Bussin' With The Boys - Will Joins From The Super Bowl & The Boys Talk Through Some Recent Drama on X | For The Dads

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

In this episode of For The Dads with Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton, hosts Will and Sherm discuss Will’s week at the Super Bowl, Will breaks down some recent drama on X, and the boys give some solid advice to a first time Girl Dad — all while keeping the episode fun, fresh and of course, under an hour. The episode kicks off with Will and Sherm catching up from Will's travels before they dive into some hilarious conversations, including: We celebrate 20,000 fans on YouTube! Some PT6 Dad Hacks you’ll want to remember A call in that leaves us wanting to mail some garbage cans Other highlights include: Sherm shares another non-Dad Hack Rue has been singing about missing her Daddy 😭 👉 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 - Twenty Thousand STRONG on YouTube! 03:55 - Reddit Discussion - Book Reccos for Bedtime? 08:04 - Will talks through the hardships of leaving the family for a work trip 15:50 - It’s common for Dad’s to feel like they aren’t doing enough 17:28 - Recapping Will’s Super Bowl week schedule  20:40 - Shoutout all of the new Dad’s / Advice on having a girl 33:27 - We Want to see awesome Milk Team Six merch in the wild ! 35:46 - We love a good Wifey / Hubby shoutout! 36:52 - Crack a Cold One - Shoutout to Frankie for graduating! 44:35 - Will chat’s through the struggles of balancing and NFL career with fatherhood 1:10:06 - Another potential Non-Dad Hack from Sherm  1:13:00 - a slew of some great Dad Hacks from PT6! 1:19:12 - Checking in with PT6 on the hotline 1:34:03 - sherm hits us with an update on his past lesson 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 recently new father who’s currently deep in the trenches of Fatherhood and loving every minute of it. Together, they’ll break down everything that can go right and wrong (...usually wrong) when you bring tiny humans into this world.   Expect funny parenting stories, laughs, call-ins, advice, weekly themes, and the kind of conversations you’d have over a cold beer in the garage. Whether you’re raising teens or still Googling “how to install a car seat”, For the Dads is the ultimate podcast for dads who are in it, about to be in it, or just trying to do their best while screwing it up along the way.   -----   FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram:   / Forthedadspod  Twitter:   / Forthedadspod Facebook:   / Forthedadspod TikTok: / Forthedadspod LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify -----   SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   Olipop - Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store, and we'll pay you back for one. Works on any flavor, any retailer. Go to https://drinkolipop.com/BWTBSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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right now. Super Bowl week. Shermy is rocking from the bus. I hope the trash is taken out. I hope everybody in Nashville, I hope your power is back on right now. Ours, I think we're on day. I don't even know what day we're on anymore. Day eight, day nine, day 10, no power. Big news.

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I got some St. A lien solution. Get them out. Get them in the case. Get the glasses on. Yay. But got a red eye situation going on here. But if you're watching, make sure you are subscribed to the channel.

Again, we just hit 20,000 on YouTube. I cannot begin to tell you guys how big that is for the brand and for the boys and for the dads. If you're listening to us on Spotify, Apple, Google, Amazon, Galaxy, whatever it is. Yeah, Galaxy follow. Make sure you are following. We love to engage with the community. We love to build and interact with the community. So any chance that you guys want to be featured on the show, you can hit us on all

these social channels. You can drop comments on YouTube, drop comments on Spotify. We have a lot to go through here today. Or you can call into a hotline. 601, the dads is our hotline. If you are international or you don't want your voice to be heard, you can write into 601 the dads at gmail.com. Boys, how we're feeling? How we live and how we doing? Feeling good. I do have an update for you as far as Spotify goes too. We actually hit a number today this morning 30,000 subs on... No shit. Yeah.

Is that... Dude. Is that right? There's no way. That... So that's not you... Right? You might be wrong. Technically, I have right now, we have broke 32, 32,000 total plays on Spotify specifically. And we have 9,435

Spotify followers. And we're doing really well. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, let's hit 10K. No, no, no, no. You know what he's talking about, Will? We hit 30K on TikTok.

Oh, yay. That's what it is. We hit 30K on TikTok. I'm so sorry. Spotify 30,000 would have fallen to be like, what, dude? How am I just now hearing about that? I swear my brain short-circuited and I was like, I completely just made up that Derek walked over to my desk this morning

and said that we hit 30K on something. Like I felt crazy there for a second. I'm so glad you did tell me it was, I got the Spotify part wrong, but, oh, my God. Hey, we're at 9,000. Let's get to 10. Come on. Let's get the 10. If you're listening on on Spotify, hit the follow button. If you're listening on Spotify, hit the follow button. Come on. There's a Reddit. There's a Reddit. There's a Reddit. Just building an empire. Building an empire on Reddit. Shout out to those boys. Didn't you say, Derek, you got in contact, you made contact. It's Ethan. He is the leader, the PT6 leader out there.

Yeah. So right now they have 107 weekly visitors on this. It is our slash for the dad's podcast, 78 weekly contributors. And shout out to Little EZZ as name's Ethan. We've been in contact. This is the page. They have a pull up right now saying, Trash Day, what does the big, beautiful truck come by and dip and rip those diapers away, dads? And you get to pick the day your trash is coming.

Come on. What a great poll. Good poll. Good poll. Just to dip in, Will, because this was a really great question. And it comes from our Reddit. this is like a fastball right down the middle as far as a Will Compton question goes. I hope my brain's operating right now.

Oh, you, brother, you got this one. This comes from CPA Ginger on Reddit titled Crib Transition. Hello, fellow PT-Sixers. Have a one-year-old who has unfortunately slept in our bed for the past few months and will not let us put him down into his crib without screaming his head off. He has never used a passie, and when he is asleep, generally sleeps through the night. We never had an issue with our first child with this issue. What suggestions do you all have or book recommendations?

I know the boys have two that they recommend, but I feel like that's more geared towards the early days. What's the fastball down the middle? That the 12 hours by 12 weeks. Well, I know the mom's on call. does longer than just like it would cover the first year

essentially yeah just because when you when you read that like we didn't do any we didn't do any of the co-sleeping and I'm not saying that co-sleeping is a bad thing

by any means I know what happens a lot of people do it yeah yeah but I personally we don't have I don't have that's not in my jurisdiction so and when he says I know you recommended a couple books but it seems like those are more for the early stages.

So I'm thinking, well, yeah, he's right. In my brain, I would say that's more for the early stages. But I don't know, like, is the baby three months old or four months old right now? I would say you can get to whatever the starting phase of the sleep training is and start trying to incorporate that from the book. But again, that is out of Willie Winshaw's jurisdiction. Maybe there's some dads in the chatter in the comments that could throw a book recommendation out there for if you're trying to go from, you know,

co-sleeping with your child to them transitioning them into the crib. There's probably a lot of good literature out there on it. And I could be mistaken, but I do believe that the mom's on call book goes to maybe even a full year. So if it is a one-year-old, which is what they're saying on here, check that out as far as it gives like a good, it goes by like months. So it'll be like four to six months and then, you know, six to nine months. increases so check that out i did i did short circuit yet again i need to drink more uh olypop and wake up a little bit and didn't realize it was 12 hours by 12 weeks so the cutoff on that book would yeah this child this young child is one year old already i'm thinking yeah i would

have to google a couple times see what folks are out there that's how that's how that's all i'll be handling it chat willie see yeah one hey one year i mean that They were like, what, 12 weeks old? I don't know. Yeah. That's the same. Hey, good reminder for the new dads tuned in. We are not experts by any means.

We love to talk about our experiences in parenthood, bust some balls, talk toads, talk to the Milk Team Sixers, which, by the way, these are in store, right? Yeah. Yes, they are. And they look so good. I might just have to rock these. Because these are slick. bro it looked nice when you were at the

media day yesterday they looked filthy did you get any comments will yes just like walking by walking a person hey what's that what's that hat's a old milk team six

oh what's that about oh well you know we got a kid you got a kid you bumping your own milk team six oh my gosh dude I have

speaking of that life I have a dude it's I miss the family right now it was hard for your boy to leave for San Francisco

not like hard is like the powers out there's a lot of chaos going on I know there's times where you're like you feel like you've just been on fumes and you got a trip coming up

or a work trip or something and you see it as like okay this will be a breath of fresh air or it'll be nice to get out yada yada yada But being in San Francisco, we're going essentially all week. So Monday through, I think we get back Saturday. And as it was coming up, I tell Rue on Sunday because Charles was operating bar three at the time.

So I am just rocking with Scottie and Rue. Scottie's down for a nap. Rue and I are kind of hanging out. So I feel like, okay, I'm going to start setting, I'm going to start anchoring Rue that, hey, dad, that is going to be gone. And literally cut out as he said gone. That couldn't have been Maybe it was a sign More perfectly time

So while we're waiting to get Will back It's a good time to do that song we practice It is a good time to do that song we practice And what song do we practice? Well, we didn't have a song But what I will say While we're still waiting for Will

Is what he's about to talk about with Rue Is one of my biggest fears As far as development With Scarlet of like when she starts to become wait do you think he knows that he's cut out no he's still talking oh like do you think he knows that he's cut out from the pot oh there he goes there he goes but yeah while we while we still are getting him back um like scarlet basically getting to the age where she realizes that oh dad's leaving like i think it was both taylor will and then

we had somebody on busing with the boys where they were like, is Daddy going on an airplane? Luke Combs. Yeah, he brought that up a couple times. Can you guys hear me? Yes. Yes. Oh, boys, I'm sorry. No, you're fine.

You said Rue was saying that, Dad, Dad, Dad, are you going to be gone? Yeah, sorry. I think the Wi-Fi ran out of the 24 hours. I think I logged on yesterday at this time. My 24 hours was up, so then I just reconnected it to the Wi-Fi. but Wi-Fi Willie, we are back online. That's hilarious. Yeah, so I'm starting to anchor ruin for Dadda leaving.

I'll say, hey, sweetheart, I just want to let you know that has got to go on a work trip. That is going to fly on an airplane. I'm going to San Francisco. And Dadat's got to do stuff for football. And Dadat's going to be going for five sleeves. And she was like, oh, no, Dada, why are you going to be gone? I was like, well, Dadda has to do work. So we're kind of talking about the work stuff.

Why do you have to go do that? I forget how she says San Francisco, but it was absolutely adorable. And later that day, Charles was doing bedtime with Scotty. And Rue's up there, giving her hug kiss, three squeezes, giving her the whole good night routine to Scotty. Rue starts walking downstairs. And I see Rue, I'm sitting in the chair in the living room. I look up, I see Rue, and she seems sad. And I was like, hey, sweetheart, what's going on?

Why do you look sad? And as she's like walking down the last couple steps, she hits the floor and she looks at me. And she's like, I don't want that. And they go bye by by and just starts crying as she starts to pick it up and jog over towards me. She starts crying and weeping. I pick her up and I'm like holding her on my chest. I'm just kind of sitting down the chair like while she cries. Just let her know that it's going to be okay.

Like, hey, five sleep dead us in videos and pictures. And we, you know, we'll talk every. day and dude my heart was breaking sitting there holding her as she cried not wanting dad to leave for for san francisco and she ran she ran into your arms correct like she didn't fall on the floor crying she ran no yeah she didn't fall on the floor she like started to jog over to i was like come here come come sit with dad then she's kind of starts running over to me i pick her up and dude it was the saddest thing bro as she's crying after about about 45 seconds of her sitting there crying on my chest.

Yeah. Mid cry. Mid cry. I had some kind of like, you know, stroking her hair and pat her on the back and rubbing her back. She hits me with a day, day, can I have a cookie? Bro, she's learning. Yeah.

Sweet on, of course you can have a cookie. But in that story, I found a little dad hack like while I am trying to make her feel better, with everything. And I was like, here's what we can do. Do you want to hear what we can do while Dad has gone? And she was like, yeah. I was like, we should go into my closet and you can pick out a shirt or something of Dadaz in his closet. And you can basically essentially treat it like a stuffed animal. Yeah. To where whenever Daddaz gone or you get sad or you're doing bedtime, like you can just lay with Daddaz shirt, you can cry and you can be sad, you can be happy, whatever you want to use it for. But we can go pick out a shirt from Daddaz's closet and then you

can have that shirt. You can walk around with this shirt all week long if you want to. I was like, would that make you feel better? And she was like, she nods her head. Yes. We walk in my closet, pick out a sweatshirt. The girl dead sweatshirt. I'm telling her what girl dad means. Like girl, that's like a call to you. That girl is for Rue. Girl dad, dad, dad. That's she's fired up about it. She sleeps with it that night next to me and Char, like, as we do a sleepover that night because I'm like, hey, let's do a sleepover and I'll wake you up when I leave in the morning because I had to wake up like four in the morning. Yeah. Give you a hug kiss, three squeezes all of it.

And do you just do your best. You do your best because you get like heartbroken that you have to leave. Even when I left, Charles texted me like when I took off of the flight and I'm like, I miss you guys already. And she was like, the minute you left, Roo started weeping again. Oh, no.

And she was just crying. And then Charles sent me a chain of a chain of text. I'll read them to you guys. Let's see here. It's been a couple of days. So we've texted quite a bit. Let me see. Okay, here it is.

She said, Rue started weeping pretty much as soon as you shut the door. So after I tried calming her for a while, so after I tried calming her for a while, she kept crying. I was like, let's talk about what we love about Dadda and what we'll do all week while he's gone. And then also what we'll do when he gets back. And she said, of course, she held me to it. We had to go back and forth over and over

talking about what we love about you. then what we'll do when you get when you are what we'll do when you're gone and then finally what will do when you're back and then she says this morning she wanted to sing about you she's like let's sing about dad that and charl's like she goes i was like uh okay and then charles says like you know the little asterisk starts singing yeah and then she's like then she tells me i'm not singing right of course you're not doing it right you're not singing correctly mom nothing'll send a three-year-old sideways when you just don't get the words to a song right no no no No, no, no.

Dad, I love Dad Dad. No, you're not singing them right. Dad, Dad's the greatest. But in that story, Dad Hack, the sweatshirt or a T-shirt when you're gone. Because she's, like, cuddle with them. Oh, does it smell like Dad Dad? And she's like, she's not in her head. Yes, she has no clue.

I don't think so. Maybe she does. But Dad-Hack, use a T-shirt, use a sweatshirt. Or Dad-Daz gone. Dude, there's nothing that has brought tears of my eyes more than when Jill hit me with a similar statement of I was being very down on myself. This was very early in Scarlett's life, like first month maybe. And I just felt like I wasn't doing a good job stepping up to the plate.

This was probably around the raccoon ladder incident. Yeah, the old raccoon. The old raccoon ladder incident. And I'm going through my frustrations. I'm like, I just feel like such a bad dad. And Jill kind of had like tears in her eyes, but she wasn't crying. And she was like, I just want you to know you're not a bad dad. Scarlett and I talk about how much we love you all the time when you're not home

and how much we miss you and what a great dad you are. And like the thought of that conversation being carried out without me there is crazy. Right. That's crazy. And the fact that Rue can bring that up. Like, it's not even mom bringing it up now. Rue's like, okay, mom, now you have to say something you love about that. Yeah.

That's so cool. As they just sit there laying bed and Charles, I wish we could just fall back to sleep. It's 4.30 in the morning. I know. I forgot it was 4.30. Poor Charo. Oh, man. You want to, uh, were you going to ask?

How would the FaceTime's been? Have you been facetime in Rio? I've only been able to do a couple because, again, like, today's Tuesday as we're recording left Monday morning. Again, our flight was at 6.30 in the morning. Yeah. Landed in San Francisco at like 9.30. Had to from the airport, drive right over to the Pro Bowl,

do all the Pro Bowl activities until about 1, 2 o'clock. And then came and checked in the hotel. Then we had to drive and get credential, drive an hour out to Super Bowl media days. That's when we did all the Media Day stuff until about 7 o'clock, 6.30 or 7 o'clock. Yeah. Drove an hour back to the hotel and sat down at probably like 830 or 9,

shot the intro for the podcast to do, you know, to get ready for the interview with Braybill the next day. Got done here at the hotel at like 10 o'clock at night, which it's midnight now back at home. So we were just, we were on the move all day long. And then again, 3.30 a.m. wake up call this morning to drive an hour. Like we're just, we're an hour away from, it feels like everything. I felt we're like in the financial district that's San Francisco.

Yeah. It feels like we're in the mix, but it seems like everything's like an hour away. Does Rio have the capability of like if she wanted to FaceTime data? Does she know how to get on Charger? Charles, I almost called your Char Char. Good Lord. Charles phone and call data. No, she would need Charo to do it.

Yeah. She would need trial to do it. That's one thing that makes me laugh over hearing Taylor sometimes of like his, his girls will just call him. And they'll have nothing to say. Hey, Dad. I just want to sit and hang on the phone. Rue'll just be staring down there. It's like she'll have the eye bat and it'll just be like, it'll just be like this as she's like looking down on me.

I mean, hi, Russo. How was your day? Good. Or she'll just be like, where, you know, the camera's just doing this the whole time. And then she'll want to do, she'll want to put it down and do an activity. Dad, dad, watch me, watch me draw. And it'll just be like this. And I'll be pretending to watch a draw.

And just the, uh, Jill's cousin has a son that does the same thing on face-time shout out Easton. And he just has the heaviest toddler breathing, which just makes it 20 times fun here. Do that do that same thing that you just did with the camera. They're having it like this. And then it's just like so sweet, right? That was your day. Good. Hey dad, dad.

Watch me draw. Oh my gosh. That looks so good. it's like everything is just the most like taking the breath out of them which scarlet's started to do that when she drinks water dude it makes me giggle dude is it not so fun so funny she's just sitting there sucking on that straw and after she gets done it's like I'm like, yeah, that's a big, that's a big step. Then they'll have it.

Then they'll go right back to it back. And it'll just get right back to it, dude. Okay, do you, man. Yeah, yeah, you got it. Do we want to do some new dad comments? I got some new dad comments here. Dude, let's do it. I got one from our good friend Marlon Morris on Spotify.

at PT Sixers, new dad here, name my son after me but nicknamed him Gator. He's 15 days old. Do we keep the nickname as he gets into school or transition him into his rightful namesake, which would be Marlon. Also, my wife didn't touch a diaper for the first 10 days good. Marlon, Sr. I love Gator. You get that nickname like Gator?

What is it? Is it the other guys? Gator don't play. Gator, yeah, Gator don't take no shit. Whose baby's at? Whose babies at? Gator's bitches be wearing jimmies? Gator's bitches better be wearing jimmies.

Oh, Gator never been about that. Never ever been about that. Great, great comedy. I got one here from my friend. Brian Sedita. Sherm, Papa Team 6 member, OG listener, first time contributor. Want to shout out Ryan Jeff Jeffreys. Jeff Reds?

Jeffreys. Don't know, rising to the ranks and getting promoted to Papa Team 6. I believe he also has a dad loss moment he may be entering. Thank you for all you boys do. Shout out Ryan Jeffrey or Ryan Jeffreds. Yeah, shout out either one, dude. Welcome to Papa Team 6, the best dad. community and all the sports right now.

Yes, sir. Bro, also I have to take it back to Marlon really quick with the wild stray to his wife at the end. Marlin is feeling confident, dude. Also, my wife didn't touch a diaper for the first 10 days. Good. Good. What is, you're going to, what a sick of.

I'll change. I'll change gator. Gator. Ray, Aden, uh, rockney on Spotify said, first time listener, first time commenter, first time dad. Love the pod, adding it to my rotation. Just found out yesterday my wife and I are having a baby girl in August. Congratulations, Aidan.

What advice would you have for someone who grew up in an all-boy household as the biggest shell shock of now being outnumbered? Buddy, this is the ball, this is the wheelhouse right here. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. Willie C. There were three of us boys. My mom had a lot of boy energy too. It felt like she just knew how to operate with the men around the house or the young boys around the house.

Dude, just brace yourself, man. Having a girl, it's one of those things like you just feel clueless because, again, you grow up in a household where you're one of the brothers or you're one of a few brothers, whatever number it was. and you're going to be way softer than you think. You think you might be a little tough. You might be a little hard. No, she's going to break you down. She's going to be wrapped around your finger. You're going to be such, you're going to unlock a side of sweetheartness

that you've never understood or imagined that you could have. And it's honestly, it is the greatest thing in the world. I could not agree with you more. And something that I find myself saying more and more to Jill is how. happy I am that we had a daughter or that we have a daughter. And I do not have a son, obviously. I don't know what that's like. I grew up similar to Will household boys, a lot of boy energy.

It was just my brother and I. And so far so good with being outnumbered. And I'm honestly kind of looking forward to the, you know, being the dad that makes a joke. And it's like, dad, what are we doing? Like, goofball dad that sometimes is a little awkward. And I'm already seeing the riding on the wall with all the ribbons and all the outfits. And if a boy is in the future, I would be very, very happy. But I like weirdly, it was a shell shock for a couple seconds.

But then I just kind of set nicely into my job as being the man of the house, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Do not feel alone. That was honestly a compliment. that I would have with myself all the time is like, man, am I going to have any clue what to do with the girl? Because again, I haven't known. I don't have a sister. I don't, none of it. Again, we talk about, we quote Dan Gable every week. Like, we were like wrestling,

football. We were all sports. Like, it was a boy household through and through. And so I had all the same fears when a girl was coming into my world. The only things I would stop and hit pause on. And fortunately, my wife, we were kind of eye to eye with it. But anything with like, it's like, oh, man, I was about to say too girly. And now I'm thinking of room dressing and princess dresses all the time. But like the dolls or anything that seems like it's like too pink at first. I don't know. Yeah.

I don't know what it was. But it's like, you know, we need, we need to mold her in some way with some grit. And I say grit right now thinking that queen else is the number one princess or queen in her mind. But you think all of these things, you think where you might be a little resistant. I'm not going to know how to, you know, change the diaper. It looks a little bit like I'm just, I'm not in the world of being around like women. I wasn't around women like that when I grew up. But it is.

It's one where you are, you are stoked to be a girl dad. And it's come from a guy who would love to have some offspring, would love to have somebody carry, be the heir to the throne. Yeah. And it's like if it never happens, I just think about the two little girls that I have and how I'm just absolutely obsessed with them. And there's also a part of me too because I would love to get all dad's feedback

or parent feedback really from the dads where they have both a boy and a girl because any dad that I talk to and they say that they have a girl in the way or they just had a girl recently or they currently have a girl. Like my first question is, is daughter number one in your eyes?

And the answer across the board is always yes. Like the girl is, it's like the opposite's attracting. Yeah, yeah. Like the girl becomes your favorite thing in life, period. That makes all the sense in the world. I, and to make him feel at ease, our friend that asked how I put the card away, sorry. I think it was Aiden.

But Aiden, to make you feel at ease, I, by no means have mastered being a girl dad. Like, I know that this is a continuation of being out of my element for the rest of my life. but it's just like this weird comfortable feeling that you kind of have about it. I don't know if that makes sense. Like it was the right thing for your life. Yeah. Like I have no idea what the future is going to look like as far as being a girl dad. But like I'm just so excited for it.

And dude, Scarlett's hair is just sprouting like a weed right now. Like truly to the point where the daycare people that see her, every other day, each time I come in, they're like, her hair, it's wild. I'm like, I know. Yeah. Like, it's the cutest thing in the entire world, but it infuriates me because I'm like, you're growing. Like, stop growing.

I know, dude. There's a, here, I got a, I'm going to shout out another new dad here. I, on Spotify, Drew underscore Williamson. Wifey and I welcomed our first born Emmy Kate to the world today, was rocking the PT6 Operation grill and chill shirt the entire time. Mama crushed it and went 12 hours from start to finish. Thank you boys for the pod. And looking forward to rep in the PT6 merch

and joining the girl dad gang. By the way, all the Papa Team 6 for the dad's merch that is on BWTB.com. So if you're looking at yourself into Popat Team 6 permanently in the unit, bwtb.com, that's where you can get the PT6 merch. But what I was going to say, right here too, new baby girl, so Drew Williamson, And he's a girl dad as well.

So all the fellow girl dad's out there, I was, I forget, we're at a restaurant. And a gentleman was, was observing the fan. We're kind of like having fun. Like Scott, he's being a menace, you know, Roo. I'm sitting there talking with Rue. I started talking to this gentleman and he's like, both girls, like, you just have two girls. I'm like, yeah, girl day. He's like, I got a couple girls too.

But they're long, they're much older. Like, they're out of the house now. And I just asked this veteran, P.T. sixer. I was like, hey, just cut it to me straight. I say, how long do I have with my girls before I am, you know, before they, they start not liking me. And he's like, you look over at me, he had a little smirk on his face. And he says, you got about 11 years. You got about 11 years, man. And I laugh at that I go, oh, man, we can't even get to 13. We can't even get to of the teenage years, he said it was 11 for me.

11 for me, they hate your guts. They don't want nothing to do with you. And then as he tells me, it's like, again, the noise gets quieter. I'm just looking at Ruined Scottie. And I'm like, how do these little human beings that they love mom and dad that right now, we love them, how do they get to 11 or how do they get to an age where these two little things that are obsessed with me right now, they just stop wanting anything to do with me. And then, but thankfully, like, the light at the end of the tunnel for me is the comments that we've gotten from in T-6ers that are like, my dad is my best friend.

I talk to him every day, you know, blah, blah, of like there's a, I feel like there's a point in a girl's life where then dad is cool again and we're coming back to dad. But it's a different kind of relationship. It's like a different kind of bond. You bring up a good, you bring up a good point here too. And I would love, again, Milk Team 6. I would love an MT6 that's out there right now, listen. Because we know it's hormones and things happening with the body, yada, yada, yada. Yeah.

If they can break down certain stages. Please. For us, PT6 girl dad fathers out there on why it happens, is there anything that we can look out for and try to do? You know what I mean? To try to pump the ball, keep kicking the can down the road. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

to have as less friction as possible. And hey, I'm okay with you hating me. Is there steps that I can take where you will hate me less? That's all I'm looking for. Can I throw a theory out there? Perhaps when it comes back around and all of a sudden it's no longer like I hate dad, it's no longer that dad is cool or not. It doesn't matter if dad is cool or not.

He's just dad. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like it stops becoming so important like, oh, you're so uncool. it's like, oh, you're, you're my father. And you love me. And you help guide me. I can see.

That's a shot in the yard. You got any crushes at school? You know what I'm saying? Then you get these combos and they ain't going to want to tell you nothing, man. By the way, I just got a picture from the daycare. They were putting all the kiddos. And these are all one and a half and younger in Scarlet's class. Yeah.

And they put them in this. stroller that's like a six-seater. So it's like two, three rows of two. Scarlet's in the front and they put him next to the only boy in the class. And the daycare has a messaging system that they could have very easily reached out to me and been like, hey, okay, if we partner Scarlett up at the front seat next to the only boy in the class, I was like, what's going on here? Hey, hey, what are we doing?

You might send me a screenshot of his ID? Let's go ahead and get his parents info too. Yeah, what kind of milk? What kind of milk is he drinking? I'm going to say, you're looking at the picture. What's going on? What's going on with his face? What's going on with that?

Yeah, yeah. Is he in there? Yeah. Do you look like he's mad at her? Or what's he mad at her for? But it's already starting. It's already starting. And Scarlett looked like she was having way too much fun.

with them in the front row. It's like, here we go. Dude, I'll shout this book out. I'll shout this book out again, but strong father, strong daughters. There's a lot of some of these breakdowns to what, you know, the ladies that your girls are going through, like when they're getting through high school and the stuff that they deal with. It is a fascinating, eye-opening, mind-opening read that I strongly recommend to any girl that

out there. But I would also love the perspective from just an MT-6 or something. route out there right now that's listening to this guy you know what let me let me put the fingers to the keyboard for these boys give them some game a little bit absolutely while we're speaking to the mt sixers i did have a thought the other day and this isn't so much a challenge as more so it would just be unreal our pt sicko community has blessed us enough and graced us enough with these photos of them, you know, carrying out like those Duna strollers after they've had their first for and they're wearing our PT6 merch.

Yeah. Bro, a milk team sixer in the hospital with the MT6 hat on post-delivery. And of course, ready for the camera, you know. MTV6, this one? Oh, yeah. Like in, no, we haven't received one yet. I'm saying that. Oh, oh.

See, I thought you were telling me that we were. Oh, dude. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're talking about like the one we read, 12 hours, start to finish and grinding it out. She's got 12 hours and she's rocking the milk team six out.

That is a sicko, dude. That's a sicko. I'm envisioning a Bt D. Six or dad out there. They're about to go into labor and he just, hey, I know you asked me if there's anything that I wanted to do with the birth plan or anything. All I got, he just, he's got his hat off. just pulls out. He's like, can you wear this? Why you deliver.

He's coming out. He's holding the leg. He just, hey, put that. He put that on. Put that on. Get this fucking out of him. Just let me get the picture. Let me get the picture right now. Hey, Willie Wachow.

Look at us. Good Lord. Yeah, I just got to tweet the boys. He's just tweeting? Oh, I actually got a wiky shout out right here from Colin Krigger on Spotify. Colin Krigger. I'm sure that was a fun name growing up.

Fellas, love the pod and never misses Sode. Just wanted to hop on here and say shout out to my beautiful M.T. Sicko of a wife with the emoji dash O. M.T. Sicko of a wife. Mikaela. As it's her birthday on the 4th of February. Right now it is the third. So when this drops, hey, happy birthday, Michaela. P.S.

No free shoutouts, but love, but the love to dream sleep sack is the best, and it makes your baby look like a flying squirrel. Whoa, hold the phone. Love to dream. Little dad hack in there with the wifie. Shout out to Michaela. Happy birthday, Michaela. Shout out, Michaela.

Hey, love to dream sleep sack. We got to pull up an image of that in the pod. Oh, that is cute. And it does look like a flying squirrel. That's a perfect description. Dude, we have a really awesome shout out as well. This one came to us from Instagram. This came from Jake Perfurio.

He wrote to us and said, What's up, boys just wanted to share my crack a cold one. He's got to crack a cold one. My sweet baby girl Frankie, who was born with Clubfoot, finally graduated to boot and bar and could not be more proud of you boys who inspired me to be a good father, keep it up. Hashtag PT6. And he provided this adorable photo.

Bro, I'm seeing it too in the email right now. Man, shout out to you, Jake. That is awesome. Good for you, Frankie. Frankie. I know you can't hear us or understand this right now, but Frankie, we love you. We are fired up for you. We love you, girl.

I love the, I love the bow. I love the little pink padding that she has for the boots. Oh my gosh. They were adorable. Yeah, how do you just not smile? Oh, dude. Seeing that little cute photo. She's so stoked.

Yeah, with a little certification right next to her. And the heart over the eye too. Yeah. That's awesome, man. Shout out Frankie. Shout out Jake. Shout out the family. Willie C.

Not to rush us through, but speaking up. Got to keep it under an hour. Speaking of crack of cold ones. Do you have a crack of cold one, sir? Brought to us up by Olipop. My crack a cold one, look, I'm going to keep it a buck. My crack a cold one is just going to my wife. I know it is shitty that I am out of the house all week long.

Yeah, dude. For five nights, when the power is out, power is still out. We're still running on the generator. Oh, God. Thank God. Power got brought back to Paddock Place. one of her bar three studios. Good.

But again, Newhouse, just her and the girls. She does get help in the daytime, but I know how strenuous and stressful it is when, you know, whether any foot, like whether mom's out of town

or just your spouse, your partner in crime, is out for an entire week for a work thing. I know that sucks. I know it is like, it's like a what can you do situation. Yeah.

Because you want your other to go do their thing and work and have fun. And she hopes them having the best time right now. But I know that she's just, she's trying to wear all the hats at home. And I know that sucks and I know that's hard. And I've had little to no complaining on my phone. But so my shoutout goes to my wife, Charo. I just know she's holding it down right now. I just know she's in the gutter with some of it.

Being mom, being the owner of a business, being, you know, The parent for Roo, the parent for Scotty, the needs of both of them, dinner, bedtime, changing diapers, picking up the house, organizing that, organizing the house. Hey, there's a yellow backlight happening right now with the generator. What does that mean? Going and checking the oil, like just doing all the things, being a certified badass. I know it sucks and it's not ideal. So that is where my crack of cold one goes. It goes to my white charo.

And I know what we got, I think across the hall in the other suite where we're doing bustle with the boys. I saw a case of Chris Bapple in there, so I need to get my paws on something. Hey, yo, they sent Oli Pop to San Francisco? Yes, a big bag. Big bag with a lot of variety. Come on. I saw Chris Bappel sitting there at the top. It was looking at me in the face last night.

Come on. Huge shout out to Charo. There is nothing more impressive than seeing your partner operate like that. And there's nothing more, I don't think, humbling is the right word. But like it's, you're so thankful. Yeah, because again, when you're gone for periods of time, like as a parent, there is guilt that just kind of sits on you. Yes. Because you know, like I'm out here in San Francisco. I know from far away in the cold weather in Nashville where there's still like stuff going on

and everything else happening, you see the photos, the videos. We're out doing stuff around the Super Bowl, like one of the most popular events in the world. Right here in the sunshine. You're seeing all the photos. I'm sure there's some not like intentional resentment, but you should probably watch her from afar like, well, at least Will's having fun. And it's not like a comment she brings to any energy when we get on the phone. I'm just assuming that some of these things probably go on as a parent.

Yeah. That honestly bleeds right into my crack a cold one. Like being a good teammate, I came home the other night. And Jill pre, she meal pre preps for Scarlett, who's starting solids. I come home last night with Scarlett. And Jill's, it was her 10 o'clock shift that she does every other Monday. And I open up the fridge and there are no pre-made meals. And I'm about to start calling Jill, texting her, asking her, what do I do while she's at work?

And I just start telling myself internally, be a good teammate, be a good team. Like step up. We got a problem solved. Where are we doing? All of our groceries from the week before, we had to throw them out. And now we did go visit Costco, but we didn't get like the fruits and veggies at Costco. We're still a little weak in that department. So I'm shopping through all of our drawers.

I find one apple. And I was like, hey, Scarlett's done applesauce with mom. You know, I skin it, I'll chop it. I'll put some water and blend it. That's apples sauce. We'll be good. I'll give it a kiss. Get it some applesau.

He gets some applesauce going. And I get it all done. And Jill goes, hey, would you end up feeding Scarlet probably remembering, oh, I didn't pre-make anything? And I was like, oh, she's loving the applesau. And her first reply is just, where did you get that? Knowing we had no applesauce. And I was like, I made it. Dadaz made it.

And I got a look at Daddaz. with the eyes of eye emoji and I was like yeah buddy let's go dude yeah buddy but the real crack of coal in that situation then goes to the absolute domination that my daughter performed on the bowl of said applesauce Scarlett destroyed it dude like she she's truly starting to like consume the food and when I scoop it the mouth is already first off she does a little and then the mouth got she's ready you play with her a little bit to where it's close so you kind of pull it away oh no no no and then she starts grabbing and she's like yeah this is it this is not a game yeah i won my app um but yeah my crack of colewin goes to that um i don't think i touched on it

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We were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast,

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Responding to the situation with the Minnesota Vikings GM talking about how he took paternity leave. Oh yeah. You made a really profound statement on that. And I wanted you to talk about like give yourself a little because you got flak for it, which kind of caught me off guard on Twitter talking about like the amount of sacrifice it takes to be an NFL player at high level of any professional sport. And I thought that was just super interesting if you wanted to kind of touch on it.

What, yeah, let me, let me answer by asking you a question first because there's just, it's so nuanced and there's different angles to go about it. Like when I'm responding to that tweet that went out, it's almost like a shell shock or a, you know, morality police is trying to partake in like, hey, we should judge this. Like this says more about the NFL culture than it does. you know, this says a lot about, you know, the culture of the NFL, which is, catches people off guard. And my take was more of like, my take was more from the angle of this is the business of the NFL. Like, I don't envy coaches, GMs, even now since I've had kids and became a dad, fortunately, after I'm done playing. I think to myself, knowing what we pour into our kiddos, knowing how involved I get to be,

how attached I am to them, I think myself, man, it's got to be so hard for, you know, dads that are in the NFL profession because that world, you have to prioritize that world. Essentially, if you're looking at hours put in, you have to prioritize your work in the NFL more than you do your fans, family. And that's just like the way it is. Like people are going back and forth saying, you know, he was granted paternity leave for two weeks. They were completely okay with it.

So he should be afforded to have that luxury. Well, you have that luxury until you have a bad season. So the fact that he's having a bad season and then he gets fired probably for much bigger reasons than paternity leave. But knowing those conversations happen inside the building and now they're getting leaked, to the public. It's not surprising to me because that is essentially it's honorable and admirable all the sacrifices that everybody makes, you know, to play, to play and participate in the NFL because it's big business. It's all performance. It's all about winning. And you got guys who you do nothing but identify with the NFL logo essentially your entire life because you identify I was playing football because I had another

had somebody come after me and I'm like you know being becoming a father after playing in retrospect I'm now happy that I look back and I'm now glad that I didn't have kids while I was playing because you're so wrapped up in your own world in your own game you got to you got to remember you got to think and I'm not trying to put it as hey the NFL playing in the NFL it's the biggest

sacrifice out there in the world I'm not saying anything I'm just trying to tell people that this is none of it is surprising to me that this is how stuff goes down because that is the world of the NFL. Like, just to remind people, like, when you are, when you do nothing but play football, since for myself, it was second grade. So I did nothing but identify with any time it is, hey, what is your dream job? What do you want your dream job to be when you grow up in grade school? Whenever I'm answering that question for, like, you know, what's your future? what do you want when you grow up?

What do you want to be when you grow up? It was always NFL player. My not password, but like when they ask you, what's your dream job on, you know, if I had it on any of my accounts, it would be NFL player. Like I identify with football my entire life. So when I get scholarship offers coming out of high school, there's a sense you, they get so wrapped up in it to where you have to, you're making all these decisions based around yourself.

I need to go to the best school. I can't worry about this. I can't worry about my family or people asking for tickets. I keep the main thing, the main thing at all times because I'm trying to become a professional football player. Then you finally become a professional football player. And our brains and how we've operated essentially our entire life to get to this point is the entire world is about us and about our dream and about what we want to do. And any football player, anybody in that profession who has a family or has a wife, that wife, that's why you have guys like Joe Brady up there. And again, massive fan of Joe Brady.

It's like I just don't envy being in that spot because I just, now that I've tasted this other side of it, now that I have kids and a family and I'm out of the football world right now, I'm just like, man, it has got to be so hard to where the entire world is still around him, being, you know, chasing this goal, this dream to win a championship, when mom has just got to essentially sacrifice everything all around this, their partner because they're off chasing their dream, chasing their goal, because you know as a dad how much work it is at home

when you're at home with the kiddos with your partner or when they're out of town and you're taking care of him solo. Then I'm reminded myself like, yo, this is every day for these moms that have to stay at home and we're off doing practice or you know, you might come home and have an hour. Oh, dude, sweetheart,

it was a long day. Coach got my ass. I have to watch film for tomorrow. You have your little few minutes with the kids to check in with your kiddos. But then it's like, you know, hey, can somebody else put them in sleep? or hey, I'll do bedtime.

But the minute I do bedtime, I got to get back to studying because I got to get ready for the next day tomorrow. Then the next day tomorrow, you're out of the house before wake up timing if it happens for everybody else. And you're gone all day long. But in that cycle, that is just you don't know any different. That's why I said it's like it's hard to explain.

I'm not able to have this perspective now on it unless I got out of it. Because when we had Rue, when year 10 was happening, the whole Falcons going off to the Falcons. And when I was going to sign with Atlanta, Ru was about seven or eight weeks old. And a part of me struggled wanting to go to Atlanta. When I knew my heart wasn't all the way in on wanting to play football anymore, I was just doing it to get that 10th year. Hey, I'm on, I'm playing with house money now.

So why not finish out this dream that I've always had? My wife was super supportive of it. But part of it was like, man, that kind of sucks that I have to leave and go to Atlanta. And I'm going to stay in Atlanta solo because that's another thing. Some of these guys that are on one-year deals, they just go to the city and they're living in the city while the family stays back at home at Ground Zero where the family's going to be

or where the kids go to school or where they're used to their everyday life. They're just going to go travel to the city of football for six, seven months out of the year and that's just how it's going to be because you guys have just agreed upon, hey, this is how we're going to do things. But I was going to be in Atlanta the last,

let's call it seven weeks. It's going to be Atlanta of the last seven weeks, but part of me is like sad and also, damn, it sucks. for my wife that she's going to be solo dolo with Rue and I'm just going to be playing football the rest of the year doing this thing and just checking in and everything else. Like it's just super hard.

I know I said, what angle do you want me to go on? And I just want a complete tangent in rant right there. It's just, it's very nuanced. It's hard to explain. I'm not surprised that there's internal disagreement with that GM, leaving for two weeks in the middle of training camp. because you are the leader,

trickles from GM, down the head coach, staff, players, everything else. And you might get afforded to miss a game or miss a day of practice to go see the birth of your child and be there with them that day. Maybe you get an extra day. It all depends what you can afford

based on how essentially valuable you are to that organization. Does that make sense? Yeah, a lot of sense. Thank you for. the part that I think would be easier for the people on Twitter, like the general public that just like attacked your opinion essentially on being like, hey, this is just the way the NFL is. And I am not comparing the NFL to serving overseas in the military or like working on an oil rig, you know, out in Midland. But like those are universal truths that of.

like if I'm going to serve in the military, if I'm going to be abroad, like I will most likely miss a funeral. I will most likely miss the birth of my child. If I'm working on an oil rig out in Midland to make that money and afford opportunities for my family, I will be four weeks on and one week off. And that's just the way she goes. And so it's like with the NFL, whether you like it or not, it's just kind of the way she goes. That's just the universal truth of the You know it in that world too. It's what you sign up for to participate in. Yeah.

Like that's like that is that game. I'm not saying I agree with that game. Yeah. I'm just all of these different variables. I understand the head coaches and the players that, you know, they give all the love to their wife when they do have that moment in the spotlight or on the podium. Because you know sitting back, I'm like, it doesn't feel like the flex. He probably thinks it is now that I'm.

I'm sitting on this side of it. Again, that's where it comes from. I just don't envy that. It's honestly, outside of having the bus with the boys in podcasting, but if I didn't have podcasting, like coaching would be what I wanted to do. Coaching was what I wanted to do. But now that I have a family, it's more of like, dude, if I want to get into coaching in football, in the NFL college doesn't matter.

It's such a, it's, it's an ego thing to where I am, we, anybody who, who enters it. I'm not saying how many different than anybody else. But your competitive nature, what it takes to be great in that industry is total, fully, fully committing yourself to winning a championship. You don't go in a half-ass. You don't do any of that. And to do so, you have to put in insane hours because you never feel like the hay is in the barn. Yeah. So I always, it's like when those moments do come up and you got coach McDonald talking about how, practice gets done sooner on Thursday so we can get home and spend 30 minutes with the sun. And there's some guys who are able to rework the strategy at times.

Like that is awesome. The more time you can spend time with your family, I think that is unbelievable. The GM who got fired, him taking two weeks, I'm all about him being able to do that. But then when you start losing, you're like, that's a crazy move. Because a party who's always going to sit there and like, hey, these are the hours that I'm going to work in. The moment you feel behind the competition or anybody else, And then a story comes out about their greatness and how much their success is that they give flowers to the work that they put in, around the clock, this, that. The other part of you is like, I've got to beat that, dude, because you're so wrapped up in the ego of it to where I know I would get lost in that sauce if I was in the coaching world.

Yeah. And if you're getting in it, it depends on what the head coach wants. Like, does he want you? Does he expect you there all the time? Like I know Vrable, there's several coaches that there are Bruce Ariens. Both Polini was always like, hey, if you ever miss this and not on the weekends and we don't have. have a game, like I'll, you know, I'll fire you or you should not do that. You need to be at all this stuff you can with your family.

It's just a world where you have to fully sacrifice everything for winning a championship. Just like in the military, you have to sacrifice everything for your country. If you have a business, any business owner out there, anybody in like a startup career, anything to where they are obsessed with their, with their career. They're obsessed with their career and they want to be the best. There's going to be certain things you have to do selfishly to, get to that level. It's going to be sacrificed away from family time because, hey, I'm operating a business. I have 20 employees right now. I haven't been able to delegate anything or bring in a CEO.

I'm running everything at all. I have to be at the shop. I have to do X, Y, and Z. I got to be on the calls and make sales. I have to do all these things because that's what puts food on the table for the family. And you hope that one day you get successful enough or achieve enough or acquire enough wealth to where then you can delegate and have a team you so that way you have the freedom to spend all the time in the world with their family because any sicko successful person that you admire when they get closer to their deathbed or they reflect on their life the one thing that they always talk about is they wish they spent more time with their family that's true so i'm like i'm it's all of these things where i'm just always thinking about it i'm conscious about it and the whole NFL thing when people were kind of shocked that

that was maybe a part of him being fired or shock that hey people people in the building were kind of like shitting on this idea that he was gone for two weeks. It's like not any surprising at all. Like that is the nature of the beast. If you're going to sign up and play that game. You were to add some gravity to it. You were brought to tears when Taylor attended your mother's funeral of like what like what a huge decision that was by Taylor. And like what that not only meant to you, but what that also what what he means to

what you mean to him. Sorry. 100%. Yeah, because they had a Thursday night game and I want to say, Taylor might have been out with a back or a knee or something like that. And he asked Ray's blessing, like, hey, can I fly to Missouri, miss a couple of days and spend a couple days for Will, with Will and his family when my mom passed away.

So, yeah, you know when I saw him walk in, like, you just know what that takes. It's like, thank God he's good enough of a player to have that luxury of missing that. Yes. You know what I mean? Like if you're a first. year and drafted guy and you make the team and you're all out of the 53 guys on the roster, you might be rated 40 through 53.

Nobody at 40 through 53 is making a decision like that. I can't leave the building. No, I'm not going to leave two days to go see my child being born. Like, this is my dream. This is my first year. I can't, I can't afford it. Yeah. But if it's a cat like you got Taylor, maybe it's JJ Watts, some of these superstars and they want to miss

a couple days, they have, they're able to afford it because they ain't going to, nothing's going to happen to them. They won't kind of get side-eyed like, dude that's ranked 38th right now on our football team is taken off because he needs to go be with his family. Like clearly he doesn't want a bad enough. That's just that's the nature of the culture in a profession like the NFL. Well, and Jeff, I mean, it's funny like the double-edged sword that is the public opinion on stuff like this. And Jeff will probably know the answer to this, but somebody recently just won the U.S. Open on the same day that their son was born. Al-Karez.

And he was like, I got to get the hell out of here. I got to go meet my son. And it's nobody's sitting there going, hey, dude, what the heck are you doing playing in this tournament? You just miss the birth of your son? Like, what a POS dad. As Urban Meyer once said, I'll treat my superstars like superstars and my shit like shit. I think that's the quote. Well, there you go.

Yeah, yeah. There you go. And everybody knows this game. Like, it's not surprising to me. Like when I am seeing the negative comments about it or people like, oh, thanks you're telling this year. and shit dad. Oh, this is a guy that's a girl dad, by the way.

Or he has a dad podcast. Yeah. I'm like, you ain't going to sit there and make everybody happy. I'm more so telling you like this, that was my experience, seeing it all in the NFL. And even when I'm like, hey, thankfully I became a dad after the fact in retrospect, I'm happy. It didn't happen. Somebody was like, oh, so you're telling us you would have been a piece of shit father then? Like, you're still probably pretty much the same.

And I'm just thinking of myself, in what world is that like it, when I, or one day, when your daughter reads this. It's like, okay, when she, if she were to read or come across this, the natural, hey, your old man wasn't ready to be a father at that time. So when I was thinking back on it, I'm glad it didn't happen. I'm sure that's going to be an awfully hard conversation to have. Well, now I feel even worse that I didn't jump in to your defense on Twitter and say, hey, just recently had my first born girl, Will and Taylor, provided a great paternity leave for me. And for the days I had to come in, what was it total? Was it like two months?

It was like a month and a half. It was like a month and a half. I don't know. But the days that I came in, they provided a night nurse for Jill and I that night. So we could get some sleep and for somebody. So like, I should have come to. your defense now. Dude,

you're fine. It was truly one of those ones I just didn't know how it'd land because I know it's like, you got this softer generation on the people hate understanding what the truth actually is. And I'm sitting here and giving you like, hey, it doesn't matter if you agree with me or not. Because the majority of people, whatever they're saying, I'm like, hey, man, I don't disagree with you. I'm just giving you an inside look on what this is like.

And if you do want to be the best or in the top 1% or make it to the NFL, like there's going to be everyone knows. that's the sacrifice that goes into it. Everybody knows that, like, Sheram, you got, I met one of your buddies I was at the Pro Bowl this week. Yeah. Like, anybody that you have, any one of your buddies that you've had that's played college sports or they're chasing their dream.

Yeah. The world is kind of, their world is kind of just shaped around them. Absolutely. Like, hey, I'm coming up to watch you in a game. What do you want me to do this week when I get there? Are you sure you want me to stay at your house? Like, are you sure I can get a couple tickets? I'm not trying to be a, I'm not trying to be a nuisance.

I don't want to annoy you. Let me know what the best. everything is around that human being because they play the sport. They're chasing their dream. I'm not, again, and I'm not saying that's how it has to be. I'm just saying naturally, like, that is just what it is. No, that is. I lived with college football.

Ross Matsick is who he's referring to, who's pro bowl long snapper for Jacksonville Jaguars. But I lived with one of his good buddies Harrison Fox, who is also on Baylor's football team. And yeah, Fox's daily schedule at college sucked ass, dude. That guy was first one out of the house, last one into it, covered in sweat whenever he's coming in the door. He's like physically having to force feed himself, multiple Chick-fil-A sandwiches because he's got to maintain a weight. He was an offensive lineman. Like you are signing up for something bigger than yourself when you're, this is not a call center where,

you know, you're doing customer service calls, which I'm not dogging it. I did it for like four years where I could very easily take two months of PTO and nobody's going to blink an eye. Right. And like you said, like when you were talking about the package that you had with Buss and it's like, dude, if anybody had a kid, like it's just, man, you hope that everybody achieves what they need to achieve. Oh, for sure.

So that way they're in a world to where they can operate with some freedom. Because I'm, it's like, I'm, this pie, we're all about dad being at home. We're all about dad being intentional. We're all about dad mixing up and not being so stuck in gender roles. And you just go out and work your nine to five. And foods expected to be on the table when you get home. Yeah. And you're the, obviously we shout out taking out the trash.

Like your only chores is taking out the trash or fixing things around the house. Really want you off. Or the dog. Yeah, we embrace partnership, marriage, like good balance. with each other. It's tough, man. It's such a, it's such a nuanced topic. And again, I said in there, you know, it's hard to explain, but nobody, you know how the internet is. Hey, and we're, we're not going to make anybody or everybody happy with our, this is our truth that we live in and we're sorry. We both have full-time working wives. Like we're, this is, this is our truth that we live in

And we're sorry if you disagree. We're very sorry. Yeah. Yeah. It's, you're right. It is a, that was a fun one, though. I appreciate you bringing that up, chef. I honestly, I've forgotten about that.

But it was going, there was somewhere, I'm like, man, people, it just feels like all they want to do right here is argue or say something, taking shots at the For the Dad's podcast. I'm just like, buddy, you clearly don't listen to anything. I wish I had. I was reading through. But the best was Will's response to the one guy that said, what are you going to do when your daughter reads this?

And Will said she's going to have a lot to read, buddy. Because I'm just, as I'm sitting there and I'm looking at that, and I respond to a couple people. And somebody's like, oh, you haven't won anything and tries to show that I didn't want a championship in high school, college or NFL. And then I'm like, funny how they forgot, you know, grades four through seven or whatever I posted to be funny.

And then somebody's upset with it. that. He's like, is this supposed to be funny? I feel like I follow you. You get serious every now and then. You're usually trying to be the funny guy. And I'm just like, man, I just tweet, bro. Like, it's never that serious to where I'm trying to get upset or prove something to you when you just you understand the nature of like social media now. Like, you sit there and spend your energy on it. You're just going to be on your phone all day long, worked up about something because you just want to be understood so badly. It's like, look, I can't help you if you're, I'm trying to use the words to the best of my ability and letting you know, hey, I don't disagree with you.

I'm just, this is my experience. It's not surprising. Well, he went 14 and 2 the year before. Hey, I'm with you. When you're 14 and 2, it's a little easier to back. Yeah, you're going to take two weeks. You can work from home. Oh, that'll be awesome.

But then you have a season like you do. They find other decisions you might have made. They hold it against you and fire you. They leak this internal stuff. And it's like, that's the game. That's the game, maybe. That's the game. And it sucks.

They call it the league. for a reason. Also, I don't think you've ever sounded more like a father than when you said, this generation, man. This generation's so soft. You guys know how it is, man. What do you think is going to happen when your daughter reads this? Yank, yank, buddy. I promise you, we're going to have some journals. She's going to have a lot to read, see, scan, watch on YouTube of her old man. She can form her own opinion. I'm pretty sure knock on wood, she's going to have a good one because we're going to have a great relationship.

I'll be able to teach her about her old man not being ready to, because there's always a part of me that wanted to have the photos with my kiddos or with the child of mine in four uniform because I always thought that was awesome. Like being a football player, yeah, they get to watch me from him, all that stuff. That didn't happen.

But again, I feel like I'm fortunate at that father. It happened after football because I just feel like the way I was committed to football when I was in the thick of it. Family would have just naturally, subconsciously, whatever, not intentionally, but in just my movie, they would have been like second fiddle to what was going on in the NFL. Because you want to be the best when you're playing it.

Yeah. All we were missing when you called This Generation Soft is us standing on my back patio next to the smoker with some hollipops in our hands. And you're just, you're hitting the long monologue. You go, this generation. man.

His generation is filled with a bunch of pussy's, dude. Because I'm telling her, I think I was telling whenever I reacted to one where I'm like, she's going to have a lot to read.

Hey, if your daughter reads this, so she's going to have a lot to read. And it'll be out to the conversation where I'm like, hey, your old man, he wasn't,

you know, what a hard conversation to have. Hey, your dad wasn't ready at this age to be a father. Thank God. Because if I would have, it probably wouldn't have been you,

Roo, standing here in front of me. and then I'll talk to her about that while also talking to her about, hey, if you do want to be great in any lane, this is what it takes. Nick Saban's famous quote, it takes what it takes. And you want to be the absolute best. There's going to have to be a lot of sacrifices and selfishness that you have to have because you want to be in this world. Yeah. And it's your life.

It's you making your own decisions. And there'll be a lot of good stuff that you were able to talk about where, you know, it. Again, it's nuanced, bro. It's a journey. It's a process. It never stops. Well, you just quoted somebody that, in fact, retired to spend more time with family was his exact quote, Nick Saban. So that proves the point even more of like, hey, you know, I made these sacrifices and now I want to move on and get back to the fan.

I have a potential dad hack, non-dad hack. This might be a Sherman. What the hell are you doing? Stop doing that. So I wanted to run it by you will to see if you have ever done this. But I know you got your back issues. I am fighting. I am in the trenches right now with my back.

It is not good. I currently have four strands of KT tape on my bod right now. And it's been hard to bend down and pick up Scarlet. And so what I have been doing is when she's laying on her tummy in a onesie and again. We might have to cut this from the episode, or you can say this is totally fine to do. I've been grabbing by the back of the onesie to pick her up. Like grab a handful of the onesie, and it's a nice little like, it's almost like grabbing a puppy dog by its, you know, its neck. But she's like, fine.

Her head isn't dangling or anything. She kind of like Superman's up and then I put her into my arms. Is that a dad hack or is that a no-go? Meaning like you shouldn't do that? Yeah. Oh, you shouldn't do that? That's news to me. I'll be out there swinging.

I'll be out there swinging them to look like they're flying in there. There we go. Okay, so it is a dad hack? Yeah. Okay, cool. Hey, you want an easy way to pick up your kiddo? I feel like you learn that on your own because you're kind of like, you kind of chuckling. Like, let me just pick them up here by the back of the clothing and see what happened.

Yes. That's why I did. Especially when they got like their overalls on and you kind of bring them together. And then it's super easy. Yes. I handed you, Shirm. There was an email from a guy that was a huge. dad hack ice skating with his one-year-old and there's a picture he has her will picked up as if

like from hockey pants on the side and so this was one that was meant for for our first guest whenever that episode drops but you could see he has her by some hind quarter device figure skating with his daughter and that's his dad hack so to your point there are people doing this out in the wild and sending it to us yeah and that's i mean that's like kind of the same principle except for like she scarlet's like it's almost like those laying on your stomach roller coasters if you all have ever done those that like will was saying where you're swinging her around i haven't run it by jill yet because i'm a little nervous i feel like she's going to tell me not to pick her up like that but but i just couldn't get down that extra couple inches so i was like i'll

just instead of having to go two hands underneath i'll just pinch the onesie on the back and pick her up that way it felt good it felt like a dad hack it feels great when it happens feels great when it happens I got a I got a dad hack here from because my again my dad hack earlier was my dad hack earlier

oh the t-shirt and the sweatshirt with my dad hack earlier I got a dad hack here from Colton Ross Muson on Spotify again Spotify comments you guys know I love the Spotify comments Willie Red Eye is operate right now hashtag dad diaper hack Dad of two, soon to be three, congratulations, Colton.

This is something I learned from a coworker of mine that I have never heard anyone else do, but I'll never do it any other way. So once the kids start getting mobile, poopy diapers, so once the kids start getting mobile, mobile poopie diapers, lay the baby on the floor,

diaper towards your dominant hand, leg opposite your dominant hand, goes over baby just enough to keep them from rolling and your leg blocks their hands getting messy. Maybe unnecessary, but I've never gone back. Hashtag emoji sicko. I'll be honest. I read that out loud, but I have no clue how to visualize this. I'm okay. So this is what I'm in Mobile poopie diapers mobile poopie diapers he has will check me out can you see me yeah here's here's baby's head here's poopy diaper and I think he's on his knees so he kind of has torso buckled up against the knees right here and he's reaching over body like this so he's operating

down here so then baby can't really roll because we got an arm on the torso and then the legs are kind of pinched right there too. Does that sound correct, boys? Depre towards your dominant hand. Sounds as good as possibly can be good. You'd have to try it, I guess. Yeah. We might have to have him follow up with a video demonstration.

I'll reply right now. Okay, okay. We need a video demonstration because our brain is in knots on the pond. Gotta have video. No, no, no, no. Are we talking babies laying on the changing table? and trying to be mobile. Are they on their stomach?

Are they on their back? Like mobile poopie diapers, I'm thinking they're running around the house. They got a poopie diaper. Maybe the poop's laying out. Hey, get them on the floor right away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we might be talking about a changing table operation. Yeah.

Which I would love to heard back when Scottie was in her prime with being mobile and trying to wrestle. And they get so good at bridging. They get so good at bridging with their head, bro, to where they're basically vertical in the air as you're trying to like wipe yes and then you're kind of just like Scotty just lay down bro i have i on our changing table i have a lamp on uh either end of the changing table and this lamp right here is uh the one where i put scarlet's head is over here scarlet's mission in life is to destroy that lamp like that lamp needs to die in her in her mind and she's been doing that dude just arching her back and

she's just grabbing the lampshade and just she wants to rip that thing apart. I also, I have another dad hack here. Go ahead. It says if you don't like Will Compton's tweets, unfollow him. I thought that was a great attack. Somebody wrote that in? I was going to say,

hey, let me, you know what? Instead of me replying under his tweet, let me go into the Spotify. comments and drop it, it'll see it there. No, but we did reply to our friend that submitted the mobile poopie diaper. Derek just got on there on Spotify and said we need a video demonstration. There we go. We said, can you email us a video demonstration because you put us in a blender trying to do this on air?

Yeah, we do need that. And our friend that emailed in, Zachary, I'm sorry that we didn't read your email. allowed on the pod, but that was from Zachary. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, name? Huge news.

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I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should. call it and well we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers was This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say hey Jonas and then I wrote down on my little notepad Hey Jonas and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart

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Listen to cultivating her space on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Be green. So that's him and his kiddo. And they are Canadian. They're from Toronto. So shout out Zachary and his fam and his little dad hack of it's called a jolly jumper seat. So if you go ice skating with your kiddo, a little dad hack for you, bring along a jolly jumper seat and you can skate along with your kiddo. Oh, I love that. Who would have thunk it? Do we want to go into Collins? Do we want to do voicemails?

Yeah. What's doing, bro? Am I missing anything? I feel like... Hey, I do actually have a cool dad act here from Henry Torres, the third on Spotify that I saw that I thought was interesting. Oh, nice. My six-year-old has been wanting some iPad time, negotiated a deal with him. For every minute he trains, he gets a minute on his iPad.

Body weight exercises, speed ladder, boxing. He's playing basketball now. So we do ball handling and passing. The kicker, I do all the drills with him. He doesn't know it. But there's nothing I look forward to after the days of work and training with my boy. Hey, that's a low key.

That last sentence right there almost shot up. I'm feeling a frizziness in my nose right now from him enjoying that so much. Because I also think it's hilarious. He's got a six-year-old. And hey, every minute you train, whether it be sprints, weights, basketball. Every minute you train,

and you get some screen time. And you know that stopwatch is just running a little bit slower than usual for some reason. Yeah. Because when you're in the middle of training, instead of just a minute of training, eventually he's going to have to earn it. Hey, did you earn the training, earn the minutes in the training? Because I got you about 30 minutes, but only 15 of them were production. That's it.

That's what it is. I only saw two good minutes in that hour. You get two minutes on the iPad. That's so true. Oh my God. Let's get into some, let's get into some voice mouths. Yeah. Six and one of the dads.

This first one is called cloth diapers. Oh, gosh. Willie Sharm. Names Hayden, a high school football coach up here in Northern Kentucky. Set to become a PT-Sixer here in May, girl dad. I'm super stoked about it. Recently found out about the pod about a few weeks ago, and I've been going back listening to every episode,

so I'm not sure if this topic's been covered. But my wife is dead set on us doing cloth diapers. I'm not quite sure how to feel about it. All the PT6 veterans aren't super encouraging either, making it seem like I'm going to be in the trenches of Normandy Beach here pretty soon. If you got any tips or advice or know anybody, who has gone through this process, feel free to send them this way. I love the work you guys are doing, man.

Got me stoked to go on this journey with my wife and my future daughter. And keep up the good work. Brother, congratulations, man. Sherm, if we can get some Googling happening right now, I only got 1% battery on my phone, so I'm not able to do it. But cloth diapers, I don't know if I've experienced anybody that does cloth diapers yet. I have about this much experience with cloth diapers through talking with Jill on it. Okay.

So you might have some game. I have a little bit of game. Essentially. Is the game? Is it going to land with him? Like, he needs to talk his wife off of it or is it some game or whether there's some optimist? Oh, no. And I don't like, Hayden is, what's his name?

Yes. First off, Hayden, thank you for your service of being a high school football coach. you sound like a legend. Your M.T. Sixer sounds like a goddess. She sounds incredible. And best of luck to y'all. May is a great month for a baby to be born. Congratulations.

I will say this. Now, now, now, yeah, I'm doing one of those, whatever the sandwich. Shit sandwich. Now I will go, as Derek is showing me a Reddit page for cloth diapers where it looks like, just a bunch of people submitting their horror stories of clot diapers. They call them poop tossers.

Oh, yeah, dude, a ton of hand washing. You're going to have to buy a lot first off. And you're constantly going to have to be cleaning these guys. And you got to think when your baby is first born, so when you have your, your newborn, it's pretty much every two hours you're doing your feeds. Correct me if I'm wrong on that, Will, but I think it's every two hours. and think about... Yeah, two, three hours.

You're trying to push for a three-hour window, but... And think about... You never know. It all changes. Think about all those diaper changes, dude, that you had to do in those two-hour intervals. You're not just throwing it away. You are then, you are adding an extra step of,

I got clean this sucker. And then I got dry this sucker to be ready to be worn again. It's just, it is an extra step. It's going to be a lot of work. So it's doable. You just have to have several cloth diapers on rotation to where you got the clean one coming in. But the minute you change the old one, that one's going into now the washing process. Okay.

I have an analogy that I think might land with our golfing dads. This would be my analogy is he is starting to learn how to play golf playing with blades, like blade irons. Oh, that's a good one. Um, which is like, that's what the pros are using. They're using blades. All the, all the newbies, they got that little added weight on the back of it. It helps your iron shots to go further and straighter. It's a nice little handicap because you're new to this.

He's starting off his golfing journey with the hardest clubs he could be possibly hitting. And there's nothing. Hey, there ain't nothing wrong with it because if you start with blades and golf, you're going to learn ball control real fast. and you're going to learn what a bad gall swing looks like really fast. Same with cloth diapers. There's probably going to be shit and piss everywhere. So honestly, Hayden, you're signing up for, you know, a challenging next few months.

But if, hey, if M.T. Sixers are saying that you get that's what I'm saying. Hey, Hayden, you just, you keep that girl happy. Yeah, hey, you know, cool, man, happy wife, happy life, brother. Yeah, man. And if mama's pushing it, then you got to find, you know what, then you got to switch into stoic philosophy. You got to start telling yourself, the obstacle is the way. Yeah.

You're choosing the path of most resistance. The road less traveled. I got a four-letter word with one syllable and it just rolls off the dog. It's good. Yeah. It's good. A lot of good. A lot of good in his future.

a good. It, uh, yeah, dude, keep, hey, keep the wifey happy. All right. Tell her it's the best idea in the entire world. But tell her you heard from a friend, you might be signing up for a lot of extra work. And if it is a, if it is a budget thing, if that is the reason, dude, then obviously it is a, you will save so much money that way, so much money that way. So if it's for financial reasons, totally get that to get that to.

And Hayden being a ball coach brings me back to the Minnesota conversation. Come on, man. Come on, man. Oh, no. Yeah. What? What are you assuming? That he, I mean, late nights.

Mama's going to be having to. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be hard. And that's another reason why I did jump into it. And I talk about how it's such a hard explanation. Because as I am explaining it, it's not like I'm feeling like being a coach or being in that world is like, I'm like, oh, that's not the way to do it if you want to be a great dad. I'm just saying, I just don't, I don't envy that as much as I used to because of the work and the time you have to put into it.

When my man is, they're using the two-week fraternity leave as a variable. Hayden and any coach, anybody trying to be, you know, a dog at anything knows. you never give them a reason. Them, as in the higher-ups, you never give them a reason to get you out the door. And that just happens to be an extra variable. Part of me, you know,

I hear Hayden and I hear that he's a ball coach. I'm like, I kind of hate that I feel like I'm, I'm saying it's a bad thing to be in that world. It's more of just to, you know, I'm doing my best to talk through when Jeff brings that up. And it's not a bad, it's not a bad thing. It also, hey, we aren't taught,

this isn't like we're talking, vaccinate, don't vaccinate. And once we're vaccinated, now it's too late. We're talking clock diapies. They can switch. We're talking cloth diapies. They can switch to regular diapies whenever they want. If the clop diapies don't work out, switch to regular.

I am finding. So that entire time, I'm so sorry I was under that I've just been going through Reddit cloth diaper threads. A lot of people are doing hybrid. So longer journeys with a nanny or something, anything in which you don't want it to be the cloth one. They're using regular diapers. But at nights, short trips or whenever you're just around the house and you know both parents can be there and you're okay with it, they're using cloth.

And a lot of people have saved a lot of money with that. So the hybrid approach seems to be the most kind of cost effective and it doesn't leave you out and about with a cloth diaper. So. Well done. Great breakdown. Well done, Deke. Great breakdown. Shout out Hayden.

Shout out Hayden. Maybe I love that now we're providing a little bit of help to Hayden. Maybe go the hybrid route. Thank you, Dee. Not only is he protecting the A gap. Protecting the wall. He's getting into the cloth diaper. Yeah, he's protecting the wallet, the BBs behind, and the team.

Yeah. Hey, happy wife, happy life. Happy life. How are you doing on time, Will Compton? Do you want to hit another voicemail? Sure, let's hit another voicemail. Let's do it. That was a great call-in, by the way, Hayden.

Thank you. Number two voicemail is cans are effing gone. What's up, boys? This is John from Erie PA. I got a little dad hack for you. Last week, I put the trash out thanks to Willie One Shelf's advice. I have forgotten a few times, but since I've listened to the pod, I've not forgotten. So thank you, Will, for that.

But dad hack here, just throw your trash on the street, not in cans. It's like loose trash, goring bags. Just throw it out there for the word. when to take it forever. Because if you put it in cans, the garbage men take your cans, and then they just, the wind takes the cans

and forever, they're gone. So now I'm down three cans. I have nowhere to put my trash, and I'm screwed. So we're just going to leave the trash the side of the road and just let it be. And we'll see what happens. But yeah, cans are fucking gone. It's awesome. So anyway,

love the boys. Love the pod. Keep it up. Keep doing a Lord's work. six out. What kind of cans are we feeling? Where in the hell is he living? He said he was in PA. I was like, are you in Oklahoma? Like, what's going on? Is a tornado happening outside? The way blows. They're forever. They're gone. I think, I think the issue might be with the garbage men. We don't get cans in Pennsylvania. Like you guys, there's house cans here. I don't know if that's an overthink of you guys. Yeah. You buy your own trash cans in Pennsylvania. And so I know for a fact, with, you guys, you guys, you buy your own trash cans in Pennsylvania. And so I know for a fact, with, this guy's going through. But the other thing is, this guy has been in the call queue. Like, I've moved him every episode. It's been a little bit because I just love that guy sounds so defeated. He said, you could put him in the can, but the garbage men take the can and then they're gone and the wind took the other ones and now I have no fucking cans. I loved this guy. What a crazy I just came to wrap my mind around that. Derek, is that a vibe where people just put their trash,

like just on the side? No, like on the car. There's cans. Like you, you, I, I, I would assume that there are situations in which your can is full. So you put it there. I've never seen somebody just like leave their trash outside the house. Yeah. I would very much, though, stand in unison with this guy that if your cans are just gone, bro, do what you got to do, I guess. Yeah.

Not a vibe. I don't know if that's more of a dead. That's more of a, that's more of a fuck the system. Yes. This is a dead hack. Yeah. I was just about to say, is this something that. We militarize the PT6 community.

Yeah, kids. So, kid so. You just pretend you heard a belief with that F one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do we militarize the PT6 community and try and get some legislation passed in PA for the, for the cans to be provided? I've lived only in four like states where like I lived in every single one of those states provided cans. What a stick flex, bro. You've lived in four states. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm just having fun. Hey, he's having fun. He's having fun. That way. Oh, sick. You've lived in four states, man. Missouri, did they provide cans?

No, you got to buy your own. Really? That blows my mind. If you got options. We're on Matt in Bontair, Missouri. Oh, okay. That's actually a really good point, too. Maybe if you're more rural, then they wouldn't provide cans.

But this poor guy, I mean, that, that just blows my mind that you wouldn't have like your nice garbage bin that you'd roll to the street. I know, I know, man. No bad ideas in a brainstorm. Yeah. We should buy this PT-6er a can. We should buy first trouble. Chef's that we should. Like a big, because I'm thinking too, like, yeah, sure, let's just say that that's a dad hack.

it's not a dad hack we can actually get behind. Oh, yeah. No. Like, hey, you know, next week we hit, you know, say this morning, or as this episode comes out and you're like, oh, reminder, trash day, and it's just a photo your trash on the side of the road. I think he was using dad hack facetiously. He was using it as like, here's a dad hack because my fucking can, sorry, my cans are gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm with you, Will. I think that they're, I mean, chef, I'll hunt. I'll hunt it down if we can get this guy. But you know what he needs? He needs those like two by four wooden containers that dad sometimes build that you put your trash cans in so it won't go away. You know what I mean? Yeah, like those things are cool that, you know, it hopefully won't fly away.

That's what he needs. Is one of those. I'm done to get him set out. I'm down to get help him out with the can. I'll do some digging. I would be down to help him out as well because I just feel like the answer. is not leaving your trash on the side of the road. But I feel for him.

I do this too. Yeah, I feel for him as well. He could be laughing. I'd be like, damn it, the boys aren't taking this joke too well. They're taking me, they're taking me serious. They're taking it as I got, I'm putting the trash on the side of the road. I just wanted to call in an event. He sat there like, Will, after the cool, you lived in four states, and I'm joking.

It's a joke. There's robotic garbage cans nowadays too. They sit at your house and you track them like a little Roomba. Oh, yeah. It goes out to the curve and comes back. Hey, that's how the government can start tracking you. I'm trying to be off the grid with my trash cans. Honey, I think the trash bins are listening to us because I was thinking the trash out and I was talking about Burger King and now I'm getting all these Burger King abs on my phone.

I heard you kick rappers in the trash. It's crazy. Hey, there's something there. All right. Lesson of the week. Quoted the week. Do you have it? My phone's dead.

Oh, yes. Okay. In that case, I have a very quick. I thought it would be fun to update on my lesson of the week. I think three weeks ago was calling friends on my drive to daycare to pick up Scarlett. So I have a nice little, if this is your first time listening to the show, a couple weeks ago. My lesson of the week was I was going to try and reach out to loved ones, friends, and have meaningful conversations during my car time when I'm driving

to pick up my daughter, Scarlett, from daycare. And it's just been absolutely incredible getting to get back into my friends' lives, getting to talk with, my mom and dad. I've been talking with them more so and it is turned into then facetiming them once I get home with Scarlett and I'm out of the car and it's turning into these like 45 minute FaceTime conversations where I'm basically just sitting the phone on our dinner table and they're getting to watch me feed Scarlett and now I'm taking the phone to the changing table and they're watching me change her for bedtime. And just a ton of really awesome stuff has come out of me having these phone calls.

And so I would just say for anybody that spends a lot of time in the car and you love your friends and family and you love just feeding meaningful relationships in your lives, do it. Because it's been awesome so far. It's been a really great start to 26. I love that. There was, the one that I had was going to be like a book recommendations. If you have it, a great follow. Oh. For some like, whether it's stoicism, you're into old parenthood, Ryan Holiday.

Can you guys still see me? You can still hear you. And then it's a nice little frozen. Blow to kiss. You're blowing a kiss. Okay. Charles was trying to face on me. Could see you.

Yeah. The fan was trying to face it on me. But it was like some of the books that Ryan Prytony. posted. He was like, oh, there's some good reads for parents. It was one of his recent posts. I'm going to say there was a book called Range that I've heard about before. How to raise your kid to not be assholes. The conscious, I want to say it was the conscious parent, but just a few book recommendations out there that I saw that I kind of favorited or saved on Instagram that I want to get to and order those books.

So something that, some food for thought, something I'm diving into. Yeah, that could even be a really great for next week if any PT-Sixers want to put in some of their favorite reads, parenting reads. That could be really fun to kind of dive into that. I'm still only like 30 pages into strong father, strong daughters. You're going to love that book, bro. To finish that one. But yeah, any PT-6ers listen and let us know on like some really great parenting reads. and oh chef just chef just had a great reminder for our valentine's day episode next week uh will

and i will be recording on monday make sure to get your valentine's day emails and call-ins in before this friday that's the cutoff we're going to have all of our call-ins and emails for our valentine's day episode by this friday so make sure to man i am nervous that we did not do at the top of the episode. We'll film a nice little thing and we'll throw it as a call to action. Okay.

Anybody who's listened to the end of this? Like when we do the emoji. Yeah. Sherman, what's the emoji this week? Oh, pink hearts. Pink hearts for Valentine's. What is it? Pink hearts for Valentine's Day.

Pink hearts for Valentine's Day. But the message, get your submissions in by Friday. Gotta get them in by Friday, dude. voice mails emails whatever it is yep get it get in your content your engagement with the boys get it in by Friday so that way we can we can talk Valentine's Day next week and just a little teaser we have a mom loss that will be a call in from my mom that features a story on Valentine's Day that's just a little teaser just a little teaser a little tease and then I have a little

I got a Dan Gable quote for you Willie C my mind my mind my mind my mind is never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish. Dan Gable. There's a, since I am on my iPad, I typed in Dan Gable quote. This one's on sacrifice. You ready for some Dan Gable? Hold on one second. All right, yeah, I'm ready.

The amount you're willing to sacrifice is directly proportional to your desire for success. fitting. Well, I hate to make you read that one again, but I have to hear it. I have to hear it twice. It's that good. All right. If you're thinking about two weeks of paternity leave, the amount you're willing to sacrifice is directly proportional to your desire for success. Amen. Amen. And I don't know who I'm talking to there. The career people out there. maybe maybe some athletes that are listening to us maybe their parenthood rizzo yeah i don't know i'm talking a parrido rizzo sitting there snapping he's guy dang gable knows what he's talking about man yeah it's a it's a double-edged sword double-edged sword it sure is it sure is um a a dyrick or chef like what was your guys's what was your guys's opinion on the whole now that we're at the end of this

like the post credits. Yeah. Post credits conversation. On the whole what, well, on the whole, the Minnesota Vikings GM. I think you put it pretty perfectly.

Like, at the end of day, you're, you're subject to your results. And, like, it's like the same thing, like any other job.

It's like, if you're taking time off, but it's like in a way where, like, if you take, let's pretend that NFL season is like one of our big weeks of busing,

right? Like, we'll probably have a, a big week once a month, you know, where it's a huge thing that everyone knows. Like, if I went and said, hey, during the Super Bowl, you know, Super Bowl week is the week I'm going to take off, everyone would be like, why are you doing that? And I feel like the NFL, the difference is just every week is the biggest week ever, you know, like that's the approach. And so, yeah, you have a shit season. Like, so what, JJ McCarthy is a quarterback, like tough shit, you know, it comes back to invite you.

I think I'm a big fan of like you you guys know but like a big fan of like you choose exactly where you want to be what you're doing, how you want to be and you choose every aspect of your life and like you have to accept that fact. And so if he's going to take those two weeks off, that's totally fine. You have to also choose the fact that there's repercussions in that world because guess what? I think I've said this to Sherman and Chef. We have here at Busson, we have a job that there are so few of in the world. There are there are so few people. that get to be in the position that I'm in currently, and I have to understand that with this position

and the things that I want to do with my life, there are sacrifices I have to make. That gentleman has one of 32 positions in the world for what he does. If you love football and love that thing, there are 31 people he can call colleagues in the world. And to be at that level, to make what you make, to do what you do, and to love the game that you love it,

there are sacrifices. And for anyone to come at you on Twitter and be like, this guy's a dad podcast, you're just kind of moronic because you have a job that just requires different sacrifices and different things and different expectations. And moronic in the sense that you can't take the blinders off and see it. Because I am exactly where I want to be in life because I do get to spend time with my fiance and her family and I get to spend time with my friends and things like that.

And sure, there's things I could have done that maybe I gave up professionally to have more of a personal life. But you own up and you make those decisions. and at the end of the day, if you want to do excellent things, it does take sacrifices. You're saying no to things by saying yes to other things. Yeah. Well said. Well said by.

And again, if you're flipping like the whole, you know, the sacrifices you make is directly, you know, indicative of your desire for success, the Dan Gable says. If in that mind, like you make the decision and you know whatever repercussions come with it, you are completely fine with, then boom, that is how you have priority. the value and energy you're putting in your life. But to me, it's like the outside noise that comes in and tries to separate. Like, I can't believe this culture in the NFL, like all this masculine bullshit. I say, yo, that's just the way it is.

And if you accept the terms of the game, knowing that stuff like this can happen, which we all do, whatever line of work we want to get in or however we want to prioritize everything in our life, you know what you're signing up for, what could be at risk if you make certain decisions. But no, I thought that was, I thought that was well said there. Yeah. Thank you. Well said.

It's one that, it's one that just works you up because the moronic opinion that gets involved. Yeah. And not compartmentalizing exactly what's being talked about. Well, and it's, it's funny that, like, the masculinity word was being thrown around as far as the NFL goes. Like, find any industry where you. basically any any industry like if you're in fashion and you're like hey can i take off for these

two weeks i know that it like the met galla ball is that week but yeah can i take they'd be like you're a psychopath like this is our super bowl what are you doing well yes i think 600 people waiting for what i yeah what i love about how you explained that all and i think it's so true is that whether you like it or not that is just the way it goes and that's like i think that's what you're almost fighting against in the Twitter comments is a lot of people go and kind of like playing it with the idea already that it's unfair and that's what they're trying to argue and you're not even trying to argue that you're trying to tell them like this is just how it goes exactly you're right it's not like I'm I'm not trying to tell I'm not trying to argue that it's like yeah dude

fucking life's unfair yeah like it depends on what game you're playing the game I played is all I can speak to and speak on in that culture but when it comes to there's many industries many jobs many careers, many businesses, that those types of decisions happen and results like that happen all the time. Do I think it's fair? Fair is all subjective. If you want responsibilities, you're going to have to give up luxuries. And that is across the board, whatever you're working in, masculine, feminine, I don't care. Like, arts, blue collar, white collar, it doesn't matter. Like if you're going to be this guy up here, like there's going to be a lot of stuff that you're going to have to say, unfortunately, I have to give up some luxuries there. We're kind of obviously just chatting now.

But well, one of the things that I see on social, and I never like to highlight the negative of social unless it's like a hater meal stuff. But it does makes my skin crawl, bro. When people go, oh, so the rich guy has dad problems. Like, oh, you're so upset, bro, because you're, you got to do this. Well, guess what? You have money. And I've seen so many people I will say in this community that I'm. haven't seen before come in and be like, you're just not a good person if you think money solves

the fact that Rue wants to sing a song about her dad going away. Like that is just such a, like an unfathomable part of the position that people are in at times where it's like, well, they're rich. So why does it matter if they're struggling as a dad? Because my, and they turn it, bro. And it's just like one of those things where like that guy, he can take those two weeks. That's totally fine. Like, that's okay. But also there's stuff that comes with it. And that means. It's human, bro. We're all human. We say at the top of show, we're figuring it out, bro.

Yeah. Dude, a great, a great dude to listen to on some subjects, like whether it be career, whatever it is, philosophy, whatever. But Naval Ravicon, he's got a podcast. It's like three or four hours long. It's called How to Get Rich. It's like a tagline he uses because it's an attractive tagline. But his whole premise is like wanting to get people rich first because then once you're rich,

Like everybody, once you get money, everybody realized, okay, it solves a lot of money problems that goes on. But there's all these other cycles. And he breaks down things in business and life and personal ambitions and all these things. It's like a very insightful listen. But in that, he talks about, you know, it's like game theory stuff. When you're choosing to participate in the game of social media, like it's a zero-sum game, it's like people are punching up. People are trying to, you know, make themselves feel better because they feel like they have a sense of meeting. a sense of meaning because they feel like they're being a morality police,

but I'd be like, oh, no, you should think this way, or oh, you're dumb, or just trying to project their nonsense onto you. But the social media stuff, it's always a slippery slope. It's like when I know I'm commenting on something, and I know it's getting some kind of mixed reviews like that. It's always like, you've got to look at some of this stuff, and then compartmentalize yourself, like, okay, before I get caught up in trying to be understood by everybody,

I need to just know that this is something to where you're not going to make everybody think the way that I think about it. So then you just try to flip it. How can I not to, how can I be light about this? Brother, I don't disagree with you. Post the thing about, you know, fourth grade to sixth grade or seventh grade. And then the guy's like, well, are you, sorry? Are you being serious?

Are you trying to be funny now? You being a funny guy or a serious guy? Say, man, I'm just tweeting. I'm just posting. That's a great tweet. I'm just being well-compton, man. Yeah, like, uh, bro. Yeah, because that particular subject was definitely making its,

making waves around just like the social community. Ava for listening, we love to have fun on the show. In the back, he goes, we'll cut it. All right, do what you got to do, fellas. I got to FaceTime with the family. Sounds good. Great so.

Great zone. Great zone. Great zone. Sign us off, Sherm. Yeah. Pink hearts in the chat, take your trash out, and put it in a can. Put it in a can. Put it in the can.

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