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

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Maybe you love your wife we got hubby shout outs we got wife shout outs the wise nickname in this show is milk team six mt6 yeah just we got all of it you want to buy our merch you want to get etched in stone with the papa team six community bwtb.com we have all the merch we won't talk about the news what are you doing what are you doing hey we got a twitter community started by jared ladd a twitter so explain the twitter community uh like somebody just tweets and they're probably But on X, hey, I'm going to be completely honest with you, Will. I don't know what these X communities, I don't know what it entails. Because I told Derek, oh, I think when you tweet in the community, the tweet just stays in the community. And then we tested it this morning, and the tweet went out to everybody, everybody. So it's like, oh, okay, it just puts a tag that you're a part of the community. So I don't know. We're figuring it out. There was one I was a part of. I've been a part of one in my life, and that was the Severance community. How was that? I loved it. Because Severance is such a, you know, the sickos out there that love Severance, Severance Sickos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Severance does a great job, similarly to, like, Game of Thrones. Yeah. The kind of shows where there's a lot of Easter eggs, a lot of callbacks, a lot of, like, game within the game within the game within the game, where people break down videos, and you're kind of like, oh, shit, yeah, that could happen. Or, damn, I didn't think of it like that. You're basically describing for the dads. So Severance being a good show with a bunch of inside game is just like for the dads being a good show with a bunch of inside game. Yeah, we need to start. You know what we should do? We should start putting little Easter eggs. We do. I don't even know where to go from what I just said. Yeah. But if we know something's coming in the future, maybe you put an Easter egg that they're like, I wonder why, you know, maybe a Rizzo jersey is hanging behind. People are like, oh, that must mean Rizzo's coming on. Hey, Rizzo, hey, is Matt Stafford coming on? Yeah, Matt Stafford's on that. Because he's on the Lord of the Rings thing. Maybe, wait. And then when Stafford does come on, that sicko that was like, he's now got his own tweet that says, I broke this down back on February 25th. Been talking about it since March, bro. I knew that shit was going down. And y'all slept on me. So we have an ex-community. Yeah. We have a Reddit community. A Reddit community and an ex-community now. Join all the communities, man. This army, this military is something special. It really is. We're going to be talking about, I was on a family vacation out in Hawaii last week. Sherm and I were both solo parenting over the weekend, so we'll get into the solo parenting stories. Sherm has a great lesson of the week for us. He tells me. We'll dive into how he even got sick. How did I even get hurt, not injured? How scarlet is she under the weather? Sick as a dog, but you wouldn't be able to tell. I'm serious. Her attitude, her whole outlook on life as a seven going on eight-month-old, she just rips, dude. You know what that comes from? Her parents. I hope her dad. Hey, will you come over here and tap me up? For real, for real? Brother, I actually really needed to hear that. Yeah. Like, that actually warmed my heart. She with her daddy. She with her daddy. You prepped her for moments like this. You let her know. The world's tough out there. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let her. Yeah. But it's not how hard you hit. Yeah. It's how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how it is done. God. Sorry, PT Sixers. We're just. We're reminiscing. Dude, my heart really needed that. that was fucking good. We've been battling. We've been battling, dude. Dude, so we got back. We'll obviously break down all the vacation stuff, but we land, and Char reminds me that she goes out of town. This was this past Saturday. She reminds me, oh, remember, I'm going to New York on Saturday. I was like, just gave her that look. What? After we just went on vacation. After we just went on vacation, she's not doing a work trip on Saturday. Oh, good. It's okay, sweetheart. I'll get back Monday morning. My first question. You're not taking the kids from me, are you? You can't. Don't do that. Don't do that, Charles. Don't leave me alone for the weekend. She didn't do that, right? No, she didn't do that. She let me keep the kids. Oh, good. Yeah. Thank God. Yeah. And Sunday rolls around. Massive blizzard or a snowstorm hits New York City. Oh, that's right. Inquiment weather. Yeah. Flight gets canceled for Monday. She now has to rebook Tuesday. which that just means more solo time with you and the kiddos. That means one word. Good. Good. Can't wait. I've been sailing this shit the whole time. Don't even worry. Stay out there. Yeah. You know what? Take another vacation. Fly back down to Hawaii while you're at it. You offered that? I offered it. Got it. Then she hits me. What's today? Tuesday? Yeah. She hits me yesterday. We're sitting eating dinner yesterday. And she hits me up. Their flight gets canceled on Tuesday. Oh, good. Wait, so she's not coming in until tomorrow. My immediate response. Right when she texted me, I just put good deal. A great deal even. Love it. Yeah. So she's not getting in until tomorrow. So she's an empty sixer. She knows the game. Every parent that's out there listening right now, there's a sadness that consumes your child when parents are out of town. More so mom than dad. Rue does get sad when dad leaves. We talked about it when I was in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. A dad hack that I gave was like, it was actually this sweatshirt where I took her in. She started crying. She laid on my lap. She didn't want me to leave for five sleeps. It's only going to be five sleeps. It felt like forever. And she wasn't handling it very well. And I was so sad leaving to go to San Francisco. So I took her into my closet. We picked out a sweatshirt. It was this one that I'm rocking. And she essentially carried it around all week like a stuffed animal. but Rue, mom being out of town, that's a different, it feels like a different beast. I'm the one in the trenches, so it feels like a different beast. We did the same thing with mom. Whenever Charles came down to leave that morning, it was like five in the morning, takes Rue, Rue's sad, takes her downstairs to sleep the rest of the night with her, sleep the rest of the morning with Dada, but she got, she went in with Charles and picked out a sweatshirt, and now she rocks with the sweatshirt. She's been rocking with it to school. She rocks with it everywhere because she misses mom. And we count down the amount of sleeps each day. So I didn't even tell Rue And you guys, you guys know the game. Whenever the flight got canceled on Monday and got pushed to Tuesday, when Charles, we were on FaceTime, and Rue was like, Mama, one more sleep, one more sleep. And I could see Charles' face start to lean into it's actually going to be two because we got a lot of snow and the flight's canceled. I just chime in, intercept the conversation. That's right. One more sleep. Mama's got one more sleep. I'm looking at the FaceTime like I'm looking at you guys at home right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like one more sleep. That's right. One more sleep. So I'm thinking in my head, this has got to be a process to get Rue around to, hey, it's actually going to be Mama's flight got canceled. She's not going to be here for two more nights. Yeah. Then eventually I'm like, oh, look at all the snow. Mom's showing her the snow. I'm like, look at all the snow. And then we get off the phone and I'm talking to Rue. And I'm like, sweetheart, do you see all that snow? Man, I hope Mama's flight doesn't get canceled. She's like, why Mama's flight gets canceled? I'm like, because it's dangerous out there, sweetheart. There's a bunch of snow on the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't want Mama traveling. We don't want Mama risking trying to get hurt. She could get hurt. We might not be able to see her for a while. And I was like, so if it snows or the flight's going to cancel, that's what we want. Because we want Mama to stay safe so she can come home. The only thing that's going to happen, the worst part is we'll only have one more sleep to go. So it'll be two more sleeps? It'll be two more. But if that even happens, right now she's going to be home tomorrow. Knowing the flight was already canceled, she already moved to the station. Right now Mama's going to be home tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if worse comes to worse and there's too much snow in the flight, the pilot says we can't fly. That's what we want to happen because we want mom to stay. Absolutely. So we massage that into her. She struggled for a moment, but it really was smooth sailing. So that's a little dad hack. That's a massive dad hack, dude. If the planes get bombarded and mom's going to be gone in extra sleep because, dude, they love mom. Like mom is the rock. Mom is the center of the universe. Charo, we'll get into the zoo thing, but just for Charo to hear if she's still in New York listening to this. Oh, she's listening right now. There's no question. That's all Rue wanted to talk to me about. Was Mama? Oh, yeah. Do Mama's the best. Have me sleeps until Mama gets back. This is Mama's sweater. Do you think Scarlett would like my Mama's sweater? Absolutely. Yeah. Show her the sweater because she's going to love it, Rue. Yeah. So that's good to hear, too, from Charo's side of things. Yeah, it's been smooth for the most part. It's been smooth for the most part. But we'll get to dive in because you were a solo parent as well over the weekend. I was a solo parent. You knocked out the greatest dad game that any father out there could listen to. Yeah. And that was, what, a couple weeks ago? Yeah, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, you flew the friends in town. You told your mom was coming to town. It turns out her friends are there at the airport. You're going to have, what was it, four days? Yeah. Four days with your friends. They brought their kiddos. It's just mom and the kiddos. You are a champion. Mahjong, wine nights, babies. I mean, we're just talking chill sash. And a lot of dads out there were driving, listening to this game, watching this game, being like, this man gets it. And I've got to figure this out because not only is this a massive win for everybody involved, but Sherm is low-key. That scoreboard's ticking. It's rising. It was rising. You're not putting up points. This is no huddle offense. Yeah. This is like, what is it, Chip Kelly. You're running like a Chip Kelly spread offense like the first year it was coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oregon, Chip Kelly. Oregon, Chip Kelly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike Leach, Texas Tech type. Mike Leach, Texas Tech type. And like, you know, two foot gaps between every offensive lineman. People are looking at like, what are we doing? You're just telling them you're going to pass. People are saying, what's an RPO? What even is that? Run pass option? You can do that in one play? Here's the deal. When the end pulls, all right, we hit them with Mahjong. If they sit, hit them with the wine knight. Amen, brother. Hit them with the wine knight. either way we're getting 8-10 yards but yeah I mean you would you would think to preface that now is hubby's time yeah you would think now is papa's time maybe a little golf trip maybe a little golf trip but what'd you get hit with honey don't forget I got that bachelorette party Hey honey don't forget I got that bachelorette party coming up I don't think I can take Scarlett to that so I'm really devastated so maybe You and I was elated Because I'm like oh don't take the kids Yeah don't take the kids Don't do that Don't do that Cold front Hits Nashville it's really cold all of a sudden it was really beautiful outside and good yeah good oh you're going to west palm good oh good i bet that's kind of warm that's kind of nice good uh you know i get hit your hair down let your hair down have a little fun and hey hey i i love you to death we're joking oh yeah we're doing we're just joking we're having we're having some laughs and you looked beautiful beautiful with your nice sun tan from the beach little party boat oh and you hey she deserves it and here's the actual dad hack in the midst of all this good just like just celebrating it because i was stoked and i'm you know she's sending me funny videos and stuff i'm stoked i'm having a time but i try not to pepper it too much i know some partners are different but I try to let her have her fun when she's having fun. What are we talking about? Too many updates and check-ins and stuff. With Mama Bear. With Mama Bear. I've really tried to just do FaceTimes with like, hey, we're eating right now. Hey, we're sleeping. Oh, we just woke up. Good morning, Mama. We love you, Mama. Because Jill was dying for the FaceTime stuff. Which, that was great. I would like to add to that, there's nothing better than going there's nothing worse than going on a trip with a couple buddies and one of them is consistently having to lock in with the girlfriend or fiance and having to like hey I gotta call and text constantly it's the best whenever you get to go somewhere and they go hey don't worry we'll catch up more on Sunday you just kind of keep me a little bit updated here and there yeah yeah yeah if you feel like calling me in the middle of the trip give me a shout but you put it on the yeah absolutely I'll tell you what you won't get from Papa Team 6 and that's a text message with a question of where are the diapers that's a text message with a question what should I feed her tonight that's a text message of hey how do I do the laundry not that I do the laundry I don't really but if I did she didn't get no text about it no sir and did you see that outfit bro I put that outfit together you crushed it bro And I love because she's grown into the bow. You know how I was kind of a hater. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of took some crazy shots at Scar Scar. At Scarlett's face. Yeah, to her face. Hey, you look dumb, dude. Your dad put you in there. Did you choose that? Yeah. Because you look dumb, dude. Look at this bow and then flipping bow. Knock it off her head. You look like a candy wrapper. Just blowing her. Oh, you can't say nothing? You think so? Just go. Blow in her face. Dude, your kids are done. It's such a done, dude. But yeah, she's grown into the bow. She looks teared as hell. Dude, your kids are done. Are you getting a little water and dripping on her face? Are you even doing that at home? She just looked like she jumped off the Titanic when I poured water on her face. What are you doing? I don't know. I didn't know that you were supposed to do that. Yeah, you're supposed to do that. Does she have a good of a dead yard? How is she in the water just dumping water on her face? Oh, look at her panting. She's not out of use in the water. No, she's going to get bullied out the ass at school. if you keep this up what are you doing you can't bring her to the house Scotty would eat her up eat her alive I don't even want to see it happen don't bring her around here toughen her up and then we'll talk but yeah outfit looked great outfit looked good outfit was on fleek I even sent the outfit to mamas she said okay dadas I said watch me work watch me work with my family pass to the zoo didn't forget the stroller this time brought the stroller Will and I were trying to figure out because I do have a family pass and I was like I technically could get all of us in here together but we're going to have to you know we had a good laugh he's like maybe if you want to get on the family pass oh we're gay hey we're together these are kids i'm cool with that you know yeah we were both cool with that i still bought my own ticket but we're like support local business yeah yeah obviously yeah um but zoo was great uh my we'll we'll get into zoo because that that's a crack that's a crack a cold one that'll be ours together i'd love that i um yeah my good uh last night i i basically i I think I have the closest thing to a panic attack as far as what the hell's going on with my body. We have this little mister thing that's like a saline mister that helps, like, break up mucus. It's for infants. And it's like, you know those O2 tanks that they probably gave you on the sideline that you just go like, and it has the mask on it? It's like that. Never used it. You didn't need it. Come on. The way you were playing? Yeah. You didn't need that. You didn't spit? are you all right what was that i'm good that was a loogie i'm really sorry good good hey hey dads can't afford to get sick no they can't afford to be sick no they can afford to get sick you just can't be sick you can't be sick yeah i did i did check i don't have a fever this morning good yeah good um it'd been better if you did it would have been really good you come in just get all of is sick hell yeah come on let's raise our immune system because that's what i'm all about i'm like again don't bring them around unless you toughen them up yeah i don't want to see my kid boy and your kid yeah oh you want to come over for a play date first question is your kid's sick oh you're not staying home the problem is it that my kid's boy and your kid your kid's allowing it that's the issue okay but the o2 tank so two things go to take and then i do it um you know we're trying to make scarlet like it so it's like hey mamas and dadas are gonna do it so i start huffing this thing in front of scarlet i'm like oh this is so fun oh my gosh i have the mask on i'm just going like dude it legit like broke up my mucus and stuff in such a way that like i started having because i have a ton of chest uh congestion right now yeah i all of a sudden leave the room and i have a coughing fit where I'm having a hard time breathing and I'm like feeling it in my face you know when you can kind of like almost feel it like where your lymph nodes are where it's like tight like around your jaw I can feel my face getting red and I'm like I can't really breathe and I like couldn't yell out to Jill and I'm leaned over the trash can just coughing slash gagging and then I and so sorry for anybody with the weak summit I just started puking loogies which that was interesting. And then all of a sudden I just start vomiting. And then Jill's in the other room like, what is happening? Like Sherman, Sherman. And I'm like unable to say anything to her. As she turns the corner, I have this coughing fit because I'm sure I'm dehydrated that all of a sudden, dude, my entire back just locked up. Entire back to where I just fall to my knees and like grab the trash can and jill's like oh my god sherman sherman and is like talking to me i'm on all fours just like still coughing and she's like what is going on sherman what is going on in my mind i'm going good good keep asking yeah yeah because we'll figure it out through me talking and I just go, water! Like, Spongebob asking for water, but, like, scream it. And I'm still, like, unable to breathe. She just keeps on going, you don't need water, you're choking. Sherman, you're choking, you don't need water. Give me water right now! Like, visceral scream, dude. And she didn't give me water for, like, 30 seconds, It's like still asking me and I like start pounding the ground with my fist and I like vomit on the floor again. And I'm like, give me a goddamn water. Like I can't breathe. My back's locked up. I don't know what's going on, but give me a water. I'm dehydrated. Bro, it was crazy. And Jill and I are still kind of on the, we're still on the prince about it. My God. I know. It was crazy, dude. The back locking up, like, what's happening? I've always had really, really bad hip flexors from, like, track and soccer days, which, like, led to my quads getting tight. And so that whole IT band that, like, goes into your lower back, like, if those two muscles are causing you to kind of hinge forward because you're a little tight and sore, my glutes and my lower back will tighten up really bad. so it's like a sharp pain not a sharp pain but it's like my muscles are locked essentially in like on the sides uh to where i wouldn't i wouldn't say like a sharp pain like a structural pain of like nerves but it's like more so just those back muscles on the sides of your spine just basically saying bro sit down stop trying to stand and that's why i use those kt tape and stuff anyways I'm not taking like the best care of myself I could stand to lose a good like 40 pounds I could stand to lose I could you know work out way more get in better shape stretch way more but it's but you'd rather take the hard route good the road less taken and let's not forget what my new year's resolution is to run a 400 under 60 seconds oh that's right Let's not forget about that. But you want to, you know, you're waiting. We're starting at the gram level. Yeah. You're waiting until the week of to just show the world. You can, you're a fucking, you're a cheetah. You don't need to stretch. You don't need exercise. You sit up, hit a couple of shoulder impingement movements, and then take off. Cheetah does not stretch, dude. You make a very good point. A cheetah does not stretch. No, all that to say on a very serious note, I do need to take better care of myself. But when I get dehydrated. How are you getting dehydrated? You know, I'm drinking water, hollipop. I know. I do drink a lot of water and a lot of hollipop, but I need to drink more. Well, if you drink enough, you wouldn't be locking up like that. Yes. You know, I think the issue is on a good plan. Yeah, we need me on a good plan. We need one of those like selfish, not team player, blah, blah, blah. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you go and piss in the bathroom every morning, every day. it's not good it's not good letting the team down I am we need you at a championship level yes where you are hydrated yeah missing like a light yellow light dude light yellow because right now you would think it's highlighter it's Gatorade gold gold it's like the like the no no no no the what do you call it the embroidery embroidery of milk of my hat yeah a nice little Vegas gold that ain't good brother No, not at all. Do you have a camera in the living room to where you can go back home and then watch tape with wifey? With Jill? I fucking wish, dude. If I had had a nana in the living room. If you could be a nana right here, I needed you to give me water. And if you're deciding in your mind you're not giving me water, what I'd rather you have done is just start kicking me in the face. I need you to do this. Thank you. Hey, if you're not going to give me water, don't just stand there and yell, what's going on? What's wrong? Just start kicking me in the face and knock me out. Yeah. Hey, I'm glad his eyes were on it, though. That's good. Yeah, something fell out. Something kind of flipped or fell out. Right? What happened? Yeah, something, the board, the SD, it just stopped recording. Good. I think that's good. We got disconnected. But we're back. That's probably the PT6 guys going, hey, Sherman, easy. Because you're still on thin ice with the wifey. That could be Jill hacking combs. it really could it really could that's like you better come correct because I know we had that week with my friends and I went on the bachelorette party but like you're using up all your equity for this moment that's what you gotta understand no there goes the golf trip bye but yes I digress that truly is the story Yeah. That's why I'm sitting like an absolute freakazoid right now. You're a shell of yourself right now. I am. We need to beat these sickos in the comments. We need to get Sherm on a plan. We need to get him on a plan. Hit me with that Sir Roland meme of just get up. Yeah. Get up. Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Everybody go watch it. Great show. Great show. Great show. I'm truly just Sir Duncan right now. Just beat the shit. and I can, you know, I could yield. Oh, I do have a fantastic tweet from Will Compton really quick. For me? Yeah. Let's just say, like, we need to beat these sickos. We got to get you on a plan. A healthy dad is the right dad. A healthy dad is the right dad. And that is, like, truly something I'm striving for. Like, I'm eating way better. Okay. I just want to let anybody know that's willing to take me on. I am eating way better. We'll get you right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a community-driven thing. Yeah, you have a guy that wants to get better. We might have to just start something. Yeah. I wish I'm in for it. PT Fit. Yeah, PT Fit. Okay. PT Fit. PT Fit. Puppeteen Fit? Yeah, Puppeteen Fit. It's a movement. That was really good, Will. All right, read your tweet. All right, this tweet comes from William Compton. William Earl, Compton III, actually. By the way, put PT Fit in the comments. That's our comment this week? Okay, PT Fit. Yes, this comes from Sir Will of House Compton on X. He said, A Night of the Seven Kingdoms? I emoji, I emoji. And granted, this is like six weeks after the show has, you know. like the great meme reset of like a nine of the seven kingdoms where he took over twitter this is like a week after he says a nine of the seven kingdoms Iemoji Iemoji finished episode three last night and what a twist at the end everybody's on like episode six now hitting four and five tonight to roll into the finale. What a time to be alive for GOD fans. And he provided a nice little Dunkin' Egg on there for his chef. That was actually found by chef and printed out by chef. So I want to give chef his flowers. That is a hilarious tweet. And you're right. You didn't say anything that he corrected. That's facts. That's facts, dude. If you're a Game of Thrones fan, what a time to be alive. What a time to be alive, dude. When I learned who Egg was. I want you to, like, put a tweet out here in a week and be like, lost? Yo, lost? Have y'all been watching this shit? What a time to be alive. Did y'all know Jon Snow was Aegon Targaryen? What the fuck? Hey. What a twist. Is Danny's his aunt? Ew, but like she's kind of hot. What do y'all think? Sound off in the comments. Sound off in the comments. Bro, that was really funny. That was really funny. I do have some dad comments, just some general comments if we want to. Dude, let's engage. Let's engage. You know what we haven't done in a while? Some of the good takes. We say good throughout. Yeah. We'll just get into some good lore. We should. For dads out there that's thriving, but also there's suck with the thriving. There's a balance. Yeah. We'll dive into the suck. What does it mean to embrace the word good? What does it mean? Yeah. What does it mean to enter that mindset? I'm in Woodward on YouTube. And Woodward said, my fiance has officially gotten me hooked on this show. We get married next month. we were listening to the episode and shurm was talking about his wife's gestational diabetes and my fiance just casually goes is that what you have good good i'm just now from the wording of this i'm just now figuring out this is coming from this is the girl our future our st6 just hit his betrothed with is that what you have she replied sir i am not pregnant nor do i have diabetes what in the world that is wild future mt6 i apologize on the behalf of your st6 but we're just We're figuring it out. We're all figuring it out. Hey, you got that, right? If anything, that just means he's worried about you. Stational diabetes. Hey, you have that. That's what you got. He's just checking in on you, right? What the fuck are you talking about? What are you talking about? Oh, dyslexia, like, makes up words and said, that's what you got, right? No. I got one here from Jorge. This is a new dad comment. What's up, gentlemen? Jorge Medina reporting for duty. He recently got recruited for the PT6 and in boot camp right now. He's in BUDS training. My wife and I found out she is pregnant in January and now about to finish our first trimester. Let's fucking go. That's huge. I came across your podcast earlier this month and have nothing but tears of joy listening to all the PT6ers out there with encouraging messages Lastly I want to give a shout out to my wife Raquel being the crown on my head and helping me find my way back to Jesus Good. Good. That's a great comment, Jorge. Congratulations to you both. Jorge, well done shouting out your future MT6o. And he gets it. He's been on for a month. He recently got recruited to PT6 in boot camp right now. So he just finished BUDS training, reading until dad status. the seed has been planted. Good. The heir to the throne might be there. Oh, he didn't say whether or not. He did not say whether or not. Okay, okay. He did not say whether or not. That's what I'm looking for. They just finished their first trimester, but he gets it. Jorge understands the assignment. That's a big thing we can get into. I'm thinking for our next one that we purely do not want to know. We legit want to find out on delivery date, I think, for the next one. Yeah. Fingers crossed that we even get an opportunity. Fingers crossed. I have a couple of general comments. Yeah. Moneymaster21 on Spotify. At what age can Will and Sherm's kids start listening to the pod? Going to get some good feedback from the kids. Crying laughing emoji. That's a fantastic question by Moneymaster. Fantastic question. I cannot wait for little Miss Scarlett to be proud of her father. We hope so. And all that he's doing. They'll see us cry a lot. Why? They'll know how much we love them. That is true. They'll get to hear a lot of old stories, you know, about bickering with their sister. Yeah. Giving us problems, giving us hell, how she struggled with bedtime, missing mama, some of the hacks. Yep. I do think of, like, that age of, like, 8, 9, 10 range where my mom would break out the video camera with the red, white, yellow cords and plug it into the TV and play some of my baby tapes. And it was truly like watching a bad American Idol audition. I'm just sitting there like, I don't want to see it. Put it away. And it's like you and I are, that's just on the Internet. Yeah. Scarlett and Rue, not so much the videos, but the stories. You're talking about how I shit on you? How I shit on your arm? Dad, what are we doing? We've got to figure out a way to guard them from shockwave. Oh, yeah, Damon. Well, we've already done so. What a great euphemism. You know? What euphemism? What does that mean? Euphemism is like a nice little fun code word that you can call something. Yeah. But it's not a code word. It's a real roller coaster in Texas. Boom, baby. You just, boom, baby. I just euphemized. euphemized. You just euphemized. All over it. All over it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Shockwave, baby. Shockwave, pow, pow. On Facebook. We have a Facebook. Yes, we do. Just learning that. Yo, for the dads. But that makes sense. You got to be on Facebook. We're going to be about the dads. A lot of that. A lot of the boomer generations on Facebook. We're down with the zuck. Appreciate you guys keeping it real in a world where everyone acts as if they have it together. So we have a few days when we don't feel perfect. So we don't feel perfect can feel alone. You guys are bringing the laughs and the feels. Thank you for showing the boys our love for the family is enough. I'll be shipping out on deployment soon, and I'm thankful to have your podcast while I have to be away from the family. Thank you for what you guys do. It really does make a difference. God bless you, gentlemen. What was his name? Kyle Powell. Kyle Powell, thank you for your service, brother. Thank you for your service, dude. We have touched on that so many times, But it's worth touching on every single time. Every time. Dude, to go and deploy and be away from your family and to serve, that idea means so much more now that I have a family. Yeah. I think to myself, dang, dude, that's a higher calling that they're wanting to go do. Right. That's awesome. There's a hardship and sacrifice that's involved with all of that. Yeah. Absolutely, man. Like having to pull yourself out, essentially outside of yourself, to serve something greater than you for your country. Yeah. Knowing how hard it is to leave the family. Yeah. And put everything in place. What a strong rock you must have at home with wifey. It just, man, that would be brutal to leave the kiddos. Yeah, dude. Didn't grow up with a whole lot of military families, although there's a really big base in Fort Worth. But if anything, every single military mom that I've met, you're exactly right. It's like that rock mentality, dude. Yeah. That holding it down, dude. And Jill's grandmother had eight kids while dad was out serving. What a monster. What a monster, dude. Yeah, yeah. Dude, my grandpa, William Earl Sr., he served, but he was always one of those guys he never really told you what he did. That's the best. You know what I mean? Like he just told me he was a cook. It's like, oh, I just cooked for people. And he made incredible eggs. You talk about this egg recipe now. You go over, make the scrambled eggs. He put the bacon bits on top. He makes the bacon bits, put them on top with some cheese. But the secret ingredient. That's a bad dude. He put a little pack of sugar, sprinkle it on the eggs. And every sugar, crazy, crazy. I know. But it'd be egg, scrambled eggs, bacon, and a pack of sugar that he'd use inside the eggs. and it was life changing for me I was just always beside myself like what do you put in here and he wouldn't tell me for the longest time he finally told me when I was in high school so I could show off to the boys I'm like I'm trying to like spread the good word of these scrambled eggs how are you doing? what was his grandpa's name? grandpa we were very I guess traditional like everybody was just grandma and grandpa like all the new stuff like Lola and Opa that Rue and Scotty or that Rue calls her grandparents. All the mama, papa, all that stuff was not foreign, but I'm just like, oh, isn't that just grandma and grandpa? No. And then on my mom's side, it was like Grandma Jerry and Grandpa Charlie. Because on my dad's side, we saw them all the time. They lived the town over. That's Grandma, Grandma. It would be like Sunday. We'd have Sunday dinner. Sunday meal after church. You'd go over. It would be either KFC. You'd get the family stir stuff, KFC, bro. Every now and then they'd cook. If it would be a holiday, like they would cook. And my mom would cook. You know, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Dude. Fried Chicken Dinner, I don't care where it's coming from. KFC, Chicken Express, you name it, dude. Yeah. After he passed, eventually we find out. Maybe my brothers knew because my brother Cody, he was number, I was the oldest. Cody was middle, Weiss the youngest. Cody hung out at Grandma and Grandpa's all the time. Yeah. But after he passed, you end up learning like we found a gun he'd used over, you know, paid some Germans. damn. Yeah. Found some other old stuff, but he just never talked about it. I always thought he just cooked and so when people talk about their family serving or whatever, it's not like I leapt at the opportunity to talk about how my grandpa was a chef. Yeah. Because it's like, that's not like you know, as a kid growing up, you're hearing you're somebody in the family like being a badass overseas. Yeah. You're like telling your friends about it. Did he stand when they did like things at church or games because my grandpa was an accountant in Hawaii during World War II and so he like wouldn't stand up. doing military stuff like it was for the army but he was like no i didn't really like serve like everyone else we were we were never in situations like that because my grandpa like pretty much the majority of my upbringing it's funny the way they worked my grandma she lost her hearing so she had hearing aids so she was she had a massive hearing about she wasn't fully deaf but she was almost there my grandpa was legally blind so he couldn't drive or doing he couldn't like leave the house but they just the perfect they needed each other they needed each other they just be in the house every afternoon like you know you drive by you see them sitting on the swing on the front porch waving they had a house on the corner on the awning they had an awning over the window you know those old school awnings they had like a c planted etched like on the awning so you knew it was the compton house just sitting on the corner right down the road from the park you see them wave like we'd be over there all the time especially in the summertime when we were out of school. We'd run down to the community pool, pay a dollar to get in. We were pool rats growing up. That's so sick. He'd throw me 20 bucks to mow the yard. No way. And he was a craftsman too. He'd be out in his little garage and he built me this wooden bolt action rifle. He built it. And then it had a bolt in the wood, a bolt action rifle. Well, it didn't shoot anything. It was just a toy. Because he knew I wanted a beat. I was like, I'll make you something else. When we had our first dog, we got our first dog. He built a doghouse. Like a dope, sturdy, lasted forever. Chef gave me a... Again, legally blind. He was nice, bro, in the garage. What a legend. He's a true Willie One shelf. He is. It was actually about it. Well done, by the way, on social media when you posted something from your house and somebody said, you hang that TV and you say, I just do a shelf. Check out the pod. Yeah, come on, buddy. Check out the pod. Yeah, I'm a shelf guy. One shelf to be exact. Don't do more than one. I audibly chuckled at that comment. That was really funny. Yeah, I don't know where I was going with that, but yeah. You're talking about your grandfather. Grandfather, serving, all that stuff. We read a military comment. Yeah, you kind of just don't know the tails, I guess, until they share, or even after they pass, I felt like I learned a lot more stuff about him in the military. Because when he passes, like, the military comes and does, like, this, has, like, this moment where they fire off the weapons. Yeah. They do all these things, and you kind of just learn more about it, because he never really talks about it all the time. And they, like, fold the flag and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's really, really cool. Yeah. He was a beast, though, bro. He was a beast, man. You're making a custom toy bolt-action rifle? Like, that's a guy that I just want to be in his orbit. Yeah. He taught me how to draw and sketch. Like, he'd take his magnifying glass, and he's, like, you know, he's, like, drawing pictures for me. He was a beast, man. What a legend. He'd be yelling at my grandma because she was hard-hearing. My grandma and I, dude, there was this one story. Could you hear, like, your own voice in the hearing aids because they were turned up so loud? I have no clue. I come across that sometimes. My grandma, she'd just be chilling. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. She'd come. She'd want hugs. She'd want to kiss you like 10 to 15 times, or you'd be leaning down there. All right, grandma. She'd be sitting in a rock. She'd be sitting in a rocker. You were never too big to sit on her lap. She wanted you to sit on her lap so she could bounce you on the knee and just be like, womp-ditty, womp-ditty, woo-woo-woo. I do that with my kids now. But even when I was a high schooler, she'd want me, she'd tap her lap. hell yeah i come and sit on her life she's like womp diddy womp diddy just like an 18 year old 17 year old house oh scully to nebraska just getting bounced by my grandma what a good woman dude when i was a good woman i was gonna tell when i was young my grandpa yelling at her uh when i was young i forget how old i was i was single digits i was a little jit yeah yeah yeah we were playing checkers i was playing my grandma on checkers she was moving all of a sudden she stopped moving. And I'm like, my grandma, your turn. You got to go. And my grandpa sitting there, her name was Maxine. He called her Mac. Mac, you got to move. And I'm like, grandma, it's your turn. He's like, Mac, you got to move to peace. And then all of a sudden, Mac, damn it. And then my grandma sitting there, her teeth fall out. Oh, no. She starts having a stroke. Oh, wow. Hey, and I'm young. I see her teeth fall out. She bumps in the chair. Her teeth fall out. I scream bloody murder. She sprinted to the living room. Her teeth fell out. Will, what the hell is going on? Because he can't see. He can't see. Oh, no. Oh, no. He can't see. Her teeth fell out. Her teeth fell out. Grab the phone to help 911. I'll grab the wired phone off the wall. And I'll make you up there. Oh, damn. Ambulance, everybody comes and get in the hospital. She was good that day. She got passed. Because I know I'm seeing her having this cynical humor about it. Grandma has a stroke. Don't play me in checkers, man. My dad one time was helping get her in the car because he's taking her to her beauty appointment, her salon appointment. Yeah. Because she'd have this perm. and uh dude she was like traditional old school she rocked all time she rocked the perm and wore gowns like you know those like prettier gowns or whatever and you know you had to kind of help them everywhere yeah and my dad was helping her in the car one time and they're catholic right yeah oh no not not not my dad's side they're oh sorry your mom's side yeah my mom's side was like roman catholic yeah yeah yeah but uh my dad has to take her to the to a salon appointment helps get her in the car, doesn't fully shut the door. My dad walks around to the other side and gets in the car and all of a sudden, my grandma falls out of the door. There's like a little slope in the front yard. She's like, Will. What did Bill do? Was he beside the door? Oh, shit. Oh, shit. You good? Mac, get up. Goddammit, Mac. Matt, get up. You're good. That's going to be us, dude. Grandpapa Team Six, man. That's going to be us. Yeah. Yeah. Bro, they sound like legends. Dude, they were legends, man. They were legends. God, I love that. The only funny story that comes to mind as far as my grandfather had Parkinson's. Yeah. And so, like, I didn't really get to know him like you would, like your typical granddad, Granddad, because he just wasn't talking at that point. A sentence would take like five minutes to get out. So I had some talks with him. One thing he did say to me when he was watching the Miami-Alabama National Championship on his special edition VHS, and I was at that game in my mama's tummy, by the way. It took him about 15 minutes to get it out because he would kind of shake and he would work the word up into his mouth that he had it out. And basically the sentence they told me, he said, ain't never going to be a team better than the Todd. Told me that. Took him 15 minutes to tell me they ain't never going to be a team better than the Todd. You're right. And I'm like, yes, sir, Cha-Cha. Yes, sir. He had this wheelchair, and they had a nurse that had to, like, live in the house to, like, take care of Cha-Cha. And he was obsessed with Girl Scout thin mints. that was like his poison dude like and he couldn't he couldn't like use his hands or anything once the parkinson's got really bad but one night dude this is after like him not being able to really do anything by himself the nurse starts hearing stuff in the kitchen and it's like julie julie which is my grandmother's name because obviously it'd be her yeah not charlie he didn't even get out of bed. Yeah. And she comes into the kitchen, flips the lights on and he's sitting in his wheelchair. He kept the Thin Mints in the freezer because he liked them cold. And the entire bar of Thin Mints is sticking out of his mouth. And he's sitting there in his wheelchair just shaking with the Thin Mints. He was a sicko for the Thin Mints, dude. What a legend. And big time right now for Girl Scout cookies. Big time for Girl Scout. There's a massive order on the other side that's sitting in there. Yeah, shout out. Shout out to Girl Scout. Shout out Brett Mays and his fam. Shout out Brett Mays. Don't free shout out to Brett Mays. No, but I hate it. He's the PT sicko. Bring us some more Girl Scout. Yeah, bring us some more Girl Scout cookies. Don't free shout out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't free shout out. You got to deliver some Girl Scout cookies. You know, every day you'd walk in, my grandpa would be sitting in his room because he loved the Westerns. But he'd be sitting there, you know, the little box TV, but he'd be sitting there because, again, he was legally blind, so he could just kind of see the, what, like the halo around you, the shape of you. Yeah. He kind of just knew based on size who was who. But you'd walk in and bang a left and just look in the room, and he'd be, like, say this is the TV. He'd just be, he'd just be sitting up in his chair, and he'd be like this close. He'd be like this close watching his westerns. Will? I bet you. just actively making his sights so much worse where are we going? Parenthood I got one last one from Gibson 88 on Spotify Rip it. Gibson says Milk Team 6 here. My husband and I are first time parents to a 6 month old little boy and we love listening to your show together on drives to St. Louis Chris, little Moe family, come on. Hoping to get your, uh, hoping to get y'all's thoughts and realize it is not medical advice. We were advised against circumcision at birth due to most likely needing a procedure later. Now the specialist says we don't have to do the procedure, but they can do it if we want him circumcised. would he be made fun of later in life if we don't do it hell do you want my personal opinion how about so they got advised against circumcision they want our advice that they should do it now or wait for later in life because now like they were gonna circumcise but they're like hey if we circumcise there's gonna have to be a follow-up procedure just because of what's going on but then they're like hey what we thought was going on isn't going on. It's a normal, like, everything's good, so if you want to circusize them now, we can do it. They know we're not medical experts, but they want our medical experts. They're basically asking, will they be made fun of? You came to the right spot. This could not be a better podcast for this question, because I got an answer. He's going to get made fun of. Yeah. You came to the right show. We had a quote-unquote anteater because it looks like an anteater we had an anteater on our soccer team in high school and yeah he knew that we knew that everybody knew and it was talked about a lot and he was called anteater he was called anteater yeah had a beast piece had nothing to worry about but you know it wasn't a German army helmet I think the anteaters do have some weapons on them Yeah, dude. They got a little extra something something. Of course it's going to. It's a beast piece. Conversation. It's a conversation piece. Yeah, conversation starter. You're in the shower, shower with the boys. You just got to equip them with some wit and some humor. Yeah. If that's the route you're going to take. Yeah. You sit there, you shower, and you realize the boys, everybody's meat-peaking in the shower. And you just look over. Yeah, I got to clean them. Yeah, I call them the hooded stranger, so what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? It's not that big of a deal. We play hide and seek every day. Yeah, you got to name him. I mean, he's got to have a name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got to have a name, and he also needs to have a superhero name for when, you know. Then he got the cape on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's almost like a reverse because he's got the cape on, but then when he becomes a fucking Megazord. And then when it's like, when it's Habsie and it's like almost like a turtleneck on him, give him like a professor name. Yeah. He looks very, you know, well-educated. Yeah. He came to the right place. Yeah. Have a little fun with it, you know? Bag and tag it, if you will. Bag and tag it. But yeah. What's the answer? Hey, you do you. I don't think so. We have no fucking clue how to handle this question, so we're just going to our defense mechanism. You might think we're being immature and stupid about this. Yeah. But you are asking a podcast producer and a former NFL player whether or not... I've seen a lot, but he said, you know, it's not. It's tip. We don't know. I know it involves a lot of extra cleaning. It's extra staff with hygiene. That's a biz. Biz, you close it up, pee in it, and drop a piss bomb in the shower. I understand. Got it, yeah. Like, oh, yeah, we do piss bombs in the shower. Biz would not be cut. Like, that makes all the cities in the world. That's awesome. Yeah. It's just like, and dude, our guy that would get the anteater comments and stuff, he was the man. He was the man. He owned it. He had a great personality. That's all you need, man. A ton of fun, great dude, totally owned it. And, like, yes, it was, like, a part of his identity. Like, it will be a part of your identity, but, like. It's a superpower. Yeah. It really, it kind of is a little bit. It kind of is. You got to know you got something that most people don't have. Yeah. And so you're going to get questions, I'm sure, at times, or feeling awkward, but that's the moment for you to come in with the icebreakers. Yeah. You just get equipped with the icebreakers and have the personality with it. You're going to own it. He's going to crush it. He's going to crush it. And he'll get in college and word will get around and blah, blah, blah. And he's going to be at a party and the girl's going to come up to him and be like, the rumor's true? Yeah. Yeah. We can find out. Yeah. That was the Green Ranger. They were called Megazords, right? powerzord megazord you know when he had the flute and the godzilla megazord like comes out of the water hey I kind of heard he just pulls out a flute I know we're talking about your sweet six month old baby boy that I'm sure is just a sweetheart. Yeah, yeah. And y'all will make the best choice. Yeah, y'all make the right choice. Because you're his loving parents. We're not experts. And I think we did a good job improving. I think we've done a good job etching ourselves into how we should be perceived in this world. It's a public or private school service. I don't know why. 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We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff, identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore, or loss that changes you, purpose when success isn't enough, peace when your mind won't slow down, faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to If You Can Hear Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. all right i have a crack a cold one to zoo and it sounds like it's a a collab a cold one yeah that's a lab a crack a cold one it's a collab a crack a cold one it's a crack one i've been sipping one already i've been sipping one already ollie pop shirley temple nice tasty little treat yeah um would you say a collab a cold one Yeah, a collab-a-crack-a-cold one. Yeah, a collab-a-crack-a-cold one. The zoo. We had a zoo day. Daddy-daughter zoo day. I was on Sherm how my wife was out of town. I think it was on Friday when we were doing our For the Dads meeting. Sherm's like, I'm solo, too. Wifey's going off to the bachelorette party. And I was like, good for her, man. Good. Good for us. Yeah, good. Yeah, good. And so we took it upon ourselves. Saturday, we're going to do something together. We're going to get out of the house. We're going to get the kiddos out of the house. We're going to burn some time, have a little bit of fun. We go to the Nashville Zoo. Local Nashville Zoo. Phenomenal zoo. Phenomenal zoo to take the kiddos. They love absolutely every animal that comes through. Scarlett was just chilling the entire time, just being a warrior. We're just having fun, checking the vibes. Where are we at? What are we doing? Doesn't matter. Just give me the bankie, dude. And Rue was really team leader at the end of the day. Yeah, Rue wanted to see certain things, but also, like, she's helping try and show the kiddos. I had Scotty. I brought out the double stroller. I knew Rue would want to probably sit in the stroller and not walk around everywhere. so that always think on your feet bring the double better to have it not need it than he did not have it yeah dude scarlet was ripping around in the stroller we're duoing up got a couple for the dad's fist bumps you had his pt6 encounter which yeah that'll be fun to that will i hope that who pt sicko that you knocked me dude yeah i was holding scarlet up on her stroller with both hands to where like she needed to be held with two hands Yeah it was like the back end We were finding the exit So we were getting ready to leave We been there a couple hours And I totally just neglected my daughter to give out a little for the dad's fist bump. But as soon as I let go of Scarlett, she almost eats it. It's like, hey. Stroller goes sideways, chef. Hey, buddy. I love your dad podcast. No. Oh, let me almost kill my kid. ducks. Yeah, BTC. She's going to go. Oh, she's good. She's good. Five second roll. Five second roll. You caught her, though. I caught her. You saved it. It was a close one. It was close, dude. But we ripped around and had a great time. Yeah. Ru's really engaging with both Scotty and Scarlet, trying to point at all the animals. Oh, look at this. Scotty's squealing. She's got this little squeal when she sees, like, birds or any animal, really. Bro, Ru is fully, I don't want to speak for you about your daughter. Or for her. Or for her. But my takeaway of Ru from that is like she is at the age where she is very much a help she is not a hindrance and i'm sure she could be if she had an episode yeah absolutely she's like golly dude i mean just an absolute tour guide through the zoo for scarlet i'll be honest bro she is an asset she is an asset when like say well i don't remember the last time mom was out of town but days where it's like me and a girl so maybe charles out for the day whatever which is me at home but when mom's not there something goes off in ru's brain as i have to help this poor old man let's go dude i have to help dada let's go and so she's always she's she's been helpful every day that mom's been gone yeah like on top of it like she she's one of those she's very much a firstborn she's very much like an oldest yeah like got some of the type a that she'll have in her very like structure needs to understand the mission, understand the rules, and she'll carry it out. She's a stud. She is. She knows when it's time to put Scotty down and, hey, I need you to put on your PJs at night and do all the things. Make sure your brush is ready when I get back downstairs. Let's draw mom. She loves drawing mom pictures every day. Big into the arts and crafts. Love that. But she'll just be quietly doing it downstairs while I'm upstairs putting Scotty down. Very. She's got everything I need. Can you help me do this? Yeah, bro, she's been an asset the entire day. Very open to learn, too, dude. That was so much fun. She would ask me questions. There was the tiger thing that you saw where it will show the picture of a tiger, but then it's interactive. If the kids flip it around, it shows the muscular bone structure of the tiger. And so Rue was like, Uncle Sherman, what's that pink stuff in the tiger? What's that pink stuff? I was like, that's the tiger's muscles. she was like inside the body i was like yeah she goes muscles are pink i go yeah and she's like i have you know i have muscles blah blah i was like that's right and then when she started pointing at the bones she was like these are bones tigers have bones i was like they do i was like and these are ribs i was like rue if you feel right there can you feel your ribs and she started feeling it and She was like, a tiger has way bigger ribs than me. And I'm like, yeah, it does. It totally does. Like, dude, she was just such a joy to interact. Dude, we got in the truck to drive home after because you know how she was having her moment with Scarlett where she's doing like throwing her mom's sweatshirt up in the air. I'll give you that video, Chef, because that actually is very cute. Yeah. And Scarlett's laughing because Ru's like throwing the sweatshirt like up in the air, making her laugh. We got in the car and I was like, Ru, you were so kind to Scarlett. Like, thank you. Like, that's very helpful for Dada and Uncle Sherm. It's very helpful for us. Yes. And she was just super curious on, like, why it's helpful. I'm like, well, it's always good when Uncle Sherm and I, we get to push us and catch up and talk with each other. And sometimes the babies, the kiddos, they need us. So we got to be basically at their beck and call all the time for whatever they need. Like, they need a snack or they need the binky or they need this or they need to be entertained. I was like, and you were doing such a great job keeping Scarlet entertained, talking with Scotty, pointing at the animals. and it'll help Sherm and Dada to talk and have fun with each other, watch you guys. And she'd be like, why is it helpful? And just, you know, they're in such a why-ask-question phase at three years old and four years old. But everything's a question, and she's just super curious on learning, like, so why was that good or why did that help you out? It helped Sherm. Yeah, it helped Sherm. Because Sherm, you know, their mama is gone for the weekend just like your mama's gone for the weekend. So Sherm is hanging out with Scarlett solo. So he's tending to Scarlett all the time, all day long, making sure she has everything and probably has to entertain her, make her laugh and make her smile. And you were doing that while we were at the zoo with her. So Uncle Sherm got to just have fun, hang out with you. Yeah. I literally leaned up against the car while she was doing it. I truly thought to myself, that is so awesome. Like I literally just leaned up against your truck with my arms folded, just watching her make scarlet laugh and giggle yeah and i'm like dude that's so cool that's so cool just seeing our kids interact yeah and like rue being like oh scarlet that you know sherm sherm are you watching she i'm making her laugh i'm like yeah you're killing it like you keep doing it like she's a woman she wants people watching yeah i didn't tell you what she told me when she was like hold on i gotta tell uncle sherman bye she came up to me and she said will you tell scarlett's mom that i liked making her laugh with my sweater today and i said i will gladly pass that along i said thank you so much it's a sweetheart it's not just sweetheart i was oh yeah she's a good one yeah she's she's a beast man doesn't come without trials and tribulations Oh, 100%. Doesn't come without trial tributes. 100%. She dominated the 12-hour travel time to Hawaii. Dominated, bro. Yeah, how was all that, dude? It was incredible. Because we didn't even get into that at the zoo. Like how the kids did. Oh, yeah. Traveling. Scottzilla was Scottzilla. Love it. Good. She's a beast, dude. Good. She, during the travel time, it was, again, our first flight took off from Nashville. at 7.30 in the morning, so we had the kiddos up early. And usually, you know, as a parent, you're hopeful that your little one, Scotty, is around 15 months old, but you're hopeful that they, like, you know, they'll eat their food or take their bottle and then, like, go to sleep or, like, zonk out, and you're hoping for, like, an hour at a time. Absolutely. Out of the 12 hours of travel, Scotty probably slept a total of 90 minutes sporadically. Yeah. Maybe like combined. Yeah. And then outside of that, like Scotty is a busy body. She is like a, she's just, she handles herself like a reckless abandon, bro. Yeah. Like has to be moving, has to be doing stuff. What I hated too is mom had to essentially hold her the entire time because she's a big, she's a big mommy's girl. Like she'll play with me, but she'll play with me from mama's arms. Or if mom's in the vicinity and I'm holding her, she just, she reaches and like, you know, yells and does all this stuff so you're trying to think about everybody around you on the plane because it's a long travel time. The first flight to Arizona was like four hours and you had like a four or five or a five hour flight to Hawaii from Phoenix after a couple hour layover. Wasn't terrible but it's like there was no mom didn't get to nap at all. I passed out for a few minutes at one point. But yeah, Scotty was tough. Scotty was tough. There are moments where you're like, you want to put a bullet in your head and, hey, take the plane down. We're over the water, put it in the water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That looks good. Yeah. Right there. She seems that age, too, of like, Scarlet, I feel like, is at the tail end of, if we hit her with a bottle, if we've been playing with her, playing with her, playing with her, getting that energy out, and then we hit her with a bottle, we can then wrap her in a blanket and incentivize sleep, and she'll take her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd be like, yeah, I guess I could cock out for two hours. Yeah. Right here. But Scotty's in that phase where she's curious about everything going on. She wants to play. She wants to climb. Again, it'd be like Rue in the middle seat because Scotty's a lap child. So we're sitting in a three-piece row. Rue's in the middle seat. We have this cool little, like, suitcase, a roller suitcase where you can take out and kind of turn it into something like four-plane seat. That's kind of a – that's a dad hat right there. I can't really, I don't know what the product is. If one of you guys can search it up, I have no clue what to call it. But it's like a little kid's roller, like a roller suitcase. We can turn it into basically an extra little platform. So if Rude does want to sleep, she can lay back. We have her pillow. She can kind of lay down on the seat and also in that little space next to the legs. She can kind of sprawl out. But Scott would want to stand in the middle part and just hold the seat and, like, engage with people behind us. The people behind us were great. Everybody around us was great. knew that we were just in a, in a, in trench warfare the entire time with Scotty, but she wants to climb. She wants to do all this stuff. It's a suitcase. You said, well, right? Yeah. Cause I found one that's like a ride on suitcase. It's like a ride on suitcase. Rule ride it like a horse. And you'll have this like longer lanyard thing that you're kind of dragging her and moving her around the airport. Is it called a stoke? It might be. Stoke looks, I mean, there's like foot pedals and stuff on this. It looks like she doesn't have foot pedals, but it's something like that. That sounds unreal. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah, yeah. Is there foot pedals on it? No, it's more like grooves, I guess. Yeah, but it's got like stickers that they can put on them. Yeah, a bunch of stickers on it. Yeah, yeah, that's it right there. That is quality. If you want to show the graphic for a DadHack shout-out product, shout-out to use. It works wonders for us. But we'll have like her blanket, stuffed animals, pillow, and then like some arts and crafts or books or whatever in there. So it's like her little – Dang, dude. Like her little setup. But she – Rue dominated. Very good, very patient. You know, would ask how much longer we have, kind of be bummed every now and then, but not – She never had any real meltdowns or anything else. Scotty was a tough one. Scotty was a tough one. Jill said that about Rue when I, like, described the zoo thing. She was like, she's a firstborn girl through and through. Yeah, she's super helpful. Yeah. And then for any parents out there, like, thinking about traveling or doing family vacations, dude, just do it. Like, it sucks. The traveling sucks. I even told my wife when we were talking about doing a vacation, yeah, good. Like, doing a vacation, I always wanted to stay somewhere, like, in, like, on the main. mainland to where you're not flying that long. Yeah. So my dude, Scotty's going to be a nightmare. She is every time we travel. She talked me into Hawaii. Love Hawaii. But I'm like, bro, it's such a long travel. But hey, happy wife, happy life. Come on, man. Sweetheart, you want to go to Hawaii? Let's go to Hawaii. Good. Resort was beautiful. But my advice for those people, if you have a wife who is adventurous and wants to travel and see things and go on vacations, dude, just eat the grenade and do it. Yeah. Because as hellish as it was traveling there, we were wiped out. We got there, and it's just, when you get to the destination, it's just so worth it, especially when you, you know, we had nothing on the schedule because it was kind of a resort. It wasn't like all-inclusive or anything, but it was a beautiful resort. We got upgraded when we got there. The agent, because everybody, anybody who's followed me for a long time or a few years probably knows or understands the lore of Expedia when we traveled to Italy a few years ago. Travel has been a nightmare for the Compton family. Nothing that y'all have done. Right. We had a nightmare situation with Expedia. I took the country to war against Expedia. We got it figured out eventually, but we didn't fly to Italy the time we wanted to fly to Italy. We had our bat. We had everything set up. We had our tickets, but we apparently weren't in the computer. I was going to do that. In the computer. And that was a nightmare. So from that, we used one of Charles' friends who's a travel agent, and apparently she's set up for whoever she works with. Shout out Megan Paylor. Go check her out on Instagram. Okay, Megan. But she was our travel agent, and whoever she works with, like, they're eligible for upgrades, like this list of, like, five to ten upgrades. If the resort or hotel has it available when you're there, she can qualify for an upgrade. We got upgraded, bro, to the most. I mean, it's – I did my best not to flex. Yeah. because I just had that vibe where you go and you're apart and you're staying somewhere that you feel like you shouldn't be here, you don't belong here, where you feel like you made it. Like it was a four-bedroom suite with a private pool. And it was insane, bro. And I'm grinning ear to ear the entire time. Just like, how? How do we have this? Yeah. But it was amazing, bro. We got to chill, pool, beach every day. Ruth swimming like six, seven, eight hours at a time. It was very relaxing. It was great to get away. But it was a phenomenal vacation. Dealt with some jet lag. Good. It looked it, dude, just the little outfits. The little outfits for the girls and those family pictures that you had. Just everything that comes with a vacation that probably is a pain. I feel like that is applied across fatherhood of just everything's gonna suck to some extent because it's all the extra steps but then the payoff dude the payoff is huge and if you're a dad or a parent out there like me like I we went on zero family vacations growing up yeah all of our stuff basically went into sports for myself and so all of my vacations were essentially like baseball tournaments or football camps. Like, whatever my parents can muster up and put towards that, they did. I would also be the kid where I traveled with a buddy. So say we're on the baseball team. I'd be in the car with you and your family going and staying. We'd be sleeping in the same bed. I'd be like the tag-along kid. My parents did everything I can. We were middle class. They worked hard, but all of it went towards us with sports, our passions, everything else. But we went on zero family vacations because didn't have the time, didn't have the money, and so it just never happened. Charles kind of opened my eyes to vacationing. Like even growing up in the sports world and playing in college in the NFL, like when I would go on vacations, it would be I never wanted to be anywhere past like three or four days because you feel like you're out of the structure. You feel like you're taking away from things you could be getting better at or chasing that one percent to get better. So Charles get me to go on week long vacations, two week long vacations. We spent, I want to say, five or six nights in Hawaii, do family vacations, going and seeing different parts of the country, seeing different parts of the world. Like, dude, those are core memories that you're going to have with your kids that you're going to look back on, and you're going to be happy you did them, especially at a young age, because we want to get them in a rhythm to where we do a family vacation every year, or we get to do it a couple times a year. It's where they grow up going and seeing different parts and being excited to see new things and experiencing new things. but man take the family vacation and there are so many ways to do it to from your standpoint of like you can do the family vacations where you are driving to the grand canyon you know yeah you're driving you find the campsite that has like some nice little cottages that are affordable whatever like whatever the trip looks like just going on a trip with family dude yeah and you're 100 right Like you don't need much on the family vacation because there could be listeners out there. Yeah, it sounds amazing. You get upgraded to a four-bedroom suite. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got a lot of money. You got the world. You can do all these different things. But there will be moments where we're sitting there on the beach, and all Rue wants to do is throw rocks into the water. And I'm thinking in my head, you don't need all of these things to have like a phenomenal experience. It's nice. It's nice that we get to enjoy it, that we get to do these things, this privileged life that they have. They have no clue that they're on a beach in Hawaii right now, and this is the peak. of life they just want a rock and they want to throw in the water they just want you to join them wherever it might be and throw that rock in the water we like truly i i was blessed enough to like get to go on some vacations and yeah and my grandmother uh i told you lived in uh blue mountain beach florida like right by grayton and yeah seaside and stuff so like getting to go see her was pretty much a vacation. But some of my favorite memories were just like going out into the country with my dad, like west of Fort Worth, where people that know Texas are like, yeah, there's not a whole lot out there until you hit Abilene. Yeah. And throwing huge pieces of wood into like a stock tank so that they would float like battleships. And then sitting there with my brother and my dad and throwing rocks at the sticks until until you can snap them and break them enough that they would sink like that is literally one of my favorite memories as a kid is finding a good stick to go throw in the stock tank and then try and sink it with the rocks and it's like that cost almost negative dollars dude like that cost nothing like you you can create that any sort of way so to your point like i yeah any type of travel dude like i remember we'd have like uh we'd do like a we'd go camping after like a baseball season was over so i remember having fond memories just being in the sleeping bag being in the tent but i'm sitting here like as i'm as i'm thinking through it it's like the parents you just enjoy watching your kids have fun and engaging and playing with your kids because your kids are they're so in the moment that again all they need is some sticks yeah all they need is some rocks Like they don't need much. It's just knowing that you guys are embracing the suck together, figuring out, learning things in real time about each other, getting to the destination. Mom and dad, you're kicking back. You're enjoying whatever you can because it's still work when you travel. Like when we went to Destin last year, like it's constant work when they're at certain ages being young, like under three years old. Yeah. But the moments where you are finally relaxing or you are finally playing or you are just watching your kid play by themselves and the smallest thing entertain them. Like that is like the joy that you have behind going out on any adventure. Yeah. You don't have to go far. And again, I say that it's like I'm sitting here thinking through. It's like, yeah, I'm sure people listen to it. It's like you have the means to do yada, yada, yada. That's true. I'm very blessed that I get to do that. Which is sick, dude. That's nothing. Yeah. That's nothing to be like, oh. Yeah, I'm not ashamed of it. I'm just thinking how it gets to where even it's relatable to people that could be feeling that way. And it's like, dude, it doesn't take much, man. at all. And it will suck loading up the car. Oh, good. Good. You're going to forget to pack a couple things for the kids. Yeah. They're screaming the whole time in the car ride because you're not playing the same song over and over. Good. They're not taking a nap when it's finally nap time. You just want them to relax. Good. Your two-year-old, three-year-old's fighting you on that time. I don't want to sleep. I don't want to sleep. I know you don't want to sleep. I'm just letting you know if you want to close your eyes and let your head back and relax a little bit, you're more than welcome to. I don't want to. That's good. That negotiation, that yelling is good. She keeps on hitting the same drum button on her little cube game and goes, play the drum, play the drum, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play the drums. Good. This is life. This is what it's all about. Good. Keep hitting that annoying sound. Scotty had the little karaoke box out the other night, and Scotty was taking the microphone and just putting it next to the speaker, so it's making that blaring rotten-ass noise, and Rue's laughing. I'm like, hey, Scotty, stop. And she just looks up at me with a shit-eating grin and keeps doing it. Good. This is parenthood. Bro, Scotty's all time. Dude, Scotty is an animal. You're at whatever hotel you're at. They have a pool. Your kid wants to swim all day. It's finally time to relax. They don't want to go and eat dinner. They want to go to the pool. Hey, can we go to the pool after? You finally just say, okay, fine. We go to the pool after, for the love of God. Good. Scotty just getting the microphone and getting microphone feedback and just evil smiles. Bro, she's a menace. That's incredible. She's a menace, bro. She'll go and take Rue so she's like, say, Rue, there's this little game that we have from the Everly boxes. Oh, yeah. Where it looks like Connect Four, but it has a sequence of colors go down the line. So Rue fills them all, right? Yeah. Scotty will come over and grab one Rue will get pissed Scotty no Scotty they'll be sitting there hand fighting Scotty ends up grabbing one and immediately when she grabs one turns around and takes off Ryan Scotty give that back to Rue and Rue will be crumbling a little bit standing by the toy I'm like kind of laughing you just can't let her she knows you want that so she sees that you give her a reaction that's what she wants she thinks you guys are playing Yeah. And Scotty, as I'm telling Rue that when she's about to crumble by the toy, Scotty's standing about five feet away, just standing there looking at Rue, just wanting her to get up to kind of go after Rue. Yeah. I'm like, see if Scotty will give it to you. She's like, Scotty, can you give me that, please? Scotty will hold it out and take three steps. And then once Rue reaches out, she'll drop it down, turn, and run. No. I swear. I swear. I'll get it on film for you. Every, all the time. Y'all, at the zoo, I'm sitting there, and Scotty was, like, kind of in her own world, but she was interacting a ton. Yeah. But she's, like, kind of in her own world like Scarlet is. But she's able to actually see animals, point at animals, and make, you know, that, like. Kee! And, like, look at me, like, look, I see it. Like, you look, too. So she was kind of sitting there and, like, eating her snacks, and you were interacting with Rue, showing them the monkeys, I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, y'all were looking at that. And Scarlett and Scotty are both just kind of in their own little world in their stroller. And I know that Scotty understands. Like, y'all talk to her and tell her things as she does, though. So I'm like, I know she understands. She's great at shaking her head no. Yeah. So I was like, I'm just going to talk to her like an adult. And I was like, hey, Scotty. I was like, this is my daughter, Scarlett. And I was like, you do a really good job of waving at people. I bet that she would like it if you waved at her and Scotty literally turns to me and looks at me like this and just keeps on staring and I go if you want to you don't have to but if you want to wave at Scarlett you can wave at her she'd probably like that and she's still just looking at me like this and she looks over her shoulder at Scarlett and she goes I was like that was incredible. You're right, though. She is, like, in her own world most of the time. She's such a joy to be around. Did you see the training for the A-Gap video? We're at our spot on vacation. No. She's over there going, Oh, sorry. She's headbutting the door. You can see Ru's reflection in the door. I sent you the video last night where she climbs up on her own little slide, that little rainbow, where she, like, she like kick her like pull her heels so that way she can get some traction to go down on this little i mean it doesn't stand very high but she like falls down and kind of falls down sideways hits her head against the wall like falls in between like and like hit her head yeah hits her head you can hear the thud falls like in between the beam back a little bit she just gets up smiling bro gets up smiling and makes like a little like yeah no he's like yeah yeah and i'm like i showed Did I text you back on that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, you did. Because I was like, that was hilarious. But I showed instantly Jill that video. I was like, that's not normal behavior. But, I mean, like, that's, like, pretty fearless, right? Yeah, Scotty is that way. She's way different than Rue. If Rue would have hit her head going down, she would have been crying. Yes. She would have been like, okay, maybe I'm hurt here. I'm kind of embarrassed that I fell down. Yeah. Very much like the first child that thinks about everything. Yeah. but Scotty's got like this reckless abandon about her where she is kind of fearless she is to Jill's point she sees a bunch of toddlers at her job the only reason that I was interested in hearing like her perspective and she was like yeah like that's that's like a high thing that she just was like I'm gonna climb that and then hey guess what I think I'm gonna jump off that too oh didn't stick the landing and just like ate it against the wall ah good good it's like what a stud dude we were in the uh because we're at the kids pool most of the time most of the days and um scotty's in like this one where it's like one foot or it might be six inches eight inches one foot deep and uh you know she'd be walking and she would literally tip or fall over or slip and she'd be sideways like under the water in the water and i'd like go down. I'll be laughing, come over and just kind of pick her up. And she's like, ah. And then get back up and just keep it going, bro. Or I'd like throw a little torpedo, rock it in the water. Shout out JP. JP got rude. Those are electric. And the kids loved them. But they'd be right underwater where Scottie can reach out and grab, but sometimes she'd miss and just go head first down in the water. And she's like, you know, reaching to get up. I'd be like, oh, snap. After the first couple times, she realized, like, man, she doesn't care. She's not even fazed. Like, bro, you're drowning. That's going to be, I mean, that's literally like, let's say she's playing soccer, volleyball or whatever. Like in high school, she's going to like eat it. Like she's going to get like hurt. And she's literally just going to be like, and just keep going. So bad-ass. And not even think about anything else. Anything. Yeah. That didn't hurt. That didn't hurt. Um, God, dude. Hey, by the way, flying back was hell. The worst part about, So I feel like vacation, too, is when you're leaving vacation, you don't want to leave. And you travel back. We took a red-eye back. So we left local time in Hawaii. 6.30 was the flight. And then we flew seven hours to Dallas. Kids slept. Kids did a great job sleeping. Mom and Dad, we got zero sleep. For whatever reason, I just can't get comfortable on the plane. Yeah. Zero, bro. So when we got back, operated after a red-eye, good. Yeah, good. Operated on fumes. Mr. Charles' parents were over at the house. They helped for a little bit. But transitioning off of jet lag, that's probably the hardest part. Yeah. Coming back. Because going there, it's not that bad. They still fall asleep. They're exhausted. So they're tired. You might have a couple meltdowns right before bedtime. But overall, they go to sleep fairly quick. And then they're waking up early. You're waking up early, like 4 or 5 in the morning. Yeah. Because it's a four-hour time difference. You get those hours back. But traveling back is a nightmare. It is. And it hit us on Saturday. Charles leaves Saturday. I got to wake up. This is my dad loss. I got to wake up because I'm handling everything for the weekend activities. Rue had ballet Saturday morning. Rue wanted to go. Her and mom had me up in Rue's room the night before prepping me on ballet. Like, I know the outfit, but it's like she wants a ballet bun. She gets a ballet bun every weekend because mom was a phenomenal ballet dancer growing up. So mom always has her prepped and ready to go to the pristine amount. Like, perfect little ballet bun. Charles is showing me the bobby pins will be way too hard for you you can twist it or wrap it around and you put another hair tie in and Rue's kind of trying to coach me through it too and I'm like I got you Rue, I got you, we'll get you right I'm watching YouTube videos that night before like I watched episode 1 and 2 of Night of the Seven Kingdoms then I'm watching a YouTube video on how to do like a ballet just watch the tape just watch the tape prepare to fail dude, I don't set an alarm the next morning because usually the kids are up around 6.30, 7 all the time. Yeah. And I wake up in a panic because I think the monitor dies because I can't hear Scotty. And I kind of woke up on my own at 8.30. After mom comes down and leaves, puts her in the bed, she's got to get mom's shirt, sweatshirt. Yeah. We got to talk about what things we love about mom, what we're going to miss about mom, what we're going to do while mom's gone. And then we finally get back to sleep around like 6.15 in the morning. And I wake up at 8.30, bro, in a panic. Like, you know the feeling when you're just like, oh, shit, something happened here. And I'm on the wall. I'm on watch. Ruth still passed out my bed. I'm like, okay, she's good. I see that's 830. I'm like, oh, shit, ballet's at 9. We're not going to make ballet. I text my wife. I just text, hey, so I just woke up, and we're not going to make ballet. And my wife's like, don't you feel like you can just get the kids up and get them ready to go? Scotty can go in her pajamas, like basically make it happen. Yeah, it's probably not going to happen. but I see because I think the monitor might have died because Scotty's usually up crying something because she went down at normal time the night before Scotty was face down she slept till about 9.15 he was getting those hours back yeah Hawaii caught up to us but Rue was bummed that we couldn't do ballet because we go upstairs I'm like let's get dressed like we're going to go to the zoo with Uncle Sherm and Scarlett she's like but what about ballet I was like oh sweetheart I told you we overslept you overslept you didn't wake that up real and uh wait what are you doing we overslept that dad did a poor job getting up I couldn't get everybody going like we missed ballet we can't do ballet today yeah but I want to do the ballet bun I want to do ballet and I'm like oh shit and you start feeling that something could be coming on if you don't figure out ballet so I'm like how about this how about we get you ready for ballet yeah and I'll throw on a ballet class downstairs on the TV and you can do a ballet class she's like I wear the dress or the What do they call them in ballet? Tutu? Leotard. Leotard. I can wear my leotard. I'm like, yeah, let's do the whole get up. I'll put you in a ballet bun. So I'm doing the ballet bun, brushing her out. It takes me like three or four tries to get the ponytail in the right spot. I'm twisting around. That failed a couple times. I'm like, then I finally just get it good. Failing over and over. You're up there sweating a little bit, trying to do your daughter's hair good. Yeah. And I get that sorted out. We go downstairs, and I turn on ballet, this 20-minute ballet class. I kind of move the living room to where she has space. She locks in and knocks it out, focused the whole time, doing everything the person on TV is doing. So she ripped an entire ballet class on her own. I was so fired up and gassed that we figured that out, turned the dad loss into a dad win, parlayed into a zoo visit, get Scotty up and going. She's eating, having a good time watching Rue do ballet. And I'm telling you, dude, I know for a fact that Rue loved it because she told me about it at the zoo. Oh, doing ballet on TV? Told me about it at the zoo. She asked what Scarlett's leggings were. And I said, those are leggings. I said, ballerinas, do they wear leggings? And she was like, they used to, but I wear socks. I don't wear leggings. I was like, that's right. And the only reason I knew that that was called a leotard is because I blanked at the zoo of what that was called. And I said, wait, what's the pink thing called? and she kind of looked at me and I was like, I really have forgot. Like, what is that pink thing that the ballerinas wear? And she goes, my leotard? I go, that is it. Good job, Rue. I was like, that is a hard word to say. Splash. She nailed it. Yeah, she was fired up. She was pumped. We did that. She was pumped, dude. She was pumped. She was bragging a little bit about it. That's awesome to hear. Just a warning to you both. We're getting close to an hour. Getting close to an hour. Close to an hour. So if we want to hit some hubby wifey shout outs and get the voicemail. Yes. Oh, man. We're just going. We're getting close to an hour. I hope 56 does not mind. We apologize. We do apologize. I hope you've enjoyed the stories. I have a nice little dad hack. Yeah, you guys, there's some dad hacks. There's some different stuff. Feel free to rip through some of the comments if you want, and then we can get over. We have two voicemails today. Let's go. So I have a nice little dad hack because I have a dad hack of my own that I'll parlay after this. It's a very short one. But our dad hack comes from Will Shearer. Will says, hey, Will and Sherm and boys in the back, this is Will Shearer from Plumas Lake, California. For the dads is my new favorite podcast. My wife is amazing and just gave birth to a toddler weighing 10 pounds, 5 ounces. Yo, so much. That's a juggernaut. God bless me. Yeah, for anybody that has like 10 pounds, 5 ounces, yo. So much for the all newborn clothes in the closet. Yeah, truly. His name is William Shear IV. Yeah. He will go by Liam. Got a dad hack for PT6. When changing a newborn's diaper, their hands try to help. That's very true. When the onesie is unzipped from the bottom, pull it up to get it out of the way and tuck their arms in the onesie to keep them secure. I've never heard this one. That's actually, that's a great hack. The pod encourages me to stay locked in and present. Keep it up, boys. I got a dad hack, right? Clear your throat. By the way, William Shearer, the fourth, going to go by Liam. If, if, if I get a boy someday, My wife and I are fortunate enough to have a boy one day, William IV, because I'm William Earl III. And in my brain, he's going to go by Liam. So shout out William Shear. William Shear. William Shear IV. Shout out William Shear. Shout out Liam, dude. Just being a torpedo. Liam's a great name. I think that's cool. Dad hack right here from Jordan on Spotify. Chase on. Jordan Chase on. Come on. Dad tip. If you can't remember the month, the months, 16, 18, 23, just say when their birthday was. Example, they turn two in August or they will be three in February. Nice hack. I get stuck doing the math. That's why it's Jordan Chazon, not Jordan Chazon. Yeah. Right there. He's logged in. I got Ryan McCollin on X just trying to get that fast pass to the shockwave. So this was sent in to our For the Dads. This was DM to us, I believe. this was the message that he wrote on a little breakfast sandwich that he got for the wifey and a little vanilla latte right there. And he wrote, to the world, you are just a mom. But remember, to Brooks, you are his whole world. Happy Friday and I love you. Hey, that is phenomenal. Yo, Ryan. I bet that shockwave hit. Yeah. I got to get that in the bag immediately. Yeah. And, dude, I have a little dad hack very quickly. It's called a hook-on high chair. You can get them on Amazon for, like, starting at $30. It's a high chair that is portable that you can take to any restaurant, and it slips onto the table, and you can tighten it, and it will hook onto any table, dude. It's the best. I'm telling you guys, hook-on high chair. Look into it. There's some very affordable options on Amazon, and it just gives the waiters and servers so much more room at restaurants, dude. You can have it in the booth with you. Sick. Great dad hack. I got one here from Tommy Bennett on Spotify. Dad hack, create a playlist for baby with your favorite slow songs. I included our first dance, what we walk down the aisle to, and other special songs for me and wifey. Play for baby when you're rocking them in the early days and they will associate those songs with peace and calm now at eight months. It has become our bedtime playlist a car meltdown playlist. Can wait for baby girl to watch our wedding video down the road and recognize these songs That is heartwarming right there That a dad hack That a wholesome dad hack We want to get to Collins, voicemails. Do you want to do hubby and wifey? Shout outs. Oh, hubby, wifey. We got just three of those and then let's get into some voicemails. Hubby shout out. I got it right here. It's hide behind me. Hide behind the old iPad. Hubby shout out from Rebecca Driver on Facebook. Not a dad, obviously, but I wanted to give a shout out to my husband. He had a stroke in August, which has taken his mobility and his speech for now, and he still shows up for the kids. He was dancing in a hair salon today with a three-year-old. He just lights up when our kids enter the room. He still tries to play catch. He still wants to tell them goodnight. His first real word after a stroke was our son's nickname. He's just so determined to let our sons know how much he still loves them, even if he can't speak. It's a great shout-out, Rebecca. We're all pulling for you. Um, did she give a shout out his name? We're all pulling for the hubby, man. She sent a really nice video. She had recorded him dancing in his chair with the kid that was dancing across the salon. And I mean, what a joke. So we got to run that video while that. A hundred percent. Dude, Rebecca's a good one, dude. Yeah. That hubby's a good one, too. Yeah. No doubt. Hubby shout out. This one comes from Allie Seals. Allie Seals Richard. on Instagram. Good morning. My husband is a big BT sixer. He tells all his fellow dad friends or soon to be dad friends about y'all's podcast. He has even made me listen on long drives. He also listens to y'all when he's kindly doing the dishes each night. Shout out. Shout out, hubby. His golden birthday is coming up. It's February 28th. So he's turning 28 on the 28th. And I would love if y'all could read my thank you on your nearest episode to his birthday. Well done, Derek. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. He also won't let me get a gift for him. So this would be the ultimate gift for his birthday. We recently moved from Houston to my hometown, Louisiana, which has been an adjustment with our 15-month-old baby boy. Zach goes above and beyond to be a great dad and husband to us, whether it's a small things like doing the dishes when I cook or the big things like planning for our future. He's the ultimate superhero, dad, and husband. I feel so lucky to have him as a husband and dad to our baby. Thankful for y'all as well and hope this makes it on the show. Well, Zach, I mean, happy birthday. Zach, happy birthday. Sounds like you truly don't need a gift on your birthday because you got a Miss Allie Seals Richards at home. That's all. Hey, you can use your good thoughts on his birthday. You know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Maybe a little extracurriculars before the shockwave. Maybe no shockwave. Hey, it is my golden birthday. It is my golden birthday, sweetheart. Hey, put a bow on it. just put a little bow on it yeah something done rap we don't have day Ali's a great gal great wise Ali's a great gal if we could give from Papa Team 6 or the dads to Zach he's got verbally two fun coupons from the boys he does it's a shockwave pass and a bow pass okay that could be submitted at the same time both coupons but he does reserve the right that he could spread those out the bow pastor says put a bow on it yeah it does happy birthday Zach thank you for writing in Ali every mom at home now is like it's not right cannot give him a birthday Oh, so many husbands on the flip side of that. Hey, babe. They're just going to write in on behalf of their wives. Hey, honey, what's your email password again? I'm not going to say my name, but this is wife to Will. Wife of Will. This is Will's wife. He doesn't got his shit around the house. He's a good guy. wish him happy birthday and do what you did for that Zach guy. Yeah. Do a week, week. He's been feeling really drained because he does everything around that house. And I'm just wondering if you guys have any advice on what I can do for him to relieve him of some stress. He's just writing in. Sincerely, Zach, sincerely, the wife. Yeah. Yeah, the wife. Oh, my God. We have fun on this show. We do. do we want to move on? I have one more. I know we're pressed on time. Let's hit the voicemail. I'm seeing email. I have an email. Yeah, I have an email too. What time are we at? We are at 1.43. We got to go. We're over an hour. Yeah, we got to go. Yeah, we're just a little bit over. All right, this first voicemail comes from Jonah and is titled Ruined Whole Weekend. hey this is Jonah I missed freaking trash day dude and it ruined my whole weekend that's all hey this is Jonah I missed freaking trash day dude and it ruined my whole weekend that's all no Jonah Jonah, it happens to me too long. You can't blame him, dude. You can't blame him for letting it affect him, you know? No. Listen, mom can come after you. Everybody else can remind you that you missed Trash Day. But there is no harder critic than your own self. Than Jonah. Than Jonah. That's why I'm not worried at all. Because he's like, I got to call the boys. I got to call the boys. This is absurd. He doesn't even need advice. He doesn't need a pep talk. He's already ready for the next one. Yeah, he does not need us. He realizes nobody's coming to save his ass. That's an accountability phone call. Can you believe that? I respect it. Yeah, I respect that. Shout out Jonah for the call. This one goes for Mason. Saturday, contractions. Boys, a week ago Thursday, I was out walking the dog. doing the same thing again, listening to the pod, and my wife went into contractions. Good. Well, it's a new Thursday, six days later, still listening to the pod, but I'm a special member of a PT6 with little baby boy, Baker, who was born on Friday the 13th. You know that man's going to be an A-Gap demon. Born on Friday the 13th, so you know that boy's going to be an A-Gap demon. Baker. Just want to call and say thank you guys so much. Super pumped to hear about all the book recommendations. Mama's doing great. This is Mason from Michigan. PT6 out. Mason from Michigan. Let's go. Shout out you and Mom. Shout out Baker. A little Friday the 13th, baby. That's sick. I hope Mason's doing all right. Audrey, remember how Audrey left because she wanted to be a mom? Oh, Audrey. Yeah, Audrey. Audrey was our nanny. She wanted to be a mom and do that thing. So she had to leave the family. She just had hers as well. First text in the group chat, see that their baby comes, immediately texts the father. I immediately text her, hey, how's dad doing? You know what I mean? Yeah. Because dad's need to be checked out. Congrats. Yeah. Congrats. Hope you're well. How's dad? How's dad? How's he doing? Is he well-rested? Has he been well-fed? Did they spoil him, put him in a Chair Force One? Yeah, how's his neck and back doing, being on the couch? Yeah, yeah. How's Dad? Wait, what'd she say? She laughed. Like, oh, he's doing just fine. Like you were joking? Yeah. You just got to laugh. Then I text him on the side, hey, how you doing? Be real with me. How are you? You don't want to start anything with Audrey, so you just laugh, too. Yeah, yeah. I know mom and baby's great. How are you? because nobody's going to ask you how you're doing but PT6 got your back dude congrats to them massive shout out massive shout out to Aji massive shout out to Mason you're in the gutter now he's PT6 sleepless nights your life is over brother and a new one has just begun maybe mom's doing the feedings every time doing the breastfeeding you gotta be the one to wake up with her I want you to wake up with them Oh, will you wake up with me? Because I don't know if I can do it if you're not awake with me. If I'm doing that. Am I doing it right? Do you think this is what the milk person said when we were doing this? Honey, you're doing great. You're doing a good job. That's it, right? Just got our moms, bro. God, we're so lame. Just like that, honey. That's a good job. I got to be up with her. If you promise to go fast, the third one I would like for you guys to just hear. You don't have to react to it, but there is a third email that's really nice that I was looking through. Which one? If you promise to go fast. I will go fast. On third voicemail? Okay. Promise. Promise. Hey, boys. 26-year-old female here who watched the pod. Big fan. Listening to the episode where Taylor announces his new baby on the way. Congrats, Taylor. Congrats. and at 147, 48, you read your lesson of the week about how you never know when your kid greets you at the door for the last time. I just want to say, even as a 26-year-old, I don't live with my parents anymore. I live states away from them. But every time that I'm home, once my dad comes through the door, I still go up and greet him. So it's still in your future. It doesn't go away if you raise the right kind of kids. so yeah I love my dad I always will have a great day sweet sweet victory dude that felt so good I'm glad you made us listen to that yeah I am too that felt so good to hear dude she remained anonymous so to anonymous's dad shout out shout out you're a good one dude shout out moms again shout out moms again I know we sit here and act a fool and act obnoxious but moms are great we know who the real ones are we will say we know who the real ones are at all times we're just joking we love to bust balls and have fun we do we're joking Courtney Strong wrote an email Courtney Strong Will and Sherm advice needed I'm a 29 year old single woman looking to find my PT sicko Your show gets me in the feels on every show, hearing the love and grace you have for your wife and kids and all the PT sickos that share their time in the trenches or their crack of cold ones. I get to live my dream vicariously through all of you killer PT sixers. I was blessed with meeting a Superman of a single dad and imagine being his daughter's step in T six in the future. It didn't work out, and that took all the wind out of my sails for that new chapter I desired. As a youngest child of four, by over a decade and eight nieces and nephews, there's an unspoken pressure to find my PT sicko before the unthinkable happens to either of my parents. I'm a hardworking, self-sufficient, loyal, financially stable, and very laid-back, go-with-the-flow type of girly. I was blessed to purchase my own home last August. My nine-year-old golden doodle dog is the center of my world as he is all I got for the day today. In parentheses, I have a wonderfully close and supportive family. And as he gets older, the fear sets in. I'll be alone. Advice needed. Where should I be looking to find a good quality man that will be a great PT sicko? I hesitate to go on dating apps and don't go out to bars as often. All my friends are either in long-term ships or getting married. This is a Midwestern Michigan girlie that needs help from the real ones. Blessed for you boys. Courtney Strong. Courtney sounds like a catch. Courtney sounds like a catch, dude. Do we need to have our own dating app? there's got to be an st6 out there that just heard all that it's like you're a little curious wait she has her own house she's got a cute dog she's financially stable and she's like go with the blow girl send your submissions to our email and we'll maybe forward them along maybe we'll forward it to courtney who knows send your picture and what you do pt6 for a living and like why you could be her pt sicko or whatever maybe we'll make love here or if you're st6er that wants to be a future PT Sixer, you know? Yeah. What advice would you give? I feel like it's hard, obviously. What's up? You got advice? From our team and team Sixer. All right, advice from Chef, our team and team Sixer. What was your name again? Courtney. Courtney. Courtney, I'm very serious when I say that. Go find the guy that, if you're from Michigan, when the Maize and Blue are on, he's screaming at the TV. Now that sounds crazy Off the bat But let me tell you there's no one more loyal Than a man who screams At the TV During a game while his favorite college football team Is playing I will stand by that to the day I die You get a guy who is like I don't care No it doesn't matter Losing is not an option That's a guy that's going to stick with you Through thick and thin Especially if he comes from I'm wearing a Nebraska shirt find any Cornhuskers. Those are loyal people. Any Big Ten team, a lot of SEC squads out there. Those are the winners right there. And then you just got to put up with the fact they scream at the TV, but that's okay. So a fan of college football, a sicko fan of college football. Or good NFL franchise. Or good NFL franchise. The team that they love. Maybe Courtney's not a sports girl. I would say this to Courtney as far as where I found the most success dating slash how I met Jill because I was set up on a blind date is the you were set up on a blind date too Derek you were too I would say friends that you are very close with that know you know what you love and love you and want to see the best for you want to see you succeed finding people that are like-minded to that friend group that you really resonate with and being set up, I think is a great way to meet somebody that would be awesome. Yeah, I think that's great advice. Yeah, I just couldn't. I'm not a guru. I'm not a guru. I didn't have a lot of game either. I can only imagine what the dating world's like now. Because a lot of it is, unfortunately, on the apps and everything else. I would say dip your toe in it. You probably don't want to pour a lot of energy into it because you seem like a real one. and you don't want to mess around with the nonsense or the bullshit, but maybe there's a gentleman or a potential PT sicko on the apps, and you guys just both haven't found each other yet. Yeah, nothing against the apps. Nothing against the apps at all. But, you know, obviously it's like dudes ain't shit. So a lot of times you're on there, guys are trying to get car washed, have a little bit of fun, keep it surface level, maybe go on a date, and that date they want something to happen that night or that action, like you know who you are, you know what you're worth. And so if you're interested in getting to the dating scene, it's just I feel for when she's like, I don't I don't hit the bars at all. It probably seems like a hassle doing that. I get it. But if that's what you're a plane, he called me. I love that so much. Hey, because, Bo, you got to you got a baby. Good Lord, that actually I kind of want you to. Yeah, but if a priority in your life is finding a man, I would say you approach it like anything else, like no, you know, no stone left unturned, like trying to figure out what the vibes are. You're going to hate some of them, but it's worth trying. Yeah. But, oh, Courtney, find somebody. She seems like a good one. Somebody who's bought their own house, has their own shit together, laid back vibes. Bro, she sounds like a chiller. and yeah 29 is nothing I found mine at 31 loads of time left 29 you got loads of time I got married at 30 Courtney I got married at 30 Rue is what 3 how old am I you're 4 years I'm 36 Rue is 3 so yeah I got married at 32 I got married at 32 you got plenty of time I know those fears are real But you don't want the fears to be so real that you're forcing the issue. And you settle. Yeah. So continue to pour into things that give you energy. Yeah. And the things that don't do away with them, I'm telling you, at some point, you're going to find your person. And if you find your person through things that bring you life and bring you joy and happiness, I would say nine times out of ten, that's going to be a winner. Yeah. Whether that's hobbies, friends, family, whatever. That's a good question. It's kind of a tough question. It's a tough question. Especially without knowing Courtney and knowing more context and everything else. And respect to her for trust in us. Yeah. With that. Yeah. I have an email here from Hector Santa Maria. What's up, boys? Hector here from Washington State. I'm here watching the Valentine's episode with my five-day-old on my chest. Good. Good. Wifey next to me getting the very much-needed sleep. I had called in earlier this week saying I was in the hospital with Wifey while she was getting induced. Let's just say this week has been a very traumatic one. from sitting with my wife in the labor room to getting rushed out due to needing an ASAP emergency c-section and my wife going into full anesthesia. Our baby girl's heart was dropping low. Not knowing how my girls were doing, all I could do was cry. I hated the helpless feeling or the unknown of what could happen. Thankfully, our little fighter pulled through. Come on. Hearing or watching you guys every week has made me feel ready to be in the trenches and raise our first girl. Keep up the hard work, boys. you guys are doing the Lord's workout here Rue, Scotty, and Scarlett will be so proud of their dads P.S. Can Andy record himself reading the book so we can play them for bedtime? Shout out Shout out Andy That's your stick right there We have tearjerkers I do have a stat alert one so while I'm just feeling the vibe let's just dive in By the way Hector, shout out to you man There's nothing, you know, your little five-day-old laying on your chest while mom gets you much-needed sleep. It's been a grind with the kiddos at times, doing the solo dad parenting with mom out of town. But it's a grind that's worth it. It's like the diaper pelt, you know, fills up, and you're sitting there pushing on it, and you're like, all right, I got to take out the goddamn trash. I got to take out this diaper pelt smelling up the place. You got to do all these things. Rue has been, we do sleepovers with mom out of town. or if I'm out of town, Rue will do a sleepover with mom. First, she sleeps in her bed, so she's been ripping with me for like four nights in a row. And it's some of the best times of my life, dude, of my life. Like last night I crawled in bed around 1030, and Rue just rolls over and like lays on my shoulder, and I'm just smiling, like kissing her on top of the head, and just be like, man, this is, it's going to fly by. It is flying by, and it is incredible because some nights, and I forgot to tell this, This is actually a fun little update because a while back I talked about how I hadn't read the book that my mom filled out and wrote in for me. Cracked it open over these last few nights. No, you didn't. I did because Ru was missing mom so much that I was trying to find ways to calm her down. And I'm like, I know, sweetheart, that I miss his mama too. And I'm like, you know, I miss my mama. And kind of telling her about my mom and talking about what happened. Oh, my mom passed away. how did she show your mom died? I was like, yeah, my mama died. And she's like, how? And I'm kind of taking her through it. And I was like, mama, my mom wrote me a little book over here. And I'm like, I miss, hey, look, I miss my mama too. I miss my mama every day. Your mama's going to be back in a couple of days. And that is amazing that mama's going to get to come home and you're going to be so happy when mama comes home because I miss your mama. I miss mama too. And I empathize with you because I miss my mama. And there are things like you have your sweatshirt right here. You have things to remember by, because again, she's going to come back. And I have a couple of things that I get to remember with my mama too. You know, I've shown her a couple of photos, the wedding photos and telling her how excited she was to meet you. And we're connecting over all this stuff just because of missing mom. And so I pull out the book because we do bedtime stories and it felt like just the stars aligned to pull out the old book. And I'm like, you know what? Like, I'm going to read this book. And she's just filling out a bunch of things where it's like memories and asking questions and my mom growing up and when I was first born and what she, God, I hate crying, what she envisioned for me and all these things. And we're just sitting here going through and I'm just reading to her and she'll see tears coming out of my eyes. I said, why you said I'm like, I miss mine. you know what? I miss mom too. So we can lay here together. We can cry together. Like it's, you know, mama's going to come back. It's going to be awesome. Mama loves you so much. And it makes dad feel good to talk about my mom to you. Yeah. Because sadly, it's like you'll never get to meet her. But so your boy read the book. And honestly, when I got done, the next night, she wanted to read that book. She's sitting on the bed. I have a photo. She's on the bed flipping through the book. I take a picture and send it to Charo. So I'm telling her, I'm like, hey, I read the stuff my mom filled out and wrote for me. And it's been awesome. It felt like that was like the perfect moment to bring it out and do it. Because she was just struggling with mom out of town. Because you do FaceTime and mom's at dinner and it's just, you know, it's just brutal. it's just brutal how much you like it's sad and misses mom and then these last few nights i've just been we read different parts of the book i'll be like oh here's a question i was asked to mom here's what here's what you said you pick are those pictures are those your brothers are those your family and as you know it's just drawings and illustrations of of other people in the book and uh but yeah dude each night i've gotten like crack open that book and read just a different different portion i've read through it all it's not like the longest thing in the world but uh it's been a joy like it's been fun and we get to connect over it just because of just the fact of like missing mom so i'm trying to tell her i'm just like sweetheart you know i'm thinking hey i miss my mom too that m is his mama too your mama where's your mama back was it uh was the lady that grandpa was with i'm like no that wasn't that's not mama you didn't get to meet mama and we just get to go through i'm like that's your grandma you know the pictures we see i'm like that's grandma she wrote in this book that's her handwriting but so an update i did read the book i love you very much and i'm very proud of you i'm very happy for you thank you brother that makes me very happy yeah it was good man it's when even when i got done and i'm like you know sitting there laying through and everything else i was like uh i was like damn it felt like this was the moment like it all this was this was how it was supposed to go down so i tell myself anyway but uh that was the right moment yeah so let's dive into this good lord dude i know grant overholster on facebook stat alert love the content here's my story i'll keep it brief my daughters and I lost their mom in 2017. I was stationed in New York and they lived in Arkansas. The military kept us apart. I moved to Arkansas the same day she passed. Guys, what a shock. I took lessons on how to do hair, how to cook, and how to raise girls, and I'm still learning. when I moved to Arkansas, the crew I flew with and the Marines in New York all died in a plane crash five months later. Not only did I have to navigate being a single dad, but I had to figure out, figure my shit out mentally. If their mom hadn't passed away, I would have been Damn man He would have been on that plane Yankee 72 was the crew Here I am Nine years later My daughters are crushing it I'm crushing it And my wife adopted our daughters And we have a son now thanks for being great dudes and thanks for being a great outlet to escape Grant hats off to you brother I can't you can't imagine going through something like that thank you for considering us as great dudes yeah because they hear that from somebody that's been through all that it's a pleasure to have you listen to our show and find joy from it it's a pleasure man and it's like now i sit here i'm like we talk about put a bump on it in shock ways we obviously talk about awesome you know great stuff that we love and grant bro we dude we love you that is um it's just another perspective it's just another story that reminds you that whatever you're going through there there are things out there that people have went through that just that just shock you and then make you think dude how lucky are we yeah and even Grant I'm sure there's other perspectives that he finds he's like man still how lucky am I you know that sucks that's brutal but knowing nine years later he found a wife who adopted his girls who he grinded to help raise and I'm sure he was super protective along the way like letting anybody else come into that world Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, you know how hard that would be? Just thinking if I was in that situation, how, like, guarded you'd be for anybody to kind of come into your house or help raise your girls with you or have other opinions or things that kind of might hit insecurities of yours or triggers or things where you're like, no, I need to protect my daughters with anybody that I bring in my house. Yeah. And to find somebody to have a family with, to feel like, hey, yes, it would be an honor for you to adopt my daughters. And then have a son. That's hard, man. Finding your way with all that going down. Imagine your wife passing away and you're off in the military. but the added guilt too of like the only reason that he's still here and kicking in his mind is his wife passing as well yeah that added layer is like that has a lot to work through mentally yeah that's crazy on the mental side of being with your unit being with your team a team that it's all sacrifice it's all i'm responsible for the group not myself and the guilt that you probably carry like i should i should be i should have been on that plane and also like no God was telling me something because I shouldn't have been because if I was on that plane and both of them were lost yeah like I don't know what happened I don't know what happened with his wife but if he goes down on that plane because mom's still alive and then whatever happened to mom happened after that and then baby boy's not even in the picture yeah man golly what was the writing Grant overholster. On Facebook, I crept a very heavy happy birthday, Grant. It was February 2nd. So happy birthday to Grant. Happy birthday, Grant. And Grant, if you've listened to this episode, you get two fun coupons. Gotta break up the sadness with laughing, man. Do you want me to put a bow on it with a little Dan Gable? Yeah, please give us a Dan Gable quote. The PT6, so that we've been We've been laughing. We've been trying to chime in with opinions, trying to find the next BT6 for Courtney, like feeling all this crying and being sad. Like, what are we talking about moments? Yeah. We need a Dan Gable quote. Circumcision. Dude, in the book, it was, my mom wrote, it was something about when I was born, the first thing my dad said, and it was he was asked to cut the cord. or asked, hey, do you want to cut the cord? And his first response that my mom has written in there is, do you have somebody more qualified? Did he end up doing it? I believe so. Billy boy. Billy, what a legend. You got somebody more qualified? That's the Duke of Montana right there. I can see him laughing at me in that joke. I'll cut the cord. Go right here. Give me that shit. What do I do? This comes from a young Dan Gable back in the 1970s. This comes from a very rare source of material of him talking to a wrestling camp of kiddos in the 70s. And I quote, everything my high school coach told me was exactly right. back then when I listened to him and he told me, you do this, you do that, you'll be a better person and all this and all that. I just thought it was a bunch of garbage. But everything he said was right. If I would have done what he said, I'd be a lot better off today than I am right now. You don't really learn from the clinics and wrestling by yourself. You learn from watching. I don't care how good the guy is or how bad the guy is in wrestling. I can learn things from watching you guys wrestle. Almost every one of you probably has a certain thing you do differently or a favorite hold. If I can pick that up, that's just going to add a little bit more to my wrestling knowledge, and it's going to help me a lot. 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