showing that perseverance. Yeah. And that working, just that working attitude about it. Yes. It shows that too. It's like, we're obviously going to get old and we're all going to wish we spent every

moment at home. Oh, yeah, dude. But that's just like that comes with it. But you're right. It's like we get on the road and going at football season this year and spring tour and stuff next year. It's like now we're in a spot to where we're healthy in such a way to where it's like, I want us to fly private so that way we can squeeze every moment.

Like how can we leave the day of and also come back to the day up? Yeah. So we're not stuck figuring out all these different flights, delays happen, all these other things happen. Hotel rooms. Yeah, hotel rooms. It's like, how do we get in and get out as quickly as possible? That comes at a cost. It comes at a big cost.

But it's like when we're making this, it's like, hey, we can just cut this chunk out and be like, we're doing this because we want the full priority being how do we be efficient and maximize our opportunities with these things with Bustin, but also maximize and be efficient with our opportunities at home to be with our family. Well, and the power of no, too, like, to just bring it to myself of yet another thing I can learn what we talked about, my mid-year review of, like, that is something I struggle with so badly. Yeah, stop saying yes to so many things. I say yes to everything.

And I got to work on saying no, because, like, that will come in the way of me spending time with Jill and with Scarlett. Yeah. And being able in those moments to be like, hey, I can't go on that golf trip. That sucks. Yeah. I see all the pictures.

They look like they're having a blast. Yep. Wish I could be doing that. But I'm doing something incredible in this moment, too. Like my daughter's coming into the world later this month or whatever. Yeah. There was a great wedding. One of my close friend, shout out, Andre, that it was out of the country.

would have loved to be there. And you see all the pictures, you're like, oh, man. But it's also like, hey, we're doing something big here too. It's tough. It's like, I think the nature in all of us is we're all, you know, we're like people pleasers, right? You want to please everybody. And then you realize when you're trying to please everybody, you see where you can't

pour into the things that you absolutely prioritize in your life and you see how it affects that. And then you feel so spread thin and stressed about it. When it's like, okay, let's just think about the things that I want to do. How can I prioritize this? How can I structure it? And then that helps you say no. You understand like where your boundaries are.

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