For The Dads - Screen Time Hacks For Kids + Delivery Room Survival

Summary

Bussin' With The Boys – Episode Summary: "For The Dads - Screen Time Hacks For Kids + Delivery Room Survival"

Release Date: June 18, 2025

Welcome to another insightful episode of "Bussin' With The Boys", hosted by NFL players Will Compton and Sherman Young. In this episode titled "For The Dads - Screen Time Hacks For Kids + Delivery Room Survival", the hosts delve deep into the multifaceted journey of fatherhood, offering a blend of personal anecdotes, listener interactions, and practical advice tailored for dads navigating the challenges of raising children and preparing for new additions to the family.

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1. Listener Feedback and Shout-Outs [01:00 – 05:30]

The episode kicks off with Will Compton expressing gratitude to their growing community of listeners. He emphasizes that the show is a safe space for fathers to share their experiences, vent, and find camaraderie. Sherman Young adds, "The feedback's crazy. The feedback's insane." ([03:55]) as they highlight enthusiastic responses from their first episode.

Notable Shout-Outs:

• Jerry Ferris ([04:00]): Known for delivering his newborn on the bathroom floor, exemplifying the unpredictable nature of becoming a dad.
• Aaron Wood, Jackson (25 years old), and Adam (40 years old): Father figures who find solace and community through the podcast, especially those whose friends may not be fathers themselves.
• Nick's World: A listener whose wife is 26 weeks pregnant and actively engages with the show.

Sherman Young mentions an overwhelming number of voicemails and direct messages, indicating the show's impact and the heartfelt connections being formed within the fatherhood community.

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2. Delivery Room Survival and Pregnancy Prep [05:30 – 15:00]

As the hosts approach the pending birth of their child, Will Compton shares the current preparations:

• Packing the Hospital Bag: Sherman begins packing the overnight bag, noting the meticulous details involved.
• Emotional Preparations: Will recounts a humorous yet relatable moment where he accidentally farted while trying to support his wife in the nursery, leading to a lighthearted but sincere reflection on being more helpful and present.

Key Points:

• Juggling Responsibilities: Balancing work, household chores, and supporting his pregnant wife can lead to moments of unintended humor and frustration.
• Partner Support: Sherman highlights how his wife, Jill, is deeply involved in preparing for the delivery, ensuring everything is meticulously arranged, from baby outfits to essentials for the hospital stay.

Quote:

"It’s great when the girls just, like, take the reins on the shopping stuff, because I'm terrible at it. And whatever they buy me, I smile and just say thank you, and I'll wear it."
— Will Compton ([08:37])

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3. Screen Time Hacks for Kids [25:14 – 66:14]

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to managing screen time for children—a common challenge for modern fathers.

Strategies Discussed:

• Sticker Books: Will recommends sticker books as a versatile tool to keep kids engaged during travel or long car rides. These provide interactive and creative outlets without relying on screens.

• TV Coupons: Sherman shares a successful tactic developed by his wife to limit screen time:

  • Concept: Creating physical coupons that represent allotted TV time (e.g., 30-minute sessions).
  • Implementation: Each coupon can be "spent" for viewing, teaching children about budgeting their screen time and making conscious choices.
  • Benefits: This method transforms TV time into a controllable and predictable currency, reducing tantrums and fostering a sense of responsibility in children.

Personal Experiences:

• Bedtime Battles: Will discusses the challenges of putting his daughter Rue to bed, especially when she insists on having her mom handle bedtime routines. He illustrates techniques like giving Rue limited choices (e.g., "three more bites of dinner for a cookie") to provide her with a sense of control.

• Emotional Regulation: Both hosts emphasize the importance of helping children navigate their emotions, especially when transitioning away from screen time. They highlight how structured approaches can mitigate tantrums and build emotional resilience.

Quotes:

"It's about giving them the illusion of control when they're three years old."
— Will Compton ([25:24])

"TV coupons is how we've started to play that game... It gives them the choice. They get to kind of pick and choose when they use their coupons."
— Will Compton ([58:38])

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4. Personal Stories and Shared Experiences [15:00 – 30:00]

The hosts share heartfelt and humorous anecdotes from their personal lives:

• Rue's First Ballet Camp: Will narrates Rue's experience attending her first solo ballet camp. Despite initial anxiety, Rue thrived, performing jumps, tippy toes, and dances that left both her and Will proud. This milestone underscores the challenges and rewards of fostering independence in young children.

• Dad Combine Event: Sherman introduces the concept of the "Dad Combine," an event where fathers engage in light-hearted competitions and activities. This initiative not only strengthens the bond among participants but also allows dads to reconnect with their own fathers, as illustrated by a touching interaction where Sherman observes his father expressing pride and gratitude towards Will.

Quotes:

"It's a whole new level of patience... What question can I ask to make them feel like they have control right now?"
— Will Compton ([25:32])

"It's really meaningful that my dad thanked Will for giving me this opportunity... It was honestly, like, a top three dad moment."
— Sherman Young ([45:55])

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5. Listener Call-Ins [74:00 – 85:18]

Engaging with their audience, Will and Sherman read and respond to heartfelt messages from listeners:

• Alex Caputo ([74:00]): A listener from New Jersey undergoing the IVF process seeks advice and shares how the podcast inspired him. Will and Sherman offer empathetic support, discussing the emotional challenges of IVF and emphasizing the importance of communication and resilience in the face of such trials.

• Colin from North Carolina ([83:28]): Colin shares his triumph of managing bedtime routines solo for the first time, transforming a challenging night into a "massive W" by successfully feeding his toddler and letting his wife enjoy her first night out after their second baby. The hosts celebrate his achievement, highlighting the significance of small victories in fatherhood.

Notable Quotes:

"The fact that you're asking that question is a good start."
— Sherman Young ([97:33])

"You don't know how much you can talk about or should talk about it... it's about staying connected."
— Will Compton ([82:10])

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6. Lessons and Quotes of the Week [88:30 – 101:00]

The episode concludes with the hosts reflecting on the lessons learned through their experiences:

• Will Compton's Lesson: Emphasizes the importance of prioritizing family time over professional opportunities. He discusses the "power of no," advocating for setting boundaries to ensure that work and other commitments do not overshadow the precious moments with family.

  Quote:

  "If they don't remember, we do remember. They're here now, especially in the young years, to enjoy them as much as possible."
  — Will Compton ([89:00])

• Sherman Young's Insight: Highlights using past experiences as stepping stones for future challenges in fatherhood, encouraging dads to apply the wisdom gained from their own upbringing to foster better relationships with their children.

  Quote:

  "Everything you've gone through, both the happy and the hard, is making you the person you are today. Use that to step into fatherhood."
  — Sherman Young ([97:18])

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7. Conclusion and Sign-Off [101:00 – 102:35]

Wrapping up the episode, Will and Sherman encourage listeners to subscribe, share their experiences, and continue building a supportive community. They remind dads to reach out through various channels and highlight the interactive nature of the podcast with promises of free merchandise for featured callers.

Final Thoughts:

"If you've made it this far in the second episode, feel free to share it. Pass it around. People might not fully know what it's about."
— Will Compton ([52:28])

"Thank you guys for joining us. Subscribe again. Leave comments. We love the comments."
— Will Compton ([86:35])

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This episode of "Bussin' With The Boys" offers a heartfelt exploration of fatherhood, blending personal stories with practical solutions to everyday challenges. Whether you're a seasoned dad, a new father, or someone contemplating fatherhood, Will and Sherman provide relatable insights and a supportive community to help navigate the rewarding journey of being a dad.

Transcript

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[Will Compton]

The Dads thank you for tuning in on this early Wednesday morning. I hope the trash is taken out. I hope you made yourself some breakfast, packed a little kid's backpack. This is a show for the dads. For the dads who are in it, about to be in it. Or maybe you're just somebody tuning in, wondering what dad life dad culture is all about. This is not a show about giving advice or being experts. We're just a couple of dads trying to pioneer and carry a flag for fatherhood, for dad culture and just and speak up for our mental load. We have a lot of different segments in this show. We talk about our dad losses which we we get creative in what we call that segment. I'm not saying it at the top of the episode because I assume the YouTube algorithm might might penalize us for that. We talk about our dad losses while we crack a cold one too. We dive into fan call ins. This week we have a lot of great feedback from episode one. We play a couple fan call ins and talk about those lessons that we are leaning into to become better versions in our minds of what fatherhood is. But again we have a lot of fun if you are a current dad, if you're a new dad, if you're an old dad. Just trying to figure your phone out right now. Make sure you are subscribed to this channel. Right now we are on all bussing with the boys channels. In July we will be launching our for the Dads YouTube channel so be on the lookout for that. We have a lot of merchandise as you can see for the dad's hats, hoodies, shirts Everything in between. That [e-mail] again. Sherm, I, I said that. I said that part, Sherm, I said that part. And I was rolling on this intro. Sherm was showing me something on the, on the computer and I was thinking to myself, I literally have already said that. Let's dive into it. Let's take out the trash. Boys, welcome to another episode of for the Dads. This is episode two. I am Will Compton. My co host and producer of the show, Sherman Young is with your boy. You're probably watching on YouTube right now. Maybe you're listening. Maybe you're in the middle of the night right now listening to us in your ear. Or maybe you are taking out the trash. Reminder, it is trash day. It is Wednesday. So if you're in my part, I know in my neck of the woods in Nashville, Tennessee, it is trash day. So I hope you guys are getting the cans out to the curb whether it's Thursday day before. Get it out there, get it early, get it often. Or maybe you might just be sitting on the couch watching with your wife because you enjoyed episode one so much that you're like, hey, now it's time to get Mrs. Involved. But maybe not because this is a safe space for the father. So if your wife is watching with you, just let her know, honey, like this is just a pod for the dads. Like this is for our voices. This is our safe space where we can vent. We might a little bit about our wives and that's okay because no matter what, we're coming home. Because sweetheart, we love you. But all to say, a lot of great feedback last week, bro.

[Sherman Young]

The feedback's crazy. The feedback's insane.

[Will Compton]

I, I got a few I want to shout out because I was going through the, I was going through the comments.

[Sherman Young]

I'm glad you did that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I was going through the comments, seeing what people had said. But shout out again. Jerry Ferris. He was the one delivering his newborn on the bathroom floor. I saw him comment on the YouTube page. But shout out the boy. Shout out to dad Jerry Ferris. A lot of people enjoying Pizza Friday. The Pizza Friday shout outs. It's good to grow the community on Pizza Friday. We need more dads involved in growing the Pizza Friday community. Aaron Wood, a 25 year old girl dad buddy. His buddies don't have kids and this show helps him fill the void. We also had a couple dads chime in. Jackson, who's 25, chimed in saying the same thing. And Even Adam, a 40 year old girl dad, was saying the Same thing.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, yeah.

[Will Compton]

His buddies don't have kids. I don't know, maybe he's not surrounded by some friends and he might just need this show to vent or feel like he's part of the. He's part of the trenches.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

He's still in the game.

[Will Compton]

Nick's World. His wife is a shout out. Nick's world on YouTube. And I saw this one in the comments. His wife is 26 weeks pregnant, listens to the show. So again, you can be an expecting father like yourself, Sherm. You can be a dad who's currently in it. You got some young ones, or you can be a father who's got. You know, I've seen some people saying that their. Their kids are now in their 20s, but they just enjoy listening back and hearing all the memories about fatherhood.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. The. Not only the comments, but the DMS and the 601. The dad's hotline.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, man, you were telling me.

[Sherman Young]

Bonkers.

[Will Compton]

How many. What was that number? Yesterday was like 74 had left voicemails.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. And it. It was even more today. Chef, who helps dial everything in on the back end as far as 601, the dads, our DM socials. Uh, chef's showing me the voicemails even today, and I'm seeing those blue dots next to them, which means they're new voicemails on the iPhone. You're just actually have the. This is the 601, the dad's phone. Right?

[Will Compton]

That's the phone right there.

[Sherman Young]

This is the phone.

[Will Compton]

Right? That's the hotline.

[Sherman Young]

This is a hotline. 601, the dads. You guys have been doing a great job calling in one of my favorite ones that I kind of want to play. I wish I had selected it, now that I think about it. Had zero questions, didn't want to say anything except for a happy Father's Day to the boys, dude. That's all he wanted to say.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Because by the time this one drops, Father's Day will have already happened.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

I hope dads. I hope the fathers out there got everything they wanted. I hope they got their. Their feet rubbed. I hope they got to sleep in maybe a little bit, maybe take a nap in the afternoon. I know if you're listening to this now, I'm going to say that I successfully got to take a nap in the afternoon because that's one big thing I always enjoy. You have a little bit of free time, get on the big love sack, take a little nap on a Sunday.

[Sherman Young]

Is that the love sack that's up in your game room.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

That thing is loud.

[Will Compton]

It's comfy. You see, we got a couple facelifts if. I don't know if the cameras are showing it, but we now have a refrigerator. Our interns did a great job grabbing this refrigerator at an antique shop. We got Sherm's little bean. The photos hanging up on the fridge. We got Rue. She made that little sheep. Clearly, she probably didn't make the sheep. She probably had a little help, but she made the little sheep and the butterfly coloring that you see, that was. That was Taylor. Oh.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, really? Well, well done, Taylor.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, well done, Taylor.

[Sherman Young]

That's awesome.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but, yeah, I look at that, I'm like, God, we got to work on coloring in between the lines. I've been trying to work with her, God bless her. She loves coloring. She loves doing all this. She gets very frustrated if she can't color inside the lines. And she just wants, like, dead day. You do it, mama. You do it. You know what I mean? No, you just got to keep practicing. You got to keep trying. But we got a little facelift with the. With the studio setup.

[Sherman Young]

Got a little facelift. I. I actually might have my first tip. My mom's an artist. If you go. If you start with Rue on the edges, this is for any dads out there. If you start on the edges and you have them trace inside of that line and practice tracing, that's a good way to get that hand a little steady, and it kind of makes it, like, nice for them. Of. Oh, I can do that. Because it's kind of hard when they're scratching and blah, blah. But, hey, try and go with the line first and then fill it in. There's a little game.

[Will Compton]

It's a good. Yeah, a little game. Good little starting point. Good little step one.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

What, dude? What's been going on? Anything. Any new updates before we get into, you know, getting to crack a cold one? Getting into our segments?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, dude, the. So Jill is starting to officially pack the hospital bag. Like the overnight bag.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And last night I was watching. I was watching tv, and I was eating dinner. We have these little dinner set things that we sit and eat because Jill's belly's so big that it's not comfortable for her to really kind of sit at the dinner table. She's kind of, kind of sit back while she's eating, and she's on FaceTime with her mom at Lululemon. She's, you know, mom's. Figure out some bougie stuff. For Jill. And then I hear, does Sherman need anything for the hospital? Does he need any new clothes? And I'm in the background going, no, I work at bus. And where you guys give us free clothes, like. Like twice a week, three times a week, we get something new. And Jill goes, yes, you do. You do need new. Yeah, Mom. He needs sweatpants. He needs. Blah, blah, blah. They're just, like, buying all this stuff for me. I didn't even see it. But it's great when the girls just, like, take the reins on the shopping stuff, because I'm terrible at it. And whatever they buy me, I. I smile and just say thank you, and I'll wear it.

[Will Compton]

And just packing the overnight bag.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

All the things, the. You know, the little wrinkles that go into that. Because you're just thinking, I mean, what all. Are they going to have any. Everything there for us?

[Sherman Young]

That was my thought. And then I'm seeing this bag, and it looks like we're going to an overnight camp. Like I went to camp as a kid. Like, packing. You'd pack a trunk and a duffel. We need a true duffel.

[Will Compton]

And you gotta have the outfit first. Outfit they're gonna wear when they leave the hospital.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

And Jill's buddy, the outfits. Don't get me started on the outfits. Not the hospital one coming out. I get that that's a big moment and everything else, but I was with a fellow dad the other weekend, and we were at Charo. Had, like, a bar three event over. What's that horse track over on the west side? Oh, Steeplechase. They had an event going on over at Steeplechase. And I take the kids over and.

[Sherman Young]

Good call.

[Will Compton]

I take the kids over, and we're watching her do her. Do her thing. She had. There was, like, three, 400 people there, and we're just wanting to go see mom and stuff like that. And I'm standing there next to a fellow dad. His name. His name is Tom. Won't say his last name. You know, got to protect him on the show. Don't know if his wife's listening right now.

[Sherman Young]

Of course. Of course.

[Will Compton]

So it could be any Tom. And we're standing there, and, you know, we're kind of just venting, getting some dad stuff off our chest. Bitching a little bit. Just having a good time. Bonding over fatherhood. The sucky parts. Like, some of the sucky parts of it. He was bringing up this detail, and once he brought up. He had to. He had to have their daughter in a specific outfit coming over to the event. I'm like, buddy, don't you hate when they do stuff like that? Like, you're just thinking, all right, I'm going to get him dressed, and then you bring him downstairs. And all of a sudden, hey, why didn't you put on the outfit I had laid out? It's like, it seemed a little complicated. I don't want to have to tie the little strings on the back of the neck like, or if it's a dress. And I don't know necessarily how to, how to work it. It seems like there's a lot of different things going on with the operation. Like, what's wrong with your shorts and a T shirt? And then next thing you know, you're in a little. You're in a little dust up. You're in a little moment. Because they want a specific outfit to go to a certain event. I'm not going to say leaving the hospital again, aside from. But in everyday life, one thing that you're going to run into is they're going to want them in certain outfits. And some that you're going to come and you're like, how does this thing function? Because again, you're going to have a little girl, too. Like, you're more privy to what guys wear. It's like, hey, shorts and a T shirt is going to work just fine. She's going to play a lot. Like, why does she need a certain outfit? Because now when she's wearing her dresses, she has an expectation of wanting to wear a dress. And it's like, sweetheart, you can't wear a dress every day of your life. You got gymnastics today. We got sprints today.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know what I'm saying?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. And especially if she's getting into sports, like soccer and stuff like that. Like, she'll learn the importance of some shorts or some T shirts over a dress. I now, I don't want to put. I don't want to get in trouble with Jill.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, listen, Charles, sweetheart, I love you. I love you. I know she listened to last week. She might listen to this week, who knows? But it's always the thing. I'm also, sweetheart, we'll be in the car. I'm like, why do I got to put her in a certain outfit? Or I might just say, hey, my bad on the outfit. You know, kind of massage a little bit. But also, why does she got to wear that outfit?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. And what's up with all the buttons on the outfits? That's why I'm getting introduced right now. Because I'm just seeing, like, Scarlett's not here yet, obviously, but the closet is more full than my closet. My, like, human 32 year old. I have a job, I have weekend outfits. I have jackets and stuff for the winter. My unborn child has more clothes in her closet right now, I swear to God. And that might be because Jill has, like, 26 first cousins and all these aunts and uncles, like, and so we're getting all these.

[Will Compton]

Right? All these different outfits.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you so much for sending them. But I'm also looking at the closet. I'm like, holy.

[Will Compton]

Okay, she's only going to be three months old for 30 days.

[Sherman Young]

That's the other thing. That. And now that she's small, they're like, okay, she's kind of smaller, so she'll actually fit in preemie stuff. So, honey, we gotta actually go to Walmart. We gotta buy the preemie sizes because she's gonna be a little on the smaller side. And I'm like, okay. So, like, us going, you know, eight months in advance to buy the onesies maybe wasn't the smartest decision, but it was so fun to go shopping. But the question I have for you, that might get you in trouble, and I'm sorry.

[Will Compton]

Okay?

[Sherman Young]

But I laughed when I overheard Jill say, this is. She has a. We have an induction date 2 July. She has a hair appointment before the induction date. Did Charo set a hair appointment before her induction day?

[Will Compton]

I don't think so.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

I don't think she did. I mean, buddy, it's a war in there.

[Sherman Young]

I'm not ready.

[Will Compton]

I'm even thinking for Jill for what she's gonna get hair and makeup done. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Sherman Young]

Well, she's getting her hair done.

[Will Compton]

It's a. It's a war in it. Charl might have. I have no clue. I. I don't remember with either of them, her, like, having a hair appointment. Maybe she did. You know what I mean? Because then they, you know, they want to look, you know, as they're leaving the hospital and everything else, of course. But it's a war in there. Like, you know, I hope the. I hope the best way. I hope it's in. You know, I hear my buddies being like, hey, we spent about an hour in the hospital. We were out. And it's like, well, good for you, man. It was 40 plus with Charles. Like, it was. It was a war by.

[Sherman Young]

My buddy showed me a video of him and his wife headed for their first baby girl. They're Headed to the hospital. And so I. In that moment, I'm sure I'm gonna be so crazy nervous there at a red light, though. And he had the thought to pull out his phone and film his wife in the passenger seat. And she has the little mirror down and she's doing her makeup in the mirror. And that made me laugh so hard.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I mean, look, if they're in and out quick.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know, maybe that's. Maybe that's all right.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

You just got to prepare. Bring your own pillow, Bring your comfiest stuff. Bring even an extra pillow to put under your knees. Because that. The couch bed that they got or just the couch in general. Like, that's a. That's a bit of a battle for the dads. Like you're going to be wearing, you know, you're going to go through it physically too.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Maybe not like them, but you on that couch, that's a one on one game right there.

[Sherman Young]

I've heard that one of my buddies was saying, Pokemon, like on the original Game Boy is what got him through on those little sofa moments. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm just.

[Will Compton]

Thinking, I've been playing Pokemon like.

[Sherman Young]

Well, I'm thinking to myself, get your ass over here, Jill.

[Will Compton]

Looking up, catching this bulbasaur.

[Sherman Young]

The Charmander's a charizard. I'm so sorry, what'd you say, nurse? What were you saying? But I was. I was like, what would her mom think if she looked over and I have my Game Boy with my little Pokemon blue sticking out of the back? Hey, Sherman, do you mind grabbing these things?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, one second. I'm swimming at the bottom of the island, trying to get all the unlimited rare candy.

[Sherman Young]

Great pull. Great pull.

[Will Compton]

Oh, those were the days, man.

[Sherman Young]

They were.

[Will Compton]

Should we dive into our. Should we dive into our segments? Yes. And again, before we do, if you're watching on YouTube right now, please continue to leave comments. Like, it was honestly really cool to see all you guys chiming in, telling us about your background, telling us about you. You guys loving the show. There are some out there that probably, you know, had a couple hateful comments, but we'll just, you know, we won't mention those, but leave comments. We will be having our own YouTube channel at some point. If you listen on Spot, Spotify or Apple, we are under all busing with the boys handle. So you can check us out there. And if you are watching and listening right now, make sure you are subscribed to the boys. Subscribe to our channel. Helps us out A lot. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Can I do one more housekeeping thing?

[Will Compton]

Yes.

[Sherman Young]

I'll put two graphics right here. We have an email for those that are outside the United States and can't do 601 the dads over the phone. We have 601 the dads gmail.com that they can then write in their questions to.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

So if you are outside the United States and you want to ask the boys a question, feel free to do that in the email. The other one, I just went blank. And it had to do with the YouTube channel that will launch in July.

[Will Compton]

Okay. So be on the lookout in July.

[Sherman Young]

We've been having a lot of people asking, hey, I can't find Yalls channel, though. I found your podcast. But it's on the bus and channel, right? It always be on the bus and channel. Won't always be on the bus and channel. We'll have our own channel.

[Will Compton]

Right? We'll have our own channel. Be able to break out some clips, do fun stuff like that. Yeah. Also, bwd tb.com we got a lot of killer merch. This hoodie that I'm wearing, these hats that Sherman I are wearing. A lot of fun dad merch on there. BWTB.com Go shop. Shop till you drop.

[Sherman Young]

Shop till you drop. First. First segment I had pulled up first, but we can go in any order you want.

[Will Compton]

Listen, I'm down for a good. It's coming. It's been coming from my daughter. It's been coming from my daughter Rue. Yes. And it's. It's an ego shot. It's her bedtime. She's in this. She's three. And she's gotten in this phase to where sometimes she enjoys bedtime with dad. Dad. But recently it's mom or nothing. And when I say mom or nothing, I'm talking an exorcism style tantrum to where she's shaking, she's making noises I've never heard her make before when she cries. She's yelling so loud that the next morning she wakes up and she's got like the little Compton rasp from when she's, like, lost her voice. Because she gets so upset if mama doesn't do bedtime. Because my wife and I, one of us takes Scotty each night, the other takes Rue, and then we just switch back and forth. And obviously Scotty's kind of the easier one. She's sleeping through the night. She goes down very easy. She knocks out. She absolutely yugs. Her 8 ounces of milk come on. And she's out fairly quickly. So you get done earlier, and the other one's in the room with Rue, like, just negotiating their ass off the entire time to the point where you have to think about waterboarding or if you're going to get her down for bed. But Rue has been. It's like she asked. I walk in the room, and I start to feel uncomfortable because I'm like, man, I hope she is down for dad to put her to sleep tonight. You know what I mean?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And I walk in, and it's her first question. Like, you know, who did bedtime last night? And I'll be like, mama did bedtime last night, so who's doing bedtime tonight? And I'm like, dad is doing bad time tonight. It's just like, her head goes up, bro. And it's. It's like she sees. It's like she sees, like, a substitute teacher that she hates. And that substitute teacher takes their job way too seriously. And it's like the energy just leaves the room.

[Sherman Young]

And have y' all gotten a reason.

[Will Compton]

Out of her yet? Like, she wants Mama. She wants Mama. I need Mama. Mama to hug me. And I think it's just because Mama's in the other room with Scotty, and a little bit of jealousy kind of sparks up. Okay, but where's my wife? Out. Because she's like, you know, it's not like she's that much easier with Charo.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because Charles got to put her down. She wants to do a lot of extra things when Char's in the room. And because you read her a bedtime story. Like, you get her in her PJs, you read her a bedtime story. You brush her hair, you brush her teeth, you get her to the bed. Then she usually wants you to do something extra. Hey, dad, that lay next to me, read me another book. And then daddy, can you sing to me or, daddy, hey, I'm getting thirsty. And then you go down and get water, you might bring it back up, dad, I'm getting hungry. And that's where you draw the line. You're like, no. Like, I know we know what's happening right now. We gotta slow down and pump the brakes. But recently, bro, she's just been going batshit crazy anytime I try to put her down for bed. And it's like, it's one of those shots to where it sucks for me because I want to put her down. You got to have so much patience. It's like you're sitting there, and as she's screaming, hyperventilating, spazzing, on the floor. And you just have to sit there in it. Because anything I tried doing, it just works her up even more. She doesn't want me to touch her, doesn't want me to do this. Don't look at me. Don't. I'm not looking at you. Then you catch yourself raising your voice, and you kind of just stop. And the moment, like, freezes. And this dog whistle noise is just in your ear, and you just. You're like, having a moment to where you're just sitting there seeing your toddler just scream on the ground, and you're just thinking, why is this so damn difficult? But that is my. My motherfucked moment is from my daughter Rue, because I feel like she's basically cussing me out anytime I try to put her down for bed.

[Sherman Young]

I got to see Charo do a little bit negotiating with her at dad Combine, by the way. Yeah, and I wanted to pick your brain on that strategy, too, and kind of if it fits with the bedtime strategy as well. Of what? How are you handling that screaming? Like, what is your tactic? Because what I saw Charo do in the pool, Jack was fake drowning in the pool. Rue was loving that and like, save me, save me. Save it, Jack. And she grabbed the hand and pull him out. And they did it 800 times. I mean, Rue could have done that all day. And finally Charles says, hey, three more times. And then we gotta go. And Ru very quickly was like, no, mom, we're doing this a million more times. I'm never getting out of the pool. And Charo just stood there, quite literally like George Bush with the first pitch brick wall, not afraid to terror, not afraid of terrorism. And said, then how many more times would you like Rue? And I was like. I looked at Charo because I was like, I've never really seen a parent do that. I was like, that's kind of cool. Let's see what Ru says. And Ru was like, five, because they.

[Will Compton]

Can'T count that high. No, you can't count that. Why don't you give me a number and we'll hold you two. You don't like three. Okay. What can you go up to?

[Sherman Young]

What do you want?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, she said five.

[Sherman Young]

Charles said, that sounds fair. Let's do five.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Where did that come from? Is that just Charo?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I mean, you're. You're like, you're playing with things all the time because you're trying to, like, remain calm and stay patient because you don't want to argue, especially in front of other people. People like, that's something that, like, internally frustrates me when I hear kind of like, you know, acting up or starting to throw a little bit of a fit or complaining a little too loud. It's like I'll start to get triggered a little bit more than I should because I'm just like, you know, you want your kid to just be on good behavior in front of everybody.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Then you're also reminding yourself they're three. A lot of sensory. A lot of. Like, all their senses are flared up right now.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But it's just. It's like. It's something you just figure out. Like, you'll do it. I know a bunch of parents do it. Like, if I'm trying to get rude to eat or finish her. Not even finish her dinner, but get her to eat a few more bites, and, you know, she's just not going to. And you're just like, you. You'll throw out the number three. Like, hey, just eat three more bites and you're done. And you can be done.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Or she'll talk about the cookie. Hey, you're not getting a cookie whatsoever if you don't start eating. But then when it gets to a point, hey, three more bites, and you can get a piece of a cookie. And she'll be like, how about two more bites? And so I'll just say, you know what? If you take one more bite, I'll let you do two more bites. Do the math.

[Sherman Young]

Come on.

[Will Compton]

We're at three. She'll be okay. She'll eat a bite. All right, fine. Two more bites. Two more bites and you got it. But it's. It's. It's like you're trying to give them control. That's all you're really trying to do. Like, when you're thinking those moments and you just know again, you're. You're. You're negotiating with the terrorists. Like, they have no reason. They have no. Their brain capacity isn't there to actually have a conversation. They just want to be. They want to feel independent. They want to be in control. So if you, like, say something, they're kind of battling against it. You just try to throw it to them, all right? What are your thoughts? What do you think? And knowing that they can't count that high, or unru's wanting to scroll my phone and pick a song, and I'm just like, sweetheart, you can't read. You can't read. You're not gonna pick the right song.

[Sherman Young]

I got it.

[Will Compton]

It's just the element of, like, giving Them control in that moment. And when they say five. All right, great. Five more times, and we'll go, okay, cool. Or you'll say, like, hey, how many more minutes? If she's watching tv, you know, how many more minutes we. You only got, you know, one more minute, and then we're going to turn the TV off. And knowing that she's not going to like that. All right, how many more minutes? Should be like, three more minutes. Like, all right, dad, I'll set a timer. Three more minutes, and then when it goes off, she gets up, she turns up the tv.

[Sherman Young]

Really?

[Will Compton]

Or she'll tell me to turn off. All right, Daddy, you turn it off, and then you turn it off. But it's just like. It's like. It's just giving them the illusion of control when they're three years old. I don't know how it's going to work when they're 4, 5, 6, 7. If you're. If your parents are watching right now, let me know what I need to look forward to and maybe some tactics that I can add in the survival kit in the book bag, like, for when those times come. But it's. Dude, it's like you just learn a whole new level of patience and just being like, all right, what's a tool? What question can I ask to make them feel like they have control right now?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, we. We did the old fashioned D. Wade LeBron meme of on Rue with the syrup.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

When I said, well, we can give Scotty some syrup, and you said, no, sky's too young. I said, oh, yeah, that's right. Syrup's only for big girls. And then Rue was like, hey, I.

[Will Compton]

Am kind of a big girl.

[Sherman Young]

What the. I'm a big girl.

[Will Compton]

Do you have.

[Sherman Young]

That makes sense.

[Will Compton]

You have any recent moments? I know the wifey's getting close. Not saying she's agitated and uncomfortable, which she is.

[Sherman Young]

I. I don't have a big one, but yesterday I came home and she was in full effect of, like, getting the hospital and. Chef, do you mind cutting the air? It's not an issue at all, but it's going to be on the very back behind the bus, and it's going to be up against the right wall. Yes, sir. We forgot to cut the air and.

[Will Compton]

Forgot to cut the air. It's all right. It happens.

[Sherman Young]

We may even leave that in the edit at Bus and hq because we're authentic here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

But, yes, I came home, she's packing the bags for the hospital stuff. I can tell she's been at it all day, her mind kind of runs. So she's a nurse. She's aware of, like, things that can go wrong in pregnancy. And that's one thing that we've been dealing with throughout this pregnancy is she just kind of knows, like, if she burps and feels weird when she burps, her brain can all of a sudden go, oh, that's, you know, Carl. Carl's. Blah, blah, blah, Itis. And that means that. You know what I'm saying?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, word. We don't know.

[Sherman Young]

Itis just spirals into, well, oh, my gosh. So she piddles around the house and does, like, a lot of hard work to kind of keep her mind busy. I could tell she was in that zone. But I know that one of her least hair things that I do when I get home is just lay on the couch while she's piddling. So I was like, at the least, I will go join her in the nursery, lay down on my back because she doesn't want me folding her clothes and Scarlet's clothes, all these cute things. Like, she wants to do that. But I'll go lay on my back in the nursery while she's doing that. And dude, I just. What's that smell? Why are your shoes on in here? Like, what. What are you doing? Sherman, do not put your head on that. I could just sell that I was in the way. So I. I quickly took my shoes off, tried to sit there for a while. I have a really bad. I'll pass gas and not think about it. So I farted. And that was the last straw. I got kicked out of the nursery. And I could have done a better job. I could have come in there and been more helpful. I was exhausted after work. I was trying to put in, like, some effort, though, of like, hey, I will be next to you and lay with you and talk with you and make you laugh while you're doing this. But I think I just went about it all wrong.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, nothing gives me more anxiety because I'm the same way. I kind of like hitting the couch, kind of laying down. You get home, you just wanna. You just wanna check out for a second. A hundred percent and anytime. Especially, like, after the kids go down and I'll go and I'll be, like, laying on the couch and then say, charles, goddamn putting down roof. So she'll come down second in this situation. She'll come down. I might have a show of ours plugged in right now. We're watching Stick on Apple. Apple tv.

[Sherman Young]

Can't wait to start that how is.

[Will Compton]

It's fun. I like it a lot. It's a good show. It's a good show. And I'll be down there laying and she'll start piddling. You know what I mean? Like just start cleaning a bunch of stuff off that I didn't know we needed cleaned up.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And that's what gives me anxiety because I feel like she just stomps around a little harder. Like she's almost. And this might not even be true. It might even be in my own head. I feel like she's probably a little harder. She might release a couple size to where she knows in her mind. I want him to feel that I'm doing stuff right now and he's just sitting on his ass. That's the anxiety that I get in my head.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, she's just hearing tick tocks and memes playing on your iPhone.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Josh Pate breaking down the boys maybe hear me just give a chuckle. Oh, that's clear.

[Sherman Young]

Apparently they're for the boys over there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. What are you doing over there? Just checking emails. That's funny. I. I hear Instagram open right now.

[Sherman Young]

That. Yeah, I mean that's. That's basically. It's not a crazy. But it is like I'm starting to realize too with like a baby on the way, I'm going to have to hit like a 3pm or 3:30 coffee. Something to where like. Yeah, I'm not coming home. And my brain is instantly like, I just. I need to be on the couch for like 30 to 45 minutes, just on my phone, not even talk because that's where I go to every single time. I can tell it rubs her the wrong way.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you're gonna, you know, just dip. Yeah, that'll blow up when the little one's here.

[Sherman Young]

Oh yeah. I already, I already know that it's.

[Will Compton]

A. I hope, I hope you do try that a couple times just because I want this show for the show. Hey, sweetheart. Are you gonna get that? You're just doom scrolling.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, they. Oh, okay. Ohio State might win the Natty this year. Honey, that's crazy. I don't. I don't give a. What are you talking about? I. But yeah, that. That was my mother. If we want to throw it to crack a cold one before we do.

[Will Compton]

Should we read a couple. Should we read a couple of our ads?

[Sherman Young]

Oh yeah.

[Will Compton]

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[Sherman Young]

I did see in the comments a lot of people are saying at the front end of the show.

[Will Compton]

Front end of the show. Okay, if everybody feels that way we can do that moving forward.

[Sherman Young]

I like it.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

I like it.

[Will Compton]

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[Sherman Young]

I love.

[Will Compton]

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[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

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[Sherman Young]

Let's crack a cold one. I cracked mid. Mid ad read. Do you want to take crack a colon first?

[Will Compton]

Sure. Rue had her first ballet camp.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yes.

[Will Compton]

So cracking a Cole went to Rue's first ballet camp. It was her first canto where she's been going. She went for a week long, three hours per day. You drop her off. And this is a solo camp. So this is the first time we're dropping her to go do something without, like in. Without involving us or the nanny or somebody that she's like, comfortable with, right?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Her grandparents. Whatever it is, she's on her own. I feel like it took probably more of a toll on us than it did Rue. I know when Charles first brought it up, I was a little hesitant, like, all right, you know Are we sure we want to do this? And yada yada yada. Just because I just, I don't know, I just think of the, the innocent little three year old. Like if I feel like it's all the stuff that parents go through and maybe not, but you're just. You think about all the situations where they might feel unsure and nervous or they might get picked on. I don't know. All of these things are just in my head and I just think of my sweet little girl.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And that makes me sad to think of those situations. So I felt like it was. It took a bigger toll on us than it did her. But dude, it's, it was awesome. The first day, I know the drop off was a struggle. She was very nervous, she was very sad. Char was telling me that she was like, you know, mom, I want you to go yada yada. I'm kind of glad that I wasn't exactly there. I got to do it at home and tell her like, hey, go be great. Go have fun. Like do all this stuff.

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[Will Compton]

See mint mobile.com make friends. You know you're saying all the things, dude. And she went, dude. And she went into the class Charl was leaving. Ruth struggled with that. And then after the class when they went to pick her up, she came running outside. I was like, mom, I wasn't nervous, I wasn't scared. I did it and all this stuff. And she was just elated, bro. And just to know that she had a great first day, like, first experience.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Was just like. It warmed the boy's heart.

[Sherman Young]

Were you. Were you there on the pickup? That was just Chariot.

[Will Compton]

No, because it was happening when we were here at the shop.

[Sherman Young]

Got it.

[Will Compton]

Like, it was going from, like, nine to noon. So I got to see her before we left the house, before we departed from the house. And then I just. I didn't get to see her until I went home. And then I'm asking her all about it. I'm like, show me this stuff that you were learning. And she's like, showing me tug, pike, straddle, and Butterfly. And then as she's still on Butterfly, she starts singing Butterfly. She's just like. Starts singing.

[Sherman Young]

Because there's a song.

[Will Compton]

There's a song to help them remember.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And it was cool, dude, but we went the. She went the entire week. She had a little, like. Not recital, but something that, like, 15 minutes they show the parents on the last day, like, all the things that they've been working on, like their jumps and leaves and tippy toes everywhere and animals that they were kind of mimicking and doing stuff with their rolls, like, rolling forward, tucking their chin. Okay. Then they had, like, a little dance at the end. And it was awesome, man. It was awesome. It's like one of those things where. And, you know, you'll. You'll obviously get there, and I'm sure parents are out there probably remembering their first time, like, dropping their kiddo off. But you. Even though it's, like, an uncomfortable thing to do, you know, it's, like, good for them because you're wanting to build, like, that independence. You're wanting to. You're wanting them to start building social skills, build some resilience on being uncomfortable, being scared, but then knowing that they are. That they can do it, and then they do do it. I'm not nervous. I wasn't scared, and all this stuff, and they start getting more confident in themselves. But that's the. That's my crack. A cold one. Rue went to her first, like, summer camp, ballet camp, five days. And it was.

[Sherman Young]

It was cool, dude, that's sick. I'm in so much trouble with, like, moments like that of, like, I wasn't scared. I wasn't nervous. Just, like, hearing that. I'm like, oh, dude.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, my gosh.

[Will Compton]

Because you. You try to get them as much as you can, like, early talking about emotions, because when they're having their breakdown, say, you know, what are you feeling? What is this? Why this? You know and she'll be like, I'm sad. And, you know, kind of try to label all their emotions. And someone. She was telling mom that, I'm nervous. I don't want you to leave. I'm scared. I'm all this stuff to where as a parent, like, I know if I'm in that situation, I'm just kind of thinking, like, this is extremely difficult. I kind of don't want to leave. Like, let me just kind of stick around. And then you're like, maybe I'll leave when she's not looking. And then you also kind of feel bad or feel guilty that I'm gonna sneak out, and then she's gonna look and see in the corner, and you're not gonna be there. And then maybe she might get scared even more.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I don't know.

[Sherman Young]

But I would feel like a boxing coach, like, in the corner with my boxer. Like, but like you were describing with Rue before she was leaving and, like, go be great and stuff like that. Like, I'm gonna have to hold back in those moments.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Because I'm just thinking about that, and I'm like, oh, my gosh.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

That's like.

[Will Compton]

It's wild when you're just experiencing all of, like, the firsts. You know what I mean? First time they say a word or say dada. First time they walk. First time they tell you I love you. Like, all of the first. It's just. It's always a different moment that you're excited about. And then when you get past it, you reflect on it. Makes you sad that they're growing up and all those things in between. Dude, how.

[Sherman Young]

How was she sleeping that week? Were they getting her real tired and she was just coming home and passing out?

[Will Compton]

She doesn't take naps anymore now she's. She's out of the nap game, which is, like, you know, you're trying to implement, like, quiet time, because if not, she'll be on all day. You've been around Rue like, she's a spark plug full of personality, a lot independence. Real sassy. Or build some sass. And she just has, like. She has so much fun with absolutely everything. She wants to be playing all the time. We have a knock.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, we have a guest. Hey, how's it going?

[Will Compton]

What's going on? How we doing?

[Sherman Young]

Oh, with neutral.

[Will Compton]

Okay. Yeah. That would be on the other side. Yes, sir. Sorry for that interruption in our program. We had a. We had a delivery man. What did. Delivery man up front. Crack a cold one.

[Sherman Young]

Crack a cold one. There was one More thing I was gonna say with.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah, yeah. We were in the middle, the first.

[Sherman Young]

It's like, oh, it's their first. You know, I love you. And.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And it was like her first time going to camp. Do you think you'll do summer camps, like overnight summer camps with her?

[Will Compton]

Probably, eventually.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

I don't think I did for a long time. It'd be like, you know, it was more just like sport games and stuff. I didn't have. I didn't do any of, like those. Those summer camps where you're like staying overnight or traveling out of state. Charo did. So I. I feel like she probably will because Charlo experienced that stuff and she's kind of brought it up before.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

That'll be a whole different level.

[Sherman Young]

That's gonna be tough on the boy. I feel like.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Because I know it'll be tough on me.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And I don't even have one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. It'll be difficult. It'll be difficult. But it's like, you know, it's just life, right?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You gotta learn at some point.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You gotta get them uncomfortable. Gotta get us uncomfortable.

[Sherman Young]

Gotta get us.

[Will Compton]

Gonna happen, too.

[Sherman Young]

I. I truly do. I, like, I think about moments of. I mean, not to make it about myself, but like tcu, Baylor went to triple overtime one year. And I was like bawling my eyes out at that football game for. Not out of sadness, but just out of, like, the sheer emotion from it. And then Jill's talking about, like, with me, you're going to be the best dad ever. Like, at her little League, you know, games and stuff. And she wants to play soccer like her dad did. And I started tearing up right there. I was like, I'm going to have to wear sunglasses to these little league games.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Just be the piss off looking dad, like, far away. And you're like, man, that guy looks so mean. But really, I'm just over there like, fudgeing. Love my girl so much.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, my God. Just crying the whole time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watching her just hit her little performance at the end of her camp when I was over there earlier, I just already know. I'm just. I'm already like one of those dads. I'm watching every kid go. I'm like, you know, Ruse kind of got a little edge on her here. And then, you know, we might be hopping like, all right, do it like. Do it like the. Like the horse or the giraffe. And they're kind of like. They're kind of like moving their arms But Rouge's not moving her arms. Yeah, yeah, we gotta work on that.

[Sherman Young]

When we get home, we'll work on that.

[Will Compton]

Like, let's see her jump over this little pylon. Like, how they're all gonna look jumping over this little mat. And you see them all going. You see Rudy, like, all right. And the first thing I want to do, whenever it gets done, I want to right up to the teacher and be like, just give it to me straight that she got a shot. She got a shot to go pro.

[Sherman Young]

What's going on here?

[Will Compton]

Let's figure it out. Now, when she's three years old and.

[Sherman Young]

With ballet, I've heard, like, Russia's pretty good. Like, are we gonna be sending her over to Russia or what? Does this look like, what, next season?

[Will Compton]

What do you see when you look at Ru out there? I have my opinion, but I'll hold it until you go first. But give it to me straight.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, you go first, coach.

[Will Compton]

You see the calves on her? You see the legs on her?

[Sherman Young]

This will never be during practice. I just want you to know I'll always come. I'll come to you after. That's your time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I feel like this is our time now. After practice. This.

[Will Compton]

She's got good genetics. Where'd she get that? Her moment. I did play a few years in the NFL.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, my God, dude, the. The videos that you already post of Rue doing ballet, it. I love that you could tell. You get juiced about it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, bro. You just. You love watching them just develop.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know, I mean, like, that they're. They're their own little human being. They're their own little person.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And they're just, like, doing it. You know what I'm saying?

[Sherman Young]

Yes. It's fun. It's fun. I. My crack a cold one. My crack a cold one's kind of quick too, but it was like a really. This is like, selfishly about me, but it was a really incredible moment of. We have the dad combine this week. All the dads of all the Boston boys, including Will and Taylor's dads, all fly in and we compete on, like, multiple dad competitions. It's really light hearted, it's really fun. But it turns into this, like, incredibly wholesome day where it's just a bunch of sons getting to hang out with their dads and they're getting paid to do it, which is nuts. My road in production has not been a bumpy one, but it's just hard to make a living and be in full time production if you're not in some of the hot spots of, like, Atlanta, New York City, Louisiana. So it's. It's just kind of a road less traveled. And my dad was very much in the corporate world, and so it wasn't like I never had my dad's blessing, but it was always kind of like, you could tell that dad kind of second guessed a lot of decisions that I made.

[Will Compton]

Right. Because you're not going down the road that he went down because you. It seems like in your family, some things are not, like, generational to a T, but there's kind of a structure there. So I'm sure there's that shame or, you know, level of insecurity of, like, man, he's never said it, and he's never given me a weird vibe, but it's like, is he kind of disappointed that I'm not, like, well, I'm sure making a shift.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. And I'm sure on his end that I didn't go that path. He may even be thinking, like, is it because he doesn't like me that he doesn't want to do this? Like, why?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's true.

[Sherman Young]

Like, where. Where'd that come from? But he always did see me, like, as a little kid in the backyard doing. I would make little Indiana Jones movies with, like, all the neighbor kids or, like, all my friends would come over and we'd do, like, sketch comedy stuff and put it on YouTube. And so my parents were well aware that this was something that interested me. But you and Taylor gave me an opportunity here full time, an incredible one that brought my wife and I halfway across the nation. It was just a very big move. It was a very big opportunity, and it was really kind of the first time that my dad, like, I could really sense, like, how proud and excited he was. And he pulled Will to the side at the dad combine, and it was in front of me. And he thanked Will for giving me this opportunity, specifically of the show. And hearing him saying, like, thank you for giving him a shot, because we've been seeing it since, you know, he was a little kid. It just means the world that somebody else saw it in him. And he gave you, like, a little hug or, like, a little dap or something. And then you started waxing poetic about me, which you did not have to do. But that feels really good when your boss is saying that to your dad. And it was honestly, like, a top three dad moment. It was really cool.

[Will Compton]

That's awesome, man.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, I know.

[Will Compton]

When he pulled me aside, it was before everything started. He's Like, I just want to say this before everything gets going and took off his hat and everything he did. Is that giving me a very sincere. Yeah. Conversation about. Yeah. Being proud of you.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And you being with the boys.

[Sherman Young]

It was just really cool, really selfish. Crack. A cold one. But like, man, it was a really good crack. A cold one. That was just like, it's about your dad.

[Will Compton]

That's. That's what we're here for. This is a. For the dad's podcast, man. Because that, that day was really cool. It's like I posted about it, but it's essentially we've taken something that we do work related and came up with this event. And it's not like a very uber competitive thing. It's kind of just like a reason for us to have our dads in and hang out with our dads. I know last year there wasn't as many of the dads here. And then you kind of sit back and think about it. You're like, let's get everybody's dad in the shop if we can, here on this date. We'll fly him in. And it's essentially like us kicking in with our, with our dads because we're like, you know, doing competitions like packing coolers, taking out the trash, a little trash relay, a fashion show for True classic. And you know, you're doing trivia, so you're answering questions about, you know, who was your dad's favorite crush growing up or when, you know, when did he lose his virginity, when is his birthday, what's his favorite color, what was his first job. They're answering stuff about you on embarrassing moments. You're kind of getting to relive, you know, stuff from your dad's past, stuff from your childhood that they remember that you might not remember.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And then you're kind of sitting there at the end. And now that a few of the dads, this is their second year in a row, just to see kind of a rapport or relationship building and knowing, like, the boys in the shop are all super tight now, seeing our dads get in the mix and start to become tighter. Just know that this is the date every year that we're going to have a dad combine. It's. It's really cool, man. Jelly Roll said it a long time when we were just talking about busting with the boys. He just talked about it being like a, A diary, a video diary or a video journal that we'll get to look back on one day and listen to our conversations. And this is a dark way of thinking about the dad combine stuff, but thinking so far into the future that one day when our dads are no longer here, because that will be a real thing, we will have these videos and these moments to look back on and see us interacting with them when we're like, 35 versus, like, home videos of them us being little and them being a new dad. It's like we have moments throughout our childhood and our adult life to where we'll be able to watch that, you know, with sadness and happiness and everything else. But it's really cool that we'll have all these things and if busing is no more. Right?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Back on. All the relationships that we all had, all the funny moments, but the dad combine was a lot of fun.

[Sherman Young]

It was a ton of fun. Yeah. The idea of being a grandfather one day, but being able to, like, pull up some of those videos of just like, oh, bro, me getting my head buzzed for that bet I lost. Or like, you know, showing your grandkids.

[Will Compton]

Showing their friends, embarrassing them.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

About stuff.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. But yes, that was our crack, a cold one. And also just a reminder for the 601, the dads, because we have had a few that I've listened to where they were, like, I had a good crack, a cold one, or I had a really good love that if you got a dad hack or a toolkit. Just another reminder. I know we've said that before. Like, tell us your crack a coal ones too. It does not have to be a question. And one of the ones this week, I believe, is a crack, a cold one. And it is stellar.

[Will Compton]

And just off the whole six on the desk. Because I know we're all learning through this and figuring out too. I'm trying to think of the people that call in and, you know, they might give it another shot the next week and they might say the same exact story. If there are a bunch of voicemails that we hear that you think could make it on the show, but that's not just the ones that we selected for this show. You can keep them in a row. We can probably keep them in a Rolodex. Put the headphones on.

[Sherman Young]

No, no, you're fine. I was just seeing if, like, the viewers could hear Chef, because I. I would love for the viewers to hear that. And if they couldn't hear Chef, that's intern Chef that's been helping us with. For the dads. He has been compiling all these voicemails. We are taking our job very seriously with the voicemails with the dms Chef is a huge part of that and cycles through all those call logs and listens to them and compiles them. And Sherman, would this be a good one? Because we actually surprise Will with the call ins the actual day of recording. Just know those voicemails are being listened to. Chef's taking his job really seriously, so we thank him for that. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So keep calling, trying to find ways to continue building this community.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Will Compton]

You can already just tell from the comments in the first episode and just the dads who are excited about it and everything else and the messages that we were getting, like, going to be. It's going to be a lot of fun. And if you've made it this far in the second episode, feel free to share it. Feel free to share with your boys. Feel free to share your fellow dad group chats. Feel free to share it. Pass it around. Because people might not fully know. You know what I mean? They might be subscribed to the busing YouTube channel.

[Sherman Young]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

And they might have saw the thumbnail and just think it's like a clip or something.

[Sherman Young]

And that was a. That was looking at the analytics. Jeremy had pulled it up for me. That was two of the main ways that people were actually seeing the episode where people were sharing. The dads were sharing it. And then the dads were also looking up for the dads on YouTube, which that's usually a really small percentage, but there's a high percentage of our views just from. For the dads, which to me that feels like a word of mouth thing. So that, that's really cool that the dads are doing that. Our next segment, what are the odds? Shout out FanDuel Sportsbook. What are the odds? Just a reminder for you guys, this is where we tell a story of like crazy timing, wild odds, or just kind of those small little moments in life where it's like, man, what are the odds of that? That's so funny. The what are the odds? This week was also at dad combine. This features my dad and also feed features Mitchell Carsley's dad. Mr. Carsley was introducing himself to my dad and I guess he had overheard Papa Sherm and Bill Compton talking a little bit about guns. And so he holstered that about 45 minutes later.

[Will Compton]

Such a dead combo.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah, dude. And by the way, I wish so badly we had had a camera on Bill and Papa Sherm talking about their nosler and then your dad's 30 odd six and just going through. Oh, dude.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Forgetting. I can't remember right now.

[Sherman Young]

I can't remember right now.

[Will Compton]

Is that Bill? Super nice to meet you. I'm. I'm Sherman, Sherman's father.

[Sherman Young]

They're both cue balls.

[Will Compton]

Both cue balls. My dad. Oh, you get to. You get your haircut at the same spot I do. You know, just having a wholesome father exchange.

[Sherman Young]

This is incredible. But yes, Mr. Carsley, just like perfection just comes up to my dad and is like, sherman, nice to meet you. Heard you do a little bit of hunting. My dad's like, I do. I do a little bit of hunting. How about yourself? I heard the very first part of the conversation which shout out to Mitch's dad. He actually shot a black bear while he was whitetail hunting. He was up in a tree stand hunting some whitetail. And there's an overlap in Pennsylvania on a black bear and whitetail. He had a black bear come right behind his stand, just right up by the tree. And he did one of these and knocked it with one shot, which. So shout out Mr. Carsley. But he saw in that story. Well, to a bunch of Texans hearing that were like, you shot a bear. That's not. We don't have those opportunities in Texas.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Sherman Young]

I look over 45 minutes later, Mr. Carsley has his sunglasses up here. He has his readers on the bridge of his nose. My dad has his readers on the bridge of his nose. And my dad's doing this to Mr. Carsley. And just. You see that? Blah, blah. They have their game cameras. They're showing game camera pictures to each other. Incredible, dude. I mean, you just like. You love to see that.

[Will Compton]

This one's gonna be a big one. Hey, come fall time. This one is growing right here.

[Sherman Young]

This non point. We haven't. So he came by one time. Yeah, we haven't seen him since.

[Will Compton]

Haven't seen him since. And we're haven't seen him either. He's out there.

[Sherman Young]

He's out there. And we're waiting for the rut because he's loves the dose.

[Will Compton]

But if they.

[Sherman Young]

If they ain't rutting, he ain't coming to the feeder.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he's on them. Does like white on rice now. I'm telling you.

[Sherman Young]

But he won't show face till the rut.

[Will Compton]

Look at this. You know what? We didn't get him in this camera. But look at this rub on this tree.

[Sherman Young]

And wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. Wait one second. And they go through like 30 pictures.

[Will Compton]

Damn it. I can't.

[Sherman Young]

They finally get the one picture where it's the. You know, that back from behind or like, straight on that they want to show you. See how outside the ears he is?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I mean, come on.

[Will Compton]

Hey, remember that picture I was telling. I was telling you about earlier? I couldn't find it. My buddy sent it to me. Check that out.

[Sherman Young]

We finally got it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And that's at 12. I was talking with the drop time. That's that 12. But, dude, it's just. It was phenomenal.

[Will Compton]

They accidentally opened up another app. Damn it. How do we get out of here?

[Sherman Young]

I love seeing dad's photo shout out Jill's stepdad, Cody, because he shows me a lot of game camera pictures too. I love seeing his camera roll. There is nothing better than a dad's camera roll, dude. You'll just see, like, when it's all the little images and they're, like, scrolling, you see some of the stuff that he takes pictures of or screenshots. To be in the mind of a dad.

[Will Compton]

To be in the mind of a dad. My dad just pull out the phone and just start taking pictures of Ru. Just be standing, like, right below him or something, doing something. I'm like, dad, what are you doing? Like, like she's playing on the ground. You're getting photos of her back.

[Sherman Young]

He's taking pictures.

[Will Compton]

He'll just be standing just like taking pictures. Dad, do you want a better shot?

[Sherman Young]

If you come over here, you can see your face. I don't need to see. Why do I need to see your face? I know what that looks like. Yeah, but. Yeah, that's our. What are the odds? And then as far as, like, survival kit and dad hacks, I feel like laying. You drive on those. As far as you having kids survival.

[Will Compton]

Kit and dad hack survival kit. I'll say. I think they both go hand in hand for the dad hack and survival kit survival kit. My survival kid recommendation will be having sticker books. You'll be traveling with a backpack around when you guys go out. Maybe you're traveling to a different state. Maybe you're flying on the plane. Maybe you're in the car for a long time. Sticker books, a big one. We have animal sticker books. We have space sticker books. We have ocean sticker books. To where it's like the glossy kind of cardboard. You open it up, the pages are thick, and you have, like, these stickers, like the glossy stickers that you can put on, you can remove. You can place them around. Rue was having you do it when we were at.

[Sherman Young]

What was that place?

[Will Compton]

The egg spot. It was like, egg.

[Sherman Young]

Another broken egg.

[Will Compton]

Broken egg. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another broken egg in Nashville, shout out another broken egg. No free shoutouts.

[Sherman Young]

Great breakfast.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. But you bring out the sticker book when she's busy or bored or trying to do stuff or we're trying to get be in a conversation. You'll pull out the sticker book, have her coming over. Where should I put this sticker book?

[Sherman Young]

It was fun, too. I can shout it out as well. I actually had a fun time with it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Sticker book is a. That's a survival kit. That's a little product recommendation. Because going into the dad hack, and this will be shouts to my wife. So this kind of be like a parent hack, dad hack, mom hack, whatever, TV coupons. Because one thing that you battle with, when they have exposure, which they're going to have to the first screen. Right. Or they are starting to watch TV. I know Rue had watched Miss Mrs. Rachel when she was really little, and now she's in the phase to where it's like Trash Truck, Little Bear, which was a favorite of mine growing up watching Little Bear. Yeah. Rue loves Little Bear right now. So she wants to watch tv, like, anytime I come home, something goes off in her brain to where it's like, all right, we're getting close to TV time because she won't. She doesn't watch any TV when the nanny's in. And we don't do iPads. We don't do screens when we're traveling or anything. Like, we'll listen to music. She might, like, listen to her headphones. Her. Her Uncle Brad got her this thing. I forget what it's called, but it, like, plays stories in the headphones. It could be, like, stories about Frozen or Moana.

[Sherman Young]

That's awesome.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's just like, they'll listen to stories, but if they want, like, activities to do, we'll get out the sticker book. We'll get out different drawing things. Or she can draw and hit a button and it'll delete it. Because we don't do. We try not to do a whole lot of screen time, but she gets to watch tv. If you let them watch TV for too long, you know, their sensory, like, you know, their emotions get bigger. It's hard to put them down for bedtime. Yeah. Really worked up because they're just watching on screen. It's a big time where their brain's developing. They're trying to regulate their emotions. They watch if they have too much screen time. Like, you know, there's so much research and, like, data on and everything else. But we do our best not to put a Whole lot of screens in front of her. So my wife, she was watching Little Bear, and she likes to watch a little bear. And then it got to where she was getting pretty pissed off or agitated when we tell her, hey, you know, it's time to turn the TV off, time to start winding down time, start getting ready for bed or, hey, if it's Saturday morning or Sunday morning, we might. We might do, like Saturday morning cartoons or Sunday morning cartoons if we, like, make pancakes or make like a breakfast, like a family breakfast. And they got to where, you know, she'd start to get really fussier mad when she had to turn off the. When she had to turn off the TV or pause it or she wouldn't eat her dinner. You had to, like, turn off all the screens. And so my wife, she made these. This is the. This is the parent hack. This is the. The dad hack. And shouts to my wife for this. She made up these TV coupons where she, like, cut out construction paper, a little construction paper, background, printed out something on the computer, cut it out to where she, like, taped them on each other to where they have these fun little pictures. But each coupon represents 30 minutes of TV time to where she'll go up to a. Walk up to her room, she'll take out a coupon and put it in the. Can't use the coupon anymore. And she only has, like, an allotted amount throughout the week. Yeah, but she'll have windows of 30 minutes to watch TV if she wants to watch TV. Yeah, and that's the hack. Because it helps it. We turn it into, like, making it a currency. So she now has the choice. She now has the ability to kind of think about when she wants to use them. It gives her a little bit of control. We were talking about giving them control earlier. Yeah, it gives them a little bit of responsibility for you start showing them the cost. Like, hey, once you run out, these are gone for the week. You might be able to use two in a day. Maybe it's just one in a day. But you get to kind of pick and choose when you use your coupons, because once they're gone, they're gone. You don't get any more tv. So if it gets to a point where she wants to use, like, a second coupon in a day, and you're kind of like, trying to talk her out of it. You're like, hey, if you use this coupon now, you will be out for the weekend. Weekends are big. You have a lot of downtime. You could be watching TV Saturday Morning cartoons might not be Saturday morning cartoons. So it kind of gives them the freedom to start thinking about, like, what their choices are, and it gives them predictability to where. Hey, they know they have coupons upstairs. So if she comes down, she's like, dad, I want to watch Little Bear. And I'm like, well, did you. Did you use your coupon? She's like, I already went upstairs and flipped it over to the other side. So. TV coupons. Highly recommend. That's a way we've kind of tried to battle the screen time, the screen time game. Because it's like, once kids start looking at the screen and seeing that all this, you know, all these different things that they can watch on tv. Especially now, like, they don't have to watch commercial commercials. They get an ad that comes across like, oh, well, you know, more Little Bear. And it's like, dude, you got 30 seconds of this ad that just popped on. Like, you're gonna have to. You have no clue. We had to go. We had to look at a TV Guide to try to predict when our show was going to be on and watch. Oh, yeah, with all the commercials now, they can get it instantly on demand. And so to kind of structure that versus her being like, I want to watch TV. We're watching TV. Like, hey, bro, you've been watching TV for, like, 45 minutes. It's time to turn off the TV. And then they get all pissed off. It's like, bro, I've kind of let you watch TV for a while. 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[Will Compton]

We don't, you know, when people make the comment we don't want to be that family or we don't want to do this and that. Like it's challenging because it gets really hard when you travel or you're on the road or you're out eating at a restaurant. You want them to calm down, but it's, I don't know, it's like trying to get them like, hey, it's all good to be bored. Do you want your sticker book? Do you want to, you know, you want to pull out a book or do they have something to color with at the restaurant? Or let's just listen to this song or listen to this podcast or listen to this book on audio for traveling in the car. So the screen time will be a battle that you'll come across in the future. And there's no right or wrong way. That's just kind of been our preference on how we're going to approach minimizing as much as we can. Because I know there are some families, they don't do any screen time. You're kind of like, man, I wish we challenged ourselves to do no screen time. Or there's some families you see that do do the screen time. You're thinking in those moments of stress. Or no answers like, man, I wish I could just put something in front of them so they just calm down right now. So there's no right or wrong way. Not trying to say you're a bad parent if you do a bunch of screen time. That is just how we approach dealing with screen time with Rue.

[Sherman Young]

I love that philosophy. And that's actually one thing I've heard. Been hearing a lot about, like, entering into fatherhood is I have a buddy that they were like, we did no screen time. And then now that we're, like, trying to watch movies with them, like, he will not sit down, down. He's like, this is. What are we doing?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Like, why are we watching this? And they're almost like, well, damn, I wish we had kind of introduced movies and TVs, because, like, he's constantly just like, why can't we just go, like, kick the ball right?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. And it's like, buddy, I don't want to go outside around. It's a little hot outside. Like, let's just chill in here.

[Sherman Young]

Or it's, you know, late at night. Like, we're kind of winding down.

[Will Compton]

Sun's going down, sun's going to sleep. Time for you to go to sleep.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

And it kind of came, too, from, you know, you do Pizza Friday and movie night. We'd be watching movies, and she wants to watch Frozen over and over. So it's like, hey, do you want to watch if we have TV on? It's like, you watch a couple of things. A little bear. Because Little Bear will be, like, say, 21 minutes long, and they have little segments of, like, seven minutes on one episode, seven minutes on another, inside of, like, one episode.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

You're trying to watch something short. You want to watch Frozen. It's like, bro, you can't watch a movie. You can't watch an hour and a half of a movie.

[Sherman Young]

That's more. That's more than 30.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

You're going to need three coupons to watch Frozen.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So does Pizza Friday not count?

[Will Compton]

Pizza Friday doesn't count. We won't. We don't count it. Just because that's like our. It's like, our time of, like, showing up as a fam to kind of do, like, a family. Our weekly tradition per week. But you'll get, like. I think it's any. It's around, like, 8, 9, 10. I don't know. We give her an allotted amount of coupons to where she can't double down on every day. She can double down on a couple days. But all the the rest of the day, she has, like, one coupon that she can use, and you try and talk to her like, hey, you want to save these for the end of the week? You want to save for the end of the week? She can't go over two in a day. So we're like. You, like, build parameters, kind of make it, like, a currency so they can.

[Sherman Young]

Start figuring out she's in charge of the flipping responsibility.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Which I feel like y' all are almost kind of setting an opportunity there.

[Will Compton]

If, like, for her to.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah. Hey, flip it back over.

[Will Compton]

How'd she get it? Seems like she already used up her coupons. Why does she have one in there? I know I'm ready for that time. I'm ready for that moment that's going to be hard right now. She's innocent enough to where she, like. She, like, gets the game. It's like her getting out of bed. She doesn't really get out of bed until we come up in a room. I know some people, you hear stories like, we got to, like, tie the door shut so they don't come out of the room. Down early in the morning, climb into our bed.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

So we haven't gotten there yet, but it's going to be like, that first time she realizes she can get out of bed and walk down to her room, and then she's like, oh, man, I can just leave room in the. If I wake up in the middle night, just go down to mom and dad's bed.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, yo, Waffle. Yeah, where's waffle? With me.

[Will Compton]

But when my wife made it, I was like, are you sure you want to let her do the. The flipping? Because I can see where she just might be like, all right, I only have one left. Like, let me not flip it and see if my parents don't, huh? If they don't catch me. But that's the. That's the parent hack. That's the survival kit, sticker books, dad hack coupons.

[Sherman Young]

A bonus dad hack to that is I had an English teacher in high school that all of the media that he would introduce to his firstborn son was all the media that he grew up on. So, like, his son's favorite movie at the age of six was, like, Superman 2 from, like, 1961, and his son hadn't seen anything, like, outside of that and more modern and stuff. So he's seeing the terrible effects of, like, 1961 Hollywood, these practical effects, and he's thinking, how's this dude flying? He has Superman up in the clouds right now. This is crazy.

[Will Compton]

And it's too. You come across things where. When you have, like, show recommendations for toddlers. Because again, we'll get a lot of our stuff, whether it be the algorithm on Instagram or something coming across our face, to where there's things that get your. Your senses going so much to where there's a lot of movement in the show or a lot of lights, a lot of seeing, a lot of camera angles changing a lot to where it's like, you know, their brain development is happening and it's. It's like, counterproductive for them. Like, it's not healthy for them.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, okay.

[Will Compton]

And you'll see that shows that we grew up on are slow enough. Like, Little Bear being an example that are slow enough to where it's kind of like one shot and it's just them, like, interacting. It's wild. You'll come across all this stuff.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. When he.

[Will Compton]

Towards, like, the stuff we grew up on, it will be like, oh, those are better things for their brain to consum. Because all of the new rage stuff, there's a lot of bouncing around, there's a lot of animation, a lot of lights, a lot of flickering, a lot of, you know, scenes going from one to another really quick.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Which apparently, I guess, messes up the brain. I have no clue.

[Sherman Young]

Now, that makes sense.

[Will Compton]

Not a scientist.

[Sherman Young]

I've seen enough Bluey to know that, like, Bluey is, like, super fast pace. And just watching it, I remember, like, two of the little kid dogs are, like, yelling at the dad. Like, they're upset that the dad's, like, telling them it's time to go night, night. I'm just making up an example, but they're, like, talking back to D dad, and I'm like, well, if I had a little kid, I don't want them.

[Will Compton]

Like, knowing that this is an option.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Like, what in the world? Like, I think back to, like, Winnie the Pooh and, like, Eeyore being grumpy. And you're like, oh, well, don't be Eeyore. Because, like, Piglet, Rabbit, and Pooh are all like, Igor. Like, cheer up, buddy.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. The last list I saw Bluey on was, like, a moderate. It was like a moderate one because I've. When Rue was on, it was like, Ms. Rachel, Bluey. You're kind of learning about these shows and everything else. Because I think Bluey is a. I think Bluey's awesome.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

But yeah, it's interesting, like, learning about all of that stuff. Like, when you have a Kid. And you're trying to, like, you know, you want. Everybody's trying to do the best that they can, and you're trying to figure out, like, you know, what would be good for them to watch, what's unhealthy for them to watch. Like, oh, their brain's developing. What does that even mean?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, what can they even pick up from this? I'm such a cinephile, a lover of movies, that, like, I to myself, I'm like, man, there's so many things I'm gonna want my kid to watch that I'm like, I'm gonna have to wait until they're, you know, 17, 18, 19, or whatever. Like.

[Will Compton]

But you want to know a little? A show is. We would watch a Chaos Theory by Jurassic Park.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yes.

[Will Compton]

And it essentially shows the dinosaurs. It shows all the stuff. It shows moments right up to where before the human basically gets killed or a dinosaur gets killed. Like, it might be a velociraptor, you know, dropping the nail on a guy's head, but they'll show the velociraptor, and the nail will be up, and then, like, as it's gonna go down and kill the guy, and you hear the yell in the background, it'll just shift to a different scene. And you'll hear it, but you just won't see it. Yeah, Ru and I were watching that at a pretty young age, and my wife was like, are you sure she should be watching this? You know, she's gonna.

[Sherman Young]

You double down as a dad.

[Will Compton]

I'm thinking this is a show. I. I love Jurassic Park.

[Sherman Young]

Finally, we got a good kids.

[Will Compton]

Oh, this is on Disney. This will be a good show. Yeah, it's like the T. Rex bus out the. You know, busts through the gates and, like, yells. And I'm, like, looking at Rue's reaction, and when she's just kind of, like, looking at it, not getting too scared, I'm like, all right, you know? Yeah, maybe she can handle it. So we. It'd be something we would watch with mom not around at first. And then she saw, and she's like, should rupee. I don't know if I like her watching this, sweetheart. I mean, she's been watching it. She doesn't get too scared. Like, she's by dad, dad. That keeps her safe. She's gonna come across it at some point.

[Sherman Young]

And then I think, like, also, like, I watched the movie the Patriot at, like, nine, I think. So I'm like, oh, my gosh. If I was watching the Patriot at nine, I go back and watch that now and I'm like, oh, my God.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Like, I can't wait till we get her into, like, maybe Star wars or something. Because again, when you're watching, like, and again, like, Bluey, but would, like, Ms. Rachel be on TV or Blue or the. The really kid shows, you're kind of sitting there. It's like you want to watch it with them, but you got no skin in the game. Like Jurassic Park, Chaos Theory, all that stuff. I can. I can sit there and watch it with. Oh, yeah. Did you see that?

[Sherman Young]

The only thing I was going to say is we have run long. So I was going to kick it to the voicemail.

[Will Compton]

What's up, guys?

[Alex Caputo]

Big fan of. Of the pod. My name is Alex Caputo. I'm from New Jersey. I am not currently a dad, but I am actually going through the IVF process, and I saw the pod about Will Compton and his wife, and it inspired me to get inspired and call and call in to see if you guys had some advice for me. Big fan of the boys. Big fan of you guys. I would just love to be featured just to kind of chat with the boys and see what kind of inspiration I can get from the dads and from you, Sherm, as well. So again, like I said, shout out. No free shout out. Big fan of the boys. Big fan of the bus. Love what you guys are doing. Again, my name is Alex Caputo. I'm from Jersey. Good old Jersey Italian boy here. Hopefully to become a dad in about a year if this IVF process goes well. Love you boys. Much Love.

[Will Compton]

Alex. Man, shout out to you. Appreciate you calling in. Love that you listen to the IVF podcast with my wife and I. If you guys haven't seen that podcast, it's on. It's. It's on our busing channel. My wife and I did it for, like, a Mother's Day special where we sat down and broke down a lot of the IVF process and kind of the. The ups and downs of that process, because it is. It's an interesting one. It's not an easy one on both the. The. The mom and the dad, the wife and the husband, and just because you don't know what to prepare for, your wife goes through a lot of stuff physically. There's a lot of hormonal changes, a lot of injections and hard things that they have to do, so that way their body's ready to conceive a child, because pregnancy is a very hard thing to make happen. You. You realize, like, you Think in high school, you can, you know, knock somebody up, and it's as simple as that.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And then when you get married and you go through some rough times or you go through some turbulence with your wife on trying to get pregnant, and then you kind of see why people are a little bit reserved when, hey, you, you ask the question or you go somewhere, you're asking your friends that are newly married or something like, hey, when you guys thinking about kids, just because you have no idea what those two could potentially be going through, like, maybe they're having trouble getting pregnant. Maybe they're in the middle of an IVF process and their fingers are crossed that this works out because it's their last effort to try and make something happen, because doing it the the natural way didn't work. Going through a couple other steps they might have tried, might not might not have worked. And they're in this final step of being like, hey, maybe this IVF process will work, because it's not the cheapest thing in the world. And, you know, I do know of some stories and situations with friends of mine to where my wife and I, you look at our situation, even though it's very hard to go through the IVF process, like, you look back and you have perspective and. And we were all so lucky because it happened in the first round. I have friends of mineclose friends of mine that have went through multiple rounds of IVF to where they've had thethe embryos that are frozen and those notmight not work out every time they try to implant, implant, and then they might run out of those embryos to where they have to do the IVF cycle again, or they might not getthey might not get a lot of eggs in their first IVF process to where they might only have one or two, and neither of those work out to where they have to go through the IVF process again. So if I had any advice, dude, number one, I wish you guys all the luck and health in the world that this first one goes the way that you guys wanted to, because even then, it's a very hard process. And I just always anchored my emotion to think that something could probably go wrong based on friends that I've had that have had these processes and those ivf, those IVF journeys don't work out the first or even second time or even the third time. There's one buddy of mine that's went through about four or five cycles before they had their first one, and that is very hard in trying on the Marriage, it's very hard in trying on the couple. And it's one of those things to where, you know, you. You look for ways to be strong for your wife. Your wife's probably looking for ways to be strong for you and herself. And sometimes it's not about being strong. It's just about reconnecting and finding your way back to each other through. Through communication, empathy. Because there's just going to be a lot of stress. Yeah, that. That involves stress in IVF along with all the stress going on in your worlds individually, at work, with your. With your friends, your parents, whatever it may be.

[Sherman Young]

Scheduling all those appointments around work, if they're both working.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Wondering if. Should I. Is there somebody to talk to or should I bring it up? I know we kind of don't want to talk about it too much because our fingers are crossed. We want to get a little bit farther down the road before we start to talk. Talk about it. Hey, this worked out. You get a few. You get a weekend or a trimester or two in, you might could, you know, there could be a miscarriage. And then it's. Yeah, there's a. It's a lot, man. So my advice would just be, again, it's all about staying connected. And then when you start to feel like in any part of the process, you lose connection, it's just about circling back and reconnecting with your wife. And again, it's a. It's a trying time. So I wish you guys luck and health and all of it. Good luck. Because again, when it does happen, it is. You know, it's always a miracle when there's. When there's a kid involved and it works out for the couple and it works out for.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

For everything involved. But, Alex, appreciate you calling in, bro. I know that was a very long winded response because there's really no. Right.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. That's a. That's a hard one, dude. Yeah, that's a hard one. The only thing we did to prep. Prep Will this week with the call ins is that we. Chef and I told him there was an IVF call.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Because that. That is kind of a. That's a hard question to answer, dude.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Because there's, you know, at the end of the day, it's going to be trying. Yeah, it's going to be very hard. And even if it works and everything's going smooth, there's just going to be those moments you have with your wife. And again, listen to that episode with my wife and I. We talk about a lot of those little moments. Moments and stuff that would go through my head that I. You feel so much guilt and shame. Like, I don't even want to bring this up because it doesn't seem like it compares at all to what she's going through. Then you start projecting back and forth on each other. Then you, you know, you realize like, you're not even talking about the right thing anymore.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So, yeah, there's really not, there's really not a right way to go about it. It's one of those things. It's like you, you just prepare for the worst. And when that stuff starts to kick in, it's just reminding yourself, how do I find a way to. To reconnect? Because she might be having a hard time right now. If you the man. If I'm having a hard time right now, how do I communicate that in a way that has, you know, empathy and understands the weight of the current situation going on while just having the big picture in mind? Yeah, that would be what I'd say, bro.

[Sherman Young]

I think that's a great answer. I cannot, I appreciate Alex tossing my name in there to any advice. I can't speak on it from a personal situation other than have had a friend that has faced the same thing. He opened up to me about it and we just had like one of the more incredible moments of our friendship of just kind of. And it was during the time of Jill's pregnancy, so probably a hard conversation for him to have. But just in that moment being able to like hug him and we both are teary eyed and I'm just like, you are going to be the best dad ever and I want it so bad for you and just him being able to open up about that. So if anything, I think you had said the same thing for Alex to just be able to communicate with somebody through that time and then dads out there that maybe you have friends that are facing that. I think just when that conversation is presented to you, just being super open to be able to hear, hear your buddy out, hear the fellow future dad out, potential future dad out, and just be there for him.

[Will Compton]

Because one thing that. And that's a great point too, because one thing that was surprising for me when we were going through that process, you don't know how much you can necessarily talk about or how much you should talk about it.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know, respect to how your wife feels.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Or if it feels like a bad or wrong thing to talk about. And what would surprise me is people that I would bring it up to dads they talked about, oh, we did IVF as well.

[Sherman Young]

That's sick.

[Will Compton]

To where then you realize that, okay, you can start to talk about it a little bit more or you have a friend that you can lean on because again, you, you have no clue how the journey's gonna be because it can be heavy. There's a buddy of mine, they went through one IVF process or their first IVF process and they were pregnant. And I want to say they had a miscarriage around like week 18 or 19, which was. It's devastating.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You think everything's going smooth because they.

[Sherman Young]

Tell you once you get past week eight, you're Gucci.

[Will Compton]

Right? Right. You hear all these different milestones, you feel a little bit more comfortable to talk about it, the sex of the child and everything else. And so you know when the second round's coming in, they're currently pregnant, they're not. Right. At the 18 week mark, you just know, everybody's like, fingers crossed and you just, you kind of put your arm around them and you're just, you're hoping for the best man, because you have no clue how all of it can go, what people are feeling. But yeah, man, definitely having somebody to lean on for sure.

[Sherman Young]

Absolutely. The last thing on Alex. And we'll get to the next call. Alex was our very first voicemail.

[Colin]

Hey fellas, this is Colin. Colin from North Carolina. It's about 1:10 East coast time. I'm whispering because sometimes the fellas need to hear about a win today. This evening is the biggest W that I have had in fatherhood in a very long time. Mom's first night out. After second baby, we got a two and a half year old all boy savage and a two month year old all boy hellion who just is hungry non stop. Mom decides she's going out. I got this. I think that the boys took one look at mom leaving and they saw it in my eyes. After work, you know what? Dad needs a W. We gotta get a W in the column for dad. They rallied, was left with a very strict milk schedule. I read it slightly, slightly at my own liberty, the toddler ate his first full meal in weeks. We played baseball outside. The baby slept, everything. So as hard as these nights are because we're in the trenches, all the other nights have sucked. But guess what? Sometimes you get these giant W's and they're incredible. Keep doing what you're doing, fellas. We love it. Absolutely love it. Extremely motivating. Appreciate you. Love you guys.

[Sherman Young]

Colin from North Carolina.

[Will Compton]

Colin, I love the energy I love the juice. You can hear it in your voice. Did he say it was one in the morning?

[Sherman Young]

One in the morning. That he called in, whispering, whispering, keeping a light.

[Will Compton]

I thought it was like, okay, this is kind of. He's low energy right now. Like, is this a, is this a bad vibe? But hearing that W. Because he's right, man. The wife goes out for the first time and you're ready to put on that S on your chest.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And you're ready to take down everything in the house. We're gonna eat a good meal. Hearing that his kid ate for the first time in weeks, that is a massive W. And you also learn, it's like sometimes the, the kid, whatever, whatever's going on on their brain, it just, it might run smoother if it's just you and the kid.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because if you have both parents, you got, you know, they're working you, they're working you the entire time. And when you're solo and your kid eats that meal all the way through and you're just thinking, you're thinking to yourself, she's gonna come home and ask me, how did, how did everything go?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And you're gonna have that slow pan to where you just look and you're like, I crushed it. I crushed it, buddy. Ate his full meal, baby drank all of his bottles, slept through the night. I don't know if he's sleeping through the night yet. What'd he say? Two months old?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, two months old. But he said, but he said sleeping, sleeping.

[Will Compton]

So he's getting. What he's trying to tell you is baby sleeping four hours at a time. Yeah, I'm guessing three, four hours at a time. Smooth. Sleeping to where you fall asleep for a little bit. You might wake up, you have your own little routine going on. But that is a massive W for.

[Sherman Young]

The dad because I'm guessing at 1am that would be. He probably puts it down at 6 or 6:30. It woke up around 12 or 12:30.

[Will Compton]

Ish, possibly.

[Sherman Young]

And then, and then he fed.

[Will Compton]

Maybe he, maybe the, the two month old had a bottle at seven. And you're thinking, all right, I'm going to be ready to go around 11. And they might still be sleeping. And stretch it out to 1:00.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Those are the small wins that you relish in because it is, you know, you're in it when it's, you got the, when you got the young one sleeping schedules off and that first time mom goes out on her own, you want them to go out but the moment they walk out the door and it closes and the gates are locked, you need your heart to turn black because you don't know what you're about to be in for. And when it goes smooth and when you crush it, and there's something about when you're just on your own and you're by yourself and you know nobody's coming to save you, that you just find a new gear, a new level, and you get through the end of the night or into bedtime and you think to yourself, yeah, I can handle my. Oh. Shout out, Colin. Appreciate the call in, bro.

[Sherman Young]

And an added bonus to Colin and Alex, Chef is going to reach out to them via 601thedads. He's going to get their home address and they're going to get some free merch for being featured on the show. For the dads.

[Will Compton]

Let's go, boys.

[Sherman Young]

If your call gets featured on the show, guys, you're going to get some lids, maybe a shirt. We haven't fully decided yet, but you will get some free merch. Okay, we have the topic, quote or lesson of the week from Will Compton.

[Will Compton]

From Will come. Do you have one?

[Sherman Young]

I do not. Do you?

[Will Compton]

I mean, last week was kind of hard to follow up. I feel like I have one. I got a.

[Sherman Young]

And just really quick. Do you want me to have some topic quotes?

[Will Compton]

1. Whether you're getting ready to be a father or something, you come across that's kind of like, you know, touch the old boy soul a little bit.

[Sherman Young]

Okay, cool.

[Will Compton]

And it could be something small. Again, topic, quote, or lesson? Like, it could be a quote like, I don't have one. I'm not necessarily prepared. I was thinking about it, and if I had any type of lesson, and I hate coming off, like, any of it is advice because you're going to get a lot of unsolicited advice. And I want to say the lesson is around that parent guilt or that dad guilt that you might have when you have a newborn or you have a toddler, you have a kid, and there are a lot of things that come your way. I know one thing that I've really learned over the past year that I try to put it into practice is the power of no, because there's going to be. And a lot of guys, they, you know, a lot of people don't necessarily have the option of opting out of something with work or opting out of an opportunity that they have to go and chase because they have to do what they have to do to make sure they Take care of everything at home and be that steady rock at home. And I think for me, it was like, there's always some, like, as you're going through this journey of everything and all the opportunities and things that we get to do that busing gets to do. You can say yes to a lot of things. Yeah. Because we kind of create our own. It's like we get to kind of build out what our future and everything looks like. So there's always opportunities coming our way and we can say yes to everything. And you get spread so thin that you start to have the guilt when you're traveling or you're doing things that kind of pulls you away from the family. And I know that weighs on people and they're, you know, guys kind of put, you know, the proverbial put their arm around you, or they try and tell you things like, hey, you know, that your kids won't remember, or you have all those little things that they're probably just trying to help you justify whatever your decision is. It's like, you know, before they turn, whenever their memory starts, let's just say it's five years old. It's like, hey, they won't remember if you didn't make it to this dance recital or you don't make it to. I'm not going to say, like, their first birthday or like a birthday party. There's something going on where the birthday party might be happening, but you might have a massive opportunity that you're kind of torn between the two. And I've kind of, like, resisted when I hear people say, like, hey, they won't remember X, Y and Z. Because the way I've, like, flipped it in my mind and the way I've thought about it. And it's funny because I was talking through this with somebody whenever I was when I was on some vitamins and minerals. And so, you know, you're thinking of the entire universe at that point. And what I kind of thought to myself, or started to tell myself is if they don't remember up until again, let's call it five years old.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And when they grow up, they're not going to remember all of these years, these early years, because, you know, how much do we even remember? We don't remember a whole lot. Not a whole lot of flashes or things or moments or it could be bad moments that you might remember. But I've just kind of thought to myself that the way I flip in my head that if they're not going to remember, we do remember, like, our Kids are here. These first years of their life are for us to enjoy. Like, it's for us to kind of look at the family we've gotten to create and enjoy these moments of time. Even though they might not remember it, we get to remember. And they're here, they're on this earth right now for us to spend as much time with them as we can or to enjoy them as much as possible. And that's the approach I've always. I've tried exercising and tried to be intentional with. When I look at whether it's work opportunities or new opportunities, is is this going to take away from the family time? And if so, like, how much of it, how many bedtimes am I willing to miss? How many mornings am I willing to miss? And when you have that boundary for yourself, it helps kind of separate you to where you have you learn that power of no. Of if it doesn't fit in this schedule, I'm going to say no to it. Because you want to prioritize and be intentional with wanting to be around. Because again, they might not remember, but you do remember. And they're here now, especially in them young years, man, when they probably won't have a whole lot of memory of it, but things that we can capture on video, they're here for us to enjoy.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So that would kind of be, I guess, my lesson or things that I've kind of thought about when thinking about them being really young and being in a position to where, again, we can say yes to a lot of things and we have the opportunity and we're awarded a lot of. A lot of new things to do and be on the road a lot or travel. Travel a lot and, you know, make as much money as possible and do all these things. So it's something that I've tried, like sitting with myself and having certain boundaries to where if it doesn't fit in these priorities and in this time frame, then I will say no to it with the idea of I need to enjoy them as much as possible right now because there's going to come a moment to where they're not crawling anymore, they're not stationary anymore. You know, I was going to say not walking. They'll always be walking. But the last time that you'll be picking them up before they don't want you to pick them up anymore or you hold their hand or all these little things that will be in the past.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And just to add on to it, it's like if they don't Remember up until 5 when they're in between 5 and 10, their foundation to be 5 and 10 is still going to be built on what they were from 1 to 5. You know what I'm saying?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Maybe that doesn't make sense.

[Sherman Young]

No, it does.

[Will Compton]

But how you show up now is still going to be the pattern or the.

[Sherman Young]

It's not like the. All of a sudden, you just become the person that you are at 6 years old, and it's just don't.

[Will Compton]

Right, right, right.

[Sherman Young]

I know exactly what you mean.

[Will Compton]

So that would be.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, I love that lesson. I just. With rude, like, and Scotty as well, I put together a clip today of Will that, like, featured a ton of Will's Instagram posts. And in those posts, it was like, crazy just seeing, like, ruin the photograph because I'm, like, really looking at the footage and making sure it all looks good. And I'm like, man, she's growing fast. Seeing Scotty at the dad combine, her hair from when we shot that trailer to now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Is so much longer. And that felt like last week. So it's like. And those aren't even my kids. And then also the fact of that was another thought that went through my head while I was putting that video together is I was like, man, Will is doing a killer job on the social media stuff. Just from a selfish standpoint of you being able to go back and see all those pictures. And like, dude, we.

[Will Compton]

You don't know how many times, like, when mom's out of town and she's like, she really struggles if I'm home alone with the kids and I have them for like, a weekend or have them like, like four or five days, whatever it is.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And she starts to be upset that mom's not home. It's like, I can just pull up Instagram. I'll pull up, like, Charles, like, you want to see videos of Mama and you. We can just go into our reels and kind of, like, watch old videos and that. That calm her down and she can see, like, old memories. But, dude, I, I. Sometimes it takes a while, but I. I feel like it is. It's like one of those things that when those moments are happening, it's like, man, I'm glad I, like, made a video or I made a post about X, Y, and Z, because you can, like, scroll back and see a lot of old memories.

[Sherman Young]

Yes, dude. And at the exact same thing you're saying about the dad combine and just bus in. In general, what Jelly Roll said, like, you're just making a vote. Photo, video, journal, yeah. Which is so cool, dude. Like having a Facebook being, like, our generation. How. How old are you?

[Will Compton]

I am 35.

[Sherman Young]

35. Okay. So I'm three years younger than you. Having Facebook when we did, kid.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

You were probably like, a sophomore in high school or something.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I was in seventh grade, I believe. And so, like, having that is so freaking fun, dude. And again, the thought of being a grandfather and being able to pull up your Facebook and be like, look at this, dude.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, like your IG just scrolling thousands of posts.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. A quick lesson for this would be for future dads or guys that are thinking about being a dad. This was a quote from Jill's stepdad that I thought was really great, and he was talking about, like, my professional career more so than fatherhood. But I think it's very applicable to future dads that are like, am I ready for this? Can I do this? Will I be a good dad? One, the fact that you're asking yourself that question is a good start.

[Will Compton]

Means you care.

[Sherman Young]

It means you care. So I would say the fact that you're asking that, that that's a good sign. Second thing I'd say is everything in your life to this point has been getting you ready for something, whatever that next step is, and being able to eternalize all the. What is it called when you have done something? You're gaining perspective. Perspective. You're gaining. What is the wisdom was an intern get whenever they work? Experience.

[Will Compton]

Experience.

[Sherman Young]

You're getting experience. Well done, intern chef. You're gaining experience for all these things throughout your life. So everything that you have gone through throughout your life, all the happy stuff, all the hard stuff, all the challenging stuff, as making you the person, the man that you are today. And you can learn from everything that you've gone through, whether it's a mistake, whether it's good things that will help prepare you for what is to come. And with fatherhood to apply that. I know nothing about fatherhood, but as I'm getting closer and closer to July 2, the induction date, there are moments where it's like lightning has struck my brain, and I remember something that my dad always did, or I remember something that really upset me as a kid, specifically with Rue in the pool, when Chara was, like, sitting there and having that conversation with her and, like, realizing, like, yeah, I probably would have wanted to, like, talk something out instead of, you know, having somebody yell at me or argue with me in that moment. So life is ever changing. There's always going to be things coming at you that you feel like you won't be ready for. But just be able to use your past as a stepping stool into whatever you're going into, I guess would be my lesson of the week.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Because, you know, you. There's a lot of fears and doubt and things on thinking if you can do it or not, Right?

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

And whether or not none of us know how. Nobody knows how to be, you know, a perfect. Like a perfect dad. That. That's. That's an impossible expectation to have. And people might feel that way because maybe they had a lot of bad experiences in their childhood or in their life to where they might have had doubt. But I would say a way to use that is, you know what you don't want it to look like. You know what I mean? You know. You know that you don't want to be this person, or maybe one of your parents were this way or your dad was this way, and you feel like it might. Might be generational and it's an opportunity for you. I know people get motivated by breaking generational curses.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But absolutely. Even if you don't have all the best experiences or the best memories that you're thinking, like, how I'm gonna do this, like, maybe you have. You had a rough one, and you know what you don't want it to look like. And that right there is a great starting point on how you don't. You. You know what you don't want it to look like. I love that, though. That was good, man.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Good show.

[Sherman Young]

Great show.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. This one went a little long.

[Sherman Young]

Very long.

[Will Compton]

Chef. Chef will have some editing to do.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. 144.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got to get those numbers down. You know how I feel when we go a little too long, even on bus and I. Hey, let's cut some of this out.

[Sherman Young]

What. What should we aim for?

[Will Compton]

No clue. You know, I like to be under the hour mark. You know, I like to be under the hour mark. That might be impossible. And maybe the. You know, maybe people be like, no, this is. You guys are. This is completely fine. Like, I know when I get on and I see an episode and I know it's like, under an hour. Like, our last one was. What was our last one? 50 minutes. You see? 50. Okay.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, it's under an hour. Okay.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I can do that. So that's all. That's all. I would. That's my thing.

[Sherman Young]

That's my. That's my only note, too. But I was so lost in the sauce of conversation that I also was like, hey, maybe a good thing. But. But at the same time, I'm like, oh, man. On the top of our sheet. ETA, expected runtime, 45 minutes.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So, yeah, yeah. Got a couple talkers up here.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, we got some talkers. We'll bring it in. Yeah, maybe you take motherfuck, I'll take crack. A cold one. Like, will each one do one of the segments? Yeah, yeah, that might be what we need to do.

[Will Compton]

Pre production meeting could be good for us.

[Sherman Young]

A pre production. Which we didn't. Which we didn't do. And that's okay. That's okay. It was a very busy week. But we'll get dialed. We'll get it dialed.

[Will Compton]

Shout out to dads, man. Thank you guys for joining us. Like, subscribe again. Leave comments. We love the comments. We'll be engaging with you guys, whether it's on social here on YouTube, whatever the case is. Thank you guys. We appreciate the support. We need a sign off right now. I got, just got big hugs, tiny kisses.

[Sherman Young]

I think that's great. That's a blanket sign off that I think for busing because y' all do it on the locker room too. I think that's. That's a good one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Take your trash out. See you guys next week.

[Sherman Young]

Oh.

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