Will Compton Talks Letting His Kids Play Football & Intentionality For 2026 | For The Dads Podcast

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Will Compton Talks Letting His Kids Play Football & Intentionality For 2026"

Podcast: Bussin’ With The Boys – For The Dads
Date: January 7, 2026
Host: Will Compton and crew
Episode Purpose:
A candid, comedic, and deeply real conversation about fatherhood: from parenting trenches, new dad hacks, and family chaos, to honest questions about sports and raising tough, intentional kids in 2026.

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode revolves around the messy, hilarious, and transformative realities of parenting—especially for dads navigating sleep deprivation, evolving family traditions, daycare drama, navigating relationship balance, and tough questions like “Would you let your kid box or play football in today’s world?” Will Compton and friends take voicemails, read community messages, and unpack their own recent “dad wins,” “dad losses,” and the never-ending struggle to keep their household (and sanity) running smoothly.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Welcome and Community Building

[02:00-05:00]

• The show is for “emotionally sophisticated cavemen trying to lead their families.”
• Listeners are dubbed “Papa Team Six” (PT6), a tight-knit, military-inspired dad network.
• Emphasis on the value of community: voicemails, comments, and the power of collective encouragement.

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2. Merch Debate for Fans and International Listeners

[05:00-11:00]

• Debate: Should dads who write emails (not just call in) get show merchandise?
• International listeners highlighted: “The international emails that we do get get me super fucking juiced. We should send a hat to every single international email that we get… they take the time to write… knowing what’s around their environment.” — Will, [08:15]
• Playful banter about international relevance of baseball caps, with Chef raising the funny concern: “From what I understand… [Europeans] kind of shit on baseball caps.”
• Group agrees to reward engagement and consider cultural differences.

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3. Life & Holiday Catch-Up: Parenting in the Trenches

[11:40-16:00]

• Will shares the chaos from the holidays: sick kids, nighttime routines, dealing with baby starting solids, and the juggle of household chaos post-Christmas.

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4. Dad Shout-outs & Listener Wins

[13:00-17:52]

• Several community messages read aloud, from new dads anticipating births to Milk Team Sixers (mom listeners) who started out annoyed by the guys’ main podcast but found deep value in “For The Dads.”
• Notable quote:
  “You can never sleep on being able to win over a female audience member. Somebody that kind of despised us, hearing the obnoxiousness… but tuning in anyway.” — Will, [15:49]

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5. Sleep Deprivation, Sibling Rivalry & Household Hilarity

[18:40-23:00]

• Discussion of “dad trenches”:
  • “Night after night, every parent is trying to operate on four hours of sleep.”
  • Stories about toddler antics, like a child pooping in the bathtub: “Before I could get up to get him out… drops the log. It’s half the size of his leg right in the water. I screamed for mom in a full panic…” — Fan DM, [22:43]

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6. Dad Losses: Diaper Bag Dilemmas & Baby Food Fails

[25:15 - 36:00]

• Diaper Bag Debate:
  • Should dads have their own “cool” diaper bags?
  • Will argues most dads just share; “My new dad loss is that I’m overthinking diaper bags.”
• Feeding Baby Solids Woes:
  “Jill [my wife] is so good at feeding Scarlett. When I do it, I can’t get her to eat a thing. She couldn’t give two fucks.” — Sherm, [31:16]
  • The struggle is real: baby won’t eat solids from dad but devours them with mom. Admits to flubbing responsibilities when tired (left a mess for wife).

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7. Honest Marital Confessions

[35:22-42:41]

• Sherm confesses to hitting his limit, checking out, and not cleaning up after dinner: “I didn’t clean the dishes or the steamer... I truly, I could not tell you what made me not do the dishes… I did maybe 25% of my tasks that needed to be done. And I’m sitting there in bed, I’m watching the remake of Naked Gun, laughing my ass off…”
  -- Sherm, [41:47]
• Wife’s classic response:
  “Oh, love. Hey, love that you’re ready for bed. … I guess I’m your personal maid now, which I’m fine with, because now I get to put our daughter to bed, which you had no part in. And I get to clean all the dishes, too…” — Jill, [41:52]
• Lesson: “Learning moment” for tired dads; don’t check out—even after a hunting trip.

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8. Sick Kids & Surviving the Holidays

[44:12-51:13]

• Will narrates a multi-day saga of sick kids, fever “jumps,” and endless “trenches.”
• Describes the powerlessness of seeing his daughter suffering from the flu and fever shakes—culminating in midnight runs to the pediatrician on Christmas Eve.

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9. Dad Hacks: Snot Sucker Wars & Alexa Timers

[51:31, 91:40]

• Will extols the value of an “auto snot sucker.”
  “Buddy, do I have something for you. The auto snot sucker. You literally hit a power button… it’s the funnest thing in the entire world.”
• Survival kit essential:
  “The only feature I use it for is that timer.” (on using the Alexa Dot to manage chaos), [91:56]
  • Set timers for every step: cooking, bottles, etc.

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10. Sibling Rivalry & Baby Mayhem

[53:39-58:00]

• “Scotty is swinging on Rue.”
• Older sibling “works” the younger—parents struggle to correct it without laughing.
• “She’s just the slowest heat seeking missile of all time.” — Sherm, [54:57]

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11. Date Night, Babysitting, & Online Shaming

[61:51-68:30]

• Jill’s search for a babysitter via Facebook leads to egregious “mom-shaming” by an older male user. “Some 60 year-old dude… comments: ‘Wow, some piece of mom you are. How about instead of having the village raise your kid, you pull up and be a mom?’” — [64:43]
• The hosts and team immediately rally for “war,” denouncing online shaming and reiterating that all parents need support and a break.

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12. Setting Intentions for 2026: Social Life, Routine, and Date Nights

[75:09-84:55]

• Hosts reflect on how easily “parent mode” swallows all other aspects of life—recognizing the need for more intentional time for themselves and their partners in 2026.
• “Everything will be seasonal. There’ll be pockets for enjoying more freedom… just never during football season.” — Will [75:40]
• The power of accountability partners and the struggle for better routines in the new year.

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13. Product Shout-Out / Community Partnerships

[85:30-90:58, NOT AN AD]

• Genuine excitement as Olipop (a prebiotic soda) becomes an official show partner, after months of being an organic part of the “For The Dads” language and culture.
• Grassroots product ranking among hosts and listeners.

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14. Listener Calls, Emails, and Advice

[98:45 - 131:36]

• Extended, real-life voicemail saga: Listener Jeremy Clump’s 2+ hour “mission” to take his kids to the zoo lights—emphasizes embracing the struggle, keeping the vibes high, and turning chaos into family memories.
• Advice/Q&A:
  • Transition from baby bottles to sippy cups
  • Handling sibling fights
  • How to keep a toddler entertained in traffic
  • Using music in pregnancy to calm babies (Taylor Swift “Evermore” as a baby-calmer)

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15. The Big Question: Would You Let Your Kids Play Boxing or Football?

[112:04-125:16 | Notable Segment]

• Listener question from a retired professional boxer wrestling with letting his son box (or play football), considering risk vs. reward, discipline, and lessons from sport.
• Will’s nuanced answer acknowledges the real risks of contact sports, but emphasizes sport’s irreplaceable lessons:
  “There is no substitute for what you learn through sports… team game, attitudes, cultures, people who are different, people who make you better… I wouldn’t shy away from my kids playing… I might think about when to start tackle football, but the life lessons learned are irreplaceable.” — Will, [115:48]
• “Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.” — Dan Gable (Will’s favorite wrestling legend), [128:33]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Exhaustion & Realness:
  “If you are tired right now, good. That means you qualify for the episode.” — [02:24]
• On Parenting in Chaos:
  “Sometimes you'll be 0.8 miles away from the zoo to go look at Christmas lights the week after Christmas. But hey, that’s life.” — Jeremy Clump, [100:23]
• On Mom Shaming:
  “Do you know what kind of loser mentality you have to have to see a sweet post and write, ‘How about instead of having the village raise your kid, you just be a mom?’” — Will, [65:43]
• On Date Night Jitters:
  “Quick exit is key. The best thing that could happen is if [the baby’s] not aware you’re leaving… six months old, quick exit, that is the right strategy.” — Will, [71:29]
• On Parenting Lessons:
  “Life’s a cliche… Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.”
  — Will, quoting Dan Gable, [128:33]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:00] – Show intro, Papa Team Six, community engagement
• [05:00] – Merch debate, international listeners, engagement
• [11:40] – Post-holiday catch up, sick kids, trenches
• [13:00] – Listener messages, Milk Team Sixer wins
• [18:40] – More shout-outs, in-the-trenches stories
• [25:15] – Diaper bag debate, "dad losses"
• [31:16] – Feeding struggles, dad loss confessions
• [44:12] – Holiday survival, kids sick, “fever jumps”
• [51:31/91:40] – Snot sucker dad hack / Alexa timer survival kit
• [53:39/58:00] – Sibling rivalry: “Scotty the heat-seeking missile”
• [64:43-68:30] – Mom-shaming on Facebook, defending dads/moms
• [75:09-84:55] – Intentionality for 2026, balancing marriage + parenting
• [85:30-90:58] – Olipop partnership (organic, not an ad)
• [98:45-107:24] – 2+ hour “zoo trip” dad story: when family plans go wrong
• [112:04-125:16] – Letting kids play contact sports: nuanced discussion
• [128:33] – “Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.” (Favorite quote)

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Tone & Style

Raw, unfiltered, self-deprecating, supportive, and consistently hilarious—even in the face of exhaustion and chaos. There’s a deep camaraderie and respect for the struggle, a genuine desire to help fellow parents, and permission to laugh at both the big and small failures of parenthood.

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Final Takeaway

For The Dads isn’t just for dads—it’s for anyone navigating family chaos, striving for intentionality, and craving both real talk and real support.
Whether you’re a veteran, a new parent, “in the trenches” with sick kids, feeling invisible, or wrestling with tough choices about raising your children—this episode offers equal doses of encouragement, authenticity, and laughter.

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"We’re all exhausted, half-sleep, and figuring it out as we go. As long as you’re trying—Papa Team Six has your back."

Transcript

[A]

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[A]

Another episode of for the Dads. I hope the bills are paid. Hope the trash is out. Hope your kids are thriving. Yeah, I hope you've had a little naughty time with wifey. This is a show for, how can we say this? The emotionally sophisticated cavemen that try and lead their families.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If you are tired right now. Good, good. That means you qualify for the episode.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We are operating on you know, again, this is for. This is for the dads. Yes. That in your mind, if you're listening right now, again, half sleep. We're trying to operate. A lot of parents out there trying to operate on four hours of sleep at a time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Off. Pure internal, Will.

[B]

Wifey's pumping every three hours.

[A]

Wifey's pumping every three hours. We build traditions on for the dads. We talk traditions, we talk game, we talk stories. We're going to dive into stories, hacks and comedy of raising little ones who negotiate like they're an adult and they pay bills. News flash. They don't. News flash.

[B]

News flash. They don't. And will. Hey, are you an expert in fatherhood? Just wondering.

[A]

Zero. There's no chance I'm an expert in fatherhood. I try my hardest.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

To keep it together.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Off, you know, recently good since New Year's, real focus on at least seven hours of sleep because my little ones sleep very well.

[B]

Yes, they do.

[A]

Yes, they do. I have no complaints. I know there, there's parents that are struggling, that are. Are working through nighttime bedtime routines that are working through wake up, wake ups throughout the night. Now hand up. Scotty does wake up every now and then. I don't hear it. My wife hears it.

[B]

She's got good hearing.

[A]

She's got good.

[B]

Women have better hearing. We know this. Yeah, we know this.

[A]

The monitor is on her side of the bed. Yeah. But yeah, we're going to dive into all that stuff. If you are a member of Papa Team Six, welcome back to. For the dads. If you are a new dad or a new listener of this show, whether you're watching us on YouTube, whether you're listening on audio, Spotify, Apple, all the goodies out there for audio platforms, we are on all of them. So simply, if you want to join Papa Team 6, you want to join PT6 and be part of this, this military apparatus, just simply follow and subscribe on all of our channels. Leave comments throughout the episode. We love to feature a lot of comments in our episode. We engage with our community, engage with our audience. You can do so by leaving comments under the YouTube, leaving comments on Spotify. Yeah. Leaving comments on social media and the Big Dog feature. If you call into 601 the dads, that is our voicemail hotline and we feature you on the show. We will send you merch. If you are international and you can't necessarily hit the hotline with or the phone number and you want to write in an email, that is [e-mail]. we are happy you're with us.

[B]

It sure is. Do. Okay, really quick note. Quick, because this was DM to me. Do we send merch to people that we read their emails, or do we keep that strictly the hotline?

[A]

What has it been?

[B]

It's been strictly the hotline.

[A]

Strictly hotline.

[B]

I had a DM from somebody who had their email read, and they said, hey, I'm not looking for a handout. I'm not that guy. They preface very nicely. They said, just wanted.

[A]

Just wanting to just cure out of pure curiosity.

[B]

Pure curiosity.

[A]

I don't want to miss out on an opportunity. If this is you just happens to be the case.

[B]

You read my email. Does that mean I have some merch coming my way? And I truly, like, throw this out to us. I throw it out to sickos. I don't know the answer.

[A]

Is this my call?

[B]

You do own this company.

[A]

I do own.

[B]

It is you guys.

[E]

But if you would like to hear what we have to say, I would say we could give you opinions and then you make the call. It's really up to what you want to do at the end of the day. But I mean, we have thought.

[A]

So throw the thoughts at me.

[E]

Thought would be that if we gear it towards something we've always teased, like dad of the month or data something, if we aim an email towards that, I think we can do it. I think the way we read emails now are just kind of like part of the show and fun and it isn't as intense as calling in. I think if we gear it towards something, they should get a little something something. The way it reads right now, I'd say it sticks to phone calls, but that's just my opinion.

[B]

I love that opinion.

[A]

What's your thought, Chef? I just.

[B]

I vote a hat. He votes a hat.

[A]

Team six captain. He says I vote that he votes hat.

[B]

My vote is to keep it. Collins. And then if we did some kind of, you know, best email of the month or whatever, like the email would get merch then like one a month.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That would be. I would lean towards Derek and. But love Chef's gol. It should be that I think they should get a hat.

[A]

By God, look, this is not a dictatorship. I like to listen to my guys. So is Chef. You're saying emails get a hat?

[F]

Yeah, I. I think that Collins still. I. I think emails are great. We read a couple emails a day. I think a hat is a very good reward for sharing. Sorry. Taking the time to write to us and you Know, whatever it is.

[A]

I think, Chef. I think it is a very good point. Oh. Oh, Derek, may I counter? There's only no seeming team six leader, Chef. Position for the people.

[B]

No, no.

[E]

There's one parameter I just want to bring up to the group. That is how we tell international people to contact us. We cannot ship internationally currently. I think there's a workaround.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I have been operating under the pretense that we aren't able to get them. That's why we tell them to email. If that is incorrect, then I would say, let's go for it. Also, everyone does have the opportunity to go to BWTV.com right now and buy their own shirt and hat. So you all have won the opportunity to go to the store and get a shirt and hat that you purchase as well.

[B]

Can I call a parlay? Can I make a parlay?

[A]

Make a parlay.

[B]

The international emails that we do get get me super fucking juiced. We should send a hat to every single international email that we get, because not all these are international, but those international sickos that do take the time to write an email, we should send them a hat. That's cool.

[F]

I do want to. I just thought about this, and I. I am. I'm in for the hat. The only problem is I'm pretty sure if I'm correct culturally.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Hats.

[F]

Baseball cap hats. Not a big thing over in Europe. I guess depending on where you're going.

[A]

A lot of countries out there, a lot of continents. I know we get.

[F]

I know a lot of people from England. I know we get a lot, you know, from our friends in the United Kingdom.

[B]

I.

[F]

From what I understand, if I'm wrong in this, they kind of shit on baseball caps.

[B]

Okay, so we go kangal for. For UK visors. Kangals.

[A]

We. We should work something out. I'm just. I'm picturing a fam. I'm picturing whether it's a milk team sixer or papa team Sixer. Just over the pond, across the pond, they're trying to get their kid down. They're up in the middle of the night, like, let me just listen to the boys. Let me listen to the dads right now. Maybe laugh a couple times, but just hear some voices in my ear and we. And get me through this night. They're in hell. Yeah, they're in hell and they're grinding. Especially if you're a new parent. Even if you got little toddlers, like, they're.

[B]

They're.

[A]

They're batshit crazy at times, and they're dealing with this and that, and they want to come on before the dads and enjoy a little escape. And we're sitting here talking. Should they get. If they take the time to write into our brand, should they get a little something. There is no handouts. There's no. We should. We're entitled to this. But us knowing the time that they are taking, knowing what's around their environment.

[B]

What do you think, Willy? See, what are you thinking?

[A]

Reward them with the. The hat or an item or a product. Again, Chef, we'll go to. You make sure to read the comments. People that are international saying, like, hey, I actually love a nice little ball cap.

[F]

Yeah, please let me know. I might be just whiffing on that.

[B]

I like a baseball cap.

[F]

I'll take this responsibility very seriously.

[A]

Just want you to know. Yeah, so you got again, you gotta. You gotta put yourself in the mind of these boys over there. Maybe they're throwing in the. Maybe they're throwing in the wired headphones or the wireless headphones at night. Wife just told them, no, I want to get some sleep tonight. Take care of yourself. And he just rolls over and throws it in like, let me just listen to Papa Team six right now.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Have some words of encouragement.

[B]

No tea or crumpets. They're locked in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. One more thing, Derek.

[E]

It almost sounds like we should develop a piece of merchandise specifically for the Collins and emailers. Something along the lines of this is not the idea, but. No, bad idea.

[A]

That's where I start to put on the break. Before we get. Yeah, but before we get out over our skis and start saying we're going to create a new product. We already struggle with creating new products.

[F]

Or peacocks. You got to let us fly. This is what we do.

[B]

Go horse and then come back.

[A]

Your horse.

[B]

The horse is out. Horse out of the stable. Willie, come back here, horse. Hey, we're going over two hours. I got a feeling.

[A]

Yeah, we got to. We got to keep it under an hour. You know, I saw people last time when we did the episode right before Christmas, because I was dead set. Guys, we got to keep this one tight. We got to keep it right. I got to get back to the chaos flu taking over my house.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I just saw the comments. Having fun with Willie boy. He wasn't able to keep it under an hour. The show never can. Sure.

[B]

Never can. First. First time in two weeks, by the way, that we're here on the set.

[A]

It's been a while. We had A good break. I know we all came back into the shop. It was fun seeing all the boys kind of embrace each other. Derek's been gone for a hot minute. Ever seeing everybody catch up with a new Christmas gear. You know, I'm a big Christmas gear. I love. If I get some clothes for Christmas, I want to rock it. My wife usually gives me something nice. I. I love this. Like, let me go wear it everywhere I possibly can and ask people, hey, I got this for Christmas. Did you. You want to throw me a compliment? You want to dish a compliment my way? Yeah, but, dude, let's dive in. I know we got a lot of stuff that we took notes on for the docket, because after having these two weeks off, it's like, hey, what's happened in our lives? Yeah, we can recap Christmas. I know we got Scarlett. She's been starting solids. Scotty swinging at Ru. She's throwing punches at Ru at the moment as a one year old.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

We got Sherm. He's getting the first babysitt. Facebook comment to Jill.

[B]

Crazy shit.

[A]

We get to touch the Facebook comment to Jill.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Crazy shit being thrown Jill's way on Facebook.

[A]

Yeah, my wife. My wife had a birthday on December 28th. Happy birthday, sweetheart. Happy belated birthday, sweetheart. We love you, people.

[B]

Belated milk.

[A]

Team Six captain. Yeah. And we're in the New Year's.

[B]

And we're in the New Year's.

[A]

So where do we want to start? Do we start with. Do we start with some shout outs that people have given us?

[B]

I think there's. I think there's only one way to start, and it's with some shout outs.

[A]

I see. Here's some new D, some new dad comments. So, guys, we're just welcoming again. Papa Team 6 members. When you. When you. When you graduate from Buds training, you become a Papa Team 6, you become a PT Sixer for life. A PT Sicko. This is from Seth Burroughs on Spotify. Hey, boys. Wife water broke walls at work. An hour away from home. Good God. Babies possibly coming eight weeks early.

[G]

Good.

[B]

Oh, that's actually. That's ideal.

[A]

Ready to earn my couch badge. Good. Send T's and P's. PT6 out. Already one up. Sherm. Sherm never slept on a couch.

[B]

Hey, all right.

[A]

That was in the comment.

[B]

Hey, but.

[A]

But he put that in there. He put that in. He said, sherm, I didn't sleep on the couch. He's not a real dog.

[B]

That's slimy. I will say Chair Force One for those out there, if you know. You know, Chair Force One's kind of where it's at. This one comes From Jovers with three Rs on Instagram. This is a Milk Team sixer. She said, I used to despise busing with the boys. Every car drive with Matthew and Hugo was accompanied by an episode after episode after episode of Busted. But Will Compton has quickly become one of my absolute favorite people because of for the dads and getting to see a different side of him and the Shermeister. Now every single morning, I wake up and bustle with the boys locker room and for the dads is like our version of. Of the morning news in the house. I have a different kind of respect for them, especially when they go out of their way to do something for the boys in the back of the bus. So this bonus shit is absolutely dope. All caps, dope.

[E]

That was someone's Instagram story that they shared the bus and recap video. So she posted that to her story. So that was part one. So we reached out and basically just thanked her for that. So, Sherm, that was like, she just posted that to the world. That wasn't even to us.

[B]

So then Derek followed up and said, that was an amazing note. Thank you so much for giving the dads a chance. We hope to never disappoint. She replied back. My husband and I are expecting our first baby boy in March. So this pod came. Came around right in time for us to prepare for parent life. You guys got a pod that speaks to everyone. We love y' all and all the work that you do. Thanks for sharing all the best, worst, and everything in between. Happy 2026 to all four of y' all who keep this pod absolutely crushing.

[A]

Let's go.

[B]

That comes from Jovers on in Shout.

[A]

Out Jovers on Instagram. That fires me up.

[B]

That fires me up.

[A]

You can never. What's the word I'm looking for?

[B]

Underestimate.

[A]

No, Come on.

[B]

Cease to amaze.

[A]

I don't know. You can never sleep on being able to win over a female audience member.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Somebody that kind of despise bus with the boys, hearing the obnoxiousness that comes out of our mouths at times. Tuning into for the dads.

[B]

This is the stuff my husband listens to. Yeah.

[A]

God, he wants to listen to busting with the boys again. Oh, and what a power dynamic right there. Knowing that he's picking the pod, I think that needs to shift a little bit. I'm kind of in favor for the. For the Milk Team Sixer. Here I am.

[B]

Too. Sounds like he's got control of the sticks. Every drive. Yeah, I do have a quick petition. Very, very quick. No more 20, 26 business. It's just 26, okay? That's my new thing for this year. I'm gonna try and start it for the rest of the world. Hey, we're in the roaring 20s, baby. Welcome to 26.

[A]

Welcome to 26.

[B]

It's easier. It's nicer. Boom.

[A]

I got one here from Ron Holmes on Spotify. Again. You can leave comments on Spotify. The video is up on Spotify. Do go to our. For the dads channel on Spotify because you will get. You will get audio or auto ad free. Listen, you'll get an audio.

[B]

There's no ads on spot. On our Spotify channel for the ads.

[A]

There's no. There's no automated ads.

[B]

That's exactly right. That's exactly right.

[A]

Money. I'm telling you, I got to get checked out. It's. It's the Kenny Minchi stuff in Nebraska. This transfer portal. There's no honor and integrity in the system anymore.

[B]

These damn kids.

[A]

Yeah, these damn kids, bro. Ron Holmes. Hey boys. Excited for the pt6 merch my wife got me for Christmas and can't wait to rock it. Leaving the hospital on our bab. Baby is born in June. Congratulations to you both. Ron and Mrs. Holmes. Got a question. When Yalls wives were pregnant, was their sarcasm escalated? Was their sarcasm escalated?

[B]

Big time.

[A]

The other day I came in from walking the dog and said hey, you know what I was just thinking about? She responded with what? What was your one brain cell thinking about, Ron?

[B]

Oh my God.

[A]

And then proceeded to die laughing and almost beat her pants. Almost hit her with an RKO out of nowhere laughing emoji.

[B]

Hey, this is a good sense of.

[A]

Humor from a Milk Team 6.

[B]

Milk Team Sixers got some game.

[A]

Tell me Ron, what was your one brain cell thinking about as you were outside?

[B]

And the fact that she almost peed her pants too? That's Jerry on top. That's what you know, she's killing.

[A]

She. She starts to laugh. Beer pants. Oh my God. Get the out of here.

[C]

Ron.

[A]

Tell me what you were thinking about. Ron. Do you see me being pregnant right now? I can't wait to hear what you're going through.

[B]

My buddy. I was on the phone this. His pregnant wife was in the background. We were talking about their pregnancy and she was chirping them. I could hear him in the background. She was. She was giggling at her own chirps. And what she saying? What she. She's saying some I I go hey buddy, just listen. As soon as that baby comes out it's like times two. It's gonna keep coming.

[A]

Oh it's always you just gotta lock in. Always gonna keep coming.

[B]

I got some new dad comments. This one comes from T Strick8927 on X. Hey boys. New listener with a 3 year old and another on the way. Literally in the trenches and grinding out the episodes. Got a friend who's currently waiting on D day which will be next week and is terrified. I quickly shared pt6 with them and trying to build him by listening to you guys and sharing what I can. Just wanted to say that I appreciate you boys and forever along for the ride. T Strict shout out you but shout out shout out your friend that it sounds like that would be this week is D day's here delivery days here. You got this brother. Yeah. You're listening right now. Lock in.

[A]

Yeah. It's gonna be tough. Got you three all is what the other one's three. Right.

[B]

Other one's three.

[A]

We would encourage go back and listen to some old a couple old episode spot and episodes where we talk about things to do when you're. When you're bringing a new one into the family. Some tricks. Yeah. Some hacks out.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Allow the little one. Allow your 3 year old to come in. Maybe mom or mom is not holding the baby so the little one still knows. Hey, mama's mine. Yes. And we're getting introduced to the baby. Oh, this is my baby brother. This is my baby sister. Another great tip out there that we've used is having the baby gift. Yep. Gift a toy or a present to the older sibling.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Let them know like hey, they were thinking about you on the way home. Got you a little toy. We got you a little present from the newborn.

[B]

I love that dad Hack. I believe it's episode six when Scarlett was born and that's where you talked a lot about your delivery day stuff as well.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like episode five or six. Go go take a lesson of that because you did a lot of preaching and teaching to me of like getting the right mindset going into the delivery room and it helped me a ton. Like it really did. It was a good little pre.

[A]

There's always hacks that come in too that people write in on on things that they're preparing to do. Remember the, remember the one that the guy that wrote in and talked about? They got the whole like lay of the hospital before they went. Yeah.

[B]

They scouted out the Parking garage.

[A]

Yeah. Scouted the territory.

[B]

Yes. And cannot reiterate that point enough because here at Vandy Children's. We had a great experience at Vandy Children's, but the usual parking garage that you park in was closed unbeknownst to us.

[A]

Right.

[B]

That like there will be little things like that. An elevator will be out of service. You're gonna have to find the security guard. You're gonna ask them where the triage is at. Get that stuff dialed.

[A]

Yeah. Birth plans ready to go. But don't be so attached to it because nothing will go according to plan. That's okay.

[B]

That's okay.

[A]

Also, last shout out. Shout out. The big dog here, Director of Ops, Director of Digital, Jeremy Klump. They are having. They are having another kid. They're having number three. So big shout out to Jeremy Clump.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Growing his papa. Team six family.

[B]

We actually have a fabulous feature of Jeremy Clump on this episode. He'll be our, our call in this.

[A]

Oh yeah, no.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Five parter.

[A]

Okay. He.

[B]

He found himself in serious.

[A]

So five different voicemails, sir.

[B]

Yes, sir. That is correct. We'll keep it under an hour. Don't, don't worry about that.

[A]

Everybody just buckle up. We will keep this one under an hour for you guys. Wherever you're headed, wherever you're tuning in at, we will keep this one tight.

[B]

Will, this is my last comment.

[G]

And.

[B]

I'll go ahead and read it. K Cass 82 on on X. What up boys? Day one listener first time riding in. And boys, do I have a story for you guys. Also shout out Chef Derek, Fatty, Staffy and Willie. One book fellow PT6 are here. A twin dad of two boys.

[A]

Good.

[B]

Every day is controlled chaos. Dad does bath time and I have the boys in the tub. As I have one baby out drying and getting him dressed, I hear a grunt. I turn and see the second guy playing with the toy. I assume he was frustrated with the toy. I'm about to finish the first guy up and I. I hear another grunt. As I turn around, my boy is standing in a slightly hunched over position to drop an absolute missile. Before I could get up to get him out. Drops the log. It's half the size of his leg right in the water. Good. I screamed for mom in a full panic and she walks into the bathroom with the baby dressed. A baby suspended in midair and a brown snake in the tub. Of course she says dad has to fish it out. And I grabbed a plastic bag to wrangle that sucker out. Good. To some this is A crazy scenario. But to me, this is a regular Friday night. I love the pod. I never miss an episode. The knowledge you boys drop weekly has helped me grow as a father. So thank you both and I hope y' all know how great of dads you both are, but thank you.

[A]

Dude. P.S.

[B]

Tried apple crisp lollipop today for the first time and I have to say I'm now a fan. Mary Krembus. That came.

[A]

That's a great write in.

[B]

Yeah, great write in. That came from K. Cass on X. That was actually a DM on X.

[A]

That's a great write in. Yeah, we appreciate that. Dropping a missile in the tub. That's all time and shout out to him. The twins. The twins. We've talked about it. That's a woof. But he knows nothing different, Tim. That's his chaos.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So anytime I'm baiting both Scotty and Rue and then I'll get Scotty, I'll wash her or get her quickly going because Rue wants to stay in the tub and play and everything else. But it is no easy task when you're trying to go and get them. Get the little one dressed while the other one's in the tub. They might be screaming for you to help them with something. Couldn't imagine walking in and Rouge is hunched over like just locked with me dead in the eye. Just knowing she's dropping a fat one.

[B]

Bane made a great point in the Dark Knight Rises when he talked about being born in the darkness. You know nothing different.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Knows nothing different when you're born in the trenches. So we shout you out. K. Cass, thank you for the ride in. That was legendary.

[A]

Yeah, we. That was. That you said that was a DM on. On X.

[B]

On X. Yeah.

[A]

I love it, man. Community's growing.

[B]

Will I have some dad losses? I have some in the trenches. You know, I have a cracker cold one. Where would you like to start?

[A]

I would want to hear about the losses.

[B]

You want to hear about my loss?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, we'd love to hear. Would love to hear the trench warfare you. You've been involved in over the last couple of weeks.

[B]

Okay, cool. My. Okay. My dad lost. This was a. I had a conversation with a friend and this was more of a dad loss of like Sherman. Have you not thought of this? So this is my minor dad loss. Why do I not have my own diaper bag? Why do I share a diaper bag with Jill? Why do I not have my own souped up, cool looking dad looking diaper bag?

[A]

What was your conclusion? What'd you come to? Because I'm sitting here thinking, I share a diaper bag.

[B]

You share a diaper bag, too?

[A]

Like, I don't have my own.

[B]

He so. He's got a baby on the way, my friend. And he's like, yeah, dude, I'm on Nike right now. I'm looking at these diaper bags for dads. They're freaking sick. I'm like, yo, I kind of want to look at that. Check out the link. And the Nike diaper bags are, like, legit. I'm like, I could be toting that thing around. That would look sick. And wifey's like, hey, did you forget to put the diaper bag back in the. Oh, is the diaper bag in your car? No more of that anymore, because now we both have our own diaper bags. I got my bag. You got your bag.

[A]

It's. It's. You got to bring the diaper bag in no matter what.

[D]

Oh.

[A]

Because you got to refill it for sure. But you gotta hit the pit stop.

[B]

But if I forgot my diaper bag in my car, that's not gonna affect. But what are you doing? Are you.

[A]

Jill, when you're taking Scarlett out, are you both wearing diaper bags? No. And I'm thinking, space in the mud room, wherever you put your diaper bags, you're just gonna take up some more space with a couple diaper bags and be like, which one we choosing today?

[B]

Yeah, that's true. But when I go solo, I'm gonna feel that much better that I got my diaper bag that I pack.

[A]

I just feel like that diaper bag is going to collect dust in the closet.

[E]

Really?

[A]

That's my opinion.

[B]

So is the new dad loss that I even brought up this idea on the pod? Is that a new dad loss?

[A]

I think a lot of dads out there, unless they're. They're into having, like, they're the ones picking the diaper bag. I think a lot of dads sitting out there listening right now would just think, like, yeah, usually wife's got the diaper bag in check. It's about getting the diaper bag ready. Yeah. Because I know for me. For me in my role, Willie, running.

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[A]

One shelf I would misplace or lose my diaper bag eventually.

[B]

Yeah, and it's a, it's a matter of if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Like Jill and I are on a one diaper bag system too and I just kind of use the like hey, did you bring the diaper bag back in as an example? Like Jill's on top of the diaper bag stuff.

[A]

Yeah, because. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're able to fit the snacks and everything in the one diaper bag because when Scotty was a newborn, we would have a separate little diaper bag for Scotty if we would go on trips or something like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But as far as everyday use to share the diaper bag, well then my.

[B]

New dad lost is that I'm overthinking diaper bags. Second dad loss. This one's the. The more major one. I'm terrible at feeding Scarlet solids. I can't feed her solids worth a damn. She started solids this week. We're steaming like veggies. We're making our own baby food essentially.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Jill is so good at feeding Scarlett. I'll provide chef with some video that just popped up on the screen. Scarlet's like grabbing the spoon herself and bringing it to her mouth. When mom's doing it, she's eating. She's an eater. And then whenever dad as is doing it solo. On nights where Jill's working late and I'm doing solids, I can't get her to do a thing. She won't eat.

[A]

What do you think the issue is me? Like, are you like, is it you lose focus? No.

[B]

Oh, I'm dialed in because I'm so in my head.

[A]

Is she grabbing? Is she grabbing the size of her hand?

[B]

She's not focused that, like, I couldn't be more focused. She couldn't give two fucks. But then when mama's is there and I'm doing all the same stuff that Jill does. Oh, my goodness, Garland. It's a sweet potato.

[F]

Look.

[B]

And you know, doing and slapping it on, letting her play with it with her hands. Get a feel for that. Pick it, you know, getting the spoon, putting the spoon by her mouth. She's not even, you know, she's just like, I got TV off. All distract. Like there's no distractions going on. I take all the toys, the squeaky toys out of the dog's mouth because sometimes that distracts Scarlet while she's trying to eat. I am setting the stage for what you would think is. Is a premier eating. And I can't get her to take a bite.

[A]

Dude, is. Does it end up in you just feeding her?

[B]

Yeah. But even then she's like, kind of like. And I'm like, well, did that microwave it too long? Does it need to cool down? And I'm putting it on the little thing and I'm mixing it around and you know, kind of finger testing it, putting my finger on it to be like, is it too hot? Like, what's going on? Jill's like, just room temperature. It doesn't need to be hot. I'M like, I know that. I don't want to burn her mouth.

[A]

She ain't messing with that.

[B]

She is not messing with that.

[A]

Maybe she's not hungry at that time.

[B]

I don't know, Dude. If you saw the way that she was going at it.

[A]

I know. I'm picturing routine. I'm picturing all the things that I think the. If Scarlet's not eating, usually gets to, like, say, you don't want to take all the patients in the world to having them figure out eating. And then you just start feeding them. Yeah. This is what I would get into.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then they just want you to feed them.

[B]

Yeah. And she wasn't even doing that. It was just getting all over her mouth. She's not opening her mouth at all. But I'll tell you what, she loves the water bottle. Yeah.

[A]

It's always fun. Experience the water bottle for the first time. Scotty. Scotty will grab that thing and just.

[B]

Be like, she's a fiend for the water.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

To the point where she fills her stomach up with so much water that she's starting to spit it out. She's, like, drinking it and then just. Just instantly spit it out. But then we'll look at you and start going, ah. For it again. You're like, you're not gonna drink.

[A]

Yeah. You ain't even drinking, bro. You're spitting it out. Scotty do the same. She put it in her mouth and just sit there and look at you, and it would just run out the side of the. Her mouth, like, into her. Into the little bib thing or whatever.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

And then she. And then she wants nae na, which is llama. Wants the llama to sit there and watch her eat. Good. I say, here's llama. You can't touch llama. Your hands are dirty. I just always know when Scotty's done eating, because she'll just start throwing the food off of the. She'll start throwing the food off the plate.

[B]

Yeah, that's. Scarlet's on the same. And that's where she started when I was feeding her.

[A]

Did you get her. Did you get her fed? Did you get her fed?

[B]

Yeah, with Baba gave. Baba took some milk. Yeah, some milk. Took down 7 ounces. She was hungry, obviously.

[A]

It was just right before bedtime.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Get her put to bed. No.

[B]

Yeah, bed. Everything went great.

[A]

You come downstairs, you clean the steamer, you clean the dishes, you set everything up for success for when mom comes home to a clean house.

[B]

I forgot that I texted him that. Clean counters I forgot that I texted.

[A]

You that the wifey coming home. Sweetheart. You killed it, Willie.

[B]

One shelf. I have to. I have to admit to something. To PT Sickos and to the boys here on the set. I didn't clean the dishes or the steamer. You know, I brought home lunch. I bought dinner for the famous put. Put baby Scarlet to bed fetter.

[A]

This is this night that we're talking about.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

You know, so brought dinner home. You got dinner home for the fans. So when Jill. And lunch.

[B]

And lunch.

[A]

So when Jill comes home, she has a hot meal.

[B]

Oh, hell yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Nice little hot meal.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What did I get for it? It was something good.

[A]

But again, we're talking Papa Team 6 standard right here.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

And bring in a late lunch. Got the dinner. Got the baby fed well.

[B]

And Will, I checked out on the couch too. I checked out on the couch.

[A]

When did you check out on the couch?

[B]

That was right when I got home when I brought lunch home. Ate a nice little lunch. I checked out on the couch.

[A]

You had the audacity to walk home. To walk inside?

[B]

Yes, sir.

[A]

After work.

[B]

After work.

[A]

What day was this? Friday.

[B]

Friday.

[A]

On a Friday? Yeah. And when mom's home taking care of kiddo.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You walk in. Hey. Brought in some lunch. Yeah. And then walk to the couch and sit down.

[B]

Yeah, sure did. In that morning. Woke up at 5am to go dove hunting. Guess how many dove I saw. Zero. Guess how many times I almost my pants. I had to in the woods and wipe with the Clorox wipes. That was. That was one time. Did that one time on that hunt. Great day. Friday was a great day. It's a good day.

[A]

Why'd you sit on them? Why'd you check out and sit on the couch when you get home? So learn learning lessons for the men out there.

[B]

Hey. Learning. Okay.

[A]

Wifey nudging hubby right now saying, you do the same shit.

[B]

I'll get. I'll get into it. I'll get into it because I think this is a good learning lesson. I was so happy that I got up and dove hunted that morning. I truly was.

[A]

Filled your own soul. Yes.

[B]

And loved that Jill. Loved that I got up and went dove hunting. She was like, I don't. Do not worry about waking up and getting scarlet. I got it. I want you to go do something that fill Sherm's cup up. I want you to go have a morning, blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, after a successful day of dove hunting and of work, I just. I came home and Instead of going, I'm exhausted and I really want to check out. I didn't have that conversation with myself going into the house which that often honestly kind of helps me when I am like extra exhausted. I will take that moment. We had a great write in from a guy that said in his truck. He just likes to like take a little moment. Did not do that. Certainly did not. I 100 checked out. Screen time's a big thing for. And I'm not even making it a New Year's resolution. Like I. That's like a, a goal. Like that's like just a relationship goal with me and Jill is screen time have to eliminate.

[A]

So you checked out on the couch and got on your phone.

[B]

Oh, big time, big time. And then. Yeah, I mean it was a good day. It was a great day. But then with dinner, I told her I'd do the dishes. I did not do those dishes for everybody listening.

[A]

He came home, he checked out.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Mom's got the kid. He came home and he checked out because he was exhausted. Yeah, got on his phone. But hey, all good. You brought in, you brought in lunch.

[B]

Brian, Lunch and dinner.

[A]

You get dinner taken care of, sweetheart. Go, go work. Go do your thing.

[B]

Yeah, do your thing.

[A]

You come home, you're gonna have dinner of the house taken care of. So already a slip up with the chicken out. Like hey, what are we doing? Why are you on the island? I'd love to check out too. What do you want me to do while you're on the couch? Rub your feet?

[B]

Yeah. Which great. Replied to my text. Will had a great reply. I said yeah, she was a little upset. Checked out on the couch today. Said damn crazy. She didn't start rubbing your feet? Didn't get the hint. Hey. Hey. Papa Sherm's a little tight. He looks sleepy. Boy, you mind while you're cradling Scarlet, playing with her. You mind rubbing, rubbing my feet?

[A]

Yeah, you mind doing the little piggies with me? Tickle my feet a little bit. Let me be comfortable while you, while you take care of everything else while.

[B]

You'Re making warm milk for the six month old, you might make it me a glass. That actually sounds kind of nice. I might want one of those.

[A]

You know what? I'm just gonna punt on dinner tonight. When you get home, you mind, you mind throwing in a frozen pizza for me? So she comes home.

[B]

We still got those duplets, babe.

[A]

Yeah. Jilly Bean comes home, she got dinner.

[B]

Yeah, I got dinner.

[A]

But this is. Yeah, she's got. She got her dinner from Papa.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

But kitchen's a mess.

[B]

Kitchen's a mess. Didn't clean the steamer. I'm laying in bed, feet kicked up.

[A]

Oh, so she comes home, you're laying in bed, feet kick up.

[B]

Well, no, it's more so, like, she was home this entire time. She had Friday off stuff. So, like, she's been home the whole day.

[A]

Okay. I. I imagine she was at work. He was doing your thing.

[B]

No, no, she. She's been home all day. I checked out, you know, dinner, bath time, all that stuff. Hey, honey, I'll. After we fed Scarlett, I'll do everything. Like, bath time, tuck in Scarlet. As long as you get the dishes and, like, Scarlett's high chair super cleaned up, which that's a. That's a actual task because we put some olive oil, like, in the baby food. So we're not just talking about baby food everywhere. We're talking about greasy olive oil, baby food everywhere. Like, you gotta get the. What's that scrub I gave you? Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy. You gotta get the. Some kind of sponge or Scrub Daddy on it. I truly. I could not tell you what made me not do the dishes. I'm being so serious. Like, it was not a definitive choice of not doing the dishes, but I did maybe 25% of my tasks that needed to be done. Fed the dogs, walked them, and kind of just went like, I killed it. Killed it. Get in bed. And I'm sitting there in bed. I'm watching the remake of Naked Gun, laughing my ass off last night. I'm loving it really good. Sitting there.

[A]

I'm like, yeah, picture Jill coming up the stair. Or are you downstairs or upstairs?

[B]

Downstairs.

[A]

Jill just walking in the room and hearing Sherman's. You know, is his laugh that he has, his giggle.

[B]

Liam Neeson's just splitting me. I'm dying. And Jill goes, oh, love. Hey, love that you're ready for bed. Love how comfy you look. Because, you know, now you know, I guess I'm your. I'm your personal maid now, which I'm fine with, because now I get to put our. Our daughter to bed, which you had no part in. And I get to clean all the dishes, too, which is what you specifically told me that you were gonna do. But no, hey, it's fine. You go ahead. You lay. You just lay down. You go night night. And I'd like, you know, swipe up on my. Because I'm watching on the phone. I swipe up on Peacock, I'm like, here we go. I sat there silent for probably 20 minutes as Jill wax poetically. We got it figured out. Got it figured out.

[C]

Out.

[B]

But will sex me. Hey, pubg, tonight or. No, it was the next day. It was the next day. Hey, you good?

[A]

It's like, because our chat to pubg is going off in Sherm. You don't hear anything out of Sherm.

[B]

Well, and when I get a text from Will, usually it's like, something to do with social media. So my initial was like, you good? I was like, what? What is he referring to? And checked my socials. I was like, I haven't posted anything today. And then.

[A]

Yeah, I said, you good? Then send him a screenshot.

[B]

You sent me the screenshot of our.

[A]

Group chat that plays video games at night. Because this was around. This was on, like, New Year's, right?

[B]

This is Friday. Yeah, yeah, whatever Friday was.

[A]

Yeah, whatever Friday it was. And I'm like, you good? He said, sir, yes, sir. And I just sent him a screenshot of us, like, getting a dinner or a chicken dinner or playing the game. And I was like, you died last night, and you were nowhere.

[B]

Men died last night, and you were.

[A]

Nowhere to be seen. You're nowhere to be found.

[B]

If I. My reply was, and we gotta get the screenshots, make this story so much better. But I sent something back like, oh, dude, it wasn't. Wasn't going down last night. Promise you that last thing Sherman Young is doing on that Friday night is getting on pubg.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That would have been a death sentence.

[A]

Yeah. The Friday was, like, my first day of normal. That felt like normal routine. Not freedom, but getting out of the trenches of what happened during the week of Christmas. Because we shot our episode, on which day was it Monday or Tuesday?

[B]

It was Tuesday.

[A]

Yeah, it was Tuesday. So December 23rd. Yeah. And on that episode, I was talking about how, you know, a couple of them are feeling better. We might be on the other side of it. Yeah, it continued. It actually ramped up again because Rue ended up catching an ear infection on Christmas Eve.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So on Christmas Eve, Charles was down and out, still in bed. She wasn't feeling good. She was running a temperature again. Or she was running a fever again. I think, like, 102.

[B]

Char was.

[A]

Charl was. Yeah.

[B]

Because she relapsed on the flu as well.

[A]

She didn't get it all. Yeah, she didn't, like, get it all the way down. Because she starts feeling better with whatever medicine we use. It's like the moment we kind of start feeling better, we kind of get off of whatever reason is. But Charl was still down and out in the morning on Christmas Eve. That morning, Scotty had a bad night, and she was still running a fever. And then Rouge fever ramped back up. Like, Ruse was down on Tuesday. And then it caught back up again on Wednesday morning. She wasn't feeling good, and she was running a 103. And we're kind of like, God, what is going on? Like, when are we going to get out of this? Because Ruse fever started on Saturday, and now it's Wednesday. It's ramped back up again. Scotty had it on Monday, was kind of getting. Still getting through the flu. She was very congested, having those fever. Was I talking about the fever jumps on last episode? No. Okay. So that night, Scotty's temperature was at 103, 104. And the poor girl, bro, that's pretty high. Yeah. Because when it's 105 plus for kids, that's when it's like urgent care, all of that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So we're. We hate it for. Because we're trying. We're giving her medicine. Like, Scotty was fortunately taking the syringe, taking the medicine. Rue, you had to negotiate every time you had to get orange juice involved, she would argue with you. I'm telling you, you don't want to get to the spot where I'm holding you down and we're forcing this medicine in your mouth because you're taking it. I'm like. And every time you take it, you feel better. And then we relapse. We don't take it because you tell us you're feeling better, and then you wake up the next morning, you got the fever again. Like, you've got to stay on the schedule of taking the. The kids ibuprofen and whatever else it is. I reached out to you one night. You and Jill, you guys were helpful.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Jill being a nurse. But Scotty, the poor girl, bro, she was running 103, 104. And she would have these fever jumps, which is essentially like, think of yourself in a nightmare, and you, like, you just. You just jump up in your body. Your body shakes, like, hard. She would get comfortable and fall asleep in my arms when I was putting her down for bedtime. On this was Tuesday night.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And she would, like, start to fall asleep. Like, just be on the surface level. Get in the. What is it? Not the rim, but get in her first, like, stage of sleeping.

[H]

Yeah.

[A]

She started to doze off, and she would jump and her eyes would pop open and she'd just start crying because it's like she's freaking herself out. Thought. But once she made eye contact with you and you let her know, or safe, hey, it's okay. But she was hitting these fever jumps, bro. That night on Tuesday, she probably woke up. She usually goes down for bedtime at 7. She probably woke up nine times before.

[B]

11Pm oh my God.

[A]

Before 11pm and she would just like jump. And you know it. Once it went for a while enough to where I could put her down in the crib. She'd be asleep in the crib. Yeah. I'll just hope for the best. And then probably five minutes later I'd be looking at her on monitor. She'd hit a jolt and like, you know, looking around, it's, she's, you know, she's, she's, she's freaking out. She's probably scared when that's happening.

[B]

Yes. And nine times before 11 o', clock, that means she's, she's waking up, she's not getting the sleep that she needs. Which then if you have a deliriously tired toddler, then it starts getting even.

[A]

Worse and then they get congested. So when they're crying hard, it's forcing out all the congestion through their nose. So I'm having to take the snot sucker. I'm going on solo missions with the snot sucker, like trying to hold her arms down and have the snot sucker go in each noster while she's thrashing her head around and just trying to suck snot out so at least she can feel clear there. So when she does fall asleep. But that night I end up taking Scotty down to, to bed with me and Charles. Charles already asleep. She, she went to bed at like 8 o' clock that night.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I get in bed and I just got Scotty and I'm just kind of sleeping with her for most of the night. Char helps out on the, the, the, the next half, like probably starting out, let's just say 3am Because Scotty every now and then would still jump. So we didn't get a whole lot of sleep that night. So Charles wakes up the next morning. It's Christmas Eve. Charles sets up a pediatrician appointment because they got back to us on an appointment if fever doesn't calm down. So I'm going into the pediatrician with.

[B]

Both kids on Christmas Eve.

[A]

On Christmas Eve morning.

[B]

Ideal. Good.

[A]

Yeah, good. Great. This is, this is, this is what we pray for.

[B]

Merry Christmas, doctor.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Merry Christmas Eve. Yes. The kids are sick. You're kind of getting all of Their vitals and everything checked. They're, you know, they're running fevers. Find out with Rue the reason her spikes back up. She catches an ear infection from the flu. So Rue now has an ear infection. Scotty's ears are fine. She just has the flu.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We go back home, we do our best to embrace Chris Christmas and Christmas Eve. Like that day, my family who was coming into town, they cancel planes. They don't come in.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And was it your brothers? Were they.

[A]

My brothers and my dad were coming in for, for Christmas. They were going to travel in I think on Christmas Day, but then they canceled plans because kids had flu. Hey, they're not gonna get better.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

And usually I want to say the, the like gentleman's rule or fact is like, hey, when it's like 24 hours are still contagious. 24 hours after having a fever, after the fever goes down, down.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So my dad didn't want to get sick and you know, nobody. They didn't travel in. But we did our best to embrace Christmas Eve and Christmas. We end up going to Target, getting some gingerbread houses again. It was a little chaotic, but trying to keep this little spirit alive. Yeah. This little Camp Snap eight. That white elephant gift I got for the office.

[B]

Yeah, that thing's sick.

[A]

But I got one for Charl. We're kind of doing like these home videos, this home video feel with this Camp Snap 8. It's this camera for about 170 bucks that you can get get online. No free shout outs to. To Camp Snap. Yeah, but, yeah, well, like, we still had a lot of fun, but dude, it was. We were in the trenches and it felt like the first normal day that we had when I'm reaching out to try to get the boys together for some gaming was that Friday was on Friday.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because Christmas was tough or Christmas Eve was tough. Christmas was a lot better. Charles parents came over. They were like, Scotty. Still, she wasn't feeling the best. Rue was feeling a little bit better. But you're just all these different routines because she's been out of school, she's been on Christmas break, she's been sick. But we still had a great Christmas. But it was a grind, bro. And I feel like the flu went around everywhere. I feel like any. Anybody that I've connected with that has kids, they have some story recently within whether it's the month of November or December where they're just getting out of the flu or they're just now in the flu.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it was it was ripping around, bro.

[B]

Flu season is a thing like. Just got off the phone with a friend in. In Texas. That. That as soon as he answered the phone. Buddy, were you sleeping? Are you all right? No, D. I got the flu. I got working. I'm like, oh, I feel you. House got hit with that, like, three weeks ago.

[A]

Yeah, I came out unscathed. Just. Again. Hey, I didn't dodge the flu. The. The. The flu dodged Willie C.

[B]

They say he has the immune system of a feral hog. He cannot get sick. Good luck.

[F]

It always works.

[B]

It always works.

[A]

I don't have time to get sick.

[F]

I don't have time to get sick.

[A]

Dads don't have time to get the ultimate immune system.

[B]

Yes, sir.

[F]

Nothing better.

[B]

I have a. A dad hack for you that I think I've brought up on the pod before. Do you. So you have the manual snot sucker?

[A]

I got the manual snot sucker. We first rocked with the bulb. So any parents out there that have the bulb and you might get frustrated with it. There's better options out there. There way better options out there.

[B]

There's way better options.

[A]

So we got the. We got the manual snox doctor where I'm like. And I'm just zapping it out of her.

[B]

To quote Will Compton. Buddy, do I have something for you. The auto snot sucker. You literally hit a power button, and then you get to control the sucking power of it. It's got, like, three different little pieces, like, ends to put into the nose. It's got, like, a real wide one to start. You spray saline up there, and you start with the wide one, and then you move down to, like, the tightened filters. It's the funnest thing in the entire world, buddy. It's the best thing in the entire world. I'll take a picture of it for you today when I get home, buddy.

[A]

I need that, buddy. You do.

[B]

I'm telling you. You will personally love it. It's fun to use.

[A]

I was using my nose.

[B]

You can. You literally can. And it will work. And Scarlett is a fan of it, too, because, like, the manual thing and the bulb, like, it's just so much like.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. They're in their mind like, I'm about to get tortured because I gotta get held down.

[B]

Scarlett would instantly start crying. Keep her.

[A]

Keep her face still. Keep her face still.

[B]

Radio.

[A]

But, dude, it's hard. I need the left nostril.

[B]

Just ripping.

[A]

Their head around and they're just screaming still afterwards because of the trauma event that just took place.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So you know, it's like they're just activating all of this, this congestion again.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

When I do the auto one with Scarlett, she knows and she's trying to like, she likes to like kind of try and grab it. She's still doing her baby thing, but she is so like, hey, this thing's great, Great. Totally fine with it. Go, you know, go to work. Dad, I love that.

[A]

I appreciate that.

[B]

I'll, I'll, I'll put you on game.

[A]

I appreciate that. Another thing that we are currently going through, we're in a phase of life of is Scotty is swinging on Rue.

[B]

Tell us about that. What's going on? Scottzilla?

[A]

It's funny. It's funny, dude. I, I like, I gotta hold back my laughter because when it happens like that's I guess Scotty trying to communicate and everything else. Like, Rue might have a toy she wants. Yeah. Ass. And Scotty like walk over there and she'll just, just whopper in the head or try and hit her in the face or the shoulder, whatever. She can get a hold of Rue and she just with her little body just kind of stands there, the little Scotzilla that be. And she stands there and looks at ruin. Rue knows she can't like hit her back. She knows. We're like, hey. We tell Scotty, hey, gentle. We don't hit.

[B]

We don't, we don't love our sister.

[A]

Yeah, you don't want to treat. That's not very kind. You don't want to hit big sissy. And then she'll try and go for a swing again. I'll like grab her. I'm like, easy, Scott, Dilla, easy. I'll pick her up and take her away way. But you get moments where it's happening. It's kind of away from us. Yeah. And R will be like, you'll hear her start whining or start crying. And I'm like, R. I'm like, you just gotta just walk away from her. Don't just keep standing in the same spot to let her tee off on you.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

She like walks away from her to go on the couch. And Scotty starts like mosing around and then starts heading towards the couch. Scotty, Scotty, no, no, we don't hit your sister. We don't hit your sister.

[B]

She's just the slowest heat seeking missile of all time.

[A]

Dude. It's so funny, man.

[B]

Favorite will is of right now is the long distance.

[A]

Hey, Scotty.

[B]

From like long distance of just you trying anything you can. Oh, My God, Dude, I put up. Do you know what an upright seat is? Some PT sickos at home probably know what it is. It's one of those, like, chairs that you sit that, like, is real hard on the back, so it teaches the baby to want to sit up and kind of work on balance. Fence has a little table in front of it. Have you ever seen one of these?

[A]

No, I don't think so.

[B]

Okay. We put, like, whenever we need our hands for you to, like, cook and stuff, we'll put Scarlet in the upright seat and then put the upright seat on top of our island because it is.

[A]

So we got it. We got a little seat that we set on the island, and we just kind of buckle her in. Is that an upright seat? Boom.

[B]

That's an upright seat. Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So.

[A]

Yes. Okay.

[B]

So have Scarlet sitting in one of those. And I'm doing solo dad Saturday, and I'm making up for Friday, so I'm cooking steaks. I'm cooking, like, I'm. I'm putting a time to knock her.

[A]

Socks off when she gets feast together.

[B]

And I'm so in it. I look up, dude, I put the upright seat next to the knife thing. I swear to God. The biggest butcher knife in the night. You know those wood blocks of knives. Yeah. Scarlett's got it halfway out. Will Compton.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I hit her with a Scarlet. Hi. Oh, my goodness. Let's put that back. And she's, like, giggling.

[A]

Thank you for getting that out and help me put that back in.

[B]

I was like, we're officially in that stage.

[A]

She.

[B]

She can move and groove now, bro.

[A]

They're all over. When they get to where they can walk and everything else there. Scottzilla is all over the place. She'll be, like, in the. In the cabinets where she, like, you know, they're down. You know, down on the bottom, the bottom half.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She'll open the cabinet by the TV and, like, climb in the cabinet. Trying to just basically, like. Like the babies, dude. They don't. They clearly don't have any sense of, like, putting things back. They don't understand that concept whatsoever. They just want to rip everything out of the cabinet.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

So it's like we have the. The cabinet with the. With toys or board games, whatever it is, she has to take out it. She's, like, taking out every board game, all the construction paper from doing arts and crafts. She takes it all out.

[B]

Perfect.

[A]

The glues, the paints. Good.

[B]

Perfect.

[A]

She takes it all out. I was. Scotty, we can't keep doing this. We got to put this up, I'll start putting back the construction paper. And she'll now lean down and grab the construction paper and hand it to me. Like, yes, this is what we do. We put it back. Really, we're done. But she has no concept. She likes to put stuff back, take it out again, put it back. She thinks she's, like, doing something. Yeah, yeah. She thinks she's value.

[B]

She's being a big girl.

[A]

Yeah, she's being a big girl.

[B]

This is what big girls do.

[A]

And by the way, she loves the water bowl.

[B]

Does she?

[A]

She likes the water bowl.

[B]

Did you really, like, fill it up and stuff?

[A]

No, no, I don't fill up the water bowl. I just give her a water bowl. I set it on the ground. Uncle Sherm gifted a water bowl for old Scottzilla.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Every now and then around the house, I'll just hear it drop because she's messing with it. She'll put stuff in the water bowl.

[B]

It's just obnoxiously big. Just a huge water bottle and got like the biggest water bowl that they sold. Oh, man, that makes me happy.

[A]

Yeah. But that's the kind of the stage we're in with Scottzilla. And poor Rouge, she's just got to take it. I'm like, Scotty, you just. She could work you over if she wanted to. Fortunately, we've taught her not to swing back at you.

[B]

Yeah. And a good. I mean, we could on ruse bobbing and weaving. That's like something we can lean into.

[A]

Yeah. Like, sweetheart, you gotta learn to kind of catch your arm. Hey, we don't hit. Yes, don't. She'll grab Rue's hair and pull it.

[B]

Oh, that's gotta.

[A]

Scotty. She's. She's about the smoke. She's about the action.

[B]

Yeah, I. I feel like Scarlett's close behind because it's. It's.

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[B]

Like, we can hold up the head really well, but every now and then we kind of lose it. And then foreheads hit me in the mouth.

[A]

I'm like, oh bro, that's. Yeah.

[B]

My God.

[A]

They swing their head and just pop you. You're like.

[B]

It's like a miniature bowling ball. Just like randomly will just go, yeah. On your face. You're like, ah, good lord. She's ripping my glasses off. She's just grabbing my glasses and I'm like, okay. Hey. Hey. Where are we doing? Ripping my chest hair out. That's a big one. Yeah, just started.

[A]

Yeah, she'll get a hold of my leg hair, my arm hair every now and then.

[B]

It's been terrible.

[A]

They're just learning.

[B]

They're just Learning.

[A]

Can we talk about the Facebook comment that Jill received?

[B]

I would love to.

[A]

Because you guys are getting a first babysitter.

[B]

We're getting a first babysitter.

[A]

Which. Big shout out to you guys.

[B]

Thank you. I want to shout out Jill. I want to shout out her co worker, Allison, and then I want to shout out Julia, our babysitter. I will not be dropping last names because no one. No one is stealing Julia from us. Julia is ours. I will be selfish.

[A]

Don't contact my wife.

[B]

Yeah. Hey, don't. Hey, come on, man. Don't be poaching. But, yeah. Julia worked in the NICU for a year. She worked or. Sorry. Worked in the NICU for three years, now works in labor and delivery. She's a nurse, so we're. She's seen all the. So we feel very comfortable. Those were kind of like just Mill's parameters. Like, I need her to have this kind of experience, and she just couldn't be more sweet.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

We. We met her at a coffee shop to, like, introduce Scarlett and Julia to each other. They hit it right off. Scarlett's just, like, in Julia's arm. Speaking of pulling hair, Julia's got some sick, like, super curly, thick hair, and Scarlett's obsessed with it, just going the entire time time. Like, don't scare off. Like, yeah, what are you doing?

[A]

You guys are looking for a babysitter because you're doing a date night.

[B]

We're doing a date night, and Jill gets on, and if I could get some help from Derek or Chef on just finding what county it is. It's a county near Nashville that starts with the M. And they have a Facebook group. Ari or Mario Marshall.

[E]

Ari County, Southwest County, County Columbia, and then primary.

[B]

I. I think. I think Mari does sound right. So there's, like, some Facebook group called, like, Mari County Moms or, you know, Mari County. And people at work were like, oh, Jill, just post in there that you're looking for a babysitter. Like, that's a great way to kind of, like, put the feels out. Jill puts his post out.

[A]

Go hit the communities out there.

[B]

Go hit the communities. I. Bro, I was so pissed that she deleted the posts because some psychopath jumps on her. And I'm talking the sweetest post of all time for my wife. My husband and I just moved to Tennessee, and we're loving it. We just had our little baby scar, you know, Scarlet girl, our firstborn. She's six months old, and we need a babysitter for date nights. You can DM me with more information. Blah. Blah blah. Some 60 year old dude, we'll call him Daryl Comments right underneath it and is like, like, wow, some piece of mom you are. Hey, how about instead of having the village raise your kid for you, you, you know, pull up and strap your boots and be a mom.

[A]

Dude, that is crazy.

[B]

It was crazy. And Jill deleted it. So I never saw the comment. This is like coming from her. I'm like, oh, my God. That would have been napalm on the podcast. Honey, if we had had screenshot, that.

[A]

Right there is prime walk material.

[G]

Real.

[B]

Oh, dude, Goomba rays would have ended this, man. He would have. He would not have a Facebook right now. It would have been completely. He would have been like, I'm off the Internet.

[A]

That right there is a cause. PT6 gets mobile for. Yeah, Milk Team 6 gets mobile for. Everybody gets mobile for. This is where you take the country to war.

[B]

Hey, how about instead of having the village raise your kid, you just be a mom? You piece of.

[E]

Why?

[F]

Why is there a 60 year old dude in the Mari county? Moms.

[A]

That.

[B]

That's what I'm saying.

[F]

Facebook group.

[A]

You know, he was older. Older.

[B]

She said that.

[A]

Okay?

[F]

She said kind of dude, what kind.

[A]

Of loser mentality do you have to have that? You see a sweet post again, it's. It's Facebook. It's a group. It's a community based thing. People are trying to.

[B]

This isn't X. This isn't tick tock. You know, where everybody's trying to get somebody in the comments.

[A]

I mean, your first time putting out a post because you've heard recommendations, like, hey, you know there's Facebook groups out there and you're thinking, oh, like would that be. Let's try it out. You're throwing different things at the wall. I know there's. There's sites you can go to, there's Facebook groups, there's social group. There's all these different things that you're just trying to figure out, hey, we know this. We've been raising little Scar Scar for six months, mom and dad. We know we need to fill our cup up at home with marriage.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, we need to figure out a date night. Like, we need to get in some mommy and daddy time. Yeah. So like, let me build up the courage to write this post, this intentional post, this sweet post post and put it out and see who in the. Who in the county or the community would have some recommendations.

[B]

Literally. And this guy just comes in, goes, hey, you piece of. What the.

[A]

What type of mentality is in this group or in this community on Facebook and is just waiting to see stuff like that. To think, hey, you are a piece of parent for even thinking about allowing anybody to look after your kid. Because you should be. Be locked in the house 247 doing absolutely everything with your kid. You're a piece of mom.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, that's. That's. That's crazy loser mentality.

[B]

Loser mentality. But it is borderline, like, psychopathy. Like, it is.

[A]

He sounds like a. I can only imagine what this guy, if he has a wife, what she has to go through.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[F]

Mary county is in the sticks. Like, you have Columbia and Spring Hill, but. But it's on the border of Spring Hill. But the rest of it is just country. That's it. I can see some.

[A]

And it pains me that Jill felt some type of reaction in her body when she saw this and kind of like had. Whether it's fear, whatever it is, like, oh, no.

[B]

Like, she was scared. She was scared. And so that's why she, like, what.

[A]

I do was wrong. You know what I mean? And somebody coming after like, hey, you're a parent. It's like, dude, you.

[B]

I literally said. I said, honey, if your husband is built for anything thing. If there's anything that I'm good at on planet Earth, it is going after guys like this on the Internet.

[A]

You're talking to CFB memes on sweetheart.

[B]

I would have had a field and talk about a guy with a lot of friends who could say the same. Will Compton, if you had gotten your hands on that guy's first and last.

[A]

Dude. I was wishing so bad that we still had the. That the post was up and we had the screen. We had whatever it was that would have been take Papa Team 6 to war.

[B]

That would have been our most viral clip of all time. We would have had eye black on. We would have had hats on like this. And we would have been talking direct to camera, direct to the enemy.

[A]

That's an example that brings the. The world together. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[B]

Hey. Hey. Daryl Cook in Spring Hills, Tennessee. We coming?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And Dion's coming too.

[A]

Yeah. We all like, even the. The like the female independent pause that might listen to that. We might assume what our show's about. Or here's the stories that we tell. Like all these guys, these dude, these dads, these blah, blah, blah. You know what I mean? Things of fight against or they kind of resent whatever it is. That example right there brings every group in parenthood together.

[B]

The meme of the blood in the. With their Two bandanas time. That's. That's what this situation would have been. Would have been, hey, that I'm sorry that I did a fake example. So apologies all the Daryl Cooks out there. That's not his name. I don't think it's Daryl Cook.

[A]

Don't let the boys work the Internet now.

[B]

Don't let us find We.

[D]

We.

[E]

I mean, we collectively, I'm sure, have ruined people for much, much less.

[B]

Much less.

[A]

We've killed for less.

[B]

We.

[E]

We. We're from a small town that my mom posts anything that she believes in. There's 46 dudes that did not graduate high school with her yelling at her. My brother and I, we do knuckle cracks and go in. We don't go to the hometown bars anymore, cuz we do knuckle cracks and do business.

[A]

People are worthless.

[E]

We can go after them, Sher.

[A]

You let us know.

[B]

Oh, my God. That's what I'm saying, dude.

[A]

People for much less, man.

[B]

Oh, man. I just. And I didn't. Because Jill really was frazzled by it and I didn't want to, like, make it a. A bigger deal because it. It's a funny story to tell now, but in the moment, I was like, oh, dang it. I wish you hadn't deleted that. I wish you had screenshotted that. We live and we learn.

[A]

Live another day.

[B]

And hey, thank God.

[A]

They will come.

[B]

Thank God we found Julia. Honestly, she seems like she's going to be incredible. And tonight's our. Our first night. She. We get to go watch Jared Beeman's special. So people that are watching on Wednesday. He performed live on Tuesday night at Zany's in Nashville. And Julia's gonna arrive at six tonight. We'll already have Scarlett bathed and in her jammies so she's nice and happy when she sees Julia. We've heard that a quick exit is key. Do you want to weigh in on that at all?

[A]

Will he trying to line up. If we can get some child care for the.

[B]

Oh, live child care lineup.

[A]

Let's go weigh in on which part.

[B]

And sorry, I did not know you're on the phone. That wasn't like, oh, you're good. Come back in here. But would. Would you want to weigh in on the A quick exit? That's what we've been told from babysitter Julia, that the faster we get out of there, the better for Scarlet.

[A]

The faster you get. What's better for Scarlet?

[B]

Scarlett, like, when Julia arrives.

[A]

Oh, we need to get an exit. Like leaving the comedy show I'm like, okay, well, she. If she's sleeping.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Hey, what you're thinking. You're thinking of leaving Scar. Scar when it all goes down? Yes.

[B]

Like when Julia arrives. It's a quick handoff is what we've been told helps.

[A]

It does.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

A quick handoff is. Is the goal.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

You're not gonna do just a quick handoff.

[B]

Oh, wait, there's.

[A]

You're gonna hand Scar. Scar off. You're gonna. You know, the. It's corralling the sadness that you feel. That, you know, Julie's. Or that, you know, Jill's gonna feel.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That, you know, Scarlet might creep up. The. The best thing that could happen is if she's just not aware she doesn't have that separation anxiety yet. I forget what month that starts coming along. You might be in the clear. Since she's only six months. Since she is only six months old. Yeah. So if that's the case, a quick exit will be. It'll be harder on you guys than it is Scarlett. It's when they start forming the separation anxiety and they realize you guys are leaving for dinner to where sadness really, like, it keeps holding. You're just like, hey, sweetheart, we have to get out of here.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then you're leaving the driveway and you're just both sad leaving for date night. You're like, should we cancel the date night? Because I feel like shit. Having to leave. Having to leave our little girl.

[B]

And we can't date. We can't cancel date night. This is. This.

[A]

Oh, no. Cannot cancel date night. This is big.

[B]

This is. This is a pivotal night, not only for date night, but this is a really big night. Just in busing in general. And for Jared, like, this isn't say, we have to go tonight. This is it. This is a have to.

[A]

And it's a tone setter for you guys. 20. 26 as far as incorporating. Yeah. And yeah. Tone setter in 26. Just incorporating. Getting. Getting a date night in your bag. Yeah. And realize, hey, this is good for us.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But six months old, quick exit. That is the right strategy. I. If I'm assuming correctly, I don't think she'll have a whole lot of separation anxiety.

[B]

I don't think so.

[A]

It's just you guys stepping out, and then it's your guys's sadness as you. You leave.

[B]

This is how I picture it. Baby Bour is facing television. Mickey Mouse clubhouse is rocking the Mickey Mouse clubhouse. She's got the O Ball. That's her favorite toy. Dude, Shout out the O Ball.

[A]

Another. Another. Another. Must is. What's her name? Julie.

[B]

Julia.

[A]

Julia.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, Julia. Sending a pic within 10 minutes. Oh, so when you leave and she. She's playing with Scarlet. Yeah. Gets a smile or cracks a smile. You crack that photo. No, she's. You send it to mom and dad. Mom and dad. Now know she's in good hands. She's having fun. She's not. The sadness that you might assume she's feeling since you left the house isn't really. It's just your own assumption. It's your own fear.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But you get a photo within 10 minutes of her having fun or doing something, you're all set.

[B]

Game over.

[A]

Game over. And then mom will probably want, like, a photo check in, you know, every hour or so.

[B]

And I think mom is looking forward to. Jill's looking forward to tonight more than I ever could, to be completely honest.

[A]

That's good.

[B]

Because if you chalk it up, we have had two proper date nights in the last six months. I mean, my girl is looking to get out of the house, as am I. Yeah.

[A]

So maybe eat the old shockwave tonight. Come on, that might be.

[B]

Two nights in a row.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I digress. I digress. Any. Any dad losses or anything for you, sir?

[A]

6:00Am this morning. Like.

[B]

Hey, come on, man. Look at us in 26.

[A]

The tone in 26.

[B]

Damn, man. Congratulations. Thank you. The trenches. Do you have anything for the trenches? You have a crack. A cold one.

[A]

Oh, like my trenches was what I was talking about earlier with the flu, the chaos, everything else, Godzilla hitting, Scottilla hit. I mean, that's just you. These are the stuff that's popping up in parenthood for us right now. I. I know. Like when Charl and I, we sit and reflect on 20, 25 and we look at 26.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

A lot of it for us is just. We just feel like. Which I've explained on the pod before, we feel like we just work in parent the whole time. Like finding, you know, social life in 26 and more.

[B]

So.

[A]

Not because we do a lot of. We do a lot of social stuff, like with the kids. Like, we get out of the house a lot. We. We be on trips. We do the different things. We. But just, you know, friends. Like, just getting out, having more time for ourselves.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Figuring out how just we. We maneuver that and kind of fit that in because again, we just. We stay busy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Charles. Just dabbling in her mind. I know she stresses about, should I work less? Like, she's very ambitious. She's like, minded. She's kind of like minded with myself in that regard because I just think, man, I. There's always gonna. Everything will be seasonal. There'll be pockets for enjoying, you know, more freedom for ourselves. It's just never been during football season. It feels like it ramps up even more every year when it comes to football season, which has, which makes us more intentional about whether we're doing date night or staycation or stuff with the kids, whatever that, whatever that may be. But I know those are like conversations we have to kind of keep us going. One thing that fired me up is the other night. Night. Everybody's got their 26 New Year's resolutions as far as routine and structure and you know, whether it's. You want to win the morning, you want to wake up earlier, you want to get your U time in before the kids get up. We want to get to bed earlier, want to read more, want to be healthier, all of those things. But the other night, what got me juiced up is when I was studying for busing the next day I was standing up. I was up watching the Steelers Ravens game. Game. Also. Also a little bit of Landman. Absolute snooze fest right now. Landman is the TV series.

[B]

One more episode.

[A]

It sucks right now.

[B]

One more episode like that. Sheridan and Willie sees.

[A]

I, I, I could be jumping chip. I could be jumping chip.

[F]

I, I just have to say this. I One word. I had a buddy who came to me and told me that Landman is basically just a big old soap opera and it's ruined the show for me. I can't watch it.

[A]

It has become that nobody gives. If Taylor Sheridan, I'm sure he tunes in cuz we're Fort Worth. Yeah. Like nobody gives a about the old people's home. They don't. No one, no one cares about the side stories going on with the daughter and the wife.

[F]

I'm. I'm not into Cooper's thing with, you know, the, the girl either. Tommy's son.

[B]

Yeah. Neither am I. Yeah, I don't give a about that.

[A]

Yeah, like I care a little bit about. I'm more interested in. In his journey with starting his business. The cartel, the oil, the stuff where he's hit. He's six for six. All those things. I want oil and war and negotiation and cartel.

[F]

No one's even died in this season.

[A]

No.

[B]

Is anybody, anybody riding the shock wave in this season? Has there been any shock wave?

[A]

There's been some shockwave moments in the season. There's been some shockwaves.

[B]

The soap operas have shockwave.

[A]

But the stuff you care about in land, man, it's just. It only happens to like five minutes an episode. The rest is filler, you know, awesome soundtracks that just showing what goes on in the oil fields and everything else. Dude, I'm telling you, it's a snooze. And I'm somebody. I love this. I. I love this. I like. I want to love the show. I love Yellowstone until it got so popular.

[B]

You love Tulsa Kings.

[A]

Love Tulsa King. I love Paramount. Plus TV series, especially from Taylor Sh. But I'm just letting him know. Know you're losing everybody.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

But you don't want to lose me. Can I.

[B]

Can I tell you a little. A little something. Something that may be the issue. Taylor often Sheridan. Taylor Sheridan often writes those scripts. Like the first season will be primarily h. Will be primarily him. And then it gets handed, you know, once it successfully launches, that's then handed to a writer. So room. So it's. It's executive produced by Taylor Sheridan. But like once it's proven its success, it's handed off.

[A]

He's.

[B]

He's off to the next project.

[A]

Oh, that's a bummer to hear. I didn't know that.

[B]

I didn't know that.

[A]

The business, one of the best of.

[F]

Television all of 2024, man.

[A]

It was good.

[F]

I'm on the fallout.

[A]

I'm in Fallout 2. I like Fallout. So good.

[B]

Now Fallout show to talk about a.

[F]

Show that's delivering off a great season one.

[B]

Season two has been good.

[F]

I dera. Derailed your story. Will go.

[B]

No.

[A]

What was my story? Because it got derailed, but I don't remember what it was. I don't mind that. I forgot because I had to get.

[F]

You watching the ravens.

[A]

Oh, juice me up. There we go. Thank you, chef.

[B]

Thank you, chef.

[A]

Charl comes up and she's like, like, what are you up to? She rarely like comes up and comes in the bonus room and everything else, like late at night to say goodnight or go to bed. She'll usually shoot me a message or she'll should still be up when I'm done doing whatever I'm doing.

[B]

That's your domain.

[A]

Yeah, it's usually. That's. That's Willie C's domain. Hey, sweetheart. Knock next time you're gonna come.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

She comes over, gives me a kiss. I'm like, what do you. What are you up to? She's like, I'm going to bed. And I look at my. I look at my watch. Check out the new garment that my wife Got me for Christmas. Shout out. This Christmas gift. I love it.

[B]

Hey, shout out.

[A]

And it was 904 and I'm like, you're going to bed. And she's like, I'm doing it. I'm going to bed early. I'm getting up, I'm getting up in the morning and I'm like, what are you going to do in the morning? She's like, I'm just going to do something for myself. And when she left, I gave her a kiss. She goes downstairs and as I'm sitting there for probably the the next hour, just every few minutes, it just comes back on my mind like this is it. This is where I need to just buy in. I'll do something. My wife and I will get to be like accountability buddies together because I kind of need like it always feels like it's a one man mission that I always fail because I'll stay up, I'll play video games, whatever it is. To where I justify running a business.

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[A]

I something in my head to where I'm like, okay, I got to sleep in until the kids get up, which is 7 o'. Clock. Or I'll set the alarm for 6:45 once the kids will be up. Usually you hear something on the monitor and you kind of get going, going. But I'm like, dude, whenever I get done doing whatever I'm doing, I need to go downstairs and go to bed. And I'm going to join her in getting up early in the morning because she wants to wake up at six, knock out whatever it is before the kids get up.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I'm just juiced up. Like I'm like proud of her and also fired up because I'm like, this is, this is, this is what I feel like is like a. A missing piece that'll. Because I can't let her out. Work me.

[B]

No, definitely not.

[A]

Do me.

[B]

Definitely not.

[A]

I can't be the one staying up late sleeping when she, she's grinding. Whatever it is, can't put her outdo me. The.

[B]

The one thing that I will say about this industry that we work in is the busy season is extremely busy for you in particular as well. So I'm kind of speaking for myself, but I'm sure I'm speaking for you too. But that, that me time, whatever that thing that you're going to challenge yourself with or hanging out. I'm looking to do the same thing this year too because I desperately need it.

[A]

Desperate, bro.

[B]

Desperately.

[A]

And knowing my wife's going to be going to bed earlier, just. It just, I don't know, it's something in the back of my head like I need to get Ready and get in bed. Get. Get the amount of sleep she's going to be getting. Wake up early in the morning, like, hey. Just telling each other, like, hey, if I'm still sleeping or if I snooze and you see me still kind of knocked out, like, nudge me and. And tell me, like, hey, we're. We're getting up.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because we'll be doing our own thing. But it's just, like, the thought of getting good, restful sleep, thought of getting up early and doing our thing, kind of winning our morning before we pour into getting the kiddos up.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because I can make. You know, sometimes when I'm up early, I'm able to, like, make the lunch before and so I can go upstairs whenever Rue's getting out of bed versus waiting for him to come down and I'm in the kitchen doing breakfast and getting her and everything else. But that juiced me up so massive. Like, a massive win. I would say a crack. A cold one so that I'm cracking a cold one. Two for 26 for the year.

[B]

Speaking of, we got some big news with crack. A cold one for 26.

[A]

Yeah. And I might have alluded to it on the last episode. Episode, but Ollie Pop is partnering with for the dads in 26, and that is. That is a huge win. I'm telling you. I. I've. The excitement I got whenever our team told us that Olipop's coming in. They're coming in the busing universe. But a lot of the focus, like, a lot of the driving was like the. For the Dads podcast. The excitement that I felt, it reminded me of the excitement I felt when we landed. Like, our first big one for busting with them.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Oh, yeah, bro. Because this is one. I enjoy the product. The very first time I put it out in the universe was when I did one of my gas station runs after bedtime, and I was kind of ranking a few drinks. Classic grape. I put my. I put my mouth on, tasted it, and I'm like, the one that's climbing the ladder quickly is Classic Grape Ollipop. Like, I've had a couple of the soda varieties before, but this one with the flavor of grape was touching my tongue a little bit differently to where I had to tweet about it. And then from there, I want to say we might have talked about it on the show. We did something to where we were talking about Olipop.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then I taste the crisp apple. Now I've tasted the watermelon line. I've tasted a variety of Ollipop to where it's kind of been a. A language on our show with Papa Team 6. We got PT6ers out there that have posted about it, made videos about it, engaged with us, whether through comments or in voicemails about it to where it's become like a thing on our show. Show. And so the fact that something we've. I've personally enjoyed that we've grown to love.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And have incorporated in the show because when they came on board with us, the Olipop rep was somebody that was like a Nebraska fan.

[B]

He's a hustle.

[A]

So they come and did a. They did. So as you guys, to let you guys know how some of this stuff works.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The brand comes in to do ad reads, to kind of do something like, hey, let's do a two month deal. We'll do ad reads, we'll see how everything goes and then you'll kind of go from there.

[B]

A dip your toes. If you will dip your toes.

[A]

A trial run.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Let's see how this works. And to now they're coming in as a partner of of 26 with busting with the boys at large and a big focus being on for the dads. Juice me up.

[B]

That's a gainer off the high dive. You're not dipping your toes anymore because.

[A]

You always want to advertise for products and brands that you use and that you also enjoy and love.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so I am gassed. I'm gassed too about Olipop coming in for the dads. We got to get Olipop. What is it? Papa Drink six. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, Ollie.

[A]

Papa Drink Six. We got to get something made in the Olipop universe.

[B]

It has to happen because I posted.

[A]

My top three that's happening right now. Crisp apple watermelon line and classic Grape. People saying people in the comments. Classic grape has just done a nose dice. It hasn't. I love classic grape grape, but crisp apple and especially watermelon lime right now has been go to for your boys.

[B]

I have to do watermelon lime because that's actually one of our favorite summer treats that Jill and I do is we'll buy a whole watermelon and we'll buy a bunch of limes and we'll squeeze the lime juice on the water. That's one of my favorite flavors out in the wild. So the fact that Ollipop is cooking up something like that. Talk to me, baby.

[A]

And for Papa tea for everybody listening, listening. Papa Ollipop doesn't Even have a read on today's episode. They're just going to be joining us for all 26. They're going to be sponsoring the crack a cold one segment in the future. But yeah, we just love Ollie. We gotta talk about. Yeah, we gotta talk about. Hey, what's Ollie pop like, what's the. Because I see a lot of people. Hey, what is it called? Ridge rush.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

How is that not in the top three? I posted my top three Ridge. Right. There are a lot of ridge rush fans out there.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But for people that are unfamiliar with Olipop, it's just a great al. If you're a big soda drinker.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Two to five grams of sugar. Yep. Nine grams of prebiotic fiber. Good for your gut.

[B]

Great.

[A]

And if you're somebody that your wife's on you about drinking water. Dude, this and that. Like, I enjoy water, but I also like different tastes. Yeah. I like tasting something different. And lop has been one of those drinks my go tos when I want something different than water. Y so again, for people unfamiliar. That right there's off the top.

[B]

That's off the top. I had a cream sip soda the other night right before bed and I. I cannot obviously did it tastes great, Sherman. Yeah, it tasted like cream soda. It was a dream. But the part that separates ollipop is like having a soda before bed just makes me think, oh, dude, my guy, I'm gonna have bubble guts. What am I doing drinking a soda.

[A]

Before bed putting all this sugar in my.

[B]

Putting all this before bed, brother. It was like I had a nice clean, crisp glass of water right before I got. You know what I mean? Like yes feeling of it. But the taste of just the most buttery, sugary cream soda imaginable. I was like, dude, Ollip really does hit.

[A]

Got the flavor you're seeking. Got the carbonation. That's a switch up from the water. And then again when you're done, you just don't feel lethargic.

[B]

Yes, they we. By the way, we just made zero sense in the last and I'm talking cents dollars in the last however many minutes we've been talking about all pop. We're just sickos about it.

[A]

We're showing our cars to Holly. Pop, we love you. We're so happy.

[B]

Yeah. Ollie Papa Team 6. I have a survival kit. Just really quick before we get into emails and calls, I got a couple dead hacks too.

[A]

Not that they come from us, but I have one here from Todd Giles that I'm gonna share. Good.

[B]

I my survival kit is just the Alexa dot. And I know that Amazon doesn't need my help. All right, I get it. But I am telling you, dude, when I was making that dinner Saturday and I got Scarlet in my hands, I need the steaks got to come off in, you know, 45 minutes. Alexa set timer for 45 minutes. 45 minute timer set. Veggies are coming out of the oven in 20 minutes. Alexa set timer for 20 minutes. I make Scarlet's bottle. She uses the one that's made with rice. The. What is it called? Formula that's made with rice.

[A]

I Rice formula.

[B]

Rice formula. It's gotta sit for five minutes after you. You make it. Alexa set timer for five minutes. And I know that all those timers are for the different things, man. I'm just like, even my dad mentioned it. He came in town for Christmas, he was like, I. I gotta start using my Alexa dot for the timer. That's a great feature.

[A]

That's amazing.

[B]

I gotta start using it for that. I was like, dad, it is such a really.

[A]

The only feature I use it for is that timer.

[B]

Oh, dude. And it's just like it's probably so slept on because a million and a half people already do that. But if you are a PT sicko that already has an Alexa dot or a Google whatever, you know, whatever you got, start using that timer feature. Dude. It's just like it is a. A game changer but it is a day saver. Like it will save the day for you.

[A]

Well said.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Here's a dad hack from. From Todd Giles on Spotify. Boys, I got a dad hack for all the soon to be dads. So soon to be dads. Listen up during pregnancy. Pregnancy. Choose a calm music album that you don't care listening to a million times. And lay the phone on mom's stomach often through pregnancy. Ours was Evermore by Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift. Great music. No matter what mood my 6 month old is in. The second I play Willow by Taylor Swift, she immediately calms. Taylor Swift got us through the holiday travel and sure beats baby shark. Love what you all do. PTC6 great, great dad, great dad hack.

[B]

What was his name?

[A]

Todd. Todd Giles.

[B]

Yeah, Todd, great dad hack. Dude, get the kid.

[A]

Why?

[B]

Why are we doing the baby shark? Why are we doing all this stuff if we can get them on the adult music as fast as possible?

[A]

Especially T. Swift.

[B]

Especially T. Swift.

[A]

Charl over the break was diving into that documentary of Tay. By the way, great do little docu series. I watched some of it.

[B]

What was that? What is that on?

[A]

Is it, Is it prime Disney?

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

It's good, bro.

[B]

It's new. It just came out.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. I'll watch that with Jill. She's not a good swifty, but she's a fan. Obviously.

[A]

Same with Charles. She's not a swifty, but she's like a fan of Taylor Swift.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And just everything that goes into the New Eras tour, it's. It's a lot of behind the scenes stuff with that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Shows happening, shows getting canceled because of like terrorist type attacks. It's a, it's like a, you know, if you're a Taylor Swift fan, but you're not like a sweet. You're not like in all the, in all of the lore, everything that goes on with Taylor Swift, you just, you find a new respect for the artist.

[B]

I found a new respect. This is like, I'm not trying to give some wishy washy compliment to my boss. Like, I found a new respect for people like Taylor Swift after seeing yours and Taylor's sketch schedule during football season of like, if this is what Will and Taylor's schedule looks like, what does Tom Cruise's schedule look like? What does Taylor Swift's schedule look like? Like, dear Lord. That's got to be crazy. Stop it. Nobody. But I do mean that.

[A]

I do mean appreciate it.

[B]

It's crazy. Empson78 on Instagram said. What up guys? Proud Papa 6. Proud Papa 6 member of two years. This week we have tried to move from her drink bottle from the nipple to a big girl cup. It's been a struggle trying to get her to drink her bottle and anything else. Any tips? Now we also have a crack of cold one slash dad loss here. Specifically Tuesday night my wife and I tried to give Oakley a sippy cup and she had a meltdown. While we ended up giving in, she sat down with me on the couch to calm down and finish her bottle. I was watching the Tennessee vs Illinois bowl games game and Oakley started watching. When my wife told my daughter, it's time for bed, she said, no football and pointed to the tv Proud dad moment. Luckily for me, it was less than a minute to go in the game and I was able to quickly put her down for bed. I appreciate you guys for everything you do. Ampson78 Instagram.

[A]

Let's go. Thank you for writing in. Thank you for writing. What was the, what were the, what was the thing they wanted?

[B]

Any tips over switching from nipple bottle to sipping sippy cup? Making that transition?

[A]

Yeah, I want to say our cups like we have like Scotty's one. She has the little two handed. It's got the little handles on the sides. Grab it. It's not like the nipple. It's like the flat nipple. Yeah, she's on that. But when we transition to. We've tried a couple times. She's not there yet. But when we, when we transition to trying to like hold a cup and drink, we got the ones where the rim is like, it's all closed on top and they have to be. Be able to suck around the rim. And if they suck on the rim, like water will come out. Yeah, she's not developed to where she's getting the water out yet. Because it's a little harder.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because everything's kind of like enclosed. But that was, that was, that's how we started doing the transition from going nipple to, you know, a different alternative.

[B]

And that's funny, dude, because Jill's already doing that unbeknownst to me, because I noticed that she got this like rubber fitting that goes on the Dr. Brown bottles that we.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. To where it has handles.

[B]

The two handles.

[A]

Handles. Yeah, the two handles. So they can like learn to grab or just do other things and just like holding the bottle.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And now we're experimenting with that. With that cup again. It's like a cup. It's like a, it's like a flat top.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's got the airways in it.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But you have to tip the cup and you have to suck from the rim.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

To kind of get out, get out the fluid.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But Scotty's not, she's not fully there yet.

[B]

Okay, cool. And yeah, Scotty's only what, one and two months, right? Yes, 14 months.

[A]

Yeah, she's about to be one. Yeah, she's about to Be 14 months.

[B]

Okay, cool. Yeah. And he's on the 12th is two Oakley's two years old. So like. Yeah, you're getting there.

[A]

Yeah. I'm just thinking what put their favorite drink in whatever you're trying to get them to enjoy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it could just be attached. Sometimes the kiddos, they have, they have their, their routine, their things that they love.

[B]

Oh, I'm sure, dude.

[A]

Like, I don't feel like Scarlet's gonna be near as hard to get the Passy from from as Rue was. Rue was harder. Rue kind of went into 2 years old with the Pacifier with Tyggi.

[B]

Scarlet also. Huge dad loss. We have. We've come to where the magic Merlin. There's no more sizes. She's outgrown that Magic Merlin. Yeah. Oh, brother. That thing's been such a godsend.

[A]

And now you're back in the. You're back in the trenches.

[B]

We're back in the trenches.

[A]

Something new. Yeah.

[B]

She's in the sleep sack, and she's like, dude, doing sir du Soleil, like, in the crib. It's crazy. She's doing flips, she's doing twists.

[A]

When you get an exciting moment where you kind of go back and forth with whatever the. The drink is, like, with whatever the bottle style or the cup style is. If you catch them in a good mood and you pretend to drink and you're like, you go and see if they kind of follow up. That could be helpful.

[B]

Yeah, the show, you know, monkey see, monkey do type thing. I was asking Jill about that with solids, and she was like, no, that's exactly what you don't do. I was like, oh, okay. Well, then me. That's perfect. I, I terrible idea. Voicemail.

[A]

Let's get into voicemail. What run time we at right now, chef? 1:30 hour. 30.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Let's get going.

[B]

Let's get going, man.

[A]

Already broke our first rule.

[B]

Already broke our first rule. We have Jeremy Clump, director of digital, here at. At busing with the boys. He was going to the zoo over the Christmas break. Unbeknownst to them, it was the crazy zoo Christmas light night, which tease and.

[A]

Peace for whatever we're about to hear. He kind of told me about it. I'm like, bro, that seems like a show took like two hours to get, what, a couple miles? Yeah. And then when he got there, realized, oh, it's all for the zoo. And you're walking in and everybody shoulder.

[B]

To off, like, oh, buddy, this is about to. What you got?

[A]

Abort mission.

[B]

So what I'm.

[A]

You got to pick a fight with the wife. You got to abort mission.

[B]

What I'm looking at here will not to scare you. I'm looking at time codes right now. I have. I have five different voicemails, and they're all ranging from about. Let's see a minute. So we got about five minutes worth of content here. So let's. Let's buckle in. Let's buckle in, let's get ready, and let's join Jeremy on this wild ride. Yeah. 30, 45 seconds.

[G]

Boys, boys, just giving you a call while we're currently in it. We are 0.8 miles away from the zoo. 0.8 miles away from the zoo. We have been stuck in traffic for one hour. 0.8 miles away from the the zoo.

[A]

Don't know why. But you know what?

[G]

We're in it. There's people quitting. There's dads turning their cars around. Not going to the zoo right now.

[A]

Not us.

[G]

Right, kids? Right? Yeah, we're having fun. We're just sitting here, sitting in traffic. We're embracing the suck right now. It's been fun. And we're just trying to teach these kids life lessons that sometimes you'll be 0.8 miles away from the zoo to go look at Christmas lights the week after Christmas. But, hey, that's life. That is life. Love you, boys.

[E]

What is the. So the time stamps on there.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Are the time he called us.

[B]

So if you can read out those.

[E]

Timestamps from the time that he called us, because it's a journey.

[B]

Okay, that. That just hit me. And that makes this even funnier. The first voicemail was at 6:20. Let's check back in 37 minutes later with Jared, me club.

[G]

Boys, boys. You're probably wondering, didn't you just call like 37 minutes ago? You're still not at the zoo. No, we are not at the zoo, boys. We are in it. We currently stopped at a gas station because the kids had to pee. We still got about 10 minutes to the zoo. We've been in the car for two hours. Two hours, boys. And hey, that's what it's all about, right? Having fun. Going to see some Christmas lights, man. We're in it right now.

[A]

And you know what?

[G]

These are the best of the worst times. The worst of the best times. Love you, boys. Have fun.

[A]

Good, good.

[B]

This, this is two minutes later.

[C]

Boys.

[G]

I thought I'd give one more call because we got a special guest here. Jj. Say what's up?

[B]

We have been like, stuck in for traffic for like, forever when this is like, so far. When there's like, people like, taking forever, taken forever.

[G]

Hey, but we're having fun, right?

[B]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[G]

So much traffic. But hey, this is great, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[G]

Hey, love you boys. We're having fun.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. Four minutes later.

[G]

All right, boys, we're calling back one more time. We are 0.5 miles away from the zoo. Back in the car, on the the road, everyone went to the bathroom. We are. It says 10 minutes. We are 10 minutes away from a two hour trip to the zoo.

[A]

Still, that is real authentic reactions.

[G]

Yeah, bro. Still. Yeah, Crazy. But we're all having fun, right, Right, kids?

[A]

Yeah, we're trying.

[G]

We're having so much fun.

[A]

Going, boys.

[G]

We are almost at the zoo. And hey, love you. Say Bye, guys. We'll call you in 30 minutes when we're still not there. See you, boys.

[B]

Final call. This is 14 minutes later.

[G]

All right, boys, listen. We got to the zoo entrance. We just found out that this traffic is actually for the zoo. We got people walking, walking into the zoo. A little fearful, there's no parking spots, but we're gonna make it work. We are currently in the entrance. Everyone having fun still?

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[G]

No, no, but we are. We are having the time of our lives, as Lindsay said. We're almost there. We're about to make a right into the entrance, but we are not in the parking lot yet. This is fun. 2 hours and 18 minutes. We're at right now on our drive to the zoo. We, we live less than 30 minutes.

[B]

Away from the zoo.

[G]

Let that be known. But we are. We are almost there. We got traffic both ways entering the zoo. This is fun. Have a good night. We'll let you know. Hopefully there's parking.

[B]

Oh, God, I bet parking was a.

[A]

Whole other beast nightmare. He said it was packed, bro. He said he's walking to do the lights. And it was like shoulder to shoulder, like you were inside of a. A club, like a late night club.

[B]

The, the best part that he told me was that the in laws, her parents, Lindsay's parents, left early enough to not hit the traffic. So they had to wait two hours for Jeremy and Lindsay and the kids to show up. And then the park was so crowded they couldn't even find them. Couldn't even find them. No cell receipt reception. Couldn't find the kiddos and they just called it quits and we're like, we're out of here.

[A]

Good.

[B]

This is crazy good.

[A]

Man, that sounds brutal.

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[B]

I'm sure there are so many, so many moms and dads having PTSD right now with just any type of of.

[E]

He texted us too and he's like, yeah, I don't know what this traffic's for. And I didn't have the heart to text back like, it's for the zoo.

[B]

For the zoo.

[E]

He thought there was like an accident or something. He's like, these guys are turning around. They don't get it. It was for the zoo.

[B]

I live off of Nolensville Pike. I'm like here in this area. So it is when summer hits and they start doing those summer kid day, whatever. Like the traffic's crazy even then. So I can only imagine he probably could have parked at my house, house, walked from my house to the zoo and he would have beat going and doing it in the car. Easy, easy.

[A]

Got to love Jeremy CL Congrats on baby number three coming Congrats on. Congrats on baby number three coming.

[B]

That's going to be so much fun. By the way, baby number three shouts.

[A]

To him though for keeping the kids spirits up. Yeah, sure. It's very hard. I'm sure there's moments we didn't hear about. Oh yeah, we didn't hear on the voicemail, but shouts to him for keeping the vibes up.

[B]

Shouts out or even using.

[A]

Using, weaponizing. Hey, we're going to call in before the dads. Yeah, we going to call again. You know what I mean? Let's get hype.

[B]

Oh yeah, also huge dad hack from the clumps. They have this wagon that they use for their youngest, Brady. Yeah, that thing. Dude, that thing looks awesome and the kids Love it. Yeah, JJ's kind of @ an age where like he's old enough to. Where he's like, hey, I don't really need the wagon. But he'll get tired and be like, hey, you know what, I might pop into the.

[A]

Wagon. Let me get into the wagon. Pull me.

[B]

Around. Yeah, yeah.

[F]

Yeah. This I just rereading this text chain between it's all the producing guys and Jeremy in there and it's rumors from the gas station crowd. The traffic is for the zoo. This could be devastating. Bellman, if true, this is like that was a I. The swipe over. That was a 708-7-7,11. Boys, is there something happening at the zoo? Six months later, traffic is to get to the zoo. Code red. Code red, boys. Code fucking red in all.

[B]

Caps. And then.

[D]

We'Re. We made.

[A]

It. Oh no. Turned a shitty situation into a fun.

[B]

One. He sure.

[A]

Did. That's one you just, you got to embrace, you got to accept if you're going to remain going to the.

[B]

Zoo. You just start laughing, you start laughing. It's part of the.

[A]

Journey. Yeah, well done, well done, well.

[B]

Done. I have emails. Do you have emails? I have, yeah, I, I can jump into my first one. This one is from Braden Moat. Braden writes.

[A]

In. Let's. Let's do one.

[B]

Each. Let's do one.

[A]

Each. Let's do one.

[B]

Each. This will be my.

[A]

Only. Keep it under an.

[B]

Hour. Gotta keep it under an hour. I'll speed read as well. Braden says, what up boys? It's Braden from California. Listener from day one of for the Dads and proud member of PT6 at 25 years old to our almost six month old, Scotty May. But boys, did I have a dad loss? It's first thing in the morning and baby's got a full.

[A]

Diaper.

[B]

Good. And guess who has to change it since mom's getting ready to leave the house. House for an.

[A]

Appointment.

[B]

Good. Doing my thing and getting the diaper off and I set the shit filled diaper somewhere I probably shouldn't have and as soon as I did, it rolled over and it hit the top of her head. Good God almighty. Get her wiped up and then run her over to the bath to clean her all up and wash her head three times. Boys, what a dad loss. Early day bath. Good. But enough about me. I wanted to give a birthday shout out to a milk team sixer, AKA my beautiful and wonderful fiance and the best mama to our baby girl. Happy birthday, sweetheart. You are the best mom and we are both so lucky to have you and make the house a home. You make every day special and full fun and memories and we can't wait to make more with you every day. I love you pretty lady and hope your day is magical as you Braden.

[A]

Moat. That's sweet.

[B]

Braden. Let's go.

[A]

Brad. Like that. Just people using the, using, using the show to get a message to their significant other. Yeah. To their partner in.

[B]

Crime. Yeah. Enjoy the shockwave.

[A]

Brad. Enjoy the shock wave.

[B]

Birthday. You earned.

[A]

It. You earned it, big dog. I got one here from Jason Quirk. Hey guys, new listener here. My wife is halfway through pregnancy with her first child, a baby boy. Congratulations to you both. And I just started listening to the dads a few weeks ago. It has quickly become my favorite podcast and I really appreciate what you're doing and the honesty you guys bring to conversations. I had a question that I think you'd have valuable insight on. I'm a retired professional boxer and boxing was a huge part of my Life for almost 20.

[D]

Years. Hey.

[A]

Yo. Like a lot of former athletes, I always envisioned myself teaching my son to box one day, hoping he might follow in my footsteps. Boxing taught me confidence, discipline, and how to enjoy the suck. It showed me that no matter what life throws at you, you can push through adversity and come out the other day side come out better on the other side. Now that I'm almost 37 and becoming a father, I find myself wrestling with something I never really questioned before. Whether the lessons and accomplishments I gained from boxing outweigh the long term risks, especially concussions. Will as a former professional athlete, ensure him as a new dad? How do you guys feel about your kids playing contact sports? How do I balance wanting my son to be tough, confident and resilient, able to handle adversity while also wanting to protect them and keep them Safe. I'd really, really appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thanks again for the show and everything you guys do. Jason, thank you for writing in, my friend. That's a great.

[B]

Question. Great question. One that I feel like you are more, like, tailored to answer. But.

[E]

I'll.

[B]

I'll. I'll chime.

[A]

In, man. Honestly, like, it. It hasn't since I have two daughters. It was a question, I guess I thought about maybe before father motherhood, if I were to have a son like Charl and I, we. We are. The conversations are, you know, about number three, you know, pouring in and trying to get a third. And again, I don't have a son, so it hasn't been something that I sit there and. And have wrestled with, the way it seems like Jason is doing. But it's a great question, you know, come playing a physical sport, the way football's kind of trended with concussions and, you know, when you should play tackle football and should you hold your son out until a certain.

[G]

Age?

[A]

Age, man, I think for me, all the stuff that he sits there and talks about where he says, confidence, discipline, how to enjoy the suck, there is no substitute for learning those lessons, in my opinion. Oh, my God. I thought somebody was ripping ass when that came. That was. I don't know if anybody heard that in the.

[B]

Background. That was a.

[A]

Lot. Just Muffler came by, and I thought Chef was back there ripping, ripping a fart. And the middle of this answer, I think for me, knowing what football gave to me and what football taught me, I would very much be aware and have, you know, empathy, I guess, on the physicality at a younger age. Like, if my kid wasn't tough, I just know certain things will come through, whether it's the right teachings, having the right conversations with him, seeing him grow, grow in the sport of football. But if this was a dude who watched football with me growing up and wanted to play football, I might be methodical about when he would start tackle.

[B]

Football.

[A]

Yeah. But if he wanted to play a sport that I loved and I know has given me so much throughout my life, and even in the back end, where I think about, you know, the brain damage, the stuff that is now coming out about brain damage and seeing guys age and seeing, you know, guys either spiral or go downhill, and those are things. Things that I worry about. But I also think to myself, like, I would not. If I could go back in time and do it over again, I would do absolutely nothing differently with the way my mom and dad kind of raised me, with the way I learned Learn the lessons through physical sports and through sports and football in particular, because it's such a team game. Like my brother Cody, he grew up, he was a massive wrestler. I grew up wrestling until, you know, I stopped wrestling like in high school. But there's just lessons that there is no substitute for that you get through sports, through competition, through. You're the man in the arena, whether you're on a team sport or an individual sport. Like you win and lose as a team and then if you're in an individual sport, it's all on.

[B]

You.

[A]

Yeah. So when you go out there, put the ankle bracelet on, whatever it is, the color, trunks, the gloves you got, the. The result will always be what you sit there and reflect on. And there's all. There's so many lessons that come in sport and in competition that I wouldn't shy away from my kids playing sports. Like if I had a boy, I wouldn't shy away from him playing football or tackle football. I might think about when he would start or how long he might play flag. But again, there, there is just absolutely no substitute for what you learn through sports. I think sports, and again, I'm biased, but I think sports is the best teacher for life because you're around so many different. You're around a melting pot of attitudes, of cultures, of just people that are different than you, people that have different skill sets, sizes, everything, speed. And you learn so many valuable lessons within the game. Yeah. So him wrestling with the idea of boxing. Boxing is a striking sport. There's, I feel like a lot more that you see the residual effects of something like boxing for sure to where you can still implement your kid in boxing. Yeah. But maybe there's a conversation where we'll work it to this point. Maybe when you become of age and you decide if this is the route you want to go on your own, you can do it on your own. You're not necessarily pushing that on.

[B]

Them.

[A]

Yeah. But as far as sparring, as far as training, as far as like, you know, getting into things with headgear and everything like that. I don't know enough about boxing.

[B]

And all amateur, to your exact point, all amateur boxing is going to have headgear and it's going to have very, very high ounce gloves. Like so the amateur stuff, I feel like there, there are a lot of safety precautions built.

[F]

In. I would ask, ask you, as someone who's played all levels of football, do you think that the risk to kids, and I know we're not talking to any scientists, but a lot of Kids won't make it past high school. That's just the nature of like the game. Do you think that there's any risk up until high school? Like, of course there's risk anytime you're playing a contact sport. But isn't that like the head injury stuff a lot more prevalent when you start making it to these really high levels of football where you're playing for a long, long period of time? Time. If there, if there's anything to that. Have you noticed, like, when you play, like going from high.

[A]

School? Oh, it's a way more violent game at each stage for sure. But there I want to say there's research that comes out about even high school football.

[F]

Players. That's. I was just more curious than trying.

[A]

To. Are you asking, are you asking.

[F]

The. From a risk standpoint, as someone who's played at every level, like, do you, would you worry about at all, like your kid playing up until, let's say they only played until high school? I'm sure if, if you had a son, he would be a beast of an athlete and make it to the highest level, just like his dad. But let's say if there's a world where he only plays the high school, would you be beyond the, like the worry of, oh, a freak accident or something, you know, that very small chance happens. Would you be really.

[A]

Concerned, Concerned with him playing if he only played high school.

[F]

Football? Let's just say he made it up to high school and didn't get any. Like, because every, just from what I've seen, I, I figure it's a lot more like the risk goes a lot higher when you start making college.

[A]

And then you're playing beyond high school. Yeah, for sure. Because it's, it gets a lot more, I mean, it's more, the more you get to the NFL, the more you're just having. You're closer to being a grown man and the speed and strength and size at each level obviously gets. Gets bigger. I think if I'm hearing your question, he's just making it like, am I. Is there a risk factor when he's playing high school football?

[F]

Yeah. Would you be concerned at all outside of the, the one off crazy incident like that we. You pray you never see in that sport, but like, just in general.

[A]

You know, freak accidents happen all the time. Yeah, I, I think no matter what, if you're playing a physical game, like football, like hockey, any, any physical sport, there's always freak accident situations like that happen. That's like thinking of that situation happening that wouldn't lead my decision making, especially if my son loved the sport or if, like, if he wanted to play, like, I, I wouldn't be the dad that's pushing football on him. I would hope to mold that he might enjoy football and see it kind of the way I do and the fun that it always brought me playing in Little League and everything else. But no, I would, it wouldn't, like, it wouldn't lead my decision just because again, I grew up in it. Like, it's, it's a sport that I like, love dearly and I think the world of, of.

[F]

Football. I asked that to ask, like, maybe if there's parents out there who are thinking about that or they never played or, you know, their kid wants to play and they're worried about serious head injury. As someone who's played the sport at all levels, like, that's something that maybe you could attest to where it's like, I wouldn't, you know, I would, you.

[A]

Know. Yeah, I, I don't think there's a wrong way to think about it. Like, if somebody out of the, the fear or the risk that comes with keep their kid out, I think there's no right way to go about it. I think that's their own prerogative and the own decisions that they make. I'm not saying they're wrong for thinking that way. Some take that small risk, chance and think of the worst case scenario and then they just think like, hey, it's not this. This wouldn't be worth it. I don't want this.

[B]

Happening.

[A]

Yeah. And again, it's just not. I just my, my world and my view of it is, is, is different. Which is, which is okay.

[B]

Well. And like the, I think the, the main takeaway that you said is the pros outweigh the cons and the lessons that they will learn from any team sport and freak act. If we're just talking freak accidents and injuries that happens in any sport. I had a kid.

[A]

Break. Like, you get a freak, A freak accident driving the.

[B]

Car. A car. Yes. I, There was a kid on our team that broke like 15 bones in his face in a soccer game and like crazy shit happened. All this stuff that you learn from playing team sports or from peewee level to middle school to whatever. I couldn't agree more. I, I, Some of my favorite memories and some of my best life lessons come from the sports that I grew up playing. So I, you look back and.

[A]

You'Re, you're, you're happy whenever, you know, when my parents made me wrestle my in high school, my junior year. Yes. And just again, some of the, the lessons, lessons that you learn in sports, like I wanted to be good at football. I wanted to do what it takes to make it to each next level. I wanted, when I was in high school, I wanted to be the kid that, you know, came out of eighth grade when I was a freshman. I wanted to play varsity and I wanted to, I wanted to play at that level. So I would ask questions or I would learn from coaches or the people around me on what it took. And some of those things like you don't to want, want to do. It's like the, the sacrifice you make when you're waking up early in the morning. It's summertime and the boys are staying up late and hanging out and playing video games. Sometimes you partake in it, but you're waking up at 6am the next day to go into your summer.

[B]

Workouts.

[A]

Yeah. With football. And you're around the crew, you're around influence, you're around people who are better than you or people that want to make you better. Yeah. People that want to make you better. And you're stacking days and you learn over time like Nick Saban is, he's been, I feel like he's the one who's coined the term. It takes what it's, it.

[B]

Takes.

[A]

Yeah. And you just learn those fundamental values as you get older. It's like when I was in high school first making the switch from white bread to wheat bread. But either way, then you learn about how to read a label and if it's enriched, enriched bleach flour, you're like, oh, it's not even the fact of going white bread and wheat bread. I can't have the enriched bleach flour. That's how you learn about, yeah, that's not good bread. Then you learn that all these other, all these other breads out there, they're not even that good for you. It's sourdough bread. Oh, the gluten free bread. You just, you continue to learn.

[B]

Stuff.

[A]

Yes. Throughout time that you're curious about because you want to, you want to dial in everything through discipline and work ethic and what's the 1% better that I can get this year? And I feel like those are things that sports teach you when you want to be good at.

[B]

Sports. Couldn't agree more. Any team mentality type activity, whether it's sports, scholastic team, like debate or theater, whatever. Like when you're in a team mental environment. I think that's some of the Best life lessons come out of that. So anything that's pro that I'm pro.

[A]

That. Yeah, that's what it's actually. And Jason, appreciate the email and that question. It's going to be a question now that I think about and rack through my brain for probably the next week or so, I can. I can always come back with a better answer because that is. I. I know a lot of parents think about that.

[B]

Stuff. Yeah.

[A]

Absolutely. So it's a conversation like, hey, if you had a. If you had a son, like, when would you allow him to play tackle football? And just in my brain, I'm just like, as soon as he can play tackle football. The older I get, the more I think about it, now that I have kids, now that I'm getting older and getting more, I guess, rational or thinking about those risks and things that come with it a little bit more. But no matter what, I just always default to. There is no substitute for what sports can teach.

[B]

You.

[A]

Yeah. For life, for social skills, for discipline, hard work. Just what it.

[B]

Takes.

[A]

Yeah. Hey, you want to make that team? This is what it's going to take. You're not as good as the other kids. Here are the things that you're going to have to work on. There's a different win that's going out at the. At that kid's sale. The wind might not blow as hard because genetically he's more gifted than you. That's.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. But if you want to be. If you want to make the team, if you want to start on varsity, if you want to make the JV team, you want to make the. Whatever it is. There's so many stories that you're able to pull, whether it's the Michael Jordan when he didn't make his basketball team. Are you throwing a rock? A Rocky Balboa.

[B]

Move? No.

[A]

Rock. Rocky Balboa. It just. There's just so much good storytelling and so many life lessons that you can learn just by accepting whatever your reality is and figuring out, this is the way I'm gonna have to work if I want to get to X, if I want to get to this point in.

[B]

Life.

[A]

Yeah. And not worrying about the comparables and everything else. And it helps you narrow your focus and hone in on things. And then when you get there, you fail. You hit the result or the goal that you wanted or you did, and everything you learned fundamentally along the way, you know, you're going to have to fall back on those fundamentals to get whatever the next thing is. Whenever you do come up Short and.

[D]

Fail.

[A]

Yeah. Or whenever you do maximize or say hit your goal, it's always going to be a new goal that you try and attain to and then you're going to go off the lessons you learned from. Hey, coach was right. Mom and dad were right. This, this influence in my life was right. Man, I'm really glad I skipped this and chose to do this instead. Now that I look back, I'm very grateful and appreciative for the sacrifices I made to get to this point. If I go back and change something a little bit different at this point in time, I now know that value valuable lesson on the next kid that I'm talking to and can now give that, give that feedback to him on. Hey, learn from me. Be better than me. So parents think when they're coming up with their kids, they want them to be better versions of themselves. Yeah. And so they always pull from these experiences or examples from where they fell in life or where they didn't do well in life or maybe they had success in life and you got to figure out some way to where you don't come off as a know it all parent, but find a way to communicate with your, your kid. Like they might be able to retain this the same way I do or you're going into parenthood. Hey, do I think I'm going to be a good dad? Because, man, I had a household growing up and no disrespect to my mom and dad out there or my dad, whoever raised me, just who knows if I have the tools necessary to be a successful parent or be a parent that I would want to be in life. Well, step one, you know what you don't want to be, which is a great starting.

[D]

Point.

[A]

Yeah. So you'll be able to pull from all of those lessons and then when the time comes, you'll be able to do again. Teach, teach downward, Teach the next generation, teach the next group. Pick everybody's brain around you who does have parents. You might be in a sticky spot. Why we have four of the dads. You sit there and learn lessons and you hear stories and you hear everybody have theirs and share their experiences of parenthood. Because we all know it's sucky a lot of the times, but there's so much, there's so many highs that come from it that when you look back on, you're like, man, I'm glad I embraced the suck in this moment. Like hearing clump on that voice. Voicemail. Or you might have handled that a lot differently and you look back on you're like, man, I should have done a much better job here. I should have had had a much better attitude when my wife was h. Hounded me about becoming old Willie. One shelf in that.

[B]

Moment.

[A]

Yeah. There's your lesson of the.

[B]

Week. There's.

[A]

Your. There's the.

[B]

Lesson. There's the lesson. I, I just retweet everything that you said. I mean, I'm in full agreement, dude. Huge fan of sports. Huge fan of self improvement. Huge fan of challenging yourself. Yourself. I think the pros outweigh the.

[A]

Cons.

[B]

Yeah. Sue me. I had a life. I had a life.

[A]

Lesson. Good to hear.

[B]

It. Wait, really? I was gonna say I, I have a quote too. I can just do the.

[A]

Quote. Get the quote. Okay, Hit the quote. Life's a cliche.

[B]

Man. Life's a.

[A]

Cliche. You're stuck somewhere. Go find a quote or a cliche or a lesson. I promise you there's stuff out.

[B]

There. Life's a garden. Dig it, Joe Dirt. My, my quote is pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. You know who said.

[A]

That? Give me a.

[B]

Hint. We were talking about him the other.

[A]

Day. Ben.

[B]

Franklin? No, we're talking about him on the, on the.

[A]

Bus. Dan.

[B]

Gable. Dan.

[A]

Gable. Dan.

[B]

Gable. That one comes from Dan.

[A]

Gable. Oh, I was telling Sherm too. Do you know who died? Dan Gable is. Do you know who Dan Gable is? This generation and this next generation is lost, man. You don't know who Dan Gable is? Do.

[E]

What? Like, I didn't.

[A]

Rap. He missed the.

[B]

Cut. I didn't.

[A]

Rap. He doesn't know who Dan Gable is. Famous Iowa Hawkeye head coach wrestling at Iowa State on the Mount Rushmore Wrestling. If you don't know Dan.

[B]

Gable. Hey, I, I, I fell into a conversation with a friend that's from Iowa and wrestles a bunch. And he told me to bring up that name to you. And that's why I was doing it yesterday. Cuz he was like, oh, bro, his juices will start flowing through. He knows Dan Gable. He know. He knows Dan.

[A]

Gable. When we got into wrestling, young and again, my brother Cody, he was a stud at it, my dad. Similar to, I'm sure, Jason Quirk, where he's pulling. You know, when his son becomes of age, I'm sure I'll be having him watch all these tapes. Tapes of whether it be Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, like, all these studs. Maybe his old man is showing tapes of him. But my dad would order all the VHS teaching tapes of Dan Gable. Oh, and we just Sitting there, he'd pop it in the VCR before we go to practice implementing some of these practice techniques. He had a little mat that we could roll.

[B]

Out. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Baby. And we watched Dan Gable teach the sport of wrestling to.

[B]

Us. For any PT Sickos out there, they're also football sickos. Dan Gable'. If Nick Saban and Bear Bryant combined their dynasties and had a baby like the guy, it sounded like he pretty much dominated the sport for almost like 20.

[A]

Years. Oh, yeah. But yeah, where the wrestling sickos out there, they're pointing at the TV right now or in the audio banging the steering.

[B]

Wheel.

[A]

Boy. Yeah. These boys don't know Dan Gable. Get him out, get him out. And all of the concussion and brain talk, take everything I say with a grain of salt. Again, I, I, I have a different, I guess, perspective of football in my mentality was always different. I personally always thought it'd be an honorable death to go out on the football.

[B]

Field.

[A]

Yeah. And I, in that time frame, now I'm like, I, I don't know. I don't know. I don't connect with that guy as much.

[B]

Anymore. I grew up in a small community in Alito, Texas, where if the 6 year old wasn't out there in full pads like Bob Bobblehead, like, what's your kid.

[A]

Doing? Yeah, yeah, what's your kid.

[B]

Doing? Is he.

[A]

Okay? Like, I'm at a point where, like, I smile and feel like I get to live through Cam Scatter Boo.

[B]

Videos.

[A]

Yeah. I'm just like, that kid loves ball. He loves putting his face in the fan. Take your trash out. We love.

[B]

It. Great.

[A]

Stuff. Hey, great. So PT Sicko's out. We'll see you next.

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