Will Compton On Embracing The Suck & Men Decoding What Our Wives Are ACTUALLY Saying | For The Dads

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Bussin’ With The Boys — Will Compton On Embracing The Suck & Men Decoding What Our Wives Are ACTUALLY Saying | For The Dads

Air Date: December 10, 2025
Hosts: Will Compton (Willie One Shelf), Sherman Young, Derek, Chef
Episode Theme: Embracing the chaotic realities of fatherhood, supporting your partner, decoding the “hidden language” of wives, and sharing practical hacks and honest stories from #DadLife.

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Overview

This episode is a raw, humorous, and heartfelt look into the daily challenges and growth moments of being a dad. Will and Sherman swap stories about sleep deprivation, never-ending routines, the hidden “tasks” our partners request (often without saying), and building resilience through it all. The boys offer advice, commiserate with listeners, and celebrate the small victories—reminding dads everywhere they’re not alone in the “suck.” The episode also features listener questions, call-ins, and plenty of banter that builds the #ForTheDads community.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening and Community Calls to Action

• Holiday Charity Drive: Bussin’ With The Boys is partnering with Monroe Carroll Jr. Children’s Hospital.
  • Donate at bwtb.com or buy merch (10% of proceeds matched and donated) (03:10)
  • Boys will hand-deliver toys to kids and share a vlog (04:10)

2. Relatable Dad Mornings: Missed Alarms and Meltdowns

• Will’s Rough Start: Slept through alarm, wife worked out early, daughter Rue had a nightmare.
  • “I was backed into a corner this morning.” (Will, 06:11)
  • Comforted Rue during 2 a.m. wakeup; “Let’s go be a hero tonight…” (08:27)
  • Morning chaos: making pepperononi quesadillas, snack refusals, and mandatory “hug-kiss-three squeezes” routine (11:18)
  • “The world's falling apart, and I’m just walking around, you know, back to the fridge saying ‘good, good, good, good’.” (Will, 13:19)
• Sherm’s Sick-Day Scramble: Wife Jill sick for the first time; baby Scarlet thrown off routine.
  • Accidentally locked the dog in the nursery: “Wrigley explodes out… and piss everywhere. Good, good.” (Sherman, 16:00)
  • Forced to improvise childcare, do night feeds: “No one’s coming to save you. That’s just a day at the office.” (Sherman, 22:57)

3. Embracing the Suck: The “Good” Philosophy

• Embrace adversity with a “good” attitude—small disasters are part of the journey and make victories sweeter.
  • Woven throughout episodes as listeners and hosts recount their “foxhole” stories.
  • “Good. All the chaos and meltdowns are worth the memories and smiles…” (Listener Eli McCarthy92, 23:06)

4. Listener Comments & Community Shoutouts

• Celebrating everyday dad wins, from diaper duty and sleep loss to poop disasters and Christmas card exchanges. Notable:
  • “Daughter didn’t make it to toilet… go downstairs, turd is gone. Dog is licking its lips and runs to its cage…” (Listener LionsFan73, 25:04)
  • “Any advice?”—MLB professional Tim Reams calls in for new dad wisdom.
    • “If you’re one of those guys… looking around for somebody to save you, you haven’t been doing enough…” (Will, 30:10)

5. The “Decoding Wives” Section

• How men and women communicate “needs” in code, and how to get better at reading between the lines.
  • Will: “Women… can’t read your minds, like you have to tell me. But they’re thinking, ‘If you just know, I don’t have to tell you.’” (41:20)
  • Sherman: “That’s called an out loud subtweet from your wife.” (39:08)
  • The “passive-aggressive” spiral and learning to respond, not react.
  • “You can either boil and get angry… or just smile and say, ‘Good, it’s my time, my number’s getting called.’” (Will, 41:24)

6. Listener Voicemails: Dad Advice and Hacks

Bath Time Questions (74:56 / 1:14:56)

• Q: What should you do with a toddler during bath time?
  • A: Play, sing, talk, be goofy; enjoy the slow moments.
  • “This bath game is easy. Flip the switch in your brain—you’re gonna sound stupid and obnoxious but you do it for your little girl.” (Will, 79:40)

Christmas Tree Babyproofing (81:50 / 1:21:50)

• Q: How do you keep toddlers away from the tree?
  • A: No perfect solution. Ideas: fake tree, indestructible ornaments lower down, create a decoy “kid tree,” or use fences.
  • “Every time she gets involved...this is why I want to get a cage for her. She needs to be like Uga during the SEC championship game.” (Will, 87:16)
  • “Buy the baby its own tree… indestructible ornaments…let ‘em have it.” (Sherman, 85:11)

7. Crack a Cold One Section

• Shout-outs to the team, production crew, wives, and all “playing lefty when called.”
  • “Crack a cold one to us… and being able to go rock it when they call in the lefty.” (Sherm, 66:13)

8. Lessons & Memorable Quotes

Closing “Lessons of the Week”

• Will (Instagram quote):
  • “The days are messy, but the years are magic. And you can’t get them back. So enjoy them.” (91:43)
• Sherman (Teamwork/Zone Coverage):
  • “It’s not about even splits, it’s about coverage… When your wife feels safe, supported, and seen, your home becomes stronger… Being a good partner isn’t about even splits, it’s about coverage.” (Sherman, 91:49 & 93:08)
• Will:
  • “Keep showing up… keep overthinking every conversation… and keep submitting to what’s best for you and wifey… and the family. Take your trash out. We love you.” (94:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:10 – Christmas hospital charity drive details
• 06:11 – Will’s “hero dad” night and morning chaos
• 13:19 – Will’s “good” mantra during meltdown
• 15:51 – Sherman’s sick wife, dog disaster, dad panic
• 22:57 – “No one’s coming to save you” realization
• 23:06 – Listener comment: Chaos at Disney World (“Good” moments)
• 25:04 – Listener’s “dog ate poop” story
• 28:25–34:45 – “Next man up” / Dad-as-reliever analogy (baseball)
• 38:00–44:00 – Decoding wives’ “requests”; the male brain, indirect asks
• 74:56 / 1:14:56 – Call-in: What should dads do during bath time?
• 81:50 / 1:21:50 – Call-in: Babyproofing the Christmas tree
• 91:43 – Will’s Instagram perspective: “Enjoy the years you’re in.”
• 91:49/93:08 – Sherman’s lesson: “Zone coverage” in parenting

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Will: “You’re just going to be ‘in the suck’ a lot of the times.” (23:08)
• Listener (Eli): “All the chaos and meltdowns are worth the special memories and smiles on wifey and baby girl's face.” (23:06)
• Sherman: “No one’s coming to save you. That’s just a day at the office.” (22:57)
• Will: “If you’re looking around for somebody to save you, you haven’t been doing enough.” (30:10)
• Sherman: “That’s called an out loud subtweet from your wife.” (39:08)
• Will: “Flip the switch in your brain and think I’m gonna sound stupid right now and obnoxious, but I’m gonna do it with my little girl.” (79:40)
• Sherman: “Being a good partner isn’t about even splits, it’s about coverage. When your wife feels safe, supported and seen, your home becomes stronger.” (91:49)
• Will: “The days are messy, but the years are magic. And you can’t get them back. So enjoy them.” (91:43)

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Episode Tone

Easygoing, honest, vulnerable and hilarious—with plenty of dad jokes, tough-love motivation, and camaraderie. “For the Dads” is just as much about the lows as it is about the highs, and the Boys emphasize the importance of showing up, learning, and laughing along the way.

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For Listeners

Whether you’re in the suck, missing sleep, or arguing over whose turn it is to do bath time, you’re not alone. The Boys’ message: Embrace the chaos, cherish small moments, support your partner, and keep showing up. Good.

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Transcript

[Willie One Shelf]

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[Sherman Young]

Yes we are Monroe Carroll Jr. Children's Hospital here in Nashville, Tennessee and we would love to invite you to also give if you are feeling in the giving mood. There are two different ways to do so guys, you can either go to bwtb.com and you can donate to the Monroe Carroll Junior Children's Hospital. This is going to be supplying them with the necessary tools to get these kids gifts, toys, get their families gifts and toys here around the holidays but also take care of these kids all year round. So first way to do it, directly donate on bwtb.com there's a link on our site or if you are looking to get some merch, some FTD merch.

[Willie One Shelf]

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[Sherman Young]

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[Willie One Shelf]

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[Sherman Young]

Yes. Then 10% of that purchase will be donated directly to the hospital. So it's a great way for PT6 to kind of team up together and donate and do something really fun for these kids this holiday season.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. So again, if you're feeling encouraged, Bus with the Boys is also matching those 10% of net proceeds. If you buy an item from our store and just to walk you through it, again directly [e-mail] to the hospital or simply buy some merch. $10 of those proceeds go to the hospital and Bus in with the Boys is matching every dollar that is raised through our merchandise. If you are feeling encouraged this holiday season, again bwtb.com donate to the kids. For the kids, for the dads and.

[Sherman Young]

Will, I forgot the most important part. We're going to be hand delivering toys to those kids at the hospital here in the next couple weeks. So that's going to be another fun opportunity. Just getting to get go see the kids. We'll have a little vlog that comes out with that but something to tune in. Tune in for.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes. Enjoy this episode of for the Dads. Papa Team six. Welcome to another episode of for the Dads. I hope your your vehicles are thawed out from the cold weather we're getting. I hope your trash is taken out. I hope you're having a great time. Welcome to the show. We are a show, we are a brand about the dads for the dads. Some moms as well. Moms I know Milk Team Sixers. They like to tune in. This is a spot. You enjoy the banter with the dads. You you're looking to get better in some capacity by learning from our mistakes. We are absolutely not experts on this show. We just talk about our dad life, our dad experiences. We have some lessons throughout the show. A quote lesson, something that we're into at the end of the episode we dive into. We have a line and an email that you can get featured on the show with by calling into 601 the dads. That is where you can drop a voicemail, talk about dad win a dad lost a dad hack. Just shouting out the boys, shouting out the dads out there, shouting out Papa Team 6. You'll be featured on the show and we will send you merchandise. If you are international and you cannot call into the hotline and leave a voicemail, you can hit us up. Our email is 601thedadsgmail.com Sherm, is that correct?

[Sherman Young]

That is correct. Yes sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes. In other ways to engage with the boys. We're on all social channels at for the dads pod. Leave comments. We love the interactions. We love the community. This is again a show for the dads by a couple dads. I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. Sherm has a 5 month old and little scar.

[Sherman Young]

Scar 5 months baby. Shout out Australia for those international writing emails. We've been getting a lot of Aussies writing in. Come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

And again, man, we just talk about our ups and downs, highs and lows of fatherhood with our wives. I showed up about 30 minutes late today.

[Sherman Young]

That's okay. That's okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

Well, your boy was in. Your boy was in it a little bit. I was, I was, I was backed into a corner this morning.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Slept a little bit longer than I thought I would. Wife wakes me up at 7 o'. Clock. She had a workout at 6 in the morning and I'm kind of. I thought I had my Alarm set for 6:20, I believe.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And don't remember hearing it or feeling it waking up. And so a couple things.

[Sherman Young]

Did you have a true blood rush type? Wake up like a. Oh, what time is it?

[Willie One Shelf]

No, she woke me up and she's like, good morning sweetheart. Look what I made you. And it was an, it was an. It was an ice latte, bro. An ice latte. Like my wife's getting up working out at 6 in the morning. She asked me last night, fire was going, lights are up inside. I hope all your Christmas lights are up. The vibes are, are high in the Compton household. Especially in the evening time when you got just a Christmas ambiance going.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And she asked last night, can I go work out at 6 in the morning? Absolutely, of course you can. She's like, I'll probably be back around seven, help get everything rolling. I'm like, I gotta hit for the dads. I gotta hit our podcast. Podcast starts at 8. We usually rock between 8, 8, 15. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So I have to get out of the house by 7:45. And I'm thinking in my head, she's gonna get up and roll. I'm gonna get up early and. And get knockout lunch. Make ruse quesadilla. Do a little something different than breakfast quesadilla, not breakfast quesadilla for lunch. She loves. You know how she loves her pepperononis? She does for everybody in there, out there. Tuned in. Rue loves her pepperonis, or pepperononi, she.

[Sherman Young]

Likes to call them, God bless her.

[Willie One Shelf]

And so I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna knock lunch out, I'm gonna knock all the things out. So that way when Charl walks in the door, I'm in the middle, basically on the tail end of having morning routine done for school and everything else. Then we'll both go up to wake up the kids. To wake up Scottzilla and Rue. Yes. Didn't happen. So last night, middle of the night, 2132 in the morning, I hear on the monitor Rouge crying. She said, usually Charles, the one who hears first dad second mount here, Charlie picking it up. And I just hear Rue. She's not crying loudly, but kind of like maybe she had a bad dream. And she's just sad. And so I'm like, oh, I'm gonna get up and go up there, comfort her and everything else. So get, you know, wake up 1:30 in the morning.

[Sherman Young]

Good, good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, let's get on the dad hat. Let' upstairs. Let's go. Let's go be a hero tonight and go and lay in bed with her and like, sweetheart, what's going on? Why are you sad? And she just talks about missing Mama. So I'm thinking in my head, like, she probably had a bad dream, woke up, is just missing Mama. Well, Mama's downstairs sleeping right now. She. We want to let her get some rest. Do you mind if that la's with you? And she's like, yeah, that's okay.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, there you go.

[Willie One Shelf]

So I'm thinking, all right, now I'm gonna. I'm gonna have to lay up here for a little bit to make sure she gets back to sleep.

[Sherman Young]

Good, good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let's have a. Let's be a hero. Let's be a hero.

[Sherman Young]

Hero ball.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Do you want Daddy to snuggle? She, like, shakes her. Yes. And we just sit there and snuggle basically, until she falls asleep. So I go back downstairs, it's probably 2:15 in the morning at this point, get back to bed, make sure my Alarm's set for 6:20. And so apparently my wife wakes up, she goes to work out. I don't remember her getting up and I missed my alarm. 6:20. Good, good, good. Sleeping good. Be. Be husband, be dad right now. Wife comes over, just. You don't want to get woken up any other way.

[Sherman Young]

She has no idea what you were doing at 1:32 o' clock though?

[Willie One Shelf]

No. When I woke up, I told her my age. She's like, no, I didn't hear. She said, usually I'm the first one to hear, oh, yeah, maybe you.

[Sherman Young]

Not last night.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, it was the hero last night. But how else you want to be woken up? I'm woken up with a good morning smoke. Look what I made you. She's holding the ice latte in her hand from the espresso machine. We get up and I'm rolling. And then I realize, I'm like, you've been up. You went and worked out, didn't you? And she's like, yeah, you thought I was just wearing those workout gear for. For nothing. I'm like, it's just nuts to me that I slept until. Until she came home and woke me up.

[Sherman Young]

You were tired.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, sleepy boy.

[Sherman Young]

You were tired.

[Willie One Shelf]

Willie was sleepy.

[Sherman Young]

That, that's a prime example of like, you needed that sleep. As much as you might be angry at yourself, like your body was like, yo, I need rest.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're probably right. But so we get rolling and I'm behind the eight ball and I'm in there making breakfast, making lunch. I hear a little, little dust up going on upstairs. Rue, she's apparently in a great mood until all of a sudden she's not. And Mom's like, hey, do you want me to help you make your bed? Rue's like, yeah. Then they make the bed. The other. She gets mad, No, I don't want you to help me make the bed. Rips off all the stuffed animals. Good. Oh, she's losing her mind. We have no clue why. Good.

[Sherman Young]

That's actually perfect.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's ideal. Yeah. She's three years old. All of a sudden she's pissed off. I thought you wanted me. I thought you wanted Mama to help. Help you make your bed. Not anymore. Then I come up, I'm trying to like, soothe it down because I need to know an answer. Hey, what do you want for snack time? I've already knocked out your. Your pepperononi quesadilla. Got you pepperoni quesadilla pepperononis to top it off. Not top it off, but have a little side slot. Granola balls and sliced apples. I know you love them flat. Dad cut them flat. Good.

[Sherman Young]

Excuse. Excuse me, Ms. Rue. I know you're in a meeting with Mom.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

What. What did you want for snack time?

[Willie One Shelf]

I just got done.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, making your lunch.

[Willie One Shelf]

She didn't know. She didn't want to tell me. Don'. Answer's now. Even better.

[Sherman Young]

That's all right, Ms. Rear. I'll let. I'll let you handle that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Would you like freeze dried strawberries? No. All right, good. Good. No.

[Sherman Young]

Terrible idea.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, terrible idea.

[Willie One Shelf]

That is stupid.

[Sherman Young]

I.

[Willie One Shelf]

Listen. No suck.

End up getting her snack together. I'm like, hey, I'm going to need you to come downstairs because Dad's got to leave very soon. And she's like, are you going to leave without me? And I'm like, no, no, no. Listen, I know we got to do hug, kiss, and three squeezes. That is not leaving until I get my hug, kiss, and three squeezes. That's all she needed to know. I'm going to wait for you to come downstairs, but I need you to hurry up.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So that it can get rolling, because that. That is already behind. That is already screwed up.

[Sherman Young]

Any question in your mind that's like, if this doesn't happen, I'll be upset. Just know that's not going to happen because that is on your side this morning.

[Willie One Shelf]

We are on the same team, sweetheart.

[Sherman Young]

I'm your friend.

[Willie One Shelf]

So I go downstairs and I'm. I'm trying to get. I'm trying to figure out my lunch and have everything set up so that way she can come downstairs. Hug, kiss, three squeezes. Yeah. Yeah. Family comes down, comes downstairs, give her a massive hug kiss. Or he squeezes. Scotty's just standing there. You know how I told the story last week of the kiss and her putting her hand at her mind and doing the whole squeeze?

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Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So she's fully bought into the hug, kissing, three squeezes. I'm giving Rue all the. All the big. The big three. And then Scotty's just standing on the side, waiting for a hug from Dada for just a random reason. And the squeezes. I get up and roll to the fridge. I'm like, all right, I gotta get my lunch. Like, man, where's the snack at? I try to pull out a container. Container falls out. Crack breaks all over the floor.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, perfect. Glass.

[Willie One Shelf]

No, it was plastic. Hard plastic. Cracks open. Food everywhere.

[Sherman Young]

I wish it.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm staring down at the ground. And I'm just like.

I start pacing and walk around and it just hits me. Just say it out loud. Say, good.

Good, good.

[Sherman Young]

If only it had been glass, then.

[Willie One Shelf]

It would have been great. Charles trying to clean up some stuff. Everybody's kind of around. It's one of those moments where you're a little too. You're. What is it? You're like over. You're overstimulated. You know you have to leave. You're already behind, late. I'm texting the boys. They'll be there at 8:20. I already know it's going to be 8:30. The world's falling apart, and I'm. I'm like walking around, you know, I'm like walking back to the fridge saying, good, good, good, good. Nanny walks in at this exact time. She walks in and through the garage and around the mu. Room, and she just sees me, like sitting there walking, like, good, good, good. Oh, Audrey, great to see you. Great to see you. Everything's all good over here.

[Sherman Young]

How's baby? We're excited.

[Willie One Shelf]

Spilled flu, spilled food all over the floor.

[Sherman Young]

Don't worry, I'll pick that up.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, run outside. Truck's not defrosted yet. Sprinting out there. I'm, you know, I'm just barefoot. I put socks and shoes on yet. I'm turning that up. Good, good. All good, man. It's. I'm happy to be here.

[Sherman Young]

You.

[Willie One Shelf]

You happy to be here for the dads right now?

[Sherman Young]

You and I had very similar mornings. Very similar mornings. I got. I can jump into mine and then we can do happy comments.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, we go, look, look, I walked in, Derek, we has coffee ready. He's like, got your coffee ready? Got the comments ready? Coffee and comments.

[Sherman Young]

I sang a song to you that I rehearsed in the mirror last night for several hours.

[Derek]

I would like to say too, we. We should apologize to you. That doesn't happen with an accountability buddies text, which we've only done one time. I got reminded from a buddy. We have not so to our fault. We should have woke you up.

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Well, we.

[Willie One Shelf]

Accountability text that we started. What was that two weeks ago? I said, maybe one day that happened.

[Chef]

I said the first one in, everyone goes, good morning, Good morning. And then 45 minutes later, it's a text from Will going, oh, we're starting that today.

[Willie One Shelf]

And that's been the extent. Yeah.

[Chef]

I was like, well, that's the end of that.

[Sherman Young]

That's true.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's true.

[Sherman Young]

Chalk it. Chalk it up to me not texting you this morning that, yes, we need to be better as a team. We need to be better as a team. I, Jill is sick. And yesterday I went into full panic mode trying to figure out a way for us to record this today and not even realizing. Derek said it beautifully off mic earlier. Oh, I already pay for a system that watches my kids daycare. And I was like, we'll just take Scarlet to daycare an extra day. Check Scarlett this morning. She did not have a fever. I don't have a fever. Jill is dead. Jill's basically she. And shout out Jill, I love Jill.

[Willie One Shelf]

Jill, shout out you.

[Sherman Young]

I will say this about, sorry you're feeling shitty. She has left work for as long as I've known her. She has left work only one other time. So I know it ain't good. And so I come home or sorry, I get a text from Jill yesterday. She basically says, I'm dead, I'm leaving work. I'm like, okay, good. Okay, start playing with you guys. I panic and then I quickly realize, okay, we could put Scarlet in daycare tomorrow. We got that figured out. Now let's just take care of Scarlet and take care of Jill. So I go pick up Scarlet from daycare. I come home. Jill has been home since 3:30 and has been passed out in bed. She's just asleep. I go to the nursery and the door is not coming. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on with the nursery door? Look down, the carpet is all like outside of the door. Like, there's no carpet on the outside of the nursery. There's carpet on the inside of the nursery, but it's all sticking out of the door. Like, what the fuck's going on here? Lay my shoulder into the nursery door. Wrigley explodes out of the nursery. So Jill locked Wrigley in the nursery all day long. There's. And piss everywhere. Good, good.

Scarlett. Because she wants her, you know, attention. So I go get the carpet cleaner and I'm cleaning the carpet and I got Scarlet up on the changing table with my hand right there and I'm scrubbing the carpet. Jill's dead in the bed. I go, I go make Scarlet's her bath. Bath time goes great. Then all of a sudden she decides she doesn't want to eat her bottle, which she has never done at night time. That's her favorite bottle. And for parents at home, you know, that is one of the most important bottles.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because one of the most important. If they've been in a routine the whole time, your head's spinning like, what is happening? I'M like you. This is.

[Sherman Young]

We've made it, We've made it. I'm also thinking in the back of my mind, if she does not eat at least five and a half ounces, she is going to wake up in the middle of the night hungry and piss, which means I will wake up and I already have a 5:30 and you're gonna piss. I'm gonna be pissed. I already have a 5:30 wake up call tomorrow just to get her to daycare so I can be here on time. So I'm like, scarlet, we are not taking no as an option. Tonight you will drink your bottle. So I open up, I open up her merlin, I open up her onesie and I get a wet wipe. This might, I don't know if this is abuse, but I think it's a dad hack. And I'm just wiping her chest with the wipe to wake her up. She was basically just falling asleep and not eating her bottle. And I had the lights on, I had music on. And I'm like, scarlett, eat your baba. Eat your baba. And she wouldn't wake up. So I and doing this wet wipe on her chest. And it keeps on waking her up enough to where she's like, oh yeah, I need to eat my body gulps at a time. Yes. That ended up working. We got six ounces in her. Once we got six ounces, I said, good and put her in the crib. Then I go into the bedroom and I just hear.

And I'm like, oh, honey, are you okay? Jill's dead. And I'm what do you need? I need Tylenol, I need ice, I need water, blah, blah, blah, I'll go get that. I go get all of her stuff. And then I'm like, oh my God, I can't go to bed because Jill is usually the one. Shout out Jill who preps all of Scarlett's stuff for daycare. I gotta make Scarlett's bottles for tomorrow. I gotta pick out her outfit. I gotta get all of her stuff. So I make all pre make all the bottles.

[Willie One Shelf]

At what point do you put the eye black on? Oh, where you're like, you know what, I gotta do all this. And you just start looking in the mirror. You put the eye black on and it's like, let's get to work.

[Sherman Young]

Pull up Coach X picture of his eye black in college. That's where I was at.

[Willie One Shelf]

Damn near blackface.

[Sherman Young]

He put the eye back on and I grabbed my hands and I smeared.

[Willie One Shelf]

It on my face. I said, you ain't going to bed Tonight, I said, we got this. It's gonna be good.

[Sherman Young]

And I wash all the bottles. I prepped everything and then I made the bottles and I put them up. And then this morning, execution was perfect. We got Scarlett out of the crib. We got her in her new outfit. Bottle, bottle, bottle. She drank the whole thing. Get her to daycare. Shout out daycare.

[Willie One Shelf]

Thank you for shout out daycare.

[Sherman Young]

Do an extra day. Oh, do you have 110? You gotta pay up front. I had 115 in my wallet. I never carry cash. Boom, There you go.

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[Sherman Young]

Have a good day. I'm going to go record for the dads.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's turning into lemonade, son. Yes.

[Sherman Young]

And I say all of that to say, no one's coming to save you. And that's just a. That's a day at the office.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's a day at the office.

[Sherman Young]

It's a day at.

[Willie One Shelf]

The parents out there hearing our stories, they, they have worse ones. Like, you're just, you're going to be in the suck a lot of the times. I actually have a comment right here from Eli McCarthy, 92. We talk about. I was, I was mentioning. We were mentioning. Good. Throughout our stories. We have a good one right here. This one's on YouTube. So again, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter. Your comments, we can read them on the show. We love the community, we love the engagement. TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. Eli McCarthy, 92. Boys, I'm currently on the front lines in the foxhole for my little princess first Disney World trip for her fifth birthday. Good. It's pure freaking chaos. Good. The nephew is being an aggravating asshole. Good. Multiple meltdowns. Good. Baby girl's first roller coaster. Scary. Scared the absolute out of her, but she didn't let that stop her. Good. Good. All the chaos and meltdowns are worth the special memories and smiles on wifey and baby girl's face. Keep up the good work, pt6. This show truly was a game changer for me. Love y' all boys. Love you too, Eli.

[Sherman Young]

Love you, Eli. Layman. Layman Sturman, South Doors 5123 on YouTube. Good morning from Northwest Arkansas, you sickos. Nanny called in sick today.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

I'm. I'm home with a moody 2 1/2 year old girl and a teething 7 month.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

I gotta work at night shift tonight.

[Derek]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

Love you boys. P.T. sicko.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's grinding.

[Sherman Young]

He's grinding.

[Willie One Shelf]

And what'd you tell him earlier? Nobody is coming to save you.

[Sherman Young]

And Layman knows that more than anyone. A sicko, a true sicko.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's just a simple one right here. Michael.

A B.

[Sherman Young]

Yes sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

E H8B Y. I've been seeing underscore on YouTube.

[Sherman Young]

Been seeing him everywhere. All this.

[Willie One Shelf]

Everywhere. Need more night episodes.

[Sherman Young]

Lm AO My mom asked me if I was drunk last week. Called me and asked me if I was drunk. I said no, I was delirious. Yeah, mother.

[Willie One Shelf]

We were hanging on.

[Sherman Young]

We're hanging on, we're hanging on. She said it wasn't a bad performance. You just seemed a little extra goofy. Lions Fan 73 on YouTube said, Will, I will raise you one with a poop story. Daughter didn't make it to the toilet in time and dropped a deuce on the bathroom floor. I go upstairs for two minutes, come back down, and the turd is gone. Oh, good. Ask the kid where it went. And she literally points at our dog. I turn around and the dog is licking its lips and immediately runs to its cage.

[Willie One Shelf]

That is crazy body training.

[Sherman Young]

And dogs aren't for the week.

[Willie One Shelf]

Charlo had one where she was doing bath time over the weekend when we were in. We were doing the all cast in Atlanta and Rue had to go potty while she was in bath time. She's like, mom, I gotta go poo poo.

[Sherman Young]

She.

[Willie One Shelf]

She picks her up and as she picks her up to transfer to the toilet or three year old, she drops a two right there on the floor.

[Sherman Young]

Come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

On the way over. It was just coming out. Come on. She couldn't hold it in. Just drops a. I think a durable. A durable piece right there on the carpet.

[Sherman Young]

Just like a daddy.

[Willie One Shelf]

Just like a daddy. That's my. I heard that. That's my girl.

[Sherman Young]

That's my girl.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good job, Rue.

Simple one here from Rico getting dough. 916. This has got to be a goon beret right here. Yeah, rico getting dough. ST6 are checking in. Great podcast. Always looking forward to a new episode. Shout out the boys. St Sixers. That's your semen. Team six led by Chef right there. It's Chef. There you go. Rico getting dough. It's great. 916.

[Sherman Young]

Rico getting dough. I have one from Tim Reams. My name is Tim Reams. Hey, how are you? I've been in professional. Oh, shout out. Rizzo apparently has been throwing our stuff everywhere in the MLB because we got another MLB guy, Tim Reams. He said, hey, how are you? My name is Tim Reams. I've been in professional baseball since 2012. For the last seven years, I've been at the major league level as a big league bullpen catcher. My wife and I just had our first child, a baby boy. He's four months old and he is our first. Any advice? We love listening to the podcast as well. I look forward to hearing from you guys soon. Tim Reams, Yo.

[Willie One Shelf]

That is awesome. Just casually writing in writing a comment. He casually also, I play professional baseball. I'm in the mlb.

[Sherman Young]

Correct me if I'm wrong, Derek. He casually bought a bunch of merch too, did he not? Was he the MLB player that also storied like merch on his story. I believe he got some bus. And I wore that to double check.

[Derek]

That we had a first form athlete who was a hockey player. Buy some stuff too. But I can, I can. I'll make a list of all our people.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Form, energy.

[Willie One Shelf]

What was the advice he said that he has. How old is theirs?

[Sherman Young]

Four months old.

[Willie One Shelf]

Four months old. This is up your alley, like for, you know, for me, if I'm remembering again the, the time flies. So the fact that Scotty's one roost. Three, I like think back to those dog days of a four month old. Four month. Like he's right around. Are we getting him down for 12 hours at a night? Are you still doing the night feeds? That's like a war that's going on. Yes, because four months is around where they can sleep through the night. If you've been, if you've been doing any of the sleep training philosophies that.

[Sherman Young]

Are out there, I, I would say this to Tim because this is my lesson of the week as well. And we'll get into this. But if anybody knows this more, it's going to be Tim Rhames, who is a bullpen catcher. There are some times when you are down and out and you got to call in the lefty and you got to get them warmed up. You got to be ready to go in there and not only pitch a hell of a game, but you could even win the game.

Be ready for when they called the lefty and get you in there. Because my wife is an absolute sicko. And this morning and last night reminded me of that. Of just like, holy shit. There is so much that I have to do to cover for my wife. She is kicking ass daily. How does she do it?

[Willie One Shelf]

And you're on the mound now.

[Sherman Young]

And I'm on the mound now. And now it's like, okay, not only am I, not only am I out here trying to win the game, but it's for guts and glory too.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Because I'm looking at our.

Our formula thing and it's a different type of formula than what we've been using. I'm second guessing myself. I'm like, yo, where's the usual?

[Willie One Shelf]

You're looking around like a deer in headlights looking at coach on the sideline or in the dugout. The look back is, this is what we prepare for week in and week out. I don't know why you're staring at me. This.

[Sherman Young]

Why are you looking at me? There's formula right there. What are you going to do?

[Willie One Shelf]

The starters hurt. The starters in bed right now.

[Sherman Young]

Starters hurt.

[Willie One Shelf]

This is a next man up mentality. Yeah. There should be no drop off if you want to be a big leaguer. There's no drop off when your number gets called.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. And what kind of shit are you going to be throwing on the mound? What kind of nasty are you pitching?

[Willie One Shelf]

And if you're one of those guys that's deer in headlights looking around thinking you're prepared, thinking you're talking a big game about that life and everything else, when the starter goes out, how are you going to perform? And if again, if you're looking around for somebody to save you, you haven't been doing enough and there is going.

[Sherman Young]

To be a four month old mean son of a staring you down at home plate saying, what do you got, dad? Ass. What the do you got? Because I'm either going to and send it out of the park or you're gonna strike this out. Yeah, what do you got?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Staring at you in the A gap.

[Sherman Young]

Staring at you in the A gap.

[Willie One Shelf]

And what I'll say too, it's like with the 1 and 3. Now I think back to those early months where it's chaos at all times. Like there's the hard points, hard moments throughout all of childhood. All of childhood. Now, as a dad that has youngest is now one who can walk, who looks at a cabinet like, oh, hey, this cabinet's unlocked. This cabinet's open and there's everything's in the cabinet. Why would everything be in the cabinet? Let me throw it all over the goddamn living room.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, and hey, that's not a cabinet. I think that might be a ladder.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, all the cans and bottles of water and everything is eye level here in the pantry. What's it doing on the shelf? It should be all over the floor.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, is that glass? Let's see if I can break it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Oh, dead. I just filled up a fresh bowl of water for waffle. She's not thirsty. She likes drinking it off the floor as that dad. Seeing that now, I just think to myself, cherish the times where there they're, they're not mobile and you could just bounce them in a little chair and watch a show. Whatever. Put the subtitles on it, whatever it is. They're immobile. Yeah. Enjoy those moments because it just gets more chaotic.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, you're your dog. And piss everywhere on the carpet. But it's close enough to the changing table that you can put Scarlett on the changing table and keep your hand On Scarlet while you clean.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

Because what if she's mobile? What if she's. Where would I put her?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. And Scott Zilla, Anytime we're prepping the oven, doing something on the stove, putting food in the oven, whatever it is, anytime she hears dinner, because we're getting everything heated up, she can now get. She's able to reach.

All those knobs. So all she does, I set it for 375. She tries to wheel it to 500. She's pressing buttons. Now I'm getting orange lights blinking because the oven is shutting down or speaking a language I don't understand. And I just got to turn everything off and wait for, like, five minutes. And so I'm like, all right, let me see if I can heat up this food again or if I can get the oven preheated. Because once she hears denim, she's over there. She's messing with the knobs. And I looked down. I'm like, scotty, stop. And she's just, like, looking up at me. I'm like, no, no, you don't get it. Grab her by the arms, take her over to the. Take her over to the living room, sprint over to the oven, get the oven where I want to. And then I just sit there like a linebacker in the A gap while she tries to walk over. She tries to move. Tries to, like, slide in between my legs. She starts getting upset, and I'm like, this is. Welcome to the show. You're not getting by the oven.

[Sherman Young]

Welcome to the show.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's one of those ovens, too. It's like the knobs are on. Like, if I'm. If this is the oven, this is the top part. You open the door to go in. The knobs are, like, sitting right there on the side so she can kind of grab the handle and mess with the knobs and push the buttons.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, perfect.

[Willie One Shelf]

God.

[Sherman Young]

Oh. Your. Your house goes into auxiliary heat because it's so cold outside. And now your nursery is 84 degrees. You think that your baby's going to die, and you don't realize that till 10 o' clock at night. And you don't do a good job of checking the nanite app, because usually your wife does, but now she's dead.

But I went in there, I closed the heat vent, and I put a fan in there, and we got down to 74 real quick.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So, Tim, welcome to the show. You've been in the show. You know exactly what needs to be done. Be ready for when they call in the lefty.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, Tim, there's your advice? Don't be the motherfucker deer in headlights staring at your wife asking, what do I do in this situation? Ask her questions. Now, as you're watching at home right now, and you might be one of these dads, let the wifey milk. Team Sixers. This is the opportunity to where, hey, this is what. This is the page I want you to be on. And from that moment, from that conversation, dad, sit there and listen. Because again, they're the. They're the starters. We think we handle all this shit. They know what it is.

[Derek]

For real.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. You have to figure out a way and get on their level. I'd like to come home to a clean kitchen. I'd like to come home when I'm out for an hour and you're watching Kids. You know, I love the toys being picked up. I'd love for you to pick up the toys.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

How hard is that? I'm sitting there last night watching Monday Night Football. My wife's like, could you just not like, you got a couple of toys right here on the floor. Do you just. You enjoy just. Is it comfortable just sitting in the chaos or sitting around the clutter?

[Sherman Young]

Hey, Will, do you just like looking at the toys on the ground?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Is that what it is?

[Willie One Shelf]

She's on her hands and knees putting them in there. And then that kind of guilty conscience where I'm going to continue to watch football because I've already kind of made this bed, and just tell her I was born in the chaos. This is easy for me. But usually it's like when she's up there, say, say I'm doing Scotty and she's doing a roo and she has a longer time with her and I get done with Scotty. I come downstairs, I see toys on the floor. The game, the mission, man, is get all the toys cleaned up, put them under the table, put them back in cab, whatever the shelves, baskets, whatever you guys have. Yeah, have that done. So when they come down, it's a clean living room and you got a fresh glass of iced water sitting there for you. Ready to roll? Let's go. That's what it is, boys.

[Sherman Young]

That's what it is. And when. And when your 4 month old takes a deep 700 foot bomb, hits a homer off you, don't be. Don't go like this. Don't go, oh, well, shit. Oh, fuck. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And when your number's called for bath time, because it will be.

[Sherman Young]

It will.

[Willie One Shelf]

You got to be ready to go. I'm still the dad that If I can get away of another day of bath time without mom bringing it up, I might try to sneak in another day of bath time. I was not taking it back 100. But when mom's like, oh, it's. Let's just say, hey, it's Sunday, they need a bath day. Or they went swimming lesson today. They need a bath once. That said, you're ready to pick up and do your thing. Hey, I will. I will execute bath time. Because again, even for a four or five month old, like, even for the young ones, they just sit in a little thing, you get them wet. It's a very fast bath routine. Once a always get involved in there. They love to swim, they love the splash. Now you're negotiating how long you're going to stay. Do you want dad to pull the drain or you, or you want to pull the drain? But what women are really saying is they would like you to just be the guy who says, you know what? I think tonight's bath night. I'm going to go give him a bath. I haven't got to that point yet. And hand up, I can just say it as Charles listening. She knows that I'm not that guy. I had the buster chops the other night when.

I was getting ready for bed, and she reached out to the monitor and was looking at the monitor and looking at Rue. Rue, she now has her own little twin bed, right? So no sides or none of that stuff. And so Charo was like, looks like Rue's about to fall off the bed. And kind of like makes a chuckle. And I just look at her. I was like, does this mean you want me to go up there and adjust? Rue, are you just making that comment? We're gonna kind of laugh out loud. I'm gonna crawl in bed, we're gonna snuggle together. We'd go to sleep.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, because I'm tired. I'm dog.

[Willie One Shelf]

She's like, yeah, yeah. She's like, I mean, you can if you want. And I'm like, yeah, like, you gotta tell. You have to tell me. Women. Hey, we can't read your minds. Like, you have to tell me. I know of a couple things Charl does that I. I just know when my number's being called. Yeah, like, Charl, get home, we'll get home. We went and took pictures with Santa the other day. We get home, Charles wanted to change into our comfy clothes, like, get, you know, dressed down, everything else. And she just says to Rue out loud, rue, I gotta go change right now. And I also still have to clean out the backpack. I also still have to clean up the backpack. So whenever I change and clean out the backpack, then we can play together. Me, that's Q. I'm on the couch right now, phones in my hand. Or maybe I'm getting the game on because it's Sunday. Yeah, I think in my head, oh, this right here is Q. Gentlemen, go clean out the backpack. That's an outro's doing something. John might be putting away the leftovers in the fridge. And I'm sitting there on the couch and I hear my wife talk to Waffle. Think Waffle can talk to her back? Or English Bulldog that's sitting by the door. Oh, Waffle. Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go potty? I will get you to go out. I'll let you outside whenever I'm done putting away the leftovers. Me sitting on the couch. Oh, summon. I'm summon. Boys, that doesn't mean Charles gonna put away the leftovers to go take her outside. That means, hey, dad, you hear me saying your dog needs to go outside? Why don't you get your lazy ass up up and go let the dog outside?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. That's called an out loud subtweet from your wife.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Which Jill often will subtweet me to do the exact same thing. Exact same thing. She's making chicken and dumplings two nights ago. Oh, my head hurts. Oh, I feel like shit. I don't feel good. I think dinner's about to be ready. I hope you know, I, I'll go take it off the, the stove or whatever when the Alexa goes off. I have to get Scarlet to bath time. Oh, my head. I feel like I finally, I go, oh, ding, ding, ding. Dad.

[Willie One Shelf]

Help. Dad just sitting there. Have you seen Inside Out?

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, bro, we're on the dad's brain. They're all sitting there like, they're like, what the hell is she talking about?

[Sherman Young]

I finally go, hey, you know what? It's 6:20. I'll get her bath going. I'll do, I'll do bath time with Scarlet.

[Willie One Shelf]

It.

[Sherman Young]

I'm sure Jill in her head's like, what a novel idea. What a. What a great idea, Sherman.

[Willie One Shelf]

And you hear me. I feel like hell. We gotta bathe our daughter. And I'm doing dinner. Alexa's telling us it's time to take the food off the stove. Opalex is going off. I feel like would like to not have to get up.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Oh, I have to wake up at 5 tomorrow morning because I work all day at the hospital, and I'm gonna be feeling like I'm just over there on the couch, just.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. And men, this is the way our wives talk to us. And a few things happen here in a man's brain. Yeah. You feel the.

Indirect subliminal messages because they're not directly speaking to you, and you're just thinking, if you just tell me, I would know. And they're thinking, if you just know, I don't have to tell you. Because these are some of the simplest things. And when we don't do those things in their brain, that's the only way they can kind of get around to talk to us or get our attention. And so a couple things happen. You're either going to sit there, we identify and know they're calling me out right now. And they can't say it to my face, but they're calling me out right now. You can either boil and get a little angry and start to get a little passive aggressive back.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, that sounds fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, you can do that.

[Sherman Young]

That'll solve it.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm telling you. Just a slippery slope, boys. It's a slippery slope. And sometimes you might win. But we all know at the end of the night or at the end of the day or the next day when you're driving, you don't feel good about yourself that it got to that point. Yeah, but there's another thing that can happen. You can just sit there with our dumb brains when we finally figure it out, and you can just smile. You can say, good, it's my time. My number's getting called, and I got to show up. Not only do I got to show up and. And hear the room and hear our wives talking to us, but also, let's try to figure it out and get better so this doesn't have to continue to happen. Is it going to continue to happen? Yes.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Every day. Every single day. It will continue to happen.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like we're watching the game. The little emotions in our brain, they're all sitting in our brain watching the game. We have no clue what's actually going on. Yeah, but if you can just have some awareness.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And hear what's being said, they'll tell you. They just hate telling you 100 different times and in 100 different ways.

[Sherman Young]

That's true. Hey, the signs are there. And often I will tell my wife, well, maybe if you had just asked me nicely, you know, a while ago until. Instead of where we are now. Maybe if you just asked me nicely. Oh, so I didn't ask you 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different times. And then I rewind and I go, oh, you know what she did?

[Willie One Shelf]

The signs were there.

[Sherman Young]

The signs were there. But I digress.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Here's your advice, Tim.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, Tim, thank you for. Hey, Tim, thanks for listening to the show.

[Willie One Shelf]

Any new dads out there? Matter of fact, I do have some new dad, some new dad life shout outs. I got Cole Jacobs on Instagram. Say hello to Gianna Marie. Jacobs had to spend two nights in the NICU to regulate her breathing, but she's tough like her mom. They even went to hook up an IV and say they were having trouble because she has thick skin. Come on, let's go. Good, good. She will be ready to hit the A gap in no time. And now our watch begins.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

BT6 forever. Sorry, the merch hasn't come in yet.

[Sherman Young]

I Love that. Stephen Caravone. 4715. Repeat offender, buddy. Daughter turned two yesterday. I'm gassed up, boys. No breaks at this stop sign. Merry freaking Christmas. Happy whatever the hell you celebrate. And let's represent for the dads. Get some merch for the dads at Milk Team Sickos. And to all the dads that read this, go get it today. Wow, Love that. Steven Carafone. Sicko.

[Willie One Shelf]

Sicko Steve.

[Sherman Young]

Repeat offender Sicko Steve.

[Willie One Shelf]

We got Coy Anderson on X. This fucking place gave me a plastic recliner. Good. Today is the day. Taking a pre labor nap here. Wife has until 4pm Eastern tomorrow to get Scott Zilla out. Oh, there we go. Let's go, let's go. She's going to learn. College football Saturday is a priority in this family. Hashtag go hoosiers. Hashtag pt6.6. We even got the photo where mom's taking a selfie doing a funny little pose while my man Koi's over in the corner just asleep in that plastic recliner.

[Sherman Young]

Absolute sickos. And is that the couple that they were like, hey, we're either gonna name our kid Scotty or Scarlett possibly. I saw, I saw a comment of that.

[Willie One Shelf]

That might be it.

[Sherman Young]

Was that off YouTube?

[Willie One Shelf]

This one's off X. Yeah, off X. It's for the boys out there too, like moms. It must be nice to have this nice bed.

Look at us uncomfortably like. Let's laugh at that.

[Sherman Young]

They gave her.

[Willie One Shelf]

Should I laugh at that?

[Sherman Young]

They gave her a bed. Oh, and they gave me a plastic recliner.

[Willie One Shelf]

In the hospital we get a plastic recliner. You think your lights hard? You ever slept in a plastic recliner?

[Sherman Young]

DJK 2500 on YouTube. Take a drink. Every time Sherm changes his accent, Laughing emoji. Benny not Benny replied, buddy, I'm wasted. Sherman Young replied, laughing emojis.

[Willie One Shelf]

That is awesome.

[Sherman Young]

That. That legitimately. That made me belly laugh. That was very funny.

[Willie One Shelf]

I got Cheney. Cheney Gaudette. PT Sicko on YouTube. We got a PT Sicko username out here.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

What's up, fellas? Let me tell you. I got sniped. Baby girl brought home the stomach bug from daycare. Good.

Quick dad hack. Want to lose 10 pounds real quick. Get the stomach bug from your kids.

Best diet ever. Also just started terminal list last night. Willie. See ya. Boy is hooked.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, you know what I'm doing tonight? And this isn't for the pod. I'm doing this tonight. Terminal list. I'm doing it. I'm just gonna do it. I'm gonna nut up or shut up. Thermal.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm gonna do thermal list. Dark Wolf because it's the prequel.

[Sherman Young]

There you go. I'm gonna start with it.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm telling you, it's gonna change your life also.

[Sherman Young]

So one, shout out you. I got your Christmas card is very beautiful. Two, shout out Logan Valente.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, you got mine in the mail.

[Sherman Young]

Yes, sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay. Thank God. The way you just said that, I'm like, oh, Sherm got me a Christmas card. I swear to God, I think I got his address. For us to send him a Christmas card.

[Sherman Young]

No, no. But you're telling me I got yours. We have yet to send ours. We still need to make our boys.

[Willie One Shelf]

I send to the families.

Just whatever could be going on in your head.

[Derek]

Cool, man.

[Sherman Young]

Right there.

[Willie One Shelf]

You just brought that up. You brought up that you got our.

[Sherman Young]

Family Christmas card to segue into this, but continue to continue in front of.

[Willie One Shelf]

Chef, who's the captain of Semen team six, to Derek, who's a Funkle, who's part of this brand. They could be in their brain right now thinking, I wonder if our Christmas card's on its way. Maybe he just sent Sherm a Christmas card. I'm just saying out loud right now.

The young's got a Christmas card. Clump's got a Christmas card. Luan's got a Christmas card. The. The. The Christmas cards went to the. The families of the shop. As I sit here in a little bit of a panic, nerves letting you guys know that you did not get a Christmas card from the Compton family.

[Chef]

The Hannings haven't done a Christmas card in seven years. So I think you're all good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay. No.

[Chef]

No worries. On our front.

[Derek]

I was about to Run home and check the mail.

[Sherman Young]

So, okay.

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[Derek]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Glad you got the Christmas card, Sherman. Thank you for in front of people.

[Sherman Young]

Who didn't set up your co host for failure.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good, good.

[Derek]

Slash.

[Sherman Young]

If you think for a second that he doesn't love you and appreciate you.

[Chef]

I'm gonna say I think the paychecks that come in twice, twice a month are pretty good substitute for holiday crazy.

[Willie One Shelf]

You value the paychecks.

[Sherman Young]

Over our conversations, he he also left a note in the envelope.

[Chef]

Threw myself into that one.

[Sherman Young]

He left a note in the envelope and he said hey, my Charl wanted to send this. I didn't want to send and the Charo sent this to Jill.

[Willie One Shelf]

I appreciate you swinging the sword for your boy. We uncomfortably sit in this pocket.

[Sherman Young]

Absolutely.

[Derek]

Charo hates us is.

[Willie One Shelf]

No, you know what? You know what? Read the comment.

[Sherman Young]

I digress. Logan V2855 on YouTube says boys, do you have a PO box to where the PT6 community can send our Christmas cards to the boys to answer that question, yes. And if you d. If you are interested in sending a Christmas card to Derek and Chef or Willie C. And Cher DM the for the dad socials that's on Instagram, Tick tock or Twitter DM us for the PO Box and we will send you the PO Box address and you can send us a Christmas card.

[Willie One Shelf]

We love that we can get some cards hanging up on the set.

[Sherman Young]

We can put on the fridge, we could put on the set however we want to do it.

[Derek]

Also you could email it a digital one too if you want to. If you can email us a digital one we can print it out and find a way to work too if you don't want to mail it.

[Sherman Young]

That's actually very.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's nice solve right there, Derek.

[Sherman Young]

Hey. Also Derek let us in to a funkle situation with the flat tire because I feel. I feel like we've been kind of like, oh, let's just like expel this good. You kind of had a good situation as well.

[Derek]

Yeah. Yesterday we. So my fiance works late on Mondays and so I have a fantasy league where if you score 100 points on a guy they have to buy you a pizza. So last night she's working late, she's gluten free. All is lining up to go to show pizza in east. Super excited. Take a new way home. It turns into one of those off ramps where everyone tries to line up next to each other and I get run off the road basically into a pothole and dude, tired.

[Willie One Shelf]

Done.

[Derek]

So I drive about four minutes to a church parking lot. Spend a half. Mind you, the pizza's been ordered. The pizza's been ordered. I have to pick it up in two minutes. Spent about a half hour in a church parking lot last night from like 5:30 to 6 changing this tire.

[Sherman Young]

Tire.

[Derek]

So put my donut on, get the tire in there, take a picture, post my stupid little funny caption of you don't have to change your tire.

[Sherman Young]

You get to.

In 30 degree weather.

[Derek]

And I'm just sitting there and I'm.

[Sherman Young]

Texting, oh, my God.

[Derek]

Cat knows me. And she's like, well, just breathe. Like, it's fine. I'm like, no. Like, it's. It's. It's good. Like, it's good. It's good. Is it good that I have every penny budgeted out for Christmas gifts and now I gotta buy a tire to drive home? It's great. It's honestly amazing. So we do that. I get the pizza. It's cold. Now I go home and just upset. And I'm just sitting there. And she comes home. And I will say, Cat came home on a FaceTime with her sister. And I was just like, let me talk to the kids. I was like, let me talk to the niece. And Evan, she shut around. And the nephew has the T. Rex face on. He's going.

And Amelia style. She was in a pageant. She's little Miss their area of the world. Like, she was in a parade. She's reaming about that. How cool it is this. I was like, thank God for these kids because, like, I was just sitting there so mad because it wasn't my. Like, she's off. I want to get a pizza. Why do I want to get a pizza? I was angry, but it ended up being a really good situation. Yeah, it was a nice little ground fantasy.

[Willie One Shelf]

The ball club put up over 100 points. I'm getting a free pizza.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And now I'm paying for it. Go out to pick it up, get ran off the road.

[Sherman Young]

The minimum is.

[Derek]

Yeah, 15 in this league. And I said, if you guys can find me a 15 pizza, then I'll buy that pizza. Impossible. So I was already in the hole, and now I'm in the hole more. All because I wanted a stupid little pizza.

[Sherman Young]

And then the. I wish the call had been recorded between us because I call him, realizing I can just take Scarlett to daycare. What? Why am I freaking out? Because we're coming up with this whole. For the audience at home, we're coming up with the plan of Sherman will be home with Scarlett watching and zoom in. And we'll try and do this. Blah, blah, blah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Before or after our phone call?

[Sherman Young]

This is after our phone call.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

This is after our phone call. I then realized, oh, I can take Scarlet to daycare. So then I called Derek to then tell him, hey, I'm going to take Scarlet to daycare. I think, blah, blah, blah, to check in with him. And I start off the call with, hey, how's it going? And he then tells me about the flat tire situation. And in the background, you just hear Scarlett going.

And I. I just go, well, Derek, it. You know, it sounds like we're both doing great, so I can't wait to see you tomorrow and give you a hug. Everything's okay.

[Derek]

God.

[Willie One Shelf]

For the dads, man.

[Sherman Young]

For the dads.

[Willie One Shelf]

So why the brand's here, bro.

[Sherman Young]

For the dads.

[Willie One Shelf]

I already know Sherm was trying to figure it out last night because we were on and off the phone, and I'm basically just like, whatever you say you can do, we're gonna have to get done. But I know getting off the phone. Phone. I know getting off the phone, sure. I'm feeling whatever energy I had. He's thinking.

This doesn't feel like it's good enough. Because I did. Some of us. Like, I didn't have the. The daycare situation in my head because I wish I would have brought that up now that it got brought up. Yes. To, like, take them there, because more of, like, after Sherm comes up and he's kind of asking about it or alluding to, hey, wife's sick. He hadn't talked to a wife yet. Yet. And trying to figure out a plan, game plan for tomorrow. I was like, well, you're bringing me a problem. Do we have the solution? And this is after, you know, going six hours on the bus and everything else, my brain is just like, all right, I got about everyone's brain. Everybody's brains are fried.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm like, hey, you figure out a solution. Whatever. Whatever we can do. If we have to move it, we have to come in tomorrow night. And then the boys are just gonna have to grind through getting this out so that way it can land at Wednesday morning. As everybody's listening to this right now. Whatever we got to do. Let's just. However you can come up with the solution, we can figure it out. The only thing I was.

I guess I felt like we didn't turn over every stone yet. When you brought up the Zoom and everything else last night to do the Zoom on the bus is. I got off the phone saying to myself, we don't even know what Jill has said yet. Because you said you still hadn't talked to your wife.

[Sherman Young]

I still hadn't talked to my wife yet.

[Willie One Shelf]

But I know you're in the. You're in your own trenches, So I don't want to make a situation feel like. Make you feel shitty getting off the phone, but I'm thinking, bro, there's gotta be a way that we could do it in person. And if we can't Then at least we would know, based on your conversation with wifey, that we truly would not be able to do it. And when I didn't know, it was more of like, this.

Jill Zillow. Jill Zilla. He hasn't even talked to Jill yet. Yes. And he's like, this is the solution. It's like we don't even know if we can't yet. But hey, if this is all we can do, well, then we'll have to do it on Zoom.

[Sherman Young]

I'm also playing 4D chess in my head because I'm having a meeting with these guys and we're coming up. Well, maybe Scarlett can come up to the office. Yeah. And you know, like that, that's a real picture into your life. And then in my head I'm overthinking and going, oh, am I just going to look like a dad that's using his kid for clicks in this situation? And how does that look to Jill's parents that I brought my kid up to the office while their daughter's sick at home and I'm like, overthinking.

[Willie One Shelf]

We got semen Team Sixers ready to go on the other side. Side.

[Sherman Young]

That's true, Coop.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's not like Scarlett would have to sit here. Scarlet would have been sitting here on camera with us.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

But we got some fellows that are more than equipped.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, that's true. The all. All said and done had a great conversation. This was. Yeah, yeah, this was the perfect situation of in to chalk it up. Like, Will was very helpful. I. I told him.

Hey, I am sorry that I'm not bringing any solutions, but it's more so I'm talking to you less of. Of Will, my boss and more so, hey, will you have kids and maybe experience this? I've never experienced this. What the hell do I do? And we had a good conversation of like, okay, here's some options. But all said and done had a really good conversation with my mom. She has a best friend that lives in Nashville. We need a babysitter. We need a babysitter. A billion percent we need a babysitter. My wife or my wife. My mom is coming in town this week on Thursday to like help with Scarlett and stuff. So Jill and I can do another date night. But like our in laws and stuff flying in, like, that's.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, they live in Texas.

[Sherman Young]

They live in Texas.

[Willie One Shelf]

They live in Texas.

[Sherman Young]

That's not realistic for the future. They do miss us and they want.

[Willie One Shelf]

To see us, but yeah, like that stuff's great. But again, for like young Parents and young families who have young kids. And you're experiencing like, hey, we need to get back into doing date nights and thinking about us a little bit more because it's bogged us down. Have it just be kid, kid, kid, or kids, kids, kids. Yes, you do need a Rolodex of one to two babysitters that you feel like you can trust and call and that, you know, you're hoping that they would be available in a pinch.

[Sherman Young]

And so my mom has a best friend here in Nashville, and I was like, mom, put the word out. Give. Give me her number. But you reach out and. Cause I'm sure that they have a Rolodex of people that they trust. Cause it is. It's like, very foreign. We love our network in Nashville. I love all this community that I have. But I feel some type of way. I'm not going to call Jared beaming and his wife to, like, come watch my K. Because Jared's my co worker. He's not my babysitter. Like, he's my friend. He's not my babysitter. So I want, like a actual. My title is I'm a babysitter is what I'm looking for. And we just have been dragging our feet on it. It's a. It's a hard situation because if we're in Fort Worth, I could name 30 people that I would take their opinions in of who their babysitters are and I would use their babysitters. Like, you just have that network. We don't have that here, but we do. We just gotta dig for it and find it and be purposeful. And so that was the learning lesson for this.

[Willie One Shelf]

In the middle of the chaos, in the middle of the limited time you already have. So it's like, you know the answers. Like Charl, like Charles having to figure out who can be. Like, when Audrey, she's pregnant, so we're gonna lose her as a nanny. We're gonna have to figure out who, like, who's gonna be the replacement. We know that answer. I know that answer. Charl knows that answer. Charles, like, well, I know I'm gonna have to be the one diving in and figuring out who the next nanny's going to be in the middle of all the chaos of kids, husband and wife, job, run the business, everything else. It's just like he has legitimately, like, vetting people, just going through the process that you don't want to go through.

[Sherman Young]

And that's another good example of Jill very, like, subtweeting husband to help in this Situation. Because she has brought up. And we really need to find a babysitter, man. We really need to find a babysitter. Oh, I really want to go on a date.

[Willie One Shelf]

Night, night.

[Sherman Young]

If only we had a babysitter. And I'm sitting there driving, you know, nothing going on in my head, just going, yeah, babysitter would be good. Yeah, yeah.

Pick up the phone and find a babysitter, Sherman.

[Willie One Shelf]

But even then. So when I'll get into. And we don't even get into arguments. I was gonna say, if I get into that argument with my wife, we don't get into those arguments.

[Sherman Young]

Well, and it wasn't. Yes, to your point. It wasn't an argument.

[Willie One Shelf]

Right, right. But I'm saying, if it gets. If it's like, I think to myself, sweetheart, I can find a babysitter, but I already know if I find it, like, to me, as dad. As male as how my brain works.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you find a babysitter and you trust said babysitter. I'm not. I trust you.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

So if the babysitter walks in, like, I'm just trusting that we have a babysitter. Like, oh, we got to sit her for tonight. If I find a babysitter or if dads or the men. I feel like, find the babysitter. No matter what, Mom's going to want to vet and feel very good about said babysitter. So I think 100% this. You'll have to. You might as well rip this job, because no matter what, you're going to want to feel just as good as I do about said baby. There's no world where I get the babysitter. This person that you don't know walks in the door. You're thinking like me in this situation. We just get in the car and go. Because you're like, oh, I trust. I trust hubby here that he just landed this. This awesome babysitter that neither of us know.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Oh, how did you. Venom. They love college football, honey. She's a big college football sicko. She's great because.

[Willie One Shelf]

How'd they land the job? She said, go, Big Red. And I was like.

You think Del Rey is gonna hit the portal?

Good insight about it. Listen, you come over Miles, anytime, truly.

[Sherman Young]

And yes, I know if I pick out a outfit for Scarlet, her feet will be covered. She'll have a cute bow. She'll have a cute whatever. But Jill is going to be like, hold on, hold on. What are we doing using this outfit. She needs this sweater. Blah, blah, blah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know what? You Dress the kid.

[Sherman Young]

So you dress the kid. So that's how I think in my head of if I pick the babysitter, there's going to be multiple notes on top of that, which is fine. But I'm automatically assuming, oh, that's a Jill job because she'll want final check and say of who we hire.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, let's. Let's take out. Let's separate the person from the problem. Let's separate the idea of does the man do this or the woman does this? Like, who's the most equipped? Like, who's going to be the most detailed in handling this said job.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because if I interview, you're going to be interviewing me on the backside and then reminding me of questions that I forgot to ask or didn't ask. Hey, you seem like the. The one, you seem like the one most well equipped to handle this said job. Yes. And again, there might be dads who absolutely rip that job and have. Are the ones that the land of the baby. So I have no clue. I'm just talking more from my. If. If when Charl brings it up, I hate. Sweetheart, I know this is going to be. This could be one that I could do. Look, I could do this. But if I. Here's what I would like not to happen. Because if you were doing this on the back end to me, I'm just thinking in my head, you might as well just go ahead and fill this role.

[Sherman Young]

Or at the very beginning, hey, honey, I would love to take on this job. Tell me all the tent poles that I need to hit as far as babysitter and I'll find that fucking baby.

[Willie One Shelf]

And then from that moment forward, let me own my job.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let me own my role. Let me be great.

[Sherman Young]

Which Jill. Jill will allow that, but I need to ask that upfront of like. Like what? Okay. Needs to be a registered nurse. Got it. Needs to be local. Got it. Needs, you know, look at us, man.

[Willie One Shelf]

Just trying to figure it out and solve it. Dad's out there like, yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Go Willy. One shelf, go.

[Derek]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Hey. Also, what I be trying to tell my wife, shout out my favorite comment from the weekend was the clip of Will being like, yeah, I'm. I'm reading now. I read. And somebody said artist formerly known as Willie, one page.

Willie one page. That's phenomenal. Oh, Willie. 90 pages.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I'm over 100 now.

[Sherman Young]

100 plus pages. Hey, Willie.

[Willie One Shelf]

Bookshelf.

Baby.

[Sherman Young]

That's a Derek original. That's a Derek original.

[Willie One Shelf]

What should we get into? Voicemails? Crack a Cold one. I mean we've said a lot of stuff that's like hacks. By the way, you kind of slid that in there as a dad hack earlier when you talk about taking the baby wipe and put on the baby stomach.

[Sherman Young]

Yes, sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's for a five month old. So people in that world, you're trying to keep them awake to drink the bottle. That sounds like a great dad hack.

[Sherman Young]

She didn't sound miserable like when I was doing it. Like she wasn't crying or anything. It would rouse her enough to be.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, that's the game. There ain't no. Yeah, like whatever. Whatever it takes.

[Sherman Young]

Whatever it takes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Wake your young ass up and drink this bottle.

[Sherman Young]

Drink this baba. Yeah, crack. Okay, so crack a cold one because what would it be if we didn't do a crack a cold one really quick?

[Willie One Shelf]

Be a. It'd be us forgetting to take out the trash.

[Sherman Young]

Exactly.

[Willie One Shelf]

Conceptually.

[Sherman Young]

Conceptually. Can I not like I Liquid IV's.

[Willie One Shelf]

Trash, but just conceptually. Yeah, you got it. You got it.

[Sherman Young]

It's a. It's a thing that is so important that I want to do an overarching crack a cold one. This goes to the entire. For the dads extended network. I'm talking production team, I'm talking us two. I'm talking the moms, the wives, etc. Crack a cold one to us and just being able to go rock it when they call in the lefty. I have an arctic raspberry this.

[Willie One Shelf]

I know it's going to taste good.

[Sherman Young]

It is going to taste phenomenal. If you go to liquid I.com for and use code Bussin, you will get 20% off your first order. Also, Liquid IV more hydrating than just 16 ounces of water alone. Liquid IV will keep you hydrated. It will help you rip. What is more important, staying warm or staying hydrated in the cold seasons? Well, both.

[Willie One Shelf]

Both.

[Sherman Young]

They also have hot cocoa so you can stay warm and hydrated. The hot cocoa has electrolytes. Crack a cold one. Shout out us.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out liquid iv. Man.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out liquid iv.

[Willie One Shelf]

My.

My cracker cold one's just gonna go to meeting Santa Claus. Taking photos with Santa Claus. And hit one went beautifully, boys. Like, beautifully. Rue conquered her fear taking a photo with Santa. Smiled. And Scotty learned from her new fear. Yeah, she learned a new fear of Santa Claus. Okay. And it was incredible. I caught a little video and I already know to myself, I see Scotty hanging on mom a little tight. So I'm, you know, as dad. I know a funny moment's coming. Let me slide out the phone and get the video rolling, because I already know she's gonna start crying.

[Sherman Young]

Come on.

[Willie One Shelf]

Boom. Take Scotty, sit her on Santa Claus's lap, and you just see it all happen. Face starts to go. She starts to cry. I'm chuckling behind the camera, and she just helplessly sits, thinking she's about to. This is her last moment on earth as this gentleman in a red suit and white beards holding her.

[Sherman Young]

Will's behind the camera. Hey, there you go, Scotty. There you go, Scott.

[Willie One Shelf]

He, me and Santa Claus. You're doing so good.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

R Was nervous, but she. She met Santa. We took a family photo together, and then she wanted to do it a second time, and her and Scotty. Scotty cried again.

[Sherman Young]

Yay.

[Willie One Shelf]

R Conquered her fear with Santa Claus this year.

[Sherman Young]

Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

And Scotty learned her fear of Santa Claus this year. So it was. It was perfect.

[Sherman Young]

That's a cold one worthy of cracking, sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Do we want to get into call ins?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, let's do it, man.

[Sherman Young]

Let's do it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let's get into callins.

[Sherman Young]

Again.

[Willie One Shelf]

You want to be featured on the show? Six on one, the dads call in, leave a voicemail. We'll feature you on the show, and we will send you some merchandise.

[Chef]

While Sher is pulling this up, real quick question for the audience. Did anyone listen to our Halloween story? Because if you did and you enjoy it, we'll do a Christmas one. But I want to make sure we didn't get any comments on it when we posted it. So I don't know if anyone saw it. It was at the end of the episode. But I really want to do another because it was really fun.

[Willie One Shelf]

We posted the Halloween story, and it got zero comments.

[Chef]

People might have listened. We don't know. But we didn't get any.

[Willie One Shelf]

We didn't really. I personally, in my head. Head.

[Chef]

Did we get comments, Thought, oh, okay, we got comments.

[Willie One Shelf]

I personally, in my head, thought it was going to be some, like, AI animated storytelling happening, not just a kind of, like, where it's just, you know, a little song and then like, yeah, yeah, we're gonna.

[Chef]

We're gonna expand on it. That was the first run.

[Willie One Shelf]

And then, like, when I'm doing my character, I'm envisioning what this character might look like when the YouTube rolls out, but when it just kind of sat there on, like, a, you know, like a desktop background with a little bit of music while the story just went.

[Chef]

I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Was on. That was on me. But if we get a chance at a Christmas shot, we're going to go big and it's going to be great. But we just need to know if we want animation. I just need to do it early because I don't know how to animate. But I'll figure it out.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Again, that was just what I was thinking in my head. It was going to be.

[Chef]

We kind of knew when we put it up. I was like, this is. It is like the lo fi YouTube.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So if it got no comments, I'm.

[Chef]

Almost like people reached out. I read through a lot of people.

[Derek]

Sent in pictures of. We had a couple images that people having their kid watch the leaves fall and the story on and stuff like that. And people commented, okay, okay, I missed.

[Willie One Shelf]

Did Derek. Derek says people reached out. Would you just your family the video and group chat and they just thumbs up it.

[Sherman Young]

No, I have a comment right here that says Milo the bat rips. Way to go, Willy.

[Chef]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

Perfect. Way to go, Willie.

[Chef]

I must have read him like right when the episode came out and then didn't bother.

[Sherman Young]

And I was like, and also I.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don'T want to do this to myself.

[Sherman Young]

I don't want to. Who voice Benny the puppy. Academy Award worthy. I've. There's like eight more. I. I don't want to. That's.

[Chef]

That's all amazing.

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[Timothy from Idaho]

What's up boys? This is Taylor from Idaho PT Sixer now for I mean my little girl. She is 18 months old. Just need some advice here. My wife and I as of the last last I think eight or ten months we've been making sure that we switch off bath time every night right? So whoever does the bath, the other person does the dishes and I like that.

[Willie One Shelf]

I won't lie.

[Timothy from Idaho]

Shame on me. For a little while I was always like a son of a. It's my turn to do the bath. Right. But now I'm start. I. I obviously, I know that I need to not take the bath time for granted. It's some extra, extra special time that I get to spend with my daughter Emmy, and she's at that age where she's not, like, talking, like, she can understand me, but she's not talking. What the heck do I do in the bath with her? Do I just like that with her? Do I just, like, sing her some songs? Do I just, like, continue to play with the toys?

And I just kind of hang out and chill? Like, I don't know what to do? Like, how do I make that. That extra special for her? Am I supposed to be teaching her things in the bath? What do y' all do for bath time? Do you let them hang out for a long time? Do you get the cleaning done and get out? Like, what. What does bath time look like?

[Sherman Young]

God, what a call in.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, this is a man that needs some help.

[Sherman Young]

He needs some help like we all do. I don't even. I don't even know how to answer that question because I'm trying to think what I do during bathtub time.

[Willie One Shelf]

You just kind of play and talk to him.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, I'm picturing my man. What's his name?

[Sherman Young]

A. Timothy.

[Willie One Shelf]

Timothy from Idaho.

[Sherman Young]

From Idaho. Timothy from Idaho.

[Willie One Shelf]

Just picturing Tim just set the kid in the bathtub, and he's just kind of sitting there looking at her, just thinking, what do I do here?

[Sherman Young]

What did. So what. Okay, we clean the baby. What's next?

[Willie One Shelf]

Wife? You come downstairs, baby's clean. Wife's like, you guys have fun with bath time. He's like, I think. I guess. I don't know. I just looked at her.

[Sherman Young]

I pour. I need to record myself. I think I'm gonna record myself to where you just see me during bath time to see what I do, because I'm actually interested. I do a ton of baby talk. Yeah, I know that you're just sitting.

[Willie One Shelf]

There kind of conversing with them.

[Sherman Young]

Like.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I'm picturing especially if Rue back when she was 18 months. Because he's in a. He's in a great. He's in a great pocket for age. Like, I feel like 16 months sticks out as the. The month where Ruse personality really started to show up a little bit.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm just thinking, yeah, 18 months, you get your kiddo in the water, you know, is it too. Oh, it's not too hot. Oh, it feels just right. And you kind of slowly get them in the water, you're like, oh, is that warm and cozy? And you take the little cup, you start, like, pouring it on their little body. Like, oh, here comes it on the right shoulder.

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[Willie One Shelf]

You start getting their hair. Oh, can I get. You don't want it in your eyes. Let me block it. Can you look up a little bit? You gotta look up or water's gonna get in your eyes. You pour it on them. Oh, look at. Look at your toys. Whether it's a little scrunchy ones that's just, like, letters.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Or we have a couple little fish. A couple little things she can play with that are kind of connected to the side of the bathtub where she can spin it or whatever. Again, trying to picture her at 18 months old, because Scotty's one, we kind of have her sitting on that little. Yeah, like, trike thing where they got a little seat that you set them on. And those are quick. Those are like quick baths, right?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, you sit there and you dump the cup on them a couple times. You get the soap at the rag. You go around there, you like, sing them a song or play with them or talk about splashing. It's like, at that age, too, like Scotty, it's like, hey, do you want to splash? Splash, splash, splash. You kind of show them of splash and they spl. Oh, my gosh. You love splash under the neck.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, that tickles. That tickle. Tickle the neck. Tickle the neck.

[Willie One Shelf]

And then, you know, soap their head. Scrub it.

[Sherman Young]

I Maybe a dad hack waterproof book. We got one at Target.

[Willie One Shelf]

Nice.

[Sherman Young]

It's fun. It's got little pictures in it. And Scarlet's, like, just now being able to, like, hold things with both hands. I put the book in. In her hands, and she's holding it and putting it in her mouth instead of reading it. And I'm talking for Scarlet.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, Dad, I like this book. Oh, really, Scarlett, are you reading the book?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And such a good job.

[Willie One Shelf]

Tim strikes me as a man who. He's confused on what to do when the job is so easy, but he seems like a man's man to where he's pretty reserved and doesn't say a whole lot of words.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Doesn't necessarily care to communicate his emotions. Just wants to, like, feel pain or anger and kind of, you know, stay quiet.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Be very internal. That's who he strikes me as, this parsley. Yeah. Yeah. This bath game is easy because you got to think to your. Flip the switch in your brain and think I'm gonna sound stupid right now and obnoxious, but I'm gonna do it with my little girl.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's all it is. Because Godzilla, the difference between Rue and Scotzilla, Rue, she would have to tilt her head because she hates when, like, water gets in her eyes and everything else. Scotzilla, I'll dump the cup on her head. I'll damn near waterboard her a couple times because she's just sitting there. She hit. She eats it, bro. She eats it.

I'll be dumping on her head. You know, when you get a little curious, okay. If a little bit gets on their eyes, like, how do they react? Yeah, she, like, smiles or whatever, and then I'm like, you know, get a little cup of water and then, like, dump it on her head and then she smiles. I'm like, okay, you gotta mess with the water now. Let's get a little action here, Scotty.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah, that's exactly like. Like Scarlett's, like, reaching at the. I like, you know, poured the cup on her and stuff. She's, like, reaching for the water.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Gets on her face and she kind of, like, shakes. But then she's like, okay, I want more. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

There's another little dad hack in. During bath time, you should take the cup of water. Get you a big cup of water, too. And just do, like, a slow pour in front of them to where they have, like, that little stream. And they just want to grab it and they're figuring out what water is, what it feels like. Oh, my gosh. Is this going through my hand? How's it going around? Whenever I take my hand out, the stream still goes all the way down to the water. What? I can't grab it and pull it. And they're just kind of fascinated, and you just stare at them and. Scarlet, is that water?

[Sherman Young]

Oh, my goodness. Are you thirsty? You can't drink it. It's got soapy in it. And Scarlet, her brain is telling her that looks like I could drink that. And so whenever I, like, pour it under, like, her neck the entire time she's going.

Trying to drink it. I'm like, oh, no, no, no. Don't drink the soap.

[Willie One Shelf]

Or they take some scrunchy and kind of put it in their mouth. No, that's dirty water. You don't want to drink that water.

[Sherman Young]

You don't want to drink that water.

[Willie One Shelf]

No, no.

[Sherman Young]

Cut it out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Stop. Sorry. That was.

[Sherman Young]

You're ruining bathtub.

[Willie One Shelf]

No, we don't drink that water. That water is bad for you. No, that's dirty water. All right. Okay. Stop.

Cut it out. You want right now? Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. So you just want to go to bed? Okay. Baby proof. Thank you, Timothy from Timothy. Baby proofing the Xmas tree.

[Santa Willie]

Santa Willie, I need some advice here. Maybe you guys could discuss this one on the pod. As you know, it's Christmas season. I got a 1 1/2 quarter year old son. He's at that age where he's walking but not quite speaking English yet. Just jibber jabbing.

[Sherman Young]

Cavern.

[Santa Willie]

And it's Christmas tree time. House already is closing in on us because we got toys all over the place, man. I'm tripping on little race cars, Legos, building blocks. We're watching Ms. Rachel on repeat, trying to introduce the young buck to the Charlie Brown Christmas specials.

[Sherman Young]

Things of that nature.

[Santa Willie]

This guy wants to tear down our Christmas tree. I've tried fences, I've tried putting it on a table. It's a bad news bears type situation here. What's your Christmas tree proof of baby advice? What do you got for me? I. I need a life raft here because I'm about to go get my third Christmas tree because for some reason these things, they just keep getting up. One of them was too. I went too light and it fell. Fell off the stand. I'm not about to rebuild a stand. The other one had bugs in it. Kid had bugs in his hair and stuff. Bad news bears. Maybe I got to get a bad. A fake tree. I don't know the issue, but any baby proof Christmas tree advice. Hope you and Sherm are good. Merry Christmas, brother.

[Sherman Young]

I hope you're good. Good luck. Good luck with those bugs in the Christmas tree.

[Derek]

What?

[Sherman Young]

They're coming from every direction now.

[Willie One Shelf]

I hate it. I grew up a real tree kid. We go to the tree farm, we cut it down. My dad would. We. My brothers and I, we'd pretend to play Deer Hunter 6 while we were out there running around looking for a Christmas tree. Yeah, and. But I'm a fake tree guy, okay? I'm a fake tree guy. I hate to admit it, but it is what it is. Yeah, it's easier. You get it going up every year. You put it back in the box and it sounds like what he's dealing with a little demon. He sees a tree. This is King Kong now. Going through the jungle, ripping off the tree and everything else. To me, the first one is, well, you can get a fake tree, but I don't know how to.

I don't know how to stop the rushing attack to the Christmas tree. Scotty's the same way Scotty. Damn near she did. She broke Rue's first ornament. It's kind of cracked all over, so it's very sensitive. It will fall apart. We do have it back on the tree. It's hanging off her deer life, right? Right now.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But if it goes down again, it's over with. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

[Sherman Young]

Help me.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, help me. I, I, I don't know how to stop my child from grabbing the ornaments on the Christmas tree.

[Sherman Young]

I have this off. I have this off.

[Chef]

How high can she reach?

[Willie One Shelf]

I mean.

She, but she could probably.

[Sherman Young]

Reach, like, this high, and that's about three feet off the ground, the lower.

[Willie One Shelf]

Part of the tree. You know what I mean? Like, I know you can put the ornaments up higher, but she's still grabbing at this stuff on the tree. And you, you just got to say, scotty, gentle, gentle. And you're kind of approaching them slowly. Go ahead, Sherm.

[Sherman Young]

Okay, really quick solve. Target has indestructible.

Ornaments. Buy the baby its own tree that it can fuck up and put the indestructible ornaments on. On it and just let them have it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Now hang on. These indestructible ornaments, can you still take them off the tree? Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying.

[Sherman Young]

What's wrong with that?

[Willie One Shelf]

Just ornaments all over the floor.

[Sherman Young]

That's okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

You still got to hang them back on the tree.

[Sherman Young]

Main tree.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's what parents are trying.

[Sherman Young]

Still good.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's what parents are trying to figure out here is when the baby gets close to the tree and they got a hold of an ornament, and you don't just want to snap. Hey, stop, stop. Sometimes I'll do that. Scott, Scotty, no, no, no. And you almost. You're approaching them like they're, like they have a gun on them.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, Scotty, easy, gentle. And you slowly start walking towards them. Gentle. They start smiling a little bit. Easy.

[Sherman Young]

She starts bouncing.

[Willie One Shelf]

Grab her. No. And then you grab them and just remove them from the situation. Then you just hope you're sitting there playing your basketballing them, guarding them so they don't get to the tree. And I just kind of guide her. Go over there. Go over there. Over there. Look at that over there. Go get the ball.

[Sherman Young]

And that's where the fake tree, the fake small tree comes in. Look at that little thing. Go that thing up.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay, I, I see what you're saying to me. No matter what, they're still ripping off, like, if you get the indestructible ornaments, like, yeah, it sucks at the. That ruse. Ornaments broken. But no matter what she's ripping off ornaments from the thing, like I still gotta. I get on my hands and knees. You got to put the little hook back in the thing and then you put the ornament back on the tree.

[Sherman Young]

Well, that. Okay, so what, here's what I would do to explain it really quick. I would put a fence, like a dog type gate around real, real Christmas tree with breakable ornaments to distract child by $15 tree that's only like 2ft tall. Put a bunch of indestructible ornaments on it and then that's what they're up all the time. Does that make sense?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. I want to get a gate, a cage of some sort and just put Scotty in it.

Like every time she gets involved in something, she's climbing up on roo step stool. Now, like I'll look over and I just see her little head popping up from the island. I'm like, Scotty, how'd you get over there? I've told you, you can't climb this. She gets around everything. She, she clears out every cabinet that has stuff in it. Yeah. This is every day. And I tell Charlie every time, sweetheart, this is why I want to get a cage for, for her.

[Sherman Young]

Get a little play pin.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. She needs to be like, ugga, during the SEC championship game to where uga's just sitting in a kennel. You can't come out.

[Sherman Young]

Scott is a scotzilla, bro. She is a. Yeah. And Chef, I'm so sorry. Please, what was your thoughts on it?

[Chef]

This might be a bad idea.

[Sherman Young]

Okay.

[Chef]

But as a kid, my parents, under our tree, we had in a little Rudolph the reindeer electronic train. It's a train that just goes around tree and maybe it's a little bit of a smoke and mirrors thing that they're seeing like an actual moving train come around and she doesn't want to. They might. Because for me and my little brother, that was never an issue. I don't know if it's because we would turn on the train and watch it go around the tree.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're probably just scared of the trains.

[Chef]

No, I don't think so.

[Willie One Shelf]

I think you were a. You were probably. Come on, you know, it was like, I'm not going to get ran over by the train.

[Chef]

My number one show is the kid.

[Willie One Shelf]

Was Thomas the Tank Engine.

[Sherman Young]

I think you're a kid, you were scared.

[Willie One Shelf]

I think, I think you as a one year old, you Was a chef.

[Sherman Young]

Mama Duck, you in?

[Willie One Shelf]

How many. How many bedtime kisses did you get? Chef, I come to you with a solution.

[Sherman Young]

You're. He's on your team.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's on your team. Oh, llama, llama, Red Pajama. Was that your favorite book too, Chef?

No, Will.

[Sherman Young]

Jeff.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because if Scotty saw a train, that train's getting up.

[Sherman Young]

Okay. I was about to say, but maybe it's the train.

[Chef]

You buy the train knowing that the train's going to be a sacrificial lamb. And then you hang all the. All the ornaments that are breakable. You don't want those. Stay above. Halfway up the tree line.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Then I'll look over, and Scott Zillow will be at the top of the tree, turned on the. The star.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chef]

You might be a.

[Willie One Shelf]

You look up there. Scotty's up there. What the.

[Sherman Young]

You have K. Adams in 10 minutes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay.

[Chef]

We want to. We can pick back up.

[Sherman Young]

We. I.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're pretty much good to rock, aren't we? We're pretty much good. I got a nice little. I saw an Instagram post, and then I have. I can read the lesson.

[Sherman Young]

And I have, like, a little lesson too, or something.

[Willie One Shelf]

I saw that was just, like, a gray.

[Sherman Young]

Great.

[Willie One Shelf]

Great little reminder. Great little perspective piece for my man, too. Doing bath time. Like, hey, enjoying bath time. I know I'm gonna miss bath time for me. The whole thing with bath time for me is just my low back just getting down on the ground.

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[Willie One Shelf]

Like, I'll be whole chest hanging on the side of the bath, like, reaching my arms up because it's like sometimes I just can't stabilize and support my low back.

[Sherman Young]

You need the third arm. Construction worker apparatus. If anybody's seen. Seen that on social media. Maybe a little Christmas.

[Willie One Shelf]

Maybe a little Christmas gift. All right, here. This comes from wealthy, healthy, and blonde. The profile on Instagram.

We're 30. It's December, and he asked me what I want for Christmas this year. Oh. I laugh and say, oh, I don't know. Sleep, silence, sanity. He half smiles because we both know I can't have. Have that. We're 80 now. It's December, and he asked me what I want for Christmas this year. I look at the tree filled with handmade ornaments, now decades old. They hang quietly, untouched. I look at the lights glowing across an empty floor, no longer full of toy cars, Legos, and crumbs. I recall the years where everything felt alive. The squeals at sunrise, the torn open boxes, the little voices yelling, mama, come see. See me. I Cry and say, oh, I don't know, just one more Christmas when they were little. He half smiles because we both know I can't have that. And that's when it hit me. I got everything I wanted when I was 30. Turns out I miss everything I had when I was 30. The days are messy, but the years are magic. And you can't get them back. So enjoy them.

That's a good one right there. It almost. It almost caught me on the last two slides.

[Sherman Young]

That is a good one.

[Willie One Shelf]

One.

[Sherman Young]

God, that's a good reminder of just. Yeah, enjoy the suck. Embrace the suck. Mine falls in that as well. Here's my lesson of the week. This week has been. Has reminded me of something simple but heavy. When man on man isn't working, you got to switch to zone coverage. As a dad, sometimes your number one job is stepping up when your partner can't. There are days where everything feels normal. Routines click, kid is fed, everyone's laughing, Life is on the rails. And then there are days when your partner is exhausted, sick, mentally drained, burnt out, or just done. That's when it's your moment not to complain, not to keep score, not to point out whose turn it was, but to silently step in, pick up the load, and continue carry it. Being a good partner isn't about even splits. It's about coverage. When one person is down, the other fills the space. That might mean doing bath time without being asked, handling bedtime routine, solo cleaning the kitchen, even when you worked all day running errands so she can lay down for 20 minutes, taking the emotional hits so she doesn't have to. It's not glamorous. No one applauds you. But it matters.

[Derek]

Matters.

[Sherman Young]

Because when your wife feels safe, supported and seen, your home becomes stronger. Your kids learn teamwork by watching it, and your marriage becomes less about surviving seasons and more about winning the seasons together. So dads this week, just pay attention. If she's struggling, step in. If she's overwhelmed, anchor the household. If she's running on fumes, be the refuel station. Not because it's your duty, beauty, but because that's what love looks like in real life.

[Willie One Shelf]

Well done. Well done, my friend.

Great. So today, a great sod, great zone.

[Sherman Young]

And wait, one of our shortest soads, potentially. What? What were we running at?

[Chef]

This is going to be the shortest sod since episode one.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's okay. It's okay. A lot going on. I know. Papa Team shakes will come. There'll be some mentions about the short episode.

[Sherman Young]

We covered a lot, though.

[Willie One Shelf]

We did we had some fun.

[Chef]

Yeah, that was quick and fast, but we hit all the bases.

[Sherman Young]

The sound waves on that edit thing are good. There's going to be zero breaks.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, zero Papa Team six Keep showing up. Keep overthinking every conversation going through your head and keep submitting. Eventually submitting to what's best for you and wifey on milk team 6 and keep submitting to what's best for you and the family. Take your trash out. We love you. We appreciate you pt. We will see you next week.

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