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Will Compton
Hey PT6ers, this is Willie One Shelf. You're about to listen to an automated ad read after this call to action. If you're on the Busing with the Boys audio channel. If you want to listen to for the Dads automated ad free, be sure to head over to the for the Dads channel and wherever you listen to us on audio. Enjoy this episode of for the Dads. The postseason is upon us and there's really nothing like it. But the postseason can be stressful. Crushing losses, wild upsets, your unhinged six game parlay falling apart at the literal last second. Things can get rough and it can leave you feeling a little sour. But you gotta look at the bright side. Once your team is out and headed to decompress, you can finally relax. Now you can actually enjoy the postseason with all of the heart palpitations. That's why we're partnering with Jim Beam. We want to help you turn that lemon of a loss into delicious, tasty Jim Beam and lemonade because it's really the perfect bevy for the offseason. It's refreshing, it's got the perfect sweetness and a little bit of tang on your tongue. Best paired with stress free watching when your team is out. So gather the boys and grab some Jim Beam and lemonade to make the rest of the postseason just a little bit sweeter. Refresh your season with Jim Beam and lemonade best enjoyed together. Please drink responsibly. Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 40% alcohol by volume 2025 James B. Beam Distilling Co. Clermont, Kentucky Ambitious, well intentioned,
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Amber Grimes
ferocious and wealthy mother looks like in the Black community this Woman's History Month the podcast Keep It Posit Sweetie celebrates the power of women choosing healing, purpose and faith. Even when life gets messy, love is not a destination.
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Sherm
You have to work on it every day.
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Amber Grimes
Keep It Positive Sweetie creates space for honest conversations on self worth, love, growth and navigating life with grace and grit, led by women who uplift, inspire and tell the truth out loud. I have several conversations with God and I know why it took 20 years to hear this and more. Listen to Keep It Positive sweetie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. It's the new me and it's the old them. Everybody's on their journey and your journey is different to theirs. This Woman's History Month the podcast, if you knew better with Amber Grimes, spotlights women who turn missteps into momentum and lessons into power. I think coming out of where I came from I'm from the Bronx. I think I grew up really poor. I didn't know that then because I very much use my creativity to romanticize life. And I'm like, my mom did a really good job of like, you step back and you're like, whoa, we. I don't know how we made it. So a lot of my life was like built out of like, survival to get to the next place. Like my drive, my like tunnel vision of like, I gotta be better, I gotta achieve this was off the strengths of like, I wanna make a better life for us. If youf Knew Better brings real talk from women who've lived it, unpacking, career pivots, relationship lessons, and the mindset shifts that changed everything. Listen to if youf Knew Better with Amber grimes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podc.
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Will Compton
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Sherm
which is a great way to get the family together to pregame for a little St. Patty's Day.
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Will Compton
Yeah, we love chalk and traditions. Weekly traditions, holidays, you know, it's a manual tradition. Just another one to throw out there.
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Sherm
Absolutely.
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Will Compton
We have a wide range of topics that we are going to talk about today. Ru and mom went to D.C. rue was very sad to leave Dad. I got to say internally I was like kind of stoked on how sad she was because it made me feel like, like, okay, I'm doing a. I'm doing a solid job.
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Sherm
Dang, you're going to be gone for a long time.
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Will Compton
You had a babysitter come over in game night. We have a lot and I have a, an awesome, an awesome newsletter thing that I came across on X that I'm going to read at the end of the episode from. Let's see here from Derek Thompson. It's three reasons to be a parent in the short little. Wow, the short little write up. The short little new newsletter was phenomenal. We're going to hit that at the very end, guys. We love building community. We have a show starter here about a little one being born from the release. This Release is at 6:00am this, this baby's coming out what, an hour after release. And it was not planned around for the dads. But my man here, Marcus session.
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Sherm
Yup.
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Will Compton
On Facebook. Yeah. Said he didn't hesitate to push for a Wednesday due date knowing that this pod dropped for the scheduled C section. So I'm just gonna read this to shout out, shout out the community please. Sending this message to Deke Sherman for the dad's pod because in typical new dad fashion I currently only have face have Facebook for social media. Cry laughing emoji boys been watching for the dad since day one. So it just happened that my wife and I had just completed Bud's training prior to the podcast launching. If there's new listeners out there, Bud's training is breeding until dad status. It's been a wild 38 weeks for us which included a kidney stone, some fibroid complications. Did I say that right? Fibroid. Fibroid, yeah, fibroid complications and multiple trips to the er. My wife has been an absolute stud throughout the whole process and God has kept our daughter safe, healthy and growing. Currently 7lbs 2oz at 36 weeks to be a unit just like her old man was good.
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Sherm
Good.
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Will Compton
All to say that I didn't hesitate to push for a Wednesday due date when scheduling our C section knowing that you boys always drop the pod on that day. It would mean the world to me and my wife Katie, Joe and what are and what will be our firstborn daughter Mia Everett to have a shout out that they will be able to revisit this for years to come. Our C section is literally scheduled for 7:00am on March 11th central standard. Yeah, central standard time. So my MT sixer that also doesn't miss an episode of the pod will more than likely be watching it for from her recovery bed. This community that you boys have created is exactly what dads and families need. A space that reminds us all to be present, intentional and authentic for our children and our partners. Marcus S Congratulations. Shout out. Mia Everett Coming into the world, I
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Sherm
was just about to say, Mia Everett.
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Will Compton
Hello.
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Sherm
Hi, Mia. Hi, Mia.
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Will Compton
Picture. I'm grabbing your. I'm grabbing your little hand right now.
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Sherm
Hear this right now. Welcome to Earth.
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Will Compton
Welcome to the four of the dads.
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Sherm
You're surrounded by people that love you. We're so excited to have you.
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Will Compton
Good stuff, man. That's awesome. By Marcus. Congratulations to you guys. That's just a glimpse. The way he. The way he summed that up with the community and being present, intentional and authentic for our children and our partners is exactly what this show is about. All while massively failing along the way. I think we can all say that Papa Team Six, all of us collectively, the community that watches this, we are an alliance. That this is also a lot about failing and learning from our failures and just wanting to be the best. Even though there's no barometer on what, like, being a great parent is, you in. You intuitively know how well I feel like you're doing most of the time. Yes. Because I have one here. And again, we read comments on this show, whether on social media, at, for the dadspod, Spotify, YouTube comments, anywhere else. Email if you want to reach out to us and be featured on the show, writing in, leaving comments, that's obviously the best way to do it. If you want to be a true PT sixer and call into our little hotline where you can vent, you can talk about a win, a loss at dad hack, put dads on game that we that we hit later in the episode. Our hotline number is 601 the Dads. 601 the Dads. You call in, you leave a voicemail. If you get featured on the show, we send you free merchandise. We send you a little dad care package. Papa Team 6 care package.
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Sherm
Come on.
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Will Compton
If you want to write a longer version, whether it's asking us a question or telling us a story, anything. If you've listened to this episode, you already know what I'm talking about. But if you're new and you don't want your voice to be on a hotline or. Or you are international and can't call on from, you know, call to a hotline on American soil.
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Sherm
Yeah, yeah.
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Will Compton
That number or that email is 601thedads@gmail.com. you can write in an email. We read emails, we read comments. We listen to hotline. We talk about our dad life, things that we're doing, things that we're going through, learning as a parent, learning as a spouse, growing pains, everything. We break all that down. We have a lot of fun. We think of it as dads just sitting around the garage having some cold ones, having some cold Ollie pop and
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Sherm
have a maybe, maybe making an off color Jo joke. So why.
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Will Compton
Yeah, we joke. We said a joke about Iran last week. Thank God there was no pushback.
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Sherm
So what we told the guy to drive safe, wear a seatbelt.
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Will Compton
Yeah. Yeah. But all to recall any dads that kind of forgot a little bit about last week's episode. We have some dad brain. Every now and then we had some fun little comments or we have some fun little comments.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
To read here. But just to talk about a couple PT6ers that tuned in last week. Noonan Podcast. This is a comment on YouTube from Noonan Podcast. As a PT6er who's a single dad, I needed the conversation on no last week. I struggle with my son when I tell him no and he gets upset. I need to do a better job of controlling my emotions, my own emotions during these tantrums. So that hopefully that sets a better example for my son to hopefully learn from them.
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Sherm
So that's solid, dude.
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Will Compton
That is solid.
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Sherm
Who. Who was that again?
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Will Compton
This is from Noonan Podcast.
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Sherm
Oh, it was another podcast.
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Will Compton
I apparently at Noonan podcast 7201 dude. Three days ago on our YouTube channel.
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Sherm
Hey, shout out. No free shout out.
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Will Compton
That's the game. Most of time is like, you know, you all. We would always love to go in perfectly. It's like crystal ball. We do a little bit of breath work before we walk into the house and we do a little bit of breath work before this tantrum comes. So we're, we're a thermostat. But a lot of times, you know, you can go sideways whenever it gets, it gets bad or it gets a little too long for your liking. You're kind of sitting there with them in their emotion and you're kind of being stoic about everything and then eventually it gets a little too long and you pop your lid as well. That's never a good thing. You use all your skills, you throw the toolbox at them with trying to help them and be with them and everything else. But a lot of times as a dad, you walk away from a situation, I know I do, where I'm sitting there thinking about how I could have handled something differently. You know what I mean? And yes, as I've talked about on previous pods where you circle back and do like a follow up conversation just to let her know. Like number one, it's like apologize if she feels like dad was being mean or you yourself for a Second, I did go a little sideways in that moment. And then explaining the reasons why. Here's how we can collectively, you know, make progress, like, going forward. Yes. You know what I mean? You're having, like a.
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Sherm
You're having, like everyone's.
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Will Compton
You're like a performance review with them. Yes.
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Sherm
Everyone's learning in that situation. It. The stadium. Pulse of a tantrum. I'm being introduced to it with Scarlett's cries and screams are getting very loud, and I'm already like, man, this is gonna be scary. When she knows how to formulate her thoughts into sentences with that volume and pitch. I'm gonna be in the chamber. I gotta be ready to go.
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Will Compton
Their little brains develop.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
Spoiler alert.
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Sherm
Their brains developer. Spoiler spoilers for new. New parents.
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Will Compton
It's like their think. They're. They're, like, thinking about everything. They don't have control over all their thoughts and emotions, obviously. Yeah. They don't know how to articulate them. And it comes out. It projects out as, like, tantrums.
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Sherm
Yes.
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Will Compton
If you can't adapt, distract and overcome. If you can't distract them, that's usually the best thing is removing them from a situation. Like going outside, looking at the birds, looking at the trees, getting the crying to kind of stop and then just kind of having a little conversation with them. Like, do you want to go back inside? Do you want to do this? Depending on what age that they're at.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
That's always. Usually been the best.
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Sherm
And that was distract. What?
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Will Compton
Adapt, distract, overcome. Tantrum happens. You have to adapt. Your perfect little child isn't being perfect in front of people in public to where you might be in your own head of like, man, what are people thinking? Obviously, you want to block out that noise, but you are now seeing a situation where you have to adapt. You have to adapt to your toddler. You have to adapt to your little one. You have to distract them. Distracting is the best toolbox that you can use. Staying calm, staying poised, staying in the pocket.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
Let's go through our progression here.
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Sherm
Yes.
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Will Compton
Let's adapt. Hey, there's an exit. Let's remove them from the situation. Let's just go talk to them. Get them. Calm down. Like I said, looking at birds, looking at trees, feeling the air. Oh, do you. The wind, whatever it is. There's a car. Oh, my gosh, look at that over there. Distract them, then you overcome the situation. Overcome the situation. If you have an older one, Rue being almost four makes me sadder every. Every, every day.
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Sherm
That's a big number Big number.
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Will Compton
Yeah. But Rue is one. Adapt. Distract. Distraction doesn't work as much because they have more of a grip of what their emotions and what their feelings are to where they're doing their best to articulate. Or Rue's a big solver. She wants things solved. She's very independent. She wants them solved immediately. So if something goes sideways and she wants it a particular way, she can get off the tracks a little bit. So the distraction with her is almost like distract. Removing her from the situation, getting down on her level, having a conversation with her and talking through. This is why it's okay to ask for help. This is why it's completely fine to fail at things or not. Like, that is tough. That is very frustrating. I know you want to get it right the first time. Then I'll bring up examples of her riding her bike or getting on the scooter or things swimming, things that she's gotten better at. To where there. There's. There was needed progress to take place before you could just jump in the pool. Yeah. To where you're kind of leveling with them. Like, hey, that is going to be hard. I know that didn't go the way you wanted it to, but when we go back in here, we're all good now. I'm sure, you know, you start labeling their emotions. They're probably embarrassed that they were crying in front of everybody.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
But you bring them back into the fold, and that is how you overcome a small little example of a situation,
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Sherm
someone that also needed to adapt, distract and overcome in a huge way. From our last episode is Trenton Klein's. Yeah, he's the 137 missed calls guy. Remember that one?
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
Yeah, I was the 137 missed calls guy. Voicemail on the pod today and wanted to give an update. So this is. This is live. Not only was I three hours away, but my wife was also coaching a volleyball tournament in Tulsa about two and a half hours from home. She's an absolute sicko. That's it. I forget how many weeks pregnant she is, but, like, she was literally about to pop. She is a sicko. She drove herself home at around 11pm
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Will Compton
of course she did.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
MT6 are just a. What you. You said what?
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Sherm
A sicko. She thought her water broke, so she was like, oh, I'll drive home really quick, make sure if it did or not. Then finally got a hold of him at 4am when the water actually broke. They both made it to the hospital. Luckily, they already knew that they had to do a C section because the baby girl was breach, so they planned it. As soon as they got on a call with the doctor and showed up, everything was good to go. Baby and mom are doing great, and we got to come home on Tuesday. Thank you all. Love you guys. That's Trenton Klein's.
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Will Compton
Thank you, Trenton, for the update. Two and a half hours away for a volleyball tournament.
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Sherm
That is sicko.
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
And Oklahoma does have some good geese hunting, so that makes sense.
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Will Compton
That is. That's a mentality of. I'm not adapting to the world. The world will adapt to me. Yes, sir. Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm going. I'm carrying. Oh, we got a volleyball tournament. I'm close to. To popping, like, Good.
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Sherm
That's, as you love to say. That's a thermostat. Yeah, that's a thermostat.
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Will Compton
Oh, water broke. Let's see if I make it back two and a half hours home for a drive. Like, good. I. I dare you.
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Sherm
Let's play.
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Will Compton
Let's play.
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Sherm
This little game I like to call is the baby coming or Not? Low stakes. Low stakes. I also have from Joe Thomas. You boys have been putting out the best soads yet these past few weeks. Appreciate the heads up for March 14th, which you so graciously brought up few days.
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Will Compton
Few days from now. If you're listening right now, a few
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Sherm
days from now, how many days away are we? So it will be three days.
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Will Compton
Three days.
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Sherm
Listeners are hearing this. That does involve.
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Will Compton
Let me just check the calendar. March 14th and Saturday. Oh, great day of the week that's remarked.
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Sherm
Great day for some grilling of steaks.
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
Whether you like to do a reverse sear. Maybe you like to do chef. I know. Love doing some steaks in the oven sometimes. Keep the juices in as long as possible.
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
On the steak.
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Will Compton
Yeah, I. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. Yeah.
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Sherm
On the steak. And then obviously, we know what comes after the steak. And I believe the steak is prepared by wifey as well. You do not have to practice that if you want to practice at the pt. Sick.
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Will Compton
Butter up.
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Sherm
Butter it up.
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Will Compton
Butter.
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Sherm
Butter it up.
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Will Compton
Do it.
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Sherm
Do it Chicago style. Yeah. Get some grilled onions on there. What's the one where they put the oyster on top of it? What's that called of the steak? Sometimes a Crowder cake on there.
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
A little surfing turf.
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Will Compton
Yeah. Hey, surf and turf.
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Sherm
That's a nice.
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Will Compton
Or maybe you like Pittsburgh? Is it Pittsburgh style?
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Sherm
The Pittsburgh rare.
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Will Compton
Yeah, the Pittsburgh.
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Sherm
Do you know what that is? They black and then it's just bleeding on the inside.
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Will Compton
Just quickly, just get it rolling.
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Sherm
Oh, yeah. So, yeah, steak and blowjob day is coming up. I put. I put on my wife and I's joint calendar. Good job, Joe. She will be 37 weeks pregnant at that point. Joe, that sounds ideal for you and your sweet MT Sicko.
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Will Compton
Hey, sweetheart. Look, I know you're on the trimester. I was listening for the dads. And you know what? You listen to it. You just let me know what your thoughts are.
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Sherm
I'm about to fucking puke. What is this from a podcast?
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Will Compton
Shut the fuck up.
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Sherm
Who is Willy? Oneself. What is a fat Stafford? Let's hope the stars align for your boy. Baby girl number two is due on 326, but she might come earlier. Any advice for the second kid and how to get my firstborn daughter to adjust to having a little sister? She has quite the sassy personality. This will be interesting. PT Sicko. PT Fit out.
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Will Compton
I feel good about this one.
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Sherm
I do too.
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Will Compton
This one feels in my. In my ballpark, roo. She's got a sassiness to her. Very much like. Very much like a firstborn. Type A, all things. She wants to be involved. She wants things to go her way. Yeah, you try and manipulate the game to make her feel like things are going her way, but second one coming in. What we did with Rue is making Rue a part of the experience, like making her a part of this. This newborn, this. This next child, next kid, Scotty. She is entering into our family. Rue, you are a part of this family. So when mama had Scotty, and we were sitting there with Scotty whenever we were bringing Rue in to introduce her to Scotty, and I know I've said this on previous pods, but my man's asking a question. So any new listeners? Anything for your second child. As I'm bringing Rue into the hospital room to check on mom, the entire goal is let's check on mom first, and then we will introduce you to Scotty. When Rue comes in the room, our. Our nanny was holding Scotty. So that way, mom is just laying on the bed by herself, checking on mom. Crawl up on bed, hug mom, check in on mom, be excited for mom. So that way, when Rue comes in, it's like you're. You know, we're dealing with very, you know, the developing brain.
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Sherm
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Will Compton
So we're walking in. The science or the research or the things that I was reading on this is that if your first one walks in and mom is holding the second one, this isn't like, across the Board. This isn't like, an aggressive opinion that I'm about to say. This is just what I was reading. I'm like, oh, that's fascinating. Like, I can get my. I can wrap my head around that. But your first child sees mom holding the second one, the first child, in their eyes and in their brain, they are your entire world. And now mom is holding the second baby. Not that they throw a tantrum, not that they get upset, but just building the foundation of what this is going to look like. The whole tribe, the new babies entering into our tribe. Rue was good. We wanted Rue to walk into where Rue was checking on mom first and loving on mom and checking Mom. Then we ask, hey, do you want to meet Scotty? And then Rue was like, all of us go over together or around the area together. Yeah. Meeting Scotty for the first time. And we're telling Rue, you know, we're. We're fired up for Rue and how she's going to be a great big sister, and you're going to love Scotty so much. She's going to love you. She's already been telling us about you, even though she knows, like, she can't talk or anything, she's been telling us about you. And matter of fact, Scotty got you a present for when we get home. We end up going out and buying. This was shout out to Stephen Shea. He kind of gave me this idea before we had Scotty and went out and got Rue some, like, jewelry from frozen something at Walmart.
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Sherm
Let's go.
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Will Compton
And so when we brought everybody home, the gift was sitting there. Oh, Scotty already got this sent in. And Rue opens it up so it seems like baby sister is giving big sister a gift already. Just to establish, like, the foundation and love and everything that's going on.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
With Rue, the dynamic of having your second one, the dynamic of having two kids. And a lot of times, like, a lot of our language when we had the newborn wouldn't be, rue, I'll play with you, or I'll get your toy, or I'll get your milk, or I'll do this thing for your first child. Hey, I will do that for you when I get done with Scott. Yeah. A lot of our language and verbiage would be, hey, if I knew I needed to feed Scotty and Ruse wanting me to play with her or get a toy or, daddy, can you get this? It would be, hey, Scotty, when I'm done feeding you, I got to help Ru out. Okay? When I'm done feeding you, I got to go play with Rue.
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Sherm
Yeah.
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Will Compton
And then I would lean down and tell Ru, hey, I just let Scotty know whenever I'm done with her that it's all, you know, I'm gonna play with you, or I'm gonna get you your bottle or whatever the thing is. But we would change a lot of our language, so it's not like we're diminishing Rue wanting our attention. And we're like, we can't right now. I have to feed Scotty. And they just. In their brain, they're seeing you. They're witnessing, like, damn. Like, I was the kid, or I was. I'm the one that you guys always mess with. And now this new kid comes in, and you're with her all the time. Yeah. Or you're telling me no because, you know I'm getting punched down because you're holding Scotty or because you have to do things for Scotty. A lot of our language would be talking to Scotty because they don't know what's going on, and you're just telling them, whenever I get done doing this with you, I'm going to go attend Ruth. Yeah. I'm gonna go tend to Rue.
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Sherm
Talking loud enough so Rue can hear and.
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Will Compton
Yes, exactly. Yeah. Rue is witnessing the dynamic going on. So those were, like, little things that we did when introducing Scotty, our second one, into our world as a family, when we're thinking about the same things you are, which is, how do we balance the dynamic? Or how's the first one gonna feel? Those were a few tools that we leaned on to kind of help us introduce Scotty into our family. And they're phenomenal together. Like, Scotty kind of bullies Rue, but Scotty, we'll.
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Sherm
We'll jump into it. But, dude, Scotty is so funny. Dude. With the way she plays.
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
We had a little play date. I'm sure we'll talk about it later in the sod. But her dangling stuff in front of you and then pulling it away from you.
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Will Compton
Yeah.
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Sherm
Was electric. It was like watching Will Compton play with Will Compton. It was. It was honestly incredible.
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Will Compton
She's fun to be around, but that would be. Those are things. I look back and I'm like, I'm really glad I learned those things, and I'm really glad we incorporate them, because it obviously challenges us, because, again, you're kind of making a lot of reactive decisions where they're. They're pulling at you. They're. People are needing different attention. You can kind of get in your own head, and then you just react. I'll get that in a second. I got to finish with your sister.
- [24:43]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [24:43]
Will Compton
For as like, I'm like, okay, I'm. I'm coming across these things. I'm like, oh, that. That does make sense to me.
- [24:49]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [24:49]
Will Compton
Like, let's try these. And then Troll and I are talking about them collectively. We're both kind of leaning on each other. Hey, I found this. You found this. I love that idea. You're kind of feeling like a team building out how you're going to, you know, grow this foundation for Rue and Scotty. Yeah. You're also on the same page with your wife. You're doing learning things with your wife.
- [25:06]
Sherm
And I'm sure with your wife, I'm sure that that exact same format of. With Rue for the introduction of Scotty will be the same way of, like, during big events of ruse. First time trying out for a sports team. And Scotty's old enough to, like, know what's going on and bring Scotty along. Of, like, we gotta cheer on big sister, and we gotta. This is about big sister. It kind of, like, creates that whole dynamic of we.
- [25:33]
Will Compton
We. Yeah, yeah. And then down the road, when Scotty's going through her first things and Rue's wanting to go to the playground or, I don't want to do this.
- [25:40]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [25:40]
Will Compton
And you're having those moments of telling her, hey, Scotty came to. Comes all your stuff. Like, oh, this is all. Like, this is how we go about. This is Scotty's very first time. And how did you feel when it was your first time and mom and Daddy were all excited for you? You felt good. Right. You are now part of this with helping Scotty. Like, she's very excited. You've gotten to do your first time or you got to do your ballet class, and we love doing it with you.
- [26:04]
Sherm
Yes.
- [26:04]
Will Compton
And that probably made you feel really good and really comfortable. And now we want to. We want Scotty to feel all the same things, all the same excitement. How do you think she would feel if her big sister had a smile on her face? Watching her, helping her? Not too much. Don't get out there on the dance floor with her instructing, yeah, yeah, yeah. But helping her and just being happy for it make her feel really good.
- [26:23]
Sherm
And, dude, I hate to jump ahead, but I think you're gonna have no trouble at all having Scotty be willing to help. Will you please tell the sickos about when we asked Scotty to help teach Scarlett how to crawl and what commence? Because that was one of the Best moments I've ever seen in my life.
- [26:44]
Will Compton
So on Sunday, we had a little play date with Scotty and Scarlett.
- [26:49]
Sherm
Very quick between naps.
- [26:51]
Will Compton
Eight months.
- [26:53]
Sherm
Scarlet's eight months.
- [26:54]
Will Compton
Scar. Yeah. Scarlett's eight months. Scotty's 15 months or 16 months. Scotty's actually. Shout out Scotty. She's 16 months. Today she's 16 months. March 10th.
- [27:04]
Sherm
Come on.
- [27:04]
Will Compton
So yesterday she was 16 months. But we're upstairs, we're in the playroom, and they're both sitting across with each other, you know, kind of playing with toys together. Scotty grabbing stuff or, like, trying to pull. And we're like, hey, we share. Can you give that to Scarskar? And she'd hand it over and give it to Scars to our. We're doing the whole thing where you're trying to.
- [27:21]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [27:21]
Will Compton
Do the whole shit. Scarlett is just fascinated with Scott. Scotty. She's fascinated to be there.
- [27:25]
Sherm
Obsessed with Scotty.
- [27:27]
Will Compton
And Sherman was telling me that they're trying to work on crawling with her.
- [27:30]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [27:31]
Will Compton
And, like, doing tummy time and doing all these things to where it's like, getting her up to her base, like, using her arms and using her hands and getting her up to her hands and knees.
- [27:38]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [27:38]
Will Compton
And so we're like, scotty, will you show Scarlett how to. How to crawl? And I kind of put Scott. Kind of put Scotty on the ground. Scotty, like, crawls a couple steps and then, like, stops, you know, and then does the whole stand up.
- [27:49]
Deke Sherman
Literally.
- [27:49]
Sherm
Literally the loudest grind of all time.
- [27:52]
Will Compton
And so Sherm takes Scarlett and lays Scarlet on her stomach. And we're trying to help her crawl. Like, come on, you gotta. You gotta get your hips up or try to push your. You know, try to push your legs to where her knees get upright. And Scotty walks. Just walks over there by Scarlett, too. She walks over there and she just starts grabbing Scarlett by the back of the onesie, trying to lift her up and then heaving.
- [28:15]
Sherm
Dude, like, full on both hands and trying to just.
- [28:19]
Will Compton
Yeah, like, around. Like around the waist. Like, grabbing the back of her onesie and, like, lifting it up to where the. The clothes are stretching. And then we're laughing like, hey, Scotty, like, give. Give Scarlett some space. Like, she's gotta. We gotta give her some space. And then Scotty would, like, walk back over and get to where her hand is around, like, her shoulder and around, like, the side under stomach, and she's trying to, like, kick and lift her up.
- [28:39]
Sherm
And. Bro, we explicitly asked Scotty before this. We said, scotty, Scarlett's trying to learn how to crawl. Do you think you can show her how to cross a. She totally received that message as a 16 month old from you crawls over to Scarlett and she said, scarlett's not crawling. So she's like, don't worry, I got this. Gets up and just is like, she's not getting her hips up. It was like watching Will try and teach somebody how to attack the egg up. She's like, get it. Get the hips off the ground. What are we doing?
- [29:11]
Will Compton
It was like watching Dane Gables had enough in his wrestling room and he's going and helping position. Position all the wrestlers on the mat.
- [29:18]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [29:19]
Will Compton
Scotty just again, just waddles on over and she's trying to take full control of the situation at grunting. Trying to like lift her up all around, like the hip area and everything else. Like, she's not getting too much where she like grabs her face or anything. That's what I'm sitting there being nervous about. I'm like, hey, Scotty.
- [29:33]
Sherm
He was being very. Which I. As a parent, I'm like, I. Bro, I got no problem. Like, Scotty even kind of fell on Scarlett at one point and Will was like, oh.
- [29:42]
Will Compton
I'm like, dude, every parent knows the dynamic. Whether you're with a great friend or whether you're around like a stranger. There's just. There's something going on that's happening in my brain to where we all know we do things differently. Even though we're all kind of aligned.
- [29:56]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [29:57]
Will Compton
On same things we want to happen with our kids. And when my kids, like standing over yours are grabbing or in my brain seeming invasive or getting to where she could like fall over her.
- [30:06]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [30:07]
Will Compton
Or like fall on her head. I'm thinking of worst case scenarios and thinking like, like, I don't want to just let this go and let this happen because I don't know how you're feeling in the moment. I don't know why anything's going on. So you're just trying to think your instinct is control your kid a little bit because we're trying to have like some manners.
- [30:22]
Sherm
Oh, of course.
- [30:22]
Will Compton
You have no control over what your little ones are thinking. Of course you're sitting there and you're both parents and you're standing there watching your little ones play or go at it. And both parents are kind of standing there like, where are any boundaries? This one seems a little bit more aggressive than mine. Like that parent's probably thinking, I wonder if this is okay. You're sitting there thinking, I don't mind this at all. Fault. But I'm like, well, does he mind?
- [30:42]
Sherm
This thing is, as an eight month old, Scarlett is a perpetual dough in headlights. Like, she. All she can do is sit up straight.
- [30:52]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [30:52]
Sherm
And smile. That.
- [30:53]
Deke Sherman
That right there, Will, was Vince Vaughn and Wedding Crashers talking about the dates. Is she happy? Am I at the date? Am I talking too much? Is she not talking enough?
- [31:00]
Sherm
Yes.
- [31:01]
Deke Sherman
Like the dad version of that.
- [31:03]
Will Compton
That is like the vibe. It's like you're sitting there. Do they think this is okay? I think this is okay. But I will. I won't let it be okay if I feel like you don't think this is okay, but if you think it's okay, and I think it's okay, and we just think if the worst case scenario happens and we're all okay with that together, we can allow that to happen. But if we don't want the worst case scenario that I'm thinking in my head to happen, then I can just. I can intervene and pull them off. But if you say to me, hey, I'm totally cool with this, I'm thinking, oh, I. I'm cool with this too. I just didn't know. You know what? Let him wrestle.
- [31:30]
Sherm
Yeah. Yeah. And I was the girl on the date that. That looked at that nervous guy and. And just said, hey, it's all good. It's all good. No matter what they keep saying, like,
- [31:39]
Will Compton
hey, it's all good.
- [31:40]
Sherm
I was like, I know you're concerned, and I appreciate that.
- [31:44]
Will Compton
I just know Scotty goes about her business with the reckless abandon. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, it's. We're talking about Pinewood Social she owns. Yeah, we were at.
- [31:55]
Sherm
I forgot about that.
- [31:56]
Will Compton
We had dinner on Saturday night with the boys, and for the first portion of dinner, like, I'm getting Scotty her snacks. Like, don't tell your mother. I'm feeding you all these snacks. Snacks. And you wouldn't even known. Scotty's really sitting there with us. We're chopping up, keeping up. Scotty's just like, on her best behavior, just having a great time. She's smiling. Guys are engaging with her every now and then. But then the back half, when she's kind of getting a little restless or she's done eating, she won't eat her chicken. I'm like, sweetheart, you got to stop eating fries and you got to eat your chicken. And we kind of let her. I. I pick her up, I let her out of her. Out of the high chair to let her kind of walk around Pinewood. Pinewood's an awesome spot here in. In Nashville. No free shout outs, but got a lot of space to walk around.
- [32:32]
Sherm
There's like, bowling and other.
- [32:33]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah. And Scotty's just having a great time walking around, kind of working the room, going around a wall. Not that far now. You can't, like, leave our site.
- [32:43]
Sherm
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [32:43]
Will Compton
Kind of getting on, you know, other people were fascinating and thinking she's adorable, but she's kind of, like, leaning on their booth. I'm like, scotty, hey, come over here. But she's just having a great time. Ryan's messing with her. All the boys are messing with her.
- [32:53]
Sherm
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [32:54]
Will Compton
She was a lot of fun.
- [32:55]
Sherm
The. The best part, too, of the saga of Scotty training Scarlett to crawl was Will then coming in and pulling Scotty off of Scarlett fully and being like, hey, too much guy. Too much, but appreciate you. And Scotty didn't break down into full tears, but she was letting you know, dude, you explicitly asked me to teach her how to crawl. She wasn't getting her butt in there, and now you're pulling me off of her.
- [33:23]
Will Compton
Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't make sense to me that she can't crawl. Like, can't all of us crawl? And you said, we got to get her going.
- [33:29]
Sherm
Hey, Scotty, teach her how to crawl. And what am I doing teaching her? And then you're pulling me off of her.
- [33:34]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [33:34]
Sherm
Like, she literally was like, ah, Ah. She didn't like it.
- [33:38]
Will Compton
She didn't like it. Great dad Hack. For over the weekend, I was solo with Scotty. Mom and rue were in D.C. for the weekend doing bar three stuff. Sightseeing, doing a lot of things on mom's end with bar three. And so a great dad hack is having the boys. I got a couple, obviously, play dates, things that burn time. I take Scotty to the coffee shop, burn some time there, take it to the playground, burn some time there. We did a play date that helps burn time before nap time, but also the boys. I con three of the boys from the shop to essentially help me watch her eat. Yeah. Because I wanted to get her out of the house. Let's go get some dinner. Was it just gonna be me and Scotty? I would. I'd be totally fine if it's just me and Scotty, but how can I also cross off a social aspect of. Of my life? Like, I. I haven't eaten at all or anything yet. Like one on one with Derek or gotten to know him outside of the shop.
- [34:25]
Sherm
Yes.
- [34:25]
Will Compton
I was hopeful. You Were going to be one of the guys to respond. But I reach out to all the guys who are are from that work with bus and I reach out to all the boys who were that I knew were in town.
- [34:34]
Sherm
Full chat.
- [34:35]
Will Compton
Yeah. Hey, meal on your boy who wants to come?
- [34:39]
Sherm
Oh, really set it up.
- [34:40]
Will Compton
It's gonna be an early dinner because it's basically gonna be. It's gonna be with me and Scotty. But anybody interested if you guys hit up, made a smaller group chat and basically told him I just conned you guys and essentially helping me watch Scotty while we eat dinner. But great dad hack out there.
- [34:53]
Sherm
Yeah, that is a good day.
- [34:54]
Will Compton
Hit off some friend stuff, Hit off some work stuff, Hit off some Scotty stuff.
- [34:58]
Sherm
Yes, dude.
- [34:58]
Will Compton
Get Scotty around people.
- [35:00]
Sherm
I went belly with BC4 my guy here with Scarlett. That was actually on Valentine's Day. That was our Valentine's Day date. A little daddy daughter date and. But dude, so easy and fun to just rip with a friend.
- [35:17]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [35:17]
Sherm
Like any parent that's sitting there that's like, I'm never gonna see my friends again. Oh, contraire. It's. It's very simple to go just grab a bite. I. I did grab a ollipop. Grab a drink. Like I'm a believer in that. I don't see anything weird in that.
- [35:34]
Deke Sherman
You didn't even need to. It was funny because like you texted the smaller group and said, haha, I've conned you into watching my daughter eat with me and all. I think all three of us were like, we kind of knew that.
- [35:44]
Sherm
Like we kind of assumed there was something else here.
- [35:48]
Deke Sherman
But like that's. We. Yes, we want to go with you.
- [35:52]
Will Compton
It was just so funny.
- [35:52]
Deke Sherman
He was like, I got all of you guys. And we're like, all right.
- [35:57]
Will Compton
We were totally cool within the beginning. We kind of knew where we were signing up for or you said free meal though, right?
- [36:01]
Deke Sherman
Yeah.
- [36:02]
Will Compton
You're getting the check, right? Yeah.
- [36:04]
Sherm
Oh my God. I was in. I was texting back and go, oh, it was with Alex. And I was like, damn, Will's having everyone out to eat and I'm gonna miss it. And Alex is like, oh, it's great. Oh, he just said that he conned everybody into watching Scotty. She goes, that sounds even better. Like what's the. Doesn't sound like a drawback at all.
- [36:21]
Will Compton
And I was like, yeah, it was a lot of fun, man. Like, it fired me up. Coming in the next day and some of the boys were talking about how fun Scotty was and everything else. Because again, like, as a parent and you, you just think in terms you don't want to be. I don't know, you don't want to annoy people with your kid. And I know that's a fake assumption. That's a fake fear that we all make up. But you're sitting there, it's like, you know, number one, it'd be fun to go out and socialize, but you don't want to sit there and annoy people with all the things you got to do with being a parent. And I, I sound, now that I'm saying it out loud, I sound ridiculous. I sound ridiculous saying that. Yeah, ridiculous.
- [36:57]
Sherm
Unless you're like, that type of guy that's like, I or gal of like, I really hate babies. I really hate small children. Why in the world is my friend asking me to hang out with them? I don't see who would not be, like, down and cool to hang that you.
- [37:15]
Will Compton
I wouldn't already know going into asking the question. I know they don't really care to be around or they don't for whatever reason, they want to draw a line.
- [37:22]
Sherm
And I don't want to be no kids.
- [37:24]
Will Compton
Yeah, no kids.
- [37:25]
Sherm
Which there are those no kids situations, obviously. Like, hey, we're doing this big golf trip. We're doing this big hunting trip. And then you roll up with, you know, Scarlet on your chest. They're like, what in the world?
- [37:38]
Deke Sherman
Shout out. You got a shout out from Demon. Because de. We were sitting there and Scotty was kind of operating and, like, ran over to another family and this and that, this and that. And I believe the words Jared said were, like, hanging out with Sherm so much. Like, I'm so much better around babies now, really. We were just all talking about, like, our comfortability with, like, children and things like that. And he was like, like, yeah, I don't really get babies, but, like, scar, scars help me get babies. Really get a Nice shot.
- [38:02]
Will Compton
Demons. Demons. 24. And when he explains some of that stuff, like, being around Scarlet and everything else, I'm like, buddy, I'm with you. Like, I completely understand where you're coming from. Before I had my kids, like, I wasn't a big baby guy. Not that I didn't like babies, but anytime they wanted me to hold them, I was always very nervous to hold kids. I don't know how I didn't have, like, like, you know, any game with, like, talking to the child. You know what I mean? Yes to where I do the little baby voice. And I, I, I, I never felt Comfortable doing it around people or, like, operating with kids. I was like, I was the same way as you. Obviously, I'm a parent now. So you. You're. You're way more comfortable. You have way more fun. It's kind of like, open your eyes. Like, man, it's weird how much I was just kind of uncomfortable around babies. But I wasn't a big baby person whatsoever until I had Rue.
- [38:47]
Sherm
I feel like, naturally people from birth to, like, probably around, like, ruse age, because ruse, like, really out and about at 3, almost 4, like, they just kind of only do stuff with the family or they're only doing stuff at the house. So, like, you don't really just run into a bunch of newborn babies, all that.
- [39:08]
Will Compton
True. And if I think back to me growing up, like, my dad was an only child. We lived in St. Francis county, where my dad's parents, my grandma and grandpa, that I were talking about a couple episodes, those are my dad's parents. So we grew up around. My dad was the only child, so there was no uncles like my mom. She lived away. Her family's kind of scattered across the country. Yeah. But I didn't grow up around, you know, aunts and uncles or there's new kids coming into the fold. Like, Wyatt is six years younger than me. So by the time Wyatt was born.
- [39:36]
Sherm
Is she the next oldest?
- [39:37]
Will Compton
No, Cody. Cody's a year below me. So the two of us, and we were a great apart. And then Wyatt was the youngest, who's six years younger than me. Me. So you know that I just. We were never around babies or kids. Like, some of my. Like, one of my best friends, Logan, they were. There were like 12 of them. So he was always very good with babies. A couple different marriages, and ultimately there's a full 12 of them. Summer step. Summer step siblings. So he was just always comfortable because he's around the house and operating with a newborn or whatever it is to where he was always comfortable. But I just didn't grow up around. Around where there's kids everywhere. And I just knew what to do all the time. Yeah.
- [40:16]
Sherm
Yes. And thank you for sharing that. That's actually really cool to hear from Demon and an St. Sicko. Yeah.
- [40:22]
Will Compton
He still thinks raising a dog is the same as the kids.
- [40:26]
Sherm
There are those people again, and there are those parallels. I'll give them that.
- [40:30]
Will Compton
Yeah. My parents got a Conan named after Conan the Barbarian, a rottweiler who they trained and did all this stuff. They spent a year with Conan before they were doing that to trial, before they had me before they had their first kid.
- [40:44]
Sherm
Right on.
- [40:45]
Will Compton
So some people do think in a way, like responsibility of a dog. Because there are a lot of responsibilities.
- [40:49]
Sherm
There are a dog.
- [40:50]
Will Compton
Then when you become a parent, you almost laugh at the dog people. But I. I completely get. It's like you sit there and try run a dog. We had Waffle before we had Rue. Yeah, Waffles. You know, she's pretty low maintenance. She's a bulldog.
- [41:00]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [41:01]
Will Compton
But there are those parallels.
- [41:03]
Sherm
I like to those dog people. People that. That equate it to having a baby. I will say this. If you are raising actual puppies like you. You get that dog when it is a puppy and you're having a housebreak and stuff. I do think it's a good training tool of like throw yourself into some suck.
- [41:22]
Will Compton
Absolutely.
- [41:22]
Sherm
Like if you're.
- [41:23]
Will Compton
Get ready for that Sixer. Do you have a dog Chef girl.
- [41:28]
Sherm
Pseudo. I'm like a stepdad to Michael.
- [41:30]
Will Compton
Okay. Stepdog dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dog stepdad.
- [41:34]
Sherm
Yeah. Two cats.
- [41:36]
Will Compton
But if you're a semen team sixer and you don't have a whole lot of responsibilities going on to where you might have a job or you might be going to school or whatever it is. Absolutely. You want to get into what the world of responsibility. Not saying you don't have responsibilities, of course, but if you're caring for a little puppy, like that is going to break you. It's going to make you think about how you structure your weekends, how you kind of structure your day to day. Because you do have to map out what a routine looks like to where it does pull from you in other angles where you're like, I have this dog. Dog. I have to think about my dog. My boys are going out of town. Who am I going to get to watch the dog? I gotta start thinking about all these things.
- [42:09]
Sherm
Yes. I gotta wake up at 3 o' clock in the morning to clean up this pee and poop puddle.
- [42:13]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [42:13]
Sherm
Or they poop. They pooped in the bed and I'm having to clean that.
- [42:16]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [42:17]
Sherm
Throw some newspaper on it.
- [42:18]
Will Compton
Throw some spray some spray some.
- [42:21]
Sherm
February.
- [42:22]
Will Compton
Yeah. We kind of just got off on a tangent there. We got to keep it under an hour.
- [42:27]
Sherm
Yeah, we do, we do. Did you have something? I just wondered while we were doing the callbacks from last episode. Smith and Len's Pizza.
- [42:33]
Will Compton
As many.
- [42:34]
Sherm
Y' all remember, Eric and Will got into it, Right.
- [42:37]
Will Compton
We. We got it Friday.
- [42:39]
Sherm
I. I'll let. I'll pass it to you guys. But that might be the best slice in Nashville. It's going to be hard to argue that one.
- [42:45]
Will Compton
I was Smith and L. Yep, awesome pizza. And by the way, we got in a little t. We got in a little dust up last week. The underar. The underarching theme there is we are allies. We are allies.
- [42:58]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [42:59]
Will Compton
I needed Deke to be mobilized more in previous engagements that we've had over the food topic. However, Derek crushed it with Smith and lands great pizza in Nashville. Loved every slice. I had about six of them. He brought it to the shop. How many box of pizza? About eight boxes.
- [43:17]
Deke Sherman
We ended up getting six and then a ranch for each one when it was all said and done. Yeah, six. All taken to prom and to put out there.
- [43:23]
Will Compton
People who are ranch people with pizzas. One ranch per box. We were light on ranch.
- [43:27]
Sherm
We were on ranch, but with this type of pizza. And we could get into it. We can get into it. You don't need a whole lot of ranch. But this is my one note one. When I took my first bite, I completely understood where my boy Deke was coming from in three seconds.
- [43:46]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [43:47]
Sherm
I said, I. I would die on that hill any day with you now.
- [43:50]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [43:51]
Sherm
Like, I, I went up to him. I. I said, truly, like top five all time. I. We had an artist in place back in Fort Worth that was like some big name pizza chef guy from like one of the big cities, LA, NY, and it was very reminiscent of that, if not better. I told him, top five all time, great pizza.
- [44:10]
Will Compton
To the point. Derek will tell you too. When I got in the smaller group chat about dinner, I had options in my head. But I'm like, based on the resume that Derek is. Is painting, you choose with him and beer and food and everything else. I'm like, what are some spots? We ended up just obviously landing on Pinewood. But I, he. I have nothing but respect for Derek's. For Derek's palate.
- [44:31]
Sherm
Derek, blindfold me, spin me around, and
- [44:34]
Will Compton
then just put something in my mouth.
- [44:36]
Sherm
And put something in my mouth. I don't care. That free Saturday.
- [44:40]
Will Compton
Yeah. Steak and blowjob day, March 14th. Blindfold me, spin me around and put something in my.
- [44:46]
Sherm
The only.
- [44:47]
Will Compton
Hey, Derek, what are you doing on the 14th?
- [44:50]
Sherm
You only got to worry about the first part. Don't worry about the second part.
- [44:53]
Deke Sherman
When he shot me, the text being like, hey, you know, I got some food ideas I'd love. And you, you did say, I'd love to hear what Derek. It was a good stamp of approval. Feeling like, I feel like I got a good stamp. Like if I send you to somewhere or I show you a song or a movie. Like, I feel good about it, but the other side of it is. And I brought this up at dinner, like adding a kid to the mix. It threw off my whole skill. Because if you were like, me and Char going to dinner or drinks or something, you know what I mean?
- [45:15]
Sherm
Then you're like, hey, no.
- [45:16]
Deke Sherman
I'm like, dang, we are bringing Scotty, like, what would be. Which is why we picked Pinewood, because there's a lot of room to move and like, it's a pretty relaxed environment.
- [45:25]
Will Compton
You haven't been to the other spots I had mentioned. Whatever you think is going to be the best environment for Scotty.
- [45:30]
Deke Sherman
Yeah.
- [45:31]
Will Compton
Because I threw a couple Mexican, like Fonda. Fonda on 8th Avenue or on 12th. On one of them. I think it's Fonda on 12th. Wealth. Very. Like a little more money. But great Mexican food. Awesome Mexican food. Massaro is another Mexican. Texas. Tex Mex on 12th. Have you been there?
- [45:51]
Sherm
I've been to the one in Fort Worth.
- [45:53]
Will Compton
Okay. But that's a. That's a good one. I was, you know, I'm like, I wonder if they've been to this spot or if somebody's gonna be like, hey, let's go here. Oh, yeah. We ended up landing on Piewood. But yes, nothing but respect for Derek's food game.
- [46:04]
Sherm
Just a little future note for any PT sickos out there that are going to invite me to a meal, but I'm more specifically talking to this group. I went to the corner bar with Jared and his girlfriend,
- [46:21]
Will Compton
and it.
- [46:22]
Sherm
It was listed as a restaurant. We walked into it, it was very much a bar. And now I might be speaking out turn for other PT sickos. I felt very comfortable walking in with Scarlet and we had her a little high chair thing. And I did get some looks from the people sitting at the bar top going, oh, that dude's walking in here with the baby. Was that gonna look like. Yeah, Scarlett was on her best behavior and, you know, didn't cry at all. But I just plopped her right there and we just. We sat and ate wings and they had some drinks. I was driving, so I. I didn't partake, but like, I felt very comfortable in that situation. It felt normal to me.
- [47:02]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [47:02]
Sherm
I don't know if other people, like, you know, whatever. So.
- [47:05]
Deke Sherman
So that thing because you were bringing up about like dog people and babies comparing. I have the same thing that you described. When I take cuz my dog's a pit bull to the dog park where he Bites at other dogs. And I'm thinking, I'm cool with it. Are they cool with it? The dogs are playing. There was a quote. I'm going to do another quote. You aren't who you think you are. You aren't who they think you are. You are who you think they think you are. Which is a tongue twister to say, Sherm. You watch.
- [47:27]
Will Compton
Say that again.
- [47:28]
Sherm
Clearly that is true.
- [47:30]
Deke Sherman
You aren't who you think you are.
- [47:31]
Will Compton
Okay.
- [47:31]
Deke Sherman
You aren't who they think you are.
- [47:33]
Will Compton
Are.
- [47:33]
Deke Sherman
You are who you think they think you are. So when Sherm walks into the bar with a baby, he's not just Sherm. And he. Everyone at the bar probably didn't care,
- [47:42]
Will Compton
but he goes, yeah.
- [47:44]
Deke Sherman
He goes, those guys are probably thinking, this guy's bringing a baby in. When we're all, nobody cares. That guy's probably thinking about ordering his third beer or something. So.
- [47:52]
Sherm
Yeah, I get that a lot.
- [47:54]
Will Compton
Cute baby. They're like, I'll take another one.
- [47:56]
Sherm
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is true. That, that is a really, really good point.
- [48:01]
Will Compton
Point. Because that's a very good point.
- [48:03]
Sherm
I am often, you know that about me, too. I'm an overthinker. I, I think everybody, I think a
- [48:08]
Will Compton
lot of us people in general kind of overthink everything. I, I see what you mean. You're like a people pleaser. You think a lot about. Yeah, yeah. Everything going on 100.
- [48:17]
Sherm
I don't have a problem. I'm just here for the food.
- [48:20]
Will Compton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [48:21]
Sherm
All right. And I love my kids. Sue me. I, I have a nice little kind of a follow up comment from last week. Week. I, I, you have a better one?
- [48:31]
Will Compton
Bigger one. Yeah, yeah. This is a sad alert one. This is from following up last week. I have gotten several messages about the message I had with reading the book and my mom and everything else. Okay. But this from Landon Fritas on Facebook. I just want to give a big shout out to Will for being so vulnerable about how much he misses and still thinks of his mom since she passed. I was watching the video of him talking to, Talking to Rue about her, and it got me really emotional. I lost my dad a while back, two days after he watched me play football for the first time in college. Just like Will misses his mom, I miss my dad every day. It's been 13 years and I still think about him randomly when I'm sitting in traffic or when I want to talk to him about cool. A cool fishing video I just watched. As Will probably knows, this shit doesn't get any easier. We Just kind of learn how to cope with it in a little bit and get a little bit better with it over time. I'm a father of a beautiful four year old girl now and I can't help but think of what a great grandfather he would be be. How much he would love spending time with his granddaughter, how much he would make her laugh. It hurts so much knowing that they will never get to have a relationship together. And I'm sure Will feels the same. Absolutely, my friend. I guess the beautiful thing is that in a way my dad is still in me, is still in me with the lessons he passed down to me and the love he gave me while I was still here. Maybe that's how my daughter gets to see him through me. Thank you for reminding me that it's still okay to miss him and it's still okay to feel so emotional about it no matter how, how long it's been. Very good message Landon. I do appreciate that and I, I empathize with you with on all of those levels. It is, it's due to when I want to keep myself in a, in an optimistic perspective. Ripple effect on making myself feel like I'm. You're. You're at peace with it or you have a happiness from it is like I, I do think about because my mom is at the forefront of my mind a lot with a lot of things whether it's with parenting or missing or wishing I could talk to or send her a message message all of that stuff. I do feel like I parent better because of everything that happened because I feel so emotionally attached to it and I think about it a lot and it's helped me reflect on the mom that she was to me when I do feel like I communicated those things to her a lot. Like she knew how much like we were, we were tight and things you still think about. You're like ah man, did she fully know that? I wish I could just tell her and articulated so well one last time how much she knew. And I'm like ultimately I do know that and I know it pours through me with parenting because I know how precious now that it's, now that it's gone. I'm not saying I didn't, I took it for granted or I didn't appreciate it. Obviously you battle with those demons all the time because you want such closure on a moment like that that you felt got taken from you versus you knew it was going to happen or this was the plan the entire time and you kind of package it like, like, like I am the dad I am because my mom was such an example. And I'm able to reflect on how much she meant to me because it's gone. It doesn't happen anymore. So I get to think about what she absolutely did for me over time. Through all of my years of life, through all my communications, now that I'm parenting and trying to be intentional and trying to think of ways to connect with with Rue and Scotty and be a dad, I'm like, I know she went through all of these same things, things. And this is what this meant. And now that I see it from this perspective, these are all the things that she did on why the decision led to this. Once upon a time in my childhood, like, I think about all those things to where I know it gives me that North Star, that guiding light in my own parenting that I might not be if she was still here. And I say that I can probably be saying that because I'm just trying to always wrap my brain around it.
- [52:16]
Sherm
A nice silver lining.
- [52:18]
Will Compton
Yeah. Silver lining with it all. Because I do, I, I, I get angry and I talked about it podcast in the past. Yeah, I do get angry knowing that she can't be the grandma that I knew she was going to be. Like, she would have been the best crush.
- [52:32]
Sherm
Crush it.
- [52:33]
Will Compton
Because it makes me laugh at my dad or, you know, get frustrated with my dad because he can't just come in for the weekend if T.R. and I are going to go out of town and do our thing and our own thing. And I can't just leave the kids with my dad. You know what I mean? And I just know it's like my mom would be up at any moment. I wanted to, to where you're almost I, we would have had to create boundaries for my mom because have loved being grandma so much or putting her input on things that she's not, not a part of or has to know. Like, hey, we're our own tribe. Like, she was a very a type personality, badass mom.
- [53:02]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [53:03]
Will Compton
And I do get angry knowing that Rue will never know her through her own relationship with her. She's going to know her through me, through my actions. And when I'm having my moments, I'm trying to like until I'm blue in the face, hoping that I can imprint on what grandma would have meant. Even though you never met her, you never talked about to her, you never talk to her. But yeah, man, I empathize with all of that message. I, I appreciate you writing in man. And knowing 13 years, somebody who's lost somebody super close not too long ago. It's been four years for me because I lost my mom when Char was pregnant with. With Rue. And knowing that it can be as long as 13 years and that it just never goes away and will this
- [53:42]
Sherm
might not be the time or place so like cut me off. But what was the cause or timeline? I don't, I don't know if I've ever asked you that.
- [53:52]
Will Compton
So the cause was she had a blood clot, she got knee replaced, she got a knee replacement, her second one for her other knee. And she was so excited to get it done because her other knee felt so much better and she got a knee replacement. And weeks after, I don't know this to be fact, but in my head she. I remember when we were talking on the phone because that was the year I went to the Raider Raiders for my last year of playing where I went to Las Vegas. I was playing on the Raiders. I got signed. I actually went to my last moments with her was I went back home and visited. We went to a high school football game to watch Wyatt coach and we spent the weekend there and it was a lot of fun. I went to the Raider Junior Football League and watched the kids on Saturday. We had a great time. And that was in, that was around. That was in October or November. Shortly after that is when I got the call to go to Vegas to finish out. I was on the team for five weeks to finish out the year with the Raiders where Rich Versace was the head coach. And I remember being on the phone with her, like checking in about, you know, her rehab, like the knee, like all the post surgery stuff. And she was excited and bragging to me she's not taking it. She's got off her Tylenol because she's very much like a high pain tolerance woman. Like a person who's they want to be a badass. They want to do things faster than hey, it's going to be a four month rehab, she wants to get it done in two. She was like that. Like I'm like that.
- [55:13]
Sherm
I was about to say Apple didn't fall far.
- [55:16]
Will Compton
And when it happened it was I Covid was taking place and we were about to play the Cleveland Browns and our game got postponed to a day. The postseason is upon us and there's really nothing like it. But the postseason can be stressful. Crushing losses, wild upsets, your unhinged six game parlay falling apart at the literal last second. Things can get rough and it can leave you feeling a little sour. But you got to look at the bright spot side. Once your team is out and headed to decompress, you can finally relax. Now you can actually enjoy the postseason with all of the heart palpitations. That's why we're partnering with Jim Beam. We want to help you turn that lemon of a loss into delicious, tasty Jim Beam and lemonade because it's really the perfect bevy for the offseason. It's refreshing, it's got the perfect sweetness and a little bit of tang on your tongue. Best paired with stress free watching when your team is out. So gather the boys and grab some Jim Beam and lemon lemonade to make the rest of the postseason just a little bit sweeter. Refresh your season with Jim Beam and lemonade best enjoyed together. Please drink responsibly. Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 40% alcohol by volume 2025 James B. Beam Distilling Co. Clermont, Kentucky Ambitious, well intentioned,
- [56:31]
Amber Grimes
ferocious and wealthy mother looks like in the Black community this Woman's History Month the podcast Keep It Posit Sweetie celebrates the power of women choosing healing, purpose and faith. Even when life gets messy, love is not a destination.
- [56:45]
Will Compton
You have to work on it every day.
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Amber Grimes
Keep it positive. Sweetie creates space for honest conversations on self worth, love, growth and navigating life with grace and grit, led by women who uplift, inspire and tell the truth out loud. I have several conversations with God and I know why it took 20 years to hear this and more. Listen to Keep it Positive sweetie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. It's the new me and it's the old them. Everybody's on their journey and your journey is different to theirs. This Woman's History Month the podcast if you KNEW Better with Amber Grimes spotlights women who turn missteps into momentum and lessons into power. I think coming out of where I came from, I'm from the Bronx. I think I grew up really poor. I didn't know that then because I very much use my creativity to romanticize life and I'm like, my mom did a really good job of like, you step back and you're like, whoa, We. I don't know how we made it. So a lot of my life was like built out of like survival to get to the next place. Like my drive, my like tunnel vision of like, I got to be better. I got to achieve this was off the strength of like, I want to make a better life. Life for us. If you KNEW Better brings real talk from women who've Lived it unpacking career pivots, relationship lessons, and the mindset shifts that changed everything. Listen to if you knew better with Amber grimes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
- [58:15]
Sherm
What's up? I'm Miles Turner. And I'm Brianna Stewart. And our podcast, game recognized game, has never been done before. Two active players giving you a real look at our lives and what we
- [58:24]
Amber Grimes
actually think on and off the court.
- [58:27]
Will Compton
Nothing's off limits.
- [58:28]
Sherm
We talk trade requests.
- [58:30]
Amber Grimes
What's the vibe of that when it's like your star player is like, well,
- [58:33]
Sherm
I want to leave, and then actually
- [58:34]
Amber Grimes
now I'm going to stay.
- [58:36]
Sherm
We talk tanking.
- [58:38]
Amber Grimes
I mean, honestly, like, I might get
- [58:40]
Sherm
in trouble for this answer, but I think it's, like, definitely happening in the wnba. And yeah, we talk about our mistakes, too.
- [58:47]
Will Compton
They pull me to the side and we was like, hey, man, we got a call last night, man, you can't be rolling around the city like this tonight before games. No. You know, doing this, doing whatever.
- [58:56]
Amber Grimes
And of course, family stories.
- [58:58]
Sherm
And we'll be like, mommy, why did you miss that? Mommy, do you play basketball? Check out game recognized game with Stewie
- [59:07]
Amber Grimes
and miles on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
- [59:09]
Sherm
Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [59:13]
Will Compton
Different dates. We were flying out. I was in Cleveland. I was in my hotel room because we were about to play the Browns the next day, and I get a call from Wyatt. I get a call, This thing happens here because obviously I go back to the spot and we don't have to
- [59:36]
Sherm
go fully into it. I want. I like you answer my question, Thur. Okay, just so you know, I got
- [59:42]
Will Compton
a call from Wyatt and she. He was, Yeah, let's move on.
- [59:54]
Sherm
Yeah, yeah. And all essentially there I was just. I didn't know. And you answered that question. Fabulous.
- [60:01]
Will Compton
If I get beyond that moment, all of that that took place. Bachi comes. He's sitting in my hotel room with me. Go home. Home. They allowed me to be home for, like, two weeks because obviously it's like, it's my last year playing. We. We know I'm there for being a culture guy, covering some kicks, covering some punts. Like, I'm tight with everybody in the Raiders organization. Yeah, the Raiders organization, the fan base. My teammates were pivotal, pivotal for me in that. In that moment.
- [60:27]
Sherm
Yeah, yeah.
- [60:27]
Will Compton
Guys speaking about me. And to me, remember Zay Jones, a receiver. He's mentioned to me in the post game presser. We. They ended up beating Cleveland and guys had all the greatest messages, like dude, it was I. My heart will forever. Raiders will always have a piece of that because they helped me through one of the hardest times of my. The hardest time.
- [60:47]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [60:47]
Will Compton
Yeah. And I get to go home for a couple weeks and as you know, it's very emotional, very tough. It's. It sucked, man. It was the most brutal time ever for a lot of us, our family, everybody.
- [60:59]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [60:59]
Will Compton
Because she was a centerpiece of a lot of things. She was a school principal for a Catholic School School, St. Rose of Lima in DeSoto, Missouri. And so she touched a lot of people. And as I'm doing my own research on the back end of finding closure, God would happened because it was sudden.
- [61:18]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [61:18]
Will Compton
She made a. She made a yelp sound that my dad heard in the other room and she was just gone. There was no. There was no life ambulance came. They're hoping it's okay. You're hoping it's okay as they go to the hospital. But it was gone. You know what I mean? Like, there's no. There was no. Like, can we be doing something right now? Could something have happened before that? And in my brain when I wrap it around, it's like, man, been her getting off the baby Tylenol or the Tylenol. Like, was she still taking her. Her meds or things that like got the circulation going to where this blood clot didn't form? You battle through all of that, bro. And that is essentially what happened. And that was. That was in 20, was it 2021? Yeah. Rue was born on April 3rd in 22. So that happened in December. December 18th, 2021. Right before Christmas. My last message from her and I still have it, it's. What's your address so I can send you Christmas gifts. You know, That's a good.
- [62:17]
Sherm
Hey, that's a good grandma, dude.
- [62:20]
Will Compton
Dude, she was the best.
- [62:22]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [62:24]
Will Compton
You know. Yeah. God, I. No, I get so uncomfortable doing.
- [62:27]
Sherm
No, you're fine.
- [62:28]
Will Compton
I hate the. The crying all the time. Yeah, I know. Everybody's okay with it.
- [62:32]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [62:33]
Will Compton
But it's just.
- [62:34]
Sherm
Man, not to cut you off or segue, but one thing that I meant to tell you this off the pod was when I made that video, either a week ago or two weeks ago where you're talking about your mom. I just went through your Instagram and I was like ripping images off of your Instagram for like, like some great pictures of you and mom.
- [62:57]
Will Compton
Were you reading some captions?
- [62:58]
Sherm
Dude, Will, it was so great, cuz it just gave me an insight into the relationship with your mom just a tad Bit cuz I've. I've never heard her voice, I've never met her. Nothing.
- [63:10]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [63:11]
Sherm
And you had a capture on there that they were having a family dinner. The Comptons were. And you made a extremely off color
- [63:19]
Will Compton
joke about putting her in a home. Home.
- [63:21]
Sherm
Yes. And you're. I love that his mom's reaction that he put in the caption was William. Yeah. Cuz I've. I have done that around the office and others have too. Whenever Will like goes too far with the joke, do that. Oh Will.
- [63:39]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [63:39]
Sherm
Dude, that just made me laugh. So I just, I thought that was hilarious that she.
- [63:46]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [63:46]
Sherm
And you put in the caption that she was smiling when she said William too like that she, she loved your hum. So.
- [63:53]
Will Compton
Right. Like if I'm putting that caption out there, people like, oh, why are you treating your mom like that? It's like dude, we have. I bust their balls all the time. Like the joke, the running joke that we still try and laugh about with my old man is I would literally tell them like if my dad is having like a brain moment. Something where you're laughing at your old man.
- [64:11]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [64:12]
Will Compton
I just beg dad man, I'll be honest with you. I hope, I hope you go first. If anything happens. And this is back before obviously everything took place but you're just making those jokes because it's like, are you going to be. How are you going to do anything without mom around? I. I'll be okay if you go. I don't want you to go. I'll be okay if you go first because at least Mom.
- [64:33]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [64:33]
Will Compton
We know how to operate. My dad has done an incredible job picking himself up and you know, that's a process as well for any. Anybody who's gone through something like that or similar. They understand this dynamic.
- [64:48]
Sherm
My dad's relationship. What I think is so funny is like I never joked with my dad, dad or. Well I, I did but like I didn't do that type of joking with my dad. And when I was on the phone with him the other day, I just love how like you keep that same Will like sense of humor across the board even with you like not really having a, any personal relationship with my dad. I'm on a phone call with him and the shirt contest is going on and I called my dad and he had graciously offered to buy some of the shirts and wondering which shirt he needed to buy for the PT6 shirt to win.
- [65:29]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which it won.
- [65:30]
Sherm
So shout out to one and my. It's not like My dad bought a crazy amount, as the story will tell. But my dad, when Will gets on the phone, he walks up mid convo and he sticks his head in the car and he's like, Mr. Y, you know, blah, blah, blah. He's just, like, being Will. And my dad is very proud to tell Will that he's buying four shirts. Four pt. Six shirts. He's, like, so excited to tell Will that it. Will goes four. Get 35.
- [65:57]
Will Compton
Those are rookie numbers.
- [65:58]
Sherm
We gotta bump those numbers. And my dude, my dad went you on my dad. And he like, oh, well, then I'm like, dad, he. He is kidding.
- [66:11]
Deke Sherman
Your dad bought all the tumblers.
- [66:13]
Will Compton
Your dad.
- [66:14]
Deke Sherman
His dad bought every single for the dad's coffee. Tumblr.
- [66:17]
Sherm
Tumblr.
- [66:17]
Deke Sherman
And we were talking to the merch team, and they're like, yeah, we ran out of that.
- [66:20]
Sherm
He bought like, 30. Did you hear that story?
- [66:22]
Will Compton
No, no.
- [66:23]
Sherm
He bought it as a Christmas gift for his office.
- [66:26]
Will Compton
That is amazing. And your dad is awesome. And I. And even when I'm saying it, I almost now understand the dynamic that's happening because, number one, your dad's so proud of everything that you're doing. And, yeah, he also wants me to know how much it means to him. Yeah. How much, like, it's. It's like a. He's. He'll almost. He wants to be. We are on the personal level, but it's like a moment for him. And I am just like.
- [66:48]
Sherm
And you're my boss at the end of the day, and boss in his mind is like this. And, you know, he's like, man, like, what you're doing for my kid. And then you also are Will Compton. So you have, like, these jokes that you'll throw in that will just catch my dad so off guard. Yeah, it's hilarious.
- [67:08]
Will Compton
It is fun, dude. It is fun.
- [67:10]
Sherm
It's very funny. That made me laugh really hard.
- [67:13]
Will Compton
Did you ever come across across the first pitch video with my mom?
- [67:16]
Sherm
Yes. You showed it to me the other day.
- [67:19]
Will Compton
Yeah, we're at the Cardinal game. It was my. It was the second time I got to do a first pitch for the Cardinals. And so I was fired up. My mom grew up. She loves baseball. She loves the Kansas City Chiefs. She loves St. Louis Cardinals baseball. She loved it. Like, we would go up and we just randomly on a weekend, she'd be like, let's get in the car. We're gonna go up and scalp tickets. And she just worked the streets. Like, she was very much like that. Where you're going up, we don't have any tickets. We're going to scalp tickets. I got to watch Dontrell Willis with the Florida Marlins. I love, you know, fantasy baseball playing triple play on computer. Yeah, Backyard baseball. I loved baseball growing up backyard. And the Florida Marlins were in town playing the Cardinals, and Dontrell Willis was throwing. And I love Dontrell Willis because he had this arm action, this sidearm action, where he just kind of had the swag, he had the juice. And so we got to watch him. Him. We got to watch him play that day. But I knew my mom loved the Cardinals so much. So the second time I got to do a first pitch, I'm like, hey, mom, I want you to do the first pitch. Like, we'll walk out there together, but I want you to throw the ball because I know she's in heaven.
- [68:18]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [68:18]
Will Compton
Getting to go and see all this stuff. They're taking us behind the scenes, showing us facilities and doing all the fun things. And we get out there, and I know my mom's about to throw, and I kind of know her arm motion. Throw it. Throw. You throw the ball like you throw a ball like a girl. You throw a ball like a girl. You throw the ball like a girl. Girl. Sorry. They took a moment to get out. I'm busting her balls. We're doing quotes from. What's the movie with Tom Hanks. The. The. The women's baseball movie.
- [68:45]
Sherm
A League of Our Own.
- [68:46]
Will Compton
A League of Their Own. We're doing quotes from A League of Their Own. She goes out there, and I'm recording, and she throws. She, like, throws the pitch in the dirt. I'm like, oh, trash, Trash. She's, like, putting the camera in her face. But that's a video I always, like, look back on just to see moments,
- [69:00]
Sherm
videos that I record. That is a funny clip worth Chef putting into the episode, Dude.
- [69:06]
Will Compton
All right, going out for. Going out for our first pitch. I got to bring her all the way out to the mound. This is the mother's gate Mother's day gift, everybody. All right, here you go.
- [69:27]
Sherm
Oh.
- [69:28]
Will Compton
Oh, damn, Mom.
- [69:31]
Sherm
I might have been worse than trash.
- [69:34]
Amber Grimes
Are you trash?
- [69:35]
Will Compton
Trash?
- [69:36]
Sherm
Cuz it's. Yeah. Will is just unabashly. Will, in that moment, you were showing that.
- [69:43]
Will Compton
I got a lot of cool messages over the last week from friends of the family. Like, friends of my mom.
- [69:48]
Sherm
Oh, good.
- [69:49]
Will Compton
Just, like, writing about that message. I woke up to another one this morning from my boy, Foster Moreau, who was the tight end on the Raiders at the time. Time that saw that clip, and he Sent me a really nice message, but yeah, man, I. Number one, I appreciate your guys's. You guys sitting here with the boy as I talk through some.
- [70:07]
Sherm
Yeah, dude.
- [70:08]
Deke Sherman
One call out just to say people were asking in the comments if it was like a templated book she wrote or if it was like an empty notebook that she filled. Because a lot of people were curious. There's like books that can happen nowadays. So I don't know.
- [70:20]
Will Compton
It was a templated where there's a quite questions, questions from her past growing up, things her parents taught her old friends that she spoke about. Like, she's answering questions in like a templated book. Then it gets to my birth, you know, what she envisioned for me when I was young. And it seems like she stopped writing in it when I was a senior in college because there's no mention of like, you know, the NFL or anything like that. She talks about how proud she is of getting to play college football and playing at Nebraska. But it's a very much like a templated thing. Part of me, I took so long to even look at the book or even think about, I never opened it to where I'm like, did she write. Is this like a journal to where she wrote to me in it? You know what I mean? To where I had no clue what I was about to open. Yeah, this new Rue was having such a hard time and I'm like, man, I've been talking about doing this. This seems like the moment to do it. But yeah, it was a templated book because there's a lot of them now that are kind of sold out there, which I, I, I love that. And I like, tell myself I need to do that for my kids because I think it's a really cool thing. Old buddy from a way, way past episode, putting us on game with a journal.
- [71:25]
Sherm
Remember the Spotify comments and the email account too? That's been a dad hack that's come up plenty of times of create a Gmail account or whatever email service you want to use and just email it every single day. And then once the kiddo's old enough, give them a password and the email address and they can go through and read through that.
- [71:44]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah, dude, honestly, it's a. I feel like I don't know this to be a fact, but I feel like it. This was, this was a situation that really helped incubate this show. You know what I mean? Like, from a, from a position of. It impacted me in such a way, especially with Charl being pregnant and having Rue and Articulating what I wanted to be as a father and gravitating towards all the dead content in the world out there. Because I just love it. I love getting whatever new ideas are out there. When people write in with questions and I might not have the answer, but I, like, see myself in those questions because I would gravitate to a lot of dead content that goes on. Yeah. Toward being in the podcast. Podcast game and everything else. It's like, man, this would be. This would be really cool. Like, essentially you're making a show speaking to your old self that, you know, my mom made such an impact on me that I. It has impacted me in my own journey as a dad, which having the show has been. Has meant the world. Like, whenever you guys reach out, whenever you guys do comment about this stuff, as awkward as I feel crying, or when my mom stuff comes up in my brain, I'm like, man, does this stuff come up too much? Am I crying too much about this? Do people it. You don't know how much joy and how much value you guys do bring to me when I see that it does help, impact or help somebody that has missed their dad for 13 years. Like, it was. It was nice seeing that understanding that we all. Dude, we all go through this together.
- [73:10]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [73:11]
Will Compton
And you're kind of one listen or one conversation or one comment or write up away from connecting to something that feels like, yeah, I should see it this way, or, yeah, I am feeling that anger. And you just feel like you're not alone. You know what I mean?
- [73:24]
Sherm
Yes. And it's great to be able to smell the flowers from a standpoint of being able to see the community that has been built from this. We talked earlier about the Jared Lads Twitter group. The. For the dads Twitter community that he started and allotted up to 198 members. Now, now, which that's.
- [73:47]
Will Compton
Let's go.
- [73:47]
Sherm
That's sick. But in that group, like, these dads are just, like, posting pictures of, like, them hanging out with their kids. Like, it's the most dad coded group ever.
- [74:03]
Will Compton
Like, we got our own Facebook.
- [74:05]
Deke Sherman
Yes.
- [74:06]
Sherm
It's like a Facebook for these dads to be like, I took my kid fishing. We went to this pizza spot. Like, blah, blah, blah. But, like, the. Just to be, like, entered into that world of being surrounded by other people that are like, man, family is so important. And being a good dad is so important. And having that constant reminder.
- [74:30]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [74:31]
Sherm
Being a part of this show, like, kind of puts the. The blinders on. Because it is my job to, like, do the show. And to interact with that community. But it is also a nice refresher sometimes of like, man, I'm so lucky to be a part of this community and see all this positive. I have the most positive timeline on the Internet. Quote graphic. Like, I really do. It's crazy. It is. It's awesome. So shout out to you for ideating this show. But shout out to the community, though.
- [75:02]
Will Compton
Shout out to the. The community aspect, because it does. It's like you almost. Almost. It helps you if you just think of the brand or the community and you factor it into one singular person. It feels like you almost have like an accountability buddy.
- [75:15]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [75:16]
Will Compton
Because there's a lot of times where if I'm getting frustrated or I'm thinking because it's obviously it's. It's an ongoing cycle all the time. I'm almost like thinking about stuff we've said on the show or thinking of a write in that somebody had. You know what I mean? To where, you know, you're dealing with it in real time of, you know what the Willy one shelf, like, anytime. Charles talking about hanging up something now or doing something like that now infiltrates my brain to where if there's no. If there's no none of that, who knows? Whatever cycle it would have created. If, like, I don't want to do this.
- [75:49]
Sherm
I'm being so serious when you say that. But prepping for this show, we used to have the. Or not used to have. We still kind of have it. The. The Trenches segment that we'll do sometimes. Sometimes. And the Trenches segment that I would have sometimes is solo dad weekend. That was like, something that I was like, man, I'm going. I'm really going through the shit. And not to make light of anything that's been submitted to us, but, like, now in my head, I have these write ins of, oh, my dog died. I got in a huge car accident, almost died, had to get surgery, blah, blah, blah. At least I get to hug my kiddos, though. And I'm like, man, what am I doing writing down the Trenches? I had to have a solo. Oh, woe is me. It was just me and my daughter this weekend. Like, it really did shift my perspective so much of like, bro, I'm so freaking lucky. It's unreal. And like, yeah, I could get emotional if I went further, but that. That's it. I'm very lucky.
- [76:52]
Will Compton
I need somebody else to cry on this show.
- [76:54]
Sherm
Well, I. I do have some buildings there.
- [76:56]
Will Compton
Yeah. Oh, I see it.
- [76:57]
Sherm
That counts. We did have a ride in. If we Want to go into some quick dad comments and then maybe we hit a crack, A cold one.
- [77:06]
Will Compton
Yeah, let's do it, my friend. So what is this? What is this preface as. Is this an. This I see email?
- [77:14]
Sherm
Yes, but it was prefaced as like general comments.
- [77:17]
Will Compton
Okay.
- [77:18]
Sherm
General comments. So this one is fun because although it is an email, it's quick. Caitlyn's husband wrote into the show show last week and I forget his name, his first name, but he like, he casually. Zach. He casually was like. You know, there's this great, this great quote from my old ball coach back in the day, Pete Carroll. And Will and I like laugh very hard at that because we're like, oh yeah, his whole ball coach.
- [77:49]
Will Compton
Yeah, you just nonchalantly. Pete Carol.
- [77:51]
Sherm
Just a little old Pete Carol. And so, yeah, man.
- [77:54]
Will Compton
One of the. My old mentors of mine, Vince Lombardi.
- [77:59]
Sherm
My. My old fishing.
- [78:00]
Will Compton
You don't know who he is?
- [78:01]
Sherm
My old fishing buddy, Nicholas Saban, a West Virginia guy back in the day.
- [78:06]
Will Compton
He goes by Nick.
- [78:06]
Sherm
Yeah, he goes by Nick. He's got this great quote.
- [78:09]
Will Compton
He just spoke at the White House,
- [78:14]
Sherm
but his wife wrote in and this is what she had to say. Her name is Caitlyn, I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly. A bear or Heber. MT6 here. Mom of three, married to the hottest USC offensive lineman to ever set foot in the Coliseum, 2006-2010. Did he play in the. In the Roseville game? That means he would have played in the Roseville game.
- [78:40]
Will Compton
06. Right. That's.
- [78:43]
Sherm
That was. It was.
- [78:47]
Will Compton
I tell you what, he was part of some glory years, though, because that's reggie bush.
- [78:50]
Sherm
He 100% was. Yeah, Zack.
- [78:53]
Will Compton
Is that Richie? Yeah, Zack.
- [78:55]
Sherm
AB number 74. And no, hot offensive lineman is not an oxymoron. Single ladies. Courtney Strong in parenthesis. She actually wrote that Shout out.
- [79:06]
Will Compton
Courtney.
- [79:06]
Sherm
Caitlyn's obviously a NT Sicko. Find yourself an offensive lineman, they get the job done. Best husband and best dad. 2 comments MT4FIT. I'm a nurse. Shout out Jilly Bean. And I made it a priority to wake up at 5am before work four times a week to get my workout in. In the garage, squat rack dialed in, weights ready to go. And let me tell you, MT Sixers, it's a game changer for my mental health, my physical health. And hey, if I'm being honest, it's kind of a MT shock wave for the hubs. Works both ways. Crying, laughing face. Hashtag, put a bow on it. Let's a seiko That's a good looking boy right there. Honk.
- [79:56]
Will Compton
I wonder if he has that flow still going on.
- [79:59]
Sherm
Did he play with Clay? Yeah, that would have been Clay.
- [80:03]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah.
- [80:05]
Sherm
God, we gotta ask Clay about Zach. He'll be like, oh, the hottie number 74 and what's her name? Caitlin.
- [80:12]
Will Compton
Caitlin. And God, she's. I'm sitting here listening. It's like the PT fit world.
- [80:16]
Sherm
It's not even that done.
- [80:17]
Will Compton
Oh, we're still going.
- [80:18]
Sherm
We're still. No, but continue your thought.
- [80:21]
Will Compton
Finish the.
- [80:22]
Sherm
The. It's seeping with all these. I know what you mean. Other comment for the girl dads out there. We have two girls and got our boy two years ago. Our family is complete and so full of love and joy. Watching our girls love their brother is incredible. I'm going to share some advice that someone told us when we decided to roll the dice for one more. Don't make eye contact. Act when you're trying to make that boy. I'm going to read that again. I'm going to read that again because that, that. This is. This is breaking.
- [80:54]
Will Compton
This is raw game. This is break from an MP6.
- [81:02]
Sherm
Don't make eye contact when you're trying to make that boy. That's all I got to say. It's evidence based. This is backed by science. Essential love what you guys are doing. Keep it up. MT6 out that. Put that in a frame. Put this one in a frame.
- [81:19]
Will Compton
That's a great one.
- [81:20]
Sherm
I'm gonna go ahead.
- [81:20]
Will Compton
That's as good as it gets right there.
- [81:21]
Sherm
I'm gonna put it on the shelf. I literally am.
- [81:25]
Will Compton
Don't. Hey, you want game on. How to make a boy. Don't make eye contact. I wonder if that came from her or came from him. Like think if it came from her. And they're about to hit the shock wave and she's looking at him and she's like, don't make eye contact with me. Trust me.
- [81:43]
Sherm
And the 14th would be a great date to. To test that theory out.
- [81:49]
Will Compton
I mean,
- [81:51]
Sherm
well, you. You get a little bit of love.
- [81:53]
Will Compton
You're hitting a different. We're hitting a different roller coaster. We're hitting a different coaster. Yeah.
- [81:57]
Sherm
Oh, for sure. But who's to say, you know, I don't just go to Six Flags and go, oh, I'm only going to do that one.
- [82:05]
Will Compton
I'm only going to do the Mr. Freeze.
- [82:07]
Sherm
Oh, we're just going to do Mitchell freeze like five times, guys. That's the only one. No, we're going to work our way over to the Titan. We're going to do Batman a little bit and you know we're going to hit Shock Wave.
- [82:16]
Will Compton
But just know when we hit that Batman, don't look me in the eye.
- [82:19]
Sherm
Don't look at me. Don't you look at me. You look away right now.
- [82:24]
Will Compton
Yo, that's hilarious. That's amazing. Shout out Caitlyn.
- [82:27]
Sherm
Shout out Caitlyn. A quick, quick clarification.
- [82:29]
Will Compton
The national champion Cham.
- [82:31]
Sherm
That game was 05066.
- [82:33]
Deke Sherman
So we're both, we're all kind of right on that.
- [82:36]
Sherm
Okay?
- [82:37]
Will Compton
Thank you for the clarity.
- [82:38]
Sherm
Good update from Chef.
- [82:40]
Will Compton
I got a couple here on Spotify. Jeff. Four days ago, new listener, dead of two beautiful girls. Four months and 27 months. That's two, brother. Can't believe I'm just now discovering you guys. Better late than never. Stoked to be a PT6er. Let's go.
- [82:58]
Deke Sherman
Go.
- [82:59]
Will Compton
Jeff, thank you for joining the brand. Thank you for joining this army of PT sickos.
- [83:05]
Sherm
Jeff. Better late than never. Better Nate than lever. Jeff, we're glad to have you. Yeah, we're glad to have you. Nick Dito on Instagram. Boy's mom is fighting for her life at night with the three week old. But tomorrow morning starts the war, my war. At home, the toddler is ready for potty training and mornings are dad's responsibility.
- [83:25]
Will Compton
Go.
- [83:26]
Sherm
We have to start this on the right foot. Tonight I moved the kid potty in the right position, covered the couches and blankets and studied the material. I think we're ready. As a U.S. navy sailor. Thank you for your service.
- [83:40]
Will Compton
Thank you, sir.
- [83:41]
Sherm
For 14 years now, we have sailors around the world kicking ass right now so that I can be on leave to take care of my family. Thank you for their service. Nervous? So is potty training important?
- [83:55]
Deke Sherman
Yes.
- [83:55]
Sherm
But will it break me? No. God bless you.
- [83:59]
Will Compton
Good on it.
- [84:03]
Sherm
But yeah, the new comment this week, hashtag on it.
- [84:07]
Will Compton
Yeah, good, dude, keep going. Don't just stop with B. Make our life hell.
- [84:17]
Sherm
This is how we learn.
- [84:19]
Will Compton
The obstacle is the way.
- [84:21]
Sherm
Put a bow on it. Put a blindfold on it.
- [84:24]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [84:25]
Sherm
If you're trying to have a boy.
- [84:26]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah. Don't look him in the eye.
- [84:28]
Sherm
I do have a quick new dad one. I only have one.
- [84:30]
Will Compton
I. I still got. I still got another one. Still got another one from William Dusa on Spotify.
- [84:37]
Sherm
Fellas.
- [84:37]
Will Compton
Laying here watching the podcast with my 3 week old baby girl on my chest talking about PT fit. There is such unaccountability op for PT fit, it's staring us in the face Sher.
- [84:51]
Sherm
It is. I've already been called out. We can touch on in the face.
- [84:54]
Will Compton
Something we can do is sign up for something. Here we go. Oh, now, now we got. We got an idea, man. With William. I signed up for a half marathon in May. Oh God. This is a half marathon. It's a slow burn do. And it's helped me get out and work out and go on runs since I signed up. I've really felt better with my health and it helped. Helps that you have something to work towards. Once that event is over, the routine is set. Thank you. My mind has never gone. Listen, this is a Dan Gable quote. My mind has never gone very far from what I wanted to accomplish. Dang.
- [85:32]
Sherm
He threw a Dan Gable quote at the end. Can I. Can I see that?
- [85:36]
Will Compton
Yeah, absolutely.
- [85:39]
Sherm
Well, this one will go somewhere as well.
- [85:41]
Will Compton
Okay. We'll just start hanging up comments.
- [85:43]
Sherm
We're just gonna start hanging up comments. That's a new thing, dude.
- [85:48]
Will Compton
PT fit has got to be a reality. It. It is.
- [85:53]
Sherm
Did you see the call out that I got?
- [85:57]
Will Compton
I don't think so. No. Remind me or not remind me. Tell me about it.
- [86:01]
Sherm
Somebody wants to race me to a sub 200 weight. He's at 230 and he's 6 foot. I'm at 225 or 215 and I'm 5 foot 8. So I feel like I 100% have the leg up on him. Right.
- [86:23]
Will Compton
Possibly. Who knows?
- [86:24]
Sherm
Possibly.
- [86:25]
Will Compton
Dude could be a genetic freak.
- [86:26]
Sherm
Isn't it kind of. It's kind of harder for the lankier guys to drop? Or is it harder for shorter guys to drop weight?
- [86:33]
Will Compton
It just depends.
- [86:34]
Sherm
Depends. But he wants to race me to. To sub 200 for diploma.
- [86:39]
Will Compton
Depends on. That's a. That's a good challenge.
- [86:41]
Sherm
That's a good challenge.
- [86:42]
Will Compton
But as far as PT fit goes, we think about routine and structure because I've been hitting my zone two this week, but that's about it. I have. Sorenex is outfitting the weight room at the end of this month. Zone two is staying within a heart rate of zone two heart rate. So mine is like 125 to 135.
- [86:58]
Sherm
Okay.
- [86:59]
Will Compton
Or 125 to 140. I stay in that zone. The structure right now is getting 150 minutes a week. So five 30 minute sessions. Sessions. And that's. That's light work to what I need to be at.
- [87:11]
Sherm
Okay.
- [87:12]
Will Compton
But PT fit. There's an opportunity for routine and structure for this community to where you might have that challenge. But what is the overall framework that we can give ourselves?
- [87:24]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [87:24]
Will Compton
How.
- [87:25]
Sherm
How will this be implemented into my life?
- [87:27]
Will Compton
What I think in my head is, I think of, you know, form, energy. They're a. They're a partner of ours in the busting with the boys universe.
- [87:34]
Sherm
Yes.
- [87:35]
Will Compton
First form or Andy Frisella had a framework called 75 hard, which is like more of an extreme. Like, it's. It's an awesome framework and formula and everything else, but it's almost like, how can you do an iteration to where this PT fit is not only a movement, but an accountability thing for dads, like, for us in our community. Yes. Whether it's, you know, smaller things, whether it's like, you know, hitting strength workouts X amount of times a week. Week zone 2 or cardio x amount of times a week. Steps. Getting your steps in. People are big on getting their steps in. Who? Who knows? I'm. I'm opening this up. But I do think there's something there because, bro, I know for me personally, I've got to get right. I've got to get like, on it. Like Charo. Charo crushes it. She got her. You know how I said I did my Dexa and I'm like 27% body fat, 600 grams of visceral fat and all. She does the same thing as I. I do her stuff. Came back after essentially seven months. She's down like 4% body fat. Her visceral fat is way down. Like, she, like, I have 600 grams. She's got like 100 or 85 maybe.
- [88:43]
Sherm
I have no clue. She's fresh off kiddo number two.
- [88:46]
Will Compton
She's grinding. She's being a great partner for me right now on like, because she knows I've been a little disappointed in myself about all of that stuff. Like, I sit there, I use jokes. I do all these things for my insecurities and everything else. But she's been a great partner on, like, how can we structure stuff? Because essentially it's like waking my ass up earlier than, you know, we already wake up at like 6:30 or 7:00'. Clock. Get the kids going. She does the kiddos upstairs. I'm the dad who, you know, we'll. Whoever gets out to feed Wobble first. But I'm making breakfast and lunch for Rue and getting breakfast going for Scotty. Like, we have our roles to where our system, we crush it together.
- [89:20]
Sherm
Yeah, yeah.
- [89:21]
Will Compton
But it's like, man, how can I own the morning? Because I know it's just me going to bed earlier and I know. It's just me waking up earlier. True. And getting the work work in. Because she even brought up. I feel like you need to be around an accountability buddy or a group or something because you don't have that now that you're not done playing football. And clearly I've fallen off the, I've fallen off the bike when it comes to my own self care with me being the only individual doing it or taking control of. Yes. What my structure is going to look like. She's like, I think it'd be good if you, you got around other people. Whether it's me and you. Now that we have our little room set up in the house, like if we do stuff in the morning together. She's been all time about it.
- [89:58]
Sherm
Yes. A running group, a online group. Yeah, yeah.
- [90:03]
Will Compton
She's like, I think you just need the team aspect. And my brain just goes to. It's like, PT Fit man.
- [90:10]
Sherm
Yes. Dude. I, I think we have a huge opportunity. And also a side note, a very funny moment with Will being at your house. I was asking you about some financial advice. It then turned into you talking about your health and stuff and you were almost like trying to explain like your health situation and how you're wanting to get back on track. And it wasn't like you were defending yourself to me. But in that moment I wanted to be like, Will, do you. Do you see who you're talking to? Like, you got enough. Like, hey, don't worry, you're preaching to the choir, buddy. I'm right. I'm right there with you.
- [90:51]
Will Compton
I know. But.
- [90:53]
Sherm
But not to soften the fact that you are very passionate about this and I equally saying, can I very quickly, just because you like hit so many buzzwords, talking about first form, talking about 75 hard, all that stuff. I have a really great email from Emmett Rodriguez that touches on all that stuff. Guy reading.
- [91:14]
Will Compton
No. Yeah, yeah. Rip it.
- [91:17]
Sherm
So Emmett says, what's going on, boys? Been a long time listener and now want to start by saying thank you. The last. The cries, the advice you have shared have given me a great perspective and better feeling going into my first baby boy. Let's go, Emmett. I want to talk about PT fit. I was once 315 pounds at about the age of 18. Around that period in time, I began having arrhythmias in my heart. My heart would spike all over the place. Despite being an athlete in middle school and high school, I was severely out of shape during this time. I was hospitalized for a week and I and had to have Two ablations encoded during the second one. Coding is very serious for anybody outside of the medical realm. That's when the little thing beside the hospital's bed starts going and everybody on the floor runs in. That's a. Coding is a big deal. Thankfully, I had a great cardiologist and nursing staff that shocked me back to life. While waking up, I would come in and out of sleep and listen to my parents talk about me and how they didn't want to lose me. This was the first time I saw my dad cry. Being the oldest, I quickly understood how they could have easily buried their child that week. The amount of pain and guilt I had created for them, I knew I had to change. Once medically cleared, I began my fitness journey dropping to about 250 over a year. Year 315 to 250 in a year. Then I found first form, became a legionnaire while applying for physical therapy school and committed to 75 hard. Through that I got down to 185. 185. From 315 to 185 and probably the healthiest I have ever been. He's now 29 years old and he exercise and exercise is his career now as a physical therapist. I prescribe exercise, so I have to look the part, but I had to let myself go a bit. Currently 220. But now that I'm expecting my first son, I have recently been moved by living to see him grow and being able to play and run with him, show him how badass his dad is, and inspire him to always prioritize health. He doesn't know it just yet, but he has already made my life so much better and I'm so grateful that I did get to be his dad. Best from Fort Worth, Texas. I'm telling you, we just. There's something in the water.
- [93:55]
Will Compton
He also. That juices me up, man.
- [93:57]
Sherm
He provided these pictures.
- [94:01]
Will Compton
That's Rolla right there on the right. The guy, he's.
- [94:04]
Deke Sherman
Oh, no way.
- [94:04]
Sherm
That's the dude.
- [94:05]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. They're awesome. They're awesome people. Missouri boys. Really. Yeah. When we. When we went out to do Anhe Bush. Yeah. Hq. That's. We went to their place. Like I was on his andy for Sal's MF CEO podcast, like back in 2015. 15 or. I'm talking about like Redskins football leadership, like all this stuff. Like, I'm a massive first form fan. Love the Frisella brothers. Shout out Sal and Andy.
- [94:29]
Sherm
Okay. That's.
- [94:30]
Will Compton
They're awesome dudes, man. They are awesome dudes. And that culture is, is incredible. It's an A plus. Like people that finding go on to and buy into it. It's.
- [94:41]
Sherm
It's all time to compliment them if there's any first form people listening. When Will went and visited their office, you said something to the effect that it was like touring a football program like when y' all do the spring tours and that it was the best run football program that you have come across as far as team buy in and mentality within the door.
- [95:06]
Will Compton
Their culture, operation, people. The way, the way they do anything is. The way they do everything. Everything. Yeah. Core values. It, it's. It was fun to go to because you almost get inspired with our own business culture and everything else because the way they do everything is very, it's very tight. But also everybody is bought in because they do personal development stuff with their company. It's clean, it's beautiful. It does seem like a, like someone sunk money into a perennial D1 university. Yeah. It's as close to a football facility in company college division one as you would get in my opinion to any company culture that's not like in football. You know what I mean? There's supplements, they're fitness, they're all these other things. But it is, it's incredible, man. Truly, it's incredible.
- [95:54]
Sherm
That's so sick, dude. And I love how much it got you amped from coming back. I. You talked to individually, everyone in the office and I got to hear you each time telling a different.
- [96:09]
Will Compton
Fact.
- [96:10]
Sherm
But the word is, in fact it was like a different thing about. Yeah. Attribute about their company that you had forgotten a detail.
- [96:16]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [96:16]
Sherm
A different detail that you'd forgotten. And you'd be like, oh, hey bro. They don't even, they don't even have cleaning. They don't have a cleaning crew in the office.
- [96:27]
Will Compton
They pick it up. They pick it up.
- [96:28]
Sherm
You don't pick it up. They dock your pay. Imagine. Hey, imagine if I did that around there. What do you think would happen? I'm sitting there with like eight like cups on my desk. I'm like, yeah, you're not wrong. I mean, good, good call. Out last. This is the last new dad comment. I'll just.
- [96:47]
Will Compton
What else do we have? Because I know we, we've been, we've been rocking.
- [96:49]
Sherm
Yes, we can, we can hit this.
- [96:51]
Will Compton
Because I. There's. There's six over here. I haven't read. Sometimes you just got to think we're rolling. You just got to have an instinct to be like, okay, we don't crack a gold one. 1.
- [97:00]
Sherm
Let's crack a cold one. PT sickos, MT secos, ST sickos, and goon Berets.
- [97:09]
Will Compton
Goon Berets and the Goon Berets.
- [97:12]
Sherm
I feel like that we haven't been mentioning them enough, but somebody we have been mentioning enough because we can't stop talking about them is Ollipop. And will I have your. And this is a bit of a spoiler. I have your third favorite flavor right here.
- [97:28]
Will Compton
You do?
- [97:29]
Sherm
According to our taste test video on Ollipop, our blind taste test video that will be dropping later this week, potentially.
- [97:38]
Will Compton
I have an update.
- [97:39]
Sherm
Update me.
- [97:41]
Will Compton
Classic grape is now back in two zone.
- [97:43]
Sherm
What?
- [97:43]
Will Compton
They're number two now.
- [97:44]
Sherm
Whoa.
- [97:45]
Will Compton
Really happened over the weekend.
- [97:47]
Sherm
Really?
- [97:47]
Will Compton
Yeah. Yeah. I think I've hit the watermelon lime way too much.
- [97:51]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [97:52]
Will Compton
And honestly, tasting the classic grape on the taste test led me to drink another one over the weekend. And I'm like, I mess with grape.
- [98:01]
Sherm
I mess with grape heavy as well. And that was from the blind taste test. Funny enough, I walked away with the classic grape and the cherry. I was messing with the cherry heavy, and I've never messed with any cherry flavor. If. If I'm picking flavors, cherry's never at the top. But with lollipop.
- [98:19]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [98:20]
Sherm
I mean, it. It was maybe number one. I forget my rankings. However, ever. Olipop, it's one of our favorites. We talk about all the time. I'll take a little sippy poo.
- [98:29]
Will Compton
And just while he's taking a little sippy poo, Christian McCaffrey, he posted a. A carousel over the weekend on Instagram. And he's. My man's ripping a. He's ripping an Ollie.
- [98:38]
Sherm
No, he was, I promise.
- [98:39]
Will Compton
Yep. That's facts.
- [98:41]
Sherm
Is that on Instagram?
- [98:41]
Will Compton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [98:43]
Sherm
We met this man.
- [98:44]
Will Compton
That community is growing it with Olipop.
- [98:46]
Sherm
It is arm and arm, arm in arm. And what Olipop is still got guys still doing the. Buy any two cans of Ollipop in store and they will pay you back for one of the cans. This is one of the best deals that I've seen that has also run for the longest I've ever seen. We've been telling the PT Sickos about the buy two. They'll pay you back for one for a while now you're getting free Olipop.
- [99:14]
Will Compton
You're getting free Ollipop.
- [99:15]
Sherm
It's that easy. They vim.
- [99:16]
Will Compton
And even if you buy Olipop, you. You're. You're getting free happiness in return.
- [99:21]
Sherm
You're getting free happiness. It's a bogo deal that you can do anywhere. You don't have to shop at any certain type of store. They're in all types of retailers, all types of gas stations. In the drink section, you just send them your receipt and they pay you back for one of the cans you're cooking right now. Works on any flavor at any retailer. Drinkolipop.com forward/bwtb for more information. Olipop is sold online at drinkolipop.com and Amazon and is available in the soda aisle and with the chilled beverages at thousands of retailers nationwide. That's including Walmart, that's including Target, that's including Costco, that's including Whole Foods. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen.
- [100:11]
Will Compton
I'm on number three right now. Still love it. Just had a lot of it. I have my grape Crackle one brought to us by Olip.
- [100:20]
Sherm
Brought to us by Olipop. Absolutely delicioso. That's Spanish for delicious.
- [100:26]
Will Compton
Delicious. My. My crackle CO1 is going to go to the weekend with Scotty. It was. I've watched Scotty solo before when she's. When she was a lot younger and Charl took rude to London. Charlotte takes roof everywhere. But she's thinking you, but yeah, I know. Well, she did offer and I was like, you're gonna take Ruth, though. Not my firstborn, but getting a rock with Scotty. Scotty's again, 16 months. Yes. And I feel like the 15th, 16th month part is where personality really starts coming to life when you, if you're a parent, you got a younger one. Like with Scarlett. I know I've told you this, but. But it's like I remember back to rue around 16 months is when their personality and everything comes alive because they can walk, they can do all the things to where they know what they're trying to do and they're starting to look at you and try and listen and everything else. Yep. So it was kind of my first weekend or a few days with Scotty where it's just me and her, like taking her around town, going eat with the boys, getting her around different people because on Friday, Clump and Jerry came to the house too. And them just, just interacting and socializing her with. With my buddies, with my friends.
- [101:30]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [101:31]
Will Compton
And it was just a lot of fun, like being on a routine, playing with her again, taking her around town. It was just a lot of fun to connect with Scotty where it's just me and her and not the whole tribe of the entire family. Where it's me, mom, Rue, Scotty, like It's just me and her connecting me and her doing everything. Getting to know her. Her waking up from her nap and be like, dad, dad, dad, dad. Her in her mind, like, dad's the only one.
- [101:54]
Sherm
Yeah, that's the only one here banging
- [101:56]
Will Compton
on the crib like that. Yeah. And I'm thinking, I talked to her. I'll be up in three minutes, sweetheart.
- [102:01]
Sherm
And.
- [102:02]
Will Compton
But it was just fun, man. I had a good time with Scotty. So that's what my cracker cold one goes to.
- [102:06]
Sherm
Congratulations on that crack. A colon. I got to see it personally. And I'm glad I did because you were operating. I just want to shout out this one moment when you had both oven mitts on and you were making Scotty's pre nap lunch and the chicken nuggies were not ready yet in the oven and she was letting you know from the high chair, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. With the hands going. And you had both oven mitts on. You go, honey.
- [102:33]
Will Compton
Did I.
- [102:34]
Sherm
Hey, I know, I hear you.
- [102:36]
Will Compton
Listen.
- [102:37]
Sherm
But they're not ready. They need three more minutes. And her kind of making a face like, ah, well. And y' all like having that little communication with each other.
- [102:46]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [102:46]
Sherm
It was incredible to see.
- [102:48]
Will Compton
She fruit, too.
- [102:50]
Sherm
She put down the. The fruit.
- [102:52]
Will Compton
The point. I keep opening up these little. The little oranges.
- [102:55]
Sherm
Are they called cuties? Tangerines.
- [102:57]
Will Compton
Tangerines. Little cuties. I'm ripping them all. Hey, Sher, you want one of these? Like she's running through them right now. It.
- [103:03]
Sherm
Scarlet sucked that entire one into her mouth. I had to fish it out of there. And I got some notes from mom. That's the number one way to make them choke. You did not put your finger in there and pull it out. Did you actually do that? I was like, babe, I fish hooked it. Yeah, I went in there. I didn't push it more in. I got in there, I scooped it out.
- [103:23]
Will Compton
Yeah, there wasn't a problem. Problem.
- [103:25]
Sherm
How else am I supposed to get it? Go suck it out. I mean, what are we doing? My crack, a cold one, was couples date night. And it would have been playing at your house, but I was guessing that might have been yours. So I wanted to differentiate. I equally. That would have been my crack.
- [103:44]
Will Compton
A cold one.
- [103:44]
Sherm
Okay? We had a date night, a couple's date night with a babysitter. We're talking full fledged, the real deal thing. Jill and I got to go to Pop Stroke in Antioch. And if you've never been to Pop Stroke, it's a nice little putt. Putt Kind of like adult putt putt thing where, you know, adult bevies are flowing. They got the waiters running out to the course, like mid putt putt. It was so much fun, dude. Really got to turn off dad brain. Got to celebrate the couple that we were with, Brian and Hillary, she is very pregnant, due, like, towards the end of May. So we're getting to, like, celebrate that just fine. Getting to be out there, dude. And get your hair down. Let your hair down, dude. Jill's coming up to me. She's. She's got some little drinky poos in her. She's coming up to me and she's putting her arm around me and looking up at me and doing the. I'm like, come on, man.
- [104:42]
Will Compton
Baby.
- [104:43]
Sherm
Hey, where'd that be, man? Where that been?
- [104:46]
Will Compton
You trying to put a bow on it?
- [104:48]
Sherm
Oh, yeah, dude. Wink it at my boy, bro. Brian giving Jill a kiss.
- [104:52]
Will Compton
Hey, I'm gonna take this one home.
- [104:53]
Sherm
And nice.
- [104:57]
Will Compton
See that one over there? I'm taking her home.
- [104:59]
Sherm
Hey, nice putt, babe. Nice putt. Yeah, but, yeah, dude, it was. It was huge. It was. It was a great night. And shout out Julia, our babysitter again. I am not doxing her because you're not taking her from me. That's our babysitter.
- [105:12]
Will Compton
Amen. Amen. The postseason is upon us, and there's really nothing like it. But the postseason can be stressful. Crushing losses, wild upsets, your unhinged game parlay falling apart at the literal last second. Things can get rough, and it can leave you feeling a little sour. But you gotta look at the bright side. Once your team is out and headed to decompress, you can finally relax. Now you can actually enjoy the postseason with all of the heart palpitations. That's why we're partnering with Jim Beam. We want to help you turn that lemon of a loss into delicious, tasty Jim Beam and lemonade. Because it's really the perfect bevy for the offseason. It's refreshing, it's got the perfect sweetness and a little bit of tang on your tongue. Best paired with stress free watching when your team is out. So get. Gather the boys and grab some Jim Beam and lemonade to make the rest of the postseason just a little bit sweeter. Refresh your season with Jim Beam and lemonade. Best enjoyed together. Please drink responsibly. Jim Beam Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. 40% alcohol by volume 2025. James B. Beam Distilling Co. Clermont, Kentucky. When you feel uncomfortable, what do you put on? Biggie, you Put on Biggie when you
- [106:19]
Deke Sherman
feel uncomfortable, because I want to get confident.
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Amber Grimes
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- [106:24]
Will Compton
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- [106:37]
Will Compton
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Amber Grimes
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- [106:44]
Sherm
Then she says, have you seen a photo of my son? And I'm like, who is this person? Welcome to the boys and girls podcast. Arranged marriage is basically a reality show,
- [106:54]
Will Compton
and you're auditioning for your soulmate. And who's judging? Only your entire family. I sacrificed myself to this ancient tradition, hoping to find love the right way. And instead I found chaos, comedy, and a lot of cringe. Listen to boys and Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [107:15]
Deke Sherman
This is the biggest night in podcasting.
- [107:17]
Sherm
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- [107:30]
Deke Sherman
It's truly a who's who of the podcasting world.
- [107:33]
Sherm
Creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display.
- [107:37]
Will Compton
And the winner of the iheart podcast award is.
- [107:40]
Sherm
See all the nominees now@iheart.com podcast awards.
- [107:44]
Amber Grimes
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- [108:01]
Sherm
and
- [108:01]
Will Compton
we do nothing but encourage the dads prioritizing a date night. Yeah, we talk about it a lot. That's put it on the calendar.
- [108:08]
Sherm
Execute, execute, execute, execute, execute. That's part of my lesson of the week. But I. I hear that you have a lesson of the week as well.
- [108:14]
Will Compton
Well, I have an awesome one.
- [108:15]
Sherm
And we're coming up on an hour, so do we want to jump into some voicemails?
- [108:21]
Will Compton
Yes.
- [108:23]
Sherm
First one is. I guess I'll eat the pizza. This comes from Jared Ladd.
- [108:29]
Will Compton
Jared Ladd.
- [108:30]
Sherm
Come on, Jared. Hey, guys, this is Jared Ladd. I don't typically work Sundays, but I had to. And I can call my wife.
- [108:47]
Will Compton
Can you stop that? Start it over. Can you turn it up?
- [108:50]
Sherm
It's all the way up.
- [108:51]
Will Compton
It's all the way up.
- [108:51]
Sherm
It's all the way up. You want me to move it closer
- [108:53]
Will Compton
to you just go again. Go again. I'll focus. I'll focus.
- [108:57]
Sherm
Okay. Okay. Okay. Hey, guys, this is Jared Ladd.
- [109:02]
Will Compton
Hi, Jared.
- [109:03]
Sherm
I don't typically work Sundays. I had to. And when I came home, my wife left with this. And I was devastated because now I have this give me. And no one here. Play with. Don't eat the whole thing. I just. I don't know. What. On the couch? Watch tv?
- [109:27]
Will Compton
No.
- [109:28]
Sherm
I don't know what to do but
- [109:31]
Will Compton
appreciate all the support you guys give
- [109:32]
Sherm
us for the dads. But again, I just don't know. I guess I'll just sit here and eat this pizza by myself, is what it is. Boys,
- [109:47]
Will Compton
I tell you what. We. We go through a lot of storytelling.
- [109:50]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [109:50]
Deke Sherman
Yeah.
- [109:51]
Will Compton
On this pod, people have write ins where it's. It makes you reflect and think, why do I sweat the small things? When you hear stories like this? And to me, this is another example of perspective. You know what I mean?
- [110:09]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [110:09]
Will Compton
To where it's like, why? I don't know.
- [110:12]
Sherm
You remember that group on Twitter that I was talking about where everybody's sending photos in of hanging out with their kids? Who's the one that's sending the most photos with their kids in there?
- [110:21]
Will Compton
Jared Ladd. Jared Ladd.
- [110:24]
Sherm
That's like the only thing he likes to do in this world.
- [110:27]
Will Compton
Like, I cry about my mom all the time. And when Jared Ladsons in a. A voicemail.
- [110:35]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [110:37]
Will Compton
Of my wife took the kids to Six Flags. So now I gotta sit in the house. A quiet house, and have a whole piece of to myself. It makes me think, why am I. Why do I even get caught up?
- [110:48]
Sherm
Hey, I understand what I went through
- [110:50]
Will Compton
with my mother when I have a PT6 out there right now with a house to himself.
- [110:55]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [110:56]
Will Compton
And nothing but time. Nothing but boredom and pizza and cheese and sports in video games.
- [111:04]
Sherm
March Madness is start. The. The conference tournaments were starting up. Oh, my God. And. And dude, silver lining. I just want you to know I get how you could feel like that. Jared doesn't want you to feel like that for a second. Like, he understands how you could feel that way.
- [111:22]
Will Compton
Yeah. Jerry, we appreciate you calling in, man.
- [111:25]
Sherm
Thank you.
- [111:26]
Will Compton
Dude, you guys talk about our vulnerability all the time. Like to call in and be that vulnerable with us about what you're going through. Papa Team six for the dads. We're all thinking about you. Our heart is with you. We're all praying for you.
- [111:42]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [111:45]
Will Compton
Yeah, man. I almost don't have words.
- [111:47]
Sherm
That's all right. Hey, just before this gets too sloppy, I'm just going to move into the. Our second voice.
- [111:53]
Will Compton
Okay.
- [111:54]
Sherm
If that's all right.
- [111:55]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah.
- [111:56]
Sherm
This one's titled Voice.
- [111:57]
Will Compton
They're crying again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [111:59]
Sherm
This one's titled we made it. What's up, boys? Andy here down in Florida.
- [112:08]
Will Compton
What's up? Andy just bought my family a lake house. Yeah, you did All I had to say.
- [112:15]
Sherm
Yeah, you did, brother.
- [112:18]
Will Compton
Is that it?
- [112:19]
Sherm
Let's go. Let's go.
- [112:26]
Will Compton
Dude. That one right there, you just go out and stand and you look at the lake and I got this house for the fam. Like, that is a goal that he should be so damn proud of himself.
- [112:36]
Sherm
And brother, whether it's a boat, a sea doo, a pontoon, whatever it is that Barry, very first time that you're pulling, pulling out into the water. Get that. Get that bumping on the boat, dude.
- [112:53]
Will Compton
And also grab the most sentimental song that you have and just stop the boat somewhere out in the middle and just stop it. Have some peace and quiet. Play the most sentimental song you can. And just maybe a tear rolls down your face because you should be so damn proud of your yourself for getting to a point to where I bought
- [113:11]
Sherm
my family a lake house and belt that song, too.
- [113:14]
Will Compton
Like all the sacrifice, the responsibility, everything. Yes. Feels so worth it when you're gonna have that moment.
- [113:20]
Sherm
Grinder, Grinder, very quick note. Jill and I did like our own little vows, like, separate of the wedding ceremony before. And that was like the dress reveal too, you know. Hey, you know your boy.
- [113:36]
Will Compton
So.
- [113:36]
Sherm
I'm sorry. I'm crying. I'm crying. I'm getting through it. Number four on that list. Jill. Jill Young, I promise to you that I will purchase waterfront property and we will sit on that front porch and we will be wrinkly and old and we'll be holding hands and rocking chairs. Vowed it.
- [113:59]
Will Compton
I love that.
- [114:00]
Sherm
On God.
- [114:01]
Will Compton
On God. And when you guys are sitting on that front porch. Porch and looking out during the. On when the sunset.
- [114:09]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [114:09]
Will Compton
Golden hour. Halfway sitting there, you see all the different shades of orange and purple and red and pink reflecting on the water. You just sudden. Can't play it too long.
- [114:37]
Sherm
Can't play it too long. And we may. We may even have to supplement it with another song and just say that we are playing skrilla. But here's a nice little. Yeah, you know.
- [114:46]
Will Compton
Oh, we love the copyright in there in a clip in an edit.
- [114:50]
Sherm
Hey, you. Hey. I don't think so. But what if.
- [114:54]
Will Compton
What if, what if, what if. What if I. I did it? What if it comes from my Account.
- [115:00]
Sherm
Yeah, you can do that. Wait, really quick. Hold on. I'm sorry.
- [115:07]
Will Compton
Yeah. We got to get pt. We.
- [115:09]
Sherm
We got.
- [115:10]
Will Compton
We got to get right PT fit.
- [115:13]
Sherm
I just wanted to say that sunset sounded really beautiful. It sounded like a spring sunset. Maybe even a sunset on like March 14th per se. I feel good on voicemails. How does everyone else feel?
- [115:33]
Will Compton
Feel great.
- [115:34]
Sherm
Will Compton, you said you had a lesson of the week. Can I parlay to you? I will skip my lesson of the week and do it next week and instead I just read a quick little Dan Gable quote and then you pop into your lesson of the week.
- [115:47]
Will Compton
I don't think any pt6ers have a problem with getting fed a Dan Gable quote. Especially Big ten tournament. The conference tournaments just finished in wrestling. We're now looking at the NCAA coming up.
- [115:58]
Sherm
Okay.
- [115:59]
Will Compton
I think Dan Gable is necessary.
- [116:01]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [116:02]
Will Compton
For this time.
- [116:03]
Sherm
Matt Madness. March Madness.
- [116:06]
Deke Sherman
Could I twist your guys arms? Tell me if I'm wrong here. Twist your arms. You each do have a new dad shout out that are some version of surprises that are very fast. Very fast. You each have a new dad that chose to write in for the show and congratulate. So if you if you don't mind,
- [116:20]
Will Compton
I would love to shout out Trevor Smith on X. Trevor Smith. Hey fellas. He sent just hey fellas at 12:10pm in the DMS. Then at 12:12 another message comes in. Wanted to give a shout out to one of my best friends and new dad Alec and his wife Tori on the birth of their baby girl Scotty. No doubt he's going to be a great dad and he's been a PT sicko since the jump. Also just wanted to send him some thoughts and he's got a lot going on with having. He's got a lot going on with having bofa, mind goblins and room 40 all at once. No,
- [116:59]
Sherm
no.
- [117:00]
Will Compton
And he's ugly as hell. Oh, just kidding. Love you, brother. Congrats.
- [117:06]
Sherm
Wait, what is bofa? What's mind goblin Chef?
- [117:12]
Will Compton
Tell him you're the semen team.
- [117:14]
Sherm
Wait, what's room 4 40?
- [117:17]
Will Compton
Tell him.
- [117:17]
Sherm
What is that?
- [117:19]
Will Compton
What's BofA? Me. What's a bofa?
- [117:21]
Sherm
Both of these nuts, dude. Who wrote that?
- [117:27]
Will Compton
Who the wrote that's on you in your mouth.
- [117:31]
Sherm
Yeah, who. Who the wrote that?
- [117:34]
Will Compton
Trevor Smith, man.
- [117:35]
Sherm
Oh my gosh. Dude. I was actually worried about him. I was like he has three illnesses at once. Are the other ones. Are these not strokes as well?
- [117:44]
Will Compton
I mean mind goblins. I think that's like a. That could be like a movie Sounds like. It sounds like a movie. It sounds like Mind Goblin. These balls joke.
- [117:53]
Sherm
We're joking. We're joking. Hey, do you remember when I said that I had a new dad thing to read and you said, hey, you know, I get it, but we got to, you know, we got to move on. And then I threw it.
- [118:08]
Deke Sherman
Yeah.
- [118:09]
Sherm
I don't know where it went.
- [118:10]
Deke Sherman
You want me to.
- [118:11]
Sherm
Yeah, I'm so sorry.
- [118:13]
Deke Sherman
You want me to read it or give you the.
- [118:14]
Sherm
No, you.
- [118:14]
Deke Sherman
You.
- [118:15]
Sherm
Yes, you read it.
- [118:16]
Deke Sherman
These Lane from Spotify. Lane, Longtime listener, first time commenter. The wife and I found out a few weeks ago we're expecting our second kid March 14th. We're going to announce to the family. Great day to announce. My two brothers Tyler and Jordan claim to be sickos. If they are truly sickos, they'll see my comment or hear it on the show and get to know first. Love the show and use a lot of the hacks. With my two year old son. Please don't tell mom or my wife. I told the PT6 world before the family.
- [118:45]
Will Compton
I love that. If they're real sickos, they would obviously hear that because you could be tuning in and in the moment, your comment doesn't seem like it's getting read because we moved on. The real sickos stay tuned in no matter what. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? They're not like looking.
- [119:00]
Sherm
They're there till the very, very end when we say, hey, do Hashtag put a bow on it.
- [119:05]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [119:07]
Sherm
S. Medium rare, honey.
- [119:09]
Will Compton
And I just realized, I say, you know what I'm saying a lot.
- [119:13]
Sherm
Listen, buddy, I hear you. That's okay.
- [119:16]
Will Compton
Yeah, buddy. Okay, listen. Hey, listen.
- [119:21]
Sherm
Also, I found the lane one mid read.
- [119:23]
Will Compton
I do say it a lot.
- [119:23]
Sherm
Sorry about that. De so sorry about that. But well done. Well done on the read. Lesson, lesson. Oh, Dan Gable quote then. Lesson.
- [119:34]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dan Gable quote.
- [119:37]
Sherm
This one comes from Dan Gable on the Joe Rogan experience, episode number 1627. It goes as follows. You know, I was crazy. I was crazy. I was definitely crazy. And I used to run to work sometimes. It was a couple miles away. Dan Gable.
- [120:01]
Will Compton
That Gable is a sicko.
- [120:03]
Sherm
He's a sicko.
- [120:05]
Will Compton
He was sick in the head. He's admitting it.
- [120:07]
Sherm
He's admitting it. He's crazy. I could be a little crazy, you know?
- [120:10]
Will Compton
I'm gonna run to work today.
- [120:12]
Sherm
Why not? It's a couple miles away. That's fine.
- [120:16]
Will Compton
I love Dan Gable. Love them. This one comes from Derek Thompson on X. It is at DK top T H O M P I booked marked this one because when it came across my time, I'm like, this is damn good, man. And it's a. He captioned it New newsletter in all caps. Three reasons to be a Parent. I opened it up. It's got a short, little, short little something, something.
- [120:43]
Sherm
Okay.
- [120:45]
Will Compton
The baby you bring home from the hospital is not the baby you rock to sleep at two weeks, and the baby at three months is a complete stranger to both in. Jesus Christ. In a. We might have to edit this up in a phenomenological sense. Is that it?
- [121:05]
Sherm
That sounds great.
- [121:06]
Will Compton
Phenomenological. Phenomenological sense. Okay, let's start that over. The baby you bring home from the hospital is not the baby you rock to sleep at two weeks, and the baby at three months is a complete stranger to both in a phenomenological sense. Parenting a newborn is not at all like parenting a singular newborn, but rather like parenting hundreds of babies, each one replacing the previous week's child, yet retaining her basic facial structure. And this is a quote. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger. That Andrew Solomon wrote in Far from the Tree, almost. Parenthood catapults us into a permanent relationship with strangers. Plural, to the extent extreme. That's a lot. We. We got a lot of verbiage. It's a. Yeah. When you become a parent, you meet your child, and then you meet your child again and again and every day after that, you will never stop meeting your child. That is the one reason to become a parent. To have a child is to fall in love with a thousand little beautiful strangers. And I think that is.
- [122:15]
Sherm
That could not be more true. Yeah, I definitely feel that way. I feel like I'm getting to meet a new person every single single morning. It does feel that way.
- [122:25]
Will Compton
Yeah. And just again, like, the. Just all the thinking about all the new versions, like, now I think back to my cracker cold one and getting to spend time with Scotty at 15 months compared to when I watched her when she was a lot younger. Yeah. Because I know I'm. I'm hanging out and. And building a connection with a completely different person because she's a little bit more with it. So there's a. There's an element there that I'm getting a lot more joy from. Not that I didn't have joy when she was a little baby.
- [122:49]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [122:49]
Will Compton
But you do feel like you're with a completely different new person. But I love that perspective. He does have a. It's A newsletter. You'd sit there and click on the link and read all three reasons. One being loving strangers. The second one being ride the rides. And three is. Is titled another way. So this is his whole write up on. On being a dad.
- [123:13]
Sherm
That's sick. And that's just getting straight posted to Twitter.
- [123:17]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah. And then under it like, you know how you'll do the thread. He's got his link to the overarching all three reasons why and dives in on what it's like for him being a dad.
- [123:25]
Sherm
Oh, got it.
- [123:25]
Will Compton
And that was kind of the. The surface level, which again, a lot of verbiage I would have sit there and had to type in and google some definitions on a couple of these words. You know what I mean?
- [123:34]
Sherm
The phenomenologic.
- [123:35]
Will Compton
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I do love the perspective on you are always meeting your child, coming across a different version every day. And they all pour into every day that you have with them pours into the next day, which pours into the next day. So even as a parent, when you think they're not going to remember this or because you as a, you as an adult now can't recollect all these memories from when you were before, what, four years old. Maybe somebody has a phenomenological memory when they were two. You know what I mean?
- [124:09]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [124:09]
Will Compton
You know what I mean?
- [124:10]
Sherm
Yeah.
- [124:12]
Will Compton
But just knowing that everything is so foundational for the next version that the kid's gonna be.
- [124:16]
Sherm
It is a very kind of scary eye opening experience was that I've mentioned on this show we'll do very small amount of screen time with Scarlet with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
- [124:30]
Will Compton
Yep.
- [124:31]
Sherm
And that's really it. We, we've only done Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to this point. Jilly Beans at Target and shows Scarlet this Minnie Mouse doll. Scarlet went ballistic. It's her favorite thing in the world. And there was like actual school. Jill could tell that. She was like, I know that thing. Yeah, I know that thing.
- [124:53]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [124:54]
Sherm
That's crazy, dude.
- [124:55]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [124:55]
Sherm
How many months old?
- [124:56]
Will Compton
Eight. Yeah.
- [124:58]
Sherm
And that's not to say like, oh, Scarlett's a super smart 8 month old. It's just that, yo, you might not think that stuff's impressionable. Obviously she's, you know, recognizing something and
- [125:10]
Will Compton
just witnessing all the development is just so fun.
- [125:13]
Amber Grimes
Yeah.
- [125:14]
Will Compton
Fascinating for the parent when you see the next iteration of like, oh, damn, she knew what that was. Yeah. And you're seeing them grow up in real time. It's. Dude, it is the best.
- [125:22]
Sherm
It's the best. You know What I'm saying, what else is the best? Well, if there was a date on the calendar just to, like, put a bow on this episode, if there was a day on this calendar, if I
- [125:34]
Will Compton
don't think too long term. And I just. What's in front of me?
- [125:38]
Sherm
What's the micro?
- [125:39]
Will Compton
The micro is. The micro is March 14th.
- [125:48]
Sherm
Oh, really? For what? For what reason?
- [125:53]
Will Compton
Steak and Blowjob Day.
- [125:55]
Sherm
That's a national holiday.
- [125:58]
Will Compton
Yeah, okay, it is.
- [126:00]
Sherm
So that's an official thing.
- [126:02]
Will Compton
Yeah. If you. If you Google, what holiday is March 14? Let's just look at it now.
- [126:07]
Sherm
Yeah. So let's go ahead and get on the Google machine.
- [126:11]
Will Compton
What do people celebrate on March 14th?
- [126:18]
Sherm
14th. And what does the Internet say?
- [126:23]
Will Compton
PI Day. Oh, International Day of Mathematics, Genius Day, National Potato Chip Day Day, and Bake a Pie in Solidarity Day.
- [126:37]
Sherm
Oh, so now I get a steak, a blowjob, and a pie. Damn.
- [126:43]
Will Compton
Son of a.
- [126:44]
Sherm
You can celebrate both. That's okay.
- [126:48]
Will Compton
Let me just. I'll hit the dive. Dive deeper in AI mode.
- [126:51]
Sherm
Oh, okay.
- [126:53]
Deke Sherman
What about has you on March 14? What?
- [126:55]
Will Compton
What?
- [126:55]
Deke Sherman
Wikipedia's staking Blowjob Day. It's also staking Knobber Day for our friends overseas.
- [127:10]
Sherm
You gotta give me a knob job.
- [127:12]
Will Compton
I just asked AI. I said, what about Steak and Blowjob Day? Steak and Blowjob Day, often called Steak and BJ Day, is an unofficial satrical holiday celebrated on March 14, exactly one month after Valentine's Day. It was conceived, received as a male response to Valentine's Day.
- [127:33]
Sherm
Oh.
- [127:33]
Will Compton
Which some feel is a holiday primarily focused on women.
- [127:37]
Sherm
Oh, okay, okay.
- [127:39]
Will Compton
So I'm not saying that that's true, but I'm saying that's fair. I see that. I see how they. They land on that.
- [127:45]
Sherm
Yeah, that's like.
- [127:47]
Will Compton
Well, some take it literally. It is widely considered an Internet meme or a joke rather than a legitimate holiday.
- [127:52]
Sherm
Oh, okay, whatever. Okay. Well, it's near and dear to some people's hearts.
- [127:58]
Will Compton
It's not recognized by any. Any government or greeting card company and remains largely a viral Internet phenomenon.
- [128:04]
Sherm
Oh, okay. Is it recognized by any, like, podcast?
- [128:06]
Will Compton
I think. Oh, well, I don't think we need an answer. It is recognized for. For the dad's podcast.
- [128:10]
Sherm
Okay, cool.
- [128:11]
Deke Sherman
You see what the response to the response for Valentine's Day is the FEMA version of Steak and Blowjob Day.
- [128:17]
Sherm
Oh, there's a follow up, follow up.
- [128:19]
Will Compton
There's a follow up, follow up on
- [128:20]
Sherm
the 14th of April.
- [128:22]
Deke Sherman
I'm gonna pronounce this incorrectly. It's cake and cunning.
- [128:27]
Sherm
Oh, canalangus, which is the.
- [128:30]
Deke Sherman
The female fellatio, if you will. So it goes Valentine's Day. Steak and blowjob Day.
- [128:36]
Sherm
Canalangus. A little trip down south. Get on down there.
- [128:45]
Will Compton
I'm good with that.
- [128:47]
Sherm
That's good. That feels like a really great place to finish the show.
- [128:53]
Will Compton
Yeah.
- [128:54]
Sherm
You know? Yeah. To wrap the will keep the MT6ers
- [128:58]
Will Compton
in mind when we have this next April 14th coming.
- [129:01]
Sherm
Cake and cunus.
- [129:02]
Will Compton
Yeah, cake and cunus.
- [129:04]
Sherm
You get some on Valentine's. I get some on steak and bj. You get some again. And then. Well, that's. We need to invent another one.
- [129:12]
Deke Sherman
What's next?
- [129:13]
Will Compton
March 14th and April 14th. We head south. We just head south.
- [129:18]
Sherm
Little vac, man. You don't have to move down B. Dude, you just visited. Yeah. Put a blindfold on it. Hashtag, put a blindfold on it.
- [129:29]
Will Compton
Good. So take out your trash. I love you. For the dads, man.
- [129:34]
Sherm
For the dads.