How Will Compton Met His Wife & Our First Papa Team 6 Meet Up! | For The Dads

Summary

Bussin' With The Boys: How Will Compton Met His Wife & Our First Papa Team 6 Meet Up! | For The Dads

Date: October 22, 2025
Hosts: Will Compton (Willie One Shelf), Taylor Lewan (occasionally referenced), and Sherman (Fat Stafford)
Theme: Deep dive into dad life—sharing parenting wins/losses, interactive audience Q&A, “how I met my wife” stories, creating dad community, and announcing the first PT6 (Papa Team 6) family meetup.

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Episode Overview

This episode is a vibrant, candid discussion centered around being a dad, sharing life lessons, wins, losses, and everyday fails—and how the community of fellow dads (the PT6ers) constantly supports each other. The show features Will Compton’s story of how he met his wife, humorous takes on dad struggles, fan engagement via comments/emails, and the announcement of the inaugural PT6 family meet-up. The hosts embrace audience interactivity throughout, answering questions and celebrating both the joys and messiness of fatherhood.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Show Kick-Off: “Embracing the Suck” and Dad Community Love

• Timestamp: 01:56
  • Will greets Papa Team Six, sports Huskers gear, and admits to "failing to take out the trash two weeks in a row." The trash day theme highlights both accountability and light-hearted self-roasting as quintessential dad moments.

    "Man, I feel like just an absolute fraud when I think of putting out the trash day tweet and I'm thinking to myself, I didn't take out the fucking trash." – Will (03:03)

  • Emphasis on fan engagement—PT6ers help remind and support each other in real life and on social media.

2. Podcast Accessibility & Technical Difficulties

• Timestamp: 04:06 – 06:57
  • The crew discusses issues with recent episode uploads (only 30 minutes went live on Spotify). Shoutout to Derek for hustling on the backend and for responding to every fan comment.

    "Derek's in there replying to every single one. That fires me up." – Will (06:44)

3. New Sponsor: Olipop and the Dads' Favorite Gas Station Ritual

• Timestamp: 08:11 – 14:22
  • Ollipop (“prebiotic soda”) becomes a new sponsor. Will enthusiastically shares his “dad gas station run” ritual, now ruined by his wife stocking his favorite grape Ollipop at home.

    "They’re just so much smarter than you… Now she just has my favorite drinks at the house. So I can’t leave." – Will (09:18)

  • Lively debate over flavors (grape, root beer, cream soda, Spongebob pineapple), and Jill’s (Sherm’s wife) hack: mixing Olipop cream soda with heavy cream for a guilt-free milkshake.

    "It's like a milkshake, dude." – Sherman (13:07)

4. Community Q&A – How Did You Know Your Wife was ‘The One’?

• Timestamp: 17:34 – 40:02

  • Fan Question: “When did you know your wife was the one, and did you ask her parents first?”

  • Will's Story (19:03 – 27:38):

    • Romantic serendipity: Noticing future wife Charo on the sidelines as a cheerleader (while pre-game in Dallas), subsequent chance meeting at a charity camp, DMs exchanged while both dating others, 8–9 months of platonic messaging before connection unfolds.

      "She was one of those girls where I would... I’m, like, sitting in the parking lot before I go into my apartment. I’m, like, spending 45 extra minutes just sitting out there, messaging back and forth or not wanting to go inside." – Will (24:12)

    • Admits the sense of “the one” grows over time, especially witnessing his wife as a mom and partner:

      "The love gets that much stronger when you witness them being a mom, when you witness them being, like, your partner." – Will (25:31)

  • Sherman’s Story (33:11 – 36:19):

    • Met Jill on a blind date set up by his roommate’s girlfriend; instant chemistry, kissed on the first date, “knew I was in trouble” after just one.
    • Key realization was Jill’s authenticity—ordering two hot dogs and a beer at a baseball game.

      "She’s so unabashedly herself...I was coming out of two different relationships...that I never felt confident in...And then Jill kind of showing me...hey, you definitely suck...but...she showed me places to grow." – Sherm (33:51, 36:28)

  • Both share lessons about being challenged, growing as partners, and the rewarding discomfort of marrying someone different from their original expectations.

5. Open, Honest Dad Wins (and Losses) via Fan Comments

• Timestamp: 43:16 – 51:08
  • Shoutouts to PT6ers for new babies (“PT Sicko Priest reporting for duty!”), real-life parenting wins (remembering to take out the trash at the last minute), and the ongoing bedtime and feeding battles.
  • Tactics for picky eaters: firm boundaries, letting kids make their own decisions, holding the “cookie” (or popsicle) as the prize.

    "Great, you don’t have to eat. Then I’ll just—you’ll just hear the plate going, mom and I eating.” – Will (45:16)

6. “The Sassy Toddler” Deep Dive – Boundaries, Confidence, and Growing as a Parent

• Timestamp: 75:33 – 96:25
  • Will analyzes how to interpret and deal with his 3-year-old daughter Rue’s sassiness.
    • Considers: Is sass a sign of confidence, or boundary-testing?
    • Strategies: Setting boundaries (clean plate club, morning routine independence), using “TV coupons,” and letting children choose their own outfits to nurture their confidence/autonomy.
    • Balancing pushback vs. being “walked on”—debated with Sherman, who encourages Will’s intentionality and growth as a dad.

    "As a parent, you’re always trying to figure out the balance between like, all right…do I stay poised…or do I kind of snap back at her? So my question is: are sassy moments a sign of confidence or are they to test boundaries?" – Will (75:33)

    • Candid stories of parenting in public, learning self-control, and the generational shift in parenting styles.

    “Their brain has so many things…to where the development is apparent. Parent, you’re kind of challenging yourself for it to kick in and stay poised, stay in the pocket, to not, like, lose yourself or lose control.” – Will (96:56)

    • Sherman: Reassures Will (and listeners) that worry itself is a sign of good parenting, and that being open to adjusting and improving is a win.

7. Announcement: First PT6 Family Meetup—Boo at the Zoo!

• Timestamp: 60:14 – 66:11
  • The boys are excited to host the first-ever in-person PT6 meetup at Nashville’s "Boo at the Zoo" Halloween/fall celebration.

    "Our first PT6 meetup. Papa Team Six meet up…October 28th at 5:30pm…We’re bringing the kids, bringing the kiddos. The families will be there. First Papa Team 6 meetup." – Will (61:19)

  • Humor about whether it’s a meet-and-greet, scavenger hunt, or just a "group dad brownie point" event. Official—first 20 attendees get free merch.

8. Voicemails & Emails: Community Stories, Joys and Heartbreaks

• Voicemails (114:32 – 122:09):
  • Sweet stories: Baby’s first word (“dada”) (114:32), singing the praises of PT6 nation for support, and a dad calling in from the car on the way to the hospital during his wife's contractions (119:38).

    "I think she's having something they call contractions…but hey, just want y’all to know I'm ready for my dad journey." – Ben from Alabama (120:09)

• Emails (122:11 – 139:35):
  • From parents fighting through incredibly hard times—like cancer, IVF, and even stillbirth.

    “Our first round didn’t work out, which left us at the lowest point in both of our lives. Our second round started the week before you released the IVF episode…Now we are expecting our little girl due on Super Bowl Sunday.” – Ben Waring, Liverpool, England (124:28)

  • Touching examples of journaling for one’s future child, how trauma and hope coexist in parenting, and the ways the podcast becomes part of listeners’ emotional toolkits.

    "You were already the biggest blessing in my life. Second only to your beautiful mother. Love, Dad." – Christian Marquez (132:21)

9. Dad Survival Kits & Pro Tips

• Timestamp: 92:29 – 103:14
  • Buy cones: Even if your kid ignores soccer, they’ll love being a “coach” and bossing you around.
  • Nighttime diapers: PT6 crowd-sources solutions for diaper-size woes, supporting Sherman through his "too small for size 1, too big for size 2" scenario.

10. Lessons, Quotes, and Closing Homework

• Core Reflection: (140:36 – 149:50)
  • Will asks: “What is a value you’d want your child to carry with them through life?” Invites fans to submit their own in the comments.

    "What is a value that you would love your child to carry with them throughout their life?" – Will (141:14)

  • Sherman’s “Block out the Noise” narrative—be the dog that ignores the yapping and runs full speed, unburdened by others’ negativity.

    “So much power in taking your power back—or blocking out the noise.” – Will (146:01)

  • Homework assignment: Drop your family/dad values in the comments for next week’s discussion.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Partners:

  "There's nobody else who's loved me the way Charl has loved me. That's opened me up to like more love and more ideas and everything else." – Will (25:31)

• On Parenting:

  "Like, the fact that you’re worried about it…is a great sign." – Sherman (84:25)

• On Sassy Kids:

  "Are sassy moments a sign of confidence, or are they to test boundaries? …I did come across…a blog. It’s like, ways to spot a sassy little personality. This source describes sass as part of early experiments with identity, independence, autonomy, boldness…and it frames sass as a superpower." – Will (75:33–77:13)

• On Community:

  "Truly, that's teamwork. Makes the dream work." – Will (08:06)

• On Fatherhood Joys:

  "The moment you hear dada for the first time, it is a joy and love… you just can’t describe." – Will (116:57)

• On Grief and Perseverance:

  "Leaving a gaping hole in our hearts that will never be filled…one just got to heaven a little sooner than we did." – Logan Sullivan (135:57)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------------------|:-------------:| | Show Open – Dad Confessions, Trash Day, PT6 | 01:56 – 03:40 | | Tech/Social Updates & Shoutouts | 04:06 – 07:22 | | Ollipop Segment – Dad Rituals | 08:11 – 14:22 | | "How I Met My Wife" (Will & Sherman stories) | 19:03 – 36:28 | | Parenting Wins/Losses – Fan Comments | 43:16 – 51:08 | | Sassy Toddler Deep Dive | 75:33 – 96:25 | | Boo at the Zoo Meetup Announcement | 60:14 – 66:11 | | Community Call-ins and Emails | 114:32–139:35 | | Lessons, Quotes, Homework | 140:36–149:50 |

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Tone and Style

As always, the tone is unabashedly real: a blend of locker room humor, heartfelt reflection, and unfiltered honesty about the chaos and rewards of family life. The language is casual, sometimes explicit, affectionate, and filled with inside jokes (“PT6ers,” “Willie One Shelf,” “Fat Stafford,” “Milk Team Six”), but always welcoming to new listeners.

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Takeaways for Dads and Listeners

• Parenting is messy, funny, vulnerable, and powerful—every dad is figuring it out as they go.
• Don’t hesitate to reach out for advice or share your story; the PT6 community is ride-or-die.
• Embrace the discomfort—the “suck”—because it’s where growth as a father and partner truly happens.
• Celebrate little victories, give yourself and your partner grace, and never underestimate the power of a good bedtime story (or the agony of being passed over for mom at bedtime).

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Homework/Viewers Engagement

• Prompt: What is a value you want your child to carry for life? Drop it in the comments—your insights, stories, and family mottos will be discussed in the next episode.
• First PT6 Family Event: Boo at the Zoo, Nashville, October 28th, 5:30–7pm—come for community, merch, and brownie points!

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PT6ers: Keep the trash out, the laughter loud, and the love strong.

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Good morning, Papa Team six. This is another episode of for the Dads. We are recording. It's Friday, October 17th. Huskers play tonight. So you see your boy Willie C rocking the Huskers gear. Hopefully by the time you hear my voice, we are six in one right now. Continuing to put out fires with Matt Rule. Happy Spooktober. I hope your trash is taken out. You guys are just embracing the suck. We got some good hats. We got some merchandise. BWTB.com that's where you can get all the pt6 sicko merch. Come on. Hand up.

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What?

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Lead from the front. Papa Team six here.

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What happened?

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I have failed to take out the trash two weeks in a row.

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Hey, hand up. You have a redemption arc. It is trash day on Fridays here at the office and Derek brought up a great point that we could take the trash out today. You and me.

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Let's do it here at the office together. Now the trash. For those wondering, the trash didn't still sit at the house. Got it out. Whether it's a simple text I'm sending away. Yeah. When I see people and shout out Papa Team Sixers out there that do remind me, it is trash.

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It is trash.

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But man, I feel like just an absolute fraud when I think of putting out the trash day tweet and I'm thinking to myself, I didn't take out the fucking trash. We enjoy having. We enjoy having some fun here. We have for the dads. This is for dads. We talk wins, losses, ups, downs, you know, our lives with our wives, the kiddos, a lot of good stories. We have a lot of fun. Comments that we read that fans leave us at the PT Sickos, the PT6ers leave us on YouTube and social media continue to do so. We love seeing all the engagement. It is, is the utmost fun.

[A]

It is a lot of conversation starters.

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A lot of conversation starters for this show. My wife was on my ass the other day. I had to hit up the group chat because we are, if you are listening on Spotify, Apple, all the podcast platforms, we are on YouTube, consider, please subscribe and follow all of our channels. You might think you are subscribed and you might not be. Just double checked for your boys. It's all we ask. Everything is free.

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Trying to figure out how to get the Spotify video because Spotify video is partnering with Netflix and so podcasts are about to be on Netflix. So we could at the beginning of these episodes start saying, make sure to check us out on Netflix.

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Make sure to check us out. Could you imagine we're on Netflix.

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That'd be crazy.

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And that's big time.

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Apparently it's a, it's a thing.

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It's gonna become a thing.

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Like it's a Spotify video for podcasts are. They are partnering with Netflix and those are going to become available on Netflix. Oh, which is kind of crazy.

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Yeah.

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So make sure you check out Netflix.

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Make sure you check out Netflix. But yeah, my wife, she's a fan of listening to us on Spotify. Yeah, she is somebody who likes to scroll her podcast and then also look at chapters. And I want to say the, the AI bullshit kind of was messing up the, the algorithm or messing up something with this last week to where we only had like five chapters out there and then auto generated. So I'm assuming it auto wrote out what the chapters were. Wasn't even close to what's being talked about. She's thinking, oh, this could be a fun topic to hear them talk about. It's just us, you know, like farting.

[A]

In the microphone or I want to brag, I want to give flowers to Derek. And we did so in our PT6 group message. But to all the listeners, both video and audio. Last week on Spotify, 30 minutes of our 2 hour and 17 minute long episode got uploaded and only 30 minutes. Only 30 minutes. And we're sitting there and we're going, what in the world. I text derek at like 7:30ish. Whatever it was. Hey, what's going on here? We had our back end team Showboat looking at everything. It was like something with the website. They had never seen that happen before. Like the audio file was totally normal that we uploaded.

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PT6 was pissed that we actually kept it under an hour.

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Yeah. The most comments we got just to bring it full circle were we actually don't want you guys to keep it under an hour. Like what the hell is this situation? But I think they're going to make a case study. No explanation, but shout out to everyone that's waited for it and excited for the show. It is fully updated. People sent us some DMS this morning saying it wasn't.

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If you click play on that episode.

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It will update to the 2 hour or hit us up on social. I've been sending the link out and that link has been working. So last episode, apologies. We're. We're improving every day. Derek owes no apology because of just how much on the front lines. If you guys go through the YouTube comments and the Spotify comments from last week's episode, Derek's in there replying to.

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Every single one that fires me up.

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We're on it. Here's the link. This is how we fix it. Make sure you refresh it. It actually does this. I, I'm watching him in real time. I'm like, Derek is so on it.

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So that fires me up.

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Shout out Derek.

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Shout out Derek. Shout out the community too. I like to think more benefit of the doubt. Like everybody's optimistically trying to work together knowing that I know there's more meat on the. There's some mess ups here. That is probably the system that's hurting our show right now and they're just wanting to let us know. Yeah, not in like a. Hey, did you have any negative comments?

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Not too many negative ones. A lot of people were, hey, I don't know if you guys saw or hey, just giving you an update.

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I love that.

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Really.

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The only negativity that came from it was people excited for the episode of like man, my commute this morning sucked. And then after that got a Good. You know, you know how this commute sucked.

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Good podcast. They only gave us 30 minutes of it. Even better.

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Good. You know how all this got caught though? Like how I got put onto it. Our equipment manager, legend Dalton Withrow with a little DM to old Sherm Dog. I wake up and one of the first things I do is I see a DM from Dalton. I go, oh, more Arkansas gear. What's good? What's good, Dalton? Hey, Sherm, just want to let you know on Spotify and Apple podcasts, it's only 30 minutes, but it's a full length on YouTube. Just wanted to make you aware of that.

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What a stud.

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Stud.

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That's teamwork, man. Truly, that's teamwork. Makes the dream work.

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PT6 came. Came through. Clutch.

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We have a new sponsor. We have a new sponsor for Papa Team 6. Now. Derek said it right before the show started. Ollipop a team 6. We got ollipop as a sponsor. Prebiotics. Listen, I'm not gonna sit here and read the words on the can. I love. I love ollipop.

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It's good.

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I'm a massive Ollipop fan. Grape is my favorite. If you followed me, if you have followed me on X, like I want to say a couple months ago, right when the season started, you know how Papa Willie, Papa Seal, I like to. I've shouted out on this show. Dads like to when they get out of the house, they might do bedtime any whatever it might be and they want to take a trip. Gas station. Yeah, okay. I just want to just take a drive, some quiet time, solo dad time. Maybe listen to some classic rock, maybe finish up on a podcast. I'm just going to get a little quick 15 minutes driving to the gas station, driving home because my wife knows I enjoy a little gas station trip. Now they've your wife. They're just so much smarter than you and they just out think you to where now she just has my favorite drinks at the house. So I can't leave. Now she can't leave. Hey, will you say you like the Ollipop grape? Got a 12 pack for you sitting at the house. Now you can't leave.

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That's the most Jill move I've ever heard in my life. Oh my God.

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I'll back, sweetheart. I'm gonna hit the gas station. I'm a goon with the boys. I'm gonna go upstairs. That's bad. That's when we haven't played. We haven't played. We haven't played in a while, but.

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We Caught a dub the last time.

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We did catch a dub the last time we played. But that was always kind of the formula. The nights where it's like, I'm gonna be upstairs, get in some video game time with my boys, with my PT6 stuff, Papa Sherm. And it was always that little gas station trip. But I would put out on Twitter, like, you know, I did it a couple times, like, my favorite drinks, and I was like, one that is skyrocketing up the charts that I didn't come across until I was just bored one night. Let me try some ollipop grape. Buddy Ollie pop grape.

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You just love the thought of Will in a gas station. I'm one of those guys. I know exactly what I'm getting at a gas station. I just love the idea of you in front of those glass doors stand.

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Same guy at the cash register, he already knows, like, it's always good vibes when I walk in. Good to see you again, big dog. And I'm standing there, I'm like, I'm going to switch it up tonight.

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Switch it.

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Just. Hey, just go. Just go wide stance. Let me try that ollipop.

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What does that say? Is that lollipop or lollipop?

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He grab, he grabs, puts it back.

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No, no, I'll go back with what I knit. Ah, fine. All right.

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Finally landed on the. It landed on grape, too. I love that you landed on grape.

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Yeah.

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What a flavor.

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Yeah, Yeah.

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I want to try ollipop grape now.

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Another sleeper. No, this isn't. It's not the vintage cola. Vintage. Vintage cola is nice. Yeah. But the root beer.

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Ooh, I haven't had the root beer. I've had this spongebob pineapple flavor, and I've had the vintage cola flavor part of me. I like both.

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I haven't tried the. The spongebob pineapp pineapple paradise yet. Not a big pineapple guy. As far as. Love me some pineapple Love. Just, like, tasting pineapple.

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Yeah.

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As far as, like, sodas and drinks. I haven't big. Been a big pineapple guy, so I'm kind of scared to try the spongebob one because the can looks phenomenal, but I don't want to not like it. And then it kind of turns me off of the can in the. In the, you know, display itself.

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To be completely honest, the. The fact or the thing that I like most about this pineapple flavor is it does not taste like pineapple flavored soda. It's very juicy and, like, kind of healthy tasting. And that is not a plug to Olipop. Like, that's just my straight up look.

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No, for shout outs to Olipop. They are. They are a sponsor.

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They are a sponsor of the show. But I'm saying, like, take that out of the equation. This. This is nice.

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Okay, buddy? Ollipop grape.

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I got it. We gotta get.

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I digress.

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Hey, Ollie Pop, if you're listening.

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Are you. They got a cream soda. Oh, dude.

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Delightful. Okay, really quick because we gotta keep up.

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Growing up, your grandpa had that cream soda at the house, bro.

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Get you one of them for a quarter. Jill.

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The.

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How I got introduced to Ollipop is Jill would get the cream soda flavor and. And then she would get heavy cream and keep it in the fridge and like, get it really cold. And she would put it in the Olipop cream soda. She would just do like a little dash of heavy cream and then whip it. It's like a milkshake, dude. Milkshake.

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You're on to some with that. To me, it's like your wife, Jill, she knows what she likes.

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Yeah.

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And she knows how to combine things to get her taste buds firing on all cylinders.

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And she's not backing down. She's not backing down because she's trying to. She's doing something about looking at that.

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Heavy cream and thinking this is gonna go really well with this cream soda. Ollipop.

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Because she's trying to cut ice cream out of the equation and she's like, what is a sweet treat that also, like, I won't feel guilty about that. I can have like around night time. Etc. Just a little dash of that.

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Just something.

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Oh, and dude, I would take sips of it and it truly was like a little milkshake. It was.

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I feel like that's an old southern trick. Am I wrong on that or is this a invention? I feel like I've heard that. Maybe I'm thinking of like a root beer float.

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Oh, maybe something like that. Yeah.

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Oh, dude, that could be a southern trick. It sounds like a southern trick. Cream soda and heavy cream.

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It sounds like that's got.

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Yes. The South. That's got Texas written all.

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Oh, yeah, dude. It's good. It's good. So shout out, Ollie Pop.

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Shout out, Ollie Pop, our new sponsor. We spent a lot of time on big Olipop fans, but now they are a sponsor of the show.

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They are.

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It has to get your piss hot.

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That gets your piss.

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The guy, the gentleman that reached out to me about connecting with Olipop and I was fired up jumping off the screen. Back in email form. He Hits back. He's a Nebraska cat.

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That's right.

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Yeah. He's like, hey gbr, I'm fired up. We're working something out here because I'm an Omaha boy.

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And he said all that Penn State stuff you've been hearing is bullshit.

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Yeah. Yeah. Coach Rule ain't going nowhere.

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Ain't going nowhere.

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I'm ready.

[B]

We have some comments broken down. I know last week, Derek does an incredible job of handing us a stack of comments every week. Last week I pretty much read all of them, forgetting that, hey, I can select a few of these and you know, I don't know how everybody Else feels in the audience and the fans, how often we read and how many of the fan comments and engagement. But it's like, dude, look at. Look at Sherm. He's got. He's got a little fan over there. We got a bunch of comments. We've kind of broken some up. So I have one to give you an example. We got dad hack. And then there are a couple emails. People are starting to send in a lot more to the. To the emails. What's the email they can write to.

[A]

Sherm at or sorry [e-mail].

[B]

601 the [e-mail]. we are now taking those emails, the ones that might be longer, that have some storytelling, that have some questions on a subject they might want us to hit, who take their time to write us an email. We're going to take those email ones and funnel it behind the 601Dads, the hotline that people call into for the voicemail. So we're going to save some of the longer ones that we've read in the past. Those will now be behind 601 the Dads, the hotline that you can call into.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So more of a. The dad's hotline and email that we're gonna hit. Have a little bit more fun with the top. With the comments you guys write to us on social media and YouTube. And then if you have, like, hacks, wins, losses that we can share in some of those segments that we might talk about, we're doing a better job of tightening up the ship here, here at the. For the dads brand. But yeah, let's get to. Let's have some fun. Let's answer some fan questions, some comments that have been out there. The. The first one I got is from Matt West 9421. This is on YouTube. What's up, Sherman? Willie, one shelf. I love the pod. I've been watching since episode one. I y', all. When did you guys know your wife was the one? And did you guys ask the parents first? Keep the grind going. Semen out.

[A]

What? Great question.

[B]

Oh, let me continue to say how good of a question that was so I can think about this answer.

[A]

I can. I can jump in really quick.

[B]

I got a fun story.

[A]

Okay, you go ahead.

[B]

This is a how I met my wife story. Settle it.

[A]

Settle in, kids.

[B]

So I want to say. And listen, sweetheart, I know you're listening right now. You probably got a smile on your face being like, oh, what's old Willie one shelf gonna say? During this story.

[A]

Butterflies going crazy in your tummy.

[B]

Yeah. But let me take you back to October again, sweetheart. Bear with me. I could get some dates wrong here. October20, 20, 14. Oh, we were at Dallas. Maybe it was November again. 2014. We were at Dallas. Yeah, prime time game. My wife was a cheerleader on the Washington Redskins. When there's an away game that happens, a few cheerleaders get to travel. They like send a few cheerleaders. They get to travel, but they're not in uniform or nothing else. They were in some yellow. There were some yellow shirts.

[A]

Oh, that's sick. And they're like in the friends and family section.

[B]

Yeah, they're like on the game. They're like on the field pre game and stuff like that. As I'm giving you context after the fact of knowing this. Yeah, yeah, but I'm on the field pre game Willie at Dallas, and we're doing pregame warm ups and everything else. And I see these three, I see these three ladies standing on the sideline. And you know, I'm a looking and you know, one catches my eye, oops. And I did not know, you know, I got the helmet on. I see one looking at me and I don't know if she's actually looking at me or not. So I'm kind of looking, you know, I'm trying to like do whatever pre game, warm up everything. I'll get ready for the Dallas Cowboys. And so I'm thinking like when I run by her to go back in the huddle, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a look, see and see if she's looking at me. Sure enough, I run through the. Run back through the tunnel, catch her staring at me and I. It's just, it's one of the, it's one of those. Mom. Young man, to where you're just like. And mind you, I did have a girlfriend at the time.

[A]

That's.

[B]

But I'm. You know what, I'm married. I got two kids now with her. Sue me. Yeah, sue me. And it's like one of those times where you're just thinking like, man, that girl was a smoke show. And it's like you fantasize, like, what would life be like with that individual? All the men know what I'm talking about. And you just play this game in your head. That's all that happened that night on Washington at Dallas back in 2014. Fast forward the next year. It's the off season. Alfred Morris is having a kids charity football camp.

[A]

Shout out, Alfred.

[B]

Shout out, Alfred Morris for, like, kids with special needs. And I'm running one of these drills for him. I'm running one of the periods for him. This cheerleader, who I still did not know it at the time, was that one, uh. Oh, was at the camp with her boyfriend.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah. And Charo is with her boyfriend at the time. And they are.

[A]

Was he 5, 2, 5, 3?

[B]

I kind of don't remember. Charles. She had these. These. She had these shorts on. She had the little high ponytail going on. She had the cab, the legs. Looking athletic, you know, kind of looking in there. They're part of my drill. Like, as I'm running this 4K, this, like, 4 cone drill. And so there's a pizza. There's a pizza lunch break. And I see her, and she's got this Pro bowl hat on. This again, that was. This was the. Listen, your boy has zero game. And so I see her during this pizza lunch break, and she's kind of walking kind of close by me, and I'm like, oh, I see you got a Pro bowl hat on. Where'd you get the. Where'd you get the pro ball hat? And her smart ass, like, she is. She said, I got it at the Pro Bowl. I was like, all right, yeah. Did you, like, go to the game? And she goes, I was in the Pro Bowl. Like, I'm a cheerleader for Washington. I was like, oh, sick. I kind of don't remember the rest. That honestly might have been it because I just don't have a whole lot of game. And I'm thinking, her boyfriend's there. Like, I'm kind of hungover.

[A]

Did you tell her you kind of got cheated out of the Pro bowl that one year?

[B]

No. No, I doubt that day. I wasn't in that kind of form around to the public or anything else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And. But anyway, so I meet her at this. At this charity camp. I wake up the next morning to a DM on Instagram, and it's her DMing me, like, saying, like, hey.

[C]

It.

[B]

Was nice to meet you yesterday. I see that you have a girlfriend. I have a boyfriend. But that doesn't mean we still can't be friends. Damn.

[A]

Yeah, Tara.

[B]

So we start messaging back and forth, and, man, I wish I still had him. I don't. But I come to the real. We find the realization. I want to say she might have mentioned something about the Dallas game the year before. And I come to the realization that she was the girl I was looking at and fantasizing about on the field.

[A]

And I love you know that he was in his fields because this guy is a sicko before he watches a football game on tv. So I can only imagine what your mind is like before a football game. How black your heart has turned to prepare for this football game. And then you see this smoke, and you're like, yo, damn. What would life kind of be like?

[B]

Yeah, bro. And then even though she said that, and that kind of means one thing to a guy, when that's being said to you in a dm, it's like, that doesn't mean we still can't be friends. She never hung out with me for, like, the next eight, nine months. Like, I'm trying. We're having. We're having conversations. She's making me laugh. She's one of the. She was one of those girls where I would. I'm, like, sitting in the parking lot before I go into my apartment. I'm, like, spending 45 extra minutes just sitting out there, messaging back and forth or not wanting to go inside.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Because I'm enjoying the conversation, having, like, we're sending each other songs, like, jokes, like, all the different things. We eventually see each other. We eventually hang out. We eventually start dating. Now we're married with two kids.

[C]

Let's go.

[B]

And I say all that to know it's hard for me to, like, pinpoint a moment where I'm like, this is my wife. Because I will tell you, I feel like that thought continues to ascend. Like, as I see her as my wife and a mom.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Like, the love gets that much stronger when you witness them being a mom, when you witness them being, like, your partner. Like, there's so many times where I'll just be driving home thinking, like, whenever we, like, solve a problem or she has my back with something, or one of us is stressed and we're helping each other out to where when I do reflect and have that gratitude, I'm thinking, it gets so much more badass when you are married and you have kids and you are being partners and you're being good partners and you both care about each other so much. So much. Like, the way Charles thinks about everything in my world, and she's just a badass. Like, it's a love. Like, she. There's nobody else who's loved me the way Charl has loved me. That's opened me up to, like, more love and more ideas and everything else. Like, I'm a homebody. I hate vacations. And if I think of a core value of Charo, it is adventurous she loves again. I will. We'll get to it. She's going to London all next week. It's sad. She's taking Ruv with her. No. So it's just going to be me with Scotty. The easiest kid. We're going to have a lot of free time.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

But she's going to London next week. She was wanting to go in the summertime. We couldn't make it happen. We're going to a Dermot Kennedy concert here on Sunday. Like she loves doing stuff that she's really pulled me out of my comfort zone. She's like introduced me to things that I didn't think that I would be doing as an adult. She's a very ambitious, working, career oriented woman. Somebody I didn't think that I would marry doing all the things that I was doing. I thought I would have more of a. A stay at home mom, stay at home wife. I'm not saying that's good, bad and different. I'm just thinking like how I grew up thinking about everything. Yes, she's very different than what I had imagined. And so I can't pinpoint an exact moment because we had a lot of fun when we were younger. And that is a moment that sticks out is like, yo, that was the chick that I was so just laser. You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? We was talking about the pep rally last week and I like, yo, this, this woman is stunning. And it turns out the way the universe worked to like bring her back around for that day.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

At that, at that charity camp and then to have the DM and then to find out that she, that that was the girl.

[A]

Oh. The only thing selfishly that I wish is that you had done one of those. Hey buddy, think fast and just throw a football at her boyfriend that she was there at the camp with and he just boom off of his face. Hey, right here, buddy.

[B]

Yeah, right here. You gotta use your hands and then just snatch one out of the air. One handed.

[D]

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[F]

Hey everyone. Ed Helms here.

[A]

And hi, I'm Kal Penn and we're the hosts of Irsay, The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[F]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[A]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy.

[C]

You got a little Colin Firth.

[F]

Okay, that's really sweet, I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett here, listen to earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[A]

Will, if I can ask, as a guy that just genuinely doesn't know, is there no relationship between players and cheerleaders, like how you went?

[B]

There was no, a big reason she wouldn't like hang out with me is because she was still, still on the cheerleading team. And that was like a massive no for cheerleaders and players. It's kind of a, what do they call it? It's like an unwritten rule, but it's very, it's like a double standard. Like the cheerleaders were, it was like hard pressed. They couldn't talk to football players before. We're never told to like, hey, you can't do anything with cheerleaders or you can't date cheerleaders or anything like that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So that was a reason why, like the first time we did hang out, it was very sneaky. It was very under, under the wraps. She was very like weary because she, she was like a captain of the Cheerleading squad. And she took it. She. She was. That was tax accountant for. What is it, PBC or pnc? Pnc. One of the big ones. Yeah. She was also a cheerleader, so, yeah, she was.

[A]

She was crushing it. I didn't know she was a captain as well.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, man, that really. I love that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

A captain. Willie C. Hanging out with the cheer captain.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Let's go.

[B]

I'm thinking so many things in my head. That 12 year old just trying to answer my man's question, too. It's hard to like, like, no one. It was more of like, she just would make me uncomfortable in a way to where I would just always have a different perspective about how life was going towards. Like, I'm adjusting on the fly in the discomfort. And to me, that's when I kind of identify, like, this is the one I want to be with forever.

[A]

I love your description of how she made you feel because that you're quite literally describing exactly how Jill made me feel. And I don't say that, just agree with you. It was the exact same thing. Like, I had never encountered a rel. I had never had a relationship where I was being challenged, but in a good way.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Well said. Yes.

[A]

It didn't feel like she was ever coming down on me or anything like that, but it was like a. Wait, you don't. It's a Saturday. You don't want to go on a hike. And then we can, you know, do this. And there's this art exhibit that I really want to go check out. I'm like, I don't. I don't want to do that. And then I'm doing that and I'm like, man, this is a lot of fun. I want to keep on doing this.

[B]

And you're talking about. You're talking about the hikes, too. Like, Charl want to do hikes. I'm just thinking like, bro, my legs. Like, I'm just. I play football. Like, I don't want to do extra. Any extra exercise than what I already have to do. Yeah, but you're right. Like, the whole challenging thing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Is what it was like a slow process. And then you just realize how good it is for you and how happy they make you to where that's when it's kind of like that's the formulated moment, I guess.

[A]

Yeah. I. With Jill. To answer this question, Jill and I met on a blind date. Her cousin was dating my roommate. They would both tell you this. Their relationship was coming to an end very fast. And her cousin had Tried to set us up multiple times. And she was like. Like, sherman, I'm about to break up with your roommate, so if you want to meet my cousin, like, we need to make this happen asap. And I was trying to play it cool. Like, I had seen pictures of Jill on Instagram that her cousin had shown me. I was like, oh, yeah, she's cute. Like, yeah, we should do something. And then finally, I was like, yeah, no, we. We need to do that double date.

[B]

Yeah, buddy.

[A]

And I ran out of contacts that week, and I showed up to Wabi House in Fort Worth. Shout out. No free shout out. And I saw Jilly Bean across the room. And I said, I look like an idiot. My glasses. And I took my glasses off instantly, and I put them on the back of my shirt because I was like, this girl's way cuter than. Than even her pictures. Lost my glasses that night. Off to a hot start. But on that night, I. I never kissed a girl on a first date. And we kissed on a first date. And the Converse. It was kind of funny that, like, it was a blind slash double date, and her cousin and my roommate were just, like, chomping at the bit to break up with each other, like, that whole week. And they're, like, arguing on their side of the booth. And Jill. It made Jill and I lock in, like, that much more. And we had a great first date. But I do remember telling my mom, after the first day, I said, I think I might be in trouble. I'm like, I'm feeling it with this girl. But the moment that I knew, like, okay, I want Jill to be my girlfriend. Or I guess, like, yo, I. Like, this might be something more was we went to a Rangers game together, and the very first thing that she wanted to do is she wanted to go get a hot dog and beer. And when we were ordering, she goes, is it. Is it bad? Or, like, is it okay if I get two hot dogs instead of just one hot dog? And I was like, yeah, you can definitely get two hot dogs. She so fast turned and goes, I'll do a Michelob and two hot dogs to the person. And just seeing her with, like, the little ketchup and mustard and the hot dogs and, like, the beer and just her not worried about, like, I need to look cute on this date, but more so just enjoying the moment. And, like, what I love about baseball games is hot dogs and beer, and I'm getting to enjoy this. I just love that quality about her. I was like, she's so unabashedly Herself. And that just opened up to her. I had a. I was coming out of two different relationships that in college were like, on and off, on and off type stuff that I never felt confident in, if that makes sense. Like, I kind of left those relationships going, like, who am I as a boyfriend? Like, am I a good boyfriend? Do I.

[B]

You have no clue. Like, these women, like, reeling it, like, taming these men. It's like taming a wild horse. Yeah, it's like taming a wild horse, bro.

[A]

And then Jill kind of showing me, like, hey, you. Yeah, you definitely suck. Like, like, truly, like, hey, yeah, you definitely suck in these areas. But, like, and.

[B]

And as men, you don't know it.

[A]

No.

[B]

Like, I remember when I didn't get Charles something on, like, Valentine's Day, because it wasn't like, maybe it was more of defining the relationship style thing. And I just remember her having some, like, thoughts about it. And that's when you know too, as a guy, like, when your girlfriend is upset over something and it bothers you, even though you might be upset with them in that moment. But when you walk away and you're actually kind of like, I should have done X, Y and Z versus, like, when you know that there's no future with the girl, you're almost just staying mad about it. You're like, God, this is fucking. I'm gonna have to deal with this. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Then you find yourself kind of beating yourself up about it. Like, all right, I gotta do. I. I do of figure out a way to. To come around to whatever said thing is. Like, the first time I went out and stayed with, like, stayed overnight with Charo. Super nervous, like, awkward. And you know how it is too. Like, when you, like when you stay with a girl or you do like, they stay over at your place or something like that, and you kind of wake up the next morning, you're kind of like, I need to get out of here. Or they kind of need to get out of here. But I was going out to spend the weekend or a day with her in D.C. like, around her friends. And I remember when I first went over to her house, I. And again, your boy, no game, super nervous. We're in the kitchen, like, making up a game. She, like, we, like, made. Go ahead.

[E]

Pre post veneers.

[B]

No, this is pre veneers. I didn't get veneers until I was in. Until I was in Tennessee in 2018. So I had the. This is the. This is the old Willie Chiclets thick neck. Come on small teeth looking like a Zone Dog through my mouth. That Charl got to know.

[A]

2016, 10th hottest player in the NFL. Yes, sir.

[B]

Mind smile. Yeah, them. Don't show them teeth. All right? Show the teeth. Oh, but we, like, made up some game in the kitchen, and we're, like, throwing bottle caps, like, basically playing washers, but with, like, grocery bags and a bottle cap. Like, having a good time. We go out that night, have a lot of fun with her friends. She gets me dancing. I'm not a big dancing guy or PDA guy, but I'm sitting there, I'm belly rolling. I'm. You know, it was kind of. I was liquored up pretty good. You come back home, you're eating, like. You're, like, eating. I was like, house and some Oreos late at night, kind of wake up. The. Had to, like, go. She had to go do something for bar three. She was managing a studio out there at the time in D.C. and then that's where I kind of slip in. When she leaves and walks the door, I'm kind of, like, leaning out of the bed, kind of like, wait a minute. And then I go hit the bathroom and just drop a monster. You know what I mean? Because you're nervous. You're like, I gotta fucking do something here. But I can't do it in this apartment right now with her. I gotta wait till she leaves. But it wasn't awkward the next morning. Like, the next day.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Any of that stuff to where she came back. We're watching Deadpool together on the couch, ordering Chinese food, so you kind of know that something's there. Like when you're talking to the parents about it, when you're talking to your boys about it and everything else. But it gets even better, in my opinion. Like, when you do get married and you have kids and you're in. You're in an actual partnership worrying about everything else. And don't get me wrong, I still get annoyed when I am getting challenged at certain times or getting uncomfortable to do things to where I'm just like, sweetheart, come on. We can't just kick it at the house. Yes. Like, why don't you go? You go. Do you guys go? Have a great time. I hope you have the greatest time in the world. I kind of want to just stay home. The.

[A]

The Huskers are on about.

[B]

Yeah, the Oscars are on. We spent a lot of time on this. And, yes, I did ask her. I asked her. I called her dad and asked him first before I proposed.

[A]

Yes. And I took her mom. She has a stepdad but I took her mom and her stepdad to dinner and I asked her permission at Uncle Julio's in Fort Worth.

[B]

Love Uncle Julio's brother. That tableside guac stow in the pineapple and jalapenos.

[A]

I gotta I got a whole thing keep the show under an hour but they're not doing the yellow Queso anymore at the Nashville location here and it's just a whole thing. Heart's broken honestly, like I've been wanting to tweet about it a lot. I love Uncle Julio's too much so I've kept my mouth shut. No more queso, no more yellow queso. They're only doing Queso Blanco. And no offense to Queso Blanco, but the yellow queso Uncle Julio's is what put you on the map. Sorry, you go ahead Experience game day.

[D]

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[C]

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[F]

Hey everyone, Ed Helms here and hi.

[A]

I'm Kal Penn and we're the hosts of Irsay, The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[F]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[A]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy.

[C]

You got a little Colin first.

[F]

Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett.

[D]

Here.

[F]

Listen to Earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[A]

Sorry, sorry.

[B]

Cody Priest. This is on Instagram. Our baby boy, Cooper James was born on October 2, 2025. Thank you so much for the podcast every week and sharing what it's like to be a great dad. Sherm and Will, it was also a pleasure to meet you. Willie, One shelf at Benji's Bagels the other weekend. Shout out. Cody, thank you for writing in reporting for duty. PT Sicko Priest. What a legend.

[A]

Let's go, Cody.

[B]

Let's go, Cooper. Congratulations to you guys too. I know you guys are in it right now.

[A]

I have J.T. clifton. This is from YouTube. He said 7am iPhone alert. New episode for the dads. The boys talking me. Oh, I forgot to take the trash to the curb. Full sprint can to the curb within five minutes to spare. W ride together. Died to die together. PT6 for life.

[B]

Great sign.

[A]

So you may have missed your trash day, but guess what you doing? This pod made him remember his trash day.

[B]

Yeah. And he's sitting there like, damn it, will he see.

[A]

Yeah, he probably heard this episode.

[B]

He's like the urgency he felt. Can't let the PT Sickos down.

[A]

I've been listening to this podcast for the last three months now, not realizing that Willie C. Is a fake trash day guy. This will be the last episode I will be listening to.

[B]

Can't hang a shelf. Can't take out the trash. What do you fucking do, Willie? One shelf.

[A]

I saw a great comment of Willie One shelf. I saw one that said willie, no fucks. I kind of like that.

[B]

Holster that one.

[A]

We'll holster that.

[B]

Well, that's a good one. That's a good clock. This one's from Brandon Davis119 on YouTube. What up, PT6 brothers got a five and three year old currently going through the food regression stage. They both love popsicles. Gonna try and gonna try the tickle monster and see how that goes. They don't want to eat good. That means dad gets to Bring out the tickle monster. It's tough, man. Five and three. Rue is three. Right now. I do feel like we have the.

[C]

The.

[B]

The dinner time routine kind of down when she starts to get a little sassy about, I don't want to eat this. I don't want to eat that. Great. You don't have to. That's the great thing about this, sweetheart. You can make your own decision. You don't want to eat, that's fine. Mom and dad is going to finish up here. But when we get done eating, we're just going to go straight up to bed, because it seems like you're tired, and you know if you don't eat, you're not going to get all the things that you're thinking about in your head. Yep. I won't even say that at first. I'll just be like, great, you don't have to eat. Then I'll just. You'll just hear the plate going, mom and I eating. And she'll be like, I get a cookie. You know, the. And the cookie in this. In this world can be the popsicle. Hey, you know the game. You're not gonna get a cookie. You're not gonna get a Popsicle. We've done this now day in and day out. Yeah, say, but I'm tired. Hey, that's awesome. You don't have to eat. Wait for me to get done, and we'll go upstairs right after this and we'll go to bed. Do you want to go to bed now? No. All right. I had figure it out. Oh, quit asking.

[A]

Quit asking. The. Your volume of eating, by the way. I enjoy it. Like you. You make some noise when you eat, especially when you're hungry. And, bro, I am just laughing, just hearing that fork in the plate and your bites and stuff. And Bruce just.

[B]

She's thinking about what else she can do, because we might make. Like, Scotty might be doing, like, you know, she might be doing a thing where we're laughing, we think it's cute and adorable. And then Rue tries to play with Scotty. And in my brain, I'm thinking, and she's just playing with Scotty right now to put off the fact that she doesn't have to eat her food. Then mom and I are both done. Scotty's done. She's starting to, you know, hit the thing, knock food off.

[A]

She's getting the sweet potatoes off.

[B]

Like, Scotty, we can't get out. Ru's gotta eat her chicken. Ru, you gotta eat your chicken. I don't want to okay, well, let's get up, let's go. Let's go to bed. I don't want to go to bed. Eat your chicken.

[A]

Dada doesn't love me. Yeah, I guess. I got one from Cody Wilkerson on Tick Tock. Boys, I'm in the middle of chaos. My wife and I are both middle school teachers in Alabama. She's at a conference for until Saturday. I'm holding down the fort with my two boys, ages 2 and 4, until then. While I was at work today, got the call from the daycare that the youngest has hand, foot, mouth. I'm supposed to catch the oldest in a soccer game tomorrow night.

[B]

Night.

[A]

My wife. My wife called and asked, hey, how's everything going? And I hit her with a good hand foot mouth.

[B]

We just got over. We just got over that with both the kiddos.

[A]

Yeah. Best, Cody. Best of luck to you, dude. Just keep on washing those hands, dude.

[B]

Yeah, keep washing the hands. Keep being sad. When you just see the. The bumps that they get, it's just the saddest thing in the world.

[A]

And they can't eat right. Like, it hurts their mouths. Right.

[B]

Fortunately, yeah, that's how it was with Scotty. Fortunately for Rue, like, it was more of just. She had, like, the. The. The bumps, the rash stuff, like, on her feet and hands and. And her butt that bothered her. The stuff on the butt bothered her because it was in the crease. It was in the crease right below her cheek to where it, like, bothered her bathroom. And that sucked because she was, like, sad because it was painful for her.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

But she didn't have a fever. She didn't have the sores in the mouth. She wasn't getting, like, those symptoms to where it was. It was like you felt like you had to keep her from doing everything. Yeah. Because she was, like, actually sick. Scotty was. She had the sores in the mouth, wouldn't really drink her milk. She had to drink, like, cold milk if she was going to have her milk, which kids hate.

[A]

I found that out the hard way when Jill was out of town.

[B]

Cold milk.

[A]

Yeah. Just let the milk sit there for too long. And Scarlett's crying and crying. As soon as, like, she takes, like, two pulls from it, she just. I'm like, this is your favorite thing in the world, and I know you're starving. Like, why are you screaming? And then it finally clicked after, like, the eighth time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He did that bottle up. And after I. And she's screaming the whole time that I'm heating the bottle up. She's just sitting there in my ear and I'm like, I know, I know. As soon as I got that hot bottle in.

[B]

Yeah, I tell you what, you hit a good one. Like, I want to say rue, it needed to be. It needed to be hot. And I want to say Scotty, at times, we'll take it when it's cooled down. Like, some of them kids are just sickos, bro. They don't care how, they just want it.

[A]

We've. And we've done cold milk.

[B]

Easy.

[A]

We've done cold milk before. Like at the park. We took Scarlett to the park and we forgot our.

[B]

The heater.

[A]

Yeah, the portable heater.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so we just did it straight from a, you know, distilled water bottle or whatever. And she yogged it. She had no problem.

[B]

Which is a massive win. Yeah, I'm good on my comments.

[A]

You're good on your comments. I have one more. Boys. PT6 are in tier one. Sicko father, three boys, 12, 13 months in seven months. Also flag football coach of the Red Wolves for the past few years. Love it. Had to share a juiced up moment. We're up 12, 6. Nearing the end of the game. They go for one watch a kid. Moss my boy. And they take a one point lead with little time left. Defense holds and with proper clock management, we got one more shot. First play, small gain. Second, small gain. Now with seconds left and only one play to go to the house for the win. Can't stop watching the clip. And I'm so amped for the rest of the season.

[B]

Let's go. Big win at the end of the game. Watching your boy get lost. It's tough for the. For the pop. Yeah. Tough for the pop. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[A]

Oh, I do. That is tough for the pop.

[C]

Stop.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know how I would handle that as far as with Scarlett. And I've talked with Jill about that of, like, sporting events. I kind of understand now why sometimes my dad would, like, watch my sporting events from the car. I think it was nerves for him. And to me, I always thought, why is my dad not in the stands for these track meets? Like, he goes and he gets in the car and like, I wish he was in the stands. And now me as a parent, I'm like imagining myself watching Scarlett and I'm like, I get why dad was in the car. He's nervous. A little nervous.

[B]

Yeah. But you feel like he would have been somebody that's got to be yelling. My dad just puts himself in the car.

[A]

I think he was one of those that he. He had nervous energy and didn't want to give that off to me.

[B]

Especially for.

[A]

Especially for track meets. I think he was just trying to be like, hey, Sherman does a really good job of saying positive and clear mind. Like, track was a sport that, like, I excelled at. And I think that he.

[B]

We talking shot put now.

[A]

Now. Hey, we talking. What were you on? The training stuff.

[B]

You talking about track and field? We talking shop put over there.

[A]

You put nice yard on people like, what we doing? But he was just like, what was your.

[B]

What were your events?

[A]

800, 4x4 and 400.

[B]

Oh, dude, that's a tough day, bro.

[A]

It was a tough day. Yeah, it was a tough day. But I did back in the day.

[B]

What was 400 and 800.

[A]

800 was not my race. I think I only broke.

[D]

Or.

[A]

I got very close to, like, a minute flat.

[B]

Are you talking. You talking the 400? We're talking two minutes. You got close to two minutes?

[A]

To two minutes. Okay, sorry. I got very close to two minutes because I would go out in the 800 and run my first leg, like a 56, and then I would kind of die out.

[B]

So you were a stud at the 400?

[A]

Oh, yeah. I was more of a 400 runner. 53, 52.

[B]

That's a strong. That's a strong time.

[A]

White boy for a five, seven. White boy.

[B]

Yeah. Five, seven, white boy. Come on now.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Back in the.

[B]

Back in the. Back in the day.

[A]

Back in the day. But, yeah, my dad, he would always. Well, and he would. Sorry to my dad. He would be in the stands, too, But. But I could just tell on some of those days, he. He talked. You've met my dad. He talks a lot. Very friendly, very open. But is he in town? He's in town. They're coming today.

[B]

I. I can't wait to hug him.

[A]

Yeah, they're coming today. They're very excited to see you.

[B]

Yeah, bro.

[A]

But yeah, he would clam up. He'd clam up and track me. So he'd get real. Get like this. That's good. He wanted it.

[E]

Any sports competition, my dad would sit there. If I had a bad game, I'd suit my dad. Dad, like, pacing on the sidelines. I'd come over and go, where's dad? He goes, she's. He's in the car. Yeah, sorry, dad, I'm totally out in you. But it was also.

[B]

He'd go to the car if you're having a bad game.

[E]

Really? I mean, this is like.

[B]

No.

[E]

And he was never mean. He never yelled or anything, but he couldn't. He's probably listening through it now.

[B]

Like, yeah, now that I think about it, he's going to the car. If I'm having a bad game, I kind of need. When I needed him the most post, he kind of, he shelled up and went to the car.

[A]

Think about, I kind of need to talk to you guys about God. Want to share this? Hey, I know on a real senso. I think I know where your dad's coming from that he didn't want you to see that he was crushed for you.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

100.

[A]

I feel like it was.

[E]

No, I never got the like, I never got the like getting yelled at in the car going, we love you papa.

[B]

We love you.

[E]

Quiet rides going. How do you feel about that game? Yeah, they're like, I don't think I play that good.

[A]

It's all right.

[E]

We'll get him next time.

[B]

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[F]

Hey everyone.

[A]

Ed Helms here and hi, I'm Kal Penn and we're the hosts of Irsay The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[F]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride. And this is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[A]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy.

[C]

You got a little Colin Firth.

[F]

Okay, that's really sweet, I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett here. Listen to Earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[A]

I also, before we move on, because I. I know we need to move.

[B]

On, but we gotta move on because.

[A]

We gotta keep this comment. I have to read this comment because it's teasing something big. Okay, I just farted when I said teasing. That's how big it is. Connor Wanderley on YouTube said PT6 are here. New to the area. Wife is asking for the best pumpkin patch slash fall festival place to take her and our 8 month old any wrecks in the Nashville Franklin area. Willie, one shelf. Would you like to take this question?

[B]

Boo at the zoo.

[A]

Boo at the zoo. What is that?

[B]

That's where you're leading me, right?

[A]

Yes, sir. What? What is Boo at the Zoo?

[B]

At the zoo. Our first PT6 meetup. Papa Team Six meet up for. For the dads. It'll be at Boo at the Zoo here in Nashville on October 28th at 5:30pm from 5:30 to 7. For the dads. The PT6 is right here. Derek, Chef, your boys, Fat Stafford and Willie, one shelf. We will be at Boo at the Zoo. We're bringing the kids, bringing the kiddos. The families will be there. First Papa Team 6 meetup. You might be thinking what to expect. I personally don't know because part of me is like, you know, this isn't. This isn't going to be like a. Like what? Like a. Like a Meet and greet.

[A]

Yeah. Not. Not so much a meet and greet.

[B]

We might bring like the meetings of the minds. Meeting of the PT6ers. Here's what the vibe is going to be. Here's what it has to be because we got the kids there. Rue's gonna wear her fairy costume.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

She's gonna dress. She's gonna wear. She's gonna be in a stum. Yeah, we might. We might as well.

[A]

I might be in a stem.

[B]

Well, we're there to have good family time at the zoo. Whether we do it with a crew or we all meet up at first, say a few words, some dabs, maybe some quick selfies. But the thing it can't turn into is a full on, like a meet and greet type of thing. While our wives and kids are standing there and they're just. The dads are talking shop talking stories, and we just.

[A]

Some dads.

[B]

Yeah, we just some. We're gonna have the same anxiety, like, kind of, you know, I know my wife's like, hey, so what are we doing here? Is this just. Is this just a photo shoot? Are we gonna have some fun at the zoo with the kiddos, with the family?

[A]

We going to the giraffes or what?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Willie.

[A]

One pick, maybe two, and that's it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

But I will say the Nashville Zoo has done a really good job with the Boo at the Zoo. It's decked to the nine with pumpkins, skeletons, all kinds of spooky stuff. They encourage Halloween outfits. You do have to buy a ticket. Those are available@nashville zoo.org that's nashville zoo.org There are a thousand tickets available for this event. That's outside of the PT6 meetup. That's just in general for the 5:30 slots. But there are a thousand tickets. So PT sickos in the area make sure to go to Nashville.org and get your tickies.

[B]

Get your tickies. What I'm envisioning is we all get there, say around 5:30. Might give it to 5:45. 45 to where? You'll see where we are.

[A]

We'll have a little table.

[B]

Will there. Will there be merch?

[A]

Yes, there will be merch. And we're looking to have a little game of. What is it called? Scavenger Hunt. We're going to hide some little things throughout and we'll put out a social media promo. But we're going to hide some little things in the park that if Papa or Mama Team six find these little tokens and bring it back to the Papa Team 6 table. They will get free merch and a king size candy bar.

[E]

PT6 Nation. Sorry for the interruption. This is your producer Jack coming in here. As I'm editing the episode. We have some changes to the Boo at the Zoo that I want to make aware to all of you. We will not have a table. I'm so sorry. Don't blame me. Will and Sherm like to run their mouths about stuff they don't know, but that's okay. We will not have a table. And then also scavenger hunt wise, Sherm.

[C]

Sherman.

[E]

Sherman, I'm talking to PT6 Nation right now. Are we gonna have a scavenger hunt?

[B]

Hunt?

[A]

Oh, yes. We're going to have a scavenger. Oh, we're not having a.

[E]

Wait, we're not. See, Sherm and Will love to run their mouth. They don't know what they're talking about.

[A]

We aren't having a scavenger hunt.

[E]

We are.

[A]

No. Aren't.

[E]

We aren't.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Is that correct?

[E]

Dude, I have no clue.

[A]

I think that's it. That we are not having a scavenger.

[E]

I don't think we are either.

[A]

And it's the first 20 people that show up.

[B]

Up. Get.

[A]

We're handing out hats and shirts.

[E]

Ah, first 20. You hear that, PT6 Nation? First 20 people who show up.

[B]

Will.

[E]

Will get a shirt also.

[A]

Or hat.

[E]

Or hat.

[B]

Whatever you like.

[E]

But yes, that's all. Back to your regularly scheduled programming, O King size.

[B]

Only the king size candy bar. Oh, buddy.

[A]

One thing I'll say is. Probably reshape the brain. You're right.

[E]

It's not a meet and greet.

[A]

This is a. A group dad Brownie point event. We are setting something up so you can come. You can meet Willie and Sherm. But you are. You're. Honey, we're going to Boot. You always want to go to booth. The zoo. We're going to boo at the zoo.

[B]

We're going to boo at the zoo.

[A]

Brownie point meetup.

[B]

And in between that 5, 35, 45, when we're all there, like at the table, I. I think the best thing would just be get a group. Get a squad photo. Yeah. Of the PT6ers.

[D]

Ooh.

[A]

We get families sick.

[B]

And we just do a mat. We just do a big group photo. And then from that group photo, you can get merch. You can go on the scavenger hunt. Find tokens if you want to. Just enjoy the evening. Enjoy the zoo.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And we'll see each other. PT6.

[A]

Hey. And the goal is wife goes hey, isn't that the two assholes that you listen to on YouTube over there? And you go, oh, yeah, that's weird. They're here too. I didn't even know they were gonna be. That's so weird.

[B]

You can't. I don't think you can say that about the Milk Team Sixers, bro. I think Milk Team Sixers are brought in.

[A]

They are bought in. They are bought in. That was a low blow.

[B]

Like, you could see, like, whenever people talk about for the dads, like, I'll get dads that come up to me, families that'll come up and say, the wife might be like, my husband, he loves listening to you on for the dads. And as he's sitting there, he's like, we watch you every week and stuff, and you just kind of see that little smile from the. From mom. You know what I mean?

[A]

Oh, for sure.

[B]

Like, dad loves watching them. I don't. Come on now.

[A]

Hey, for sure.

[B]

Hey, you'll buy that Milk Team Six.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And the pictures that I get of, I love the DMS from Mama Team Six of their husband on the couch, you know, with baby. And, like, they're watching. They're all watching together.

[B]

Yeah, dude, they are the best.

[A]

Yeah, Mama Team. That was a low blow, and I do apologize to Mama Team Six.

[B]

Yeah, there. There probably ain't many out there, B. Those are the two you listen to.

[A]

But that was that. We giggled. We did giggle.

[B]

We did giggle.

[A]

It was a giggle. We just have fun on this.

[B]

The only type moments I would envision is if, like, say, say you're new listening to the show, and let's say it was last week's episode or the week before that. And the first thing is, can say Papa Team Six. Oh, hope your belly's full and your balls are empty. And then the wife's like, this is what you've been hearing about.

[E]

These are like, this is your exemplary. Exemplary pl.

[A]

You got it.

[B]

You got it, Jeff.

[E]

I. I can't say the word I. I'm getting blanked. But I was going to imitate and go, this is your father podcast that you listen to about being a good dad.

[B]

These guys, these. These.

[A]

These two cats.

[B]

This dude calls himself the captain of Sean Team.

[A]

What is this? They just read the definition of boofing off Urban Dictionary. Oh, and. Oh, and here's a dad hack. Make sure you love your daughter. Oh, here's your survival kit. Make sure you have an extra passy.

[B]

Oh, let's get into some dad talk.

[A]

Let's get.

[B]

Let's get into some dad talk. I've been going through a few different things we'll go through again. Wins, losses.

[D]

What?

[B]

We'll crack a cold one to some survival kit dad act. Some things that I've been experiencing over the last. Over the last week or so. We have our Halloween costumes dialed in.

[A]

I'm jealous. I need to.

[B]

I was hoping that we could be like a Star wars crew. Like Rue could be Rey Skywalker. We found this. I found this, like dress. What? Why am I blinking?

[A]

Jedi robe.

[B]

Jedi robe. There it is.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

This like robe that was like a dress. Jedi for Rey Skywalker to where she's got like the bubble.

[A]

The triple pony.

[B]

The triple pony. The little bubble ponytail going on. Rude loves the bubble ponytail. Like, yo, if she rips Rey Skywalker. I'm looking into full on Darth Vader costumes. We could put Scotty. We could put Charo. Beautiful hair. We'll get her as. Why am I drawing a blank?

[A]

That would be. Why am I drawing a blank?

[B]

Princess Leia with the side buns. You get little Scotty as Yoda. Find a little adorable Yoda costume with the little, you know, the little netted. Or you'll see it on Etsy. The little netted with the Yoda ears and the paw.

[A]

Is that what y' all are doing?

[B]

We were going to. And I'm juiced up about it.

[A]

I was about to say if y' all did do that, then we could also do Star wars as well and be other characters, but also do.

[B]

So for Halloween, we're gonna be the inside out crew.

[A]

That's a massive win. Love it. Oh, you don't like it?

[B]

Ask who I am.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

No, worse.

[C]

No.

[B]

I would have loved to have been anger. I'm fear.

[A]

That's funny. Was that Chario's idea?

[B]

Yeah, Charo.

[A]

Well, hey, hats off to Charo. That is funny. You got the glasses and the little wig and everything, bro.

[B]

Just type in fear costume. Fear costume inside out. And Charles gets to be. What is it? Bingo.

[A]

Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking of sadness. I was. I thought Jara was having you dress up as the blue one.

[B]

No, I think that's gonna be. I think that's gonna be Scotty because her parents are also like. We're rounding out the six.

[A]

Okay. Okay. Yes. Your fear with the bow tie and.

[B]

Yeah, got this long headed costume thing that I'm just gonna be wearing. I'm trying to be Darth Vader.

[A]

I'm trying to force show people.

[B]

I was like, hey, we should do some like. Whether it's like DC superheroes. I was gonna be Bane, but Scotty is Wolverine. But no, I gotta be fear from inside Out. You look it up.

[A]

We have it pulled up.

[E]

Well, I think this is gonna look great on you.

[A]

You're gonna look great.

[B]

Don't be.

[A]

And he's got a little houndstooth going in his vest. That looks awesome.

[B]

Darth Vader, bro.

[A]

Would it. Would it be salt in the wound if then I did Star Wars?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Would that up.

[B]

You guys just come decked out sick. Star wars costumes.

[A]

Is that what you are wearing to Boo at the Zoo?

[B]

No. Boo at the Zoo. So Rue wants to be a fairy. She saw this dress. She wants to dress. She's all about princesses and dresses.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

She wants to be a fairy. So Charo is. We're thinking like, all right, for Halloween we want this. You know, we want the squad fit all inside out. Rusy. They're gonna be like Joy or Rue's gonna be one of them.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

One of the good ones.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And she's like, here's how we knock out the fairy costume. We'll let Rue wear the fairy costume at Boo at the Zoo. So that way when it's Halloween time. Hey, you're gonna two costumes. We got Halloween Boo at the Zoo. You're gonna wear the fairies. And then for Halloween you'll get to be one of the characters of Inside Out.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Charles gets to be. What is it? Bing Bong. Charles. Bing Bong. That's the inflated one. I wanted to be. Bingo. I thought, why can't I be Bing Bong? She's like, ah, you know the sizes.

[A]

You would. I ordered it sizes.

[B]

Girl.

[A]

You would have been a great. So I gotta be.

[B]

I gotta be out here.

[A]

Fear. So y' all don't have anything planned for be at the Zoo? I was getting to.

[B]

Okay, not yet. Not yet. Not yet. We come up with something.

[A]

Yeah, I'm trying to throw something together.

[B]

Yeah, we. We get something going. Yeah. Yeah. But booed the zoo. October 28, Tuesday, 5:30. Be there.

[A]

Be there. I think I might do Fat Stafford. That might be my. My dress up. Get some shoulder pads going. Little Matt Stafford jersey. That could be good.

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[F]

Hey everyone. Ed Helms here.

[A]

And hi, I'm Kalpen and we're the hosts of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[F]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[A]

You know what? I can see if you got a little Colin Firth.

[F]

Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett.

[A]

Here.

[F]

Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[B]

That could be good. Maybe I could hit the wall. Willy, one shot.

[D]

Shelf.

[B]

You should be willing.

[A]

One shelf.

[B]

What are we thinking? What are we talking about here?

[A]

That would be good.

[B]

I got the costumes.

[A]

We do.

[B]

I have a question for the audience, please. I have a question for the parents out there. Rue is three. Her personality is as big as ever. Okay, I see a lot of great signs of confidence and leadership, but she's also very sassy. And as a parent, you're always trying to figure out the balance between like, all right, they're kind of talking crazy to me right now. Do I stay poised and in the pocket, like baked or Mayfield without any of his big targets, or do I kind of snap back at her? Right? So my question is, are sassy moments a sign of confidence? Sorry.

[A]

If you guys hear these honks, there's a sicko outside.

[B]

Well, we might have to go full PT Sicko.

[A]

I think that is a PT Sicko.

[B]

Might just go out there and yell, sorry. If you Guys heard the. The. The honks out there. Are sassy moments a sign of confidence? Hey, we're doing a podcast.

[A]

What we doing?

[B]

Go check on it. Go check on it, Derek.

[A]

So is sassiness a.

[B]

Hey, we trying to film out here? Yeah. Are sassy moments a sign of confidence? Are sassy moments a sign of confidence, or are they to test boundaries?

[A]

I think that's a great question. I'm running through that in my mind. Slash. I know what you're saying, because I've seen you deal with sassiness, with sassiness and attitude pretty, like, I think really well.

[B]

Okay. I was doing some, Like, I was doing some research on this. I did come across, like, a parent source, like a blog. It's, like, ways to spot a sassy little personality. And it's. And it. This. This source describes sass as part of early experiments with identity, independence, autonomy, boldness, and it frames sass as a superpower. In a way, being sassy can mean that a child is learning to stand up, testing what works socially, and seeing their voice as meaningful. Then I came across. I came across this metaphor like boundary railings. If the bridge has no railing, the toddler crosses slowly, hesitantly, and insecurely. With boundaries, they cross with more confidence minutes. Sass may emerge as part of the testing phase until those rails are in place. So then I'm just thinking to myself, all right, what are examples that I can hang on to where it's like, all right, this is good. This is confidence. Her testing, it's all encompassing. Right. Because it's always happening. Like, when their brains are developing, they kind of, like, lose their minds.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you're kind of in the pocket trying to figure out what to do. But when I'm thinking back on examples that we might have been trying to experiment with or might have done, I see, like, it's like, dinner time. She'll get. She's been sassy around dinner time, but now that I feel like she understands these boundaries of clean plate club, or. You don't get what you're actually thinking about until this happens. It almost takes away the. I don't know, I guess the reaction on my part, because now we know what the said boundaries are to where I'm like, hey, yeah, you don't have to. You don't have to eat your food. You kind of know what consequences come with that. Because I know what your little brain's thinking about. You're thinking, how can I get out of eating dinner right now and still get the cookie at the same time? Or how can I press? All right, I'll eat two bites. Two bites don't really work anymore. Like, you need to eat your food.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I need to show that you had in a very respectable effort with your plate. Yeah. In my brain, I'm thinking, it doesn't have to be clean, but I need to know you're. You're eating at your chicken, you're eating at your vegetables, you're eating at whether it's potatoes, rice, whatever it is.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, if I know you're putting in effort, and you'll. You'll get your little half cookie here at the end of dinner. Like, I know what that looks like, but I feel like that's been a. That's been a something I think, too, about. All right. There's something that's like, clear boundaries that are set there now. Like, learning when I was doing. When I was kind of breaking down the morning routine, like, Rue gets really sassy or whiny. You know what I mean? To where it's like, well, dude, why does. Why does the morning have to be such a. Such a. An issue right now, bro? Like, we do this every morning. But I've identified to where it's like, she does love her independence. She does love to where she feels like she's in control to her, like, one morning or a couple mornings now where it's like, hey, I got a challenge for you. And I've kind of laid out a couple outfits because, like, we're not going to go through this whole, I don't want to wear this outfit. I'm wearing this one. And then it just becomes an entire argument and negotiation. It's like, all right, I've laid out a couple options. I. Hey, here's your challenge. You pick out your outfit. You can put it on. First thing you gotta do is you gotta go potty. We gotta clean you up. You go potty first. But then I challenge you. Dad is gonna leave the room. I know you yell at me to go downstairs. You want to do it by yourself. I recognize that you want to be independent in this situation.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's like, all right, I trust you. You gotta make your bed. You gotta. You gotta pick out your outfit. Here's a couple I laid out for you. You gotta make your bed. Make sure your room's tidied up up. Like, she loves to slide the door shut. She likes to do all the things. And then dada mama come upstairs and see what I've done type of thing. I was like, I'm gonna go downstairs and start making breakfast whenever you come downstairs. Because I know you like to think about what you want for breakfast. Now I'm not. If I give her a couple options I don't know yet, it's like, all right, you think about it and you tell me.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But then when you come downstairs, you have. You've thought about it. You let me know what you want for breakfast. Now that we kind of had some of those boundaries in place. When I'm rocking solo mission, doing the morning routine, that's kind of the way I approach it because I'll get Scotty going. She's just a minute. She just wants to be down on the floor playing. I'll start making breakfast. Get up the barricade at the stairs. Rue, you can hang out by yourself upstairs. Do your morning routine by yourself however you see fit. These are the things you got to do. I've now seen that there has been fruits that have came from that because she has grown and understanding what the boundaries are dealing with. Her sassiness. And then another one where I'm going through all this. I'm like, that is a good question. Our sassy moment. What's the confidence? Or do they. Are they testing boundaries? And it's like, it's probably the whole mix of both thing. And am I getting. Do I again, do I let her walk all over me? It's like, hey, you're whining. You're not using your strong voice. You know, Dada doesn't like to be talked to like that. Yeah, change your tone. Or when I hear your strong voice, I will do what you are asking. Then I'm thinking, is she still getting her way by being sassy? I'm telling her the answer. If she gives me the answer, she still gets it. Am I. Am I kind of being the. Am I being a push over there? Like these. I'm always, like, asking myself these things. Like, as I'm trying to parent and trying to figure out ways for her to, like, develop and grow and be strong and how she's, like, asking questions or like, hey, use your confident voice.

[A]

Can I. Can I, as a. Not a co host, but more of a friend kind of just say my two cents on what I think of you as a dad in those situations.

[B]

Not yet. Hold it. I have one more. The team coupons. We had the dad hack of using TV coupons. Rue would always. Rue is always kind of in that. You know, you're just in that spot. I want to watch this scene. I want to watch. No, I don't want it to be over. And then she's crying, and it's like you're sitting down with her on the couch. And then when we came across the TV coupons, once 30 minutes goes up. Now she kind of knows that it's done.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That was my third example. Like, when I'm reading through all this stuff and trying to figure out, am I doing this correctly? Am I going about this the right way? Here's some evidence that I can now pull from the words. Okay, these are boundaries that are in place whenever it's happening in other moments. Find other boundaries to kind of put around there to kind of, like, allow her to be her if she's having a moment. But then she also knows in the back of her mind, these are what the boundaries are.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, now you can. Now you can. Now you can go. I just wanted to get that third one out there.

[A]

No, I love that. I love that. Do you have more on it? I don't want to cut you off of any type of brain.

[B]

Like, where.

[A]

Where else is your mind going with?

[B]

My mind, like, goes through there because as I like pro. As I like, pose that question to parents that might be, like, wondering the same stuff. Here have been my, like, highs and lows and how I've tried to, like, navigate those things. On the whole boundaries issue.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Am I being a pushover? Do I need to be a little bit more snappy with her? It's hard to because it's my daughter, and I'm softer with my daughter. But also I want to, you know, mold a human being that I see as fit within, like, resilience and leadership and humility. And, hey, here's how you need to be talking to people. Am I allowing it a little too much? Am I doing a better job here? I'm more so communicating things that I look to. That I've done that are now I feel like evidence in my eyes and things that kind of help me think about what that next thing might be to put boundaries around. So I don't allow her to be out of hand in certain situations. So I'm more like talking through this with the. The parents at home through this out loud on, hey, here's some things that's worked for me. Here's some things that I'm thinking about now where I can do better. Better. Yeah. So that to answer, I think it's.

[A]

The same thing as me being worried about being a good dad of before Scarlett was ever here. And you said the fact that you're worried about It. And asking questions is a great sign, I would say, that about this, of the sassiness issue, the fact that you're worried about it, you're thinking about it, you're adapting, you're trying new techniques. Would this work? What if I gave her some more responsibility? What if I gave her some more places where Rue can make the right decision and put the ball in her court instead of reacting emotionally and trying to take the power from her in that situation?

[B]

Right.

[A]

Like, I. I think you're doing a great job of just confronting the issue, whether or not sassiness is.

[B]

They gonna be sassy.

[A]

Yeah, they're gonna be sassy. And whether or not that's gonna turn into a good character trait or a negative one where she's given attitude to, you know, people at school or teachers or whatever. Like, that's besides the point. I think you're doing a good job of identifying it, navigating it, and trying to find a solution or a way to make this a good thing, make this a character trait. And to brag on Rue. At the fall festival, we were doing drawings, and Rue sat there and did not say a word the entire time, but was very, like, peaceful as. She's, like, coloring.

[B]

She loves coloring.

[A]

She was locked in. And jj, Jeremy's son, is sitting there with me, drawing.

[B]

Sherman. Hey.

[A]

Hey, Sherman.

[B]

Sherman.

[A]

Sherman. Hey, Rue.

[B]

Rue. Hey, Rue.

[A]

Look, Rue.

[B]

Look, look, Rue.

[A]

And Rue is wanting no part of what's going on with Sherman and jj.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But she was not rude about it at all. She was very quiet, and she would slowly look up from her drawing and look at JJ's drawing and go and look back down and keep coloring. And, like, you could tell that in that moment, she was setting a boundary for JJ and saying, like, hey, I'm not matching your energy right now. I'm locked in. I'm doing my thing. And, like, the most I'm gonna say is term, will you get me purple? And I gave her a purple, and she said, thank you, and started doing her bro.

[B]

That's so funny.

[A]

Like, she's doing a good job of said. You could tell she wasn't annoyed by jj, but she was like, JJ got.

[B]

Done with one because he was coloring the bats. Yeah. Yeah. And he was having, like, I want Rue to see the bats, because Rue was going to color like her and mom went to go color a Halloween bag or something like that. Yeah. I just remember walking over to ruin. I'm like, hey, Ru. J really wants you to see. Yeah. To see his color to him to Impress.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Which I love. That was all about it. JJ is a great ball of energy, bro.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

His enthusiasm is off the charts.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I'm like laughing because I can. I'm like seeing Rue and Rue clearly hears him and. And clumps trying to like, you know, tone him down. And I'm like, hey, I'll go try and get Ru. Like, go, go. He wants to show you this color. It's just like when you run up to us and you're like, hey, just look at my drawing. And we're like, oh my God. Like, he wants to like go give him a little something. She goes over and she's like, that's good.

[A]

And I, dude, I loved that moment of re. I felt like I saw a lot of ruse personality in that moment. I love that even though she wasn't matching his energy, like she was not mean to him. She didn't say, leave me alone, da da da. I'm doing that. Like, she was very calm and poor experience.

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[F]

Hey, everyone.

[A]

Ed Helms here, and hi, I'm Kal Penn, and we're the hosts of Earsp, The Audible, and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[F]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[A]

You know what? I can see as Mr. Darcy, you got a little call in first.

[F]

Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I mean, I'm not Mr. Bennet here. Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[A]

And so just wanted to brag on your daughter in that moment because I appreciate that she could have lost her cool.

[B]

Here's another one. This morning, like, this morning on Friday, she's like, hey, two or one sleep until we go to the van. You know, she's rattling off because we're like, oh, great job. And she's like, she wants to tell everybody, one sleep until we go to the Vanderbilt game. Two sleeps until we do. Until we go to. Until we go to Grandpa's. Three sleeps until we go to lunch. London. I'm like, hey, sweetheart.

[A]

Bro, she got a weekend coming up.

[B]

I'm like, hey, sweetheart, no sleeps. You know who plays football tonight? And she's like, who? And I'm like, the Nebraska Corn Oscars. And she, like, kind of. I'm like, holding her hand. She kind of, like, leans back, and she's like. She's like, dad, you know who plays football tonight? And I'm like, the Huskers. And she's like, no. She's like, no. And she starts kind of getting sassy with me. She's like, no, I say, who plays tonight? You. You don't say Huskers. You don't say. You don't say nothing. I tell you Huskers, like, all right, I'm on a knee, down on her level. And I'm like. And again, I'm having one of those. Almost like, you little. I'm like, all right, let's do that. She's like. And then she tells her voice. She's like, daddy, who plays the night? And I'm like. And she's like, duh. I was like, oh, the Huskers. And I'm thinking in that moment, like, am I just letting her walk all over me? I.

[A]

You know, I Think she has. I don't know your daughter all that well, but I.

[B]

You're gonna go through it. I'm just saying three is a different. Three different vibe, bro.

[A]

She. She's wanting that independence and that control. Control and. And yeah, dude, I think that's a cool thing that she wants that she knows.

[B]

She's very much. She's like. She's like a boss, dude. She's like, yeah, we went. This is. I'll just go ahead and say this is a survival kit. And I apologize. Like, I. I know. I. Some stories as well.

[A]

You're crushing.

[B]

We had to go to Archaro, takes her after swimming lesson on Tuesday, took her to Dick Sporting, goes to get cones for soccer. She's got a soccer ball at home. You know, she goes. But she gets the cones and brings them home. She's got Charo out in the front yard running drills. She doesn't want to play soccer. She wants to be the coach that she's observed every time a soccer practice. And she's putting Charo through the drill drills. She's not the one doing soccer. Yeah, like, day I can get my apple juice. She comes inside real quick, gets her apple juice, and I look out there and Charles, the one doing the drills, while we're just. We're just sits back and watches her.

[A]

No, mama, no. Around, around.

[B]

Yeah, do it this way. No, the comb goes here. Survival kid. Go get some cones. Kids love cones.

[A]

Dude, I. I love that. It sounds like you got a commander in chief.

[B]

Got a little commander in chief.

[A]

You got training, bro. You got a little Mike linebacker is what it sounds like.

[B]

Green dot.

[A]

You got a little green dot.

[B]

A little green dot.

[A]

I. Dude, I think it's cool. I. I think Rue is setting herself up to be a very competent, independent, sure of herself and her decisions, and it will come out sideways. Dude, she's three. I'm not giving you advice. I'm just talking three.

[B]

I feel you. I feel you.

[A]

But I. I think that's badass some more.

[B]

I'm like leaning on the parents out there that have had their three year old or they're currently three, or maybe they're two. Thinking like, what's the age of three? Like, like, just buckle up. Oh, yeah, we were at Italy's last night. Mac and cheese was too hot, and it really wasn't that hot. Like, sweetheart, you got to blow on. And she's yelling at me, no, don't blow on. I'm like, dude, I'm trying to make your life easier. And she doesn't want to. We're like, you got to sit and let it wait. Like, eat your chicken tenders or eat your chicken fingers until your Mac and cheese cools down. She doesn't want to. She's crying, and you're like, you know, you're there as a parent. You're in public. Public. They're having a moment, and you're like, you know, I'm like, like, please stop being so loud and, like, yelling and crying and everything else.

[A]

Do you feel like, is it good for you, though? Like, do you feel like there's a part of you that maybe needed some softening? That, like, you feel like you're also kind of growing in this moment of, like, self control?

[B]

Absolutely. Because I know, like, parents, they'll sit there and tell you, like, don't do. Don't stress about that stuff. Like, we've all had kids, and people who are, like, they're assholes. They don't have kids. Whatever.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Something in that moment, I just got. I got to be cool. Rue's having a moment. I really wish you just listen, because it's like, bro, I'm telling you, number one, it's not that hot. Like, let that blow on it. Mix it around. Blow on it. Or, hey, if you want to do it yourself, you blow three on yourself. I show you all the time, like, get a fork, not a spoon, then try it. If it's too hot, just eat the other thing on your plate. But she's having a moment to where it's happening for several minutes, to where she's crying. She's like, no, don't talk to me. Don't talk to me, Mama. Don't talk to me. Like, dad, don't talk to me. John and I are both just kind of sitting there quietly to the point to where it's like, we can't even say, all right, not going to talk to you. She's like, no, no. And she's crying. She's got the Mac and cheese. She's got on a fork just in her hand, like, as she's like, you know, Red. Crying. You know things. Charl and I are just kind of sitting there. I'm kind of just looking over at Scotty and, like, scotty, eat your. Eat your turkey. And then I hear Ru, like, she's not, you know, she doesn't want us to tell her what to do. She doesn't want us to talk to her. Yeah, eventually it's going to swing the other way. She's sitting there, she's trying to figure it out in her head as she's screaming. And then I just hear, like. As I'm, like, looking at Scotty, I hear O. She's, like, starting to try and blow on it. And I'm, dude, I know she's looking at me and I'm laughing, and, you know, I got the quiet life going on to where my shoulders are going. I can't look at Charo. I look up at her. She sees me laughing. Guru might get a little more. More. I'm like, scotty, oh, you're so funny, Scotty. Trying not to look at you. But she's mid cry, trying to blow on the Mac and cheese.

[A]

Just the shakiest hands of all time. I. I love it. Go ahead, champ.

[E]

I was gonna ask a question to Will. Listening this to someone who doesn't have kids at 23.

[B]

If you.

[E]

I guess the better way to put this, like, three years ago, Will, how would he have reacted to this situation compared to now?

[B]

Do you think?

[E]

Can you see that? Where you're like, oh, I've definitely grown. Because I'm sitting here getting going. I'm feeling for you. I don't have the way.

[B]

The way you're feeling me younger or. I'm just assuming, because obviously being a parent, kind of like, hey, yeah, you have to grow and develop and kind of force yourself to, like, patience. All these things that you learn when you do become a parent. But I fully think back to your question. I was feeling what you're thinking, like, as you're listening, listening. Like, you kind of just want to. Bro, hey, cut the. We can leave. Yeah, like, get up. We can leave right now. And you're kind of making a scene as a parent, and really, it's not the way to handle it. You're kind of just reacting and everything else. Their brain has so many things that's going on in their head that they're trying to, like, learn and develop. They wish they were in control. Like little toddlers, they're always being told what to do, how to handle stuff. Hey, you need to blow on it. Like, use this, not that. Wear this, not that, that. Go do X, Y, and Z. Here's the routine. Hey, we have to get going. No, we can't play right now. We have to do X, Y, and Z, blah, blah. Like, they're always being told what to do, and they want their own independence and feel like, when I'm reading about, they're trying. They're learning to stand up, testing what works socially, seeing if their voice. They feel like they have a Meaningful voice. They want it to be heard. So you're, like, hearing. You're like, all this stuff is happening in real time to where the development is apparent. Parent, you're kind of challenging yourself for it to kick in and stay poised, stay in the pocket, to not, like, lose yourself or lose control, because you have to empathize with what their little brain is going through, all these big emotions, and they want to be in control of their life, too, and not be told what to do from mama and dad all the time. So as you're listening, it's like, I very much have that young will, like, in my head as it's going on. If I wasn't a parent, I would fully be what you were fully feeling. Because you think, like, this is how my old man would have handled it. This is how my parents would have done it, right? Yes. And, like, as we're growing as parents and trying to challenge ourselves to, like, learn new things on how to be intentional and present and are we doing our best right now? We're trying to do our best. And it also makes you reflect on all the stuff that you had when you were a child and what your parents did. Well, what now you feel like you're learning as a parent? Like, man. Man, my dad or my mom wasn't equipped in this way. I feel like now, because I'm sure the generation before them handled them in a much different way. We have so many more resources and literature and things that we can source now and look to for, like, guidance, advice, things to try that I don't feel like our parents had back then to where it was different for us. So it's like, you know, all those old ways of how we were. My dad would tan my ass if I'm making a sense, seen in public. And I might be older. Maybe that's how I go when she's older. I'm just kidding. But you know what I'm saying? Does that make sense?

[E]

100%. It's very profound. I'm gonna make an edit of the. The complete sides of Will Compton from, like, he's talking about, like, the most mature and philosophical way of parenting. Like, these things that I'm like, man, that is so smart. And I'm gonna find you just farting, and we're gonna go back and forth. That will be in the pipe pipeline.

[B]

Just all the guy humor that I love.

[A]

The many sides of William Compton, William Earl iii, and two chefs. I loved Chef's Question because I. I was going to ask something similar, and what I was going to say earlier that I forgot to say is knowing you and knowing that pool story where you ripped R. Where it got to a point where it was like, okay, Rue, we're going home and you're not talking to your mom like that and blah, blah, like, like in your brain with your upbringing and everything that's important to you morally, all that stuff. You are not going to raise a brat.

[B]

You won't.

[A]

You are not trying to raise a brat. You're not trying to raise a kid that's going to be off the rails. Like, you are going to do a good job of trying to create those guard rails and aim Rue in the right direction of where she needs to head had growing up.

[B]

And.

[A]

I love where your head is at and your instincts and the strategy that you're taking on this situation. I just wanted you to hear that.

[B]

I appreciate that, bro. That is ultimately the goal. I think every parent's like, man, you don't want to raise a brat. You don't want to raise, you know, a sassy ass kid. You don't want to raise an.

[A]

And you're not, you're not being. There's probably times that you are being too soft, whatever.

[B]

Like, like your boy is soft. Now.

[A]

We all make mistakes and we don't do the right thing in right situations, but it is good to know that you do have that place in your head of like, you know, the limit of where it goes to and you have the ability to nip it in the butt and be like, unacceptable. That's not happening. So what I'm not worried for you, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

[B]

Yeah, more like, more like creating conversations.

[A]

Creating a dialogue.

[B]

Yeah, creating a dialogue. Dialogue with the, with the PT sick, with the PT sickos out there, with the parents out there that could be going through the same stuff and thinking all the same things that could absolutely have all the same goals and same like, practices and doubt in those moments to where we're sharing, we're sharing experiences, they're giving feedback. You know what I mean?

[E]

I would say that what the reason you raised that question and the reason you do this podcast is like the ultimate side of. There's a true intentionality there. And that's something that I think probably that's the first step of like, you're already probably beating out a lot of people and not saying it's a competition, but like the idea that it matters enough to you that you put that much thought into it and to really take time to think about it and take a big step back. Yeah, Says a ton.

[B]

I Hope it's all PT6ers out there, baby.

[A]

Hey. And I am very excited to bring up my be in the trenches. Okay. I'm very excited to see the PT6ers in the comments and what they say about that question that you propose because I put on Twitter my in the trenches is Scarskar's diaper situation. The size ones are too small.

[B]

Oh, I did see you put that out there.

[A]

The size twos are too big. And I put out this tweet and it was one of my very first tweets. I went past the restricted amount of text. I wrote a book, and I was legitimately like, this is not for likes or comments. Like, please tell me what people have done. And dude, pt6 came in clutch. There was like 30 replies. And so first off, a huge shout out to PT6. And secondly, I came to Jill because of course, Jill and I are having this conversation. That's why I put it on Twitter, because I'm like, jill, we can't be. We use coterie. I was like, we can't be doubling up coterie because one, those diapers are already expensive, and two, now they're going twice as fast because we're doubling up coteries at nighttime. That can't be the solve. Like, there's gotta be something else. Put out that question. Resounding, hey, nighttime diapers. Overnight diapers. Overnight diapers. Nighttime diapers. Gotta do it. Sure. I'm sure. Use this company. Blah, blah, blah. I read those to Jill and it started opening her mind a little bit of like, yeah, we could do that, huh? Blah, blah, blah. And I didn't say anything, but I saw on her story this morning, on her Instagram story, she had a looking to get some nighttime diapers. Does anyone have brand recommendations? So MT6 and PT6 in my replies. Thank you. Because you helped us like, like, move in a direction. I can't wait to see it fixed. Because, I mean, Scarskar is sleeping great. But we're having to wash these Merlins every single morning because they're just covered in bead. Yeah, she's wearing a diaper. How's this happening?

[B]

Shout out PT6. And by the way, PT6 was ready last week after we talked about the hater coming after you.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Honestly, within, like, within an hour or two, the episode dropping people like, hey, reporting for duty. Where's he at?

[A]

I found the comment. Comment. The guy's name was like, David we or David way. I found the comment And I wanted to do like a meme edit and stuff for it. I can't find it. Did he delete it?

[E]

I looked too. He deleted it.

[B]

Oh, he deleted it. He deleted it.

[A]

Before I could screenshot it, he backed off.

[B]

Damn. You know what that says though? I don't know.

[A]

I don't.

[B]

Were you guys able to go back back to that comment whenever the podcast came out? My thought is people when they listen to the episode or watch the episode.

[E]

Was his comment on this is before the episode dropped.

[A]

He deleted it instantly.

[E]

I remember I found the post. I'm like this has the 100% of the post. Look through. It's gone.

[A]

Your comments gone. His comments gone. And it happened before the episode dropped. So even after our conversation we find it for the show gone. Either he had a change of heart.

[E]

Or he saw something.

[B]

Really? See, yeah, because I'm thinking if I responded to him eventually, other people would probably see it and go in and maybe he's going back and forth with a couple people to the point to where it's like I'm deleting this.

[A]

I found it. I clicked on his profile and I too laughed because this was right after we recorded Chef nailed it on the head. His bio was legit. Like a spread positivity because you never know when your friend needs it the most. Like something like that. And we had a mutual on Instagram we had a mutual and it's a guy that I know pretty well and I kind of want to reach out to him and be like yo, you know this cat?

[B]

We need to put him on notice for hey, what's going six Salivating for a mission right now.

[A]

This your boy?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he would tell me too because I'm buddies with experience game day in all its glory.

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[F]

Hey, everyone. Ed Helms here.

[A]

And hi, I'm Cal Penn, and we're the hosts of Irsay, the Audible and Un iheart Audiobook Club.

[F]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[A]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy. You got a little call in first.

[F]

Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that, but are you sure I'm not the dad? I. I'm not Mr. Bennett. Here, listen to earsay the Audible and iHeart Audio Book Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[A]

Funny.

[B]

Yeah. I have a.

[A]

So it wasn't a burner. It was actual guy.

[B]

I have a. I have a dad loss. My dad loss is this sitting in the pocket as a dad. And your toddler is just all about wanting to know if it's mom's turn to put her to bed. You know what I mean? You just take these hits, bro. Or it's like, hey, in front of me, mama's it your turn to do bedtime tonight. Oh, it's Dad's tonight, but I want you to do bedtime. I'm just thinking, yo, I'm standing right here, bro. And to where it's like, she has a couple more things that goes beyond dad, dad. Like, no, I want mama to do it. No, I want mama to do this. And I'm just like, all right. And Charles sees it on my face. Like, I'm not, like, reacting in a certain way. I'm just like. She knows I'm thinking like, dude, come on, like, give the old man some love. Like, your dad like, we're homes, bro.

[A]

Have you ever seen, like, I don't just.

[B]

I don't just come home or, you know, know.

[A]

I'll.

[E]

I'll actually. Because I. This is the one thing I might have experience in, so I'm going to jump in here. Little kids and toddlers say some mean stuff they do in front of you. I was a. I worked an after school program through YMCA in Knoxville when I was in college. And so I went to Rocky Hill elementary every year or every day when kids got out for kids that parents couldn't pick them up or bus. Bus routes didn't get to them. And, man, not intentional. I would get little Eleanor sitting there. She goes, have you always had a gap in your teeth?

[B]

Teeth?

[A]

No, El.

[B]

We.

[E]

My retainer. Thank you, El. Parents told me the same thing in seventh grade. But anyway, I want to throw that in there. Have y' all ever feel too bad? Well, I think it's just. They don't even know, but it's a.

[B]

Loss that a dad feels in their body when they're, when they're. When they're little one. Like, you know, they have a strong relationship with them. And it's like, yo, is it mom's turn to bed? Like, yeah, bro. You know, I'm sitting here, I'm looking at dad lost mom versus dad bedtime routines. Does your child respond differently when dad puts them down or versus mom puts them down? Like, does mom and dad have different bedtime? Because I'm thinking, bro, we rip at bedtime. Yeah, like, we have fun at bedtime.

[A]

Dad kind of sick with it. With the bedtime.

[B]

Yeah. That is nasty with bedtime routine. Like, we'll play games. I mixed up games. Hey, let's race to the bathroom to brush our teeth. Sometimes daddy lets you skip a couple things. Mama's out there listening right now. Like, what the. Oh, this is why she brings up, can I brush my teeth and brush my hair in the morning? Yeah, because Dad's like, oh, you want to go to. You want to fall asleep? We gotta brush your hair and brush your teeth in the morning.

[A]

Now, Bruce been asking me to read eight books at night. Yeah, that's just something new we've been doing. Been reading eight. You know, I do.

[B]

See, I'll lock her into two. She got me on three the other night. But also, bro, I get in and lay in bed with her every night. Like, when it's time, like, when we hit the books, we. Yeah, on a regular night where it's, you know, we'll read one Book. Then brush your hair, brush your teeth. We'll get back in bed, we'll read another book. And then when it's time to come off, she knows it's dead at Dad, I scratch my back. Dad, I give me a massage. Like, I lay in bed with her every time I do bedtime. We. We switch every night. And every time I'm in bed with her and I'm scratching her back and, like, rubbing her arm or giving her a massage every night until it's like, you know, she's, like, tired. I can, like, rub her face and hair to where she's, like, falling asleep. And I'm kind of like, you know, giving her. Giving her the hand stroke on the side of the head. And I'm like, all right, bedtime. She gives me a hug, kiss, three squeezes. One, two, three. I love you. And she'll, like, keep her eyes closed through. And she knows it's bedtime. She's asleep. She's passed out. Then when mom does bedtime, at the end of every time mom does bed, it's like, that is that. That has got to come upstairs and do the final. Put in the. The last infinity.

[A]

You're the closer.

[B]

I'm the closer.

[A]

Bring in the scratch.

[B]

Yeah, I'm the scratch. The back closer. Like, I'm scratching back every now. I'm like, bro, we rip at bedtime. Why is always, like. You act like I'm torturing you when I do bedtime, then I know the answer.

[A]

She wants both of y' all to do it.

[D]

That.

[A]

That's it. If you're going in there every night, no matter what, she likes it when Charo does it because she's getting both parents. That's all it is.

[B]

You might be right.

[A]

It's not that you're. She's not as good, like, because she.

[B]

Does it better time. I'm like. I think in my head, like, bro, bro, we have fun at bedtime. Like, why is it always going to be mama and you kind of.

[D]

Her.

[B]

Her and mom have such a unique relationship to where it'll be like, the whining and arc to where Charles. Like, I don't see why she's always wanting me to do bedtime all the time. Like, she sits there and whines with me, and she makes it hard on me.

[A]

Yeah. All right.

[B]

We might got it. We might have. Don't know. Might have gotten cut off there for a second. Soundboard crashed on us for a moment. All good, though. We are getting into our hot. We are getting into our Our. Our hotline, our voicemails this week. 601 the dads. If you want to call in and be featured on the show. Yes, we do have a couple this week. We're going to hit the. We're going to hit a couple voicemails, maybe read you an email and get on the way. We got to keep it under an hour. I think we're over an hour. We got to figure out a way to get going back under and we got to. Yeah, we got to get it going. We got to get it going.

[A]

Got to get it going. 601 the dads. Gmail.com too, for our international listeners. First comment or first sorry. Call in. What up, gentlemen calling from Meansfield, Texas. Not only did my 8 month old start calling this week, but right before I making this call, as I'm walking out the door to go to work, open the door, take a step outside. I hear the most beautiful thing I probably could have ever heard. And that was dad, dad. And I was like, what? Like that, dad, dad. As I'm walking out the door, first words and man, I couldn't be.

[B]

That gases me up.

[A]

Thank you guys, man, just for all that you all do. I hope, man, just y' all have a ton of success in doing this and man, I'm. I'm forever grateful.

[B]

THEY SHOUT OUT Isaiah from Texas.

[A]

Isaiah from Mansfield, Texas.

[B]

Mansfield, Texas, at that Very close to Alita, Texas.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Y' all ever play them you to be dead ass?

[A]

Just a little bit.

[B]

No.

[A]

Just a little bit.

[B]

We like to have fun on the show.

[A]

We like to have fun on the show.

[B]

We beat your ass. But we're just kidding.

[A]

We're. Hey, Isaiah, listen, I'm excited for the first words being dead, but we did back in the day. I personally never played Mansfield, so I can't say I did.

[B]

But Sherman, listen, we go through this all the time. Stay patient, stay in it, stay proud, present. But the moment you get the crawls, the moment you hear dead at for the first time, it is a joy and love that is experienced where the whole parents just telling people who don't have parents. It's like, man, just wait till you become a dad or wait till you become a parent or it's like indescribable. The feeling that you have because you feel like you've tapped into a new feeling. Like a secret sauce that people can't experience until you experience it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like what makes parenthood great because people see the chaos and everything else and get deterred away from it and it's just like, man, it's moments like that that just feel you with something different that you just can't describe. Shout out. Isaiah, thank you for the phone call, bro.

[A]

Thank you for the phone call, Isaiah. Very excited for Scarlet's first words. That's going to be epic.

[B]

Ask me r first words.

[A]

What were r first words?

[B]

Dad. Ask me Scotty's first.

[A]

What were Scotty's first words?

[B]

Dad. Dada.

[A]

Ask me Scarlett's first words.

[B]

What's Scarlett's first words?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, hopefully. Yeah, hopefully.

[B]

Hopefully it'll come. They say the hard consonants are better or easier than the soft ones.

[A]

The tongue and the teeth come before the.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So.

[B]

And then you sitting there hitting a.

[A]

Well, she's already kind of there because she spends most of the day with her. And then when dad comes home from work, Scarlet's.

[B]

And that's. It's a. Trust me. It's a tough. You gotta have the empathy. It's a tough L for mom.

[A]

It's a tough L. Jill's like, she didn't do that all day for me.

[B]

Cuz they like. We just. We know that moms, they go through it. They're in it a lot more than that. That doesn't mean the dads don't have their own gritty work, their own intentional work presence in the entire scheme of things. But it's a tough L for mom to swallow when it is. When dad. When dad. Dad gets the love.

[A]

And so I'm soft on it. I. I'm not sitting there showboating, doing anything when, you know, I get the smile. Scarlet had her first laugh yesterday, by the way.

[B]

Start getting on that changing table. Start giving them the noises on their tummy, the tickles going on. Oh, yeah. Go. You crave it, bro. Yeah. The. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Dude.

[B]

The anticipation you create.

[A]

Uhhuh.

[B]

In those moments when you start kind of tossing them up a little bit. Oh, one, a two. Just to kind of see their smile because they know three's coming. They're about to get tossed in the air.

[A]

Scar and Jill. I will never toss Scarlet. Ever.

[B]

No. Never toss the babies around. You toss that little bit.

[A]

She already like, when I lifted. Yeah, we're getting there. Baby steps.

[B]

I test it out by. Instead of like, throwing them in the air, it's just like, I'll go a little faster. Ascending in the air. Yeah. Yeah. With Scotty aversion be like, all right, you're not ready for the show yet. You're not ready for prime time. Okay. Baby giraffe.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Mom ain't see that. All right. You can't handle this yet.

[A]

Oh, my God. We have our second call in. Here we go. What's up, boys? I'm currently on the way to the hospital with my wife.

[B]

Say hey, wifey. I think she's in the middle of.

[A]

A contraction right now.

[C]

I think.

[B]

I think she's.

[A]

That Yalls podcast has prepared me for the trenches. I'm looking forward to the trenches.

[B]

By the way, this is Ben from Alabama.

[A]

Been from Alabama. I love it. It's like, hey. She's going. I think she's having, like, something that they called, like, childbirth contractions. But, hey, I just want y' all to know I'm ready for my dad.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, we're on our way to the hospital right now. She said we gotta go. I thought. I don't even know what to call it. She's having something. She's feeling something in her stomach called contractions or something like that. I'm built for these trenches.

[A]

I'm ready. You guys are the best dads ever. You go make me the best. Hey, honey, Say hey. Like, truly, bro, the fact that she had a good attitude about that is electric. Yeah, we got a high from a mom in contractions.

[B]

Yeah, don't sleep on that.

[A]

Don't sleep on that.

[B]

Ben from Alabama. Roll tide.

[A]

Roll Tide.

[B]

Maybe. Maybe it's all or war Damn War dam. Yeah. Or.

[A]

Don't know. A little rtr. And I mean that as a compliment.

[B]

But if he's not, then he's gonna be pissed.

[A]

Yeah, but he just. He seems like a little Roll Tyrol to me. I don't know.

[B]

You keep saying. You keep doubling down, tripling down. You keep. You could be insulting him.

[A]

He seems like a war. And we'll cut this once he comments, but he seems like a war Damn Eagle guy. Yeah, that's what he seems like to me.

[B]

Hey, I am roll Damn. Todd, sweetheart, you want to say hi?

[A]

Oh, dear.

[B]

Boys, just listen to the episode. We're still at the hospital. Wifey's pushing right now. Sweetheart, you want to say hey.

[A]

It is. Get the off the as. She's screaming roll Time.

[B]

Ro Time.

[A]

Boy, she's screaming in the background, and it's wrong time. Come on, Bree, sweetheart, please, please call back in with an update. Let us know if you are for the crimson tide or you want to throw like, a UAB and just run through the Alabama Go Dragons. I mean, whatever, dude. Who's your team? We got a know. Did we get a name in that one at the end? Oh, that's right. Ben from Alabama. That's right, Ben from Alabama. All right.

[B]

Yeah. A few emails.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

At 6 or not at 601 for the dads. Gmail.com. 601. The dads read through a couple emails, hit the quote lesson topic, then we're out of here. Under an hour and we're out. Sorry, chef. Sorry, chef. Sorry, Chef. Sorry, Chef.

[A]

Jeff, I got a first one real quick. This comes from Lexi Morris. Hey, Will. And sure I'm proud member of Milk Team 6 here. I just wanted to reach out and thank you for being a bright spot in mine and my husband's week every week. We found out in June when our daughter was four months old, that his cancer had transformed and he was going to need stem cell transplant. You guys have made us laugh and cry. We're sensitive. And cml too. During his hospital stays for chemotherapy and on the Dr. To and from the appointments, he's been admitted for his stem cell transplant. So just have to shout out, my husband Michael. He's our. He's the proudest member of Papa Team 6. A fellow girl dad, and he's our hero in human form. Time for him to kick cancer's ass. Good Purple heart. Thanks again and can't wait to see the merch that Jill and Charo come up with. Winky face. Lexi.

[B]

M. Lexi. Thank you. That's heavy.

[A]

That's heavy.

[B]

That's heavy. I'm sorry you guys are going through do that. Seems like you guys are trying to handle it as well as you possibly can. Very much appreciate you taking the time to write that shouting out your husband.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Sounds like your husband's trying to keep as good of an attitude as he possibly can with the whole good mentality.

[A]

I can't imagine honored that we're even a small little silver sliver semblance of yalls experience of, you know, fighting cancer and coming together as a family. And.

[B]

And it's.

[A]

We're honored that we even get to be a small little sliver of that. Thank you.

[B]

That would be so hard to. To go through. Yeah, that'd be so hard to go through for the dads, the boys. We are all thinking about you guys.

[A]

Absolutely.

[B]

Our heart goes out to. To you both. Keep fighting. I'm hoping it's all uphill, it's all optimism from here, but that is tough, man.

[A]

They had it in quotations of time to kick cancer's ass, so maybe that's a little mantra that they got going.

[B]

Time to kick cancer's ass.

[A]

Come on.

[B]

Time to Kick cancer's ass. I got one here from Ben Waring. Ben Wearing boys, longtime UK listener of busing and day one for the dads over in Liverpool, England.

[A]

Come on, Liverpool.

[B]

How sick is that, bro? Liverpool, England. Day one for the dads. Long time listener busting with the boys.

[A]

Where the be are from the Bay Ooze.

[B]

Me and my wife have been trying to start a family for a while now without success. We got checked out a few years ago and realized that IVF was our path to becoming a family. Our first round didn't work out, which left. Which left us at the lowest point in both of our lives. Our second round started the week before you released the IVF episode with Will and Charo. And for those wondering listening who might be taking that same route, my wife and I did a busing with the boys podcast around Mother's Day of this year. If you want to go back and listen to to that. I made my wife listen to it and we both cried along together. Fast forward to now and we are currently expecting our little girl due on Super Bowl Sunday. My wife has taken the podcast as our lucky charm and we can't wait for Wednesday to roll around and we have another episode to listen to. Keep up the great work. Keep crying and keep taking out the trash. Trash. Cheers, Ben. Dude, it fires me up that round two worked out. And then for those that do struggle with infertility and have used the, the IVF method and it doesn't work out, there are, you know, you think about your story at times and how hard some of these moments are that you go through because all at the end of the day, all of our individual worst moments is are they are our worst moments. They what we, we have experienced the worst. When you begin to find perspective and hear other people's stories or fret, there are friends in our circles, a friend in particular, who wants to through I want to say around five rounds of IVF before they finally, you know, struck lightning in a bottle and got lucky. But you know, I, I know Troy and I story and our journey and how challenging it was in our world and we were lucky enough to be successful on our first try after trying for a while on baby number two. But it fires me up that round two worked. I can't imagine, you know, trying to start a family for a while now, to quote you, without success. Success got checked out a few years ago going the path of ivf. First round didn't work, which was at the lowest point of both of our lives. Mentally. I, I can only imagine how hard that was. But to see you guys, you know, strike on round two and have baby girl coming on Super Bowl Sunday.

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Come on.

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Shout out to you both Ben and Thank you for being a tier one on bussin and being a day one for the dads listener.

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Hey everyone, Ed Helms here and hi.

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I'm Cal Penn and we're the hosts of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

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This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

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You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy. You got a little call in Firth.

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Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that. But are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett here. Listen to Earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Thank you for writing in and thank you for sharing. I know that that's hard in five rounds, let alone one the that's awesome, dude.

[B]

It's so hard to when you think about it and you hear all the stories and have perspectives of everybody else, all the challenging things that people go through to have a child. And then you think like, man. Because Rue, it was like a. It was the first time. And you don't know. You don't. It's like you take it for granted because then we try and having Scotty, and then we had to go through the IVF process and everything else. And you kind of take for granted how lucky you are, because when you're growing up, you just think, oh, it's quite simple how this process works. Yeah, one plus one equals two. And then you hear all the stories and your friends going through stuff and everything else, and then you just realize, like, oh, damn. Like it is. It is tough to have a child these days. It's a miracle when you do have. When you do have a kid.

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Yeah, I got another one. Christian Marquez wrote in. So Christian said, I want to preface this by letting you know that. Oh, well, essentially he got the idea from the pod that he'll be sending emails to himself as, like a journal. We've talked about it a little bit. And so he wanted to say thank you guys for the idea. And then this is one of his journal entries that he wanted to share with us.

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Oh.

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Oh, yeah. I want to preface this by letting you know that I got this Google account idea from a podcast I started listening. Listening to. Ironically, a week before that, I found out I was going to be a dad. The podcast is called for the Dads, and they gave this dad hack to leave you emails and messages about the milestones you're going to experience in life. Shout out to Fat, Stafford and Willie, one shelf in parentheses. You won't get these references yet, but you will someday. Your mom was so very excited to tell me that you were coming into this world. I was coming home in the evening from running extra track practices for some extra minutes. Money. She was sitting on the couch with the smile that filled the whole room, and I went in to kiss her and give her a hug. After a long day, I noticed a basket filled with a positive pregnancy test, a onesie that said newest recruit for Team Marquez, and an I love you, dad children's book, as well as a dad hat. I was immediately excited. I knew from that moment on that this life I live is much bigger than myself. It opened my eyes to what truly matters. Faith and faith family. I now realize that everything I do is for the greater good of our newfound family. I promise to always do right by your mom and you. I have the privilege of being A father, thanks to you. This is an honor I will not take lightly. I will raise you to withstand anything life throws at your way with your chest out, head held high, and feet anchored in your disciplines. At that point, I didn't know you were going to be a boy or a girl.

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Girl.

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But I did know that you were going to be loved. The world is changing rapidly and will continue to do so. By the time you read this, in a world of constant changes, I know you will be sure of one thing. Mom and dad love you. I can't wait until I see your face and hold your little hands. You were already are the biggest blessing in my life. Second only to your beautiful mother. Love, dad.

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That's a teary eye one.

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Yeah, dude.

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That's good, bro.

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That's good.

[B]

Who is that? Who wrote that?

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That was from Christian Marquez. Christian.

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Christian. Good on you, my friend.

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Yeah, dude, that's a good dad.

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That juices me up.

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I. I will not lie. I. I read this before so I would not cry on the podcast on you.

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That's phenomenal.

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I teared up the first time I read it.

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That's really good. That fires me up.

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Shout out, Christian. And I know that, like, it's fun for the new dads because there's a lot of stuff that I'm sure I tell stories and you're like, oh, I've been there. I know what Sherman's feeling. But the. The thought of like holding the hands for the first time. Time and oh, my God, it's just as good as like, you think it's going to be just Scarlet. This morning we put her in our little king size bed and she's just gripping my finger, sitting there going, you're real. Like you're here.

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Yeah.

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Shout out you, Christian.

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Shout out you, Christian. Just imagine one day when the inevitable happens and they're an adult and they're reading that. Oh.

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Oh, that's gonna be so sick.

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Yeah. That is really cool, man. I have one here from Logan Sullivan, Will Sherm, Chef Derek Logan from Texas here. I've been a tier one with bus with the boys for years now. Will and I's fatherhood journey has always followed the same timeline. And In April of 2022, we had our first child, a perfect baby girl. Then two years later, my wife and I were expecting our second child in August of 2024. Four, which I think is around the same time as Scotty. Sadly, tragedy struck and our second beautiful daughter was still born. Oh, it is a pain like I never thought was imaginable leaving a gaping hole in our hearts that will buckle up fellow us leaping a gaping hole in our hearts that will never be filled. And now as I was listening to an episode a while back, Will brought up Will brought up Ruse imaginary friend Nelly, which is the name of our second daughter who is now an age angel man. And it broke me to the core. I'm a man of faith and I think that God brings people into your life for a reason. If they are at a distance and you watch them through a screen or listen to them on a podcast man. But Will just know your daughter has our angel watching over her. It. It's been a long and hard road, but my wife and I were just blessed with our third child in July of this year. So I'm now dead of two girls and one boy. One just got to heaven a little sooner than we did. Boys, don't ever let a moment slip by. In love with everything you have. I thank you so much for what you are doing with. For the dads. And don't worry, I cry with you guys Every week. Hashtag BD6MAN. Logan, thank you.

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That's a really sweet note from Logan.

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Yeah, it's. It's fascinating how the world works and just how the universe. It's like, you know when he talks about being on a similar journey and having kids or, you know, around the same age and the second one came around when Scotty did and a pain like I never thought was imaginable. Yeah, I. I can't even. You know, obviously we've experienced pain like visually on this pod before when I talked about my mom. Mom. And I know what that's like. And so it's like I sit here and empathize and try to put myself in the shoes of a family that goes through something like that. Like, I'm just imagining that with my wife. And to think like you came across this podcast and just the story of the imaginary friend of Nelly and no matter what.

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What.

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No matter. It doesn't matter. But thinking the universe is telling you something, that it's. That it brings that thought to you.

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Yeah.

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Is. Is incredible. And I don't know, man. Logan, I love you, brother. And thank you for sending that email in. That was. That was. I was like reading ahead when I was getting to the moments where I was getting emotional. I'm like, got.

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I. I rarely read the. The stuff before the episodes, but Derek showed me that email and then that one before the episode. And so as you're reading it, my heart was just gripping because I was like, dude, that note from Logan was like, truly just a. Such a sweet, sweet note, dude. So much like, love, love to them and their family because moments like that are special. And Jill had a friend pass away that she was very close with. And I forget the story with ladybugs, but there was some kind of moment with her and her friends with the ladybug. And forever ladybugs are now. That's nj, you know, And I'll even say it to Jill when, like, a la. A ladybug literally landed on our Winchester shield earlier this week. And I made that. I made that comment. And, you know, it's like when you.

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Experience, like, pain and. And loss, like, you just feel like you. You look around for anything.

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Yeah.

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That can help give you some closure. Yeah, absolutely. Anything. Your faith gets challenged. Your faith maybe gets better. Maybe your faith gets worse. No matter what, you feel lost.

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Yeah.

[B]

And you're just something. And to think that just an episode of Imaginary Friend Nelly is something that we can latch on to for pretty much ever. Right?

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Yeah.

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I don't know. That's. Thank you for sharing, Logan. I'm sure it was probably hard just typing that stuff up, man.

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Oh, we're. We're very lucky. The comments that we receive on the show or the DMS that we receive, whatever the case may be, be. Just want to again. I know I've said this a thousand times. Thank you for sharing. Everyone that has ever shared anything like that that hasn't been on the show, it just means the world that people are opening up like that and are sharing their deepest, you know, closest to the vast, like, emotions. It's.

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It's probably therapeutic.

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It's probably therapeutic. I know I myself, I don't feel worthy of. Of it, but, like, I feel so blessed to. To read notes like that, and it's just. It's crazy.

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Yeah.

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It's crazy.

[B]

Cool. Sorry. Yeah.

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But love you guys. And also, shout out Texas. Texas. Kind of representing this week on the call. Ins and the ride. Ins.

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Yeah, man. Quote, topic, lesson.

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Yes.

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What mine was this week was essential. Essentially a question for the audience. Not necessarily a. A lesson or anything of that nature. Essentially a question. Something that I think about a lot. But what is a value as a parent? And if this is a clip right now, just know my. My eyes are red because we cried on this episode. What is a value that you. What? What is a value that you would love. Love your child to carry with them throughout their life? That would be my question for everybody.

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I love that.

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More of. I'LL resay the question, what is the value that you would love your child to carry with them throughout their life? Because essentially, it's like, we have. We go through, like, core values with any team, any organization, any business. I know, my wife and I, we've. Sat down and done core values with the family that I know we know need to. We. We've made them. We made the core values. Charles made them into these awesome, like, photos that we can hang on the wall and stuff like that. But it's nothing that we sit there and revisit. And we both know that, you know, she'll. She'll throw it on me. And at the end of the day, there are things that you need to revisit, because values are basically the foundation for how you show up to the world. And so I think about that all the time with, like, Rue and, like, being a dad. And what values do I want to instill in my. My kids? And how can I harness them in such a way to where it's, like, repeatable? Not like I'm always looking for new values. I'm always going to be. And be curious of everything else, but what are a couple values that I. I truly hope my kids represent throughout their life? So I wanted to share that as a question so that way we can all think on it. You guys can chime in, in the comments. Write up something if you'd like. We'll read them on the episode. I would like to marinate on a couple, and then we can go through them. We can go through them next week.

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Week, absolutely. I. I just wrote it down on a card because I. I cannot wait for that.

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Yeah, just come with one or two. Obviously, we. There's. There's going to be a bunch that we hope our kids represent.

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Dude, that's going to be sick because there's going to be a lot of submissions on that. Like, that's going to be a lot of fun to go through. I'm excited. I. I also have a lesson of the week. That's quick. I can do it quick. I wrote it in narrative form.

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Form.

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I'll go ahead and just punch it out. This week's lesson of the week from Sherman is Block out the noise. I have two dogs at home. Wrigley Archewini, a chihuahua wiener dog. And he is all but 2 inches off the ground. Our second is a little schnauzer doodle named Goose. Wrigley needs a ramp in our house to. To go up and down our stairs to our master bed, bedroom, and then Goose, on the other hand, has the speed of an Italian greyhound and the buddy the bunnies of Mac McClung. Shout out, Mac McClung. He's one of the most athletic dogs I've ever seen and I grew up around a lot of bird dogs, so I've seen some pretty athletic dogs in my day on walks when I let the dogs off their leash and a big grassy field. Wrigley loves to go into bully alpha mode on Goose. He goes up and barks right in his face, making Goose wither up and fold to Wrigley's assert dominance. Goose will try to run and have fun in the field and show off his speed and his quick turns. But slow little Wrigley will cut off Goose, Goose's tight turns and angrily barking. Goose's face jealous of Goose's speed. Goose will immediately slow down again and hide and obey Wrigley's barks. But after two or three times of this happening, Goose will suddenly remember that Wrigley is half his size and needs a ramp to go up three measly steps of stairs and has triceratops elbows that don't to go above the speed of 5 mph. When that clicks and Goose's brain, he suddenly catches the second gear to his already cheetah like speeds and he will take off like a bullet, running full speed for hundreds of yards, rolling in the grass, cutting tight turns and coming up to his mom and dad, jumping almost to our shoulders just to say hello with a big smile. All the while Wrigley is left in the dust, barking and barking and barking from Frank further and further and further away, his barks growing more and more quiet as the wind is ripping through Goose's ears. The sun is shining on his face and his mom and dad are shouting in the distance, good boy Goosey. So just a reminder of. I know we brought up the comment the other day, which I didn't take offense to it, but I did think to myself like, that is a good reminder of like all the positive stuff on the show that we talk through and how much fun we have. A comment really doesn't, like that doesn't affect me because I'm so in this moment and this isn't me defending myself. This is more of like I kind of want other people to feel this way. Like I just feel so in this moment and this opportunity that was presented to me and like what an incredible thing the show is that like that comment doesn't really like stick and I feel like there's so much power in like not letting the noise get to you and like being able to press on and press forward and continue to be you.

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So much power in having your own power. So much power in like taking your power.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Or so you are caught up in it. It's, you know, hey, take back, take back the power. You have to block out. Block out the noise.

[A]

Yes. Or allowing like just being in the mindset of like even the like Fat Stafford comments. Like I genuinely enjoy those and like what a funny like fun thing that has become. And I'm literally going to order a Rams jersey probably later today and dress up as Fat Stafford at this zoo thing. Like, you're right though.

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There's such a, there's such a power in, in, in, in feeling comfortable in moments where you could easily feel embarrassed.

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Yeah. And just lean into what you excel at too. Like there's no better thing than why. I know I use the metaphor of my dogs, but like watching Goose rip like that is truly a sight to see. It's like, what are you doing? Let this little chi yapping it. He can't even touch you, Goose. When you get to your full speed, he's nothing. Go rip dog. Like you got it. So I just wanted the viewers to hear that and like whatever noise is got you feeling like this dude, just shut it out and move forward and, and be you and excel and have your moment in a big grassy open field with the embrace fun.

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Yeah, dude, embrace the fun for sure, bro.

[A]

Thank you. Thank you. I don't know how dad centric that is, but it just kind of hit me.

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How could it be dad centric? You you writing that. It shows how much you were in this certain moment and how much it's like everything else didn't matter. But you like watching your dogs and kind of writing that stuff out. I feel like for dads or for parents, there's so many stressors and things that go on outside of the house. House. And when you are at home, it's like being so present and in tune that you have some descriptive kind of write up like you just had because you know, it kind of shows that you are, you are in that moment and whatever the noise is, was, is not there. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Like you being present in that moment is what it's about. Dude.

[A]

That's really good too because I was not coming from that either of like being able to shut off other little parts of your life that might be. Be affecting you, but they're not there in that moment. That's a dude that's really good too because I, I have struggled with anxiety plenty of times. I mean that was a crippling thing like 2017, 2018 and yeah, just being able to like tell yourself like hey, that is, that is not what is pertinent right now. It's not important. And 90% of the time that anxiety or thought that you're having isn't even TR.

[B]

True. It's like an imagination. It's fake.

[A]

You're making it up. It's an assumption and you're stewing on it and rumigating on it and like just let it go. It's okay. Like you don't. That's a good job on that. Dude.

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Look around and embrace the beautiful weather we were having in Nashville, Tennessee. God, I hope everybody else experience experiencing some good foliage. Yes, I know Nashville, Tennessee is at the moment.

[A]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

[B]

Hey take out your trap trash. We love you. We appreciate you. Continue to engage. Make sure you are subscribed. Just double check for your boys. Consider subscribing if you are not pt6.

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Homework assignment don't forget your homework assignment. Value you want?

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Yes. Values. Come with some values in the comments. Yes. Love you guys. Take out the trash.

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