Bussin' With The Boys - Will Compton’s Weekend Solo Parenting Playbook + 4th Grade Powderpuff Hype | For The Dads

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm discuss Will’s Ultimate Weekend Playbook, help a PT6er prepare his 4th grade Daughter’s football team for glory, and dive into some amazing comments from PT6 —all while keeping the episode fun, light and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with the guys talking about Will’s Bald Head before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: Sherm is Solo Parenting for an ENTIRE Weekend. Will breaks down how to keep dinner time FUN An awesome Dad Hack about being ready for the birth Other highlights include: Will’s Spooky Dad Hack A hilarious comment about being DEEP in the trenches 👉 If you’re looking for dad podcast humor, parenting real talk, and a strong community vibe, this episode of For The Dads is a must-listen. 🎧 Tune in for laughs, real talk, and unfiltered dad energy. 💬 Drop a comment, share with your dad crew, and don’t forget to subscribe to For The Dads with Will Compton for new episodes every week!  PT6, Going Dark. —-- TIMELINE 00:00 Intro  5:40 - A Question About Friends Watching Kids  15:03 - Sherm’s Dad Hack - Merlin 25:13 - PT6 Comments 59:29 - Dad Loss 1:08:50 - Crack a Cold One 1:15:28  - Will’s Survival Kit - Spooktober Merch 1:24:38 - What are the Odds 1:26:50 - Sherms Survival Kit - Play Pen 1:32:40 - Will’s Dad Hack - Dinner Fun Time 1:36:38 - Sherm’s Dad Hack - Race to the Bathroom 1:38:55 - PT6ICKOS Call In 1:45:00 - Lesson / Topic / Quote of the Week     —--   For The Dads is for every guy who needs a place to talk, vent, and laugh about all the insane, hilarious, and chaotic sh** (sometimes literal) that comes with being a dad.  Hosted by Will Compton–NFL Vet, creator of Bussin' With the Boys, and proud dad of two. This show isn’t about expert advice and how fatherhood is the greatest thing on earth—it’s about embracing the love and suck of parenthood every day. From balancing work and family to battling the mental load, fears, and the moments that wreck you in the best way, we dive into it all with honesty, vulnerability, and a sense of humor. Cause at the end of the day... us dads have no idea what we're doing. Alongside Will is his producer Sherman Young, a soon-to-be dad who’s currently enjoying his last few months of uninterrupted sleep and freedom. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world. Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod   LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   True Classic - Upgrade your wardrobe & save at www.trueclassic.com/forthedads    Phorm Energy - Zero Sugar. Natural Caffeine from Green Tea. Mental Focus. Learn more at https://www.phormenergy.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How are we doing, Sherman? How are we doing, boys? Doing good. We doing great? Doing great. How's Seaman Team 6 going? We're doing just five. Yeah?

Yeah. So, Shep was telling me right before this episode started, his old man, he's now fully bought in. He's, he listened to a couple. He's went all the way back. He's listened to all the way back. And his old man's bought all the way in. He's an OG. Dad and Mom.

OG P-T-A-N-M- My mom listens on the day we launch. She'll go work out at like five, like six a-m. She loves to hear a boy on the mic. That's what that is. That's a very proud mom. that's a that's a stoked mom right there she does i come home she makes sometimes some comments at some of the jokes that her here she's like yeah she does but she supports she goes it's funny

yeah oh jack you boys what's the shockwave jack yeah mom it's a roller coaster and chef was telling me too he's like my dad was like i went back and listened to an early one in that situation in new york where you know the the friends are offering to watch the kid uh offering to watch the kids and you kind of took him back. He's like, I'm taking that 10 times out of 10. He's like, we're selfless most of the time. Like, we do our work most of the time, but you get that opportunity.

You got to let the kids rock with your friends. And I don't think that's wrong at all. Yeah, we have a question for the audience, actually. Is it out of line to ask your friends if they have kids just like you do or more kids? Is it a big no-no to ask those friends? to watch your kids. That's kind of a question that we were posed.

You know, there's some situations going on behind the scenes. I won't fully. You know, it sure feels comfortable bringing it up. I'll bring it up. Because you're on a mission this weekend. I'm on a mission this week. Yeah, there's a Pt6 mission right here. A big one.

A big one. Big one for you to knock out of the park. Truly. And I break it down, give the audience some context. We mentioned it a couple weeks ago. True. Okay. So Jill is on a bachelor at.

party in Miami currently. We are recording on Friday right now. Oh, she gets rowdy. She got her. Mama, mama letting the hair down. You tell her, hey, you let your hair down. Your boy's got you back home. Let your hair down. Get, uh, get some McClubes and listen to their babbonny on the beach. She's in the bad bonnie. Baboni on the beach. The new T-Swift album. That's probably not beach mode. However, yeah, that is out. I could get down with some T-Swift. Yeah, I can get with some T-Swift. But she, she's having a good time.

Well, actually, she's been crying a lot. I've been getting a lot of texts this morning that she's crying a lot. And she just misses her girl. Okay. So this isn't,

this isn't, I'm a little, I've had a few beverages in. No. Get emotional. This is like, I'm separation anxiety. Unless she,

yeah, unless she's listening to a bad bonnie at the airport and getting some brew halls at the airport, she's sober. Little separation anxiety. Dude,

I got a show you a picture now that I'm bringing this up. I'm sending this to you immediately, chef. A full on schedule layout on the kitchen island for me as if I was three years old. And it doesn't offend me. It does not offend me. You better than me. Oh, I would have had some fun with it. I ought to took it. I'd have ripped it up. I would have said, don't ever disrespect me again. I don't want to hear from you unless we do our FaceTime check-ins. And when you got to see you got to see scar scar you got to see the girls we'll get on face time but this is hey this is i'm telling you this is pt6 game right here when you have the opportunity watch the kid kid or kids

solo you make sure your wife feels as comfortable as possible leaving the nest leaving the nest and i saw the uh the note you left for your parents i think but your parents are coming to come watch the kid i'm watching the kid yeah yeah oh i was just a little confused i think you forgot i'm not getting any sitters outside of when we're doing the For the Dads podcast. But and that's it. I'm running this ship. What is this? I saw I got my own notes. You just lift up like a little sticky note. Got my own notes. And it just says, I got it. I got to give context here. She has, I mean, this is like, Will, it's crazy. Ikea instructions for building a chair. Yes. She has. It's what instructions? It will. She, good on Jill. I mean, this is, this is, this.

This is the ultimate, you have no excuse. Oh, if it goes wrong. Zero excuse. She could run a small country, my wife, like truly. She has outfits in Ziploc baggies labeled for each day. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Like, she has phone numbers written out. Phone info.

She has everything. She has nighttime routine. She has a two-eight-time schedule. Two-eight time schedule. Has eight emergency contact listings. Now, I will, I'll add some bonus context to it. She's been meaning to do that for like any babysitter or like any. You're right, right.

So. Because I'm enjoying thinking of the couple's watching right now and the old man, PT6 is sitting over there looking. It's like, that's you. What they're talking about, that's you. That's your ass. Every day. I feel that though.

So almost like a playbook for if anybody, she's got the process, the system's written out for if she needs to delegate at any moment in time. This is the formula. It just so happens that she laid it out or got it done right as she goes on this bachelorette party. And it seems like it's for you. But really, it's just this is the general. This is the Bible. This is the baby Bible right here.

But I will say I got a roll belly laughed when I saw it. Because I was like, I feel like I'm 12 years old. And by the way, when I said you handled it better than me, I would have ripped it up. said don't ever disrespect me. The minute she walks at the door, I'm piecing it back together. I'm taping it. Hang on a second.

Let me see what we got. Oh, yeah, I did forget about that part. Why the fuck that I read? But one thing I would do, which I would encourage, this would be a nice one. It's just like, you know,

you keep scar, scar, like in her. You know, like, if Charles's gone and it's me, and say it's Scotty, Rue, Rue's different. Rue's three years old, so I'll get her dress, I'll get her gone. Scotty, I'll leave in the PJs all day long.

But since she has the outfits in a Ziplog bag, It's almost like you have, you have Scar, Scar, Scar, just enter PJs and you just take a photo with her on Ziploc. Like, got her, got her outfit for Sunday. Look how cute she loads. Yeah, just like holding the Ziploc bag. I ran into that this morning because she had not a full blowout, but she leaked out of one of her legs. And I was like, well, I don't want to dig into the Ziploc.

Like, I'll just get a onesie. So I threw a onesie on her. I don't even really know why, but I was like, yeah, why dig into the Ziploc? What if I just didn't use the Ziplocs at all? I just kind of showed her. I mean, hey, listen, what the sticky notes say? I got it. You got this.

I got it. So Jill's gone for the weekend. She's gone for the weekend. I am being left at home with Scarlett all weekend. This is truly my dab loss, my the trenches, and my cracker coal one this week. You already have them in this story? And by the way, we're filming on, this is, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, It's Friday right now.

This is Friday. So this is day one for you. Yes. Day one. You got a three-day weekend. I will say this is day one, but the report card came out two weeks ago when like the idea of this of Sherman being here because I'm and Jill will take no offense to this. Her mom coming in town got brought up a couple times.

A night nurse got brought up a couple times. And give game just the BT-Sixers. Like this isn't this isn't. uncommon. It's uncommon. The way like the generations and everything has went just for the for the male. Yeah. For the male brain, for the dad brain, all of it. Yeah. This isn't uncommon. So these are opportunities, gentlemen, for you to, this is why it's such a big opportunity to knock it out of the part to add points. Points to the scoreboard. Not to hold over their head, but just to let them know, hey, you want to go on that. I can operate just as well as you can't, just as well.

Not better. Not the same as well. And guess why I do it as well? Because you leave me Ziploc bags, babe. You leave me instructions, babe. You're the best. So she's bringing this stuff up. I'm going out of town for two days. Like, should I get my parents in town? Should we get some baby sitters on deck?

Sherman, can you handle how old is Scarlett? Three months. Can you handle a three-month-old by yourself for 72 hours? Are you sure? Because I have to shake. you awake at night when she's crying. Yeah. You do a good job.

Once I get you awake, you do get out bed and you go help her. But I have to shake you awake. How are you going to wake up? Baby, it's fine, because my brain's going to know, oh, Jill's not here and I'll be hearing the crying, blah, blah, blah. Well, I don't know. I just don't think you can wake up. So being on this podcast, I was like, I can't be a co-host on this podcast and cop out

and not take this head on and look Willie Cee. the eyes and be like, hey, I'm crushing it as a dad. So I'm, when she's bringing up those things like, oh, I don't think you can wake up all while. It's fine. I'll get an air mattress. I'll sleep in the nursery. There's got to be an internal fire brewing.

Oh, yeah. I was like, kind of getting this doubt. Yeah. I was like, I'll sleep on the ground on the air mattress. Then I'll wake up. There ain't no way I ain't waking up. I don't need a monitor. I'm on the front lines.

I'll be there. That's what I'm doing. I'm fired up for you It's gonna be good, dude I'm fired up for you This morning Was incredible It like actually was incredible

It was sick No we are filming it is It's 11 right now It's 11 right now Jill's out She's in Miami She's gone Auntie Hillary

A.k.a. Hillary Cox is watching Scarlett That's my boy Brian I've told you about That's his wife They were sweet enough She came over

she's watching Scarlet and she's crushing it. As soon as she walked in, she was like, hey, I think I'm going to listen to some Taylor, truly, I'm going to listen to some Taylor Swift with her. Introduce her to the new album. I was like, that sounds like a game plan. Yeah. So she's going to be showing those off to Auntie Hillary.

Yeah. She napped like a champ this morning. And she has not been napping well. The Merlin, dude. I didn't even put the Merlin down on my sheet. Do you know what the Merlin is? The quarterback for Ohio State last year, what's his name? Will Howard.

His family invented this sleep sack thing that's called a Merlin, and it basically just turns your baby into the Michelin man, the tire logo guy, and they sleep flat on their back with their arms out wide and their legs out straight, and they love it. It's crazy, dude. I sent it to the PT6 social thing. I was like, we need to make a quote graphic that Will Howard was the very first Merlin baby.

Steelers future Hall of Fame quarterback Will Howard's family. Yes, yes. Wish him well. Healthy, healthy recovery with the injuries got going on right now. Oh, yeah. That's a survival kit. Survival kit, the Merlin. But yeah, dude, I mean, Scarlet was like crushing the nap this morning.

She's smiling a whole lot and she's starting to like, instead of cooing, she's actually like, you can tell she wants to talk. So bad. And so whenever I'm like coming over the crib or like putting her in her playpin, it's like, I know mom, nah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, oh my gosh. You say, I love you, dad. I know you did.

I know you're trying to say it. But you have a sitter until 12, 30, 12.45. So got to keep this one under an hour. Literally have to keep it under an hour. Okay. Or Jill will skimmy alive. But there was also. So if we go all the way back to what started all of this conversation, it was

Is it over the line to have your friend who has the same amount of kids or more kids watch your kid? In this case, Scar Scar Scar 3-month-old. You had a situation where Professor Clump. Professor Clump and his wife. Lindsay, God bless her, who made some banana bread and wrote a really sweet note to Jill for her birthday. So thank you, Lindsay. Shout out. It was offered that they could watch Scarlett here at the shop.

They have two boys. one of which is four in some change and the other one's like two in some change shout out JJ shout out JJ shout out Brady but they're I mean they're a handful in themselves like they got their own stuff going on because we were trying to figure out

okay we can we can rip this pod on Friday Jill's out of town how can we figure out how can we help out the boy Sherm yes so we can rip this pod and Jill was like go the avenue of Hillary first to see if she has availability before we reach out to Jeremy and his wife because they already got their kid.

No kids, Hillary, registered nurse, very close friend of ours, or newfound friends through work that we are close with, but newer friends, and they have two kids. It was like, you know, go. That's for sure the pecking order. Yeah, go this avenue first.

We're not going that avenue first. And so I felt bad. I kind of said it to Jeremy, like they weren't an option. but I would have felt bad if we came to them first and been like, hey, yo, can you watch our kid, blah, blah, blah. So what gets set? Like, there's also a thought too, like it's a big no-no to ask.

To ask somebody. That have more kids to watch your kids. To watch your kids. Which I'm calling BS. That's New York all over again. If you get offered and they're offering it, like let's say you're not seeking them out. If they're offering it,

I think that is an option that's very much on the, table. I would sit here and say, I don't care what my wife says, but she obviously, like, we all know how New York went. Like, my wife won that battle. We had to take kids home at like two in the morning. And you apologize. You called her and apologized. I apologize because I was saying as I was saying some very hurtful things that night when I was sideways. Remember when I was sideways? But I do like, it's like if that is one thing, it's like, no, like if they're offering, that offer is is a justified option. Like, they're getting. giving you that opportunity.

And to me, that's an opportunity that if it is the only opportunity, you take the opportunity. Well, we need to, I need to be better at that. And you don't feel bad. And you don't feel bad. I need to get better at that. And Jill needs to get better. Like, us together, we need to not have guilt. Like, that's a very serious, like, real take.

It's like, we do not need to have guilt for somebody to watch our kids. As much guilt is what I think we put on ourselves because I think there's going to be guilt no matter what. Yeah. But maybe. It's going to be like, damn, you're kind of letting up the little kiddos. Like, hey, Ru, you better be on your best fucking gear. You understand. Yeah.

What the fuck are you going to be? When Hillary came over, she legitimately was so excited. And I was like in a real frantic, not super frantic, but I was kind of moving around. Do you have snacks? Do you need water? Do you need anything? Blah, trying to make sure everything was perfect for. And she was like, I mean, you just gave me a Roku remote and the playpen's right here.

And here's a burp cloth. I'm good. Like go do your stuff. Yeah. Like, hey, Scarlett, are you sure you're good? You can just, all you got to do is really just look at her for the next couple hours. For real. Yeah, she makes noise.

If she needs a burp or need a feed, feed her at this time. But other than that, you set her there and you just look at her. You can look at her. You can look at her. You can put her in the plate in and you can do the two feet. She's loving the two feet right now where you're just tuning her. You're flipping her. Yeah.

And, Chef, I'm sorry. You were going to say something. Oh, no, you're good. I was just saying Maybe it's like a good karma thing Like what goes around comes around So you need to pay it forward If you take that

If you're offered And maybe it's one of those things Where it's kind of with the knowledge of like Hey we owe you one Whatever that may be Yeah you do that You definitely you're in the camp up Hey we'll get you on the back end

All I'm saying is if I am telling you Hey I'll watch Scar Scar Scar and even though I got two kiddos And let's say I'm alone And I'm just like, hey, I'll watch Scarlet for you. And you'd be feeling bad. I back, bro. She's three months old.

Like, I'll be able to handle it. And you trust me to do it. I'm saying, if I am offering you, like, there should be zero guilt. Like, if I'm in the, man, I kind of don't want to watch her, then I wouldn't, you know, those fairs shouldn't offer at all. But if I'm offering you, I'm thinking, bro, like, your boy can handle this. You either trust me or you don't. I think you should. Maybe you don't.

Would you trust me? A hundred percent, dude. And, hey, that was one. I got a pretty nice compliment. this morning from Hillary. She was like, I just want to, because I was like running through all the stuff with her and she was like, hey, I just want to let you know working in a hospital. I'm used to dad to being like, yeah, I don't know their allergies.

Like I don't know. Go talk to mom. Hey, yeah. Go talk to mom. Oh, yeah. So she was like, you're on it. Like you, everything seems great. Like I was almost like performative to her when she like showed up in a way of like,

and this is right here and this is right here. And just letting you know, just hand on the shoulder like, hey. She was like, first off, Sherman, we're in your house. Yeah, yeah. You can do whatever the hell you want. I'm a nurse. I'm a nurse. I'm just going to watch your kid.

Like, you don't have to prove anything to me. I'm sitting there like, okay, but everything's like, it's all good. If you need it, it's here, here, here, here. But, yeah, dude, huge weight off my chest when I walked out the front door. Good, good. I was like, oh, dude, that felt good. But got to be home soon. Got to be home soon.

Gotta keep this one under an hour. Gotta keep it under an hour. Go ahead. I was just going to say it and got to kick ass, dude. And I'm off to the hottest start ever. Knock on wood. Yeah. Knock on wood.

But I started off hot. You're going to crush it. Thank you. You're going to crush it. Because when those conversations or questions was coming up, it's like, hey, real opportunity here. And of course I would trust you with Scarlett. I appreciate that. Of course I would.

I would rip, bro. And that was to the point that I was trying to make earlier where Hillary paid that compliment. It was like most dads, you know, don't even know what they're allergic to or their social security. I'm like, I think of you as a dad that's on it. I don't know there's social security numbers. But you've been in the... But I'm on it. You're in the trenches.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd be on it. So I'm watching time concerned, I'd be on it. You've seen a blowout or two. Yeah. Yeah. You got this. Easy money.

Rue would crush it too. Because some of those you see, you know, your boy, it's like holding your kid and it starts crying even a little bit. And it's like almost an instant reaction of like... Oh, shit. What do I do? Yeah. Yeah.

Your anxiety will really build. whenever, like say you and Jill do a date night or you're like letting the babysitter do whatever with Scarlin. She's a little older to where she's aware or has, they'll have their own separation anxiety. It's kind of crippling, bro. You kind of just feel bad leaving the house. First time Charles and I left the house to go on a date and Rue was like aware that we were leaving and she was starting. She was getting old. She was getting at that age to where, you know, she's like reaching or crying and it doesn't seem like they're going to have fun with the babysitter. And you kind of just feel like you're leaving them there to get tortured. You're driving away.

from the driveway just thinking in their mind, they probably got like an animal brain. They probably think we're not coming back. And it's the saddest thing in the world. You kind of just don't know what you and your wife sitting there. And all you're doing is talking about the kid

until you get to dinner. And you have to like tell yourselves like, hey, we have to enjoy this meal. Yes. Then you eat kind of faster. Are we going to get dessert? Oh, well, we got to get home. We'll skip dessert.

And you're kind of just racing home. You just feel so bad leaving them. That'll come to. Dude, that's got, that will hit. Yeah. And thankfully, I didn't feed Scarlet. I gave Hillary the bottle.

And I was like, I think this will help in the long run if you actually kick off this old babysit two-hour sesh with like a feeding. With a dub. Quick game. Quarterback's a little nervous.

Like, let's just get a quick one out there. Quick out, quick slant, something to the flats. Maybe a screen. Maybe let's just hand the ball off. Here's the ball. It's a bottle. Maybe, you know, block, block.

Oh. Yeah. Beak. Start you off with a quick win. quick win. And I was like, Scarlett's going to be like, oh, that's formula lady that fed me. And now she's playing me T-Swift.

Hillary kind of rips. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's start. We got a lot of stuff to cover the episode. We have a lot of comments.

And I do. I was writing down a lot of, I was writing down a lot of comments and more so just names to shout out because last week's episode was obviously very emotional at, at one point when I was talking about when Garrett shot over an awesome comment talking about how you listened to the voicemail. It really struck your boy as empathizing with somebody who lost their parent, understanding that their parent will really get to know your kid. It's just something my mom passing away before Rue was born when Charles, my wife was pregnant. Really hit your boy hard. Yeah. Kind of got off the rails

for a moment. It was an obvious emotional state that I needed to lean into. I do appreciate you guys for sitting with your boy during that during that moment because it was very awkward and different for me in that moment. But all of the comments, all of the messages, everybody that's been engaging, everybody that's been talking about how they lost somebody close to them, they lost a parent or just putting their arm around me in the comment section. I shout out a lot of names. I'm going to just read a list because there were so many. I'm doing my best to shout out everybody. Sumner Darlington, Ian Natch,

Jib, Kennedy LeBlanc, Brittany Underwood, Austin Barnett, Vladis Man on the Planet, Danny Serino, Clifton Jones, Evan Snyder, Life of Sia, Hambonious Rex, Andres, sorry about this brother, Chides, Chides, Chades, Avenged Nick, Bimo 54, Paul Johnson, Flat River Boy grew up in Park Hills.

He said he watched me back when I played in RGFL, so this is a young. Thundercat 4th, 6th, 6th grade. He says he now has 13 kids. That was not a typo. He has three sets of twins. No, he doesn't. You got three sets of twins.

After the second clip, buddy, you got to shut it down. Noah Adams, Tanner Stevens, Andre, Katie, Kim Hickey, Nathaniel Sacks. There were a bunch also that I was reading in Spotify as well. If you go to our Spotify, again, make sure you hit that little plus button and make sure you're following the For the Dad's brand. Of course. Can't encourage the following and subscribing. Hamonius Rex repeat offender, by the way. Yeah, he's a big time.

He's a big time. He's a Big Ten Hick you Repeat Offender. She's a Tier 1 across the board, busts with the boys for the dads, everything. But Jake Ballman, Jaden, Bybee, Bennett. I'm reading the Spotify comments right now. Boss DeJohn. Like the mustard. Yeah, Zane A, Matt, Noterman, just everybody, man.

Honestly, it was really cool. I got a FaceTime last week from a buddy of mine. Shout out Logan, who, Logan, we were kind of talking about the episode of first. And I was like, have you listened to this week's? Because he was like, hey, I've been loving the Fourth of Dad stuff. I've been seeing buddies of mine that are following and like your channel that I haven't spoken to in a long time. It's just really cool to see what the brand's doing.

And the episodes have been great. I have you listened to this week's. And he was like, oh, tell me about this week. I was like, I was starting to tell him. I was honestly starting to get emotional again as I'm trying to tell. Last week was, listen. Last week he'll go down as the most emotional week that Willie C had. Reading comments, seeing the clip that you guys made and kind of like seeing it again and reliving it.

But he calls me like 10 minutes later on FaceTime. And he's just in the middle of crying. And it was kind of like a kind of like I wasn't in the state of crying anymore. I tried popping a joke to make it light. and everybody's just been super cool and it's cool to see everybody in the community rally around just each other, share their stories, be vulnerable with us.

So thank you guys. We do have comments here that we're going to rip some more fun comments this week. We can't just be a just over and over up-tempo crying offense. Crying is fucking cool, by the way. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what?

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

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And it was fucking sick. And what you did was incredible. You're a legend. Thank you. I don't want to add. I truly, it's like if I add, start talking about again. It'll feel.

You know what I mean? It'll feel. Did you just say all that? The parent stuff, the mom stuff, just that all of it, bro. Feel. Feel. Willie C. has never done this in the history of busson.

After that episode, you took a hour nap in the shop. An emotional nap. And I do. When I woke up, I appreciated that the doors were shut because they weren't at first. I kind of was sitting there and I was like, I'm going to watch, forget what it was. Either like, it's Friday. It's on a Friday, so it's either like make some posts or like watch some film on the NFL, like watch the All-22, like dive into some of that stuff.

And I kind of just got to where I was starting to be a sleepy boy. Yeah. And so I just kind of put the hat over the face and the lazy boy that we got. And I was just hopeful my hopefully guys don't come in and like mess with me or do a joke or come up and take a photo and post it. Like I was like, I'm just going to get a quick now. I'm going to get a nap in. Thankfully, Derek and I, Derek, you say. I was just going to say it was kind of like when dad falls asleep and you're like,

oh, we should change your channel. And mom's like, don't mess with that. And like people were like trying to go and we're like, don't go in there yet. Like people were like, hey, is Will in there? We're like, don't, don't open the door. Like, don't open the door. Put the AC on. Give the boy a second.

Yeah. And it was truly an hour nap. Yeah. Like I woke up, the door, you guys had shut the doors. It was me was, who was one of the last ones in here? Maybe clump. Yeah. Because most everybody was gone.

Ryan was here. I was kind of bummed that. I didn't get say bye to you guys. I did wake up. I was like, man, everybody. It was a much needed, it was a much needed nap. It was. The week of travel and everything else, and then that emotion.

Because we shaved out. I didn't watch that moment on YouTube. I know when we got done, I was kind of up in the air about cutting a lot of stuff out because I was just, I was feeling very awkward. And I hate the way my voice cracks and doing the whole pod. And then I was just kind of like, hey, you guys listen to it. I trust you guys. whatever you want to cut out if you think it's necessary if you feel like it'll be people you know connect

with it it'll be helpful you guys do your thing with it yeah but i know how did you did you edit out stuff oh yeah uh yeah i edited a decent bit but nothing like dialogue wise i really think that there's maybe like three or four words that cut and that was kind of like what you guys don't see is like produce or talk where will my go like you might want to cut this or something like that's all that was but pretty much everything said I kept because I thought it was really important. I thought that there was like a lot that resonates with the people who watch this and I think it's important that they you know see that and I'd speak from my side. I don't think it was awkward at all. I think you're having a moment that's universal and

eventually pretty much everyone will understand. Yeah. For sure. It's one of those where I'm like I'm driving afterwards or thinking about it afterwards and usually like when a moment like that's happening, not say like I'm usually alone and I want to be alone because I think like, okay, I'm usually alone when it happens and it's like, oh, it's always good to have somebody there with you or whatever the case, like support system around. But usually like as anybody who has like a tough moment like that, usually you feel much more comfortable it's happening, whether it's in your car or at home alone, whatever it is. And for it to be happening in

front of you guys when especially the moment where I had to kind of just sit to the side and I'm like all right this is I got to basically I have to have this moment I can't like get out of this moment yeah yeah yeah then to look up and see see that you guys were you know being the way you were and thank you for being a good friend both all you guys all you guys absolutely appreciate it should we get into some some fun comments I'm ready all right I'll kick it off coach web on YouTube coach web 99 03 best part of the pod is the tears Christ Crying is cool, Coach Webb. So glad I have a scheduled time to cry each week. Another one, another fun one. Josh Thompson, 63, 64, Bed Podcast. Best podcast I listened to this year. Will, I totally felt that emotion, Josh. I appreciate the comment, brother.

Junior Lee B.K. On YouTube, I fucking love this podcast. So many lessons in here for everyone. This might be for the dads at its core. But in my opinion, it's, oh, I like this for the soul. Thanks for speaking from the heart, boys. Dude, thank you, Jr. Snap, snap, snaps.

Lindy Roker, 5535 on YouTube said, just wanted to say how much I love this podcast. My fiance put me on it, and I've been hooked from the beginning. We aren't parents yet, but I can't tell you how much more excited you guys have made us to become members of MT6 and PT6 one day. You have given all of us listeners

a refreshing and realistic perspective on parenting. I'm all in for the roller coaster of emotions I experience listening to the show too. Laughing one minute and then crying the next. Real men in parentheses and women cry. And crying is totally cool. Thank you so much for sharing your lives, your hearts with us, and making this podcast incredible. I love that comment. It is.

It's like when you're sitting there like what clips do I want to post? It's like you got the emotional one. There's some I've seen in the comments that are alluding to the. the speech of the moment last week after, you know, my man got himself out of the trenches. And then there's like, I got the Bain mask on. Oh, you think this bottle is your ally. We literally. Laughing, crying, motivational speeches.

Like, all right, how are we going to approach this week on the internet? Yes, we have a clip that took me a day and a half to edit because it's a funny part of the podcast, but my eyes look like I just got pepper spray. And so I had to add the context of us reading sad comments at the beginning of it, then transitions to, yeah, I'm out of underwear. I'm wearing a European swimsuit. That's the joke. There you go.

And like my eyes just look awful. But yeah, the pod is sick, dude. We're having fun. We're having fun, man. KJ, for the dad's PT Sicko. That's his full handle. P.T. Sicko? Please let me read that again.

Go ahead. This is his official handle. KJ for the dad's P.T. Sica. Yeah. That's somebody, too, that's probably on this. You know, we haven't, I haven't looked or we haven't circled back on it. But the Reddit page we talked about, we need the T, we need the squat out there to make that. You know, this is somebody that's in the trenches.

KJ on the front line. Yeah, yeah. He's got the light machine gun. He's not carrying around the submachine gun. He said, cried. Ordered for the dad's merch. Cried again. Love you, boys.

We are never hitting on the odds of not crying. Thank you, KJ. Thank you, KJ. Another one or? Yeah, I got Katie. Katie Jossen-Hans. What a cool name. As a mom who grew up in a family where we were proud of our last name,

it was sad to think my kids wouldn't have that as part of theirs. When I got married, I moved my maiden name to my middle name. And now I plan to give my kids that name as their middle name too. That way, we can all. say that we are a part of the cash family. I love that. You heard that right. I went from Katie Cash to Katie Josin Hans.

But my boys, and I'm so sorry if I'm just absolutely, is it Yosen Hans? Usually, yeah. However you say it's cool, man. Yosenhans. You can't expect us to just be dialed in on some of the names. A Katie Yosin Hans. But yeah, Katie Cash to Katie Yosenhantz. but my boys will always be a part of the cash clan and I am so damn proud of that.

That's a subtle parent hack right there. That's a mom hack. That's a mom, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, that's a mom hack right there. Juan Patino 956 on YouTube. Longtime listener to the bus and have to say, for the dads is the best new member of Step Papa Team 6 of two wonderful kids, 5 and 6. All your stories and advice helped me tremendously keep up the good work boys.

step papa team six step pop a team six if you're a good one and it sounds like he's setting a good example for uh for stepdad's life of siya somebody i shout it out with uh with a great comment this is uh this is siya's comment this pod has been a huge help with the day to day of dad life a place to feel like i can just hang out and vent and say the things that we all have on our minds both the deep and not so deep stuff the things that we go through shout out you and uh one more from Nuke 50 on YouTube. Willie One Shelf, make me cry on a damn construction site. Just another reason why I love

you guys and love this show. Wednesdays can't come soon enough. No, they can't, brother. Hey, come on. No, they can't. Gaming Riot 101 says, what's up? I'm new to the channel, but I'm expecting my first child. He is a boy and his name is River. I'm only 21. Shout out River. Shout out River.

And I'm nervous about I am nervous about it, but we have a great, We have a great support system. I'd like to hear from some of you guys. So sorry. Let me regroup here. I would like to hear some of your guys' hardest and best moments about being a first-time dad. My name is Austin Witchman, by the way.

I'm in Papa Team 6 officially now. What spark is some emotion for you? Hardest and best moments of being a first-time dad. I would say hardest moments is getting into the rhythm of the infancy stage, like the newborn stage. That was the hardest part for me. It was a definite learning curve. But once I got it down, I got it down. It's a lot of people talk about like skiing is very like hard to master, but it's like very easy to pick up.

whereas snowboarding is a little bit harder to pick up, but a lot easier to master. I feel like bringing up a newborn is like snowboarding. It's kind of hard to pick up, but once you get the hang of it, you're going to start ripping. Good to go. Yeah, dude, I could not imagine being a father at 21.

Yeah, dude. Well, I mean, like, well done to him for being locked in at the age. The thought of a 21-year-old Sherman being a dad is a scary one. I know it's hard for a lot of young parents that have kids that young. And whether it was planned or unplanned, I think the most important thing that this young man can do is accept whatever the reality is of his situation.

And I'm not saying it wasn't planned. I'm not saying he didn't want this. I'm just almost as presumptive because he's 21. But accept whatever reality you have. And dude, it's got to be the number one priority in your life. on nailing down fatherhood. It just does. It does with all the,

and we, there's a, there's honestly a sick lesson that I came across or a sick like philosophy that I think is going to be like a new found thing. Like in my life and world, there's like a North Star Mount Rushmore of philosophies that I'll hit later in the episode.

But man, write down what your priorities are, what you want to be as a father. write it down and be as clear as possible. Who do I want to be as a dad, especially as a young man, bro, because you're very young. I don't know everything you have going on in your life. I'm sure you're trying to balance what you want to do in this world, what kind of dad you want to be, and I would say give yourself some grace and not feeling urgent and rushed into figuring out whether it's career, school, whatever is going on in your world. You're going to have a lot of pressure and a lot of

stress, being a young dad, being at 21. But bro, get as clear as you possibly can. If this podcast is something you enjoy listening to and feel like you get out from, stay glued to it. Because there's going to be a lot of trials and tribulations in your relationship, in fatherhood, in all of it, bro. But yeah, I thought you had, I thought you had great advice. It's like, man, it's going to feel overwhelming with a newborn, your first one. Once you get it down, you're going to get it down, but make sure you keep your, the main thing, the main thing when it comes to fatherhood, bro, and prioritize it, because it's, it's, it's difficult. And I'm speaking as somebody who was a dad at, Ru is three, so 33, 34 years old.

Yeah. 32 for myself. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel like it was helpful for me, I guess, like later to become a dad. I truly, I couldn't imagine, but it, dude, if I give you advice, it's, It's the same kind of things that we talk about. I say to myself all the time, like nobody's coming to save you.

Focus, be as clear as you possibly can and stay glued to whatever that clarity is, whatever you have written down, stay glued to it because that's what you're going to need to look at and lean on and constantly think about the self-talk all the time with all the pressure that you'll have in this world. But good on you for writing in. I appreciate you writing in, bro. Yes, awesome. Thank you for writing in.

And if it is one of those situations, where you are trying to do school, balance that. There was a guy that I went to Baylor with. Shout out Jimmy, that he had an accident child or a surprise child, his senior year of high school. And he absolutely ripped as a dad. And was a full-on college student, like living on campus, co-parenting with a mom.

They were, I mean, it was like truly something special to get to watch. It's really cool when like people are kind of thrust into, um, responsibility and how they can handle that. Yeah. Because 21 year old Sherman that was shirtless with a Pikachu mask on drinking on a rooftop. Yeah. Was not ready to be a dad at 21. But Jimmy absolutely mastered it, handled it. And I, I still follow him on Instagram. I see pictures of him and his little girl. And he rips. He's an awesome dad. Yeah. Um, I have an email here from Zach. Zieg. Zach Zig?

Oh, Zach Zay. Hey, boys, big fans of the podcast. Love listening to you guys every week. We're going to call this shitty. We're going to call this a shitty situation story. I have two boys aged one and two. 202. Boys.

Who. Yeah. But, you know how Rue does soccer each week? Bro, please keep on taking more and more videos about it. Oh, yeah, yeah. I posted all my story, like all the boy, like being boys. And then Rue's just locked in, foot on the ball. she's in her ready position

staring the coach down bro the boys man are just different animals that's when I sit down I'm like girls yeah girls run the world yeah these boys are idiots like I'm thinking good on you we gotta find the killer instinct a little bit

yeah yeah yeah but I'm sitting back there like a proud pappy just and just watching these boys like wrestle pick up the ball like do all the things get upset at each other like boys they just feel like a different animal it was last year on a Saturday I believe Nebraska was playing Ohio State that week. Both the boys are already down for their morning nap. Huskers are on. Life is good, right? Boy, was I wrong? The boys started waking up from their nap right around the two-minute warning. I told the wife, and this is when we had Ohio State on their heels, bro. The Huskers had Ohio State on their heels. Was it at Columbus? It was. It was. It was pre-Hulgerson. We get out of the Wend that one. I told the wife, I would go get them at halftime. I walked into the room and the stench that hit my nose quite literally knocked my dick in the dirt.

It was the worst smelling shit I have smelt in my life. I thought that was the end of the shitty situation. But once I regain consciousness, I look up and see they both smeared their diarrhea diapers all over everything. The wall, the crib, the sheets, anything you could think of, there were shit on it. They were also covered in shit, head to toe. I was deep in the trenches. That was just a little story from a family that has two boys.

We're adding a little girl here at the end of October. Go Big Red. Love you guys. Sent from my iPhone. Was it a email? Was it actually? Email, email. They got the little tank at the bottom.

Go Big Red, having a little spooktober girl at the end, at the end of the month. Congratulations to you. That's a good laugh. Hey, good for him. And Iowa fans refrain from any nasty comments of leave it to some Huskers to rub poop all over them. Yeah, leave it to us to let it get out of hand in such a situation, in such a way that there's shit all over the place. Like that to me is that's coat of red. That's get the boys, get the boys out, except that you're about to smell and be shitty,

or take them outside, get the hose, water them down. And say to yourself, this is worse than the time the raccoons got stuck in the copier. Yeah. Chuckle about the anchorman, old Anchorman movie. And pray to God, wife's up there, clean up the room. I know I wouldn't want to clean the room. Oh, they had Sex Panther in the room. Yeah.

That's essentially what was going on. Yeah. Damn. Hey, good, what was his name again? Zach, Zach Zig, Zach Zieg. Thank you for that email. That was hilarious. Vincent.

Vincent writes in on YouTube. He says, seeing the end of the road in sight. wife is 37 weeks pregnant with our first and it's a baby boy and we're getting induced in three days everything is finally starting to kick in all the feelings emotions and thoughts are running through my mind faster than i can understand so many worries i keep thinking about but i know i've got this podcast to watch every wednesday and you boys have got me ready to tackle anything coming my way appreciate what you guys are doing shout out the boy man thank you out the boy, dude. Thank you for the comment. That gets me stoked that like somebody's going into something with confidence. Because I will say this week, like this weekend, I would not be going into it with the confidence I have if it wasn't for this show.

And I mean that. The far's true, man. So I'm feeling what Vincent's feeling. This one's from Whalen Ransom. This is, this comes from the social media platform X. Oh, nice. Gentlemen, I've been given the honor and privilege to coach my daughter's fourth grade powder puff flag football team.

What an honor. We will be playing the third grade squad. It's 8V8. This is my coaching debut. Any advice for coaching or pregame speech advice would be appreciated. This game will be October 12th around 3 p.m. Hopefully I can update y'all after the huge win. What's the date right now?

It's the third. So he'll get to listen to this before the game kicks off. This is a deep water conversation. This is a deep water speech. Are they the underdogs in this? This is a fourth grade team. They're playing the third grade. They're playing the third grade team.

So this should be bully ball. This should be bully ball. Bully ball. Establish the run. Yeah. There you go, Jeff. I didn't know if you had anything else. You started.

Just let's first drive. Just power gap scheme the whole time. Does this third grade? You got a year advantage on them. Yeah. do you think this third grade team understands what it's like when fourth graders put their paws on them? Fuck no.

This is a deep water situation. We're going to take this team. We're going to run the football. I don't know if you can blitz. I doubt you can blitz. However, reroute, get your hand on these little fucking third graders. Because what we're going to do in this ball game is we're going to take them one foot at a time into deeper and deeper water until we can hold them underwater and

the bubble stop. Yeah. That's the kind of game. we're about to have. And if you have any doubt in your mind, go sit with your parents. I don't know if that's, you know,

you got to make sure you're the only adult in the room telling them this kind of speech because we're talking about like hold third graders underwater. Which, by the way, this is also a fun humorous podcast for any, you know, caring somebody to be sitting there like, oh shit, why is he saying that? No, this is the kind of football game.

We're trying to win a football game. We're trying to motivate however we can. I do have some, there you go, Sherm. He's getting ready for this football game right now. I do have some, as somebody who, like when I was in high, school. It was my junior year. Allstate, wire receiver, you know, safety. Offers from Notre Dame. Yeah, something like that. Other D-1. That's not what we're talking about. That's not

in my free time after practice high school, I coached. I was a head coach of a fourth grade team. Tackle football. I was a head coach. I go to the RJFL fields. We practice twice a week. did we go undefeated or did we go five and one? We might have lost a game. We might have lost a game. But having experience in this mode, you have, there's some plays out there to be made. If you can get these fourth graders understanding some jet sweep,

handing the ball getting to the edge, because I'm telling you, these third graders, their eyes are going to be in the backfield. If you can hit the perimeter with some jet sweeps, and I'm talking, I made a halftime of, that I still think about to this day because I would get in a power eye for me because you're not throwing the ball very much in fourth grade. You're not you're not throwing the ball. You might like lob one up if you catch them. You get the tight end down the seam. But you're playing power football.

This is man on man. Like they got they're going to feel you. Yeah. I would get in a power eye and I'd be run you know 26 power. I'd be doing you know sweeps everything else. And I realize as I'm sitting back there as they had man in the O.C. watching the defense perform. Their eyes are in the backfield. They're going to go with whatever way the flow feels. They're going to overpursue, right? Especially when they're getting gashed up the middle or getting gassed on the perimeter. The coordinator, the defensive coordinator in the back is going to be telling his second level, his backers, I got to see you take off. Once you see this happen, that's where the ball's going. That's where you got to go. I would get in the power rider where you line up three running backs,

right? And what a halftime adjustment I made is we'd be hitting the 28 sweeps on them, 27 sweeps on them, to where you get the second level over pursuing. Yeah. And what I ended the adjustment I ended up making, hey, I want a full 28 sweep. That's the optics I want. Everybody else you hear a 28 sweep. I told the quarterback and the running back, here's what you're going to you're going to jab step like it's 28 and you're going to go the back side into seven hole and you're going to be running Scott Free. That's called a counter, baby. Yeah, that's called a counter. However, know the only one that needs counter footwork is the running back and the the quarterback who knows he's faking it this way and then dishing it out to him on the left and he's gone yeah he gone

I don't need anybody pulling backside this is going to be wide open so one jab step once you get him over pursuing in the first half you come back in the second half they over pursue boom foot in the ground you're out the back door the other way yep 88 out the gate and we're talking this is girls flag football correct yeah powder puff okay uh shirts need to be tucked in no ponies You need French braids. Ponys are going to come loose. Hair's going to get in the face. All the girls need to show up in French braids.

Yeah. No ponies. And get the eye black. Get the eye black out. If you don't want to use the deep water analogy, this is the eye black game. This is the eye black game. But hey, make it fun for them because the little ones when they're having fun, that's when the magic happens.

So keep it fun, keep it light. But we also need to end some lives tonight. Yeah. And you know what's fun, Sherm? Winning. Winning. Imposing your will. Hey, I'm seeing the other team not have fun anymore.

I met this guy the other day. He was having so much fun. Guess what he wasn't. A loser. You ever met a loser having a lot of fun with him? No, I haven't. Hey, I will say this to you. Get a running back that is the shortest girl on your team.

Because there is something very strange with flag football, with the younger generation of leaning down and pulling a flag. It doesn't matter if she has a whole lot of speed. she's down low and people are having to reach down for her flags, they will miss her. Because at that age, they're not as good at dropping their hips. No, I'm in a balance. No. And so if you have a back with a low center of gravity, even if it's not the shiftyest person on your team,

but has some good speed, tote the rock, tote the rock, tote the rock. Yeah. You need to go into that game and before you walk on the field, you need to know that your team, there is no smiling happening. No. It's a focused bunch. This is, hey, we drop. this game right here, there are no snow cones post game.

Yeah. And if, hey, and if anybody's giggling, back of the line, back of the line. You see another one giggling, back of the line. Because the third graders, all they need to see is the mean mugs of the fourth graders. Because there will be some giggling. Let's not fool ourselves. These are fourth grade girls. There's going to be some giggling.

Hey, girls, get out there, mean muggy, all of it. There's going to be some good back of the line. Yeah. You're not leading this team out, but you're going to be giggling. Yeah. I'd stop practice. Oh, yeah, dude. You're running laps.

We wouldn't run laps. But I'd back, do you want to tell everybody else to joke? Because we're trying to run a 26th counter right now. And your footwork is awful. Hey, Will's got something funny for everybody. Will, what do you got? It looks funny when you're telling Johnny. Oh, you're done telling the joke.

All right. Can we get back to work? And walk out the Skrilla, obviously. The kids Bob. Kids Bob Scrily. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for shooting us that comment, Whalen. We are excited to hear how this football game went.

Where is it being played? Um, does not say, however, it's on October 12th around 3 p.m. Oh, okay. I was going to say, I'm free the 12th. So I want to go watch. You make a halftime adjustment or you hit a jet sweep on the perimeter. I do expect a phone. I expect a video.

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So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sorry, I'm thinking ball right now. I'm thinking how I can, you know, it's 8V8, so you're not going to have, you can stack your line of scrimmage, but you get a jet sweep person going. You got to see what the defense is doing on the jet sweep.

because let's just say you're jetting to the right. Yeah. Even numbers. That's the right side. Yeah. Say you're jetting to the right, but you're running a 27, a 25, you're running something to the left side. You want to see what the second level is doing. Are they pursuing the jet sweep or are they moving with the line of scrimmage in the backfield?

That right there is going to tell you how you can open them up all game. The only thing I'm worried about is that corner that the third grade corner, she's out there. She hasn't been paying attention all game. she's sleeping, she's picking flowers, she's doing whatever. Yeah. But that right there is you got to challenge your tight end or your tackle. You went on the first step because I need you to capture that outside arm. Yeah.

Yeah. At the playground rocking with my classmates. But yeah, let's know how it goes. Should we get in some dad wins and losses? Yes. 1148 right now. Got to keep it under an hour. Gotta keep it under an hour.

I have a dad loss. I need you to say it. Because I... What's going on? I'm trying hard to find a dad loss. Oh, okay, okay, okay. You had a good week. But I might have had a...

You had a good week. It just, I feel like we're... My wife and I, like, we're very busy. Yeah. We're dialed. Yeah. And again, it's more of like, not necessarily dead losses. It's just, you know, when my wife's got to run double duty.

Yeah. Y'all are feeling a lot of gaps. So, like, if there are any misses, it's like, hey, they're filling gaps. So, like, you know. Yeah, it's more just about the support I can provide around, like, provide for Charo or Round Charo. Yeah. Intentional time for us. One thing that we are doing, staycation tonight.

It's Friday night. Oh. Mom and Dad, I got a staycation. Where you all know? Downtown Nashville. Four seasons. Four seasons? Yeah.

Hey-o. We got a little spa set up. Massages happening around 4.30 today. A little dinner reservation. Keep it under an hour. Middle the afternoon. Go early check-in. Rest of the day together.

Tomorrow morning together. Surfing turn? What's you getting for dinner? At Shockwave. All right then. All right then. I was going to make a joke on steak preparation, but it didn't feel right. Did not feel right.

But yeah, I'm very fired up about that. That's awesome. Very fired up about that. Y'all deserve that. Y'all both been going and blowing. And I feel like Jill saying, come on. Come on. But I feel like...

You're going to be going. You go on me going and blowing. Five seconds later. Oh, you know. Repetition, sweetheart. You know, I'm not as good as I once was. Maybe next time we can, like, go on an actual vacation. This is the same thing we already do.

We should catch up on some sleep, right? A big day tomorrow. Oscar's play. What was I even going to say? Oh, dad loss. Yeah. That fires me up that you don't really have a dad loss. I don't really have a dad loss either

except for last night I told you the report card was out the last two weeks. Jill's been grading me strict because she's about to go out of town and I phowed up last night and I fed Scarlett 30 minutes earlier than what she actually feeds at which then turned into a conversation of

do you even know our daughter's schedule? What are we doing, Sherman? She never takes her bath at 6.30. Why are you taking... Why did you put her in a bath at 630? And she has a bottle in her mouth before seven. She's not even in bed until 7.30. This is going to mess up the whole sleep schedule.

And I'm like, honey, it's fine. It's going to be great. blah, blah, blah. Last night was miserable. Scarlet slept terrible. Jill was right. We got her off her schedule. And she had a terrible night's sleep.

But Jill did. Before she leaves. Before she left. But Jill did apologize to me. She was like, hey, I came down on you too hard. I apologize. It's not lack of effort. Thank you.

It's not lack of effort. She was like, I know where your head was at because she told me before she was going to go get her nails done and all that stuff for the bachelorette party. And she was like, hey, she cannot fall asleep right before bedtime or she won't go to bed. And so I'm playing with her. I'm keeping her awake. She's starting to doze off. I'm like, oh, well, she loves like when I change her. So I go to go change her because I'll keep her awake.

And now I'm like, oh, well, you know, I already got her naked. Let's do back time. Because it's probably close to the bath time right now. Didn't check my phone. Put her in the bat. I was in the right headspace. But it just, it didn't translate well.

Just for the moms out there, you can coach technique. You can't coach effort. If your man's got the effort going. Like if you were 30 minutes late, to me that's a, that's more of a hammer down conversation. Yeah.

We're 30 minutes early. Let's coach the technique. Yeah. Let's understand that you are, playing fast and you're playing with a lot of effort. You do care and you're on it. You're on a little early. And you should have seen me doing bath time, dude.

I, like, truly was operating. And for anybody that's never given a newborn a bath, I mean, it's like you got to have one hand on the towel because you can't do two hands on the baby and then be reaching for the towel because they're wet and slippery and they're going to get cold and they're going to start crying. So you got the towel quick.

I was operating. Yeah. I kind of crushed it. except for the fact that I did everything like 45 to 30 minutes. You were so prepared. You just, you guessed a little bit before the play started. Yeah, dude. And coach came back around, like Jill came back around and totally was like,

she really did. Yeah. She was like. Hey, right here, use your eyes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The entire formation. It's all good. The lines moving that way.

Your eyes are on the back. Yeah. In case of the counter. Yeah. You took what we did in individual period and you are applying it. Yeah. I'm not trying to slow you down. Keep playing.

And with that much effort, it's showing up every week. Your preparation, the speed you're playing at. Thank you. Let's widen the vision a little bit. Yeah. That's it. Because the game ain't like the individual drills. Yeah.

Anything can happen. Yeah. But that was my dad loss. It wasn't that big of a dad loss. No, no, no, not that bad. We're kind of operating. But that doesn't mean we're kind of due for a big one. This weekend for sure.

I meant for you. I know you meant for me. I said, but I was due for Davos and you said this weekend. I thought you meant big one like big win. Oh, like minor set. Like I saw it as minor setback major comeback. Okay, okay, okay.

Then I'm fully. No, you're aboard. Yeah. Death. I'll be tapping in. I'll be tapping in each day. Yeah, tap in, tap in. I'll be tapping in.

I'll be tapping it. I'll need it. That scared me for a second. I was like, oh, my God. By the way, Spook toober, you know, one of the rules embracing the spook. Yeah. Once a weekend.

Yeah. we will be going to a park some pumpkin patch pumpkin patch type part a little Halloween theme park if you do want to join when I'll tell you after

I'll tell you after I'll tell you after but I think it would be fun as well no it would be fun this is like a smaller scale one not one where it's like we're talking gentry farms and stuff and I'm like hey shirm you can tag along but I know Jill would want to be part of that too so we'll wait for Jill to get home

yeah yeah this is a smaller one that I dude, it's like, this is one where you get out of the house, make get a couple photos, shoot them into the wifey. Well, look at PT6. Hunting trip. Look at Fast Stafford crushing this one. Hunting trip, all but confirmed for later this year. This is one you go to and you could go to this one every weekend.

Oh. If I could just a good little outy. It's a little fun one. Yep. Good little outing. Okay, well, that's perfect. Also, I might be playing PubGia tonight. Oh, no.

Staycation. One night, I can tomorrow. Okay. I can tomorrow. Okay. I forgot about... This is all mom and dad time night. I forgot about staycation.

That is on me. Yeah. That is on me. But I'll be back in action tomorrow. Okay, come on. Come on. Pt six. We're back with another sponsor that we are proudly sponsored by True Classic.

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Trust me, grab one and you'll thank me later. Trueclic.com forward slash for the dads. Let's get back to this episode. My crack a cold one. This week is going to go to our sitter taught Rue a little game. But it's like a gratitude game. It's called Rose and Thorn. Like what was your rose of the day?

What was your thorn of the day? Oh. So your rose of the day is like something you were grateful for, something you had fun with, something that made you really happy. Your thorn of the day is something that potentially bothered you or something that made you upset. I thought it was a really good way.

Like Rue's bringing this game up to me. She's like, Dadda, let's play Rosen Thorn. Rosen Thorne. I'm like, all right, well, what's Rosentorn? What I miss? I was going on for 24 hours. What do I wear? Yeah.

But she starts naming her Rose and Thorn. thorn to where I'm getting what she's, I'm understanding what she's saying. She's rattling off an entire list for her rose. What was her rose? Playing with Dadda. Okay. Like Scotty making her laugh. Like getting to play with Mama,

seeing Mama in the morning, things that she might have done at school. Hmm. Like students that made her laugh or getting to play a game outside. For sure. She's like rattling off a list. Snacks. Yeah.

Good snacks. Thorne was Mama not getting to see her play. Oh, what about that? Dad didn't get to be at school either. Dad didn't get to see me play either. I like, all right, I needed that one. That's a Thorne. I get that.

Because that one first. Yeah. Scotty, like if Roos playing and Scotty goes and like, you know, just being Scottzilla. Like, Rue will be trying to build this little foam robot where, like, magnetizes. And Scotty comes over and she just, you know. And she just starts, like, screaming. Roo starts screaming. just got a smile and like grabbing at the phone robot.

Like Roo, come play over here. Like, play over in this spot. I'll move Scotty here. Try to give her the remote so Scotty's occupied so as Roo can build this robot. Yeah, yeah. And then you'll hear it. You should drop the robot lean and get on the ground. And then you'll hear, it's like, Scotty, dead it.

And I'm like, Scotty, no. And then when I'm like yelling like that, I'm like, Scotty, Scottie, no. And Rood just gets in like, she just got through into the ocean type of scream. Like a horror movie's happening because Scotty's getting close to her. I can't help. I'm going over there like laughing. So sweetheart, Scotty's just, she thinks she's just playing with you. She doesn't know.

She's kind of like Waffle. She doesn't know what's going on right now. But Rosenthorn is a crack of cold one I really like. Because it also gets rude talking about what upset her in the day so we can talk to that. Talks her about what she's grateful for, which I love. And then another crack of cold one is just embracing the. Spook. Rue went to, Charo took Roo. They went to the library yesterday.

And Roo came home with the book, Wicked. Oh, really? Because you're so excited to show me, like, you know, for like Halloween and everything else. Yes. So embracing the spook when your kiddos embrace the spook. Those are my crack of cold ones. Is that Wicked like the musical? I believe so.

I think Wicked's like Wizard of Oz. I'll be fully. I got dragged there when it released in theaters by the girlfriend. It was fucking awesome. that's that's one that I will I put hands up we're walking out of there I go she goes that was incredible I go that was incredible I forgot you know shirm was or not shirm uh jack chef he was like well are we going to this stupid fucking musical musical we were named I hate musicals we were naming movies over there I totally forgot I'm so glad you brought this up uh you were naming movies

too Derek weren't you over there um I work over there yes I didn't I couldn't remarry a view, but we're all... I was probably over there. I do, that is where my desk is. I do sit right next to you, Sherman. But we're naming off all these movies. It's like LA Confidential, just like all these like dude films.

And then Chef's like, hey, I'm not gonna lie. And same story he just told. And I behind my computer started laughing so hard, but I was like, Wicked was good. Yeah, it was good. I got to give the nod. We were talking about how like, maybe it was crazy rich Asians,

which is another one that like, any date in their right mind, you're going in the theater, you're not thinking, let's go watch crazy rich Asians. But then you go watching, you're like, oh, incredible.

Incredible. But I still need to get on that. You have to get on. This weekend would be perfect. Yeah. That was my homework. It wouldn't be perfect. Has Jill seen it?

Oh, well, I feel like Jill probably has seen it. If I confirm with Jill and she's like, I have seen it, love it. Okay, then yes, that's a great thing for you to do during a nap time this weekend. Legitimately. Perfect. I really want to watch it.

She'll love that movie. She'll be, she'll love that movie. She'll be obsessed with it. And we need a good movie night. We've been looking for a good show and slash good movie. The other thing I was going to, oh, bonus crack a cold one for me. Jill is really embracing Spooktober with our daughter. and it's kind of sick to see. Like she has, it's not a wubba, but it's kind of like a wubba, but instead of a passie attached to it, it's a blankie attached to it.

I don't know the name of it. Yeah. But Jill got one with a ghosty, a little ghosty. Yeah. And then she dressed up Scarlet for October 1st for the kickoff of Spooktober. And she had what they are now calling a boo basket. So it's like an Easter basket, but for little babies on. Halloween. You get them their little boo basket.

Bro, there's nothing that gets the parents. Because you know, you're getting this lull of Halloween, right? Like you grow up loving Halloween because you get to do the costume. Yeah, yeah. Dress up. You have a stint in college and stuff where you're younger, where you enjoy Halloween because the party scene and everything else, the women. Then you get like, you know, like the young adulthood where it's like, ah, Halloween, like it's another holiday, but they,

you have kids, bro. Mm. And holiday or Halloween juices you out because you get to get them in these cute outfits. You're embracing the theme of the month because Halloween is right around the corner. Yep. Some great shows and movies out there too. By the way, since we're on, since we're talking about. Please.

Halloween. I will say my survival kit this week is just spooktober merch. I'm going to get the for the dads. BWTB.com. I love that shirt. BWTBer merch. I do love that shirt. BWTB.com.

We do have a lot of other, like if you're a fan of busting with the boys or you don't have kids and you're looking for a spooktober merch or things to kind of to embrace Spooktober with us. We do have a lot of cool Spooktober merch on the site, BWTB.com. Sherm's holding it up right now. You got Spooktober. You got nothing just chilling, killing. We have another cool Spooktober shirt on there. But you can go there and get that.

That could be, that's a survival kit. But since we're on the theme of Spooktober, I do have a list. I have a list because, again, a rule of spooktober is embracing the spook once a weekend by going to something in being being festive. So pumpkin patch, a hayride, whether it's a, I'm drawing a blank right now, like a... Jill and I went to a wildflower picking farm that had like pumpkins and stuff. Yeah, get outside, get around some pumpkins, get around the theme of spooktober, haunted house, whatever it is. You're doing something to embrace the spook outside.

Yeah, for sure. Another rule is watching a Halloween thing. themed show or movie per day. And you can either have it on and it can be quick hitters. It can be you have it on for 10 minutes, whatever it is. You're just, you're bringing the spook alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when you have kids, you got to get creative because not everything can be a horror movie.

Number one, my wife, she's got, you know, if things get too stressful, like we can't do it over and over. I personally can't do it over and over. I call the scary, gory, ghost, paranormal activity stuff every day. Yeah. But I've enjoyed getting to relive some nostalgic things that grew up on because now we have kids and now it's like okay if i'm going to embrace a spook i want to find some movies and some shows that we can swap out our tv coupon for but i have a list of your movies hocus

pocus hocus hocus one and two one and two casper casper is so good casper bro one of my that was a yeah that was one of my first that was back in 1995 your boy was six six seven years old your boy was Two. Friendly ghost, heartwarming story. Check out Casper. They do have some TV show with it too, like on Disney. They do. First crush was the girl. There you go. Adam's family. Hotel Transylvania, all four movies. Come on. Monstas. Transylvania, too. Monsters reimagined for kids, funny and lighthearted. Monster house. Frankenweeney. Yeah. This is Tim Burton's take on Frankenstein with a boy and his dog. The nightmare before Christmas.

God. It's like Halloween Christmas crossover classic. So good. Goose bumps. This isn't a Rue age. This isn't three-year-olds, but if I'm thinking of parents out there

that have some older kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe in that, what, seven range? Yeah. Seven and up. Goose bumps, buddy goosebumps was the one where the mask gets stuck on the face that haunted me for a very long time.

Oh, dude. I hated because I loved how scary they were. I hated those movies. Yeah. So scared. Spookly, the square pumpkin. Perfect for the little ones.

Okay. I've never even heard of it. This is good for the audience to figure out finding ways to kind of embrace it. They may be relives. Yeah. Spookly's, that's older, right? 2005.

Yeah. That's right when I was growing up. I love that too because we're talking 05 and I'm just pulling Casper from 1995 or the dog. You are a classic. Yeah. You're a classic. Adams family 1991

Hocus Pocus 1993 But Monsters Inc and Monsters University Coco More of a Day of the Dead Than Halloween But a great family watch

It's a good one It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown 1966 1966 chef Seen that one too Who hasn't That's one that's where

If you're in school You're getting the old TV rolled in And you're watching some Charlie Brown The Great Pumpkin Some TV shows and specials out there

I'll rattle through these. Scooby-Doo, where are you? Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. Yeah. Are you afraid of the dark? That's some 90s Nickelodeon spooky, but not too scary. Yeah. Goosepumps does have a series outside of the movie.

So you've got the 1990 series, and you also have a 2023 Disney Plus series for goosebumps. The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes. That's family-friendly if the kids are older. Yeah, yeah. Wizards of Waverly Place. That's Disney Channel. magical Halloween episodes.

Girl versus Monster, a Disney Channel original. Come on. Halloween Town. Halloween. Come on. A lot of Disney Channel originals on Disney Plus,

Jill and I were rocking those last year. Yeah. Yes. Same, bro. I got Rue on Halloween Town last year when she was two. Halloween Town is, that's a fun one.

The Phantom at the Multiplex or whatever it's called. Yeah. Yeah. All those cheesy cheesy, cheesy. horror movies and they're so good. The phantom and the skeleton would kind of spook rule a little bit and you kind of talk her off the ledge. They're good.

You know, it's going to turn around. It's going to turn around. The Worst Witch, Curious George, a Halloween boo fest. Mickey Mouse is a villain's and Mickey Mouse. Mickey's Monster Musical. Those are good. Those are Disney Jr. Room on the Broome, a 2020 animated short,

very sweet for younger kids. But those are some movies and shows. for various ages to embrace Spooktober. Those are some great recommendations. I would also throw out for the older kid crowd, Goonies. It's not a true Halloween movie, but it does take place in the fall. There are skeletons in it.

And it's just a great adventure flick. Great adventure flick. I would be remiss and everybody in my life would call me a fraud if I didn't bring up QB Halloween. It's Adam Sandler. It's on Netflix. I have watched that movie probably over a thousand times. Fun watch.

Every day in October. so far already this month. Yes. My favorite movie. You were watching it though. It was on your story. I always tag the same group of guys for my like, like our old days just and they get so angry about it.

I watch it probably once a month throughout the year. I think it's, it's such a stupid movie. It's my favorite movie. I did enjoy Hubie. I did enjoy Huey Halloween. It's so hard to make a Halloween movie that hits like Halloween town and Hocus Pocus. Like it's a hard holiday to get into without it being horry-gory or kind of. kind of campy and I thought it did well.

It did do well. And it did have a lot of callback. If you're a big Adam Sandler fan, there are, of all of his movies, that one has like the most callbacks that I thought were actually done well and were like tasteful with like the sheet and the front yard, like call back to Waterboy. Yeah, yeah. I like Huey Halloween. The other one, dude, I have to bring up with Casper is that priest that shows up when they're doing that exorcism of the house.

and he's got like the flat brim hat and he's not the sicker they're like wait you're a priest he's like yeah i'm a priest what i said they're like you think you can do this he's like it'll be cake it'll be crumb cake i got it and then he just comes back with his head completely yeah yeah oh my god dude caspar is such a good movie good one that's a good throwback but that's that that's right there's a roll of decks a lot of family a lot of family friendly uh shows and movies add him to the survivor kit, embracing spooktober. Embracing Spooktober. I can't wait to get dialed in on a movie, honestly, tonight.

I wish I had a list. More like down the avenue of this weekend, the crack of cold one was just basically me being able to talk my wife into no babysitters, no night nurses, I got this. That is my crack of cold one. It's just Jill trusting me and being like, Hey, you got this. And bonus, this is breaking because it happened this morning.

When Hillary showed up, because Hillary is my best friend from high school's wife. Like, she is just as much Jill's friend as she is my friend, if that makes sense. Whereas Brian, her husband would very much be like closer to me. Yeah. However, Hillary shows up. I'm kind of giving her the rundown of the house. And then I think to myself, Jill's probably already called her. and like gave her a full rundown.

Like I need to chill out. And I go, I'm sure Jill's already called you and blah, blah. She goes, no, she didn't call me. And I was like, like, that's a dub. That's a dub. I was like, dude, that's cool. That means like Jill was spending that responsibility in my court to be like, Sherman can prep Hillary.

He's got it. I was like, hey, you can leave some zip-log bags with clothes in it, but like the fact you didn't gain prep Hillary before she came over. Cheers to you. Thank you, dude. Wife didn't call the friend before she came over to the house. It was kind of sick. Yeah.

Dad hacks? Dad hacks. Oh, I do have a What Are the Odds? Oh, what is it? Tyler Schiller wrote in, the What Are the Od? Shoutout Fandled this week is we were talking about writing in journals. Tyler has been writing in a journal to his daughter.

I just wanted to read a little bit about that. Tyler Schiller here out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Go talk. And he literally wrote, I said Go Tigers to be funny. He actually wrote Go Tigers. I'm impressed. He understands how to write down there in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Well, he spelled it, G.E.A.U.X, which they say is the correct.

Go Tigers. Go talk. Great pod this week. Had to do the email because I don't have Instagram or Twitter. I'm a proud member of PT Sickos with the 13-month-old boy. He's been the best thing that's ever happened to me, and my wife and a mentor of mine gave me some good advice when he was born. Y'all touched up on it this episode, so figured I'd share.

He said, keep a journal and write to him whenever something you want to remember for him happens. I address each journal entry to Shepard, our son's name, with the date. I'll tell him about the day or what he did that was hilarious or something we are proud of and just write till I feel like stopping. For example, the most recent one was him stealing all the cookies during nap time at daycare while everybody else was sleeping and eating every single one. That earned him the nickname Cookie Monster. Memories like that is what I write about.

Adaptive to make it easier to remember to write it in is to keep the journal right next to your bed on your night's in. It's as much for us as it is for him to look back on when he's older. Anyway, feel free to share this or not. to y'all. We just did. Just wanted to pass it along that it is something I've really enjoyed doing and I recommend it to any of my friends who are expecting. God bless. Looking forward to the next pod, take the trash out, sent by my iPhone. Love that. That is awesome. What's the word of the odds? The word of the odds is he was doing it before we even brought it up on the show. That's crazy.

What are the odds of that? Yeah, what are the odds of that? I don't know what those odds are. Shout out Fandul. Shout out Fandul. Come on. Plus 250. Plus 250. Survival kit? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, my survival kit was Spooktober Merge. That's right. All the shows and movies. I have a good survival kit. Go ahead. A playpin. We have a playpin for Scarlet now in the living room.

And it's like fully fenced off. Jill, I believe, bought it at Target. This is not like some crazy brand. it's affordable it's pretty big i would say like the size of like an area rug um in scarlet she loved playing in her nursery but in that playpin dude i don't know what it is but it's like she knows that that's like her little world and we have like different play mats like laid out in there we have like a little tent play at we got her little unicorns and butterflies hanging from stuff and i set her down this morning i was in the

kitchen making breakfast, moving, operating, cleaning bottles, making bottles. I did not have to touch her a single time for like 30 minutes. She just sat in there and was like, ah, it was awesome. I love that. So highly advised, highly advised. I want to get a playpen. Wife won't let me get one. Oh, really? Just because there's a lot of stuff in the house and she just, you know, I don't know. Because I grew up on the rocrats, bro. They had the playpen. Yes, dude. Y'all's living room is very similar to ours. We had like we don't have the coffee table in there anymore. We had to move all of our furniture out. Like it, it has taken over our living right. Right, right. To Charo's point. Like, I get that. Because that's why I got to barricade shit up, dude. Yeah, dude. You could get one

up in the upstairs. Yeah, but you know, we got that like my brother, God bless him, love the gift. Rue loved it, but the little ball pit, but the balls get everywhere. So we got enough stuff up there. Yeah. It's like we got those, those cushions. It's like, they're like cushions,

but you can like build forts and stuff with these cushions. Those are the ones that Rue's always jumping on, right? Yeah. Or when she's small enough, she thinks it's a slide

or she wants it to be put in the slide for them. But yeah, she's like jumping all around on it. We got the beanbag up there. We got a lot of like the Montessori toys and she's got like the work bench. Like she's got a lot of stuff up there.

Yeah. Like she's got the thing that, uh, we bought. It's like a, it's like a tent set. But you can, build it into a lot of different things.

Like you can build into like a puppet show. You can build it into like a restaurant. You can build it into just like a tent, like a long little tent. That thing sounds sick. Yeah, it's fun. And we have enough stuff to where, when you're up in that bonus room,

you know, I can just like slide the door shut. And that's like the play area. It's also mixed with the main cave. It's a waffle comes out. I don't know how waffles slides that door open. She does. She keeps banging on until it opens it up. Bulldog, it's like we don't have it locked in to where it's on the bottom, like that part broke.

So it's like one of those slide doors, but it can like come out. Yes. You know what I mean? And Waffle just like run her head on it until it like wiggles to where she can get her little snout and like move it to get in there. This is my first time hanging out at Will's house. I just see the door in the background just as he's like talking to me and I'm trying to like keep my attention on Will. I'm like, dude, there's a ghost up here as your door's just going, youing. That's a good, that's a good, that's a good tip, like building on that survival kit for like what, you know, for young parents or if you're expecting.

The reason I like love, I love that idea is because routine is so crucial for kids. And them like getting, understanding what they're going to be getting into like each different time of the day. So that play area, that little playpin area is like she knows it's playtime. So like when you're keeping them on routine where you feed them, you burp them. If you're going to give them either tummy time or playtime, they know putting them in the pin or putting them in their area of play, they know it's playtime. Or like when you're going for the nighttime routine and, you know, you close the curtains, you put the little sound machine on or if it's a little nightlight, whatever it is,

you're getting them, their PJs on first. Like for us, it's getting their PJs off. Or you change them, get their PJs on first. You got the little, you got the little noise playing. Like you're getting them ready for bedtime. They know they're locking in, okay, this is the part of the day where they're, you know, expected training me to sleep through the night. Yeah.

But you're getting them prep for bedtime. same with nap time. You're getting them in the mode of whatever the routine is or the habits are around that time. Same with, again, your survival kit, the playpin area. Yeah. Their brain is getting prepped for it is playtime. This is where I go. They set me down. They play with me. If dad or mama's doing stuff, like I have enough things to occupy me. It's time to play. Yes. Her eyes start moving as soon as her back touches that play mat. Her eyes are moving. She's smiling because she's like, oh, this is when y'all roll me around and do the Jill calls it the rotisserie chicken

where we push her legs in and we kind of move her side to side and we make her hands and her feet touch on you know different sides. You get the little, I forget what it's called but the like the play area where it's like it's almost like it's like a mat and it's got the things

hanging up top of it when they're just on their boat you can kind of look in and exploring the world. Kiwi Co. sent us one and it rips yeah. She loves the one that we got from Kiwiko. Yeah. It rips. She got her daddy's bows too. When I'm doing those little

rotissory chicken, the little stretch. She got her daddy's bow. Daddy's bowels got his daddy's bows because you'd be walking, you got the bag of chick filet and different fast food happening all the time. Hey, that's why I say she got her daddy bowels. She's ripping two. Like all the time when we're doing this.

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Roo's at the age where it's always a negotiation, always a battle to get her eat your food. Because we'll always finish first and you're kind of sitting there, Rue, please, for the love of God, eat your chicken, eat your broccoli, eat this, eat that. Scotty's just a minute. Anything you put in front of her. She's letting you know, she's putting it down. She likes her. But a fun thing I came across, like last night as I'm sitting there, we're trying to get Rood eat her food because it was kind of like a coconut chicken

that we had had. And she didn't want to eat it. And I start bothering her. Like, you know, Roo can eat your food? She said, I don't want to eat my food. And then I get to where I'm tickling her, but she's not in the mood to like have fun and play. Yeah, yeah. She's like, stop, stop.

And she's like putting her hand, pushing me away. In the minute, she, like, put her hand up to keep me away from going at her to where it's like, oh, here comes the tickle monster if you don't eat your food. And she's getting to where she's not into that anymore. where it's like, that's not going to get me to eat my food. Like, oh, Tickle Monster is going to get you. You better eat your food before the Tickle Monster gets you. She would, when she's younger, she would eat before the Tickle Monster would get her.

That was one fun way of using dinner time to get her to eat your food. Now it's turned into like, Tickle Monster is coming to get you. And she's like, she starts getting pissy with me. Like, no, Dada. I'm not going to eat my food. I don't want to eat my food. I'm like, all right. So when she put her hand up to stop me from coming, I went into Darth Vader choke.

I went into Darth Vader. She puts her hand up joking. I was like, mm-hmm. And, you know, she kind of like her face starts to break. And once she puts her hand on and I'm like, oh, you can't be doing that. Or you're going to force choke me.

And Scotty goes over there and starts reaching because she's like laughing or playing. And she just like puts her hands up just to reach randomly, you know. When she does it, I was like, oh, no. Ruth starts to get a crack of a smile. And then she puts your hand out. I'm like, here comes they go on. She puts it up. And I'm like, oh.

until she puts it down. I'm like, oh, oh. That got us in the mode of play to where I would grab her hand. I beg you can't put your hand up or Dad-A's going to choke again. Like, please, just eat about it. Before you do it again, just eat about your food. You can choke me again. She ate a body of her food.

And then it's boom. And then I'm like, I'm lifting myself up out of the chair. And she puts down like, oh, I'm like, all right. We can keep doing this. Dad, is starting to get tired because it's really starting to hurt. But we can keep doing this. just eat a body of food. She eats a bite of her food.

And it's like, all right, you're on to something. So that's a way to make dinner time fun to get your kids eat the food. Because as a parent, you'll start getting, it happens to us more often than not, but you get frustrated. Yeah. And then I'll leverage a cookie. I've gotten that down to a tea. Hey, good.

You don't have to eat your food. You just, you know what time it is if you don't eat your food. And CPC. CPC. And I'll hit her with that. Sweetheart, it's okay. She doesn't have to eat her food. And I'm like, Roe, you can go over there and sit on the couch.

Do whatever you want. You don't have to eat your food. cookie. You know you know you don't get a cookie. You eat your food. You get a cookie. Yeah. So it's your, it's your choice you don't have to eat. And that's, I mean, that is, that works. But the way to have fun to kind of get your impatience out of it or turn it into a fun game that's a new one I found is getting force choked. I cannot wait for here in like two months. She's going to be at soccer practice. One of those boys is going to roughhouser, bump into her. You're just going to be watching from afar and you're just going to

just going to see her go. What are the kids? Well, what's funny is at first she thought it was really happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like she thought she had the power. And then Scotty was, you know, when she randomly like lifts her arms up, oh, Roo, Scottie's doing it to you. And Rue just like looks at me.

And I'm like, is it not working? She's like, no. I'm like, you got to pretend. You have to pretend. And then Rue started like pretending. Kind of get her sense of humor going a little bit. Yeah, come on. Way to make dinner fun as a dad hack to get your kids to eat.

I love that dad hack. I, you made me do a different dad hack than what I had written down. This actually happened yesterday when JJ was here, which is Jeremy's son. They asked him five or six times if he needed to go potty because he kept on kind of, you know, putting his legs together, putting his hands down there, showing all signs that he did indeed need to party. But his answer remained, no, do not need to potty. So finally, they asked him one last time, hey, do you need to potty? and I abruptly interrupted.

I said, no, JJ, you can't go potty. I'm going potty first. You can go after me. And he was like, no, I could go to party. Oh, you better beat me. Yeah, you better beat me. Nice, bro. You make it a competition, dude?

Yeah. They ain't going to lose. Because as dads, as parents, because dads are more often seen as like the fun one, you got to continue to create. because I'm already feeling that the times were Roo's not into things I used to do and I'll annoy her. And then I see it as a challenge like, okay, I'm going to figure you out at some point. And yesterday, tap it into the force choke.

I'm going to see if this one works. Because I'm not able to like break her wall of like having fun. And I'm like, tickle mazoramama get you or whatever it is. Like, all right, she seems to be over that. How can I continue to make this fun? Dad's have to continue to create, bro. Yes, dude. also reminds me of

oh yeah we are running it we're not out of time but we are cutting it close we are cutting it close okay got to keep it under an hour got to keep under an hour I'll save the story

that I was going to tell for another side you don't want to tell it my mom used to when we were leaving for school we had really bad attitudes in the morning and so to make us excited for school

we weren't allowed to drive out of the driveway until she made a shot in the driveway a basket, like basketball hoop. It did make like mornings really fun because she would like purposely miss like the first three times. We'd be like, mom, make it.

We're going to be late to school. I'm trying. I'm trying. It was fun. It was a good little, uh, like that kind of switch to it on you guys. Uh-huh. To get her going to motivate her. Yo, we're going to be late.

Yeah. What are you doing, mom? Pretty mom heck. Shout out. Shout out mama sure. Shout out Mama sure. Shout out Miss Amy. Um, this.

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All right, here's our first caller. This one's bleeped out. It looks like it says, sleeping motherfucker. So what's up, boys? Will, Sherm. I love to show. Pop a Team 6 member here. Just call it T-dubs from from Oregon. I've got a mother-fuck story for you guys from the birthing of my daughter. Kind of keep it short and sweet. We had a long delivery process. She was induced at like noon and we didn't sleep the night before. We'd been up all night. And it was. And it was like two in the morning and I just gone down to the vending machine to get some snacks.

I came back, had my snacks, and I was on the couch where I actually earned my, my couch stripes. You didn't sure. Laying on the couch, I dozed off and I was awoken by the nurses telling my wife to remember to breathe and push, breathe and push. And I woke up like I was getting shot. at. I woke up, I jumped up, and I ran over there, and the nurses were fucking with me, because I had fallen asleep on the couch for like an hour. And needless to say, I was up until

like 550 when my daughter was born. I was up the next day until like 8 o'clock that night. But I love the show, guys. I appreciate all the tips. You guys are really hitting home on some of so I just keep up the good work and remember to take your trash out. Oh, dude, I love that. That is funny. Yeah, that's tough. Poor T-dubs. Tough but totally fair.

That's awesome. Dude, those nurses are hilarious. Nurses, your wife, like, let's fuck with them. Look at him over there, snoozing. This sleeping motherfucker over here. He thinks he has it hard. Golly, that was great. Oh, that's funny.

do it we have time for one more yeah yeah yeah let's hit a second uh this is oh solo mission trial run it's applicable for this week hey boys it's stew pop a team six coming this friday just listen to the pod yeah got a dad hack so i'm a private in training and i made a mistake bags packed, car seat installed, all that. Mama's carrying a little extra amniotic fluid, so we've been monitoring it multiple times a week. Baby is good, so good. Had a scare earlier this week, though.

Thought it was the time. So we rushed to the hospital. To my surprise, parking garage, under construction and closed. It's midnight. Oh, good. Second parking garage required you to go. go across this stupid sky deck through a maze of elevators up one elevator down a hall down an

elevator so once across the sky deck certain hallways close at 11 p.m. Oh good. Finally ended up making it to the maternity ward but my dad hack is do a trial run yes specifically a solo mission if you want to look like a true hero so you don't deal with a maze of issues before the big moment he's good he's on it he's no idea that this hospital is under construction but don't want any dads to have to go through what i went through but everything is good love y'all love the pod what was his name stew stew shout out stew for that that's that's real game if i was if i had hit bud's training and I'm becoming a PT-Sixer.

Yeah. In due time. Yeah. If I were to have heard that dad hack, that is one that you are locking that one in the chamber. Yes. And I would have been running a solo dad mission. I had no clue.

Yes. I wouldn't even been aware to do something like that, if not for a phone call like that. So any expecting father's dad is PT6 game right there. Shout out Stu. Stu just set the bar for privates, by the way. He's not even PT6 yet. Yeah.

Stu's kind of locked in. He's locked in because he's already giving game learning from mistakes when he's not even a PT-Sixer. You know what I mean? He's giving his younger self game. Yeah. Like, hey, this is important enough. I want to share this with some incoming fathers. Into Stu's point, Vandy here in Nashville, parking garage is also under construction.

Yeah. Thankfully, Jill works at Vandy and was aware of that. And we actually did a trial run as well of Jill kind of, you know, we drove by hey, we're going to be parking here. Those are the doors we walk in. Highly advise it. Yeah, great games do. Great games, too.

Lesson topic or quote of the week. I have one. I have one as well. Mine's really short and quick. Go ahead. Do it. Okay. I'm stealing this one directly from my therapist

because I thought it was an incredible metaphor. He was talking about life as a plate at Thanksgiving dinner. And that you never, want your plate at Thanksgiving dinner as you're walking to the table to have food falling off of it. Or let's say you go to the table and you set your plate down and all you have is turkey. There's no gravy. There's no mashed potatoes. There's no green beans. Sweet potato casserole. What's this guy doing? Or maybe you just have a little bit on your plate. It's like, yo, it's Thanksgiving. Like, eat. Like fill your plate up. He was talking about that perfect balance of

all things that you have in your life. So like you got your social life, which is like your green beans. You got your, let's say you're married or have a girlfriend. That's your turkey. You got your mashed potatoes with your kids and maybe some gravy. You have all these different things. You have your work life, which is like the dinner roll. You're going to have everything on your plate, but you want to have the right amount.

And if you have too much of something, maybe cut back on it a little bit. Just make sure we have everything on our plate, but still have a full plate. Thanksgiving by God. I just love that metaphor. Yeah, butterer roll enough. Get the gravy going enough. That's a good one. It's a good one. As soon as I heard it, I was like, dude, that's so easy to apply to like anything in life. But I just love that illustration of it. So this lesson, topic, whatever, this is a philosophy I came across. Great to stack on top of what you just said as far as balance in your life. Have you ever heard of the the anchor before sales philosophy or the anchor in sales? No. Okay. This is great. This was sales as in sailing or selling someone?

Sales as in sailing. Cool. So the metaphor of the anchor and sale, this is a powerful framework. So it's like two essential forces, right? Governing, governing your principles, your personal values, like keeping everything in check, keeping everything sturdy before you get to see. The anchor symbolizes governing principles. So self-evident truths that ground us during times of turmoil while the sale represents our personal values or the things we esteemed to be of worth, which guide our actions and enable us to adapt and grow in the face of change. So if I formulate this around family life, like for the dads, like dads, because there'll be career mix in there. You can formulate this around anything in your life, but as far as the For the Dad's brand, Papa Team 6, family, think of your life

as a ship. The sales are the opportunities, the career moves, the yeses that propel you forward. Those are your sales. They catch the wind and move you fast. But the anchors, the things that you've already chosen as your highest priorities, like your wife, your kids, your family, your career, the things that keep you steady without anchoring first, no amount of wind will keep you from drifting off course. The danger that a lot of us face is that many of us raise every sale without checking the anchors. We say yes to everything in career, hobbies, and obligations, thinking it's all for the family.

But if the anchors aren't set first, if your wife doesn't feel seen, if your kids only get the leftovers of your time, they don't feel seen, your family doesn't feel seen, then all that progress is just drifting. So the philosophy around this metaphor becomes anchor first. Schedule family time and wife time as the non-negotiables before anything else goes on the calendar. Sale with intention. Every career or outside commitment that you say yes to must be weighed against those anchors. Does this opportunity strengthen or strain what I've already chosen as the most important?

Live by the subtraction. So true priorities show up more in what you see. say no to than what you say yes to. A man who says yes to everything spreads himself thin. A man who protects his no has the strength to show up fully where it matters. This doesn't mean you neglect your ambition or growth. It doesn't. It just means that your definition of success shifts. If the world praises you, but your wife and kids feel unseen, you've lost the only scoreboard that matters. And anybody can listen to this or think about this in a way of you have a for the dad's brand. You're somebody who's successful or ambitious, all of those things. I have an interest in

like, I guess pushing a philosophy or something that interests me that I think is correct. Yeah, yeah. Going back to the only scoreboard that matters reference. And to me, I sit there and think about anybody that I latch on to admire in the world of success, hustle, grit, ambitious, anything that has touched me indirectly or directly that I've admired that I've taken bits and pieces from to apply to my life and career and ambition. But everybody, bro, who gets to the end of their life that reflects back on things that they wish they did more of, it is across the board family time. Yeah. It is across the board they reflect on that scoreboard of what, things that they sacrificed for this,

that they did achieve. And everybody, bro, that you sit there and read about or listen to, that is reflecting on their success along the way early in life where they're at now, the thing that they always talk about that is such a comma denominator is I wish I would have played catch more.

I wish I would not have complained about, you know, my kids wanting me to do X, Y, and Z. And I kind of said no to him during that time. they always talk about those moments. And that's something that I very much have latched on to in recent years. And something that you know, as we've talked about lessons, topics, life outside of podcasting, like all those things. I feel like it's such a constant thing that I keep on at the top of my mind

on what to say yes to, what to say no to, all of those things. Like, again, a great example where this weekend was a weekend in the calendar when we were about to get in football season and we're kind of, you know, juggling what our routine is going to look like throughout the week. And this weekend had popped up as like an open weekend. We've talked about it on For the Dads on like looking ahead, whether it's family photos, shooting our, shooting our wives a message, hey, go get a latte, Venmoing and money, whatever it is that we've done.

Something that we wanted to do was like, hey, where is a weekend to where we can get away, whether it's for, you know, we're only doing it for what, like not even 24 hours? Yeah. About 18 hours to where it's like, hey, we're going to have mom and dad time because we feel like two ships passing in the night a lot of times. So how can we circle this weekend as like, all right, we're going to build around this weekend. Anything that comes up that could happen this weekend, we're going to say no to because we're going to spend time with each other. Yeah.

So I came across this metaphor and philosophy, like as I was doing some, you know, scrolling around on the internet and everything else. The anchor and sale caught my eye. And then I broke it down to like how can this apply? family wise, because again, you can use this anchor and sale philosophy for everything, right? It's like if you want to go accomplish anything in life, you want to first start at like, who am I? What am I, what do I want to value? What am I going to prioritize? Like, who do I want to become? Those essentially are your anchors. So that way, when you do set sail everywhere, you're able to weigh it down and start first with where your anchors are. So I thought this anchor and sale philosophy was fucking all time. And I was fired up to share when it comes to family, the family.

the family stuff because again it's somebody who is very ambitious who very much wants to achieve and accomplish and somebody who also very much wants to I don't want to just say you know the cliche of football like growing up with football is like faith family football it's like okay family and faith and all this stuff is in there but really I'm always dialed in your boys always dialed in the football yeah to what I'm saying yes to everything football not really I'm telling myself that all this is for family all of my ambition and everything that I'm doing is for my kids my wife like I go and do all this and so we can have this life everything else but if you if you're truly going to be intentional and prioritize it's how do you spend time to actually look at how family and kids and your wife

are a true anchor in your life so that way you do you are protecting your nose um when those when those do come up so I was obsessed with this philosophy I couldn't wait to share it I love everything that you just said and you pretty much just described like what I told my therapist, my very first time I met with them, this new one here in Nashville, of my goal. Yeah. Of like, I am meeting with you once every two weeks because I want to, I want the main thing to remain the main thing and I want to have this balance in my life. I know that nobody has the perfect life, but I want to kind of.

accountability coach, somebody that I'm able to like run these things by. And I love that philosophy. Love that philosophy. Because my dad would be right there with you with saying, you know, his biggest regret, not doing more family time. And I say that because he'd be willing to share it. And I can see it in the way they interacts with Scarlett. He's just like, oh, man. So yeah, dude, that gets me.

fired up. Yeah, bro, because you're right. There's no, you can talk about balance, but there's no such thing. It's, balance is, all right, how can you compartmentalize your mind to, hey, what is fucking important to you? Yeah. How do you dial in on each of those anchors, each of those principles, each of those values, and how do you get so clear to where you know what you're going to reach out to go for on your next move? Or you know what to say no to. Yeah. God, it's so crucial. That's truly like it's a constant conversation in my head. And a good illustration of that to add on to that picture. I was just having this conversation about like, what is it like being a dad, Sherman? What's the question that was asked to me? And life really is like a plate being balanced on a stick where like you're never going to achieve that perfect balance where the plate stops completely and it's flat and everything's good.

There's always this just got added. Now Scarlett can walk and talk. Deal with that. Now she can reach up and open doors and we got to tell her to stay out of certain rooms. My best friend just did something that, you know, betrayed our friendship. My boss at work is a psychopath. Like I'm just making up examples. But like the plate is always, it's just like how are you going to react to those things to achieve some semblance of balance,

some semblance of like an even keel to keep it on sailing terms. Amen, bro. And to me it's about you take all the accountability and control that you are going to find the balance of that plate. It's not the external things that are happening

because that's constant. Happiness is so fucking fleeting, bro. It's so fleeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're looking for things to make you happy. Like it's, it's, dude, it's you. It's us. It's myself. It's disciplines. It's things that are fucking hard But in those moments when you do find that balance, it's like, how do you again taste it for a moment, but know that that unbalanced that something's going to happen. It's truly it's all about how you react to it.

You don't have to be like this isn't like a, hey, you got to be proactive, not reactive. Like you got to be perfect. You got to have it. Absolutely. Yeah. It's just like just be aware that things are always going to be changing and that your actions and reactions are going to tell the people in your life how important they. are to you or the things in your life how important they are to you right in reconnecting yes just constantly recritic reconnecting because again we all get off the rails we constantly get off the rails

100% how do you get back to center um yeah fires me up dude i love that philosophy who was that a quote or so the article the article i read i'll have to find the article but it was talking about the anchor it was talking about like the anchor in the sale and it was kind of talking more like uh career based and then i came across one with like, you know, I'm looking in like, uh, like the power of no. I always love the power of no stuff. Ryan Holiday talks about that with like family and everything else. So it was like a combination of things that I'm like, you know, I was trying to because it truly is a constant conversation in my head to where I'll like struggle with it.

Every time I'm like tapping in. I'm like, things feel a little overwhelming right now. How can I lock, how can I, you know, what's this bucket with my wife look like? What's this bucket with my kids look like? Am I satisfied? Am I happy with what I'm doing as much as I'm doing with my kids? Do I need to be a little more intentional? Do I need to take an hour or two?

And it's just me and Rue, we get out of the house and go do something, whether it's a trip to Target. You know, and Charles going to the library yesterday with Rue, and she's like, do you mind if I pick her up for school when we go to the library? A public library? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Charles, all public library.

Yeah. The library's got a lot of cool stuff for kiddos, too. Like, as far as like events or story time and things like that. And she's like, do you mind rocking with Scott? like, oh, dude, absolutely. Scotty's a piece of cake, especially if you're one-on-one with her. Like, she's a little 10-11-month-old and she's just a lot of fun. But I'm sitting there

playing with Scotty, it's like, this is one-on-one time I'm getting with Scotty. Yeah. There's a lot of times it'll be two-on-two. Got the whole family together. You can tell when we're all ready to pull each other's hair out at times. And it's like, it's just re-checking in, like, okay, what is? Because I know I do a lot of, we do a lot of stuff here at the shop, a lot of stuff with work. I'm constantly

thinking about busting with the boys and career and everything else, but it's one of those things that were it's a constant conversation with myself. One thing I wanted to ask, how discombibulated do you get in your mind when somebody just randomly hit you with like, what's fatherhood like? I do, it's a fun question to answer with people that knew me very well when I was young. Because I was a absolute goofball, absolute menace, like Sherman Young is a dad. What the fuck?

Which I'm sure you have friends there, like, Will Compton's a dad. Yeah, yeah. and loves it like what in the world um and so i like answering that question is it is a hard question to answer but uh like we joked about when we started this podcast of like your life is over bro your life is over it does feel like that because like this morning completely revolved around scarlet sterling young it i did not matter for the dads didn't matter it was how do we make sure Scarlet is safe for a two-hour window so that Sherman then can do his job because we got to make sure Scarlett's safe. It's just like having this thing in your life that is just like I face

on my mom this morning and the camera was on me for three seconds and it was like a 30 minute call. She just wanted to look at Scarlet. And like I was my mom's whole world and now it's like Scarlett's her whole world and I love it. I take no offense. But it really is just kind of of like a death of self, I guess, in a way. Which to your point as well, to like bring it back to your philosophy, that's what I'm really trying to work on right now. Aside from being a good dad, good husband, it's like, hey, what are some selfish things that I can pour into myself that I do enjoy?

So I'm trying to like get back to my roots of like hunting. I really enjoyed that. Soccer, I grew up playing that. I played it in high school. I want to try and find like a men's league or something. So I don't know. it's just like this constant. Yeah, I'm more so asked the question because if that question were to come at me,

I feel like I would get into a very just talking mode. Because it's not, it's not. Right, right. It's not. And then like I'm driving afterwards. I'm like, man, what is fatherhood like to me? And it's something like I, you know, we had the first, the very first episode we did on being a girl dad and everything else.

It's like things like that. You think about it. It's like, yeah, dude, it would be cool. to have like a just a foundational thing that I know I go to because it feels so hard to explain

until you're in it. You're like death of self but just it's like new life in the best way. Also new life. Yes. It is a death of self.

It's like this new chapter that's being written. Yeah. And I was so scared. I was terrified going into it. I truly was. I was terrified.

And now that I'm in it, Jill's bringing up like, let's have another blah blah and a part of me is like oh shit and then the other part of me is like oh dude we get to do this again this is going to be awesome we're gonna have two yeah so um so charl on the two note um charl at the end of this month she's had a wild hair to want to take root of london she's taking root of london for like four or five days what yeah yeah yeah yeah that's so sick yeah she's been wanting to take rue to london do like a mommy daughter trip girls trip

it was so funny when Rue was kind of asking me about it. I was feeding Rue dinner. Mom was working. Scotty was playing in the living room. I had the barricade up on the stairs and I'm sitting there getting Rue some dinner. Roo's eating a snacker. Something's going on to where I'm sitting up there. Maybe it was breakfast in the morning.

And Charles, I left early for work. And Roo sat in there and she kind of like asking me how I feel about, she's like, how you feel about a mama going to the airport. it but mama, Mama and Roo get on the plane. Dead dad, Scottie, stay home. And she's like, because you're a boy. So you can't, you can't go. And I can tell she's like actually trying to feel me out

and see how I felt about it. And I'm like, oh, are you talking about a little girl's trip? And then she's like thinking in her head. She's like, well, Scotty would come with us too because Scotty's a girl. Dad dad would stay home though. How, would that be okay? I'm like, dude, of course that would be okay.

going on a little girl trip, you'd have so much fun. Would Roo come back? You know that would make me sad if Rue and Mama and everybody don't come back. She's like, yeah, Rue always come back. Because we always tell her, like, when we leave, whether it's for date night or on a trip or whatever it is, dad and mom, we always come back home. We always come back. And I'm like, dude, of course, you'd have so much fun. That would be

so much fun. I think it's just you and Mama. She said, but Scotty's a girl, too. I was like, well, maybe Scotty's going, I don't know. We'll have to talk to mom. Because Trot and I talked about it. I'm like, I just, dude, it makes me a little uneasy, you guys traveling. being that far away, I'm thinking what, you know, you just think like Liam Neeson, what if something happened.

But anyway, she's taking Rue at the end of the month to London for four or five days. Charles, like, would that be cool? I'm like, dude, I feel like we have, we have the capabilities where I can be flexible and go do a trip like this. I wanted, I've wanted to do it for so long. And I feel like, you can't do it because you got football season and everything else.

I'm like, dude, go. If you want to go and you, feel like that would fill your soul up and going with Roo. Like that would be so many awesome memories until you'd be able to journal every day about it and have these core memories with Rue. Hell yeah. That'd be so sick. And obviously I would rock with Scotty. Like, but my mindset having to and knowing I'm staying home with Scottie,

it's going to be funny when you have your second one and then you're on a spot to where she's taking Scarscar and you're rocking back with the youngest, your mindset, because Scarlett's three months old and you're talking about all these things is a big boxhole moment and scoreboard, everything else. But I think about me rocking with Scottie, I'm like, this is going to be the easiest. Oh, yeah. This is going to be the easiest session of my life because Scotty, she's just, you know, she's just a little pup.

Yeah, somebody told me the other- She's 11 months old. Like, you know, she'll be, she'll have so much fun with Roo. Roo's going to be a blast to travel with. But I feel like being one-on-one with Scotty, I just think of it in such a way to where whenever it was one-on-one with me and Rue the first time when Rue was young, I'm thinking of this overwhelming, like, all right, I'm going to handle it. I'm going to handle it. I'm going to do that.

Now I'm thinking since we have two, she's taking the oldest one. I got the youngest one. Like, it's going to be a piece of cake with Scotty. But how sick is that going to, doing a little trip to London? That's going to be so sick. Yeah, fired up. I'm so sorry that I checked out there at the end. Jill just texted me.

She said, are you home yet? 1253. You told her you said 1255, right? 1255. So I'm going to be there. I'm going to be there on time. Did you take photos, selfie photos before you left house? Come on, man.

Come on, man. You know I'm at home. Shake me out right now. Auntie Hillary. She love Auntie Hillary. Oh my God. Send that. I'll send her a picture.

Yeah, baby, I'm home. Of course I'm home. I'll send her a picture right now. I'll say, hey, I took that earlier when we're recording. Oh, we love our wives, man. We do. We love our wives.

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