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Bobby Bones
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Doug
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this your first date?
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Bobby Bones
Oh, no.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird.
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Doug
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league.
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Doug
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Jay Shetty
Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. My latest episode is with Noah Kahn, the singer, songwriter behind the multi platinum global hit Stick season and one of the biggest voices in music today.
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Noah Kahn
Talking about the mental illness stuff. It used to be this thing that I was ashamed of getting to talk about. This is not common for me right now.
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Bobby Bones
I need it more than ever.
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Jay Shetty
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
And Doug, there's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual, even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show.
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Doug
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this your first date?
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Bobby Bones
Oh, no.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird.
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Doug
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
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Doug
Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.
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Bobby Bones
So today was a big day. My wife left the house today for the first time and left me in charge of the baby. Now, there have been multiple instances where I have had Billy, our baby, for an hour, an hour and a half. And that's grown, by the way. She trusts me more and more. But today was the first time she left the house. I was proud for her for leaving the house. I know she was nervous to leave the house, not so much that it was me. She was leaving the baby with that made her nervous. But the fact that she, since the baby was born, has not been 60ft from the baby ever. So big day today as I'm recording this. It is my birthday and so my wife texted me. I was like, hey, you want to do a birthday lunch or something? And I didn't. And for the first time, I was like, I just rather come home and hang out with you and the baby. I do find myself on days that are packed with work because I'll go from the radio studio, which is downtown, to another studio that we built in town, and then I have a studio at my house. So I kind of got three studios. And for the most part in my career, if it was close, I would stay somewhere just a little longer and go straight to the other place. I do find myself now going home if I do have even 15 minutes. And I know we're just three weeks into the baby being born, but I do find myself going home just to hang out, like with the family now with the unit. So that feels like new and fun and it's a priority. And not just so I can see my wife, but also so I can see the baby. But equally so today, big day. The baby's alive. My wife texted me while she was gone and she's like, everything going okay? And I said, dad, we're in the pool. Don't worry about it. She knew that wasn't the case. But big day in our house because my wife left the house. She was going to drive the baby for the first time today. And just the full story about why she left. She had ordered me a birthday cake and she had to order it a few weeks ago because I can't have dairy. And so there's a person that we go to who, who we actually just found on Instagram here in town in Nashville. And anytime we want like a cool cake made, it's like 250 bucks. So that's an expensive cake. Yes, but it's a massive cake and you just say, what? Design what you want on it. So we weren't really doing anything for my birthday specifically. So my wife had a big Arkansas razorback cake made, which is super cool. And there's really gonna be no party or anything. It'll be me and my wife and her mom is in town. So our mother in law. And so she went to get the cake and it was either she drive the baby for the first time because mostly I've been the only one to drive the baby. And those little mirrors kind of suck that you. Because I'm driving. And the baby. If you never had a kid, the car seat faces the back seat, so you have to put a mirror on the headrest. And so you have to look in your mirror to catch that mirror to catch the baby. I have bad vision anyway. You could probably put a baby doll in that thing and I would think it was the baby. But she didn't feel like driving the baby today, so she left the baby with me, and I think that'll be the next step. We did do the car seats, and now obviously we did the car seats in my car before she even went into the hospital for labor. And, man, you talk about people hyping something up like it was going to be the craziest, hardest thing that that ever happened. Are you going to be okay with the car seat? If you need to drive to the police station, you know you can do that. They have somebody that'll teach you. And so leading up to it, I just kept kicking the can because I thought, man, this is going to be so hard. I don't want to deal with it yet. So it was about a week before we started to feel like Caitlin was going to go into the hospital. And I said, let me just see if I can do the car seat. And it's a base that really goes in now. It was one of the easiest things I've ever done. So either that means that car seat is in terribly or. Or it's just very easy to put in. There are these two little clips under the seat and that bass just goes click, click. You're basically in from that. There's one little stand right there. So when it came time to put hers in, which we have done, it was super easy. But we got to do something about the mirrors because if you're supposed to turn around and look in the mirror, that's very dangerous. And I don't think you are. I think you're supposed to go mirror to mirror to baby. But. But big day today. She didn't drive the baby yet, but she did leave the baby. So I'm feeling pretty good about that now. I've done a couple of these podcast type things where we just talk about the baby. At first, I did a baby State of the Union because it was every question that I was getting in my DMs. And so I thought if I generally just get on and answer the questions, that would be good for everybody. I won't get the same questions anymore. And you guys that are submitting questions about our baby can have some answers now. I don't have the capacity to do another full podcast and I don't want to exhaust myself any more than I already have. And scheduling has been very hard doing multiple podcasts. But we're going to try something here in a second because there are so many people that also want to come and talk with me, literally about parenting. I know nothing about parenting. I'm three weeks into this thing and I know very little. I. I've read some stuff, I've lived three weeks of it. The one thing that I think I'm gonna do even less, I really didn't do it to begin with because I don't do it in general is parent shame. I'm just not a shamer in general anyway, because I think we're all living our versions of life, dealing with the environment that we're in and the circumstances that we're given. So it really doesn't to me, I don't feel good shaming anyone about anything. And I don't really think I was parent shaming when I didn't have kids. But man, when I see people parent shaming now, I. I'm just like, you're an awful person because you do not know what that mom or dad or grandma is going through with that baby, or 4 year old or 9 year old. And there are so many different ways to parent a kid just from my small version of this. And really there's not a right way. And when I started to read stuff and books now non scientific stuff, because some of the stuff that I've read that is about a baby's digestion, that stuff, that's science I'm in. But mostly about technique. All of the opinions on technique are just based off the people's environments and the circumstances they were given that wrote the books. So I'm not gonna be parent shaming at all. I'm not doing this as a full podcast. But because of the interest in other people talking about parenting and their kids and this platform, I thought, what if I just occasionally do an episode with other parents and it just goes up on the YouTube channel obbyboneschannel or like the bobbykast feed or something like that. And who knows, we do one a month, one every two weeks, two a week. There's really no cadence to it, but what if we're able to do something like that? And so then I started to think, well, what would I call it? And I had two names that came to mind. And the first thing I did was search out both of those names to make sure that nobody owned or really used these names at a high level. Now, does it matter which one I go to first? It doesn't. You have all. How many pictures do you guys have per each? How many. How many graphics? So I came up with two names that I wanted to try, and I'm gonna run them up here on the screen. I've not seen these images. How many each do you have?
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Brandon
Four. Four.
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Bobby Bones
The first one, Just say the first one. Okay.
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Brandon
And then two. Two or three for the next one.
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Bobby Bones
Okay. What's the. Okay, so I had two names in mind, and the first name was kind of stupid. Now I kind of embarrass saying them out loud. The first one was Talk Daddy to Me, which is like, the play is Talk Dirty to me, but it's Daddy, so Talk Daddy to Me. And so that was the first one. And so I hit Brandon up, and I said, hey, I just Google search. There are no other podcasts called Talk Daddy to Me. There's probably a reason for that, because it could possibly be a stupid name. I said, but can you mock up some images where if we did this parenting series and we called it Talk Daddy To Me, that you'd be able to see that? All right, so here we go. Here's the first one. Oh, this looks safe.
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Brandon
Super safe.
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Bobby Bones
Talk Daddy to Me, presented by Bobby Bones. For those that are just listening. I love the colors, all the primary colors. There's the blocks that spelled daddy. All right, good. How many of these do you have?
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Brandon
I have two for this one.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, so this is image number one on Talk Daddy To Me. That one doesn't feel that creepy. I like that. All right, great. To the second one. Okay. Talk Daddy to Me all in red with the glasses over the two DS. Ah, that's pretty cool. The glasses over the two Ds is pretty cool. I like the red letters. I'm taking this in for the first time. If you're watching on YouTube, you're with me here looking at it. Okay. So that was the first idea. And then I was like, okay, that one feels like it could possibly be a little corny. And so I was thinking of another idea. And there was a television show. It was black and white, and they used to show it on Nick at Nite. And it was called Father Knows Best. And for me, I was like, I don't know best. I thought the TV show angle was funny. I knew people wouldn't get it because it was a black and white show. But I said, what if we called it Father Knows Less? A Playoff. Father Knows Best. But also it's me going, I don't know anything. I'm not gonna act like I know anything. I'll just share with you my experiences. Were going, I probably know less. So here's the first image for Father Knows Less. Okay. It's me sitting in a mic, red letter. Oh, I like the less sign.
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Brandon
So that was the first iteration of.
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Bobby Bones
That's a good one. I like the less sign. Father Knows Less than red letters with the less sign after that. Less sign's pretty cool. The glasses were cool, too. Yeah. On the two D's. All right, show me another one. Okay, so just bigger, no picture.
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Brandon
Yeah, some iterations of that.
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Bobby Bones
All right, give me another one.
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Brandon
They're all just kind of the same. That's a little different.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, I like that. I like that one of this.
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Brandon
Cool.
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Bobby Bones
That. That less sign's really cool.
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Brandon
There's another one with the less sign on the left side. There you go.
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Bobby Bones
But that would mean I know more because that. It's open to me.
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Brandon
Right?
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Bobby Bones
Does that make sense?
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Brandon
It's true.
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Dylan
It was.
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Brandon
It was confusing.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, what name do you. Because you guys don't get the Father Knows Best reference. You don't have to. It still makes sense as to what I'm trying to say. Dylan, which one are you drawn to? Father Knows Less. Does Talk Daddy to me feel weird?
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Dylan
I think it's a little combative. Combative, like the original phrase, talk dirty.
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Brandon
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Brandon, which one do you like best?
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Brandon
At first I was like, dude, it's Talk Daddy to me all day long. But then the more I thought, more I thought about it. Father Knows Less. Like, it just. It fits you. It fits, like, your belief and everything. And I think it's. I think it's just as clever, you know?
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Bobby Bones
Go back. Can you go back to that again? Feedback. Let's go to caller nine. And this isn't even live. That's. Is how amazing it is that we have poets here. So I think I like Father Knows Less. So I think we may just right now placehold. This is Father Knows Less. Like Bobby Bones presents Father Knows Less. You guys feel good about that? Yeah, I think the Less sign. I think that's really cool. That's a really good idea. So whenever you can get that back up, you can put that back up. So, yeah, again, I'm not going to commit to this being some weekly podcast, because I don't. Between the Bobby Bones show all five days, and then we do a whole second show, the Bobby cast being at least two days a week, 25 whistles being at least two days a week, which is a sports show, the NFL show, lots to say. Being once a week. I don't have a lot of time for other podcasts, but I do think this will be fun. So we'll do Father. Give me the other one. I don't like how I look. I think this is cool. Father Knows Less. Yeah, we'll do Bobby Owens presents Father Knows Less.
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Brandon
And I'll zhuzh it up and then
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Bobby Bones
do some zhuzhing to it. But I do like the letters, the simplicity of it. That's cool. Okay, so this is what this is going to be called, Father Knows Less. I did when I googled that, and then I went into like the podcast and just googled podcast titles. The only thing that popped up was there was a book from like 2017. There was a play on Father Knows Best as well. And it was like the Father Knows Less and la la la. And there have been titles of episodes of certain things. Did you look it up, too?
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Brandon
Boy Meets World had a episode and they did a podcast episode on that TV episode.
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Bobby Bones
That's it. I was surprised. I don't know if I'm celebrating myself for having such a good idea, but I thought, this has gotta be a common ish idea, right? Yeah, maybe people just don't get the black and white television show reference.
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Brandon
But it's such a common phrase too, though.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, it is.
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Brandon
Oh, Father Knows Best. I better do what he says. You know.
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Bobby Bones
All right, we're committing to Father Knows Less then. And you'll zhuzh it.
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Brandon
I'm gonna zhuzh it.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, good deal.
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Dylan
No.
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
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Doug
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this, your first date?
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Bobby Bones
Oh, no.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird.
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Doug
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league anyways.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
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Doug
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Jay Shetty
Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. My latest episode is with Noah Khan, the singer songwriter behind the multi platinum global hit Stick season and one of the biggest voices in music today. Noah opens up about the pressure that followed his rapid success, his struggles with mental health and body image, and the fear of starting again after such a defining moment in his career.
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Noah Kahn
It's easy to look at somebody and be like, your life must be so sick, man. You have no clue. Talking about the mental illness stuff. It used to be this thing that I was ashamed of. I'm just now trying to unwind this idea that I have to be unhealthy physically or in pain instead some emotional way in my life to create good music. If someone says that I did a good job, I'm like, yeah, I'm good. Someone says that I suck, I'm like, I suck. Getting to talk about this is not common for me right now.
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Bobby Bones
I need it more than ever.
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Jay Shetty
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Roald Dahl Podcast Narrator
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Bobby Bones
Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been.
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Brandon
What?
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Roald Dahl Podcast Narrator
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Doug
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Bobby Bones
I had a pacifier in my mouth yesterday, and it wasn't really on purpose. I was holding the baby, and she gets fussy at times. And when you're holding the baby with both hands, for those that are watching, and she's holding a pacifier in her mouth and she tends to bulldog it sometimes, let's do this with her head. I have a bulldog is why I referenced that movement, because my bulldog does it as well. So she's going back and forth with her head, the pacifier in her mouth, and it starts to come out of her mouth. Now, I got both hands on her, and I don't want to take a hand and put it on the pacifier to hold it. But as everybody knows, it's had a baby is once pacifier hits the floor, it's dead. You don't use it again until you can. What we have, we have a bunch of alcohol swabs at the house, so we will disinfect it and then rinse it off, because the alcohol won't taste good. Obviously, I don't want the pacifier to die. So what I did is I took my chin to put it and hold the pacifier in her mouth. And as soon as it did, it flipped right in my mouth. So that's the first time I've had a pacifier in my mouth like that. Like, straight from the baby's mouth to my mouth. I think, though, that's a dead pacifier, the same as it had fallen on the floor. So I did kill the pacifier, but that's my first story. I have a friend who hit me up the other day, and he said, hey, is it weird to you that your mom will never get to meet your baby? Because my mom died years ago, and my mom was the age that I am now, which is what's crazy. And so I said, yeah, that is weird. And I've thought about that. I was sad that my mom was never able to meet my child. And this is a friend whose mom has also died, which is why he was asking me that. And so we were talking about that a little bit, and then he said to me, is it weird that your dad Left because could you ever see you leaving your baby? Now this is a friend who had similar story as me. Grandma raised him, mom has passed away. Dad left when he was little. And I think that's probably why it was so easy to talk about it with each other. And I remember thinking, and again, my biological dad was 17 when I was born. My mom got pregnant at 15, right after her 16th birthday had me. So he was a kid. So a little bit of me can understand a kid making an immature decision. But I think for me it was, how do you not come back? Like, this is what we talked about. I said, because my biological dad was so young, a little bit, I can give him a pass because kids do very immature things. I said, but when I'm like 11, 9, 13, like, how do you not come back? How do you stay gone? Like that, to me is what's difficult now. I think there are all these new feelings that I'm having about my parents now that I am a parent. And it's just a few weeks in, like, I'm coming to terms with some things and I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface of all this. But it wasn't that I was angry at my biological dad for leaving. I think I became angry at him again for not coming back. That was the weird part for me. I'm not someone who meditates. I've tried. I'm not a meditation hater. And I've probably had three different seasons in my life when I've tried to meditate, you know, through the different jobs in cities I've lived and different levels of whatever success or mild fame that I've had. There have been security issues as my job has gotten bigger. Honestly, the security issues have gotten bigger. And that makes sense. And so it went from, you know, when I was in Little Rock. I got held at gunpoint outside of a station event, pistol whipped. I was at an atmosphere. It was a whole situation that messed up my head for a long time. Got my house broken into, had some death threats, got jumped outside of work. Like, I had four or five things
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Brandon
that were
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Bobby Bones
really scary to me then. But, like, long term became scarier to me as I think the reality of possibly almost dying was in me. Because when it first happens, you're just like, holy crap, that's crazy. But then you start reliving and you start having this PTSD type. It's ptsd. I feel weird calling it PTSD because there are people that have been to war and they have, and there's no Real and fake ptsd. Mine feels a bit fake, but mine's real, right? Like I had real crap happen to me. And so I've tried to meditate to sleep better. Because for a long time, me not being able to sleep was making me sick. So I'd try meditation. I would get on these apps, I'd read about meditation, and it really consisted of me sitting on either the edge of my bed or bottom of my bed, thinking a single thought over and over again, trying to slow my mind down to where I'm not thinking of a lot of other things. Like from what I've learned through meditation, is that if I can focus on one thing, everything else stops and it allows a bit of clarity. I really struggled with it and I would try it for 30, 40 minutes at a time, and either it just wouldn't take or I'd fall asleep one of the two. And each time I would quit because, I mean, really because I was a quitter. Because I think if I would have stuck with it, I think I could have actually gotten pretty good at it. But I was a quitter in that world and so never been somebody who's been good at meditating and just slowing down. I found something that happens now, and it's kind of a forced meditation. So like I mentioned, my wife does 90% of feeding the baby, changing the baby. And if I'm home, I'm there. I'm changing along with her. I'm helping her in every way possible, but I can't do some of the things that she can do. But her back starts to hurt, lower back, her neck starts to hurt because she's always bending down with the baby. And so not only do I just want to give her a break to go and, you know, heck, take a shower, watch a show. If she wants to watch a show, like, do something that is not so. Just always intense, focusing on the baby. So I want to give her a break from that. But also it's like physically I want to give her a break because again, she's always hunched over or if she's feet, there's just all the things that they're doing with their body. And so the last few nights, as I give her a break, especially at night, it's dark, I. I hold the baby, rock the baby. There's no phone. I'll play light music and I keep the phone down. We have a chair in our room now that's a rocker. It's not like a rocking chair, but it's a comfortable chair that rocks. And so I'll play the music. And mostly it's just like 90s alternative, like slow 90s alternative. It's like Oasis, Counting Crows, Pearl Jam. And I found myself starting to be able to do the things that I tried to do for so long when it comes to meditation, because I don't have the ability. My nuts itched so bad last night and I couldn't scratch them because I had both hands on the baby. So all my focus is on this baby. I can't. I'm not on my phone. The baby has this thing too where she likes to crawl up and put her head in my neck. She likes my chin on top of her and she likes. And if I'm not, she'll crawl. She'll already crawl up a little bit into my neck. But because I can do nothing, I literally can do nothing. And I found the last few nights me inching toward that place where it feels like a meditative state to where I'm a bit able to slow the world down around me mentally because I have no other choice but to do so with baby. So again, I'm no meditation expert. I have failed multiple times at trying in a way that I was taught. But being in a dark room, music on, focused on the baby, it's almost allowed me to have the kind of thinking I have when I'm in the shower. And I don't know if everybody thinks like this the same way, but when you're in the shower, you're not able to watch a screen be on your phone, you're not able to talk to people like there's nothing except you and you're under the water. So for me, a lot of clarity happens when I'm in the shower because there's nowhere else to go, there's nothing else to do. It's just me and my mind. But I found that I can get really close to meditating with the baby at night. So that's been pretty cool. One of the other things that's been hard is. And she's sleeping all the way through the night. She slept for eight hours last night. She's three weeks old. I don't know how crazy that is. But for us, because it feels like. And again, she's only three weeks old and it feels like two years and. And one day at the same time because it feels like just yesterday she was born. But also it's been super hyper focused on her. Like she sleeps eight hours through the night at three weeks old. It's wild. So we're celebrating and so we have to feed her every two and a half hours or so now. But the problem is when we feed her, and this probably happens with most newborns, she falls asleep while she's eating. So as she's eating, she's out. And so we're like, oh, you got to eat. Because she has to eat a bunch during the daytime, so she sleeps at night. And we have had to develop techniques to keep her awake while she eats, which involves tickling her feet while she eats. Now, if you did that to me, I'd be pissed. But also, I'm not going to fall asleep. The zerbert. Everybody familiar with the zerbert? Well, zerbert on her face while she eats, because the main goal is keeping the baby awake. I've gotten some really. I don't want to say great, but just real thoughtful gifts from folks. I was never the person to buy baby gifts because I never had a baby. Like, I didn't know that world. And now that we had a baby and people are giving us gifts, like, I feel the need now. Like, I see somebody's gonna have a baby. Like, I'm like, oh, man, I want to get. I want to jump in. Like, I want to get gifts for people now, too, but. But I really didn't know the baby culture. But Matt Castle, who I do the NFL show with, he got us this, like, a backpack, a monogram backpack, and like, a monogram bunny. I posted on my Instagram Mr. Bobby Bones with her name on it, which was super cool. Tim McGraw sent over some really nice stuff. Sorry, the McGraw family. So Tim and Faith, they sent over. I didn't want to say what it is because it was like, rich people gift. They're rich. They sent over a really nice gift. It was French. I'll just say that. And Maggie Rose, who's been on this podcast, excellent singer, she sent over a monogram, like, really nice bag. And then obviously, all our friends, too. But I just. The baby culture is something that I did not know or understand. But now I'm kind of excited to get people baby gifts. Dylan, who is one of the producers here, just announced he's having a baby. Dylan, is your mic on? Can you turn it on?
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Dylan
I can.
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Bobby Bones
How did you feel? Announcing felt good.
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Dylan
It was. You know, we've known since, like, January, so finally being able to.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, dude. It feels like forever, right?
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Dylan
A little bit is nice. Yeah, for sure.
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Bobby Bones
Whenever we found out, from the moment we found out to when we could share, it felt like 10 years.
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Brandon
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Did you tell anyone in your close Circle immediately.
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Dylan
Funny you say that. So you were actually the first one to know, because I just completely, like, slipped when we were in la. Do you remember that?
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Bobby Bones
Of course. We're sitting at the table. I didn't know that we were the first people you told, so I know we're all sitting at the table. We're having dinner. We ordered it from, like, Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop restaurant.
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Brandon
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Had it. Uber Eats in, like, I remember it vividly. And we were all like, oh, my God, that's awesome. Yep. How did it slip, though? What was the conversation?
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Dylan
Well, Eddie was asking me, like, questions, and I was like, you know, I've never really been asked, like, the kid thing. Like, that was, like, the first time anyone.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, that was it. Like, are you gonna have kids? Yeah.
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Dylan
And I didn't. I don't think I, like, said anything. I just, like, made a face, and Eddie was like, well, what's that? And I was like, oh, well, actually, we literally found out, like, probably a week before that. So I just was like, all right.
- [31:55]
Bobby Bones
Well, we were told, don't tell anybody that you're having a kid that you don't want to have to tell that you're no longer having a kid, in case.
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Dylan
Yep.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Because again, it's common. Yep. And so only tell the people that you're gonna want, and you feel comfortable telling them if it doesn't. And so we told her parents what sucked about that was they were on. We got them on FaceTime, and Caitlin was like, record us telling her, you know, our mom and dad. Her mom and dad. And so I hit record, and she started telling. I don't remember. I don't remember hitting the button. But what I recorded was when I wasn't supposed to record, and what I didn't get was what I was supposed to record. Like, I think I hit it early. So when I. Then when I went to actually record it, I was stopping the recording. And then she told him none of it was recorded. And then I thought I was stopping it, but then I started again. And so I got pre and after, and I looked down at my phone and I went, oh, my God. And so we finished the conversation with them. We got off FaceTime, and I said, I didn't record it. I got all before and all after. I didn't mean to hit record at the beginning. And I never looked at the phone. Oh, I felt so stupid.
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Dylan
That's brutal.
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Bobby Bones
That was brutal. So we told them and we told her sister, but that was pretty much it. Then I start. I let, like, a couple people in my super circle know Eddie, obviously, who's my best friend, Kevin Klug, who is my trainer. But, man, we had spent so much time together over the past five years, every single day. And, you know, he'd had a bunch of kids, and I knew he wouldn't share anything, but that's all we told. She had told maybe a couple of her closest friends. Who did you tell before you guys announced it?
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Dylan
Well, so we didn't. I didn't tell, like, any of my best friends until. Until, like, I think maybe like two or three days before we posted. And really same with her, so it was pretty close to the best.
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Bobby Bones
So only your Los Angeles traveling podcast buddies. Yeah. Congratulations. Did everybody blow you up immediately when you post today?
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
Yeah.
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Dylan
Yeah. So it was. It was, you know, very nice to see all the nice masters and stuff.
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Bobby Bones
What have you guys shared? And if you haven't, don't. Don't give me a face. Don't do anything.
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Dylan
I'm not.
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Bobby Bones
What do you know? What have you shared?
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Dylan
We've only shared that we're. We're having it, but we do know the gender.
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Bobby Bones
Okay. We don't, don't. We don't. Like, for breaking news here. No, no, no, no. Yeah, don't. You do know the gender.
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Brandon
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Are you going to do a gender reveal?
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Dylan
Yeah, we're going to. At one of the baby showers for her family, so.
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Bobby Bones
So you can have a shower without. Without anybody who's coming to the shower knowing what the gender.
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Dylan
We'll have one with knowing knowing, and then one with people knowing because her family's in New Jersey, mine's in. We have to have two different for everything, so.
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Brandon
Yep.
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Bobby Bones
That's awesome.
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Brandon
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Have you talked about or publicly said when you think you're gonna have the baby?
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Dylan
Yeah, yeah, we've told people October, early October.
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Bobby Bones
So we're in April, May, June, July, August, September. So you're five and a half, six months away.
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Dylan
Yeah, she's finishing the first trimester this
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Bobby Bones
week, I'm telling you. And I didn't believe people when they said this to me. It's gonna feel like a century from now. Until then. It's also gonna be here tomorrow. I know.
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Dylan
I was telling Brandon, I'm like, already to the point where I'm, like, ready. Like, I'm, like, excited ready. So it's gonna feel like an eternity. Absolutely.
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Bobby Bones
At about eight months. Something else I didn't know until my wife was pregnant again. All this baby culture stuff is new to me, it's not nine months, it's 10 months. I don't know where this nine month thing came from. It's 10 months until they have the baby. Like, it's not like, nine's a fun round number that we'll just do nine because it's 10 months. And whenever she's like eight and a half months pregnant, that's when it's on you, Dylan, to make sure that you can help out in any way with her comfort. Because it sucks.
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Dylan
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
And not for us. Not for us. For them, it sucks. Cause they're gonna think they're uncomfortable. Cause my wife's like, I'm so uncomfortable. I'm so uncomfortable. My clothes don't fit. When it gets to like, eight and a half months, they can't sleep, heart rate's up all the time. And it's just up to you to do whatever you can to make sure she feels better.
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Dylan
Yeah, I'm a little nervous about that because she's already the type that's like, I'm uncomfortable. Like, even before she was pregnant, she's the one that's like, just on the couch, like, I can't get comfortable.
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Bobby Bones
It's all like, you ain't seen nothing yet, buddy. It's gonna go. Brandon, tell him he ain't seen nothing yet.
- [36:32]
Brandon
Dude, it's. It's wild and it's. It's. It's all exciting and it's. It's all hands on deck, really, is what it is.
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Bobby Bones
And then it's a whole different thing once she has a baby. I mean, Luke Combs was talking to me, and that clip went viral where he was like, hey, there's no nothing you can do except everything for her. And, man, if that's not the case,
- [36:49]
Brandon
that was probably the best advice I had heard.
- [36:52]
Bobby Bones
He was like, it is not about you with that baby. It's her with the baby. But you have to do everything to make sure that she can focus on the baby. And also, I think I've said this already. They either have to have surgery, a C section, or they're going to have a vaginal birth. Which was weird for me to hear that word, but now I've heard it 10,000 times. Vaginal birth is not even that weird of a word for me, but for. I'd be like, vaginal. Hee hee hee hee. As an adult man, it's like somebody took a sledgehammer to their body from the waist down. And so it's up to you to make sure that as they're recovering and they're trying to do the things to make sure the baby is good, that you make it as easy on them as possible. That's the goal.
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Dylan
I'm trying to diversify my skills at the moment.
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Bobby Bones
It's so cool.
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Dylan
Yeah, we're excited.
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Bobby Bones
It's so cool. Okay, so I think that's it for this 30 minutes here. I think we're gonna go with Father Knows Less because as you can tell, I know very little. But why don't we put this up on the. When we do the thumbnail for this episode, we'll put this up. Maybe we do like, because I think if we just put Father Knows Less, people aren't gonna even know what that is. Maybe we do like. And you're gonna judge. Like, my head.
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Brandon
Oh, yeah.
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Bobby Bones
But you gotta pick a good picture.
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Brandon
We're gonna get a good.
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Noah Kahn
Okay.
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Brandon
I wanted one like, for the other one that was like you shrugging.
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Bobby Bones
Oh, like, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Brandon
Do it again toward the camera. Like, perfect. There you go.
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Bobby Bones
I don't know if I like that one.
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Brandon
That's a good one.
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Bobby Bones
But you also want to look tired.
- [38:21]
Brandon
You want to look like, oh, man. Like, I don't know what's up.
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Bobby Bones
I'll say this, I know it's not the right thing to say because my wife's been doing all the work. Not all, but that kind of work. I'm not that tired. She's been rocking it. The baby, one is sleeping. And two, if something happens, like my wife at night, she's a champ. She handles that for a couple reasons. One, because she wants to, and she's so anxious about everything right now. But also, too, I'm just appreciative that she respects that I have to get up early, that I have to somewhat perform every single day. So, yeah, she's been great. So thank you guys for watching the first episode of our off schedule podcast and video show called Father Knows Less. There's a chance we never do another episode if we're being honest. But there's also a chance we do 500 of these things. If it pops and is, you know, some massive success, that's it. Thank you guys and we'll see you soon. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.