A Surprise Gender Reveal, The NO Phase + Dealing With Your Kids Sports Failure | For The Dads

Summary

Bussin’ With The Boys — For The Dads: A Surprise Gender Reveal, The NO Phase + Dealing With Your Kids' Sports Failure

Hosts: Will Compton ("Willie One Shelf"), Sherm, Derek, Chef
Date: March 4, 2026
Episode Focus: Gender reveal, navigating the toddler “no phase,” PT Fit discussions, kids' sports failures, community shoutouts, and plenty of dad-life laughs & wisdom.

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Episode Overview

This episode has it all: a first-ever podcast gender reveal, matchmaking shenanigans, deep-dive parenting challenges like navigating “the no phase” with toddlers, embracing healthy lifestyle changes as a dad (PT Fit journey), and heartfelt community shoutouts—including how to help your kids cope with sports disappointment. The show holds true to its “for the dads, by the dads” roots—raw, honest, funny, and supportive.

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• [08:07] Listener Gender Reveal Surprise
• [10:33] PT6 Matchmaking: Courtney & Zach
• [16:52] “PT Fit” Movement – Living for Your Family
• [34:20] Spotify Listener Shoutouts & Dad Stories
• [49:30] Nashville Food Guide for Father-Son Trip
• [50:45] Challenging Toddler “No Phase”
• [125:18] Listener Voicemails: Sports Failure & Advice
• [143:43] Closing Quotes & Dad Lessons

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Key Discussion Points

1. First-Ever Podcast Gender Reveal

[08:07]

• Listener Raquel wrote in so her husband, Jorge, could learn the baby's gender on-air.
• Reveal: "We are having... a boy! Let’s go, Jorge!" – Willie One Shelf
• Hosts cheer, suggest everyone comment blue heart emojis for Jorge.

“Congrats to Jorge. Congrats in the chat. Congrats in the comments.” – Willie One Shelf ([08:43])

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2. PT6 Matchmaking: Community Love Connection

[10:33]

• Listener Courtney had written in to look for love—not experts, but the boys try.
• Zach Edwards, tennis coach, 29, writes in to connect: “I'm not the ugliest stud in the barn, but I damn sure ain't no show pony.” – Zach ([11:04])
• Hosts joke about possibly sponsoring their marriage if it works.
• Discuss the magic of finding love online ("love can come in a multitude of ways").
• Emphasize zero pressure and focus on community fun.

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3. Embracing the PT Fit Dad Life

[16:52]

• Mason Gill’s comment kicks off a motivating discussion:

  “It’s easy to say you'll die for your family, but would you live for them?”

• The hosts confess to recent struggles, how dad life can slide into unhealthy routines, and the importance of showing healthy habits to kids (“Monkey see, monkey do”).
• Support for sharing progress, starting again, and not being ashamed.
• Chef shares: The mental benefits of exercise surpass even the physical; just start chipping away, "one bite at a time."

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, man.” – Sherm ([34:09])

Accountability & Community

• A thriving PT Fit community on Reddit and social, with dads supporting each other.
• “PT Thicker to PT Fido” is born: a collective journey to better health.

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4. Parenting Small Kids: The “NO Phase”

[50:45]

• Will shares struggles with three-year-old Rue’s difficulty hearing “no” (over screen time, snacks, etc.)
• Strategies discussed: remaining calm, validating emotions, offering alternatives, and teaching patience.
• “Adapt, distract, overcome,” is the motto but admits it pushes parental patience to the limit.

“You try to remain a thermostat, but it boils your blood...” – Will ([53:15])

• Sherm relates with his daughter Scarlet—learning even infants have preferences and ways to communicate frustration.

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5. Nashville Food Guide for Dad-Son Trips

[49:30]

• Listener Dalton asks for dinner recs for a Braves/Atlanta trip with his dad.
  • Coffee: 8th and Roast
  • Steak: Jimmy Kelly’s (original Nashville steakhouse)
  • Vibes & Food: Pinewood Social (bowling, bocce, pool)
  • Pizza: Smith & Lentz (Derek’s #1 pick), Home Team Pizza (Will’s community fave), plus extensive local food chat
  • Hot Chicken: Prince’s (the original), Bolton’s
• Segment is playful, competitive, and full of local love.

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6. Listener Stories & Dad Shoutouts

[34:20, 90:02]

• Touching letters from listeners about the community’s positive impact.
• Stories of hubbies stepping up, like Antoinette’s “Milk Team Sixer” husband and Emma’s engineer husband Dakota.
• Demonstrates the podcast’s supportive influence on families in the trenches of new parenthood.
• Luke Combs’ Advice for Dads: "The person who does need you is your wife. ...the whole mission has to be about helping mom in those first few months.” ([94:17])

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7. Dealing with Your Kid’s Sports Failure

[125:18; 128:33] Voicemail Response

• Listener calls seeking advice after his 10-year-old is cut from a team.
• Hosts empathize with the pain, but stress it’s an essential learning and resilience moment.
• Key Advice:
  • Empathize, share your own stories of failure.
  • Validate their disappointment (“It should hurt, because you care.”)
  • Discuss what comes next—“Does this define you or make you better?”
  • Find out your kid’s “why”—are they playing for fun, social, or competitive drive?
  • Reframe setbacks as the seeds for growth:

    “You get to taste adversity now. …This will not be the first no.” – Will ([130:09])

  • Encourage them to keep playing and learning—it’s a pivotal Dad moment.

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8. Dad Wisdom, Hacks, Laughs, and Community Q&A

• Listener Emails: Gender reveals, dad wins, dad fails (like buying the wrong size T-shirt for pregnant wife!), wild raccoon removal gone wrong, how to handle baby allergies.
• Dad “Crack a Cold One”: Date night rules (“No talking about the kid!”), grilling season, and the first grill of the year story (with hot tub flex).
• Community Comments: “If you listen to the end, comment with a blue heart for Jorge, and maybe a steak for March 14th...”
• Important Dad Holidays: “March 14: Steak and Blowjob Day!” (for laughs and marital fun).

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9. Closing Quotes & Weekly Lessons

[143:43]

• Clay Matthews Quote via 'Miracle' (Herb Brooks):
  “Great moments are born from great opportunity. …This is your time. Now go out there and take it.”
• Instagram Wisdom [145:40]:
  • 5 signs your child is truly happy: daydreaming, disagreeing (shows trust), copying you, being silly, and showing big emotions (“Real happiness… is being safe, seen, and free with you.”)
• March 14th Alert: Steak & Blowjob Day.

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Notable Quotes

• “It’s easy to say you'll die for your family, but would you live for them?” – Mason Gill ([16:52])
• “You get to taste adversity now. …this will not be the first no.” – Will ([130:09])
• “Our kids are watching us, not just hearing us. Monkey see, monkey do.” – Sherm ([26:29])
• “Great moments are born from great opportunity… This is your time. Now go out there and take it.” – Clay Matthews / Herb Brooks ([143:43])

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Tone & Style — Real Dad Vibes

• Authentic, honest, and self-deprecating humor
• Runner-up themes: “Nobody’s perfect, don’t sweat starting over,” “Parenthood is messy and hilarious,” “It’s cool to cry.”
• Overt encouragement of community: “We aren’t experts. We’re just figuring it out with you.”

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Episode Takeaway

This episode is a testament to why “For The Dads” is more than a podcast—it's a lifeline for the ups, downs, and wild left turns of modern fatherhood. From celebrating new family members to commiserating over dead-animal odors and sports heartbreaks, the hosts remind us that being a great dad is about trying, laughing, connecting, and always showing up.

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For those short on time:

• Listen from [08:07] for the gender reveal
• [16:52]–[34:20] for PT Fit motivation
• [49:30]–[54:15] for food and toddler “no” phase advice
• [128:33]–[138:49] for kid sports failure wisdom
• [143:43]+ for the weekly quote and parenting wisdom

Comment code:

• Blue heart for Jorge’s new boy
• Steak emoji for March 14th
• “Safe” for truly happy kids

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Transcript

[Willie One Shelf]

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[Sherm]

Then she says, have you seen a photo of my son? And I'm like, who is this person? Welcome to the Boys and Girls Podcast. Arranged marriage is basically a reality show and you're auditioning for your soulmate. And who's judging?

[Willie One Shelf]

Only your entire family.

[Sherm]

I sacrificed myself to this ancient tradition hoping to find love the right way. And instead I found chaos, comedy and

[Willie One Shelf]

a lot of cringe.

[Sherm]

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[Derek]

iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

[Sherm]

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[Derek]

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[Sherm]

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[Derek]

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[Willie One Shelf]

Charlie was an example of power. They had to crush him.

[Sherm]

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[Willie One Shelf]

Papa Team 6. Welcome to another episode of for the dads. I hope the trash is taken out. We have a huge episode ahead of us. We gotta keep it under an hour.

[Sherm]

And we will.

[Willie One Shelf]

I look over here. We got a lot on the docket. We have we a shout out at the very top of the episode. Our first gender reveal. Yep. Through for the dad's podcast. This wasn't our idea. This was not with somebody who recommended wrote in wifey MT Sixer. She knows the gender. Hubby does not know the gender.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And it's going to get revealed to him because she just knows he listens to for the dads every week. So this dad could be sitting there. Maybe there's some dads or fathers or maybe they're not fathers that are out there. Like, did I. I knock wifey up right now? She knows I don't. But we have that to get to what this show is, guys. This is. We don't sit here and BS you. Yeah. We don't sit here and talk to you about how perfect parenthood is and fatherhood is. This is no parent lectures. Throughout the entire episode, we do talk about things we enjoy and love and things that we are learning about fatherhood and parenthood. But make no mistake, these are two caveman brains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Raising some little ones. Yeah. Just laughing along the way, trying to figure it out along the way. Building community with you guys. Having some fun, having some laughs, having

[Sherm]

some Ollie pop, having some ollipop. Maybe there might be a lecture about a Iowa wrestling coach from the 1970s to 1990s. You might find that on this dad

[Willie One Shelf]

podcast, we might read a comment and say, we need to sit this gentleman down, look him in the eye and tell him some Dan Gibble lore because he needs to get his together. Yeah, you might hear that.

[Sherm]

You might hear that. But it's a fun lecture.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Maybe it's a little excerpt from Daily Dad.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

We get emotional. If you listen to last week's episode, we'll go over the dad brain. For the dads out there listening, we'll go. We know We. That we have dad brain, where we are forgetful of things that happened a week ago. So we'll go over some old stuff from the episode last week. Yeah, I'm having dad brain right now because I didn't know where I was gonna go with that.

[Sherm]

Maybe. Maybe we may even quote a scene from the Lord of the Rings. And we'll start crying as we talk about. Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Emotions. Yeah, yeah, we'll laugh. We will cry. You will damn near feel everything. You know what? 50. 50. Yeah, we cry. What, 50 of the episodes, would you say?

[Sherm]

60? 40.

[Willie One Shelf]

60, 40.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

We went on a run there where it was essentially. It was like you could. You could. You could bet on it on fandom. You.

[Sherm]

We did go on a run, and last two episodes, we've cried.

[Willie One Shelf]

Was it. We done two in a row now.

[Sherm]

Yeah, dude, we went last.

[Willie One Shelf]

We took a hard turn.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Took a tough turn.

[Derek]

Technically, Sherm, two episodes ago was Mr. Taylor Lawan.

[Sherm]

Oh.

[Derek]

So there was a little gap of laughter. But Taylor also says it's cool to cry.

[Sherm]

So Taylor did say that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes, he did say it's cool to cry. As a PT6 community, Papa team Sixers, we all know it's cool to cry. It is. But we are on every platform. Audio, video. Please make sure you're. You are subscribed. Please make sure you are following channels. We, Anybody, all the PT6ers know that we've had a fascination with Spotify in the comments in recent months. There's also, if you click on the little logo thing and show it, we have 10,000 followers on Spotify. I know we have reported that before, but all you have to do is hit the follow button right next to, you know, maybe be 10,001. Hey, yeah, 10,001. But support the boys. We encourage you to subscribe. We also encourage you, we love to recruit more dads. We do more MT Sixers, more Semen Team Sixers. We got chef captain of the Semen team six out there. The Funko Club, the uncle Club. Deke is with us as always. Yep. But support the boys. Have some fun with us. There's Reddit channels. There's X channels. I got in that little X community last week. Very fired up.

[Sherm]

Jared Ladd is cooking.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes, he is cooking. He is. But a lot of fun stuff to talk about. I am personally, my overarching theme with my toddler right now, Rue, is her receiving the word no. Her receiving the word no.

[Sherm]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

I know mom was in town for you over the weekend.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

We will get into all that stuff. But we do. We have to hit.

[Sherm]

We have to hit this stuff at the top because we got some juicy.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, we can't let dad brain just let us run and ramble because we got to keep this episode under an hour.

[Sherm]

We have to. But off the rip.

[Willie One Shelf]

This is off the rip.

[Sherm]

Hot off the press.

[Willie One Shelf]

Spotify again. This is a gender reveal. Was not our idea. This got written in. She basically baked it into our brains, and we're like, I got goosebumps. Because I'm like, this is awesome.

[Derek]

And this comes off the heels of the hubby commented last week. So she took it upon herself to be like, if he's going to shout me out, I'm doing this.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh. So now the hubbies who wrote in last week that got featured on the show, now it's. It's dwindled down.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Now those gentlemen are like, is wife pregnant? Or what's the sex of the. What's the sex?

[Sherm]

Someone out there is going, am I a dad?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Which you're at the. This is the perfect podcast for that. If you're asking yourself, am I. Am I a dad?

[Willie One Shelf]

Around what week do you find out the genders? Around, like, 16, 12.

[Sherm]

That sounds right. Well, with the DNA testing now, it could be like, eight weeks.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, we go with 12. You've kept this from me for 12 weeks.

[Sherm]

What do you.

[Willie One Shelf]

But here we go.

[Sherm]

All right. Drum roll.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hello, PT6ers. My name is Raquel, and my husband Jorge made a little shout to me on here. And I am. And I am very thankful for your podcast because you have helped my husband feel more secure in becoming a dad. He does. This is all caps lock. He doesn't know the gender, but I do. Oh, he listens to every episode and was hoping you could tell him the gender here. O. We are having parentheses. Drum roll. A boy. Let's go, Jorge.

[Sherm]

Let's go, Jorge.

[Willie One Shelf]

Congrats to Jorge. Congrats in the chat. Congrats in the comments.

[Sherm]

Let's go. Yeah. What should they comment to Jorge in the. In the comments?

[Willie One Shelf]

I don't know. I'm so giddy right now.

[Sherm]

Blue heart.

[Willie One Shelf]

Blue heart.

[Sherm]

Blue heart. Jorge.

[Willie One Shelf]

Blue heart. She actually commented the blue heart emoji and the. The tears emoji. The crying.

[Sherm]

I love that.

[Willie One Shelf]

So blue, hard and crying with.

[Derek]

Good

[Sherm]

God, that's exciting.

[Willie One Shelf]

Then that juice you up?

[Sherm]

Yeah, it does that. That people are even wanting to do that with this podcast is, like, awesome. That's so much fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. That was not our idea. Again, not experts on this show.

[Sherm]

I Also, I have some very juicy listener submission content right here.

[Derek]

We.

[Sherm]

We had a girl right in.

[Willie One Shelf]

Courtney.

[Sherm]

Courtney.

[Willie One Shelf]

Looking for love.

[Sherm]

Looking for love. She sent an email basically saying like, hey, Will Sherm, can you put me on game? We tried our best because again, we are not professionals. We're not love experts.

[Willie One Shelf]

Not at all.

[Sherm]

But there's a guy named Zachary Edwards out there that just wanted. He just wanted to put himself out there to Courtney.

[Willie One Shelf]

Wait, wait, wait. We got somebody. We're. We're. We're matching lover. We're playing Cupid.

[Sherm]

He provided a picture.

[Willie One Shelf]

No way.

[Sherm]

Are you serious about this? So, Courtney, if you're watching, if you're listening, this is Zach, this is Zachary.

[Willie One Shelf]

Are you bullshitting right now? That's real. That's real. That's. That's a handsome boy.

[Sherm]

That's a handsome boy. What?

[Willie One Shelf]

Nice. Adam's apple.

[Sherm]

Yes. That's a good. That's a good sign. That's high tea. Yeah, he's high tea. High T. Courtney. Zachary Edwards writes. Fellas, my name is Zach Edwards from Indiana. I don't remember where he was from. Hey, Zach. Zach, you sound handsome, buddy.

[Willie One Shelf]

The.

[Sherm]

The day has finally come for the dads is a matchmaking show. You finally made it, boys. Congrats. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in who Courtney Strong is. Send this her way and let the for the dad's gods do what they want. I'm a 29 year old college tennis coach, no kids, financially stable. Check. My own apartment, Check. Sports guy, Check. For the dads, Check. Supportive family, Check. And let's be real, fellas. I'm not the ugliest stud in the barn, but I damn sure ain't no show pony. I like this guy.

[Willie One Shelf]

I like him too.

[Sherm]

I don't know this guy. Like, don't like, you know, we don't know this guy. But from what I'm hearing, I like what I'm hearing. He ends it with, let's see what Courtney thinks. Appreciate your time, fellas. Love what you're doing, Zach. And we'll leave it at that.

[Willie One Shelf]

We'll leave it at that.

[Sherm]

We're not doing anything else with that situation other than we'll just. We'll watch it unfold. Yeah, just watch it unfold. I mean, we have his email address, but I don't know if he wants.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah. We probably shouldn't say his email address.

[Sherm]

Yeah, but Zachary Edwards, and he's a tennis coach in Indiana.

[Derek]

Michigan girly.

[Sherm]

Just to confirm.

[Derek]

A Michigan girly.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, kind of like The. The Midwest.

[Sherm]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Indiana and Michigan.

[Willie One Shelf]

I like to call it kind of the. The Middle East.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I do. Indiana, Michigan, I like. I would prefer that we had a region called the.

[Sherm]

The Middle East.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Not the Midwest.

[Sherm]

The Ohio Valley. Like, what does that even mean? Yeah, it's the Middle East.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

That's a good. That is. That's good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Think about it. The Arch in St. Louis. What is that referred to as?

[Sherm]

The gateway to the West. Right.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's all I'm saying.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you're on the. The left side, the west side.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're part of the Midwest. If you're on the right side, you're part of the Mideast. The Middle East.

[Sherm]

Yeah, they would be. They would be. And then what's. Like. What's Nebraska called? Like, that stretch. They're.

[Willie One Shelf]

They're what? The. The Midwest. The great.

[Sherm]

The heartland. Yeah, the Midwest.

[Willie One Shelf]

They're, like, considered. I want to say Nebraska is considered in the Midwest.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But doesn't that make sense?

[Sherm]

That makes sense in my brain.

[Derek]

You get called Midwest from Pittsburgh and nobody likes it. We call ourselves Mideast to back you up. Because everyone says Pittsburgh's in the Midwest. That makes no sense.

[Sherm]

That does make zero sense. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Everything going on.

[Sherm]

My opinion on the Middle east, that's our opinion. If you're looking for Middle east talk, you're at the right podcast. You've come to the right podcast.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, but I love that. So we have Zach, we have Courtney sitting in a tree. K I S S I N G. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe.

[Sherm]

And Indiana. Michigan. Touch. There's a lot of universities in Michigan. If he's looking to be a tennis coach at one of those. She's got a house. He does have his own apartment. We'll see.

[Willie One Shelf]

I personally would love to see this. Would love to see this. For the dad's Papa Team 6 community, bro.

[Sherm]

Even if they went on one day, just one. Even if they went on.

[Willie One Shelf]

Even if they're not into.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we got a picture.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Us being idiots on a microphone, talking about our own kids led to a human being named Zachary Edwards and another human being named Courtney Strong to meet each other and share a meal.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

That's a wild thought.

[Willie One Shelf]

Based on people gravitating toward the show. Based on the fun we have.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Wanting to be intentional fathers and husbands and all this. Like you could. The only thing I wouldn't want to happen is a pressure for it to work out. You know what I mean? Like, if they did go on a Date.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, if Courtney happened to write in. She's listening to this right now. She writes in, would love to grab coffee. Yeah. And then we can see where it goes.

[Sherm]

There's zero pressure.

[Willie One Shelf]

But there would be zero pressure.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Again, it would be all time. Because all I'm thinking about is Taylor told the story were he met. He was playing a video game with somebody.

[Sherm]

Arc, please tell this story. It is this wild story. This is a wild story.

[Willie One Shelf]

Meta. He was playing a game, a video game on Xbox and was just in the online world of ark and is rolling with this crew, this tribe of people. They, like, allow somebody else in. Right. Do you know this story?

[Sherm]

I do.

[Willie One Shelf]

They allow somebody else in. Again, they. They don't know them specifically. Or was it somebody in Canada that they do know?

[Sherm]

He knows. So he would play with his w. Wife and his wife's friend, and they were a threesome, but you can roll in a squad of four in this video game. They come across that he was an Aussie or, like, from New Zealand.

[Willie One Shelf]

He was something.

[Sherm]

He was something.

[Willie One Shelf]

He was leveled up to where he could potentially join the squad. He.

[Sherm]

He was prime in the video game of like, oh, this guy wants to link up with us. Let him into the squad. This guy's a killer. And through them playing this video game, the wife's friend, Taylin's friend and this guy fell in love, and they now live together in Canada.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Married and married through.

[Sherm]

Through that video game. I swear to you.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Apparently a beast at the game. But they got connected. They got linked up, and now they're married. I think they're married.

[Sherm]

I think I. I think that's right. Because they're living no matter what.

[Willie One Shelf]

I knew. I know that they were. Last I heard, like, when this story came about, they were living together.

[Sherm]

Yeah. Love can come in a multitude of ways.

[Willie One Shelf]

Love can come in a multitude of ways.

[Sherm]

That's why when Courtney wrote in, initially, I was like, hey, I don't really have game to put you on because love can come in so many different ways.

[Willie One Shelf]

Some more dad brain to talk about from last week's episode. For those who either didn't tune in, you might be a first time listener. I hope you're enjoying for the dad so far so much enough that you do hit the follow and subscribe button on all the channels and engage with us on all social media and leave comments and have fun. But last week, one that got a lot of traction was PT Fit.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

PT Fit got a lot of traction. I have a story after I Tell this one from Mason Gill. PT Fit. One thing that's helped motivate me to get my body right was when I heard someone say, it's easy to say you'll die for your family, but would you live for them? Sure, it's easy to say I die for them, but am I willing to take care of myself so that I can live for them, eat right, so I can have the energy for them, work out so that I can keep up with them? Love you, boys. Let's be the best us we can be for our families. Hashtag good. Hashtag ptfit. That is phenomenal. Mason Gill, in a great point.

[Sherm]

I love that. I love that. It reminds me of the saying, instead of something costs a lot, it's worth a lot. Like telling yourself it's actually worth a lot. It doesn't cost a lot. Like the cost of getting up early and. And, yeah. You know, working out and stuff.

[Willie One Shelf]

And one of Deke's favorite, favorite senses. We don't have to. We get.

[Sherm]

We get to.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I love that. That flip right there, too.

[Sherm]

Yes. It's a good writing.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. I would die for my family. Would you live for them?

[Sherm]

Yeah, dude. And PT Fit is. I mean, we've already touched on this, but, like, now that I'm. I'm back, I'm on muscle relaxers. I'm feeling great. You know, that Sherm's. Sherm's good. He's not sitting like a psychopath anymore.

[Willie One Shelf]

But it's how sincere you weren't explaining it. You're like, I'm back on supplements. I'm back on the health train. Like, everything's all good. I'm back on muscle relaxers. I'll beat the fit.

[Sherm]

I got the muscle relaxer.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'll work it out now.

[Sherm]

No, but it was a good reminder of, like, man, it feels really great to get out of bed and not have tightness and pain and yada yada, and having some conversations with. With Jill about my health and the direction that I should be heading towards. So I think it's time. I think it's time to be PT Fed.

[Willie One Shelf]

It is time, bro. Yeah. And I'll say this. You're not alone. I went and got a little check in the other day, did the DEXA scan. Body fat percentage is up to 27.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Over six. I. It's just like. It just sits in my brain. Over 640 grams of visceral fat.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Got off the wagon over the last few months. I ain't lying. Yeah. I ain't Running from that. You want to know what's crazy? Blood pressure's high, cholesterol's high. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm sitting there talking as I'm getting checked in, this nurse is giving, Taking my blood pressure, doing all this stuff for, like, my vitals.

[Sherm]

Huh.

[Willie One Shelf]

And we're just having this conversation. She's like, no. How's your fitness been over the last. Since you last been in? Last time I was in was in July. I was like, I'm not gonna lie to you. I haven't really done in the last few months. It's kind of been my worst run that I've had, like, post football career of not doing stuff for like the last three or four months because it's just been such a whirlwind. That's the excuse and justification. I tell myself, yeah. And she's sitting there. When she gets done, she's like, oh, by the way, I'm a fan of your. I'm a fan of your show. And I'm thinking, you know, busing. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, you watch bus? And she's like, no, I'm an MT6ER. And I was like, no, we shared a laugh. I was like, yeah. I sit back and 10 seconds go by and I'm like, so wait a minute, you. If you listen, hey, look, hey, you already know. I haven't been doing a whole lot because I've expressed it on the POD before. So if I lie, were you gonna call me on it? She's like, oh, you know, I'll just take a conversation. She's been trying to get her husband more on it. She's an MT sick. She's an MT sicko. She's a PT sicko more than her husband.

[Sherm]

Really.

[Willie One Shelf]

Her husband's into it. She's like, I was showing him. She's like, I listened to the PT Fit one.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And this was. I went in on. When did I go in? Do you guys remember last week? Because we recorded on Tuesday. I think I went in on Wednesday. So she had listened.

[Sherm]

She had already listened.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, within the first 24 hours. But she's like, I was showing my husband, who's like a performance coach or a fitness coach or like has a gym or something. And I was showing him, and he was kind of. They were just talking shop on him, potentially giving us plans, whatever it is. I feel like people have been reaching out about wanting to be involved in the PT fit. Yeah. Community.

[Sherm]

They reach out heavy to Derek on the. For the dad's Page. Yeah.

[Derek]

So even before we had that episode on the Reddit, people were tossing in saying, hey, I need accountability buddies, and putting their workout plans on the Reddit page. So there's a discussion there that's all YouTube and Spotify commentary. Now are PT fit. And people in that same mindset of like, hey, we got it. We got a.

[Willie One Shelf]

We got.

[Derek]

We got a little dad epidemic going on, a couple guts and stuff. And every dad in there is like, hey, we can do this together. And it's kind of been this rolling ball of PT Fit. You know, PT Thicko to PT Fido is coming around.

[Willie One Shelf]

So PT Thicker to PT Fido. It is one of those things, too. Like, obviously, we. We have fun. We joke and serious about pt. Like, you know, all this stuff, it is interesting. Like when the. The four months. Because it's been about four months that I haven't really done a whole lot. How fast it just goes. You feel like you're just in this snowball of momentum of the monotony of every day with your career, chasing your ambitions, stuff going on at home, stressors going, your life.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And you, you know, we. We've talked about it at length on this pod about, like, taking care of yourself. Like, what buckets are you filling up? Waking up early. Get in that bucket if you have to. And it's. It's just interesting how quickly things go. And then, you know, you get dad bod. All the stuff that happens, and you just feel like you're in it. Like it's your identity. So you kind of just stick with it or you kind of just stay to it because you're like, it would suck to start over. It would stuck. Suck to start from scratch. I know that's something that goes on in my brain is like, I'm here doing this again. Like, starting over. You feel like you're starting over from scratch. Yeah. Y versus a mindset of like, no, I'm just. I'm restarting from experience. Like, I've had a bad. You know, I've just had a bad run. Doesn't mean I can't just switch like that. Because of the importance of Mason writing in talking about. You would die for them, but will you live for them? It's almost like you're thinking about it in terms of. Which is spot on. Like, playing with your kids, like, being healthy for them, showing them what a healthy lifestyle looks like. Because we. We always want to feed our kids well and we want to talk to them about nutrition and how, hey, eat your veggies. It's good for your brain. Eat your protein. It's good for your muscles. This will make faster, jump higher.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

This will help you be more creative. This helps you draw better carrots, help you see better. Like, you're doing all the things to educate them while I'm sitting there snacking away on the side, making sure Rue eats the right meal. And it's like you want to show and show the example of what healthy living looks like and what hard work looks like. Like, even when it is hard and it is stressful and you are kind of beat down mentally and you've just gotten into this bad momentum, you've gained a lot of bad momentum, and you're kind of just stuck in it. It's like, dude, you can show them what it's like to just restart today, tomorrow, that you want it to be today or yesterday to where you're like, you now have a story when they're in a rut. Yeah. At some point in time, you're pulling from your own experience, and it's like, this might sound. I know we were talking about stuff being a comment being intense before, but even just the protection of being with your kids and being with.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And being with it enough to, like, if you ever do get in a situation to feel like you can protect them, it.

[Sherm]

It as funny as it. Like, you read that comment before. I really did. When my back was locked up, I did have the thought of just watching a movie on Netflix where a guy's scrapping, and I'm like, I would go down in five seconds with my back locked up. Like, I would. I would literally just be on the ground going, water, water. Like, Like, I couldn't do anything.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Like. And to your point, you could not have hit closer to home on what my internal thoughts have been with feeding Scarlet. She has just started solid. So it's like, you know, she's having an apple with avocado.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Like, you know this little berry mix pouch thing. Like, we try to have, like, two or three options for when we're doing solids now. And then dad got the seven piece tender meal because he didn't eat lunch. Yeah. He didn't work. So dad has his hungry. So instead of the three piece, either he went with the seven piece and made the mashed potatoes just a little bit. Let's make that a large because that sounds good. And then I'm watching Scarlet leftovers. Leftovers. I'm watching Scarlett eat her food. I'm like, I don't want her sitting and eating Like a seven piece tender meal.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Like, I don't want that for her.

[Willie One Shelf]

And like, I see it with, with Ru. Because Scotty's still young. So I'm not like, I'm not saying that this happens, but there's a part of me that feels like I'll come home and if I work through my lunch or I don't eat throughout the afternoon and I get home and I start snacking before dinner, Ruth sees me stacking, she'll come up and be like, daddy, can I have a snack? Like, yeah, you know, you can have. You can have a banana. You can have. You can have one snack. She'll eat the snack. But I'm over there still eating and snacking. Daddy, can I have another snack? And I'm just thinking, like, she's seeing me do it. How like I'm going to. And I do tell her no, and I tell her why. And then when I'm thinking about it, I'm like, dude, she's watching me do it.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

So it's not like she's just like, oh, I'm just gonna snack all the way up until dinner. I know. Dad keeps telling me, like, we gotta wait till dinner. I mean, she might not be noted in her brain, but her brain could be telling her, I mean, this. I'm watching dad do it. I'm watching dad snack.

[Sherm]

It is very much a monkey seed. Monkey, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

With. I. I don't have too much experience in that, but like just through volunteering and like being a counselor at camps and stuff, like, the. The young kids want to mimic any type of behaviors, like any type of. They look up to these athletes and I want to be a soccer player just like this favorite soccer player. I want to be something just like this.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

And there's no bigger superhero than your mom or dad. And so, you know, I want Scarlet to like aspire for some kind of health of like, hey, my dad takes care of himself. I need to. I need to desperately.

[Willie One Shelf]

Not only does my dad take care of himself, and that's admirable for as they grow up and think about it and think like, you know, my parents. My parents took care of themselves. They showed me what it looked like. And not only that, but that's probably will be what they look for in their partner.

[Sherm]

Yes. Also that. That is a very good point.

[Chef]

I want to add real quick. I was in will like you. I was in a three year Ruth, and I'm a little ahead. I pulled out of it in January. I've been going like Three months, really strong. The biggest thing on top of just, like, physical health is, like, the mental benefits to exercise is something that I've personally noticed, like, have been the biggest game changer over any kind of physical. And so I. I had three years, like, post college, where I just was like, you don't have a coach telling you to run or sports. Doesn't keep you going.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Chef]

So easy to fall out of. And then finally, you know, enough hit enough, and it. You know, once you get back into. It's like, nowadays when I drive home, I'm really pumped because I know I'm gonna go hit the gym. I know I'm gonna sweat my ass off. And if it's, like, a rough day or something, like, it's so insane how mentally clearing being physical is, and you forget about it because you get in that bad habit state, and it's like, you just totally forget all the good times that you have working out, where you go, oh, my God, I can never. Like, when you're in it, you're like, I can't see myself not doing this because it's so beneficial, and it's so weird when you get sucked out of it and all it takes is just a little bit of momentum to get back in. You go, why the.

[Derek]

What the.

[Chef]

Was I doing for three years? Like, why was I not doing this every single day?

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, yeah.

[Chef]

Crazy to see.

[Sherm]

There's no better dopamine drop than getting the endorphins going. No, like, truly, like, it is kind of weird. Like, it. It does suck once you're getting started, but once you're able to get into that face, dude. I fully agree with you there, Chef.

[Willie One Shelf]

I know with one of our. One of our partners in the bus and universe is. Is form, energy. So first form.

[Sherm]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Always been massive fans of them, but for Sella, Start had this thing that went crazy for a long period of time. It's obviously still out there, but it's called 75 hard. But just knowing that form is a partner in our universe, 75R hard is out there. PT fit something there. There's got to be something there. Or is anybody out there that's. That's vibing with anything that ST6 or Chef is talking about myself and Sherm, like, anything that's, like, marinating. It's like, yeah, I. I feel these things, too. I. I love the. The community aspect because my wife was even bringing up, too. She's like, you know, one thing I do think that you would benefit from, which I know you've like, stayed away from because of injuries. And you. You need, like, specific type of training, but just being around, whether it's account, an accountability buddy or just a group of guys again, because a lot of it, A lot of my training would be around the team, around guys, around people that are there to help you subconsciously be accountable.

[Sherm]

Well, and your dad getting super fit and.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes.

[Sherm]

And dropping a ton of weight. My dad, very similar thing. He had to get back surgery that spinal fusion. And I mean, he wasn't, like, super out of shape, but definitely could stand to, like, lose some weight. And for, like, the last 10 years, he has been so healthy. And it. It does make me feel better if, like, Scarlet's going to have, you know, but, like, Scarlett's going to have her granddad and. Yeah. Healthy. And he's like, there is so much, like, excitement that comes out of that. I'm like, I'm so glad and I'm, like, really proud of my dad for him taking care of himself and.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Dieting, exercising, getting out and like, dude,

[Willie One Shelf]

that's a great point. Like, even us, we were the kiddos. We had to kill. Like, you know, if our dad said a pod. We were the kids that they were talking about raising. We've grown up and we think about it with our parents for their grandkids.

[Sherm]

Yeah, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, that's what we want from our grandparents.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

And every older person that is healthier, that is taking care of their body and say it was over the last decade, it's like, what they would do. The analogy would be the one where it's like they would grab you by the throat and holding you against the wall and be like, the one thing I wish I would have done is doing it sooner.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, do it now. When you are young, you don't want these problems. You don't want to have to get to a point to where you're now having to fix the entire operation to get a few more years out of life. Like, I wish I would have been doing this when I was young. I sit back, I'm like, I'm 36. I know I'm young. I know I feel old at times. And I'm like, no matter what, I know the clock's ticking, but you can't hear the ticking.

[Sherm]

No, you can't. And it was very humbling. Like, I had a huge win where I used to vape like crazy. Do you remember when I was contracting?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

And I would hit that vape like insane.

[Willie One Shelf]

You were a vapor.

[Sherm]

Insane. Jilly Bean would tell you that. That is like, the biggest win that we've gotten of me, dude. Disgusting amount. I was a vape God. And not because I loved blowing fat clouds, but I purely, like, that was my nick stick, dude. I was just. And, like, walking upstairs would get me wheezing. Like, it was bad, dude. And so I was at the doctor last week. I went after we record that episode where I sat the entire time like this to be comfortable. And she was like, do you smoke vapor tobacco? And I said, no, I do not. And I was very proud of that. It's been like, several years. And then she was like, height. I was like, 5 8. She was like, wait. I was like, 220. 220 pounds. And I'm thinking to myself, 5, 8 to 20, dude, what are we doing like, man.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh.

[Sherm]

So I am very much like, this feels good.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's important, man. Support for family. It's important for career. It's important for yourself. Yeah.

[Chef]

I have one last thing, and then I'll. I'll show up. But when I started back at it, I had three things that I did that, like. Because I've tried a lot of times where you try and then maybe you get like a week of momentum, but then you stop. The three things I did was like, there was a quote that. I love that when you're. When you climb a mountain, never look at the peak. You always look down at your feet and keep walking. That's something that. Like a mental thing. And the other big one was like, every day when you're done, you just go. I tell myself, like, that's a chip. You just chipped away. And so you just chip and chip and chip. And then the other thing, which sounds counterintuitive, was it's nothing special. I'm just doing what I should be doing. My parents, like, I live at home, they're like, we so proud. I'm like, I appreciate it. But, like, it's like, as soon as I feel that, where I'm like, you start getting, I guess, relaxed, where you're like, hey, this is what I should be doing. It's nothing that special. That's what I tell myself. I don't know if that's helpful to anyone, but that's something that I've been. As I've been going through this. Three things that I just love are, like, those little, like, it's just for your health. It's what you should be doing. What I try to tell myself it's been good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dan Gable, scc. That's Gable Right there.

[Sherm]

Sicko. Dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Chef Gable.

[Sherm]

Oh, I. How did. How do you eat an elephant? Does anyone know how you eat an elephant? That's a great answer. One bite at a time, man. One bite at a time.

[Willie One Shelf]

One bite at a time. I have one here from Jesse on Spotify. Jimmy. This is pertaining to last week's episode. Jimmy V Sowed boys had all the emotions in it. PT Fit for life. We have to be healthy and stay around for the little monsters. Amen. Jesse.

[Derek]

Let's go.

[Sherm]

I mean, that's.

[Willie One Shelf]

Amen, Jesse.

[Sherm]

I have Zach a bear or he berer. Zach wrote in. This is a fun one. The trifecta hit this PT6er last night. All three kids have fevers, body aches, and congestion. Mom has an important presentation to present at the hospital today for work. So you know what that means. This PT6 veteran is tapping in. Dads don't get sick. All caps. Like. Like my former college coach, Pete, Pete Carroll would say, mind over matter. If you think you're healthy, you're healthy. Stay positive and embrace the suck. This too, shall pass. Love what you guys are preaching here and keep up the good work. Fight on. And then his wife Caitlyn then commented underneath and said, and he had a crock pot dinner ready when the wifey got home. And then she wrote Shockwave.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh,

[Sherm]

ladies and gentlemen, that is our first NT6 confirmation of shockwave. And Zach played for USC.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, that's just kind of flying under the.

[Sherm]

Yeah, that was like. Just kind of like fight on.

[Willie One Shelf]

My old former. My former head ball coach, Pete Carroll.

[Sherm]

Pete Carroll. You know, he always used to say this. Okay, Zach.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

That's sick.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shock wave. I wonder if the national championship ring on.

[Sherm]

Yeah, for real. Hold on, honey. Hey, hold on, honey. And it's just this, like, old wooden box that you just. The ring sitting right there just slides onto the middle finger. Yeah, I. I got another one From Dalton Lobby 1184 on YouTube. Boys, my dad came down and wants to make a father son trip before my wedding in June. We both lit. We both love the Braves, and so we are going to Atlanta for opening day this year. That's so fun. We will be traveling through Nashville and I need one recommendation for somewhere to eat dinner. I have no idea where to even start. But if you could only choose one place to eat in Nashville, what would it be?

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, he doesn't know. Lord forgive him.

[Sherm]

Poor.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don't understand.

[Sherm]

Poor Dalton. Dalton, this is a fantastic question, though. I don't want you to beat yourself.

[Derek]

Let's all give them One recommendation. And I would say, like, I don't know what kind of food they like. And so if we'll pick something with steak, we'll pick something different and try to help them out.

[Sherm]

That's.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you're going to get a steakhouse,

[Derek]

you don't have to go steak.

[Willie One Shelf]

You don't have to go steak. I mean, you don't have to.

[Derek]

Oh, recommendation. Yeah. I don't want you to feel pigeonholed by my example.

[Sherm]

Do I have to go?

[Derek]

You have to go.

[Willie One Shelf]

Here's. Here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm gonna go with. Clip it, keep it clean, keep it right.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Your coffee shop in the morning has to be Ethan roast.

[Sherm]

Oh, okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

Your coffee shop has to be 8th and roast.

[Chef]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

So I'll. I get to kind of low key bow out. You do. Of the restaurant business, however. I do. If you want a spot in the early half of the day, the front half of the day, you want a coffee, you want to go to a great local spot that Reps Nashville. It's 8th and roast.

[Sherm]

Come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

No free shout outs.

[Sherm]

No free shout outs.

[Willie One Shelf]

I have zero ties to anything eighth and Roast. I should own a piece of their company. Yeah. Because I do love it. My kids have basically been raised in 8th and roast. But we just. We love Aan Rose.

[Sherm]

And you do give a lot of not free shout outs to them.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes.

[Sherm]

They are loved by this podcast. Yes. Okay. I. So who. Who's our electrician guy that we just absolutely love that comes in here? He's always talking to us. Robbie, Robbie, Robbie. Put me on game. Shout out Robbie. By the way, I haven't seen him in a minute. I love Robbie. He put me on game. Because my anniversary is coming up. I was looking for places to eat. He overheard the conversation, butted in with the best answer. It's called Jimmy Kelly's. It's a steakhouse here in Nashville and is the oldest steakhouse in Nashville. It's the OG and is a literal house with like a little extension restaurant kind of built off of it. Food is incredible. There's a ton of lore behind the location of It's. It's the spot that when artists sign their first contract in Nashville, like their first record deal, you go celebrated Jimmy Kelly's. It is pricey, I will say, like it is steakhouse prices, but you can go in there and not feel like you just got, you know, stabbed and robbed. Like, you.

[Willie One Shelf]

You can almost.

[Sherm]

Yeah, you can.

[Willie One Shelf]

Got Shockwave by Jimmy.

[Sherm]

Yeah. Yeah. But you you can go in there strategically and get a really good dinner. Dude, Jimmy Kelly's rips. No free shout outs.

[Willie One Shelf]

Pinewood Social. Great spot.

[Sherm]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

Great vibe. What's got a little bowling alley in the back? Yeah. Pinewood Social is just a good spot.

[Sherm]

Really?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, it's a good. It's a good spot.

[Sherm]

Do they have food?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, they have good food.

[Sherm]

What. What type of food?

[Willie One Shelf]

Menu changes.

[Derek]

My favorite thing. They got a very good steak salad. Like a tremendously. I'd recommend steak salad. That wouldn't happen. There are many changes, but they do

[Chef]

a really good job.

[Derek]

They have a crema coffee in the front. They got bocce court outside a pool.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Stuff outside. Not too. Like cr. Like, it's a. It's a popular spot, but not where it's. You're just crammed in there. It's a very good.

[Sherm]

Dude, this looks sick.

[Derek]

I used to live above that. We'd go there all the time. Very cool.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing. Anytime people visit, it's always. If I give a list, Pinewood Social is always on there. Because you people love it for brunch, especially if the sun's out, you go out there. But even at nighttime, like, they have good dinner, they have good food. It's good vibes.

[Sherm]

They have a lot of space.

[Willie One Shelf]

They have a pig.

[Sherm]

Am I. I did not know they had a pool.

[Derek]

Yeah. So if you go out, there's that bocce court there. They. It's all like ivy. They have a swimming pool in there that you could rent or like, they have passes you can use. I didn't use it. My apartment boat had one. But I would take my dog on a walk around pine with social every day.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Derek]

And so he would be barking at the people of the pool, which is a single man. Was a good place.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah. So what would be your recommendation?

[Derek]

So him and his dad, like, I. I have like four or five restaurants that I'm like, you have to go to these. If it's you and your dad traveling through. No free shoutouts. The number one place I would recommend is Smith and Lentz pizza. It is in east Nashville. It is the number one pizza I've ever had in the world. Take it to prom. They are a brewery that does pilsners and lagers, primarily beers. Called pizza parties. Best pizza in the world that I have had.

[Sherm]

What was the name of it?

[Derek]

Smith and Lentz.

[Sherm]

Okay, Smith and Lentz.

[Willie One Shelf]

But that's on you.

[Derek]

Go for it.

[Willie One Shelf]

I've never heard you talk about Smith

[Derek]

Talk about Smith and Lens. Because you talk about hometown pizza. I'm like, dude, you guys check out Smith and Lens. It's a brewery and east now.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, but not. You haven't talked about in that capacity. If in your. If in your brain. It's a number.

[Derek]

Have you ever said, derek, hey, give me your number one?

[Willie One Shelf]

No, but we've talked food. We've talked food.

[Derek]

What have I recommended to you? Name the things I've recommended to you.

[Willie One Shelf]

The. The Mexican spot.

[Sherm]

Cafe Del Sol.

[Willie One Shelf]

No, no, no, no, no. What's that one called? Because Bryce Harper was talking about it. Yeah, I mean, just bring it up. That's one where I'm like. I think to myself, I know, Deke, that's my point.

[Derek]

De La Vida has a food truck in East Nashville attached to a tiki bar that is the best truck I've ever eaten out of. The restaurant is unbelievable. James Beard finalists on the Michelin list. Love maize. De La Vida. If you want me to go, I'll go. Go to Audrey.

[Willie One Shelf]

Audrey and June is a restaurant.

[Derek]

Sean Brock in East Nashville. That is unbelievable. He also opened Husk. Husk is across the street from Pinewood Social. Husk is in a house that is breathtaking. There's multiple locations if you're looking for a different pizza. Frankie's in East Nashville was out of Brooklyn. Matty Matheson help open the spot here. Their pizza goes by the dough. They make the dough. Each day they run out of dough. It's breathtaking. The restaurant's really good. Another pizza is Roberta's, attached to Urban Cowboy. Across from that is Lachlan Table. Lachlan table fucks as well. I can stop now.

[Willie One Shelf]

I love you cooking, but this Derek. I haven't gotten this version of Derek because Clump and I have argued over pizza food arguments in Asheville. But you haven't been the guy that got on the box and just cooked to where there ain't nothing to say. Watch this man work. He just shoved it down your throat.

[Derek]

Yeah. I've listened to your guys. Pizza takes. I've respected it. It's wrong, but I've respected it. But you are so hometown pizza that I would never come into there and be like, well, you got to change it up.

[Sherm]

Will basically say, if you really loved me, I would have already remembered. But I don't got it.

[Willie One Shelf]

I know, I know. I have an emotion. If somebody says Mexican. A Mexican Spot national. I know. Deeks got you. I didn't know you had the bag.

[Sherm]

I got a bag. He's a beauty.

[Willie One Shelf]

I Know you do. But now that I'm hearing that's why I'm saying on you. Shout out.

[Derek]

Lors Casino. We're doing a shout out. Shout out. Laura's Casino.

[Sherm]

He pitched me two new spots that he didn't even mention right now when we got coffee this morning.

[Willie One Shelf]

Have you shoved this pizza down Clumps? I.

[Derek]

Can I say something respectfully? Clump is a steakhouse guy. I don't give them recommendations. I don't.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because he's gonna go, oh, you know the steak I could have had over there.

[Sherm]

Occasion crust.

[Derek]

And I'm like, that's sick, bro. Like, some of us want to eat different things. So I don't give steakhouse guys recommendations. I'll give it to you. Use Smith and Lent's pizza. It's a brewery, so I'm like, I don't know. Will doesn't go to East Munch. Yada, yada, yada. I try to be respectful. It's the best pizza I've ever had. You got to take it to prom. Breathtaking.

[Sherm]

Take it to prom.

[Willie One Shelf]

I can't wait to go to prom.

[Derek]

Pull it out about three to four minutes before it's done. Re oil the crust, put red pepper flakes and a new layer of cheese over top, Put it back in. It got hit during the tornado. They redid it, Put a brand new pizza oven in it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Take it to prom.

[Sherm]

Take it to prom.

[Chef]

Anyway, so for lunch, pause this one real.

[Willie One Shelf]

Pause this real quick. No, I'm just searching something so I can talk about it. I couldn't wait because I knew you were gonna cook. And I was like, I can't wait to hear, like, what he says.

[Sherm]

Oh, my God.

[Willie One Shelf]

But then when you went the pizza route, I'm like, this is not that you don't know.

[Sherm]

I will say there wasn't a lot of room for Derek to jump into that conversation because that the. The vibes were very high in that fight with, like, Clump Taylor and Will. Like, there was a lot going on

[Derek]

out of respect to him.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, we going?

[Derek]

Okay. It's not that I'm against Taylor. It's that if Taylor's going to say words like, we have bad Mexican food in Nashville, then I'll take my energy elsewhere. It's just kind of my take on it. Will has been very respectful, and we've talked a lot of food, so I do apologize. Smith and Lentz is like, they make their own bread. They make their own dough. They make everything. They bring it all in seasonal. People like, there's blue Collar guys that go there for their Caesar salad is how good of the kind of diverse they're making.

[Sherm]

I think this is the one that Bryce Harper said he always gets too. Like, I'm almost positive that Bryce Harper also said he. He gets this.

[Derek]

I got.

[Sherm]

When he was on the bus.

[Derek]

I have a bag.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Derek]

Of restaurants.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Derek]

And I mean our friendship's blossoming. I'm giving you something.

[Willie One Shelf]

No doubt. But I. But I would also say it's like I support home team big time because of. It's just a family owned operation. Not saying it's the best. That doesn't mean. If I say it's not the best pizza, that's not saying. I think it's average pizza. Like, I love their pizza every Friday for Pizza Friday. But Kevin who runs it, he has like, he listens to our stuff. Like we've always just chopped it up. Big college football fan. And I've just been. Yeah, I've been a customer that shows up every week and we always chop it up. And he's got two little ones around the same age. So I just, I. He's a grinder. Grinder.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And it seems like their operation, they just got. They're full of grinders, full of great people. Yeah. Inside of a. So home team pizza is inside of a shared kitchen. So it's not. You can't go in and like you can go in and you, you make your payment. Everything else. But there's no sitting area. They just share a kitchen. So you walk in this red door like this. It's just this building. They have four walls, a couple little windows. But it's just for operations, just to work out of. They deliver. You can go and pick it up. And I just, I respect his like, his passion for it, his hustle, the way he. About essentially everything. Like he talks about fatherhood. Like we all. We're always just chopping it up, checking in on the little ones. I just fully support his. I just, I just support him. I just want to, like, I just love giving him love because I know he's just doing it from the ground up. Like, doesn't have. It's not like he has a few different spots. Dude. Just in there operating at all times.

[Derek]

There will be a day where I forget what Smith and Lent's pizza tastes like. But I'll never forget the first time I bit into it sitting at the bar when I first moved to Nashville. And the pizza is better than that memory. But like, to your point. Yeah, there's going to be a day where you no longer can explain what hometown pizza tastes like, but you'll never forget how you felt with him. And that's why I love food.

[Willie One Shelf]

Amen. It's like, we sit there, and even when we get different pizza spots, I'm always excited to go back. Just to walk in and say what's up to him and check in. He's a big Ohio State fan. They. He makes these Buckeyes that are just. You've had the Buckeyes.

[Sherm]

They're on real.

[Willie One Shelf]

They're unreal.

[Sherm]

Unreal.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I just love going and seeing him. Or, like, when you. When you go and park and they deliver it out to you and they're just chopping it up. I might be playing Elsa in the car, but I just. I just love. I love supporting home team because I just. I love what the dude's about. Go.

[Sherm]

Definitely go inside, too. He'll give you a tour of the kitchen. Yeah, it's really sick.

[Willie One Shelf]

It is cool.

[Sherm]

He played at Air Force, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, did he? I'm not even sure.

[Derek]

I.

[Sherm]

Almost positive he told me that he played. It's either Air Force or Colorado State. I didn't know he played somewhere in Colorado.

[Willie One Shelf]

Did not know he was familiar with the A. Gap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they share a kitchen, and it's just, like, you just respect what he's doing and trying to do and everything. They're actually moving into a new building.

[Sherm]

They are.

[Willie One Shelf]

To where there will be space because they have done. They have done well with their one pizza shop that's been operating.

[Derek]

Is that where it's at?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, it's, like, over off of Charlotte. Charlotte Avenue. You know, the McDonald's and Huey babies. It's, like, right off that road, and it's like a little building on the corner where it's like, they share it with. I could probably find it, like citizen something. But they just. They share a kitchen, and you just. When you walk in and you get to know him a little bit, you're like, man, he's. They grind.

[Sherm]

Yeah. I think it's called the co op kitchen. Yeah, I think it's the term.

[Derek]

I always assume this was like. Like a farm feed shop.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, look.

[Derek]

Pictures on the outside just, like, have a red barn and, like, say, love. Yeah, I'm looking at. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Willie One Shelf]

If it's your first time going and picking it up there, you don't even know if you're kind of in the right spot because. Because it's like they don't have, like, a storefront or nothing else that's cool.

[Derek]

Citizen kitchens.

[Willie One Shelf]

Citizen kitchens. There we go. There we go. But shout out home team. This is a dad's podcast.

[Sherm]

This is a dad's podcast.

[Willie One Shelf]

Talk kids.

[Sherm]

We talk kids. We talk shockwave with our partner, with our spouse.

[Chef]

I still. I still want to get my wreck. I know, I know.

[Sherm]

We're pressing recommendations.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, Chef. Chef.

[Sherm]

Oh, yeah, sorry, guys.

[Willie One Shelf]

I am Chef.

[Sherm]

I would love to.

[Chef]

Anyway, for lunch. It's a classic.

[Derek]

Nashville,

[Chef]

Nashville. Hot chicken. You can go princess. Which is the original, the founder of it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Chef]

Story behind it. Or you can hit. I mean, there's a bunch of different spots. Is Bolton still up? Bolton's still kicking. Bolton's will kick your ass. Be careful when you. When you order voltons. A medium will. Will ruin your day if you go to the wrong spot. Depends on where you go. But I would go princess because it's the original. It's not the best, but it is the original. That or maybe Loveless Cafe and just throwing a couple things out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay, recommendations.

[Sherm]

Great. Very well done.

[Willie One Shelf]

Great recommendations.

[Sherm]

So, yeah, Dalton, you have a lot. You have a lot to choose from. And good luck. I don't think you can go wrong with those

[Willie One Shelf]

things.

[Sherm]

Go wrong. I have some hobby shout outs.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let's. Let's talk our scope of world of what's going on in fatherhood.

[Sherm]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because I'm dealing with a little something.

[Sherm]

What's going on?

[Willie One Shelf]

Parents that have three year olds, four year olds, I'm sure it happens with five. Obviously, the word no is going to happen throughout the course of their life and in parenthood. But Rue struggles where I'm trying to get her right, is struggling with hearing the word no. Like, you know how we do the TV coupons? And she'll like, ask that I cannot watch tv. And if it's like a certain time of the day where I'm like, okay, this doesn't need to happen now over the weekend or. It was last week when Charles was working a double in the evening and it was kind of early. Probably around like 4:30. Like, if we do screen time, I like to measure when I'm preparing whatever the meal is going to be for nighttime or just get it to where I can, like, I can collaborate it with me doing something like, okay, you can do your screen time. You can do your TV coupon at this time time. But it was early and she was asking. I was like, oh, sweetheart, we're not gonna watch TV right now. And she was just gung ho. Like, when they want to do something, you Know, God bless their little toddler brains, but they want to do it. Yeah. I'm like, sweetheart, you got to be patient. Can we. I bet we can do it here and about. I, like, look at my watch. I'm like, we can do it here in about 30 minutes. So I want to right now. And she starts having a meltdown over the word no. She struggles with hearing the word no when she absolutely wants something. And it's difficult, bro, it is difficult to sit there and tell them no, because you start to fester in your brain. You're just like, bro, you're not getting this. And you do your best to the whole thermostat. Thermometer. You try to remain a thermostat because it just. It boils your blood when they're just not handling the word no well. And you just know in your brain, like, hey, we're going to. We're going to have to work through this. Like, this is a. A lesson for both you. I want to help you understand the lesson and teach you through patience. And, hey, we can't get this right now. You can't do x, y, and z right now. Here's why. And also, it's a lesson for. I feel like myself as a parent, because you get so tested when they are just not wanting to be obedient to something where you're trying to be cool about it, and you're trying to be, like, respectful and thoughtful and everything else. But once they're l flips, dude, your lid is right there, teetering, borderline, ready to flip, and you just, you know, it's not the right route to just get in their ass about it. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? We had our parents back in the day. We had our old man when the lid would be flipped and he'd get in your ass about something.

[Sherm]

Absolutely.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I'm trying to stay poised on the best routes to handle things, whether it's like. Like, you know, telling her, like, sweetheart, I know it's hard. I know this. I know this stinks. But we are going to be patient through this versus continuing to just tell her, I told you, no, we're not doing it. Stop crying. Stop this. Stop that. Like, just validating what she's feeling. Because in the developmental stage, when their brain's about three, they have so many emotions that they can't control or articulate or they have. They just have no control. They don't have a governor on their brain. And so knowing that I'm not thinking, like, okay, I'm being soft, I'd be like, hey, no, you're gonna sit your ass here. Stop crying, yada, yada, yada. Her brain is way different than mine. I have control over how I can deliver and how I can think and how I can operate with her. So I'll do my best to. Sweetheart, I know this is tough. I know this is hard, but we're just gonna have to be patient until we can watch tv. You will get to watch tv, but not right now.

[Sherm]

Yeah, there's a.

[Willie One Shelf]

There's so many. Oh, look at this toy over here. You try to distract, adapt, distract, overcome, adapt, improvise, overcome. We're changing it. Improvise to distract, Adapt, distract, Overcome.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, look at this toy. Oh, sweetheart, did you draw this picture while she's in the middle of a meltdown to try to get her brain thinking about something else and know, like, dude, this isn't the end of the world? This is not hard, my man.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

This is not tough to just chill for another 30 minutes and figure something else out. We have toys. We have arts and crafts. We have so many things that you love doing. And I know if you're doing them, you won't even be thinking about tv, but when their lid is flipped and they're having the meltdown, you're doing your best. I'm trying to do my best as dad to level with her. Tell her, hey, I know this is tough. And also, let's figure out something else that we can do. Or, you know what? It's gone so overboard. Me talking to you or trying to find solutions right now probably isn't even the best course. You. Hey, if you want to be upset, that's fine. I'm going to give you some space to be upset. Dad's going to be right over here if you want to hug or you want to talk about it. But. And I'm sorry, but right now we're not watching tv. So I'll, like, leave the area. I'll come back, and she might still be crying. And when she was still crying and I came back in the room, I'm just, like, my lid starting to. My lid starting to flip because I'm getting pretty, like, hey, dude, stop the. Stop the. Yeah. So I pick her up, go into the room. I'm like, hey, we're gonna walk in the mom and dad's room. We're gonna walk into mom and dad's room. As I'm walking with her, I'm like, hey, get. Get a hold of yourself. Enough of the crying. Enough of all this nonsense. You're stronger than this. You are better than this. All that. That told you.

[Sherm]

And you're saying. You're saying this out loud.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm saying this out loud, too. Or like, as of all. Because I'm getting. I'm starting to get in that frustration state of like, it's starting to piss me off that you're still here crying over about because you can't get TV right now and pick her up as I'm walking. You're better.

[Sherm]

You're.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know, you're better than this. You're stronger than this. I know you can use your strong voice. You. You. We. We're not doing this. Like, get yourself together. And I'm like, hey, here's what that wants to tell you. As I'm holding her, I walk her into the room. I walk her into our room, I sit her down, and I'm like, what did I say to her? I'm like, can Dad, I ask you about something? Like, can I talk to you about something? Can you. Can you wipe your tears? Can you calm down and I talk with you? Because we have to. We need to learn something new. You love learning new things. You love growing, you love failing at certain things, and you struggle at times. You do with the bike, you do it with swimming. You do with. I'm saying all the things that she's been gotten successful. Successful in. Yeah. So I'm trying to get her brain to start thinking about all the things you do love learning. You do love being curious. You do love getting better. You love seeing yourself get better. There's one area we have to get better in. There's an area that. Where you can see progress. You have to learn. You have to be curious about getting better in this. And that is hearing the word no. Because, sweetheart, you have meltdowns when mama or dad ass says you can't have something or you can't do something. And I know it's tough in the. In the time, but if you can think about when we sit there and tell you, no, we're not being. We're not being upset with you. You. We're not being aggressive towards you. We're not being mean or anything else. We're not being unkind. We're just letting you know now is not the right time that we're gonna get this toy or watch tv. And you all. You know, I try not to talk to her in absolutes, but I'm, like, trying to curate in A way of, like, we need to do a better job of learning the word no. And I. I do. Sweetheart, I know it's hard, but I know you can get better in this. I know you love getting better at things. So when you hear the word no, so you just got to know I am looking out for your best interest. And you will. Guess what, sweetheart? You're going to get to watch tv. It's just not right now. You're just going to have to learn something else to do. I know you love drawing. Mama's gone right now. When she comes home, she'd probably love to see a picture from you. Arts and crafts. Yeah. Would you like to do that? Yeah, like, yeah, that sounds fun. Like, I'd like to do that. Like, all of a sudden, their brain just flips, and she's a completely different person. And I'm like, hey, listen to me. Do you understand that we need to start getting better with the word no? And she's like, yeah. And I'm like, I will tell you. Here's what I need from you now. And I know you're going to crush it. Here's what I need from you now. I need you to not ask me again about watching tv. That is. I'm going to look at the clock all the time. Whenever it's time to watch tv, I will remind you. Hey, sweetheart, would you like to watch. Would you like to use your TV coupon now and watch Little Bear or Daniel Tiger or whatever it is you want to watch? I will let you know. But here's what I need from you. I need you to be patient. I need you to love doing your arts and crafts. And I need you to not ask dad, dad, when you can watch. Hey, is it time to watch TV now? We got to learn. We got to explore patience a lot more than. A lot better than we are doing right now.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And that's kind of how I handled the situation. But, dude, it is so frustrating. It is so frustrating getting through the. This whole no phase right now because she's a stud.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know what I mean? It's like I. It pains me because I'm like, dude, this. This should not be happening.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, you far better than.

[Sherm]

She's sweet, she's smart, she's great with communication.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Last night, I got two women now that boss me around the house. I got two women now that boss me around the house. So with it, Mama, she rue comes out. Yesterday, I'm home and I put something away and I come out. I come out to the living room. Rue just comes up to me. Hey, Dada, just so you know, I'm going to go potty. She's like, I'm going to go potty. Mama's going to go. Mama's going to go clean up and change. So I need you to watch Scotty. She says that to me.

[Sherm]

Good comms.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I'm smiling as I'm looking down at her. And I look at the Charl before Charl goes back to the room. I'm like, what the hell is this? And she starts laughing. I'm like, oh, now I got two of y' all bossing me around the house.

[Sherm]

That's cool.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay, sweetheart. I want Scotty.

[Sherm]

That's hilarious. She. But she is very capable as a firstborn. Yeah, Like, I feel like that that's a fun behavior that will develop as far as, like, no doubt, helping with Scotty.

[Willie One Shelf]

No doub. Like, when you try and look into, I guess, like, the. The research of everything. If you have a little one and they're getting to these phases or the parents out there that are remembering these phases or currently in these phases as they get older, like, all they're. They're controlled so much by us that as they grow into their own little human. Because Rue is doing that, she's very much an independent person. She's very much going to have that type a firstborn style about her. She loves to be in control, have autonomy over her decision. So in her brain, when she wants to watch TV or when she wants to do a thing, she just wants control and the freedom to do those things because she crushes it and everything else. Yeah. Like, she wouldn't let me put a band aid on her the other night. She wanted to take the crowns. The crowns back to the bonus room. We had to kind of tell her, like, hey, you did arts and crafts down here. You have to go put them up. She ends up dropping all the crowns all over the place in the hallway. Good.

[Sherm]

That's great.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good. Yeah. Dropped them. I hear kind of frustrating crying. I just go over, hey, sweet. Are you frustrated? I know that stinks. Here, I'll dead. I'll help you pick it up now you can go put it in your bonus room. Yeah, yeah. She comes in dead. I can do a new, fresh paint Band Aid. Oh, of course. Absolutely. Let me go. No, I want to do it. She goes and gets it. I'm sitting in the chair. I hear a box at the ground. Band Aids all over the Band Aids, all over the bathroom. Good. Yeah. Frustrated mad Daddy. Can you come help me. Yeah, I'll come help you. Here. Can I put the band aid on you? No, no, I want to do it. Okay. She tries putting the band aid on, bends it every which way. It looks like an origami paper machete. Bends it up, messes it up. Can't. Can't do it. Good, good. Like, hey, can data. No, I want to do a. Sweetheart, sweetheart. I love you. Let that put the band aid on you. Crush it. Let me at least help give you some direction.

[Sherm]

I'll.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let me just open the package and get you started.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And you can finish it. We figured that out. Awesome. But she's very much, like, very much independent, wants to be in control of everything. So it's just that. That fine line when their. Their gets rocked, when.

[Sherm]

When does it change as far. And I'm asking this as, like, Scarlett is, you know, know, three years behind Rue. When does it change from. We've talked about, like, being able to almost, like, trick our toddlers with, like, getting what we want them to do, like by doing some kind of adult brain thing where you say, oh, yeah, how many more times do you want to do it? They can only count to five. So then they say three, and it's like, oh, I got them. Like, where. Where does that shift go from, like, playing those. Like, I can trick them into doing the right thing. And then, like, I feel like she can communicate well enough to hear if I sit her down and say, hey, I know you're good enough. I know that you're smart enough that you can hear the word. No, we can be better at this. Like, where. Where did that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good question. I would say Bruce about to be four in April. God, that makes me say that's a month away.

[Sherm]

That's really scary, dude. I didn't even realize that she was that close to turning 4. I did not know that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Damn. I would say in her three major three phase, because there's always going to be a version of being able to, like, I guess, trick or negotiate with them.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But they're going to start identifying the routine and patterns of everything to where they understand how many. How many bites they might have left or how many times they might want to do something, or when you're. You're just constantly giving them options to at least allow them to have control over what.

[Sherm]

What it.

[Willie One Shelf]

What decision they're going to make within the structure of everything. They just get better at it. But those kinds of conversations, I would say it happened throughout this. This year of three because she's Gotten better in a lot of areas to where you can grab examples to communicate with her because she does understand what you're saying.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like she's made. Going to Montessori has been tremendous for her because they do so much tribe mentality work and counting and just all the things where they work together and communicate and kind of do a lot of things on their own own to where she gets it, to where you trust her to do stuff. You kind of always know what those boundaries are. And then she's also like a sponge. So she's curious. Hey, I'm gonna keep you from doing this if you have a conversation with her on here's why. She loves to know that she has a mission of some sort within the tribe.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So I would say it very much happens through at three because two, they talk about terrible twos. Twos wasn't as bad as three was, especially coming into the first half of the three year old stuff because they're just more with the it. Yeah. They understand what they want more. They understand how to not how to argue better, but they just. Their meltdowns happen a little bit more violently because they kind of do know now how to communicate what they're wanting. They just can't. They can't slow everything down. Their heart, their hardwiring is being hacked by all the hormones and emotions going on with their developing brain. Yeah. So. But they do know much more what they want. Whereas in two, you can play the whole mind game with them a little bit more because they're so new to the world. They're learning about everything. Like Ruse in such a why phase. Now, it's not why is he bad? Or it's not just is he a bad guy, it's oh, why is he bad? Well, this kind of happened. Why did that happen to him? Well, because their mom and dad or this person over here did X, Y and Z. Well, why did they do that to him? And then you're just trying to make up stuff because they're so curious on the why behind everything that happens. Whereas in two they're more of like, what's that? That they're learning about what it is. Oh, what's that? Then they start. When they start getting to why, they're just, they're so curious and their brain is developing so much that they start having patterns now to match their exploration of the world. And you're the one that's kind of guiding them through all of it. But three is the big. Three is the big age where I feel like I'VE been able to. You can actually have conversations with Rue and she's so curious because she knows you trust her and she trusts you.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

That she's, she's picking up everything that you're telling her.

[Sherm]

Yeah. That just from my small little sample size of being at the zoo with her recently, I picked up on that immediately. Her communication skills and how much they've grown and like she's, excuse me, she is a little girl now. You know what I mean? Like, and behaves and acts like one and asks those types of questions that even I was sitting there when we were talking about the muscles and the bones of the tiger and like, like, like man, you are like growing.

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[Sherm]

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multi part series on what happens after we Eat. Okay, I just have to say that

[Sherm]

all of my favorite words, apparently, are digestive words. Sphincter, peristalsis, duodenum. It's fascinating, it's funny, and it matters so much more than you think.

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[Sherm]

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ottoman in front of him. I said, hi, dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen and

[Sherm]

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[Sherm]

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I think I shared it on for the dads a couple weeks ago or last week whenever we were recapping the zoo stuff, but when we got in the. When we got in the car and I was like, hey, I love that you helped entertain Scarlett. Yep. In your. Like, when they do have patience, dude. I love that you've been having so much patience. Why am I having patience? And then you're kind of Explaining, like, what they've been doing, but you're kind of validating a positive thing that they did, so that way they remember it. I'm like, I loved how much you helped out dad and Uncle Sherm at the zoo with Scarlett. What was I. What was I doing? And then you tell them. They're like, well, why did you like that? Why did you love that? And then we're talking about the communication. Well, dad and Uncle Sherm get to hang, but they're just.

[Derek]

Just.

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They're just such a sponge, and they're so curious, like, okay, well, why. Why did you enjoy that. That thing that I was doing? Tell me more about that. It helps you, like, lay a foundation so then the next time it happens, they're already thinking about it. I'm gonna make Scarlett laugh.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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I'm gonna do these things. Then they'll let you know that they're doing them because they want the. The reward. Hey, sweetheart, not everything we're doing is for a compliment. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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Okay. You gotta watch me go do. Oh, you did it. Watch me. And then she'll go and, like, hug Scott. Scotty, like, oh, that's so sweet, sweetheart. Like, yes, I want you to want to just hug Scotty because you just love Scott. You don't need dad and mama to watch every time.

[Sherm]

Yeah, I. Obviously, I can't remember when I was, like, three or four years old, but that was one of my favorite things of, like, moments where I did get sat down by my parents and there was, like, a full explanation of why the answer was no or why something wasn't going to happen that I wanted it to happen. Like, I. I loved being able to have a conversation about it instead of just no and that. That's it. And that's final because I did hear that sometimes, too.

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Yeah.

[Sherm]

I have great parents. Like, I, you know, no parents. Perfect. But, like, I would get those. No. And the answer's no. You. You don't need to.

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Yeah, because I said so.

[Sherm]

Yeah, because I said so. Which would leave.

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Leave.

[Sherm]

It would leave me frustrated because I'm, you know, if I got an explanation of why, maybe I would understand why the answer is no in that situation. And then I'm not trying to push that again in the future. Like, you sitting down with Rue in that moment and really trying to show her what's going on. Showing her why it's no tell. Telling. Complimenting her and being like, I feel like, you can understand this. You're big girl enough that you can handle this all that like sounds awesome to me.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's just testing in those times, bro.

[Sherm]

Oh.

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Because I know parents out there. It's like when those moments are happening, that lid is flipped. It's. She just can't. You just wanna.

[Sherm]

And I'm already starting pillow. I'm starting to get a little hint of that. Even though Scarlett is officially eight months old today, by the way. Yeah. The third of March. But I'm already starting to get that a little bit with Scarlet. Scarlet. And it's funny of like her like she's starting to hit and swing when she doesn't want something. Like she doesn't want Baba. I don't want this toy. Throw that. Like I don't, you know, hitting you in the face or bucking.

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Dude.

[Sherm]

She's like bucking so hard now when

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she like wants down or isn't like comfortable. Yeah.

[Sherm]

Or like, hey, I want to play. I don't want to sit in your lap in the rocking chair. Like I have a cool playpen over there. Put me in it.

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And you.

[Sherm]

She's doing this so much with like a. Not a cry but like a ah. Like letting you know, like I. I want to go do something else. Like stop doing this. And so I'm already like, oh man, this is going to be fun. Like having to deal with somebody that is saying no to you.

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Yeah. It's fun too because it gives you as a parent too some more direction.

[Sherm]

Okay.

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You don't like that. You don't want that. Now we know. Know. Now I know. Yes. I don't know if I'm just guessing if you're not hungry right now or if you're. This is something you don't like.

[Sherm]

Yes. That. That actually goes into my dad hack like perfectly is bedtime. Playtime of Scarlett was 100%. I fed her solids and stuff. And I got home so late from daycare that it was already kind of for feeding and bath time, like by the time I got her home. So. So we didn't do our bedtime playtime. And the entire time she's like trying to eat solids and stuff. She is pissed. She doesn't want anything to do with it, which is not really Scarlet. Scarlett has a very kind of like calm vibe and she'll let you know if she doesn't like something. But she was letting me know she was upset. I was like, oh, she's tired. She's probably just tired. I'll go ahead and put her in the bath. She's not really having fun in the Bath like she usually is. I put her on the changing table. She is so sad that she's on the changing table. I'm like, this is the one place where you're always happy.

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What?

[Sherm]

Like, yeah, what has changed? What's going on? Trying to feed her the bottle. She takes three ounces out of seven. That's like, unheard of for Scarlet. That never happens. I put her into her crib because I sat there for 20 minutes, like, okay, are you gonna go down? The entire time she's doing this, which she never does. I put her in the crib. She's screaming for, like, 15 minutes straight. And she finally did go to bed. But, like, looking back on it now, all that bucking and all that crying and stuff, I was like, she was trying to tell me I didn't get to play with you. Like, I didn't get to sit down in the playpen. I didn't realize that until it was too late of, like, trying to put her in the crib. I was kind of moving her hands around a little bit, trying to tell her to, shh, go to bed. And she started laughing and smiling when I was, like, playing with her hands. I was like, oh, no, I didn't play with you. That's. That's what you wanted this entire time. So that was. That was my.

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That's awesome. I love that you're getting. You're, like, getting feedback. I always love those little nuances where. Where Scotty's way different from Rue. Whereas Rue would take down the entire bottle, like, five, six ounces in it. Rue would take it all the way down. Because Scotty's around 15 months.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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And Scotty's different. Like, she'll take down, like, 2 ounces and then stop. And then I'm thinking, okay, does she not want any more milk? Like, seems like she's not. She's not into the milk thing.

[Derek]

Yeah.

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And then all of a sudden, you, like, read a book and she wants the milk again. But there was a learning phrase there for me to where I'm like, okay, if you don't want the milk, I'll get to where I'll just hide it and be like, maybe it just needs to be out of her sight because she' drinking all the milk. I go downstairs until Charo, dude, she left, like, 4 ounces in her bottle, and we just put it in the fridge for the next day. But over the next few days, because I wasn't realizing she just. She takes it down differently.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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To where, Rue, you had this full routine and then when you're sitting there to read the book. Read the books and everything else, she's just hammering the milk. Now, with Scotty, I've just learned that, like, okay, she just takes 20 minutes to drink all of her bottle or 30 minutes to drink all of her bottle. So when I'm up about to change her, I'm like, hey, put away your. I just give her the bottle so she can sip on it whenever she's wanting to sip on it. But I'm not knowing that until, like, I'm learning days after, like, thinking about whatever the feedback, like, Scarlett was giving you of, like, okay. They're just. They just maneuver. They're. They're just doing things differently.

[Sherm]

Also is. What type of milk is she drinking now?

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Right now? So Scotty has eczema on her skin, so we're exploring. Is it dairy? Like, is it.

[Sherm]

Oh, okay.

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Is it something that she could have an allergy to?

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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So we've gotten, like, Dair out of her diet. So right now she'll have, like, almond milk for, like, as her bedtime drink. Like, we'll do different things throughout the day. But right now, Scotty's just having almond, which she likes it, so that fires us up because, again, when you change from, like, you know, you're drinking, like, whole milk to almond milk.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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But that's what she's having now because she's gotten, like, eczema and has, like, these rashes on her skin to where we're trying to figure out what's going on with her skin because it doesn't seem like it's bothering her because that's

[Sherm]

such a dad hack that I just. That you just said with putting the remainder of the milk in the fridge, that I haven't even thought about that. But I. But then when it's enough, if it's

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like, an ounce, I might just dump it. Like, if it's a little bit, I might just dump it or wash it. But it. Sometimes Scotty was leaving, like, 3 or 4 ounces, like, in her bottle. I'm like, all right, I guess we'll just use this for the morning time. But it's only because she was different. She's different from Rue because Rue would just. Just suck it down. Yeah. And you would just know when she was done. Scotty's like a sipper.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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Like, throughout the entire bedtime, I'll read books, and sometimes Scotty's like, Rue would sit there, and you'd read the full book to her. She pointed stuff. You'd have, like, interactions. If kisses or kissing was on a page, like, you'd, like, kiss them and stuff like that. Like, Scotty enjoys that, but Rue would sit there and listen and drink her milk. Scotty's like, you're trying to read the pages, and she's trying to touch and engage with the book and move the pages herself. Like, she doesn't have the same kind of, like, patience or chillness that Rue did. Scotty will be done with the book. You'll get three pages in, and she'll be leaning on you, like, wrestling you to get another book. Yeah. And I'm like, golly, hey, just relax, man. Just sit down and, like, let's enjoy this.

[Sherm]

We're going to bed, dude.

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Yeah.

[Derek]

Can I ask a dumb guy question? Do. Do you test babies for what they're allergic to at a young age, or is it just kind of like they tell you when they're allergic to something? Like, I'm thinking about, like, if a baby's allergic to carrots and you feed a carrots and then something happens. Or is there some version of, like, allergy testing for babies? Or is it just as you go there.

[Sherm]

There.

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There is a form, but absolutely. It doesn't just happen. Like, they're not like, do they do testing, like, right out of the gate?

[Sherm]

Not right out of the gate. And I think it's around, like, the 4, 5, 6 range of, like, the major allergies. But I know a lot of people for peanut butter because a lot.

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Yeah. Peanuts. Is a peanut allergy.

[Sherm]

Peanuts. A big one. They will test it in the parking lot of a hospital. Hospital. Which is kind of a dad hack, I guess.

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But a lot of times you're, like, learning on the go.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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Like, they're having an allergic reaction to anything, and then you take them into the pediatrician. You'll sit there and talk about the diet.

[Sherm]

But there is a tour.

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Hey, let's try this. Let's try that. That's kind of where we got to. What we're doing with Scotty is like, let's just see if she's having an allergy to. It'd be dairy.

[Sherm]

Because there's also a nut allergy of, like, all, you know, not just peanuts, nuts. Like, oh, okay. If they're allergic to peanuts, like, let's test them for all these different types of nuts. It's like, yo, they just have a nut allergy. Like, they can only do.

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Yeah, yeah. Just anything legit, though. Yeah. Overarching nut allergy.

[Sherm]

Yeah. Also, I have a humongous dad Loss that I just briefly want to talk about. And I honestly want pt6's help on this. This is a cry for help.

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Okay?

[Sherm]

The raccoon situation will not cease. They are officially out of this. The space. But one of them was definitely killed by something. Because my house smells like a dead animal right now. The entire. The entire living room, kitchen area smells like a dead animal. It's awful. I don't know what to do.

[Chef]

Have you checked crawl space?

[Sherm]

There is not a crawl space to, like, get into. Like, it would basically, you would have to take off, like, multiple pieces of wood from, like, the exterior of the home and enter in through there. There's no, like, attics.

[Chef]

Any. Any points of entry that a small animal could have got under the home?

[Sherm]

Oh, yeah. That same point of entry that I closed up twice now. They rip. They rip it off. I did nails and screws and they rip.

[Chef]

On the roof.

[Sherm]

On the roof.

[Chef]

Have you checked? I'm talking about below the house.

[Sherm]

Oh, below the house. Yeah, there is. There is. But I mean, it's almost 100 million percent in the. In the ceiling. Like. Oh, okay.

[Chef]

So you know you can smell.

[Sherm]

Oh, yes.

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So your question to Papa Team 6 out there, that's dealt with potential.

[Sherm]

What.

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What do I dead animal smell in their house?

[Sherm]

What do I do? Like, there is a dead animal in the crawl space of. I don't know what to do.

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I'll be honest. I don't know what to do. I wouldn't know what to do. I'd just be spraying Febreze and I paid for this. And Char would be in my ass about spraying Febreze when Charles was out of town. You'll love this because this is like a newspaper esque.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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Rue wet the bed when she was sleeping with me one night and got a little bit. Just got a little. Got a little bit.

[Sherm]

No, no, no.

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I took the sheets off because we have, like, this. We have like, this eight. This eight. Sleep, like, cover that, like, helps chill and heat the bed and stuff like that. And it doesn't seem like you can wash it. Yeah. And so I'm like, whoa. I. You know, I took the sheet off. I'm washing the sheets.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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But the a sleep, it still got the piss smell on it. And then when Charl came back, she's like, what'd you do? I was like, what do you mean? I was like, I just sprayed Febreze on it.

[Sherm]

I hit it with some Febreze.

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Clean it out. You didn't like, blotch it or try to Rub it out with a. Get a rag with. She was saying some home remedy type. I'm like, no, I thought, like, the Febreze, like, that would just. That would just kill it. She's like, well, I mean, you were saying the smell's still there. Like, I can smell it. I'm like, oh, the Febreze didn't work,

[Sherm]

honey. I tried to do something. Yeah, there was an attempt to fix it.

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Breeze got the chemicals and everything else. Like, it's not good to just spray Febreze. You gotta. You gotta figure out a way to try and clean it. I don't know what you want me to do,

[Sherm]

and I don't know what I need to do for. For this. And all. All else I will say about the situation is I hired people to. What do you do?

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You got just like, candles?

[Sherm]

Yeah, we've just been doing candles.

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Baking soda. I don't even.

[Sherm]

Yeah, we've been doing candles.

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You do that apple cider vinegar throw.

[Derek]

Throw.

[Sherm]

There's like a little opening in my roof.

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Like, just start hitting it like holy water.

[Derek]

Just.

[Sherm]

Just make a little grenade.

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Yeah.

[Sherm]

Of apple cider vinegar and just try and land it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don't people use apple cider vinegar for everything? Yeah.

[Sherm]

Burn some sage.

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Yeah.

[Sherm]

But I. I desperately, like, I need some help. I just want to put this out there. I have. I don't know what they're called, but it's like the wildlife specialist. There's some name for that.

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Who. Who said?

[Sherm]

Steve Irwin.

[Derek]

Critter Control.com. i just texted you a link.

[Sherm]

So fabulous. I've hired one of them and was. It felt like a scam because I was charged $600 for them to put a trap on my roof that caught a baby raccoon. And they're like, oh, well, we can't just, like, take the baby away. So we let the baby out of the cage and just put it back in the crawl space to be with its mom because we can't take the baby away. I was like, oh.

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So they brought the trap over. Trap. Something released the. The animal, the critter back into. Like, we're just going to take our trap back. But hey.

[Sherm]

Yeah. And I got to pay $600 for that.

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That was fun. Crazy.

[Sherm]

That was a lot of fun. I got to see a baby raccoon in a cage on my roof for $600. Well worth it. So. So PT sickos that were going to give me that type of recommend. Different avenue than that. Yeah, I need a different avenue. Chime in.

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BT6.

[Sherm]

Please help me Help me.

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I do have a. I have a dad. Win slash loss. This is a little dad loss by Travis Strict. Strict fading on X. Hey, boys. Travis from Michigan checking in. Huge fan of the show. Saw the new MT6 shirts drop and thought, perfect. My heavily pregnant wife needs this in her life. She's 29 weeks with kid number two looking like she swallowed a yoga ball that's now practicing karate in there. I love the creativity. So I hit her with Babe, I got you that dope new shirt in a small. Her face immediately did the you sweet, sweet idiot betrayal look. Got absolutely flamed for sizing her like she's fitting into a pre pregnancy Lululemon.

[Sherm]

Oh, good.

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Panic ordered the next size up. I'm diffusing the bomb now, praying it arrives before she goes full hulk on me. Y' all keep cooking. PT Sicko, out with the emoji. PT Sicko. The sicko emoji.

[Sherm]

Let's go.

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Yeah. Thank you, Travis. Dude, good luck out there, man. Truly, thank you for the support.

[Sherm]

BWTB.com BWTB.com there's also the contest going on right now.

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Yes.

[Sherm]

Yes. We didn't even. Dude, that's all right.

[Willie One Shelf]

The sickos, the ones who actually listen to the full hour out, they. They're going to hear us talk about this.

[Sherm]

Did just really quick shameless plug. A shameless plug for our own company's contest that we're doing. There's a T shirt contest. There's a bunch of busing with the boys shirts on there. They're really great. I am actually a huge fan of the busting with thy boys. And you guys are in night outfits. That's my favorite by far. But there are two PT6 inspired designs.

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And they are badass.

[Sherm]

And they are badass.

[Willie One Shelf]

And the little commercial piece of content you made for it was phenomenal.

[Sherm]

Yes.

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Bravo. And the writing, Deke Chef production, just all of it. Bravo.

[Sherm]

Yes. They. They did a fabulous job with that. That was a very funny idea. And hopefully this David versus Goliath story. Maybe we get a third place. Maybe the cougar, the hot cougar mommy gets like a third place finish or the bear gets a third place. Let's get one of those designs.

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Why not a championship?

[Sherm]

Why not?

[Willie One Shelf]

Why not us? Why not be elite, but essentially fan. This is a design contest where fans submitted designs to be on merchandise and a fan drew up awesome pieces for MT6 and Papa Team 6. Yep. Like, we'll obviously have it playing like, as you guys are watching. If you're listening right now, make sure to just check. Check out the site bwtb.com the design contest will be up right in front of your face.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

You click on that and you'll see, you'll know we're talking about two phenomenal ones. And the winner is getting. There's like a first. There's a first, second and third to. To reward the fans who submitted designs. Whichever shirt gets sold the most, that's going to be the winner. That design winner is getting $3,000.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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Second place is getting 2,000. Third place is getting $1,000. So if the MT6 shirt or the PT6 shirt sells the most most say it has the most sales, that person who designed it will be getting a reward of $3,000.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

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So that's how, that's how it's working. That the stakes are high.

[Sherm]

The stakes are high. So PT6 come correct. Bring the army and let's try and get one of these. One of these designs to win. Yeah. BWTV.com BWDB.com Shameless plug of our own website.

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Hubby shout outs.

[Sherm]

I had hubby shout out emails.

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Yeah. Let's rip, dude.

[Sherm]

Let's rip. I have a hubby shout out right here from Antoinette Saba on ig. Hey boys. I just wanted to send a message to say how truly grateful and thankful I am for. For the dads. I've been a listener since day one and the craziest part is the pod launched shortly after I got pregnant. The timing felt meant to be and my husband and I have been active listeners ever since. Every week we look forward to the laughs, the advice, and yes, even the tears throughout my entire pregnancy. We listen and talk about the trenches, getting so fired up, hearing all the stories and feeling ready to dive right in ourselves. Well, our baby boy officially arrived on February 22nd. He's a junior second of his name, so that birth date feels very fitting for a legacy guy. Guy. I can't even put into words what this podcast has done for my life and especially my husband. Good is now a staple in our house. He doesn't miss trash day. Good. No dishes in the sink. Good. Floors vacuumed.

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Good.

[Sherm]

Dogs taken care of.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherm]

So they kind of. They kind of restructured the good thing there. I like that. Yeah. Taking the night shift so I can sleep and be the best mom possible for our son. Especially while breastfeeding.

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Good, good, good.

[Sherm]

She put three goods there. Since giving birth, my husband Joe was absolutely. Or my husband Joe has absolutely stepped the fuck up. He is a full blown general and officially A PT Sicko. I'm so proud of the father he's become, and I truly believe this podcast helped shape the mindset going into fatherhood. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for building something that impacts families the way you probably. Probably don't even realize. With love, officially, Milk Team Sixer Antoinette.

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Antoinette. Thank you very much. That is awesome. That's an awesome shout out.

[Sherm]

That was a massive shout out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. And the shout out she's bringing up is. Is now I remember I put it on my story the other day, but I saw Luke Combs sitting with somebody breaking down. I think it was with Bobby Bones.

[Derek]

Yeah, yeah, Yours was the Bobby Bones

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one where he's sitting down. And it was very good. It was very much like he simplified it to a way to where Luke Combs, because he's a massive. Loves being a dad, talks about being a dad. And Bobby was asking him, like, hey, what would be your best advice going into fatherhood? And I loved his response because his response was basically, you mean nothing for the kid, which sounds like, you know, it sounds like a. Okay, what does that mean? Shouldn't dads be involved? Yada, yada. He's like, your kid needs. There's nothing that you can give your kid in those first. First, you know, couple months. Those first few months. Who needs all the help? Who does. Who. The person who does need you is your wife, which is so true. Like, postpartum, we're all very. We're all. We're all aware. I wouldn't say very aware to what postpartum comes with for women. Like, it's hard for me to even explain. When our wives get on, we will have them break it down a little bit more for us. But essentially there's a huge hormonal change that's taking place where they're just dealing with. They're dealing with an ego death, an identity death. Because now they have this new kid in our world, and they're the basically the light. They're the vessel. Like, they are the nucleus for the kid. Like, you can hold them, you can feed them, you can do all of those things. Your kid does need you in that capacity. But mainly the help that is coming for is for mom because of the lack of sleep, the lack of everything that they get because they have to essentially pour everything into the newborn child. We're the help. Or the entire scope of your work as a PT6 needs to come from the entire mission. The goal is obviously fatherhood, holding your little one, loving your little one, falling in love. With your little one. But the mission, the moment the kid comes needs to be all about your mt Sixer, all about your wife and everything you can do around her to help her out. And when Luke was saying it and explaining it, we can run the clip if we want to or show the clip so people can go see it.

[Sherm]

Give me some advice. I'm about to have my first kid.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yep. I would say the, my biggest piece of advice is the baby. The like baby with an infant that comes out. It does not need you in any way. Your wife needs you a lot though.

[Sherm]

Got it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Your wife is going to be so tired. It's going to be so exhausting because she's going through the same thing you're going through, but in it. There's also a physical element for her. Like her body is going to be completely different after this thing and it's going to be like she's never experienced that before. And she's going to be dealing with all these new emotions and like helping her through it and doing everything to make her life as comfortable and easy as it can be through that process. To me is the, the most benefit that you can be. But I just, I loved his answer because he's 100. Right. It's all about, it's all about helping mom and all about helping your wife and curating whatever it is, the environment, the needs, everything going on because they're just their, their brain, their body's been hijacked by all these different hor. Postpartum everything going on because they are, they are the one that is mainly in charge of keeping this little one alive, giving them everything that they need nutrient wise. Like you again, you're changing the diapers. You're not changing the diapers because you're falling in love with your kid. That's a byproduct of changing the diapers, holding them and feeding them and everything else. But you're doing all of this work for your wife. The decluttering, the cleaning up. He's talked about the dishes. The dishes, the vacuuming. All of these things that have helps mom out throughout the entire process. Obviously it's an ongoing process forever. But mainly in those first few months, man. It is pivotal that your entire being, your entire mission as a PT6er is how do I help mom?

[Sherm]

Yeah. And. And I would say that it leads to a really good runoff of. If you can ask yourself the question, am I being an intentional husband? And the answer is yes. Less then I would say nine times out of 10 you're also being an intentional dad by being an intentional husband to your wife. Like when, when you've had your baby. Like, if you're doing things to help out mom, more than likely you are being a good dad as well.

[Willie One Shelf]

Right.

[Sherm]

Like those go hand in hand.

[Willie One Shelf]

You got to find a way to compartmentalize the stress that's going on in your world outside of it. Because, yeah, fatherhood is amazing because you got a new kid, you're hearing all the compliments. You're wanting to show them pictures and do all those things. Things that's fun, stuff that comes with it. Yeah. But the entire. The entire mission is around mom.

[Sherm]

Also, I forgot to show this. Antoinette provided a wonderful picture of her hubby. That's him leaving the hospital with their baby. He's got the nice little for the dad's hoodie on. He's looking like a stud.

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Looking like a stud. I have another shout out hubby shout out here from Emma McKee on X. Hi. Reaching out.

[Sherm]

That sounded just like Emma too. That sounded just like her.

[Willie One Shelf]

Reaching out because for the dads is frequently spoken about in our home. My husband Dakota is a big fan. He has been studying so hard to pass his PE exam. Professional engineer. It's something he's been waking up very early to study for a very long time. So he doesn't cut time with his two daughters, Mia and Ren and myself in the evenings after work. This is a huge accomplishment. This morning he got his results and he was so excited. Then he was extra excited because you guys liked his comment.

[Sherm]

What?

[Willie One Shelf]

Then even more excited when you commented. Fitting because he has been fitting because he has been using his workout time to study for his exam. Anyway, give him a shout out for passing his eight hour test to become a professional engineer. And tell him, Emma, Mia and Renn, we are so proud and thankful for his hard work and that we love him. Two heart emojis, P S. Thank you all for everything. Please reply so I know when. If you are doing it so he can be prepared.

[Sherm]

Oh my God. What? Wait, what was his name?

[Willie One Shelf]

His name is Dakota. Dakota, man. Congratulations, bro.

[Sherm]

Hey, shout out Dakota, Professional engineer. Come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

I feel like engineer. You know when you're. When you're growing, growing up and you're in like elementary school and you're trying to like find things that you want to do, whether it's like doctor, lawyer. I feel like engineers always in like the big, the Mount Rushmore of jobs.

[Sherm]

People talk about big time. Dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you.

[Sherm]

That's like dad's getting to brag about their Son or daughter. It's like lawyer, doctor, engineer. Yeah, professional, you know, Professional. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that. Yeah. Engineering. Damn. Eight hours, dude, you could.

[Willie One Shelf]

That is crazy.

[Sherm]

You could go into that exam with the sun up and come out and it's pitch black at night. Like that's a whole day essentially. That's crazy.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, it's amazing. And it's awesome to hear about her just being pumped for him. Like he always woke up super early, so it didn't take away of time from being dad, being hubby.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Putting the kids down.

[Sherm]

We got to take some kind of test as a possibility pod. That would be fun. Some kind of little exam.

[Willie One Shelf]

Maybe just the ACT or sat.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

Scantrons. Do they do the Scantron?

[Sherm]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Bottom. The Scantron life. A through E, A through D. Sometimes you try and think of it as like, okay, I've done C three times in a row. Ain't no way to see because obviously it was D at first.

[Sherm]

So I might go back to D.

[Willie One Shelf]

And you're thinking, I got these three C's in a row. Like those are the correct answers. Test like they might be trying to get me here.

[Sherm]

There. Coach o' donnell Shout out was a coach at Alito and he was diabolical with his scantron answers. And he would purposely make the scantrons abcd.

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Abcd. Abcd.

[Sherm]

So that people would second guess. As they're filling out the scantron, they're like, I'm seeing a pattern here. Like, am I? What? What is going on?

[Willie One Shelf]

You look up the scantron and you just see a full pattern. You're like. You start erasing. You're like, ah, this can't be. It's got to be the one I was thinking about second.

[Sherm]

And he did that for that exact. Right there, that moment. Like he wanted to like add that extra stress of like, this can't be right.

[Willie One Shelf]

Or just like L the se. L the sleep first seven or all B. And then you're like, okay, he must be. Just think it's. You just throw a little wrinkle in

[Sherm]

there and imagine that one burnout kid or the kid that didn't study. That's just like, oh, it. Dude, I'm just gonna do abcd. I don't care. Did you get a hundred back? Imagine that mind of like, oh my God, it worked.

[Willie One Shelf]

Think about teachers. Yeah, very much. Probably think about the pattern and huh. As you're curating tests and everything else. Multiple choice. I'm big multiple choice guy.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Don't have me trying to explain.

[Sherm]

I have another hubby shout out. This is from Jess. Too good. T o o good. Hi guys. I hope you don't mind me emailing you privately. This has been sitting in my heart for a while and I finally decided to put it into words, hopefully without crying on the keyboard too much. Lock in. Let's lock in. I have not read this before but let's lock in.

[Willie One Shelf]

But something like that tells you.

[Sherm]

Yeah, lock in.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay.

[Sherm]

My husband Brett is a huge fan of for the Dads and when I say huge I mean he watches religiously New video out, everything stops, snacks are prepared, drinks are poured, and we're usually tucked up in bed ready to watch. Followed by a very serious debrief where we solve all the world's parenting problems. Or at least talk about them like we could. What started as just a YouTube channel has genuinely become part of our routine and our relationship. Relationship. Some nights we laugh, some nights we get emotional, and some nights we just sit there nodding like yup, that's exactly how it feels. We get married in Vegas on the 21st of September. We got married on the 21st of September in 2024 and marrying Brett was hands down the best decision I've ever made. Vegas clearly brings good judgment occasionally. He works incredibly hard as a welder fabricator to give me the and the kids the best life he can and he does it with quiet strength, kindness and a heart that's bigger than he realizes. He lived in Florida for a year when he was younger and his love for America has never left him. This year I surprised him with the trip back to Vegas for our anniversary so we can make more memories together and one day we hope to return and all the kids with all the kids and share it with them. 2. Florida, not Vegas. I really just wanted to say thank you. What you do genuinely matters. Your honesty, humor and stories make us feel less alone in the madness of parenting, especially on the harder days. And if Brett PT6 ever happened to get a mention on one of your videos, it would absolutely make his year and probably mine too. But regardless, thank you for creating something that brings comfort, connection and a lot of laughs into our heart home. Much love from the UK.

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Oh that is awesome Jess.

[Sherm]

Too good MT6.

[Willie One Shelf]

Just too good. Thank you. Thank you for the UK dude.

[Sherm]

And he's he has a love for America so I'm guessing he's not American.

[Derek]

He lived in Florida for a year is what they're saying. And so they take alleged through the reading. They take some trips To America to reminisce about his time in America.

[Chef]

America.

[Derek]

And that's why they went to Vegas and from all their stuff.

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That's cool, man.

[Sherm]

Well, hello. Hello.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hello.

[Sherm]

Hello, Hello.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hello. Brett, you bloody bastard. Another clip out here. Hey, Brett goes in a little Australian right there for a second.

[Sherm]

Oh, you going get on. David, Brit, how are you? Brett, thank you so much for loving our podcast.

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Yeah.

[Sherm]

And and to your wife as well. I love the image of you guys snuggling up in bed and getting some snacks. Dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherm]

God, that gets me stoked. And I love the way y' all pronounce aluminum.

[Derek]

Aluminium.

[Sherm]

Aluminium.

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That's how they say it.

[Sherm]

Aluminium. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Alum.

[Sherm]

And contra controversy is contre. Contre. Controversy. They do everything. Sounds so smart.

[Willie One Shelf]

So sick, bro.

[Sherm]

That's awesome, Jess.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I love how they call everybody cunt.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, let's normalize that. Yeah, You. If you're a. If you're a guy here in the States that sits there and says to himself, hey, why can't I just freely say the word?

[Willie One Shelf]

You're.

[Sherm]

You're on the right podcast. We fully support you.

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Fatherhood.

[Sherm]

Fatherhood.

[Willie One Shelf]

We have fun.

[Sherm]

We have fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

We have fun. Hubby, shout out here from Jbird VA on YouTube. Hey, guys, want to start off by saying I love the podcast. My husband put me on you guys last summer, and I've been hooked ever since. I really just wanted to give you guys a shout out. I really just want to give a shout out to my husband, Bryce, not only to brag on him, but to show him how much I appreciate him. Last Friday, I was admitted to the hospital with pre eclampsia.

[Sherm]

Oh, preeclampsia.

[Willie One Shelf]

Pre eclampsia. At 31 weeks. We were told we. We would be here until delivery at 34 weeks. Oh, wow, three weeks. You just have to stay in the hospital. What is pre. What is that?

[Sherm]

That was what we searched that one time because Jill was potentially pre eclamptic with the gestational diabetes. And it has to do with the

[Derek]

place placenta, a pregnancy specific blood pressure disorder occurring after 20 weeks, often containing protein in urine and organ day.

[Sherm]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

To the hospital until. Yeah, for three weeks. Wow. To make light of the situation. To make light of the situation. He looked at me and said,

[Chef]

what

[Willie One Shelf]

would Will Compton say? I'm just laughing. Like, did he actually say that? We both collectively said, good.

[Sherm]

Hey, there you go.

[Willie One Shelf]

Unfortunately. Unfortunately, I started to progressively get worse, and the decision was made to deliver our twin girls, Denver and rory, at just 31 weeks. And five days. Although premature, our girls are thriving in the NICU.

[Sherm]

Let's go. Let's go. That's huge.

[Willie One Shelf]

Throughout this time, Bryce has been killing his new role as a dad, but also his role as a part of partner. While caring for me mo. While caring for me post C section. He is also keeping track of my pumping schedule. Washing pump parts. Huge. Good.

[Sherm]

That's right.

[Willie One Shelf]

There you go.

[Sherm]

He's a killer.

[Willie One Shelf]

Labeling milk and delivering it to the NICU for our girls and so much more. That's Bryce.

[Sherm]

Let's Bryce, let's go.

[Willie One Shelf]

From being together since ages 14 and 15, I truly could not be more, could not be more proud of the man he has become and the great father I know he'll be. Be. Shout out. Bryce, dude, there's nothing. Thank you for writing in.

[Sherm]

Yes, there's nothing better than people when faced with adversity, just leaning into it and making the best of a situation. And Bryce, you are doing so more than you could ever know for your wife. And that's speaking from somebody that has never experienced anything like that, but just knowing, like, everything that she's having to go through, that she's able to sit there and go, man, I don't have to question a single thing about Bryce. Yeah, he's got it. Like, he's gone. That's a Good feeling.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherm]

Pt. 6. We interrupt this episode for a brand that we know very well, that we love very much. And honestly, I'm a bit nervous even talking about it because the king of Olipop is sitting here to my left. Will Compton and I will try to give this brand justice because it is truly, truly, it's. It's our favorite brand right now in the office. As far as liquid consumption, they have incredible flavors. I'm holding one of Will's favorites, Classic Grape. I'll go ahead and pop that open. But they don't only have great flavors, they also have a great deal going on. Guys, you can get a free can of Ollipop when you buy any two cans of Olipop in store. And they will pay you back for one that works on any flavor at any retailer. That's at drinkolipop.com forward slash BWTB. Again, drink olipop forward slash, drinkolipop.com forward slashBWTB. Olipop is sold online at drinkolipop.com/Amazon and available in the soda aisle and with the chilled beverages at thousands of retailers nationwide, including Walmart, Walmart, Target, Costco, and Whole Foods. Guys, we also interrupt this episode to bring you our good friends Wayfair. Wayfair is bringing some fun deals here in the spring. We have already talked about the Baylor sign that hangs above me. We talked about the Memorial stadium plaque that hangs over on Willside. There's been some discussion of some lamps being added to our set via Wayfair. Of course. Wayfair is the place to go for tons of household items. But they also have kitchen items. They have anything that you would ever need for a tailgate. You're having the friends over. You need some dishes to put all your buffalo wings on or your snacks and bowls. Wayfair's got it all they offer. They also offer installation and assembly services that are available for a truly seamless experience. Thousands of five star reviews help you shop with confidence. Find furniture and decor and essentials that fit your unique style and budget. And head to Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. That's W-A-Y-F-A-I-R.com Wayfair. Every cell, every home. Back to the episode that leads into my crack.

[Willie One Shelf]

Of course.

[Sherm]

A cold one. Perfect crack. A cold one. Little ollipop. Oh, come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

You see what we got in front of us too?

[Sherm]

Yes, sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

When does our lollipop video come out?

[Sherm]

Sometime this week.

[Willie One Shelf]

I just. I just want PT Sixes to know if you want. If you have any question if your boys about that life. You'll know. You'll know soon enough. Yes, we'll just do it because they pay the money. You're gonna learn very quick that I do this for real. Oh, you saw the lollipop make an appearance too in the old one. Show shelf. It's a.

[Sherm]

It's a cash grab, Willie. It's just a big cash.

[Willie One Shelf]

He don't know how to put a wall mount in his garage. That's bait.

[Sherm]

That's bait. No, it. A crack. A cold one. I had a full on date night on Sunday. It was unreal. How did it end?

[Willie One Shelf]

How did it end? How did it end? It.

[Sherm]

It did end with shock wave. And that's. That's not for clicks. That's not for clicks. I'm just going to say it. It. It ended with sh.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's just facts.

[Sherm]

That's just facts. Went to brag. Went to Del Frisco's grill. Got. Got some steak. Got some French onion soup. Got a little Philly cheesesteak egg roll.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Got a little wine for the wifey. Yeah. I can't be drinking wine. I'm on the muscle relaxers.

[Willie One Shelf]

Muscle Relaxer. When you said that earlier, I'm good on my muscle relaxers now. Like, it's like a supplement. Like you're, like you're back on creatine or something.

[Sherm]

You know, I'm really, I'm really proud of myself. I'm taking care of myself. I started taking muscle relaxers. But yes, we had a full on date night. It was absolutely incredible. And a rule, here's a little dad hack for you. A rule that Jill wants to do when we are at dinner, on date nights or at the meal is that we can't talk about Scarlet. We got to talk about ourselves.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, I love that.

[Sherm]

And talk about, you know, stuff that's going on in our lives, thoughts, feelings, yada, yada. And it was a lot harder said than done or a lot easier said than done because it was like, oh my gosh, like every conversation. Like Scarlett would then come in and be like, hey, don't talk about Scarlet. We're talking about us. We're talking about us here. It was very fun. But that same thought that wifey is probably having about Brian. Jill and I were just kind of, we're just talking about. This would be good for Zachary and Courtney as well. When you're looking for a partner is that you never have those thoughts of like, worry, of like trust of anything like that. Like, I truly, I don't, I don't know how to explain it, but with Jill it's just like, like, hey, I'm going to a bachelorette party in West Palm beach, blah, blah, blah. I have like zero follow up questions with that. Yeah, I'm like, go have fun with your friends. That sounds awesome.

[Willie One Shelf]

I. It is. The reason I'm laughing is you saying for Zach and Courtney.

[Sherm]

Well, potentially, you know. Yeah, potentially. Because they're looking, looking for love. They're looking for love.

[Willie One Shelf]

But you've been married now, however long, long couple years.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah. Coming up on three, you got an

[Willie One Shelf]

eight month old, Scotty, and you're relating to like married couples that like you the, the topic of kids being in every conversation. So you guys. Which I love, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Charl have like stuff she reads or cards or things that like, hey, I saw this. And it's almost like the same challenge of like thinking beyond what our day to day is, where it's just surrounded by kids. I love that because it challenges you because you are. Sometimes you're just hitting dead ends. Like, okay, give me a minute to kind of, give me a minute to think a little bit.

[Sherm]

Yeah, I brought Up Scarlet again. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And it's such game for couples, married couples, like, partners that are just in it. And I just love that you're like, you know, it could be a good thing for Zack and Courtney.

[Sherm]

This could be good for Zack and Courtney.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm just.

[Sherm]

I'm throwing it out there, but they might.

[Chef]

They might.

[Sherm]

But the. The part that's important for them is when you are looking for that partner. One of my favorite qualities in jail.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Is like. Like, there's just. There's just no questions.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

And I. We were laughing because I told Jill. I was like, this is a really poor way of saying it, but it's almost like I don't care. That's how much I don't worry. Like, there's. There's no worry there.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don't care about what?

[Sherm]

Like, hey, I'm going to a bachelorette party, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, it's almost like I don't care about her going to the bachelorette party.

[Willie One Shelf]

You don't care if she hit the shock wave? Somebody else was.

[Sherm]

Oh, well, I do, but I'm just teasing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm totally teasing. Because I hate sort of if you did it, I don't care.

[Sherm]

But I'm saying it. It almost feels that way with how much I'm just like, just go have fun and, like, you're gonna be with your friends, and that's so, like, it's just such a great, like, oh, my gosh. Just like, no stress, no weight on your shoulders.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

I don't know.

[Willie One Shelf]

You don't feel like you're like a crazy person sitting by your phone or.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Messages or just being curious? Like, oh, so what time did you say you left there? Yeah.

[Sherm]

When are you getting back?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, when are you.

[Sherm]

Oh, my gosh.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, you said you're going to text me before bedtime is. You said bedtime is going to be around 10:30. It's 11:45 right now.

[Sherm]

Where's my FaceTime?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

FaceTime me.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sherm]

But, yeah, that was my crack. A cold one was date night.

[Willie One Shelf]

Love that.

[Sherm]

And shout out.

[Willie One Shelf]

I think it's hilarious you brought up Zach and Courtney.

[Sherm]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like any parents that could be in the monotony and looking for a date night little. Here's a good little con. Here's some good conversation challenges we got up with. You know, another thing I just love that you with your partner is just the freedom of not feeling like.

[Sherm]

Like potentially with Zack and Courtney. Potentially. And we're not doing anything. Like, we Said hands off.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're just zero pressure.

[Sherm]

Zero pressure, zero pressure.

[Willie One Shelf]

And we do need a follow up. It's almost like we need Courtney to be like,

[Sherm]

yeah, next week we're going to get an email or a DM or something.

[Willie One Shelf]

Something that says, hey, we're. Why not?

[Sherm]

Hey, Zach.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I, I, yeah, I, I be cool to get connected with him.

[Sherm]

I'll let the for, I'll send my info to the, for the dads guys. For the dad's guys will forward that along to you. And then like they said, they're going to, you know, put their hands up. They're done.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. If Corny just simply said I'd be interested in connecting with Zach. Yeah, that's it.

[Sherm]

That's it.

[Willie One Shelf]

What you thinking?

[Sherm]

De I my brain goes to. Damn.

[Derek]

We're gonna have our first kid that we sponsor.

[Sherm]

That's an FTD baby.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, that's an FTD baby.

[Sherm]

That's an FTD baby right there. Yeah. First nil deal this kid.

[Derek]

I mean, yeah, we got something, man.

[Willie One Shelf]

We'll sponsor the marriage. Yeah, we, yeah, we have to, we have to be the officiators.

[Sherm]

We just start this whole new yeah, we get get to. We start this whole new movement and we have B Baby Boomers v2, version 2 of the Next generation.

[Willie One Shelf]

Zach's family and Courtney's family, immediate family can be there. The audience, the guest, the invites is just going to be the audience of papa teams for the dance. Papa team.

[Sherm]

Oh, I love that.

[Derek]

I love tuxedo T shirt.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, we'll make it work. Hey, we'll give him a cut. We'll give them a percentage or whatever.

[Willie One Shelf]

Split R. But whatever. But we. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherm]

Or did you have a crack. A cold one, sir. Not to throw it in your court. I do have a really good survival kit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Crack a cold one. My crack a cold one. First grill of the season. First grill of the year. The other day. It's been beautiful in Nashville. It's great outside today. I want to say hitting. It's hitting 76 today. It's 71 right now.

[Chef]

I saw high

[Willie One Shelf]

we about to argue weather.

[Chef]

As I was getting.

[Sherm]

There's nothing more.

[Chef]

What's the weather like today? It's going to be a highest 71 in Nashville.

[Sherm]

That's what I got now.

[Willie One Shelf]

Now I got to fact check you. Hey, hey. High today is 72.

[Chef]

Off by one. I'll take that.

[Sherm]

And those things do change throughout the day.

[Willie One Shelf]

They do. So maybe he's like, sure my garments at something else. My 1076.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherm]

I do have very quickly time out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Crack a cold one.

[Sherm]

Time out. Time out. Will has a crack a cold one.

[Willie One Shelf]

Weather's been great outside. First grill of the season. We heat it. Cause we got. Hey, I. Listen, I don't want to flex,

[Sherm]

but

[Willie One Shelf]

we got a hot. Hot tub. Like, we got a pool. We got a hot tub. That's not a day, you know.

[Sherm]

Tell us about your hot tub.

[Willie One Shelf]

I love it. Like, we. The. The. The weather was so nice. We were trying to kind of heat the pool, get it going. We couldn't get it. It would take all day long. It would take all day. But you turn the spa mode on and it heats up the hot tub. It's a little corner of the pool. Like it's, you know, it's one of those. You say flex, but I. I can't help but feel that way because, you know, not having a pool or a hot tub or anything of that sorts. Growing up, one time we thought about getting a hot tub. We thought about getting in college and just putting it on the back deck. But then we realized we fucked up with getting a pool table downstairs because we never used it. We couldn't maneuver around it. So we opted out of the hot tub. But just. First time having a hot tub.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

To pull like you'd kind of make on the Sims. I'm just, you know.

[Sherm]

Oh, also. No, go ahead, go ahead. Sorry about the hot tub. I totally cut you off. That was my bad. Che. Chef was giving me a note about time, and I. I cut off your.

[Derek]

With your story.

[Sherm]

I cut off your sentence.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I do. I gotta. You know, you don't care about my hot tub.

[Sherm]

I do. It's all good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Trust me. This is what I felt insecure talking about.

[Sherm]

No, you don't need to.

[Willie One Shelf]

I just, I. We got to enjoy the hot tub.

[Sherm]

And it looks.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're outside. It was in the 70s over the weekend. We had a grill sesh. I had a couple ribeyes wagu.

[Sherm]

And you caught some flack on the butt bus.

[Willie One Shelf]

Caught some flack on the bus for

[Sherm]

not having an after picture. I trust your word, though. I have seen steaks that you have cooked. Yeah, I know.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, Yeah, I knocked out of the park.

[Sherm]

Yeah, I know you can cook a steak.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's my cracker. Cold one. We had a great time outside. You know what? Listen, I won't talk about the hot tub anymore. Okay? Done. I'm done. I won't ever mention it again. What about the sauna, Will?

[Sherm]

What about the sauna? Talk about the sauna. I do got of sword and go, go, go, go, go. No, I. I am very sorry, because I. Chef was doing a great job of producing, and then I cut you off of your story, and I apologize.

[Willie One Shelf]

Can I say. Can I. Can I say something?

[Sherm]

Absolutely.

[Willie One Shelf]

Do I. Am I allowed to do this? Chef, you're back there producing.

[Chef]

I think we're going to get an earpiece for Sherm, so that way I can just relay stuff, like whisper in. That way we don't have to do the hand signals.

[Willie One Shelf]

O.

[Sherm]

That sound and fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

You could also wait for a time where a moment stops.

[Chef]

To be honest, I've been doing this signal for the last 10 minutes as we've been telling stories. And Sherm, I finally made eye contact. I went, Sher.

[Sherm]

Because we are coming up on an hour, I'm guessing. Yeah. Okay.

[Chef]

But, Will, I want to hear it. What you're going to say.

[Willie One Shelf]

I was going to say a joke on the podcast. I was going to work in a joke.

[Sherm]

Go for it.

[Willie One Shelf]

And it was going to be, you know how we do. And listen, now I'm butchering the joke. Now I'm just going to say what the joke is going to be, and I was going to figure out a way to maneuver it in. But I'm like, who knows? Because you brought up the steak. Like, when I posted about the steak. First grill of the season, I was going to have. What took so long to get that photo up. There we go.

[Sherm]

Derek's holding up a producer sign.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shut up. Will sign. Yeah, but I was going to say first grill of the season to. To. To kick off the war.

[Sherm]

The first grill of the season to kick off the war.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Because I posted on Saturday, you know how we bombed Iran? Oh, we can cut that out.

[Sherm]

We can cut that out.

[Willie One Shelf]

We can always cut.

[Sherm]

We can leave it in, too,

[Derek]

probably.

[Sherm]

Probably.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know, I'm just a. I'm a. I love of the. Of the. Muck it up.

[Sherm]

Yeah, you're having fun. You're having fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

But I had another joke, and again, we can cut this out.

[Sherm]

Okay. Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because I was wanting to post it, and then I was advised not to, and I'm like, oh, you don't know how bad it makes me want to post it even. Who did.

[Sherm]

Who did you run it by? Just wondering.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'll tell you after the bot. Okay. And because I'm just wanting to run. I'm just like. I'm, like, laughing to myself.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because I know it's ridiculous. And I was gonna work in another joke. Like, okay, maybe I can put this on roof somehow. Yeah. I was gonna say, you know how we do. You know how we do rose and thorns for dinner? We were going around the table, what's the rose and thorn? And I asked rue, sweetheart, what was your rose and thorn today? She said we bombed Iran. She said I was a rue. You can't.

[Sherm]

Wait, was that her rose or her thorn?

[Willie One Shelf]

Those are rose. Oh no, sweetheart, we can't joke about. We can't joke about like that. Thank God you don't have the Internet because people would.

[Sherm]

People would come out, they would get

[Willie One Shelf]

upset for a joke like that.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

I was teaching her right away. That was a big learning lesson moment. Know your.

[Sherm]

That's a know your audience type of situation.

[Willie One Shelf]

You could say this in front of the deck space here. Yeah, same space here. That's a hilarious joke at the Montessori though.

[Sherm]

Like I would, I would. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don't say to school. Don't say to school. And I for sure won't post about that or make a joke of it. Cuz you don't want to get in those water. It's not. It's a dangerous game out there again.

[Sherm]

Our. Our kids growing up to be old enough to look at our content. Just be like dad, what the hell? What the world.

[Willie One Shelf]

No, it's not funny. But it's. It's funny.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And also just randomly thought we could go into our voice. Voicemails. We got a couple.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let's do it. 601 the dads. You want to be featured on the show. We send you merch. We do the whole thing. If you don't want to hear your voice heard, don't want your voice to be on the show. You want to write in. We have 601theDads.gmail.com. let's kick off the dad hotline.

[Sherm]

Yes. This one is labeled 137 missed calls. Hey fellas, this is Trent. It's current. Currently 6:12 in the morning and I am flying 85 all the way across great state of Missouri. I was on a goose hunt with my buddies for a bachelor party. Woke up at 4am to get out and go hunt. Check my phone. 137 missed calls. 50 text messages. Called my wife and her water broke and she is going into LA labor. We got the got to go ahead last minute decision to be able to go. She's 37 weeks and we. Nothing was budget but of course. Good, good. Hopefully everything goes well. Wish me luck, boys. Love you guys.

[Willie One Shelf]

Love you too, man. Thanks for the call in. Slow down. Just.

[Sherm]

Yeah, Trent, slow down.

[Willie One Shelf]

For legal sake on the show.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

We can't promote speeding. No.

[Sherm]

God forbid. We forgot about speeding on this podcast. Dad, podcast. Please drive responsibly, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Trent. I love that his first thought was call the boys. Do you know how dead inside I would feel If I had 20 missed calls for my wife? I'd be like, oh my God.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like you don't even call back. You just send like you see all the messages, you hear the water broken, you just texter. Are you sure? Cuz it's a hunting trip. I'm trying to, but are you sure

[Sherm]

like we sure that you. It's going to happen? Because the goose numbers are great. Garrett says everybody's got a limit out. Yeah, I mean we're all getting our limit today. Oh my God.

[Willie One Shelf]

Great call in.

[Sherm]

Great call in.

[Willie One Shelf]

TR Hope everything goes well. Hope everything went well.

[Sherm]

Yes. S. Safe travel. Hope you got there in time. But also. Also hope that wifey had a. A nice easy delivery.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. And that you went to speed limit.

[Sherm]

And that you went the speed limit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Click it or ticket.

[Sherm]

What was your rose? You didn't speed. You didn't speed. Cut from first team is our second voicemail. Hey boys, I just called. I'm gonna leave a better message. I'm a dad out of California. I got a 10 year old, that is. We just got word got cut from his first team and really good team. Could go anywhere else and play, but I don't know what to say to the kid. No experience of this at all. He's only child. So I'm curious to hear if you guys have had any stories about parents dealing with defeat or whatever you want to call it and how you guys deal with it, what you think the best ways to deal with it. I know there's a lot of kids in club sports now and how cutthroat they are, so would love to hear your opinion. Wish me luck.

[Chef]

It's gonna be just terrible.

[Derek]

See ya.

[Willie One Shelf]

So the kid hasn't got the news yet.

[Sherm]

He hasn't got the news.

[Willie One Shelf]

How old? 10. 10 years years old.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Club team. I mean, you're playing different ball game.

[Sherm]

Yeah. And out in California I'm sure that there's a lot of competition. Like there's a lot of really good teams, a lot of athletes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherm]

Yeah. First off, good. Secondly, I never got like cut from a team by 100%. Made like the B team and the C team team for some sports in middle School, which really sucked because everybody wants to be on the A team. Dude, I don't even know where to begin.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherm]

Because I, I think the only thing right off the, the bat when you're having that conversation with your son of this team thought that you weren't good enough. And you could probably speak to this better than anybody being, being able to essentially walk onto an NFL team not being drafted. I would say, I don't know how to say it, but I would say sit him down to try and create that mindset that you have had when you were going to the NFL to prove yourself. Does that make sense?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Difference there is. I was an adult. You're an adult.

[Sherm]

He's. It's a 10 year old and he's

[Willie One Shelf]

trying to figure out how to communicate with this 10, 10 year old when he's mortified of getting cut or getting, you know, not making the team. Yeah. Look, this isn't going to be the first time that you get told no, this isn't going to be the first time that you, you, you know, I understand you aspire and desire to be on this team. And it's not going to be the first time a desire gets taken away from you and something kind of, you know, outside of your control to where you're not the decision maker. And what a moment too to if, if I'm dad like I'm pulling from, if I happen to be the kid's child, speaking on my own experience, it would be pulling examples from my journey back in time where whether it's undrafted, getting cut, something bad happening, whether in school, growing up, anything that you can p that felt like that was failure that you saw as failure that you struggled with. You're like using the example and that storytelling to empathize where your son is probably going to be at and it's going to hurt. There's nothing you're going to do that's just going to take his pain away or any words that you're going to be said. But you're also being real about this isn't going to be the first time this is going to happen, buddy. You know what I mean? Like this decision. Two things are going to happen. You can go whenever we get home. You're going to go to bed tonight and you're going to go to bed every night and you're going to want to stay under the covers. You're going to want to stay, stay secluded from everybody else and be ashamed and be embarrassed. It's okay to feel those things. But Two things are going to happen. You're either going to allow this moment to define you or you're going to show up. Understand where we can get better at. If this is something you want to continue doing and something you aspire to do, which I know it is you want to do. But we show up the next day and work on the things from the feedback that we got on why this didn't, why this didn't work, work out and you just work and you work and you work because that is life. That is. You know, how great is it that this happened when you're young and not later on where you're given everything and you've accomplished everything and you've been a stud at everything. And then you taste failure for the first time when you are a little bit more developed with your brain, your skill set, everything else to where you feel like it's such a shock and an embarrassing feeling to you.

[Sherm]

You.

[Willie One Shelf]

We get to, we get to deal with this now when you're young because it's not going to be the first time. There's nobody that goes through anything without failure or adversity. You get to taste this adversity now. You're, you're wanting to play club level ball and club level ball, there's higher competition. We can go play community league if you want to. We can keep you protected. You can hit the four slot, you can hit the three hole, you can play center field. You can do all the things and be a stud. Yeah. In a small pond. But if you're wanting to chase these things, there's going to be some realities that is going to suck when you do get told no. However, that reality can also be our feedback. Because I know you want to be great at this. And this is a, this is a lesson that either can define you or we could grow and get better from it. Because I'm not shying away from wanting to go out and play catch or work on the things that you're wanting to get better at.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So whenever you're ready. This is going to suck. There's no way around it, bud. There's no way around, you know, this hurting. This should hurt because you care. You love it. You want to be great at it.

[Sherm]

Find examples too. One, you are cooking. You're cooking. Find examples. Because I know that there's really good examples out there of absolute studs. Like I'm almost positive Michael Jordan got cut.

[Willie One Shelf]

You always famous, famous ones. Michael Jordan not making his high school basketball team.

[Sherm]

Yeah. Like find examples in that sport. That he's playing. I'm guessing it's baseball. Just from context clues. Yeah, that sounds like baseball to me.

[Willie One Shelf]

Could be. Maybe it's soccer.

[Sherm]

Could be soccer. Yeah. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay.

[Sherm]

Probably soccer. Baseball. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Either way, I know as a dad, I can imagine he's like, ah, this is gonna like. And he's like, you can hear it in his voice. This is gonna suck because you're seeing

[Sherm]

your boy hear it in his voice.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're seeing your boy fail. You're like, you're seeing your kids fail. Which we always want to protect our kids. We want them to be great. We, we hate seeing them deal with something that they haven't experienced before and knowing what it could do to their psyche. But also, man, what a, what a gift and an opportunity and a lesson to have right now.

[Sherm]

Big opportunity.

[Willie One Shelf]

They're 10.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

They're young. There's so much develop. There's so much to work on. Like, that's where it's like, hey, good, we need to taste it. We need to taste some of this.

[Sherm]

It is such a blessing. Blessing. I know it probably sucks to hear that from his end of things, but this is a blessing that this is happening at 10 and this can be a really, really cool defining moment for your son and for yourself. A lot of good can come out of this.

[Willie One Shelf]

Right.

[Sherm]

Your son's work ethic will be completely different than anybody else of his peers for the rest of his life because of this moment.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. And you know too, as a, as an adult, as a dad, as nurse, knowing the harsh realities that are factual and true. The sun rises every day and nobody cares about how you feel. And I don't say that to be like aggressive about it. We just.

[Sherm]

I know what you mean.

[Willie One Shelf]

That we all know as adults that no matter what, everything continues to spin and go and people are out there moving. And it's truly, it comes down to you getting out of business bed and having a drive, having. Building momentum, having a purpose for. Okay, am I going to allow this failure to define me or am I going to get my shit together, listen to whatever the feedback was and not let external noise or anything external affect what my next approach is going to be? Because at the end of the day, it's just, it's. You're, you're receiving data. What am I going to do with this? Yeah, you're not telling a 10 year old that, obviously, but you get to start moving, molding this, this little, this little human. Yeah. To essentially prepare for that to be life one day. Because that is the, like, the harshest way to just understand the reality of the world. Yeah.

[Derek]

I think the only thing I would add on top of that is, is if I was in this position is to attack the original reason why the kid wants to play that sport or be on that team is that he's saying, like, there's other teams, but this was the really good one. And there's other situations, but this is the one he's. He wanted. But that doesn't mean that you can't not play the sport. And that doesn't mean there aren't other opportunities to continue playing that sport. And so as a dad, I, I don't have kids, I'm not married, but I would think to attack the reason the kid wanted to be on the team, if it's just to play with his buddies. Different kind of beast. But if he just loves the sport and he's like, yeah, I'm just mad I won't get to play. I would just drive home the fact that there are other opportunities and talent is talent. Like, you'll, you know, you talk about being a walk on in the NFL. Like, you'll get noticed and you'll get your time to play. And there's nothing wrong with playing on a worse team. And being the guy on that team, I guess, is how I would hope I treat it someday.

[Willie One Shelf]

I love the approach too, buddy. Why do we play? Why do we play this game? Yes, tell me why you love soccer or baseball.

[Sherm]

Whatever the sport is, gauge his passion for it. Gauge his passion for it. That, that is a great point. That is a really good point because.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, that's honestly well said. You're starting from the wire. Yeah.

[Sherm]

Like, you, Once you have that base set up of like, oh, you. You're die hard passionate about. About this. Okay, well, buddy, this is what we're gonna do to stay in it and like, keep moving forward. We got this. Oh, you just want to be on there. Cause Bradley's on there and that's your buddy and he lives two blocks away. Like, dude, we. We can find another team. You're gonna, you're gonna meet some other Bradleys.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, yeah, I love that question. Something marinate on for the next week. Cause that's. Yeah, that's a good one.

[Derek]

That's.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's a. Obviously a tough spot for a parent because you're wanting to give. You're wanting to approach it the right way. Yeah. And it's just like, you're not trying to not validate how my man's feeling, but you're also thinking like, buddy, this is, listen, this is going to be all good. This is going to be the first of many times you're going to fail. And you know why you're going to continue to fail? Because you want to be really good at something and you want to put yourself out there and be vulnerable enough to be great. And with that, that comes failure. And you're just going to learn. Yeah, you're just going to learn. Or you can go home and you don't want to do anything. You want to play video games, which I know that's not what you want to do.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But buddy, this is going to be the first of many, man. And that is awesome to say. Once you, once you know that, like that is going to be the reality, that's when you can just accept. Because once you can, the sooner you can accept this and understand it and feel it and know that this feeling is not going to go. Go away for the rest of life.

[Sherm]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

The sooner we'll be able to start finding solutions to hey, what, so what's going to be your pivot? What are we going to do next?

[Sherm]

Yeah, and, and just like the passing of a loved one or like other huge milestones, like universal truths in this world, the like at, you know, not too early, but at the early stages of life, like him being able to understand a universal truth of you will feel fail. But what, but what are you going to do about it? What are you going to learn from that? Loved ones are going to pass away. How do we deal with that? You know, like, I think learning that at a young age. This is a really cool opportunity for this, dad.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherm]

Do we want time wise, do we want to jump to emails?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. We. We're what around where we flirting around actual time.

[Sherm]

Got work. Well, I have one email, so that works perfect. Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

Mason Golio part one. We have pictures for part two. Oh, he looks like a stud. What's up, boys? This is Mason from Florida. My wife and I had the same job cleaning pools, but when she got pregnant, I took over her pool route and still doing my own just so we can keep the same pay while she stays at home. Good. Well, now she's in her nesting stage where that means she to wants. Wants or that means she wants to do all kinds of home improvement. Good. Last weekend, after working five double shifts, she's like, I can't stand the way our kitchen ceiling looks. It's amazing. What can you do about it? Well, boys, I took care of it. And I'm building up that shock wave.

[Sherm]

Come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

Here's some pictures for the work done. Oh, beautiful ceiling.

[Sherm]

Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's. Know what? You know, my man Mason gets there. Mason coupons. This is a shock wave. And this is a. Put a bow on a coupon, brother.

[Sherm]

He got the whole wheel at the fair. You know how they have the entire wheel of coupons? Give him the whole damn wheel.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

That's unreal.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherm]

Okay, Mason. Wow. Don't I hope Jill does not see that. Daniel Rich. This is a email. Starts with Good morning, Papa. Team six goes my boy Sherm. God, I love you, man. Go dogs. One shelf. Willie, I am so proud of you. You have officially upgraded to snow Apocalypse Willie. So let's get to it. About last night, I was fortunate to be in town here in Jacksonville, Florida, in the Neptune beach area. At my house, I travel a lot for work. I got home from Cleveland on Wednesday evening and was planning on spending all Thursday, February 20, 2026 with my boy Whan, who is two, while my wife went to work at Wolson's Children's Hospital. She is a NICU practitioner there. Milk Team Sixer is a serious boss. That's my little mama. That evening, Wayland went down to sleep at 9:40pm and my wife had just gotten home around 9:50pm we were in the room discussing our day and our upcoming C section on March 12th. For our little baby girl, Joe Josephine, the excitement was apparently too much. While my wife stood up at exactly 10pm like something out of a movie, her water suddenly broke.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherm]

Didn't have bags packed.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherm]

Baby fluid all over our bedroom floor.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherm]

Family lives in Atlanta.

[Derek]

Good.

[Sherm]

As of 12:11am, February 27th, my second child, Josephine Lynn Rich, arrived at £6 14 oz, making me a first time time girl. Dad. I get it, boys. I'm cooked.

[Willie One Shelf]

She.

[Sherm]

She's got me wrapped. Take the credit card. My life in my heart, baby girl. Peep the for the dad's gear and the picks. All the best, boys. I love y'. All. And the content. It definitely feels like we are all in this together. Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. He's got the P6 black for the dead dad's hat.

[Willie One Shelf]

Look at this.

[Sherm]

Look at little Josephine.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, that's awesome. Congratulations.

[Sherm]

Well done.

[Willie One Shelf]

Well done, well done, well done.

[Sherm]

And congrat. Congratulations. And go dogs. What is he doing with that? Chef, what do you mean by that?

[Willie One Shelf]

Go dog.

[Sherm]

What do you mean by that?

[Chef]

It's golfing.

[Derek]

Season.

[Chef]

We'll worry about that.

[Sherm]

What? What do you mean by go do doll? Topic quote. Lesson of the week. I have a quote.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let's hear it.

[Sherm]

This one is a little late, but I thought it would be apropos to quote Clay Matthews.

[Willie One Shelf]

Well said. Well said.

[Sherm]

Here's our quote. Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played them 10 times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight we skate with them. Tonight we stay with them and we shut them down because we can. Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players, every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw them. This is your time. Now go out there and take it. Herb Brooks.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's a great quote.

[Sherm]

Thank you.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's good.

[Sherm]

It's a little late, but, God, great quote nonetheless. Yeah. And just switch out hockey player with dad.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dad part of this.

[Sherm]

I'm tired of hearing how good these Soviet dads are at being fathers. Go out there and take it.

[Willie One Shelf]

One game, one feed, one feet.

[Sherm]

Are you dad? Tonight we parent with them. Oh, my God. Yeah. Dude. It just get. That gets me juice every time I hear that. What do you have cooking?

[Willie One Shelf]

I love how when there's always a hard day, Instagram has some slide carousel that is either pointing out all the things my kids do that make it a hard day. Yeah. And they're just trying to make you feel better. Or if it's real and you're just thinking like, okay, we're doing a pretty good job.

[Chef]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

This one is from Shweta. Happy minds.

[Sherm]

Shweta.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Five signs your child is truly happy that most parents miss. They daydream. Talking to toys, building imaginary worlds, getting lost in their own stories. This is not distraction. That is a brain that feels safe to explore. They disagree with you. I'll say that again. They disagree with.

[Sherm]

With you.

[Willie One Shelf]

That is not fair. I do not like it. This is not disrespect. It is trust. They believe your love will not disappear just because they think differently. They copy you. Your tone, your habits, your little phrases. Children imitate the people who feel safe. To them, you are their model of the world. They are silly around you. Loud laughter. Random songs. Funny faces. Faces. Goofiness means comfort. Play is how children show connection. They show Big emotions. Tears, anger, I hate you moments. Haven't got to those yet.

[Sherm]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

It may feel messy, but it means they feel safe enough to be real instead of hiding their feelings. And the last one, real happiness is not constant smoke. Smiling. It is feeling safe. It is feeling seen. And it is being free to be themselves with you. Shout out Sha period happy minds on Instagram.

[Sherm]

Let's go. And a question that I was.

[Willie One Shelf]

Comment below. Safe. And I'll share a list of simple, practical things. Those. Those ones. Oh, comment. The word. Yeah. Hey, but the comment this week,

[Sherm]

what is it going to be? Oh, blue heart. A blue heart. Blue heart crush for Jose.

[Willie One Shelf]

Correct.

[Sherm]

Yeah, I do.

[Willie One Shelf]

And if people listen at the very end of this, this can be another emoji. I do need. We need to make Papa Team 6 aware.

[Sherm]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

March 14, Steak and Blowjob day.

[Sherm]

And that's your rose for this. Yeah, that's your rose that. That's coming up.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherm]

Just. Just circle that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Put a steak emoji. Put it or rose still. Listen, it doesn't matter. We. We have fun in the comments.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

March 14th.

[Sherm]

March 14th.

[Willie One Shelf]

Showed my wife last night. Yeah, you know you have you little. Little fun moments with your wife. Were you over. I was telling her I was about to go up in. In Goon with Demon. We watched her episode of the Beast of Me, by the way. Great show.

[Sherm]

Great show.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I was like. She was talking about going to bed. It was about 9:30. And I was like, all right, I'm gonna go up and throw some lead. Yeah, throw some lead in with the boys, honey.

[Sherm]

We're boots on the ground. Yeah, boots on the ground.

[Willie One Shelf]

I gotta go get the headset on. I'm gonna kill a couple bad guys.

[Sherm]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And they came over. She was sitting on the couch. I'm standing up, walking over. Ben, bend down, give her a kiss. Smile. Give her another kiss. And then I hit her with the. I stood up and then I hit her with the. She left. I said, she loved that. Hey, baby, don't forget. I started walking away. I said, hey, don't forget March 14th is coming up. She said, what's March 14th? I said, steak and blow job day.

[Sherm]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Putting it on your.

[Sherm]

And she actually told me that you had brought that up. And she told me what she said after you said that. She said, there's the man I married. There's a man I fell in love with. Yep, there he is.

[Willie One Shelf]

Love you, baby.

[Sherm]

And gave her a little air tap.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, take your trash out. We love you. We'll see you next.