Valentine’s Day Special + Do the boys REALLY know their Wifeys?? | For The Dads

Summary

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Bussin’ With The Boys: Valentine’s Day Special + Do the boys REALLY know their Wifeys?? | For The Dads

Date: February 11, 2026
Hosts: Will Compton (“Willie One Shelf”), Taylor Lewan (Sherm), Plus guest hosts "Fat Stafford" and "Sherman Young", substitute teacher Jared Beeman (“Jared Demon”), & crew
Main Theme:
An honest, hilarious, and heartfelt “For the Dads” Valentine’s Day episode, centered on stories of fatherhood, marriage, and marriage mishaps—with a focus on celebrating and roasting their wives, reading listener love stories and parenting fails, and playing the ultimate “Do the boys REALLY know their wifeys?” couples game. Heavy on audience engagement, the episode is loaded with relatably chaotic dad stories, surprise moments, and a stack of emotional shout-outs.

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

Purpose/Theme:
This Valentine’s Day special episode is dedicated to exploring the realities of fatherhood, marriage, and celebrating "the wifey"—with plenty of dad stories, listener voicemails, embarrassing husband moves, and a hilarious “Newlywed Game” segment where the boys test how well they know their wives. The tone blends humor, vulnerability, and camaraderie, making it a must-listen for parents, spouses, and anyone who loves unfiltered real-life love stories.

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KEY SEGMENTS & DISCUSSION POINTS

1. Intro & Setting the V-Day Scene (03:00–09:00)

• The boys set the vibe: “Dads being dads. The best parts of fatherhood. And I won’t say the worst parts, I’ll say the and the hardest parts of fatherhood.” (Will, 01:45)
• Welcoming substitute teacher Jared Beeman and recognizing the show's unique audience and participatory nature.
• Reminders to follow/subscribe, and recurring jokes about the podcast hitting follower milestones.

2. Dad Life Catch-Up: Chaos, Extra Credit, and Sleep Deprivation (09:00–21:00)

• Super Bowl week recap & homecoming mishaps: Will shares an epic “I got 2.5 hours of sleep, flew cross-country for IVF, and then solo-parented for 14 hours with no nap” saga, hoping for “empathetic extra credit” from his wife.

  “I was hoping there would be some empathy…But she needs a break. She’s been solo for five days!” (Will, 12:40)

• The endless parental scoreboard: guilt, sleep-deprivation, and trying to “earn extra credit” by taking over kid duties while exhausted.
• Relatable bedtime chaos and the new realities of being the lowest on the family pecking order (after wife, kids, and even pets).

3. Dad Hacks & Fails: Dumpster Runs & Household Heroics (22:00–36:00)

• Dumpster diving confessions: The boys (and listeners) admit to sneakily dumping excess Amazon boxes in random industrial dumpsters or schools to avoid overflowing at-home bins—described as “the adult version of ding-dong-ditch.”

  “There is an adrenaline rush to throwing boxes in random dumpsters, dude. I love it.” (Sherm, 23:54) “It feels like sneaking your first beer.” (Will, 30:34)

• Listeners chip in stories: surprise confrontations with business owners, the danger of leaving a name/address label on boxes ("rookie mistake"), and the camaraderie in dad group texts about best local dumpsters.
• Dad loss confession: accidentally having all trashed boxes returned to the driveway after being tracked by address labels.

4. The Ultimate Husband “Dad Hack”: Friend Surprise Edition (36:00–44:00)

• Sherm orchestrates a surprise visit from his wife Jill’s best friends, camouflaging the plan as a routine mother-in-law visit.
• Sneakily cleans house and fakes frustration—then nails the surprise at the airport (caught on video).

  “Now it’s just been this week of euphoric happiness—her smile is so big, her friends are so happy, they have matching Valentine’s pajamas…it’s the greatest thing ever.” (Sherm, 37:45)

• All-star dad mode: With three moms in the house, Sherm’s minimal involvement “makes him a superhero” (“If I even start a fire in the fireplace… they’re like, Sherman’s so helpful and sweet!”)
• Reflection on the shared joy and the impact of a little effort to keep your partner connected and supported.

5. “Crack A Cold One”: The Best Kids’ Books for Building Character (50:46–64:22)

• Will’s segment: A passionate “crack a cold one” shout-out to author Kobi Yamada—specifically the book What Do You Do With An Idea?

  “It’s a beautiful read for parents… frameworks for life, even as adults. What do you do with an idea? You nurture it, love it, feed it, and one day it’ll change your world.” (Will, 54:37)

• Extended discussion on reading with kids, the power of gentle philosophy through storybooks, and using children's books as adult life guides.
• Follow-up: Sherm echoes the love for Yamada’s books, noting how What Do You Do With An Idea? hits hard for both kids and adults.

  “That’s the only book I’ve read to Scarlett where I’m pumping my fist. Hell yes! This is exactly what it’s like…” (Sherm, 57:48)

6. Listener Valentine’s Day Shout-outs, Love Stories & Dad Feels (68:56–76:38, 128:30–130:50)

• Powerful, emotional listener emails and voicemails—including loss, IVF journeys, “dad of the year” nominees, and girl-dad Valentine traditions.
• Notable stories:
  • Parents honoring children lost to genetic disorders.
  • Staying up packing lunches and enduring sleep deprivation side-by-side.
  • Massive “dad Ls” (e.g., giving secondhand teddy bears as Valentine’s gifts, botched dinner reservations).
  • Girl dads creating special Valentine’s dates to set “relationship standards” for their daughters.

Memorable Quotes:

• “Every year, I take my daughter on her own Valentine’s Day date… These little traditions matter.” (Listener Wesley, 147:10)
• “How you found out when you found your person—this woman is my world, such a gangster, hope she knows it.” (Listener PT6, 135:11)
• “Valentine’s Day is not just about romance. It’s about raising the bar for every future boyfriend or husband.” (Wesley, 147:04)

7. The Newlywed (Dadlywed) Game: Do the Boys Know Their Wives? (76:27–124:09)

• The boys and their wives answer personal trivia—favorite restaurants, movies, coffee orders, birthdays, and more.
• Rapid-fire format, with on-air debates, giggles, and small doses of marital tension over “shocking” misses (like Jill’s favorite movie not being Trolls, but How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days).

  “I put three answers down. If I don’t get any of these, Jill’s gonna kill me…” (Sherm, 87:15) “Gun to my head, 50 or 100 movies, I’d have gotten those four, babe. I promise.” (Will, 93:08)

• Highlights: Both hosts nailing and whiffing some answers, revealing their true grasp of their partners’ preferences.
• Extended “wife question” round: both the cringe (getting movies wrong) and the sweet (loving stories about who said “I love you” first).

8. Rapid-Fire Voicemails & Emails: Real Dad Valentine’s Chaos (105:30+)

• Listener stories:
  • The infamous “Valentine’s Day at Arby’s” embarrassment (manager: “This is your romantic choice?”).
  • “Chili cheese dog at Sonic and tickets at Chuck E. Cheese” date after failed restaurant reservation.
  • Pregnancy vomiting after a pricey steakhouse dinner.
  • Random surprise gifts gone wrong (regifted teddy bears, stolen chocolate by mom!).
• Hero stories: Dads holding it down during postpartum and surprise work trips, giving their wives Valentine’s shout-outs on-air.
• Dads sharing hacks: the “coupon book” (foot rubs, extra meals, “shockwave expected…”).

9. Dad Wisdom & The Signature Dan Gable Quote (156:07–159:14)

• Sherm shares wrestling legend Dan Gable’s quote about not “cutting corners,” framing it as both a sports maxim and a marriage/parenting lesson.

  “Don’t cut too much slack, or you’ll be in Iowa City picking up your wrestlers—or your kids.” (Sherm, 157:14)

• Will: “I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.”
• Running joke: “Remember the pain of defeat… and never let it happen again.” applied to both dad fails and Valentine’s disasters.

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• Will (On Dad Exhaustion & Wife’s Night Out):

  “She ripped the bedtimes the last five nights… 'You know, I get that. But y’all aren’t coming back until—' You know what I mean?” [16:46]

• Sherm (On the Friend Surprise):

  “It’s been this week of euphoric happiness… I’m a superhero if I start a fire in the fireplace.” [38:09]

• On Dumpsters:

  “I just love throwing boxes in random dumpsters… It's an adrenaline rush, bro.” (Sherm, 23:54)

• Listener (Wife writes in):

  “Every Saturday morning, we make our coffee, sometimes Olipop, and listen together… like a free at-home coffee date that I look forward to all week.” [70:10]

• Dad Fail:

  “The rookie mistake was leaving my address on the boxes. Bro, they brought every single one back. I’m gonna get reamed in the comments.” (Sherm, 26:58)

• On Girl Dad Valentine's:

  “Girl dads, this is your reminder: Valentine’s Day isn’t just for your partner. It’s a chance to model love, confidence, and standards for your daughter.” (Wesley, 147:04)

• Dan Gable Quote:

  “Don’t cut corners. Sometimes you give a kid a break or two, and it comes back to haunt you…” (Sherm quoting Gable, 157:14)

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TIMESTAMPS FOR HIGHLIGHTS

• 02:10 – 05:00: Show’s mission, inviting listener engagement
• 11:00 – 15:30: Will’s IVF/fatherhood “extra credit” story
• 22:00 – 36:00: Dumpster confessionals, dad hack solidarity
• 36:40 – 44:50: Valentine’s friend surprise/husband “hack”
• 50:46 – 64:22: Book segment on What Do You Do With an Idea?
• 68:56 – 76:38: Listener V-Day stories & emotional email shout-outs
• 76:27 – 124:09+: Newlywed Game/dad quiz with wives’ answers
• 105:30–132:02+: Voicemails—epic dad wins, fails, funny disasters
• 147:04: On setting standards for daughters (Valentine’s tradition)
• 156:09: Dan Gable closing lessons & “don’t cut corners”

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SUMMARY

This jam-packed special delivers everything you expect from Bussin’ With The Boys: unvarnished dad life, honest (and humbling) reflections on marriage and parenthood, loads of failed efforts and small victories, over-the-top audience participation (read: crying, hot takes, confessions), and a loving celebration of both wives and kids. Whether they're ribbing themselves for botched gifts, recalling sweet family traditions, or sincerely grappling with the complexity of IVF, the boys’ vulnerability and camaraderie shine.

The “Newlywed Game” and listener stories keep things lively and unpredictable, while the crack-a-cold-one book recommendation adds genuine heart and actionable advice for connecting with your children. The show closes with classic dad wisdom, wrestling quotes, and running jokes about never letting a Valentine’s Day disaster repeat itself.

For listeners:

• Expect gut laughs, real tears, practical parenting/husband hacks, and plenty of moments where you’ll shout “same!” at your speakers.
• Arby’s is not a Valentine’s Day dinner.
• Always remove shipping labels from your boxes.
• And get your spouse's favorite movie right—or you’ll never hear the end of it.

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Closing message (Will):
“Remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again. Happy Valentine’s Day.”

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Emoji for the episode: 🥩🎀 (steak with a ribbon—Arby’s forever in infamy)

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PT6 Out.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Husband for sure. And yeah, we just take you on a journey. We storytell. We don't. We. We don't posture up here to be experts by any means in parenthood. We just love to share our stories of fatherhood, share our journeys of fatherhood and laugh a little bit. Have fun with you guys. Make sure you slide open like you're a couple dads. You're sitting in the garage cracking open an ice cold ollipop with the boys. But yeah, that's. That. That was the. That was my intro.

[B]

That is the intro. We, we also read comments from our listeners. So if you guys comment on Spotify, Apple Pod, the Amazon One Galaxy One Galaxy Pod and then we also have a call in feature and email feature. That's, that's going to be like a huge part of this week's show is you call into 601 the Dads and we'll play your voicemail on the show and if you don't want your voice to be heard or maybe you're an international listener, you can write into 601thedadsgmail.com and then we'll read your email as well.

[A]

Yeah, this is a very. This is like a special edition. This is like a Valentine's Day episode. As Sherman was saying, we have voicemails, multiple voicemails. Usually we do one or two per episode depending on where we're at on time. Everybody knows Papa Team 6, Milk Team 6. All of our teams out there know we try to keep every episode under an hour. So based on where we're at with time, that is when, how many voicemails we dive into, how many emails we dive into. I have a fat stack of emails just like Sherm does. We have a fat stack of emails writing in on your Valentine's Day stories. Valentine's Day shenanigans coming up. We're gonna go through probably at least five voicemails, but this is a very much an audience centric episode. Today we'll talk about cracking a cold one. We'll have some stuff at the top. Of course we will have, of course we'll have Dan Gable quotes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But we're ripping and roaring. We just got back from super bowl week last week. So again, this is a very special edition of for the Dads where it is main about the audience with a couple stories from fatherhood at the top. And also we have a. We have a new sit in. We have a substitute teacher this week, substitute teacher Jared Beeman, or as we like to call him, Jared Demon. He is sitting in for chef for chef Jack, your captain of Seaman Team 6. Jared is also an ST sixer as well Always joined by Deke in the back. The Funkle. Let's rip and have a great show, boys.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

Did we tell everybody to make sure to follow our channels?

[B]

Follow the channels.

[A]

Also subscribe on YouTube.

[B]

Subscribe on YouTube. Also subscribe on Spotify.

[A]

Well, that, that's the thing when you actually go to Spotify. Spotify is a follow.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

It's a follow with the plus sign.

[B]

Follow us. Yeah, Please hit that follow button on Spotify.

[C]

That's coming from the guy that thought we hit 30k on Spotify.

[A]

Coming from the guy I thought we hit 30,000 on Spotify.

[B]

Some would say I am the master of Spotify. I know it well. I know it was.

[A]

Have we got to 10k yet? I think we were at 9 and some change.

[B]

We're pretty darn close.

[A]

And I don't know if last week when we were going through that episode that people are just like, oh, we got to get the boys, we got to get the guys. We got to make sure look good.

[B]

We gotta get as close to 30.

[C]

We have 340,000 plays. So something is correct there. We are currently at 9790 Spotify followers.

[A]

So we need 210.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

More people listening to this sod to just make sure that you are following for the dads. Yep. On Spotify. Because if you're listening right now and you're on the busing channel listening to this podcast, you're in the wrong spot. You're going to hear automated ads.

[B]

You're going to hear ads.

[A]

You're going to hear automated ads.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Not the. Not our little special boys. The ollipops. You're going to be hearing also automated ads. You want automated ads free, you go to the. For the dads channel.

[B]

Exactly right. Exactly right.

[C]

Also shout out Milk Team 6 merch.

[B]

Yes. It is too late for merch to arrive in time for Valentine's Day. However, when you're watching this, however, we do have our Valentine's day merch. @bwtb.com we have our Milk Team 6.

[A]

The shirt is beautiful. The amount of comments I got last week at super bowl week for this Milk Team 6. Honestly, right from the jump, I walk in the airport and the security, the security guys like, oh, what's that hat say? He's. I'm like, milk Team Six. She's like, what's that mean? And I'm like, it's like a shout out to the moms. I have a show. I would honestly, this is going to be awkward if I sit here and explain Milk Team six to you right now. But it's mama Team six. She started laughing. She's like, all right, I'll have to get one. I was like, bwtv.com but right from the start of super bowl week, just comments about these hats.

[B]

I saw the bring the juice pod guy. I used to make memes for him back.

[A]

Yeah, that's what he was saying.

[B]

But I saw him ask you the milk check question. I was like, I wonder if he thought that, like, that was in reference to a milk check.

[A]

Who knows? Those dudes, they. They were. They were. They were a few drinks in when I was.

[B]

Oh, for sure.

[A]

I could smell it on him.

[C]

Yeah, he's.

[B]

He's hit me up to go out with him in Nashville before when he.

[A]

Said, I can tell those some boys to get after. Some boys that get out, they love a good white football player.

[B]

They throw down in Fresno. They throw down, but he's good peeps. That's hilarious.

[A]

Good news. Our power came back on last, oh, Thursday.

[B]

Dude, that's wild.

[A]

On day 11 or 12. So last week, when I took off, when we left on Monday for the super bowl, yeah, I see a tweet saying that water pipe busted or something. And there were two streets affected. Our street was one of those two. So I sent it to my wife and I'm like, hey, is everything all right? She's like, I think so. But I'm not. I'm not back at home right now. So off the check. And she gives me a text later like, yeah, the water's out. But that got fixed in several hours. But again, just the war of the ice storm that came through Nashville, it was like the Internet. The power was out 11 or 12 days. The water, we had a small gas leak at one point in time that got fixed right away. Nobody be concerned.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

But the war, now that we're in, it's sunshine outside. It's in the 60s. Beautiful, beautiful outside.

[B]

We did. We need to do some kind of reverse curse because there's been a lot of people affect. Jared got hit with it. You got hit with a multitude of things. Derek's car luck has just been, we gotta do some kind of reverse curse.

[A]

So you got a lot of car trouble going on. And have you been saying every time the birth of those stories was, I get to do this?

[C]

Well, I had the flat tire to get pizza forever ago. I had the flat tire the other day on the tire that I replaced with it. Got some version of rear ended coming into work this morning and combined that family dog down.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Loses power. It's. It's been a year already.

[B]

Yeah. And we're in February.

[C]

Get to.

[A]

We're in February. Get to, get to 2026. The year of get to. Good, good.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'll tell you what, some good moments I was having to have some real self talk with myself because when I flew in back, back from the super bowl, wife and I going on the fertility. So for everybody, I actually saw a write in where they refer to ivf. Yeah, they're starting an IVF last week for IVF transfer. So we'll get into comments and email. Little bit.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Wife and I are in the fertility. Fertility journey right now on the march for number three. Knock on wood. It's all. We're all hopeful about stuff. But I had to fly back because boy had to. You know what I mean?

[B]

Yeah, you. You had to cash in.

[A]

I had to prepare a seed for a cup.

[B]

Yeah, you just had to cash in.

[A]

So I had to take a red eye on Friday, had to leave because we had a form energy thing the next day. And it was like, okay, it has to be on Friday or Saturday. I'm like, we have too many obligations on Friday. Would it work if I come in Saturday morning? Like, yeah, if you can find a flight. And so get on shout out kayak. No free shoutouts. But I'm kind of looking, I'm like, all right, what flights can get me back? And the only options were red eye that took off at. At midnight. West coast time. Was that Pacific? Yeah, yeah. Pacific time, Pacific time. So I take a red eye and there's a stop in Houston. So stop off in Houston, about a three hour flight or a little over three hours from San Francisco to Houston.

[B]

Do you deboard at all or you.

[A]

Yeah, get off the plane. Oh, two hour layover.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

And Houston at like seven in the morning, flying to Nashville. I probably landed in Nashville around 9:30.

[B]

Hello.

[A]

Went straight. You know what I mean?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And the amount I slept was probably. I got two and a half hours in on the first leg, but the second leg I was, I was just wired up. I was kind of just ready to get whatever it was. Yeah. But I'm going in. I'm like, man, it's gonna be a long day, bro. Two and a half hours of sleep on a plane. I'm gonna get home.

[B]

Oh, I forgot.

[A]

I'm gonna get home and like, hopefully I can just find some time to take a nap. But hey, two and a half hours sleep, we gotta operate. Good.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right when I land. Or as, like, everything gets done, it's like, hey, let's go get breakfast. Charl has one of her best friends in town.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And she's awesome. And I'm fired up. She's in town.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Fired up. She's in town with Charo. Like, they're homies. Like, they get to link up. They rarely get to. Maybe, like, once a year, they see each other.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So I'm happy for her. We go out and eat breakfast. It's. It's me, Charo, best friend, and our two kiddos. And we're operating. I'm seeing the girls. We're hugging, loving on them. It's been. I've been gone for, what, five days? I believe we're gone.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Monday through Friday. So I'm fired up to see the fam because I was itching to get back home. And you go throughout the day and. And then at the end of breakfast, she's like, hey, my wife, would you want to just take the kids with you home? And then we can go out. Teddy and I can go out and hit some. Hit some shopping or just, you know, do some girl stuff. I look at my wife, I'm like, yeah, if that's what you want me to do. Yeah, hit her with one of those.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Fortunately, it's like, hey, I'll take one of them. We got to go back to the house anyway. And I'm like, okay, good. We might not go out right away. Like, all right. Thank God. Like, maybe we're. I'm thinking in my head, I'm trying to do the math. Like, okay, what time where Willie C. Might get a little break? Because again, exhausted, and I know there. Demon as a semen team sixer. There's like, a subconscious scoreboard that's, like, there. Even though you're not trying to participate and play in the game, but something's there of, like, I know I am home and I've been gone for a while, but again, when we were at super bowl week, we're operating all. All hours a day. Like, not a lot of downtime. Like, I was on E2, hour and a half hours of sleep on the plane. I'm thinking you're hopeful that there's some empathy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You're hopeful at any pocket in the day that there could be some type of empathy and all, but also on my. If I'm playing my wife's side, it's. You're hopeful when pt6 lands that it's pt6 time I've been with Them all week long.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So now it's. That is turn to step up to the plate. I got you. I get that. And I'm on board.

[B]

If not, that's. You're just earning extra credit.

[A]

Extra credit.

[B]

That's extra credit.

[A]

Right, right, right. I'm thinking this could be some extra credit. Who knows? But either way, I know I gotta operate for a few hours. Yeah. I got to do my. I got to do my thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. And so I take all my. Yeah, go have fun. I'm. I'm ripping around with the kiddos. Put Scotty down for a nap. You know, I'm not doing the thing. Like, hey, you know, what's eta? Or when you coming back? I'm like, go have. Go do your thing. They probably get back around maybe 3:30, 4:00'. Clock. So they were gone. So, you know, several. Probably four or five hours again doing their thing. But they get home, and part of me is like, okay, thank God, because Ru and I were building a castle. Scotty was down for a nap. Ru and I were building Castle in the play area. And I'm kind of like laying on my side. I end up sliding a pillow underneath my head, like, as I'm playing with my right arm for sure. And I catch myself, start to doze. I'm like, man, I really need an app. And I was like, hey, Ruru, would you want to go play? Would you want to play a game? And we can just play a game where Dead at watches you and you do it. Maybe dead I can rest a little bit. She's like, yeah, okay, Dada. She was a sweetheart all day long. So fired up to see dad.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So she plays this turtle game, and I'm like, like, we gotta roll the dice. She's like, that is your time. Oh, sweetheart. You gotta roll for dad. You gotta roll for dad. Dad.

[B]

In this game, you get to be dad.

[A]

Yeah. Because remember, sweetie, dad wants to wrestle a bit, so I might fall asleep. And even if I fall asleep.

[B]

Still watching.

[A]

Yeah, still watching.

[B]

Still watching.

[A]

And you just do your thing.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Just if you want to go do something else or go somewhere else, just make sure to wake that up. So I'm dozing off, and then I get to where she's playing this turtle game. She gotta fill it up with water. We couldn't find the dice because again, all the moving, like there was a box. We couldn't find the dice. So I just. I found some little roller or some little cube. I'm like, you just gotta pretend.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You just gotta pretend she rolls it. You say whatever number you wanted to say, and you can move or fill it up this many times.

[B]

Is it this fun, bro?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She starts playing. I know. I end up kicking back on the couch. And I just started taking a little nap. I probably slept maybe 15 minutes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But she ends up waking me up. She's like, dad wakes me up. She's like, like, look. And I kind of looked. I was like, oh, what happened to the game? She goes, I cleaned it all up. I was like, how was the game? She's like, it was fun. She's like, but you were sleeping. So I wanted to clean it all up and put everything back where it was. And I was like, dude, you are such a rock star.

[B]

She's the best.

[A]

So we go downstairs. Wife ends up coming home, and part of me is like, all right, a little bit of help. Get a little. Maybe we'll tag team this thing. Hey, sweetheart. I miss you too. Would love to see, you know, you being at home. Like, it is nice to see. Are we all hanging out at the house? What are we doing? Are we gonna be three on two here with the kiddos? And then Charles starts, like. Teddy goes. Teddy goes back to the room. Yeah, the guest room. And then Charles starts. She's in the bathroom. I'm like, what's going on? She's like, oh, we got to get ready for dinner. I was like, hang on.

[B]

Just give him a moment, guys. Because he's just. He's getting ready really quick.

[A]

Dinner? What do you mean?

[B]

Where's our resident?

[A]

Oh, we got reservations. She's like, I told you. You told me that.

[B]

Resi for five, right?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, we're all coming.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Oh, sweetheart, I don't know if I want. I don't know if I want to go to dinner. Oh, no, no, no. It's just me and. Me and Teddy. Oh, you're going to dinner? What time's the reservation? She was like, eight thirty.

[B]

And I'm like, what time is it?

[A]

It's five o'. Clock. No. Oh. We were gonna go to a spot and get some cocktails.

[B]

Of course. Well deserved. Well deserved.

[A]

Love, my wife. She's an incredible mother. Yeah, Dad, I was gone for five days.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

I get it.

[B]

She needs a break.

[A]

She needs a break.

[B]

She needs a break. That is extra credit. Extra credit.

[A]

Two and a half hours of sleep. Long week. Dad had a long week. Like, It's. It's. It's 5 o'. Clock. It's 5:30. She's like, yeah, we're gonna go get cocktails and stuff. I was like, oh, all right, cool. I mean, that's perfect. At the bedtime, she's like, yeah, I ripped the bedtimes the last five nights. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I get that. But y' all aren't coming back until. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, you hear him out there, like, Scotty's down on mama's leg, like, screaming. And, you know, because mom's home, like, screaming to get picked up. Like, you see these hoodlums, dude, Let.

[B]

Me pull up the menu. Maybe you can bring home some takeout.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I'll get the short rip. She's like, yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna go out and get dinner. Cocktails, dinner. Okay, lovely. And so they leave, they get an Uber. You guys drive safely, have a couple drinks, come back, you know, get a little. Have a little fun, get a little excited. And I'm just. I'm now at the house with both of these kids. And not that I'm not. Not that I can't just throw on the pt6at and tell myself, good, they left.

[B]

Of course.

[A]

Door shuts, I walk over the door, lock it. Good. Yeah, it's us now.

[B]

You probably went and put on the good shirt and good hat that we.

[A]

[e-mail] self talk had to be at a premium with positivity.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because again, I'm operating very low.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I watched the kids that night. It all went well.

[B]

How were tuck ins did they? They went well.

[A]

Let me think.

[B]

Because that. That is just the Scotty's in a.

[A]

New vibe right now. She's in a new little wave.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

She's now, like, she gets restless when I'm trying to put her down to where she'll hit a little bit of the bottle. She wants to read a book, but she doesn't want to read the book she wants me to grab. There's like. There's a pile of books.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

On the nightstand. Like, this hall. This hall. I grab one open, it might read the first page, and she tries to take and pull it, and she's like. Wants me to read a different book. I'm like, okay. So I put that one down on the ground. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna hide these from her so she can't see the stack of books anymore. We go through the entire slot of books, and I'm like, yo, drink your milk, dude. Like, let's. Let's go. Usually she drinks a milk, falls Asleep. We read a book or two. Yeah, but she's in a different. She's on a different wave to where she's restless. She's like squirming. She wants to get down. So I like, put her on the ground. I'm like, go do whatever you're trying to do. She walks over to the bookshelf to grab another book.

[B]

Book.

[A]

It's usually like one of those finger pop up books. Like, you know. You know, I can. It's a square little finger puppet. You put the little finger puppet in there. It's a little rabbit. And she's gotta, you know, laugh and go into the rabbit every time I turn the page. Yeah, she was, you know, again, she's growing. Five days gone. Feels like a year. You feel like ruse Rs and Ls are getting better when you get back home. The way she's talking to you on the phone and getting back home. Listen to her conversations. Scotty's doing her own little thing again. She's just a menace at all times, really. Having to. I had to get tight with her a couple times because she just pulls Rue's hair.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

She gets mad at Rue. It's. It's getting to where it's not as funny anymore. And I'm like, hey, buddy. Like, you're kind of a bully.

[B]

It was cute at first.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But we gotta. We gotta keep the bulldog mentality for the playing field. We gotta channel it.

[A]

She'll have an entire grip just like pulling her hair. I'm like, scotty, stop.

[B]

No.

[A]

Grabbing her hand, grabbing Rue's hair to like not grab Scotty's arm, to pull it or pull it away. Grabbing Roo's hair, grabbing Scotty's arm, trying to like separate him and Russo. Like, ruse sweet to her most of the time. Like, if it's like guarding toys, that's where it's like, I don't want Scotty to play with me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Type of thing. But Scotty's just.

[B]

Is she still doing a good job of restraining herself? Real.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's mostly emotion. She's upset. Cries.

[B]

Oh, for sure. But what. How. How was it?

[A]

The.

[B]

The next morning? Was everything good?

[A]

Yeah, I probably fell asleep probably around 10. I got a good nine hours in.

[B]

Good, good.

[A]

I was a sleepy boy, bro. I popped open some. For whatever reason, I couldn't just like bring myself to go to bed. After I put the kids down, I was like, if they're out having a couple drinks, like Caleb Presley, hit me up not too long ago and I was thinking about his chickachita. So I'm like, I'm gonna go get some. Some of that peanut butter tequila. Because I was like organizing the whiskey shelf and everything. The whiskey shelves in the house. I was like, I'm gonna go drink me some. Some peanut butter tequila. And I was like, this is gonna kill my sleep. But you know what? It dude, dad wants a little bit of. Daddy wants to sip a little something.

[B]

He wants a little juice.

[A]

And who knows? We might be hitting the shock wave when mama. Yeah, that didn't happen.

[B]

You reek of peanut butter in tequila. What are you doing?

[A]

Wifey size. Oh, man, I'm exhausted. I'm just laying there with my face a little numb, thinking, God, I just gotta do. I gotta get something going. Didn't happen. Just. We just.

[B]

You look beautiful tonight.

[A]

You look good.

[B]

Did you eat a PB&J? I love you, babe. I. I had a massive dad loss that I just remembered halfway through your story. By the way. Maybe, maybe my biggest to date. I will get reamed in the comments.

[A]

Yeah. Well, how you also have the greatest dad game, dad hack. Oh, to date. That you will be talking about eventually.

[B]

I do have that too. So I really quickly. The dad loss. I'm gonna get reamed in the comments. But here we go. Jill thought that my mom was coming in town this week. That goes into my dad hack.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And in preparation of her thinking that my mom was coming in town, we are deep cleaning the house, which includes all of our Amazon boxes that I love when my wife orders stuff on Amazon. And we'll. It's honestly a lot of fun. We'll put all the boxes by the back door by the trash cans and we pile. We try to pile them as high as we can. And then where I come in is I then will take the boxes, I'll go like rip them and tear them up and put them in our trash bin. But we didn't have any room in the trash bin. So then my plan B is one time I asked G if I could throw stuff away in our dumpster here. And he was like, yeah, if it's empty. And I was like, okay, I'll go check the dumpster at Busin. As I'm leaving the dumpster or leaving to go to the dumpster. Jill's also like, can you pick up dinner? And she's hungry, so she wants food fast.

[A]

Mama bear's hungry.

[B]

Mama bear is hungry.

[A]

She needs her porridge.

[B]

Yes, you need a board. And she's like, go get the burritos shout out, baja burrito and get back asap. So when I get here and I see three Christmas trees in our dumpster, I'm like, okay, our boxes aren't fitting in there, but there's an industrial complex around here. I'll just go find a random dumpster.

[A]

How fun is that?

[B]

It's so much fun. And I do it all the time. And that's the part that I feel like I'm gonna get reamed in the comments. But I just.

[A]

Because you use random dumpsters.

[B]

Love throwing boxes in random dumpsters, dude. I love it.

[A]

Ah, dude. I think there is a. An adrenaline rush.

[B]

It's an art.

[A]

PT6ers, they go out because it was. We had a similar situation to where wifey wanted the boxes gone. Of course, dads are hall of famers when it comes to breaking down or getting rid of boxes.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And you go around and you kind of feel a little nervous, like, is everybody around? I go up to a school.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Find a local school nearby late at night, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, the middle school. Let's drive around the. Oh, intermediate. Even better because I go to the high school. I'm like, okay, it's a little too wide open. I feel like I see. I see a truck there.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I'm like, okay, dude's inside. There's a camera also looking at me. And you just start playing these mental warfare games. Like, man, they're dialing in on me right now. So I throw a couple in there, and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to get out of here.

[B]

Before the cops running my plates.

[A]

Then you get back in the truck and drive around. Let's go try to find another one.

[B]

You do. You're a multiple offender.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. This. The. The trip that I'm talking about happened right before, I think, on Sunday before we left for the super bowl. And I'm out ripping around Nashville.

[B]

Okay, maybe. Maybe I won't get reamed. Maybe I won't get read in the comments.

[A]

I think PT I think fathers completely. I hit up fellow dads, like, hey, I know you are. You're the go. He's my go to on like, hey, where's the dump? What dumpsters you use around this area? He's like, he sent me a list of three. Yeah, this one's probably best at first, but if not, go to this one.

[B]

Put. Put me in that. Put me in that group text. I could use that group. Yeah.

[A]

I think dads are out there right now being like, okay, I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one who does it.

[B]

Okay, good. So I. I started going around this industrial complex that we office near, and I find the most beautiful, empty, ginormous dumpster of all time. And I'm chucking stuff, dude. I'm chucking old pillows, old blankets, and tons of boxes. Yeah, D batteries, bro. I'm making sure they're leaking acid. And. And as I'm throwing it in there, I swear to you, I just hear the biggest dog ever. I go, good, they got a junkyard dog.

[A]

I hope it's a rottweiler.

[B]

Good, it sounded like one. And they got these big bob wire fences. I'm just like, oh, this is awesome. I'm just dumping it in there. Fast forward. I wake up the next morning, and Jill has our daughter on her hip and she's shaking me, and she goes, wait, you told me you threw away those boxes. You told me you threw away those boxes. I'm like, what? Wait, hey, what's going on? What? What's going on? Why are you yelling at me? You told me you threw away those boxes last night. They're all in our. In our driveway. It's like, bro, they brought every single one back. No, because rookie mistake. And I usually do rip the shipping label off of it. It forgot to rip the shipping label off of it because I was in such a rush. And they put every single thing that I put in that dumpster. They put it in my driveway.

[A]

Are you able to say the. The place?

[B]

No.

[A]

Okay. You don't want to give up yourself.

[B]

Yeah, well, I just don't want to give up the. Where our office is. It is quite literally just down the street. I'll show you the dumpster if you want to go see it. Damn.

[A]

Part of me gets scared as I'm putting it in. I'm like, man, there's. There's. There's my. But then I'm like, that's the old address. I know.

[B]

I gotta move now. I truly. I think that's the fix. I need a new.

[A]

Curious if people. If people did that. I've gotten caught before. I was behind a restaurant dumping him. He's like, hey, what are you doing? Oh, am I not able to use this? Oh, no, no, no. Those are ours. Yeah, we. We.

[B]

We.

[A]

We pay for those. Oh, my bad, man.

[B]

I would do this.

[A]

Let me get in the truck. You want me to take. You can leave them in there, but just don't do anymore. Okay, Got you.

[C]

Yeah, back next week.

[B]

I would do the. The Steve Balboni was my thing in college, where I'd find work sites with those huge work dumpsters. And that's where I would chuck. And they'd be like, hey. I'd be like, are y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

Are y' all with the crew? They'd be like, yeah. I'd be like, all right, just give him a thumbs up. And they're like, he must be something. I mean, he looks confident enough.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Do you guys ever ditch a mattress in one before?

[A]

No. I've either.

[C]

We had a mattress. I had a minivan. I used to sell it, and me and my buddy tied his old mattress to the top of it. Wanted a back alley in Pittsburgh, cut the ropes, and just had it slide off and pulled away as if somebody cared. Nobody cared. It was the thrill of a lifetime.

[A]

Dude. It is something about driving around, offloading your trash in somebody's dumpster, and I get. I completely get the anger that businesses and other people come from.

[B]

Oh, for sure.

[A]

If people are doing that to ours, we want to find out. You hope the label's on it. We would immediately find whoever's ready to go readily drive and go dump it in their front yard. So I get that. That. Yeah, it's like the mischievousness.

[B]

Oh, dude, it feels so good.

[A]

And it might have been the same situation with you, but we missed, like, trash recycling because of the ice storm. Like, I want to say, so we were backed up heavily. Well, to where Even part of me, when I was going to do it and said high school, middle school.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, I'm like, okay. Maybe they'll have, like, okay. People are just trying to. People just trying to get their back together. Yeah.

[B]

Karma struck in a big way because my trash today has been moved, and I miss trash day. This. It was this morning.

[A]

You want to know how karma struck me when I was doing the offloading the trash? We had probably six. Won't say the next number. We had probably six bags of diaper. Trash bags. One bust on me trying to voom. I pick. I pick up the.

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah, the trash bag of diapers, and it ripped. It rips right before I take off, and all of them fall on the ground. And I'm sitting there kind of in a panic because, you know, you're trying to be kind of quick. It's like you're in. You're in ground zero. You're behind enemy lines in the dumpster you're not supposed to be at. So you're trying to move fast.

[B]

God, I wish I could see and one rips.

[A]

I immediately stop. I look up at the camera, and then I just start, like, picking them up and, like, putting them in the. Putting them in the dumpster. But I like, shit's getting on my hand. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it was. That was a. It was a commercial.

[B]

I'm being so dead serious. Can we. We try and. And schedule one of these together?

[A]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Especially got to be like, dads are out there in the comments being like, okay, we've done this too. It's adrenaline rush of a lifetime.

[B]

This is how adults ding dong ditch. This is how we ring and run.

[A]

It feels like the first time you, like, sneak in alcohol.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Sneak in a beer.

[B]

It feels good.

[A]

Like, when your boy's like, hey, you want to go? Hey, we're going to. We're going to go drink some beer. What? Behind this party right here. And you're like, our parents are right over there. Like, yeah, dude, we're still gonna go. And you're like, all right, I'll do it too.

[B]

Y' all are all gonna do it too.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, dude, you're not.

[A]

Yeah, don't be a dude.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Throw the.

[B]

Throw the diaper bag in there.

[A]

Yeah. Rush. When, like, somebody, like an adult, like, buys you beer. Yeah. And you feel like you're just getting away with emerging, like, oh, my God. Okay, guys, I got a 24 pack of Bud Light. I got a 24 pack. That's, like, the adrenaline. It feels like.

[B]

That is. No, no, truly, that is. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I, I, I, I. Oh. What? Oh.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

Jared.

[A]

Jared, Jared. You're free to speak on the show, bro. This is not like a. I need to talk now. You just said something. I had, like, a 10 second story, but now it feels weird.

[B]

Please say it.

[A]

When you said the trash bag thing.

[B]

Where it, like, ripped open when the.

[A]

Diaper got all over you. Just in the ice storm. I think I told Sherm this story. Like, the fridge went bad. Like, everything went bad in it. So I go to load the entire fridge of rotten, like, rotisserie chicken. Like, everything's rotten in the fridge. Put it all in one milk, one trash bag. I put it all in one trash bag. McKenzie, my beautiful girlfriend, she's like, should probably double bag it or maybe split into two bags. I'm like, no, I don't know how y' all are. I want everything out in one bag. Hey, baby, trash is my deal. Yeah. You go sit on the couch. I'll handle the trash.

[B]

Yeah. You're so beautiful and sweet, though.

[A]

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I go to drag this bag out. I can't pick it up. I drag it out right in front.

[B]

Of her in the living room.

[A]

It catches the front door, rips open. Rotten chicken all over our living room and front porch. She just gets proven right right there. And she's like. She didn't even have to say it. Like, I told you so. That's where you feel such a rage that you might morph into the Hulk. I was so proud of myself for restraining my anger because she was right. She was not even rude about it. Like, she, like, gave me good advice.

[B]

I didn't take it.

[A]

And just right in front of. I just silently just picked it up with my hands, just putting it back.

[B]

Hey, dad. Dad hack, dude. By the way, my. And of course, Papa Sherm, when he was in town, got me some those contractor bags. Just having them just for any situation, dude. You never know when you're gonna use one of those humongous contractor bags.

[A]

Nothing like just dad talk, talking trash.

[B]

And not even that was even written down on our things to talk about, dude. It's just the love of the game.

[A]

Love of the game. And there's no l to take. Like, the one you take in front of your girl, in front of your wife when they're trying to give you advice or tell you something and you're like, okay, down.

[B]

There's a rip.

[A]

And then it happens. And you're like. It's not even an argument. It's just like, yeah, you're right. But now she's got it. The next time she gives you a recommendation. Yeah, exactly.

[B]

She.

[A]

And you'll be like, you know what? You sweetheart, you are beautiful. You are right most of the time. I will listen to this.

[B]

It's probably a good take. Yeah, good take. I. But yes, that was my dad loss very quickly into the dad hack. I got.

[A]

Not very quickly. Come on now.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

This is. This is dad Game right here.

[B]

This is dad Game.

[A]

And Sixers are tuned in. Bro.

[B]

I will be so honest to say that, like, I stumbled into this dad hack, but essentially what it has turned into is my mom was planning on coming in February, and the dates that she was going to come are this week. However, Jill's. We moved here from Texas. Jill misses her friends dearly. Like Charo's friend that she sees once a year. That's. That's. These two are. That's it. That for her. And she's not homesick. But, dude, she's just missing home. She's missing her girls, and she's Telling me about it all the time. And I'm like, man, we gotta get back to Texas and we gotta figure something out for her to visit fam. And all of a sudden Lauren Lolo texts me and says, hey, me and Abby really want to come up and surprise Jill. What would be a good week? And I'm like, light bulb. Oh my God. Because Jill's awful with surprises, terrible at him. Like she, she will figure it out every single time. And I was like, I have the perfect one. She already thinks my mom's coming in town. I already have plane itinerary that I can show Jill. And we just moved my mom coming in town to the end of the month and I told my mom just completely go with it that you're still coming in town. And I couldn't have played it any better of just because Jill always says, oh, you do a terrible job of like planning stuff whenever your mom's coming in town. And like you're, you're always so reluctant to get the house clean and stuff.

[A]

Like PTSD going as you say.

[B]

But I'm like, I'm like excited. I'm so excited because I know how much joy is going to like come out of her friends coming that I'm having to pretend like this is just a regular family members coming in town. Shouldn't we get the carpet cleaner from Home Depot and make sure all the good. Honey, I don't. Do we really have to do that? But in the back of my mind, like I would love to do that because we gotta get the house and. Yeah, when's your mom coming? I don't even know. Like I'll text her. She hasn't even texted me back. I'm trying to call her. I'll. Honey, I'll figure it out. I don't know when she's coming in the morning of the pickup. Doesn't your mom land at 9? I told her earlier time than what it actually was so that she'd be ready with Scarlet. And I'm like, I'm like, I think. I don't, I don't know. Oh, It's. No, it's 10:45. So like we have some time. That's when the box debacle happened, by the way, was during all that. I had to go pick, you know.

[A]

A massive surprise is about to land. Well and somebody came and dumped the boxes off. And she said, I thought you handled the boxes, bro.

[B]

She has no makeup on, no nothing going. Like hair's not even really done up. Super nice going to the airport. So I know I have succeeded because anytime she knows that, like, a picture is going to be done, she's got a cute outfit. We're just picking up Sherm's mom from the airport, and I'm like, God, we killed it. And I'll show the video. I'll put it, like, in the episode edit. But I go, hey, I faked a phone call with my mom, and I was like, hey. She said, you and Scarlet can go in there. Her bags haven't come out yet at baggage claim. And she was like, oh, okay. She's like, you want to go see Sunny? You want to go? And I just see her go through the glass doors, and then I see her pace picking up, like, through the windows. So I wasn't inside for it. But, dude, I was just like, God, we murdered this. And then now it's just been this entire, like, euphoric week of, like. Her smile is so big, dude, she's so freaking happy. Her friends are so happy. They have matching Valentine's Day pajamas that they're all wearing right now at the house, and they're getting pictures, and there's babies crawling everywhere. We've already dealt with the ear infection. One of the babies ears bursted on the plane, and they had to go to a doctor right when they landed. It's kind of like there's been some trenches here and there, but, like, oh, dude, when you have three moms in the same. Under the same roof, like, anything is possible. They don't need me for anything. And people on social media are like, oh, Sherm's outnumbered. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, in the best way possible, I'm like a superhero if I start a fire in the fireplace, I'm a superhero if I do. If I lift a finger at the house, they're like, sherman's so helpful and so sweet. And I'm like, yeah, you know.

[A]

You know, Sherman's in a good pocket, too, because I saw you tweet, too. Like, they went to Target. You were watching all the kiddos.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

But it's like the dad mode that he would have to be in normally is like, all right, you say one friend was in town or say, my situation. You guys go out, I'll watch the kids. But you having the friends that are also moms with their kids in town, they're doing the mom thing. You're not going to be taking care of their kids. So Jill's not going to be, like, pressing you, like, oh, I'll do. We'll all do it. Together?

[B]

No.

[A]

You just kind of get to kick back and relax a little bit.

[B]

Truly. And they're like. They're like, oh, my gosh. My. Like, their kids. Kids. Margot and Jane, they're like, oh, Jane is smiling at Sherman. Oh, my gosh. Margot wants to hug Sherman. And I'm like, yeah, I'm here. Like. Like, everything's a win. Everything's positive. And they're like, let's buy you dinner. Oh, don't do the dishes. I will do that. I'm like, oh, my God. This is, like, the greatest thing in the entire world.

[A]

They all can't get out. Mommed.

[B]

They all can't get out.

[A]

Mom, you're just playing hero ball. You want me to watch Scarlet, you go hang. Oh, no. They got their kids, too. I'll take Scarlet. I'll take Scarlett as well. Get out, Mom.

[B]

You don't have to do that. And then the best part was last night when they were going to Target. They all have, like, Nana apps set up for the individual sleep chambers that they've built for their kids.

[A]

Bro.

[B]

So many dad hacks have come out this week. They make tents that you can put over those pack and play beds that, like, block out all the light. I'll send a pic to you. I was like, that's actually sick. Yeah, so your kid can be sleeping in the same room, but they're, like, kind of chambered in there. But they all have nanit apps. So when they went to Target, I was like, honey, do I need to stay on the couch while you are at Target, or is it okay if I, like, go to the bed and just sit on my phone? And her friends were like, oh, my gosh, you can go to the vet. And Jill's like, no, no. Like, you should probably be on the count. Blah, blah. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, no, he could. He could be in bed. I was like, yeah. Hey, see? See?

[C]

You see?

[A]

Hey. Yeah, y' all gotta be here more often.

[B]

Yeah. Come on.

[A]

Hey, they're saying it.

[B]

You see?

[A]

It's all good. If I go just kick my feet.

[B]

Up on the bed, I'm like, this is incredible. And I ended up getting to go kick my feet up in the bed. It was awesome. Dude, it's been unreal. We gotta do this way more.

[A]

You've. This move has reset a standard for PT6.

[B]

It hasn't. It hasn't even reset a standard, though, from the. Like, I saw some comments on social media. Husband of the Year. Dad of the Year. What a Great.

[A]

Like, I'm like, I'll take them, but.

[B]

Hey, no, I, I will take them, but do it yourself and you'll see how easy it is. I don't deserve a medal.

[A]

You tapped into something, whether you call it failing forward, stumbled into whatever. When the light bulb went off, you found something that's like you almost can't touch.

[B]

You can't touch it.

[A]

But if you do somehow get in that stratosphere.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That atmosphere, that air, it's talking to God.

[B]

Oh, it's like talking and dude, their husbands, they're like at home plan. They're. Dude, they're playing video games.

[A]

They're hanging with the boys for everybody.

[B]

They're so, they're so happy. They're so happy at home and they get their little FaceTimes in.

[A]

Think about that surprise factor. It kind of bums me out. You didn't get that. You saw her pace pick up in the airport when she got the. You know what I mean? Like, first seed. Did any of her friends take video?

[B]

They did and I'll put it in the episode. Yeah, she just starts sobbing. It's not like the best video ever, but like she just loses.

[A]

It's an amazing video. Probably sucks for her because she's like, I'm not done up. I'm crying, I'm doing this.

[B]

Oh no. Like, she won't mind me post it, but like it's shaky and stuff and it's amazing.

[A]

Yeah. If dude, I, I. You, you know, you think you're going up to pick up your mother in law and I'm. They. They can have a. The greatest relationship ever.

[B]

Shout out, Miss Amy. They. They each other and yes.

[A]

Yeah. But seeing a couple of your best friends with their kiddos standing there at baggage claim.

[B]

Oh, dude, she. You can see in the video she stutters twice because she's like, the.

[A]

What are you guys doing in ash?

[B]

Am I seeing, like, am I seeing something real?

[A]

And how long were they here?

[B]

They're here till Thursday.

[A]

So how many days is that? Yeah, how long you guys here? We're here till Thursday.

[B]

Oh, yeah. And Jill has a whole week off, so she's elated, bro. They went to the zoo yesterday. They got all matching outfits for the girls. They got like, dude, it. Dude, I'm telling you, you. It's not me, it's the. The. If we're looking for a factor in the equation to make this happen, you just have to make sure that your wife's friends rock. That they're awesome and super sweet and helpful and like you love having them in your home. Like, that's really the only two factors. It's like, yeah, my wife's friends suck and they're. They're here and they're yelling at me and blah, blah, blah. Get that. But like once you, you click play, you just step back, you're like, oh my God.

[A]

Sounds like it'd still be worth the potential beating. Verbal beating at times probably.

[B]

If one of the friends kind of sucked. I would say totally go for it, dude. And then that's kind of their problem.

[A]

That's a massive W, bro. Bravo.

[B]

Thank you. Bravo. Yeah, I mean, it's been incredible. It's been incredible.

[A]

Charles, listening to this right now, thinking like, man, I hope we'll do something like this for me one day.

[B]

Oh, dude, you easy. All.

[A]

All the MT Sixers, everybody's rooting for this. That's what I'm saying. I feel like this is a.

[B]

Everyone wins, dude. Everyone wins. And even if you're not the guy to do it, you're. You might be one of the husbands that finds out about the secret plan. Well, honey, let me help you pack. I mean, we got to make sure the surprise is good, you know?

[C]

Yeah. There's a little black. I'd say Sher.

[B]

Oh, what happened?

[C]

You're depriving a couple guys with their families. Yeah, I mean we, we can celebrate it, but.

[B]

And Derek, I didn't. I appreciate you, like, gotta keep you honest. I know, and I do appreciate that because there are two dads out there that aren't getting to see their, their daughters for four days.

[A]

Yeah, let's keep that. You strong armed a couple PT6ers, families from them. Yeah. For three nights. Four days. Three nights.

[B]

Yeah. Where they're gonna have to be hanging out at the house, eating whatever they want, watching whatever they want, playing whatever.

[A]

They want, getting worse at life, essentially.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

I mean, think about it. You eat pizza, you eat junk food, you play video games, you have a few beers, you have freedom. You have nobody in the house. You got a little silence. Some might equate it to peace and quiet. I. I equate it to torture.

[B]

Will, everything that you just said is true. But multiply that by five because they flew in on Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah.

[A]

You're telling me those dads had to watch the Super Bowl? They probably buy themselves or go partake in another lame super bowl party with some of their boys.

[B]

Probably had to Uber back because they weren't fit to drive. I mean, this Derek, thank you. Because I didn't Even think about that, dude. And. And to those two dads, Jake and Cole. David. Apologies. Yeah, apologies. I didn't even realize.

[A]

Yeah, you lose a little bit of yourself when your wife's out there to tell you what to do, how to do it, what to eat, how to eat it. You know what I mean? How to dress the kiddos.

[B]

I'm sitting here gloating.

[A]

Oh, dad of the year. Yeah, What a move. I hate it when my wife's not there to tell me that we have boxes sitting by the garage door. You know what I mean?

[B]

Oh, this is a new record high that we just hit of the stack of boxes. Will.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Here's your metal.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I didn't think you would let it ever get this high. Well done.

[A]

Yeah. All right.

[B]

All that being said, I appreciate that you guys have room in Yalls hearts to forgive me for what I. I've. For what I've done.

[A]

Not having, hopefully not having to do bath time. Strip the joy from our hearts, man. Yeah. Oh, should we do crack a cold one?

[B]

We can, we can, we can absolutely crack a cold one.

[A]

Ollie pop Shirley Temple, their new heater. And it is amazing. We just had an awesome podcast yesterday. This is such a high profile athlete. I cannot leak who it's going to be. They're going to be on the pod of busting with the boys next week. But he is a father of four and talked. He talked highly of the Shirley Temple lollipop.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Don't you remember?

[B]

Yes, I forgot about that.

[A]

And I think he used this deal that you're about to read.

[B]

He did use this deal. Yeah. We actually went in deep about this deal because I personally have gone through it in the deal is kind of nice. So what is going on with Olipop? Here's the deal. Buy any two cans of Olipop in store and we'll pay you back for one. Works on any flavor at any retailer. Will you probably saw me at Costco take a picture of that huge mountain of, you know, Ollipop cans. But they also have them in the little cold refrigerated area where you can get the.

[A]

Oh, I saw that photo. It's saved in an album right now. That's album labeled.

[B]

Keep it in the end. Keep it in the end. We ain't cutting it.

[A]

God, we love to laugh.

[B]

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[A]

Can't say enough about it.

[B]

We love them.

[A]

Honestly.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Love Olipop. I forget who I was. Oh, I think it was somebody with our. With Showbox Boat.

[B]

Oh, my partner's a shamboat. Was it Savannah? I think she told me a hilarious.

[A]

Story about you about wanting to get. What was it? What's the grocery store out in LA with the Haley Bieber smoothie?

[B]

I can hear her saying it too. It's like our way or our Arroway Airway. Something like that.

[C]

E R E W H O N Ereowin Grove. Erwin Irwin Erawa. It's got a strawberry glaze.

[A]

It's a phenomenal. You know, it's an incredible grocery store. But we were going and picking up our lunch and I was on the Searchers. I needed a Chris Papple Olipop.

[B]

She. She called me. Essentially, she works with Olipop and shout out. Savannah. They do a great job. And she. She told me she was just a little bit concerned because Olipop was saying, this is the most we've ever shipped to a podcast.

[A]

They.

[B]

He's really drinking this stuff.

[A]

Tell you. She's like, oh, will actually really loves Olipop.

[B]

Oh. She was like, he. He was like, hey, can we stop at the airway?

[A]

I got.

[B]

I got to pick up some ollipop. And y' all were like going to something like, work wise. You're like, no, I need to get Olipop first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we ain't going until again.

[A]

I was tweeting about ollipop before Ollipop even came into the picture of busting with the boys before the dads. And it's. She's like, oh, you actually really like Olive. Oh, yeah. I'm not. I'm not around.

[B]

She said she saw you scratching at your neck as you were walking through the soda aisle.

[A]

Because I was trying to find crisp apple and they were kind of restocking some different drinks. And I wasn't seeing crisp apple because.

[B]

They'Re selling out constantly. Yeah, I'm sure.

[A]

Yeah. Chris Papple. They are.

[B]

Oh, big time.

[A]

Probably because that's what I tell myself is because of this pod. But during the ice storm, when I was doing the videos and talking about, oh, this Target has crisp apple on West End. Yada, yada, yada. Like gas stations and spots that I would go to to get crisp ollipop like they were empty.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

There's a bunch of other flavors. Crisp apple was out and watermelon lima would have like one or two left.

[B]

You want, you want a here's a dad hack. You want to find ollipop really quick, go to Target soda aisle. And you're gonna see everything's gonna look beautifully stock gap where it looks like nothing's there. Go straight there and look in the back and there's gonna be like three Olipops left cuz they're flying off the shelves. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

I have a good. I have a solid crack of cold one this week. One that I'm honestly excited to talk about. Okay, let me, let me, let me look. I love my family. I love all the crack a cold ones I talk about. This one I was giddy to kind of talk about because Rue surprised me the other night. We were doing bedtime. You know, it was either one of the first nights I was home and she was like, we kind of read a lot of the same books every night. Yeah, I'm sure parents, you'll sit there, you'll have an entire bookshelf with all these children's books and all these things, what you stocked it with and fun reads and everything else. But your little one always gets accustomed to these few. They love to just recycle, which is, which is always fun. But there are these books that I've always been fascinated with that I would read to Rue when she was probably like maybe a little before 2 years old when I first like came across this book. I want to say Charl might have bought it it. And it's called what you do with an idea by. By Kobe Yamada.

[B]

You read it to us.

[A]

I read another book because when I went down to somewhere in Franklin, we were shopping in one of these little, one of these little stores and the Kobe is it Yamada. Yamada. Kobe Yamada, that's right. And that's the author of this book and he's got a series. When I realized he has a series of books, not just what you do with an idea. I was like, I need all of these books.

[B]

Yes. Dude, which one did you read to us in the office? Because it wasn't the idea idea one.

[A]

It wasn't the idea one. And it's so funny you bring that up. And for everybody listening, this was a legitimate team meeting. One day I read a Kobe Yamada book in front of the team. To the team. Yeah.

[B]

Like, very serious.

[A]

I was being serious about it, even though these are, like, children's books. And I'm stoked because Rue's three. She's gonna be four in April. Yeah. I feel like she's. She started. When I read this book, we're sitting there talking about it and talking through and everything else, which I am obsessed with. Yeah, because you always want to. You know, you want to. You want to help give them philosophies or things to, like, frameworks to form, like, when they're going through things. And I'll get into what you do with an idea, but the one I made, the one I read to you guys, was trying, trying, trying, because you fail over and over and trying, and it had a lot of good. Again, they're like, short reads. It's a children's book, and I'm legitimately reading this to the team because I'm like, I feel like this is. Would be great for everybody.

[B]

You were showing us the illustrations as well. You were in full dad reading mode. He had the book turned, and he was reading to us like this, turning the pages.

[A]

Seriously.

[B]

I have a video of it. I'll put it in the episode. I recorded it. I recorded it.

[A]

But he's got a bunch of books. Dude, it's like, I typed in here comey Yamada books. And there's some right here that I'm not even. I haven't even known that they were out there. But what you do with an idea, maybe what you do with a problem, what you do with a chance. Because I had a teacher finding muchness, trying, noticing. Why not? Chasing dreams, feeling grateful. I want all of these. This is. This is like. This is a massive shout out to Kobe Yamada. Because I love these children's books and kind of the frameworks they give you as a parent for, like, story time and reading along when your little one starts to get curious and ask you questions. But what you do with that idea is essentially this little boy, he finds this idea, and the idea is like a little pet egg with a crown on it, and he finds this idea, and he kind of likes the idea. And then when he thinks about what this idea, what he could do with this idea, he gets a little shy and scared and worried and anxiety about it. What if he shows off this idea, this little weird egg in front of people? Like, if he brings the idea in front of people? Like, what if they laugh at it? What if they, you know, talk it down and mock you and all of these things. And it kind of sends him back into, I don't want anything to do with the idea. Because what the world externally has told me me now that I've brought the idea in front of everybody.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But he realized. The little boy realizes the idea wouldn't leave him. It would stay around and watch him do things out in the field or around these animals. And then one day, he realized he wanted to. He loved the idea so much. He didn't just want to throw away the idea because the idea would stick around and he would nurture it and feed and love on it and, you know, and still confident he would get it, confidence in himself with the idea and. And be obsessed over this idea to one day. Then one day he takes the idea and it starts not only changing him, but changing everything around him. Like, there's these illustrations where the grass gets greener. It starts off in, like, black and white, but the egg is, like, yellow. And you have the yellow crown and everything else. And throughout the illustrations of the story, the forest gets green, the animals start to get color. It starts to, like, get rooted. It starts showing the roots, like, underground because the idea is changing the board. And then the boy brings the idea. He builds the idea a house so they could sit and look at the stars and dream and talk about other ideas with the animals. And then one day, the idea touches. They get to a town, and the idea touches the town so much that it changes everything around the environment to where one day, the idea, the little egg, it gets bigger and bigger. It takes wings and blasts off into the sky, and it becomes like this big white orbit and changes the entire world. And it's like, what do you do with an idea? You change the world, and that is how it ends. And then the crown is on the boy's head at the end of it because he's just kind of reminiscing on. This is what you do with an idea. Yeah. Because there's gonna be times where you have fears. You're, like, talking with your little one because she's asking you questions. And I'm just so obsessed that she's starting to ask questions like this because I get into, like. I'll, like, add words myself throughout the story. And then you kind of get in a little bit of lecture time because she's so focused on the questions she's asking and what you're saying to your. To your little one one to where you're just talking about, you know, anytime you wanted to ride Your bike and you were scared or any example. Or when you're shy in front of people or you might want to tell somebody the idea. And you. You want Dada to say the idea. You don't want to say the idea. Like, all those fears and insecurities that happen.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you kind of don't want to share it because you're worried about how the response might be to you. And just you dive into all of those things. And I'm obsessed with the book. So. Mike, crack a cold one this week goes to Kobe Yamada. And the book in particular. What you do with an idea, what you do with a problem is awesome. Trying is awesome. But what you do with an idea was kind of the first one that I'm sitting there and we're doing story time, and I'm like, yo, this book rips.

[B]

I cannot put my stamp of approval on this anymore because. And I'm furious. I meant to text you, shout out. Jill, she bought that idea book. And I read it to Scarlett in a nighttime tuck in. And I thought to myself, these illustrations and the premise of this book reminds me a lot of that book that will read. I bet this is the same author. And as I was going through the book as well, I truly was like, I've never seen the idea of stepping out and being kind of like a. A creator or like a creative or having, you know, something that you're wanting to build be illustrated so beautifully, so eloquently, even for an adult.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

I was reading the book and going, hell, yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Hell yeah. This is exactly what it's like when you're trying to. Cannot put my stamp of approval on it anymore. I love that book.

[A]

And you're sitting there reading it knowing, like, you know, when Rue is one or one and a half or whatever, I'm like, all right, there's. There's nothing that I can give her of. Of substance now. Like, I personally love this book because you're right, like, even as an adult, and you're talking about what you do with an idea. Yeah. And nurturing it and feeding it and pouring everything you can into this idea because you love it so much.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And they. People might not love it now, but if you. If you stick with it and again, continue to pour into it as often as much as you can, where you're just obsessed with it, one day you're going to start changing lives.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then those people that were laughing at it starts coming around because. Because nothing's cool until it's cool.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And then you, you know, you change the world. And your world might just be a few people at first.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

World might be the world. Like I. It's. It's unbelievable. Even in parenthood where you're, you know, essentially you're. You have to have like an ego death with your old life in a way of. All of your responsibility now goes into your kid to where there's some friction at times with, say, your wife or your spouse or your partner that you have a kid with with. To where you're having to adapt and change a lot of your old ways. Because now you have the biggest responsibility, the biggest blessing of all time.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And at first, like, your kid can even be the idea of the egg.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

To where. All right, I don't want to change all my habits with the fellas or, hey, we're still going to get together. We're still going to do all these things and you realize you kind of can't. And then you hear, oh, so and so you've changed. You don't play video games with us anymore. You change all these things that we're. Where you feel like, you know, the group's kind of like they don't, they might not have kids, so they don't get it. And they might be in their group chats, whatever assumptions you might have in your brain. Yeah. But you're going back to the kid and you're pouring everything into the kid, Nurturing it, loving it, feeding it. This. It is the egg. The kid is the egg. And then one day the kid is going to have all these philosophies and frameworks that they got from you and mom and the people that you, that they've, that you've surrounded them with and they're going to go out and change the world and whatever that looks like to them. Isn't that crazy and incredible to think about?

[B]

Yeah, it's awesome. It's. I mean, I have a 7 month old, so I'm really just reading a book out loud to myself. And that's the only book that I've. I've read like 40 to Scarlett that as I'm going through it, I'm like, hell yes. After every single page, I'm just like, dude, this is awesome.

[A]

These are a series of books too that I'm just talking to parents you will just love, like Sherman saying you will individually love reading them. Yeah. You'd be like, oh, snap. Bedtime story time. Like, let's hope.

[B]

This is very applicable to me as a parent or as an adult or as an uncle or as a mom, like, whatever.

[A]

Yeah. And that, that. That author. Once I saw that that author had all these books trying his. Once I saw that, I'm like, oh, my gosh. He's got. Got. He's got books with an idea, a problem having a chance. Why not? Chasing dreams, finding muchness. Because I had a teacher. Like, all of these things where I want. I recommend every parent to get them all.

[B]

Go get them. Like. Like Pokemon.

[A]

I don't even know if I said what Rude. Did I say what? Rue surprised me with no all to say. Rue was fired up for story time and bedtime, and she was like, dad, don't come in my room. She said, I want to surprise you.

[D]

You.

[A]

And then she's like, okay, daddy, you can come in my room. And she was like, the surprise is under my covers.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

And I'm like, okay, what is it? She's like, a story time. She's like, I think it's your favorite. And I lift open the covers and it's what you do with an idea. And I was like, let's go, dude.

[B]

And you had already read it to her, right?

[A]

I've read it to her before. She knows how much I love it.

[B]

But she goes off your favorite.

[A]

Yeah. Like, there'll be like, what's the thick book where it's got all the tales, like, I think they call them, like, not nursery rhymes, but.

[B]

Oh, the Brothers Graham book that you.

[A]

Buy, it's got a lot of different, like, Repon. Is it Hansel and Gretel?

[B]

Yeah. All the Germanic, like, fairy tale type. Right.

[A]

But I know they, they. They call them something, but all of these little books are in this massive book. So we'll sit there and go through. We'll sit there and read those. But she gets in phases with some of her story time. Yeah, but dude, when she lifted that up, I was so fired up.

[B]

That's electric.

[A]

Because as much as I like, sit there and I want to force the book on her, there's been times I'm like, oh, hey, what if we read. We haven't read the. What you do with an idea in a while. I don't want to read that one. I'm just like, part of you's, like, sad. You're like, damn. I just want you to get into something like this because this is. These are frameworks of life, honey.

[B]

It's gotta click at some point.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

This has gotten years old. Yeah. So what is your idea? Yeah, yeah. Maybe next time the surprise could be.

[A]

Your idea because in the.

[B]

Yeah, Little homework.

[A]

In the book too. You know, when you get to the page to where the kid standing on his hands, the idea, you know, instill the confidence to where he's standing on his hands and you see the world from a different vantage point and you can flip the book and then it's him kind of holding up the town and everything else to where you see it differently and all you're doing is flipping the book. It's just. I think it is unbelievable.

[B]

Yeah. I cannot agree more. Retweet, like share everything that you just said. Said.

[A]

Do you feel the passion coming out my goddamn voice?

[B]

Demon De. For those that didn't hear, demon's head type. Type. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

I'm obsessed with them. Guys, I'm telling you, parents, like, just get Kobe Yamada books in your life.

[B]

And the illustrations are very well done. Yes, Extremely well done.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Maybem does the illustration.

[A]

Oh, Jenna May bem, let's go.

[B]

Maybe I. Kobe Yamada.

[A]

We got to get him on.

[B]

We got to get him on posting.

[C]

A lot in Portugal. I'm looking at his Instagram now. He's a jet setter, bro. He looks like someone I'd want to hang out.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

He looks sick.

[A]

These the, the, you know, again, hey, these right here, these are the stories, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got a crude.

[B]

None of the.

[A]

I want the ones that make you think, yeah, I'm even tying it back. I'm like, yo, this kid, the egg. I'm the boy and the egg is rue.

[B]

Yes. But people don't. People don't get that it's deeper. It's deeper. But no, I agree. I agree. Those books, those books are incredible. And they will come around. They will get it.

[A]

People don't think the way you over there thinking.

[B]

They don't get it.

[A]

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[B]

Y' all probably didn't even turn the page upside down. You thought, he's walking on his hands.

[A]

Yeah, they just drew him upside down.

[B]

And then you get a whole new perspective. Your perspective shifts.

[A]

Parents that do have these books are going to be sounding off right now.

[B]

They will, because they are real, man. They're fabulous. My cracker cold. We kind of. I mean, we did it and I apologize. I jumped the gun. It's. It's just the girls being at the house and in town. But I will say the idea, My cracker Coal one is getting to be Scarlet's first Valentine. I'm very excited for that. Going to get her a little card, going to do some flowers.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm seeing all these videos of, like, dads, you know, doing a daddy daughter Valentine date on social media, and I'm like, oh, my God, I can't wait for that. And just being around, like, a large group of people. A large group of people. Larger than two. Because it's usually just Jill and I at the house, but we had all the babies and all the moms around the dinner table on our first night and had a little pizza night. And Scarlett's sitting there munching. It was her first time eating pizza. So shout out that. But she's munching on that bread and she's putting the cheese in her mouth and she's loving the cheese and she's looking at everybody at the table. But every single time she saw me, dude, dude, she would instantly just smile from across the table and start going like that. And I'm like, God, oh, my God, I am in trouble.

[A]

She's just so in love with the. With your little girl, man.

[B]

Oh, I'm in trouble, dude, because she's not doing that with anybody else at the table. In my head, I like to think.

[A]

Boy dads, I don't think get that. Yeah, they don't get.

[B]

Y' all don't get that, man.

[A]

Yeah, they don't get that, man.

[B]

They will one day. They'll get it.

[A]

They get a little girl.

[B]

Absolutely. Absolutely. I. Okay, so we hit crack a Cold one. Yeah.

[A]

We got to keep it under an hour.

[B]

We have to keep this episode out under an hour. Do we want to jump into our shout outs very quickly?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And then do you think fun segue. We could do voicemails.

[C]

I would say if you want to do game real quick and then hit voicemail. Let's show with some emails. We can do that. Let's do game fun.

[A]

We got a little game show. Little game show. Willie, one shelf and Sherm's gonna do it. Here we go. We got a shout out here. And again, if you want to be featured on this show, we read comments every week. If you want to get featured and get merchandise, you can call into our hotline 601 the Dads. That is our voicemail. You can call into. If you cannot. If you are international on foreign soil oil and you can't call into the voicemail, you can reach out to us and email us at 601thedads.gmail.com. this first one on YouTube, what does it say? Slimo shadow72. Oh, hey boys. Just wanted to shout out my wonderful wife and mt Sixer Noel, mama of three boys. Sadly, two of our boys passed away as babies from genetic disorders. But through both pregnancies she was poked and scanned like a lab experiment tournament. But not once did she complain about it. She kept her war face on because she will do anything for her babies. She wears Grayson and Asher on her sleeve every day. Now our two year old Oliver keeps us on our toes and brightens our world. Keep up the good work, boys. Papa team Sixer Adam out. Adam, thank you for writing in Noel.

[B]

Happy Valentine's day.

[A]

Yeah, Happy Valentine's day.

[B]

Happy Valentine's Day, Christian. 17:26 on Spotify says says best day of the week. Happy Valentine's day to my beautiful strong wife, Michelle. Let's go Christian.

[A]

Let's go Christian. Sorry, that one kind of shook me reading. Just the first reading. Just the first one. This one is from Megan Freund. Hi boys. My husband Scott has been listening to the pod since it started. Since it was a podcast for dads, I assumed I wouldn't like it. But one day he listened or one day he was listening to for to afford the dads episode on YouTube and I got hooked. When my husband first told me about the pod that I thought he said it was will and charming like the toilet paper. So now that is our little inside joke. Sorry, Sherm. Laugh out loud. Last year we found out that we were pregnant just two days after Valentine's Day. Okay Shockwave. Now we have a 3 month old baby boy Sawyer born October 31st. We have a Spooktober Halloween baby this year for Valentine's Day we are not going to do gifts for each other. Although y' all reading this email on the pod would be a sick gift. But we are trying to stay on budget because I am officially a stay at home mom as of the end of January.

[B]

Shout out.

[A]

Let's go.

[B]

That's huge.

[A]

My husband is is an amazing man and it was never a question whether I would stay home or not. We just knew I would and he would do whatever he had to make sure that I could. He works so hard every day, gets up at 4:30am to go work just to be able to support our family so I can stay home and watch our little boy grow up. He is supportive of me, he is kind, he's always there for me and he is such a great partner in parenting. He is an amazing dad and loves our son so much. I couldn't imagine being a. I couldn't imagine a better man to be able to have children with and I am so thankful to have him to lead our family. We obviously don't have much time for ourselves or each other now that we have a three month old. But I am so thankful for the pod because now every Saturday morning we make our coffee or sometimes we drink an Olipot pop and we listen to the to this week's episode together. It is like a free at home coffee date that I look forward to all week. Thanks for the parenting info, advice and laughs. Happy Valentine's Day voice that is what.

[B]

Was her name and his name.

[A]

His name is Megan Fre and his name is Scott. Shout out SC of a writing as you could get.

[B]

I literally want now from afar. Happy Valentine's Day.

[A]

Yeah. And enjoy the coffee right now or Ollie Pop as you're sitting and listening to the episode.

[B]

Truly feel so blessed to even be a part of that little moment that Yalls family shares every morning. Like that's incredible. And your son's going to be a legend just like his dad.

[A]

He's going to be built for the aap.

[B]

Yeah he is.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

My daddy was waking up at 4:30.

[A]

Get the Kobe Yamada books.

[B]

Get the Kobe start rating at 3 months old. You ain't going to get it Scott. You ain't gonna get it. But happy Valentine's Day Scott.

[A]

Happy Read the book to him and you just look he's three, you know, just falling asleep. You don't fucking get it. Right now, bud.

[B]

Yeah. Drink up. Drink your milk. Lexi Morris says hi fellas. I wrote in a while back to gush on my husband Michael, who was one month post his life saving stem cell transplant. He's now 100 plus days out from transplant and he recently had a totally clear PET scan. Let's go. No cancer detected. Michael, I've loved you since you were 14 years old. Damn. Damn.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Stay in it.

[B]

Michael, I've loved you since you're 14 years old. And I've loved you more every day since. Here's to a kids for free life together with our girl. Cheers. Dam. Lexi. Damn. Yeah. Deke, what are you doing? Happy Valentine's Day.

[A]

I know he's tugging on the heartstrings. You. Adam, you could have looked.

[B]

Will, I apologize. You're just seeing these now. You could have looked. Oh my gosh. Asked for. No, we did. I'm. I'm really glad we. We get to read comments like that. I'm. Derek knows that I'm joking but. Dang dude. That's so sick. Like Lexi's so lucky to have Michael. Michael's so lucky to have Lexi. We're very lucky to have listeners like that. And love is a really cool thing. Valentine's Day is a really cool holiday. I. And it's like. Like hitting me more and more now that I have a daughter of where I get to like kind of be in that her growing up and kind of like figuring out what love is. I can't wait to be a part of that. Yeah. So I got another one to read.

[A]

I'm sure you got another one.

[B]

Hello. Kleenex.

[A]

We're just gonna be crying. Yeah, we're just gonna be crying for the next five minutes.

[B]

Kleenex please.

[A]

We.

[B]

We would be happy and willing to have a sponsor. Hey guys. This comes from Holen. Holden. Holden says here from Nebraska gbr. I want to give a huge Valentine's Day shout out to my wife Marissa. She truly is a super mom. We have a two and a half year old girl who is constantly bouncing off the walls. Marissa is 31 weeks pregnant with our baby boy and she works a full time job.

[A]

Job.

[B]

Somehow she does it all and does it with grace. She's also slowly becoming an MT Sixer along the way. Let's go. I'm not always great at doing cute things for her. Something I'm working on. So I'm hoping this email might make it into the pod and be a surprise for her. If it does, I just want to say Marissa, I love you from the bottom of my heart. Damn, you mean the world to me. You're incredible. Wife. Wife. You're an amazing mom to our daughter. And I can't wait to see you with our baby boy very soon. I love you. Thanks, boys. Hold it. What are you doing?

[A]

What are you doing?

[B]

What are you doing?

[A]

I wasn't trying to cry today. I'm telling you.

[B]

What are you doing?

[A]

I'm still up from the first one of losing the two boys.

[B]

Marissa, you sound like an absolute empty sicko. You sound like an absolute empty sicko. And good luck. And I can't wait for y' all to meet El's baby boy. That's so exciting. And Holden, you are the man. And I hope that Marissa enjoys her surprise. That's a very good value.

[A]

Holden, too, he's getting to watch right now. He's got a couple different. He, you know, he. Holden's gonna get all the books he just talked about, you know, hold. You know, hold. You know, Holden. Holden's also writing down at this. He's like, what did he say? I'm not like the. The cutest when it comes to surprises or the best, but he just ripped one right here.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Where he gets a surprise, but early in the episode, he gets to hear the greatest surprise that you can make happen.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

As a PT6 or one day. And he's writing it down. He's like, God, I gotta remember.

[B]

He's sitting there. He just cracked open that ollipop and he did a little sip in the corner and gave her a wink. Say, how about that shot?

[A]

Love is in the air, boys.

[B]

Yes. That was incredible. Well done on the comments, by the way. Well done.

[C]

There's more.

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

I got emails to read.

[B]

Yeah, we still have emails to read.

[A]

Let's have some fun. Let's play a game. Let's play the game.

[B]

Let's play our game.

[C]

We were thinking through, Chef and I, about what we could do for the Valentine's Day. And we wanted to do a little dating question between co hosts. And so I will ask you guys a question. You have the board there in front of you each. You'll write your answer and what you expect. Expect your co host's answer to be.

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

There will be about five or six of these ones.

[A]

Okay, so these are just. This is just a dating game with me and Sherm.

[C]

A good dating game with you and Sherm. I just want to see.

[B]

And we put our answer and then what we think Will is going to say or what we think Sherm's gonna say.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Okay. Are you guys ready?

[B]

No cheating.

[C]

No cheating. And I'll give you, like, 10 seconds between each one.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I might need more.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I got to activate the brain. Well, we got to keep it under an hour. Yeah.

[C]

When's your co. Host birthday?

[B]

I know.

[C]

The two.

[B]

Wait, am I aunt. Oh, my birthday? Sorry. Sorry. Yikes.

[C]

The boards are labeled.

[B]

I'm gonna be so mad if I get this wrong. Because it's one. It's either one day before, one day after Jill's.

[A]

Yeah, because I have a sicko.

[B]

I have a little jingle of happy birthday, Will. Happy birthday, Jill. I can't remember which one comes first in that jingle, so.

[A]

All right, well, I'm gonna lose this one.

[C]

Let's. Let's see our answer. Answers.

[A]

Will, I put somewhere in the last three months.

[B]

He put it under. He put it under his name.

[C]

Will's birthday was sometime in the last three months.

[A]

Well, no, I thought Sherm. Sherm's answer is going to be. I thought he's just going to put the month of September.

[B]

How did you interpret it?

[A]

My answer for Sherm's birthday.

[B]

That's his answer to the question. That Sherm's answer to the question is probably gonna be, sorry, let's. Which is a great interpretation of it. That's perfect.

[C]

That is not incorrect the way you thought through.

[B]

You know. You know why? Because you had an idea and you nurtured it.

[A]

Yeah. I loved it. You did.

[B]

I. I'm a little upset. I think it might be the 17th, but I put the 19th of September.

[A]

Yours is May 24th.

[B]

May 24th.

[A]

You're spot on with mine.

[B]

Is it the 19th?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Let's go, let's go.

[A]

I wasn't even close.

[B]

I have a cheat code for that.

[A]

I told you. Happy birthday. Somewhere late in the year.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or maybe it was the anniversary or something.

[A]

All right, all right, all right. So my answer is just like. I should have wrote September 9th.

[C]

Yes, I'm so.

[B]

I. I could have been.

[C]

Been more clear. Your answer is your answer to, like, what is your. Like the question then, Sherm, so I can reword these.

[A]

There's got to be pt6 I like. Oh, I thought the way Will was talking about that, I thought it was clear as day.

[C]

Until you turn that board. I'm like, he's not wrong.

[B]

They're reading Kobayashi.

[C]

So here's what I'll do. I'll just ask the question. I'll remove. What is your co. Host. I'll ask you the question and then your answer and then Sher.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, I like that.

[C]

What is your favorite color? Color?

[B]

I think I got this, the, the Father's day thing. If I remember his answer from the dad Combine.

[C]

All right, Sher, what is your, your answer?

[B]

My answer is blue. His is red.

[C]

Hey.

[B]

Let'S go, let's go.

[A]

A couple of boys.

[B]

Hey, we just needed, we needed one. That's all we needed.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

So now we win. No matter what.

[A]

No matter what.

[C]

What is your favorite restaurant in Nashville?

[A]

Oh, he don't know. You know why he don't know? Because I don't know.

[C]

Okay, we can skip it. We can skip it. I got other ones.

[A]

Favorite.

[C]

Yeah. If you don't have an answer, maybe.

[B]

Favorite type of food? We, we could go that direction.

[C]

You want to do that instead?

[B]

You want to do that instead?

[C]

What is your favorite type of food? Do you feel like you have an answer to that one?

[B]

I think I could go to, like.

[A]

I could get an answer. I, I, I'll give you this hint too.

[B]

I don't, I don't even think I need a hint. I think I got a hint.

[A]

You need a hint. It's a niche in the category. Mine is breakfast burrito.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yours is Mexican.

[B]

Okay. You nailed mine. Tex Mex. I played sushi nigiri because you said, like, oh, it's a certain subset, but you've been on that sushi grind lately.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

We'll get some point.

[B]

I like breakfast burrito, though. I did not know that about you.

[A]

I love a good breakfast burrito, bro. Omg Yayos. It's my favorite breakfast burrito. There's also a spot in season, the Wedgwood, Houston area where you, like, wall. You can walk up to the window.

[B]

Window.

[A]

You guys know what I'm talking about. Maybe in the east you, like, walk up to a window and you can get the breakfast.

[B]

Because that truly, I gotta be honest, like, that's my top three food item too.

[A]

Breakfast burrito.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Dude, so good. I very, very quickly shout out the bearcat. In Alito, Texas, it's a gas station that makes the best homemade salsa and breakfast burritos. If you know, you know, you get the, the grilled onions and the potatoes.

[C]

It's called Dos Santos.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe so. Yeah.

[C]

I just googled walk up window burrito, so, yeah. Cool. All right, let's move on to our next one here. What is your favorite movie? Oh, favorite movie.

[B]

Yeah. I feel like I'm gonna fall hard on this one. I feel like I did a poor job on mine.

[A]

Okay, you go first. You go first.

[B]

I tried to give you a layup with Lord the Way.

[A]

Damn, I should have known that one. That's when I should have known.

[B]

That's okay.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That's okay. I. I'm a. A sicko for movies, so you could have been right in a myriad of ways. And I put Shaw Shank.

[A]

One of. That wasn't one of the four I put on there, but I love Shawshank Redemption.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

I got Rocky.

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

Rocky. For you.

[A]

Jurassic Park. Free Willy, Wedding Crashers, bro.

[B]

I know Free Willy. Jurassic Park. And Rocky knew that. I'm pissed.

[A]

Shawshank would. I mean, I love Shawshank Redemption, too.

[C]

What'd you write?

[A]

Oh, I put a Brokeback Mountain, and then I also put Braveheart.

[B]

Braveheart's a great one.

[A]

No, I just. I didn't know if that's, like, a Braveheart thing, but it made me think of Braveheart.

[C]

That's not bad. And there's two revolutionary. So I feel. But there's a Lord of the Rings over Sherm shoulder. New one.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

He has a plaque in front of him.

[A]

By the way, all the new decorations is unbelievable.

[B]

The. The power of Photoshop.

[A]

The hammers.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Authentic.

[A]

The Ted one. That is. That is funny. That looks real.

[B]

Oh, I know. I. I literally just got. From those shots that we did for the. The thumbnails. I got one of you laughing and put it on Mark Wahlberg's body, and it looks. I barely touched. Looks flush.

[A]

We have any more questions?

[C]

We have one more of.

[A]

Perfect. This is. This is a fun game.

[B]

Good.

[C]

Because we have this. But we got one more for you co hosts or your favorite band or musician. That'll be the Last one for YouTube.

[A]

Favorite band or musician? I'm putting one that I think you.

[B]

Might get for you. Yeah, you. You just brought up the. You always bring up this one song.

[A]

And then that's what I'm going off.

[B]

God damn it. And I can't remember what the song is. And I would know. If I knew what the song was, I would know what the band is. Is. It's a. It's a, like, 60s to, like, 80s rock.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm going off of the one song, too.

[B]

What is it? I really don't have a favorite band. I'm not trying to be lame about it. Like, I. I really don't have a band I go super uber crazy for, but there is a style of music that I really love, and they're my favorite band of that journey.

[A]

There you go.

[B]

So go.

[A]

What's your genre?

[B]

Pop, punk, Punk rock?

[A]

Do you share with somebody else in the office?

[B]

I don't know. He's got. He's. He's going to get it now. He's going. He's going to get it now. Oh, dude, I. I know that my answer's wrong for Will, and it breaks my heart. If I could remember that song, I would know who you wrote down.

[C]

What do you got term?

[A]

Well, I mean, Metallica is awesome. Yeah, it's not Metallica.

[B]

It's not Blink 182.

[A]

I got that. I put Blink 182 or Macklemore Top ZZ Top Sharp Dress Man. Cuz I mentioned it a couple times probably within the last week.

[B]

Have you mentioned it yesterday? You're like, if anything, man, if I could walk out the sharp dress, man.

[C]

And golly, that portion of the show was just a precursor. We sent a list of 10 questions chef and I did to your wives. So we are now going to play this game where you answer the questions. The answers that your wife sent in.

[A]

Oh, we gotta guess what our lives.

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

Question number one. When is your wife's birthday?

[B]

Happy birthday, Will. Happy birthday, Jill.

[A]

I gotta guess Jill. No, no, no.

[C]

You are for your wife. This is. You're good. He's Jill, you're Charo. So those are who you're married to. Will, what do you got?

[A]

12-28-87.

[C]

She didn't send the year in, so you're perfect.

[B]

I was about to say money. I added year in there as well.

[C]

She added year in hers.

[B]

September 18th. 95.

[C]

95. All right. What is your wife's favorite color? Your wife's did take some creative liberties on their answers here and there.

[A]

Oh, God.

[C]

Sherm gets a point out the of pink.

[B]

That's easy, bro.

[A]

Green.

[B]

That's a good answer.

[C]

Her answer is green. All shades, but especially the dark ones. So perfect.

[B]

That's a good answer.

[C]

Well done, boys.

[B]

Good answer.

[A]

When he said creative liberties, I'm like, I know that was Charl because she's got like specific kinds of green.

[B]

And that's context clues. There's for the. Your answer.

[C]

What is your wife's favorite restaurant in Nashville? Bushville.

[B]

Oh, that's a great question.

[C]

They were very excited to send these answers in.

[B]

Damn, dude. Okay, I put three answers down. I know that's cheating, but I think that's totally acceptable. Okay. No, that's cheating, Jill. I feel like if I don't get any on These three answers. Jill's gonna kill me because we. We are such foodies.

[A]

Give me a second.

[C]

She wrote a good one.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

Oh, there's just so many options. I feel like I miss.

[A]

So many options.

[B]

I feel like I miss it.

[C]

This one I would not like. If you guys got this one wrong, I would be like, oh, that's cool. Like it's not this something. You're not getting lamb.

[B]

I know, but I'm just gonna kick myself as soon as I hear. Yeah, you didn't get it.

[C]

I'll.

[B]

I'll do my answer.

[C]

Jilly Bean's answer was Noco.

[B]

Let's go.

[A]

Nice.

[B]

Let's go. It was between the Henry or Noco for me.

[A]

I got Little hats. No Bare Bones.

[C]

Bare Bones Butcher Pastoria. No.

[A]

Mexican spot on 12th.

[C]

If that is called EIS, then yes. She had Smiling Elephant. E and Bare Bones Butcher. Which shout out.

[B]

No shout out.

[C]

I need to try.

[B]

What's Smiling Elephant?

[A]

Smiling Elephant is like Thai food. It probably as close as you can get to authentic Thai food.

[B]

That's what everybody's been talking about.

[A]

I. It's like his house set up. It's cool. You should go Smiling Elephant. It's awesome.

[C]

Where was your first date with your wife? If it helps.

[A]

Like first date, not like first.

[C]

If it helps, she wrote a little. A small couple sentence about her answer. There's an answer and then there's what she thinks you would say as the answer.

[A]

Trying to think if that hotel room was a date night.

[B]

Hey, hey, first date.

[A]

The Jaguay 6 vlog over there sexes sue me. First date, man could.

[B]

I'm ready. Do you want me to go first? Yeah, sure, Go.

[C]

What do you got, Sher?

[B]

I went. Her cousin set us up on a blind date, and we went to Wobby House. And then I also had my first kiss with her that night at TR's Baby Texas Republic.

[C]

She had Wobby House.

[A]

Let's go.

[B]

Will I. I also lost my glasses on that first state, cuz I hate the way I looked at them.

[A]

All right, I have three guesses here.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

When we were in London, Dukes first spot we ate at. We got a burger. Or La Diplomat.

[C]

Is La Diplomat an oyster restaurant in Virginia? Her answer.

[B]

Oh, no.

[C]

Her answer is Duke's Grocery in D.C. duke's Grocery. He might say it's an oyster restaurant in Richmond, Virginia.

[A]

Duke's Grocery Store. Grocery is the first spot. Like we ate at. We ate and got. We got.

[B]

You got it.

[A]

I did get it.

[B]

You got it.

[C]

You guys, so far.

[A]

Hey, the Oyster Spot. Yeah.

[B]

Hey, come on, man. Come on.

[C]

What is. Hey, here's how one of your wife's put one answer. The other put multiple. I won't tell you who. Just so you guys know.

[B]

Okay, what is your wife's favorite movie?

[A]

Favorite movie?

[B]

Jill probably put multiple.

[C]

One wife put multiple. One wife put one answer.

[B]

No, there's no way that Jill put just one.

[A]

I'll be honest. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna say. I'm just gonna be frank. I'm gonna keep it a bean. I don't know.

[C]

We've talked about one of the ones Charl. Charl put multiple. We've talked in extensively about loving a couple of the one. Like Charles list is sick.

[A]

Charl loves romcoms. But I don't know what her favorite is.

[B]

I never.

[C]

It.

[A]

Is it a rom com?

[B]

No, it's animated.

[C]

Trolls. Is your answer.

[B]

Yes. How to lose a guy in 10 days. That's. That's. Honey, that's crazy. How to lose a guy in 10 days.

[A]

That's a good movie.

[B]

That's a great movie. I've never.

[A]

He said. Oh, I know it. Trolls.

[C]

Now, I will say crazy chance that they're flipped here, but it's not possible because they just entered their submissions. But I went back and tracked. But as of the list I have in front of me. How to lose again. Does she like that movie?

[A]

Does 7 happen to be on that list on Charles?

[C]

No.

[B]

Jill laughs.

[A]

When I said she could not wait to show me that movie, she said it was one of her favorites. But I guess that one's not right.

[B]

D.N.

[A]

Loves her own.

[C]

Yeah. So Charles list contains elf. Crazy rich Asians. Goodwill.

[B]

You told me that that's one of her favorites. Goodwill hunting too.

[C]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

[A]

All of those suck.

[C]

And just go with it. Good list.

[A]

Will, what was the one before Just go with it?

[C]

Gattaca.

[A]

I don't think I've seen that one. But she. One of the first things that we were bonding over was for getting Sarah Marshall Marshall. Because I'm like, we're both arguing back and forth. I'm arguing about Wedding Crashers. She's arguing about forgetting Sarah Marshall. That's her favorite comedy by far. I should have known that. That's bad. Elf. I should have known.

[B]

You get out.

[A]

That was bad. That's. That's dead loss. No, but in my dad.

[B]

Hey, you get bonus points because you have specifically told me. I told you that I have never seen crazy rich Asians. And you said you need to see that. That's One Acharo and I guys favorites of all time because we told sure.

[C]

When he was solo dolo to watch it because Charo loved it.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

I'll say this. If there is a list of 50 movies I would have spotted those. I wouldn't have got the.

[C]

Was it Gallica, Gattaka, G A T.

[A]

T A C at all.

[B]

Is Gattaca's like a sci fi?

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

That's where like it's the gene splicing stuff and they're like this guy's like trying to go to the moon and he like like pretends to change his DNA so that he can be one of the select few to go to space. It's really good.

[C]

Good cast.

[B]

It's a good one.

[A]

Ethan, I just want to say to my. I just want to say to my wife that's listening right now. Gun to my head. 50 movies. 100 movies on a list. I would have got those four.

[B]

Dude, I'm telling.

[A]

I would have got gica but I got for getting Sarah Marshall. Sweetheart, I swear to God.

[B]

How to lose a guy in 10 days.

[A]

He's trying to. I, I, I, I promise I wouldn't.

[B]

Even put that in our top 2025. The only connection I have with that film and Jill is when I quote the My boyfriend's gonna pummel your ass like part.

[A]

Angry right now.

[B]

Pissed.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. My mind's more anger with myself because I shouldn't. Those are. Yeah, those are.

[B]

Jill told me whenever she's sad, whenever she's feeling down, whenever she was hungover in college and it like she'd put on Trolls. That's her go to do. That's why I was so excited when I wrote it down. I was like, I know my girl. I got this.

[A]

Maybe she was, maybe she was nervous to put that idea out there. She didn't know how everybody would respond.

[B]

She didn't want to open up. So she was like, oh, I'll go with this romcom. Cuz everybody loves how to lose a guy in 10 days.

[A]

Yeah, maybe.

[B]

And to quote that movie, you remember that scene, it's kind of. They're playing the. The card game with the family bullshit and then, and then is on the bridge when she's like I don't love you, blah blah. And he goes. And she's like. And then they can't and great film.

[A]

That's. That one sucks. I hate that I missed that one.

[C]

What is your favorite band or musician? Both gave multiple answers. So. Both gave multiple answers.

[B]

I'll put two down. That I know will be on the list.

[A]

I know one for sure. Sure. She loves, like, all. She loves, like, the old school, like, alternative, you know, all the things like Blink 182, oceans have or. Well, not.

[C]

That's yellow card.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Coming to Nashville soon.

[A]

That type of vibe.

[B]

Yeah, those are. That's my vein of.

[A]

They're Mount Kennedy on the list.

[C]

Is that one of your answers? Yeah, let's go. You want me to read the other two for you?

[A]

Give me a hint.

[C]

Redhead, British guy, guitar. And then of the vein of the bands you mentioned, but not the bands you mentioned. Hot topic 08. Teenage angst.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Other one's that old, Young.

[C]

The redhead British guy. Young. Ron Weasley with a guitar.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He writes love ballads. He's Lovey Dovey, Ooey gooey.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

My legs hurt.

[A]

Kidding. I'm drawing a blank on his name.

[C]

If your legs don't work, like.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I just. I can't think of his name. He's kind of in the same vibe of, like, Dermot Kennedy, but also.

[B]

Is it Ed Sheeran?

[C]

It is Ed Sheeran.

[A]

I was thinking Ed Sheeran, but I was thinking of a different artist.

[C]

There's that blonde guy that's really good at singing his birth.

[A]

The dude who has, like, anxiety.

[C]

Yeah, that. With the ticks. I can't think of his name. He's sick.

[A]

He's awesome.

[C]

He's.

[A]

Yeah, he's awesome, too.

[C]

Dashboard Confessional Dash.

[A]

Where I wouldn't have got that one.

[C]

Sher, what do you got?

[B]

I did Metallica because her favorite song is Inner Sandman.

[C]

Not on the list.

[B]

Are you serious?

[C]

No.

[A]

Are you being serious?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Metallica.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Jill's favorite band.

[B]

She has told me multiple times that Inner Sandman is her favorite song of all time.

[C]

What else do you have?

[B]

Taylor Swift.

[C]

Taylor Swift is number one.

[B]

Sam Cook. No. Okay, I'll take Taylor Swift.

[C]

Patsy Klein, Sexy Red Glow, Rilla George Straight, Gracie Abram Drake, Lil Wayne, fetty Wap, Tim McGraw. Ella Langley, Luke Coleman. 82, Fall Out Boy. Nora Jones, Otis Redding.

[A]

Yo.

[B]

On there is crazy. Honey.

[A]

I'm gonna bang some Fetty Wap on the way home.

[B]

She does love some Fetty Wap.

[C]

Your wife could only one thing for the rest of her life, only eat one thing. What would it be? Be?

[B]

Dude, I'm pretty upset. I'm just upset in general. Wings, Mexican food. I knew no matter what I put on that board, it was going to be wrong.

[A]

Not if you put Mexican. Every story you tell on for the dads is. Go pick up the burritos. Go pick up the fajitas. Loves the elote. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Dude, it's just. You wouldn't.

[A]

Mine's pasta. It's got to be pasta. Sandwich.

[B]

Sandwich. See? Thank you. Now will you be on my side? I mean, that's. Hey, honey, what are you doing?

[D]

They'll be, like, in a little clear wrapping. Yeah, I'm sure that we can.

[B]

So it doesn't make.

[A]

You a. What's going on?

[B]

Are you mad at me?

[A]

You ain't gonna tell me that pasta is not your favorite over a sandwich.

[B]

I think sandwich is definitely win. You know this about me. I'm literally talking about sandwiches all the time.

[A]

You do. I. I know, I know. I. I know those are the top two, but there ain't no way, bro, that you're putting pasta over sandwich or sandwich over pasta. Kachowi pepe, pasta.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

But, yeah, there's no need to be upset.

[B]

I love sandwiches.

[A]

Do you love pasta?

[B]

I love them both. And if I had to pick, I.

[D]

Would pick sandwiches the rest of my life.

[B]

The good news is now you know that's true.

[A]

And I. I honestly, us being in love, I prefer her to have sandwiches over pasta.

[B]

Yeah, we learned something today.

[A]

Hey, and by the way, I got Duke's grocery.

[B]

I'm so proud of you.

[A]

I put. I put three answers, I put Dukes, I put London, and I put Le Diplomat.

[B]

Thankfully, one of those lined up.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

If you have any other beef, then you can just let me know later because I'm gonna call.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I can tell you're busy. I'll let you go. I love you. Just as I'm talking, I just hear somebody else in the background talking the line.

[B]

I'm glad one of those hit is crazy.

[C]

All right, you guys ready for the last three?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[C]

What was your.

[A]

I hope. I hope people are enjoying this as much as we are.

[C]

I hope so too. What's your wedding song? What was your wedding wedding song?

[A]

You put Metallica in her sandman. Sure. She's not just telling you that because she just thinks, you know, it's cool. You love it, dude.

[B]

It just. It's really. It's really frustrating because it's like.

[A]

Do you need to give her a call?

[B]

Yeah, kinda.

[A]

We'll give her a call here.

[B]

Yeah, I. I honestly need to call her about that. And trolls.

[C]

Yeah, let's get through these ones. And then I want to hear her answer.

[B]

It's not. It's not mine.

[A]

Is Ryan herd. Diamonds are 20. Wine?

[C]

Yes, sir.

[B]

Sam Cook. Nothing's going to change, my love.

[C]

When you asked if Sam Cook was part of her favorite, I was like, oh. And then I realized, yeah, that is the wedding.

[B]

That. Yeah, I was like that. That's crazy.

[A]

Honey, I love you. That is lowkey.

[B]

I love. Thank you.

[C]

What is your wife's go to coffee order?

[A]

Ooh, did Charl get specific? Specific.

[C]

Charo wrote if he gets this wrong and maybe a over for us.

[A]

Oh, I mean, I know. Yeah, I'm not going to get that. I'm not going to get it wrong. But there. There's also like a measurement.

[C]

No measurements, but it is all the ingredients.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I put ice vanilla latte, sugar and cream.

[C]

Vanilla latte was the answer.

[B]

So very good.

[A]

Ice latte with whole milk and simple syrup.

[C]

Ice latte.

[A]

I believe the measurement, cuz Ethan Rose will have it down, but I believe it's 30ml as simple.

[B]

Let's go see. We are good. We're good husbands. We're good dads.

[C]

When you make Charles coffee sometime, right? You were bringing up like you make it sometimes, so I figured you'd get that one.

[A]

Well, I make it, but sometimes like, oh, there's not enough.

[C]

Like last, last question. Who said between you and your wives, who said I love you first? Where and when did it happen?

[A]

Mine was my bed.

[C]

Laying in bed one night.

[B]

Night.

[A]

Laying in bed one night.

[C]

She has a long answer, but sorry, I was skimming through for that.

[A]

But yeah, laying in bed one night. I'm going to guess it was her or was it me?

[C]

Do you want me to read her three squeezes?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Lovely story.

[A]

Who did the three squeeze? Yeah, go ahead and read it.

[C]

This is from Charo. I did. Squeezed his hand three times and he did it back.

[B]

Cool.

[C]

Because we now do the three hand squeezes with R and Scotty. I think we didn't actually say the words until like a week later.

[B]

Later.

[C]

It was lying in bed one night at his old Ashburn townhouse in late June 2017, right before he took me to Bonturi for the first time for fourth of July.

[A]

Yeah, that's spot on. And the three squeezes is like, that's what we do with the kiddos.

[B]

Let's go. That's an epic story.

[A]

Yeah. I couldn't remember if she squeezed first or if I squeezed first. I just know it was reciprocated and we both kind of knew what was uncomfortable. And then it happens like for real, like a week later. Now you're kind of playing the game, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Come on, man. Hey, come on, man. Happy Valentine's Day.

[A]

And then when you see your kiddos doing it with each other. One, two, three. I love you, cuz.

[B]

They're an egg.

[A]

And you put, man. They're an egg. You got to pour it. You got to nurture.

[B]

You got to.

[A]

To feed it.

[B]

That's right. That's right. Mine is. I did coming back from a date from Dallas, and we stopped in the Fort Worth Water Gardens. I pulled off I30 and I took her down to the center of the Fort Worth Water Gardens. I told her I loved her. I'm gonna.

[C]

No, no, no. All of that's correct.

[B]

For extra credit. I was about. I was like, we're calling it, right? I'll read jokes.

[C]

I'll just read.

[B]

Read it.

[C]

Sherman with an exclamation mark. We were driving back from a fun night out in Dallas and he pulled over and took me to the Water Gardens downtown and told me he loved me for real. But the first time he ever did was we were joking and talking in bed. And he said, love you. And then backtrack because he got embarrassed. And I said, that's not embarrassing because he's my best friend. And then his eyes watered. He got emotional. Hehe. In all caps.

[B]

That is also true. I started backtracking because I was trying to play it cool. And she said, said that's okay. You're like you're my best friend in the whole world. And then I started tearing up. I was like, I'm your best friend. Like I like.

[A]

So did you tell her I loved her? Did she say it back right away or did she say you're my best friend?

[B]

No, like she. It was like a, like I love you back type of thing and saying like, you're my favorite person in the world. Like you're my best friend.

[A]

So when you said love you, did she said I love you too? Yeah, something like that.

[B]

Something like that. It wasn't like you're married now and you have Scarlet. Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

But I'm thinking that's funny.

[B]

It wasn't like a. Cuz I could.

[A]

See you backtrack, you know, trying to be, oh, dude, you're my best friend. I appreciate that.

[C]

It was like just friends with Ryan Reynolds.

[B]

Wasn't like, yes. It wasn't like a friend zone type of thing. It was like her way of like trying to. To make me feel better in the moment. Cuz it would.

[A]

Because she didn't say it back right away.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know though. I don't. I don't remember, like, what she.

[A]

You're a lover man. You love hard.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. But she. She is too. She is too. And I can't remember if she said I love you back or like, I love you too, but she said something along those lines. And then because I botched that so much much, I was like, I want, I want to tell her that I love her, like, for real. And that's when. That's why I did the Water Garden thing, because we had had such a great date night. And I was like, I want her to know that, like, I do love her. I'm not, I'm not scared to share that in the Fort Worth Water Gardens. If you ever go the beautiful.

[A]

Is that the game?

[B]

Is that the game?

[A]

It was a fun game.

[B]

I know. We. You have something at 1:30. We need to wrap here. Here soon. Oh, we have over an hour. Yeah, we have some voicemails and emails. And emails. I could play the first one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Okay. Jared, I'm very sorry. I'm very sorry.

[C]

I texted Jared a schedule this morning. I said this isn't going to happen. But here's the schedule for the show.

[A]

You play it playfully.

[B]

Okay. Hi, this is Sherman's mom, Ms. Amy, and I have a little bit of a Valentine's horror story. When Sherman was 4 years old, I gave him a big cardboard heart full.

[C]

Of Reese's peanut Butter cups.

[B]

I watched him.

[A]

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[B]

In the kitchen island while he was at preschool, I could not be trusted.

[C]

I ate all his Reese's Peanut Butter.

[B]

Cups, and I had to refill it and did it again, refilled it, did it again. On the third time, he just started bawling, crying, and I was like, okay, I'm gonna either have to switch to.

[C]

Some kind of candy I don't like.

[B]

Or I'm gonna have to give up sugar and quit traumatizing my child. Child so literally did not eat sugar for 10 solid years after the Reese's Peanut butter incident.

[A]

Yo, that is hilarious.

[B]

And she. She, like, full on would sit me down each time and be like, honey, I love you so much, and I'm so sorry, but I ate all your candy. But I got you another chocolate heart. And I was like, that's okay. I love you, Mom. But she did it three times. At that point, I was like, like, what's going. Just get your own heart of candy. What are you doing?

[A]

And you're four.

[B]

I was four.

[A]

Just little Sir Sherm sitting on the chair. That's okay, sweetheart. I love you so very much, but I ate your candy.

[B]

I did it again. Dag Navit. I did it again. She doesn't even say Dag Navit.

[A]

But if I happen to be in her spirit spot, somebody else would ate the candy.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You know what I mean? You can't go down like that three times in a row in front of your kids.

[B]

Do you think the dog ate the candy? Yeah, it had to.

[A]

Oh, Rooster. He jumped on the island. He got in your candy.

[B]

Rooster. I caught him. He was standing on the island. I said, rooster.

[A]

And this when you were at school, when she ate the candy we had taken to the vet and everything. He's doing good now. We had to pump his stomach.

[B]

He's in the backyard. You go play with him.

[A]

Yeah, he go play Heat. But he ate your candy. I ain't sitting rude down and be like, I eat your candy three times in a row.

[B]

Yeah, I that.

[A]

But, hey, kicked off 10 years of sobriety with chocolate.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Or with sugar.

[B]

Shout out. Shout out. Miss Amy on the chocolate. Are you. Is he gonna drive? I was just about to suggest that. Yes, you dip.

[A]

Do dip.

[B]

Yeah. He's got an interview. Jared, we love you. Thank you, Jared.

[A]

With busing. Right?

[B]

Okay. V day at Chuck E. Cheese. V Day at Chuck E. Cheese.

[D]

Hello. I'm calling in for the Valentine's Day episode. I heard you guys wanted some good Valentine's Day stories. And I know I'm not a dad, but I'm calling on behalf of my husband because he'd be too embarrassed to share this story. My name is Alexis J. Berry. I live in the greater Nashville area, and my husband is not from here. My birthday is two days before Valentine's Day, so it always gets clumped together, which is okay, but my husband being the best guy, he is. The year we got together, he wanted to make sure that my birthday and Valentine's Day was separate from one another.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

However, he is not used to Nashville. He never experienced Nashville Valentine's Day. He had only been here for like, six months before we went on this date. So I asked him two weeks leading up, are you sure you have a reservation for Valentine's Day? Everywhere is going to be booked, and.

[B]

That'S already too late.

[D]

Yeah, baby, I got it. Don't worry about it. I've got you. We're going to have a great time. He rented us a hotel room. We had a whole day planned. Yeah, it's a great day. We get all dressed up, we go out, have coffee. Everything like that hit the shockwave. And when we get to the restaurant, restaurant, I can tell it's booked, booked out. And we're like, all excited. We get in there. He didn't make a reservation for any restaurants.

[A]

I've been there.

[D]

And so when we realized he didn't make any reservations, I realized it pretty quick. I was very, very mad, as you could imagine. So he took me to Sonic and we ate a chili cheese cheese hot dog. And then we went into Chuck E. Cheese and we won a bunch of tickets. And then we gave them to all the parents who were at spending their Valentine's Day at Chuck E. Cheese, just like us. And now here we are, five years later, married, two kids, living our best life, ready to enjoy another Valentine's Day probably involving chili cheese hot dogs. So we hope you have have you a great Valentine's Day. Thanks for listening, bro.

[B]

The amount of swagger and poise that you have to have as you walk up to a juice to the gills restaurant that you know there's no way you're getting a table. There's not a chance in hell. And he was probably walking in with the biggest smile.

[A]

I wonder if in his mind he just thought he'd be able to walk in and get something. You know what I mean? If she's reminding him and telling, telling them, I get you might Get. I've been in the spot to where it's like the week of. And then you realize, oh, everything's booked out. This is. It's a different ball game out here in Nashville. Really? Any city.

[B]

But Nashville's like wild. It's like a month out.

[C]

You gotta.

[A]

Right?

[B]

You gotta do it.

[A]

Right, right.

[B]

It is nuts.

[A]

And I'm wondering if in his mind, you know what I mean? Like, if you didn't book anything, if he had fear walking in that restaurant.

[B]

That's what I'm saying. Like the amount of confidence that you just had to fake.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Of like, yeah, we'll get in, they'll get a table. And you see it and it's just bad. And you've already been talking about the restaurant. I love that place. Oh, my gosh. You got a reservation? Yeah, honey. You think I am. What you think we're gonna go get chili cheese dogs and Sonic and you.

[A]

Know, Ms. MT6 is sitting there giving him an earful and that just have the poise to say, what about Sonic?

[B]

That was in the Chuck E. Cheese.

[A]

I. I could, I can see, I could see. I could see the Chuck E. Cheese move, you know. All right, how do we make.

[B]

That's a sicko.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

He's a good one. Because he didn't quit. He could. That could have ended in a fight. And it was.

[A]

That could have still ended in a fight.

[B]

But he was like, no, no, no, we're going to Sonic.

[A]

Pull on up, give us a couple chili cheese dogs.

[B]

Hit the red button.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, he was walking from the car, like looking in the restaurant window, like, I see a two top.

[B]

What about that table over there? Can we get that one? Hey, it is funny, cuz, when I called him, I was like, make sure you get the table in the corner, babe. What a legend.

[A]

Sweetheart. I got a place for us. Called the owner, they said, nobody's going to be there. It's all ours.

[B]

It is all ours.

[A]

Making that left turn into a Sonic. Hey, all ours.

[B]

Also a cheat code. If you're ever. Here's a dad hack for you. When we were at the super bowl in New Orleans and you wanted to plan that dinner with Dave Portnoy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You looked at me and said, hey, can you make it happen? Reservation, blah, blah. And I said, yes, not realizing that everything was going to be booked out. So then I just started telling people on the phone, hey, I'm with Dave Portnoy's team. We're in town for the super bowl. And Dave would Love to come have dinner. Us not even knowing if Dave was going to come. Dave loves your restaurant and cannot wait to go get dinner there. And he's going to have a party of about this big. And every single place said, absolutely. We love Dave Porton at Bubble. So just give him a celebrity name.

[A]

Name. Hey, Sherm's always thinking on his feet. Give somebody figuring it out because they're like, oh, yeah, I'll make it happen.

[B]

Give him a celebrity name. Hey, Owen Wilson. Loves your res. Sorry, I'm calling on behalf of Owen Wilson. He's actually, he's in town, he's shooting a film and he has been going on and on about your restaurant. He would love to dine there this evening. Is there any way we could get a table for four and what they do what they did with me on the festival and let me go speak with management, blah, blah. It'll take about two minutes and they will be the most excited, cheerful person on the other side of the phone when they get back. Because that manager's like, Owen Wilson. Yeah, yeah, we'll have a table for four.

[A]

Hey, that's a hack, too.

[B]

That's a hack, dude.

[A]

Because they don't. When is Owen Wilson? Oh, he couldn't join us tonight. He couldn't join us tonight.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. We just got a call from. From. From Owen.

[A]

Yeah, his flight was supposed to land in New York. You know, he's in parachuting that film. His flight got delayed and so he's.

[B]

Embarrassing too, because I'm sure y' all been over backwards.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

For. Oh, my.

[A]

But out of respect for you guys, I know we said four. Do you mind? Like, we had two kids. I figured we'd just take them along with us.

[C]

Give us some to go food. We'll take it back for Owen in the hotel.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. The kids are waiting outside the restaurant. We have our driver coming and dropping off our kids.

[A]

Hey, sweetheart, make sure you get an Uber black.

[B]

Hey, y'. All. Come in. Y' all come in.

[A]

Hey, you know how you can do that message thing to him? Tell the driver to walk in.

[B]

Mr. Compton, your children. Oh, yes, Jeeves. Hello. My driver.

[A]

What is Batman's butler's name?

[C]

Alfred.

[B]

Alfred.

[A]

Oh, Alfred. Glad you made it, buddy. Sorry. That's our guy.

[B]

How's the blacked out Lincoln Navigator with full leather seats? Yeah. Is it good?

[A]

So Owen Wilson really couldn't come? No.

[B]

Oh, no, the manager just.

[A]

You lean to the manager. He said he was. Alfred said he was sitting at the airport for over an Hour.

[B]

The manager's so pissed, just sitting there staring at everything. He has no way to prove it. Oh, but, yeah, maybe that. Maybe you do that. That, you know.

[A]

Yeah, that's some game. That's a dad hack right there.

[B]

That's a dad hack, all right. Could have gone to Chick Fil A. Yeah, I got a Valentine's Day story for. This is Matt Webb from Winston Salem, North Carolina.

[A]

Shout out, Matt. Valentine's Day, about six years ago, my wife was pregnant with our oldest and.

[B]

I took her to a super nice and pretty pricey steakhouse here in town. And we both ordered the filet mignon with some salad sides because that stuff was good.

[A]

And on the way home, all I'm thinking about is riding that shockwave. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I know what you're saying.

[B]

We got home and then the pregnancy sickness kicked in.

[A]

Oh, and then that dinner she ate, it came up and I was no.

[B]

Longer thinking about the shockwave. Oh, no.

[A]

I was thinking we could have went.

[B]

To Chick Fil A if I knew.

[A]

You were going to throw up that stuff.

[B]

30 steak. Luckily, my wife is a G and.

[A]

We joke about to this day every Valentine's Day, so.

[B]

Hey, boys, keep up the good work. PT6 out. When you said you weren't thinking about the shockwave anymore, it reminded me of when threw up. It will just go and put that on it.

[A]

Put a towel on it.

[B]

It's all good, honey. It's all.

[A]

You're holding her hair.

[B]

Just brush your teeth, you know?

[A]

Yes, yes. It ain't over until it's over. Holding the hair yak. And then all of a sudden, you know, here's a. Here's a sip of water, sweetheart. You're holding your hair, thinking, I wonder if, you know, we still. Oh, I gotta go to bed right after this.

[B]

You probably feel a lot better after.

[A]

Getting all that out of you. Like, you probably.

[B]

You probably feel better than you did before.

[A]

Like, I gotta go to bed. You're like. And then it's like, you probably feel better.

[B]

Right?

[A]

You know, every time I throw up, I'm always feeling like, lighter, like I can. I can do anything. Yeah.

[B]

And before, when you weren't feeling good, you were down for the shockwave. So now that you feel better, you're probably even more like, let's. Hey, let's do it. You know? Let's ride chocolate twice. That's incredible. Incredible. Also built in BP or bc. Sorry. Built in during pregnancy. It's a little built in B.C. for you.

[A]

B.C.

[B]

Birth control.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's why he was excited.

[A]

Yeah, man.

[B]

Yeah, he did. No sweat.

[A]

Yeah, nothing takes the wind out of your sales like knowing it ain't gonna happen when you had it on your mind. It's like when I flew back off the two hours, two and a half hours sleep, I hadn't seen my wife all week. Kind of excited, you know, maybe a little touchy. Touch you. Love you. Love you. You excited to see dad. And then when is I. And I'm tired. I gotta.

[B]

But you got that extra credit, Will. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Built up some equity.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What. What did I. What did I text my wife? A lot of editing this episode.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

What did I say?

[C]

I love that your dad hacks your to avoid. Avoid getting pregnant, get your wife pregnant.

[B]

And then you can't get her pregnant again for nine months. Isn't that sick? What a dad. Just impregnate her and then you're good for nine months. You'll be fine.

[A]

Oh, man, I should have added this to the last part of the story. So you know how she. They went out to dinner? Cocktails, drinks and everything else.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

She ended up texting me around like 8:30, like once dinner reservation started. She's like, how's it going, love? Baby's asleep. Does freedom await? I said, taking in water right now. Oh, yeah, I forgot about all of this. I said, reading the roo out right now. The plunge tub was leaking, so I had to clean it up. I had like six towels in the floor because I was trying to hook it up.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And it was leaking. And Rue, she like, dad had water. And I was like, yes. We'd heard stuff splashing in the. In the tub. And she's like, no, that look. And I like, like look. And there's like water leaking, like toward the door in that room. I'm like, oh, son of a. I started, like, putting towels. I start putting towels down over it.

[B]

Put down now.

[A]

It's good. Every's like, I can't get wet. Rude. Takes off out of the room. She comes back in the room, she's got her rain boots on.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[A]

And then she's like. I was like, dish is still in the sink. She said, oh, oh, oh, Jesus. I said, are you having fun? She said, I am. Thank you for letting me have a day. A day and night with Teddy. We just got to sushi. I shot her a little kissy emoji. And then I said, payment will be accepted. So when I say payment will be accepted, that's why I Started taking some chicken cheetah to the face a little bit. Like, you know, we got have a little bit of fun tonight.

[B]

Someone else, I think the tequila, the chicken cheetah had already, already been bored.

[A]

I was getting a little, you know. You know what?

[B]

That was the peanut butter.

[A]

They might be coming back in a good mood. Wifey's going to be all excited. Who knows? First night back, first day back.

[B]

Yeah. And she loves me.

[A]

Yeah. Like, oh gosh, I'm tired. And I just remember her laying on my shoulder and I was like, you falling asleep? She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm falling asleep. I was like, all right. And that's what kind of when you move the shoulder over a little bit more and you're just like, well, I guess I'll just go to sleep as my face is numb, you know, that's.

[B]

That's weird. You're falling asleep. I. Hey, Char.

[A]

Charo. Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Hey, I'm falling asleep too. That's crazy.

[A]

But guess who's not asleep. What was the, what was the nickname of the. That he named Matthew McConaugh?

[B]

Oh, he got his piece named something. The Warrior King. What, what does she nickname it? She nicknames it something like, you know, peewee. And he's like, no, it's got to be Crow. The Warrior King.

[A]

Yeah, Crow. The Warrior King. Crow, the Warrior King. He's. He's awake. He's ready to go. You out. Okay. You're asleep.

[B]

And see, Jill would love that reference because that's from her favorite film, how to Lose a guy in 10 days. So that will probably. She'll love that. She'll laugh at the. That one Teddy for another girl. Good one. Good one, fellas. How's it going?

[C]

Clay from Cincinnati here. Saw your post about Valentine's Day.

[A]

Got a bad gift story for you guys.

[C]

Just want to say thank you. First off, got a four month old here. Found the podcast a couple months before.

[A]

Where he got here.

[C]

So you guys have helped me through a ton of.

[A]

Me and my fiance have been together since high school. I was 14 at the time.

[B]

I had bought a teddy bear for.

[C]

Her for Valentine's Day.

[A]

Well, kinda, that's what she thought.

[C]

I bought it for the girl I was talking to before and never gave it to her.

[B]

So it was just sitting there in the closet.

[C]

So my 14 year old brain, I.

[A]

Thought, this is a great idea, let's.

[C]

Give it to her.

[A]

No, she gets it, loves it.

[C]

A couple years down the road, she finds out it wasn't originally for her. Good. You Know, let's bail out of that one.

[B]

Still to this day I hear about it.

[A]

22 or 23 now. Whoops.

[C]

So yeah, been together since 2017, going.

[B]

On nine years, married next year, a.

[A]

Little four month old Jordy is happy as could be.

[B]

Sitting here smiling at me, talking to you guys now know.

[C]

Thanks for all you guys do. Bye.

[A]

I love that. Well, how old do you say he was?

[B]

2014 when it happened. 14 when it happened.

[A]

14. But they're still together at 23.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Oh, man, that is a 14 year old male mind at work right there.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

Something left in the closet.

[B]

Why? Go buy a new one. Yeah, just use this one.

[A]

I got the information.

[B]

Oh, dude, they gotta go. They gotta go. Go. I, I In a similar vein, I guess I was talking to someone at the time, we weren't openly dating to the world at the time. And she received flowers and was like, oh my gosh, like, thank you so much for these flowers. I was like, I did, I didn't send them. And a part of me would like wanted to claim it, but I was like, I didn't send those. And it was, it was another suitor. It was very, it was interesting. I was like, you just respond, I'm.

[A]

Glad you're so happy.

[B]

Well, yeah, I could have, I could have gone with the Owen Wilson, you know, actually sent those flowers on behalf of me. So thank Owen Wilson. But yeah, dude, it was, that's always awkward.

[A]

Not a good spot to be. Yeah. Charlie and I is one of our first, I think like our first Valentine tying somewhere the relationship wasn't defined. But she was at the house and she got me something and I'm like, I didn't get her anything, so I didn't really know what to do. She didn't make it seem like it was a big deal.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

But it eventually felt like a big deal. And I kind of didn't know. That's, that's why I'm like, that's a slippery slope.

[B]

That's the same thing. Because it's like I'm sitting there going, damn, I should have got flowers. I guess I like, what's first off, what's going on there? Secondly, I should have done that. And then, oh, Jill and I's first Valentine's was so botched. It was the, it was the worst Valentine's Day of all time. I know we have like a ton of voicemails to get through, but I botched my very first Valentine's with Jill.

[A]

I still wouldn't consider that first Valentine's or Valentine's?

[B]

The one where she got you a gift.

[A]

Yeah. Because clearly I wasn't. Yeah. You know, that was a moment.

[B]

There's a moment. But look at us now.

[A]

Yeah, look at us now. Exciting. Happy kiddos.

[B]

Yeah. Dude, this is V Day. Daddy daughter dance. What's up, boys? Dylan from Cincinnati driving. Dylan from a Daddy daughter Valentine's Day ballet class. Currently with my 2 year old in the back. Your boy's gotten teary eyed after doing. Doing that kind of class. Dancing with my little girl because it's crazy how fast it really does go and. Yeah, just wanted to keep the mentality of it is okay for the men to cry.

[D]

All right, boys, good talk.

[B]

Bye.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Danny.

[A]

Danny boy.

[B]

What a dad.

[A]

Crying's cool. We've done it a couple times already on this show.

[B]

We have made Jared cry. We made Jared cry.

[A]

Team. Team six.

[B]

Or I wonder if Demon enjoyed if he had fun being on the pod.

[A]

I think so. He tells me he listens to it.

[B]

Let's go.

[C]

He was texting. We were just texting last night and he was like, no, I'm super excited. He's like, I just want to sit in with you guys and like, hear it. So I feel like obviously timing and stuff, but he had a good time.

[A]

Good. Yeah, yeah. Good, good, good, good.

[B]

V Day shout out to wifey. Hey, guys. Will Sherm, boys in the back. Just wanted to say what's up? My name is Mason. I just had a baby or my wife and I just had a baby boy one month ago today on the 5th. And I can't describe how crazy it feels, but I wanted to give a huge Valentine's Day shout out to my wonderful wife and the mother of our child to say, hey, you did such an amazing job. I can't believe we're already one month in and our baby is so lucky to have you. So happy Valentine's Day. I love you so much, fellas. Thank you for all you do keeping me grinding through the trenches of late nights and helping out as best as I can. I'm just getting back from my first work trip away from the baby. I'll get back later this afternoon.

[A]

Good.

[B]

But can't describe the feeling and how excited I am to get home, but I just wanted to give that shout out to her. Milk Team 6. You guys are the best. Love you, fellas.

[A]

Love you too.

[B]

Love you too. And what a move by him of. Oh, he was off at a work trip and I've been all alone here and da, da, da. Hey, honey, check out this pod.

[A]

You check out the pod. Check out the shout out. What was his name?

[B]

Will Sherm. Boys in the back wanted to. Hey guys. Will. I guess he didn't say.

[A]

Didn't say.

[B]

He didn't say.

[A]

Once he shows her the shout out, he says baby's what, one month old, huh?

[B]

That's gonna be nice and easy.

[A]

That's so one month old. They're about what, four or five weeks in?

[B]

Yeah. And what's at that six week mark? There's something there that is. Is it like.

[A]

Is it six weeks or eight weeks where they come off the pup list?

[B]

It's six to eight.

[A]

The physically unable to perform.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. It depend. It depends on how it seems like.

[A]

She'S still on the pup list.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It depends how the baby was delivered. I believe. Because if it is a cesarean section like the. It's a little different than like.

[A]

Like you want to say char was like eight weeks.

[B]

Okay. I think it was like six for Jill.

[C]

Is that what C stands for?

[B]

I believe.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Man. Say that word again.

[B]

Cesarian?

[C]

Mesopotamian.

[B]

Some Mesopotamian.

[A]

I tell you what, you're still in that. Still in that phase of pup list. Yeah, dude, something like this. Like how you going to celebrate on Valentine's day?

[B]

He's building that resume.

[A]

She could put a bow on Thursday top. You know there's other options, right? Valentine. It's Valentine's Day. Just cuz one ride shut down doesn't mean we have to shut down the whole park.

[C]

Right?

[B]

Baby, here's what I want you to do. Put on this podcast, skip to this time code. I'm gonna go change real quick. Okay. Just give. Give daddy a second. Just give him a second and then just come in just wearing a bow. Only a bow.

[A]

What you wanna do?

[B]

I got a gift.

[A]

Boy. Honey, I love you. Oh God, man. Dude, think about one thing.

[B]

Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations.

[A]

Congrats on the one month old.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Wife just in the middle of postpartum.

[B]

Just absolutely sick to her stomach. Still getting but like hormones are everywhere. Back from a work trip. She's been having to hold it down. She hasn't been sleeping with the one month old old hair is everywhere. She's like in her bathrobe. Just you know, SpongeBob. In that. Yeah, that baby episode with Patrick. He comes home and you want me.

[A]

To suck your dick? That's what you're asking me?

[B]

I didn't phrase it like that. I said smoke my pipe. That is way different. That is much different. But congratulations.

[A]

Congratulations. Slippery slope Of A conversation. But you never know.

[B]

Yeah, you never know. There's always a way that you can kind of, you know, never know. You never know.

[A]

Never know.

[B]

You never know. Miss all the shots you don't take.

[A]

You want me to top you off? Is that what you and your little group chat say?

[B]

Give me head top. You need to playing that music like I can't hear it.

[A]

Hold your balls. You've been in a work trip.

[B]

You hear blaring give me head top when you pull into the driveway. Like I don't notice. Yeah, you don't listen to that kind of garbage, honey.

[A]

Hey. Oh, you think I'm gonna throw on freak a leak? Oh, God.

[B]

You never listen to freaka leak unless you're horny, honey. You never put it on money. Valentine's.

[A]

Hey, boys, this really isn't a Valentine's Day story, but I just.

[B]

I do want to pause really quick. We did put out in our social media to make it easier for Derek to find Valentine's Day stories to start the voicemail off by saying Valentine's.

[C]

One guy followed the rules.

[B]

One guy followed the rules. A sicko.

[A]

Just want to wish a huge happy.

[B]

Valentine's Day to my wife life back. Just want to say, you know, when you know, you found the one. We met summer of 2013 and entered buds right away. I'm talking this Mt Sicko even laid a bit upside down for a minute to make sure the ammo hit the target.

[A]

Probably should have kept that one classified, though.

[B]

We've been in the trenches for 11 years now, battling with our two soldiers.

[A]

Eleven and two and a half years old.

[B]

Cold and couldn't be happier. Every day I sit back and think.

[A]

How did I get so lucky? From buds in 2013 to living in.

[B]

Australia for our first birth, aka D Day. Let's go to getting the entire family.

[A]

Back to the States to our second D day a couple years ago.

[B]

This woman is my world and such a gangster.

[A]

And I hope she knows it. Much love, boys.

[B]

And keep fighting the good fight for us dads. Love y'.

[C]

All.

[A]

Love you too.

[B]

Hey, that's an empty sicko dude hitting the wall. The wall stand.

[A]

Yeah, to make sure upside down.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I've.

[B]

I've heard that. That is a rumor, by the way. I don't know if that's true.

[A]

I think every parent have come has come across this. This type of lore.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Dude, this. This is the reality.

[B]

I'm a believer in that kind of lore. Like I am no expert. Who's the guest that always comes on that says how to make a boy. The guy that came on busing and he was like, this is how you make a boy. Dude to the left, dude to the right.

[A]

Oh, Randall Cobb.

[B]

Randall Cobb. Like, I kind. Like, I. I don't know. I just believe in that stuff.

[A]

One in the middle, let it drizzle. Two in the middle, let it drizzle.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You eat a lot of acidic food, it's going to be a girl. You eat a lot of base foods, it'll be. Be a boy. You. You hold the. The legs up to the tummy, you know, afterward, for 30 minutes. I'm a.

[A]

You know, you don't want raw. You're in the wrong show.

[B]

Yeah, dude.

[A]

You know what I'm saying?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

If you want somebody. Well, actually, it says you're on chat. GBT. You know, I don't care. AI's ruining everything. Let's do another. Dude, let's do another voicemail. Did you say one more? Last one?

[C]

Yeah, last one here. Hey, heard you boys needed some Valentine's Day stories.

[A]

Yes, sir.

[C]

My name is Josh from Jefferson City, Tennessee, and Valentine's Day 2025 changed my life forever. It is the day that I officially joined poet team six. My little man Elliot is turning one on February 14th. I'm sad about how fast that this first year is gone, but I'm really proud of the boy that he's becoming. You know, his personality is really starting to shine. He's just. He's the funniest, silliest little dude, man. My wife and I are also high school sweethearts, so this year will be our 12th Valentine's Day together. And last year was wildly different experience from the previous ones, but, you know, this day will never exactly be the same again in. But I'm glad that it happened this way. Elliot is the best of both of us, so him coming on Valentine's Day is just a perfect representation of that. I wouldn't change a thing about that if I had the chance to. Oh, and Sher, I'm afraid I didn't get my couch badge either. In both the delivery room and on the mother baby unit they moved us to after. After the delivery, I had a chair that pulled out.

[A]

It.

[C]

It basically made a small bed. Man, I. I slipped up like a king.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But. Happy Valentine's Day to my beautiful wife, Michaela, and a happy first birthday to my son, Elliot. Thank you, fellas, for taking the time to listen and go big orange.

[B]

Hey, come on, God, Chef, don't you Just love, love. I love love. Chef would have loved that. Member of Chair Force One. Shout out Josh. Shout out Michaela, his wifey.

[A]

And just a story again. I love, love.

[B]

I love love. And I love the high school sweetheart stuff.

[A]

Yeah. And just hearing mom or dad, either one just talk, you know, shout out their other. Shout out. Being a parent.

[B]

Jill's friend Lauren that's here in town, their high school sweethearts, her husband and her. I love hearing stories like that, dude. Because it is kind of funny just how people, you know, dads and moms out there, they're not going to be here forever. You're being so dramatic about it. And the fact that, like, people find love at that age or, like, emotionally mature enough to be like, no, I want to be with this person. I want to develop, like, the. The love to grow and our relationship to grow. It blows my mind. Because me at 18.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, Lord, the rarity of those things actually happen. Happening.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Again. Your. Our brains, like, aren't fully developed until, what, close to 30 or maybe 30.

[C]

It's still working on it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Still where? I'm still developing. My brain's still developing.

[B]

I'm throwing my boxes into other people's dumpsters and they're getting left in my driveway. I'm 32 years old.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm a man. I'm an adult. That's really cool.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Gbo man.

[A]

Gbo go big orange, orange.

[B]

Elliot, his son. Shout out Elliot.

[C]

We'll say too. We had a. A huge number of. Of call ins for it. It was tough to narrow it down. So thank you to everybody in PT6 that did call in or send us an email, and it was tough to narrow down, but we had a lot of submissions.

[A]

And that moment right there, a few people are hitting their steering wheel like, damn it.

[B]

God, they're done.

[A]

I thought my story was good.

[B]

I thought it was good. And it probably was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it probably was. We have to clear that phone still. How often do you clear that phone?

[C]

Weekly at this point.

[A]

That's crazy.

[C]

We were shooting that skit that we sent you guys. It storage maxed out like four times. Just shooting those videos. Just voicemails, texts and emails on that phone are crazy.

[A]

That's nuts, man. Shout out PT6 and MT6 and MT6.

[B]

It just boys being boys, just having a little fun.

[A]

Dude, I got some. I got an email here. Let's dive in some emails. I got one from Cody. Boys, Cody here. My wife Caitlyn and I were just in Knoxville last week. For our IVF transfer baby expected in October. It's been a long journey getting to this point. We adopted embryos to start our family and we can't wait. It's still early. We're sending up a lot of prayers for positive results, but we're very hopeful and excited. Thank you all for what you guys do and keep and keeping us looking forward to every Wednesday. PT Sickos, GBR are Cody, Caitlin, Good luck, good luck, good luck, man. I do. I hope everything goes well. I hope everything comes back positive. I know it's like you're sitting there at all times having a lot of optimism, but also a lot of mixed with anxiety at the same time or the fear of it not working out and you, you get nervous to be so op. Like to be so, to have so much optimism and then you're like, man, man, do I need to temper my expectations because if it doesn't happen and it crushes us, like am I, you know, is my emotional, is my emotional level like ready for that? And then it's like, oh man, why not be excited about this? It is an exciting time in alive. It's such like a mental pretzel going through like a fertility journey if you, if it doesn't happen for you naturally.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But good luck, good luck to both you and good luck to you and Kaylin. Go Big Red. Happy Valentine's Day.

[B]

Happy Valentine's Day Day. I have one from Sean Bingham. How's it going boys? Back when my wife and I first started dating in college, we were going to go out to eat but decided to go to Taco Bell instead because we were in a hurry with classes. Wife was not happy when we went to Taco Bell and took a while to build my brownie points back up. Fast forward a year and we decided we are going to go somewhere nice to eat. Of course, being in college Red Lobster was considered nice. Nice. LOL and Olive Garden. Hey, come on, come on. I can mess with both of those. Outback. Come on. Went to Red Lobster, it was snowing, freezing cold outside and I was told there is a two hour wait because being an idiot, I didn't make a reservation. We were waiting by the door freezing when being the chatty guy I am, started talking with the other couple about the most random things. Trying to pass the time by and trying to keep our sand vanity. We ended up getting a table and went all out. Appetizers, drinks, most expensive things on the menu. When it came time to get our bill, our waitress came up and said our bill was paid for. We instantly started going. What? This only happens in movies. Looked around the waiting room and the couple we talked with while we were waiting raised their glasses and gave us a toast. What a way to celebrate Valentine's Day. After going to Taco Bell the year before. Moved on up in the world. Good reminder to pay it forward and bless those around you. Cheers and Happy Valentine's Day. PT6 love the podcast and is a favorite of mine to listen to you while doing chores around the house to keep Milk Team 6 happy. Thanks for all the tips and laughter over the last couple of months. Sean, you're doing Sean. Sean, you're doing the dishes right now to keep that MT Sixer happy. And I hope you got a little smile on your face cuz you have Valentine's Day.

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Let's Legend.

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Legend.

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Love that story. Got the got their dinner paid for.

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That's sick.

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A couple that they were talking with.

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That's sick. I've only had that happen one time and it was my aunt Shannon was in the restaurant. I did not know that. Shout out my Aunt Shannon. And I was. I mean Jill and I both were like what the hell? Like why? What? And I saw, you know, I just scanned the room and I saw her looking over and smiling at me. I was like let's raise the glass. Let's go. You're unreal meal.

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I got one here from Chris McKee.

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This is Chris McKee.

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This is Chris Mckee.

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Get ready. He bringing the heat.

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Hello guys. I love the podcast so much. It has truly become. Can't miss listening to me and sometimes with my son when I'm at work or in the car with him. Keep up the amazing work. My funny story is from Valentine's 2024. It was a Valentine's Day during the middle of the week. So me, my son or in my soon to be wife had agreed that we would do Valentine's on the weekend after. After she was and still is a barber in Cool Spring. Shameless Plug.

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Come on.

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I met her when she was done with work and I got some energy drinks to charge up for the evening. Yeah, you did buddy. Them gas station bills too.

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Rhino 9000.

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We were turning out of the parking lot to go to the gas station to fill up her car on the part the Parkway. Corothers, Carothers.

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Carruthers.

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Carruthers. Let's go with Carruthers. Carruthers Parkway has a median so she pulls into the center to get across the street. Street. I look up and see her brake lights come off and Start my turn to pull out. Someone at the last second cuts her off. In this particular brain of energy drink I had started to rattle around in the cup holder. I proceeded to rear in my wife's car. No kicker. Here is the day after. Is the day after New Year's we found out that we were expecting our second child, our son. We pull across the street to the gas station. Her car was smashed and so was mine. Good hood. We call the police to report the incident. The first cop responds, and he has a great sense of humor. He asked what happened and proceeded to jokingly pull out the handcuffs. My first lesson as a husband to be we leave my car and take her car to dinner. She was not going to be denied her steak and dessert, boys. Two years later, I'm still embarrassed by it, but it was a funny and expensive lesson, even in the chaos. Go get the steak and go love on your spouse. Yeah, go love on her.

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Hey, shout out Cool Springs PD Dude. That's all time.

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Yeah.

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He hit you.

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What happened? All right, buddy, turn around, spread him.

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And he. This is your husband.

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Play the taser a little bit.

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Oh, my God. Dude, that's. That's hilarious. Wesley Murray said. Fellas, we all know Valentine's Day comes with one non negotiable take care of the wife.

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Wifey.

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That's standard.

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It.

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That's standard issue. But if you're a girl dad, you've got double duty, triple duty. In your case, Valentine's Day isn't just about romance. It's about raising the bar for every future boyfriend, fiance, and husband who's gonna have to measure up one day. That's why every year, I take my daughter on her own Valentine's Day date. Nothing fancy, nothing stressful, just something that week where it's all about her. We get dressed up. Dressed up. I bring her flowers and a little gift, and we head to her favorite place to eat. And of course, we finish strong with the cookie from the mall, because that's our thing. These little traditions matter. My daughter is the light of my life, and I want her to grow up knowing exactly how she deserves to be treated. With respect, effort, and genuine care. And, yeah, I pray that one day she finds a man who's twice as good to her as I am. Which means that poor guy has some work to do. Girl dads, this is your reminder. Valentine's Day isn't just for your partner. It's a chance to model love, confidence, and standards for your daughter. I love that, Wesley.

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I love that.

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I love that, Wesley. Well, Done.

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He's got to be fired up to do a little date with R. Oh.

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Dude, I cannot wait. I. I'm thinking of doing Chick Fil A with. With Scarlet. Yeah. Because Jill works Valentine, so we're going to do a belated Valentine's, but I think I'm gonna take her to Chick Fil a.

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She'll love it.

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Should get a little Mac and cheese.

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You want to taste that? Couple more.

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Couple more, couple more.

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All right. Thomas Perkins.

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Hey.

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My name is Thomas, and you all said to write in with Valentine's Day stories, but, boys, I need help. My wife is currently pregnant with our first child. She doesn't care for Valentine's Day. Never has. But every year, I always do something special for her just because. There you go. Well, this year, she will be 28 weeks pregnant at Valentine's Day. And as y' all refer to it, getting close to being in the trenches. I just need some help on what to do this year. That won't. That won't send her into an irritated mood. And where my chewing isn't too loud or breathing isn't too bothered. Bothersome. She hates all food except what she's craving at that exact moment. Any ideas would be great. Thank you. And the show is great. Thomas.

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Bro. Thomas is so dialed in right now. He's dialed in right now. Just the added detail of the crunching the food.

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Yeah. Breathing a little too loud. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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I exist. I forgot. I forgot. I'm so sorry about that. Honey. I'll stop existing.

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What game would you give him? I'm thinking just icebreaker. You just get her favorite meal. If she doesn't want to go out, that's fine. She's 28 weeks pregnant. Maybe she truly doesn't want to. Like, it'd be. You'd be doing too much.

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Yeah, I don't blame.

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I don't blame it at all. But you still want to do something special. So whatever it is, whether it's flowers or favorite meal, whatever it is, maybe you bring it home and you break the ice by, like, the irritations going on. Hey, I got this meal for you. I set up your own little area. All of it. You're going to enjoy. I'm going to sit over here in the corner. Why are you sitting over there in corner? Sweetheart, I don't want to irritate you. I don't want to piss you off. This day is all about you.

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It's all about you.

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It's all about you.

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Foot rubs. Mandatory, dude, because you Know the fluids at week. You know, 28. I mean that's. Yeah. Foot rubs. Non negotiable.

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Maybe you make a little coupon book. A little coupon book?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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The dinners are not. The dinners are non negotiable. And the gift for Valentine's Day is a little coupon book that you make on your own.

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Yes.

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Rub back massage.

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Yes.

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Order. You know, she probably already has a pregnancy.

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One last glass of water even though I'm already in bed. When you asked me what do you.

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Want me to get overnighted right now from Amazon?

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1 free take all the boxes, a random dumpster. Yeah, the, the other cherry on top that I would say that. Did they say 28 weeks with the girl? Did they say girl?

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28 weeks pregnant. Pregnant with her first child. Baby girl.

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Baby boy.

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Baby girl does say.

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Damn if it is a girl or if you don't know, could get a little Valentine's Day outfit, boy or girl at Target. Probably for super cheap. They won't be sold out on those. And get it a year sized. Like get it for, you know, whatever that. What would. It's like 9 to 12 would probably be a safer inc. Age.

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Yeah.

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Get a little 9 to 12 size Valentine's thing and be like for our little baby next year.

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You could have some fun with that little coupon book.

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Dude, the coupon book is. Dude, that's a dad hack for anniversary, birthday, blah blah, blah.

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That's a hobby hack.

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And if you draw it out like hand draw it and put the little dots like they're supposed to cut it out and get cute with it.

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Dude, that's sneak a couple shockwave ones in there. Don't use them all at once, honey.

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Oopsie. Honey, there's 20 of these that say shockwave. Yeah, it's like every other one. Yeah.

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Just a little asterisk at the bottom like in small print on the coupon. Once used, shockwave is expected.

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Can be used in the car, in the living room, in the bedroom room, maybe outside in the backyard where the fences are tall enough that they really. Anywhere you want to use this, you can use it anywhere. There's no rules.

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No, that's the thing. You just put shockwave expected when. When coupon is being used. So whatever mama wants, whatever. She's like, oh, foot rub. I got you. It's a 30, 30 minute foot rub. Did you read the fine print on.

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The bottom asterisk with the shockwave? There really are no rules now that I think about it. And it really, really.

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Shockwave at play when requested.

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I'll do it right then and there.

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Yeah.

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Oh, God. Zachary Peron. Boys, a few years back, I found myself in the trenches of doom by screwing up Valentine's Day. I was in a softball league and always were never good. But this year, we made it to the ship. And of course, the game was on Vedic Day. Wife's wifey was quote unquote, cool with it and even came to support. But afterward, words of us not even winning. I took the wifey to Arby. Oh, dude.

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Arby.

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O. Zachary. I got. I got to stop right there. Dude. We. We could have at least done sonic chili, chili cheese dog.

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We got the meats.

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Party is wild. Arby's is wild. I took the wife to Arby's in the man. And the manager looks at me and goes, this is your romantic choice. Even the manager is on it. Like, buddy, Arby's the.

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You doing in here?

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What?

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What? Just around dinner time, somebody walks in the. Are you guys doing in here?

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Dude, it's February 14th. Like, literally. What are you doing here? We should be closed.

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People like you that can't allow us to be closed to tell my manager all week we need to be closed on Valentine's Day. Nobody's coming through, Doug.

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It's Arby's. Nobody's coming. And then Zachary Perone comes walking.

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You know what, Doug? You. What do you want?

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Go ahead. Oh, slice Beef brisket. Great choice, Doug. The apple turnover is on me for the beautiful lady. Followed up the manager. Well done, manager. To this day, I will never not hear about it from her, her friends and her family. Husband hack. Don't go to Arby's on Valentine's Day. That's a great dad act. Safe to say your boy didn't get lucky that day. That's Zachary.

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Y' all boys want some game? Man, don't take your girl to Arby's on Valentine's Day Day. That's free game.

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That's. That's maybe the best advice that has ever come from this show. Truly. If. If. If we could teach the public anything, just Arby's probably isn't. And dads need to hear that. Us men, we do need to hear. We need to be reminded of stuff like that.

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You got to save the next generation.

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You do those mistakes feed that idea. They. And sometimes you'll have an egg. That's a bad idea.

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That's.

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Go to Arby's on Valentine's Day. Don't feed that.

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Yeah, don't feed that egg. You gotta crack that egg, you gotta crack that egg. Let it spoil.

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That's a bad egg.

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People are laughing at you for a reason. And those people laughing are right.

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Bro.

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RV like, even seeing the sign in my head, like, on Valentine's Day, like, driving up and seeing that hat with Arby's written over, it just makes me laugh too, dude. Poor Arby's. We love you, Arby's. I know. We've been going for a really long time.

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Good.

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So good sod.

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Good.

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So, yeah. What were you about to do?

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I have a. A Dan Gable quote.

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Oh, we gotta hit the non negotiables.

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I'll go ahead. This one. I. I switched it up a little bit, Will. I. I went and listened to Dan Gable's episode on the Joe Rogan Experience.

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Good.

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So back in 2024, and he. He had a great quote here. And I was thinking of, like, how something that could be applied to kids. He said, you know, sometimes you give a kid a break or two and it come. It comes back to haunt you. It became kind of a ritual for me to go. Leave home about 11:30 every night and go to downtown Iowa City to walk into bars to see where some of the guys were at and try and get them home. And, you know, know that probably wasn't the right way to go about things. I should have had them where I didn't have to do that. But, you know, you win a lot and you start thinking you can cut corners. That's honestly how I lost my last match, which is a whole other story. Dan Gable, Joe Brogan Experience. 2024. Don't cut corners. Don't cut too much slack, or else you'll be in Iowa City picking up your wrestlers.

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Yeah. Picking up your kids.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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They're trying to rebel too hard on them. I got a Dan Gable one right here. I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

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Boom.

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Dan Gable.

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Dan Gable said that. We're running out of quotes. I know about.

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I got a bunch.

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I think Sher read that last week. I did.

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Oh, I did it.

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But Dan Gable said it. He said that. He did say that. He said Dan Gable quote. Yeah. It's a good one.

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Let's find another one.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We gotta get another one, man.

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Always remember the pain of defeat. Yeah. And never let it happen again.

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Take the trash out, man. Thank you for listening, man.

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The pain of defeat. And never let it happen again. Again.

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Remember what it felt like to walk into that Arby's and that manager look at you and go, you for real right now?

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Guy. The pain my man endured when Shockwave was off the table because he took her to a nice steakhouse and she got sick. Remember that PA pain and never make that mistake nor let it ever happen again.

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Remember that pain when you leaned over to ask about shot wave and she said, not a chance because my stomach is about to explode with Arby's curly fries because that's about the only thing on the menu worth ordering.

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And to refer back to the quote that's been double quoted the last two weeks, when she tells you no and she shoots her shot, you score.

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But then when you shoot your shot, you score. Dan Gable, everyone.

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Happy Valentine's Day.

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Happy Valentine's Day.

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Drop a heart would be too easy.

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Some flowers.

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Yeah.

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Actually drop a big old steak for Arby's. Drop a big old steak emoji.

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Put a ribbon on it and put a ribbon.

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Yeah. Oh, that's. Drop the meat with the ribbon. Arby's ribbons. Happy Valentine's Day.

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