April 6, 2026 • 33 mins
Bobby talks about getting baby gifts from celebrities and his wife leaving him with the baby at home. He shares stories about his first stretch alone with the baby and realizes pretty quickly he’d rather be home with her than anywhere else. From turning down lunch plans to finding a new rhythm at home, he shares what surprised him most about stepping into dad mode!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So today was a big day. My wife left the
house today for the first time and left me in
charge of the baby. Now, there have been multiple instances
where I have had Billy our baby for an hour
an hour and a half, and that's grown by the
way she trust me more and more, but today was
the first time she left the house. I was proud
(00:22):
for her for leaving the house. I know she was
nervous to leave the house. Not so much that it
was me she was leaving the baby with that made
her nervous, but the fact that she since the baby
was born, has not been sixty feet from the baby ever.
So big day today. As I'm recording this, it is
my birthday, and so my wife texted me. I was like, yeah,
you want to do a birthday launch or something, and
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I didn't, and for the first time, I was like,
I just really come home and hang out with you
and the baby. I do find myself on days that
are packed with work because I'll go from the radio
studio which is downtown, to another studio that we built
in town, and then I have a studio my house,
so I kind of got three studios and for the
most part in my career, if it was close, I
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would stay somewhere just a little longer and go straight
to the other place. I do find myself now going
home if I do have even fifteen minutes. And I
know we're just three weeks into the baby being born,
but I do find myself going home just to hang out,
like with the family now with the unit. So that
feels like new and fun and it's a priority, and
(01:28):
not just so I can see my wife, but also
so I can see the baby, but equally so today
big day. The baby's alive. My wife texts me while
she was gone and she's like, everything going okay, and
I said, down, we're in the pool. Don't worry about it.
She knew that wasn't the case. But big day in
our house because my wife left the house. She was
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gonna drive the baby for the first time today. In
just the full story about why she left, she had
ordered me a birthday cake and she had to order
it a few weeks ago because I can't have dairy.
And so there's a person that we go to who
we actually just found on Instagram here in town in Nashville,
and anytime we want like a cool cake made, it's
like two hundred fifty bucks. So that's an expensive cake, yes,
(02:10):
but it's a massive cake and you just say what
design what you want on it. So we weren't really
doing anything for my birthday specifically, and so my wife
had a big Arkansas razorback cake made, which is super cool.
And there's really gonna be no party or anything. It'll
be me and my wife and her mom is in town,
so our mother in law, and so she went to
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get the cake and it was either she drived the
baby for the first time because most lavenue I want
to drive the baby, and those little mirrors kind of
suck that you because I'm driving and the baby. It's
if you did never have a kid. The car seat
faces the back seat, so you have to put a
mirror on the headrest and so you have to look
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in your mirror to catch that mirror to catch the baby.
I have bad vision. Anyway, you could probably put a
baby doll in that thing and I would think it
was the baby. But she didn't feel like driving the
baby today, so she left the baby with me, and
I think that'll be the next step. We did do
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the car seats, and now obviously we did the car
seats in my car before she even went into the
hospital for labor, And man, you talk about people HIPing
something up like it was gonna be the craziest, hardest
thing that ever happened. You're you gonna be okay with
the car seat. If you need to drive to the
police station, you know you can do that. They have
somebody that they'll teach you. And so leading up to it,
I just kept kicking the can because I thought, man,
(03:32):
this is gonna be so hard. I don't want to
deal with it yet. So it was about a week
before we started to feel like Caylen was going to
go into the hospital, and I said, let me just
see if I can do the car seat. And it's
a base that really goes in. Now, it was one
of the easiest things I've ever done. So either that
means that car seat isn't terribly or it's just very
easy to put in. There are these two little clips
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under the seat and that base just goes click click.
You're basically in from that there's one little state and
right there. So when it came time to put hers in,
which we have done, it was super easy. We get
to do something about the mirrors because if you're supposed
to turn around and look in the mirror, that's very dangerous,
and I don't think you are. I think you're supposed
to go mirror to mirror to baby. But big day today.
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She didn't drive the baby yet, but she didn't leave
the baby, so I'm feeling pretty good about that. Now.
I've done a couple of these podcast type things where
we just talk about the baby. At first, I did
a baby State of the Union because it was every
question that I was getting in my DMS, and so
I thought if I generally just get on and answer
the questions, that would be good for everybody. I won't
get the same questions anymore, and you guys that are
(04:40):
submitting questions about our baby can have some answers. Now.
I don't have the capacity to do another full podcast,
and I don't want to exhaust myself anymore than I
already have, and scheduling has been very hard doing multiple podcasts.
But we're gonna try something here in a second, because
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there are so many people that also want to come
and talk with me, literally about parenting. I know nothing
about parenting right I'm three weeks into this thing, and
I know very little I've read some stuff. I've lived
three weeks of it. The one thing that I think
I'm gonna do even less I really didn't do it
to begin with, because I don't do it in general,
is parent shame. I'm just not a shamer in general anyway,
because I think we're all living are versions of life,
(05:24):
dealing with the environment that we're in and the circumstances
that were given. So it really doesn't to me. I
don't feel good shaming anyone about anything. And I don't
really think I was parent shaming when I didn't have kids,
But man, when I see people parent shaming now, I'm
just like, you're an awful person because you do not
know what that mom or dad or grandma is going
(05:45):
through with that baby or four year old or nine
year old. And there are so many different ways to
parent a kid, just from my small version of this,
and really there's not a right way. And when I
started to read stuff in books now, non scientific stuff
because some of the stuff that I've read that is about
a baby's digestion, that stuff that's science, I'm in, but
(06:06):
mostly about technique. All of the opinions on technique are
just based off the people's environments and the circumstances they
were given that wrote the books. So I'm not even
parent shaming at all. I'm not doing this as a
full podcast, but because of the interest in other people
talking about parenting and their kids and this platform, I thought,
what if I just occasionally do an episode with other
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parents and it just goes up on the YouTube channel
at Bobby Bones channel or like the bobbycast feed or
something like that, and who knows, we do one a month,
one every two weeks, two a week. There's really no
cadence to it. But what if we're able to do
something like that? And so then I started to think,
well what would I call it? And I had two
names that came to mind. And the first thing I
did was search out both of those names to make
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sure that nobody owned or really used these names at
a high level. That does a matter which one I
go to first? It isn't you have all? How many
pictures do you guys have of per each? How many?
How many graphics? So I came up with two names
that I wanted to try. I'm gonna run them up
here on the screen. I've not seen these images. How
(07:11):
many each do you have the first one. Just said
the first one okay, the next one, okay, what's the Okay?
So I had two names in mind, and the first
name was kind of stupid. Now I'm kind of embarrassing,
I'm out loud. The first one was talk Daddy to Me,
(07:35):
which is like the plays Talk Dirty to Me, but
it's daddy. So talk Daddy to Me. And so that
was the first one, and so I hit Brandon it
up and I said, hey, I just google search. There
are no other podcasts called talk Daddy to Me. There's
probably a reason for that because it could possibly be
a stupid name. I said, but can you mock up
(07:56):
some images where if we did this parenting series and
we called it talk Daddy to Me, that you'd be
able to see that. All right, So here we go.
Here's the first one. Oh, this looks safe. Talk Daddy
to Me, presented by Bobby Bones for those that are
just listening. I love the colors, all the primary colors.
(08:20):
There's the blocks that's spelled daddy. Alright, good, that's how
many of these do you have? Okay? So this is
image number one, and talk Daddy to Me. That one
doesn't feel that that creepy. I like that, all right.
It creates the second one. Okay, talk Daddy to me,
all in red with the glasses of the two d's. Ah,
(08:41):
that's pretty cool. The glasses of the two d's is
pretty cool. I like the red, the red letters. I'm
taking this in for the first time. If you're watching
on YouTube, you're with me here looking at it. Okay.
So that was the first idea, and I was like, Okay,
that one feels like it could possibly be a little corny.
(09:05):
And so I was thinking of another idea. And there
was a television show. It was black and white and
they used to show it on Nick at Night and
it was called Father Knows Best. And for me, I
was like, I don't know best. I thought the TV
show Angle was funny. Knew people wouldn't gt it because
it was a black and white show, But I said,
what if we called it Father Knows Less? A playoff
(09:26):
Father Knows Best? But also it's me going I don't
know anything. I'm like an act like I know anything.
I'll just share with you. My experiences were going I
probably know less. So here's the first image for Father
Knows Less. Okay, it's me sitting in my red letter. Oh,
I like the less sign.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So that was the first.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's a good one. I like the less sign. Father
knows lesson red letters with the less sign after that
lest sign is pretty cool. The glasses were cool too, Yeah,
on the two d's all right, show me another one. Okay,
so just bigger, no picture, all right, give me another one. Okay,
(10:09):
I like that. I like that one of this, but
that that lest signs really cool.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
There's another one with the less sign on the left side.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
There, but that wouldn't mean I know more because it's
open to me. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It was confusing?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, what named? Because you guys don't get the father
knows best reference, you don't have to. It still makes
sense as to what I'm trying to say. The only
which one are you drawing to? Father knows less? Just
talk daddy to me? Feel weird. I think it's a
little combative, combative.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
The original phrase.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Talk dirty, ry much money you like best.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
At first, I was like, dude, it's talk daddy to me.
But then the more I thought, the more I thought
about it, less like it just it fits you. It
fits like your belief and everything, and I think it's
I think it's just as clever.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You know, go back, Can you go back to that
you're getting feedback? Yeah, let's go to call her nine.
And this isn't even live. That's how amazing it is
that we have poets here. So I think I like
Father knows Less, So I think we may just right
(11:31):
now whole placehold this as Father knows Less, like Bobby
Bones presents Father knows Less. You guys feel good about that? Yeah,
I think the less sign. I think that's really cool.
I think it's a good that's a really good idea.
So whenever you can get that back up, you can
put that back up. Uh So, yeah, again, I'm not
going to commit to this being some weekly podcast because
(11:53):
I don't between the Bobby Bone Show all five days
and then we do a whole second show, the Bobby
Cast being at least two days of week, twenty five
Whistles being at least two days a week, which is
a sports show, the NFL Show lots to Sabi in
once a week. I don't have a lot of time
for other podcasts, but I do think this will be fun,
so we'll do Father give me the other one. I
(12:14):
don't like how I look Okay, I think I think
this is cool. Father knows Less. Yeah, we'll do Bobby
Ones Presents Father.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Knows Less and.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Then do some usision to it. But I do like
the letters, the simplicity of it. That's cool. Okay, So
this is what this is going to be called, Father
knows Less? I did when I googled that, and then
I went into like the podcast and just googled podcast titles.
The only thing that popped up was there was a
book from like twenty seventeen. There was a play on
Father Knows Best as well, and it was like the
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Father Knows Less and La La la, And there have
been titles of episodes of certain things. Did you look
it up to? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Episode, and they did a podcast episode on that TV episode.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was surprised. I don't know if I'm celebrating myself
for having such a good idea, but I thought, this
has got to be a common Ish idea, right, Yeah,
maybe people just don't get the black and white television
show reference.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But it's such a common phrase too though.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh it is best do what he says, you know,
all right, we're committing to father knows Less than the
US Okay, good deal. I had a pass farm in
my mouth yesterday and it wasn't really on purpose. I
was holding the baby and she gets fussy at times,
(13:38):
and when you're holding the baby with both hands for
those that are watching, and she's holding a pacify in
her mouth, and she tends to bulldog it. Sometimes they
just do this with their head. I have a bulldog
as why I reference that movement because my bulldog does
it as well. So she's do going back and forth
with the passify in her mouth and it starts to
come out of her mouth. Now I got both hands
on her, and I don't want to take a hand
and put it on the passifire to hold it. But
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as everybody knows, I had to. It's had a baby
is Once passified hits the floor, it's dead. You don't
use it again until you can what we have. We
have a bunch of alcohol swabs at the house, so
we will disinfect it and then rinse it off because
the alcohol won't taste good. Obviously, I don't want the
passifire to die. So what I did is I took
my chin to put it and hold it the pacifier
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in her mouth, and as soon as it did it
flipped right in my mouth. So that's the person. I've
had a passifire my mouth like that, like straight fened
the baby's mouth to my mouth. I think, though, that's
a dead pacifier, the same as it had fallen on
the floor. So I did kill the passifire. But that's
my first story. I have a friend who hit me
up the other day and he said, hey, is it
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weird to you that your mom will never get to
meet your baby? Because my mom died years ago and
my mom was the age that I am now, which
is what's crazy. And so I said, yeah, that is weird,
and I've thought about that. I was sad that my
mom was never able to meet my child. And this
is a friend whose mom has also died, which is
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why he was asking me that, And so we were
talking about that a little bit and then he said
to me, is it weird that your dad left? Because
could you ever see you leaving your baby? Now, this
is a friend who had similar stories me. Grandma raised him,
mom has passed away. Dad left when he was little,
(15:23):
and I think that's probably why it was so easy
to talk about it with each other. And I remember thinking,
and again, my biological dad was seventeen when I was born.
My mom got pregnant at fifteen, right after her sixteenth birthday,
had me, So he was a kid. So a little
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bit of me can understand a kid making an immature decision.
But I think for me, it was how do you
not come back? Like? This is what we talked about,
I said, Because my biological dad was so young, a
little bit I can give him a pass because kids
do very immature things, I said, But when I'm like eleven,
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nine thirteen, like, how do you not come back? How
do you stay gone? Like that to me is what's
difficult now. And I think there are all these new
feelings that I'm having about my parents now that I
am a parent, and it's just a few weeks in,
like I'm coming to terms with some things, and I'm
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sure I'm just scratching the surface of all this. But
it wasn't that I was angry at my biological dad
for leaving. I think I became angry at him again
for not coming back. That was the weird part for me.
I'm not someone who meditates. I've tried. I'm not a
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meditation hater, and I've probably had three different seasons in
my life when I've tried to meditate through the different
jobs in cities I've lived and different levels of whatever
success or mild fame that I've had. There have been
security issues as my job has gotten bigger. Honestly, the
(17:14):
security issues have gotten bigger, and that makes sense. And
so it went from you know, when I was on
Little Rock, I got held a gunpoint outside of a
station event, pistol whipped. I was at an ATM. There's
a whole situation that messed up my head for a
long time, got my house broken into, had some death threats,
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got jumped outside of work, Like I had four or
five things that were really scary to me then, but
like long term became scarier to me as as I
think the reality of possibly almost dying was in me,
(17:58):
because when it first happens, you just like, oh crap,
that's crazy. But then you start reliving and you start
having this PTSD type it's PTSD. I feel weird calling
a PTSD because there are people that have been to
war and they have and there's no real and fake PTSD.
Mine feels a bit fake, but mine's real, right, Like
I had real crap happen to me and so I've
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tried to meditate to sleep better because for a long
time me not being able to sleep was making me sick.
So I'll try meditation. I would get on these apps
i'd read about meditation, and it really consisted of me
sitting on the either the edge of my bed or
bottom of my bed, thinking a single thought over and
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over again, trying to slow my mind down towards I'm
not thinking of a lot of other things. Like from
what I've learned through meditation is that if I can
focus on one thing, everything else stops and it allows
a bit of clarity. I've really struggled with it, and
I would try it for thirty forty minutes at a
time and either it just wouldn't take or I'd fall
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asleep one of the two. And each time I would
quit because I mean really, because I was a quitter,
Because I think if I would have stuck with it,
I think I could have actually gotten pretty good at it.
But I was a quitter in that world, and so
never been somebody who's been good at meditating and just
slowing down. I found something that happens now, and it's
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kind of a forced meditation. So, like I mentioned, My
wife does ninety percent of feeding the baby, changing the baby,
and if I'm home, I'm there, I'm changing along with her.
I'm helping her in every way possible. But I can't
do some of the things that she can do. But
her back starts to hurt, lower back, like her neck
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starts to hurt because she's always bending down with the baby.
And so not only do I just want to give
her a break to go and you know, take shower,
watch a show if she wants to watch a show,
like do something that is not so just always intense
focusing on the baby. So I want to give her
a break from that. But also it's like physically I
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want to give her a break because again she's always
hunched over or if she's feet that is, all the
things that they're doing with their body. And so the
last few nights, as I give her a break, especially
at night it's dark, I hold the baby, rock the baby.
There's no phone. I'll play light music and I keep
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the phone down. We have a chair in our room
now that's a rocker. It's not like a rocking chair,
but it's a comfortable chair that rocks. And so I'll
play the music and mostly it's just like nineties alternative,
like slow nineties alternative. It's like Oasis, counting Crows, pearl
jam And I found myself starting to be able to
do the things that I tried to do for so
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long when it comes to meditation, because I don't have
the my nuts it's so bad last night and I
couldn't scratch them because I had both hands on the baby.
So all my focus is on this baby. I can't
I'm not on my phone. The baby has this thing
too where she likes to crawl up and put her
head in my neck. She likes to like my chin
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on top of her, and she likes and if I'm
not she'll crawl She'll already crawl up a little bit
into my neck. But because I can do nothing, I
literally can do nothing. And I found the last few
nights me inching toward that place where it feels like
a meditative state, to where I'm a bit able to
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slow the world down around me mentally because I have
no other choice but to do so with the baby.
So again, I'm no meditation expert. I have felt multiple
times at trying in a way that I was taught,
but being in a dark room music on focused on
the baby. It's almost allowed me to have the kind
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of thinking I have when I'm in the shower. And
I don't know if everybody thinks like this the same way,
but when you're in the shower, you're not able to
watch a screen, be on your phone, you're not able
to talk to people, like there's nothing except you and
you're under the water. So for me, a lot of
clarity happens when I'm in the shower because there's nowhere
else to go, there's nothing else to do, It's just
me in my mind. But I found that I can
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get really close to meditating with the baby at night,
so that's been pretty cool. One of the other things
that's been hard is and she's sleeping all the way
to the night. She slept for eight hours last night.
She's three weeks old. I don't know how crazy that is,
but for us, because it feels like and again she's
only three weeks old, and it feels like two years
and one day at the same time, because it feels
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like just yesterday she was born. But also it's been
super hyper focused on her, Like she sleeps eight hours
through the night at three weeks old, it's wild. So
we're celebrating, and so we have to feed her every
two and a half hours or so now. But the
problem is when we feed her, and this probably happens
with the most newborns, she falls asleep while she's eating.
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So as she's eating, she's out, and so we're like, oh,
you gotta eat because she has to eat a bunch
of during the daytime till she sleeps at night. And
we have had to develop techniques to keep her awake
while she eats, which involves tickling her feet while she eats. Now,
if you did that to me, I'd be pissed. But also,
I'm not gonna fall asleep Theserbert. Everybody familiar with Deserbert,
(23:31):
well Serbert on her face while she eats, because the
main goal is keeping the baby awake. I've gotten some really,
I don't want to say great, but just the real
thoughtful gifts from folks. I was never the person to
buy baby gifts because I never had a baby, Like,
I didn't know that world. And now that we had
(23:52):
a baby and people are giving us gifts, like, I
feel the need. Now I see someone's gonna have a baby,
Like I'm like, oh, man, I want to get I
want to jump in like I want to get gifts
for people now too. But I really didn't know the
baby culture. But Matt Castle, who I do the NFL
show with, he got us this like a backpack, a
(24:12):
monogram backpack and like a monogram bunny I posted on
my Instagram mister Bobby Bones with her name on it,
which was super cool. Tim McGrath sent over some really
nice stuff. Well sorry, the McGrath family, So Tim and
Faith they sent over. I didn't want to say what
it is because it was like rich people gift. They're rich.
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They sent over a really nice gift. It's French, I'll
just say that. And Maggie Rose, who's been on this podcast,
excellent singer, she sent over a monogram like really nice bag.
And then obviously all our friends too. But I just
the baby culture is something that I did not know
or understand, but now I'm kind of excited to get
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people baby gifts. Dylan, who is one of the producers
here or just announced he's happened to baby Dylan is
your mic on? Can you turn it on?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I can?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
How did you feel announcing it? Uh? It felt good?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It was you know we've known since like January, so
finally being.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Able to oh dude, it feels like forever, right a.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Little bit is nice? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Whenever we found out, from the moment we found out,
when we could share, it fell like ten years. Yeah,
did you tell anyone in your close circle? Immediately?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Funny you say that, so you were actually the first
one to know, because I just completely like slipped when
we were in La Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Of course we were sitting at the table. I didn't
know that we were the first people you told. So
why I know We're all sitting at the table, We're
having dinner. We heard it from like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop restaurant. Yeah,
had it uber Eatsten, Like I remember vividly. We were
all like, oh my god, that's awesome. How did that slip? Though?
What was the conversation?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Eddie was asking me like questions and I was like,
you know, I've never really been asked like the kid
thing like that was the first.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Time any Oh that was it? Like are you gonna
have kids? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And I didn't I don't think I like said anything.
I just like made a face and Eddie was like, well,
what's that, and I was like, oh, well, actually yeah,
we literally found out like probably a week before that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So just was like, all right, well, we were told
don't tell anybody that you're having a kid that you
don't want to have to tell that you're no longer
having a kid in case yep, yeah, because because again
it's common yep. And so only tell the people that
you're gonna want and you feel comfortable telling them if
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it doesn't. And so we told her parents. What sucked
about that was they were on we got them on FaceTime,
and Caitlin was like record us, telling her, you know,
her mom and dad, her mom and dad, and so
I and hit record and she started to tell I
(27:00):
don't remember. I don't remember hitting the button, but what
I recorded was when I wasn't supposed to record, And
what I didn't get was what I was supposed to record, Like,
I think I hit it early. So when I then
when I went to actually recorded, I was stopping the recording,
and then she told him none of it was recorded,
and then I thought I was stopping it, but then
I started again, and so I got pre and after
(27:24):
and I looked down on my phone and I went,
oh my god, and so we finished the conversation with them,
we got off FaceTime and I said, I didn't record it.
I got all before and all after. I didn't mean
to hit record at the beginning, and I never looked
at the phone. Oh, I felt so stupid, brutal. That
(27:45):
was brutal. So we told them, and we told her sister,
but that was pretty much it. Then I started, I
let like a couple people in my super circle know Eddie. Obviously,
he's my best friend Kevin klu who is my trainer.
But man, we had spent so much time together over
(28:07):
the past five years, every single day, and you know,
he had a bunch of kids, and I didn't I
knew he wouldn't share anything. But that's all we told.
She had told maybe a couple of her closest friends.
Who did you tell before you guys announced it?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, so we didn't. I didn't tell like any of
my best friends until like I think maybe like two
or three days before we posted, And same with her,
so it was pretty close to the best.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So I only Los Angeles traveling podcast buddies. Yeah, congratulations.
Did everybody blow you up immediately when you posted it?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, So it.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Was it was, you know, very Nutfield and I semesters
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What have you guys shared And if you haven't, don't
don't give me a face, don't do anything. What do
you know? What have you shared?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Uh, we've only shared that we're we're having it, but
we do know the gender.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What else? Don't do? Not like for breaking news here?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
No, yeah, you do know gender?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Are you going to do a gender reveal?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, we're going to at one of the baby showers
for her family.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
So you're gonna have a shower without without anybody who's
coming to the shower knowing what the gender, will.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Have one with knowing knowing and then one with people
knowing because her family's New Jersey months and we have
to have two different for everything.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So yep, that's awesome. Yeah. Have you talked about or
a publicly said when you think you're gonna have the baby? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, yeah, we've told people October early October, so.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But yeah, we get we're in April, May, June, July, August, September,
so you're five and a half six months away.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, she's finishing the first trimester.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I'm telling you, and I didn't believe people when they
said this to me, it's going to feel like a
century from now until then. It's also going to be
here tomorrow, I know.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I was telling Brandon, I'm like already to the point
where I'm like ready, Like I'm like excited ready. So
it's gonna feel like an atorney.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Absolutely at about eight months something else I didn't know
until my wife was pregnant again. All this baby colder
stuff is new to me. It's not nine, it's ten months.
I don't know where this nine month thing came from.
It's ten months until they have the baby. Like, it's
not like nine's of a fun round number that we'll
just do nine because it's ten months. And whenever she's
(30:12):
like eight and a half months pregnant, that's when it's
on you, Dylan, to make sure that you can help
out in any way with her comfort because it sucks. Yeah,
and not for us, not for us, for them. It's
suck because they're gonna think they're uncomfortable because my wife's
like this, I'm so uncomfortable. I'm so uncomfortable. My clothes
don't fit. When it gets to like eight and a
(30:33):
half months, they can't sleep, heart rates up all the time,
and it's just up to you to do whatever you
can to make sure she feels better.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, I'm a little nervous about that because she's already
the type that's like I'm uncomfortable, Like even before she
was pregnant, she's the one that's like just on the couch,
like I can't get comfortable.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's not like you ain't seeing nothing yet. It's gonna
get Brandon tell him he ain't seen nothing yet, Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's it's wild, and it's it's.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's all exciting, and it's it's all hands on deck,
really is what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And then it's a whole different thing once she has
a baby. I mean, Luke Holmbs was talking to me
and that clip on viral where he was like, hey,
there's no nothing you can do except everything for her,
and man, if that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
That's probably the best advice I had heard.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He was like, it is not about you with that baby.
It's herd with the baby. But you have to do
everything to make sure that she can focus on the baby.
And also, I think I've said this already. They either
have to have surgery a cee section, or they're going
to have a vaginal birth, which was weird for me
to hear that word, but I've now heard it ten
thousand times. Vaginal birth is not even that word of
a word for me. But I'd be like vaginal as
(31:35):
an adult man. It's like somebody took a sledgehammer to
their body from the waist down, and so it's up
to you to make sure that as they're recovering and
they're trying to do the things to make sure the
baby is good, that you make it as easy on
them as possible.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's the goal. I'm trying to diversify my skills at
the moment.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
So it's so cool. Yeah, work ex outed, It's so cool. Okay,
So I think that's it for this thirty minutes here.
I think we're gonna go with father knows Less because
as you can tell, I know very little. But why
don't we put this up on the when we do
the thumbnail for this episode, we'll put this up? Maybe
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we do, like, because I think if we just put
father knows Less, people don't get even know what that is.
Maybe we do like, and you're gonna you're just like
my head, Oh yeah, but you got to take a
good picture we're gonna get okay.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I wanted one like for the other one that was
like you.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Shrugging, Oh, I don't know, yeah, yeah, you do.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It again towards the camera like perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I don't know if I'm like that one.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's a good one. But I want to look tired.
You want to look like, oh, man, like I don't
know what's up.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I'll say this. I know it's not the right thing
to say, because my wife's been doing all the work,
not all, but that kind of work. I'm not that tired.
She's been rocking it. They baby want to sleeping. And two,
if something happens, like my wife at night, she's a champ.
She handles that for a couple of reasons. One because
(33:09):
she wants to and she's so anxious about everything right now,
but also too, I'm just appreciative that she respects that
I have to get up early, that I have to
somewhat perform every single day. So yeah, she's been great.
So thank you guys for watching the first episode of
our off schedule podcast and video show called Father Knows Less.
(33:34):
There's a chance we never do another episode, and for
being honest, but there's also a chance we do five
hundred of these things. If it pops and is you know,
some massive success, that's it. Thank you guys, and we'll
see you soon.
So today was a big day. My wife left the
house today for the first time and left me in
charge of the baby. Now, there have been multiple instances
where I have had Billy our baby for an hour
an hour and a half, and that's grown by the
way she trust me more and more, but today was
the first time she left the house. I was proud
(00:22):
for her for leaving the house. I know she was
nervous to leave the house. Not so much that it
was me she was leaving the baby with that made
her nervous, but the fact that she since the baby
was born, has not been sixty feet from the baby ever.
So big day today. As I'm recording this, it is
my birthday, and so my wife texted me. I was like, yeah,
you want to do a birthday launch or something, and
(00:43):
I didn't, and for the first time, I was like,
I just really come home and hang out with you
and the baby. I do find myself on days that
are packed with work because I'll go from the radio
studio which is downtown, to another studio that we built
in town, and then I have a studio my house,
so I kind of got three studios and for the
most part in my career, if it was close, I
(01:06):
would stay somewhere just a little longer and go straight
to the other place. I do find myself now going
home if I do have even fifteen minutes. And I
know we're just three weeks into the baby being born,
but I do find myself going home just to hang out,
like with the family now with the unit. So that
feels like new and fun and it's a priority, and
(01:28):
not just so I can see my wife, but also
so I can see the baby, but equally so today
big day. The baby's alive. My wife texts me while
she was gone and she's like, everything going okay, and
I said, down, we're in the pool. Don't worry about it.
She knew that wasn't the case. But big day in
our house because my wife left the house. She was
(01:49):
gonna drive the baby for the first time today. In
just the full story about why she left, she had
ordered me a birthday cake and she had to order
it a few weeks ago because I can't have dairy.
And so there's a person that we go to who
we actually just found on Instagram here in town in Nashville,
and anytime we want like a cool cake made, it's
like two hundred fifty bucks. So that's an expensive cake, yes,
(02:10):
but it's a massive cake and you just say what
design what you want on it. So we weren't really
doing anything for my birthday specifically, and so my wife
had a big Arkansas razorback cake made, which is super cool.
And there's really gonna be no party or anything. It'll
be me and my wife and her mom is in town,
so our mother in law, and so she went to
(02:30):
get the cake and it was either she drived the
baby for the first time because most lavenue I want
to drive the baby, and those little mirrors kind of
suck that you because I'm driving and the baby. It's
if you did never have a kid. The car seat
faces the back seat, so you have to put a
mirror on the headrest and so you have to look
(02:52):
in your mirror to catch that mirror to catch the baby.
I have bad vision. Anyway, you could probably put a
baby doll in that thing and I would think it
was the baby. But she didn't feel like driving the
baby today, so she left the baby with me, and
I think that'll be the next step. We did do
(03:12):
the car seats, and now obviously we did the car
seats in my car before she even went into the
hospital for labor, And man, you talk about people HIPing
something up like it was gonna be the craziest, hardest
thing that ever happened. You're you gonna be okay with
the car seat. If you need to drive to the
police station, you know you can do that. They have
somebody that they'll teach you. And so leading up to it,
I just kept kicking the can because I thought, man,
(03:32):
this is gonna be so hard. I don't want to
deal with it yet. So it was about a week
before we started to feel like Caylen was going to
go into the hospital, and I said, let me just
see if I can do the car seat. And it's
a base that really goes in. Now, it was one
of the easiest things I've ever done. So either that
means that car seat isn't terribly or it's just very
easy to put in. There are these two little clips
(03:54):
under the seat and that base just goes click click.
You're basically in from that there's one little state and
right there. So when it came time to put hers in,
which we have done, it was super easy. We get
to do something about the mirrors because if you're supposed
to turn around and look in the mirror, that's very dangerous,
and I don't think you are. I think you're supposed
to go mirror to mirror to baby. But big day today.
(04:17):
She didn't drive the baby yet, but she didn't leave
the baby, so I'm feeling pretty good about that. Now.
I've done a couple of these podcast type things where
we just talk about the baby. At first, I did
a baby State of the Union because it was every
question that I was getting in my DMS, and so
I thought if I generally just get on and answer
the questions, that would be good for everybody. I won't
get the same questions anymore, and you guys that are
(04:40):
submitting questions about our baby can have some answers. Now.
I don't have the capacity to do another full podcast,
and I don't want to exhaust myself anymore than I
already have, and scheduling has been very hard doing multiple podcasts.
But we're gonna try something here in a second, because
(05:01):
there are so many people that also want to come
and talk with me, literally about parenting. I know nothing
about parenting right I'm three weeks into this thing, and
I know very little I've read some stuff. I've lived
three weeks of it. The one thing that I think
I'm gonna do even less I really didn't do it
to begin with, because I don't do it in general,
is parent shame. I'm just not a shamer in general anyway,
because I think we're all living are versions of life,
(05:24):
dealing with the environment that we're in and the circumstances
that were given. So it really doesn't to me. I
don't feel good shaming anyone about anything. And I don't
really think I was parent shaming when I didn't have kids,
But man, when I see people parent shaming now, I'm
just like, you're an awful person because you do not
know what that mom or dad or grandma is going
(05:45):
through with that baby or four year old or nine
year old. And there are so many different ways to
parent a kid, just from my small version of this,
and really there's not a right way. And when I
started to read stuff in books now, non scientific stuff
because some of the stuff that I've read that is about
a baby's digestion, that stuff that's science, I'm in, but
(06:06):
mostly about technique. All of the opinions on technique are
just based off the people's environments and the circumstances they
were given that wrote the books. So I'm not even
parent shaming at all. I'm not doing this as a
full podcast, but because of the interest in other people
talking about parenting and their kids and this platform, I thought,
what if I just occasionally do an episode with other
(06:28):
parents and it just goes up on the YouTube channel
at Bobby Bones channel or like the bobbycast feed or
something like that, and who knows, we do one a month,
one every two weeks, two a week. There's really no
cadence to it. But what if we're able to do
something like that? And so then I started to think,
well what would I call it? And I had two
names that came to mind. And the first thing I
did was search out both of those names to make
(06:50):
sure that nobody owned or really used these names at
a high level. That does a matter which one I
go to first? It isn't you have all? How many
pictures do you guys have of per each? How many?
How many graphics? So I came up with two names
that I wanted to try. I'm gonna run them up
here on the screen. I've not seen these images. How
(07:11):
many each do you have the first one. Just said
the first one okay, the next one, okay, what's the Okay?
So I had two names in mind, and the first
name was kind of stupid. Now I'm kind of embarrassing,
I'm out loud. The first one was talk Daddy to Me,
(07:35):
which is like the plays Talk Dirty to Me, but
it's daddy. So talk Daddy to Me. And so that
was the first one, and so I hit Brandon it
up and I said, hey, I just google search. There
are no other podcasts called talk Daddy to Me. There's
probably a reason for that because it could possibly be
a stupid name. I said, but can you mock up
(07:56):
some images where if we did this parenting series and
we called it talk Daddy to Me, that you'd be
able to see that. All right, So here we go.
Here's the first one. Oh, this looks safe. Talk Daddy
to Me, presented by Bobby Bones for those that are
just listening. I love the colors, all the primary colors.
(08:20):
There's the blocks that's spelled daddy. Alright, good, that's how
many of these do you have? Okay? So this is
image number one, and talk Daddy to Me. That one
doesn't feel that that creepy. I like that, all right.
It creates the second one. Okay, talk Daddy to me,
all in red with the glasses of the two d's. Ah,
(08:41):
that's pretty cool. The glasses of the two d's is
pretty cool. I like the red, the red letters. I'm
taking this in for the first time. If you're watching
on YouTube, you're with me here looking at it. Okay.
So that was the first idea, and I was like, Okay,
that one feels like it could possibly be a little corny.
(09:05):
And so I was thinking of another idea. And there
was a television show. It was black and white and
they used to show it on Nick at Night and
it was called Father Knows Best. And for me, I
was like, I don't know best. I thought the TV
show Angle was funny. Knew people wouldn't gt it because
it was a black and white show, But I said,
what if we called it Father Knows Less? A playoff
(09:26):
Father Knows Best? But also it's me going I don't
know anything. I'm like an act like I know anything.
I'll just share with you. My experiences were going I
probably know less. So here's the first image for Father
Knows Less. Okay, it's me sitting in my red letter. Oh,
I like the less sign.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So that was the first.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's a good one. I like the less sign. Father
knows lesson red letters with the less sign after that
lest sign is pretty cool. The glasses were cool too, Yeah,
on the two d's all right, show me another one. Okay,
so just bigger, no picture, all right, give me another one. Okay,
(10:09):
I like that. I like that one of this, but
that that lest signs really cool.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
There's another one with the less sign on the left side.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
There, but that wouldn't mean I know more because it's
open to me. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It was confusing?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, what named? Because you guys don't get the father
knows best reference, you don't have to. It still makes
sense as to what I'm trying to say. The only
which one are you drawing to? Father knows less? Just
talk daddy to me? Feel weird. I think it's a
little combative, combative.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
The original phrase.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Talk dirty, ry much money you like best.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
At first, I was like, dude, it's talk daddy to me.
But then the more I thought, the more I thought
about it, less like it just it fits you. It
fits like your belief and everything, and I think it's
I think it's just as clever.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You know, go back, Can you go back to that
you're getting feedback? Yeah, let's go to call her nine.
And this isn't even live. That's how amazing it is
that we have poets here. So I think I like
Father knows Less, So I think we may just right
(11:31):
now whole placehold this as Father knows Less, like Bobby
Bones presents Father knows Less. You guys feel good about that? Yeah,
I think the less sign. I think that's really cool.
I think it's a good that's a really good idea.
So whenever you can get that back up, you can
put that back up. Uh So, yeah, again, I'm not
going to commit to this being some weekly podcast because
(11:53):
I don't between the Bobby Bone Show all five days
and then we do a whole second show, the Bobby
Cast being at least two days of week, twenty five
Whistles being at least two days a week, which is
a sports show, the NFL Show lots to Sabi in
once a week. I don't have a lot of time
for other podcasts, but I do think this will be fun,
so we'll do Father give me the other one. I
(12:14):
don't like how I look Okay, I think I think
this is cool. Father knows Less. Yeah, we'll do Bobby
Ones Presents Father.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Knows Less and.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Then do some usision to it. But I do like
the letters, the simplicity of it. That's cool. Okay, So
this is what this is going to be called, Father
knows Less? I did when I googled that, and then
I went into like the podcast and just googled podcast titles.
The only thing that popped up was there was a
book from like twenty seventeen. There was a play on
Father Knows Best as well, and it was like the
(12:48):
Father Knows Less and La La la, And there have
been titles of episodes of certain things. Did you look
it up to? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Episode, and they did a podcast episode on that TV episode.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was surprised. I don't know if I'm celebrating myself
for having such a good idea, but I thought, this
has got to be a common Ish idea, right, Yeah,
maybe people just don't get the black and white television
show reference.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But it's such a common phrase too though.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh it is best do what he says, you know,
all right, we're committing to father knows Less than the
US Okay, good deal. I had a pass farm in
my mouth yesterday and it wasn't really on purpose. I
was holding the baby and she gets fussy at times,
(13:38):
and when you're holding the baby with both hands for
those that are watching, and she's holding a pacify in
her mouth, and she tends to bulldog it. Sometimes they
just do this with their head. I have a bulldog
as why I reference that movement because my bulldog does
it as well. So she's do going back and forth
with the passify in her mouth and it starts to
come out of her mouth. Now I got both hands
on her, and I don't want to take a hand
and put it on the passifire to hold it. But
(13:58):
as everybody knows, I had to. It's had a baby
is Once passified hits the floor, it's dead. You don't
use it again until you can what we have. We
have a bunch of alcohol swabs at the house, so
we will disinfect it and then rinse it off because
the alcohol won't taste good. Obviously, I don't want the
passifire to die. So what I did is I took
my chin to put it and hold it the pacifier
(14:19):
in her mouth, and as soon as it did it
flipped right in my mouth. So that's the person. I've
had a passifire my mouth like that, like straight fened
the baby's mouth to my mouth. I think, though, that's
a dead pacifier, the same as it had fallen on
the floor. So I did kill the passifire. But that's
my first story. I have a friend who hit me
up the other day and he said, hey, is it
(14:41):
weird to you that your mom will never get to
meet your baby? Because my mom died years ago and
my mom was the age that I am now, which
is what's crazy. And so I said, yeah, that is weird,
and I've thought about that. I was sad that my
mom was never able to meet my child. And this
is a friend whose mom has also died, which is
(15:02):
why he was asking me that, And so we were
talking about that a little bit and then he said
to me, is it weird that your dad left? Because
could you ever see you leaving your baby? Now, this
is a friend who had similar stories me. Grandma raised him,
mom has passed away. Dad left when he was little,
(15:23):
and I think that's probably why it was so easy
to talk about it with each other. And I remember thinking,
and again, my biological dad was seventeen when I was born.
My mom got pregnant at fifteen, right after her sixteenth birthday,
had me, So he was a kid. So a little
(15:43):
bit of me can understand a kid making an immature decision.
But I think for me, it was how do you
not come back? Like? This is what we talked about,
I said, Because my biological dad was so young, a
little bit I can give him a pass because kids
do very immature things, I said, But when I'm like eleven,
(16:07):
nine thirteen, like, how do you not come back? How
do you stay gone? Like that to me is what's
difficult now. And I think there are all these new
feelings that I'm having about my parents now that I
am a parent, and it's just a few weeks in,
like I'm coming to terms with some things, and I'm
(16:28):
sure I'm just scratching the surface of all this. But
it wasn't that I was angry at my biological dad
for leaving. I think I became angry at him again
for not coming back. That was the weird part for me.
I'm not someone who meditates. I've tried. I'm not a
(16:52):
meditation hater, and I've probably had three different seasons in
my life when I've tried to meditate through the different
jobs in cities I've lived and different levels of whatever
success or mild fame that I've had. There have been
security issues as my job has gotten bigger. Honestly, the
(17:14):
security issues have gotten bigger, and that makes sense. And
so it went from you know, when I was on
Little Rock, I got held a gunpoint outside of a
station event, pistol whipped. I was at an ATM. There's
a whole situation that messed up my head for a
long time, got my house broken into, had some death threats,
(17:35):
got jumped outside of work, Like I had four or
five things that were really scary to me then, but
like long term became scarier to me as as I
think the reality of possibly almost dying was in me,
(17:58):
because when it first happens, you just like, oh crap,
that's crazy. But then you start reliving and you start
having this PTSD type it's PTSD. I feel weird calling
a PTSD because there are people that have been to
war and they have and there's no real and fake PTSD.
Mine feels a bit fake, but mine's real, right, Like
I had real crap happen to me and so I've
(18:22):
tried to meditate to sleep better because for a long
time me not being able to sleep was making me sick.
So I'll try meditation. I would get on these apps
i'd read about meditation, and it really consisted of me
sitting on the either the edge of my bed or
bottom of my bed, thinking a single thought over and
(18:44):
over again, trying to slow my mind down towards I'm
not thinking of a lot of other things. Like from
what I've learned through meditation is that if I can
focus on one thing, everything else stops and it allows
a bit of clarity. I've really struggled with it, and
I would try it for thirty forty minutes at a
time and either it just wouldn't take or I'd fall
(19:07):
asleep one of the two. And each time I would
quit because I mean really, because I was a quitter,
Because I think if I would have stuck with it,
I think I could have actually gotten pretty good at it.
But I was a quitter in that world, and so
never been somebody who's been good at meditating and just
slowing down. I found something that happens now, and it's
(19:29):
kind of a forced meditation. So, like I mentioned, My
wife does ninety percent of feeding the baby, changing the baby,
and if I'm home, I'm there, I'm changing along with her.
I'm helping her in every way possible. But I can't
do some of the things that she can do. But
her back starts to hurt, lower back, like her neck
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starts to hurt because she's always bending down with the baby.
And so not only do I just want to give
her a break to go and you know, take shower,
watch a show if she wants to watch a show,
like do something that is not so just always intense
focusing on the baby. So I want to give her
a break from that. But also it's like physically I
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want to give her a break because again she's always
hunched over or if she's feet that is, all the
things that they're doing with their body. And so the
last few nights, as I give her a break, especially
at night it's dark, I hold the baby, rock the baby.
There's no phone. I'll play light music and I keep
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the phone down. We have a chair in our room
now that's a rocker. It's not like a rocking chair,
but it's a comfortable chair that rocks. And so I'll
play the music and mostly it's just like nineties alternative,
like slow nineties alternative. It's like Oasis, counting Crows, pearl
jam And I found myself starting to be able to
do the things that I tried to do for so
(20:56):
long when it comes to meditation, because I don't have
the my nuts it's so bad last night and I
couldn't scratch them because I had both hands on the baby.
So all my focus is on this baby. I can't
I'm not on my phone. The baby has this thing
too where she likes to crawl up and put her
head in my neck. She likes to like my chin
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on top of her, and she likes and if I'm
not she'll crawl She'll already crawl up a little bit
into my neck. But because I can do nothing, I
literally can do nothing. And I found the last few
nights me inching toward that place where it feels like
a meditative state, to where I'm a bit able to
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slow the world down around me mentally because I have
no other choice but to do so with the baby.
So again, I'm no meditation expert. I have felt multiple
times at trying in a way that I was taught,
but being in a dark room music on focused on
the baby. It's almost allowed me to have the kind
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of thinking I have when I'm in the shower. And
I don't know if everybody thinks like this the same way,
but when you're in the shower, you're not able to
watch a screen, be on your phone, you're not able
to talk to people, like there's nothing except you and
you're under the water. So for me, a lot of
clarity happens when I'm in the shower because there's nowhere
else to go, there's nothing else to do, It's just
me in my mind. But I found that I can
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get really close to meditating with the baby at night,
so that's been pretty cool. One of the other things
that's been hard is and she's sleeping all the way
to the night. She slept for eight hours last night.
She's three weeks old. I don't know how crazy that is,
but for us, because it feels like and again she's
only three weeks old, and it feels like two years
and one day at the same time, because it feels
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like just yesterday she was born. But also it's been
super hyper focused on her, Like she sleeps eight hours
through the night at three weeks old, it's wild. So
we're celebrating, and so we have to feed her every
two and a half hours or so now. But the
problem is when we feed her, and this probably happens
with the most newborns, she falls asleep while she's eating.
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So as she's eating, she's out, and so we're like, oh,
you gotta eat because she has to eat a bunch
of during the daytime till she sleeps at night. And
we have had to develop techniques to keep her awake
while she eats, which involves tickling her feet while she eats. Now,
if you did that to me, I'd be pissed. But also,
I'm not gonna fall asleep Theserbert. Everybody familiar with Deserbert,
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well Serbert on her face while she eats, because the
main goal is keeping the baby awake. I've gotten some really,
I don't want to say great, but just the real
thoughtful gifts from folks. I was never the person to
buy baby gifts because I never had a baby, Like,
I didn't know that world. And now that we had
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a baby and people are giving us gifts, like, I
feel the need. Now I see someone's gonna have a baby,
Like I'm like, oh, man, I want to get I
want to jump in like I want to get gifts
for people now too. But I really didn't know the
baby culture. But Matt Castle, who I do the NFL
show with, he got us this like a backpack, a
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monogram backpack and like a monogram bunny I posted on
my Instagram mister Bobby Bones with her name on it,
which was super cool. Tim McGrath sent over some really
nice stuff. Well sorry, the McGrath family, So Tim and
Faith they sent over. I didn't want to say what
it is because it was like rich people gift. They're rich.
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They sent over a really nice gift. It's French, I'll
just say that. And Maggie Rose, who's been on this podcast,
excellent singer, she sent over a monogram like really nice bag.
And then obviously all our friends too. But I just
the baby culture is something that I did not know
or understand, but now I'm kind of excited to get
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people baby gifts. Dylan, who is one of the producers
here or just announced he's happened to baby Dylan is
your mic on? Can you turn it on?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I can?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
How did you feel announcing it? Uh? It felt good?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It was you know we've known since like January, so
finally being.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Able to oh dude, it feels like forever, right a.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Little bit is nice? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Whenever we found out, from the moment we found out,
when we could share, it fell like ten years. Yeah,
did you tell anyone in your close circle? Immediately?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Funny you say that, so you were actually the first
one to know, because I just completely like slipped when
we were in La Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Of course we were sitting at the table. I didn't
know that we were the first people you told. So
why I know We're all sitting at the table, We're
having dinner. We heard it from like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop restaurant. Yeah,
had it uber Eatsten, Like I remember vividly. We were
all like, oh my god, that's awesome. How did that slip? Though?
What was the conversation?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Eddie was asking me like questions and I was like,
you know, I've never really been asked like the kid
thing like that was the first.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Time any Oh that was it? Like are you gonna
have kids? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And I didn't I don't think I like said anything.
I just like made a face and Eddie was like, well,
what's that, and I was like, oh, well, actually yeah,
we literally found out like probably a week before that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So just was like, all right, well, we were told
don't tell anybody that you're having a kid that you
don't want to have to tell that you're no longer
having a kid in case yep, yeah, because because again
it's common yep. And so only tell the people that
you're gonna want and you feel comfortable telling them if
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it doesn't. And so we told her parents. What sucked
about that was they were on we got them on FaceTime,
and Caitlin was like record us, telling her, you know,
her mom and dad, her mom and dad, and so
I and hit record and she started to tell I
(27:00):
don't remember. I don't remember hitting the button, but what
I recorded was when I wasn't supposed to record, And
what I didn't get was what I was supposed to record, Like,
I think I hit it early. So when I then
when I went to actually recorded, I was stopping the recording,
and then she told him none of it was recorded,
and then I thought I was stopping it, but then
I started again, and so I got pre and after
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and I looked down on my phone and I went,
oh my god, and so we finished the conversation with them,
we got off FaceTime and I said, I didn't record it.
I got all before and all after. I didn't mean
to hit record at the beginning, and I never looked
at the phone. Oh, I felt so stupid, brutal. That
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was brutal. So we told them, and we told her sister,
but that was pretty much it. Then I started, I
let like a couple people in my super circle know Eddie. Obviously,
he's my best friend Kevin klu who is my trainer.
But man, we had spent so much time together over
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the past five years, every single day, and you know,
he had a bunch of kids, and I didn't I
knew he wouldn't share anything. But that's all we told.
She had told maybe a couple of her closest friends.
Who did you tell before you guys announced it?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, so we didn't. I didn't tell like any of
my best friends until like I think maybe like two
or three days before we posted, And same with her,
so it was pretty close to the best.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So I only Los Angeles traveling podcast buddies. Yeah, congratulations.
Did everybody blow you up immediately when you posted it?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, So it.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Was it was, you know, very Nutfield and I semesters
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What have you guys shared And if you haven't, don't
don't give me a face, don't do anything. What do
you know? What have you shared?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Uh, we've only shared that we're we're having it, but
we do know the gender.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What else? Don't do? Not like for breaking news here?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
No, yeah, you do know gender?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Are you going to do a gender reveal?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, we're going to at one of the baby showers
for her family.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
So you're gonna have a shower without without anybody who's
coming to the shower knowing what the gender, will.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Have one with knowing knowing and then one with people
knowing because her family's New Jersey months and we have
to have two different for everything.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So yep, that's awesome. Yeah. Have you talked about or
a publicly said when you think you're gonna have the baby? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, yeah, we've told people October early October, so.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But yeah, we get we're in April, May, June, July, August, September,
so you're five and a half six months away.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, she's finishing the first trimester.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I'm telling you, and I didn't believe people when they
said this to me, it's going to feel like a
century from now until then. It's also going to be
here tomorrow, I know.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I was telling Brandon, I'm like already to the point
where I'm like ready, Like I'm like excited ready. So
it's gonna feel like an atorney.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Absolutely at about eight months something else I didn't know
until my wife was pregnant again. All this baby colder
stuff is new to me. It's not nine, it's ten months.
I don't know where this nine month thing came from.
It's ten months until they have the baby. Like, it's
not like nine's of a fun round number that we'll
just do nine because it's ten months. And whenever she's
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like eight and a half months pregnant, that's when it's
on you, Dylan, to make sure that you can help
out in any way with her comfort because it sucks. Yeah,
and not for us, not for us, for them. It's
suck because they're gonna think they're uncomfortable because my wife's
like this, I'm so uncomfortable. I'm so uncomfortable. My clothes
don't fit. When it gets to like eight and a
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half months, they can't sleep, heart rates up all the time,
and it's just up to you to do whatever you
can to make sure she feels better.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, I'm a little nervous about that because she's already
the type that's like I'm uncomfortable, Like even before she
was pregnant, she's the one that's like just on the couch,
like I can't get comfortable.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's not like you ain't seeing nothing yet. It's gonna
get Brandon tell him he ain't seen nothing yet, Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's it's wild, and it's it's.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's all exciting, and it's it's all hands on deck,
really is what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And then it's a whole different thing once she has
a baby. I mean, Luke Holmbs was talking to me
and that clip on viral where he was like, hey,
there's no nothing you can do except everything for her,
and man, if that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
That's probably the best advice I had heard.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He was like, it is not about you with that baby.
It's herd with the baby. But you have to do
everything to make sure that she can focus on the baby.
And also, I think I've said this already. They either
have to have surgery a cee section, or they're going
to have a vaginal birth, which was weird for me
to hear that word, but I've now heard it ten
thousand times. Vaginal birth is not even that word of
a word for me. But I'd be like vaginal as
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an adult man. It's like somebody took a sledgehammer to
their body from the waist down, and so it's up
to you to make sure that as they're recovering and
they're trying to do the things to make sure the
baby is good, that you make it as easy on
them as possible.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's the goal. I'm trying to diversify my skills at
the moment.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
So it's so cool. Yeah, work ex outed, It's so cool. Okay,
So I think that's it for this thirty minutes here.
I think we're gonna go with father knows Less because
as you can tell, I know very little. But why
don't we put this up on the when we do
the thumbnail for this episode, we'll put this up? Maybe
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we do, like, because I think if we just put
father knows Less, people don't get even know what that is.
Maybe we do like, and you're gonna you're just like
my head, Oh yeah, but you got to take a
good picture we're gonna get okay.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I wanted one like for the other one that was
like you.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Shrugging, Oh, I don't know, yeah, yeah, you do.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It again towards the camera like perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I don't know if I'm like that one.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's a good one. But I want to look tired.
You want to look like, oh, man, like I don't
know what's up.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I'll say this. I know it's not the right thing
to say, because my wife's been doing all the work,
not all, but that kind of work. I'm not that tired.
She's been rocking it. They baby want to sleeping. And two,
if something happens, like my wife at night, she's a champ.
She handles that for a couple of reasons. One because
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she wants to and she's so anxious about everything right now,
but also too, I'm just appreciative that she respects that
I have to get up early, that I have to
somewhat perform every single day. So yeah, she's been great.
So thank you guys for watching the first episode of
our off schedule podcast and video show called Father Knows Less.
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There's a chance we never do another episode, and for
being honest, but there's also a chance we do five
hundred of these things. If it pops and is you know,
some massive success, that's it. Thank you guys, and we'll
see you soon.
Hosts And Creators
Bobby Bones
Amy Brown
Lunchbox
Eddie Garcia
Morgan Huelsman
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Mike D
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