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

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Speaker 1: Now join other communities. Man, this this this army, this military is something special. It really is. We're gonna be talking about. I was on family family vacation out on Hawaii last week. Sherman and I were both solo parenting over the weekends. We'll get into the solo parenting stories. Sherman has a great lesson of the week for us, he tells me. We'll dive into how he even got sick.

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Speaker 2: How did I even get hurt, not injured? How scarlet it she under the weather, sick.

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Speaker 1: As a dog.

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Speaker 2: But no, you wouldn't be able to tell I'm serious, her attitude, her all outlook on life as a seventh or seven going on eight month old, she just ribs, dude, you.

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Speaker 1: Know what that comes from her parents. I helped her dad, Hey, will you will you come over here? And daddy for real? For real, brother, I actually really needed to hear that. Yeah, like that actually.

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Speaker 2: Wore my heart.

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Speaker 1: With their daddy, man, she with their daddy. You prepped her for moments like this. Hey, you let her know the world's tough out there. Bro. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Yeah. But it's not how hard you hit. Yeah, it's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. God. Sorry, PT sixers, We're.

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Speaker 2: 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 Charlie reminds me that she goes out of town. This was this past Saturday. She reminds me, Oh, remember I'm going to New York on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Just gave her that, Look what.

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Speaker 2: Wait after after we just went on vacation.

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Speaker 1: We just went on vacation. She's not doing a work trip on Saturday. Oh good, it's okay. I'll get back Monday morning. My first question, you're not taking the kids from me, are you? You can't. Don't 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 uh, Sunday rolls around, massive blizzard or a snowstorm hits New York City. Right yeah, flight gets canceled from Monday. She now has to rebook Tuesday, which that just means more solo time with you in the kiddos. That means one word, good, good, good, can't wait. I've been I've been sailing this shit the whole time. Don't even worry. Stay out there, you know, and take another vacation, fly back down to Hawaii while you're at it.

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Speaker 2: You offered that, I offered it.

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Speaker 1: 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 till tomorrow. My immediate response right when she text me, I just put a good deal, a great deal of it. Love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so she's not getting until tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So she's an empty sixer. She ain't she she she knows the game for every parent, every parent that's out there listening right now. There's a sadness that consumes your child when parents are out of town, more so mom than dad.

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Speaker 2: Rue does get sad when dad leaves. We talked about it.

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Speaker 1: When I was in San Francis, San Francisco a couple of 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 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 said, takes her downstairs, sleep the rest of the night with or sleep the rest of the morning with dad. Dad. But 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 got your parents. You guys know the game. Whenever the flight got canceled on Monday and got pushed to Tuesday, when CHARLEI we were on FaceTime and she's in Rue was like, Mama, one more sleep, one more sleep. And I could see Charles's face start to lean into it's actually gonna 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, 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 real around to Hey, it's actually gonna be Mama's flight got canceled. She's not gonna be here for two more nights. Then eventually I'm like, oh, look at all the snow, Mom showing her the snow. I'm like, looking at all the snow. And then we get off the phone and I'm talking to Rue.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, uh, like, sweetheart, do you see all that snow? Man?

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Speaker 1: I hope Mama and its flight doesn't get canceled, And She's liked, my Mama's flight gets canceled. I like, because it's dangerous out there, sweet o, there's a bunch of snow on the ground. If there's too much snow, we don't want Mama traveling. We don't want Mama risks, she could get hurt. We might not be able to see her for a while. And I was like, so if it snows or the flights get canceled. We kin, that's what we want because we want Mama to stay safe so she can come home. The only thing that's the worst part is she'll only will only have one more sleep to go to, so it'll be two more sleeps. It'll be two more But if that that even happens, right now, she's going to be home tomorrow, knowing the fly was already canceled, she already moved into right now. Mama's going to be home tomorrow. Yeah, but if worst comes the worst and there's too much snow in the flight, the pilot says, we can't fly. That's what we want that because we want Mama 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. So planes get bombarded and Mom's gonna be going on extra sleep because dude, they love mom like Mom is.

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Speaker 2: Mom is the rock. Mom is the center of the universe.

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Speaker 1: Trio when we'll get into the zoo thing. But just so for to hear.

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Speaker 2: If she's still on New York listening to them, Oh she's listening right now.

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Speaker 1: There's no question.

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Speaker 2: Really, that's all really wanted to talk to me about, was mama. Oh yeah, how many sleeps until you know mama gets back? This is mama's sweater. Do you think Scarlett would like my mama's sweater? Absolutely? Yeah, show her the sweater because she's gonna love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So that's good to hear too. From Charro's sideev yeah, it's it's been smooth for the most part. It's been smooth for the most part. But yeah, well we'll get to dive in. Because you were a solo parent as well. Over the weekend, I was a solo parent.

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Speaker 1: You knocked out the greatest dad game that any father out there could listen to. Yeah, and that was what a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, you flew the friends in town. You told her mom your mom was coming to town. Turns out her friends are there at the airport. You're gonna have what was it four days? Yeah, four days with your friends. They brought their kiddos. It's just mom and the kiddos. You are a.

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Speaker 2: Champion Majong 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 got to figure this out because not only is this a massive win for everybody involved, but sum is low key that school boards ticket, it's rising, it was putting up points.

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Speaker 1: 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 was coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oregon chip Kelly, Oregon organ 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 him you're gonna pass. People are saying, what's an RPO? What even is that run pass option? You can do that in one play.

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Speaker 2: It's here's the deal with when the end pulls, all right, we hit him with majong if they sit hit him with the wine night, amen, brother, hit him with the wine night. Either way, we're getting eight ten yards. But yeah, I mean you would think, you right, you would think to preface that now is Hubby's time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think, now, Papa, you would think maybe a little golf trip. Maybe a little golf trip. What would you get hit with?

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Speaker 2: Honey, don't forget, I got that Bachelor red party. Hey, honey, don't for don't forget. I got that Bachelor ad party coming up. I don't think I can take a scarlett to that. So I'm really devastated. So maybe you know you And I was elated because I'm like, oh.

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Speaker 1: Don't take the kid. Yeah, don't take the leave me so old games all week, don't do that. Don't do that. Cold fran hits Nashville. It's really cold.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it was really beautiful outside and good, you know 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 got I get hit.

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Speaker 1: Let your heart, let your hand down, have a little fun, and hey, hey, I love you to death. We're joking. Oh yeah, we're joking. We're having we're having some And you looked beautiful, beautiful with your nice son. Pay from the beach, little party boat. Oh and hey, she deserves it.

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Speaker 2: And here's the actual dad act in the midst of all this. Good just just celebrating it because I was stoked and I'm you know, she's sending me funny videos and stuff. I'm stoked. I'm having a time. But I tried not to pepper it too much. I know some partners are different, but like I try to let her have her fun when what's fun?

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Speaker 1: What are we? What are we talking about?

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Speaker 2: Like too many like updates and check ins and stuff from with Mama, Bear with Mama. Yeah yeah, I really tried to just do face times with like, hey, we're eating right now, yes, Hey we're sleeping.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we just woke up.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mama.

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Speaker 1: We do like you Mama, and letting.

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Speaker 2: Her because Jill was dying for the FaceTime stuff, which that was great.

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Speaker 3: 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 got a call and text constantly.

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Speaker 1: It's the best.

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Speaker 3: Whenever you get to go somewhere and 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.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you feel like call me in the middle trip, give me a shout, give me a shout.

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Speaker 1: But you put it on the Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I'll tell you what you won't get from Papa Team six. And that's a text message with a question of where the diapers? That's a text message with the question what should I feed her today? Yeah, that's a that's the text message of Hey, how do I do the laundry? Hey, not that I do the lie. I don't really hit the but you know, but if I did, she ain't getting no text about it, no, sir. And did you see that outfit? Bro? I put that outfit together the zoo crushed it. Yes, And I love because she's growing into the bow. You know how I was kind of a hater.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of took some crazy shots at scar scar Scarlet's face. Yeah, to her face, say you look, Hey, you look dumb dude. Your dad put you in it?

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Speaker 1: Did you choice that? Yeah? Because you look dumb dude. Look at his bow and then flip the bow, knocking off her head. You look like a candy wrapper. Just oh, you can't say nothing, say so just go face dude, your kid's a dud. It's such a bud, dude.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, she's she's grown into the boat and she looks cute as hell. Your kids have done? You get a little water, drip it on her face? Are you even? Are you even doing that at home? Sir? She just looked like she jumped off the Titanic when I poured water on her face? What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't know that you were supposed to do that. Yeah, you're supposed to do that.

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Speaker 2: She have a good of a Daniel house in the water, just like dumping water all over her patient. Oh, look at her pantic You don't how used to the water, dude. She's gotta get bullied out the assschool.

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Speaker 1: If you keep this up, what are you doing? You can't bring it to the house. Scotty would eat her up, dude, 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 uh, yeah, outfit looked great. Outfit was on fleek. I even sent the outfit to mama's. She said, okay, thatt us, I said, watch me work, watch me work with my family. Pass to the zoo. Didn't forget the stroller. This time brought the stroller. Will and I were trying to figure out because I do have a family pass and I was like, I technically could get all of us in here together, but we're gonna have to, you know, in the family passed. Yeah, we had a good laugh. He's like, maybe if you want to get on the family paths. Oh, we're gay. Hey, we're together, these are kids.

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Speaker 2: I'm cool with that, you know. Yeah, we were both cool with you.

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Speaker 1: I still bought it my own tickets, but we're like, support local business.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, obviously. Yeah, but zoo was great. Well we'll get into zoo because that that's a crack. That's a crack, a cold one together. I love that. I yeah, my good Uh last night. I basically I think I have the closest thing to a panic attack as far as what the hell is going on with my body.

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Speaker 1: We have this little mister thing that's like a sailine mister that helps like break up mucus. It's for infants, and it's like, uh, you know those O two tanks that they probably gave you on the sideline that you just go like you have the mask on it. It's like that. Never use it.

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Speaker 2: You didn't need it. Come on the way you were playing, you didn't need that.

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Speaker 1: Are you all right? What was that? I'm good? That was a loogie?

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Speaker 2: I'm really sorry. Good good. Hey, Hey, dads can't afford to get sick, can't afford to be sick. No, they can afford to get sick. You just can't be sick.

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Speaker 1: You can't be sick. Yeah, I did, I did check. I don't have a fever this morning. Good. Yeah, good, it's been better.

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Speaker 2: If you did it, would it would have been really good. You come in, just get all of us 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 him around unless you toughing them up. I don't want to see my kid boy and you get yeah, oh you want to come over for a play date. First question is you get sick? Oh, he's not staying at home. The problem is it if my kid's bullying your kid, your kid's allowing it. That's the issue.

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Speaker 1: Okay, But the O two tanks so too, thanks.

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Speaker 2: Two tank, And then I do it. You know, we're trying to make Scarlet like it. So it's like, hey, Mama's and dadas are going to do it. So I started huffing this thing in front of Scarlet.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is so fun. Oh my gosh, I have the mask on.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going like, dude, eight legit like broke up my mucus and stuff in such a way that like I started having because I have a ton of chest congestion right now. Yeah, I all of a sudden lead the room and I have a coughing fit where I'm having a hard time breathing and I'm like feeling it in my face, you know when you can kind of like almost feel it like where your lymph nodes are, where it's like tight like around your jaw. I could feel my face getting red, and I'm like I can't really breathe, and I like couldn't yell out to Jill, and I'm leaned over the trash can just coughing, slash gagging, and then I and so sorry for anybody with the week summit. I just start puking Lougi's, 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 the 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 it's like talking to me. I'm on all fours, just like still coughing.

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Speaker 1: And She's like, what is going on, Sherman, What is going on?

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Speaker 2: In my mind? I'm going good, God, 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.

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Speaker 1: She just keeps a good you don't need water.

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Speaker 2: You're choking, Sherman.

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Speaker 1: You're choking. You don't need one water, right God, like.

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Speaker 2: Visceral scream dude. And she didn't get me water for like thirty seconds, like still asking me, and I like start pounding to 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's crazy. And Jille and I are still kind of on the frame. We're still in the frints about it. My god, I know it was crazy, dude, the backlocking up, Like, what what's happening? Like I've always had really really bad hip flexers from like tracking soccer days, which like led to my quads, yeah, 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 tightens sore it my glutes and my lower back will tighten up really bad where it's like a sharp pain, not a sharp pain, but it's like my muscles are essentially in like on the sides to where I wouldn't I wouldn't say like a sharp pain, like a structural pain of like nerves, but it's like more so just those back muscles on the sides of your spine just basically saying, bro, sit down, stop trying to stand. And that's why I use those KT tape and stuff. Anyways, I'm not taking like the best care of myself. I could stand to lose a good like forty pounds. I could stand to lose or I could, you know, work out way more, get in better shape, stretch way more. But it's right, but you'd rather take the hard route good the road less. Take the road less.

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Speaker 1: Take it.

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Speaker 2: And let's not forget what my new year's resolution is to run a four hundred and under sixty 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 ground level. Yeah, you're waiting until the week of did you show up world?

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Speaker 1: You can. You're a fucking cheetah. You don't need a stretch. You don't need exercise and a couple shoulder impingement movements and then take off.

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Speaker 2: 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 how you get dehydrated. You know I'm drinking water, lollipop. I know I do drink a lot of water and a lot of lollipop.

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Speaker 1: But I need to drink more. If you drink enough, you wouldn't be locking up like that. Yes, you know, I think they issue it. He gets on a good plan. Yeah, we need you.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: We need one of those like selfish not team player blah blah blah.

00:26:43
Speaker 1: Like water. Yeah yeah, when you go and piss in the bathroom every morning, every dude, it's not good. It's not good letting the team down. I am.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: We need you at a championship level. Yes, where you were hydrated.

00:26:56
Speaker 1: P'sing like a light yellow light, dude, because right now you would think it's highlighter. It's Gatorade gold gold. It's like the the like the no, no, no, no, the what do you call the embroidery of my hate? 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? Would juck and wish? Dude?

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Speaker 2: If I had had a name, they remember right here.

00:27:27
Speaker 1: I needed you to get me water. If you're deciding in your mind you're not getting me water, would I rather you have done? Is you start kicking me in the face.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

00:27:37
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna give me water, don't just stand there and you know 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.

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Speaker 2: Get something fall out some kind of flipped or fell out, right, what happened?

00:27:56
Speaker 1: Yeah? Something the board the SDI just it just stopped recording. Good. I think that's got disconnected. But we're back.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: That's probably that's probably the PT six gods going a Sherman easy because you're still on thin ice with the wifey.

00:28:12
Speaker 1: That could be Jill hacking comes. I really could, Jill, I really could. That's that's like you better come correct.

00:28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I know we had that week with my friends and I went on the Bacher the baucher atte party and but like you're using up all your equity for this moment. That's just you gotta understand.

00:28:32
Speaker 1: There goes the golf trim.

00:28:36
Speaker 3: Bye.

00:28:38
Speaker 2: But yes, I digress. I digress that that truly is the story. Yeah, that's why I'm sitting like an absolute freakazoid.

00:28:46
Speaker 1: Right now, my back. You're Shelley yourself right now, I am. We need the pt siccos in the comments. We need to get shure them on a plan. We need to get them on a plan. Hit me, Hit me with that Sir Roland meme of just get up, Yeah, get up, nine of the seven kingdoms. Everybody go watch it. Great show, great show, great show.

00:29:06
Speaker 2: I'm truly just sir duncan right now, just beat the shit and I can. I you know, I could yield.

00:29:14
Speaker 1: Do you want to? Oh?

00:29:17
Speaker 2: I do have a fantastic tweet from Will Compton really quick for me. Yeah, but just say like, we need to beat these sikhos. We gotta get your mon 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 the 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 did you start something yeah, which I'm pet fit Yeah, pt fit okay, pet peta Fit yeah, puppa team fit movement that was really good.

00:30:02
Speaker 1: Will all right, read your tweet.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: All right, this tweet comes from William Compton, William Earl Compton, the third Actually, by the.

00:30:09
Speaker 1: Way, put pt fit in the comments. That's the that's our comment. Yeah, okay pt fit. Yes, this comes from Sir will of House Compton.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: On x he said a nine of the seven Kingdoms I emoji, I emoji and granted this is uh, this is like six weeks after the show has you know, like the great meme reset of like a nine of the seven Kingdoms already took over Twitter. This is like a week after he says, a nine of the seven KINGDOMSMO finished episode three last night and what on twist at the end, everybody's on my episod.

00:31:00
Speaker 1: That's six sou.

00:31:02
Speaker 2: Hitting for it by tonight, the rolling through the finale. What a time to be alive for geod. And he provided a nice little duncan egg on therefore a chef that was actually found by chef and printed out by chef. So I want to give chef his flowers of That is a hilarious tweet. And you're right, you didn't say anything that he directed.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: That's facts.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: That's facts, dude.

00:31:29
Speaker 1: You're a Game of Thrones fan. What a time to be alive.

00:31:33
Speaker 2: It time to be alive, dude. When I learned who Egg was, what you to like? Put in tweet out yere in a week and be like lost, yo, lost? Have you all been watching shit? What a time to be alive? I don't know, John snow was eggon Tugarian?

00:31:55
Speaker 1: What the fuck?

00:31:57
Speaker 2: What Danny's hand you but like she's got not what are you all? Sound off in the comment? 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, and then you know, we haven't done in a while. Some of some of the good takes we say, good Carol, Yeah, but we'll just get into some good lore.

00:32:30
Speaker 1: 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 to the suck. What does it mean to embrace the word good? What does it mean? Yeah?

00:32:43
Speaker 2: Does it mean to enter that mindset I have in Woodward on YouTube and where we'd said my fiance has officially gotten me hooked on the show. We get married next month we were listening to the episode and Saran was talking about his wife's just stational diabetes, and my fiance just casually goes, is that what you have?

00:33:08
Speaker 1: Good? Good?

00:33:14
Speaker 2: 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 St. Sixer, just it his betrothed with.

00:33:28
Speaker 1: Is that what you have?

00:33:30
Speaker 2: She replied, Sir, I am not pregnant, nor do I have diabetes. What in the world that is wild? Future?

00:33:43
Speaker 1: Mt sixer.

00:33:43
Speaker 2: I apologize on the behalf of your ST. Sixer, But we're just we're figuring.

00:33:48
Speaker 1: We're all figuring out, Hey, you got that right? If anything, that just means he's worried about you station divites. Hey you have that's what you got. He's just checking in on you. Right, What the fuck are you talking talking about? Oh, dyslexia? Like you mix 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. Recently got recruited for the PT six and in boot camp right now. He's in budge training. My wife and I found out she is pregnant in January and now about to finish our first trimester. Let's fucking go like huge. I came across your podcast early this month and have nothing but tears of joy listening to all the PT sixers out there with encouraging messages. Lastly, I want to give a shout out to my right, to my wife Raquel, being the crown on my head and helping me find my way back to Jesus.

00:34:44
Speaker 2: Good. Good, that's a great that's a great comment, Jorge, congratulations to.

00:34:48
Speaker 1: You both, or well done shouting out your future empty Siko And he gets it. He's been on for a month. He's recently got recruited to BT six in boot camp right now, so us finish buds training bringing until dad's status. The seed has been planning.

00:35:04
Speaker 2: To be good.

00:35:05
Speaker 1: The heir to the throne might be there.

00:35:09
Speaker 2: Oh, he didn't say whether or not.

00:35:11
Speaker 1: He did not say whether. Okay, okay, he did not say whether or not. That's what I'm looking for. They just finished our first trimester. But he gets it, or hey or hey understands the assignment.

00:35:20
Speaker 2: That's a big thing we can get into.

00:35:21
Speaker 1: I'm thinking for our next one that we purely do not want to know we legit, want to find out delivery date.

00:35:28
Speaker 2: I think for the next one. Yeah, fingers crossed that we even get opportunity. Fingers cross I have a couple of general comments. Yeah, money Master twenty one on Spotify. At what age can will and sums kids start listening to the pod? Going to get some good feedback from the kids crying, laughing emoji. That's a fantastic question by money Master. Fantastic question.

00:35:51
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for little miss Scarlett to be proud of her father. We know at all that he's doing. See us cry a lot, oh lot. They'll know how much we love them, that is true. They'll get to hear a lot of old stories. Hmm, 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.

00:36:19
Speaker 2: I do think of like that age of like eight nine and eight nine ten range where my mom would break out the video camera with the red white yellow chords and plugging 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 I don't want to see it, put it away, and it's like you and I are. That's that's just on the internet. Yeah, Scarlet and Rue, not so much the videos, but the stories. You're talking about, how I shit on you shit on your arm?

00:36:57
Speaker 1: Dad? What do we do?

00:36:58
Speaker 2: We got to figure out a way to garden from shockwave? Oh yeah, damn well we've already done. So what a great euphemism?

00:37:06
Speaker 1: Yeah? What euphemism? What does that mean?

00:37:09
Speaker 3: Uh?

00:37:12
Speaker 1: Euphemism is like a it's like a nice little fun code word that you can call something.

00:37:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, that, but it's not a code word. It's a real roller coaster in Texas. Boom baby, you just boom baby.

00:37:23
Speaker 1: Just ephem euphanized, you just euphanized, all over it, all over it, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, shockwave baby, shockwave cow pow.

00:37:35
Speaker 2: On Facebook. We have a Facebook, Yes we do. Just learning that yo for the dads, but that makes sense. You gotta be on Facebook. We're gonna be about the dads a lot of that, a lot of the boomer generations on face. We're down with the zuck.

00:37:49
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys, keeping it keeping it real in a world where everyone acts as if they have it together. So we have a few days when we don't feel perfect, So we don't feel perfect, can feel alone. You guys are bringing the laughs and the feels. Thank you for showing the boys our love for the family is enough. I'll be shipping out on deployment soon and im 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. That what was his name, Kyle pout Goal, Thank you for your service, brother, Thank you for your service. Dude.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: We have touched on that so many times, but it's worth touch 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 that's a higher calling that they're wanting to go do.

00:38:40
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

00:38:41
Speaker 2: It's a hardship and sacrifice that's involved with all of that.

00:38:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, man Like having to pull yourself out, essentially outside of yourself, to serve something greater than you for your country, knowing how hard it is to leave the family. Yeah, and put everything in place with a strong rock you must have at home with wifey and just man, it would be brutal to leave the kiddos.

00:39:04
Speaker 2: 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 if anything, every single military mom that I've met it like, you're exactly right. It's like that rock mentality, dude. Yeah, holding it down, dude. Jill's grandmother had eight kids while dad was out serving.

00:39:29
Speaker 1: What a monster?

00:39:31
Speaker 2: What a monster?

00:39:32
Speaker 1: Dude? Yeah, Yeah, dude, My grandpa, William Merle 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 God, I just cooked for people. And uh, he made incredible eggs. You talk about it.

00:39:51
Speaker 2: You talk about this egg recipe. Now you go over make the scrambled eggs. He put the bacon bits on tie. He makes some bacon bits, put him on top with some cheese. But the secret ingredient, that's a bad dude. He put a little pack of sugar.

00:40:06
Speaker 1: Sprinkle it on the eggs and every sugar crazy crazy, I know, but to be egg scrambled eggs, bacon, and a pack of sugar that he'd use inside the eggs.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: And it was life changing for me. I always used to always beside myself.

00:40:24
Speaker 1: 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 spread the good word of these scrambled eggs. How you doing it? Grandpa? Grandpa? Yeah? We were very I guess traditional, Like everybody was just grandma and grandpa. Like all the new stuff like Lowlandopa, that Rue and Scottie or that Ru calls her grandparents. All the Mama, Papa, all that stuff was not formed. But I'm just like, oh, isn't that just grandma and Grandpa. Yeah. 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 all. It'd be like Sunday we'd have Sunday dinner, so you all after church you go over. It'd be either KFC. You get the family serve stuff, KFC bro every now and then they'd cook if it'd be a holiday, like they would cook and my mom would cook, you know, Kentucky Fried Chicken.

00:41:19
Speaker 2: Dude, fried chicken dinner. I don't care where it's coming from, KFC, Chicken Express, you name it, dude.

00:41:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, after he passed, eventually we find out like maybe my brother's knew because my brother Cody, he was number I was the oldest, Cody was middle White's the youngest, or Cody hung out of grandma and Grandpa's all the time. Yeah, but after he passed, you end up learning like we found like a gun h'd used over you know, hit some Germans damn. Yeah, found some other old stuff. But so he just never talked about it. I always thought he just cooked. And so when people talk about their their family serving or whatever, it's not like I left at the opportunity to talk about how my grandpa was a chef. Yeah, because it's like it's not like, you know, as a kid growing up, you're hearing your somebody in the family like being a badass overseas. Yeah, you're like telling your friends about it.

00:42:07
Speaker 4: Did he stand when they did like things at church or games. Because my grandpa was an accountant in Hawaii during World War Two 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.

00:42:21
Speaker 1: But we were never in situations like that because my grandpa like pretty much the majority of my upbringing. Funny the way they worked. My grandma she lost her hearing, so she had hearing aids, so she was she had a massive hearing brother. She wouldn't fully deaf, but she was almost there. My grandpa was legally blind, so he couldn't drive or doing it. He couldn't like leave the house. But they just the perfect game. They needed each other, They needed each needed each other and just be in the house every afternoon, Like you know, you drive by, you see him sitting on the swing on the front porch waving. They had a house on the corner on the awning. They had an awning over the window, you know those old school lawn They had like a sea plant that etched like on the awning, so you knew it was the Compton house just sitting on the right down the road from the park. You'd see him wave like. We'd be over there all the time, especially in the summertime when we were out of school. What we'd run down to the to the community pull pay a dollar to get in. We'd beat We were pull rats growing up. He threw me twenty bucks to move the yard no way. And he was a craftsman too, like he'd be out in his little garage and he built me like this wooden wooden bolt action rifle, a wooden't he built it and then had a bolt, a bolt in the wood a bolt action rifle. Well didn't shoot anything. It was just a toy because he knew I wanted like a beyond that. It 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 and again legally like legally blind like he was. He was nice bro in the garage. A legend.

00:44:00
Speaker 2: He's a true he's a true Willie One show. He is.

00:44:04
Speaker 1: What was actually about it?

00:44:06
Speaker 2: Well done? By the way. On social media, when you posted something from your house and somebody said you hang that TV, and you said, I just threw shells. Check out the pod.

00:44:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, buddy, check out the pod. Yeah. I'm a shelf guy. One shelf to be exact. I don't do more than one.

00:44:25
Speaker 2: I audibly chuckled at that comment. I was, well, that was really funny.

00:44:30
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:44:30
Speaker 2: I don't know where I was going with that, but yeah, you were talking about their grandfather serving all that stuff. We read a military comment.

00:44:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, 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, uh has like this moment where they fire off the the weapons. Yeah, they do all these things, and you kind of just learn more about it because he never really talked about it. All the time. They like fold the flag and yeah, yeah that's really really cool. Yeah he was a beast though, Bro, he was a beast man.

00:45:06
Speaker 2: You're making a custom toy bolt action rifle, Like, that's a guy that I just want to be in his orbit.

00:45:13
Speaker 1: Yeah. He tell me how to draw and sketch, Like he'd take his magnifying glass and he's like, you know, he's like drawing foto 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'd do there was this one story.

00:45:28
Speaker 2: Could you hear? Could you hear the like your own voice in the hearing aids because they were turned up so loud. Oh, I have no clue I've come across that. Sometimes my grandma.

00:45:37
Speaker 1: She'd just be chilling, you know what I mean. She comes, she'd want hugs. She'd want to kiss you, like ten to fifteen times. Are you'd be leaning down there, all right, Grandma, she'd just be sitting in a rock She would just be sitting in a rocker. You were never too big to sit on her lap. She wanted you just sit in her lap so she could do so she could balance you on the knee and just back wump diddy womp diddy, woo woo woo. I do that with my kids now. But even when I was a high schooler, she'd want me. She tap her lap, I come in said on her last she's back. Want did Want was just like an eighteen year old.

00:46:07
Speaker 2: Seventeen year old, Oh, Scollie did Nebraska just getting bounced by my grandma. What a good woman, dude.

00:46:17
Speaker 1: When I was that good, I was gonna tell when I was young, my grandpa yelling at her. Oh, when I was young. I forget how old it was. I was single digits. I was a little jit.

00:46:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're playing checkers. I was playing my grandma and checkers.

00:46:29
Speaker 1: She was moving. All of a sudden, she stopped moving, and I'm like, my grandma, your turn, you gotta go. And my grandpa sitting there, her name was Maxine. He called her Mac, Mac, you gotta move, and Grandma, it's your turn. He beg Mac, you gotta move. The peace. And then all of a sudden, Mac, dammit, hey, and then my grandma's sitting there.

00:46:52
Speaker 2: Her teeth fall out, starts having a stroll. Hey, and I'm yo, I see her teeth fall out. She plumps in the chair, her teeth fall out. I screamed, bloody, murdered, sprint to the living room.

00:47:10
Speaker 1: Her teeth fell out. Well, what the hell is going on? Because he can't fell out of fella.

00:47:23
Speaker 2: Grabbed the phone down nine one one, grabbed the wired phone off the wall, and.

00:47:32
Speaker 1: Ambulance everybody comes and get at the hospital. She was good that she was because I know I'm sitting here having like the cynical humor about it. Grandma has a stroke. Don't play, don't play your checkers. Then my dad one.

00:47:50
Speaker 2: Time was helping get her in the car because he's taking it to her her beauty appointment, her salon appointment.

00:47:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, because she'd have this perm and she was like traditional school.

00:48:00
Speaker 2: She roll all the time.

00:48:01
Speaker 1: She rocked the perm and wore gowns like you know those like prettier gowns or whatever. Oh, you know, you had to kind of help them everywhere. Yeah, And my dad was.

00:48:10
Speaker 2: Helping her in the car one time. And they're Catholic, right yeah, oh no, not not not my dad's side. They're back, sorry, your mom's side.

00:48:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom's side was like Roman Catholic. Yeah yeah, yeah, but my dad has to take her to the to a salon appointment, helps get her in the car, doesn't fully shut the door. My dad walks around to the other side, gets in the car, and all of a sudden, my grandma falls out of the will falls out. There's like a little slope in the front yard. She's like, she will, what did Bill do? He was shit oh shit, you get get up. Damn it, Mac get up.

00:48:53
Speaker 2: You're good. That's gonna be us, dude, Grandpapa, team, that's gonna be us.

00:49:01
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Bro.

00:49:04
Speaker 2: They sound like legends did They were legends, Man, they were legends.

00:49:09
Speaker 1: God, I love that.

00:49:10
Speaker 2: 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 because you know, he just wasn't talking at that point. A sentence would take like five minutes to get out. So I had some talks with 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 and my mom was tummy by the way, it took him about fifteen minutes to get it out because he would kind of shake and he would work the word up into his mouth that he'd get it out. And basically the sentence he told me, he said, ain never gonna be a team better than the Todd told me that took him fifteen minutes. Tell me they never gonna be it. He's sitting there like better than the Todd, you're right, and I'm like, yes, yes, sir, cha cha. But he had this wheelchair and they had a nurse that had to like live in in the house to like take care of cha cha. And he was obsessed with girl scout thin mints that was like his poison, dude, Like, and he couldn't he couldn't like use his hands or anything. Once the Parkinson's got really bad. But one night, dude, this is after like him not being able to really do anything by himself, the nurse starts hearing stuff in the kitchen and it's like Julie, Julie, which is my grandmother's name, because obviously it'd be her, yeah, not Charlie. He can't even get out of bed, yeah, And she comes into the kitchen and flips the lights on and he's sitting in his wheelchair. He can't. He kept the thin mints in the freezer because he liked him 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 He was a sinko for the thin mins. Dude.

00:51:04
Speaker 1: What a legend and big, big, big time right now for Girl Scout Cookies, Big Times metals border on the other side that's sitting in there. Yeah, shout out.

00:51:12
Speaker 2: Shout out the Girl Scout.

00:51:13
Speaker 1: Shout out Brett Maze and his fan. Shout out for hooking. No, shout outs to Brett Mazi, He's a beat.

00:51:19
Speaker 2: Sicco bring bring us the more girls Scotty, bring us some more Girls Scout cookies. Shout outs. You gotta deliver some girl Scout cookies.

00:51:28
Speaker 1: You every day you'd walk in, my grandpa be sitting in his room because he loved the Westerns.

00:51:34
Speaker 2: But he'd be sitting there, have this, you know, the little box TV.

00:51:37
Speaker 1: But he'd be sitting there because again he was he was he was legally blind, so he could just kind of see the what like the the shade around the shape of you. He kind of just knew based on size who was who. But you'd walk in and bang a left and just look in the room and he'd be like, say, this is the TV. He'd just be He's just sitting up in his chair. He'd be like this close, this close watching his Westerns. Will you just actively making his site so much more? Dude, parenthood, barhood, parenthood.

00:52:20
Speaker 2: I got one last one from Gibson eighty eight on Spotify. Gibson says, Milk Team six here. My husband and I are first time parents. Who is six month old little boy and we love listening to your show together on drives to Saint Louis. Well no family come home 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? Help?

00:53:11
Speaker 1: Do you want my personal opinion that about? So they gotta advise against circumcision. They want our advice if they should.

00:53:19
Speaker 2: Do it now, our wait for later in life because now like they were gonna circumcise, whether 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 are 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 circumcize them.

00:53:36
Speaker 1: Now you can. We can do it.

00:53:39
Speaker 2: So they want our They know we're not medical experts, but they want they know we're not.

00:53:43
Speaker 1: They're basically asking will they be made fun of? You came to the right spot. You can't.

00:53:48
Speaker 2: This could not be a better podcast for this question because I got an answer. He's gonna get made fun of. We we had a quoteque unquote and eater because we had an ant eater on our soccer team in high school. And uh, yeah he knew that.

00:54:11
Speaker 1: We knew that.

00:54:12
Speaker 2: Everybody knew and it was talked about a lot, and he was called an eater. He was called an eater. Yeah, I had a D piece, had nothing to worry about. But you know it wasn't a German army helmet. It was like, do have some some weapons on them? Yeah, dude, they got a little extra something something. Of course, it's gonna it's a D piece. Conversation.

00:54:37
Speaker 1: It's a conversation piece. Yeah, conversation starter. You're in the shower shower with the boys. You just gotta equip him with some some wit.

00:54:44
Speaker 2: And some humor. Yeah, if that's the route you're gonna take.

00:54:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, you sit there a shower and you realize the boys everybody's meat peeking in the shower and you just look over you. I gotta clean him. Yeah, I call him the Hooded Strangers. So what yeah, yeah, you know, it's not that big of a deal. We play hide and seek every day. Yeah, you gotta name him. I mean he's gotta yeah, yeah, yeah, he's gotta. He's gotta have a name.

00:55:11
Speaker 2: And he also needs to have a superhero name for when you know, yeah, it's almost more like a reverse because he's got the cape on. But then when he becomes a fucking megas order.

00:55:23
Speaker 1: And then when it's like when it's habsy and it's like almost like a turtleneck on him, giving like a professor name. 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 tagget if you will, bag and tagget. But yeah, what's the answer? Hey? You do you?

00:55:50
Speaker 2: I don't think we have no fucking clique how to handle this question. So we're just going to our defense mechanism as humor. Who might be think we're being immature and stupid about this, Yeah, but you are asking, you're asking a podcast producer and a former NFL player, whether or not a lot. But you know it's not his tip.

00:56:13
Speaker 1: We don't know.

00:56:15
Speaker 2: I know it involves a lot of extra cleaning. It's an actually step with hygieney.

00:56:23
Speaker 1: That's a big bis. You close it up being it and drop a piste bomb in the show. Yeah, like, oh yeah, we'd be doings bombs in the shower. Biz would not be cut Like that makes all this in the world. That's awesome. Yeah, it's just like and dude, our guy that would get the ant eater comments and stuff.

00:56:47
Speaker 2: He was the man.

00:56:49
Speaker 1: He was the man.

00:56:49
Speaker 2: 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 to superpower, Yeah it really, it kind of is a little bit.

00:57:07
Speaker 1: It kind of is he's got to know you got something that most people don't have. Yeah, and so you're gonna get questions. I'm sure at times are feeling awkward, But that's the moments for you to come in with the ice breakers. Yeah, you just get equipped with the icebreakers and have the personality with it.

00:57:21
Speaker 2: You're gonna own it. He's gonna crush it. He's gonna crush it and'll get in college and word will get around and blah blah blah. And he's gonna be at a party and the girls gonna come up to him, be like the rumors trail. Yeah, yeah, we can find out. Yeah that was the Green Ranger. They were called Megasors, right, powers Ord Megazor. You know when he had the flute.

00:57:53
Speaker 1: And the gods will of Megazor like comes out of the water. Hey, I kind of heard he just pulls out a flute.

00:58:07
Speaker 2: And I know we're talking about your sweet six month old baby boy.

00:58:16
Speaker 1: That I'm sure is just a sweetheart.

00:58:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:58:19
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01:02:14
Speaker 1: It's a tasty little treat. Yeah.

01:02:17
Speaker 2: Would you say a collab a cold one?

01:02:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, collab a cracker cold one, Yeah, collabor a cracker cold one. The zoo, we had a zoo day, Daddy daughter zoo day. Most unsure them how my wife was out of town. I think it was on Friday when we were doing our for the dad's meeting. Shrips like I'm I'm solo too, wife's going off to the Bets Red 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 gonna do something together. We're gonna get out of the house. We're gonna get the kiddos out of the house. We're gonna 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 banky dude. And Rue was really team leader at the end of the day. Yeah, Ru wanted to see certain things, but also like she's helping try and show the kiddos. I had Scottie. I brought out the double stroller. I knew Ru would want to, uh, probably sit in the stroller, not walk around everywhere, so that always think on your feet, bring the double better to have it not need it than need it and not have it. Yeah, dude, Scarlett was ripping around in the stroller. We're duoing up. Got a couple four of the dad's fist bumps. You at him.

01:03:26
Speaker 2: I had almost six encounter, which, yeah, that'll be fun too. I hope that who PETI siko that you knocked me and did Yeah. I was holding Scarlet up on her stroller with both hands to where like she needed to be held with two hands.

01:03:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like the back end. We were finding the exit. So yes, getting ready to leave. We've been there a couple hours.

01:03:45
Speaker 2: And I totally just neglected my daughter to give out a little for the dad's fist pump. As soon as I let go Scarlet, she's almost eats it.

01:03:55
Speaker 1: It's like stroller goes sideway chef. Hey, buddy, I love your dad.

01:04:00
Speaker 2: Podcast nuts.

01:04:02
Speaker 1: Oh let me let me almost kill my kid nuts. Yeah. Oh she's good. Good five second roll.

01:04:12
Speaker 2: You caught it, though, I caught her saved close one.

01:04:15
Speaker 1: It was closed, dude. But we ripped around, had a great time. I was really engaging with both Scotty and Scarlett, trying to point at all the Oh look at this Scotty squealing. She's got this little squeal when she sees.

01:04:25
Speaker 2: Like birds or any animal, really, Bro, Rue is fully I don't want to speak for you about your daughter for her or for her, but my takeaway of Rue from that is like she is at the age where she is very much a help. She is not a hindrance, and I'm sure she could be if she had an episode, but godly, dude, I mean just an absolute tour guide through the zoo for Scarlet. I'll be honest, Bro, she is an asset.

01:04:55
Speaker 1: She is an ass when like say, well, I don't remember the last my mom was out of town, but days where it's like me and the girl, so maybe Charles out for the day whatever, which is me at home. But when Mom's not there, something goes off in Rue's brain as I have to help this poor old man. Let's go, dude, I have to help that dat, let's go. And so she's always she's been helpful every day that mom has 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 Scottie down, and hey, I need you to put on your pj's a night and do all the things. Makes your brush is ready when I get back downstairs, Let's draw. Let's 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.

01:05:53
Speaker 2: Wall. I'm upstairs putting Scottie down and everything I need. Can you help me do this? She's yeah, Bro, she's been in an asset the entire I'm.

01:06:00
Speaker 1: Very open to learn too, dude. That was so much fun of She would ask me questions.

01:06:06
Speaker 2: 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 ru was like, Uncle Sherman, what's that pink stuff? And 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 blah. I was like, that's right. And then when she started pointing out the bones, she was like, these are bones. Tigers have bones.

01:06:46
Speaker 1: I was like, they do.

01:06:47
Speaker 2: I was like, and these are ribs. I was like, ru, 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, totally, dude. She was just such a joy to interact. Dude.

01:07:03
Speaker 1: We got in the truck to drive home after because you know how she was having a moment with Scarlet where she's doing throwing the SWR mom sweatshirt up in the air.

01:07:10
Speaker 2: I'll give you that video, chef, because that actually is very cute.

01:07:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Scarlett's laughing because rus like throwing the sweatshirt like up in the air and making her laugh. We got in the car and I was like, grow, you were so kind of Scarlet like, thank you, Like that's very helpful for Dad and Uncle Sherman. It's very helpful for us. And she was just super curious and like why it's helpful. I'm like, well, it's always good when Uncle Sherman and I we get to push your showlers 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, if they need a snack, or they need the beanky, 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 Scottie, pointing at the animals and help sherman dad add a talk and have fun with each other, watch you guys. And then she'd be like, why is it helpful? And she just had you know, they're in such a why question phase years old and four years old, but everything's a question, and she's just super curious on learning, like why was so, why was that good? Or why did that help you out? It helps Sharm, But yeah, it helped Sarm because Sharm, you know, he's their mama is gone for the weekend, just like your mama is gone for the weekend. So Sharm is hanging out with Scarlet solo. So he's tending to Scarlet all the time, all day long. Yeah, making sure she has everything and probably has to entertain her, make her laugh and make her smile. And you were doing that while we were at the zoo with her, So Uncle Sharam got to just have fun hang out with you.

01:08:33
Speaker 2: 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 was 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.

01:08:51
Speaker 1: That's so cool, just seeing our kids interact. Yeah, and like Ru being like, oh Scarlet that you know, Sharm, Sharm, are you watching she I'm making her laugh. I'm like, yeah, you're killing it, like you keep doing it.

01:09:05
Speaker 2: Like she's a showman. She wants people watching. I didn't tell you what she told me. When she was like, hold on, I gotta tell Uncle sherman by she came up to me and she said, will you tell Scarlett's mom that I liked making her laugh with my sweater today?

01:09:21
Speaker 1: And I said, I will gladly pass out along. I said, thank you so much for sweetheart.

01:09:27
Speaker 2: That's such a sweetheart.

01:09:29
Speaker 1: Jesus me up.

01:09:30
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's a good one.

01:09:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's she's a beast. Man doesn't come without trials and tribulation a hundred percent doesn't come without trial tributa. She dominated the twelve hour travel time to Hawaii, dominating.

01:09:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, how was all that, dude?

01:09:47
Speaker 1: It was because we didn't even getting into that at the zoo, like how the kids did traveling scott Zilla was scott Zilla. 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 seven thirty in the morning, so we had the kiddos up early. And usually, you know, as a parent, you're hopeful that your little one, Scotti is around fifteen 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 twelve hours of travel, Scotti probably slept a total of ninety minutes sporadically. Yeah, maybe like combined. And then outside of that, like, Scotti is a busy body. She is like a she's just she handles herself like a reckless, abandoned bro 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 like you're trying to think about everybody. You're trying to think about everybody around you on the plane because it's a long travel time. Like the first flight in Arizona was like four hours. Then you had like a four or five or five hour flight to Hawaii from Phoenix after a couple hour layover. Wasn't it wasn't terrible, but it's like there was no Mom didn't get to nap at all. I passed out for a few minutes one point. But yeah, Scotty, Scotty was tough. Scotty was tough. There are moments where you're like you want to put a bullet in your head and hey, take the plane down. Were over the water, put in the water, Yeah yeah, yeah, that looks good. Yeah right there.

01:11:43
Speaker 2: She seems that age too. Of like Scarlett, 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 the bottle. We can then wrap her in a blanket and incentivized sleep and she'll take Yeah.

01:12:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, You'll be like, yeah, I guess I could conk out for two hours.

01:12:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, right here.

01:12:08
Speaker 1: But Scotty's in that phase where she's she's curious about everything. Yeah, 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.

01:12:29
Speaker 2: That's kind of a shut out. That's a dad hack right there. I can't really I don't know what the product is.

01:12:33
Speaker 1: 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 kind of sprawl out. But Scotty didn't want to stand in the middle part and just hold the seat and like engage as people behind us. The people behind us were great, everybody around us great. Knew that we were just in a in trench warfare the entire time of Scotti. But she wants to climb. She wants to do all the stuff.

01:13:07
Speaker 4: It's a suitcase, you said, will right, Yeah, because I found one that's like a ride on suitcase.

01:13:11
Speaker 1: It's like a ride on suitcase, a real ride like a horse and you'll have this like longer laying yourd thing that you're kind of dragging her and moving around the air.

01:13:20
Speaker 2: It might be stoke looks I mean, there's like foot pedals and stuff on this.

01:13:24
Speaker 1: It looks like she doesn't have foot pedals, but it's something like that. That sounds unreal.

01:13:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, Yeah, is there foot pedals on it? Now it's more like grooves, I guess, like yeah, but it's got like.

01:13:34
Speaker 1: Stickers that they can put on on just Yeah, that's it right there. If you want to show the graphic for a that hack, shout out product, shout out to use. It works wonders for us. But we'll have like her blanket, stuffed animals pillow, and then like some arts and crafts or books or whatever in there. So it's like her little dang like her little setup. But she rude 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.

01:14:03
Speaker 2: Jill said that about Ru when I like described the zoo thing. She was like, she's a firstborn. Yeah, girl through and through.

01:14:12
Speaker 1: 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 vaca. Yet good, like doing a vacation, I also want to stay somewhere like in like on the mainland to where you're not flying that long. Yeah, because I'm like, dude, Scott, he's gonna be a nightmare. She is every time we travel. She's talking me in to Hawaii. Love Hawaii. But I'm like, bro, it's such a long travel. But they happy wife, happy life. Come on, you want to go to Hawaii. Let's go to Hawaii. The resort was beautiful.

01:14:48
Speaker 3: Uh.

01:14:48
Speaker 1: But my advice for those people, if you have a wife who is adventurous and wants to travel and see things in going vacations, dude, just just eat the grenade and do it. Because as hellish as it was travelveling there because we were wiped out, we got there and it 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.

01:15:26
Speaker 2: Travel has been a nightmare for the Compton family, and to nothing that y'all have done right, Like y'all say a.

01:15:31
Speaker 1: 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's friends who's a travel agent and apparently she's set up for whoever she works with shout out making Taylor go check her out on Instagram. 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 of hotel has it available when you're there, she could qualify for an upgrade. We got upgraded bro to the most. I mean it's I did my best not to flex, yeah, because I just had that vibe where you go and you're you're a part, 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. Hello, and I'm grinning here to hear the entire time, just like, how how do we have this? But it was amazing, bro. We got to chill, we 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 was some jet lag good it looked at dude, just the little outfits, the little outfits for the girls, and those family pictures that you had, just everything that comes with the vacation that.

01:17:13
Speaker 2: Probably is a pain.

01:17:17
Speaker 1: I feel like that is applied across fatherhood of just everything's gonna suck to some extent, but all the extra steps.

01:17:26
Speaker 2: But then the payoff, dude.

01:17:28
Speaker 1: 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 whenever 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 to tag a long 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. Charle 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.

01:18:30
Speaker 2: For Charle, get me to go on week long vacations. Two week long vacations.

01:18:34
Speaker 1: We spent I want to say, five or six nights in Hawaii, DoD family vacations, going and seeing going and seeing different parts of the country, seeing different parts of the world, Like, dude, it is those are core memories that you're gonna have with your kids that you're gonna look back on and you're gonna 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 of times, Yeah, to where they grow up going and seeing different parts and being excited. I did to see new things and experiencing new things. But man, take the family bacon.

01:19:04
Speaker 2: In the shay, and there are so many ways to do it from your standpoint of Like you can do the family vacations where you are driving to the Grand Canyon, you know, Yeah, and 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.

01:19:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're one hundred percent 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 better and sweet. Yeah.

01:19:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you got a lot of money, you got the world. You can do all these different things.

01:19:39
Speaker 1: But there would be moments where we're sitting there on the beach and all rou wants to do is throw rocks into the water. And I'm thinking of my head, you don't need all of these things to have like a phenomenal experience. It's nice.

01:19:51
Speaker 2: It's nice that we get to enjoy it, that we get to do these things. This privileged life that they have.

01:19:55
Speaker 1: 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.

01:20:07
Speaker 2: We like, truly, I was blessed enough to like get to go on some vacations and stuff. And my grandmother, I told you, lived in Blue Mountain Beach, Florida, like right by Grayton and 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 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 this stock tank and then try and sink it with the rocks. And it's like that cost almost negative dollars. Did Like that costs nothing, and you can create that any sort of way. So to your point, like, yeah, any type of travel, dude.

01:21:18
Speaker 1: Like I remember we'd have like a we do like a we 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, 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. You mom and dad, you're kicking back, You're enjoying whatever you can, because it's still work when you travel, like when we went to Destined 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 entertained 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'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.

01:22:30
Speaker 2: Dude, that's nothing. Yeah, yeah, I'm not ashamed of I'm just thinking how it gets to where even it's relatable to people that could be feeling that way.

01:22:39
Speaker 1: And it's like, dude, it doesn't take much man.

01:22:41
Speaker 2: At all, and it will suck loading up the car.

01:22:45
Speaker 1: Oh good good, you're gonna forget to pack a couple of things for the kids.

01:22:49
Speaker 3: Go.

01:22:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're screaming the whole time in the car ride because you're not playing the same song over and over. Good.

01:22:56
Speaker 2: Good, they're not taking a nap when it's finally nap time.

01:22:58
Speaker 1: You just want them to relax.

01:22:59
Speaker 2: Good.

01:23:00
Speaker 1: 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.

01:23:14
Speaker 2: She keeps on hitting the same drum button on her little Cube game and goes play the dru plate, the drop plate, play play play plate bike play plate, play the drums. Good, this is life, this is what it's all about. Good. Keep hitting that annoying sound, Scotty.

01:23:32
Speaker 1: That hit the little karaoke box out the other night, and Scotty was taking a microphone and just putting the next of the speaker, so it's making the.

01:23:39
Speaker 2: Blaring, rotten ass noise and Rue's laughing.

01:23:41
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Scottie, stop and she just looks up at me as those shit eating grant and keeps doing it. Good Scott, this is bro. Scotty's alt.

01:23:51
Speaker 2: Scotti is an animal. You're at whatever hotel you're.

01:23:55
Speaker 1: At, they have a pool. Your kid wants to swim all day. It's finally time to relax. They don't want to go any dinner. They want to go pool.

01:24:00
Speaker 2: Hey, can we go to the pool after you finally just say, oh, okay, fine, we go to the pool after for the love of God. Good Scotty get the microphone and getting microphone feedback and just evils.

01:24:12
Speaker 1: Bro. She's a menace. That's incredible. She's a menace.

01:24:17
Speaker 5: Bro.

01:24:17
Speaker 1: She'll go and take She'll go and like takes toys like say, Rue, there's this there's this little game that we have from from like the Everly the Everly boxes. Oh yeah, where it looks like connect four. That's a sequence of colors go down the line. So Rue fills them all right, Scotty will come over and grab one. Rue will get pissed. Scotty knows Scott. They'll be sitting there hand fighting. Scotty ends up grabbing one and immediately when she grabs one, turns around and takes off running like Scotty, give that back to Rue, and Rue will be kind of like crumbling a little bit, standing by the toy, like, Ru, you got you can't.

01:24:52
Speaker 2: I'm like kind of laughing. You just can't let her.

01:24:55
Speaker 1: She knows you want that, so she sees that you give her a reaction. That's what she wants.

01:25:00
Speaker 2: She thinks you guys are playing and Scotty, as I'm telling Rue that when she's about to crumble by the toy, Scotty standing at about five feet away, just standing there looking at Rue, just wanting her to get up to kind of go after Rue. No, I'll beg see if Scotty will give it to you. She be Scotty, can you give me that?

01:25:14
Speaker 1: Please? Scotty will hold it out and take three steps and then once re reaches out, she'll drop a no turn and run. No swear, I swear I'll get it on film for you every all the.

01:25:26
Speaker 2: 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. But she's like kind of in her own world like Scarlett is, but she's able to actually see animals, point at animals and make you know that, like.

01:25:45
Speaker 1: And like look at me, like look I see it, like you look too.

01:25:50
Speaker 2: 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, the girl ill looking at that, and Scarlet and Scotty they are both just kind of in their own little world and their stroller. And I know that Scotty understands, like y'all talk to her and tell her things, and she does so, so I'm like, I know she understands.

01:26:09
Speaker 1: She's great hiking her head no. Yeah.

01:26:12
Speaker 2: 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 Scarlet, And I was like, you do a really good job of waving at people. I bet that she would like it if you waved at her. And Scotty literally turns to me and looks at me like this and just keeps on staring. I go, if you want, dude, you don't have to, but if you want to wave at Scarlet, you can wave better.

01:26:42
Speaker 1: She probably like that. And she's still just looking at me like this and she looks over her shoulder at Scarlet and she goes, I was like, that was in You're right though, she is like in her own world. Yeah, most of the time she's so she's she's such a joy to be around. Did you see uh the training for the A Gap video. We're in our We're at our spot on vacation. No over there going.

01:27:10
Speaker 2: Oh oh sorry, she justing the doors. You can see Ru's reflection in the door.

01:27:17
Speaker 1: I sent you the video last night to where she climbs up on her own little slide that 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 bad, Yeah, hits her head. You can hear the thud, falls like in between the beam back a little bit, and she just gets up smiling. Bro gets up smiling and makes like a little like e no. He's like yeah yeah, And I'm like I showed that text you back on that yeah, yeah, okay, because I was like that was hilarious.

01:27:54
Speaker 2: But I showed instantly Jill that video. I was like, that's not normal, baby, But I mean, like, that's like pretty fearless, right.

01:28:03
Speaker 1: She's Yeah, Scotty is that way. She's way different than Roof. We would hit her head going down, she'd have been crying. Yes, she'd 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.

01:28:21
Speaker 2: She is, to Jill's point, because 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 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. Good goods, Like what a stud dude.

01:28:49
Speaker 1: We were in the because we're at the kids pool most of the time most of the days, and Scotty's in like this one where it's like one foot or it might be six inches eight inches foot deep and uh, you know, she'd be walking and she would literally tip or fall over her slip and she'd be sideways like under the water in the water and I like, go down. I'll be laughing, come over and just kind of pick her up and she's just like ah, and then get back up and just keep it going, bro. Or I'd like throw a little torpedo rocket in the water, shout out JPJP got.

01:29:22
Speaker 2: Root for those are electric and the kids loved them.

01:29:25
Speaker 1: But they'd be right underwater where Scotty can reach on a grab, but sometimes she'd miss and just go like head first down in the water and she's like, you know, reaching and get up and we'd go oh snap.

01:29:35
Speaker 2: After the first couple of times, she realized like, man, she isn't she doesn't care. She's not even phased, like, bro, you're drowning.

01:29:40
Speaker 1: That's going to be I mean that's literally like let's say she's playing soccer, volleyball or whatever like in high school. She's gonna like eat it, like she's gonna get like hurt, and she's literally just gonna be like.

01:29:54
Speaker 2: And just keep going. Just like that was so bad ass.

01:29:58
Speaker 1: And I even think about anything else.

01:30:00
Speaker 2: Anything.

01:30:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, that didn't hurt. That didn't hurt. God, dude, Hey, by the way, flying back was hell. The worst part about I feel like vacation two is when you're leaving vacation you don't want to leave and you travel back. We took a red eye back for so we left local time in Hawaii. Six point thirty 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.

01:30:31
Speaker 2: So when we got back, operated after a red eye, good, yeah, good operate on fumes.

01:30:35
Speaker 1: Charles's parents were over, ol and open were over at the house. They helped for a little bit. But transitioning off a 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.

01:30:52
Speaker 2: And then they're waking up early. You're waking up early, like four or five in the morning.

01:30:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's a four hours Yeah, but traveling back is a nightmare. It is, and it hit us on on Saturday. Charles leaves Saturday, I gotta wake up. This is my dad lost a guy. Gotta wake up because I'm handling everything for the weekend, weekend activities. Rue had ballet Saturday morning. Rue wanted to go. Her and Mom have me up in Roue's room the night before, prepping me on ballet, like I know the outfit, but it's like she wants a ballet bunch. She gets a ballet a ballet bunch 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 uh ballet bunt. And 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, I got you, We'll get you right. I'm watching YouTube videos that night before, like I watched episode one and two of A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Then I'm watching a YouTube video on how to do like a ballet, watching film, just watching till watch watch you tape, fail to prepare, Prepare to fail. Yeah, dude, I don't set an alarm the next morning because usually the kids are up around six thirty seven all the time. Yeah, And I wake up in a panic because I think the monitor dies because I can't hear Scottie. And I kind of woke up on my own at eight thirty after Mom comes down, leaves, puts her in the bed. She's got to get mom's shirt, sweatshirt.

01:32:20
Speaker 2: We got to talk about what things we love them about mom, what we're gonna miss about mom, what we're gonna do while Mom's gone.

01:32:25
Speaker 1: And then we finally get back to sleep around like six fifteen in the morning. And I wake up at eight thirty bro in a panic. You know the feeling when you're just like, oh shit, something happened here. And I'm on I'm on the wall, I'm on watch Rue, still passed out my bed. I'm like, okay, she's good. I see that's eight thirty. I'm like, oh shit, ballet's at nine. We're not gonna make ballet. I text my wife. I just text hey, So I just woke up and we're not gonna make ballet. And my wife's like, do you feel like you could just get the kids up and getting ready to go, Scotty can go in to pajamas, like basically make it happen. Yeah, it's probably not gonna happen, but I see because I think the monitor might have died because Scotty is usually up crying something. Because she went down at normal time the night before, Scotty was face down. She slept about nine fifteen.

01:33:08
Speaker 2: But she was getting those hours back.

01:33:09
Speaker 1: 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 gonna go to the zoo with Uncle Sherman Scarlett. She's like, but what about ballet? I was like, oh, sweetheart, I told you we we over something. You overslept, you didn't wake you didn't wake that up real and uh wait, yeah, what do you feel like we overslept? Dad did a poor job getting up. I couldn't get everybody going like we missed ballet. We can't do ballet today. Yeah, but I want to do the ballet bun. I want to do ballet and I'm like, oh shit, and you start feeling that something could be coming on if you don't figure out ballet. So how about this, how about we get you ready for ballet 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 what they call him in ballet too, too, like wear leotard, can wear my leotard like sweeter. 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 takes me like three or four tries to get the ponytail on the right spotom twisting around. That failed a couple of times. I'm like, good, you know, 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.

01:34:19
Speaker 2: Good.

01:34:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I get that sorted out. We go downstairs and I turn on the ballet this twenty minute ballet class. I kind of moved the living room towards she has space. She locks in and knocks it out, focus the whole time, doing everything the person on TV's doing. So she ripped an entire ballet class on her own. I was so fired up in gas that we figured that out. Turn the dad lost into a dad win, parlay it into a zoo Visit gets Scottie up and going. She's eating, having a good time watching Rudu ballet.

01:34:48
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, dude, I know for a fact that really loved it, because she told me about it at the zoo.

01:34:53
Speaker 1: Oh doing ballet on TV.

01:34:55
Speaker 2: Told me about it at the zoo. She asked what Scarlett's leggings were and I said, those are leggings. I said, ballerinas did 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. The only reason I knew that that was called the 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 was that pink thing that the ballerinas wear?

01:35:28
Speaker 1: And she goes my leotard? I go, that's that? Is it? Good job row? I was like, that is a hard word to say. Slash. She nailed it. Yeah, she was fired up. She was pumped. We did.

01:35:41
Speaker 2: She was pumped, dude. So she was bragging a little bit about it.

01:35:44
Speaker 1: That's a good one. That's awesome to hear. Just a warning to you.

01:35:47
Speaker 4: Both were getting close to an hour, getting close to an hour. So if we want to hit some hobby, Wifey shout out and then gets a voicemail.

01:35:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, oh man, We're just dude, we're just going.

01:35:56
Speaker 2: We're getting close to.

01:35:58
Speaker 1: Does not mind we we apologize. I hope you've enjoyed the stories.

01:36:03
Speaker 4: I have a nice little dad hack. You guys, there's some dad hacks. There's some different stuff. Yeah, to rip through some of the comments if you want, and then we can get over. We have two voicemails today.

01:36:12
Speaker 2: 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 are uh. Our dad hack comes from Will Shear. Will says Hey, Will and sherm and boys in the back. This is Will Shear from Plumas Lake, California. For the Dads is my new favorite podcast. My wife is amazing and just gave birth to a toddler weighing ten pounds five ounces. Yo, so much jugarnut, God bless me. Yeah for anybody like bounce five ounces, yo, so much for the all newborn clothes in the closet.

01:36:58
Speaker 1: Yeah truly. His name is William Sheer the fourth. Yeah, he will go by Liam. Got a dad hack for Pt. Six. When changing a newborn's diaper, their hands try to help.

01:37:11
Speaker 2: That's very true. When the onesie is un zipped 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 really that's a great hack. The pod encourages me to stay locked in and present.

01:37:29
Speaker 1: Keep it up. Boys, I got I gotta, I got a dead hack, right clear. You throw your throat by the way. William Sheer the fourth, gonna go by Liam if if if I get a boy someday my wife and I are fortunate enough to have a boy one day, William the fourth, because I'm William Earl the third, and in my brain he's gonna go by Liam, So shout out will William. William Sheer is William Shear, williams shere the fourth shout out Williams. Yeah, Liam, dude, just being a torpedo coming.

01:38:04
Speaker 2: Liam's a great name. I think that's cool.

01:38:07
Speaker 1: 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 sixteen, eighteen, twenty three, just say when their birthday was. Example, they turned two in August, or they will be three in February. Nice hack. That's why I get stuck doing the math. That's why it's Jordan Chase on, not Jordan Chase off.

01:38:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, right there, he's locked in.

01:38:31
Speaker 1: I got Ryan McCollen on X just trying to get that fast pass to the shockwave.

01:38:38
Speaker 2: So this was sent into our for the dads. This was DM to us, I believe.

01:38:44
Speaker 1: Uh.

01:38:44
Speaker 2: This was the message that he wrote on a little breakfast sandwich that he got for the WiFi 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.

01:39:01
Speaker 1: I love you. Hey.

01:39:03
Speaker 2: That is phenomenal, yo, Ryan, Ryan, shut up. I bet that shock wave hit.

01:39:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet that. I got to get down in the bag immediately.

01:39:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I dude, I have a little dad hack very quickly. It's called a hook on high chair. You can get them on Amazon for like starting at thirty bucks. And 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 just I'm telling you guys. Hook on high chair look into it. There's some very affordable options on Amazon, and it just it gives the waiters and servers so much more room at restaurants.

01:39:53
Speaker 1: Dude.

01:39:54
Speaker 2: You can have it in the booth with you sick.

01:39:58
Speaker 1: Great dad hack, I got one here from time tell me Bennett on Spotify, Dad act, create a playlist for baby with your favorite slow songs. I included our first dance, what We Walked down the Aisle to, and other special songs for me and wifey. Play for baby when you're rocking them in the early days and they will associate those songs with peace and calm. Now at eight months, it has become our bedtime playlist, a car meltdown playlist. Can't wait for baby girl to watch our wedding video down the road and recognize these songs.

01:40:24
Speaker 5: MM.

01:40:24
Speaker 1: That that is heartwarming right there. That's wholesome. That's a wholesome dad hack. We want to get to Collins voicemails if.

01:40:33
Speaker 4: You want to do hubby and wifey shoutouts for oh Hubby, wifey. We got just three of those, and then let's get into some voicemails.

01:40:39
Speaker 1: Hubby shot out, I got it right here was hide and mind the hide and bayd the old iPad he'bby 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 harrisalon today with our three year old. He just lights up when our kids entered the room. He still tries to catch, he still tries to play catch. He still wants to tell them good night. His first real word after a stroke was our son's nickname. He's just so determined to let our sens know how much he still loves them, even if he can't speak. It's a great shout out, Rebecca. We're all pulling for you? Did she give a shout out his name? She we're all pulling for the hobby man.

01:41:24
Speaker 4: She sent a really nice video she had recorded him dancing in his chair with the kid that was dancing across the salon.

01:41:32
Speaker 1: What did you so? We gotta run that video? While that.

01:41:39
Speaker 2: Rebecca's a good one, dude, that Hobby's a good one too, no doubt.

01:41:45
Speaker 1: Hobby shout out.

01:41:46
Speaker 2: This one comes from Ali Seals Ali Seals Richard on Instagram. Good morning. My husband is a big bet BT sixer. He tells all his fellow dad friends are 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.

01:42:08
Speaker 1: Shout out how shout out o hebe?

01:42:10
Speaker 2: His golden birthday is coming up. It's February twenty eighth, so he's turning twenty eight on the twenty eighth, 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 fifteen 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 an ultimate superhero dad and husband. I feel so lucky to have him as a husband and dad to our baby. Thankful for y'all's as well, and hope this makes it on the sude well, Zach, I mean.

01:43:03
Speaker 1: Happy, happy birthday.

01:43:05
Speaker 2: Sounds like you truly don't need a gift on your birthday because you got a Miss Ali shield seals. Richard's at home.

01:43:13
Speaker 1: He's not bald, but yeah, hey, he on his birthday.

01:43:17
Speaker 2: You know what?

01:43:19
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Okay, maybe a little.

01:43:25
Speaker 2: Maybe a little extracurriculars before the shockwave.

01:43:29
Speaker 1: May maybe no shockwave. Maybe. Hey, it is my golden birthday.

01:43:37
Speaker 2: It is my golden birthday. Sweet hey, put a bow on it.

01:43:44
Speaker 1: Just put a little bow on it. Yeah, something done. Wrap We don't have the ya.

01:43:50
Speaker 2: Ali's a great gal, great.

01:43:53
Speaker 1: As a great goal. If we could gift from Papa Team six for the dads to Zach. Yeah, he's got verbally two funk coupons from the boys.

01:44:03
Speaker 2: He does. He just got two shockway pass yep in a bow pass okay, and that is to be that could be submitted at the same time, both coupons, but he does reserve the right that he could he could spread those out.

01:44:21
Speaker 1: The bow pass just says put a bow on it.

01:44:26
Speaker 2: Happy birthdays.

01:44:28
Speaker 1: Thank you for writing in. Ali.

01:44:32
Speaker 2: Every mom at home nown was like.

01:44:33
Speaker 1: It's not right. He cannot shot cannot give him a birthday shout.

01:44:43
Speaker 3: Oh.

01:44:44
Speaker 1: So many husbands on the flip side of that, Hey babe, they're just going to write in on behalf of their wife. Hey honey, what's your email password to get it. I'm not going to say that. I mean, but this is wife to Will, wife of Will. This his Will's wife. He doesn't dunst ship around the house.

01:45:05
Speaker 2: He's a good guy.

01:45:07
Speaker 1: Wisday do what you did for that Zach guy? Yeah? Week week he's been feeling really dreamed because he does everything around that house. And I'm just wondering if you guys have any advice on what I could do for him to leave him of some stress.

01:45:22
Speaker 2: He's just just writing in sincerely, zach scerely.

01:45:28
Speaker 1: The why Yeah, yeah, the wife. God, we have fun on this show. We do.

01:45:34
Speaker 3: Uh?

01:45:35
Speaker 2: Do we want to move on? I have I have one more? No, we're pressed on time.

01:45:38
Speaker 1: Pressed on time. Let's hit the voicemails because you I'm see an email. We do, got I have an email? Have an email too. What time are we at? We are at one. We gotta go.

01:45:48
Speaker 2: We're over an hour, Yeah, we gotta go. Yeah, we're just a little bit over.

01:45:55
Speaker 1: All right.

01:45:56
Speaker 2: This first voicemail comes from Jonah and it's titled ruined whole weekend.

01:46:04
Speaker 1: 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.

01:46:27
Speaker 2: No, Jonah, Jonah happens to me too long.

01:46:32
Speaker 1: You can't blame him, dude. You can't blame him for letting it affect him, you know. No, there's the listen, Mom can come after you, everybody else can remind you that you miss trash day.

01:46:44
Speaker 2: But there is no harder critic. Yeah, than your own self, than Jonah, than Jonah. That's why, that's why I'm not worried at all, because he's like, I got I gotta call the boys. I got to call absurd.

01:46:58
Speaker 1: He doesn't even need advice, he doesn't need a pep talk. He's already ready for the next one.

01:47:02
Speaker 2: Jonah's ready. 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?

01:47:13
Speaker 1: Respect?

01:47:13
Speaker 2: Yeahs again, shout out Jonah for the call. Man. This like gouts from basin uh Saturday Contractions Boys.

01:47:25
Speaker 6: A week ago Thursday, I was out walking the dog doing the same thing again, listening to the pod, and my wife went a contraction.

01:47:33
Speaker 1: Good.

01:47:34
Speaker 6: Well, it's a new Thursday. Six days later, still listening to the pod. But I'm a ficial member of six with little baby boy Baker thirteen. Do you know that man's gonna be a gap demon?

01:47:50
Speaker 1: Born on Friday the thirteenth, So you know that boy's gonna be an a gap demon? Baker?

01:47:55
Speaker 6: I just want to call it. They thank you guys so much. Super punk here about all the book right foundations. Mom is doing great. Is Mason from Michigan.

01:48:05
Speaker 2: Out Mason from Michigan. Let's go shout out you and mom, shout up Baker a little Friday the thirteenth, baby, that's it.

01:48:15
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope Mason's doing all right. Audrey Remember remember how Audrey left because she wanted to be a mom. Ag Yeah, AUGI a Augie 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 sex from the group chat see that, see that their baby comes. Immediately text the father, immediately text her, Hey, how's dad doing? You know what I mean? Yeah, because dad's need to be Yeah, congrats first a, Yeah, congrats. I hope you're well. How's that? How's dad?

01:48:49
Speaker 2: How? How's he doing? Is he Is he well rested? Has he been well fed? Did they spoil him? Put him in a chair? Force one?

01:48:57
Speaker 1: Like? Yeah, how's his neck and back doing being on the couch? Yeah? Yeah, how's dad? But what she said?

01:49:05
Speaker 2: She laughed like, oh, he's doing just fine, like you were joking.

01:49:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are just gotta laugh. Then I text him on the side, Hey, how you doing? Be real with it? Start anything with Audrey, so you just laugh too. Yeah, yeah, I know, mom and baby's great. How are you because nobody's gonna ask you how you're doing? BET six got your back, dude. Congrats to them.

01:49:30
Speaker 2: Congrats to them. Massive shout out.

01:49:32
Speaker 1: The massive shout out to Augy, massive shout out to Mason. Mason, you're in the You're in the gutter now he's he's BET six sleepless nights. Your life is over feeding and a new one has just forgotten. Yeah. Well, maybe maybe mom's doing the feedings every time, doing the breastfeeding, and you got to be the one to wake up with her.

01:49:51
Speaker 2: They want you to wake up with him.

01:49:53
Speaker 1: Oh, will you wake up with me? Because I don't know if I can do it if you're not awake with me.

01:49:57
Speaker 2: If I if he's doing the and am I doing it?

01:50:00
Speaker 3: Right?

01:50:00
Speaker 1: Do you think this is what the milk precin said when they when we.

01:50:03
Speaker 2: Did did honey the gray?

01:50:06
Speaker 1: You do the good job? That's it right? Shut out moms. Bro, God, we're so lame, just like that. Hoy, this is a good joke. I gotta be up with her.

01:50:23
Speaker 4: Sh sureman, 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 thirty more that's really nice that I was looking through, which one If you promise to go fast.

01:50:32
Speaker 1: I will go fast on third voicemail, Okay, promise promise.

01:50:37
Speaker 5: Hey boys. Twenty six year old female here who watched the pod big fan listening to the episode where Taylor announced it says new baby on the way. Congrats Taylor. Congrest and one forty seven forty eight. You read your lesson of the week about how you never know when your kid agreeed to you about the door for the last time. I just want to say, even as a twenty six 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 to the door, I still go up and greet him. So it's still in your future. It doesn't go away if you raised right. So yeah, I love my dad. I always will have a great day.

01:51:27
Speaker 1: Sweet sweet Victory. Dude, that felt so good. I'm glad you made us listen to that. Yeah, I am too.

01:51:36
Speaker 2: That felt so good to hear, dude. She remained anonymous, so to anonymous, his dad shout out, shut out. You're a good one, dude.

01:51:47
Speaker 1: Yeah that's again. Shut out moms again, shout out moms again. I know we sit here and act the full and act obnoxious, but moms are great. We know who the real ones are. We we will say we know who the real ones are at all times where we're just joking. We love the bus balls and have fun. We do we're joking.

01:52:07
Speaker 2: Courtney Strong wrote an email Tourney Strong will and sure advice needed. I'm a twenty nine year old single woman looking to find my Ptsicico. Your show gets me in the feels on every sde hearing the love and grace you have for your wife and kids and all the ptsiccos 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 MT six in the future. It didn't work out, and that took all the wind out of my sales 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 ptsicico 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 ptsiico. I hesitate to go on dating apps and don't go out to bars as often. All my friends are either in long term ships or getting married. This is a Midwestern Michigan girly that needs help from the real ones. Blessed for you, boys, Courtney.

01:53:53
Speaker 1: Strong Courty sounds like a catch. He sounds like a catch, Dude, We do we need to have our own dating app. There's gotta be an st sixer out there, A little curious wait.

01:54:13
Speaker 2: She has her own house, she's got a cute dog, she's financially stable, and she's like, go with some.

01:54:19
Speaker 4: Send your submissions to our email and we'll maybe ford them along. Maybe we'll forward it to Courtney who knows. Send your picture and what you do PT six for a living, and like why you could be her pt Siko or whatever we'll make love.

01:54:31
Speaker 1: Here or if you're an ST sixer 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 Semen Team sixer advice from Chef our Semen.

01:54:47
Speaker 3: Team Courtney Codney Courtney. I'm very serious when I say that this. Go find the guy that if you're from Michigan when the Mazon Blue are on, he's screaming at TV. Now that that sounds crazy off the bat, but let me tell you there's no one more loyal than a man who screams at his TV at the TV during a game while his favorite college football team is playing.

01:55:13
Speaker 1: I will stand by that to the day I die.

01:55:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get a guy who is like, I don't care what, No, it doesn't matter if we 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 would like to I'm wearing a Nebraska shirt by any corn Huskers.

01:55:30
Speaker 1: Those are loyal people.

01:55:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know any Big ten team, a lot of SEC squads out there that those are the winners right there. And then you just got to put up with the fact they scream at the TV.

01:55:40
Speaker 1: But that's okay. So a fan of college football, a sicko fan of college football, or good NFL franchise or good NFL the team that they love. Maybe Courtney's not a sports girl.

01:55:54
Speaker 2: I would say this to Courtney as far as where I found the most success dating slash, how I met Jill because I was set up on a blind date is the go.

01:56:07
Speaker 1: You were set up on a blind date too, Derek, you were too.

01:56:11
Speaker 2: 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.

01:56:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's great advice.

01:56:34
Speaker 2: I Yeah, I just I couldn't. I'm not I'm not a gur real, I not a love gurrial.

01:56:39
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of game either. Now 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. You don't want to mess around with the nonsense or the bullshit. But maybe there's a gentleman or a pt of potential pet siko on the apps and they you guys just both you haven't found each other yet. Yeah, nothing against the apps, nothing against the apps.

01:57:07
Speaker 2: At all, but you know, obviously it's like dudes ain't shit.

01:57:10
Speaker 1: So a lot of times you're on there, guys are trying to get car washed, have a little bit of fun, surface law, you know, keep it service level, maybe go on a date. In 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 offen, it probably seems like a hassle doing that. I get it. But if that's what you're Opolini calling me, I love that so much. Bo you gotta good lord that actually I kind of mind you to do. Yeah, but if a priority in your life is finding a man, I would say you approach you like anything else, like no, you know, no stone left unturned, Like trying to figure out what the vibes are. You're gonna I hate some of them, but it's worth trying. Yeah, but oh, Courtney finds somebody. She seems like a she seems like a good one, somebody who who's bought their own house, has their own shit together, laid bag vibes.

01:58:12
Speaker 4: Bro, she sounds like a chiller. And yeah, twenty nine is nothing. I found mine at thirty one. Loads of time left twenty nine. You got loads of time.

01:58:22
Speaker 2: I got married at thirty, Courtney, I got married at thirty Yeah.

01:58:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rue is what three?

01:58:29
Speaker 2: How old am I?

01:58:31
Speaker 1: You're four years on thirty six?

01:58:33
Speaker 2: You're thirty six?

01:58:34
Speaker 1: Rue is three?

01:58:36
Speaker 2: So yeah, I got married at thirty two. Yeah, you got married a thirty two.

01:58:39
Speaker 1: You have plenty of time.

01:58:40
Speaker 2: You got plenty of time. I know those fears are real, but you want the fears to be so real that you're forcing the issue and you settle.

01:58:47
Speaker 1: 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 gonna find You're gonna find your person.

01:58:56
Speaker 2: And if you find your person through things that bring you life and bring you to and happiness, I would say nine times out ten, that's going to be a winner. Yeah, Rather that's Hobby's friends, family, whatever.

01:59:08
Speaker 1: It was a good question. That's kind of a tough question. That's a tough question, especially without knowing Courtney and knowing you know more context and everything else, and respect to her for trustedness. 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 WIFEI 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 babies, our baby girl's heart was dropping low. Not knowing how my girls were doing, all I could do was cry. I hated to help us, feeling or the unknown of what could happen. Thankfully, our little our little fighter pulled through. Hearing or watching you guys every weekends 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, Scottie and Scarlet will be so proud of their dads. Ps.

02:00:11
Speaker 2: Can Andy record himself reading the book so we can play them for bedtime? Shut shout out, Andy.

02:00:20
Speaker 1: There's right there. We have tier jerkers. I do have a sad alert one. So while I'm just feeling the vibe, like, let's just okay, let's just dive in by the way, hector, shout out you man, there's nothing you know, your little five dale laying on your chest. Will mom gets you much much needed sleep. It's been a grind with the kiddos at times, doing the solo dad parenting with Mom out of town. But it's a grind that's worth it. It's like the diaper, the diaper pel, you know, fills up and you're sitting there pushing on it.

02:00:51
Speaker 2: And you're like, all right, I gotta take out the goddamn trash. I gotta take out this diaper pel. It's smelling up the place. You got to do all these things.

02:00:57
Speaker 1: Rue has been we do sleepovers with I'm out of town, or if I'm out of town and real do sleep over with mom, or she sleeps on our bed. So she's been ripping with me for like four nights in a row, and it's some of the best times of my life, dude, of my life. Like last night, I crawled in bed around ten thirty 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 she's be like, man, this is it's gonna fly by. It is flying by, and it is incredible because some nights that 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 I did because Rue was missing Mom so much that I was trying to find ways to calm her down. And I'm like, I know, sweetheart dead, I miss his mama too, And I'm like, you know, I missed my mama, and kind of telling her about my mom and talking about what happened on my mom passed away. How'd she show your mom died? I was like, yeah, my mama died, and she's like, cow out, I'm taking her through it. And I was like, Mama, my mom wrote me a little book over here, and and I'm like I miss hey. Look, I miss my mama too. I missed my mama every day. Your mom is going to be back in a couple of days, and that is amazing that mom was gonna get to come home. And you're gonna be so happy when my mama comes home because I miss your mama. I missed mama too, And I empathize with you because I missed 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'm showing 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 up and when I was first born and what she got. 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 dead while you said, I'm like, oh, I missed one.

02:03:17
Speaker 3: You know what.

02:03:20
Speaker 1: I miss mom too. So we can lay here to together, we can cry together, like it's you know, Mama's gonna come back.

02:03:27
Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome. Mama loves you so much and it makes dad. I feel good to talk about my mom to you, yeah, because I'm sadly it's like you'll never get to meet her. But so your boy read your boy read the book and Honestly, when I got done, the next night, she wanted to read that book.

02:03:46
Speaker 1: She's sitting on the bed. I have a photo She's on the bed flipping to the book. I take a picture and send it to Charrow because I'm telling her. I'm like, hey, I read I read the stuff my mom filled out and wrote for me, and it's been all it. It felt like that was like the perfect moment to bring it out and do it because she was just she was struggling with mom out of town because you do FaceTime and Mom's at dinner and it's just, you know, it's just brutal. It's just brutal how much she likes it's sad and miss his mom. And then these last few nights, I've just been We've read different parts of the book. I'll be like, oh, well, here's a question that was asked to mom. Here's what Here's what she said, you bet are those pictures of the of those your brothers, are those your family? And it's you know, it's just drawings and illustrations of other people in the book. And uh, but yeah, dude, each night I've gotten a like crack up in that book and read just a different different portion.

02:04:36
Speaker 2: Well, I've read through it all.

02:04:37
Speaker 1: 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, and you know, I'm thinking, hey, I miss my mom too. That and miss his mama too, your mama. Where's your mama? Beck?

02:04:57
Speaker 3: Was it?

02:04:57
Speaker 2: Is it the lady that grandpa's with. I'm like, no, oh, that was that's not mama. You didn't get to meet mama.

02:05:03
Speaker 1: 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.

02:05:23
Speaker 2: That makes me very happy.

02:05:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good man. It's when when I got done and I'm like, you know, sitting there laying through and everything else, I was like, I was like, damn, it felt like this was the moment, like it all this was, this was how I was supposed to go down.

02:05:38
Speaker 2: So I tell myself anyway, but uh moment, Yeah, so let's dive into this satellite.

02:05:45
Speaker 1: Lord, dude, I know Grant Overholser on Facebook sad Alert love the content. Here's my story. I'll keep it brief. My daughters and I lost their mom in twenty seventeen. I was stationed in New York and they lived in Arkansas. The military kept us apart. I moved to Arkansas the same day she passed. Guys, what a shock. I took lessons on how to do hair, how to cook, and how to raise girls. And I'm still learning. When I moved to Arkansas, the crew I flew with in the Marines in New York all died in a plane crash five months later. Not only did I have to navigate being a single dad, but I had to figure out 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.

02:07:14
Speaker 2: He would have been on the plane. Yankee seventy two was the crew. Here I am nine years later. My daughters are crushing it. I'm crushing it, and my wife adopted our daughters.

02:07:30
Speaker 1: And we have a son. Now. Thanks for being great dudes, and thanks for being a great outlet to escape. Grand hats off to you, brother, I you can't imagine going through something like that.

02:07:49
Speaker 2: Thank you for considering us as great dudes. Yeah, because to hear that somebody that's been through all that, it's a pleasure to have you listen to our show and five joy of it.

02:08:00
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure, man.

02:08:04
Speaker 2: And it's like that now I sit here, I'm like, we talk about put a boat on it and shock Wave. We obviously talk about all you know, great stuff that we love and the passionate about Grant, bro, dude, we love you.

02:08:22
Speaker 3: That is.

02:08:23
Speaker 1: It's just another perspective. It's just another story that reminds you that whatever you're going through, there are things out there that people have went through that just that just shock you and then make you think, dude, how lucky aren't we? Yeah, and even Grant, I'm sure there's other perspectives that he finds. He's like, man, it's still how lucky? Am I? You know that sucks? That's brutal, but no one. Nine years later, Yeah, he found a wife who adopted her to 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 like have a family with to feel like, hey, yes I would, I would. It would be an honor for you to adopt my daughters and then you know, have a have a son. That's hard man finding your way with all that going down. He's imagine your wife passing away and you're you're you're off in the military.

02:09:44
Speaker 2: But that added guilty of like the only reason that he's still here and kicking in his mind is his wife's passing as well. Yeah, added layer is like that has a lot to work through mentally. Yeah, that's crazy on the.

02:09:59
Speaker 1: Mental side of 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 Monta happened after that, and then baby boys not even in the picture. Yeah, man, Golly.

02:10:39
Speaker 2: Grant Overholzer on Facebook.

02:10:42
Speaker 4: I crept a very heavy Happy birthday Grant. It was February second, So happy birthday to Grant.

02:10:47
Speaker 1: Happy birthday Grant and Green.

02:10:49
Speaker 2: If you've listened to this episode, you get two funk coupons.

02:10:57
Speaker 1: Got to break up this sadness? Do you want me to put a bow on it with a little Dan Gable? Yeah, please give us a day in Gable quote the BT six So that we've been that, we've been laughing, We've been trying to chime in with opinions, trying to find the next BET sixer for Courtney like feeling all things, crying, being sad, like what are we talking about? Moments?

02:11:20
Speaker 2: We need a day in Gable quote cerumission 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 and or asked, Hey, do you want to cut the cord? And his first his response that my mom has written in there is do you have somebody more qualified?

02:11:52
Speaker 1: Yeah?

02:11:52
Speaker 2: I believe so.

02:11:56
Speaker 1: Oh Billy boy, Billy, what a legend. Oh you got somebody more qualify? That's the Duke of Monte right there. I can see him laugh after that joke. I'll cut the gord, go right here, give me that shit? What do I do.

02:12:12
Speaker 6: This?

02:12:13
Speaker 2: This comes from a young Dan Gable back in the nineteen seventies. This comes from a very rare source of material of him talking to a wrestling camp of kiddos in the seventies. 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 you good the guy is or how bad the guy is in wrestling. I can learn things from watching you guys wrestle. Almost every one of you probably have has a certain thing you do differently, or a favorite hold. If I can pick that up, that's just going to add a little bit more to my wrestling knowledge, and it's going to help.

02:13:20
Speaker 1: Me a lot. Day. Gable was he was a little jit, and he was like, this is garbage. This guy doesn't know what he's saying.

02:13:30
Speaker 2: He don't know what he's saying. But I should have listened to him. Every single thing he said was right.

02:13:35
Speaker 1: That's cud, That's that's that's life right there. That's life.

02:13:38
Speaker 2: That's us right now thinking about everything our parents told us. Yeah, that's going to be our kids thinking about what we tell them one day, what our grandparents were telling us. Yeah, dude, one of my I just want to say this, one of my favorite sades. I try not to do that at the end of sets. But this was truly one of my favorite sets.

02:13:57
Speaker 1: This is a great so this was. Yeah, it's fantastic. If you got you got something out of it. If you have a win, a loss, something you want to share. Do not hesitate to comment. Yeah, do not hesitate to call in even if you want.

02:14:09
Speaker 2: To just say, I fucking forgot to take out the trash.

02:14:12
Speaker 1: See you, Well, don't forget you said the comment to pt FIT.

02:14:18
Speaker 2: That's why we've covered a lot of this episode.

02:14:22
Speaker 1: We gotta get pt FIT. God save these people. Are this spot? Hey after four months?

02:14:34
Speaker 2: Yeah?

02:14:34
Speaker 1: What what are the photos called? Transformation? For it? After?

02:14:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, the transformational photos. I'm a PT fiddo just.

02:14:44
Speaker 1: Before it is the PT Thiko and then attend to fiddo P thinko is on real Derek, incredible. I love you guys. Take out the trash? Yeah, do it.

02:15:00
Speaker 2: I gotta give you a hug. That was That was a good job.