Will Recaps His Family Trip To Hawaii & The Boys Trade HILARIOUS Grandparent Stories | For The Dads

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bussin' With The Boys – "Will Recaps His Family Trip To Hawaii & The Boys Trade HILARIOUS Grandparent Stories | For The Dads"

Date: February 25, 2026
Hosts: Will "Willie One Shelf" Compton & Sherman Young
Special Segment: Papa Team 6 Community (PT6)

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Episode Overview

In this jam-packed, laughter- and heart-filled episode of "For The Dads," Will and Sherm share stories from recent solo-parenting adventures, focus on Will’s family trip to Hawaii, and dive into hilarious and touching grandparent tales. The Papa Team 6 (PT6) community is front and center as the boys read listener comments, answer tough parenting questions, celebrate new dads, and hand out real, actionable dad (and mom!) hacks. They blend rowdy humor, honest vulnerability, and practical wisdom—with plenty of detours into family lore and community shoutouts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Introduction & Community Updates [03:22 – 09:00]

• PT6 Community: The boys explain Papa Team 6, their thriving dad-centered community, available on Twitter/X, Reddit, Facebook, and audio platforms.
  • "PT6 stands for Papa Team 6. It is the best father community in the world right now on the Internet. In podcasting, you can find our podcasts across all audio platforms." – Will [04:11]
• Comments Section: Acknowledgment of past episodes, encouragement to leave reviews, and announcements about hotline/email engagement for stories/venting.
• Social Channels: Some confusion and experimentation with Twitter/X community functions.

Parenting Through Sickness & Respect for Moms [09:03 – 15:40]

• Sherm Sick but Still Present: Dads can’t take sick days; pushing through is standard.
  • "There's no days off. You're hurt, not injured." – Sherm [03:49]
• Kids with Illness: Stories of parenting young kids (like Scarlett) who, despite being sick, keep positive energy, echoing parental resilience.
• "Dad Hacks" for Solo Parenting: Will details a strategy for comforting his daughter Rue while mom is away—letting her carry a parent’s sweatshirt and counting “sleeps” until reunion.
• Mom as “Center of Universe”: Both hosts acknowledge the unique heartache kids feel when mom is gone, reinforcing the essential, irreplaceable role of moms.

Dad Hacks, Jokes, and Grandparent Lore [15:40 – 23:00]

• Solo Dad Weekends: Both hosts recount recent times managing kids alone while their partners travel (“good, good—let them enjoy it!”), accompanied by wry humor about “keeping score” and owning the solo-parent grind.
• Dad Game Playbook: Sherm is praised for facilitating a girls’ weekend for his wife and her friends, which inspires lighthearted banter about “scoreboard points” and running a smooth “no-huddle offense” at home.
• Grandparent Stories: The conversation segues into nostalgic, endearing, and sometimes outrageous stories about their own grandparents (including tales of blind woodworking, hearing aids, falls, Thin Mints obsession, and a legendary scrambled egg recipe).

Parenting Failures, Triumphs, and Listener Q&A [23:06 – 42:00]

• Coping with Sickness: Sherm describes a wild, almost slapstick sequence of a coughing fit, dehydration, and his wife Jill (rightly) panicking—leading to a candid discussion about dad self-care and community-based health accountability (“PT Fit”).
  • "A healthy dad is the right dad." – Sherm [32:33]
• PT6 Community Engagement: Listener feedback is read and celebrated—including comments about gestational diabetes misunderstandings and pregnancy announcements.
• Military Fathers’ Sacrifice: Emotional shoutouts to military dads and moms, highlighting the profound sacrifices involved and reading impactful listener messages.
• Fatherhood Reflection: Wonderful anecdotes about growing up, Sunday family meals, and special grandparent relationships.

Touchstones: Circumcision, Honest Humor, and Embracing the Awkward Questions [55:30 – 60:29]

• Direct Q&A: A listener asks if her son will be made fun of for not being circumcised; the hosts reply with trademark irreverence but sincerity, sharing childhood locker room perspectives, honesty about teasing, and advice for building confidence and humor in kids.

Zoo Day, Parenting in Action & Family Travel Lessons [71:13 – 91:49]

• Daddy-Daughter Zoo Day: The boys (and their children) join forces at the Nashville Zoo, share dad hacks (bring the double stroller!), and celebrate Rue’s maturity and helpfulness with the younger kids.
  • "She is an asset...she's been helpful every day that Mom's been gone." – Will [74:19]
• Traveling with Toddlers (Hawaii Recap): Will gives an unfiltered, practical debrief on flying 12 hours with young kids ("Scotty was tough"), the value of pushing through "hellish" travel for meaningful family memories, and the insight that “core memories” don’t require lavish settings—sometimes, the highlight is as simple as throwing rocks in the water.
  • "Just eat the grenade and do it. Because as hellish as it was traveling there, when you get to the destination, it’s so worth it." – Will [84:05]

Listener Stories, Hacks, & Heartwarming Moments [105:10 – 143:22]

• Dad Hacks Galore: From tucking baby arms during diaper changes, to hook-on high chairs, special bedtime playlists, and more—practical, heartfelt community advice pours in.
• Hubby/Wifey Shoutouts: Listeners send moving stories (from stroke survivors dancing with their kids to birthday wishes and everyday heroics).
• Voicemails: Hilarious (missing trash day ruins a weekend) and touching (military dad delivers his son on Friday the 13th; a daughter always greeting her dad at the door).
• Email Advice: Deep letters from single women seeking PT6-level partners, and a gut-wrenching account of a dad’s loss of his wife and military team, concluding with hope and ongoing family triumph.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Dads Being "Hurt, not Injured":
  "Dads can't afford to get sick. There's no days off. You're hurt, not injured.” – Sherman Young [03:49]

• On Comforting Kids When Mom is Away:
  "We count down the amount of sleeps each day…she carries my sweatshirt like a stuffed animal." – Will [12:00]

• On Embracing the Challenge of Dad Life:
  "Just eat the grenade and do it [family travel]...as hellish as it was, when you get to the destination, it’s so worth it, especially when you have nothing on the schedule." – Will [84:04]

• On Dad Health & Community:
  "A healthy dad is the right dad. And that is, like, truly something I'm striving for..." – Sherman Young [32:33]

• On the Joy and Simplicity of Childhood:
  "All they need is some sticks...they just want you to join them wherever it might be and throw that rock in the water." – Will [89:14]

• On Lessons from Grandparents:
  "He made me a wooden bolt-action rifle. He taught me how to sketch. He was a craftsman, man. A true Willie One Shelf." – Will [46:19]

• On Making Lemonade of Life’s Lemons:
  "Things can get rough and it can leave you feeling a little sour. But you got to look at the bright side..." – Willie One Shelf [ad, but encapsulates the show's spirit]

• Voicemail Gold:
  "I missed freaking trash day, dude, and it ruined my whole weekend." – Jonah [115:11]

• On Grief and Legacy:
  "I cracked open the book my mom wrote for me, reading it with my daughter as she missed her mama. It felt like…the perfect moment to bring it out." – Will [130:44]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Papa Team 6/Community Updates: 03:22 – 09:00
• Sick Dads, Solo Parenting, and Mom’s Absence: 09:03 – 15:40
• Dad Hacks, Scoreboard Banter, and Grandparent Stories: 15:40 – 23:00
• Health, PT Fit, Listener Shoutouts, Military Reflection: 23:32 – 42:00
• Circumcision Question (Hilarious, Honest Q&A): 55:30 – 60:29
• Nashville Zoo Day & Recap: 71:13 – 78:15
• Hawaii Trip & Family Travel Advice: 78:52 – 91:49
• Listener Dad Hacks, Shoutouts, and Voicemails: 105:10 – 143:37
• Heartfelt Letters, Grief, and Advice: 130:44 – 141:11
• Dan Gable Wisdom Wrap-up: 141:15 – 143:09

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Community Highlights

• PT6/MT6 Terminology: Strong sense of inclusive language—“Papa Team 6” for dads, “Milk Team 6” for moms. Encouraging caller and commenter participation.
• PT Fit: New health accountability initiative for dads via the PT6 community.
• Hubby/Wifey Shoutouts: Space for both partners to celebrate each other publicly.

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Tone & Style

The conversation is open, fast-moving, and oscillates between side-splitting banter and earnest, emotionally raw storytelling. Self-deprecating humor, football lingo, and “dad hacks” abound, but the heart of the show is unvarnished love for family and the power of community.

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Closing Thoughts

This episode stands out as a microcosm of honest modern dadhood: the struggle, the comedy, the tradition, the pain of loss, and the celebration of every little win. Whether haggling over bedtime, reveling in three-generational lore, or simply holding it together through sickness, Will, Sherm, and their tribe offer a space where dads (and moms) are invited to laugh, vent, and celebrate being present for their kids.

PT6ers: Take out the trash, count the sleeps, eat the grenade, love your people, and keep building memories—no matter how “under an hour” your day is.

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Community Callout:
If you want to join the movement or have a question, story, or hack, reach out via comments, email, hotline, or drop PT Fit in the comments to show your commitment to being a present, improving dad.

Transcript

[Willie One Shelf]

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[Willie One Shelf]

That's loseweightnow co. Papa Team 6. Welcome to another episode of for the dads. It is February 24th. You are listening right now on February 25th. If you hear my voice, Willie One Shelf. I'm also co co hosting with Fat Stafford. We got Sherman Young. He is. He's sick. He's still joining us because as every dad in the world knows, dads can't afford to get sick.

[Sherman Young]

There's no days off.

[Willie One Shelf]

There's no days off. You're hurt, not injured.

[Sherman Young]

I'm hurt, not injured. I'm sitting like an absolute maniac right now because my. We can get into it. Get into it.

[Willie One Shelf]

We got a lot to cover.

[Sherman Young]

We got a lot to cover.

[Willie One Shelf]

And keep it under an hour.

[Sherman Young]

And keep it under an hour. But I'm just excited to to hit the intro of this podcast.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And to celebrate our PT Sickos.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's all about celebrating PT Sickos. And for those of you who are new and tuning in, PT Sicko. PT6 stands for Papa Team 6. It is the fatherhood. It is the best father community in the world right now on the Internet. In podcasting, you can find our podcasts across all audio platforms. Apple, Spotify, Galaxy, Amazon.

[Sherman Young]

Yes sir, all of them. Not hulu but not Hulu, but not tbd.

[Willie One Shelf]

But on all the audio channels. Make sure you're following the boys.

[Sherman Young]

Leave a review.

[Willie One Shelf]

Leave comments. We love comments. We love comments. We do. Spotify goes crazy. I know. Apple reviews. Apple's like reviews, right? It's, it's not like a comment section reviews. They can hit the five star and they can rate the review. Boys, please go review. Five stars.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

YouTube comments. Love them.

[Sherman Young]

Love them.

[Willie One Shelf]

The episode last week with Terror Lawan, if you guys did not check that out, out that the PT sickos loved it. Tara Lawan was incredible. There's a massive. A bunch of comments here. I'm seeing one right now from Josh Howard 313 on YouTube. Now that you've crossed Taylor off the guest list, I think the wives have to be next. Great episode with the big guy. We've got to get the wives on at some point.

[Sherman Young]

You got to get the wives.

[Willie One Shelf]

Got to get the wives on. But comments everywhere congratulating them on their, their third trial. Their third child. Taylor has an heir to the throne. He's getting a baby boy. They are getting a baby boy. He's not having. It's Taylin that's going through all the, it's going through all the muck. But dead lives matter. I know, I know. Dead lives matter. Dead lives matter.

[Sherman Young]

That's how BT sen we're talking about.

[Willie One Shelf]

But subscribe, make sure you're following all channels. Leave comments along the way. We love engaging with the audience. We also have a hotline and an email that you can write into if you don't want your voice to be heard. That hotline is 601. The dads you call in, share a story, a win, a loss. Maybe you just want to vent. Maybe you're a father that just needs to vent because you've gone through some shit and you just want to vent to the boys. We are that hotline. We also have an email, 601the dadsmail where if you're in on international soil or you don't want your voice to be heard, you can write in invent, talk about a win, a loss, whatever the case may be. Vent about your wife. Maybe you love your wife. We got hubby shout outs. We got wife shout outs. The wives nickname in this show is milk Team six. MT six. Yeah, just we got all of it. You want to buy our merch? You want to get etched in stone with the Papa Team 6 community bwtb.com we have all the merch. We won't talk about the news.

[Sherman Young]

What Are you doing? Hey, we got a Twitter community started by Jared Ladd.

[Willie One Shelf]

A Twitter. So explain the Twitter community. Like, somebody just tweets in their. On X or they're on X.

[Sherman Young]

So sorry. Profile X. Hey, I'm gonna be completely honest with you, Will. I don't know what these X communities. I don't know what it entails, because I told Derek. Oh, I think when you tweet in the community, the tweet just stays in the community. And then we tested it this morning, and the tweet went out to everybody, everybody. So it's like, oh, okay. It just puts a tag that you're a part of the community. So I don't know. We're figuring.

[Willie One Shelf]

There was one I was a part of. I've been a part of one in my life, and that was the severance community.

[Sherman Young]

How was that?

[Willie One Shelf]

Right? I loved it because severance is such a. You know the sickos out there that love severance. Severance sickos.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Severance does a great job. Similarly to, like, Game of Thrones, those two kind of shows where there's a lot of Easter eggs, a lot of callbacks, a lot of, like, game within. Within the game. Within the game where people break down videos, and you're kind of like, oh, yeah, that could happen. Or. Damn, I didn't think of it like that.

[Sherman Young]

You're basically describing for the dads, so severance being a good show with a bunch of inside game is just like, for the dads being a good show with a bunch of inside game.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, we need to start. You know, we should do. We should start putting little Easter eggs.

[Sherman Young]

We do.

[Willie One Shelf]

For. I don't even know where to go from what I just said. Yeah, but if we know something's coming in the future, maybe you put an Easter egg that. They're like, I wonder why. You know, maybe a Rizzo jersey's hanging behind people. Like, oh, that must mean Rizzo's coming on a. Rizzo.

[Sherman Young]

Is Matt Stafford coming?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, Matt Stafford's on that because he's

[Sherman Young]

on the Lord of the Rings thing. Maybe.

[Willie One Shelf]

Wait, and then when Stafford does come on, that sicko that was like, he's now got his own tweet that says, I broke this down back on February 25th.

[Sherman Young]

Since March, bro. I knew that shit was going down, and y' all slept on me.

[Willie One Shelf]

So we have an X community. Yeah, we have a Reddit community.

[Sherman Young]

A Reddit community and an X community now.

[Willie One Shelf]

Join all the communities, man. This. This. This army, this military is something special.

[Sherman Young]

It really is.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're gonna be talking about. I was on family. A family vacation out in Hawaii last week. Sherman. I were both solo parenting over the weekends. We'll get into the solo parenting stories. Sherm has a great lesson of the week for us. He tells me I'll dive into how he even got sick.

[Sherman Young]

How do I even get hurt? Not injured.

[Willie One Shelf]

How scarlet is she under the weather?

[Sherman Young]

Sick as a dog. But no, you wouldn't be able to tell. I'm serious. Her attitude, her whole outlook on life as a seventh or seven going on eight month old, she just rips, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know what? That comes from her parents.

[Sherman Young]

I hope her dad. Hey, will you. Will you come over here and tap me up?

[Willie One Shelf]

For real?

[Sherman Young]

For real, brother. I actually really needed to hear that. Yeah, like that actually warmed my heart. Shoot, with her daddy, man.

[Willie One Shelf]

She with her daddy. You prepped her for moments like this. Hey, you let her know, the world's tough out there, bro. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, but it's not how hard you hit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

It's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's how it is done. God. Sorry, PT6ers. We're just.

[Sherman Young]

We're reminiscing. Dude. My heart really needed that. That was good.

[Willie One Shelf]

We've been battling.

[Sherman Young]

We've been battling, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dude. So we got back, we'll obviously break down all the vacation stuff, but we land and Charlie reminds me that she goes out of town. This was this past Saturday. She reminds me. Oh, remember I'm going to New York on Saturday. I was like, just gave her that look. What?

[Sherman Young]

Oh, wait. After. After we just went on vacation.

[Willie One Shelf]

After we just went on vacation. She's not doing a work trip on Saturday.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, good.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's okay, sweetheart. I'll get back Monday morning. The first question. You're not taking the kids from me, are you? You can't.

[Sherman Young]

Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't do that, Charles.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don't leave me alone for the weekend.

[Sherman Young]

She didn't do that, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

No, she didn't do that. She let me keep the kids.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah. Thank God.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And Sunday rolls around. Massive blizzard or a snowstorm hits New York City.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, that's right. Inclement weather.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Flight gets canceled from Monday. She now has to rebook Tuesday,

[Sherman Young]

which that just means more solo time with you and the kiddos.

[Willie One Shelf]

That means one word. Good. Good, good. Can't wait. I've been. I've been sailing this the whole time. Don't even worry. Stay out there.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know, take another vacation. Fly back down to Hawaii while you're at it.

[Sherman Young]

You offered that?

[Willie One Shelf]

I offered it. Then she hits me. What's today? Tuesday. Yeah. She hits me yesterday. We're sitting eating dinner yesterday, and she hits me up. Their flight gets canceled on Tuesday.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, good. Wait, so she's not coming in till tomorrow?

[Willie One Shelf]

My immediate response. Right when she texts me, I just put good deal.

[Sherman Young]

A great deal, even.

[Willie One Shelf]

Love it. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So she's not getting in till tomorrow.

[Willie One Shelf]

So she's an empty sixer. She ain't. She. She. She knows the game for every parent. Every parent that's out there listening right now. There's a sadness that consumes your child when parents are out of town. More so mom than dad. Rude. Does get sad when dad leaves. We talked about it when I was in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. A dad hack that I gave was like. It was actually this sweatshirt where I took her in. She started crying. She laid on my lap. She didn't want me to leave for five sleeps. It's only going to be five sleeps. It felt like forever. And she wasn't handling it very well. And I was so sad leaving to go to San Francisco. So I took her into my closet. We picked out a sweatshirt. It was this one that I'm rocking. And she essentially carried it around all week like a stuffed animal. But Ru, mom being out of town, that's a different. It feels like a different beast. I'm the one in the trenches, so it feels like a different beast. We did the same thing with Mom. Whenever Charl came down to leave that morning, it was like five in the morning. Takes Roo. Rue said, takes her downstairs to sleep the rest of the night with. Or sleep the rest of the morning with dad. Dad. But she got. She went in with Charo and picked out a sweatshirt. Now she rocks with the sweatshirt she's been rocking with it to school. She rocks with it everywhere because she misses Mom. And we count down the amount of sleeps each day.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So I didn't even tell Rue. And you got your parents. You guys know the game. Whenever the flight got canceled on Monday and got pushed to Tuesday when Charles. We were on FaceTime and she was in. Rue was like, mama, one more sleep. One more sleep. And I could see Charles face start to lean into. It's actually going to be two because we got a lot of snow and the flight's canceled. I just Chime in. Intercept the conversation. That's right. One more sleep. Mama's got one more sleep. I'm looking at the FaceTime like, I'm looking at you guys at home right now.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, one more sleep. That's right. One more sleep. So I'm thinking in my head, this has got to be a process to get Rue around to. Hey, it's actually going to be. Mama's flight got canceled. She's not going to be here for two more nights.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Then eventually I'm like, oh, look at all the snow. Mom's showing her the snow. I'm like, look at all the snow. And then we get off the phone, and I'm talking to Rue, and I'm like, like, sweetheart, you see all that snow? Man, I hope Mama's flight doesn't get canceled. And she's like, why Mama's flight gets canceled? I'm like, because it's dangerous out there, sweetheart. There's a bunch of snow on. If there's too much snow, we don't want Mama traveling. We don't want Mama risk she trying to get hurt. She could get hurt. We might not be able to see her for a while. And I was like, so if it snows or the flights get canceled, we can't. That's what we want. Because we want Mama to stay safe so she can come home. The only thing that's going to happen, the worst part is she'll only. We'll only have one more sleep to go. So it'll be two more sleeps. It'll be two more. But if that even happens right now, she's going to be home tomorrow. Knowing the flight was already canceled. Already moved it right now. Mama's going to be home tomorrow.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But if worse comes to worse and there's too much snow in the flight, the pilot says we can't fly. That's what we want to happen because we want Mama to stay.

[Sherman Young]

Absolutely.

[Willie One Shelf]

So we massage that into her. She struggled for a moment, but it really was smooth sailing. So that's a little dad hack.

[Sherman Young]

That's a massive dad hack.

[Willie One Shelf]

If some plans get bombarded and Mom's going to be gone an extra sleep because, dude, they love Mom. Like, mom is. Mom is the rock. Mom is the center of the universe.

[Sherman Young]

Charo, when we'll get into the zoo thing. But just so for Charo to hear if she's still in New York listening to this.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, she's listening right now. There's no question.

[Sherman Young]

That's all Rue wanted to talk to

[Willie One Shelf]

me about was mama.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, yeah, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Mom's the best.

[Sherman Young]

How many sleeps until, you know, mama gets back? This is mama's sweater. Do you think Scarlett would like my mama's sweater? Absolutely.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Show her the sweater, because she's gonna love it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

So that's good to hear, too, from Charo's side of.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, it's. It's been smooth for the most part. It's been smooth for the most part. But. Yeah, well, we'll. We'll get to dive in because you were a solo parent as well over the weekend.

[Sherman Young]

I was a solo parent.

[Willie One Shelf]

You knocked out the greatest dad game that any father out there could listen to.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And that was what, a couple weeks ago?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, two weeks ago.

[Willie One Shelf]

Two weeks ago, you flew the friends in town. You told her mom, your mom was coming to town. Turns out her friends are there at the airport. You're gonna have. What was it, four days? Yeah, four days with your friends. They brought their kiddos. It's just mom and the kiddos. You are a champion.

[Sherman Young]

Mahjong, wine nights, babies. I mean, we're just talking. Chill, Sash.

[Willie One Shelf]

A lot of dads out there were driving, listening to this game, watching this game, being like, this man gets it. I got to figure this out. Because not only is this a massive win for everybody involved, but Sherm is low key. That scoreboard's ticking. It's rising.

[Sherman Young]

It was right.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're putting up points. This is no huddle offense.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

This is like, what is it? Chip Kelly. You're running like a Chip Kelly spread offense like the first year it was coming out.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oregon, Chip Kelly.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oregon.

[Sherman Young]

Oregon. Chip Kelly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike Leach, Texas Tech type.

[Willie One Shelf]

Mike Leach, Texas Tech type.

[Sherman Young]

And like, yes. You know, two foot gaps between every offensive lineman. People are looking at like, what are we doing? You're just telling them you're going to pass.

[Willie One Shelf]

People are saying, what's an rpo?

[Sherman Young]

What?

[Willie One Shelf]

Even that run pass option, you can do that in one play.

[Sherman Young]

It's. Here's the deal. When. When the end pulls, all right, we hit them with mahjong. If they sit. Hit him with the wine night.

[Willie One Shelf]

Amen, brother.

[Sherman Young]

Hit him with the wine night. Either way, we're getting 8, 10 yards. But yeah, I mean, you would.

[Willie One Shelf]

You. Right, you would. You would think to preface that now is hubby's time. Yeah, you would think now it's papa's.

[Sherman Young]

You would think maybe a little golf trip.

[Willie One Shelf]

Maybe a little golf trip. What would you get hit with?

[Sherman Young]

Honey, don't forget, I got that bachelorette party. Hey, honey, don't for. Don't forget I got that bachelorette party coming up. I don't think I can take Scarlet to that. So I'm really devastated. So maybe, you know, you. And I was elated because I'm like,

[Willie One Shelf]

oh, don't take the kid.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, don't take the kid.

[Willie One Shelf]

Don't leave me. Solo video games all week.

[Sherman Young]

Don't do that. Don't do that. Cold front hits Nashville. It's really cold all of a sudden. It was really beautiful outside. And good, you know. Good. Oh, you're going to West Palm.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, good. I bet that's kind of warm. That's kind of nice. Good. You know, I get hit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let your hair down.

[Sherman Young]

Lay your hair down. Have a little fun. And hey, hey. I. I love you to death. We're joking.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, yeah, we're doing. We're just joking. We're having.

[Sherman Young]

We're having some.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're having some laughs.

[Sherman Young]

And you looked beautiful, beautiful with your nice sun pan from the beach little party boat.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, and you. Hey, she deserves it.

[Sherman Young]

And here's an actual dad hack in the midst of all this.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

Just. Just celebrating it because I was stoked and I'm, you know, she's sending me funny videos and stuff. I'm stoked. I'm having a time. But I try not to pepper it too much. I know some partners are different, but, like, I try to let her have her fun when she.

[Willie One Shelf]

What's the fun? What are we. What are we talking about?

[Sherman Young]

Like, too many, like, updates and check ins and stuff from.

[Willie One Shelf]

With Mama.

[Sherman Young]

Bear with Mama.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I really tried to just do FaceTimes with like, hey, we're eating right now.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes.

[Sherman Young]

Hey, we're sleeping. Oh, we just woke up. Good morning, Mama. We love you, Mama. And letting her. Because Jill was dying for the FaceTime stuff, which that was great. I would like to add to that. There's nothing better than going. There's nothing worse than going on a trip with a couple buddies and one of them is consistently having to lock in with the girlfriend or fiance and having to like, hey, I gotta call and text constantly. It's the best. Whenever you get to go somewhere and they go, hey, don't worry, we'll catch up more on Sunday. You just kind of keep me a little bit updated here and there. Yeah. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you feel like calling me in the middle trip, give me a shout.

[Sherman Young]

Give me a shout.

[Willie One Shelf]

But you put it on the. Yeah, absolutely. I'll tell you what you won't get from Papa Team 6. And that's a text message with a question of where are the diapers? That's a text message with a question. What should I feed her tonight? Yeah, that's a. That's a text message of, hey, how do I do the laundry? Hey. Not that I do the lie. Don't really hit the. But if I did.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Getting no text about it.

[Sherman Young]

No, sir. And did you see that outfit? I. Bro, I put that outfit together. The zoo.

[Willie One Shelf]

You crushed it. And I love. Because she's growing into the bow. You know how I was kind of a hater?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

I kind of took some crazy shots at Scar. Scar?

[Sherman Young]

At Scarlett's face?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, to her face.

[Sherman Young]

Say you look. Hey, you look dumb, dude. Your dad put you in. Did you choose that? Yeah, because you look dumb.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dude. Look at this bow.

[Sherman Young]

And then flip a bow, knock it off her head.

[Willie One Shelf]

You look like a candy wrapper.

[Sherman Young]

Just blow.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, you can't say nothing. You think so?

[Sherman Young]

Just go blow in her face. Dude, your kid's a dud. Kid's such a dud, dude. But, yeah, she's good. She's grown into the bow. She looks cute as hell.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dude, your kids have done.

[Sherman Young]

You get a little water and drip it on her face. Are you even. Wait, Are you even doing that at home? She just looked like she jumped off the Titanic when I poured water on her face. What are you doing? I. I don't know. I didn't know that you're supposed to do that. Yeah, you're supposed to do that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Does he have a good of a dad? You are. How is she in the water? Just, like, dumping water all over her face. Oh, look at her panic. You don't got her used to the water.

[Sherman Young]

Dude, she's gonna get bullied out the ass at school if you keep this up. What are you doing?

[Willie One Shelf]

You can't bring her to the house. Scotty would eat her up, dude.

[Sherman Young]

Eat her alive. I don't even want to see it happen. Don't bring her around here. Toughen her up, and then we'll talk. But, yeah, outfit looked great. Outfit was on fleek. I even sent the outfit to mamas. She said, okay, Dadass. I said, watch me work. Watch me work with my family. Pass to the zoo. Didn't forget the stroller this time. Brought the stroller. Will and I were trying to figure out, because I do have a family pass. And I was like, I technically could get all of us in here together, but we're gonna have to, you know, it's a family pass.

[Willie One Shelf]

We. We had a good laugh. He's like, maybe if you want to get on the family pass. Oh, we're gay. Hey, we're together. These are kids.

[Sherman Young]

I'm cool with that, you know? Yeah, we were both cool.

[Willie One Shelf]

I mean, I still bought my own

[Sherman Young]

ticket, but we're like, support local business. Yeah, yeah, obviously. Yeah. But zoo was great.

[Willie One Shelf]

My. We'll.

[Sherman Young]

We'll get into zoo because that.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's a crack.

[Sherman Young]

That's a crack.

[Willie One Shelf]

A cold one that'll be ours together.

[Sherman Young]

I love that. I. Yeah. My. Good. Last night, I. I basically. I think I have the closest thing to a panic attack as far as what the hell's going on with my body. We have this little Mr. Thing that's like a saline Mr. That helps, like, break up mu. This. It's for infants. And it's like. You know those O2 tanks that they probably gave you on the sideline that you just go like. And it has the mask on it. It's like that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Never used it.

[Sherman Young]

You didn't need it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Come on.

[Sherman Young]

The way you were playing. Yeah. You didn't need that spit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Are you all right? What was that?

[Sherman Young]

I'm good. That was a loogie. I'm really sorry.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good, good. Hey, hey, hey. Dads can't afford to get sick.

[Sherman Young]

No.

[Willie One Shelf]

Can't afford to be sick. No, they can afford to get sick. You just can't be sick.

[Sherman Young]

You can't be sick. Yeah, I did. I did check. I don't have a fever this morning. Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, good. It'd been better if you did.

[Sherman Young]

Would have been really good.

[Willie One Shelf]

You come in, just get all of us sick.

[Sherman Young]

Hell, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Come on. Let's raise our immune system, because that's

[Sherman Young]

what I'm all about. I'm like, again, don't bring them around unless you toughen them up. Yeah, I don't want to see my kid. Boy. And you get.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Oh, you want to come over for a play date? First question is, your kid's sick? Oh, he's not staying home.

[Sherman Young]

The problem is it that my kids bullying your kid. It's like, your kid's allowing it. That's the issue.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay, but the O2 tanks. O2 tanks.

[Sherman Young]

You tank. And then I do it. You know, we're trying to make Scarlett like it, so it's like, hey, mamas and dadas are gonna do it. So I start huffing this thing in front of Scarlet. I'm like, oh, this is so fun. Oh, my gosh. I have the mask on, and I'm just going like, dude, it Legit, like, broke up my mucus and stuff in such a way that, like, I started having. Because I have a ton of chest congestion right now.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I all of a sudden leave the room, and I have a coughing fit where I'm having a hard time breathing. And I'm, like, feeling it in my face. You know, when you can kind of, like, almost feel it, like, where your lymph nodes are, where it's, like, tight, like, around your jaw. I could feel my face getting red, and I'm like, I can't really breathe, and I, like, couldn't yell out to Jill. And I'm leaned over the trash can just coughing slash gagging. And then I. And so sorry for anybody with a weak summit. I just started puking loogies, which. That was interesting. And then all of a sudden, I just start vomiting, and then Jill's in the other room. Like, what is happening? Like, sherman. Sherman. And I'm, like, unable to say anything to her. As she turns the corner, I have this coughing fit because I'm sure I'm dehydrated that. All of a sudden, dude, my entire back just locked up. Entire back to where I just fall to my knees and, like, grab the trash can. And Jill's like, oh, my God, Sherman. Sherman. And is, like, talking to me. I'm on all fours, just, like, still coughing. And she's like, what is going on, Sherman? What is going on in my mind? I'm going, good, good. Keep asking me. Yeah. Because we'll figure it out through me talking. And I just go, water. Like, spongebob asking for water, but, like, scream it. And I'm still, like, unable to breathe. She just keeps on. Good. You don't need water. You're choking, Sherman. You're choking. You don't need one. Like, visceral scream, dude. And she didn't give me a water for, like, 30 seconds, like, still asking me. And I, like, start pounding the ground with my fist, and I, like, vomit on the floor again. And I'm like, give me a goddamn water. Like, I can't breathe. My back's locked up. I don't know what's going on, but give me a water. I'm dehydrated. Bro is crazy. And Jill and I are still kind of on the. We're still on the fritz about it.

[Willie One Shelf]

My God.

[Sherman Young]

I know. It was crazy, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

The back locking up. Like, what's happening?

[Sherman Young]

Like, I've always had really, really bad hip flexors from, like, track and soccer days, which, like, led to my quads.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Getting tight. And so that whole it band that, like, goes into your lower back. Like, if those two muscles are causing you to kind of hinge forward because you're a little tight and sore, it. My glutes and my lower back will tighten up really bad where it's like a sharp pain. Not a sharp pain, but it's like my muscles are locked essentially in, like, on the sides to where. I wouldn't. I wouldn't say like a sharp pain, like a structural pain of, like, nerves, but it's like more so just those back muscles on the sides of your spine just basically saying, bro, sit down. Stop trying to stand. And that's why I use those KT tape and stuff. Anyways, I'm not taking, like, the best care of myself. I. I could stand to lose a good, like, £40. I could stand to lose. Or I could, you know, work out way more, get in better shape, stretch way more. But it's.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's right. But you'd rather take the hard route.

[Sherman Young]

Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

The. The road less than the road less taken.

[Sherman Young]

And. And let's not forget what my new year's resolution is. To run a 400 under 60 seconds.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, that's right.

[Sherman Young]

Let's not forget about that.

[Willie One Shelf]

But you want to. You know, you're waiting.

[Sherman Young]

We're starting at the ground level. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're waiting until the week of. Did you show the world you can. You're a.

[Sherman Young]

You're a cheetah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You don't need a stretch. You don't need exercise, shoulder impingement movements and then take off.

[Sherman Young]

Cheetah does not stretch. Dude, you make a very good point. A cheetah does not stretch. No. All that to say on a very serious note, I do need to take better care of myself. But when I get dehydrated.

[Willie One Shelf]

How you getting dehydrated? You know, I'm drinking too much water. Ollipop up.

[Sherman Young]

I'm. I know I do drink a lot of water and a lot of ollipop, but I need to drink more.

[Willie One Shelf]

Well, if you drink enough, you wouldn't be locking up like that.

[Sherman Young]

Yes. You know, I think the issue is

[Willie One Shelf]

get you on a good plan.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, we need me.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm gonna get you on a good plan.

[Sherman Young]

We need one of those, like, selfish, not team player, blah, blah, blah, like water.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you go and piss in the

[Sherman Young]

bathroom every morning, every day, dude, it's not good. It's not good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Letting the team down.

[Sherman Young]

I am.

[Willie One Shelf]

We need you at a championship level.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Where you are hydrated. Yes. In like a light yellow light, dude. Light yellow.

[Sherman Young]

Because right now you would think it's highlighter. It's Gatorade gold. Gold.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's like the. The. Like the. No, no, no, no. The. What do you call the embroidery of my hat. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

A nice little Vegas gold.

[Willie One Shelf]

That ain't good, brother.

[Sherman Young]

No, not at all.

[Willie One Shelf]

Do you have a camera in the living room to where you can go back home and then watch tape? Sleep with wifey With Jill.

[Sherman Young]

Wish. Dude, if I had had a name right here.

[Willie One Shelf]

I needed you to give me water. If you're deciding in your mind you're not getting me water, would I rather you have done is just start kicking me in the face.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, if you're not gonna give me water, don't just stand there and. Yeah. What's going on? What's wrong? Just start kicking me in the face and knock me out.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Hey. I'm glad his eyes were on it, though.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Get some fall out. Some kind of flipped or fell out. Right? What happened?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, something the board. The SD just. It just stopped recording.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

I think that's got disconnected, but we're back. That's probably the pt6 gods going a Sherman easy because you're still on thin ice with the wifey.

[Willie One Shelf]

That could be Jill hacking comes.

[Sherman Young]

I really could. Jill hacking it really good. That's. That's like. You better come correct. Yeah. Because I know we had that week with my friends and I went on the Bachelor, the bachelorette party, and.

[Willie One Shelf]

But, like, you're using up all your equity for this moment. That's what you gotta understand.

[Sherman Young]

There goes the golf trip. Bye. But yes, I digress. I digress. That. That truly is the story.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

That's why I'm sitting like an absolute freakazoid right now. My back.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're a shell of yourself right now. I am. We need the PT Sickos in the comments. We need to get Sherm on a plan. We need to get him on a plan. Hit me.

[Sherman Young]

Hit me with that. Sir rolling meme of. Just get up. Yeah, get up.

[Willie One Shelf]

Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Everybody go watch it. Great show. Great show. Great show.

[Sherman Young]

I'm truly just Sir Duncan right now. Just beat the shit. And I can. I. You know, I could yield. Oh, I do have a fantastic tweet from Will Compton really quick for me. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Let's just say, like, we need to beat these sickos. We got to get your on a plan. A healthy dad is the right dad.

[Sherman Young]

A healthy dad is the right dad. And that is, like, truly something I'M striving for, like, the. I'm eating way better.

[Willie One Shelf]

Okay.

[Sherman Young]

I just want to let anybody know that's willing to take me on. I am eating way better.

[Willie One Shelf]

We'll get you right.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

This is a community driven thing.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. You have a guy that wants to

[Willie One Shelf]

get better, we might have to just start something.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, I wish. I'm PT Fit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

PT Fit. Okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

Pt.

[Sherman Young]

PT Fit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Papa Team fit.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Papa Team fit.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's a movement.

[Sherman Young]

That was really good. Will.

[Willie One Shelf]

I read your tweet.

[Sherman Young]

All right. This tweet comes from William Compton, William Earl Compton iii.

[Willie One Shelf]

Actually, by the way, put PT Fit in the comments. That's the.

[Sherman Young]

That's our comment.

[Willie One Shelf]

Emoj y.

[Sherman Young]

Okay. PT Fit. Yes. This comes from Sir Will of House Compton on X. He said, a Night of the Seven Kingdoms eye emoji. Eye emoji. And granted, this is. This is like six weeks after the show has, you know, Like, the great meme reset of, like, a Nine of the Seven Kingdoms where it took over Twitter. This is like a week after that. He says a Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Ioji Emoji finished episode three last night. And what a twist at the end. Everybody's on, like, episode six. Now hitting four and five tonight to roll into the finale. What a time to be alive for God fan. And he provided a nice little Dunkin egg pick on there for his. That was actually found by Chef and printed out by Chef. So I want to give Chef his flowers of. That is a hilarious tweet. And you're right. You didn't say anything corrected. That's facts. That's facts, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you're a Game of Thrones fan. What a time to be alive.

[Sherman Young]

What a time to be alive. Dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

When I learned who egg was,

[Sherman Young]

I want you to, like, put a tweet out here in a week and be like, like, lost. Yo, Lost. Have y' all been watching this? What a time to be alive.

[Willie One Shelf]

Did y' all know Jon Snow was Aegon Targaryen? What the hey, What a twist.

[Sherman Young]

Danny's his aunt.

[Willie One Shelf]

Ew.

[Sherman Young]

But, like, she's kind of hot.

[Willie One Shelf]

What do y' all think?

[Sherman Young]

Sound off in the comments. Sound off in the comments. Bro. That was really funny. That was really funny. I do have some dad comments. Just some general comments if we want to.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dude, let's engage. Let's engage. And, you know, we haven't done in a while some of. Some of the good takes. We say good throughout.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But you will just get into some good lore. We should for dads out There, that's thriving, but also there's suck. With the thriving, there's a balance.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

We'll dive into the. To the suck.

[Sherman Young]

What does it mean to embrace the word good?

[Willie One Shelf]

What does it mean?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, what does it mean to enter that mindset I have in Woodward on YouTube and where we said, my fiance has officially gotten me hooked on the show? We get married next month. We were listening to the episode and Sherm was talking about his wife's gestational diabetes. And my fiance just casually goes, is that what you have?

[Willie One Shelf]

Good, Good.

[Sherman Young]

I'm just now from the wording of this, I'm just now figuring out this is coming from. This is the girl our future, our ST6 are just hit his betrothed with. Is that what you have? She replied, sir, I am not pregnant, nor do I have diabetes. What in the world? That is wild. Future MT6 or. I apologize on the behalf of your ST6er, but we're just. We're figuring it out.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're all figuring out. Hey, you got that right.

[Sherman Young]

If anything, that just means he's worried about you.

[Willie One Shelf]

Station diabetes 8. You have that.

[Sherman Young]

That's what you got. He's just checking in on you, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

What the are you talking about?

[Sherman Young]

Talking about. Oh, dyslexia. Like you mix up words and so that's what you got, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

No, I got one here from Jorge. This is a new dad comment. What's up, gentlemen? Jorge Medina reporting for duty. Recently got recruited for the PT6 and in boot camp right now he's in budge training. My wife and I found out she is pregnant in January and now about to finish our first trimester. Let's go.

[Sherman Young]

That's huge.

[Willie One Shelf]

I came across your podcast earlier this month and have nothing but tears of joy. Listen to all the PT Sixers out there with encouraging messages. Lastly, I want to give a shout out to my right to my wife Raquel being the crown on my head and helping me find my way back to Jesus. Good, good. It's a great. That's a great comment, Jorge. Congratulations to you both, Jorge.

[Sherman Young]

Well done shouting out your future mt sicko.

[Willie One Shelf]

And he gets it. He's been on for a month. He's recently Got recruited to PT6 in boot camp right now. So he just finished bud's training. Breeding until dad status. The seed has been planted. Good. The heir to the throne might be there.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, he didn't say whether or not.

[Willie One Shelf]

He did not say whether or not.

[Sherman Young]

Okay, okay.

[Willie One Shelf]

He did not say whether or not. That's what I'm looking for. They just finished their first trimester, but he gets it. Jorge. Jorge understands the assignment.

[Sherman Young]

That's a big thing we can get into. If I'm thinking for our next one that we purely do not want to know. We legit want to find out on delivery date. I think for the next one. Yeah. Fingers crossed that we even get opportunity.

[Willie One Shelf]

Fingers crossed. I have a couple of general comments.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Money Master 21 on Spotify. what age can Will and Sherm's kids start listening to the pod? Going to get some good feedback from the kids. Crying, laughing, emoji. That's a fantastic question by money Master.

[Willie One Shelf]

Fantastic question.

[Sherman Young]

I cannot wait for little miss Scarlett to be proud of her father, we hope, and all that he's doing.

[Willie One Shelf]

They'll see us cry a lot.

[Sherman Young]

A lot.

[Willie One Shelf]

They'll know how much we love them.

[Sherman Young]

That is true.

[Willie One Shelf]

They'll get to hear a lot of old stories, you know, about bickering with their sister.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Giving us problems. Giving us hell. How she struggled with bedtime. Missing mama. Some of the hacks.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Up. I do think of, like, that age of like, 8, 9, 8, 9, 10 range where my. My mom would break out the video camera with the red, white, yellow cords and plug it into the TV and play some of my baby tapes. And it was truly like watching a. A bad American Idol audition. I'm just sitting there like, I. I don't want. I don't want to see it. Put it away. And it's like you and I are. That's. That's just on the Internet.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Scarlett and Rue, not so much the videos, but the stories. But. Yeah, you're talking about how I on you. I on your arm. Dad, what are we doing?

[Willie One Shelf]

We got to figure out a way to guard him from Shockwave.

[Sherman Young]

No.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Damon. Well, we've already done so. What a great euphemism. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

What euphemism? What does that mean?

[Sherman Young]

Euphemism's like a. It's like a nice little fun code word that you could call something.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, that.

[Sherman Young]

But it's not a code word.

[Willie One Shelf]

It's a real roller coaster in Texas.

[Sherman Young]

Boom, baby. You just. Boom, baby.

[Willie One Shelf]

I just. You from Euphonized.

[Sherman Young]

You just euthanized. All over it. All over it. Yes, sir.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yes, sir.

[Sherman Young]

Shock wave, baby.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shock wave. Kyle Powell on Facebook. We have a Facebook.

[Sherman Young]

Yes, we do.

[Willie One Shelf]

Just learning that. Yo. For the dads. But that makes sense. You got to be on Facebook. We're going to be about the dads. A lot of that. A lot of the boomer generations on Facebook.

[Sherman Young]

We're down with the Zuck.

[Willie One Shelf]

I appreciate you guys keeping it, keeping it real in a world where everyone acts as if they have it together. So we have a few days when we don't feel perfect. So we don't feel perfect. Can feel alone. You guys are bringing the laughs and the feels. Thank you for showing the boys our love for the family is enough. I'll be shipping out on deployment soon, and I'm thankful to have your podcast while I have to be away from the family. Thank you for what you guys do. It really does make difference. God bless you, gentlemen. That.

[Sherman Young]

Who. What was his name?

[Willie One Shelf]

Up. Kyle Powell. Thank you for your service, brother.

[Sherman Young]

Dude. Thank you for your service, dude. We. We have touched on that so many times, but it's worth touching on every single time. Every time, Dude. To go and deploy and be away from your family and to serve, that. It. That idea means so much more now that I have a family.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

I think to myself, dang, dude, that's. That's a higher calling that they're wanting to.

[Willie One Shelf]

Right.

[Sherman Young]

Go do right. That's awesome.

[Willie One Shelf]

There's a hardship and sacrifice that's involved with all that. Yeah, absolutely, man. Like having to pull yourself out essentially, outside of yourself. To serve something greater than you for your country. Knowing how hard it is to leave the family.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And put everything in place. What a strong rock you must have at home with wifey. And just. Man, it would be brutal to leave the kiddos.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Dude. Didn't grow up with the whole lot of military families. Although there's a really big base in Fort Worth. But if. If anything, every single military mom that I've met, it like. You're exactly right. It's like that rock mentality, dude, that holding it down, dude. Jill's grandmother had eight kids while dad was out serving. What a monster. What a monster, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah, dude. My grandpa, William Earl Sr. He served, but he was always one of those guys. He never really told you what he did.

[Sherman Young]

That's the best.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know what I mean? Like, he just told me he was a cook. It's like I just cooked for people. And he made incredible eggs. He talked about. You talk about this egg recipe. Now you go over, make the scrambled eggs. He put the bacon bits on top. He makes some bacon bits, put them on top with some cheese. But the secret ingredient.

[Sherman Young]

That's a bad dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

He put a little pack of sugar, sprinkle it on the eggs and every sugar. Crazy, crazy. I know, but it'd be egg, scrambled eggs, bacon, and a pack of Sugar that he'd use inside the eggs. And it was life changing for me. I was just always beside myself, like, what do you put in here? And he wouldn't tell me for the longest time. He finally told me when I was in high school school, so I could show off to the boys. I'm like, I'm trying to, like, spread the. Spread the good word of these scrambled eggs.

[Sherman Young]

How you doing, Grandpa?

[Willie One Shelf]

Name Grandpa.

[Sherman Young]

Grandpa.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. We were very, I guess, traditional. Like, everybody was just Grandma and Grandpa. Like, all the new stuff, like Lola and Opa that Rue and Scotty or that Rue calls her grandparents. All the Mama, Papa, all that stuff was. Was not foreign. But I'm just like, oh, isn't that just Grandma and Grandpa?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And then on my mom's side, it was like, Grandma Jerry and Grandpa Charlie. Because on my dad's side, we saw them all the time. They lived the town over. It'd be like, Sunday, we'd have Sunday dinner, Sunday meal after church, you go over. It'd be their kfc. You get the family serve stuff. Kfc, bro. Every now and then they'd cook. If it'd be a holiday, like, they would cook and my mom would cook. Oh, usually, you know, Kentucky Fried Chicken, dude.

[Sherman Young]

Fried chicken dinner. I don't care where it's coming from. Kfc, Chicken Express. You name it, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Oh.

[Willie One Shelf]

After he passed, eventually we find out, like, maybe my brother's new. Because my brother Cody, he was number. I was the oldest, Cody was middle, White's the youngest. Cody hung out of Grandma and Grandpa's all the time.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But after you pass, you end up learning. Like, we found, like, a gun he'd used over, you know, hit some Germans.

[Sherman Young]

Damn. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Found some other old stuff, but so he just never talked about. I always thought he just cooked. And so when people talk about their. Their family serving or whatever, it's not like I leapt at the opportunity to talk about how my grandpa was a chef.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because it's like, that's not like, you know, as a kid growing up, you hear and you're somebody in the family, like, being a badass overseas.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're, like, telling your friends about it.

[Sherman Young]

Did he stand when they did, like, things at church or games? Because my grandpa was an accountant in Hawaii during World War II. And so he, like, like, wouldn't stand up doing military stuff like, it was for the Army. But he was like, no, I didn't really, like, serve like everyone else.

[Willie One Shelf]

We. We were never in situations like that because my grandpa, like, pretty much the majority of my upbringing. Funny the way they worked. My grandma, she lost her hearing, so she had hearing aids. So she was. She had a massive hearing problem. She wasn't fully deaf, but she was almost there. My grandpa was legally blind, so he couldn't drive or do any. He couldn't, like, leave the house. But they just. The perfect game.

[Sherman Young]

They needed each other. They needed. They needed each other.

[Willie One Shelf]

It'd just be in the house every afternoon. Like, you know, you drive by, you'd see him sitting on the swing on the front porch, waving. They had a house on the corner, on the awning. They had an awning over the window. You know those old school awnings? They had, like a C planted. Etched, like, on the awning, so you knew it was the Compton house. Just sitting on the corner, right down the road from the park. You see him wave like. We'd be over there all the time. Especially in the summertime when we were out of school. We'd run down to the. To the community pool, Pay a dollar to get in. We'd be. We were pool rats growing up.

[Sherman Young]

That's so sick.

[Willie One Shelf]

He Throw me 20 bucks to mow the yard.

[Sherman Young]

No way.

[Willie One Shelf]

And he was a craftsman, too. Like, he'd be out in his little garage, and he built me, like, this wooden. Wooden bolt action rifle. A wooden. He built it and then had a bolt. A bolt in the wood. A bolt action rifle. Well, didn't shoot anything. It was just a toy because he knew I wanted, like, a beat gun

[Sherman Young]

and stuff like that.

[Willie One Shelf]

He was like, I'll make you something else. When we had our first dog, we got our first dog. He built a doghouse like a dope. Sturdy. Lasted forever.

[Sherman Young]

Chef gave me a again.

[Willie One Shelf]

And legally, like, legally blind, like, he was. He was nice, bro. In the garage.

[Sherman Young]

What a legend.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's a true. He's a true Willie. One shelf.

[Sherman Young]

He is.

[Willie One Shelf]

It was actually about it.

[Sherman Young]

Well done, by the way, on social media, when you posted something from your house and somebody said, you hang that tv, you said, I just do shelves. Check out the pot.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, buddy. Check out the pod. Yeah. I'm a shelf guy. One shelf, to be exact. I don't do more than one.

[Sherman Young]

I audibly chuckled at that comment. That was well done. That was really funny.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. I don't know where I was going with that, but.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, you were talking about your grandfather.

[Willie One Shelf]

Grandfather serving all that stuff.

[Sherman Young]

Because we read a mill. We read a military comment.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah. You kind of just don't know the tales, I guess, until they share or even after they pass. I felt like I learned a lot more stuff about him in the military because when he passes, like the military comes and does like this has like this moment where they fire off the, the weapons. Yeah, they do all these things and you kind of just learn more about it because he never really talked about it all the time.

[Sherman Young]

They like fold the flag and.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, that's really, really cool.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. He was a beast though, bro. Bro, he was a beast, man.

[Sherman Young]

You're making a custom toy bolt action rifle. Like that's a guy that I just want to be in his orbit.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, he taught me how to draw and sketch. Like he'd take his magnifying glass and he's like, you know, he's like drawing pictures for me. He was a beast, man.

[Sherman Young]

What a legend.

[Willie One Shelf]

He'd be yelling at my grandma because she was hard hearing my grandma and I, dude, there was this one story.

[Sherman Young]

Could you hear, could you hear the, like your own voice in the hearing aids? Because they were turned up so loud.

[Willie One Shelf]

I have no clue.

[Sherman Young]

I've come across that sometimes my grandma,

[Willie One Shelf]

she'd just be chilling, you know what I mean? She comes, she'd want hugs, she'd want to kiss you like 10 to 15 times. Or you'd be lean down there, all right. Grandmama, she'd be sitting in a rock, she'd just be sitting in a rocker. You were never too big to sit on her lap. She wanted you to sit on her lap so she could do. So she could balance you on the knee and just back. Whomp diddy. Whomp diddy woo woo, woo. I do that with my kids now. But even when I was a high schooler, she'd want me. She, she'd tap her lap. She back. I'm just like an 18 year old, 17 year old scaly to Nebraska, just getting bounced by my grandma.

[Sherman Young]

What a good woman. Dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

I was gonna tell when I was young, my grandpa yelling at her when I was young. I forget how old I was. I was single digits. I was a little jit.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

We were playing checkers. I was playing my grandma on checkers. She was moving. All of a sudden she stopped moving. And I'm like, my grandma, your turn, you gotta go. And my grandpa's sitting there. Her name was Maxine. He called her Mac. He be like, Mac, you gotta move. And I'm like, grandma, it's your turn. He back, Mac, you gotta move the piece. And then all of a sudden, Mac, dammit.

[Sherman Young]

Hey.

[Willie One Shelf]

And then my grandma's sitting there, her teeth fall Out.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, no.

[Willie One Shelf]

She starts having a stroke. No, Will. Hey. And I'm young. I see her teeth fall out. She plumps in the chair, her teeth fall out. I scream bloody murder. Sprint to the living room. Her teeth fell out. Well, what the hell's going on?

[Sherman Young]

Cause he can't see.

[Willie One Shelf]

He can't see. Oh, he can't see. Her teeth fell out. Her teeth fell off. Grab the phone down 911. I, like, grab the wired phone off the wall, and I'll thr. Oh, dude, ambulance. Everybody comes to get her. Hospital. She was good that day. Like, you know she was. Because I know. I'm sitting here having, like, this cynical humor about it. Grandma has a stroke.

[Sherman Young]

Don't play. Don't play me in checkers, man.

[Willie One Shelf]

My dad one time was helping get her in the car because he's taking her to her. Her beauty appointment. Her salon appointment. Yeah. Because she'd have this permission. And, dude, she was, like, traditional old school.

[Sherman Young]

She rocked all time.

[Willie One Shelf]

She rocked the perm and wore gowns like, you know, those. Like, prettier gowns or whatever. Oh, you know, you had to kind of help them everywhere.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And my dad was helping her in the car one time.

[Sherman Young]

They're Catholic, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Oh, no, not. Not. Not my dad's side. They're bad.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, sorry. Your mom's side?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, my mom's side was, like, Roman Catholic.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But my dad has to take her to the. To a salon appointment. Helps get her in the car. Doesn't fully shut the door. My dad walks around to the other side and gets in the car, and all of a sudden, my grandma falls out of the door. Falls out. There's, like, a little slope in the front yard. She like,

[Sherman Young]

what did Bill do? Was he beside himself? Oh. Oh. Are you good?

[Willie One Shelf]

Back.

[Sherman Young]

Get up.

[Willie One Shelf]

God damn it. Mac.

[Sherman Young]

Mac, get up. You're. Oh, that's gonna be us, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Grandpapa Team six, man.

[Sherman Young]

That's gonna be us.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro, they sound like legends, dude, they were legends, man. They were legends.

[Sherman Young]

God, I love that. The only funny story that comes to mind as far as my grandfather had Parkinson's.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And so, like, I didn't really get to know him. Like, you would like your typical granddad because, you know, he just wasn't talking at that point. A sentence would take, like, five minutes to get out. So I had some talks with them. One thing he did say to me when he was watching the. The Miami, Alabama national championship on his special edition vhs, and I was at that game in my mama's tummy, by the way. It took him about 15 minutes to get it out because he would kind of shake and he would work the word up into his mouth that he get it out. And basically the sentence he told me, he said, ain't never gonna be a team better than the Todd told me that took him 15 minutes to tell me they ain't never gonna be a

[Willie One Shelf]

team sitting there, like, better than the Todd. You're right.

[Sherman Young]

And I'm like, yes. Yes, sir. He. He had this wheelchair and they had a nurse that had to, like, live in in the house to, like, take care of Cha Cha. And he was obsessed with Girl Scout Thin Mints. That was like his poison, dude. Like, and he couldn't. He couldn't, like, use his hands or anything once the Parkinson's got really bad. But one night, dude, this is after, like, him not being able to really do anything by himself. The nurse starts hearing stuff in the kitchen. And it's like, Julie. Julie, which is my grandmother's name, because obviously it'd be her.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Not Charlie. He can't even get out of bed.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And she comes into the kitchen and flips the lights on. And he's sitting in his wheelchair. He can't. He kept the Thin Mints in the freezer because he liked them cold. And the entire bar of Thin Mints is sticking out of his mouth. And he's sitting there in his wheelchair just shaking with the Thin Mints. He was a sicko for the Thin Mints. Dude. What a legend.

[Willie One Shelf]

And big, big, big time right now for Girl Scout cookies.

[Sherman Young]

Big time for Girl Scouter on the

[Willie One Shelf]

other side that's sitting in there.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Shout out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out to Girl Scout cookies.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out Brett, his fam.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out. No free shout outs to Brett Maze.

[Sherman Young]

Nobody.

[Willie One Shelf]

Great PT Sixer. He's a PT Sicko.

[Sherman Young]

Bring us some more Girl Scout.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Bring us some more Girl Scout cookies.

[Sherman Young]

No. Freeze.

[Willie One Shelf]

No. No free shout outs. You gotta deliver some Girl Scout cookies. You know, every day you'd walk in, my grandpa be sitting in his room because he loved the westerns. But he'd be sitting. They have this, you know, the little box tv. But he'd be sitting there because, again, he was. He was. He was legally blind, so he could just kind of see the. The what? Like the. The halo around you, the shape of you. He kind of just knew based on size who was who. But you'd walk in and bang a left and just look in the room and he'd be like, say, this is the tv. He'd just be. He'd just be sitting up in his chair. He'd be like this close. He back this close. Watching his westerners. He will.

[Sherman Young]

Is that you just actively making his song fight so much worse.

[Willie One Shelf]

So fun. Where we go? Parenthood, parenthood, parenthood.

[Sherman Young]

I got one Last one from Gibson, 88 on Spotify.

[Willie One Shelf]

Rip it.

[Sherman Young]

Gibson says milk team six here. My husband and I are firsttime parents to a six month old little boy and we love listening to your show together on drives to St. Louis. Little Mo family. Come on. Hoping to get your. Hoping to get Yalls thoughts and realize it is not medical advice. We were advised against circumcision at birth due to most likely needing a procedure later. Now the specialist says we don't have to do the procedure, but they can do it if we want him circumcised. Would he be made fun of later in life if we don't do it? Help. Do you want my personal opinion?

[Willie One Shelf]

So. So they got advice against circumcision. They want our advice if they should do it now or wait for later in life.

[Sherman Young]

Because now like they were gonna circumcise, but they're like, hey, if we circumcise there's gonna have to be a follow up procedure just because of what's going on on. But then they're like, hey, what we thought was going on isn't going on. It's a normal, like everything's good. So if you want to circusize them now, you could. We can do it.

[Willie One Shelf]

So they want our. They know we're not medical experts, but they want.

[Sherman Young]

They know we're not. And they're basically asking will they be made fun of.

[Willie One Shelf]

You came to the right spot.

[Sherman Young]

You can't. This could not be a better podcast for this question because I got names answer. He's gonna get made fun of.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, we came to the right show.

[Sherman Young]

We had a quote unquote anteater because it looks like, yeah, we had an anteater on our soccer team in high school. And yeah, he knew that. We knew that. Everybody knew and it was talked about a lot. And he was called Anne Eater. He was called Anne Eater. Yeah. Had a decent piece, had nothing to worry about. But you know, it wasn't a German army helmet.

[Willie One Shelf]

It was like the anteaters do have some, some weapons on them.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, dude, they got a little extra something something. Of course it's gonna. It's a decent piece. Conversation. It's a conversation piece.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, conversation starter. You're in the shower, showering with the boys. You just Got to equip them with some. Some wit and some humor.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

If that's the route you're going to take.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You sit there, you shower, and you realize the boys. Everybody's meat. Peeking in the shower. And you just look over. Yeah. I got to clean him.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. I call him the Hooded Stranger. So what?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

You know, it's not that big of a deal.

[Willie One Shelf]

We play hide and seek every day.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. You got to name him. I mean, he's got to have it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's gotta. He's gotta have a name and he also needs to have a superhero name for when, you know.

[Sherman Young]

Then you got the cape on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Well, it's almost like a reverse because he's got the cape on, but then when he becomes a Megazord and then

[Sherman Young]

when it's like half. When it's habsy and it's like almost like a. A turtleneck on him. Give it like a professor name. Like professor something. He looks very, you know.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Well educated.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You came to the right place.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Have a little fun with it, you know, up. Bag and tag it, if you will. Bag and tag it. But. Yeah. What's the answer? Hey, you. Do you. I don't think.

[Willie One Shelf]

We have no clue how to handle this question, so we're just going to. Our defense mechanism is humor. People might be think we're being immature and stupid about this.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, but you are asking. You're asking a podcast producer and a former NFL player whether or not. Not.

[Willie One Shelf]

I've seen a lot, but it's, you

[Sherman Young]

know, it's not his tip. We don't know. I know it involves a lot of extra cleaning. It's extra step with hygiene.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's a biz biz. You close it up, pee in it, and then drop a piss bomb in the shower.

[Sherman Young]

Kind of sick.

[Willie One Shelf]

Kind of.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like, oh, yeah, we'd be doing piss bombs in the shower.

[Sherman Young]

Biz would not be cute. Cut like that makes all the sense in the world. That's awesome.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And so like. And dude, our guy that would get the anteater comments and stuff. He was the man. He was the man. He owned it. He had a great personality.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's all you need, man.

[Sherman Young]

Ton of fun. Great dude totally owned it. And like. Yes. It was like a part of his identity. Like it will be a part of your identity, but like it's a superpower. Yeah. It really. It kind of is a little bit. It kind of is.

[Willie One Shelf]

You got to know you got something that most people don't have. Yeah. And so you're going to get questions. I'm sure at times are feeling awkward. But that's the moments for you to come in with the Icebreakers.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

You just get equipped with the icebreakers and have the personality with it. You're going to own it. He's going to crush it.

[Sherman Young]

He's going to crush it. And he'll get in college and word will get around and blah blah, blah. And he's going to be at a party and the girl's going to come up to him and be like. Like the rumor trio. Yeah, we can find out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. That was the Green Ranger. They were called Megazords. Right. Power Zord Megazord. You know when he had the flute and the Godzilla Megazord like comes out of the water. Hey, I kind of heard. He just pulls out a flute.

[Sherman Young]

And I know we're talking about your sweet six month old baby boy. That I'm sure is just a sweetheart.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

And y' all will make the best choice.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, y' all make the right decision

[Sherman Young]

because you're his loving parents.

[Willie One Shelf]

We're not experts.

[Sherman Young]

And I think we did a good job of proving.

[Willie One Shelf]

I think we've done a good job etching ourselves into how we should be perceived in this world.

[Sherman Young]

So public or private school, Sherman, you wouldn't. I got some stories there.

[Willie One Shelf]

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All right, I have crack a coal one to zoo. And it sounds like it's a collab. A cold, cold one. Yeah. Cold one.

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It's a collab. A crack. A cold one. Just crack one up, Tink.

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I've been sipping one already. I've been sipping one already. Ollie Pop. Shirley Temple.

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Nice, tasty little treat. Yeah. Would you say a collab? A cold one?

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Yeah, Collab. A crack. A cold one?

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Yeah. Collabor crack. A cold one. The zoo. We had a zoo day. Daddy daughter zoo day. I was telling Sherm how my wife was out of town. I think it was on Friday when we were doing our for the dad's meeting. She was like, like, I'm. I'm so low, too. Wifey's going off to the bachelorette party. And I was like, good for her, man. Good. Good for us.

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Yeah, Good.

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Yeah. Good. And so we took it upon ourselves. Saturday, we're going to do something together. We're going to get out of the house. We're going to get the kiddos out of the house. We're going to burn some time, have a little bit of fun. We go to the Nashville Zoo, local Nashville Zoo, phenomenal zoo, phenomenal zoo. To take the kiddos. They love absolutely every animal that comes through. Scarlet was just chilling the entire time, just being a warrior. Warrior. We're just having fun, checking the vibes. Where are we at? What are we doing? Doesn't matter. Just give me the binky, dude.

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And Rue was really team leader at the end of the day.

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Yeah, Rue wanted to see certain things, but also, like, she's helping Try and show the kiddos. I had Scotty. I brought out the double stroller. I knew Rue would want to probably sit in the stroller, not walk around everywhere. So that always think on your feet. Bring the double. Better to have it not need it than he didn't not have it.

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Yeah, dude.

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Scarlett was ripping around in a stroller. We're duo and up. Got a couple for the dad's fist bumps. You had a pt6 encounter, which. Yeah, that'll be fun to that will.

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I hope that who PT sicko that you knocked me did.

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Yeah.

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I was holding Scarlett up on her stroller with both hands to where like, she needed to be held with two hands.

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Yeah, I was like the back end. We were finding the exit.

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So, yes.

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Getting ready to leave. We'd been there a couple hours and

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I totally just neglected my daughter to give out a little for the dad's fist bump. As soon as I let go, Scarlett, she's almost eats it.

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It's like stroller goes sideways, Chef.

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Hey, buddy. I. I love your dad podcast. Nu. Oh, let me. Let me almost kill my kid.

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Knox. Yeah.

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BT6. Oh, she's good. She's good. Five second rule. Five second rule.

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You caught her, though.

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I caught her.

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You saved it. It a close one.

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It was close, dude, but we ripped

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around, had a great time. We was really engaging with both Scotty and Scarlet trying to point at all the animals. Oh, look at. At this Scotty squealing. She's got this little squeal when she sees, like, birds or any animal. Really, bro.

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Rue is fully. I don't want to speak for you about your daughter. For her or for her. But my takeaway of Rue from that is like, she is at the age where she is very much a help. She is not a hindrance at. I'm sure she could be if she had an episode.

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She's a kid. Absolutely. She's three.

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But golly, dude. Dude. I mean, just an absolute tour guide through the zoo for Scarlet.

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I'll be honest, bro. She is an asset. She is an ass when like, say, well, I don't remember the last time mom was out of town, but days where it's like, me and the girl. So maybe Charles out for the day, whatever, which is me at home. But when mom's not there, something goes off in Rue's brain as I have to help this poor old man.

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Let's go, dude.

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I have to help that. That.

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Let's go.

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And so she's always. She. She's been helpful every day that Mom's been gone. Yeah. Like, on top of it. Like, she. She's one of those. She's very much a firstborn. She's very much, like, an oldest. Yeah. Like, got some of the type A that she'll have in her. Very, like, structure, needs to understand the mission, understand the rules, and she'll carry it out. She's a stud, bro.

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She is.

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She knows when it's time to put Scotty down. And, hey, I need you to put on your PJs tonight and do all the things. Make sure your brush is ready when I get back. Downstairs, stairs. Let's draw. Let's. Let's draw. Mom. She loves drawing mom pictures every day. Big into the arts and crafts.

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Love that.

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But she'll just be quietly doing it downstairs while I'm upstairs putting Scotty down. Very Everything I need. Can you help me do this? She's. Yeah, bro. She's been an asset the entire.

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Very open to learn, too. Dude, that was so much fun of. She would ask me questions. There was a. The tiger thing that you saw where it will show the picture of a tiger, but then it's interactive. If the kids flip it around, it shows the muscular bone structure of the tiger. And so Rue was like, uncle Sherman, what's that pink stuff in the tiger? What's that pink stuff? I was like, that's the tiger's muscles. She was like, inside the body. I was like, yeah. She goes, muscles are pink. I go, yeah. And she's like, I have. I have muscles, blah, blah, blah. I was like, that's right. And then when she started pointing at the bones, she was like, these are bones. Bones. Tigers have bones. I was like, they do. I was like, and these are ribs. I was like, rue, if you feel right there, can you feel your ribs? And she started feeling it, and she was like, a tiger has way bigger ribs than me. And I'm like, yeah, it does. It totally. Like, dude. She was just such a joy to interact, dude.

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We got in the truck to drive home after, because you know how she was having her moment with Scarlett where she's doing, like, the throwing the sweats or mom's sweatshirt up in the air.

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I'll give you that video, chef, because that actually is very cute.

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Yeah. And. And Scarlett's laughing because Rue's, like, throwing sweatshirt, like, up in the air, making her laugh. We got in the car, and I was like, rue, you were so kind to Scarlett. Like, thank you. Like, that's very helpful for Dada and Uncle Sherm. It's very helpful for us.

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Yes.

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And she was just super curious on, like, why it's helpful. I'm like, well, it's always good when Uncle Sherm and I, we get to push the strollers and catch up and talk with each other. And sometimes the babies, the kiddos, they need us, so we gotta be basically at their beck and call all the time for whatever they need. Like, they need a snack or they need the binky or they need this or they need to be entertained. I was like. And you were doing such a great job keeping Scarlett entertained, to talking with Scotty, pointing at the animals, and help Sherm and Dada to talk and have fun with each other. Watch, you guys. And she'd be like, why is it helpful? And she said, they're in such a why ask question phase at 3 years old and 4 years old, but everything's a question. And she's just super curious on learning. So why was that good? Or why did that help you out? It helped Sherm. But, yeah, it helped Sherm because Sherm, you know, he's. Their mama is gone for the weekend. Just like your mama's gone for the weekend. Weekend. So Sherm is hanging out with Scarlett solo. So he's tending to Scarlett all the time, all day long. Yeah. Making sure she has everything and probably has to entertain her, make her laugh and make her smile. And you were doing that while we were at the zoo with her, so Uncle Sherm got to just have fun, hang out with you.

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Yeah. I literally leaned up against the car while she was doing it. I truly thought to myself, that is so awesome. Like, I literally just leaned up against your truck with my arms full, then just watching her make Scarlett laugh and giggle.

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Yeah.

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And I'm like, dude, that's so cool.

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That's so cool, just seeing our kids interact.

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Yeah. And, like, Rue being like, oh, Scarlet, you know Sherm. Sherm, are you watching? She. I'm. I'm making her laugh. I'm like, yeah, you're killing it. Like, you keep doing it.

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Like, she's a showman. She wants people watching when she's doing stuff.

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I didn't tell you what she told me when she was like, hold on, I got. Tell Uncle Sherman. Bye. She came up to me and she said, will you tell Scarlet's mom that I liked making her laugh with my sweater today? And I said, I will gladly pass that along. I said, thank you so much. Such a sweetheart, man. Such a sweetheart. I was like, that juices me up. Oh, yeah, She's a good one.

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Yeah, she's She's a beast, man. Doesn't come without trials and tribulations.

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Oh, a hundred percent.

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Doesn't come without trial and tribulation. I'll take it. She dominated the 12 hour travel time to Hawaii. Dominate.

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Yeah. How was all that? Dude? It was because we didn't even get into that at the zoo. Like how the kids did traveling.

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Scott Zilla was Scottzilla.

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Love it.

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Good.

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She's a beast, dude.

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Good. She. During the travel time, it was again. Our first flight took off from Nashville at 7:30 in the morning. So we had the kiddos up early. And usually, you know, as a parent, you're hopeful that your little one, Scotty, is around 15 months old, but you're hopeful that they like, you know, they'll eat their food or take their bottle and then like go to sleep or like zonk out. And you're hoping for like an hour at a time.

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Absolutely.

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Out of the 12 hours of travel, Scotty probably slept a total of 90 minutes. Sporadically. Yeah. Maybe like combined.

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Yeah.

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And then outside of that, like, Scotty is a busy body. She is like a, she's just, she handles herself like a reckless abandoned bro. Yeah. Like, has to be moving, has to be doing stuff. What I hated too is mom had to essentially hold her the entire time because she's a big, she's a big mommy's girl. Like she'll play with me, but she'll play with me from mama's arms. Or if, if mom's in the vicinity and I'm holding her, she just, she reaches and like, you know, yells and does all this stuff. So you're trying to like, you're trying to think about everybody. You're trying to think about everybody around you on the plane because it's a long travel time. Like the first flight to Arizona was like four hours. Then you had like a four or five or a five hour flight to Hawaii from Phoenix after a couple hour layover. Wasn't, wasn't terrible, but it's like there was no mom didn't get to nap at all. I passed out for a few minutes, one point. But yeah, Scotty, Scotty was tough. Scotty was tough. There, there are moments where you're like, you want to put a bullet in your head and. Yeah, hey, take the plane down.

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She seems.

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We're over the water. Put it in the water.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that looks good. Yeah, right there. She seems that age too, of like Scarlet, I feel like is at the tail end of if we hit her with a bot if we've been playing with a. Her. Playing with her, playing with her. Getting that energy out and then we hit her with the bottle, we can then wrap her in a blanket and incentivize sleep. And she'll take.

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Yeah, yeah.

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She'll be like, yeah, I guess I could conk out for two hours. Yeah, right here.

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But Scotty's in that phase where she's, she's curious about everything. She wants to play, she wants to climb again. It'd be like Rue in the middle seat. Because Scotty's a. A lap chop wild. So we're sitting in a three piece row. Rue's in the middle seat. We have this cool little like suitcase, a roller suitcase where you can take out and kind of turn it into something like four plane seat.

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That's kind of a.

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That's shout out. It's a dad hack right there. I can't really. I don't know what the product is. If one of you guys can search it up. I have no clue what to call it, but it's like a little kid's roller, like a roller suitcase where you can turn it into basically an extra little platform. So if Rue does want to sleep, she can lay back. We have her pillow. Pillow. She can kind of lay down on the seat. And also in that little space next to the legs, she kind of sprawl out. But Scott didn't want to stand in the middle part and just hold the seat and like engage with people behind us. The people behind us were great. Everybody around us was great. Knew that we were just in a. In entrenched warfare.

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Yeah.

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The entire time with Scotty. But she wants to climb. She wants to do all this stuff.

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It's a suitcase. You said will, right? Yeah, because I found one that's like a ride on suitcase.

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It's like a ride on suitcase. Real ride it like a horse and you'll have this like longer lanyard thing that you're kind of dragging her and moving her around the airport.

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It's called a stoke.

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It might be stoke. Looks.

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I mean there's like foot pedals and stuff on this.

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It looks like she doesn't have foot pedals, but it's something like that.

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That sounds unreal.

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Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah. Is there foot pedals on it?

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No, it's more like grooves, I guess. Like.

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Yeah, but it's got like stickers that they can put on them. That's it right there. If you want to show the graphic for a dad hack. Shout out product. Shout out to use. It works wonders for us. But we'll have, like, her blanket, stuffed animals, pillow, and then, like, some arts and crafts or books or whatever in there. So it's like her little dang, like, her little setup. But she ru. Dominated. Very good, very patient, you know, would ask how much longer we have. Kind of be bummed every now and then, but not. She never had any real meltdowns or anything else. Scotty was a tough one. Scotty was a tough one.

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Jill said that about Rue when I, like, described the zoo thing. She was like, she's a firstborn girl, through and through.

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Yeah, she's super helpful.

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Yeah.

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And then for any parents out there, like, thinking about traveling or doing family vacations, dude, just do it. Like, it sucks. The traveling sucks.

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Yeah.

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I even told my wife when we were talking about doing a vacation. Yeah, good. Like, doing a vacation. I always want to stay somewhere, like, in. Like, on the mainland to where you're not flying that long.

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Yeah.

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So I'm like, dude, Scotty's going to be a nightmare. She is. Every time we try travel, she talked me into Hawaii. Love Hawaii. But I'm like, bro, it's such a long travel. But, hey, happy wife, happy life.

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Come on, sweetheart.

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You want to go to Hawaii? Let's go to Hawaii. Good Resort was beautiful. But my advice for those people, if you have a wife who is adventurous and wants to travel and see things and go on vacations, dude, just. Just eat the grenade and do it.

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Yeah.

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Because as hellish as it was traveling there, because we were wiped out. We got there, and it just. Just when you get to the destination, it's just so worth it, especially when you, you know, we had nothing on the schedule because it was kind of a resort. It wasn't like, all inclusive or anything, but it was a beautiful resort. We got upgraded when we got there. The agent. Because everybody, anybody who's followed me for a long time or a few years probably knows or understands the lore of Expedia. When we traveled to Italy a few years ago.

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Travel has been a nightmare for the Compton family to. Nothing that y' all have done right.

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Like, y' all have a nightmare situation with Expedia. I took the country to war against Expedia. We got it figured out eventually, but we didn't fly to Italy the time we wanted to fly to Italy. We had our bat. We had everything set up. We had our tickets, but we apparently weren't in the computer. I was going to do the. In the computer, and that was a nightmare. So from that we used one of Charles friends who's a travel agent. And apparently she's set up for whoever she works with with Shout out Megan Paler. Go check her out on Instagram. Okay.

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Megan.

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But she was our travel agent. And whoever she works with, like, they're eligible for upgrades. Like this list of like five to 10 upgrades. If the resort or hotel has it available when you're there, she could qualify for an upgrade. We got upgraded, bro. To the most. I mean, it's. I did my best not to flex. Yeah. Because I just had that vibe where you go and you're. You're apart and you're staying somewhere that you feel. Feel like you shouldn't be here. You don't belong here. Where you feel like you made it. Like it was a four bedroom suite with a private pool and it was insane.

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Hello.

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And I'm grinning ear to ear the entire time just like, how. How do we have this? Yeah. But it was amazing, bro. We got to chill. We pool beach every day. Rue swimming like six, seven, eight hours at a time. Time. It was very relaxing. It was great to get away. But it was. It was a phenomenal vacation.

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Oh.

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Dealt with some jet lag. Good.

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It looked it, dude. Just the little outfits, the little outfits for the girls and those family pictures that you had. Just everything that comes with the vacation. That probably is a pain. I feel like that is applied across fatherhood of just everything's gonna suck to some extent because all the extra steps. But then the payoff, dude, the payoff is huge.

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And if you're a. A dad or a parent out there like me, like I. We went on zero family vacations growing up.

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Yeah.

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All of our stuff basically went into sports for myself. And so all of my vacations were essentially like baseball tournaments or football camps. Like whatever my parents can muster up and put towards that. They did. I would also be the kid where I traveled with a buddy. So say we're on the baseball. I'd be in the car with you and your family going and staying. We'd be sleeping in the same bed. I'd be like the tag along kid. My parents did everything I can. We were middle class, they worked hard. But all of it went towards us with sports, our passions, everything else. But we went on zero family vacations because didn't have the time, didn't have the money. And so it just never happened. Charl kind of opened my eyes to vacationing. Like even growing up in the sports world and playing in college, in the NFL. Like when I would go on vacation it would be. I never wanted to be anywhere past like three or four days. Because you feel like you're out of the structure. You feel like you're taking away from things you could be getting better at or chasing that 1% to get better. So, Charl, get me to go on week long vacations, two week long vacations. We spent, I want to say, five or six nights in Hawaii, dude. Family vacations. Going and seeing, going to see in different parts of the country, seeing different parts of the world. Like, dude, it's is. Those are core memories that you're going to have with your kids that you're going to look back on and you're going to be happy you did them, especially at a young age. Because we want to get them in a rhythm to where we do a family vacation every year or we get to do it a couple times to where they grow up going and seeing different parts and being excited to see new things and experiencing new things. But man, take the family vacation.

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And there are so many ways to do it to, from your standpoint of like you can do, do the family vacations where you are driving to the Grand Canyon, you know. Yeah. You're driving, you find the campsite that has like some nice little cottages that are affordable. Whatever, like whatever the trip looks like. Just going on a trip with family, dude.

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Yeah. And you're 100, right. Like, you don't need much on the family vacation because there could be listeners out there. Yeah, it sounds amazing. You get upgraded to a four bedroom suite. Yeah, yeah. Like you got a lot of money, you got the world. You can do all these different things. But there would be moments where we're sitting there on the beach and all Rue wants to do is throw rocks into the water. And I'm thinking in my head, you don't need all of these things to have a phenomenal experience. It's nice that we get to enjoy it, that we get to do these things. This privileged life that they have, they have no clue that they're on a beach in Hawaii right now and this is the peak of life. They just want to rock and they want to throw in the water. They just want you to join them wherever it might be and throw that rock in the water. Water.

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We like truly I, I was blessed enough to like get to go on some vacations and stuff. And my grandmother, I told you, lived in Blue Mountain Beach, Florida, like right by Grayon and. Yeah, Seaside and stuff. So, like, getting to go see her was pretty much a vacation. But some of my Favorite memories were just like going out into the country with my dad, like, west of Fort Worth, where. Where people that know Texas are like. Yeah, there's not a whole lot out there until you hit Abilene.

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Yeah.

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And throwing huge pieces of wood into, like a stock tank so that they would float like battleships. And then sitting there with my brother and my dad and throwing rocks at the sticks until you can snap them and break them enough that they would sink. Like, that is literally one of my favorite memories as a kid is finding a good stick to go throw in the stock tank and then try and sink it with the rocks. And it's like, that cost almost negative dollars, dude. Like, that costs nothing. Like, you. You can create that any sort of way. So to your point, like, I. Yeah, any type of travel, dude.

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Like, I remember we'd have like. We do like a. We'd go camping after, like a baseball season was over. So I remember having fond memories just being in the sleeping bag. God, being in the intent. But I'm sitting here like, as I'm. As I'm thinking through it. It's like the parents. You just enjoy watching your kids have fun and engaging and playing with your kids because your kids are. They're so in the moment that again, all they need is some sticks. Yeah. All they need is some rocks. Like, they don't need much. Yeah. It's just knowing that you guys are embracing the suck together, Figuring out, learning things in real time about each other, Getting to the destination, you, mom and dad, you're kicking back, you're enjoying whatever you can. Because it's still work when you travel. Like when we went to Destin last year, like, it's. It's constant work when they're at certain ages, being young, like under three years old.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But the moments where you are finally relaxing or you are finally playing or you are just watching your kid play by themselves and the smallest thing entertain them. Like, that is like the joy that you have behind going out on any adventure. Adventure.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because you don't have to go far. And again, I say that. It's like I'm sitting here thinking through. It's like. Yeah, I'm sure people listen to. It's like you have the means to do yada yada. That's true. I'm very blessed that I get to

[Sherman Young]

do that, which is sick. Dude. That's nothing. Yeah. That's not good to be like, oh, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm not ashamed of. I'm just thinking how it gets to where even it's Relatable to people that could be feeling that way. And it's like, dude, it doesn't take much, man, at all.

[Sherman Young]

And it will suck loading up the car.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, good, good.

[Sherman Young]

You're gonna forget to pack a couple things for the kids.

[Willie One Shelf]

Kids? Yeah, they're screaming the whole time in the car ride because you're not playing the same song over and over. Good. They're not taking a nap. When it's finally nap time, you just want them to relax. Good. Your two year old, three year old's fighting you on that time. I don't want to sleep. I don't want to sleep. I know you don't want to sleep. I'm just letting you know if you want to close your eyes and lay your head back and relax a little bit, you're more than welcome to. I don't want to. That's good.

[Sherman Young]

Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

That negotiation, that yelling is good.

[Sherman Young]

She keeps on hitting the same drum button on her little cube game and goes, play the drum. Play the drum. Play, play, play, play, play, play, play. Play the drums. Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

This is life. This is what it's all about.

[Sherman Young]

Good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Keep hitting that annoying sound. Scotty. They had the little karaoke box out the other night and Scotty was taking a microphone and just putting it next to the speaker so it's making that blaring rotten ass noise. And Rue's laughing. I'm like, hey, Scotty, stop. And she just looks up at me with a shit eating grin and keeps doing, doing it. Good. This is parenthood, bro.

[Sherman Young]

Scotty's all time.

[Willie One Shelf]

Scotty is an animal. You're at whatever hotel you're at, they have a pool. Your kid wants to swim all day. It's finally time to relax. They don't want to go and eat dinner, they want to go to the pool. Hey, can we go to the pool after? You finally just say, oh, okay, fine. We go to the pool after. For the love of God.

[Sherman Young]

Good. Scotty. Just getting the microphone and getting microphone feedback and just evil.

[Willie One Shelf]

Bro. Bro. She's a menace.

[Sherman Young]

That's incredible.

[Willie One Shelf]

She's a menace, bro. She'll go and take. She'll go and like take rouge toy sex. Say, Rue, there's this, there's this little game that we have from, from like the Everly. The Everly boxes.

[Sherman Young]

Oh yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Where it looks like Connect 4 but it's a sequence of colors go down the line so Rue fills them. All right.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Scotty will come over and grab one. Rue will get pissed. Scotty, no, Scotty. They'll be sitting There hand fighting. Scotty ends up grabbing one, and immediately when she grabs one, turns around and takes off.

[Sherman Young]

Run.

[Willie One Shelf]

I like Scotty. Give that back to Ru. And Rue will be kind of, like, crumbling a little bit, standing by the toy, like, Rue, you got. You can't. I'm, like, kind of laughing. You just can't let her. She knows you want that, so she sees that you give her a reaction. That's what she wants. She thinks you guys are playing. And Scotty, as I'm telling Ru that when she's about to crumble by the toy, Scotty standing about five feet away, just standing there, looking at Ru, just wanting her to get up to kind of go after Rue. Yeah. I back see if Scotty will give it to you. She's like, scotty, can you give me that, please? Scotty will hold it out and take three steps, and then once R reaches out, she'll drop it down, turn, and run. I swear. I swear I'll get it on film for you every. All the. All the time, y'. All.

[Sherman Young]

At the zoo, I'm sitting there, and Scotty was, like, kind of in her own world, but she was interacting a ton. But she's, like, kind of in her own world like Scarlet is, but she's able to actually see animals point at animals and make, you know, that, like. And, like, look at me. Like, look.

[Willie One Shelf]

I see it.

[Sherman Young]

Like, you look, too. So she was kind of sitting there and, like, eating her snacks. And you were interacting with Rue, showing them the monkeys, I believe.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Like, y' all are looking at that. And Scarlett and Scotty are both just kind of in their own little world in their stroller. And I know that Scotty understands. Like, y' all talk to her and tell her things, and she does so. So I'm like, I know she understands.

[Willie One Shelf]

She's great.

[Sherman Young]

It.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shaking her head no.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. So I was like, I'm just gonna talk to her like a adult. And I was like, hey, Scotty. I was like, this is my daughter, Scarlett. And I was like, you do a really good job of waving at people. I bet that she would like it if you waved at her. And Scotty literally turns to me and looks at me like this and just keeps on staring. I go, if you want to, you don't have to, but if you want to wave. And scarce. Scarlet, you can wave at her. She probably like that. And she's still just looking at me like this. And she looks over her shoulder at Scarlett, she goes. I was like, that was incredible.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're right. Though she is like, in her own world.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Most of the time. She's such. She's. She's such a joy to be around. Did you see the training for the AGAP video where we're in our. We're at our spot on vacation? No, she's just over there going, oh, oh, sorry.

[Sherman Young]

She's just headbutting the door. Yes. You can see Ruth's reflection in the door.

[Willie One Shelf]

I sent you the video last night to where she climbs up on her own little slide. That little rainbow where she like, she like kick her, like, pull her heels so that way she can get some traction to go down on this little. I mean, it doesn't stand very high, but she like falls down and kind of falls down sideways, hits her head against the wall, falls in between and

[Sherman Young]

like the beer back head.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Hits her head. You can hear the thud. Falls like in between the bean back a little bit. And she just gets up smiling, bro.

[Sherman Young]

Gets up smiling and makes like a little like, noise, like. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, I showed that. Did I text you back on that?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, you did.

[Sherman Young]

Cuz I was like, that was hilarious. But I showed instantly, Jill, that video. I was like, that's not normal behavior. But I mean, like, like, that's like, pretty fearless, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

She's. Yeah. Scotty is that way. She's way different than roof R would hit her head going down. She would have been crying.

[Sherman Young]

Yes.

[Willie One Shelf]

She been like, okay, maybe I'm hurt here. I'm kind of embarrassed that I fell down. Yeah. Very much like the first child that thinks about everything.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

But Scotty's got, like this reckless abandon about her where she is kind of fearless.

[Sherman Young]

She is it. J. To Jill's point, she sees a bunch of toddlers at her job. The only reason that I was interested in hearing, like, her perspective and she was like, yeah, like that's. That's like a high thing that she just was like, I'm gonna climb that. And then, hey, guess what? I think I'm gonna jump off that too. Oh, didn't stick the landing and just like ate it against the wall.

[Willie One Shelf]

Good.

[Sherman Young]

She's just like, what a stud. Dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

We were in the. Because we're at the kids pool most of the time, most of days. And Scotty's in like this one where it's like 1 foot, or it might be 6 inches, 8 inches, 1 foot deep. And you know, she'd be walking and she would literally tip or fall over a slip and she'd be sideways, like under the Water in the water. And I like, go down. I'll be laughing, come over and just kind of pick her up. And she's like. And then get back up and just keep it going, bro. Or I'd like throw a little torpedo rocket in the water, shout out, jp.

[Sherman Young]

JP got R. Those are electric.

[Willie One Shelf]

And the kids loved them. But they'd be right underwater where Scotty can reach, grab. But sometimes she'd miss and just go like, head first down in the water. And she's like, you know, reaching to get up. I. We'd be like, oh, snap. After the first couple times, you realize, like, man, she isn't.

[Sherman Young]

She doesn't care.

[Willie One Shelf]

She's not even phased. Like, bro, you're drowning.

[Sherman Young]

That's going to be. I mean, that's literally like, let's say she's playing soccer, volleyball or whatever, like in high school. She's gonna like, eat it. Like, she's gonna get, like, hurt. And she's literally just gonna be like. And just keep going. Like, that's so badass.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I'd even think about anything else.

[Sherman Young]

Anything. Yeah, that didn't hurt.

[Willie One Shelf]

That didn't hurt.

[Sherman Young]

God, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, by the way, flying back was hell. The worst part about, I feel like vacation too, is when you're leaving vacation, you don't want to leave and you travel back. We took a red eye back for. So we left local time in Hawaii. 6:30 was the flight. And then we flew seven hours to Dallas. Kids slept. Kids did a great job sleeping. Mom and dad, we got zero sleep. For whatever reason, I just can't get comfortable on the plane. Zero, bro. So when we got back, operated after a red eye. Good.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Operated on fumes. Charles parents were over. Ola and Opal were over at the house. They helped for a little bit, but transitioning off a jet lag, that's probably the hardest part.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Coming back because going there, it's not that bad. They still fall asleep. They're exhausted, so they're tired. You might have a couple meltdowns right before bedtime, but overall they go to sleep fairly quick. And then they're waking up early. You're waking up early, like 4 or 5 in the morning.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because you're. It's a.

[Sherman Young]

You get those hours back.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. But traveling back is a nightmare.

[Sherman Young]

It is.

[Willie One Shelf]

And it hit us on. On Saturday. Charles leaves Saturday. I gotta wake up. This is my dad loss. A guy gotta wake up because I'm handling everything for the weekend. Weekend activities. Rue had ballet. Saturday morning, Rue wanted to go. Her and mom have me up in Rue's room the night before prepping me on ballet. Like, I know the outfit, but it's like she wants a ballet bun. She gets a ballet. A ballet bun every weekend. Because mom was a phenomenal ballet dancer growing up. So mom always has her prepped and ready to go to the pristine amount, like, perfect little ballet bun. And Charles just showing me the bobby pins will be way too hard for you. You can twist it or wrap it around, and you put another hair tie in. And Rue's kind of trying to coach me through it too. And I'm like, I got you, Ru. I got you. We'll get you right. I'm watching YouTube videos that night before. Like, I watched episode one and two of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Then I'm watching a YouTube video on how to do, like, a ballet.

[Sherman Young]

Watching film.

[Willie One Shelf]

Just watching.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Watch a tape.

[Willie One Shelf]

Watch a tape. Fail to prepare. Prepare to fail.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

I don't set an alarm the next morning because usually the kids are up around 6:37 all the time. Yeah. And I wake up in a panic because I think the monitor dies because I can't hear sky shotty. And I kind of woke up on my own at 8:30 after mom comes down, leaves, puts her in the bed. She's got to get Mom's shirt, sweatshirt. Yeah, we got to talk about what things we love about mom, what we're going to miss about mom, what we're going to do while Mom's gone. And then we finally get back to sleep around, like, 6:15 in the morning, and I wake up at 8:30, bro. In a panic. You know the feeling when you're just like, oh, something happened here. And I'm. I'm on. I'm on the wall. I'm on. Watch Rue still passed out my bed. I'm like, okay, she's good. I see. That's 8:30. I'm like, oh, ballet's at night. 9. We're not gonna make ballet. I text my wife. I just text, hey. So I just woke up and we're not gonna make ballet. And my wife's like, don't you feel like you could just get the kids up and get them ready to go? Scotty can go in her pajamas, like, basically make it happen. Yeah, yeah. It's probably not gonna happen, but I see, because I think the monitor might have died because Scotty's usually up crying something. Because she went down at normal time the night before. Scotty was face down. She slept till about 9:15.

[Sherman Young]

She was getting those hours back.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Hawaii caught up to us. But Rue was bummed that we couldn't do ball. We go upstairs. I'm like, let's get dressed. Like, we're gonna go to the zoo with Uncle Sherm and Scarlett. She's like, but what about ballet? I was like, oh, sweetheart, I told you. We, We. We overslept. You overslept. You didn't wake. You didn't wake that up real. And wait. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

What are you doing?

[Willie One Shelf]

We overslept. Dad did a poor job getting up. I couldn't get everybody going. Like, we missed ballet. We can't do ballet today. Yeah, but I want to do the ballet bun. I want to do ballet. Ballet. And I'm like, oh. And you start feeling that something could be coming on if you don't figure out ballet. So I was like, how about this? How about we get you ready for ballet? Yeah. And I'll throw on a ballet class downstairs on the tv and you can do a ballet class. She's like, I wear the dress. Or the. What do they call them in ballet? Tutu?

[Sherman Young]

Leotard.

[Willie One Shelf]

Leotard. I can wear my leotard. Like, sweetheart, yeah. Let's do the whole get up. I'll put you in a ballet bun. So I'm doing the ballet bun, brushing her hair out. Takes me like three or four tries to get the ponytail in the right spot. I'm twisting around, around. That failed a couple times. I'm like, good. Then I finally just get it good. Failing over and over. You're up there sweating a little bit, trying to do your daughter's hair. Good. Yeah. And I. I get that sorted out. We go downstairs and I turn on Ballet. This 20 minute ballet class. She. I kind of moved the living room to where she has space. She locks in and knocks it out. Focus the whole time, doing everything the person on TVs doing. So she ripped an entire ballet class on her own. I was so fired up and gas that we figured that. That out. Turn the dad loss into a dad win. Parlay it into a zoo visit. Get Scotty up and going. She's eating, having a good time, watching Rudu ballet.

[Sherman Young]

And I'm telling you, dude, I know for a fact that Rue loved it because she told me about it at the zoo.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, doing ballet on tv Told me

[Sherman Young]

about it at the zoo. She asked what Scarlet's leggings were, and I said, those are leggings. I said, ballerinas, do they wear leggings? And she was like, they used to too, but I wear Socks. I don't wear leggings. I was like, that's right. And the only reason I knew that that was called a leotard is because I blanked at the zoo of what that was called. And I said, wait, what's the pink thing called? And she kind of looked at me and I was like, I. I really have forgot. Like, what is that pink thing that the ballerinas wear? And she goes, my leotard. I go, that's. That's. That is it. Good job, R. I was like, that is a hard word to say. Slash. She nailed it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, she was fired up. She was pumped. We did that.

[Sherman Young]

She was pumped, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

She was pumped.

[Sherman Young]

So she was bragging a little bit about it in a good way.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's awesome to hear.

[Sherman Young]

Just a warning to you both. We're getting close to an hour.

[Willie One Shelf]

Getting close to an hour.

[Sherman Young]

Close to an hour. So if we want to hit some hubby wifey shout outs and it gets a voicemail, be a good.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, man, we're just. Dude, we're just going.

[Sherman Young]

We're getting closer now.

[Willie One Shelf]

Six does not mind. We, we. We apologize under an hour. Hope you've enjoyed the stories.

[Sherman Young]

I have a nice little dad hack. Yeah, you guys, there's some dad hacks. There's some different stuff. Feel free to rip through some of the comments if you want and then we can get over. We have two voicemails today. Let's go. So I. I have a nice little dad hack. Cuz I. I have a dad hack of my own that I'll parlay after this. It's a very short one, but our. Our dad hack comes from Will Sh Shearer. Will says. Hey, Will and Sherm and boys in the back. This is Will Shear from Plumas Lake, California. For the Dads is my new favorite podcast. My wife is amazing and just gave birth to a toddler weighing 10 pounds 5 ounces. Yo, so much for all juggernaut.

[Willie One Shelf]

God bless.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, for anybody that like 10 pounds, 5 ounces. Ounces. Yo, so much for the all newborn clothes in the closet. Yeah. Truly his name is William Shear the fourth. Yeah, he will go by Liam. Got a dad hack for pt 6. When changing a newborn's diaper, their hands try to help. That's very true. When the onesie is unzipped from the bottom, pull it up to get it out of the way and tuck their arms in the onesie to keep them secure. I've never heard this one. That's actually. That's a great hack. The pod encourages me to Stay locked in and present. Keep it up, boys.

[Willie One Shelf]

I got. I gotta. I gotta that hack right here. Clear your throat. By the way, William Shear the fourth gonna go by Liam. If, if, if I get a boy someday. My wife and I are fortunate enough to have a boy one day. Day William iv. Because I'm William Earl iii. And in my brain he's going to go by Liam. So shout out William. Shout out William Shear.

[Sherman Young]

Is it William Shear?

[Willie One Shelf]

William Shear the fourth. Shout out William Shear. Shout out little Liam. Dude, just being a torpedo coming out of.

[Sherman Young]

Liam's a great name. I think that's cool.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dad hack right here from. From Jordan on Spotify. Chazon, Jordan, Chazon.

[Sherman Young]

Come on, D. Bad tip.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you can't remember the month, the months, 16, 18, 23, just say when their birthday was. Example. They turn 2 in August or they will be 3 in February. Nice hack. That's why I get stuck doing the math.

[Sherman Young]

That's why it's Jordan Chase on, not Jordan Chase off.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, right there.

[Sherman Young]

He's locked in. I got Ryan McCullin on X. Just trying to get that fast pass to the shock wave. So this was sent into our. For the dads. This was DM to us, I believe. Believe. This was the message that he wrote on a little breakfast sandwich that he got for the wifey. And a little vanilla latte right there. And he wrote, to the world, you are just a mom, but remember, to Brooks, you are his whole world. Happy Friday and I love you.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, that is phenomenal.

[Sherman Young]

Yo, Ryan.

[Willie One Shelf]

Dude. Ryan. Shout out.

[Sherman Young]

I bet that shockwave wave hit. Yeah, I bet that.

[Willie One Shelf]

I gotta get that. I gotta get that in the bag immediately.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, and I. Dude, I have a little dad hack very quickly. It's called a hook on high chair. You can get them on Amazon for like starting at 30 bucks. It's a high chair that is portable that you can take to any restaurant and it slips onto the table and you can tighten knit and it will hook onto any table. Dude, it's the best. I'm just. I'm telling you guys. Hook on highchair. Look into it. There's some very affordable options on Amazon and it just. It gives the waiters and servers so much more room at restaurants. Dude, you can have it in the booth with you. Sick.

[Willie One Shelf]

Great dad hack. I got one here from Tommy Bennett on Spotify. Dad Hack. Create a playlist for Baby with your favorite slow songs. I included our first dance, what we walk down the aisle to, and other special songs for me and wifey. Play for baby when you're rocking them in the early days and they will associate those songs with peace and calm. Now, at eight months, it has become our bedtime playlist. A car meltdown playlist. Can't wait for baby girl to watch our wedding video down the road and recognize these songs. That is. That is heartwarming right there.

[Sherman Young]

That's a dad.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's wholesome. That's a wholesome dad hack. We want to get to Collins voice

[Sherman Young]

if you want to do hubby and wifey shout outs first.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, hubby wifey.

[Sherman Young]

We got a Just three of those and then let's get into some voicemails.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hubby shot. I got it right here. It was hiding behind the. Hiding behind the old iPad. Hubby shout out from Rebecca Driver on Facebook. Not a dad, obviously, but I wanted to give a shout out to my husband. He had a stroke in August, which has taken his mobility and his speech for now. And he still shows up for the kids. He was dancing in a hair salon today with her three year old. He just lights up when our kids enter the room. He still tries to catch. He still tries to play catch. He still wants to tell them good night. His first real word after a stroke was our son's nickname. He's just so determined to let our sons know how much he still loves them even if he can't speak. It's a great shout out. Rebecca, we're all pulling for you. Did. Did she give she shout out his name? We're all pulling for the hubby, man.

[Sherman Young]

She sent a really nice video.

[Willie One Shelf]

Video.

[Sherman Young]

She had recorded him dancing in his chair with the kid that was dancing across the salon.

[Willie One Shelf]

And I mean, what a g. So we gotta run that video while that.

[Sherman Young]

A hundred percent dude. Rebecca's a good one. Dude. Yeah, that hubby's a good one too.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, no doubt.

[Sherman Young]

Hubby shout out. This one comes from Ali Seals. Ali Seals Richard on Instagram. Good morning thing. My husband is a big B BT sixer. He tells all his fellow dad friends or soon to be dad friends about Yalls podcasts. He has even made me listen on long drives. He also listens to y' all when he's kindly doing the dishes each night. Shout out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out Hubby.

[Sherman Young]

His golden birthday is coming up. It's February 28th. So he's turning 28 on the 28th. And I would love if y' all could read my thank you on your nearest episode to his birthday. Birthday. Well done, Derek.

[Willie One Shelf]

Happy birthday.

[Sherman Young]

Happy birthday. He also won't let me get a gift for him. So this would be the ultimate gift for his birthday. We recently moved from Houston to my hometown, L.A. which has been an adjustment with our 15 month old baby boy. Zach goes above and beyond to be a great dad and husband to us. Whether it's a small things like doing the dishes when I cook or the big things like planning for our future future. He's the ultimate superhero dad and husband. I feel so lucky to have him as a husband and dad to our baby. Thankful for Yalls as well and hope this makes it on the sod. Well, Zach, I mean, happy birthday, Zach.

[Willie One Shelf]

Happy birthday.

[Sherman Young]

Sounds like you truly don't need a gift on your birthday because you got a Ms. Ali shield seals Richards at home. He's got bald, but yeah, hey, he

[Willie One Shelf]

could use a gift on his birthday, you know. Know what I'm saying?

[Sherman Young]

I know what you said.

[Willie One Shelf]

You know what I'm saying? Okay, maybe a little. Maybe a little extracurriculars before the shock wave. May maybe no shock wave.

[Sherman Young]

Maybe. Hey. It is my golden birthday.

[Willie One Shelf]

It is my golden birthday. Sweet.

[Sherman Young]

I put.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, put a bow on it. Put a bow.

[Sherman Young]

Just put a little bow on it.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Something to unwrap. We don't have to yet. Hey, Ally's a great gal. Great w. A great.

[Willie One Shelf]

Ally's a great gal. If we could give from Papa Team 6 or the dads to Zach.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's got verbally two fun coupons from the boys. He does.

[Sherman Young]

He just got two shock wave pass. Yep.

[Willie One Shelf]

And a bow pass.

[Sherman Young]

Okay. That is to be. That could be submitted at the same time. Both coupons. But he does reserve the right that he could. He could spread those out.

[Willie One Shelf]

The bow pass just says put a bow on it. Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Happy birthday Z.

[Willie One Shelf]

Happy birthday. Thank you for writing in, Ally.

[Sherman Young]

Every mom at home now is like it's not right.

[Willie One Shelf]

Cannot, cannot give him a birthday shout out. They're just gonna be.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, so many husbands on the flip side of that. Hey baby.

[Willie One Shelf]

They're just gonna write in on behalf of their wife.

[Sherman Young]

I written. Hey honey, what's your email password again?

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm not going to say that name, but this is wife to Will. Wife of Will.

[Sherman Young]

This is Will's wife. He does a D around the house. He's a good guy. Wish him happy birthday and do what you did for that Zack guy.

[Willie One Shelf]

Week.

[Sherman Young]

Week.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's been feeling really drained because he does everything around that house. House. And I'm just wondering if you guys have any advice on what I could do for him to relieve him of some stress. He's just.

[Sherman Young]

Just writing in sincerely, Zach. Sincerely, the wife.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. Yeah, the wife.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, God.

[Willie One Shelf]

We have fun on this show. We do.

[Sherman Young]

Do we want to move on? I have. I have one more. I know. We're pressed on time.

[Willie One Shelf]

Press on time. Let's hit the voicemail because you. I'm seeing email. We do got. I have an email.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, mail, too.

[Willie One Shelf]

What time are we at?

[Sherman Young]

We are at 1:43.

[Willie One Shelf]

We gotta go. We're over an hour.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, we gotta go. Just. Yeah, we're just a little bit over.

[Willie One Shelf]

All right.

[Sherman Young]

This first voicemail comes from Jonah, and it's titled, ruined whole weekend.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, this is Jonah. I missed freaking trash day, dude, and it ruined my whole weekend.

[Sherman Young]

That's all.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hey, this is Jonah. I missed freaking trash day, dude, and it ruined my whole weekend.

[Sherman Young]

That's all. No, Jonah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Jonah happens to me too often.

[Sherman Young]

You can't blame him, dude. Dude, you can't blame him for letting it affect him, you know?

[Willie One Shelf]

No, there's. There. Listen, mom can come after you. Everybody else can remind you that you missed trash day. But there is no harder critic.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Than your own self.

[Sherman Young]

Than Jonah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Then Jonah.

[Sherman Young]

That's why. That's why I'm not worried at all. Because he's like, I got. I gotta call the boys.

[Willie One Shelf]

I gotta call you.

[Sherman Young]

Absurd.

[Willie One Shelf]

He doesn't even need advice. He doesn't need a pep talk. He's already ready for the next fucking.

[Sherman Young]

Jonah's ready. Yeah. He doesn't need us.

[Willie One Shelf]

He realizes nobody's coming to save his ass.

[Sherman Young]

That's an accountability phone call. Can you believe that? And we move on. Yeah. Respect. Respect.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out Jonah for the call in.

[Sherman Young]

This like Custer. Mason. Saturday, contractions, boys. A week ago Thursday, I was out

[Willie One Shelf]

walking the dog doing the same thing

[Sherman Young]

again, listening to the pipe pod, and

[Willie One Shelf]

my wife went into contractions. Good.

[Sherman Young]

Well, it's a new Thursday. Six days later, still listening to the

[Willie One Shelf]

pod, but a mystic member of PQ6 with little baby boy Baker, who was born on Friday 13. Do you know that man's gonna be

[Sherman Young]

an AAP demon born on Friday the 13th. So you know that boy is going to be a. A Gap demon.

[Willie One Shelf]

Baker. Just want to call and say thank

[Sherman Young]

you guys so much.

[Willie One Shelf]

Much super pumped to hear about all the book recommendations.

[Sherman Young]

Mama's doing great. This is Mason from Michigan. PT6 out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Mason from Michigan, let's go. Shout out you and Mom. Shout out Baker.

[Sherman Young]

A little Friday the 13th, baby. That's sick.

[Willie One Shelf]

I hope. I hope Mason's doing all right. Audrey, remember. Remember how Audrey left because she wanted to be a mom? Oh, Aji. Yeah. Aji. Aji. Aji was our nanny. She wanted to be a mom mom and do that thing. So she had to leave the family. She just had hers as well. First text from the group chat. See that? See that? Their baby comes. Immediately text the father. I immediately text her, hey, how's dad doing? You know what I mean? Yeah, Because Dad's.

[Sherman Young]

Dad's need to be Congrats first. Like. Yeah, congrats.

[Willie One Shelf]

Hope you're well.

[Sherman Young]

How's that?

[Willie One Shelf]

How's dad? How did. How's he doing? Is he. Is he well rested? Did. Has he been well fed?

[Sherman Young]

Did they spoil him? Put him in a chair? Force one, like.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. How's his neck and back doing being on the couch?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

How's dad?

[Sherman Young]

Wait, what'd she say?

[Willie One Shelf]

She laughed. Oh, he's doing just fine.

[Sherman Young]

Like, you were joking.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, those are. You just gotta laugh. Then I text him on the side. Hey, how you doing?

[Sherman Young]

Be real with start anything with Audrey. So. So you just. You laugh too. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I know. Mom and baby's great. How are you? Because nobody's gonna ask you how you're doing. Yeah. PT6 got your back, dude.

[Sherman Young]

Congrats to them.

[Willie One Shelf]

Congrats to them.

[Sherman Young]

Massive shout out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Massive shout out to aji. Massive shout out to Mason.

[Sherman Young]

Mason, you're in the.

[Willie One Shelf]

You're in the gutter now.

[Sherman Young]

He's PT6.

[Willie One Shelf]

He's PT6. Sleepless nights.

[Sherman Young]

Your life is over feedings. And a new one has just begun. Yeah, well, maybe.

[Willie One Shelf]

Maybe Mom's doing the. The feedings every time. Doing the breastfeeding, and you got to be the one to wake up. Up with her. They want you to wake up with them.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, will you wake up with me? Because I. I don't know if I can do it if you're not awake with me. If I. If I'm doing the. And am I doing it right? Do you think this is what the milk person said when they. When we did the. Honey, you know it. Great. You done a good job. That's it, right?

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out moms, bro. God, we're so lame.

[Sherman Young]

Just like that, honey. That's a good job.

[Willie One Shelf]

I got to be up with her

[Sherman Young]

tire this sher. If you promise to go fast. The third one I would like for you guys to just hear. You don't have to react to it, but there is a third emo that's really nice that I was looking through. Which one? If you promise to go fast, I will go fast on third voicemail. Okay?

[Willie One Shelf]

Promise?

[Sherman Young]

Promise. Hey, boys.

[Willie One Shelf]

26 year old female here who watched the pod.

[Sherman Young]

Big fan listening to the episode where

[Willie One Shelf]

Taylor announces his new baby on the way.

[Sherman Young]

Congrats Taylor.

[Willie One Shelf]

Congrats. And at 14748 you read your lesson

[Sherman Young]

of the week about how you never know when your kid greets you at the door for the last time. I just want to say, Even as a 26 year old I don't live

[Willie One Shelf]

with my parents anymore. I live states away from them.

[Sherman Young]

But every time that I'm home, once my dad comes through the the door, I still go up and greet him. So it's still in your future. It doesn't go away if you raise kids. So yeah, I love my dad.

[Willie One Shelf]

I always will. Have a great day.

[Sherman Young]

Sweet, sweet victory. Dude, that felt so good.

[Willie One Shelf]

I'm glad you made us listen to that.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah, I am too. That felt so good to hear dude. She remained anonymous. So to anonymous's dad, Shout out.

[Willie One Shelf]

Shout out.

[Sherman Young]

You're a good one dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, that's Shout out Moms again. Shout out Moms again.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out Moms again.

[Willie One Shelf]

I know we sit here and act a fool and act obnoxious, but moms are great. We know who the real ones are.

[Sherman Young]

We do.

[Willie One Shelf]

We will say we know who the real ones are at all times.

[Sherman Young]

We're just joking.

[Willie One Shelf]

We love to bust balls and have fun.

[Sherman Young]

We do do. We're joking. Courtney Strong wrote an email. Courtney Strong Will and Sher Advice needed. I'm a 29 year old single woman looking to find my PT Sicko. Your show gets me in the feels on every sode. Hearing the love and grace you have for your wife and kids and all the PT sickos that share their time in the trenches or their crack of cold ones. I get to live my dream vicariously through all of you killer pt6ers. I was blessed with meeting a superman of a single dad and imagine being his daughter's step MT6 in the future. It didn't work out and that took all the wind out of my sails for that new chapter I desired. As a youngest child of four by over a decade and eight nieces and nephews, there's an unspoken pressure to find my PT Sicko before the unthinkable happens to either of my parents. Parents. I'm a hard working, self sufficient, loyal, financially stable and very laid back, go with the flow type of girly. I was blessed to purchase my own home last August. My nine year old golden doodle dog is the center of my world as he is all I got for the day Today in parentheses I Have a wonderfully close and supportive family. Family. And as he gets older, the fear sets in. I'll be alone. Advice needed. Where should I be looking to find a good quality man that will be a great PT Sicko. I hesitate to go on dating apps and don't go out to bars as often. All my friends are either in long term ships or getting married. This is a midwestern Michigan girly that needs help from the real ones. Blessed for you. Boy. Boys. Courtney Strong.

[Willie One Shelf]

Courtney sounds like a catch.

[Sherman Young]

Courtney sounds like a catch. Dude, do we.

[Willie One Shelf]

Do we need to have our own dating app? There's got to be an ST Sixer out there that just heard all that. It's like you a little curious.

[Sherman Young]

Wait, she has her own house, she's got a cute dog, she's financially stable, and she's a go with the float. Send your submissions to our email and we'll maybe forward them along. Maybe we'll forward it to Courtney. Who knows knows send your picture and what you do PT6 for a living and like, why you could be her PT Sicko or whatever. Maybe we'll make love here. Or if you're SD Sixer that wants to be a future PT Sixer, you know?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. What advice would you give? I feel like it's hard. Obviously, we. What's up?

[Sherman Young]

You got advice from our Sean team Sixer.

[Willie One Shelf]

All right. Advice from Chef, our Sean team six already. What's her name again?

[Sherman Young]

Courtney.

[Willie One Shelf]

Courtney.

[Sherman Young]

Courtney. Courtney. I'm very serious when I say that this. Go find the guy that if you're from Michigan, when the maze and blue are on, he's screaming at the tv. Now that sounds crazy off the bat, but let me tell you, there's no one more loyal than a man who screams at his at the TV during a game while his favorite college football team is playing. I will stand by that to the day I die. You get a guy who is like, I don't care what. No, it doesn't matter if we. Losing is not an option. Yeah, that's a guy that's going to stick with you through thick and thin, especially if he comes from. I would like to. I'm wearing a Nebraska shirt. Find any Corn Huskers?

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Those are loyal people.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. You know any Big Ten team? A lot of SEC squads out there. Those are the winners right there. And then you just got to put up with the fact they scream at the tv. But that's okay. So a fan of college football. A sicko fan of college football football. NFL franchise or good? NFL franchise or good NFL franchise team that they love.

[Willie One Shelf]

Maybe Courtney's not a sports girl.

[Sherman Young]

I would say this to Courtney, as far as where I found the most success dating slash, how I met Jill, because I was set up on a blind date is the go. You were set up on a blind date too, Derek. You were too. I would say friends that you are very close with that know you know what you love, love and love you and want to see the best for you, want to see you succeed. Finding people that are like minded to that friend group that you really resonate with and being set up, I think is a great way to meet somebody. That would be awesome.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I think that's great advice. Yeah. I just. I couldn't.

[Sherman Young]

I'm not. I'm not a guru. I truly am not a love guru.

[Willie One Shelf]

I didn't have a lot of game either. Um, I can only imagine what the dating world's like now because a lot of it is unfortunately on the apps and everything else. I would say dip your toe in it. You probably don't want to pour a lot of energy into it because you seem like a real one and you don't want to mess around with the nonsense or the. But maybe there's a gentleman or a pt. A potential PT Sicko on the apps. Yeah. And they. You guys just both. You haven't found each other yet.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Nothing against the apps.

[Willie One Shelf]

Nothing against the apps at all. But, you know, obviously it's like dudes ain't. So a lot of times you're on there. Guys are trying to. To get car wash, have a little bit of fun surface. You know, keep it surface level. Maybe go on a date. And that date, they want something to happen that night or that action, like, you know who you are, you know what you're worth. And so if you're interested in getting to the dating scene, it's just I. I feel for when she's like, I don't. I don't hit the bars that often. It probably seems like a hassle doing that. I get it. But if that's what you're. Oh, Polini calling me.

[Sherman Young]

I love that so much.

[Willie One Shelf]

Much. Hey, Coach Bo, you gotta.

[Sherman Young]

You gotta eat. Dating. Good lord. That. Actually, I kind of want you to do that.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. But if. If a priority in your life is finding a man, I would say you approach it like anything else. Like, no. You know, no stone left unturned. Like, trying to figure out what the vibes are. You're gonna hate some of them, but it's worth trying. Yeah. But I'll Courtney, find somebody. She seems like, she seems like a good, good one. Somebody who, who's bought their own house, has their own together laid back vibes, bro.

[Sherman Young]

She sounds like a chiller. And yeah, 29 is nothing. I found mine at 31. Loads of time left. 29, you got loads of time. I got married at 30. Courtney. I got married at 30. So yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Rue is what, three? How old am I?

[Sherman Young]

You're four years older than me. You're 36.

[Willie One Shelf]

Rue is three.

[Sherman Young]

Three.

[Willie One Shelf]

So yeah, I got married at 32. Yeah. I got married at 32. You have plenty of time.

[Sherman Young]

You got plenty of time.

[Willie One Shelf]

I know those fears are real. But you know what? The fears to be so real that you're forcing the issue and you settle. Yeah. So continue to pour into things that give you energy.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And the things that don't do away with them. I'm telling you, at some point you're gonna find, you're gonna find your person.

[Sherman Young]

And if you find your person through things that bring you life and bring you joy and happiness, I. I would say nine times out of 10, that's going to be a winner.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Whether that's hobbies, friends, family, whatever.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's a good question. It's kind of a tough question.

[Sherman Young]

It's a tough question.

[Willie One Shelf]

Especially without knowing Courtney and knowing, you know, more context and everything else.

[Sherman Young]

And respect to her for trusting us.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah. With that. Yeah. I have an email here from Hector Santa Maria. What's up boys? Hector here from Washington state. I'm here watching the Valentine's episode with my five day old on my chest. Good, good. Wifey next to me getting the very much needed sleep. I had called in earlier this week saying I was in the hospital hospital with wifey while she was getting induced. Let's just say this week has been a very traumatic one. From sitting with my wife in the labor room to getting rushed out due to needing an ASAP emergency C section and my wife going into full anesthesia. Our baby's. Our baby girl's heart was dropping low. Not knowing how my girls were doing, all I could do is cry. I hated the helpless feeling or the unknown of what could happen. Thankfully, our little. Our little fighter pulled through. Come on. Hearing or watching you guys every week has made me feel ready to be in the trenches and raise our first girl. Keep up the hard work boys. You guys are doing the Lord's work out here. Rue, Scotty and Scarlett will be so proud of their dads p S. Can Andy record himself reading the book so we can play them for bedtime. Shout out.

[Sherman Young]

Shout out. Andy. There's that sicko right there.

[Willie One Shelf]

We have tear jerkers. I do have a sad alert one. So while I'm just feeling the vibe, like, let's just. Okay, let's just dive in. By the way, Hector, shout out to you, man. There's nothing, you know, your little five day old laying on your chest while mom gets much, much needed sleep. It's been a grind with the kiddos at times, doing the solo dad parenting with mom out of town, but it's a grind that's worth it. It's like the diaper. The diaper pill, you know, fills up and you're sitting there pushing on and you're like, all right, I got to take out the goddamn trash. I got to take out this diaper pill. It's smelling up the place. You got to do all these things. Rue has been. We do sleepovers with mom out of town, or if I'm out of town, we'll do a sleepover with mom to where she sleeps in our bed. So she's been ripping with me for, like, four nights in a row. And it's some of the best times of my life, dude. Of my life. Like, last night I crawled in bed around 10:30, and rude just rolls over and, like, lays on my shoulder, and I'm just smiling, like, kissing her on top of the head and just be like, man, this is. It's going to fly by. It is flying by. And it is incredible because some nights. And I forgot to tell this, this is actually. Actually a fun little update because a while back, I talked about how I hadn't read the book that my mom filled out and wrote in for me. Cracked it open over these last few nights.

[Sherman Young]

No, you didn't.

[Willie One Shelf]

I did. Because Rue was missing mom so much that I was trying to find ways to calm her down. And I'm like, I know, sweetheart, that I misses Mama, too. And I'm like, you know, I miss my mama and kind of telling her about my mom and talking about what happened. Oh, my mom passed away. How'd she. So your mom died? I was like, yeah, my mom had died. Died. And she's like, how? And I'm kind of taking her through it. And I was like, mama, my mom rolled me a little book over here and. And I'm. I'm like, I miss. Hey, look, I. I miss my mama, too. I miss my mama every day. Your mama's going to be back in a couple days, and that is amazing that Mama's going to get to come home. And you're going to be so happy when mama comes home, because I. I miss your mama. I miss mama, too. And I empathize with you because I miss my mama. And there are things like you have your sweatshirt right here. You have things to remember by, because, again, she's going to come back. And I have a couple things that I get to remember with my mama, too. You know, I'm showing her a couple photos, the wedding photos, and telling her how excited she was to meet you. And we're connecting over all this stuff just because of missing mom. And so I pull out the book because we do bedtime stories, and it felt like just. Just the stars align to pull out the old book, and I'm like, you know what? Like, I'm going to read this book. And she's just filling out a bunch of things where it's, like, memories and asking questions and my mom growing up and when I was first born and what she. God, I hate crying. What she envisioned for me and all these things. And we're just sitting here going through, and I'm just reading to her, and she'll see tears coming out my eyes. Dead. Why? You said. I'm like, I got. I missed my. You know what? I miss mom, too. So we can lay here together. Together. We can cry together. Like, it's. You know, mama's going to come back. It's going to be awesome. Mama loves you so much, and it makes dad, I feel good to talk about my mom to you.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Because sadly, it's like, you'll never get to meet her. But. So your boy read the. Your boy read the book. And honestly, when I got done the next night, she wanted to read that book. She's sitting on the bed. I have a photo. She's on the bed flipping through the book. I take a picture and send it to Charo because I'm telling her. I'm like, hey, I read. I read the stuff my mom filled out and wrote for me, and it's been awesome. It felt like that was, like, the perfect moment to bring it out and do it, because she was just. She was struggling with mom out of town, because you do FaceTime and mom's dinner, and it's just, you know, it's just brutal. It's just brutal how much he, like, is sad and misses mom. And then these last few nights, I've just been. We read different parts of the book. I'll be like, oh, here's a question that was asked to Mom. Here's What? Here's what she said. She'll be like, are those pictures. Are those your brothers or are those your family? And it's, you know, it's just drawings and illustrations of. Of other people in the book and. But yeah, dude, each night I've gotten to, like, crack open that book and read just a different. Different portion. Well, I've read through it all. It's not like the longest thing in the. The world, but it's been a joy. Like, it's been fun. And we get to connect over it just because of. Just the fact of, like, missing mom. Because I'm trying to tell her, I'm just like, sweetheart. And, you know, I'm thinking, hey, I miss my mom, too. Dad misses mama, too. Your mama? Where's your mama, Beck? Was it is the lady that grandpa was with. I'm like, no, that was. That's not mama. You didn't get to meet mama. And we just get to go through. I'm like, that's your grand grandma. You know the pictures we see, I'm like, that's grandma. She wrote in this book. That's her handwriting. But. So an update. I did read the book.

[Sherman Young]

I love you very much, and I'm very proud of you. I'm very happy for you.

[Willie One Shelf]

Thank you, brother.

[Sherman Young]

That makes me very happy.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, it was good, man. It's when. Even when I got done and I'm like, you know, sitting there, laying through and everything else, I was like. I was like, damn. It felt like this was the moment. Like it all. This was. This was how it was supposed to go down. So I tell myself anyway, but that

[Sherman Young]

was the right moment. Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

So let's dive into this sad Lord, dude, I know. Grant Overholster on Facebook. Sad alert. Love the content. Here's my story. I'll keep it brief. My daughters and I lost their mom in 2017. I was stationed in New York, and they lived in Arkansas. The military kept us apart. I moved to Arkansas the same day she passed. Guys, what a shock. I took lessons on how to do hair, how to cook, and how to raise girls, and I'm still learning. When I moved to Arkansas, the crew I flew with in the Marines in New York all died in a plane crash five months later. Not only did I have to navigate being a single dad, but I had to figure out and figure my out mentally. If their mom hadn't passed away, I would have been. Damn, man.

[Sherman Young]

He would have been on that plane.

[Willie One Shelf]

He would have been on the plane. Yankee 72 was the crew. Here I am. Nine years later, my daughters are crushing it. I'm crushing it. And my wife adopted our daughters,

[Sherman Young]

and

[Willie One Shelf]

we have a son now. Thanks for being great dudes, and thanks for being a great outlet to escape Grant. Hats off to you, brother. I. You can't imagine going through something like that.

[Sherman Young]

Thank you for considering us as great dudes.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Because to hear that from somebody that's been through all that, it's a pleasure to have you listen to our show and find joy from it. It's a pleasure,

[Willie One Shelf]

man. And then it's like, now I sit here, I'm like, we talk about put a boat on it and shock waves. We obviously talk about, you know, great stuff that we love and passionate about. Grant, bro, we. Dude, we love you. That is. It's just another perspective. It's just another story that reminds you that whatever you're going through there. There are things out there that people have went through that just. That just shock you and then make you think, dude, how lucky are we?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And even Grant, I'm sure there's other perspectives that he finds. He's like, man, it's still. How lucky am I? You know? That sucks. That's brutal. But knowing nine years later, he. He found a wife who adopted her to his girls who he grinded to help raise. Yeah. And I'm sure he was super protective along the way, like, letting anybody else come into that world. Do you know what I mean?

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

That. You know how hard that was. Would be just thinking if I was in that situation, how, like, guarded you'd be for anybody to kind of come into your house or help raise your girls with you or have other opinions or things that kind of might hit insecurities of yours or triggers or things where you're like, no, I need to protect my daughters with anybody that I bring in my house.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

And to find somebody to, like, have a family with, to feel like, hey, yes, I would. I would. It would be an honor for you to adopt my daughter. Daughters and then, you know, have a. Have a son. That's hard, man. Yeah. Finding your way with all that going down.

[Sherman Young]

He's.

[Willie One Shelf]

Imagine your wife passing away and you're. You're off in the military.

[Sherman Young]

But the added guilt, too, of, like, the only reason that he's still here and kicking in his mind is his wife's passing as well.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

That added layer is, like, that has a lot to work through mentally.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

That's crazy.

[Willie One Shelf]

On the mental side of being with your unit, being with your team, a team that it's all Sacrifice. It's all I'm responsible for the group, not myself. And the guilt that you probably carry. Like I should. I should be. I should have been on that plane. And also like no God was telling me something because I shouldn't have been. Cuz if I was on that plane and both of them were lost.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Like I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened with his wife. But if he goes down on that plane because mom's still alive and then whatever happened to Mana happened after that.

[Sherman Young]

And then baby boy's not even in the picture.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, man. Golly.

[Sherman Young]

What was the writing?

[Willie One Shelf]

Grant over holster is on Facebook.

[Sherman Young]

I crept very heavy. Happy birthday, Grant. It was February 2nd, so. Happy birthday to Grant.

[Willie One Shelf]

Happy birthday, Grant. And Grant, if you've listened to this episode. Episode. You get two fun coupons. He does gotta break up this sadness with last.

[Sherman Young]

Do you want me to put a bow on it with a little Dan Gable?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, please give us a Dan gable quote. The PT6. So that we've been. We've been laughing, we've been trying to chime in with opinions, trying to find the next BT sixer for Courtney. Like feeling the all crying, being sad. Like, what are we talking about? Moments. Yeah, we need a Dan Gable quote.

[Sherman Young]

Circumcision, dude.

[Willie One Shelf]

In the book it was my mom wrote, it was something about when I was born, the first thing my dad said and it was he was asked to cut the cord and. Or asked, hey, do you want to cut the cord? And his first. His response that my mom has written in there is, do you have somebody more qualified?

[Sherman Young]

Did he end up doing it?

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, I believe so.

[Sherman Young]

Oh, Billy boy. Billy. What a legend.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, you got somebody more qualified?

[Sherman Young]

That's the Duke of Bontail right there.

[Willie One Shelf]

I can see him laughing after saying that joke. I'll cut the core. Come right here.

[Sherman Young]

Give me that. What? What do I do? This. This comes from a young Dan Gable. This back in the 1970s. This comes from a very rare source of material of him talking to a wrestling camp of kiddos in the 70s. And I quote, everything my high school coach told me was exactly right back then when I listened to him and he told me, you do this, you do that, you'll be a better person. And. And all this and all. All that. I just thought it was a bunch of garbage. But everything he said was right. If I would have done what he said, I'd be a lot better off today than I am right now. You don't really learn from the clinics and wrestling by yourself. You learn from watching. I don't care how good you good the guy is or how bad the guy is in wrestling. I can learn things from watching you guys wrestle. Almost every one of you probably has. Have. Has a certain thing you do differently or a favorite hold. If I can pick that up, that's just going to add a little bit more to my wrestling knowledge and it's going to help me a lot. D. Gable, he was. He was a legit, and he was like, this is garbage. This guy doesn't know what he's talking.

[Willie One Shelf]

He don't know what he's saying. But I should have listened to him.

[Sherman Young]

Every single thing he said was. Was right. That's.

[Willie One Shelf]

Kid. That's. That's. That's life right there.

[Sherman Young]

That's life.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's us right now thinking about everything our parents told us.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's going to be our kids thinking about what we tell them one day.

[Sherman Young]

What our grandparents were telling us.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Dude. One of my. I just want to say this. One of my favorite sods. I try not to do that at the end of sets, but this was truly one of my favorite sets.

[Willie One Shelf]

This was a great sod.

[Sherman Young]

This was.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah.

[Sherman Young]

Was fantastic. Fantastic.

[Willie One Shelf]

If you got something out of it, if you have a win, a loss, something you want to share, do not hesitate to comment.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah.

[Willie One Shelf]

Do not hesitate to call in. Even if you want to just say, ah, I forgot to take out the trash. See ya.

[Sherman Young]

Well, don't forget you said the comment to PT Fit. That was. That was our comment.

[Willie One Shelf]

That's right. We've covered a lot in this episode. We got to get PT Fit.

[Sherman Young]

Fit. God save these people there listening to this pod.

[Willie One Shelf]

Oh, I'm a P. Just. Hey, after four months. Yeah. What are the photos called? Transformation.

[Sherman Young]

Before and after.

[Willie One Shelf]

Yeah, the transformational photos. My PT Fido.

[Sherman Young]

Just the before is the PT Thicko. And then it's into the PT Thicko to PT Fiddle. PT Thicko is unreal. Derek, that was incredible.

[Willie One Shelf]

I love you guys. Take out the trash.

[Sherman Young]

Yeah. Do it. I gotta give you a hug. That was a good show.

[Willie One Shelf]

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