EP #044 - My Daughter Wants Me To Make Up Bedtime Stories? + No More Fire Extinguishers Kids! | For The Dads

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I hope your kiddos are still eating on some Easter candy in moderation. In moderation. In moderation. You have to use it as leverage. Yeah. Not as a free for all. Yeah. You got to use it as leverage. Finish your dinner, do this. Maybe you'll get a piece of candy. Who wants a treat? Yeah, who wants a treat? I want a piece of chocolate. Hey, you mind going to put this in the trash for me? Maybe I'll sneak you something. Don't tell your mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go tell mom something good about me. Um, but yeah, this is a show for the dads, man. We talk highs, lows, dad hacks, dad losses, being a husband, being a dad spoiler, being a dad. We also feature our community and army throughout the show. That army is Papa Team Six, PT Six. We have topics across the board. New dads, hubby shout outs, follow-ups from last week, month of military children. This month, the month of April is shouting out military children. So we have a couple comments to read for the military families out there. 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These are dropping what today as they're listening right now. The uncle hats are out. The uncle hats are out. The uncle hats are out. So if you have a brother, you got an uncle brother in law, brother in law. You're looking for that. They get them a little nice gift. Hey, they're not, they're not in parenthood yet, but we want to make them part of the tribe. We got the uncle. Your granddad has a brother. That's an uncle, technically. And that's at bwtb.com, bwtb.com, bwtb.com. Great job, man. Yeah. Way to kick off the soad. It's going to be a great soad. I have some notes written down. It will be Ruth's birthday. I have a hack inside of Ruth's birthday. Shout out my wife, Charo. I know you're listening right now, sweetheart, with that little smile on your face. I could just kiss it. Uh-uh. Jill out of town. Uh-uh. Till Thursday. Who is it? Oh, we have a special guest on the phone. Yeah. Treadmill other side. Treadmill other side. We had a special guest. We had a special guest that just walked in the shop. He started to deliver a treadmill. Treadmill is going in the shop. That's actually fits getting right. That's huge. That treadmill is like something that I can very easily adopt. Boom. 10,000 steps. Yes. Got to get them. Yes. And this one's got, you know, he's got the flat. You walk on a flat, you get hit the incline up to 12. There might be a decline, decline of like three degrees. So you could walk even downhill if you need to. What's the benefit there? The insincerity. So I'm pretty sure it has a screen on it. Yeah. So my brain is telling me that you can go on these hikes that the monitor has probably an app inside that you can go walk a mountain in Colorado. Yeah. And that mountain in Colorado, if you go on that hike would have inclines that go up and then at some point you'll be walking downhill just like climbing a mountain. You got to go down it. You have to. Is that more of your quads if you're downhill? That's a quad killer. Okay. Yeah. But I feel like if you're going to like a three percent decline on a treadmill, you're probably just taking a nice little break. Nice little brisk walk downhill. Oh, okay. So it's like you've been elevated and you've been, you're huffing and puffing, you're even, you're even having a hole because you're walking. Yeah. Then you hit to the part of the workout where you go down to the decline. You're like, thank God, I get a little bit of a breather before I got to climb this next hill. Now I do, I do have something that I just thought of with these 601, the dads number that we brought up because last episode, and I didn't see a lot of people come to the defense of the state of Mississippi, but I do want to give a shout out to our 601, the dads area code is a Mississippi area code. Really? Yeah. So shout out Mississippi. Dude, shout out. I actually have a comment here from Morgan. You guys would be really good at podcasting if you knew that he had the comment for the thing you just said. I didn't. That was where we would be really good. But this is from Morgan. She's an empty sixer in Mississippi, Morgan Wallace, but some respect on Mississippi cry, laughing emoji. You do use our area code for 601, the dads here in Jackson, Mississippi. I think we deserve a shout out. Love the pot and have enjoyed listening throughout my daughter, Ren's first year of life for birthdays coming up on April 29th. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. So shout out to her and my husband, Sheldon, who is also a loyal listener for the dads and bust with the boys. Dude, shout out Mississippi. Shout out Jackson, Mississippi. I've been there. That's actually really, really funny. You didn't know that? No, I did not. Well, I knew I did not know that. Yeah, I didn't know that. That's hilarious. Yeah. We do have a Mississippi area code. That was on Spotify. I missed that one. I had to look for some like underground voicemail that was free and easy to operate. So maybe that's what Mississippi offers. Hey, we got, we got a landline here where we can get the voicemails to come in. Hey, here's a number that nobody's ever gonna use. Mississippi. The 601 area codes up for grabs. Oh, no. Has been used in 20 years. Shout out, Jackson. I've also been to Jackson. My dad was born in Mississippi also. Really? In fact, yeah. That's unfortunate. Yeah. He moved to Texas when he was three. Nice. Nice. I'm joking about Mississippi. We love Mississippi, dude. I'm not. He was born in Mississippi. Mississippi is used for a lot of things. Mississippi River. Mississippi River. Counting, counting Mississippi. One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi. Blitzing in football games. Hey, you have to get to five Mississippi before you rush to quarterback. Hey, that's good. Also, probably one of the funnest how to spell it songs. Yeah. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-Y-R-I. Oh, God. Fuck. Sorry. Hey, that's who's that. This is who's hosting. He's the dumb ass is hosting for the dads. Hey, you want to be a good dad? You want to be a good dad? Hey, Scarlett, you're doing a great job. What's this last letter? Mississippi though, honey. It's a Y. It's not an I. Well, what city are you from or outside of? What's up? What? Where am I from? Like, born? What city? What major city you grew up outside of? Are you talking about St. Louis? Yeah. What river is St. Louis on Mississippi River? That's what I'm saying. There you go. I said Mississippi River. Oh, you did. That was the first one I said. Oh, shit. We're figuring it out. What was your first address? Oh, my God. Good times. Good times. We got a Roos birthday was over the weekend. Yes. Jill out of town. Yes. Easter egg hunts. We did three of them. Oh my God. Oh, and a little I have Nannett written down. Nannett. Do we got Nannett this week? Are you saying you have Nannett written down? Nannett. I just have the word Nannett written. We certainly did a Nannett custom social that we can talk a little bit about the behind the scenes of. We can do that later. Yeah. That later. But we had fun making a Nannett custom social. We did. Nannett's on board. Nannett's on board. I've been using my this is true. Nannett's been awesome with unfortunately really, really unfortunately. My wife took Scarlet out of town for Easter and this week that I'm currently talking to you guys. No. Okay. We'll get into it. We'll get into it. However, I can check my Nannett app, which has been awesome because Jill took the Nannett with her to Texas. So from my bed in Nashville as I'm going to bed, I can pop open that little thing and see my little bundle of joy sleeping. And it's kind of sick, dude. Like I love checking in and spying on her a little bit. You love checking in knowing you have zero responsibilities. Knowing you don't have to do anything except look at your phone and just smile. Knowing that there are thousands of miles away, hundreds of miles away and audio works on that thing. So I've been hearing Jill and the mother-in-law talking in the mornings. They don't think I can hear, but I've been. Oh, no shit. Yeah. Last week when we started recording, the Nannett in the stream room from the custom social that we filmed was on. And I started getting alerts during the episode. Komp was in there like with one of ones. I'm like, I hope he unplugged this. And I think he did within like five or 10 minutes, but I was sitting there. We already started recording and I was like, ah, shit. Hopefully. Did you listen to him? No, we can. I'm a good, I'm a good employee. Knowing the Nannett was in the stream room. Boss man's doing one on ones. You sitting there. You could easily just turn up that name in here. The one on ones he's talking about with easily could, but I'm a man of valor. Yeah, you are good on you, man. That's, that's the leader of semen team six. Very quick segue. Derek told me this story and some of my favorite stories of chef. I don't know if I've spoken about it in front of him, but one day I was sick and I couldn't come into the office and I had to edit from home and was it Jeremy that was best. Yeah. Basically saying to chef like, oh, sure. I'm just can't come into work. Like he doesn't want to work here anymore. That's weird. Oh, and you have to do all of his edits because he's sick. Like, are you sure he's even sick? And apparently chef did not find that joke funny at all and came to my defense in a real way was like Sherman young would never do that. He is sick. I know for a fact he would be here right now if he felt good. That's, that's a semen team six six that's got your dad's a ride for your boys. That's right. And that's a ride. Thank you guys. It's an ongoing bit. I love high-roading clump. Anytime I get a chance, he swings really low. I go as high as possible. I hope he listens to this too. And if he does, and I'll make fun of him for it. But for people, I don't know clump is the office troll. And I've learned that the way to beat the office troll is to take everything very literal and then high-roading every single step you get. And he doesn't know what to do. It's really funny. Clump is also the boss. He's also the boss. He is also my boss. He's also the boss. And you high wrote his ass every day. Sherman young would never do that. I'm sitting over here, Sherman. Do you see how I'm just circling? Yeah, what's going on? Where are you circling? I was worked up before I came into the shop. What happened? I came across a video on X and this is, this is to me, I'll send you this tweet so you can put it up, Jeff. But from C, this is from CBS mornings. It's about the 16 year old. What got me worked up is knowing that he, he was talking about how he was having a conversation with his parents and he told his dad that I'm going to do this, whether you like it or not. It's a 16 year old kid that's quoted right now. It's an interview that CBS mornings did with a 16 year old that's essentially doing steroids because he's looks maxing. You know how all these phases of club regular. Yeah. Coming in or kind of just infiltrating the youth, all the trends that usually do keep your court is all low. Yeah. But this kid, the quote, because there's a video, I don't know if we can afford to play the video, but it's this interview with this kid and he's quoted as if I have a heart attack at 30, I have a heart attack. One 16 year old told CBS news that he was starting, that he was started taking a steroid known as trend, which was developed for livestock after seeing Jim influencers participating in the looks maxing trend on social media. And it's like this deep dive interview. They do it. It's six and a half minutes long. Okay. This kid was chubby and this and that. And he just started doing steroids because he wanted to, he wasn't getting girls. He looked, he was fat. He was short. He just didn't look like or feel like a man. So he started doing, he started doing steroids and he's jacked now. He's doing all the things. Well, and steroids will do steroids do help with doing that. You do need some discipline behind it. He does seem like he's very disappointed doing this. If I give him any type of flowers of discipline, he is doing something every day. Okay. But his thought behind it is so surface level of this look maxing bullshit that he's taking steroids to do. So this is a steroid that's used for livestock like in the house. Not good for your body. He's probably getting from Mexico. I'm assuming I don't know. I got to worked up because I quote tweeted it. Oh gosh. Because again, I'm just thinking like this to me is what happens when there's not a strong foundation at home. And I'm dead ass serious. Like this is no, we laughed the man. The looks max. Yes. We can laugh about all we want, but it does in a way kind of piss me off because you just see the domino effect when there's not a strong foundation at home for this young man. Cause I'm looking at this young man and just surface level reaction. If this was my son, I would whoop his ass. But then when you go deeper, I'm thinking it wouldn't, I don't even feel like it would ever get to that point because you're able to like communicate with your son or there's like this healthy fear that he would have yes, or respected. He would have or obedience that he would have to where you're truly educating him on what the problem with this issue is. And also let's not get, stop getting caught up about what everybody's doing on social media and what everybody's doing at school. Let's look a little bit deeper what the issue is. Cause all this discipline and structure that you have daily, that is phenomenal. It's the, it's, it's the obstacle is the way you are taking the path the road less taken. Yeah. You can get there one day. Obviously steroids do is something different to you, but you're doing it for all the wrong fucking reasons. And the fact he said, like he's in the interview and he sat there, he's like, he was talking to his dad and he was like, his dad doesn't like it. His dad said he doesn't want him to do it. And he said he basically communicated with his dad and we can, um, I'm just going to find this cut through this to the part where I'm able to just play this little part. My dad isn't just supportive of it. He was very like, like, what are you doing to yourself? Like you're going to hurt yourself. He is just like, it's great for me. I explained to him everything. Told him like, Hey, like I'm doing this regardless, basically, even if you tell me not to do it, I'm still going to do it. So if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it like in the safest way possible. I just want you to know that. I mean, like I look buddy, if I'm going to do, if I'm going to do heroin, like just know I'm going to do it in the safest way possible. Like I'm going to do all my research and it's something that I want to do. I'm going to do it. I know that steroids is it up there with it, but with heroin, but it's crazy. And just, uh, the fact that he like thinking his dad's not supportive of it, he doesn't want him to do it. I'm trying to put myself in that dad's shoes. And then my son is telling me X, Y, Z. And then I also try to put myself in the shoes of the 16 year old. Let's go back to 16 year old. Will, will he see if I had this rebellious type of urge to go against something my parents felt strongly about. Like if I was, if I was trying to do that dog with my, with my parents, with my dad, bro, they would have whooped my ass for trying. Yeah. Well, there would be, okay, they wouldn't whoop my ass. But my dad, if I pushed and rebelled and got to the point of, Hey, I'm going to do it, whether you like it or not, my dad would have whooped my ass. Yeah. Because you're, you're, you're being disobedient. Yes. And something that he was like a, he was like an amateur bodybuilder. Like he worked out, he did all the things. So he would have knowledge in this to where he would not only have a strong opinion, but if I, if I even had the Cajunas to say, I'm going to do this, whether you like it or not that I can't even bring myself even to my 16 year old state of mind to think that I would have the courage to say something like that because of that fear that you do have for your old man. Like it would never get to that point. But if it did, like I put up a funny response back. The look maxing I would have received from my old man saying, I'm going to do it, whether you like it or not, buddy, he'd say, I'll show you what the fuck look maxing is. And he fucked me up. I was about to say the quote unquote fear of God that was in me as a teenager. Would it deter that? My, my main note, and I like, I do not know enough about clavicular as an individual. He's like the person that is, he's that influencer that does like the in real life streaming or something. Yes. IRL streaming. He's very much championed the looks maxing. He's championed like a lot of substance. Like he'll, he'll take a meth for like stimulants and dieting and like a bunch of crazy stuff, regardless of clavicular, like push that to the side. This is a tale as old as time of every single generation. And we're now, we're now the parents. It's kind of crazy like being on the side of where it's like, Hey, what the hell are the kids doing? Cause back in the day, it was rock and roll and dancing and wearing skirts and, you know, my kid, you know, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Very different from taking steroids. Very different. But it is kind of like a way like who are your kids idolizing slash what kind of standard or what kind of life are you living that they would want to idolize? Like what's in front of them around the house being their mom or their dad, whether it's a girl or a boy. And the fact that they are more willing to idolize and replicate a complete stranger on the internet over somebody that knows them very well and knows what's best for them slash that they love and see every day. It like, it kind of shows the importance of not only setting standards, but like setting an example and building that relationship with your kid. Oh, it sounds like this kid was just kind of, he was floating in the ether. If he's going to latch on to that, you know what I mean? Like he was pretty directionless. If that's like right where he's going, right? I see what you're saying. I get what you're saying. Cause obviously the saying my dad would fuck me up. There's some like some humor I'm having in that. But knowing that that would have been like a real reality, but also it would have never gotten to that point with us to where I'm going against something that my parents feel strongly about. Not because there's anything that I have. I just, now that I'm 36, now that I have a couple of kiddos of my own, now that I look back or laugh or back, my old man would have did this to me. It's almost like, yeah, like you see why parents have to be firm and strong in protecting their child's like innocence for as long as you can, because you could get, your kids could get off the path to idolizing certain individuals. And I don't know how much the parents are involved around. And I'm not going to say they're not involved. And I don't want to, yes, I don't want to, like when he's doing the interview, I'm seeing that they're in a nicer house or this and that. So I'm just curious of how involved and how much everything kind of goes on and plays into this. Because to me, it just makes me think of this is, this can be something that happens if you don't have that strong foundation connection and everything with your kiddos. Because I'm like, man, it's a fear of, dude, I hope there's never a comfort. Obviously, there's a steroids. This is a masculine thing and for the boys and all that type of stuff. But even on the girls version, I'm not getting into a spot to where like Rue or Scotty is in this, I'm sure they'll have rebellious phases, but you want to keep their thumb on them so much to where it never gets to a point of where they feel like I'm going to do something, whether you like it or not in them. I'm so handcuffed mentally as a parent of, you almost have to let this happen. Because what are you going to do? Like, dude, anytime I like got in a, had a like a rebellious moment of I'm going to run away from home or I'm going to do something that's way out of character, way out of, way out of left field. My mom would literally look at me and say, go, I will help you pack your bags and get up from her chair and start going to my room and hey, which clothes do you want to take? And then some like fear sets in like, I'm younger at this point. Yeah, I'm not 16, but it's almost like you almost have to be ready to cut them off. Hey, whatever you think you're trying to do, I will help you do that. And there's, there's, there's a point that obviously as a parent, you don't want that to happen. Yeah, we almost have to position yourself in a way of like, I will cut you off from everything going on. Like you live in our house, we pay the bills, we pay your tuition, we pay everything for you to live in function. All that's going to, hey, give me your phone. Like all this stuff's going to wait. Go, go ahead, go, go operate on your own. Yeah. See how far it takes you. But knowing that the bond and the, the love and everything is so strong, like ultimately I know when I'm trying to think like if I'm a young kid and I'm having a rebellious moment to where I'm going to do X, Y and Z, I think I'm strong enough to like, I'm going to stand up to my parents right now. Yeah. But behind it as such has been such intention, love, bond, connection, protection, safety, that damn, they're really ready to just throw me out like that to where there's almost the fear kicks in, you stay, and then you kind of got them as a parent back where you want them, not in like a manipulative, negotiative type of way. But that's essentially what it is. But if you're bonding, the foundation's not strong. It's almost like the kid will sit there and throw the guilt back at you. You never do this. You never do that. Blah, blah, blah. Okay. I will do this all on my own. They go off and try to do it on their own. And then they're telling all their friends, yeah, I'm doing X, Y and Z. I'm kind of homeless right now. I'm going to go stay with my buddies. I'm telling them what my parents did to me wrong and yada, yada, yada. This is such a longer, more in depth conversation. I'm kind of just spitting things out of to the ether right now. You're fine. And again, to like bring it back to a more concrete situation of like, you're my dad in this example. I am your son. Imagine all the steps that I have to take to your blind eye to get illegal prescribed steroids, have a friend group or somebody that I interact with that's very pro this, getting out of the housing, you know, going to the gym and injecting myself with steroids and blah, blah, blah. Like there's a lot of absence or blind eye that you would have to give for me to even get to those steps. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like it's not, very seldom do a, does a kid wake up and go, you know what, dude, I'm going to start juicing. I'm going to start juicing today. And like, I want girls to like me more. I want this to blah, blah, blah, blah. And like the answer is steroids. Like this kid has been searching for an answer for quite a while. And it seems like no structure and no answers were really being thrown his way at home. Tori's getting the answer from the influencers, from the internet versus having an answers or a safety to talk about it at home. Boom. Or your parents having such a pulse on you to where maybe they noticed something or the first couple of weeks. Yeah. Hey, buddy, I saw that you're working out, dude. That's awesome. Would you want to, you know, Hey, I need to get in a little bit of better shape too. Maybe we could start going to the gym, like stuff like that. What's been on your mind? What's been on your mind? Now we're talking. Because think about it from the terms of this, just seeing this. And again, we're assuming a bunch of stuff. But you see this video. Yeah. If dad's having a hard time and there was, and he's probably thinking back of where did things go wrong? Now that you're here, you have to accept the reality that is currently happening. Think of all the steps that you now have to take as a parent to carefully build back all these bridges to speak to them or to get to them in a way that they are now listening. It's going to take so much longer now on the back end or on this point moving forward, because it wasn't, if you're able to look at yourself that closely as a parent to know, I didn't do the necessary things to where now it got to this point. And then you get into the regretful stage. I wish I would have done this. I wish I would have done that. Well, are you going to change it now? Now that you see that there's a massive problem that you're seeing in your household that you are with your boy and you are nervous about his health and say, the kid just said, if I die at 30, I die at 30. Like he's Ivan Drago and Rocky. If I have a heart attack, he's Matt rule before a dog. Cause if we die, we die. Like he's to the point where he's saying that in an interview. Yeah. Because I believe in looks maxing. I believe in that is capital T truth to him. It's almost a religion at this point. Yeah. Full buy-in. And I'll say this, another great, healthy way. I sound like a therapist right now, but I feel like a great, healthy way to show that you care for your kid to also be able to monitor them, keep tabs on them is showing interests and things that just kind of come out of nowhere so that you can kind of know the direction of where it's going. Like, yeah, I loved music as a kid and was, you know, doing piano and, but really hated the piano lessons and my mom instead of, you know, Hey mom, I want to quit piano. What instrument do you really want to play? You don't like piano. What instrument do you want to play? I was like, well, I really, I want to play the drums. Awesome. We're going to do this where you're going to do stuff around the house. You're going to get money for a drum set and let's get you some drum lessons so you can learn how to drum. I was like, Hey, that's a, I like that idea. Let's do that. I did drum lessons for like four years when jerking came out, the teaching had a jerk. Teach me, brother, I got the high top bands. I got the skinny jeans, saving up money for it, going to the mall with my mom. I got it, mom. I got to wear this stuff and had cardboard boxes out in our driveway, practicing one handed like handstand, like B boy style. Oh yeah. And my mom's sitting there every step of the way going, Oh yeah, that's good. Oh, Sherman, you're getting so much better at it. It's like, she's not fully like, you know, buying me these things or like telling me to go practice jerking the dance up, but she's showing interest enough to have a pulse on me of like, this is something that Sherman's into. Hey, Sherman, would you want to take dance lessons? I was like, mom, you're crazy. That's like, no, that's the dumbest thing in the world. That'd be embarrassing. I'm not doing that. Yeah. But like she was there every step of the way to see where that tangent would go. I know that's very different from steroids, but like when you have a pulse on your kid, no, yeah, you're right, bro. Like it's not like we woke up today and you want to come in and like shame this video, this kid or some things about this family. Yeah. And obviously we sit there and now we have our opinions or we say our things about the video, but ultimately it's like when I'm sitting there watching this video on my truck before I come into the shop. Yeah. To me, it's like, it's a, these are things of fears you have as parents of like, God, I hope it doesn't get to this point one day with my kiddos when they grow up and they become teenagers. And it just shows me that if you, you aren't intentional about how you move with the majority of things in your kids' lives, like this is a ripple effect that could take place and happen. It's not like a just naturally these things are, yeah, some little blips on the radar are going to happen throughout the course of all of parenthood. Like that's, that's a fact. But to think like you're kicking go fully off the rails and do this just spontaneously out of nowhere. I'm just saying that that's, to me, I'm calling bullshit because I'm thinking you can do so many different foundational things to where it honestly never even gets to this point. Yeah. There was no pulse on the kid because I see an high react to my God, I would beat my son's ass if this, and then it's like, okay, well, let's peel back. Let's go through all the, all the things of like the regret you probably feel on the reaction of just wanting to fight him. Yeah. Like, bro, what are you doing right now? This is terrible for you. This is unhealthy. Like we've been around the park. I've been around the park a few times and know how bad this is for you. No, you're not going to do this. But do you have such a strong relationship with them to whether they're actually hearing it or, oh, this is the first time my dad's ever taken interest in my life. And see, that's where, that's where we come in now is where the shit has hit the fan and how your mom was able to go, okay, let's see how you do on your own. She's been there every step of the way with you. And she knows how much she needs you, how much you need her, the foundation that you'll have, the realization that you'll have in your head when you get to the end of the driveway with your overnight bags and you're like, what the fuck am I doing? You know what I mean? To where he doesn't have that. So when kiddo is going, he's like, oh, shit, like he really will go because I haven't, I've been so out here. He truly doesn't need me and is on this path himself. So now I have to like come in and I'll help in any way. Oh, you need money for the steroids. Here's the money for the steroids as long as I'm still in your life and your grass for the first straws at that point is too late. Yeah, well said. Well said because his, his goal and safety and vision is now like, well, not is now, but it has been tied to like social media, like the external, all the external things that he's feeding his mind with. These guys on my computer and on my phone 100% have my back more than my dad does. That is, that is his mindset right now. These guys will tell me the way. And my dad is such a fill in the blank that these guys aren't. These guys are the man. Yeah. Yeah. And that's gonna, that's gonna happen a million times over of like to bring it back to me again of like, I thought the guys on YouTube in the hood doing these like teaching out a jerk videos were the coolest dudes on planet earth. And I wanted to emulate that so bad you with WWE, like those guys, you're like, hell yeah, dude, like these guys got it figured out. Every kid's going to have their idols and like being able to attach yourself to your kiddo and support them in those endeavors of drum lessons karate ballet track gym, like whatever it is, like being alongside them for it. It's like the healthiest way to navigate that. Yeah. Oh no. Good combo. Not an expert. Not an expert. My kid's nine months old. I don't know what I'm talking about. She looks maxes. Scarlett does looks max however, in a healthy way, in a healthy way. She's been wearing sunglasses recently. Have we talked about this? How adorable are sunglasses? Oh dude, and Scarlett loves the sunglasses. Loves them. There's a dude. It's so fun throwing sunglasses on them. And I picked out this outfit dude and chef has the assets. We, this is my crack a cold one. Dude, crack it open. Oli pop. Thank you. Thank you. Shirley Temple. There's an actual crack it. Speak it. And not to give you extra work on the back end, chef, but this is my super crack a cold one. 3000, 1000, 1000. Don't worry for this one. I will be adding this is a major crack a cold one because we did have, we went to Stokehouse. That is spelled H A U S the German Stokehouse spelling and it's a brewery slash barbecue place and we did a little PT six get together with chef and deek and myself and I brought Scarlett along. It was Ruth's birthday. Okay. It was Ruth's birthday. PT friendship meetup. I know deacos bus my balls about a friend's lunch that I missed and now I'm hearing that it was a PT six. That's for the dad's lunch. It was a sponsored Oli pop, Nana cam, way fair. Boys can know each other, bring your daughter. Yeah. We all, we all have the safety glasses on. And Gable video. You don't like these things. Do you? Just be clear. This happened on Friday. This happened on Friday. Okay. Your daughter's birthday just to help you. We just did. Yes. And a dude, it's really, my crack a cold one is I love that I've gotten to a place with Scarlett through the challenges that I've received from Jill from yourself, from other friends that have just lived life with their, I'm talking infancy kiddos, like getting out of the house with your little ones. I've now gotten to a place where I'm like, I'm going to Stokehouse with these guys to this brewery. No questions asked. I'm bringing Scarlett. What do I need? I need her bag. Oh man, she's been loving sunglasses. She has those sunglasses. They're kind of like a burnt orange color. And she's got this little outfit I could throw on her mom's going to love that. I'll throw in that outfit with the sunglasses. Oh, I'll get the high chair table that connects to the table. It's going to be easy. I know she loves mac and cheese. Do they have mac and cheese deeks? Like, yeah, I'm pretty sure. Great. Then this is going to be an awesome endeavor. We had some adult bevvies. We're just having a time and there was like zero stress to that situation. And like, not the pride, but just like the joy that I had of like walking in with my girl like right there and everybody in the little brewery that wasn't associated with us seeing her and like seeing their little face of like, Oh my God. And you're like, yeah, dude, I got this cute kid and like she's out in the world and we're living life. And like, it was just awesome, dude. That's why I'd say super mega crack a cold one 3000. I love that. And bonus to that cry. Yeah. Don't you see the shine on his eyes? The shine for sure. But not the not this doesn't fully get there. Like you're composed. It's like the composure you have when tears are about to come. Yes. Got you. That muscle has been very much worked out and flexed to where like, I didn't have that before this show. Like this show has vastly helped me do not just go into cry mode. I cried, quoting hardball, dude. Don't forget about that, dude. I'm that story. The crack a cold one that fires me up. You should be proud, man. Because I do. I feel like, and we know this. When you're a new parent, a lot of times you feel so tied and locked to the structure and the scheduling very of your kids to where your kids because they do your kids ultimately decide like what your decisions are going to be with everybody. Yes. But a lot of times you're so tied to they have to do naps. Like obviously naps. They should be doing naps, but you know, people like they have to nap in the crib. They have to nap at home. It has to be from one to three. They have to eat their lunch at this time. It has to be this meal. It can't be a meal on the go. It has to be a bottle. It has to be a bottle. Yeah. Like some things you have, your non-negotiables that you kind of prepare for when you leave the door and go out of the house. But just the freedom that you were on my did, you should be super proud. The freedom that you have of just knowing I am going to go to lunch with the boys. Like you guys pick a time. All of this time kind of goes in line where it kind of leaks into what nap time would be or what nap time is going to be. And then the thought of like, dude, I'm bringing the kiddo or I'm bringing the kiddos and they'll be able to nap a little bit on the in the car. If that if need be, what are all the things I need to bring? Because we're going to go and get out and they're going to be a part of my world versus me just being so immersed in doing everything in their world to where I'm saying, no to everybody else. And then I'm jumping in next, you know, you have the anxiety and urge like, God, I've got to get out of the house. I feel like I'm in a prison. You're stir crazy. You're stir crazy. Yeah, man. And what was so fun is we had a great time. Chef had to get to something. Deacon I stayed for like extra 45 fish. And I totally missed Scarlett's bottle at two. And so I looked at the I literally did a, Oh, like what time is it? It was like, I got to go. I got to go. And then I was like, Oh, wait, no, I packed her bottle. I have all the stuff here. She can just eat here and we'll push nap time and all that stuff and like being able to kind of go with the flow because you're confident or they've always only taken a heated bottle. Oh, I forgot to heat the milk. This is cold. Then your brain goes to let's see if they like some cold milk. Yeah, then they try it. They might drink it and be like, Oh, snap. I just kind of found a little dad hack for a little world. Say she doesn't like it. Then you're trying to figure out the pivot of we're inside of a restaurant. Hey, I got my eight month olds. Is there any way I could get some hot water or any way to warm this up to where they do? And then they bring the bottle back and you just solved all the problems because you're just going with the flow and like, Hey, we I need to find a way to make this happen. Yeah, if you get to a total dead end, you might have to go home. But no matter what, you're trying to like exhaust all options of being on the go. Like, Charles, we get so proud that Charles was big on we're going to travel with them. We're going to a if we're going to the farmer, like getting out of the house doing this, like they're going to adapt more to our world with the structures that we have around them. So we're going to need all the things that we need to go with them. And it is like, it is fucking hard at times, like it is shitty when you're on a flight and they won't calm down, or they need all these things and they're antsy or they're a busy body, like all the shit that you go through to make some of your travel plans or vacations or weekends or having an afternoon, like for those things to happen, like that make no mistake, the shit is difficult. It is. But now like Ruby being for like, she just feels so much more adapted to being a kid that like we're going to be on the go. We're going to be doing these. So where she's even thinking of things or Scotty might need this, or she communicates what she needs, but she's just so she's getting so well versed and so adapted to us just being kind of a busy family or on the move at all times. So where now you're just like, you're happy that you did those things. Yes, dude. It is like a introduction into your life for the kiddos. Yeah. So that you're adapting to their needs, but they're also adapting to your because those will be their needs. Eventually those needs for social interaction, for outdoor time, for hobbies that like bring them joy for just their curiosity, their curiosity, like dead at why are we standing in the secure? Why is it called a security line? Why do we have to stand here? Why are there so many people? What number do I have to look for? Like the gate? Like, you know, she knows like her ABCs and she knows the one, two, three, so that stuff to where you're like learning on the go with them. Like you're having these little fun moments. Hey, fine gate. We're looking for B and a nine. You got to look up on these across these hallways and try to find B nine for dead. Well, why are they up there? And you're explaining to them why they're up there. The people got to be able to see them. It can't be low because it wouldn't be able to be visible. What if they were down there? So that way, like, let me pick you all the way up. You put them on your shoulder. You see how you can see all the way down the hallway. That's why they do this. Dead. Why are you looking at the screen trying to see where our check baggage claims going to be? What's check baggage? Dude, great question. Great question. Great question. But they're like, they're learning in real time. And then the next iterations that you do where you're traveling, they almost, they start to get a foundation of like what the process looks like. And then it's just cool to see. Yeah, dude, they're going to grow. As cool as you see them kind of have the knowledge or learn or like ask the right questions. Yes. Oh, we do this because this dude, you're right. Good job. Yes. And there's so much education to be had in books and flashcards, etc. Yeah. We do flashcards. Y'all have a great little game. This was a while ago. You might not even do it anymore with Rue where y'all have this little game where Charles was like, now Rue, look outside. Is it sunny? Is it overcast? Is it kind of cloudy? And she puts the marker busy board. Yeah. And well, what time is it? Okay. You put on this time and there was like what day of the week? What day of the week is it? Um, yeah, the degree range outside and the degree range. Like how hot is it going to be? Like finding the 60, finding the 70, like there, there's stuff to be learned inside, but then like the real life application of it, of getting out of the house, even when they're little. And I am no expert, but like everybody, all of my close friends were like, there's no shot in hell that you're going to Waco, Texas for Auburn, Baylor with the eight, eight week old. You are a psychopath. You're a psycho and it's not going to happen. And I'm so glad that we did it because it really did set that benchmark of if we were able to do that when she was eight weeks, we're on cruise control as far as like how much easier this gets. And it does. I mean, Jill's, like we said, she stole my daughter away from me this week. Yeah. And you just, you get like, again, it's like, did you should be proud? It's like, as parents, you just get proud of yourself because you did challenge yourself to do like, hey, you're a psycho. Oh, we shouldn't do that. Why shouldn't we do that? And they kind of tell you maybe some good reasons why I get that. Maybe you pivot back to, you don't do the thing because, hey, I wasn't thinking about all of these things. Or you see it as like, I like her chances. We'll figure it out. And we are not experts. Your kid is susceptible to stuff at eight weeks. Totally get it if you're not going to travel for those reasons. And that's very smart of you. Like I'm not saying you're a good parent if you do one or the other. Yes. Zero, zero. Like Troy was listening last week and she was like, what did you say about how Scarlet like drops her past on the floor or can't put it back in her mouth? Where was she at the airport at the airport at the airport and Charles and I were laughing like, we kind of just let it ride when it hits the ground and put it back in. But then if you're like Johnny on the spot is an extreme example, but if you're in a very dirty, like if it's like in a bathroom or in a stall and it hits, like clean it off, but I'm thinking, yeah, like in the middle of an airport, like in the middle of the airport, it drops on the ground. Hey, pick that back up, like get it back in. Hey, there's a thousand different ways to skin a cat. The amount of times I've done. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, wife, he's standing right there. I'm in the airport. Oh yeah. Oh, we got an extra one in the bag. You're right, honey. Well, you know, like right now we're trying to speak into the thousand different ways to skin a cat. We're showing Rue like we had a shepherd's pie last night. You know, in shepherd's pie, you got the ground beef, you got the peas, you got the carrots, you got the potatoes, and it's all kind of mixed together. Rue's not like she identified something that in her brain she's not liking that we have to go to Daniel Tiger. It's fun to try new things because it might taste good. What would Daniel Tiger say? Because she's like, you know, she's for whatever reason, doesn't like peas or since carrots are cut in a small little way, she doesn't like carrots. Dude, you don't know what you like. You got to try it because she would eat the beef. She likes the beef, but she's kind of picking through it. I'm just like, dude, come on, like just scoop it up. You want to mix the mashed potatoes in it. See how you take the fork and you kind of stir it and makes it a little creamy and dreamy. Scoop it up. I promise you, you won't taste the peas. You won't taste the carrots. You will taste the ground beef that you're tasting and a little bit of those mashed potatoes that you like. We're trying to get her to do it, but Charles, like a lot of ways to skin a cat, sweetheart. And I'm like, she said it, she was saying it to Rue. Oh, to Rue. She said it to Rue. Rue wanted to try something. Yeah. So you can do that. A lot of ways to skin a cat. And I just kind of chuckled myself on, you know how to skin a cat. See me and the boys, back when I was growing up, tied firecracker. Maybe. Honey, honey. I'll teach you one day. Now you want bedtime story tonight. We talk about. Oh my gosh. I had a tweet a post over the weekend where I couldn't believe Rue had turned. Oh, let me see here where Rue had turned four. You kind of had a self-reflecting moment. Yeah. Just to continue to fill space, continue to fill space. Is that your crack? This week, by the way, Rue turned four. Yeah. Absolutely, bro. And Easter egg hunts. We'll get into Easter egg hunts. And I want to learn about the Nana conversation. My post was, I can't believe my daughter just turned four. Time goes by way too fast and I absolutely hate it. I know I have a ways to go, but my takeaway so far, the worst part about being a parent is watching them grow up. Obviously we talked about that in depth a little bit last week on last week's episode. It's not the tantrums, not the late night wakeups, not having to go back up to a room for 30 minutes to talk to her about how wolves won't attack her while she sleeps. That's on me for including me and wolves in her make believe story, but essentially cherish every moment. It goes way too fast, but going back up to talk to her about wolves and story time and skinny cats to bring it all the way back around. She, we are now in this phase to where she doesn't want books currently right now for like the last, I would say, week. She wants stories from us. Make believe stories, which kind of challenges you as a parent. Yeah. Because now you're legitimately trying to story tell how many stories can you just make up in your brain? I'm tying it to, okay, I'm like, what characters do you want to be in it? She always wants Tigey. She always wants Princess Cerulean in the story. So I just grab any Disney movie that I have Lion King. That's genius. Bugs life tangled angels in the outfield. It could be angels in the out one's that like, you know, well, that you've seen a lot that you remember back in the day. And then you just insert said characters, then they make up all the other characters. But once you wanted it to be a mountain Princess Cerulean, Zooey, that was a name we kind of made up in one of the stories Zooey, Tigey, Tigey's friends, but Tigey's friends got to be the bad guys. Oh, gotta be bad. But she's kind of giving me a lot of parameters to where it kind of cuffed me to how I could story tell. Sounds like the producer needs to get out of the riding room. Kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you predict. Yeah, I needed, I needed to implement that standard. Yeah, yeah. But it got it to where I basically did the bugs life story to where they go off Princess Cerulean and Tigey. They have to deliver food to tie or not. Princess Cerulean and Zooey were the good guys in the story. She wanted Tigey to be a bad guy with his friends. Okay, okay. Tigey was a hopper, the bad guys in bugs life. So Princess Cerulean, she wanted the town to be called beautiful to where there's beautiful trees, beautiful grass, beautiful flowers. So I have to involve this entire story of once upon a time, there's Princess Cerulean and Zooey, and they lived in this place called beautiful trees, grass, flowers, and they lived the happiest life ever. The only, but the only thing they had to do to continue to live happy was to deliver food once a month to Tigey and his bad guy friends. Every month, Tigey and his bad guy friends would come in and they would collect the food that Princess Cerulean and Zooey would round up with everybody in the town, all the people, all the animals, all the insects, they'd round up the food, deliver it to have it set now for Tigey and the bad guys. Yep. Tigey and his friends, they'd pick it up and they'd go on their way to one day, all the food, they set it out and this big gust of wind came through. Are you guys familiar? Pretty good with bugs life. Are you guys sticking? Are you guys staying with me? Hopper's tagline? What's wrong? Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm a bugs lifer. We're the main character in bugs life. I forget his name, but he's out there. Something like Flip or yeah, yeah, something like that. Like flick. There we go. He like messes up and hits like the rock and all the food falls down into the river. I'm just, there's no flicking this one. The wind picks it up, blows it away. So Zooey decides she's going to go off on her own to find some friends from a nearby town to gather some food. Those friends names. I'm like, what do you want those friends name to be? She was like hook. Boom. Great flick, by the way. Dean. Dean. The dude, Dean. Yeah, dude, Dean and bear. Let's go. But as she's going to the town, she has to go through a forest in the forest. I'm thinking, all right, what, what scary things could be in the forest? Cause this is a journey. You got to take them on a journey. Yeah. All my brain thought of was wolves. And all of a sudden she's in the, she's, she's in the forest. She sees the town light from down the road. It's dark out and all she said, she hears and she's like, she kind of like leans up out of bed. No, like, and then, then, uh, Zooey hears, Oh, start chasing Zooey. Zooey's running hook, Dean and bear are at the end by the line. Hey, just get us. We'll save you from the wolves. No, they make it to them. They save them from the wolves. The rule wolves room back in there. Zooey tries to break down. Hey, here's what I need help with. We got to gather food for tiger cause tiger made a visit and said, if you don't deliver food, I'm like, I can't say I'll kill you. So I'm like, we'll throw you in a cave and trap you there forever. Oh no. So Zooey's breaking it down to all of the friends in this town, this nearby town. They're like, Dean, cook and bear. Hey, we'll help you. We will help you. Yes. The stipulation, they got to go into the force and gather all this food. And I'm just naming all roost favorite foods like yogurt, meat, eggies, meat, meat, snacks, bananas, blueberries, all over the gathering. Shepherd's pie. Shepherd's pie. But then the wolves found. Indeed presents. Hires you can't afford to get wrong. Like payroll manager. Hi. Um, I was just checking my pay slip and it's all in Japanese yen. Yes, you're welcome. Sorry. 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He's having his heroic moment in his, in the hero's journey. Well, they save themselves to go to Prince Siruline. They have the food. They're all happy. Hey, Zooey, Hook, Dean, why are you guys sad? We lost Bear. But meanwhile in the forest, Bear, Bear defeats the wolves. Hunting? Yeah, Bear defeats the wolves. And right when they were trying to live happily ever after and Zooey and Hook and Dean, they were still sad. Out walks Bear. Please. He made it. Please tell me you got Scrella playing on your phone as you go. Yeah, out of the forest. They hear a subtle music. And Bear's just slow mo coming out of the brush. So I crushed that story. You crushed that story. Ru was leaning up out of her bed like they're hitting all the moves. So I tuck her in and we lay. She's asking all the questions about the story. Why are they a bad guy? Well, you wanted them to be a bad guy. So I had to kind of, that kind of had to be their role. Go downstairs. Ru starts crying. Mom goes up. Mom comes down. Hey, what story did you tell her? Oh, did you talk about wolves? It's like, yeah, I was kind of just thinking on my feet. I needed a, I needed a moment of adversity while they were trying to go through the force and all I could think about were the wolves. And she's like, well, now she's scared of wolves. Like she sees shadows on the wall. The sound light, the sound machine, the light's too bright. So I have to turn, I had to turn down the sound machine because she's scared of the shadows. She thinks the wolves are going to get her. And I'm like, oh, you live in you learn. Then 15 minutes later, Ru starts crying again. I go up there because I'm like, all right, I did this. Ru's scared because she has so much fear that she can't get out of her bed to turn up the light because she can't see anything now. And she's scared of all the walls being black. And so I got to lay there with her, talk to her about wolves. Hey, no wolves are going to get you in the house. There's no wolves in the house. There's no wolves in your room. There's no wolves in the house. There's no wolves outside. And she's like, there are wolves in the forest. I'm like, oh, there's wolves in the forest like far, far away, but sweetheart, it's all make believe. Like I dead as just telling stories. I just do and make believe I'm pretending. There's no wolves even close to us. Yeah. Our wolves black, white, gray, brown, black. Yeah. Yeah. She's like, honey, that doesn't matter, by the way. The color doesn't matter. Wolves in the forest. Like we have forests outside. Sweetheart, those are just trees. Well, all the trees, they're close. They're close together. So it's like a forest. I'm like, that's a great point. But they're not. They're, they're sweetheart. You got to go to sleep. There's no wolves. There's no wolves. Chef had a great point too. Chef had a great point. Cause I was telling chef about this yesterday. Yeah. I got to, I got to fix. I told Will, first thing he needs to do is say sweetheart, I am a wolf. They're good and bad wolves. So you just want to stay with them. And then the forest part you go, no, that's the woods. That's just the woods. The forest is deep. The forest is far. It's no homes around the forest. A lot of forest. There's a lot of, the forest is a special place. That's just the woods behind, behind the house. Yeah. Forest, Canada, woods, America. Yeah. Are we, are we in America still? Oh, it's just the woods. Oh, are we in Nashville, Tennessee? Oh, it's just the woods. It's just the woods sweetheart. Hey, go to sleep. Well, chef had the exact same idea as me. And not to like bring levity just for a laugh, but I really would have loved to see you pull up your, whoever made that like real rudimentary highlight tape of you with like the intro where it's just the text on screen of your NFL highlights. It's like, Will Compton, number 51, the wolf. And it's like the image of a wolf and you being like, ah, like coming out of the smoke and truly being like, your dad is a wolf, but I'm a good wolf. And look how I took care of all these other wolves. Like I think that would open something up for her of, Hey, I'm like, Oh, my dad can turn into a wolf. Yeah, my dad, well, he can turn into a wolf. He's a good wolf. He's a good wolf. He's a good one. Maybe she's too young for you. You saw this before. One of my first episodes, we had a caller call in, uh, how his kid had thought of that a monkey in the room and we said they should put out anti monkey stickers. Oh, I'm just saying it sounds like an anti wolf sticker situation. Wolf spray, dude, with the air sauce. That's what I need to go. Yeah, dude. I was in the part of the night to where when you're doing story time instead of books, you're taking way longer doing story time because you're having to like think on your feet the whole time. I'm caught up and I got to have like these moments of like keeping her on her toes. And it takes so long and then they want to have a recap of the entire story. So you just get to where you're run down after doing bedtime for a certain period of time. You're going down ready to kick your feet up. Now she's crying. She's scared. Okay, I did this. Let's go put these fires out, but I need to, I need to flip the switch. Mike's secret stuff, dude. Go to Walgreens, get a cleaner spray bottle, tape over it, wolf spray, water in there. Surprised her tonight. Honey, look what I got at the store. I think one last point is when you're doing a story like this, always give a descriptor of like a far, far away land. This happened. This happened far, far away. This doesn't even exist around me. That's that way. You can, you can say whatever you want in the story and go, no, that's the forest and blah, blah, blah. It's far, far. It's we'll never even go there. Next thing I know, she'll have me up with her glow globe in the room and back. Can you show me where? All right. It's over here in Japan. You're opening some more doors, but I think that's a good, like you're putting the expectation first that, Hey, this is not anywhere. This is in Tennessee. Yeah. So we are, this is in Ukraine. You know what I mean? It will. Will, I would be remiss if I'm being so sincere in this. We brought up Stokehouse, the barbecue place. Shout out, no free shout out. No free shout out. A lot of people, we've been seeing comments. Hey, when are you going to let Jeff talk about his turkey? When are you going to let him talk about the truck? I would love to let Jeff talk about the pulled pork at Stokehouse if we have a brief moment for it. Is that okay? Am I getting the green light? Oh, is he getting what? Am I getting the green light? Are you? Is he getting the green lights? Me and go green green. You're getting the green light, chef. All right. Seaman team six, PT six. We are all, I want to hear about the pull more. Derek invited me this place and I had no clue that Derek had not been there. Derek is, he's been on a run. There's no other way to say it. He's on a heater. We show up. This place is very unassuming. Now we'll say I'm going to walk in. They had an offset smoker sitting in the side that looked like it was 300 years old. That's a good sign. Now. And also let me preface, I am, I take a lot of pride in my barbecue. I take a lot of pride in rating it and caring about it. And I take very much pride in how I rate given at the love and respect it deserves. Will this place limited menu? All it does and meets is pulled pork, Memphis style pork ribs. And then on Saturday, Sundays, they do brisket. Am I correcting that? Very Texas style brisket. Yeah, it is. I didn't, the brisket, it was Friday. So they didn't, they weren't doing the brisket. I got a half pound of pulled pork and that's my go-to. I'm a pulled pork guy like Carolina style. I like a vinegar sauce. It's the best. I've been thinking about this a lot over the weekend. It is the best pulled pork in Tennessee. And I don't say that lightly. They, they do a heavy bark over it. And what they do is they soak it in a vinegar and that gives it this juice and this tang. It's my kind of style. I'm not as much on the sweet barbecue. I like to have the tang in it. It did that. And my next favorite thing in barbecue is Memphis style dry rubber ribs. And they had some of the best. I wouldn't put them over like a rendezvous in Memphis, but I mean, overall I was shocked. Limited menu to the mac and cheese was great. Curly fries. Curly fries were incredible. Plain tains. Yes. Smoked plantains. Talk to. It was the smoke house and I was, I was floored. I think Derek and my reaction, I was kind of like in a shock. I didn't know what to say during it, but Derek, unfortunately, missed my favorite part of chef's experience. Chef was doing a review on Snapchat. Were you recording yourself? He was recording himself with Snapchat as he was taken by Tsoville. And I swear to God, this is how fast his rating of the pulled pork was to record himself. He goes, pulled pork looks pretty good. Let's get a bot. Seven out of 10. That fast. Seven out of 10. Seven. I think I don't remember the number was, I don't remember the number I gave. I don't know if I gave it a number. Maybe I'm wrong, but the review, the review might have just been lost in the experience. I was lost in the experience. I was just watching chef work. The review was as fast as Dave Portnoy giving a pizza 0.0. You know, when he like doesn't mean, yeah, I mean, he was, it was one of his ass. And I wonder if it's recent bias. Like that's where I've been. There's a place in East Tennessee called Ridgewood. That's up in Johnson City, old Gus's mountain pit, sweetwater, Tennessee. Those are places that have Hyman. I'm wondering like, do I need to go back and retry? And then there's places out East to Memphis's and Jackson. So it's a, but man, I was, I was shocked. I was very happy. Will, we got a, I know it's your daughter's birthday, but you can, we should have found a way three for three. Three for three. Deke is, Deke's not hot. He's burning. Yeah. Yeah. Who do we have another special guest? We do. Who do we have? Yeah. Target. Target. Thank you. Thank you. That's, that's a new record to special guests. Yeah. Yeah. She was about to come on the show. Whoa. She wasn't saying nothing. She was just like, why are you guys clapping? Oh, she did. Was that rude? She wasn't messing around. She was trying to get her delivered. She's like, that's why she's great. Yeah. Yeah. That's why she's the best. Yeah. She didn't know what she walked into. So you guys know it's four full bags of Oli pops. Full, full, full bags of Oli. You can't make it up. Make sure we get paid for every two we get one free. Make sure, make sure you make sure in the receipts. Drink oli pop.com forward slash BWTB. Should we knock out some comments? Please. Please. Let's knock out some comments. I have a couple just from last week. Just from last week. Let's do that. Josh Jacobs is back on the show again. Get a shout out on the pod. Good. Get mistaken for the Josh Jacobs. Good. In the words, Alan, in the words from Alan from the hangover, your Josh is a white laughing cry emoji face. Appreciate you boys. Keep up the great work. Thank you, Josh. This comes from Duncan Robertson 8 7 9 0 on YouTube looking for an update on the matchmaking opportunity from a few weeks ago. Need to know if our two sickos were able to meet virtually or in person for a date. Hashtag PT six Duncan. I think it's over. Yeah. We're lost Courtney. We're very hands off in the same way you would be with really close friends and saying them up on a blind date and you don't want to ruin the ring. Yeah. You don't want to get in the dynamic. We all the sudden we kind of felt like, Oh, did we, did we go too into the pressure? Yeah. Yeah. We're sorry. Yeah. Sorry. Jay Roma here. 9109. Dad lost follow up. This is our boy that chimed in last week to worry his dad lost was sent his daughter to school. Didn't have the hair ready center in with some hair ties. Oh yeah. Follow up on the dad loss. And my daughter's hair turned out great for picture day. Thank you to her teachers. Thanks for the shout out. No free shout outs on the podfills. Wow. Simple. Simple. Kaylee Allen 21 on YouTube. MT six are here thinking. Oh, dude, I've read this before the show. Lock in for this. Okay. Okay. MT six are here thinking of sherms car schedule and making it come to life. We are talking about me owning the garage at this new house and that also involving Jill's car. The best thing we ever did is use mobile services as much as possible. I have my oil chain service come to my house. And by the time I'm done loading the dishwasher, my car's ready to roll. Same goes for the detailer scheduled for every 60 days. Such a lifesaver. And I don't have to even think about it. Oh my God. And I know that those prices are oil changer. Yes. And the prices are competitive. That's dad heck of the week. Yeah. That's I mean, we have a dad had of the week. Okay. Okay. Bonus that one feels that one feels great. Yeah. I did not know that there's mobile oil changing people out there. Sorry. I threw it on the ground. Kaylee. I'm gonna I'm gonna pocket this pocket. I'm gonna pocket it up. I got it. This one I got here. This is a new dad. Nick Sponsor. Sponsor. Hey man, found the for the dads podcast the Wednesday after I found out my then fiance was pregnant. Me and my boys were on a golf trip the night before we came home and I had a dream that I was going to have triplets. I got home white and she said three positive pregnancy tests in front of me. I dead ass looked her in the eye and said, does this mean we're having triplets? Fast forward. I have a little girl that was born on March 26, 2026 and 322 am labor is a process and wow what the women do is truly amazing. My wife, we got married, courthouse for the win, pushed for five hours, had to do an emergency C section. So I couldn't be there at the time. My daughter was born. My wife was under anesthesia. So she shows she couldn't even hold her now five days with this little one and she is our whole world. Your guys's podcast has been awesome in preparation through the unknowns, the hard times and the ups and downs already. I just think of you guys and have love for the show. Fucking love you guys and proud to be a part of Papa team six. And yes, she's been deep asleep in my arms writing this while the wife is getting some rest. Rock on boys. Come on. He's already diving in, dude. Diving in. I have Justin Dordi, seven, four, six, nine on YouTube. He says the going home bundle would be a good idea for sure. I think, but we need some boy dad merch. Justin, we'll look into it. We'll look into it. We're looking into it. We're looking into it. That's a good way to phrase it. Yeah, we're looking into it. I have a hubby shouted here from Gracie Heflin on Instagram. Hi. I was wondering if you guys could do a shout out for my fiance on his birthday on April 11th. It's the seventh. Oh, people are listening three days. He's turning 32. Could you guys shout him out on the podcast you released just before his birthday? He is a first time dad. We welcomed our baby girl Beckham in July of 2025. We listened to your podcast weekly and we'll look forward to them so much. His name is Skyler Brownlow. Brownlow Brownlow, B-R-O-W-N-L-O-W. Brownlow. That seems like Brownlow and he's easily the greatest dad and partner in the world. If you could shout him out and let him know that Grace and Beckham love him so much and we are so proud of him. It would mean so much to me and him. I want him to feel incredibly special. Thanks for reading you guys rock. Well, Gracie, we don't have it. It seems like this is a comment we would read and then just shout him out on our own naturally, but just reading your comment all the way through, it feels like we just, we knocked it all out of the park. A quick note from her. I try when people send those in to match them up with the episode. She sent that in the beginning of March, though she had this in the chamber. So I actually asked Gracie, I said, Hey, can you DM us back closer to the episode to remind us? Remind. And she hit me up yesterday. You know what you are? You're an uncle that cares. You're an uncle that cares. He is an uncle that cares. How now brown, loud. How now brown, loud. All Skyler Brown, loud. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Skyler. You are a sicko. Hmm. Hmm. Hey, Skyler, for your birthday, two fun coupons. Oh, what did those go to? Shockwave and put a bow on it. Oh, what's that entail? Happy birthday. Happy birthday. They listen to our podcast weekly. They know what it entails. Oh, what is it? If I'm a new listener, I'm new to the show. What is that? What's put a bow on it? What's shockwave? Shockwave is that amusement park you walk into. You go on the biggest ride. You have two minutes of absolute fun, highs and lows, and then rest after that. Is it okay if it's a 30 second? Very okay if it's a 30 second roller coaster. Cool, cool, cool. Just I have a buddy that has a season pass. Yeah. He's wife. He's involved. If you were wondering, okay, you get on that ride, you take it for a spin. Yeah. And you get yourself some rest. Yeah. And what's put a bow on it? What's that? The biggest ride is shut down. The biggest ride is shut down. Yeah, for maintenance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you go over to the little shop where wifey works at and you say, I got a coupon. Can you put a bow on it? I know I know the big one shut down for a few days. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Put a ball on it. Is it put a bow on it? And that's fine. So Skyler gets both of those. Yeah, yeah. Happy birthday, Skyler. And thanks for writing Gracie. Yes, thank you, Gracie. God, poor Gracie. Devlin Ardson on Spotify said, APR. And just a reminder, we had our superpowers that we went over in our Reddit discussion after pod report. One of them was the magic hum. That was the one that you wanted as a superpower. This was Devlin's APR from his wife. Anytime in the future when you need to say the phrase magic hum, be sure to emphasize the H and hum. Magic hum. Up until we put the graphic on screen, a lot of people wrote in that they assume that superpower had magic. Shockwave excrement. Little magic. Little magic. Which is the one that you put a bow on it? That's what put a bow. That's the little ride that you can hit. The magic hum. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds about right. That sounds about right. For any, it's always sunny in Philadelphia fans that remind me of the boys soul from the musical. Oh, we have a ollie pop that just came in fresh. Has anyone tried this flavor? We were thinking maybe we just haven't tried it on the show yet. And we haven't tried tropical punch. Twist my arm. Reminds me of a, of an old, old nostalgic drink. An old familiar feeling. An old familiar feeling. Makes you feel like you're riding on a surfboard in the waves. Just red flavor all around you. I'm almost like that excitement is in my mouth with this drink. Yeah. Into the year pool party. Yeah. Like you're a little kid and you're, you're ripping around the foundation of jungle juice. Oh, we're joking. It's just a joke. That is, that's it is very good boys. That's a Fiji kid. That might be my number one. Oh, we got number one. Yeah. Shat. The ST sixers out there. Number one tropical punch. I got month of military children. Are we excited? Should we dive into the MLMC? Yeah. The military families. Thank you guys for your service. Hi, PT sickos. This is Celeste Gonzalez. I've recently become a milk team sixer over here. Thanks to my husband. My name is Celeste and my husband, Jacob Gonzalez, and I love listening to y'all's podcasts together. It's become one of our favorite hobbies. I've literally stocked him up on all of your merch, all in caps lock dude. Shout out Celeste. Thank you. BWTV.com. Just wanting to give him a shout out on your pod for being the best dad of our two baby girls, Olivia and Chloe. We also have the girl curse. I died when Will was chanting about break the girl curse literally lives rent free in my head. Ha ha. He's such a good husband, selfless patient, loving and so much more. We just got stationed in Germany. He's a canine handler in the army. We're definitely excited to travel, but also nervous since this is our first. This is our first PCS as a family. I look into it. PCS. Yeah, looked at up. This is our first PCS as a family. I want to say thank you for spreading positivity and being a dad in parenthood because it is truly a blessing to raise kids with someone you love. Your podcast gives us so many laughs and positivity in the way you all parent, especially being girl debts to thank you Celeste Gonzalez. PCS stands for permanent change of station. It's an official non optional relocation for military personnel, typically lasting two or four years moving service members to new duty stations. So that is a permanent change of station. They were restating in there for two to four years and that could be from California to Florida. I mean, you could go clear cross and overseas and yeah, they just got stationed in Germany, bro. What a change that would be. That's the one where it's just like you're obviously tied to that career and it's like, yes, you can't do anything but embrace it, right? If you want to keep what she talks about the positive attitude and parenting and being a partner and all the things like you have a sudden change like that, that can't be easy whatsoever. Yep. And we're going to go live in Germany for two to four years. Yeah, in a foreign country. Around a military base. Oh, you love your school and you love your friends at your school. Hey, guess what? Get ready to spreck in the Deutsch. We're going to Germany. Which Opa would love that. Opa would love that. Opa would love that. Hit the what is it in Munich, the Hofbrahaus in Munich. Oh, really? Yeah. You've traveled to Germany. I went to Germany when I got my sports hernia surgery. Oh, that's right. I went over there, got a sport hernia surgery was there for a couple of days. But we at the Hofbrahaus walked all like the cathedrals, all the steps like immerse ourselves in Munich, Germany. That's sick. It's a little key fun. I'm sure they're going to have a lot of fun doing it. I'm just saying like a sudden change like that and thinking about all this little gray space of anxiety and fears and nerves that you live in until you start to get acquainted with the new scenery. Yes. With this being the month of military, military children, I want to make sure to highlight Taylor. But for time purposes, Will is traveling later today. I'm just going to quickly summarize what Taylor wrote to us. He served for 20, 23 years in the Navy. Shout out, Taylor. So this is a not only a PT sicko, but a PT sicko with a lot of game and something that he wrote in his email that I loved as he said, if for dads, they're in the military, something that they need to hear. If you're in like your child's life, be in it. And if you are home, be home, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally too. I know that there's probably a lot of stuff that's on these guys in Gal's brains when they are off, you know, not off duty, but in the reserves or back home or whatever. And I love that Taylor gave that note for some game. We also ask people to list their favorite barbecue sauce at the end of last episode. Taylor was kind enough to say PS head country barbecue sauce. Nice. Love always from Taylor Himes. That was on Facebook. Thank you for writing in Taylor. Yeah, Taylor. Thank you for your service, all those words. And you can like, obviously we don't know we're not in the military. So when he's speaking to the military on, Hey, if you're home, be home. If you're present, be present. Yeah. But I feel like you do get an iteration or example of it in some of these movies that you get to watch, like American Sniper. Oh my God, Bradley Cooper's home. And all he can think about is he's got to be back. He's got to be back over there with his boys or like, you know, when the husband comes home and they're just like so wrapped up and everything else except being home. Okay, your daughter, she just wants you. Your son, he just wants you to be here. You're never present. You know, all those little yeah. And I'm sure that there's probably a bit of that. I know that rude didn't overlap too much with NFL, but I'm sure that there's probably a lot of that too with all the NFL guys that you have on the pod, just hearing what it's like being in a professional sport and feeling so deprived from your kids. Those guys are still seeing their kids at least once a week, twice a week. Imagine these guys that aren't seeing their kids for months, years, dude. I can never, I could, I feel like I could never do it. And doing, serving something that's so much bigger than themselves. The amount of military affiliated listeners that we have on this podcast, dude, it's really cool. What a awesome community to be not a part of, but like to feel like we have gotten to know them more and more, have gotten closer with them and that they love this pod. That's pretty cool. Yeah. And that's great advice for anybody who's in any career that they love. Obviously the jobs are vastly different. But the concept of being present, being at home, being when you're with your kids, be with your kids, like that's great advice for literally everybody. Because we all have jobs we love, we all have jobs we sacrifice a lot for. We sacrifice a lot for where at times you're at home, like I'm guilty of this as well. To where you're thinking about work or you're thinking about the next thing, you're so wrapped up in it or you're on your phone to where you're not present or you're not there, where wifey might say something to you, or you just catch yourself or you just kind of know recapping your day or your weekend about where your mind has just been off, you know, trying to solve a different problem versus just being at home, being intentional at a home. To that point, have a datac in my hand that I want to get to. I do have a loss that I feel like I need to get off my chest. I hinted at you very briefly yesterday, but mind was somewhere else and I had maybe the worst attitude possible dropping Jill and Scarlett off at the airport on Saturday morning. Oh, really? Yeah, it was bad. It was really? Yes, dude. I was being such a loser about it. As far as Jill had three roller bags, I'm dropping off at like five o'clock in the morning. I'm making it in my head. I'm not talking out loud. I'm like, can't believe I'm having to do this. Ba-ba-ba. I'm going to drop them off, not even thinking, hey, she has three roller bags and an infant. She might need you to park and like go in with her, not just drop her off. And so I'm like, oh, okay, I'll drop you off here. She's like, you're not going to park and go in with, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll go, I'll go in. Then the morning shit hit me on the way into the airport and I'm walking like a duck. You're working on your three Ps. I'm working on my three Ps. I'm walking like a duck. I'm not even walking with Jill and Scarlett. I'm speed walking because I'm like, honey, I gotta get to a bathroom. Hey, I'm getting her all flustered. I get to, there's these huge lines for the bag drop off. I leave her bag in the wrong line for the wrong airline. And she's like, you know, 100 yards away catching up to me in the national airport. I went to the bathroom dropped. Oh, she's face-saming me right now. Do I answer it? You can answer. Hi, honey, you're on for the dads right now. Hi, Scar Scar. Hi. Hey, Jill. Hi, honey. Yes, we're recording. I'm so sorry. No, Jill, it's okay. We're talking about how much we're talking about how much of a loser sure may as when he dropped you off at the airport at five in the morning. Yeah, it was bad. She said, yeah, it was bad. Tell Jill, Jill, do you mind picking up from the story of me dropping your bag off in the wrong line and running off to the bathroom? Would you want to take it from there? Well, yeah, I basically did everything by myself and which is fine. I can do it. I'm capable. But we got in the line and I'm like, I really just want to spend time with my husband and you're like, get in the line and he puts Scarlet on top of the suitcase, which is like cute. And we're like, oh, this is so fun. And then he walks away and I was like, oh, German, like, make sure you're watching her, like, put your hand on her back or something. And he was like, don't tell me. Like, I'm five. I was like, oh my God. And the women behind me were like, they gasped. They were like, like, oh my God. And I didn't even know what to do. I was like, because German doesn't do that. He didn't talk like that to me. So I was like, oh my gosh, like I was so embarrassed. I was just, we did not do hugs by. We just said, see you later. You can think about what she did. I tried to hug her and she said, uh-uh, not after that display. You don't talk, you don't talk to your girls like that. I can't believe you made everybody around you gasp. Yeah. That's, I said, I can't believe he made everybody around gasp. Yeah. No, literally, the two women behind me, they were older women and we were like talking about Scarlett. And when he said that they were like, and I like looked at each other, it was bad. It was bad. It was not a good character moment. God damn. It was a bad Davos, dude. Why'd you have so many bags? And the note, honey, that I wrote down, Hey, Jill, Jill, why did you have so many bags? Sherm said you had six roller bags. Cut it in half. It was three. Oh, you know how sherm likes to exaggerate. Three is a little tragic too, but now I have a suitcase for her suitcase for me. And then I bring a roller bag because I know last time you all talked about that. So we do roller back now and I have all of her toys and stuff because it's just me solo. So I need a lot of and that's a great idea. Yeah, you go prepared. That's a great idea. We're prepared. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Jill, the note that I have from, we have the after pod report that we call the APR and the note that I had from you, which was on my screen was to be a gentleman. I need to treat, I need to be a gentleman. I need to treat you as such. I like that. I think that's a good goal. I think that's a good goal. Jill, sweetheart, how's he doing with his three P's? Not good. No, what? You're not doing good. Honey, are you being frit like, honey? I have been doing better than she don't listen to the parking. I can hear it. Well, okay. I love you, but no. You have no idea what you just did to me. I've been putting a conscious effort. Well, you did to yourself, Sherm. Yeah. Hey, no, you know, hey, you know what? You know what? You might have been disgusting. Now you're just less disgusting. Now I'm just gross. Oh yeah, maybe you're gross. Now I'm just gross. And honey, actually, I think you're right and there's plenty of room for improvement and I need to continue to get better. Nice. I agree. I agree. First we can talk about the attitude. Then we'll go to the three P's. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Beautiful. So much fun. See, we're going to drink our papa. I'll look into it. I love you, honey. I love you. You should go. I'll just I know I'll face on you after honey. I love you so much. Bye. What a piece of shit you are. Disrespectful. Not a gentleman. Disgusting. Well, gross now. Scaring. Scaring everybody in the airport. Scared the old, the old way men. They gasped. I'm surprised they didn't leave. They wanted to. I saw it in their eyes. Like I really affected their whole week. Yeah. The way I spoke to my wife. I love the way that she told the story. I wish I had footage of it. That I walked away from the suitcase, which I did. I did. I believe you. Hey, listen. I walked away. I just let her just sit on that suitcase and I said, good luck. Don't fall. What was I thinking? Vird your side. We've heard her side. There's obviously the truth out there that we'll never get to. But when you get home, you'll talk about the attitude first and then the three P's. And then the three P's. That really broke my heart. The three P's broke my heart, dude. I could kind of feel it because I was like, I'll just kind of just being funny. Like, how's he doing with the three P's? And I was elated that you asked. And she was like, Oh, I can't believe you guys. He actually talked about three P's on the pod. And then she's like, not good. And just sad. It kind of saddens me. But what are you doing on this toilet? That's what I'm saying, dude. That's what I'm saying. Because now like the conscious effort is there and like it truly is a wipe. I'm wiping the boy seat, dude. Like when I have the seat up, I'm like, boy seat is clean. Girl seat down. Is there like an air fresher or something that you can just add an element? I got to up the game. Yeah. I got to get one of those little doily, like see things. That's what I need to do. Is she in the doghouse with you right now? No, I was certainly in the doghouse on Sunday. She's in the doghouse with you. Oh, we see in the doghouse with me. Yeah. Can I do that? Cause I was right. I don't, I don't know. Have you ever put your dog in your doghouse? Not really. I don't think so. Like maybe if I've made an attempt, but it doesn't last long because they have the power over you no matter what. Oh, what are you going to do? Sue me. Yeah. You're going to sue me. Go ahead and try that. See how that works. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're not going to have sex with me. Let's see how long that lasts. Instantly. I think you forgot who the gatekeeper was in the bedroom. I'm going to go shower. Just leave the bathroom door wide open and throw on Skrilla. She did mess up the story though. I screamed. I screamed it. I believe. Yeah. I screamed it. Don't talk to me like I'm five and the entire airport froze. It was bad. It was bad. But yeah, that was my dad loss. That couldn't have worked out better with their calling. No, couldn't have. You behind the screen going. Women gasping. Oh, you're calling her a liar. No. Oh, okay. No, I didn't know where you're going with that. Oh, I don't either. The women gasping. I must have blacked out. Yeah. I don't remember. Okay. I just where we doing is it call ins now? What? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get back to some. Yeah. We get to the call. Yeah. Let's get to the call ins. 601 the dads. And if you want to write in, we'll read some emails immediately after that's 601 the dads at gmail.com. Will it's kind of an exciting. It's not kind of it's an exciting week. We have three call ins and we also have a special edition email right in. Okay, we'll start with our first voicemail. Let's get to the call ins. Let's get to the call. PT sickos. St sickos. Int sickos. We interrupt this episode for way fair. It is way day at way fair from April 25th through April 27th and you can score the best deals in home. We talked about it on the pod. 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Head to Wayfair.com April 25th through the 27th to shop way day. That's W-A-Y-F-A-I-R.com. Way fair every sale, every home. We are also very, very proud, very happy to be here yet again to tell the folks at home about Oli Pop. I'll try to keep this short, but I have a personal segue. This is a true story and I know people are probably sitting at home. I'm going to try not to cuss because it's an ad read and they're saying, Sherman, you're full of it. This is not a true story. You're making this up so that it sounds great during the ad read. I was on a phone call with one of my good buddies from back at school. We're catching up and he goes, PS dude, I got a Oli Pop right in front of me. I'm crazy about Oli Pop. Y'all are so lucky you're sponsored by them. What are your favorite flavors? And we just went down the row. He's not a classic grape guy, Will, which kind of broke my heart. He is a classic grape, but he's more of a classic root beer guy. And he said, you can have all my classic grapes. What about Chris Papel? He likes Chris Papel. Okay. So, but I was like, you would be a great, his name's Graham. I was like, Graham, you'd be a great hang. Hello, Graham. We would just have your, your classic grapes. Yeah. And you stick to the classic root beers, buddy. I digress. Oli Pop has a get a free can of Oli Pop by any two cans of Oli Pop in store and they will pay you back for one works on any flavor, any retailer. That is drink Oli Pop.com forward slash BWTB. Oli Pop is sold online at drink Oli Pop.com and Amazon is available in the soda aisle, chilled beverages at thousands of retailers nationwide, including Walmart and Target chef. I got the one and only Shirley Temple right here. Let's go ahead. Let's get a little pop phase going. Okay. Sippy poo. It still hits. We take a sip every single time and it still hits every time. Go get that Oli Pop. Go get a little Shirley Temple to quote Anchorman. Oh, it works 60% of the time every time, every time. Oli Pop. Great for when the raccoon gets in the copier. Let's get back to this episode. Boys, new PT sixer here. Yeah. His Nick calling from beautiful still water Minnesota. I am a dad that's been in the trenches, but it looks like I'm getting out pretty soon. Just wanted to call and share that my son packs, aka the champ packs, aka Bam Bam, had a clean cancer scan yesterday, marking two and a half years in remission. He's four years old. He has a twin sister Parker, who's also four and my oldest is seven. So new PT sixer, new to the podcast. Again, Nick from beautiful still water Minnesota. Just wanted to give a word of encouragement to all the dads that are in the trenches. It doesn't last forever boys. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go, Nick! Oh, beautiful still water Minnesota. And he's new and he's, he's, he's just part of it. He's part of it. He's like, I'm new to PT six. I hear him. They got a colon hotline. Let me hit the hotline. Oh, I got, I got twins. Good. I got a seven year old. Good. We see packs, aka champ, aka Bam Bam, aka Agap. Good. Oh, kick cancer's ass. Good. Yeah. He's a sicko. He's a sicko. Love that. Call in. That was a great thank you, Nick. That was a great call in truck nap is our second call. Okay. Truck nap. Let's listen in. What's up boys? This is Sean in California. Hello, Sean. Currently in the truck in the parking structure across from the L and D for a little nap before we go to war. That's labor and delivery. Dad snores a little bit. So wife is asleep in the room. I'll take the front seat of the truck. Little nap time. But shout out to the boys. Thanks for everything you guys are doing. Can't wait to join PT sicko family. Here we go. Love you guys. Bye. Oh yeah. Love you too, brother. I love you too, Sean. Again, it's all in the voice. Yeah. If we call Sean a month from now, it's going to be a completely different human. A month? We call Sean five months from now. Hey guys, it's Sean. Baby sleeping through the night. Remember me taking naps in my truck? Hey, just hey, it's Sean. Hey boys, I love you guys. It's pod, man. A wife going through a little L and D. She's in the room right now. So she's sleeping. I snore. So I'm just going to be at the front seat of the truck. I'm taking nap. I'm going to exist as a human being as much as possible out of the way of my wife. Yeah. I love you guys, man. I'm excited to be a dad. Can't wait for this little thing to enter the world. Yeah. Everything you guys talk about and do, I mess with it. It gets me really stoked to take on the day. You guys have no idea. My wife's in pain right now in the delivery room. Thank God she's sleeping for a little bit. She needs it, but I'm going to leave and I'm going to go get my truck and I'm going to sneak me a nap as well. You could truly go, hey Sean, you just won the lottery. The mega million. You just won it. Oh, really? Man, I cannot believe that. Yeah. Sean, we're busting balls. We love the cold. We've been there, Sean. Oh, next time we're... I've been there asleep on the couch after eating a burger. Belly's full now. You mind if I snooze a little bit? Woke up to screaming. The epidural didn't work. Grilled onions still on your face. Oh, hey. Sorry, y'all woke me up. You're being a little loud. Shit. I guess I'm not going to sleep this whole time of minute. I guess we'll do this now, right? This one is titled G. Dammit. Okay. This is our third calling. All right. Derek here from Boxville. I'm a little bit behind, but on the topic of our kids repeating our bad words, a couple of years ago, when my oldest three, point of order for the story, he has autism. Shout out autism, Miller. No free shout out. But so he was nonverbal or pretty limited with his language skills. And one of his favorite phrases became G. Dammit. Now, unlike Will, I did not use gosh. I used the full word. And there was one incident where he said, Dad, can I have a cookie? And I said, no, not right now. You got to eat lunch or whatever it was. And he responded just simply with G. Dammit. I went my head around. I was shocked, but also kind of proud because he didn't have many language skills at the time. He used it correctly, but also, you know, we got an it that in the bud. Thankfully, he doesn't repeat it anymore. But it was an interesting time, say the least. All right. Pop six out. Take out the trash. Sicko. Oh, hey, nice. But also don't don't. We can't say that. Hey, can I get a cookie? Oh, no, not right now. You got to eat your lunch. God damn. Yo, hey, hey, hey, sweetheart. Hey, hey, don't just don't say that again. Don't say that again. Don't tell your mother. Never mind. I'm sure you did. Did you feel the same with real? Yeah, yeah, of course. First, I sort of like, you know, dropping a couple of the words like I was in the front seat. I was laughing, but I understand like you got a, but yeah, I was proud. This one, my favorite GIFs on the internet is Tom DeLonge and the Blinkway to music video where he's just like, what the fuck? My kid to like some crazy that happened in the real world and they just hit a what the fuck? Part of me. There's just dude, they're so little. They're so innocent and all the things that they do so funny. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like rocking the sunglasses like, yeah, they don't know they look adorable, but they like them and you're just like, oh, you're just so innocent, cute, adorable. Yes. You don't know how cool you are right now. That's the best kind of cool. It's the best kind of high like if you just rue was just like, oh shit, and then just put on her sunglasses. You're saying she said, oh shit out loud. But a really the garage, the garage. Jim just got put in. What do you think? Oh shit. That would be awesome. Honey, love the energy. Yeah. Love the delivery. We got to work on the. We got to. Oh my God. Okay. Speaking of kids doing some crazy shit. I have an email really quickly for you. Okay. This might be one of our best submissions that we have gotten as far as video. Would you agree with that, Deek? Yes. This was enough to where Deek pulled me aside and showed me this like four times. I digress. Here we go. Okay. This comes from Peter Matthews. Peter says, what's up gentlemen? Been listening to the pod for the last few months and love everything you are doing for the community. I'm a dad to a wild three year old daughter crew and a newborn son Graham. Very deep in the trenches gotten Easter dad loss from the past weekend. Picture this Easter afternoon. I'm in the kitchen cooking a nice family dinner feeling like I've got life under control for once suddenly footsteps, chaos, screaming, crew and her partner in crime Brody also three comes running upstairs yelling, the basement is smoking. Now as any season dad would do, I stay calm and controlled as I walk downstairs to assess the situation. I'm assuming nothing is actually on fire, but of course prepared for the worst. Fire disaster insurance claim, the whole thing. Instead I walk into what looks like a low budget fog machine convention. The entire basement is filled with a thick white haze can barely see two feet in front of me. After about 10 seconds of confusion and inhaling whatever mystery powder now lives in my lungs, I find the culprit. These two hooligans had located the fire extinguisher, pulled the pin and absolutely emptied the clip. We immediately spring into action running around opening windows trying to vent the house while this cloud of extinguisher does starts creeping upstairs towards the newborns. At this point it turns into a full blown family emergency response team brother in law fellow PT sicko deployed Brody's mom vigorously wiping down surfaces. My wife captain empty sicko commanding the operation like a general shop backs industrial fans Dyson's mobs. Everything we own is suddenly in play. A day later now there is still a fine layer of mystery dust coating my entire house and probably my lungs, but crisis averted. In the best part we checked the playroom camera expecting some sort of curious accident to have happened. No sir. Crew showed zero hesitation, no fear, no regret. Just walks up, pulls the pin and commits like she's been training for this moment her entire life. Honestly, can't even be mad. This one's on me. I left a fire extinguisher within reach of two unsupervised three year olds and learned a valuable lesson. If it has a pin, a button or looks even remotely interesting to a toddler, they will use it every time. Anyway, no fires, no injuries, just a house that now smells like a chemical plant and a story I'll be telling forever. Dad life. You can't make this shit up. Peter Matthews. Dude, Peter. Great storytelling right there. We have the video. Oh, we have the video. We have the video. I do want to preface in the background you will hear a song. It is Come on, ride the train and ride it to you on full blast. These kids knew what they were doing. Guys, if you ask if we have fire extinguisher The arms out weapons run. It's a little bit of panic like, oh, bro, they were blasting, blasting music. Crews like, oh, let's get this party started. Have you all ever seen a goofy movie? You know, the original one. Sikko, what's his name? Peter? Yes. Peter Matthews. He just walks down. God damn it. Have you all seen a goofy movie? The original one? Yeah. Long time ago. Pauli Shore plays the guy with the red buzz cut. Yeah. And when Max is performing at the school thing, he gets a fire extinguisher and he goes, how about a little smoky? And he like starts spraying it out. That was crew. Yeah, that was crew. Crew was dialed in. That's funny. That's a good story. Peter, thank you for writing in and thank you for sending the video. Video is crazy. And he gave us full permission to post it. Matthew, which is iconic. Yeah. God, I can't wait for that clip to hit the internet. Send us more videos. Send us more videos. Send us more vids. What else we got here? Oh, I have a dad hack for Ru's birthday. This comes from my wife and basically like to surprise Ru. We went up and as Ru was sleeping, I took out Charles, I go up and get 20 stuffed animals. So I go up and get 20 stuffed animals. Charles already got the balloons there. We sit down and we start tying the balloons around her. All of her like favorite stuffed animals. So they could be there to greet Ru when she came downstairs or out of her bedroom. So the hack is just like finding like little ways to surprise them, to show them like, hey, everybody's involved for your birthday to make the day feel special to start off the day with it, feeling special. It's like she goes and she only has Taigi with her. I don't think I brought Taigi downstairs. I got all the ones. There's like eight that sleep buyer, you know, there's like 10 down under her feet, there's some in the closet, got a bunch of her favorite animals, brought them down. So when she comes down, she's got them. She's got all the animals sitting there with the balloon tied to them, hanging up the little four year old one so she could be fired up right when she comes down for her birthday. And dude, hitting with that dad hack of you on the dad cam is dangerous, dude. Bro, we were rolling with that. Yeah, yeah, that camp snap bait. I got it for for Christmas. And dude, it is awesome. It's like just that vintage camera gives that vintage feel. And all it is is a point and shoot. You get it in there, the filters and buttons on the knobs are on easy on and off. And then you got probably four. What is it? Ratio picture? Yeah. That's right. Right. Yeah. We're to four ratio options. And then like five filter options. If you want to, you know, you want it to look a little bit more vintage, give it some gold, whatever the color is. It's only got about five on those. And then you just point and shoot, bro. You just pull the trigger and it goes. And then when you get done, you take the little USB-C from the camera to the phone and it drops it on there right away. It's amazing. And just ripping around with it. Just, you know, you got like the parent voice in the background, like my voice in the background, I'm trying to get the shot. Let me get the shot. They're just having all those little moments of ripping around for a birthday in the morning. Like we got her a couple squirt guns for the pool. Yeah. And then we got Twister four so we could all play Twister together. And she saw she's good at it. And then, yeah, dude, I full day, just full day of just having a lot of fun. We got her out of school. She only did a half day at school. We pulled her out after they did like a brunch where you could go. Parents can go and like sit with their kids during lunchtime. Great. And eat with them. So we're sitting out at her school having some lunch and then we take her home with us. We hit the pool like all afternoon. We're playing. We're doing all the games. Twister, Charles made her a little rest, crispy treat cake or rice. Put some put a candle in it to blow out a cake. Yeah, yeah, those are kind of slept on. Yeah, very slept on. Do rice, crispy treats. Bang, bro. But especially for that age, too, because like it leaves very little mess. Whereas icing and crumbs. I mean, that's getting everywhere. Yeah, those rice, crispy. As they stay a bit more contained. That's a hack. Yeah. But that was just a little that hack. Thinking of little creative ways to spice up a birthday that cost absolutely nothing, but you're just wanting to just pour into the intention of her birthday, make it feel special. Charles, like right when I got home from Texas Tech, she's making whipping up the rice, crispy treats. She's like, hey, can you go upstairs? I got all the balloons. They're over there. Go upstairs. Can you grab 20 stuffed animals? And I'm exhausted. I'm like, fuck. Go get all the in these little party hats, like little party hats to put on each stuffed animal, scatter them out before she comes down the next morning, comes out on the next morning and we're hitting the ground running with the birthday. Oh, that video, too. And we can run it on the episode, not to give chef another thing to play. But just that video of her turning the corner with Scotty. Yeah. And your dad cam, like that was dude, that's peak. Who drew the birthday girl? She's four years old today. Hi, Scotty. He way. Can you say happy birthday? Did you tell her happy birthday? Scotty, can you wave wave? She's kind of like, looks at me. I'm a Scotty Stan, bro. I am a Scotty Stan. She is a legend, bro. She just she just wants to play and have fun. I say her name out loud each time I'm watching one of your video when I'm at home and I see that video when you when you have both of them coming up and then you have like an ISO shot of her like being de-gaffed and kind of waddling around. I just go, Scotty. Dude, I took this. I'll say I'll dad out for a second. Show you this photo I took over. Because I'm while you dad out. Well, I do have a question for you. That's your dad. When is the dad lost this bunny rabbit picture you drew? Little top buddy. Oh, no. Oh, I haven't even seen it on Sunday morning. We did. We went to stay gold. Here's the photo of Scotty. Just in her little hat. You know, let me turn up the brightest for you guys. Just in her little hat sitting on the couch. Deke. Her fingers are laced like she's watching the stock market. Like she's just catching up. What's going on? They had to mess up. Yeah. Then it then turn it to that money chain. I got to see how my portfolio is doing. She's watching the master. My dad on master Sunday. Hey, that's the caption, too. Bro, that's hilarious. Oh, yeah. So we went to stay golden and, you know, Rue loves to color on the work, their little work sheets and stuff like that. Well, they were out, but they had some blank ones. So we're root could have the crowns and just draw like while we were having breakfast. Rue loves to draw animals. And it was Easter. So I was like, Hey, sweetheart, you should draw a bunny. And she's like, I'm going to draw a giraffe first. She knocks the giraffe just out of the park, dude. Like, look at that giraffe. Yo, that's it. That's a good spot. Check your draft for legs. Check. Yeah. Long neck. Check the two horns on top of the head. Check. Smiling. Check. And she was like, then I don't know how to draw a bunny. Can you draw me a bunny? And I'm like, dude, I used to be able to sketch. I like your boy could draw back in the day. I'm talking myself, portrait in middle school was hanging in the school hallway because I was dialed. Grandpa was taught me how to sketch when I was a young buck. Like I'm like, I'm picking up the crowns, you know, about to draw for the first time in a while. And I'm like, yeah, I know my way around a blank sheet of paper. What? And I didn't know this about you. And Rue was like, Daddy, can you draw me a bunny? This should be easy. Legitimately, it confident is ever going into drawing this bunny. This is the shit that I came up with. And dude, I swear to God, I was not envisioning it as it was like being drawn. I guess I OK, draw the head like, let me get the ears going. You do a nice swoop in with the ear like you get tighter as the ear gets lower. Like, I got a. Buddy, I'm thinking I would find a way to draw the body. And bro, when I'm drawing this, because this. This is it like next to her giraffe. Yeah. And I'm getting done and I'm just making myself laugh. And she's like, what are you laughing about? I'm like, what the fuck is this? She starts laughing and like, dude, so they did it. What's so funny? Like, oh, sweetheart, I tried to draw you a bunny, but you got to work that muscle. It looks like she drew the bunny. Didn't she draw that? Yeah, she drew. I did a great job on the whiskers. So I'm sure that I was trying. Then it's all blending together. Cut the crowns and shit. I'm like, fuck. Yeah, then Charo tried to fucking lap me. Oh, that's a bunny. That's a bunny. A bunny. Yeah. But she got that part. That's a good looking bunny. Wilson, full dad mode. But we were making fun of our dads at the dad cop behind my sheer good. Oh, shit. What are we going to? Where is that? And I'm like, I'm like, I like chew on my tongue and my tongue comes out at times. Like when I'm like focused on doing something, playing video games, drawing whatever it is. Dude, I'm dialed trying to draw this bunny. Like, I can tell that I'm like, chewing on my tongue, trying to like do it the right way. But. God, you can't win them all. Am I doing better on the three Ps? No, sir, I'm not. Can't win them all. Is there is there room for improvement with the bunny? Of course, man. Are we missing anything? Topic lesson quote. Are we good to go into that? Oh, yeah. Got to wrap cameras. OK, so lose cameras. I just came across like this kind of goes with returning for and just dads being into where their eyes start watering. They're watching videos. They're reading stuff on the Internet. Their algorithm algorithm is full of dad content. God. And this one comes from. Kevin Dahlstrom on X. I booked Mark this the other day. So take it from me. A recent empty nester. The good old days don't feel like it at the time. It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long and the years fly by. Then one day you wake up in the house is quiet. One of my most cherished memories is coming home from work each day and opening the creaky back door tour 1947 craftsman home. My three year old daughter now 21 would drop her toys, run down the hall, her footsteps booming on the old wooden floor to greet me. I love my life and I don't want to go back. But I do wish I could pass one message across time to 35 year old me. You're living the good old days right now. Savor every moment. And it's just a video, bro, of them riding his bike back in the day. You just read it and you this drop to how does she now this drop to around when I dropped around when I dropped mine. I can't believe Bruce for and then I see it from him and he's older now. His daughter is 21. And it's like, oh, dads are like, we're all in the same mental mindset of like being intentional, being nostalgic, being sad, being excited. Like, dude, I love my life now. But if I could just go back to some of these bottled up moments like I see Scotty and it's like our second, our second iteration of having a little girl at 16 months old. And the times where I look back at Rue at 16 months, one year, two years old. I'm just like, God, I wish I had that. I love who she is right now. Of course. But man, you want to go back to some of those moments because she was so adorable, she was so cute. And you get to kind of relieve it with Scotty. Like, is this going to be my last daughter? Is this my last time going around? And you see guys like that who are older now that wouldn't change anything. But they could go back to 35 year old me. It's like cherish every moment. And it's like, you know, those times are coming. And I know I'm going to feel that way when I'm his age. You just, yeah, you can't stop time. And I get in my feels, bro. Dude, I do too. I'm dead meat. I am dead meat. Yeah. And it's going to get to a point where I'm going to be seeing my daughter when she's like, um, like a full grown woman. And I'm going to want to cry just looking at her because I'm going to be so proud and so happy and try to pick them up below and get below their knees and like, oh, data, you're still dead as baby girl. Get on my shoulders. Hang on the L five, that L four, L five can't hold it anymore. I, as you were telling that story, I was imagining just me walking into Stokehouse with Scarlet right there on my shoulder and like and Ruth's four now she's getting big. Like I can feel like when I'm holding her, like, I feel like I'm in the year to where this could be the last year where I'm holding her like all the time or quite a bit. Yeah. I'm sure I'll still hold her at five, maybe six. Who knows? I don't know. I haven't gotten to that part. The part of me feel, you know, the weight she is. And my time and her just wanting dead at a holder. You know what I mean? And just being like, dude, I'm going to hold you because who knows how many times you're going to ask me to still hold you. My time line needs to chill out, dude, because it'll just be pictures of like, hey, you only have two summers with your infant for with your toddler, three with your kid and four with your teenager to that like little Billy. I like the weekends with your eight month old, four weekends with your eight month old. It's about to be nine months. One three. It's about to be long gone. Yes. Scarlett Scarlett's nine months now, dude. Oh, nine months. You get four weekends with your nine month old. Oh, great. Well, four Fridays, four beats of Friday. Well, my wife selfishly took her for one of them. Good. Yeah. Looks like I'm only getting three weeks. Yeah. Yeah, man. Good. So good. So I'm too sweaty to taste this chicken. Yeah. Dan Gable. Take out the trash. We love you. We appreciate you. Papa team six, you guys are the fucking best milk team sixers. You guys are the best semen team sixers. We love you. You're not the best by any means yet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yet. Oncles, uncles, uncles, uncles. We love you. BWTV.com. BWTV.com. BWTV.com. What are you calling your uncle? Leave that in the comments. Yeah. Take out the trash. See you next week.