Christmas Traditions For Your Children + Mom vs Wifey Battle For House Supremacy | For The Dads

Summary

Bussin' With The Boys – "Christmas Traditions For Your Children + Mom vs Wifey Battle For House Supremacy" | For The Dads

Date: December 17, 2025
Hosts: Will Compton & Sherman Young
Episode Description: The Boys dive deep into dad life during Christmas—sharing traditions, dad wins and losses, practical hacks, and the lighthearted chaos of the holidays. Listener stories, family dynamics, and tips for surviving the season as a dad take center stage.

---

Main Theme

This episode is a holiday special celebrating the ups, downs, and absolute mayhem of being a dad at Christmas time. Will and Sherman explore Christmas traditions, the delicate dance between moms and wives in the household, and how even the best-laid plans devolve into beautiful chaos. Listener stories and practical dad hacks abound, fostering a sense of community for all dads (and moms) in the trenches.

---

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Community & Podcast Growth

• [02:24] Will: Welcomes new and aspiring dads, celebrates growing “Papa Team 6” community.
• [03:41] Discusses how the podcast is being spread among dad group chats, underlining their reach and relatability.
• [06:46] Details all the ways to engage: social media, comments, hotline (601-THEDADS), and email for international listeners.

2. Christmas Gift Assembly: Dad Fails & Wins

• [04:28] Will’s story about struggling to assemble a child’s Chevy Silverado – “She’s one. She can't be in this thing yet.” Hilarity ensues as he puts the tires on wrong multiple times.
• [04:57] Will: “I put the tires on wrong a couple times. I had to take it apart, son.”

3. Dad Life Realities

• [07:27]—[10:17] Listener shoutouts share the hard truths of fatherhood: winter car repairs, being “called up” for nighttime duty, and managing the emotional grind of supporting pregnant wives.
• [10:33] Will shares his recent solo-dad struggle when his wife volunteered: “I got the two minions, bro. Scotty’s climbing the Christmas tree, Rue’s in a phase where everything is ‘Look at me! Watch me!’”

4. Dad Hacks & Surviving the “Watch Me” Phase

• [11:43] Will’s coloring worksheet hack – stockpiling restaurant coloring sheets for home to keep kids busy and steal a moment for himself.
• [13:59] On entertaining toddlers through their watch-me phase: “This phase, man, it'll beat you down. Hey dad, dad, come here, watch me.”

5. Christmas Cookies and the Art of Encouragement

• [15:04] Will playfully roasts his daughter’s cookie creation in the group chat—while endlessly hyping her up to her face, revealing the comedic duality of being a supportive dad.

6. Mom vs. Wifey: The Interior Design Standoff

• [18:36] Sherman recounts his mom’s visit, her desire to redecorate, and the tension of letting wife Jill have final say. Turns out, Jill loved the redesign, derailing expectations:
  • Will: “If you feel confident enough to tell my wife we need to redesign this house, I’m letting you know right now you’re on your own. When that grenade goes off, I’m on my wife’s side.”
• [20:41] Ultimately, the wives and moms unite—a rare win!

7. Dad Home Repairs: Feeling Like the Man

• [23:03] Will tackles his home’s HVAC, guided by his friend via phone. The ritual, the “Willie One Shelf” bravado, and the small victories of dad adulthood:
  • “I said, sweetheart, I have to go up in the attic. … Where’s the tape measure? If I’m not back in 10, start feeling around my pockets… you don’t know what you’re going to need.” [26:04]
• [28:58] Sherman shares his own “dad hack” for heating efficiency by closing upstairs vents in winter.

8. The Battle of Dressing Children

• [41:47] Sherman is ratted out by daycare staff for his no-bow, all-practical outfits for Scarlett.
• [44:13] Derek (Funko) asks: “Why does Scarlet have clothes she’s not allowed to wear?” This triggers a discussion about the unwritten wardrobe rules and the confusion dads face.

9. Losing and Embracing the Suck

• [48:53]—[57:00] Listeners open up about feeling like failures. Will & Sherman dive deep:
  • Will: “The losses will never stop coming. Being a parent is very hard work. That’s why on this pod, we talk about embracing the suck.”
  • Sherman: “A failure is someone that is failing to act in the moment… take little bites, small victories.”
  • Both stress the importance of gratitude, self-talk, and shifting your mindset: “Nobody’s coming to save you. It all starts with how you respond.”

10. On Traditions and Christmas Magic

• [90:12] Will and Sherman discuss Christmas traditions: Advent calendars, family ornaments, baking cookies, watching movies like “Polar Express,” and the role of parents in creating magic.
• [93:15] Sherman’s dad hack for Santa’s footprints and the art of keeping kids believing.

11. The Elf on the Shelf Segment

• [108:33] Listener asks about creative Elf on the Shelf ideas — the gang brainstorms and jokes about the “authority” of the elf, ways to use it as a behavior hack, and the line between whimsy and horror:
  • Will: “So I could have the elf just sitting on Rue’s dresser… with a knife.”
  • Chef Jack: “You don’t have to do it like that.”
  • [110:33] Derek: “If you do it at home, please tag us. Love to share.”

12. Listener Call-ins & Emails

• [115:17] Listener stories range from managing chaos (kids, puppies, poop explosions) to prenatal challenges and pregnancy “twins” shock.
• [127:51] On maintaining connection with your spouse during newborn chaos:
  • Sherman: “I really want to set a tradition of a date night with Jill. If you don’t do it and don’t set it on a schedule, it ain’t gonna happen.”
  • Will: “You’ve got to turn your shoulds into musts. Stop already planning for the failure… sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

13. Dad Wins – Crack a Cold One

• [85:09] Scarlet rolls over by herself for the first time – a celebrated milestone with much comedic dad commentary.
• [90:12] Will’s Christmas traditions: collecting holiday Polaroids, doing cookies, ornaments, and the build-up with Advent calendars.

---

Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Dad Fatigue and Struggle:
  • Will: “There are so many times now I gotta just say in my head like I get to do this…” [10:17]
• On Messy Christmas Cookies:
  • Will: “Sweetheart, I look over at my wife, I’m like, we think she’s gonna be smart, and then she makes a cookie like this.” [15:04]
• Giving Self-Love vs Self-Accountability:
  • Will: “You have self-love for a second, but the minute you have a little bit of self-love for yourself, like, be hard on yourself.” [57:04]
• Advice to Dads Feeling Like Failures:
  • Sherman: “A failure is someone that is failing to act in the moment. When you don’t take action… that is the only definition of failure.” [62:16]
  • Will: “It’s all about how you respond in every moment. … it’s never about chasing perfection—it’s about showing up.” [63:06]
• On Christmas Magic:
  • Sherman: “Dad would get his big old work boots and stamp them real hard in the fireplace… then ash footprints throughout the living room.” [93:51]
  • Will (about seeing 'Santa'): “I have seen this man. … Maybe he doesn’t bring all the presents, but I’m just telling you, there’s gotta be one there.” [94:40]
• On Traditions & Legacy:
  • Will: “Traditions matter because they slow life down... It’s not the gifts, it’s the feeling you have from what your parents created. … That’s the legacy you’re going to leave.” [100:04, 103:11]

---

Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |------------|------------------------------------------------| | 02:24 | Community intro, Papa Team 6 explained | | 04:28 | Christmas gift assembly woes | | 07:27 | Listener shoutout: dad struggles and wins | | 10:17 | Embracing the suck as a dad | | 13:59 | Entertaining toddlers: the perennial “watch me!”| | 18:36 | Mom vs. Wifey—Home decoration stories | | 23:03 | DIY dad: Will’s home HVAC odyssey | | 41:47 | Dad dressing kids—wardrobe controversy | | 48:53 | Listener story: dog loss, grief, parent doubt | | 57:00 | Will & Sherman’s advice: self-talk & mindset | | 90:12 | Crack a Cold One—Christmas traditions, wins | | 108:33 | Elf on the Shelf chaos & creative ideas | | 115:17 | Listener call-ins: managing chaos, dad hacks | | 127:51 | On making time for marriage in family chaos | | 134:01 | Closing lessons—internal dialogues & analogies |

---

Notable Listener Interactions & Community Moments

• Listener emails and comments:
  • Share daily struggles (“dog in nursery”, “poop chaos”, “twins surprise”)—building camaraderie among parents.
  • Encouragement from and for “Milk Team 6” (moms who listen).
• Dad Hack Sharing:
  • “Close all your upstairs vents in winter” – Sherman [28:59]
  • “Stockpile coloring worksheets from restaurants for home use” – Will [11:43]

---

Tone & Takeaways

The tone is equal parts self-deprecating, supportive, and enthusiastically profane at times, with dad wisdom and comedy at its core. The hosts and their circle are as quick with genuine affection for their families as they are with a roast or a dad joke.

Key lessons:

• Embrace the messy, imperfect, and hilarious parts of parenthood.
• Christmas traditions—big or small—matter deeply to kids and build family legacy.
• Self-care and self-talk are crucial for being a present, caring dad.
• In the chaos, make time for your partner: If you don’t calendar it, it won’t happen.
• The “losses” will come—respond with humor, resilience, and gratitude.
• Build and lean on your dad community—no one’s in it alone.

---

Recommended Segment

On Christmas Traditions [90:12 – 96:26]:

• Will: “It’s not the gifts, it’s the feeling you have from what your parents created when you were in these moments. … That’s the legacy you’re going to leave.”

On ‘Elf on the Shelf’ [108:33 – 113:12]:

• Will: “So I could have the elf just sitting on Rue’s dresser… with a knife. … [Laughter] Chef Jack: You don’t have to do it like that.”

On the “Get to Do This” Mindset [10:17]:

• Will: “There are so many times now I gotta just say in my head like I get to do this because, buddy, over the weekend… I had the kids solo.”

---

For Dads, Moms, and Aspiring Parents

This episode is a warm, wise, and wacky reminder that—if you’re celebrating Christmas with kids (or bracing yourself for kids)—you’re not alone in the madness. Dad jokes, fails, wins, and wisdom included.

Transcript

[Sherman Young]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Will Compton]

Guaranteed Human.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

What a matchup we got, y'.

[Derek (Funko)]

All.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rockin and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beatin Everybody showing that school pride. Game like this. Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and in ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

[IBM Announcer]

So you're telling me that the AI that's meant to make everyone's job easier to manage just adds more to manage? On top of the thousands of apps the IT department already manages? Funny how that works. Any business can add AI. IBM helps you scale and manage AI to change how you do business. Let's create smarter Business IBM.

[Sherman Young]

This message comes from Greenlight. Ready to start talking to your kids about financial literacy? Meet Greenlight, the debit card and money app that teaches kids and teens how to earn, save, spend wisely and invest.

[Bojangles Announcer]

With your guardrails in place.

[Sherman Young]

With Greenlight, you can send money to kids quickly, set up chores automate allowance and keep an eye on what your.

[Bojangles Announcer]

Kids are spending with real time notifications.

[Sherman Young]

Join millions of parents and kids building healthy financial habits together on Greenlight. Get started risk [e-mail] iheart hey PT6ers.

[Will Compton]

This is Willie One Shelf. You're about to listen to an automated ad read after this call to action. If you're on the Busing with the Boys audio channel. If you want to listen to for the Dads automated ad free, be sure to head over to the for the Dads channel and wherever you listen to us on audio. Enjoy this episode of for the Dads.

[Sherman Young]

PT Sickos. Empty Sickos. We are about to get into Santa Claus talk. We're going to talk a little Santa Claus talk. In case there's any little ones in the room next to us that could maybe hear us. We're about to talk Santa Papa Team 6.

[Will Compton]

Welcome to another episode of for the Dads. I hope your trash is taken out. I hope you're sitting around the fire in the evening. I hope you guys are making Christmas cookies with the fam. This is a show for the Dads by the Dads. My name is Will Compton. I got fat Stafford over here Sherman young. Hello.

[Sherman Young]

Hello.

[Will Compton]

He's a father of five month old Scarlet. I am a father of a three year old Rue, and a one year old Scotty. We call her Scottzilla. This is a pod for dads. New dads. Maybe you're part of Seaman Team 6 with Chef Jack, where you're young, you're just slinging the lead for fun. We like to call our army as fathers. Papa Team 6. If you want to etch yourself into the fatherhood of Papa Team 6, you can go to bwtb.com you can buy merch. I'm rocking it. All right, now. I have some Christmas bus and merch. We have Christmas merch for the dads. I have this beanie on top of my head. Sherm's got some stuff that he's rocking. We got for the dad's hats. We got everything for the dads. If you are for the dads, you are in the right spot again, you can go to bwtb.com to shop before Christmas gets here.

[Sherman Young]

If you have. If you're listening to this and you're going, willie C. I already know all this. You're a PT Sicko.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they're. They're PT Sicko.

[Sherman Young]

They're PT Sickos, which is the elevated version of PT six.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Papa Team six. PT six.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And we say that, though, because we know the group chats are getting louder. This podcast is starting to get shared around. I know PT6 is out there working. Hey, there's this dad podcast out there. I think you like it. The BUL boys, they talk shop, they talk a little noise. They talk about being a father, being a husband. They laugh a lot. They talk about how bad it sucks, how awesome it is, all at the same time. Oh, yeah, laugh. We cry, we smile.

[Sherman Young]

I'm getting tagged on Twitter. I got guys in my mentions, they're saying, oh, Sherman. My wife leaned over to me and said, hey, when's Santa gonna build that pink Jeep?

[Will Compton]

I saw somebody hit us up on Social. They were. Yeah, they were out in the garage trying to put that thing together.

[Sherman Young]

I. Hey, tell her, hey, Santa's got a Heisman ceremony to watch. He's a big CFB sicko.

[Will Compton]

I. I feel that too. One couple Christmases ago, when Rue was like, when Rue was one, my dad got her this Chevy Silverado that she could ride, that she could drive around like that. She's one. She can't. She can't be in this thing yet.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

So it just sat in the garage for like an entire year. And I'm like, well, all right, I'll just pull this thing out of the box and we'll get it going. I open the box and all the parts are laying there in the box. Son of a. I gotta put this thing together.

[Sherman Young]

One shell's knees were buck.

[Will Compton]

I put the tires on wrong a couple times. I had to take it apart, son.

[Sherman Young]

Oh man, I, I interrupted your intro that. We were talking PT sickos. We were talking going to bwtb.com yeah.

[Will Compton]

Whether you're a veteran father in the game, whether you're a new dad, whether you're an aspiring dad. We look, it's just, we're a couple of dads with Chef Jack back there and Derek the Funko, the whole group, we just, it's basically like pulling up a chair in the garage, ripping a couple ollipops, maybe a couple Bud Lights. Yeah. And just talking noise about our week, the week that we had. And speaking of new dads, I have a couple shout outs. So there's a few ways to engage with us. We love the community that we build out there. On for the dads, shout out. Whether you're tuning in right now on YouTube, make sure that you are subscribed to our YouTube channel. For the dads, shout out. Everybody out there listening on audio, you might be listening on the way to work right now. If you're on Apple, Spotify, Google, the Amazon one, all the audio platforms out there. Thank you, gu. Yeah, Galaxy Pod. Thank you guys for tuning in. And also the people who are we. I guess we got some. We got a video version up now on Spotify. Those comments people are leaving a lot of comments. We've seen a big spike on Spotify because we started releasing the video on Spotify and again there's a little, there's that little automated message at the top. If you want some automated ad free listening on for the dads, make sure you go to for the dads on Spotify, our separate channel on Spotify because again, we're under the timeline of our busting with the boys channel. But if you want want automated ad free listening, you can get that on our Spotify channel. For the dads, that is too.

[Derek (Funko)]

Well, that's the only place the video is at when we don't have the video on the bus in one. So if you want the video on Spotify, you got to come to ours as well.

[Will Compton]

Great reminder, great reminder by the Uncle Derek right there.

[Sherman Young]

Go Deke.

[Will Compton]

Go Deke. But again, like I was saying, we love the community we're building There's a lot of ways to engage with us. We're on social media app for the dad spot you again. You can leave comments on YouTube, Spotify, shoot us, DMS, all the above. We do a hotline where we play voicemails at the end of the episode. That is at 601 the dads to get featured on the show and get free merchandise. If you're international and you can't call into the to the hotline, you can also reach us at 601thedadsgmail.com and shout out again the new dads. I have some comments right here. One from J.J. smith on Spotify. 30 degree. 30 degree changing a tire. Good. 9 degree in Michigan. And under my car, replacing my muffler after shoveling and salting.

[Sherman Young]

Good.

[Will Compton]

I get to be a physically, mentally and emotionally capable enough male to be able to do this and whatever else needs to be done.

[Sherman Young]

Good, good. I got for also new dads a porch on Spotify. We're getting. We're seeing those Spotify comments. My wife is one of the cryptic one, fellas, but the most important lesson I've learned with her is if she doesn't want to get up and get our boy overnight or in the morning, she'll tap me on the shoulder and ask, hey, do you want to get them? Or me? And, fellas, let me tell you about the cold shoulder I got. The one and only time I asked her to get him, I learned quick that if she's fine getting them, she's just gonna get up. But if she taps me and asks, buddy, it's dad's turn. No questions asked. I'm being called up. Calling in the lefty.

[Will Compton]

I love that. Because that's a pocket there where you have some choices to make. Because sometimes Charles hit me with, do you want to go up and get them? And if she tosses me the question, I know it's like she's wanting me to go.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because if she was fine doing it, she'd already go up there.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

But every now and then she'll be like, do you. Do you want to go up and get them? And I'll just be like, I think you'd be a great fit for this moment.

[Sherman Young]

You know what, Charlie? They love the way you do it. I wouldn't deprive the kids of that.

[Will Compton]

Or are you asking me? If you're asking me, I'd rather not.

[Sherman Young]

I think I'm gonna like Davis's game.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, if you're letting it be up to me. I'd rather not. I will if you want me to. I'd rather not. I think you're. I think you'd be great for this, for this moment right now.

[Sherman Young]

And thank you for communicating with me and like asking me beforehand.

[Will Compton]

And by the way, for a shout out here to Charl Gabriella Cestra on Spotify. Laugh my ass off. MT6 are here. That's milk team six. That's our female audience. I am Charo. Mommy can't play yet. I have to do X, Y and Z. A subtle hint to my husband to get ass up.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, shout out. I saw, I saw a lot of those from that video. There are a lot of MT6ers resonating. Mason Cole on Spotify says PT6 member with an almost two year old baby girl Kennedy Boys, I'm on the trenches taking heavy fire. Wife is in her first trimester with our second and feeling like absolute 24 7. No morning sickness. We're talking all day sickness. Every day after work she gets home and basically goes to bed. And I know it's time to put on the eye paint and go to war. Nobody is coming to save me. Getting dinner ready, clean up, playtime, bath and bedtime. But I get to do this. I don't have to. GBR wolf emoji. GBR wolf. Mason Cole. Man, what a dog.

[Will Compton]

There's so many times now, Derek, to where I gotta just say in my head like I get to do this because, buddy, over the weekend I was a little, I don't know if you can hear the, hear the nasal in my voice, but I was a little under the weather. Same little under the weather.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And I had the kids a couple times solo because God bless my wife, she went and did some volunteer work at the food shelter.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Will Compton]

For some repackaging, some organizing, some sorting.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, the can sorting stuff.

[Will Compton]

Oh, I believe so.

[Sherman Young]

I love doing that.

[Will Compton]

I believe so. So she was gone for a nice chunk chunk of time on Saturday and I got the two minions, bro. And look, Scotty, she's one and she's all over the place. Like I was saying it, alluding to it last week on the podcast. She's climbing the Christmas tree, she's tearing down ornaments, she's getting in every cabinet. She's got to put everything that is organized. It's got to be on the floor. And God bless her and Rue, she's in this phase as a three year old and the dad's out there with the toddlers right now. They probably feel my pain. The parents out there with the toddlers. But Rue's just in this phase where everything is, look at me. Watch me.

[Sherman Young]

Look at me.

[Will Compton]

Watch this, watch this. I'll be back.

[Sherman Young]

And then what'd you do?

[Will Compton]

She'll hit a few reps. I'll go over there. I'm like, oh, my gosh, that's incredible, sweetheart. And then it's like, I'll go over and try to, like, just nestle up on the couch or something. Like, hey, do you want to color? You want to do this? I got her coloring. We went to golden on Saturday morning. Oh, yeah?

[IBM Announcer]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And she was busy coloring Christmas trees and ornaments on these worksheets. So I made a heady play. This is a dad hack right here too. If your kids, you're at a restaurant or you go somewhere and they got some stuff for kids where they can color, they can use crayons. Make a heady play. If you see them very involved and focused in coloring on this worksheet, go ask them for extra worksheets so you can bring them home. She was fired up to color this Christmas tree and ornaments.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And so I brought, like, like, four home. So I'm like, all right, well, mom's out. If ruse not. I'm not gonna have her do her. If she already used up her TV coupon, she's gonna have to do things that keep her busy. Yeah. I'm trying to. I'm trying to manipulate this to where when Scotty is down for her nap in the middle of the afternoon in that 1, 2, 3, 3, 30 range. That could be some. Some father quiet time since mom's gone. Yeah. So I got the worksheets out, and this whole look at me watch this phase that I'm about to get to. I give her the worksheet. She is elated. We got a full box of crayons. And I get her set up, because I'm trying to go and watch this documentary that I've been consuming, the Diddy documentary. By the way, that documentary is Wild.

[Sherman Young]

Binged it Wild Wild Dog.

[Will Compton]

And as she's going, dude, every 30 seconds, she color an ornament or a flower or a part of the tree. She color one little thing. And I'd have to get up and walk over there.

[Sherman Young]

Come look.

[Will Compton]

Come look at the ornament. I'm like, oh, my gosh. You use blue. And then I'll go and, like, sit like sweetheart folk, you know, focus in. I'll come check. Get the whole tree going there. Tell me when to come over.

[Sherman Young]

Let the heart.

[Will Compton]

Come here. Come here. Check this out. Oh, my God.

[Sherman Young]

Use yellow.

[Will Compton]

And I. Sweetheart, like, just. Just color the whole tree. And then let me know when you're done, and then I'll come. I'll come check it out. I'm sitting there watching the documentary, and she's locked in, and she's like, dad, dad. I'm like, yes, sweetheart. She's like, will you come sit with me? I'm. Yeah, sweetheart, I'll come sit with you. Pause the documentary. Go over there and sit with her. I gotta watch her basically the entire time. What color do you think? Here. Can't use red. Can't use blue. Can't use orange. Can't use green, purple, pink. I'm like, sweetheart, you gotta be able to mix. You gotta be able to repeat some colors.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Talk her into it. But this phase, man, is. I mean, it'll beat you down. Yeah, it'll be. Sherm. I'm talking. Hey, dad, dad, come here. Watch me.

[Derek (Funko)]

Watch me.

[Will Compton]

And I'm like. I walk over there, I'm like, what is it, sweetheart? And she'll be like, just that. And I'm like. I'll stare at her and I'll say, is that. It's like, yeah, watch. And I'm like, oh, my God, that's incredible.

[Sherman Young]

You're gonna have to practice in the mirror, like, 20 different reactions to her stuff. You gotta. You gotta expand your bag.

[Will Compton]

Thanks, sweetheart. You gotta. What are we looking at?

[Sherman Young]

Tell him. Tell them what you said about the Christmas cookie that she made when you texted it to the group about the Christmas.

[Will Compton]

I put that one out on Twitter. Put that one out on Twitter.

[Sherman Young]

Did you say. You said the group?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be telling the boys, like, hey, man, I'm telling you, I think Rue is gonna be. She is gonna be smart, bro. Like, she is ahead of the game. And I'm, like, looking at her making this little Christmas cookie and just. It's all different colors. It's. It's just plumped of. Plumps. What are you trying to call? Like, mounds of icing in different spots. It's uneven. It's very below average. And I'm looking at this cookie, and I'm like, sweetheart, I look over my wife, I'm like, we think she's gonna be smart. And then she makes a cookie like this.

[Sherman Young]

It's that into the group message with the pubg, like, Coop and Jared. And both Coop and Jared go, what's wrong with the cookie? And I'm reading this way later, after Y' all had this conversation. Will's like, she's using all different types of colors. Look, there's three different types of glitter on it. I told her she was grounded. Grounded. He was obviously kidding.

[Derek (Funko)]

Up until now, I thought he was really, really proud of it. And I didn't. I was just like, it's a no.

[Will Compton]

Like a cookie, Will. Obviously when we're sitting there doing our Christmas cookies, I'm fired up. But I'm like laughing to myself because I look at her, because she's like, check this one out. I'm just like.

[Sherman Young]

Did I look? What are we looking at?

[Will Compton]

The Sweetheart, that is trash.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, my gosh.

[Will Compton]

I'm trying to find True Goons. There it is. Our group chat's called True Goons. I dropped the picture in. And you can put the tweet up too, chef, but I dropped the photo of the cookie in there. They're like me, man. I'm telling you, Rue's smart as hell for a three year old. Roost Christmas cookie. Jared laughs. And then he goes, I don't even know what's wrong with it. I said, that icing game is trash. I said three colors, three different types of sprinkles, clumpy. And then I just. Then I randomly put. After that, she's grounded. And then Jared goes. Which, by the way, I looked at Charo and I said that before Jared even sent this message, I was like, sweetheart, what are we doing with yellow icing? Like those. That's not a Christmas color. Like, you could have just left the icing white because, you know, you put the food coloring in it to change it up. Like you. We could have just done red, green, and white. Because I'm sitting here trying to build sand as I'm trying to build all these different things and just got yellow sitting there and beaming goes, honestly, true. Also yellow. It's Christmas. I said, yeah. My wife got a verbal lashing for that as well.

[Sherman Young]

I was reading those. Laughing so hard.

[Will Compton]

Dude, people are out there. What are they talking about right now? It's late. Look, it's Sunday night.

[Sherman Young]

It's Sunday night.

[Will Compton]

Sunday night. What time we at? It's about 9.

[Sherman Young]

00Pm oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

After the kids went down talking about I get to. Yeah, on.

[Sherman Young]

That's what we were talking about on Saturday night. My bless my mom's heart. I love my mother, Ms. Amy. She listens to every episode. Ms. Amy, I love you. She came in town to hang out with me and Jill, help take care of Scarlett, let Jill and I have a little more Relaxing time. My mom is very talented artistically. She has a. Her own art company and she had a gallery for years and at Amy Young Art. And that's at Amy Young Art with one Y. I always told her that makes it a little complicated, mom, because it's at Easy Amy Young Art. But there's just one why. So I still want to give her a shout out.

[Will Compton]

Shout out. No free shout out.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out. No free shout out.

[Will Compton]

Ms.

[Sherman Young]

Savvy Am Young Art. But she's extremely creative. She did a lot of interior design work back in her day. It's about 7pm on a Saturday, and she's like, Sherman. Now, I don't want to upset Jill, but I'm looking at Yalls living room and dining room set up and I really think that, oh, no, we could really rearrange everything.

[Will Compton]

No, I go, oh.

[Sherman Young]

She goes, I'm thinking the couches move here, the dining room table moves here. Granted, I'm feeling like shit on Saturday, and I've not communicated this at all to my mom or my wife. So now I know it's too late for me to cop out and say, hey, I feel like shit. So I don't know if this is a good time.

[Will Compton]

Cop out what? Cop out on what?

[Sherman Young]

Cop out on helping with the redesign.

[Will Compton]

No, no. Oh, oh, wait. I wanted like, you know, rip my mother, but if my mom would be over at our house and pull me aside being like, hey, you know, I think we could do a lot of redesign in the living room. I just put my hand on her shoulder and be like, hey, mom, I love you. If you feel confident enough to tell my wife that's what I did, that we need to redesign this house, I'm letting you know right now you're on your own. And when that grenade happens, because it's going to be explosive. Yeah, I'm going to be on my wife's side, but if you want to step into the jungle, yeah, be my guest.

[Sherman Young]

So I tell. I tell my mom, I say, you know, you're really. You're kind of pitching the intern right now. You got. You got to talk to the lady upstairs. I got no say in this situation. But you know, if you sell Jill on it, then yeah, you know, we could look into it. Thinking around 7pm on a Saturday that, you know. And Jill was all but so excited for the redesign ideas. Loved Ms. Amy's ideas.

[Will Compton]

And she loved them for real.

[Sherman Young]

Loved him for real. And we got to cracking. We got the crack.

[Will Compton]

Oh my gosh, bro, when you brought that up I was like, oh, my God, how is this gonna go down?

[Derek (Funko)]

I thought we missed, like, an entire portion of the argument. Because when you were like. And then I was gonna miss out on the redesign, I thought there was a whole story about them at conflict. I wrote down four title names for the episode about the conflict.

[Will Compton]

Oh. Oh, there was zero. You're telling me there was zero conflict?

[Sherman Young]

Zero conflict.

[Will Compton]

Mother in law comes into the house. A. I think. I don't really like the look of this place. I think we should redesign some stuff. She approached wifey and wifey. Jill, Queen Jill. She was just all on board. It was smooth sailing.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, I will say this. As far as the redesign stuff, she was exactly right. Like, she really was exactly right on all. And it was more so.

[Will Compton]

So you're calling your wife stupid?

[Sherman Young]

Not at all.

[Will Compton]

I'm just kidding.

[Sherman Young]

No, no, no, no. Did you see it? You see his eyes?

[Will Compton]

No, no, no, no.

[Sherman Young]

I had flashbacks of my cage wa. Well, you said what? On the pond.

[Will Compton]

You know what? My mom was exactly right. That place was a dump.

[Sherman Young]

My house looks like. I do have some before and after photos that I'll send to you, chef, but it opened up a ton of space. But, dude, I lifted up two chairs, rehung some paintings, and I. I was just sitting there on a Saturday just thinking late into the evening, oh, my gosh, I get to do this. I get to do it.

[Will Compton]

What happened with. It sounded like there was some conflict when you're feeling under the weather and you should have told him. You didn't say anything.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, I just had to nut up or shut up. And then I got really lightheaded and, like, super pale and, like, honestly was starting to feel a little dizzy, and I was like, honey, I have to sit down. She was. She was great about it. She was like, hey, let's sit down. It was a huge bummer now or though, because we were gonna have a date night that night, so we're gonna move all this furniture around, like, right before our kind of late night date night. And, yeah, I was just feeling like crap. So we miss out on that. That was kind of a dad loss. But I'm feeling a little bit better.

[Will Compton]

Good, good. Getting on the other side of it as well.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But, hey, dizzy. Good, good. You know, what happened at. At our house is you talk about a Willie one shell story. Your boy got active over the weekend, and, you know, I'm talking heavy lifting. What were you doing? Something with the heat went out. Not out, but the upstairs got, like, north, like around 80 plus degrees. So it was really hot upstairs, not downstairs. And we shut the system off.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But it was still blowing hot air, something. And. What the. What's going on?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And so I hit up my boy shout out Robbie. And he's giving me all these little instructions. Go up in the attic, you know, Check this. Send me the serial number of that.

[Sherman Young]

Is he H VAC guy?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he's an H VAC guy. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, check the breakers. I go up to the main breaker circuit, and I don't see heat or AC or anything on it. I see, like, living room, bonus room, bathroom. I see. I shoot him a picture. Like, buddy, I don't see. I don't see the heat or the AC on this thing. And he's like, you might have to go outside by the unit. Run outside, sweetheart. You stay inside. I'm gonna throw the shoes on. I'm gonna go outside.

[Sherman Young]

Was it behind some bushes, too?

[Will Compton]

It was next to a bush.

[Sherman Young]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

I go back there, the AC unit's running. It's like. And I'm just kind of do one of them. Kind of do one of them. Lean back, and I'm looking at it.

[Sherman Young]

You adjust your hat a little bit.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I think that's the breaker circuit right there. Open up. Wiggle the breaker circuit. Realize there's just a little lat side. Open that up. I see all it says is AC breaker. So I just. I sent him a photo. I'm like, so just flip these off. He's like, yeah, flip them off. Step back. Ac, the unit shuts down. And I'm like, all right, I think I got it. Went inside. Looked at my wife. I was like, I think we just wait now. Go upstairs. Let's. Let's turn all the systems off. All systems off, breakers off. It says you could go quick. You do a quick reset. Five to 10 minutes. We're going to wait 30.

[Derek (Funko)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because we're going to make sure this thing systems are, you know, systems are going to be a go when we get this thing sparked back up. Go upstairs. Hot air still blowing out after you hit the breaker. After I hit the breakers, bro. But the people who are true H vachers out there, the true sickos that understand this game, they're probably like, oh, Willie, it was probably just the AC unit, not the heat one. There's a heat one as well.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, you have two units, One for heat, one for ac?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I believe so. There you go. Call up Robbie. Hey, bro, when heat's still coming, he's all Systems are off. I flip the breakers off, he's still coming.

[Sherman Young]

Might even be hotter.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Will, you gotta go. You gotta go up to the attic. There's gonna be a gray box sitting there by the unit.

[Sherman Young]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

You'll find it. Open it up. If it says heat, there's your heat. 1. Get the ladder down from the attic. You know, and I'm feeling like people talking about Willie. One shelf. Will is handling business right now.

[Sherman Young]

You hit the Peter Pan pose again before you go.

[Will Compton]

I said, sweetheart, I'd have to go up in the attic.

[Sherman Young]

Do the dramatic click of the flash.

[Will Compton]

I'm going to go north of the wall. Where's the tape measure if I'm not back in dead? Hey, you know what? Start feeling around my pockets before I go up there. Let me get a hammer and a tape measure. Flip off the breaker. You don't know what you're going to need.

[Sherman Young]

You just go up there with, like, a little thing of dirt and dust and just put it all over yourself. After you handle a breaker, I flip down the ladder.

[Will Compton]

I'm climbing up on ladder, you know, kind of a. Kind of a fragile ladder. And I'm, like, holding on. Oh, yeah, sweetheart, you got the kids down there.

[Sherman Young]

All right, you guys.

[Will Compton]

You guys stay downstairs. Don't come up here. This is big boy stuff.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, don't. Don't come up here.

[Will Compton]

I'm looking at the. I'm looking at the. The unit up in the attic, and it's. It's. It's a big boy. It's got the big silver tubes going out everywhere, and I'm kind of, like, looking around. Send him a photo of the serial number. We're checking to see if we're still under warranty because he's like, it might be the master board. It's not communicating correctly with the system. Yeah, but you got to shut it down, Will. You got to shut it down up there. I see the gray box over there. I kind of prop it open. I see. That's just a simple switch. Heat says heat. Big written. I'm like, all right, here we go. This is the heat. Like, you know, I don't want my wife to know this ain't some big boy stuff. I'm just. I just randomly yelled, God damn it. It's all good up here, sweetheart. It's all good up here.

[Sherman Young]

Compton Lucky.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Flip it off. System shut down. Text Robbie. Hey. I shut it down. He said, all right, now you just wait. So we waited. I'm going around, and I close so we wait, like, 30 minutes, kick it back on. But this is when my wife was out volunteering, so I kick it back on. I'm keeping her posted. Like, hey, you know, I think I got the systems reset. I think we might be good to go. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But it starts blowing out hot air again, so we might have, like, a bo. Like a. Like a master board issue.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

With the H VAC units, where it's, like, not. It's not communicating with the system correctly.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. And you can't. Hey, I. I don't want to go too deep into it for anybody. Not interested. But I do have a legitimate question.

[Will Compton]

Go ahead.

[Sherman Young]

Something that my parents did with the heat rising. You have a lot of open air space in that house. Yeah. You have floor vents in the upstairs, is it.

[Will Compton]

No, no floor vents in the upstairs.

[Sherman Young]

All ceilings.

[Will Compton]

Floor vents on the first level.

[Sherman Young]

Okay. And then ceiling vents on the ceiling.

[Will Compton]

Vents on the top level.

[Sherman Young]

If it's easy for you, you can close all the ceiling vents.

[Will Compton]

Close them, buddy.

[Sherman Young]

And that didn't even help.

[Will Compton]

No, that ended up helping because, again, it's blowing out hot air. So I'm like, you know, you're. We're about to have. We had, like, a really cold Sunday.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But it was still, like. It was like 30 to 50 on Saturday. And so as we're about to do bedtime and everything else, we're opening the windows until we. They actually go to bed. But we got the windows open. Trying to, like, funnel through. And then I'm. I'm standing on beds. Like, I got this metal pole, and I'm closing the vents in the ceiling.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I was working.

[Sherman Young]

You were working?

[Will Compton]

I was working.

[Sherman Young]

You crushed it.

[Will Compton]

Thanks, man.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, that's actually a huge dad hack, by the way. We have a very small upstairs, but we close all our vents during the winter months and just blast that heat downstairs, and it. It filters all up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I tell you what a good.

[Will Compton]

Well, it didn't really. Events in the bonus room where we were. Good. Where we were. Chef Jack and I, we were on pubg on Saturday night. Finally had kind of an open weekend. There wasn't really. It's just army Navy on Saturday, so there wasn't a lot of college football that I felt like I had to stay on top of. So it felt like a free night. And I just told my wife, like, once we got the kids down, sweetheart, I'm gonna go get something in with the boys, man. I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm gonna play some video games. And so I was up there sweating.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

What a matchup we got, y'.

[Will Compton]

All.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

This is that classic HBCU fly non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride. A game like this, yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere. And in ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

[IBM Announcer]

So let me get this straight. Your company has data here, there and everywhere, but your AI can't use the data because it's here, there and everywhere? Seems like something's missing. Every business has unique data. IBM helps your AI access your data wherever it lives. To change how you do business. Let's create smarter business.

[Sherman Young]

IBM.

[Bojangles Announcer]

We interrupt this episode to bring you Bojangles breakfast, lunch or dinner. Bojangles makes your tailgate a winner. We're talking about crispy chicken made from scratch biscuits and all of the fixes. Be the MVP this season and let Bojangles do the cooking. Now, right now, if you go to the app, Bojangles app, and you use code Bussin, that's B u s s I n you can get 20% off your order. Made from scratch biscuits, crispy chicken, drizzle the honey on top, get after it, live it, love it, laugh it. Bojangles time, baby. 20 off bussin B u s S I n back to this episode.

[Will Compton]

Ding. Oh yeah. Because he got. Yeah, it eventually got pretty damn hot in there. And I'm sitting there sweating when we got our chicken dinner on pubg. Shout out the boy. Shout out the goon squad.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out the goon squad.

[Will Compton]

It's a fat dub for the goon berets out there.

[Sherman Young]

Can we get a little Chef Jack get his thoughts on playing with the boys the other night? How was it?

[Chef Jack]

It was good, man. I hadn't played video games with like a group of friends in a long, long time.

[Will Compton]

He got called up to the big leagues. Yeah, because you were out. You were. You were rocking with. With mom and wifey.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, it was fun.

[Chef Jack]

Will had kind of a boomer moment with his headse took about.

[Sherman Young]

You think I was. Wait, wait, wait. Cuz I did hear a little something something about this.

[Will Compton]

I have no boomer moment, man. Wireless had said Turtle beach top of the line. And it wasn't communicating with the discord. I couldn't hear the boys.

[Sherman Young]

If I could tell y', all, my. My side of it is I'm. I'm passing in and out of sleep. I'm sweating out some. Some stuff. I'm not really checking my phone other than just kind of surviving through the night. So I. The next morning, and it seemed like yalls plan to play was like, 8:30 is like 9. And then I just see a string of texts, which we could provide to you. Jack of will, we can hear you. You can't hear us. Will. Check. Check this system. D. I do the thing where you, like, scroll the text to the left and see the time stamps. And it was like a hour and a half of fair. It seemed like the boys are sitting.

[Will Compton]

There hating on me, and I'm just like, hey, we were talking to go.

[Chef Jack]

I think it's a will issue. And Coop's like, yeah, it's definitely a will issue.

[Will Compton]

Something about that age, man. Got nothing to do with age.

[Sherman Young]

I'm with it.

[Will Compton]

I'm on tik tok. I ain't just on Facebook.

[Sherman Young]

That's incredible. And then Coop with the eight kill game.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Crazy off. He crushed it. We got a chicken dinner.

[Sherman Young]

How did Jack play?

[Will Compton]

Chef Jack played awesome.

[Sherman Young]

Okay, good.

[Will Compton]

We got in there with a squad. A dude who was in the marines when we had a fourth because scoop got off, the marine joined us. And he was telling us about how it went down. Like, he's like, I like to use the stuff that I use for real. And I'm like, I like to use the stuff that I think I would.

[Sherman Young]

Do for real, you know? That's a really good point. That's a really good point. Because I think I'd use this M2 mutant, you know, if I was in the shoes.

[Will Compton]

For real.

[Sherman Young]

What was his username? But you gotta shout him out.

[Will Compton]

What was it? Recon.

[Chef Jack]

Yeah, recon something.

[Will Compton]

Recon Rob or something like that.

[Chef Jack]

Interesting guy. But he was cool.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But I got on eventually, like 9:30 because I, you know, I was gone. Was it Wednesday early through? Yeah, Yeah. I got back like Thursday afternoon. And then Friday we had the double date night. So I met. And then we streamed on Thursday night. Night. So I missed bedtime on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. So my wife's hit me with like, you got double bedtime duty on Saturday and Sunday. I just like, laugh out loud. She hits me when I'm not around her. Like, I think I was over here or something. She just texted Me. So you got double bedtime duty on Saturday and Sunday. And I'll just laugh out loud. Sure, I guess. But on Saturday, before I could goon with the fellas, I'm going up there with Scotty at like 7. And then I come out out. When I get Scotty down and Charles down there, that's when they was doing the Christmas cookies. Oh, we're doing Christmas cookies at like 8:00'. Clock. Like, hey, it's bedtime, bro. But Rue was all fire to do Christmas cookies. I know. It's kind of like a tradition. I know. Like in this episode we're gonna be talking about Christmas traditions.

[Sherman Young]

Oh yeah.

[Will Compton]

Holiday shopping. But we were hitting the tradition of making Christmas cookies. Then she hits me with like, oh, you should have made the dough while I was gone. You should have made the dough while I was gone, sweetheart. I don't know how to make the dough. Dough or the. Whatever the. The. What is it? Yeah, the dough.

[Sherman Young]

The cookie dough. It's correct.

[Will Compton]

Like the butter and the eggs and the flour, whatever. I. I don't know. You got this mixer out. I don't know.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, listen.

[Will Compton]

And I ain't gonna sit there while Rube bosses me around on how to make cookies.

[Sherman Young]

What the hell's a KitchenAid, babe? What do you mean? It's. It's in this cupboard. I've never seen this thing before. Yeah, and that KitchenAid could take your hand off if you're not careful.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Gotta be careful with that.

[Will Compton]

So anyway, I'm putting rude down to like 8:30 at night. It was probably like 9, 9:30 when I left a room and ended up joining the boys.

[Sherman Young]

But there you go.

[Will Compton]

Solid weekend. I had a. Tonight I finessed. It is Sunday night. I finessed Rue because Rue was like, mama, you're gonna do better because Charles gone. She was working this morning. So I had the kiddos making breakfast. Just being dad. Just being all star dad, dude. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Being a rock star.

[Will Compton]

Usual are just crushing it with the kiddos. And the in laws came over for dinner and Charles like, it's bath night for the kids. I'm like, oh. She's like, what was the nose like? Nose touch. Like not it or something like that. What's the. The nose thing?

[Sherman Young]

Nose goes.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, nose goes. You. And I'm like, yeah, I figured it was me. So you said you want me to do. You want me to do bath time for both of them and you know, double bedtime. I'm logging this in my brain. I'm not saying it out loud. She's hearing me say it. She's hearing me say it out loud as she listens to this episode right now. So I'm in there scrubbing the kids, getting the bag clean, right?

[Sherman Young]

You know, singing to them, playing with them. Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Splash, splash, splash.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, there you go.

[Will Compton]

There you go.

[Sherman Young]

Don't drink it. Stop.

[Will Compton]

Cover your eyes. Waterboard. All right, let's go get you ready for bed. But I finessed with Rue because Rue wanted my. She's, mom, it's your turn to do bedtime tonight. And she's like, like. She like, will you do my bedtime? She's like, I guess so.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, that's a good point, R. Yeah. You know what?

[Will Compton]

Mama should do bedtime.

[Sherman Young]

What if we turned. Wait, we need to flip the switch. We need to start subtweeting a little bit. Yeah, maybe we start.

[Will Compton]

I gotta find a way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotta figure out a good way to do that. I gotta figure out a smart way to do that.

[Sherman Young]

Speaking of dad losses, I have a pretty severe one.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

So tomorrow is Monday. Jill is actually going with my mom and Scarlett to the airport, and they're going to be flying to Texas. She's not going to be flying back till Thursday. So I'm essentially going to have to hold down the fort from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to like, midday Thursday. So I guess that's three days without my two girls at home.

[Will Compton]

Home. So you're gonna have the house to yourself?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. It's okay. I've already. I don't need to, like, talk about it. I've already processed it.

[Will Compton]

So you're telling me your selfish ass wife is gonna take the kiddo. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

The five month old.

[Will Compton]

And fly out tomorrow on Monday?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. With my mom.

[Will Compton]

And be gone. Yeah. For three days.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And you're gonna have the house to yourself. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I know that y' all were talking about, like, pubg earlier and stuff, and I was like, a part of me was like, that's probably something I'm gonna have to do this week because what else am I gonna do? Just sit at home, sit on the couch and just kind of, like, watch, you know, previews of the upcoming college football playoff. Nothing.

[Will Compton]

Pisses me off more than when a mother wants to take the kids and leave dad home alone for days at a time? Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I'm not holding her against. Holding it against her. I know we're talking about, like, scoreboard stuff. I'm gonna do my best to not, like, keep score on this, but, you know, I hope they have fun. I hope she Gets to spend quality time with her friends. And I'm just gonna do my best to try and hold it, hold it down. Hold the fort down. All by myself at the house. I'll probably have to order a pizza. Probably two medium pizzas from Domino's.

[Will Compton]

You know what you gotta do?

[Sherman Young]

What?

[Will Compton]

When she flies, when she takes off, you let it sit for a couple hours and then you just shoot her a message. You feel good about taking my kid from me? I hope you're happy.

[Sherman Young]

I hope you're happy. Heard it. 70 degrees in Texas right now.

[Will Compton]

I hope you're happy leaving me alone at home for a few days.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, heard it. 70 degrees. You'll be outside all day. And then I'll be inside because it's freezing here in Nashville. I'll be inside. I'm gonna have to bundle up with some blankets, make a fire, and probably play some video games.

[Will Compton]

Oh, this is where we need PT6 more than ever.

[Sherman Young]

Eat some pizza and wings. Maybe we try and get a PT Sick out on the sticks with us.

[Will Compton]

Oh, my heart goes out for you, bro.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you, dude.

[Will Compton]

Thank you. What a selfish man.

[Sherman Young]

Speaking of selfish kids, man, you're gonna.

[Will Compton]

Be begging for them to come home.

[Sherman Young]

Speaking of selfish, the employees at the daycare sold me out. Out. A little belated dad loss from last week with Jilly Bean was sick and dead. And I took Scarlet all by myself on that last second, you know. Oh, I got. Get her. Jill lays out an outfit every single day for Scarlet with a big old bow. Pretty outfit. I didn't have Jilly Bean. So the outfit that dad has laid out was built for speed. It was built for getting to work by 8am yeah.

[IBM Announcer]

Yep.

[Sherman Young]

Is a nice little onesie. Cute onesie with some cowboy boots. Did I grab a bow? No, that's not aerodynamic that I grab socks. She doesn't need it. She's wearing a onesie. She doesn't need socks. In her cute little gold glittery cowboy boots. I drop her off at daycare and she had a great day. And then they run into Jill like three or four days later, and they go, I think dad picked out the outfit on Tuesday.

[Will Compton]

I think, dude, that's such a. When people start commenting on, oh, it looks like dad dressed him today.

[Sherman Young]

I thought they were on my side. I do all the pickups and drop offs.

[Derek (Funko)]

I'm the.

[Sherman Young]

I'm the face that they're seeing every single day. And they sold me out like that.

[Will Compton]

What's wrong with the. With the onesie and some cowboy boots like Troy?

[Sherman Young]

She Looked cute as hell.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, like Charl was getting on my ass today. Like, oh, Scotty, let's get some clothes on you. It's about 4 in the afternoon. She still her PJ? She still on her PJs from the night before?

[Sherman Young]

Wait, was there any poop or pee on him?

[Will Compton]

Hey, sweetheart. It's lazy Sunday. Yeah, and she looks like she's having fun.

[Sherman Young]

Does she? Is she covered in her own poop or her own pee? Oh, she's not. Oh, then she looks pretty good to me.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I. Dude, don't even get me started, bro. It's like I'll put shorts and a T shirt on Rue and like my nanny back looks like daddy dressed rude today. What does that mean?

[Sherman Young]

Hey, what if he did you.

[Will Compton]

You, you don't like shorts and a T shirt?

[Sherman Young]

What if dad around and picked out an outfit? Yeah, you know.

[Will Compton]

Oh, God forbid. I'm a father.

[Sherman Young]

Don't let a white boy get hot now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, for.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, but in all serious.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, God forbid. Dad's got some motion.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out, shout out to Crystal and Ms. Angie because y' all are angels and I love you.

[Will Compton]

Everything I'm saying right now just.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. I need your help. Help. Please don't hate me. That was for laughs. That was a joke.

[Will Compton]

It's. Sweetheart, we don't think you're selfish. We don't think you're selfish at all.

[Sherman Young]

The picture is hilarious though. I'll. I'll compile some pictures for the pod of outfits of Jill and that has picked out. And then they sent a picture like of Scarlet in her little onesie outfit.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's brief.

[Sherman Young]

The contrast is funny.

[Derek (Funko)]

This is dumb guy brain. Why does Scarlet have clothes she's not allowed to wear?

[Sherman Young]

That's a great. Derek.

[Derek (Funko)]

You know what I mean?

[Sherman Young]

Derek, that's a great question.

[Derek (Funko)]

Dumb, dumb funko guy brain. But why, why would she have an outfit and boots that you're not allowed to put her in?

[Sherman Young]

Derek, that's a great question. Hey, why would she have a whole closet? Why would she have an entire closet with outfits that range all the way to like a 2 year old? Why would she have that at 5 months old? And then why do we also buy new outfits like every couple weeks? You know, these are good questions. That's not a dumb question.

[Will Compton]

Listen, you, you asked that question and my brain is saying I don't even know if there's an answer. Yeah, like I'm thinking, yeah, I'm with you. I don't.

[Derek (Funko)]

Shouldn't all of her outfits be fair Game to be put on her body if they fit. I'm genuinely like, I'm not even trying to make a bit. Like I'm asking.

[Chef Jack]

Makes sense to me.

[Derek (Funko)]

Dumb guy brain.

[Sherman Young]

Well, she's got to have Derek. She's got to have her cute morning fit for maybe a picture on the. On the chair that will provided us.

[Will Compton]

Yes. And look, if you don't want us to dress the kids in certain clothes. Don't have those clothes in the drawer.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So rouge three. So she'll wear a 3T. I thought 3T meant three tall. It means three toddler.

[Sherman Young]

It sure does. And I learned that the hard way, too.

[Will Compton]

And so one day, Rue comes out and I got her in some pants. And these pants, the bottoms of them are like midway up her calf. Hey, like, well, what are you doing? You got her in some 2T pants and somehow. Okay, I didn't know that. Like, they're. If they're in the drawer, I'm going to see them as a viable option that I can put them in.

[Sherman Young]

God, brother, you were me just two weeks ago before we made the big change, because Scarlett was at the 0 to 3 months, but now she's at the 3 to 6 months, but the 0 to 3 months were still in the drawer that I. I go off of. Orders from my five star general Jillian. And so if I don't get orders that everything in the right side of the drawer is off limits. And now we have migrated to the left side of the Chester drawer.

[Will Compton]

You gotta let me know.

[Sherman Young]

You gotta let me know because I'm still going into the right drawer. And yeah, I'm fighting Scarlet and I'm going, oh, this thing's a little tight.

[Will Compton]

Little snow. Get you some bigger.

[Sherman Young]

Some bigger outfits. She growing. Yeah, yeah, There you go.

[Will Compton]

Scar.

[Sherman Young]

Scar. I don't know.

[Will Compton]

I listen, hey, we're on the. I agree wholeheartedly. Like, dads that are trying and doing their absolute best, you can't just. It's like Ron Burgundy reading the teleprompter. Well, if it's in the drawer, it's fair game for us to put on.

[Sherman Young]

Like, do you remember when we were doing the put in the lefty thing and I was like, I see the Bobby sitting there and I'm like, hey, we never use Bobby formula, but I'm just going with it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Fast forward to two nights ago. And Jill's like, hey, can you just make her a little two out, like extra little two ounces. I think she's still hungry. And we usually use the baby Brezza machine, Which, for any ST6ers out there, funkles, that is a baby formula dispenser. So it's just this ultimate dad hack machine. We talked about it in the first couple episodes. You hit make it. Makes it. What Jill is now asking me is to make just 2 ounces, which I could have done on the Brezza, but I was like, oh, that just means one scoop. Put it in a bottle, heat up the bottle. I could do that pretty easy, easily. And I go to open up the Bobby, and Jill goes, oh, no, no, no, honey. Don't use the Bobby. We. We never use Bobby. I go, oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. Remembering that I made pre. Made three bottles for daycare of Bobby.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah, yeah. My dumbass did not touch that.

[Sherman Young]

I did that. Sorry.

[Will Compton]

Of course we don't use Bobby. Holy. I just. I've been sitting with daycare with Bobby Bob bottles for the last week, and.

[Sherman Young]

She'S been going, Scarlett hasn't been drinking her bottles very well at the. At the daycare. I wonder what. I've been using the wrong formula. That just came out. That's breaking news here on for the dance. Yeah. So, yeah. Ron Burgundy, you, San Diego. I have some other new dad in the trenches. Comments. We want to go.

[Will Compton]

Let's leave some comments again. If you're. If you're following along on YouTube, Spotify. You see the clips on social media, leave comments. We love to read them on the podcast.

[Sherman Young]

We sure do. I have Marsh RZF 90s on TikTok boys. We are currently in the 4 to 5 months trenches with our old. Our daughter son, Sunny. That's my mom's grandmother named Shout Out Sunny. I'm talking. No sleeping at night. Spit up screaming and crying, only wanting to be held. We lost our dog recently, and I feel as if she knows that she's gone. Dad's struggling through it. She can sense it only wants her mom. Being a new dad is a wild ride. My identity changed five months ago and then changed again. This leak this week.

[Chef Jack]

Excuse me.

[Sherman Young]

When I lost my best friend. He's talking about his dog. It's just been dad loss after dad loss after dad loss. When do the trenches end? I listen to your podcast all the time for words of advice and encouragement, but God damn, this shit is difficult, and I feel as if I'm failing. How do you guys cope with all the change? Marsh RZF 90s I have some advice for him. Do you have anything you want to say? Say, this is why I would say, Marsh, the losses will keep piling up. You are not.

[Will Compton]

The losses will never stop.

[Sherman Young]

They'll never stop. They'll keep piling up. And you are not failing. You're just working through it. Find those small victories. Hit those small victories. Start small. You can't eat the elephant with one big bite. You got to take little bites. Get those little bites in. Get those little victories. Now I do have a cheat code for surrogate best friend. Because I've, I've lost some dogs in my day. Christmas is the best time for a puppy, dude. And I know you have a four to five month old and so you're probably thinking, sherman, what the hell kind of evil are you trying to put on me? You don't have to get a puppy. Get a nice little five or six year old, you know, sheltered dog that needs a nice home this Christmas and find a little surrogate best friend. I think that's the, the number one way to go when you're really feeling it with the dog loss and of course get it approved with wifey. But get some shelter dog. That's sweet as an angel. Just to like have a new dog in there.

[Chef Jack]

I, I do see a lot of people say that they get a puppy when they have a child too, like their first kid.

[Will Compton]

Kid.

[Chef Jack]

And I think the timing is probably a little different. Maybe the puppy before the child right before.

[Sherman Young]

Oh.

[Chef Jack]

So it's not as much chaos. But a lot of people say that a kid who grows up with a dog ends up pretty happy kid.

[Sherman Young]

That is true.

[Chef Jack]

That dog's gonna love that, that toddler.

[Sherman Young]

That is true. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

That would be my advice. Do you have anything?

[Will Compton]

Well, number one, the losses will never stop coming.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Being a parent is very hard work. It will always be very hard work. That's why on this pod we talk about embracing the suck. The whole good mantra mentality, the whole, you know, flipping your mindset from this is happening to me to I get to do this. So a lot of my advice would just come, would just come down to like, what conversations are you having with yourself on a day to day basis? When you wake up in the morning and you're feeling down or you're feeling a little depressed, we're already defeated. That is a very. That to me is a sign that you need to have a very hard, like, look in the mirror and conversation with yourself about what's motivating you and like, what your why is behind everything. Because again, it's like even with fatherhood, even with any area in life, like career, anything that goes on in your world that is day to day and it's going to be habitual. The environment you're around. Stress is never going to. Stress is never going to stop. Stop. So my advice would, would be having a very close look, a very close conversation with yourself on what is motivating you. Because there's a lot to be grateful for. Again, we're going to talk and we're going to laugh and we're going to joke about a lot of the suck and the things that is tough about parenthood or being a husband and what's shitty about work and yada yada, yada. But no matter what you, at some point you got to flip your mindset and figure out what motivates you. Figure out what you are grateful for. You start with gratitude, your entire mind sh. Your entire mindset will start to shift. Yeah. So as simply as I can possibly put it is understand the conversations you're having with yourself. Like right when you wake up in the morning, right when you wake up, when you're doing everything, whether either you work out or you don't work out or whether you're making breakfast or your, your wife needs help with doing something. Like, are you kind of down and having like a negative voice in your ear when all of these things are happening? Because, so that to me is a tell sign that you, you need to start with yourself.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because right there, that, that'll, that'll begin to. Once you, once you have that little subtle 2 degree shift. Because that's really all it is. It's, it's, it's like, you know, life is essentially a bunch of choices going through your head when things are happening to you. Right? Like, yes, oh my gosh, woe is me. Life is happening to me. The moment you grab a hold of that and realize that that's going to happen no matter what. What. So once you filter it out, there's something differently and really check yourself on how you're speaking to yourself or how you are filtering the world and shift it to something, whether it's gratitude or something positive or you just catch yourself like, you know what, I am being kind of a bitch about this. I am being kind of soft about this. I am kind of looking at this in a way different way than how I should be. If you're listening to this right now and thinking like, you know what? I do need to figure out what type of filter I'm using. If you start there, you'll be able to figure out what then you'll start to get excited. Excited about what? Then, like, okay, like, let me start with gratitude. Let me start with what I get to do throughout the day. Like, Derek having that. Having that monologue he had several episodes ago on, like, hey, I get to do this.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Because the minute that happens is when things start to shift for you.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Because I know it's tough, man. I know that shit's hard. And I'm just. I'm just telling you, like, life is never just going to seem easier. You're going to get a. You're going to get a pay raise, a promotion. You're going to have a moment where you feel good, and that is just as fleeting as a song. When you lyric for a song lyric from any major hit. Like, there's going to be other problems that come the next day or the next week or the next month. You're gonna lose somebody. Something's going to happen to you with the family. Your wife's gonna be pissed. She's gonna be in a mood one day. Your kid. It's not gonna go the way you're gonna. You. You hope it goes at certain times.

[Sherman Young]

No amount of money, no amount of possessions is going to fix it either. Like you were saying with the promotions and all that stuff. It's a. I feel like the number one way to get in the mindset of being able to say good after a shitty situation or being able to say, hey, I get to do this is when you are actively trying to better yourself and giving yourself some self love, giving yourself some opportunities to win, but to also grow and develop as a person. I currently am going through that. I've talked about it on the pod of like, bro, I am going through the right now. Like, this is hard. This is like the last couple weeks for me, I've been really, really shitty. It's been bad. And I had a conversation and sit down with Jill of like, let's. It's not like, oh, things are really shitty. Well, what if I got, like, the biggest promotion ever? What? This podcaster blew up and we had 5.2 million views per episode. Like, oh, then I would feel less shitty. No, no, it's like, Sherman, where are some actual things in your life that need to change? Like one, I am. I am not sleeping well. I'm on a terrible sleep schedule. I'm not eating well. I'm out of shape. I'm taking in way too much caffeine just to keep afloat during the day. And then that makes me feel even shittier and sleep even Worse. And it's like, Sherman, you have to break this cycle and it's going to be a hard cycle to break, but you need to lock in for the benefit of your wife and daughter to be a more present father, to get out of these funks and stuff. You need good sleep, you need some good energy. So you got to have a better diet. You gotta take care of yourself. Like that. That is like the example I would apply to Marsh. It's like, find those things in your life that you can better yourself on because then ultimately that's going to make you stronger and able to say good in. In the shitty situations. Does that make sense?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Sherman Young]

That would be.

[Will Compton]

Absolutely. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Yes. And I would say too, you have self love for yourself for a second, but the minute you have a little bit of self, self love for yourself, like, be hard on yourself.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, challenge yourself. Challenge yourself.

[Will Compton]

Change isn't going to happen. Like the moment change happens. And again, every area is when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Yes. And dude, for me, it's just I. I take an approach of just being hard on. Of like just being hard on myself when it does get to that point. That point.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

It's like, hey, don't. You don't want to get to a day where it's like, oh, I'm seeing a lot at the end of the tunnel. It's like, no, be the light in the tunnel. And just. That's how you approach it. That's just how you approach it. The whole nobody's coming to save you. Like that is to me, the. Just the entire mentality about it. Because you might have every reason to justify every feeling in the world that comes through your mind.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Every justification, every excuse. Hey, you might be right in the situation you're talking about. But no matter what, unless you take full responsibility and accountability and be like, you know what? All of this starts with me, me, then nothing's going to change and you're going to continue to be a finger pointer. And I'm not saying Marsh is a finger pointer. I'm almost just getting in this, this mentality of like, you know, when those conversations have. Because they're happening toward the end of the year, like it happens with me all the time, where you talk about, you know, not taking care of yourself, not sleeping well. I haven't worked out like a month and a half. You were talking about the caffeine intake. I'm on my ninth or 10th cup of coffee. It's. It's 9pm at night.

[Sherman Young]

That's me.

[Will Compton]

And there's a part where I'm sitting there looking at my. Looking at my pale naked body in the mirror and I'm just like, God, you are a piece of. At some point I just know in my dude, Will, when are you going to be sick and tired of being sick and tired about it and wait. Start waking the up early in the morning and taking care of your business.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

What a matchup we got y'.

[Sherman Young]

All.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride game like this. Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, Chris. And refresher. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that at HBCU pride going.

[IBM Announcer]

So you're telling me that the AI that's meant to make everyone's job easier to manage just adds more to manage on top of the thousands of apps the IT department already manages. Funny how that works. Any business can add AI. IBM helps you scale and manage AI to change how you do business. Let's create smart approach business IBM.

[Bojangles Announcer]

We interrupt this episode to bring you Bojangles breakfast, lunch or dinner. Bojangles makes your tailgate a winner. We're talking about crispy chicken made from scratch biscuits and all of the fixin be the MVP this season and let Bojangles do the cooking now. Right now if you go to the app Bojangles app and you use code buss and that's B U S S I in you can get 20% off your order made from scratch biscuits, crispy chicken, drizzle the honey on top, get after it, live it, love it, laugh it. Bo jingles time baby. 20 off busing bussin back to this episode.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So yeah Mars and the hey and.

[Sherman Young]

The self love like I would, I would say to that that the self love can be the working out like the suck like the stuff that does suck to do that's hard to do like when you are bettering yourself and you're taking those moments of like bettering yourself that can be the self love. So to your point, don't let the self love be like oh I you know I'm great Everything's great. It's these people's fault. Have that self love be more like pouring into yourself, yourself for improvement. AKA therapy, AKA going to the gym, AKA pouring into positive hobbies, positive people in your life, etc.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So that, that was a good point of like, don't let self love distract you. I didn't want to.

[Will Compton]

No, not at all. Not at all. It's just for my approach. It's more of just the way I get in my own face. It's like get in your face about it. Picture yourself grabbing you by the throat and putting yourself up against the wall and be like, when are you going to wake the fuck up?

[Sherman Young]

Let the heart turn black.

[Will Compton]

Let the heart turn black.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Let the heart turn black. It's the only way. It's the only way I know how.

[Sherman Young]

It's a good way. It's a good way. I've, I've come to adopt it and I, I enjoy it.

[Derek (Funko)]

I got dad, sorry, real quick. We have a lot of dads that say the word failure a lot like phone calls and stuff like that. And I would love to hear you guys talk about that for two seconds off that comment. Because the guy's like, dude, I don't want to be a failure. I think you guys are a good example that I get. Having a loss doesn't make you a failure. Failure like preparing for it and coming out of it. Because that's what I got from his is him being like, dude, I'm, I'm a failure. Because these things are all happening. Like you guys are a perfect example and continuously say, it's not about the losses that come your way. It's about preparing and what you learn from it. Just. That was the coolest part I thought from the comment.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, a fail. A failure is someone that is failing to act in the moment. Like when you, when you don't take action or something needs fixed and we're not taking pri. Proactive steps to fix. Fix it. I think that is the only definition of like the word failure. Hard things are going to happen all the time. You're going to mess up all the time. You're going to give your kid Bobby for a week. You're going to give them the wrong formula. But like that is not like when you have those hiccups or when you are beating yourself up like you're not a failure. A failure is exactly what will waste was saying quitting and going, his fault, his fault, his fault, My job's fault, my wife's fault. Yeah, that's A failure.

[Will Compton]

Taking my. Taking the. The fail, the failing to act and more of. Like, I would. I would. The wrinkle, I would say is the failing to respond. Because it's all about. It's, It's. It's. At the end of the day, it's going to be all about how you respond in every moment. Because again, we're. We're nothing but a makeup of all of our failures. And it's. It's truly like, how do we respond in those moments where we didn't show up? Because fatherhood, parenthood, in this area of parenthood that we're talking about is. It's not about being perfect, not about looking back and be like, look at all these wins I had. No, it's just. It's finding a way to be consistent and show up. Like, even if you do have a bad day or a bad moment, you're never defined by that moment. That bad day, that bad week. It might last a month, but if you, if you wake up the next day and go about it, go about it a different way and respond the right way, that, to me, is where you're going to ultimately start having progress. It's, like, about progress. It's all about showing up because again, it's. It's never about chasing perfection. It's about showing up because that's what parenthood is. You're gonna have bad words. Like, you know, I. I mess up all the time with how I feel. Like, I talk to Rue every now and then and I'm like, ah, that. That didn't. That didn't come out the way that I thought it would or the way I wanted it to. Like, I'll have another opportunity. I need to figure out the next opportunity to come up.

[Sherman Young]

Sickos. We interrupt this program to bring you a little something. Something special. I got a can right here, baby. We talk about it every week, even when we don't have to do an ad read for him, but we don't have to do an ad read for Ollipop. We get to do an ad read for Olipop. Because Olipop. I'm gonna go ahead and say it. It is the best soda out there. We. I. It's a different kind of soda, but it is the best soda out there. This is classic cola. I'll take a little sip here. That's just really freaking good, dude. Olipop, guys, we talk about all the time. They are introducing their new Olipop spongebob collaboration, the Pineapple, A soda from Bikini Bottom. Pineapple Paradise Juicy pineapple with the splash of mandarin. Pure liquid dragon.

[Will Compton]

Enjoy.

[Sherman Young]

Just like SpongeBob himself. SpongeBob the musical kind of going viral. By the way, on Tick Tock, I'm seeing that dance. We may have to do a little tick tock with the spongebob spongebob Lollipop and do the spongebob the musical dance. But guys, they have five limited edition spongebob can designs hidden in each four pack. Each packs a little treasure height. You never know which one you'll get. Collect them all and unlock Sweet [e-mail] forward SL Spongebob. Willie C, you are just in time because I am doing the Olipop ad read. Maybe, maybe I said best soda in the entire world. I went ahead and just said it. Will said for any listeners out there. Will just said there's not even a close second. Guys, we love soda but most of the time it doesn't love us back. Olipop actually supports gut health with 9 grams of prebiotic fiber. Only 2 to 5 grams of sugar per can. It tastes like soda, but it's actually good for you. They got flavor lineup options such as vintage cola, which I was sipping earlier. Classic root beer, cream soda, orange squeeze, Dr. Goodwin, lemon lime time. What? What's the one that Chip loves? Rush. Ridge Rush. Oh, they got Ridge Rush and Of course Willie C's favorite classic grape. Guys get $2 off a four pack of Olipop at drinkollipop.com Bussin works on any flavor of four pack including spongebob at any retailer. Olipop is sold online at drinkollipop.com plus it's sold on Amazon. It's available at almost 50,000 retailers nationwide. That is including Costco. That is including Walmart, Target, Publix, Whole Foods, Kroger and H E B. For you Texas sickos, go check out ollie [e-mail] forward slash busing. Let's get back to this episode.

[Will Compton]

Keep it switching around to a lighter note. This is Lewis22 on YouTube. Imagine the excitement when Chef Jack becomes part of pt6.1. Oh.

[Chef Jack]

In, in what way did they just.

[Will Compton]

That was when that comes. Yeah. Just imagine the excitement when Chef Jack becomes part of PT6 one day.

[Chef Jack]

Be sick. Hopefully not anytime soon. I need to figure some stuff out. I feel I, I, I will say I feel like it goes without saying being on a dad podcast As a 24 year old, I am excited for that one.

[Sherman Young]

One day.

[Chef Jack]

It's super cool. It's cool to watch you guys interact and talk about it and stuff. And I think it's like, I think a lot of guys. Something isn't even talked about a lot is there are a lot of young guys out there that really aspire to be. To be dads. And it's not talked about because you're 24 and it's like, hey, let's go. It's Saturday. Let's go. Let's go hang out or do stupid.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Chef Jack]

But it's like, I think there's a lot of dudes out there that it never really gets communicated as much where I feel like women. You see it all the time. Where women are like, I can't wait to be a mom. Mother. I do think there's a very strong contingent of young men out there like myself that are like, hey, when that day comes, it's gonna be a sick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, awesome ride.

[Chef Jack]

And you aspire for that, so it's cool.

[Sherman Young]

Well said. ST6.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's your captain. ST6 seing team.

[Sherman Young]

He's definitely having a boy first, by the way.

[Will Compton]

You think?

[Sherman Young]

I. I 100%.

[Chef Jack]

If I have daughters, I'm.

[Will Compton]

Hey, by the way, here, here's one from. From Joe. Josh. Josh rabe for. On YouTube. BT6 data hack for the Christmas tree problem to piggyback off. Chef. The train works. Does the train work, Chef? Cuz we got an interesting video from chef last week running. Yeah, let me, let me put.

[Chef Jack]

So I get home, this is Wednesday, Wednesday night. And for those listening that don't know, I just moved back to Nashville. I live with my mom and dad. Shout, shout out. It's really awesome. Saving on some money right now. But I get in there, my mom, she listens to every episode and she was laughing. She goes, hey, I listened to the episode. The train doesn't work. The train. Like, we didn't put ornaments on the bottom half of the tree. When you're a toddler because you destroyed everything.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, no.

[Chef Jack]

And I'll play the. I'll play the video right now.

[Sherman Young]

We have no ornaments down below.

[Chef Jack]

You didn't have ornaments down below because.

[Sherman Young]

Because you would grab me. Grab them. Yeah.

[Derek (Funko)]

No.

[Sherman Young]

And welcome back.

[Chef Jack]

We're welcome back. So to my surprise, that was a great way to start, you know, my Wednesday when I get home. And so I take a little video and send it to the fellas. And I'm just sitting there thinking, I should have thought that through because my parents my whole life told me that I was a menace.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, look, the only dad hack out there just seems like, don't put ornaments on the bottom half of the tree. Yeah, I will say we got. I, I do have Scott Zilla in check. She'll go over there. I'll kind of tell her gentle because Charles always sitting there, like with whether she's petting waffle or like, you know, doing something she doesn't want to rip off. She's like gentle, gentle. And she'll kind of like look at you and be kind of soft about it. But I've been keeping her, we've been keeping her in pretty good check with the, with the ornaments. She hasn't been too, too much of a problem to society recently.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

When it comes to the ornaments, I.

[Sherman Young]

Got some love this pod comments that we can run through really quick.

[Will Compton]

Rip. I'm out of the comments, so go ahead.

[Sherman Young]

Tristan Morris, R79 on YouTube. Fellas, been listening for a while now, but this episode hits a little different. Wife just let me know she's pregnant yesterday and we are ecstatic. Question how did y' all break the news of pregnancy to your family members? Thanks for all the advice. That's going to come in handy real soon.

[Will Compton]

What I did when we were having roof for the first time is I went on old Amazon and got the coffee cups that says like grandma, Grandpa. And then they have like the stats, the stats below. It looks like a nutrition, a nutrition label on the side of a, of a food box.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But got a little coffee cups. They opened it up, had it. And then I want to say I got a T shirt like I got these T shirts on Amazon that said like something with like uncle or tyrannosaurus. I can't remember. I don't know. But anyway, that's what I did. I got gifts. They opened it up, they saw tears.

[Sherman Young]

Jill went on a FaceTime rampage when she found out that she was pregnant because she was nervous. And so she FaceTime one of her nursing friends of Is this a positive pregnancy test? So now that nursing friend knows, she FaceTimes her cousin. That's basically her sister.

[Will Compton]

Sister.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out Megan, who has a child. Is this a positive parade? Like, does this look positive? Yes, that's positive. Okay, now cousin knows. Well, now that those two people know, my mom has to know that's my closest person to FaceTime's her mom. So by that time, when Sherman got home and she laid out the pregnancy test, which fun little wrinkle. We weren't able to post our video because I come in and I see the pregnancy tests on the screen.

[Derek (Funko)]

Sweater.

[Sherman Young]

I yelled out, I told you because I told Jill that We were gonna go one for one. And doing the math in my head, we. We went one for one. So fun times there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So I just FaceTime my. My mom and dad.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, listen, there's no.

[Sherman Young]

There's no perfect.

[Will Compton]

There's no perfect way they're going to be ecstatic.

[Sherman Young]

They're gonna be ecstatic and shout out Tristan. I, I. My next comment is actually about a person that is announcing number three. Will and Sherm. I'm a father of two amazing boys, four and two, and my wife and I recently found out that we're expecting our third baby. To add to the anxiety of the whole process, wifey wants to wait until birth to find out the gender. That means agreeing on two names and not being able to mentally prepare. Would love to hear how you fellas would handle the situation. Sincerely, nick H. From St. Francis County, Missouri.

[Will Compton]

Howlet.

[Sherman Young]

What? He's got a third one.

[Will Compton]

Let's go, dude. I'm assuming that was planted to be a.

[Sherman Young]

That was planted.

[Will Compton]

It be a surprise for a Willie.

[Sherman Young]

One shot. Yes, sir. Nick's having number three. Yo, Is that not crazy?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's awesome, dude. I want to sit here and FaceTime him.

[Sherman Young]

He texted me and he goes, hey, man, what's the plan if. If Will doesn't pick up that it's me, you know what, are you gonna have to jump in there? Spotify? Is that Google?

[Will Compton]

What's that one prompt?

[Sherman Young]

He goes, you know, dab, dab braid plus cte. We don't know. I said, I'll. I'll hold his hand and guide it to him. If he. If it didn't click, I was gonna be like, hey, St. Francis County. Isn't that Will?

[Will Compton]

Isn't that where you laid that one up for me? I think you might have said nick H. First. And then first I'm thinking, oh, I.

[Sherman Young]

I did say the text.

[Will Compton]

Name of my boy I named my best friend.

[Sherman Young]

I said the text. I said, if. If he doesn't get it, I'm. I'm going to be really worried. But yes, Nick. Nick's having his third. So congrats.

[Will Compton]

Congrats to Nick and Rachel.

[Sherman Young]

Yes, absolutely.

[Will Compton]

I'm thinking in my head, like, yeah, Charles brought up waiting. Like, I want to say with Scotty, maybe because we did a. A fresh transfer tour. You don't know the gym gender through ivf. But she was like, do you want to wait until the birth? I'm like, no, no, no, no. We ain't waiting to know. I gotta know.

[Sherman Young]

Really fun story for you guys. My mom and dad decided to do that with me. My mom's gonna hate that I'm telling the story, but I love my mother. Very spiritual gal. And God told her she was having twin girls. And so because of that, she then told everybody that she was having twin girls when all fat staff was baking in the oven. So she is looking people dead in the eyes and saying, I'm having twin girls. All the gifts are coming in. They paint the nursery pink and yellow, pink and yellow nursery. And then sure enough, she had a. She had a follow up dream where an angel came to to her. Because I am the second born, I'm named after my dad, which was very rare. She had an angel come to her in a dream just a couple nights before I was born and said, it's actually a boy and you need to honor your husband and name him after your husband. And I was wearing pink onesies in that pink and yellow nursery.

[Will Compton]

I feel like that angel cancer. Hey, listen, we up. I see you've been telling everybody you've been getting way too many gifts. Amy. Big man was joking.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, big man's joker. I am baby. Get. We need a cute dip.

[Will Compton]

Big man was joking up there.

[Sherman Young]

We gotta fix that antenna when we're praying a little bit. I love you, mom. That's a very fun story to tell.

[Will Compton]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Sherman Young]

So, yeah, very, very surprising when she came out into the waiting room and said it's a boy. Actually, it's not twin girls and his name Sherman. So yes. Well, let's do one more comment and then, then we can go into our call ins. We like that. How are we doing on timing?

[Will Compton]

We're good.

[Sherman Young]

Do crack. Crack a colon. Oh, sorry. Well, then we'll do crack a colon. This comes from Stephen. Stephen Carafone 4715 on YouTube. I love this guy. Repeat offender Sicko Steve. Here you are a sicko. Steve told the wifey I wanted for the dad's merch for Chris.

[Bojangles Announcer]

Christmas.

[Sherman Young]

I come home to a package plastered and busting with the boys tape. I play dumb like a champ. Next day, another box appears. This woman's out here double sickoing me with surprise gifts. Now I gotta sit here for two weeks pretending I'm not thinking about those boxes. 24, 7 hashtag wife's a sicko, bro. Stephen Carafone is a true PT sicko.

[Will Compton]

So his wife got him some, some merch.

[Sherman Young]

They got him some merch for Crimb.

[Will Compton]

Shout out. Joining the pt6 father.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out.

[Will Compton]

Man. Shout out.

[Sherman Young]

Joining the pt and shout out our.

[Derek (Funko)]

Merch.Com being like, hey, can you guys have a package option next year as a gift? Because their hubbies were bringing the boxes in with busting with the boys tape on it. And so we got a lot of pictures from the wives of their husband holding the box where they're like, well, they know what they're getting this year, so we might have to talk to you about a gift option.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah, that's kind. That's sneaky.

[Will Compton]

Put it under the tree, don't know what you're getting.

[Sherman Young]

And maybe a little gift box bundle. A gift bundled package would be kind of fun too, around Christmas. Yeah. Comes with a hat, a shirt, a tape measure table for the dad's tape measure with just old Willy Wonk shelf on there hitting the Peter Panie.

[Will Compton]

Stay downstairs.

[Sherman Young]

Honey. There's bats. There's bats in the attic. It's crazy up here. All right, awesome.

[Will Compton]

Oh, read the tweet.

[Sherman Young]

I got a Willie One shelf tweet special here that I would. This might have to be a new segment, Will, if that's okay with you.

[Will Compton]

You're saying you found a tweet that you read in my voice and it made you chuckle?

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

May I take. May I just take a shot in the dark on which one it might be?

[Sherman Young]

Before you do, I just want to preface this for PT sickos out there that don't follow Will Compto on Twitter. Go ahead and change that. It's ator Will Compton. And sometimes he tweets a lot about football, but sometimes he'll. He'll put out these te tweets where he has a internal dialogue with the Internet. And Will, what you get off to?

[Will Compton]

You enjoy them.

[Sherman Young]

I love them because I read them in your voice, and it makes me so happy. What. What tweet do you think that is this week? I.

[Chef Jack]

Take a guess.

[Sherman Young]

Let's let Will guess first, and then you can guess, Chef.

[Will Compton]

I would say Polar Express.

[Sherman Young]

Okay. Polar Express. Ding, ding, ding.

[Will Compton]

I knew it too. Whenever I fired that one off, I was like, I bet Sherm sees this.

[Sherman Young]

This was tweeted on. But you're telling me this was tweeted on December 12th by Wilcox Compton to the World wide Web. Polar Express. A great movie, but you're telling me a train pulled up in the middle of the night and conned a bunch of kids to get on board by saying, hey, it was headed to the North Pole? Magic or not, that has to be a felony written all over it. Such a great tweet.

[Will Compton]

Dude. It was pizza Friday. Whereas Pizza Friday. Movie. Movie night. A nice weekly tradition that we have. And we were watching Polar Express.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Great movie. I've seen it before. It's. It's a good movie.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

And I'm sitting there. And I'm sitting there watching it the second time through. It was my second or third time seeing the movie. You know, Ruse fired up. We saw it last year, but she kind of doesn't remember, right?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But she's enthralled by this movie. And not a lot of words throughout the movie. Yeah. A lot of just fascination and imagination.

[Sherman Young]

Singing and dance.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Singing and dancing. And his train comes in the middle of the night. And this kid is just outside in his backyard, not really bundled up, and he stands there and sees Tom Hanks, the. The. What is it called? The engineer. Engineer. The train conductor. And he's just, like, headed to the North Pole. And the kid just gets on. And then you get up, they get on the train, and the car is just a bunch of kids. You don't think. There's no adults. There's no nothing. It's just, hey, you got this golden ticket. We're going up to the North Pole.

[Sherman Young]

Get to meet Santa Claus.

[Will Compton]

Get to meet Santa Claus. You're just gone in the middle of the night.

[Sherman Young]

That's crazy.

[Will Compton]

That's crazy.

[Sherman Young]

That's crazy. Crazy. I know that. Will had one eyebrow up. One eyebrow.

[Will Compton]

I looked over my wife. I looked over my wife and I said, could you imagine? Because, you know, we. We got the train. We got the railroad basically in the backyard. Could you imagine if Rue just got up in the middle of night and went outside and got on a train because she thought it was headed to the North Pole, bro.

[Sherman Young]

I want to watch any fantasy.

[Will Compton]

How about that?

[Sherman Young]

I want to watch any fantasy movie with Will, like the Goonies. And at the end, they go, yo, there's a. The pirate ship's real. There's a treasure. Imagine if you're looking for that.

[Will Compton]

Hey, and just to confirm, I. I went to Google and I was like, is Polar Express.

[Sherman Young]

Is that based on a true story?

[Will Compton]

No, no, no, no, no, no. I typed in. I was like. Because I kind of missed. I kind of missed.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, man.

[Will Compton]

A part that I was trying to get confirmed, which was right before that, I'm wondering, is that based on a dream?

[Sherman Young]

Dream.

[Will Compton]

You know what I mean? Like, kid goes to sleep and then it's a dream. But then they're telling me, like, no, this is just. It's just a ma. It's just like magic.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, Magic. Or not. That sounds like magic. Got to be a felony.

[Will Compton]

Dad comes in, kiss him good night. Like alludes to a couple subtle hints that the train's gonna be coming at midnight. The clock strikes whatever it is, and then the kid just goes outside. But it's not a dream.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So I think, all right, maybe this is a dream. And I missed that part. Before I fire this one off, I confirmed that it, like, wasn't a dream. And the kid just went out in the backyard, got on the train because he thought I was going on North Pole. That's crazy, because we're driving. My wife and I were driving to that double date. I'm just like, sweetheart, Deadpool Express.

[Sherman Young]

And buddy, he wait. He wakes up at the end of the movie and he goes, was it a dream?

[Will Compton]

We just teaching our kids it's okay to go outside in the middle of the night when there's snow on the ground. Waiting for a train is a. You guys going to the North Pole. She said, baby, you know, it's just a movie. Like, we ain't gonna.

[Sherman Young]

Let's go enjoy. Let's go enjoy our Saturday. Our Saturday brunch. It's okay, honey.

[Will Compton]

Just caught me off guard.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, of course. Of course.

[Will Compton]

Crack a cold one.

[Sherman Young]

Crack a cold one, guys. Crack a cold one. This show is sponsored by Liquid iv. And this segment, crack a cold one. Is sponsored by Liquid iv. We got some liquid IV hydration, multiplier electrolyte drink mix here. We got the firecracker flavor today.

[Will Compton]

Today.

[Sherman Young]

And buddy, it's hitting tradition or transitioning from a relaxed vibe summer to dialing in your fall routine or your winter routine. Takes focus and stamina. Push harder and recover faster with Liquid IV's new energy multiplier. Sugar free hydrating energy. It's hydrating energy made with electrolytes, vitamins and natural caffeine. Zero sugar, zero crash. Just one stick in 16 ounces water. Water hydrates better than water alone. Don't let the grind drain you. Ditch the glitch with zero sugar and zero crash from Liquid IB. Tear poor, live more. Go to Liquid IV dot com. Get 20 off your first order with code busing at checkout. That's 20 off your first order with code BUS IN at Liquid IV.

[Will Compton]

Liquid IV.

[Sherman Young]

20 off, 20 off. Willy, one shot shelf. What? Is your crack a cold one or I can go first. Go ahead, kick it off my crack a cold one. Drum roll, please. Scarlet is rolling over by herself.

[Will Compton]

Oh, nice, bro.

[Sherman Young]

And I have finally caught it on video. Roll the tape. How to roll over Crazy booty butt. Thank you. Go on.

[Will Compton]

There you go.

[Sherman Young]

Yay. Good job, Scarlet. This is a nightmare. That was so good. Oh, my goodness, Scarlet. Wow.

[IBM Announcer]

Wow.

[Will Compton]

And welcome back. Oh, let me get the. Let me get the. Do it again, Scarlet.

[Sherman Young]

The original video was two minutes long.

[Will Compton]

Waiting for seem about to go and you kind of push him back over. Hang on. Give me a second. Let me get the camera ready.

[Sherman Young]

This ar. This arm's going like this. And I'm like, come on, dude, we've been going for two minutes. And I got run out of. Run out of memory on my phone. Scarlet, she's going like this. And then, dude, my dad voice. I was cringing listening to my dad voice. I'll play it really quick if we want. We can react to my dad voice voice. Crazy booty butt. Thank you. Go on.

[Will Compton]

There you go.

[Sherman Young]

Yay.

[Will Compton]

That ain't no yay. Get over there. Oh, there we go.

[Sherman Young]

Good job, Scarlet.

[Will Compton]

Wow.

[Sherman Young]

That was so good. Oh, my goodness, scarlet. Lad.

[Will Compton]

Wow. Celebration. I love it.

[Sherman Young]

What am I doing? You got to your back, kid. Oh, you got to your back, kid. And the first time, I don't know if I touched on this on the pod, the first official flip by herself was unseen because Dadaz was doing tummy time with her and she was getting so close to flipping over. This was when Jill was. I forget. Oh, she was working. It was on one of my solo Saturdays. And I'm doing telling time. She won't flip. I'm like, oh, I'm hungry. I gotta make a PB and J. So she's. Her playpen's right there by the kitchen, so I'm able to keep an eye on her. I go get the bread and the pb, the peanut butter and jelly out. And I swear I look into the playpen and she's on her back. I was like, you gotta be kidding me, dude.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

What a matchup we got, y'.

[Derek (Funko)]

All.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

This is that clap. Classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking. And the crowd lit chant. Echo drum beat. Everybody showing that school pride. A game like this, yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere. And in ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work so grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU.

[Derek (Funko)]

Pride going.

[IBM Announcer]

So Let me get this straight. Your company has data here, there, and everywhere, but your AI can't use the data because it's here, there, and everywhere? Seems like something. Something's missing. Every business has unique data. IBM helps your AI access your data wherever it lives. To change how you do business, let's create smarter business.

[Sherman Young]

IBM.

[Bojangles Announcer]

We interrupt this episode to bring you Bojangles. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Bojangles makes your tailgate a winner. We're talking about crispy chicken. Made from scratch. Biscuits and all of the fruit. Fix it. Be the MVP this season and let Bojangles do the cooking. Now, right now, if you go to the app. Bojangles app, and you use code busin, that's B U s S I n. You can get 20% off your order. Made from scratch biscuits, crispy chicken. Drizzle the honey on top, get after it, live it, love it, laugh it. Bojangles time, baby.

[Sherman Young]

20 off.

[Bojangles Announcer]

Busin bussion. Back to this episode.

[Sherman Young]

I just sat there with you for almost 30 minutes. And as soon as I get up, and it was because she wanted to see me in the kitchen. That was like, what, you gonna flip her back over? Yes. She never did it. I was sitting there like, so then I go stand in the kitchen. I'm like, scarce guard, scotch guy.

[Derek (Funko)]

Look at dad.

[Sherman Young]

Look at dad flip over. Look at dad. She never did it. And now I finally have evidence. I'm not crazy.

[Will Compton]

Look at that. They. Look at that. You ain't man.

[Sherman Young]

You ain't man. You ain't your daddy, girl.

[Will Compton]

My cracker cold one. Christmas traditions. Yeah, Christmas traditions. My. My wife, she loves to do. What are them calendars called? The. The pre. Yeah, the Advent calendars.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Where she has these little slots, you know, entire month of December, and she likes to get this throwback camera to where it prints out the little. The little photo. Whether it's a little polar, whatever it is. But everybody, every night, some kind of photo. Whether it's me and the kiddos. Her and the kiddos. The kiddos, yeah. Tonight was the in. Oh, was the grandparents, Lola and open the kiddos.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Take a picture. Every night, throw it in the Advent calendar. We do Christmas cookies. We're making them. I told that story on Saturday night. Christmas cookies.

[Sherman Young]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

Obviously pictures with Santa whenever you have. But just overall Christmas traditions that you do as a family.

[Sherman Young]

I love that. Putting up the. Putting up the trees. And easy obvious one. That was always, always my favorite because of the tradition of my godparents sending me a custom ornament every single year. So that's when I got to unbox my newest ornament, bro.

[Will Compton]

And you don't appreciate custom ornaments and just in my. Until you get older.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Just the way it is. You get one, you're like, damn, why they just sent me an ornament, man. I wanted this toy. I wanted, you know, this video game. I wanted this or that. You sent me an ornament. But now that you're older, like, we still have that 1989 Willie C. Ornament from when I was born.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Couple ornaments from back in the day. The. The annual ornaments that Charl and I might have when it was just me, Charl and waffle. The Me, Charl, Waffle, and Rue, and now all of us with Scotty.

[Sherman Young]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

But there's always an ornament every year, man, that I just appreciate. We did bus and ornaments one year. I got a couple buses hanging. There's one hanging on ruse. Little tree, one hanging on ours. Massive Star wars fan. So I got to get the. You know, I got a Yoda ornament.

[Sherman Young]

We got to talk some Star wars one day. I. I didn't realize that you were so into it, dude, I love Star Wars. Keep going, though. I'm sorry.

[Will Compton]

But overall, just Christmas. There's just nothing. Tis the season. There's nothing that just brings life together in the season together like Christmas traditions. Like Rue. We have another, like, Advent. I believe it's the Advent calendar where there's, like, chocolates inside. So she's got this little. You know, she's got to crack one open each night. She's always fired up. It's sitting right next door for dinner. Can I open this one that? You know what fires me up about this Advent calendar. She's kind of got it sitting next to her at dinner. And it reminds me of, like, you know, kids these days, they ain't sitting there in the mornings. Like. Like, for me, we grew up on the cereal boxes where you're sitting there eating cereal, and you'd be looking at the box the entire time because you didn't have the phones, you didn't have everything else going on. But she's all fired up because she's got this advent calendar sitting next to her, and I'll try to have her spot these animals. Or it's got all the numbers on it. So I'm like, find 13. What? Two numbers are in 13? And so she's looking at this box all time, just salivating at the opportunity. Like, hey, you finish your dinner, you get to eat the chocolate she'll want to pop the chocolate out early because she just want to see what it is. Whether it's a stocking, a deer, Santa Claus, an oil ornament. What A snowflake. Yeah, she just wants it sitting right there like, okay, I get that if I eat my dinner, but just Christmas traditions, man.

[Sherman Young]

My to throw on to the traditions talk. My parents, I was that kid at school. I don't remember what grade it was, maybe fourth or fifth. That my parents had me believe in so hardcore, dude, in Santa, they were so good just to give some dad hacks some tips. Tips. Dad would get his big old work boots and he would stamp them real hard in the fireplace. He'd build a fire and then he would stamp it on the fireplace and he would put ash footprints throughout the living room over by the tree where the gifts are.

[Will Compton]

That's amazing.

[Sherman Young]

He would go over to the cookie where the cookies were and my mom would get the cushions and sit next to the cookies and push the cushions in so it looked like Santa was sitting there drinking and eating the cushions cookies. They even did it for the Easter bunny. The people don't even do that for the Easter bunny. They leave glitter rabbit paws like with glitter around the yard and on our front porch. I'm like, oh, well, they. When I found out Santa wasn't real, in full tears, I go, is the Easter bunny not real either? That's how bad they had me, dude. It was.

[Will Compton]

How old, how old were you when you found out about Santa Claus?

[Sherman Young]

I think fourth grade.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I was close to that too. Like I would. Could look my friends in the eyes and be like, I don't care what you say. I swear to God. And you know when you're a kid saying I swear to God, like that's the biggest of the biggest.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I swear to God, Santa is real. I've seen him with my own eyes. Like when we lived with my grandparents, my grandpa would dress up as Santa Claus. And then my mom would wake me up in the middle of the night. I remember this so vividly. She woke me up in the middle of night. My brother and I are like sleeping together on this full size bed. She wakes me up and she's like, hey, come, come look. And she took me to the crack of the door and just had the crack of the door open. I just see the back of Santa Claus, like putting down presents. I'm just like, holy, dude. And from that moment I would it whether you're at the. Whether I'm at the cafeteria in class. Whatever it is, I'd be like, guys, I. It makes sense what you're saying, but I. You. I have seen this man. I have seen this man. I'm like, maybe, maybe, maybe he doesn't bring all the presents, But I'm just telling you, there's got to be one there at least, no matter what.

[Sherman Young]

An old Billy. Two shelves just sitting there, dressed as Santa, just laying the presents down.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Laying the presents down. Dressed in a full Santa suit. Yeah. I was about fourth grade as well. Maybe. Maybe a little bit later. I don't. I don't know. But, dude, I would go toes with my boys, man, forever, once we try and break it to me. And I'm like, I don't believe you. Like, I get it. I get it. Everything you're saying about the optics at night time and everything else, I get it.

[Sherman Young]

How's he going from Abu Dhabi to St. Francis, Missouri, in the same day?

[Will Compton]

How's he going? You know, they'd be tracking him on tv. And then my dad, we'd always read this story at night before, you know, as Christmas is coming. And he'd go out, he'd be. There he is. And I'm just like, oh, my God. And just be some star. Apparently, I don't do that.

[Sherman Young]

Airplanes.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a different color. Maybe it's got a little orange in the star or something. I'll just be like, man, yeah, I guess that's him.

[Sherman Young]

And my dad would. My dad would go in the backyard when there was an airplane out in the front yard, and mom would take us out and look, it's him. My dad would be in the backyard going with the jingle bells. I mean, bro, they had me. Also, for editing purposes, we can put this at the beginning.

[Will Compton]

Smart. Because it's a family show.

[Sherman Young]

It's a family show.

[Chef Jack]

Family morning is a necessary. Necessary, yes. Did I tell you guys that when my brother was in fifth grade, I was on a family vacation with him, my dad. And that's when I decided to tell him Santa wasn't real. And I ruined the entire vacation.

[Will Compton]

Chef man, one year old.

[Sherman Young]

I was really, really proud of that one. As a middle schooler, my brother did, if I'm remembering correctly. Move on. My brother was the one that told my parents, you need. You need to tell Sherman. He's catching flack at school. And he's like, he's coming to me about it. You need to tell him it's time. I'd get made fun of for having pointy years in elementary school. My mom Told me to tell the kids that I was an undercover elf that would go tell Santa who was on the naughty list. And so them making fun of my ears, that that's a surefire way to go. And then list. Did it work?

[Derek (Funko)]

No.

[Sherman Young]

They go, this kid has pointy ears and he thinks Santa's real. What a goofball. My sweet mother.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Thinking she set me up for success.

[Will Compton]

I remember you. You like, do like say they have Santa or. We had like a picture thing at school one time and I'm like, this is a Santa that ain't. This ain't the one.

[Sherman Young]

I ain't the one.

[Will Compton]

There's this reindeer had like a mascot head on. I'm like, who's in there? You ain't no reindeer, man.

[Sherman Young]

What is that, Ricky?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you, Ricky.

[Sherman Young]

I know that ain't Santa Claus.

[Will Compton]

I'm big. I'm big as just sitting.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, I want to get one thing straight. I know you ain't the real thing, so just come clean.

[Will Compton]

I seen the real. Got my scratchy voice going.

[Sherman Young]

The real one, he's around the same size as my daddy. Yeah, you ain't as big as my daddy did.

[Derek (Funko)]

The niece had a situation where she started to. Which she watches it, but she had a situation where she goes, hey, mom, why do I gotta tell Santa what I want again? When I just told him last week what I wanted? Like, why doesn't he remember what I want? And the lines that they danced on to get around, that one was basically the whole, like, oh, there's a network of people that helps Santa get for it. That one wasn't the real one. The first one was. So he's gonna tell him again, but she just goes, why do I gotta tell him again? Which I was like, ah.

[Will Compton]

Oh, she's onto it, man.

[Sherman Young]

It's a tricky dance, but embrace Christmas traditions, man. Yeah, embrace them.

[Will Compton]

Because again, as you get like as parents being older, you're gonna think, like, I'm speaking more so to dads. Because life gets moving. Like you might think, oh, we got another year. Like, bro, you're only. We're only gon so many chances with our little ones. Yeah, in traditions, it's like traditions matter because they slow life. They slow life down. Like kids grow fast. You know, life is chaos. A lot of the times our day to day feels just like you. That organized chaos with a Google calendar reminded on it.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

In traditions, they remind you that, hey, this is home. The sense of belonging, the sense of community, just the sense of embracing, you know, whether it's gifts. And gifts don't even matter. It's just the feeling that you have from having family traditions, from having these Christmas traditions. It's like when Charles wanted to do these few. These things that we do each night, it just fires me up because this is how we are molding our kids for how they feel when they get older and have a family. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like the big gifts, the expensive gifts. Like, I remember when I first got my Sega Genesis. I remember a few different gifts that I got along the way, but. But it's not the gifts don't matter. It's the feeling you have.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That what your parents created when you were in these moments, it was the.

[Sherman Young]

Letters of my grandmother lived in Florida, and when she got really sick, we do Christmas there. Well, Santa would always leave a note. I, Jordan Sherman. I almost missed you guys. I. I was in Texas and you guys weren't there. I said, hey, they must be at grandma's in Florida.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So I went and double checked. Found you. You guys. Glad we got everything figured out. Love, St. Nick. Those are the little details. Doesn't have to be some big grandiose gift.

[Will Compton]

No.

[Sherman Young]

It's just the magic of the.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. It doesn't have to be big. It can be the same movie you watch every year.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

The same meal, the same dumb joke.

[Sherman Young]

Jingle all the way. Dude. Such a banger, dude.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. It's the repetition, the repetition. Builds that safety, builds that culture.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because again, it's not going to be the gifts. It's going to be the feeling that you gave them that they are one day going to pass along. Yeah, they're one day going to pass along. Because, man, we're only going to get, what, about 10 opportunities with our little ones? Like if you're a new dad or you're in it with a toddler or you have a six, seven. You know, and I would love for parents to chime on, to chime in, in the comments that have been through this entire process. And now you have grown kids that are now adults. But I'm thinking to myself, like, you get on Instagram, you see all these things, like how many summers you have, how many opportunities we're going to have with our little kids.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And usually the age, the common an age that all the dads that all the people that kind of speak to parent culture, they talk about is these 10 opportunities. It's like we're going to have 10 Christmases and then, you know, as they get older, that fourth grade, they're Going to. They're going to. It's going to be about their friends. When you get done with Christmas, they're going to be ready to get out of the house. Hey, mom, dad, can I go here? Can I go there? Can I do all these things? Because they're going to have. They're going to have other things going on externally in their life to where the parent side isn't as cool anymore. You'll still have those foundational traditions, which is. Is why it's embrace them now. So that way they know what it's going to be like. They know what that repetition is going to be like year in and year out. But with our little ones that's here for us right now that we get to enjoy, we're only going to have about 10 of those opportunities. So it's like, embrace those things. Embrace those things. Because that's the legacy you're going to leave for them that they're going to carry over when they are parents one day. Yes, dude. Every year for me, it's like when I was busting Matt Malone's balls or somebody's balls the other day on the stream when we had the Christmas story plan laying on the left. I think I was sitting right next to Jared and I was kind of walking through all these scenes because that is the.

[Sherman Young]

You were quoting it.

[Will Compton]

The movie was on mute. And I'm kind of telling him, you know, Michael, I'm like mouthing the quotes that are going on right now. Hey, here's what's gonna happen next. Kid's gonna start swinging on him. He's like, oh, cry for me when. When cry. I'm like, he's about to jump him right now. Start swinging off. Mom's gonna come. Watch this. But every year at Christmas, Christmas stories on TNT. 24, 24 hours around the clock. Yeah, and my mom just always had the Christmas story on. Like that movie had to be playing around the clock all day long, like, while we were doing Christmas. So something that I remember the feeling of all these traditions that we had, you know what I mean, to where you're wanting to carry those things over. So that's like the thing that you're going to leave with them as you build out these traditions with your family. And again, we're talking about holiday season right now. But this goes for all traditions you have. We do like pizza Friday, movie night. You know, we're going to do things annually, set whatever it is to where they're going to know that we are going to repeat some of these Traditions year in and year out. So it's like things to look forward to as a family because you hope that one day they carry it forward and then that's how they remember mom and dad. When mom and dad are no longer around. Yes. So shout out to. Shout out to Christmas traditions. Embrace them. And dads, if your wife sitting there bugging you about doing. Wanting to do this certain thing all the time, whether it's every day or once a week, whatever it is, dude, embrace it. Because you don't know how many times we're going to have these. These moments, these seasons like with our kiddos.

[Sherman Young]

Y. Shout out. Shout out. Jingle all the way. Shout out. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, his son is actually in the terminal list. Dark Wolf, by the way.

[Will Compton]

No.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, he is.

[Will Compton]

Who?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Patrick Schwarzen.

[Chef Jack]

And White Lotus season four.

[Sherman Young]

And in White Lotus season four, Patrick.

[Chef Jack]

Sw. Don't watch that one, kids.

[Sherman Young]

I. Is Dark Wolf the one that just came out? That's the prequel. Yeah, that's. That's one. I think Patrick Schwarzenegger's in.

[Will Compton]

He's in Dark Wolf.

[Sherman Young]

Is that what it's saying?

[Will Compton]

Patrick Schwarzenegger?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I don't recognize him, but I see the terminal. He's in the terminal.

[Sherman Young]

I was like, not Dark Wolf.

[Will Compton]

He's in the original.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, the OG The.

[Will Compton]

Oh gee. He's in the OG God.

[Sherman Young]

That scene in Jingle all the Way, putting it together. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jamie, your dad is so proud of you. He loves you.

[Will Compton]

Well, he's not here.

[Sherman Young]

How do you know know that? Cuz, Jamie, I'm your father. Dude, that jetpack scene.

[Will Compton]

Oh my God.

[Derek (Funko)]

I showed Cat for the first time that movie the other day. I didn't realize or remember how crazy the jetpack scene was. Cuz in my mind it all could happen. And then he's flying around on a jetpack doing 360s above.

[Sherman Young]

I'm like, okay, never mind. Ultram Man. Is that what the guy's name was? Was it Ultram Man. Turbo. Turbo.

[Will Compton]

Turbo Man.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, great. Call dude time. Oh, it's turbo time. Oh my God.

[Will Compton]

Let's hit the voicemails. 601 the dads call in for a chance to be featured on the show again. Whether it's a dad win, a dad lost, calling to check in, give us some game, put us on a dad hack. Something to put in the survival kit. Whatever it is, call in 601. The dads. We will feature you on the show.

[Sherman Young]

Let's rip them shocked that no dads have farted into the Voicemail by the way.

[Will Compton]

Oh don't don't challenge them.

[Sherman Young]

I'm shocked that we haven't got any fart heart voicemails. Help. On a shelf.

[Will Compton]

Help.

[Sherman Young]

Here we go.

[Will Compton]

It's like we're gonna have 10 Christmases and then you know fourth grade they're gonna they're gonna it's gonna be about their friends. We'll be ready to get out of the house here can I go there can I do all these things because they're gonna have they're externally in their life to where parents side isn't still have those foundational triads embrace them now so that way they. They know what that repetition is going to be like year in and year out. But for us right now that we have about 10 of those opportunities embrace those things because that's the legacy you're going to leave for carryover when they are every year for me it's like when I was busting somebody's balls the other day on the stream when we had the Christmas story. I think I was sitting right next to Jared scenes because that the you were quoting it. The movie was on me. I'm like. I'm like mouthing the quotes that are going on right now. Kid's gonna start swinging cry. I'm like he's about to jump him right now. Start swinging this. But every year at Christmas Christmas 24. Yeah and my mom just always had had to be playing around the clock all day long like while we're something that I I feeling of all Couple questions.

[Sherman Young]

Kenny. By the way that was Kenny.

[Will Compton]

Shout out Kenny. Kenny. Thank you for calling in. Listen your boy. I was never an elf on the shelf guy so I don't even know the rules of elf on the shelf. I was the type of kid to where since I didn't know what was going on. I got older. My boys would talk about elf on the shelf a bit. That sounds gay bro.

[Sherman Young]

Will, let me introduce you. Hey that I'm just being honest. That's young Will.

[Will Compton]

I'm not saying that now I would love to embrace yeah Elf on. That's some dude you talk about Elf.

[Sherman Young]

On what happen elementary school was essentially just Shane Gillis. You just kind of gay. It's kind of gay dude.

[Will Compton]

That sounds weak.

[Sherman Young]

These elves it up your house and your dad hasn't done about it.

[Will Compton]

That's so that's my first question. What Explain elf on his shelf because I don't even know what it is. Charl brought it up this year. We. We didn't do it or we didn't get into it. I don't know if we're too late. Like, if you have Starting on the first.

[Sherman Young]

No, not at all. A prime example.

[Will Compton]

Yes, too late. Too late now to do this year.

[Chef Jack]

But next year you can re.

[Sherman Young]

We can. Okay, you just. You buy the elf on the shelf. Perfect example for this right here, our studio. If we had our own elf on a shelf, you would have all these feathers scattered all over, and you'd have the elf sitting right there so that the kids go, who made this mess? And then little elf sitting there, oh, my gosh, the elf did it. And he only operates at night when they're sleeping. And he goes around. He does little mischievous things around the house, but he also watches you to make sure that you're being good. Or else he'll tell Santa Claus.

[Chef Jack]

Yeah, it's kind of a tool.

[Will Compton]

That sounds like a horrible horror movie.

[Chef Jack]

No, it's great. You can have an elf. Listen, hear this out. You can have an elf around, right? And let's say rue is acting up for whatever reason. You'd be like, hey, you know, elf, whatever you name him, he's watching all the time again. If he's gonna rep, he. Every night, whenever you go to sleep, the magic in the elf is that when they go to sleep, the elf reports back to Santa, tell him what he saw for that day, and then that's what. That's when you move them around the house and stuff. And like you said, sure, you can have him do fun stuff, but it's like, it's a tool.

[Sherman Young]

Cool.

[Chef Jack]

That, like, you can't touch him or else the magic goes away.

[Will Compton]

I did see the video where this mom, like, put the chicken bones and you killed him because you touched him.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. The idea that came up for Kenny of just creative stuff, I would go nuclear with it. I would park the car a little bit in the front yard and just have the elf sitting up there on the steering wheel. Who parked the car like that? Who moved my car? Look at the healthy. Park my car like that. That's crazy.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Chef Jack]

Then your car's stuck there all day because you can't move them.

[Sherman Young]

That true?

[Derek (Funko)]

If you get good videos, parents at home, please tag us, because we would love to be a part of it. Because the best one I've seen is the kids will get drawn on, and the elf will be sitting there with a Sharpie, and the parents are like, who? Why'd you guys draw on your face? And the kid's like, what? And goes to the bathroom and they got glasses and like a mustache and the elf bit it with a marker. And the parents real. Oh, dude. If you do it at home, please tag us. I'd love to reach.

[Will Compton]

Share that.

[Sherman Young]

That would be fun.

[Chef Jack]

With the Irish girl.

[Sherman Young]

I can't believe you done this. Speaking of kitchen.

[Will Compton]

So basically the elf is just the authority. Yes.

[Derek (Funko)]

Yeah, it's a tool. The mechanism.

[Sherman Young]

Wait, why. Why is the elf calling the shots and not Willy?

[Will Compton]

No, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm not. I'm just trying to learn this game. So you just have the elf sitting somewhere randomly and it's like, hey, elf.

[Derek (Funko)]

That's going to tell Santa if you mess up. But the kid can't touch it because then it. It breaks the whole allure of the elf being a real thing in your house. But parents do it in a way where it's like, there was one we got got tagged in. It was like a bathtub and there was dirt in it. And they. They did a Elf on a shelf monster jam. And it was all these monster trucks and it was like, oh, look, the elf, when you were asleep, had a monster truck jam. And it's just cute and fun. But it's for the kids to believe that Santa's watching them all the time so they'd be good. So some sicko parent was like, I don't want my kid around anymore elf.

[Sherman Young]

I saw a semen team sixer with a. Got a kitchenaid and they put a Barbie doll on the kitchenaid. Kitchenaid. And turned it on slow so it was spinning. And elf on the shelf was sitting there with some dollar bills in his hands. What are we doing? Elf on the shelf has gone full heel. He's gone full heel. But it's crazy what people do.

[Will Compton]

So I could have the elf just sitting on rouge dresser. And Rue wakes up in the morning and I could have the elf just sitting there with a knife. Yeah. Wakes up and sees himself. And now I'm just next to ruin. I'm like, he saw you didn't eat your dinner last night.

[Sherman Young]

I don't think that's. I think it's a little extreme.

[Will Compton]

That's hardcore. That's a horror movie.

[Chef Jack]

You don't have to do it like that.

[Sherman Young]

But wait, hey, but you could.

[Will Compton]

But you could.

[Sherman Young]

But you could. She just wakes up and goes to the bathroom, brush her teeth. He's sitting there with lighter fluid in one. Honey. Oh, my God.

[Will Compton]

Get elf on a shelf. You put a little 51 jersey on it. That's. That's Willie One Elf right there.

[Sherman Young]

Oh no. Honey. He must have seen you ask me to hey come look at this a bunch of times. He must not like that. He. But he must want me to be able to watch the B. Diddy doc. I think he wants me to watch the doc, honey.

[Will Compton]

Oh, I'm thinking about the Willy one elf now. It could be good just always standing over the elf every time you move Every time you move up on a shelf. It's just Willy one elf standing over it.

[Sherman Young]

Willy one elf on a shelf that hey next year could go crazy with Willie. One elf on a shelf that could go crazy. I would buy one wedding. Pop quizzes is our second call.

[Will Compton]

No, we didn't do it or we didn't too late.

[Sherman Young]

Like we have not at all prime Too late.

[Will Compton]

Too late.

[Sherman Young]

Okay. Shelf perfect. Right here on elf on a Shelf. Scattered all everything right there. So made this mess and then oh my gosh. And he only operated and he goes vi things around the house watches you to make sure or El Santa.

[Will Compton]

It sounds like a great.

[Chef Jack]

You can have an elf. You can have an elf around acting up for elf whatever you name all the time. Again. If he's. Whenever you go to sleep. When they go to sleep.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Chef Jack]

Santa tell them what he saw for that. That's what. That's when you move like you said.

[Sherman Young]

Sure. Insurance.

[Chef Jack]

You can have them do tool that.

[Will Compton]

Like goes away with this mom like you killed him because you touched him.

[Sherman Young]

For Kenny of just creating nuclear with it a little bit in the front yard sitting up there on the steering wheel. Who moved my car? Look at the healthy crazy.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Chef Jack]

Then your car.

[Sherman Young]

Is that true?

[Derek (Funko)]

If you get please tag us because we would love seeing as the kids will get drawn sitting there with a Sharpie guys drawing your face and the kids like got glasses and they'll fit it with a marker. And if you do it at home, please tag us.

[Sherman Young]

That'd be fun.

[Will Compton]

Speaking of just the author.

[Sherman Young]

That's pretty much it. Wait, why? Why?

[Will Compton]

No, no, no, no. To learn this game.

[Derek (Funko)]

Santa. If you mess up it breaks the whole allure of your house.

[Sherman Young]

But parents is one.

[Derek (Funko)]

We got tagged in dirt in it and they they damned. And it was all these monsters. It's just cute and fun. But I believe that Santa's watching them sicko parent was like not anymore.

[Sherman Young]

Elf Seamon Team Sixer. Kitchenaid. Kitchenaid and turning and elf on the shelf. Dollar bills in his hands down shelf has gone full gone full heel crazy. What people did Brooks to quote last week. Welcome to the show brother.

[Will Compton]

Brooks is on his way to becoming a Bill Compton. This is the dad that you just. You laugh at. You laugh with. Oh, look at Brooks over there. Look at him. He don't know what. He don't know how to unlock this door.

[Sherman Young]

But I'll tell you where Brooks will be off on May 16th. He'll be in his penguin suit standing right where he needs to stand in order to say I do and do the ring. He'll it. He knows all the. The main things that he needs to hit everything else.

[Will Compton]

You know, people are hitting him with you writing your own vows. And he's like, what are you talking about? We gotta write our own. I thought you just in sickness and in health, like, yeah, those are vows. You can say, but are you guys the. You not.

[Sherman Young]

When are you doing the wedding dress reveal? Wait, what are you, like, when she walks out for the ceremony?

[Will Compton]

You talking about that what dudes do? The diaper party.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah, Like a bachelor party.

[Will Compton]

No, no, no. Diaper, like, don't. Don't guys do. Yeah, like a diaper party.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, for when you're having a baby.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's when you're having.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Right there.

[Sherman Young]

There we go.

[Will Compton]

That's how you're gonna.

[Sherman Young]

There we go. Go.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

You're talking about the wedding shower, I believe, with the kids.

[Will Compton]

He knew the diaper party. Yeah. You have any? He did.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, make sure y' all bring the. The newborn diapers, too, when you come to the diaper party. It's right after the bachelor party.

[Will Compton]

They got sizes on these diapers.

[Sherman Young]

I thought you just. Just get the. Get the Pampers. We're going to be at Shady Oaks Country Club tea times at this time. Y' all be there for the b. Bachelor party. I don't know what the bachelor party gifts are. Apparently I gotta get my bachelor some gifts. But I thought my company was enough.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Groomsman. The groomsman gifts.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

That'll shock you.

[Sherman Young]

That'll shock you. Yeah. Get some good groomsman gifts. Brooks. I did some cool buffalo hide leather wallets with, like, guys. Real nice and easy. The price tag wise, it leaned more to the expensive, but it wasn't like, terrible.

[Will Compton]

I got the boys this, like, whiskey smoker.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, that's nice. For like, old fashions and stuff. That's sick.

[Will Compton]

I think Nick is probably the only one who used it. Nick would hit me up. I just smoked this bourbon, bro. Nick.

[Sherman Young]

I really want to meet Nick in person. We could talk about that off the pod. But I really want to hang out with Nick. God, that's no surprise to me. No surprise.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he.

[Sherman Young]

He.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he's the man. He's a purist. You get him a gift. He was like, diving into all things whiskey.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

All things whiskey.

[Sherman Young]

I'm trying to think what else, dude.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

There's going to be so many little things. Hey, if you want to sound smart, dude, just find out, like, the little things about your. Your wedding. I would even kind of push for, like, one big thing of, like, is going to be the guy's thing for us. Jill's mom was like, hey, what if we had a cigar cutter there? That was like, rolling up cigars. Cigars. I said, absolutely, we should do that. So then I, like, leaned really heavy into that. And I would talk about that when people would bring up the wedding so I didn't have to answer a lot of questions because I'd be like, hey, we're gonna have a cigar. A cigar cutter there. It's gonna be kind of nice. And then nobody's really worried about anything else because you just told them the most exciting part of your wedding.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. You won't be involved in a whole lot.

[Sherman Young]

No. And you.

[Will Compton]

Which is okay. All I cared about is we got a couple apps that I wanted. I wanted. I don't even know if we got toasted ravioli, but I was like, I want either toasted ravioli or Rocky Mountain oysters. You ever had a Rocky Mountain oyster?

[Sherman Young]

That's right.

[Will Compton]

The.

[Sherman Young]

The bull testicles.

[Will Compton]

Bull testicles. Yeah, man. They're tasty.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. Very, very.

[Will Compton]

We got. We got emails here again. If you are international and cannot, don't. Or you'd rather just write in instead of leave a voicemail. 601 the dads gmail.com and here we go. We got one here from Luke Jones. Shout out, Luke. Men. After four months of buds training, I am now standing by for orders to PT6 in June. Good. Wifey has been in the trenches with morning sickness. Not so good, but also good. We've tried all traditional approaches. Nausea bands, cold wraps, brought diet preggy props. Preggy pops. Doesn't help that the military has us living 26 hours from home, so family support is tough. I fly for a living, so the wifey is home alone a lot. She's going to be one tough MT6 member. We're looking for any intel on things that helped your spouses or things from fellow PT6 members. We don't care how weird they are. We will try it. Much love to the boys in the studio. Started listening to the show A couple months ago and your boy is caught up. P S Olipop. Chris Bapple is the sorry for cussing and the dark wolf before terminalist recommendation is elite. Very respectfully, Luke from North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, now North Dakota.

[Sherman Young]

Luke hopping around, hopping around.

[Will Compton]

The morning sickness I don't have, I don't have anything. I feel like Charl got it for a little bit but not, not too badly. And I could be, listen, I could be messing that whole thing up. She could be sitting there right now like bullshit dude. I was. Yeah, you just weren't any help.

[Sherman Young]

Pregnancy pops are a real thing. Jill didn't have it too terribly but she did have some morning sickness. Pregn pops are great but the thing that really helped her they sell them at Walmart, Target, any, any grocery store. It's like these little candies and you can find them in the like pharmacy aisle. But it's like these little pregnancy morning sickness candies that are almost like a Jolly rancher and those really help Jill. She would throw two of those in at a time and they taste like candy. Those were the trick Luke. And that's just for Jill. I don't know if that's. That's going to solve your MT6ers issues but hang in there. And your MT6 sounds like an absolute.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we need, we need PT6 to sound off in the comments to help our boy y help our boy Luke.

[Sherman Young]

That would be huge. I have a comment before the emails that I forgot to read. This One comes from MT6 or boys. I cannot tell you how much I love this podcast. My husband Trevor put me on while I was pregnant with our first child back over the summer. Summer and I was hooked. I love Yalls dynamic and banter. We now have a three and a half month old little boy named Cooper Coop. Shout out Coop. And listening to the pod is a part of my daily routine. I stay up late to pump and listen for 30 minutes at night while I make bottles. Clean the kitchen and mentally prepare for the next day. Keep doing what you're doing. Much love from Milk Team 6. Thank you.

[Will Compton]

Let's go.

[Sherman Young]

That came from Sarah Kliegan.

[Will Compton]

Shout out Sarah. Dude, MT6 is showing out man.

[Sherman Young]

They really, really are. They like actually really are. It's. It's awesome to see. I, I meant to read that one earlier because that was a really cool one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I got another one here from an MT6 or Katie Witt, Will and Sherman. I just want to send a quick message for hubby and I. Maybe we get a shout out on the pod. My husband is currently seaming Team 6 and rounds are literally getting shot. This pod gives us both hype for the next chapter. Hopefully soon. We've already been using Embrace the Suck and Good in our house and we are fully bought in with team. Just wanted to give you both a huge shout out. You guys truly rock and your podcast means more than you know. Thank you for everything you put out there. Keep doing what you're doing. Andrew and Katie. Andrew and Katie shout out. Especially Katie writing in from an MT6ER from the MT MT6 squad.

[Sherman Young]

Absolute sicko. Katie, Andrew, enjoy Shock wave, brother. Y' all just keep on, keep on shooting.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, look, keep on shooting, bro. You are as the man, you get drained, you know what I mean?

[Sherman Young]

Make sure you're eating a lot of stuff.

[Will Compton]

Make sure you stay hydrated, man.

[Sherman Young]

Make sure you drink a lot of water. Eat a lot of chicken and steak.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And when the women are on, they're trying to wake me up and about.

[Sherman Young]

They going let you know, they going to say, honey, it's time. Yeah, get your six flag tickets, get your flash pass. We go ride, go ride that shock wave. Two loops on it. Two loops. This one comes from Aaron Swandle. Hey boys. New listener as of last month, but part of PT6 for four and a half years. We've got a four and a half year old girl and almost two year old boy. Just wanted to share a little reminder that we're all out here embracing the suck together. Today was dot dot dot. A lot started with the morning meeting before daycare, drop off, whatever, normal chaos. But the real storm came later. My wife and I only have one car so I pick her up from work. Then we get the kids from daycare like usual. Side note, we also have an 8 year old dog and because we apparently hate peace, we added a three month old puppy two weeks ago. Aaron. We get home at 4pm My wife has to leave at 4:15 to get our daughter to dance. We let the dogs out and they're buzzing. I'm unloading the kids lunch boxes and one is completely destroyed. Good. I'm trying to order a new one on my phone while my W is changing our son's massive diaper situation. This guy's in the trenches. My daughter's dancing around me, singing, clinging to my arm while I'm trying to buy this lunchbox. My wife comes out, hands me the dirty diaper. I toss it in the trash and immediately notice it kind of splattered. Interesting. I look up and the puppy is licking Something off the hardwood. It is in fact the shit. Then I see it on the rug. Good. Then I look at the puppy again. Also shit all over her. Upstairs for a fast bath before my wife has to leave from downstairs. I hear the other dog has on him too honey. Good. Send them up. I bathe the both dogs look down and realize I have on my pants. Good. It's now 4:15. I come downstairs with the dogs and my wife is washing our daughter's hair in the kitchen sink because yes, she also had in her hair.

[Will Compton]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

Only thing that got me me through was your show. Especially Sherm's story about the dog locked in the nursery. I felt so seen. Anyway, appreciate what you guys do. You seriously make me feel less alone in this dad journey. Much love.

[Will Compton]

I love the storytelling too. Nothing gets me going with people sitting in their good yeah I got one.

[Sherman Young]

More I I'll go speed tour on.

[IBM Announcer]

It.

[Sherman Young]

Via email Jacob says what's up Will and Sherm and the boys pt6 are here to an awesome 9 year old stepson and a 2 year old boy who I can only assume has CTE from his wild stunts. Just wanted to say what you guys have done Creating this community of support, honesty and showing the fun and less than ideal moments of fatherhood has helped me more than you can ever imagine. Every week I look forward to listening in and getting a break from reality with a laugh and some dad advice. Me and my amazing wife decided it was time to head back to the BUDS and have one last kid. We found out in mid November that she was pregnant and last week had the first ultrasound. Let's boys. I feel like I have been dropped into a war zone as the radiology tech gave us the news that my wife is pregnant with twins. The only reaction I could get out was just laughter that turned into thousand yard stare as I realized we are not prepared for twins at all. Now I need a little advice in parentheses. Probably a lot of advice but we'll stick with just one. I think I'm most worried about me and my wifey being caught up in everyday chaos that comes with four kids and three of them being under the age of three. How do you guys manage to make time for each other and prioritize date nights or just one on one time in the chaos? Any tips or things you guys do to keep the flame alive while in the trenches of newborn intolerable traveler phases? Much love for what you guys have created in the community that you've grown. Gonna keep this one anonymous as we won't Be announcing until sometime January. So let's just make a note that blank. That last email wants to remain anonymous.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Oh, twins.

[Sherman Young]

Twins. I said while I was reading the email to you, if I got the.

[Will Compton]

News of twins, fear would just take over my. My body. I don't see how parents twins do it. Like Roan from barstool.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. I was about to say, you know who is somebody that I really want to have a conversation with and talk with is Roan.

[Will Compton]

Dude, we should get Roan on. That would be awesome, because anytime.

[Sherman Young]

Great.

[Will Compton]

That was their first shot at. It was twins. All he knows is twins. So that's basically what he says. He's like, I don't know what? I don't know. Like, my first experience is twins, so I don't know any other life. Like, yeah, it seems difficult and hard, but I'm just thinking, dude, no one. Like, again, you have Scotty five months. Like, imagine twins, bro.

[Sherman Young]

It was great. A look into what Roan is going through with twins at the Super Bowl. We had the pleasure of having dinner with him in New Orleans, and that was super.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And while we were sitting there, I happened to be sitting next to him during the meal, and Will says, hey, both of y' all are having kids. Blah, blah. Well, that just hits it off. We start talking about all the we're going through, and we're laughing, we're talking about, oh, I'm doing this. I'm dealing with this. Blah, blah, blah. And at the end of it, with perfect comedic time, comedic timing, he just goes, sherman, think about everything that you just said, though, and multiply that by two.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Like, holy.

[Will Compton]

I could not imagine. Dude, the double. Not like the double bedtimes, but, like, say you get one down and the other still awake. You know what I mean? Like, you finally one down, and you're just like, steve, you're gonna wake up your brother. You're gonna wake up your sister.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. I was thinking about those solo Saturdays I do. Jill and I were laughing. I was like, could you even imagine me with twins on one of those solo Saturdays?

[Will Compton]

Like, one. You know, one's sleeping well, the other one's not, but the. The one that's not is always waking up. The one who you. You are assuming is sleeping well.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Oh, man. God bless you, bro. Good luck out there. Good luck out there.

[Sherman Young]

I don't have any advice for Jacob other than recruit an army, dude. Recruit an army.

[Will Compton]

Get the.

[Sherman Young]

Get the in laws.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Takes a village. The twins getting three under three.

[Sherman Young]

Dude. He's a Sicko. He's gone through it. He knows what he's doing. But twins is going to take an army.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Call.

[Sherman Young]

You got to call in. I'm calling the goon beret. By God, like I'll take any help if you can hold a baby, you're a part of the army. Me, come join.

[Will Compton]

This is one where you're having them conversations with God, you know what I mean? Because he, he's got the stepson. He's got the one that's how old? Two or three? Two.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Two years old. So he, he understands the suck of like raising, like embracing the suck of raising that first.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like getting through sleep training, whatever it is, getting them to sleep through the night. The tantrums. He's in the thick of it right now with 2 year olds and their tantrums.

[Sherman Young]

That 9 year old stepson is about to become his best friend.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. He knows the world of one of raising one. Now he's sitting there thinking how in the am I going to do it.

[Sherman Young]

With two nine year old stepson's a part of the army now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Or you're just looking welcome to the ranks, brother.

[Will Compton]

Why did you have to do this to me?

[Sherman Young]

You.

[Will Compton]

Hey, you're pretty funny, I'll give you that.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, you're a funny dude.

[Will Compton]

But yeah, that he was asking though. Prioritizing the relationship, prioritizing wifey, which we do talk about about that often.

[Sherman Young]

Very.

[Will Compton]

It's, it truly just, it's just intentional prioritizing with the wife. Because your relationship with your wife, as far as that fun flair, all of that stuff where it's, it's you two against the world. That is like that priority basically falls down to the bottom because you're both in, you're both in your brain sacrificing everything for everything else to function, whether it be work, whether it be the kids, whether it be. I'm worn out, I'm this like you're all prioritizing each other while you're trying to handle your own business. That we always forget to prioritize the relationship, the marriage.

[Sherman Young]

And speaking on this is the perfect episode because you had brought up traditions. I really, really like I have to set a tradition of a date night with Jill and I really want to make that happen. Whereas in the books this is date night. We, we have date night.

[Derek (Funko)]

You.

[Sherman Young]

If you don't do it and don't set it on a schedule and make it a priority as Willie wants shelf says it ain't gonna happen, it ain't gonna happen. And By God, we have to do it. And I. I think that's probably the move for anybody, including myself.

[Will Compton]

You have to, bro.

[Sherman Young]

You have to do.

[Will Compton]

And I'm hearing you talk, and it's like my boy who was earlier in the episode. Is it. What was his name? I'm blinking on his name.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, the.

[Will Compton]

Who wrote into us.

[Sherman Young]

He's not doing well. And yeah. Yes.

[Will Compton]

Like, you just have to take yourself by the throat, put yourself against the wall. I'm talking to you, Sherman. You just say yes. Wa. Do it. It's like Tony Robbins had this quote that I would. I would. I will always think about where it's like, you got to turn your shoulds in the must. Like, you just. You got to stop saying, I. We need to do this, we should do this. Blah, blah, blah. Just you. You've got to do it. You've got to prioritize and be intentional or it'll never happen. And it takes both of you to prioritize it because calendar schedules, kids, work, everything. Life goes fast. And next thing you know, like, I'm sitting here at the end of the year right now. Like, man, I do for my new year Year's resolutions. Yeah. I can't wait to reset the clock and say all the things I'm going to do next year. And now I'm in my head thinking I'll be letting myself down again next year. And it's like that conversation right there is where I got to proverbially. Proverbially.

[Sherman Young]

Proverbially.

[Will Compton]

Right there is where I just gotta grab myself by the throat, bro. And just. Will stop talking to yourself like this. Stop already planning for the failure that you're just basically putting a quarter in the machine and you're gonna do it again. No, it's gotta end. You gotta. Sick and tired of being sick and tired about it. Yeah. But. Yeah, that's. I digress.

[Sherman Young]

I'm.

[Will Compton]

You got a lesson?

[Sherman Young]

I do.

[Will Compton]

Because I'll be honest with you. It's 10:36 right now. I'm starting to get sleepy. I'm starting to get sleepy. We got a big Monday tomorrow.

[Sherman Young]

Same.

[Will Compton]

We gotta get ripping. I actually have a. This is one from an Instagram that I follow called the Stoics. So this isn't parenthood. This is. This is just, to me, something I have bookmarked that I feel like. Like, plays into a few of the themes we've been talking about tonight. Okay, so the Stoics on Instagram, you create the majority of your misery. Your opinion takes harmless moments and poisons them with fear, insult and catastrophe. Nothing out there is destroying you. Your own opinion is you become the enemy inside your own mind and you feel every blow you deliver to yourself. So just a simple quote from the Stoics with two Cs. If you want to follow the on Instagram.

[Sherman Young]

Strong internal dialogue. Keep a strong internal dialogue.

[Will Compton]

It's all internal dialogue, Sherm.

[Sherman Young]

It's all internal dialogue. This one is based around the 400 meter dash. I ran the 400 meter dash in high school. I have a lot of love for track and I thought it'd be fun to compare the straight strategy of a 400 meter dash with fatherhood.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

With parenting. I'll keep it quick.

[Will Compton]

Give us some game. Give us some game.

[Sherman Young]

The so recently passed away legendary coach Clyde Hart. He coached at Baylor. He coached Michael Johnson, Jeremy Warner, Lashawn Merritt, and most decorated track athlete in US history, Allison Felix. Those are basically the four biggest names in the 400 meter. This guy knows what he's talking about. Coach hart said the 400 isn't about how fast you can run. It's about how slow you can slow down. We'll break it down for you. The strategy of a 400 meter is from the 0 to the 50 meter mark. You want to have a fast, powerful start but not go all out. Sprint to start. How does that work with fatherhood? That's waking up on purpose, not in the panic. Getting the kids moving while staying calm, cool and collected. Being present eye contact, jokes, hugs at the door. You are setting the tone for the day. Not trying to win the entire day in that moment, but setting the tone for it. 50 meter to 200 meter mark. This is the most important phase of the the race. This is where you have to run hard and stay loose. Upright posture, smooth arms, controlled breathing. You should feel fast without forcing it for fatherhood. That's locking in at work, being productive, reliable, focused, no unnecessary stress carried from home, having that strong internal dialogue, staying poised in the moment. You're running hard, but you're in control. Hole 200 to 300 meters. That's when you attack the curve. And I love. Did you run track? Yeah, high school.

[Will Compton]

In middle school I did my freshman year. But not a. Not a. Not a lover of track like yourself.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. My favorite part of the 400 meter race is attacking the curve.

[Will Compton]

Attack the curve.

[Sherman Young]

It's the 200, 300 mark where you are starting to feel tired. Yeah, it's to starting, starting to hit, but you have this curve in this natural inertia that you can lean into and use that pain with the momentum that you already have going into the turn. The race starts to bite at this moment, focus on maintaining mechanics and not speeding up. How does that apply to fatherhood? Mental shift your gears before you pick up the kids or before you get home. Take that extra breath in the car. Get in the right mindset. If you are not currently in the right right mindset, check yourself a little bit. Put the phone away. Remember, your kids don't need exhausted you. They need present you. They need you to show up 300 to 400 meters. That's when you finish strong. That's when you make sure you're still kicking, picking up your knees and have a good evening at home. If we're going to apply it to fatherhood. Asking your kids about their day, asking your wife about their day, being patient even when you you're drained. Help lead, bath time, dishes, bedtime, homework, dinner, any of those routines. No quitting mentally just because you're home. And I applied his quote from earlier, it was the 400 isn't about how fast you can run. It's about how slow you can slow down. And in dad terms, the best dads aren't the loudest or the flashiest. High octane 24. They're the ones who slow down the least when it gets hard.

[Will Compton]

Well done. That was really good.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you.

[Will Compton]

Great analogy.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you. The old proverbial 400 meter proverbial saying, Dodgeball, underdog story. The proverbial pumpkin.

[Will Compton]

Hell yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Hell yeah.

[Will Compton]

Good. So boy, great set. Make sure you take out the trash. We love you. We appreciate you continue to leave comments. Make sure you're subscribed again. You can go to bwtb.com to get for the dad's merch. Anything to sign off with Sherm.

[Sherman Young]

I love this community. Thank you for leaving comments. Thank you for sending stories. Even when they're dms to our personal pages. I love reading them. And everybody that purchased Black Friday Friday stuff. It was our absolute pleasure to get to send those videos to you guys and it was really fun. And thank you for taking the time to buy stuff for our Black Friday sale.

[Will Compton]

You crush those videos they you crush the videos, bro.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you.

[Will Compton]

It's good work.

[Sherman Young]

It was very fun.

[Will Compton]

Hey, embrace the suck papa team 6 semen team 6 milk team 6 goon berets. Those in buds training. Have a great week. See you next week.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

What a matchup we got y'.

[Derek (Funko)]

All.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride. A game like this, yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.

[Sherman Young]

Mmm.

[Coca-Cola Announcer]

Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere. And in ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

[Bojangles Announcer]

We ended up this episode to bring you Bojangles breakfast, lunch or dinner. Bojangles makes your tailgate a winner. We're talking about crispy chicken made from scratch biscuits and all of the fixin. Be the MVP this season and let Bojangles do the cooking.

[Will Compton]

Now.

[Bojangles Announcer]

Right now, if you go to the app, Bojangles app and you use code Bussin, that's B u s s I n you can get 20% off your order. Made from scratch biscuits, crispy chicken, drizzle the honey on top, get after it, live it, love it, laugh it. Bojangles time, baby. 24 off bussin b u s sin back to this episode. Amazon Five Star Theater presents Real customer.

[Sherman Young]

Reviews performed by Eva Longoria. Tonight's review, sports briefs. Oh boy. Where do I even start with these performance mesh boxer briefs. These boxer briefs are like a magician's trick. You know the one where you go, where did that rabbit come from? So if you're looking for underwear that not only performs well, but also gives your package the attention it deserves, then look no further.

[Will Compton]

5 stars.

[Sherman Young]

Nickalicious. Shop the perfect gift this holiday season on Amazon. This is an I heart podcast.

[Will Compton]

Guaranteed human.