EP #045 - Debunking the Dumb Dad Trope + Will Teaches Rue About Fear | For The Dads

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They take matters into their own hands. I vowed I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Laurie Siegel and this is Mostly Human, a tech podcast through a human lens. This week, an interview with open AI CEO, Sam Altman. I think society is going to decide that creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to the products we put out in the world. An in-depth conversation with the man who's shaping our future. My highest order bit is to not destroy the world of AI. Listen to Mostly Human on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Episode 47. 45. Okay. I think that's why I'll need this. Papa Team Six, welcome to Episode 45. For the days we are stoked at you here, we hope the trash is taken out. We hope your home is thriving. Also, I hope that there's some bickering and some things you're trying to solve right now because you have to be active and intentional because that's a good thing. That's what life is. Sure, I'm you're upset right now. Did you forget to take out the trash? Yeah, dude. It's okay. Dude, hey, I forget it. More often than I'm proud to admit. But that's life, man. That's life. But if you just remember just the small things and I'm talking to myself too, I'm not just talking. I'm not talking at you. I'm talking with you because I'm included in this. Yes. These are the small things that you just, you get a win early. You take out the trash. Maybe it's a night time after you clean up, you take out the trash, clean the dishes and you take in your head or wifey says, hey, tomorrow's trash day and you have an option right there. Most of the time I choose, hey, I'll do it in the morning. But the consistency that we need to get to is just taking a couple minutes, taking a stroll out to the end of the driveway, setting up the trash. We have good news on this episode. We have great mothers day drop is live. Yeah. Live right now. Live right now. M T sixers for the moms out there or mother's day drop is out. It's live right now. B W T B. Dot com B W T B. Dot com. Yeah. For the moms, for the moms, for the moms guys matter of fact. What do you got? What do you want to show them? I got, I got some little teasers of some of the mothers they've merged. Show them the teaser. All right. Here's the deal with the mothers they merge. I do. I got a note. I got a note and it's right here. Hurry up faster, faster. Losing losing. We're losing them. We're losing them. We're losing them. Here's the deal. All right. The moms did a great job for the fathers for like the past stuff. Moms have been buying these husbands a lot of merch. We love to see it. But this show, what's the name of this podcast again? For the dads. It is for the dads, isn't it? Yes. And why not? Why not today go? Hey, my wife, he got me that P T sicko hat. She got me the bear with the cigar hat. She got me the shirt with the, for the dads. My wife hooked me up. My wife is constantly hooking me up all the time. What if I hooked her up? What if I put a bow on it? What if I got intentional? I went to the website WTB.com. I bought her a gift without her knowing and gifted it to her on Mother's Day. Look at that little stuff bear for the mom sipping a little, what is that? A little pina colada, something bubbly or maybe a little olive pop. Yeah, maybe a little olive pop in a teeny glass, a little stuff bear. Maybe it resembles the kid. So if it's a kid now, maybe that's just apple cider, some type of carbonated. Maybe that's Chris. Apple, Holly pop, Chris, apple, Holly pop in the cup. Yes. And they got their phone. It's for the moms. It's a crop top. Yeah. A lot of comments. Hey, Willie, see, can you put the crop top on? Hey, sure. And fat staff, can you put the crop top on? Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I love that shirt. And again, you can see it in a multitude of ways. If that's mom, because the phone, but then you're like, okay, if that's my kid, my kid should be having that iPhone right now at three years old. Watch that screen time. Yeah. Watch the screen time. But that's, that's just a taste. There's another one. We also got a crop in comfort color as well, like a more loose fitting crop. Yeah. When you wear around in the night, in the nighttime, maybe get a little, get a little comfortable before you get in bed. Maybe you're laying on the couch. You want to watch some TV, some soaps with your hubby. It's a great shirt. Hey, what if it's like real cold outside, or maybe it's really hot outside and we're blasting the AC. So it's kind of cold inside. I want to cozy up. I want to curl up next to my PT sicko on the couch. Do we have anything for that? Do we? Do we have anything for that? Oh, here we go. I got it right next to Willie C. Bang. Bang. We have a little mom with her pup. We have full matching sweatsuit. We don't have the back. That's the back. You got the front too. And it's embroidered embroidered high quality, high fashion for the moms. Guys go shop to you drop and ladies that comes with matching sweatpants. It's a full sweat set. We're doing it. We're laying it out for the moms. The moms love the sweatsets, dude, when they're around the house getting comfy cozy. They love their jammies. They love their sweatsets. Yeah. Love holding their coffee with it or their tea. Come on. Reading a book. My wife loves a good book. Oh, but shop BWTB.com or Mother's Day Drop is officially live for the empty sickos out there. We got to take care of them. They're the heart and soul of the entire operation boys and the entire up. Go ahead. No, they are. I just don't want the moms to outdo the dads. It's all I'm saying. Like this really is a challenge to the dads because I see all these wifey sickos out there, all these mommies that are getting their husband stuff. It's constant. And you know how the dad brain works, boys. Fellas, listen to me. You just heard this sermon I go back and forth. And I've been the guy where it's like, yeah, I need to get on it. This is a great idea. Yes. But that's as far as my brain goes. And then I continue to drive. I get to where I'm going. You chop it up with the boys. You bust balls. You forget all the things happen. Yes. Then you get home. So when you're going to take out the boxes, it's long gone at that point. It's long gone at that point out of your brain until you get reminded and you see the shirt somewhere after the fact, after mother's day and you're like, damn it, I meant to buy her a shirt and I forgot to do it. And now you're scrambling to try to get the Walgreens to buy a little flower set in the front. That's what I mean. I mean, it's way more difficult to dude. And I'm, I'm talking from a internet shopper myself. You can literally go to bwtb.com. You got the Apple pay setup, whatever it's sending it sent to your house. It's done. It's over with. I just knocked out the freaking park for my wife for Mother's Day. Yeah. Yeah. And like probably a minute, we got some good action coming for Mother's Day. We did. Wifees are coming on the show. They are rumored. This is alleged. We're looking into it. We're looking into it. Wifee's looking to come on the show and also markdown circle the date, circle the date May 30th. Yes, sir. Circle the date May 30th. We've talked about, we've talked about Papa Team Fit. There's been the message boards, the discord, the reddits, the Papa Team Six community on X, the, the comment sections all over the place. There's talks of where they should bar three and Papa Team Fit or should bar three, the wives and the husbands do something together. There's somewhere, maybe it's an outdoor class, maybe it's indoor. Who knows? All we're going to tell you right now, circle the dates May 30th, 30, circle the dates May 30th, Nashville, Tennessee. Hey, it will involve PT sickos and empty sickos. That's all I'm going to say about that. Yeah, correct. Yeah. Correct. Correct. It's a pot. We, we embrace the moms, man. We embrace the matter of fact, I have a comment right here that moms will love to hear before you read that. How did, how did they get on the show for us to read it? So you Papa Team Six community knows they know, and if you're new here, we're so happy you're here. Make sure you are subscribed and following on all channels. We're on Spotify, Apple, Google, YouTube. We drop comments. This community is the best community on the internet boys. Yes. However, you want to be featured on the show. We got, I got so many comments here. I got dad hacks, follow-ups from last week, general comments, shout outs, emails. We have a hotline six on one. The dads, you call into that hotline leave of voicemail. You can, you can vent about everything. You can talk about a win. You can talk about loss. You can talk about a learn whatever it is we feature you on the show. We ship you merch, but we read comments and engage with our community all throughout the episode. They can come at random. I'm about to read one now from Ryan Hammett on Spotify. Spotify, we love Spotify comments. Dive in on them. And this is for talking about Mother's Day. This right here, moms are going to love, they're going to love to hear this comment. Fucking love Spotify. Ryan Hammett, this was six days ago on Spotify. I know it's all for laughs and jokes, but can we please not act like our wives are the boss or in charge of us. I'm not saying let's talk shit about them, but they're not immune for being wrong or messing up something. They're not, they're not immune from being wrong or messing something up just like us. If you disagree with her about how something went down, then just say it. I'm 33. I've been married for 10 years, been married in 10 years in November, been together for 15 years since we were 17. Sorry for the wrong, the long rant. Laugh out loud, but I hate the dumb husband dad trope. If we're being honest, it ain't us. Laugh out loud. I'm not an idiot. Does he know our wives listen to the show? It's a piece of shit. I appreciate him so much, but am I, am I really not an idiot? Like, is that true? You're saying that he really right that? No, no, like he's saying I, we're not idiots. Yeah, we have it all figured out. I guess we come off as the dumb husband dad, like we're doing a trope and let's stop joking and laughing and acting like our wives are the bosses. He not tuning in last week and we saw Jilly being on the phone. We know who runs the ship. We know when we know anything that comes out of my household when we do an after pod report, we know who runs the ship. It's mama bear. Buddy, I'll take you down to my house. It's just down the street and we can go look and see the Christmas tree that my wife told me to throw away three years ago that's sitting in my trash cans right now because I didn't take the trash out. Yeah. And wife, he's got love seeing that. Yeah, I don't know what this guy's thinking. I don't know. When you write a comment like that, are you showing, are you showing wifey? Hey, sweetheart, I just dropped the comment. I'm sick of these boys. Hey, would you agree that these guys laugh and joke too much about you guys acting like you're in charge of us? Isn't that funny? You think you're the boss of the house? Go do the dishes. Hey, where's the game on? Honey, give me the TV digest. What was the cable thing? Was it the TV digest? I don't know. I'm just smiling and pretending to play along. When's Hannity on? When's what on? Hannity. What's Hannity? It was a political show that my mom hated. My dad would just blast it. It was on Fox. It pissed my mom off so much. The problem is, and look, I'll just talk from my own experience here. Yeah, yeah. Because Charlie and I, we're both number one. My wife and I, we have a very strong relationship, believe it or not, very much respect. We both know we're at the top of the food chain in the household. But if you're talking, if he's talking about jokes and let's not act like our wives or the boss or in charge of us, Charlie would sit there and tell you, he will make a lot of his own decisions. Will does a lot of things that lead the way for the family. Tell him will. She does as well. But when you're talking, when you get all the way into the box of it all, if you're going to be somebody that's, that is in charge, I'm not because I'm like the most forgetful like things that we think about. We talk about the mental load all the time. That we as dads and men have to like teach ourselves and learn through in real time because we're like, we got dog brain at times. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, we got to bring this with us. Oh, we got to pack that. Oh, we got to do this. Oh, we got to think about this when we're going on a trip. Oh, this is the schedule this week. Oh, no, I didn't think about it. Oh, did I get childcare? Oh, I didn't get childcare. Like there's so many things. Oh, it's like, oh, mom's the boss. Not only my mom's not the boss, like she tells you what to do and where to be at and all those things. Yeah, your wife, happy life. Yeah. But the respect factor of knowing, hey, the mom runs the ship. They're the heart and soul of the team. They're the heart and soul of the team. And it is in our mission statement. We are not experts. And if you are tuning into this pod, and I'll speak for myself and you can go next if you want. If you turn into this pod and you expect me to have glasses on like this and I'm putting you on some crazy good dad game that I know is fact so that you could go tell your buddies. Well, actually, we don't do that with our kids. You know, Sherman Young, podcaster, he believes that you should be doing this with your job. You're in big trouble, buddy. No, I think I think you're seeing it all wrong. Will and Sherm, they spoke about this idea 30 minute coupons for screen time. So if you're going over 30 minutes, they do six a week. I see you have eight there and they say 45 minutes at a time. That's bad for your child's brain and their development. You're doing it wrong. Oh, you did not receive a ratio on your birthday. You know, I actually listened to a podcast and ends out some free coupons. Your wife's not giving you the Gluck Gluck 9000 on your birthday. It's steak and blow job day and you're not getting any of that on steak and blow job day. I listened to this podcast and it's it's steak and blow job day or die. You know, here's it. It's funny that you bring up that you haven't gotten laid in months. Listen to these two intellectuals, Will and Sherman, all that to say they talk about shockwave maxing. I've been putting a bow on it maxing lately. It's actually been really great for my marriage. But yeah, that's all to say. That's not what the show is. Or like in my brain, knowing like we talk about all the things dad life like learns, wins, losses, things that we're just we're figuring it out as we go as we fuck it up along the way. A lot of that is the partnership like with your wife. Yep. And learning about all the things that we need to do to be better partners for them along with us, like thinking about ourself and things about that we need, how we can communicate these things with the wife versus like simply, Hey, I'm the breadwinner of the household. These are the all these things that you do with the mental load as a mom or as a wife. Like, yeah, that's the expectation because I'm the breadwinner of the household. Yeah. Does that make sense? We're not back in decades ago where you have a few channels on TV. Your wife's at home all day while you're out at work, you come home and everything's expected to be done, clean, cooked, all that stuff. And there's more access now. There's there's more things that where we've developed and grown and evolved over time to where it doesn't work like that. Yeah, anymore. Yeah. And then if they get out of line, you might give them a backhand. And then if they think about going and telling their friends outside of the house, you fear monger them in that side of the house tour, they don't talk. Then they're trapped in this eco. You know what I mean? They're trapped in this this operation, this machine that just isn't healthy. You know, a lot of your friends, Barbara, they're all bitches, you know that, right? And when you start acting bitchy, that's when I know you've been hanging out with them. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you want to work where you've been hearing that? You've been hearing that to hairdress? You've been hearing that to hairdresser you go to, huh? Julie's working now, huh? Well, you gonna be working. Well, who's gonna hire you? Good God, dude. Ted, Ted, the show, by the way. Have you been watching that at all? Ted the movie? No, Ted, the show on Peacock. Have you been watching like there's a new series? Ted Lasso. Love me some Ted Lasso Ted, the show maybe better than both films. Is it with the bear? Dude, the dad, it's with the bear. The Mark Wahlberg character is in high school. So it's like back in the 80s, early 90s, and dude, it is really good television. And that dad in that show is literally that character that we've been playing. I'm watching the Ted series. I'm like, Oh my God, like he's yeah, that's who we're playing. Anybody that's a watcher of that show will know when I'm talking. Okay, okay. Ted's in the chat. Ted's in the chat. Ted's in the comments. Yeah, Ted, throw a little teddy bear in there. Oh, hey, there you go. Yeah. Matter of fact, I just, as I looked over for the comments, I saw this jersey. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chef and I had an incredible visit on Saturday. We went to first form headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, got to do some speaking there. Will you break down that hold please tell that whole thing? Cause that seemed like a really, really cool moment for you for a multitude of reasons. So Ben Newman was a sports psychologist mentor of mine early in my NFL career. I found him over social media. I DM'd him to see if he would work with me on sports psychology and the mental side of everything. Like as I prepare for training camp, as I prepare for all these things like controlling what I can control and not getting caught up. And if I don't make this team, there's 31 other teams that I can make and to where you start doubting. I wanted to work with a sports psychologist or like a performance coach because he's not a psychologist. He doesn't have his degree in psychology. I don't think Ben, if you do my apologies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we would meet halfway between St. Louis where he was Clayton, Missouri and Bonterra. We'd meet an Arnold at a Panera or St. Louis breadco every Monday in the off season during the summertime as I'm preparing for training camp. And he'd take me through exercises, worksheets, stuff to write down, like law of attraction, things, goals, how I need to operate on a routine from a daily basis, like getting it all down and mapped out so I could practically have something to review and look at every day and reflect on it every day. Like when I'm going about my unrequired work or going about my price fighter day, as he would call it. That was over a decade ago. That was about 13 years ago. Over time, Ben worked with me a lot throughout my career. Ben is now Ben Newman is now big in the sports performance world to where he's worked with. He had a job with Nebraska last year. He's worked with Saban at Alabama K state coach, climbing when he was at North Dakota state went with Kansas state. Yeah. He's worked with coach rule. Coach rule was there. He speaks with like he on the panel on this one. So now full circle over the weekend, Ben hosted an unrequired event where 200 to 250 like high level thinkers in the networks of all these people that got together were there listening to keynotes. I was one of the five or six keynotes. It was me coach rule coach, climbing coach white, who is the head coach of the Indiana fever. Yeah. Clark Ray Lewis and Sal for cello at first form. Sal for cello is the CEO at first form. So Sal for cello is a dad. I love to follow business wise and fatherhood wise on Instagram. And we've been boys since I went on the MFC O podcast with Andy for cello back in 2015. So it's a big full circle moment for a lot of people that were there and he and your boy just really quick. The for cell is then put on this event. Your boy did Ben put on the event. The for cell is the host it there because again, the network and everything else like they are super tight. Ben has done work with first form. Okay. So people will hire Ben to come in and work with their teams, work with their high level teams. He'll have his own boot camp events to where it's days at a time. He's built an incredible business. He's done incredible things. And I've been around his family and him for 13 years. He's like, he's like a big brother of mine. And I've spoke with him on a few different occasions like back when I played with Washington, we would go to different spots, whether it be in Nebraska, we spoke in Vancouver, we spoke in Seattle, Seattle together, we spoke in Vegas together to where he's like, he's like, with them on a few things to talk about my undrafted story and everything else. So he wanted me to be at this one. He wanted because he wanted to talk about busting with the boys. I sat down with him and Sal for cella. We did about 30 minutes, just kind of like a podcast style. We sit down in chairs. I did a 30 minute keynote to where I talked about like creating evidence and a couple of my pivotal stories in my undrafted career and frameworks that I've used that allow that that helped me have a nine year career in the NFL. And that I use frameworks that I use to establish busting with the boys for the dads now as well. And so I got to speak on that for 30 minutes and each keynote went 30 minutes and then I he wanted me to introduce Ray Lewis because Ray Lewis indirectly affected my career in my position as a linebacker as long as I can remember. I mean, I've consumed every piece of Ray Lewis content because I've always been a YouTube, listen to podcasts, listen to speakers like listen to seminars. I've just always been fascinated with how people think if they're established in a world to where I want to be at one day. And so it was sick that I got to go and be on a panel with ever all these guys that I know, like Coach Ruel obviously go Big Red Nebraska that self-explanatory. Coach Climan, Coach Climan had me out to North Dakota State during their national title runs. I went out with Ben because Ben did a lot of work with him. I didn't know that. But I went out and spoke to the team and did a lot of whiteboard work as far as like I had the defense with me and done how I watch film, how I studied the game, like things that I could give them to where, you know, I really get to know Coach Climan. Is he as much of a stud as he seems? Coach Climan is as good as it fucking gets, man. He seems like it. I hate to sidetrack you about this. Character, integrity, what he's about. Dude, I love Coach Climan. It was really sad when you retired. Yeah, really sad. Yeah, I know. I know. He's dude, he is a stud. Coach White, I met on the flight to St. Louis because she was on the plane with us flying out there. So we got to know Coach White. The fever coach. The fever coach, the head coach of the Indiana fever. South or sell. I've had a history with him about a decade now because again, I was on the MF CEO when I was playing and got to know them there, Missouri boys. And then over time, we've just stayed in touch. South or sell a helped me when I was starting to build busing with the boys. I DMed him and asked for if he had a set of equipment or like a equipment list, like advice. And he sent me a DM like this long with all the equipment I need to be getting, ways to think about sponsorships, ads, like he helped me when I was putting together like how to stand up busing with the boys. And now that we're years later on a panel together talking about it, just a really cool full circle moment. So we kind of had that event in front of 200, 250 people, did dinner, did a meet and greet in their locker room. It was really cool. But ultimately, what I was, what I was going to get to guess what I love is when we're out in the wild and PT sickos come up to me or people that are fans of the show for the dads come up to me. And we had a couple of them there, Sukho, who is their shout out Sukho who gifted a for the dads Nebraska jersey that he got made. And he gets that to me like when we're doing the meet and greet, he was stoked about it, bro. He wanted to hit the flex post. We'll just talk about dad life. Yeah. And talk about the pod and how much he loves the stoke to see chef. Oh yeah, man. Sukho is a dog. And then I asked, I asked, Sukho or Sukho Sukho Sukho. I asked Sukho, I'm like, why the 25? And he was like, well, that was the year you guys started it. And I was like, bro, that is awesome, man. So we're going to get this in a frame. We're going to have a hand up somewhere. Maybe it hits right there. We removed that photo, put it up somewhere on the set. Yeah, I got a couple of spots. Yeah. But we got that. Another dad came up where his wife, she has, is it MS? Yeah. And she writes children's books and he gifted me a couple of children's books for Rue and Scotty. No way. He was just very genuine talking to me. And he was just so cool getting the, I love getting to know the dads that listen to the show, they come up and just talk highly of the show and then just talk ball, like talk shop. You know what I mean? We, you've been a part of it when we were out at Nebraska to where next thing you know, we're standing on a, standing on a fence talking to a couple about marriage and parenthood and the last that we share. Yeah. People bring it up the time where I talked about Rue missing mom and the full circle with me talking about my mom. People were mentioning that clip to me, but it was awesome. It was awesome, man. There is something different. I will say I've only had a tier one shout out once by myself, but I've seen a lot of tier one shout outs with Will and Taylor out in the wild. Those are always a ton of fun. The four, the dad's ones are really, really fun dude. Cause they, it's just funny how much personal stuff they know about our life. And it feels like you're already talking to somebody that like you went to high school with, because they just know a lot of information about you. And I just want to like learn about them way more because I'm like, man, you already know so much about me. Tell me about, you know, your family, your kids. It hits different because another example, I was grabbing a coffee last week and I saw somebody who was a fan of for the dad's. They were fan of bus and then we're sitting, standing on the parking lot talking for 30 minutes. Really? Just about dad life, about marriage, about a lot of things are just connecting with them. And those moments hit different on the four, the dad's, the PT sickos and the PT sixers that are watching, listening, wherever you are. They hit different because it's not like, like with bus and with the boys, fan base is incredible. They feel like they know us. We did something that they love and respect and they might have fun questions on what was this coach like or man, what was this like? Or this story that you guys spoke about, they dive into the weeds there with, with for the dads and parenthood, those people are doing these same things as we are. You know what I mean? So there's just more of a conversation because we're either going through this suck and you come across parents that have been through that part and they're laughing or having good stories or storytelling about, Hey, you know, when they get to this age, what to look for? Again, you have laughs, but you're just connecting on a deeper level or you're talking with a couple, a couple, where they're currently in it. We're talking with a couple, they have a newborn. We listen to your stuff all the time and we really appreciate like the stories that you share, the vulnerability that you guys have, because we go through the same things. Then you realize like this is just one big group. We're all going through this shit together. So you're just having like a deeper, more meaningful conversation, not to say that the ones with the bus with the boys aren't they are, but as far as family dynamic, we're just, we're all going through the same shit. The amount of times with the PT SICKA ones, if I'm with Jill and they're with their wife, the guy that came up to us at the restaurant, the golf course, we start having our own conversation and his wife and Jill are having their own. And I just hear them start dying, laughing. And I over here, Jill go, Oh my gosh, Sherman does that all the time. Like they're already like, there you go. But it was really cool, man. Getting those gifts, getting connected with PT SICKOs. On things aside from like, you know, there for speaking, there for like on like busting with the boys. Tell the part about the game ball, dude. That was such a sick moment. I know that you touched on it on the bus, but I would love for any PT SICKOs to hear that story too. So there was this game ball that I got and Derek, if it's in my truck on the passenger side, if you want to grab it so that way I can just show them the prop. But so Ben Newman, as I was talking about Ben and I met 13 years ago over the internet on social media, we had some common friends, people thought like, Hey, will you would like this guy? And again, I was searching for like somebody to help hold me accountable and give me some direction in sports psychology, because I'm massive into psychology of everything. And so I'm working with Ben. Fast forward, that was in 2013. I got this game ball in 2015, I believe, because it was one of the first games that I ended up taking over for the starting job. We're playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And it was the you like that game by Kirk Cousins, where we have a big comeback in the second half. You guys know the meme or the video where Kirk's coming down the locker room and he's going, You like that. You like that. That game was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game to where we had a big comeback, maybe one of the biggest ones in the franchise history. No way. We had a losing record. We ended up turning it around, going to the wildcard losing the Green Bay, but we made the playoffs. We went up winning the NFC East that year. And during that game as well at half time, they made the switch to make me the starter as the Mike. So that was a memorable game for myself, because I started playing a lot more after that. Yeah. But I got this game ball biggest comeback in Redskins history. We ended up winning 31 to 30 October, 25, 2015. And so a lot of the guys got game balls. And so when I got this game ball, one of the next home game or the game that Ben Newman, my performance mentor was coming to, I got in his hotel room and laid this on his bed. So that way when he came in there and saw it, like he realized like I was gifting him this game ball. And I wrote him a note that basically said, like, I wouldn't be here without your help. And it was very much like a personal big bro, little bro, like I want you to have this because you've been a massive part of my journey in the NFL. Classy move. And he got real emotional with the game ball. When we spoke about it after the game, because he started to get emotional before and I was like, Hey, we got a game coming up. Like let's let's tighten up, bro. Let's lock in. I mean, warrior will cop. Yeah. Yeah. I got to paint the, I got to paint the face right now. Heart's got to turn black. It's not full of blood. It's got to go black right now. It's got to go dark. And we were speaking after and he was like, he just, I remember, or I actually, I did not remember telling him this, but he's telling in a story as he's gifting this to me at the event on Saturday. He's like, if we'll remember as I told him, like when you have a family of your own one day, I'm going to gift you this ball back. It's like, good news is I got a replica made so it can still sit in the same spot that I have it in, but he gave this game ball back to me because now I have obviously a family of my own. So again, another full circle moment that took place there. That was really cool. Yeah, man. And this is the, this is my very first game ball. Can I hold it? Absolutely. Oh, dude. That's so epic, dude. Yeah. That's such a cool story. The fact that it's the, you like that game just adds so much legacy behind it of like on the field, but off the field story behind this guy now is unreal. And also full circle moment that you guys know about me. It's knowing that Levante David's on the field as well. No way. I'm took down. Yeah, this is, this is buggy, bro. It's Levante. Levante. That's right. Because I end up giving him some, some shit after the game because he wasn't responding. He's talking a little shit to him, but yeah, man. Great, great Saturday. You're very deserving of that. And you are, I know we say here and we say like, oh, we aren't experts. If there is one thing that you are an expert on it is grit, determination and working for a cause that feels greater than yourself, something that may seem out of reach and like your belief in no, it is obtainable. If you work at it every single day and you work hard, like you could speak to that for hours. I appreciate that. I'm very uncomfortable. You giving me a massive compliment. I know how the fellows get, I just want you to hear that dude. You're that, that makes me so happy that you're being celebrated and you're given that opportunity to do that. Like, that's awesome. I appreciate that. Sure. Share me know what he's not an expert in. Keeping track of his phone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot the iPad. Today, chef. Well, yeah. And then the phone over the weekend. We got two stories. You forgot that you forgot your phone. Yeah. Oh, no. The phone, the phone. Come on now. Okay. Okay. Don't don't do that. I won't do that to you. I'll explain. It wasn't 100% wills fault. We had a lost in the couch situation. Oh, okay. Okay. 100% not my fault. No, it's not your fault. Say it. It's like, on the show, we're about taking accountability. I'm not taking accountability. I would give you 75% not accountable. The other 25 is knowing that it was 100% in your pocket when you went on stage, basically at the panel, they had you, Sal and Ben did like a bussing with the boys episode and they brought out these, these kind of like recliner chairs, really cozy. By the way, first form incredible facility. Sal, if you're listening to this, I walked into one of the bathrooms that it was spotless. One of your employees walked in after me. I was taking a piss. I saw him scrubbing the place. I literally looked and I went, this place is spotless. You couldn't make it any better. And he was still putting in work. So shout out. It was wild. And he's not lying. Pristine and spotless. They don't hire cleaners. It's all standard. We do the work employees. Nobody, they clean from the photos. It just reminds me of that first year when like a new building on a college campus gets bro. That's what it looks. It's legit there and they run as far as core value standard. I'm so excited for when Sal for Sella comes on the pot. Obviously we'll be talking dad life, but I just want people to understand that this is that this dude, their team, I mean, because there's a lot of them. This isn't just Sal, but the way that they operate on a daily basis, their foundation of thinking, their foundation of values, their foundation of principles, how they think, how they go about everything, man. The details, all of it. I aspire to be like it. I get like a sponge around it because I'm so fascinated with how that trickles down from top to bottom because they got a ton. I don't know how many employees do they have that man. That place is huge. Hundreds if not thousands employees like the place is massive, but it is crazy, man. It is crazy. And Sal is super intentional with his kids too. Again, I love following him on Instagram. He had me FaceTime in a couple of weekends ago to give his son a pep talk before they played a black football game. He had me thinking on the spot of talking about attitude and effort, but Sal's just the man, bro. I love, but we bust each other's balls, but dude, I'm a big, I think very highly of Sal for Sella. Yeah, yeah. He's a dog. Yeah, he's a dog. But to go back, we'll lost his phone in the couch during the episode as I'm sitting there, phone slipped out and falls in the middle right on stage, like on stage. So then when I get done and I'm looking for it, I can't find it. I'm retracing. I didn't go very far. Like my, my, uh, my trail from where I was, I was like, okay, maybe it's in the bathroom because I went to the bathroom. Could just be sitting on the urinal. Like when I took it out, scrolled something, set it on the urinal. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't there. I couldn't find it. We look in the chair four or five different times for a while. Yeah. Why not Newman's team too? Yeah. On production. They were like, I was like, Hey, Will doesn't know where his phone is. They were hell bent on finding your phone almost more than me. I was like, I know it's going to show up. I'm like, I know it's around here. And they were, they were scrambling. It'll pop up. I was like, I literally had, I remember looking at it before I went on stage. So it can't, it's has to be around here. You would have thought that Will's the president and we just lost the nuclear football. The way, the way this team is acting. Shout out. We had the chair turned over looking, getting it in the bottom and everything else. And we couldn't find it, but a couple, a couple tier one sickos come on, just in the crowd and they see us looking and he just hits his boy is his name is Zach and Justin. They actually be here based on a Nashville sex. Like, Hey, should we go look for his phone? And they find the phone in the chair by not only lifting it over, but they started moving it and could hear it sliding. No. So it was just trapped somewhere that was just tough to get to. So I don't fully put that. You know what I mean? Like it fell out. Yeah. I would just, I would just say, Deke, how do you feel? You look like you're thinking about it. Now I forgot my iPad at home today. So like I'm not out of, I would, my, my, why I said 75 25 is that if the 25 is like, you know that it's in your pocket, it's in the chair. I know it's in the chair. I had it before I went on stage. That's the, if, Hey, if we're doing the full accountable, like Ray Lewis said, he starts today, Ray Lewis is speaking. No coincidence. Ain't no coincidence. That's all. 12 year old. Yeah. Right. Right. They say that. But they've been was awesome. The gifts are incredible. Thank you guys. Papa team six members that came up gifted us some stuff. Got another gift of the weekend from sherm. Yes. Got a gift from sherm for you. Did you open it bro? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a funny moment about it. Oh, really? That's what I had. So sherm like a him and Jill gifted Charlie and I a gift. And it's an awesome gift. It's going to hang up right over my cold tub. No way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we open this gift, right? And just like thinking us like they're transition here, like parenthood, friendship, all that stuff that Jill wrote us a card. Jill corner to corner all throughout the car. Jill has her own card and it's a bigger card. It's like this. And she's writing cover like all over the place. There's no space on the table of contents. Yeah. Sure. Right. The cartoon. It's a, it's a smaller card because it's the only card, but the only card we had. Yeah. You can tell what I wrote on it. I can't remember, but it was above. Like you had a nice joke where I belly laughed out loud because sherm is playing like, you know, I'm basically writing on this little shit card, like Jill, she took up all the stuff. So this is the only card I guess I can use and sure it's like making a funny on the card, but basically thanking us for a lot of stuff and open the gift. And it's this frame. It's a nice like a glass or acrylic frame. And I'm thinking the way Jill is talking about family, when you see this, I want you to think like family foundation, all these things. So in my brain, I'm thinking we're going to get a cool photo of Jill, sherm and Scarlett. And so we open this frame and inside this acrylic frame is a piece of art that is essentially like stone or a rock. Yeah. But when I open it, it's like this charcoal color. It's got texture all to it. And to where if you go back to the card and read, it's like this should look like a rock like foundation, like everything that puts, that encapsulates a family. It's this artwork of a essentially like a rock texture thing. Yes. I'm starting to try and pull off. Oh no, I'm starting to try and pull off the art because I'm thinking it's just like some foam thing over the photo. And I because Charles like reading Charles like, oh, that's really sweet. And then if the camera pans over me, I'm going, hey, how do I go about getting this thing off? Because I'm like trying to pull it off in the corners and on the sides. She's like, no, no, no, sweetheart, you don't pull that off like that's art. Like it's just they gifted us a piece of art. And I'm like, and then I kind of hold it on like, so it's this, it's just this. And she's like, yeah, it's art. She's like, look at what Jill wrote, rock foundation, all of this stuff. I'm like, oh, shit, this is kind of dope. But I'm thinking I thought that there was a picture underneath. Bro, that is very thoughtful gift, by the way, that is the most legendary. The fact that just knowing my mom's process of when she layers like paint makes it that much funnier. Yeah, you're feeling it because I look at the back and there's like that that like canvas material, that canvas that and material to where I'm pushing. I'm like, man, maybe it's like a painting of the family or something. Yeah, I'm like, I just got to get this thick texture thing off of it. I don't blame I okay, I'll be careful how I phrase this. My mom's pieces are very bright and colorful. And the pieces that she wanted to do for you and Taylor, from how Jill kind of described y'all's taste and y'all's colors and like, not minimalistic, but like y'all's sense of design. My mom was like, I want to go with like a real neutral kind of dark thing like something I don't usually do right on my alley. And so she went with that, but it quite literally looks like obsidian or like some kind of rock. Like I can see it's dope. Now that I know what it is, truly, I can see where he went knowing me, see where my brain was going. Where your brain was going, but it's not like, you know, my mom's howling right now. Listen to this, by the way, the coolest wrapping paper ever. Hey, that's the part that Scarlett helped with the wrapping paper. Oh, I love that because the wrapping paper was awesome. The tape on the back was hilarious. What was it? Just like this white, thick tape that's just all over the place. I get your first time like saying, I love that. I figured, say you figured out how to really do a clean one side of a Christmas gift. Yeah, yeah. First time wrapping a Christmas gift and you get the sides, you get the top part really clean. And then you kind of flip it over and you're like, oh, shit, what do I do with this back part? This is a whole, this is a whole thing. Great presentation, great gift, awesome card. Awesome. It's going to hang over the cold tub. Oh, what amazing. That was, I think Scarlett's first painting was the wrapping paper. She did the painting on it. Oh, she did that? With my mom. Yeah. Let's go, man. That is awesome. It was fun, dude. And that kind of goes with like the, I don't think it was my crack or cold one, but it was something on here. Because we put in the show notes of just my mom has been talking day and night about wanting to get Scarlett into her art studio. And that was like my mom's Super Bowl was getting her in there and all three of the girls that was back when Jill was home for Easter. So I was getting a bunch of FaceTime's, a bunch of photos of the girls just in my mom's art studio in her garage. She's had other studio spaces in the past, but like right now it's in her garage. And it was just cool, dude. It was like cool to see those three generations like working together. Really fun that it was a gift for you and Taylor. And the gift was because they gifted me for a new listeners, night nurses during my paternity leave when we had Scarlett. So like that was the thank you of like, it was very belated by the way, nine months belated, but I'm glad we got y'all something finally. Yeah. Mama, Sharon, thank you so much. That gift is awesome. Everybody, the whole family, Jill, Scar, Scar, even put a little twist on it. Your card. Yeah, I did. Thank you, man. Yeah, dude. I didn't, I didn't quite know what to write to Charo. I didn't, I didn't know because I like, don't know her like on the super personal note. And I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to brag about how cool my wife is. And then just say, I know that will think, say you're that cool too. There you go, man. There you go. That's how I was like, that'll do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely, bro. But it was a thank you for the gift. Absolutely. It's some dad life. Charo had a birthday party, a classmate's birthday party on, on Sunday. Oh, yeah, for Ryu, right? Yeah. So we did the full thing on Saturday, the first form we get back the next day on Sunday, this past Sunday, we had a like a classmate. So a ruse classmates and her friends in her class, we invited them to just basically go to the park, have cupcakes, do some games with them. We did like, was it sacrace? I did a sacrace. We did a pin the tail on the donkey, but called it pin the crown on the princess. And it was just this food. It's one of Ruth's photos where she's just going and all the, they had you had sticker tape on all these little crowns blindfolded them, spin them around a couple of times. I like that. They're playing hide and seek. They're playing on the playground. Dude, it was a blast. That looked like so much fun. Just the one tweet that I loved the most was like that was at the Shelby bottoms, you said? Yes. Just that video of you like I got these kids in a blender playing hide and seek and how wide open and green it was, dude. And I'm like, for any ST sickos or soon to be if you're in Bud's and you haven't had kids yet, and you miss those parts of your childhood of running around in a big open grass field and playing hide and seek tag and you're like, Oh man, I wish I could go back. You get to get to watch it. I mean, because I'm going up and like, sweetheart, we get to do cupcakes because I tricked them earlier because they were about to go to the playground. I was like, are we going to do cupcakes soon? They're like, yes. I was like, Hey kids cupcakes. And they're like, we're not doing cupcakes for like another five, 10 minutes. But I had already yelled cupcakes and the kids just immediately turn right. Yeah. Cupcakes cupcakes. I'm like, okay. Hey, I was joking. It's going to be in about five minutes cupcakes in about five minutes. I see. I was like, how about you guys instead of going to the playground, you guys go play in the field or something. Yeah. They start playing hide and go seek and then the cupcakes are ready. So I'm like, all right. So I can do the cupcake call. She's like, you can do the cupcake call. So I start walking over and I see one dad already getting out his phone and he's like, man, this is going to be good. And I was like, dude, I was thinking the same exact thing. They're like in the middle of play kind of go seek. And I'm like, you know, on the video kids cupcakes, maybe they all just stop. They were all getting ready. A lot of them hide behind trees and stuff. You heard one kid like counting out louder, so ready or not, here I come. And then just immediately once they heard the cupcake call, they just swarm like zombies, like zombies, bro. It's like zombies. It is. They're all running from different angles of the field. What's up, everyone? I'm Ago Vodem. My next guest, you know, from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live and the Big Money Players Network, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. 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I remember her jumping up, like holding on when we were doing the monkey bars. And when she's just wanting to like hang on a bar. And then she shows me the video of Rue like jumping up for this little, this metal ring and trying to grab with two hands at first, but then going like, you know, one, two, three, and then jumping up and grabbing it with one hand. And I'm like, oh, get my piece. It's there, dude. She doesn't know, you know what I mean? She doesn't know what she's doing to dad, but it's there. Yeah. Dad was doing that back in Bontair. Yeah. Yeah. Who knows if I was like, I'm, to me, I'm just, I'm just impressed. I'm like, yo, she just turned four years old. And this dude is like, you know, I'll get her to her. If she's wanting to play on monkey bars, I'll be like, Hey, you want to see how long you can hang like to wear it in my brain. I'm like, let me start like training her grip. Yeah. Let me start like training a couple of things in like a fun way. I think let's see if you can do it for 20 seconds. Or I'm like, you know, and then she wants to do it again. And then she might fall like a time like, well, your grips worn out, we got to get a couple of rests. Like a slide a couple of times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The slide a couple of times. Hey, sweetheart, you want to try again? Like, yeah, like how long do you want to hang? She's like as long as for 100 seconds. And I'm like, okay, let's try 100 seconds dead. I'll count for you. And I remember one time she was hanging, bro, and she got like 52 seconds hanging from hanging from the bar. Dude, that's very impressive. And she gets that I'm like, dude, you were such a beast. You don't even know it. You're a beast. I'm not a beast. You don't get it yet. You're a beast. You're the princess beast. You're a fairy beast. You're a four gummies. Will, aren't those your creatine gummies? No, no, no, no. Flintstone gummies. Dude, it was, it was sick though, man. It was fun watching her get loved. Don't have all the little kid. Seeing her dynamic with her friends, seeing that she has friends at school, you know what I mean? And meeting all the parents, getting to see them around and all of us function together, getting the sack race going. I'm, you know, I'm basically like, hey, eyes on me. Like I'm lining up. Hey, stand over here. Hey, Leo, come over here, man. Come over here. I know you're going to go first. Everybody goes at the same time. But I need you to stand right here. They're all talking. Hey, guys, I need you to listen. I need you to listen. I'm down on a knee looking at looking at all of them, getting in my coach speak with them. Yeah. Tell them hi, hi. Here's how we're going to do the cadence. You're not moving before I say go. How many sacks are we working with? How many are going at once? I'll give chef the video so we can see, but I want to say it's about like seven. Oh, that's a sack race. Yeah. Oh, it's a full sack. That's a sack race. Yeah. We're not playing around. Yeah. Yeah. But just watching the whole thing take place. You know, we catered in Lady Bird, shout out Lady Bird. No free shots. The Lady Bird, great. Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas, hello, hello. The flour tortillas, the corn tortillas, the chorizo, the chicken, the cheese, queso rips, their Patron sauce. They're like spicy Patron sauce. Oh, come on. But awesome, awesome weekend. Awesome weekend on my end. Was that your crack or cold one? I believe that's my crack or cold. That's my crack or cold. Well, I could call one Rue hanging with one hand at her birthday party on the, on the, on the metal ring. Come on. I mean, well, the only reason I asked is I was like, ain't don't get much better than that. Like what's this guy's crack or cold one? That's right. That's a classic great crack or cold one right there. Shout out. Holly pop. My crack or cold one was also a birthday party. It was Brady's, which is Jeremy Klump, our chief of staff. Yeah. PT sicko, PT sicko. His four year old son, Brady's fire truck themed birthday party. That is my first little kids birthday party in attendance with my daughter. It's very fun, dude. I'm glad you guys made it. Oh yeah. He was on the rocks for a second that nobody was going to come. Other buddy, dude speaking, people are going to come. It's a buddy. It's so low Saturday. Yeah. And I have a reason to get out of the house. None, nonetheless, a birthday party. Just know this, bro. As far as pop a team, six members have another PT six members back. I had your back. You did going through that conversation with it because we were flying. We did the spring tour at Notre Dame in Miami last week. Notre Dame vlogs out, Notre Dame interviews with coach Freeman's out. That's on bus with the boys channel. Come on. We were traveling around. You obviously weren't traveling with us, but Columbus kind of talking about this. And I'm like, have you asked, have you asked Sherm? He's like, Oh, Jill's out of town for the weekend. He's got scarlet by himself. And I'm like, bro, bro, even more reason. What does that mean? Like, you're not giving enough credit to your fellow pop a team six or you think he's just going to sit at home and think he has to do everything at home. Entire routine has to be home. Like no, bro, you're talking about a pop a team sicko. Like Sherm is more than dialed. He gets that all the time. You went with him to the zoo to where he operates solo. You guys, he goes out to eat with people. Like he operates. Did you listen to last week's episode? Are we recording right now? Or last time I checked. Yes. We're okay. I'm sorry. Keep going. Keep going. That was a wild get off the derail. Are we good? Oh no, I'm saying I'm fucking stoked with what you're saying. Oh, bro, I'm like, this man is dialed as far as operating a mission solo. You think he's just got to drive 20 to 30 minutes out to your place. He ain't going to be ready to go backpack, bottles, snacks, toys, anything to operate. Oh, JJ and Brady want to play outside. You don't think he's got some math to just go out across the lawn and she can operate solo by herself while he kicks it with you. By the way, clump, it's your birthday. Even though you're throwing Brady a birthday party. It's your birthday. Sherm would be more than happy if you just let him know that like, you know, I would love to have you there. He wouldn't think twice about it. Bro, there's no question. I texted him and I said, Hey, Jill's not going to be there, but we're there. We're there. That's a walk in the park. That's a walk in the park and not to make the birthday sound like it's not something I want to go to. It's a solo Saturday with Scarlett. I'm dying for an excuse of a controlled environment to get out of the house and take my daughter to I am dying for any excuse to get out of the house. And I'm like, birthday party, free food, friends, a bunch of kiddos running around, a bunch of people that want to interact with my daughter camaraderie camaraderie. Can I come like hell? Yes, dude. Got the dude. I did to right. This is my crack a cold one part, but to brag on myself. I did pack her bag, dude. Jill didn't pack the bag for the birthday party. I noticed that she all she did was just lay out outfit that she wanted Scarlett to wear to the party for me to take a picture of Scarlett with JJ. You're telling me you're telling me your wife, the one who's in charge of you, the boss, didn't tell you what to do, how to do it, trusted you fully. And you not only took that, you not only took that, received that. You operated. And I have a statement here from Jill that I get to read. I don't have to read it. Sherman gets to do careful, careful reading it coming off like a dumb, dumb husband, dad. Don't do a trope. Don't trope. This is a trope. She wrote this. Don't trope, man. I'm not troping. She wrote this. Sherman gets to do what he wants. And I've he loves me very much. I get to do what I want. Yeah, man. Oh, yeah. You know, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, come on. I get to do what I want. I want to know if this man, Ryan Hammett, too, like, okay, he listened. Maybe he listened to a clip like do women going to the, can you put your wife in the doghouse? Does this mean that he just puts his wife in the doghouse would love to understand how that works? Yeah, how does that work? Because my whole thing, and I don't don't only say yes, break down how she gets to the doghouse. So that way we can easily poke holes in every and probably everything that went on for her to be in the doghouse. Yeah, would love to be a fly in the wall and see how he actually handles the situations. Yeah, like he actually just be like, you doing it again, honey. Or is it like, you know, imagine imagine is one of those things like she finds that comment on Instagram and she's like, you know, comes home and she goes, Oh, so you just, you put me in my place all the time? Yeah, Ryan Hammett just seems like he lets his wife out of the cage when he gets home. Yeah. Is she doing the three Ps? Like, I didn't even know that women could do one of those three Ps. So I like, yeah, I'm just like, what's going on? Like, I don't understand. He did put lol. So he's trying to be as lighthearted as he can. He put lol. Maybe he's doing a bit. He could be doing maybe he's reverse betting us because we don't want to make, we don't want to put him in the Phoenix box. No, oh no, he's not even close. I feel like that's sherms burner account. It could be. Oh, this, hey, this will get the boys talking. Yeah, this will get them talking. I, um, what was it? Oh, I packed my own bag for the birthday party and I remembered all the essentials. Dude, the only thing I forgot was a straw. It's that same water cup deek and chef that I forgot at the barbecue spot, but Scarlett is a pro with just fill up a cup with water or get a little water bottle and stick a straw, any type of straw in there and she rocks it. But I have the sunscreen, add the sunglasses, add the swimsuit because they had an inflatable in the backyard with like a water slide on it. Oh dude was ripping around on that with Scarlett in my lap. McKenzie Jaird's girlfriend was there. She is obsessed with Scarlett and Scarlett's obsessed with her and she's like, can I hold her? Like that's the worst thing she could ask me on planet earth. I'm like, thank her keeper. There you go. I gotta have a couple of lollipops. I'll see you in a sec. Yeah. If I could, if I could break down from the lens of Orion listening to this is real. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's real because there are dads that the Papa team sickos, the ones that know the standard that listen to you that talk about the straw. Oh, I packed my own bag. Oh, I did this. Oh, I did that. And those men that are on the standard of a yeah, no shit you should. We know that, but there's also those dads need to know that there's a lot of new dads or dads out there that have, that might have no clue that these things get thought about that they need to be prepared for that in the humor of it, that's a win. That's like a win for the group of like understanding and learning all the ins and outs of what goes into like say a solo mission. Does that make sense? We're talking to where if you're you're sitting there and you listen, I brought the straw. I forgot I didn't forget this. And it's like, Oh yeah, no shit. Yeah, we're on the same page with you, but there are also a lot of there's there's a there's a lot of dads out there that might not even know that this stuff goes on or dads out there that just stay in the house and stay routine from what they're the list that their wife might have wrote them down. If they're not fully trusted at the house to know like this is how you operate need we need we need reminding what's that phrase. Hell yeah, keep it going. Need we need reminding that I forgot my freaking diaper bag when I went to that stars game with Coop and his girlfriend and had to we parked and got out and I forgot the diaper bag. We had to get back in the car 20 minutes back to the house. Missed the first period of the game because Bozo packed the diaper bag in the house and didn't put it in the car. Yeah, like my baseline was like below this tape. If you know the story arc of sherm. Yeah, that's a big on this pod. That's a big deal. My man look at the way he's grown since the times of like having some mess ups. Yeah, dude. And did I forget the stroller? Yes. Did I need the stroller at the party? No, I didn't need it. But I did intend to pack it. I did forget it. It happens. It happens. Happens, man. Yeah, we're not nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect. Always perfect. But that was my dad went PT sickos. We interrupt this episode to bring you our newest sponsor and a sponsor that we are very excited about. You probably saw our Nannett custom social shout out chef for directing and editing. How good was that? Nannett? That was really fun. That you guys crushed it. Crushed it. Chef does the you did the script. Yeah. Yeah. Script. Script. Shots. Shots. Lighting. No, no, it was like we were shooting a movie. You did a great job. You did a great job. It was a great job. It was a lot of fun, dude. The pretending to be a kid with Will coming in was I feel like we didn't even fully go into it because it was such a busy day. 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I was putting room beds like last week, you know, I was telling the stories of like story time, making up stories using the Disney outline. Bear. This one I was telling her like we need, dad has got to sit down, Brad, dad's brain is exhausted. It's not firing on all cylinders. Like, well, let's do a book. And so she wanted to read the big red, let's read the big red slide. The big red slide is essentially little pup who approaches this big red slide and he's scared for days at a time. He sees it, sees the long line. He sees how high it is. He gets nervous. He says, I don't want to do the slide anymore. Mom, maybe tomorrow, she says, maybe tomorrow, they come back the next day. He climbs up to the top. Once he gets at the top, he looks down and sees how far down it is. And all of a sudden he's brave climbing up the ladder. Now he stops. He doesn't feel so brave. So he comes back down and says, mom, maybe tomorrow. So mom takes him home. They do a little concrete slide like off the, like off the stoop in the front. Little pup bills these. Have I told this story? You did during our pre-production meeting. That's where your deja vu is. I was going to say, I'm getting massive. Okay. Cause we were sitting just a little bit. Bill's a cardboard slide for his stuffed animals and tells them to be brave, have courage like going down the slide. Attacking your fears, all that stuff. And he's rooting them on. So later down the road, he goes to the park again, sees the big red slide, but he meets this friend. This friend's name is little duck. They talk about going on the big red slide together and little duck, they, they stand in line. They go at the big red slide. He gets to the top of the big red slide. He doesn't feel so brave anymore. And little duck, he helps them go down the big red slide. They go down the, down the big red slide. They have so much fun. Rue loves this story. And I got to tie it into, I was like, hey, dad, that wasn't so brave today. That has a story to where I went really high up and I got really scared. And honestly, I wanted to go down. I just couldn't because I was so high up. I forgot about this element to the story. The white wills about to tell next truly shocked me. So we're at Miami and they have this 10 meter diving board. I thought it was like a 10 meter pool and they have like a diving board. So I'm like, hell yeah, let's go off the diving board. We're doing the tour and we get to this pool. They're like Olympic pool or their swimming team pool where they have a 10 meter, 30 feet in the air. He said 30 feet, three feet. I was about to say for, for any of those at home, the metric system meters a lot longer than feet. So don't think 10 feet. Yeah. I know it's three feet in a yard, 3.28, 3.28. So this thing is up there, bro. And I'm seeing it and I'm like, it's like 35 feet, right? Yeah. I'm like, not as young as I used to be. Like I used to like not have a fear of like being a lifeguard, having a high dive, I'd rip gainers. I do one and a half. I do things off of a diving board. Like I jump off cliffs, but I wasn't like, I didn't get like, I'm not like an adrenaline junkie, like bungee jumping, stuff like that. I get scared of being high up. I'm scared of heights. But once you get comfortable doing the diving board stuff, it feels like, oh, I'm jumping in water. I'm jumping at a pool. I'm jumping in water off of a cliff when we go cliff jumping. But I'm looking at how high this board is. And I'm like, yo, this is, I'm kind of not wanting to do it. But I said I wanted to do it. And now you kind of get peer pressure like Taylor's doing it, Jack's doing it. The boys are going to Brett Maze who went with us who's a Miami Hurricane Sick. Did he hit it before you? Yeah, they all did. Oh, well, I'm climbing up this, these diving boards, right? Because you go up one, then there's a diving board, you go back, you go up another ladder, there's another damn board, you go to the side, climb up, climb all the way up to the top row. And as you're climbing up, I'm scared shitless because everybody's getting on climbing, they're climbing up. So the light is like wet and it's like a tight climb. Yeah. So you could slip, you could do anything. I'm just kind of looking off to the side. I'm like, yo, I don't want to do this. JP, like I had a GoPro, JP's like, bring this up with you. So I put the GoPro in my pocket as I'm climbing up. And I get to the top and you just know the feeling like when you're on a platform and it's just nothing around you, it's just you got jumping off your head, you're on a, you're up high. Like just the feeling you get in your colonas, bro, I get this tickly feeling in my balls. And just the vibe you get like in your sides, like in your head. And I'm just looking and I'm like, I'm thinking in my head, I don't know if I can jump. I'm like looking over guys are jumping off. I'm up there for four or five minutes as this GoPro is going. It takes me that long to jump off. Taylor ends up jumping off. All the boys jump off. The women's diving team, they start chirping me at the top of that. Come on, we don't have all day. And I'm just like, I'm legitimately, I'm legitimately scared. And you're sure to like play the game, be humorous about it. I know I can talk myself into it, but internally, like I'm like, I'm terrified. Taylor gets out of the pool and comes back up to the very top with me. He's a little duck. I'm a little pup. It's like, Hey, I'm going to count to three. And then when I hit three, you go off. I'm like, I got you. I'm with you. Like, you know, you're like being men, but also like, I got you. You count to three. I'm going to jump off. And I'm like holding this thing up. And I look at him and he's like, one, two, three. And I like take a step. I'm like, just give me another, just give me a little bit more time. I'm going to go. I just need a little bit more things. Like, I got you. I got you. So we do it all the next time. One, two, three. I have the video. I can give it to you. But I just jump off the whole way down. I jump in, get out. And like, Hey, how'd you feel? I was like, dude, I was terrified the whole way down. I like, and now do you want to do it again? I'm no, I don't want to do it again. Like he, when I jumped off, I thought I was going to, I knew I was going to like lose my stomach. I was going to lose my body, but it happened. But then you have like a come to on the way down to where it then it feels fun. I didn't have to come to, I'm like going down the whole time. Can I, I'm just like, ah, hit the water, but I'm fired up that I did it. Yeah. That I was brave little pup in this scenario, but I was, I'm retired from jumping off. I'm retired from jumping off a 10 meter diving board. Good career. Good career. It was a good career. It was a good career. But as I'm coming home, I'm telling Ruth this story. Fortunately, I had video too. I'm like, watch that. She's like, Daddy, you were scared. I was like, sweetheart, I'm not messing with you. I was terrified being up there. She's like, I could do it. No, no, no, no, you cannot do it. She's like, maybe when I'm 10, maybe when you're 10, you can jump off the diving board. She's telling mom the next day, mom, when I'm 10, I'm going to jump off the diving board. No way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She'd be, she'd be terrified. I'd be terrified for her. Yeah. Like, bro, I'm not, not a big, I'm not a huge height sky. Love roller coasters, but that's controlled. You're like in a seat, you're doing all the things, but not a big height sky. Not a big height sky. You'd be terrified for it. Just like Keanu Reeves was terrified for G baby as he stepped to the plate. Amen, brother. But he faced that fear. He faced that fear. I will say with the cliff jumping, I resonated with that. I saved it for the pod. I didn't tell you this before. That was my biggest fear as a kid. I was the kid that sat there and cried and then end up jumping like three or four times because we go to Possum Kingdom Lake, shout out the Tabers every fourth of July. And they have a bunch of cliff jumping and I would always cry. I would never jump. And I went to summer camp and I was like, I got to get over this. I can't be that kid at this summer camp because I saw a kid doing the same thing and crying and everybody down below being like, Oh my God, if he just jumped, he'd be fine. And so I swallowed that fear dude and I went up there and I was like, they don't know that you're scared. They don't know if you just jump, they're not going to know that you were scared the whole time. And I just forced myself to jump higher and higher and higher like cliff jumping. And then I got so into it, dude. I was like throwing gainers and stuff off of like tall cliffs. And the last time that I tried to throw something was when I was actually a counselor, I was like 23. And I tried to do the squirrel dive where you jump forward and you front flip into a dot one and a half. Yeah. That'd be one and a half. I'm thinking squirrel dive. You might be like, grab your ankles, come down and grab your ankles. Oh, sorry. But one and a half. So I'm like, yo, because I saw this guy do it before me. And he did like full extension, like feet together, kind of like squirping down. Like you die comes off like this and then hits the flip and dives in. You hit the flip and land feet first. So you dive forward, hit the flip and then land feet first. So like a swan dive into a flip. Yes. Okay. And I'm like, oh, bro, I'm going to hit that. There's some cute girl counselors watching. I've already hit some gainers. I'm like, buddy, I'm about to nail this. I had blood seeping out of my back, dude. It was like a 40 foot cliff and I fully landed on my back. Fully will like could not they the people that were watching were like, Sherman, if you had tried to land on your back like that, you wouldn't have been able to do it. You were perfectly flat. Oh, one of the said cute girls that I was crushing on had to help me to a boat. Because there sure you could. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. They give me in the boat. They lay me on my stomach and I had blood oozing out of my back. My entire back was purple, dude. It was crazy. And that was the last time I tried. So I need to face my fears again and go. So you retired from that moment. You've been retired. Yeah. I might not do a front flip, but how high is the cliff? That one. Yeah. It was like 40. That's crazy, man. But the way I would hit gainers is I would do it like real slow and I felt really in control. Yeah. Like that wasn't scary for me. It's the front flip that I'm not able to like spot the landing. Yeah. Oh, buddy. And that was really afraid of the dark. And so like once I got to college, I was like, I got a face this fear. So I turn off all the lights and the house at night. And I would stand in like really dark rooms and like try to make myself scared and like face it and like stand in the darkness because I was like, it worked with the heights. Yeah. And it kind of worked. I don't need a flashlight anymore in the house. I can come there. You know, that's for any listeners at home. It's a goomba rewin. Goomba rewin. Goomba rewin. Yeah. Um, I don't even know where I was going. Let's read some comments. Let's read some comments. Let's read some comments. You were resonating with the heights thing retiring jumping off the heights. Yes. From the story. Um, big red slide. Great, great children's book. By the way, God, great book. Um, I do have a really funny comment that I wanted to read off from. This is our flashback comments, but that's not our word for, oh, I have a, I have a flashback comment. What do you got? I got one from Hunter Robertson on Spotify. We did that hack for my daughter's second birthday and baby's first birthday. All the animals had a party at party had sitting on the living room floor in front of the birthday presents dad to a two and a half year old and 15 month year old girls. Hashtag Pete DeSicco. So if you listen to last week's episode, the dad hack of the week was you want to find a way to really heighten the start of your birthday. You go up in the room when they're sleeping at night, like as they're sleeping on the night, on the night right before their birthday, you get a bunch of stuffed animals. You have them sitting waiting in the living room for when they come out of the room. You put them in party hats. We went as far as where they're each holding the balloon and a root comes out. We just talk, we just get so excited about how the animals snuck out like toy story and are waiting for her on her birthday to like celebrate them and their birthday. You need to evolve it every single year. Like you need to add more and more stuff. Like try and put some little apparatus where they're like holding party poppers or like blowers. Yeah. I hit the button and it doesn't go off. I'm like, damn. Or she becomes a teenager just, hey, hey, when she becomes a teenager and she's like over it, you know what I mean? To be like an OD dad, just like hire people, characters like Elsa and everybody to come in and be like, sweetheart, throw all your free birthday. Oh my God. That's, that's Belle. That's Belle from Beauty and the Beast. You're Belle. Yeah. Dad, that's really her. That's really her. Dad, you're yelling. That's Deborah from church. I know. Hey, I know she's being tough, just staying character, staying character. It's what I paid you for. Deborah, don't, don't break. Don't break. She thinks you're Belle. Jordan Ford on Spotify says the section with Jill was too good. Absolutely laughing out loud. Keep it up boys. This pod keeps me pushing in the right direction. PT six official in June. Cheers. Congratulations, Jordan. I had another flashback last one. This is my favorite comment of the week, by the way, this comes from coach web 9903 on YouTube. He said, I can't believe I just listened to the CTE champ tell a 10 minute reprise bugs live bedtime story. This pod is ridiculous. And I don't miss an episode. That that's what this pod, I mean, that's what this pod is. That's the pod. That's the pod. That's the show. He gets coach web gets it. Yeah. I would love to see Ryan's thoughts like was that doing the dumb dad and husband trope with telling that game of storytelling. Wait, so you tell your kid a story every night, you know, just telling to go to bed. Ain't telling you a story kid. I got a dad loss here. A dad loss right in it's bonesy massive fumble. This is from the Reddit channel. Bonesy. Yeah. And the for the dads podcast Reddit channel and this plays well because we just went to Miami. This is somebody who's in around the University of Miami. No way. Yes. I've been listening to the pod since the first episode and have loved it so much so that I decided to get my girlfriend into listening as well. Sort of a film study for a couple of ST sixers. She's an athletic trainer at the University of Miami. And as some of you know, the boys were just there hitting their spring tour in the middle of my work day. I got a fantastic text from her saying no, you won't believe who I parked next to. It was all the boys in her excitement. She forgot to say hi or get a picture or sneak in a little call sign shouting out letting the boys know that we were some ST sixers. What do I have to say to that? Good. Anyways, there will be another chance. I'm sure but most definitely going to need to run this one up the chain of command as a massive fumble. Oh, dude, I'm just telling you any ST sicko empty sickos female audience out there listening. If she had hit you with some terminology, dude, that's all you got to do. You would have geeked. Oh, yeah. Geeked. If it was coming from an empty sicko. Yeah, absolutely. Any again, PT sicko, empty sicko, ST sicko. You hit me with one of those. It's it's your stopping and looking. I had a dad lost this week. Very quick story. Dad lost this weekend. We set up a tea time to go golf as we're walking up with Scarlett. They're like, hey, for liability reasons. Is she coming with you on the cart? I'm like, yes, sir. Can't have it, man. So sorry. Let's get you in the clubhouse. We'll refund you. I was like, oh, no, dude, I didn't even think about that. But okay, we're going to have like a family outing. It's fine. We went to good. Hey, good. Good. Anyways, as that like kind of bummer thing happens, this one guy comes up to me apologizing and he's like, dude, I'm so sorry, but just recognizing and like fucking love the pod, dude, love for the dads and gave me a dap up. And I was like, dude, thank you. You kicked me a five more times. Thank you so much. And I tried to ask him for his name, but he was like walking away so quickly that I fumbled. I fumbled. I was like, I just got y'all have a good one. He walked off. I was like, oh, I just from the Raptors just go for the dads. Like, I'm going to stop my tracks. I'm going to be like, give me a second. Walk on over there. Like, Griffin on the family. Hey, you listen to the pot. I appreciate it. I'm a dad loss here. Mother-in-law parked in front of me or in front of the trash cans last week, which prevented the city from picking up the trash. Good. Yeah, great. I should have foreseen this coming. It sounds like this was Brent Kiello's fault. Brent should have seen this coming. Guys, don't be like me and playing accordingly. That's not his fault or sorry. That's his fault. Yeah, that's his fault. Good mother-in-law should have parked there and did park there. You see how my mom, Ryan's got me fucked up. Yeah, right. Ryan's got me fucked up. Those mother fucker didn't plan good. Good. Wrong thing happened. Good. Right thing happened. You didn't plan for it. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Dad hack. You had a really good dad hack from Kusum. Oh, no. The one that he told ya. Yeah, Zuko. Zuko. Not Kuso. Zuko. Shout out to boy Kuso. Shout out to boy Kuso, but we're talking about Zuko. Kuso. Chef Kuso. Oh, Kuso. Chef Kuso. Yeah. So, Zuko had a great dad hack in the locker room at the first form event. The man who gave us this, who gifted us this jersey, the For the Dads jersey, Nebraska, GBR. Yes, GBR. And he said, hey, got a dad hack for us. Like, bro, feed it to me. Chick's like, hey, we got to get going. There's somebody, you know, we got to get the pictures, Bob. Ma'am, just give us a minute. He's got a dad hack here. This is, I want to hear this conversation. This is a business comment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a business comment. And he's like, got a dad hack? He's like, you talk about traveling all the time. I hear, you know, the dad guilt, the sadness, like, you know, Rue having meltdowns. Like if dad's not there, here's a good dad hack for you. Because I heard you talk about storytelling and read bedtime stories and doing all that. He was like, take out, do the voice memo, record yourself or even do a video if you want to. Record yourself reading her a bedtime story. So that way, if mom's handling a breakdown and she wants dad to, and she can't reach you on the phone, she's got to go to for, hey, dad sent in this story for you to read you a story for bedtime. You can just sit the story up next to her. And obviously she'll be fascinated with it. It gives mom a breather while she's sitting in the room to do whatever she's got to do. So go. Yeah. She's like, mom can just chill whether she wants to be on her phone, go handle some business or whatever it is. Yes. And then she'll be there for a few minutes and listen to dad tell her a story for bedtime. Suka, well done. Great dad hack. Great dad. And he's like, and another one for you because you were talking about doing the Disney storytelling with Princess Roo, Tygy and Zooey. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, you can tap into AI to give you a layout. Like if Roo gives you a few things, you put it in there, it can spit you out something to where if you are exhausted and you're not wanting to think on your feet or anything else, it gives you a story that you can tell that AI might give you, which I was super into people could be turned off by the AI. I thought I know my wife's turned off by the AI thought right now sitting in her car. She's probably beating her steering wheel. But the thought of like knowing that something could be could be coming and you you're like, okay, I won't be prepared this way or I might be exhausted by the time I get here. But putting the intention into asking the right questions, build not the right story and be like, I love this story. What's up, everyone? I'm a go vote of my next guest, you know, from stepbrothers anchor man Saturday night live and the big money players network. It's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place they come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's OK to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that I trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield and in this new season of The Girlfriends. Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. They said, oh, hell no, I vowed I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to The Girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. You. Hey, I'm Nora Jones and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast called Playing Along is back. I sit down with musicians from all musical styles to play songs together in an intimate setting. Every episode is a little different, but it all involves music and conversation with some of my favorite musicians. Over the past two seasons, I've had special guests like Dave Grohl, Leve, Mavis Staples, Remi Wolfe, Jeff Tweedy, really too many to name. And this season, I've sat down with Alessia Cara, Sarah McLachlan, John Legend and more. Check out my new episode with Josh Groban. You related to the phantom at that point. Yeah, I was definitely the phantom in that. That's so funny. Shall we stay with me each night, each morning? Say you love me. You know. So come hang out with us in the studio and listen to Playing Along on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Laurie Siegel and I'm mostly human. I go beyond the headlines with the people building our future. This week, an interview with one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley, Open AI CEO, Sam Allman. I think society is going to decide that creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to products we put out in the world. From power to parenthood. Kids, teenagers, I think they will need a lot of guardrails around AI. This is such a powerful and such a new thing. From addiction to acceleration. The world we live in is a competitive world. And I don't think that's going to stop even if you did a lot of redistribution. You know, we have a deep desire to excel and be competitive and gain status and be useful to others. And it's a multiplayer game. What does the man who has extraordinary influence over our lives have to say about the weight of that responsibility? Find out I'm mostly human. My highest order bit is to not destroy the world with AI. Listen to mostly human on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Take it to him. It's like, dude, it's a home run. I have done that. I have done that when I'm already feeding, forgot to get the book and I'm doing solo tuck in so I don't have Jill to like help or whatever. If I can't get up and go to her books across the nursery, I've gotten on chat Gbt and I'm literally I use the voice thing and I just go, Hey, a story about a young princess named Scarlett that wants to fly and touch the moon. Money and it just it will start talking like you could have them do it or you read it like it's kind of sick. Nice. I thought it was a great day. Shout out to go. Shout out to go. Hey, GBR GBR go big red go big red go big red. Nico tauntie on Spotify. Nico says, DatHack, for the Nannette users, you can go to the memories in the app. I highly suggest this, by the way, and get a free slideshow of your little one growing up as my son is about to turn one. I recently found it and got kicked right into the fields. That is that is a true story. Dude, Nannette rips like it tracks all this different stuff. And it'll be like anniversary of the first time your kids slept 12 hours. Like you're like, what? Oh, no shit. Oh, dude, it's crazy. Like they Nannette rips. Obviously they they the friends of the show. Oh, friends of the show. Friends of the show. Great reason. This is alignment. This is alignment. This easy. Yeah. Yeah, we don't just read any mom and pop shop. I mean, this is Nannette. Yeah. Rose Sparks. We don't just read anything. Bigger, thicker, longer erections, guys. We do have I have a quick shout out that I'll summarize. I got a wifey shout out. I see you're holding a book. So I'll just hit a quick wifey shout out. Get the wifey. This room, HTT. This room, HTT town on YouTube. Wifey shout out. A PR as of Saturday after this pod, this sicko will have. Proposed to his old lady. What? Let me let me do it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. HT town. APR as of Saturday after this pod, this sicko will have proposed to his old lady. Huge shout out to the future. Kinsey Laffy Lear. La fa. Lear La Fali. La Fali. Kinsey La Fali. I say it with a French accent and it'll sound right. La Fali. Yeah, yeah. I don't say ours. That was it. La Fali. Oh, that's right. That's right. There we go. Kinsey La Fali. Oh, La Fali. La Fali. La Fali. Mrs. Hard emoji, fire emoji, hashtag no, then free shout outs. He put the roller coaster emoji on there. He didn't. Did he put the bow emoji on there? He didn't. All right. We'll send him some coupons. Kissing him some coupons. We'll send him some coupons. Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations. HT town. HT town. Very quickly before we get into Collins, Elizabeth Gilmore. This is a. Do you mind if I go potty while you do? Go potty. I'm so sorry. I'm chicken out of this one, but I just need to go back before you go. Happy birthday, Nathan. Nathan, happy birthday. Let's go. You could go potty. Dude, happy birthday, Nathan. Happy birthday, Nathan. How sick was the recording of that video last week? No, wifey recording hubby watching the show. That was going back and forth. He's got like, like it's like an emotional vibe. And then we hit him with the fun coupons at the end. And he's like, oh, they said it, bro, I can't tell you how much that video just be up on real, dude. That was like we got invited into their house and got that like hang out. Yeah, I'm like, interact like, yeah. And you still wifey's behind the phone, smiling like as she's here. Here we go. Bro, Deek was so proud of that video. Like just going around and showing everyone in the office that video. Like that video truly meant the world to us. Yes. Thank you. Empty sicko and PT sicko. As Gracie and Skyler Gracie and Skyler Brownlow. And my favorite part of the video was you going Brown, loud, how now Brown, loud and just seeing his face. Feel like I've dealt with this shit. Well, yeah. So I'm going to go potty. You go potty. You give me a quick summary. Happy birthday, Nathan. Because I don't want to. I'm not trying to, Nathan, I'm not trying to check out the bladder. It's light. I got. OK. Willie wants to help that staff and the rest of the PT sickos over there. My name's Elizabeth Proud. Milk Team Sixer of over seven months now. To be honest, I'm not a diehard follower of the pod, but I've loved the episodes and clips that I've watched and listened to with my husband, Nathan. He's the reason I'm reaching out. His 28th birthday is on the ninth. Happy belated birthday. And he be beyond stoked if y'all could give him a birthday shout out, even if it's late due to my poor planning. Y'all have helped get him through the early chaos of the newborn trenches and have given him insight as a fellow girl dad of a now seven month old. He loves the pod so much. He recommends it to friends, co-workers and even acquaintances that are dads or soon to be dads. He even got his own dad to start listening. And now they both own a few t-shirts between the two of them. Dude, Nathan. Hey, happy birthday. I know that we said it before, but happy, happy birthday. To you, dude, thank you for supporting the pod. And we're going to move on. We're not going to say happy birthday to Nathan anymore. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Nathan. That was a summary. So what was the summary? I heard I did hear off in the distance. She doesn't listen all the time, but she watches our clips. She's like, hey, like I'm starting to get it. Like he's a sicko for you guys. I didn't plan accordingly. This is a belated birthday thing. But like, I, you know, I got a shout out my hubby. I got a shout out my little seven month old. Look at that, dude. They even got the good onesie. I mean, this guy's a sicko, dude. Nathan's a sicko. And look at little man, dude. Elizabeth, thank you for writing in. And also maybe become an empty sicko. And I just won't go pestering. Yeah, maybe Nathan, maybe Nathan. Gets his gets his girl. Nathan, if we're going to get her fully, if we're going to get Elizabeth fully bought in, maybe we need some Mother's Day merch, bwtb.com, bwtb.com, bwtb.com. Uncle hats are available as well. Let's do voicemails. Let's get into them, bro. Let's get into them. Because I already have them. Yeah. Oh, just one voicemail. And thankfully we're just losing cams. We're losing cams. I already have the voicemail pulled up and ready to go. Let's go. So we'll go ahead and play it because it's right here and it's ready to go. Fifteen weeks pregnant. What up, boys? Day one listener. I think that's why it brings. I'll be honest with y'all. Kind of stop listening to you for a little bit. My wife and I went through miscarriage, but this year I'm proud to say that my wife as of today, April was at nine. My wife is 15 weeks pregnant and I couldn't be more excited. I'm jumping right back to your podcast. I love all the stories. I just I want as much advice as you guys give me. I am pumped up. But man, am I scared, but I can't wait for it. But love the podcast. You boys rock. Peace. You crying? Yeah. This is where you go, man. No, you go. Why? Hey, thank you. And. Yeah, I can I can imagine we're going to have our wife's on it at one point. I don't know how freely I can talk about everything, but just know that I understand and I empathize with what you and wifey went through with your guys's miscarriage. So happy that you guys are now pregnant 15 weeks, fingers crossed, knocking on wood everywhere that everything goes well. Everything goes healthy. I know that is a dude. It's massive. Love that your name's Wyatt. My little brother's name is Wyatt. Wyatt or Tombstone. I feel like I'm connecting with you. Thank you so much for listening since episode one completely get out. You know, it's almost like I haven't listened in a while and then my head kind of goes up, then you hear why it's dude. Love you, bro. We are the boys are with you. We're thinking about you. We hope everything goes well, dude. Sincerely, we hope everything goes well because that stuff is not easy, man. You don't know. And you don't know as you don't know what your number one, you're sad. Your morning, you were grieving. Yes. And also for wifey, like we've talked about this before, but as men, you always want to figure out a practical solution for the way forward. Like moving past whatever said thing is, whether it's an inspo or a quote or something that helps all of us compartmentalize and go forward. That's what I feel like as men, you always want to solve. You always want to solve what's going on. Whereas a lot of times wifey, what you learn over time and with relationships and everything else over time, a lot of the time it's just sitting in it with them. And it makes you uncomfortable because you feel like you want to get out of said thing or you want to move forward from said thing. But then you realize like just being in said thing and knowing like, you know, there is no answer right now, but I'm not. I'm right next to you this entire time and we're going to be sad together. And we're just going to keep talking about it no matter how long it takes. Yes. Because again, as the dude, or you might have a practical solution and they don't care to hear that thing and then you get upset. Like I'm just trying to help you. Yo, I'm not needing you to solve a problem right now. I just this is what I'm communicating. I just want you to sit in with me. Yes. So I do I can imagine that is a very hard moment that I'm sure you guys both went through together. You obviously you have experienced you. You're like you'll be better from the moment because you went through the moment. So fired up that you guys are 15 weeks right now and they're that this one's going to come into some awesome parents. It sounds like I the reason I teared up is because I when he said he was scared. The very first thing that I thought is I was like, I want to hug the fuck out of Wyatt, I want to tap him up. I want to go to the best wingspot in his town, crack a cold one with them and talk about how scary it is. It's OK to be scared. You've gone through stuff, dude. And I hope that Wyatt, if you haven't reached out to any of your friends to talk about that you're scared or any of your family members, dude, I encourage you to do that and just like you were saying, embrace those feelings with your partner. But also like reach out to people in your net that love you, that are close with you and your boys, your boys and just tell them you're scared, dude, because I want to. I want to dafty fuck out of Wyatt. I'll be your huckle. And you want to give him a cheers and you say, you damn right, you're scared. Yes, you were all scared. And the moment it gets closer and closer, you're like, you know, I'm about to be. There ain't no going back. Like, you know, am I ready to be a dad? And then at those moments when you're scared, you just think to yourself, billions of people have done this and I'm made of the right stuff for this. Yes. Or if you think about a what's stuff am I made of? And if you don't like the stuff that you're made of, then you immediately know, I know what I don't want to be. And I can change all of it now. Yeah, I can change all of it for this next iteration. I just got to figure out like, who do I want to be? What stuff do I want to be made of? And hearing it in his voice, I know he's got it. You know he's got it. I know why it's got it. And he hopefully is named after another. I know another Wyatt back in the day. He was out manned. He was outgunned and he still showed up to that train station. Yeah. Shooting that shotgun and saying, you tell him I'm coming. You hear you might have to name him Doc for Doc Holiday. You got to name him. Dude, oh, that would be so sick. Anyways, that's all. Shout out Wyatt. Thank you for calling him. Shout out Wyatt. Email. Email. Mine's a sad alert. What's yours? I have Aaron Donnelly. No alerts on it. No sad. Let's go. OK. Let's go with yours. Hi guys, my name is Aaron. And I don't know if there is a label for me in For the Dads Universe. I'm not an M.T. I'm not an M.T. Sixer, but hope to be someday and just found your content through clips on social media. I've loved catching up on the pod and am almost officially caught up. Yo, that rips that rips. That's insane. Yeah. Over the past few weeks, I've heard you all talk about being girl dads in the fear of losing the open communication or close relationships with your daughters as they get older. So I guess I'm writing with a dad hack. Courtesy of my dad. Shout out Dennis. I'm the oldest of four. When I was little, my dad would read books to me. In this one love seed in the house. After reading, we would just talk. He would answer my unending questions about life and growing up. And at some point that chair got the name, the Chit Chat Chair. As I got older and no longer needed to need no longer needed his help to read, he would still make time to sit in the Chit Chat Chair and catch up with me. This was always our time, especially as all my siblings came into the mix. As I hit those preteen and teen years when life and emotions seemed to get so much more complicated. I was always able to go downstairs and ask my dad if we could sit in the Chit Chat Chair and he would always join me. He listened so intently. Sorry, something's in my eye. I'm not actually something is in my eye. It's burning, but I'm also starting to cry. So it's just a tough mix right now. He listened so intently, then talked through my worries and always made me feel better. For some reason, having that space established made it easier to approach him with with bigger problems. And we never lost our line of open communication. Now I'm 29 and while we haven't sat in the Chit Chat Chair in a while, my dad and I talk all the time as he continues to be my biggest supporter and voice of reason. Thank you guys for all the laughs and keep up the awesome work raising your daughters. Very, very lovely. Aaron, thank you. Bro, Aaron. Just knowing that Aaron's got no rhyme or reason to be even on this show or to like be watching this show. Do you know what I'm saying? We geek out about binging like Game of Thrones on the bus and he just binged us. That's crazy. That's crazy. She she just binged. Yeah, she just binged us. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she just binged us. That's crazy. It's nuts. There's there's again, zero rhyme or reason. It's like for the dads, we got Papa Team Six. We're built through Papa Team Six Foundation. That includes MT6, Mama Team Six, Milk Team Six. We got Seaman Team Six for the young guns out there. Goomba Rays. We got Bud's training in a relationship in it. But no rhyme or reason that a female just sees our content, enjoys the content. It's like, you know, I'm going to follow this podcast and watch this brand. That's why I didn't cry because I didn't realize it was a girl. I want to know what clip. Oh, you realize it was a girl. I didn't realize it was a girl. And that's why you got God and I didn't. Yeah, because this is one of the few times on the show that you got God bad. I didn't even flinch. And I'm like, oh, it was a girl. Something was in my eye. Something was burning in my eye. I was getting a bunch of. Yeah, you had something in your eye, though. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my right eye was burning. But I tell a really quick story. Very quickly, I know the cameras are overheating. I put Scarlett to bed last night and for the first time she she's either wanting to play or she's asleep. There's no like just laying there awake and like falling asleep. Like she just kind of like bundles up and she's out. Yeah, because she's a baby. Yeah, the baby, the baby. She laid on my chest last night, dude. And I was rubbing her back and I was humming Adelweiss to her. And she started playing with my beard, just rubbing her her fingers through my chin hairs. And I'm sitting there. I'm going, is she doing that in her sleep and this pitch black room? And then my phone lit up because I got a text. So there's a little glow. And I just see her face like right here and her eyes are wide open. She's just looking up at me with her pasty in her mouth. And she's just slowly just playing with my chin hairs. Bro fucking bottle that forever. Oh my God, dude. I got whatever was in your eye flew over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Flu over here right now. Maybe it's the overheating of the cameras. This satellite, I will summarize. Because I want it to be read. This comes from Hayden Hawks. Um, he essentially tells the story about how his empty sicko was an absolute. Beast dog legend during delivery. She had something that happens to one in 50,000 women with a 15% mortality rate, which is a uterine inversion that happens during delivery. Very serious. She had to go to the operating room. She is fine. She made it. She's good. But it was this whole situation where they're dealing with the, they want to celebrate the birth of their child, but then he's like, my, my empty sicko, my other half, is she going to be okay? She's getting rushed off to a room. And, uh, Hayden, just sharing that story with us. I just wanted to thank Hayden and, um, all the awesome stories that we get of, you know, stuff that can go sideways. Topsy Turvy. It's not always a perfect delivery. And, um, our audience rips. Yeah. Imagine being so celebratory for like having a kid and then some, uh, some unexpected things happen, like in the delivery room or like as you're, you know, as you're about to deliver. And then it's just, it feels like it's just a whole different ball game on how you even feel outside of terrified for your other half. That's so crazy, dude. Just, you can't help it. And then like you're just imagining the worst. Can I operate without this, without my other half? That would be tough, man. Yeah, I, I legitimately, unfortunately, I have that thought sometimes at night, like when I'm going to bed, I really do think about, especially on those solo Saturdays, I'm like, dude, if this was every day, yeah, I miss Jill so much. In those moments at that birthday party, all I wanted was for Jill to be that. I still had fun, but I'm just like, dude. Yeah, man. Scarlett officially crawled at that birthday party for the first time. And, and Lindsay, Lindsay saw it. And I told Lindsay and Jeremy, I said, we're going to lie. We're not going to say shit. She did not crawl. And I'm going to plop her on the floor when I get, when Jill gets home from work tonight and go, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's she doing? I've never seen that. What? So she's crawling. She's so excited to see you recorded. It'll work. No, I can lie to my wife. I was too excited. There's the lesson of the week. Don't lie to your wife. Don't lie to your wife. And treat him well. Treat him well. Treat him well. Don't you know, talking about Ryan. Oh, I did. I did have a very quick lesson of the week. Or do we want to wrap? Yeah, do it. Yeah. My mind's basically, I had that tweet that I was very glad that it got a bunch of clicks. I don't have a lot of stuff go viral about my personal life. I'm a meme guy. I live and die by the meme guy, big meme guy. And all name used to be CFB memes. You see CFB meme zone. And I had something kind of go viral that was my own personal life. I was like, oh, that's that's actually really cool because it was a great message. We went to Smyrna Golf Course. Shout out Smyrna where I do. First tee and volunteer there. We because we got kicked out of that golf tee time that we had at another place. And I was like, I know a golf course where we can just go to the practice range and hang out as a family. And Scarlett's done up in this bonnet, dude. I'll send pics to Chef. I mean, cutest little outfit in the entire world. And we're sitting there and I see this old man standing off to the side. And he is 100 percent watching us. And the way I'm set up like hitting balls, I can see him. And I thought that he was just watching me because we were the only people on that side of the range. I was like, I don't have that good of a swing. So I hope this guy doesn't come over to like give me swing advice in front of my wife and child. Like that'll be embarrassing. And he's like late 60s, early 70s. He walks up and already has tears in his eyes. And he's like holding golf clubs and he's standing in front of me. I'm like, what is about to happen? And he said the part that I quoted that is like the lesson of the week is these are the you're in the good old days. These are the good old days right here. It does not get better than this. But he was like, I would write you like a check for any amount, a blank check, whatever to be in your shoes right now. I got a 32 year old and a 35 year old and buddy with you like right now. Like that's it. Like this is it. It was awesome. It was awesome. I didn't tear up in the moment, but I'm tearing up now. It was hot in here, but it's hot. It's fucking hot in here, dude. But like just seeing it on his face and then me being able to like look at Scarlett and Jill, like in that moment, I'm like, he's right. Like this is so cool. How lucky am I? And that's it. Hell yeah. Cron's dumb, dude. Oh, they're doing the cry trope. Cron's dumb, dude. Yo, what's your boy's name? Brian Newman. Ben Newman. Ben Newman. Quick fucking talking to me, dude. I'm trying to do a pod. Quick Cron. Ben. Fuck. Hey, that is cool, bro. Oh, it was electric. That is cool. You know, too, that old man, he'd be a P.T. Sicko. Sicko, dude. He was he went and started hitting like far away on the range from us. And I'd see him every now and then like looking at our family. You could just see it, dude. He was like, oh, what do you do to go back? Yeah. Enjoy, guys. Great. So great. So great. So make sure you subscribe. Make sure you're following all of our platforms. We hit 70 K on Instagram. 70 K on Instagram. We surpassed 30,000 on YouTube. It's unbelievable. Thank you guys so much for the support. Papa team six, man, for the dads. Mother's Day merches out BWTP.com. We will see you next week. Uncle hats are out. What's up, everyone? I'm Aiko Vodem, my next guest. It's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fine anymore, it's OK to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspirer. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to ThanksDad on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. And everything you expect from the Black Effect Podcast Festival. Tickets are on sale right now. Go get yours at blackeffect.com. Don't play yourself, OK? Pull up. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe, on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Laurie Siegel, and this is Mostly Human, a tech podcast through a human lens. This week, an interview with open AI CEO Sam Altman. I think society is going to decide that creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to the products we put out in the world. An in-depth conversation with the man who's shaping our future. My highest order bit is to not destroy the world of AI. Listen to Mostly Human on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.