Christmas Traditions For Your Children + Mom vs Wifey Battle For House Supremacy | For The Dads - Bussin' With The Boys

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Sickos, Empty Sichos. We are about to get into Santa
claud Stock. We're going to talk a little Santa claud Stock.
In case there's any little ones in the room next
to us that could maybe hear us. We're about to
talk Santa.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Pop A Team six Welcome to another episode of four
the Dads. I hope your trash is taken out. I
hope you're sitting around the fire in the evening. I
hope you guys are making Christmas cookies with the fam.
This is a show for the Dads, by the Dads.
My name is will Compton. I got Fat Stafford over here.
Sherman Young Hello, Hello, is a father of five month

(00:52):
old Scarlett. I am a father of a three year
old Rue and a one year old Scottie. We call
her scott Zilla. This is a pod for dads, new dads.
Maybe you're part of Seemen Team six with Chef Jack
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Speaker 3 (01:34):
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Speaker 1 (01:49):
And we say that though because we know the group
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get shared around. I know PT six is out there working. Hey,
there's this dad podcast out there.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I think you like it.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
The boys, they talk shop, they talk a little noise,
They talk about being a father, being a husband. They
laugh a lot, they talk about how bad it sucks,
how awesome it is, all at the same time.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh you laugh, we cry, we smile.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm getting tagged on Twitter. I got guys in my mentions.
They're saying, oh, sherman. My wife leaned over to me
and said, Hey, when's Santa gonna build that pink jeep?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I saw somebody hit us up on Social they were
they were out in the garage trying to put that
thing together.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Face.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I said, hey, tell her, Hey, Santa's got a heisman
ceremony to watch.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
He's a big CFP Sickoh hi, I feel that too.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
One couple of Christmases ago, when Rue was like when
Ru was one, my dad got her this Chevy Silforado
that she could ride, that she could drive around.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I'm like, hey, Dad, she's one. She can't she
can't be in this thing yet. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
So I just sat in the garage for like an
entire year, and I'm like, well, all right, I'll just
pull this thing out of the box and we'll get it.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Go and open the box and all the parts are
laying there in the box. A bit. I gotta put
this thing together.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
One sells niece or put the tires on wrong A
couple of times.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
That is taking apart.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Son, Oh man, I interrupted your intro that we were
talking pt sikos. We were talking going to bwtv dot com.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, whether you're a veteran father in the game, whether
you're a new dad where you're an aspiring dad. We look,
it's just if we're a couple of dads with chef
Jack back there and Derek the funkle of the whole group,
we just it's basically like pulling up a chair in
the garage, ripping a couple of lollipops, maybe a couple
of butt lights, yeah, and just talking noise about our week,

(03:38):
the week that we had, and speaking of new dads,
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And also the people who are we I guess we
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Speaker 1 (04:50):
Great reminder. Great reminder by the uncle Derek. Right there,
go dee go deep. But again, like I was saying,
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Speaker 2 (05:24):
I have some comments right here.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
One from Jjsmith on Spotify thirty degrees changing attire good
nine degrees in Michigan and under my car replacing my
muffler after shoveling and sulting.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Good.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
I get to be a physically, mentally and emotionally capable
enough mail to be able to do this and whatever
else needs to be done.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Good Good.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I got for also New Dads a porch on Spotify.
We're seeing those Spotify comments. My wife is one of
the cryptic one, fellas, But the most important lesson I've
learned with her is if she doesn't want to get
up and get our boy overnight or in the morning,
she'll tap me on the shoulder and ask, hey, do
you want to get them?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Or me?

Speaker 3 (06:07):
And fellas, let me tell you about the cold shoulder
I got the one and only time I asked her
to get him. I learned quick that if she's fine
getting them, she's just gonna get up. But if she
taps me and asks, buddy, it's dad's turn, No questions asked.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm being called up. Calling in the left.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I love that because that's a pocket there where you
have some choices to make. Because sometimes Charle hit me
with do you want to go up and get them?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
And if she tosses me the.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Question, I know it's like she's wanting me to go,
oh yeah, because if she was fine doing it, she'd
already go up there, oh yeah. But every now and
then she'll be like, do you do you want to
go up and get them? And I'll just be like,
I think he'd be a great fit for this moment.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
They love the way you do it, I wouldn't deprive
the kids of that. Or are you asking me? Or if
you're asking me, I'd rather not. I think I'm feel
like this's this game. Yeah, if you're letting it be
up to me, i'd rather not. I will if you
want me to, I'd rather not. I think you're I
think you'd be great for this moment right now.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And thank you for communicating with me and like asking
me beforehand.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
And by the way, for a shout out here to
Charlo Gabriella Sestra on Spotify, laugh my ass off, empty
six er here, that's milting six that's our female audience.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
I am charo. Mommy can't play yet. I have to
do X, Y and Z. A subtle hint to my
husband to get his ass up, shout out.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I saw a lot of those from that video. There
are a lot of empty sixers resonating. Mason Cole on
Spotify says PT six member with an almost two year
old baby girl, Kennedy Boys, I'm on the trenches taking
heavy fire. Wife is in her first trimester with our
second and feeling like absolute shit. Twenty four to seven,

(07:57):
no morning sickness. We're talking all day sickness.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Every day.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Afterwards, she gets home and basically goes to bed, and
I know it's time to put on the ipaint and
go to war. Nobody is coming to save me, getting
dinner ready, clean up, playtime, bath, in bedtime. But I
get to do this. I don't have to GBR wolf
emoji GBR Wolf Mason cale Man, I a dog.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
There's so many times now, Derek, to where I gotta
just say in my head, like I get to do
this all because Buddy. Over the weekend, I was a
little I don't know if you can hear the hear
the nasal in my voice, but I was.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
A little under the weather. Same little under the weather.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, and I had the kids a couple of times
solocust God bless my wife.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
She went and did some volunteer work at the food shelter.
That's awesome for some repackaging, some organizing, some sorting, oh
the can sorting stuff. I believe so. I love doing that,
I believe so.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So she was going for a nice chunk of time
on Saturday and I got the two minions, bro and look, Scottie,
she's one and she's all over the place. Like I
was saying, it, alluding to it last week on the podcast.
She's climbing the Christmas tree, She's tearing down ornaments, she's
getting in every cabinet. She's got to put everything that
is organized, it's got to be on the floor.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
And God bless her and Rue. She's in this phase
as a three year old.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
And the dad's out there with the toddlers right now.
They probably feel my pain, the parents out there with
the toddlers.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
But Rue's just in this phase where everything is look
at me.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Watch me, dad, look at me, watch this, watch this.
I'll beg you and then what did you do? She'll
hit a few reps.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I'll go over there. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's incredible, sweetheart.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
And then it's I got go over and try to
like just nestle up on the couch or something like, hey,
do you want to color? You want to do this?
I got her coloring. We went to State Golden on
Saturday morning. Oh yeah yeah, and she was busy coloring
Christmas trees and ornaments on these worksheets.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
So I made a heady play. This is a dad
hack right here too.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
If your kids, you're at a restaurant, you go somewhere
and they got some stuff for kids where they can color.
They can use crowns, make a heady play. If you
see them very involved and focused in coloring on this worksheet,
go ask them for extra worksheets so you can bring
them home.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
She was fired up to color these Christmas tree ornaments. Yeah,
and so I brought like four home.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
So I'm like, all right, when mom's out, if Ruth's
I'm not gonna have her to her. If she already
used up her TV coupon, She's gonna have to do
things that keep her busy. Yeah, trying to I'm trying
to manipulate this to where when Scotty is down for
her nap in the middle of the afternoon in that one, two, three,
three thirty range, that could be some some father quiet.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Time since Mom's gone.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, So I got the worksheets out and this whole
look at me, watch this face that I'm about to
get to.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I give her the worksheets. She is elated.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
We got a full box of crowns, and I get
her set up because I'm trying to go and watch
this documentary that I've been consuming, The Diddy documentary. By
the way, way that documentary is being wild binged it
wild Wild Dog, and she's going, dude, every thirty seconds,

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she color an ornament or a flower or a part
of the tree. She color one little thing, and I'd
have to get up and come look, come look at
the ornament. I'm like, oh my gosh, you use blue.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
And then I go and was like, sit like, sweetheart,
folks you know, focus in. I'll come check. Get the
whole tree going there, tell me when it come over.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Let the heart come here, come here, check this out.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh my god, he's yellow.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I, sweetheart, like, just just color the whole tree
and then let me know when you're done, and then
I'll come.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I'll come check it out.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm sitting there watching the documentary and she's locked in
and she's like dad, Dad. I'm like yes, sweetheart. She's like,
will you come sit with me? Yeah, sweetheart, I'll come
sit with you. Pause the documentary, go over there and
sit with her. I gotta watch her basically the entire time.
What color do you think here? Can't use red, can't
use blue, can't use orange. Can't you just green?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Purple, pink?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
And I'm like, sweetheart, you gotta be able to mix
you gotta be able to repeat some colors. Yeah, yeah,
talk her into it. But this phase, man, is I
mean it'll beat you down. Yeah, it'll be sure. I'm talking, Hey.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Dad, dadd come here, watch me. Watch me and I
walk over that what is it sweet? And She'll be
like just that, and I'm like, I'll stare at her
and I'll say, is that it?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
It's like yeah, watch and I'm like, oh my god,
that's incredible.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
You're gonna have to practice in the mirror, like twenty
different reactions to her stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
You gotta you gotta expand your bag.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Thanks, sweetheart, you gotta what are we looking at?

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tell him that's all what you said about the Christmas
cookie that she made. When you texted into the group
about the Christmas I put.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
That one out on Twitter, that one out on Twitter,
he said the group.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be telling the boys like, hey, man,
I'm telling you, I think ru is gonna be She's
gonna be smart, bro, Like she is ahead of the game.
And I'm like looking at her making this little Christmas
cookie and just it's all different colors. It's it's just
plumped of plumps, uh, what we try call like mounds

(13:32):
of icing in different spots. It's uneven, it's very below average.
And I'm looking at this cookie and I'm like, sweetheart.
I look over my wife.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm like, we think she's gonna be smart and she
makes a cookie like this.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's that into the group message with the pumpg like
Coop and Jared, and both Coop and Jared go, what's
wrong with the cookie? And I'm reading this way later
after y'all had this conversation Will, it's like she's using
all different types of colors. Look, there's three different types

(14:04):
of glitter on it. I told her she was grounded.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Grounded. He was obvious.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Up until now. I thought he was really really proud
of it, and I didn't. I was just like, it's
no like cookie.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Will.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Obviously, when we're sitting there doing our Christmas cookies, I'm
fired up. But I'm like laughing to myself because I
look at her cause she's like, check this one out.
I'm just like, Dade, I look, well, we're looking at
the sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
That shit is trash. Oh my gosh, I'm.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Trying to find true goons there. It is our group
chats called true goons. I dropped the picture in and
you can put the tweet up two chef, but I
dropped the photo of the cookie in there. You like me, man,
I'm telling you rue smart as hell for three year
old ruse Christmas cookie. Jared laughs and then he goes,
I don't even know what's wrong with it. I said
that icing game is trash. I said, three colors, three

(14:57):
different types of sprinkles, clumpy, and then I just then
I randomly put after that she's grounded, and then Jared goes, which,
by the way, I looked at Charro and I said
that before Jared even sent this message. It's like, sweetheart,
what were we doing with yellow icing? Like those are
that's not a Christmas color? Like you could have just
left the icing white, because you know, you built the

(15:18):
food coloring in it to change it up, like we could.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Have just done red, green and white.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Because I'm sitting here trying to build sand as I'm
trying to build all these different things. Now just got
yellow sitting there, and Beaman goes, honestly true, also yellow,
it's Christmas. I said, yeah, my wife got a verbal
lashing for that as well.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I was reading those laughing so hard, dude people right
out there. What are they talking about right now?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Look, it's Sunday night, Sunday night. What time we at
It's about nine pm? Oh yeah, after the kids went
down talking about I get to Yeah, that's what we
were talking about.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
On Saturday night. My bless my mom's heart. I love
my mother, Miss Amy. She listens to every episode of
Miss Amy, I Love You. She came in town to
uh hang out with me and Jill, help take care
of scarlet. Let Jill and I have a little more
relaxing time. My mom is very talented artistically. She has

(16:19):
her own art company, and she had a gallery for
years and at Amy Young Art. And that's uh at
Amy Young Art with one why. I always told her
that makes it a little complicated, all because it's at
Amy Young Art. But there's just one why. So I

(16:40):
still want to give her a shout out.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Shout out, no shoutout, shout out, no free shout out
Miss Amy. I am Young Art.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
But she's extremely creative. She did a lot of interior
design work back in her day. It's about seven pm
on a Saturday, and she's like Sherman. Now, I don't
want to upset Jill, but I'm looking at y'all's living
room and dining room setup, and I really think that,
Oh no, we could really rearrange everything. No, I go, oh,

(17:13):
she goes, I'm thinking the couches move here, the dining
room table moves here. Granted, I'm feeling like shit on Saturday,
and I've not communicated this at all to my mom.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Or my wife.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
So now I know it's too late for me to
cop out and say, hey, I feel like shit.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
So I don't know if this is a good.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Time cop out? What cop out on? What cop out on?
Helping with the redesign?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
No? No? Oh wow? Oh wait. I wanted to, like,
you know, or I be my mother, But if my
mom would be over at our.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
House and pull me aside, me like, hey, I you know,
I think we could do a lot of redesign in
the living room. God, I just put my hand on
her shoulder and be like, hey, Mom, I love you.
If you feel confident enough to tell my wife that's
what I did, that we need to redesign this house.
I'm letting you know right now you're on your own.

(18:10):
And when that grenade happens, cause it's gonna be explosive. Yeah,
I'm gonna be on my wife's side. But if you
want to step into the jungle, yeah, be my guest.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
So I tell I tell my mom, I say, you know,
you're really you're kind of pitching, uh the intern right now,
you got you gotta talk to the lady upstairs. I
got no say in this situation. But you know, if
you sell Jill on it, then uh yeah, you know
we could look into it. Thinking around seven pm on
a Saturday that you know. And Jill was all but

(18:44):
so excited for the redesigned ideas. Loved miss Amy's ideas,
and she loved them for real, loved them for real,
and we got to cracking, we got to crack.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh my gosh, bro, when you brought that up, I
was like, oh my god, how is this gonna go down?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Missed?

Speaker 4 (19:01):
We missed like an entire portion of the argument because
when you were like and then I was going to
miss out on the redesign.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
I thought there was a whole story about them.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
At Conflin, I wrote down four title names for the
episode about the conflict.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Oh there was zero, you tell me there was zero conflict.
Zero conflict.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Mother in law comes into the house. Hey, I think
I don't really like the look at this place. I
think we should redesign some stuff. She I approached wifey
and wifey Jill, Queen Jill. She was just all on board.
It's smooth sailing.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Hey, I will say this, as far as the redesigned stuff,
she was exactly right, Like she really was exactly right
on all And it was more so.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
So you're calling your wife stupid, not at all.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, no joking, no, no, no, no, I'm just kid.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
I had flashbacks on my cage waiting for me.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
What on the f?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
You know what? My mom was exactly right. That place
was a dump. My house looks like.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
I do have to before and after photos that I'll
send to you, chef. But it opened up a ton
of space. But dude, I lifted up two chairs, re
hung some paintings, and I I was just sitting there
on a Saturday, just thinking, late into the.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Evening, Oh my gosh, I get to do this. I
get to do it.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
What happened with this sounded like there was some conflict
when you were feeling under the weather, and you should
have told him.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
You didn't say anything.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, I just had to nut up or shut up,
and then I got really lightheaded. And like super pale
and like honestly was starting to feel a little dizzy,
and I was like, honey, I have to sit down.
She was great about it, she was like, hey, let's
sit down. It was a huge bummer note or though,
because we were going to have a date night that night,

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and so we're going to move all this furniture around
like right before our kind of late night date night.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
And yeah, I was just feeling like crap. So we
miss out on that. That was kind of a dad loss.
But I'm feeling a little bit better good getting on
the other side of it as well.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, but hey, is he good? Good?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
You know what happened at at our house is you
talk about a Willie one Shell story. Your boy got
active over the weekend and you know, I'm talking heavy lifting.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
What were you doing something with?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
The heat went out, not out, but the upstairs got
like north like around eighty plus degrees, so it's really
hot upstairs, not downstairs. And we shut the system off,
but it was still blowing hot air. So I'm thinking,
what the what's going on? Yeah, and so I hit
up my boy shot out Robbie, and he's given me

(21:50):
all these little instructures go up in the attic.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
You know, check this, send me the serial number of that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
He's an h fat guy. Yeah, yeah, he's like, check
the breakers. I go to the main breaker circuit and
I don't see heat or a C or anything on it.
I see like living room, bonus room, bathroom, I see.
I shoot him a picture and I'm like, buddy, I
don't see I don't see the heat or the AC
on this thing. And he's like, you might have to
go outside by the unit rune. Are you stay inside,

(22:18):
I'm gonna throw the shoes on.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I'm gonna go outside. What was it behind some bushes too?
It was next to a bush. Yeah. I go back
there and the AC units running. It's like, man, I'm
just kind of do one of them, kind of do
one of them.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Lean back, and I'm looking at your hat a little bit. Yeah,
I think that's the breaker circuit right there. It's open up,
wiggle the breaker circuit. Realized there's just a little latch
on the side. Open that up.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
I see.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
All it says is a C breaker. So so I
just I send him a photo. I'm like, so, just
flip these off, and he's like, yeah, flip them off.
Step back AC. The unit shuts down, and I'm like,
all right, I think I gotta went inside. Looked at
my wife. I was like, I think we just wait.
Now go upstairs. Let's let's turn all the systems off,
all systems off, breakers off. It says you can go quick,

(23:05):
you can do a quick recep Five to ten minutes.
We're gonna wait thirty yeah, because we're gonna make sure
this thing, the systems are you know, systems are gonna
be a go when we get this thing sparked back up,
go upstairs. Hot air is still blowing out after you
hit the break, after I hit the breakers, bro. But
the people who are true h backers out there, the
true Sikos that understand this game, they're probably like, oh, Willie,

(23:26):
it was probably just the AC and not the heat one.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
There's a heat one as well. You have two units,
one for heat, one for AC.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, I believe. So you can call up Robbie, hey, bro,
when heats still coming. Heat, all systems are off, I
flip the breakers off. Heat still coming even be hotter? Yeah,
will you gotta go. You gotta go up to the attic.
There's gonna be a gray box. Sitting there by the unit. Yeah,
you'll find it. Open it up. If it says heat,
there's your heat one. Get the ladder down from the attic,

(23:56):
you know. And I'm feeling like people talking about Willy's once.
Ye will is handling business, right, you hit.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
The peter Pan pees again before you go, sweetart, I'm
gonna have to go up in the attic the dramatic
click of the ship.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
I'm gonna go north of the wall. Where's the tape measure?
If I'm not back, you know what. Start feeling around
my pockets before I go up there. Let me get
a hammer and a tape measure. Flip off the breaker.
You don't know what you're gonna need.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Just go up there with's like a little thing of
dirt and dust and just put it all over yourself.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
After the breaker, I sit down the ladder.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm climbing up on the ladder, you know, kind of
a kind of a fragile ladder, and I'm like, holding on, sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
You got the kids down there, all you guys. You
guys stay downstairs. Don't come up here. This is big
boy stuff. Oh whoa, whoa, don't don't come up here.
Don't come here.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I'm looking at the I'm looking at the unit up
in the attic, and it's it's it's a big boy.
It's got the big silver tubes going out everywhere. And
I'm kind of like looking around. Send him a photo
of the serial number. We're checking to see if we're
cyllinder warranty, because he's like, it might be the masterboard.
It's not communicating correctly with the system. Yeah, but you
gotta shut it down. Will you got to shut it down?

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Up there?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
I see the great box over there. I kind of
prop it open. I see it's just a simple switch.
Heat says Heat big written. I'm like, all right, here
we go. This is the heat. Like you know, I
don't want my wife to know. This ain't some big
boy stuff. I'm just I just randomly yo, dad.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Damn it. It's all good up here, sweetheart. It's all
good up here.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Compton, looky, Yeah, flip it off, system shut down.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Text Robbie. Hey, I shut it down. He said, all right, now,
you just wait. So we waited.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm going around and I close. So we wait like
thirty minutes. Kick it back on. But this is when
my wife was out volunteering, so I kick it back on.
I'm keeping her posted like, Hey, you know, I think
I got the system's reset.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
I think we might be good to go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, but it starts blowing out hot air again. So
we might have like a like a like a masterboard issue.
Yeah with the h vacuumit where it's like not it's
not uh communicating with the system correctly.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, and you can't.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Hey, I don't want to go too deep into it
for any mind, not interested, But I do have a
legitimate question. Go ahead, uh, something that my parents did
with the heat rising. And you have a lot of
open air space in that house. Yeah, do you have
floor vents in the upstairs as.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
If no floor vents in the upstairs all ceilings floor
vents on the first level.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay, and then ceiling vents on the ceiling events on
the top level.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
If it's easy for you, you can close all the
ceiling vents.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Closed them, buddy.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
And that didn't even help. No, that ended up helping
because again it was going out hot. So I'm like,
you know you're about to have We had like a
really cold Sunday, Yeah, but it was still like it
was like thirty to fifty on Saturday. And so as
we're about to do bedtime and everything else, we're opening
the windows until they actually go to bed. But we
got the windows open trying to like funnel through and

(27:00):
then I'm I'm standing on beds like I got this
metal pole and I'm closing the vents in the ceiling. Yeah,
I was working. I was working. You crushed its man.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Hey, that's actually a huge dad hack.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
By the way, we have a very small upstairs, but
we closed all our vents during the winter months and
just blast that heat downstairs and it filters all up.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Didn't really close the vents in the bonus room where
we were good, where we were Chef Jack and I.
We were on pup G on Saturday, and I finally
had kind of an open weekend. There wasn't really it
was just Army Navy on Saturday, so there wasn't a
lot of college football, and I felt like I had
to stay on top of so it felt like a
free night. And I just told my wife, like, once
we got the kids down, I'm gonna go get some
in with the boys. Man, I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm
gonna play some video games. And so I was up

(27:45):
there sweating. Oh yeah, because he got he eventually got
pretty damn hot in there, and I'm sitting there sweating
when we got our chicken dinner on pup G shout out.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
The boys shot out the gooblin.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Squad shot out the good squad so bad though, for
the goom berets out there?

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Can we get a little chef Jack get his thoughts
on playing with the boys the other night?

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I was it was good, man.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
I didn't played video games with like a group of
friends in a long long time.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
He got called up to the big leagues. Yeah, because
you were out, you were you rocking with mom and wifey.

Speaker 7 (28:16):
It was fun. Will had kind of a boomer moment
with his headset. Let's took about.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
You think I was? Because I did hear a little
somethings on the.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I have no Boomer moment, man, if said Turtle Beach
top of the line, and it wasn't communicating with the discord.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
I couldn't hear the boys.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
If I can tell you all my my side of
it is, I'm passing in and out of sleep.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
I'm sweating out some stuff. I'm not really checking my
phone other than just kind of surviving through the night.
So I wake up the next morning and it seemed
like y'all's planned to play was like eight thirty ish,
you like nine. And then I just see a string
of texts which we could provide to you. Jack of
will we can hear you, you can't hear us. Will

(29:07):
check check this system. I do the thing where you
like scrolled the text to the left and see the timestamps,
And it was like an hour and a half affair.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
It seemed like the boys are sitting there hating on me,
and I'm just like, hey, we were talking to go.
I think it's a will issue and keeps like, yeah,
it's definitely Will issue.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Something about at that age, man age Coop, Coopy, I'm
with you.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
I'm on, I ain't just on facetebook. That's incredible. And
then Coop with the eight kill game, Yeah, was an
a crazy went off. He crushed it. We got a
chicken dinner. How did Jack play? The chef check played awesome? Okay, good.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
We got in there with a squad, a dude who
was in the Marines when we had a fourth because
Cooop got off the marine joined us and he was
telling us about how it went down, Like he's like,
I like to use the stuff that I used for real,
and I'm like, I like to use the stuff that
I think I would do for real.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
And you know, that's a really good point. That's a
really good point because I think i'd use this him
to mutant, you know, if I was. But I was
in the ship for real.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
What was user name? But you gotta shout him? What
was it? Recon?

Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, recon something recon rob or something like this sting guy.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
But he was cool. Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
But I got on eventually like nine thirty because I
you know, I was gone.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Was it Wednesday early through? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, I got back like a Thursday afternoon and then
Friday we had the double date night, so I met
and then straight we streamed on Thursday night. So I
missed bedtime on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. So my wife's
hit me with like, you got double bedtime duty on
Saturday and Sunday, just like lah ah loud. She hits
me when I'm not around her, like I think I

(31:00):
was over here or something, and she's text me, so
you got double bedtime duty on Saturday and Sunday, And
I'm just laugh out loud.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Sure, I guess.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
But on Saturday, before I could goon with the fellas,
I'm going up there with Scottie at like seven and
then I come out when I get Scottie down and
Charles down there.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
That's when they was doing.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
The Christmas cookies. We're doing Christmas cookies at like eight o'clock. Like, hey,
it's bedtime, bro. But Rue was all fire to do
Christmas cookies. I know, it's kind of like a tradition.
I know, like in this episode we're gonna be talking
about Christmas traditions. Oh yeah, holiday shopping. But we were
in the tradition of making Christmas cookies. And then she
hits me. He was like, oh, you should have made
the dough. Well, I was gone, you should have made

(31:40):
the dough. All was gone, Sweeter. I don't know how
to make the dough or the whatever the what is it? Yeah,
the dough, the cookie dough. It's correct, like the butter
and eggs and the flow or whatever.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I don't know. You got this mixer out.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Hey, listen, and I ain't gonna sit there while Ruthe
bosses me around on how to make cookies. What the
hell is it?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Kitchen aid, babe, what do you mean it's it's in
this cupboard. I've never seen this thing before. Yeah, that
kitchen aid could take your hand off if you're not careful.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, gotta be careful. That's so.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Anyway, I'm putting Rue down at like eight thirty nine.
I was probably like nine nine thirty when I left
the room and ended up joining the boys.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
But there you go.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Solid weekend, I had a night I finessed. It is
Sunday night. I finessed Rue because Rue was like, Mama,
you're gonna do better because Charles gone, uh, she was
working this morning. So I had the kiddos making breakfast,
just being just being an all star.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Dad dude, Yeah, being a rock star usual.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Or just crushing it with the kiddos, and the in
laws came over for dinner and Charles like, it's bath
night for the kids. I'm like, oh, She's like, what
was the nose Like nose touched like not it or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
What's the the nose thing? Those goes? Yeah, yeah, those
goes you. And I'm like, yeah, I figured it me.
So you said you want me to do? You want
me to do bad time for both of them, and
you know, double bedtime. I'm logging this in my brain.
I'm not saying it out loud. She's hearing me say
it out.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
She's hearing me say it out loud, and should listened
to this episode right now.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
So I'm in there scrubbing the kids. Don't get the
bag clean, you.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Know, seeing into them and playing with the Yeah, splash, splash, splash.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
The you don't drink it, yeah yeah, cover your eyes waterboard.
All right, let's go get you ready for bed. But
I finessed with because we're one of Mushy's my mom,
it's your turn to do bedtime tonight, and she's like,
will you do my bedtime? She's like, I guess. So
that's a good point, rue, Yeah, you know what mama
should do bedtime? What if we turned away? We need

(33:47):
to flip the switch. We need to start sub tweeting
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, maybe we.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I gotta find a way. Yeah, yeah, I gotta figure
out a good way to do that. I gotta figure
out a smart way to do that. Speaking of dad losses,
I have a pretty severe one.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Okay. Uh so tomorrow is Monday.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Jill is actually going with my mom and Scarlet to
the airport and they're gonna be flying to Texas.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
She's not gonna be flying back till Thursday.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
So I'm essentially gonna have to hold down the fort
from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to like midday Thursday. So I
guess that's three days without my two girls at home.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
So you're gonna have the house to yourself.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, it's okay. I'm already I don't need to like
talk about it. I've already processed it.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
So you're telling me, your selfish ass wife, who's gonna
take the kiddo, Yeah, the five month old and fly
out tomorrow on Monday, Yeah with my mom and be gone,
Yeah for three days. Yeah, and you're gonna have the
house to yourself.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah. I know that.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Y'all were talking about like pubg earlier and stuff, and
I was like a part of me was like, shit,
that's probably something that I'm gonna have to do this week,
because what else am I gonna do?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Just sit at home, sat on.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
The couch and just kind of like watch, you know,
previews of the upcoming college football playoff.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Nothing pisses me off more than one of my mother
wants to take the kids and leave that home alone
for days at a time.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I'm not holding her against it, holding it against her.
I know we're talking about like scoreboard stuff. I'm gonna
do my best and I like keep score on this.
But you know, I hope they have fun. I hope
she gets to spend quality time with her friends. And
I'm just gonna do my best to try and hold it,
hold it down, hold it forth down.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
All by myself at the house.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I'll probably have to order a peta, probably two medium
pizzas from Dominoes.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
You know what you gotta do?

Speaker 1 (36:05):
What when she flies, when she takes off, you let
it sit for a couple hours, and then you just
shoot her a message. You feel good about taking my
kid from me. I hope you're happy. I hope you're happy.
Hurt it seventy degrees in Texas right now. I hope
you're happy leaving me alone at home for a few days. Yeah,

(36:26):
hurted seventy degrees.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
You'll be outside all day, and then I'll be inside
because it's freezing here in Nashville.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
I'll be inside.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I'm gonna have to bundle up with some blankets, make
a fire, and probably play some video games.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Oh, this is where we need PT six more than ever.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Eat some pizza and wings. Maybe we try and get
a pet stick out on the sticks with us. Oh
my heart goes out for you, bro, Thank.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
You, dude, thank you. What a selfish bitch man all
day speaking himself the kids man, You're gonna be begging
for him to come home.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Speaking of selfish bitches, the employees that the daycare sold
me out a little belated dad loss from last week
with Jilly Bean.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Was sick and dead, and I took Scarlett all by
myself on that last second.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
You know, Oh, I gotta get her.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Jill lays out an outfit every single day for Scarlet,
with a big old.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Bow, pretty outfit. I didn't have Jilly Bean.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
So the outdit that Dad has laid out was built
for speed. It was built for getting to work by
eight am. Yep, is a nice little onesie q onesie
with some cowboy boots. Did I grab a bow? No,
that's not aerodynamic. I grab socks. She doesn't need it.
She's wearing a onesie. She doesn't need socks in her
cute little gold glittering cowboy boots. And I drop her

(37:50):
off at daycare and she had a great day and
then they run into Jill like three or four days
later and they go, I think Dad picked out the
appit on Tuesday. A.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
That's such bullshit.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
When people start commenting on oh, it looks like Dad
dressed him today.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
I thought they were on my side. I do all
the pickups and drop offs. I'm the I'm the face
that they're seeing every single day, and they sold me
out like that.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
But what's wrong with the with the onesie and some
cowboy boots? Like she looked cute as hell?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, like Charle was getting on my ass today, like, oh, Scotty,
let's get some clothes on you. It was about four
in the afternoon she set out her She set it
on her pjs.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
From the night before. Was there any poop or be
on him any? Sweetheart?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
It's lazy Sunday. Yeah, And she looks like she's having fun.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Does she? Is she covered in her own poop? Or
oh she's not? Oh? Then she looks pretty good to me.
It dude, don't even get me started.

Speaker 6 (38:50):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
It's like, I'll put shorts and a T shirt on
the room and like, my nannymback looks like Danny dressed
through today.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
What does that mean, hey, what if you did, yeah,
you know, you don't like shorts and a T shirt?

Speaker 3 (39:03):
What if dad fucked around and picked out an outfit?
Yeah you know, Oh, God forbid, I'm a father. Don't
let a white boy get hot now.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah yeah, but in all serious, God forbid, Dad's got
some motion.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Shout out, shout out the crystal and uh, miss Angie,
because y'all are angels and I love you. Hey, everything
I'm saying right now, just.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, I need your help. Please don't hate me. That
was for a laughs, that was a joke.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's sweetheart. We don't think you're selfish. We don't think
your selfish at all. With them, the picture is just hilarious.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
So I'll compile some pictures for the pod of outfits
of Jill and that has picked out. And then they
sent a picture like of Scarlet and her little onesie outfit.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, it's brief. The contrast is funny.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
This is dumb, guy brain. Why does Scarlett have clothes
she's not allowed to wear? That's a great Derek, you
know what I mean, Derek, that's a great question. Dumb,
dumb funkl guy brain. But why why would she have
an outfit? And boots that you're not allowed to put
her in.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Derek, that's a great question. Hey, why would she have
a whole closet? Why would she have.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
An entire closet with outfits that range all the way
to like a two year old?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Why would she have that in five months old?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
And then why do we also buy new outfits like
every couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
You know, these are good questions. That's not a dumb question.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
You you asked that question, and my brain is saying,
I don't even know if there's an answer. Yeah, Like
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Shouldn't all of her outfits be fair game to be
put on her body if they fit. I'm genuinely like,
I'm not even trying to make a bit like I'm asking,
dumb guy.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Well, she's got to have, Derek, she's got to have
her cute morning fit for maybe a picture on the
on the chair that will provided us not cheap.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yes, and look, if you don't want us suddress the
kids in certain clothes, don't have those clothes in the drawer. Yeah,
ruse three, so she'll wear three t I thought three
team meant three tall and meets three toddler, It sure doesn't.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I learned that the hard way too.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
And so one day Roue comes out and I got
earn some pants. And these pants, the bottoms of them
are like midway upper calf. They're like, well, what are
you doing? You got earn some two T pants? And
so I'm like, okay, I didn't know that. Like they're
if they're in the drawer, I'm going to see them
as a viable option that I.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Can put them in.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
God, brother, you were me just two weeks ago before
we made the big change, because Scarlett was at the
zero to three months, but now she's at the three
to six months, but the zero to three months were
still in the drawer. That I go off of orders
from my five star general jillyban and so if I
don't get orders that everything in the right side of

(41:55):
the drawer is off limits.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
And now we have migrated to the left side of
the chester. You gotta let me know.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
You gotta let me know, because I'm still going into
the right drawer and yeah, I'm fighting Scarlet and I'm going, oh,
this thing's a little.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Dight, little snuff. I'm gonna get you some bigger, bigger,
out she's growing. Yeah, yeah, there you go, scars Car.
I don't know i'd listen.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
I hate warl on that. I agree wholehard.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Like dads that are trying and doing their absolute best,
you can't just it's like Ron Burgundy reading the teleprompter. Well,
if it gets in the drawer, it's fair game for
us to put on.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Like do you remember we were doing to put in
the lefty thing and I was like, I see the
Bobby sitting there, and I'm like, hey, we never used
Bobby formula, but I'm just.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Going with me. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Fast forward to two nights ago and Jill's like, hey,
can you just make her a little two out, like
extra little two ounces. I think she's still hungry. And
we usually use the Baby Breza machine, which for any
st sixers out there, funkals that is a baby formula dispenser.
So it's just this the ultimate dad hack machine. We

(43:02):
talked about it in the first couple episodes. You hit
make it makes it. What Jill is now asking me
is to make just two ounces, which I could have
done on the Breza, but I was like, oh, that
just means one scoop, put in a bottle heat up
the bottle. I can do that pretty easily. And I
go to open up the Bobby and Jill goes, oh no, no, no, honey,
don't use the Bobby. We never used Bobby. I go, oh, yeah,

(43:25):
that's right, that's right, remembering that I made pre made
three bottles for daycare of Bobby first Scarlet.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Oh yeah, my dumbass did not touch the I did that.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Sorry, of course, we don't use Bobby. Holy shit.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
I just I've been centered with daycare with Bobby bottles.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
For the last week. She's going.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Scarlet hasn't been drinking her bottles very well at the
at the daycare, I've been.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Using their own formula that just came out. That's breaking news.
He're on for the duns.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yeah so yeah, Ron Burgundy, Fuck you, candiego. I have
some other new Dad in the Trenches comments. We want
to get some comments beginning.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
If you're falling along on YouTube, Spotify, do you see
the clips on social media?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Leave comments? We love to read them on the podcast.
We sure do.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
I have Marsh rz F nineties on TikTok boys. We
are currently in the four to five months trenches with
our old our daughter Sonny that's my mom's grandmother name.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Shout out Sonny.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
I'm talking no sleeping at night, spit up, screaming and crying,
only wanting to be held. We lost our dog recently,
and I feel as if she knows that she's gone.
Dad's struggling through it. She can sense it only once
your mom. Being a new dad is a wild ride.
My identity changed five months ago, and then changed it
again this week. This week, excuse me when I lost

(45:07):
my best friend. He's talking about his dog. It's just
been dad loss after dad loss after dad loss.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
When do the trenches in?

Speaker 3 (45:16):
I listened to your podcast all the time for words
of advice and encouragement, but goddamn, this shit is difficult
and I feel as if I'm failing. How do you
guys cope with all the change?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Marsh?

Speaker 3 (45:29):
RZF nineties, I have some advice for him?

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Do you have anything you want to say?

Speaker 1 (45:34):
This is why I would say, Marsh, the losses will
keep piling up.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
You are not. The losses will never stop.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
They'll never stop. They'll keep piling up, And you are
not failing. You're just working through it. Find those small victories.
Hit those small victories. Start small you can't eat the
elephant with one big bite. You gotta take little bites.
Get those little bites in, get those little victory now.
I do have a cheat code for surroy Gate best Friend,

(46:07):
because I've lost some dogs in my day. Christmas is
the best time for a puppy, dude. And I know
you have a four to five month old, and so
you're probably thinking, Sherman, what the hell kind of evil
are you trying to put on me? You don't have
to get a puppy, Get a nice little five or
six year old, you know, sheltered dog that needs a

(46:29):
nice home this Christmas and find a little Surrey get
best friend. I think that's the number one way to
go when you're really feeling it with the dog loss.
And of course get approved with wifey, but get some
shelter dog that's sweet as an angel, just to like
have a new dog in there.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
I do see a lot of people say that they
get a puppy when they have a child, too, like
their first kid, and I think the time's probably a
little different. Maybe the puppy before the child, right before,
Oh it's not as much chaos. But a lot of
people say that a kid agree is up with the
dog ends up pretty happy kid.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
That is true.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
That dog is gonna love that that toddler, that is true.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Yeah, yeah, that would be my advice. Do you have anything.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Well, Number one, the losses will never stop coming. Yeah,
being a parent is very hard work. It will always
be very hard work. That's why on this pod we
talk about embracing the suck the whole good mantra mentality,
the whole you know, flipping your mindset from this is
happening to me too. I get to do this. So

(47:37):
a lot of my advice would just come would just
come down to, like what conversations are you having with
yourself on a day to day.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Basis, Like when you wake up in.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
The morning and you're feeling down or you're feeling a
little depressive or already defeated, that is a very that
to me is a sign that you need to have
a very hard like look in the mirror and conversation
with yourself about what's motivating you and like what your
why is behind everything. Because again it's like even with fatherhood,
even with any area in life like career, anything that

(48:07):
goes on in your world that is day to day
and it's gonna be habitual. The environment you're around, stress
is never going to stress is never gonna stop. So
my advice would would be having a very close look,
a very close conversation with yourself on what is motivating
you because there's a lot to be grateful for. Again,

(48:29):
we're gonna talk, and we're gonna laugh, and we're gonna
joke about a lot of the suck and the things
that are tough about parenthood or being a husband, and
what's shitty about work and YadA, YadA, YadA. But no
matter what, you at some point you gotta flip your
mindset and figure out what motivates you, figure out what
you are grateful for. You start with gratitude, your entire

(48:49):
mind shift, Your entire mindset will start to shift.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yeah. So as simply as I can possibly put it, is.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Understand the conversations you're having with yourself, Like right when
you wake up up in the morning, right when you
wake up, when you're doing everything, whether either you work
out or you don't work out, or whether you're making
breakfast or your your wife needs helps, are doing something
like are you kind of down and having like a
negative voice in your ear when all of these things
are happening. Because if so, that to me is to
tell sign that you need.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
To start with yourself.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Yeah, because right there, that'll that'll begin to once you
once you have that little subtle two degrees shift, because
that's really all it is. It's it's it's like, you know,
life is essentially a bunch of choices going through your
head when things are happening to you right yeah, it's like,
oh my gosh, woe is me? Life is happening to
me the moment you grab hold of that and realize
that that's gonna happen no matter what. So once you

(49:41):
filter it out through something differently and really check yourself
on how you're speaking to yourself or how you are
filtering the world and shifted to something, whether it's gratitude
or something positive, or you just catch yourself like, you
know what, I am being kind of a bitch about this,
I am being kind of soft about this. I am
kind of looking at this in a way different way
than how I should be. If you're listening to this

(50:01):
right now and thinking, like, you know, what I do
need to I do need to figure out like what
type of filter I'm using. If you start there you'll
be able to figure out like what you know what,
then you'll start to get excited about what then Like okay,
like let me start with gratitude. Let me start with
what I get to do throughout the day, Like Derek
having that having that monologue he had several episodes ago
on like Hey, I get to do this. Yes, because

(50:22):
the minute that happens is when things will start to
shift for you. Yes, because I know it's tough, man,
I know that shit's hard, and I'm just I'm just
telling you, like, life is never just going to seem easier.
You're gonna get a you're gonna get a pay raise
of promotion, You're gonna have a moment where you feel good,
and that is just as fleeting as a song lyric
for a song lyric from any major hit. Like there's

(50:43):
gonna be other problems that come the next day or
the next week or the next month. You're gonna lose somebody,
something's gonna happen to you with the family. Your wife's
gonna be pissay, she's gonna be in a mood one day.
Your kid, it's not gonna go the way you're gonna
you hope it goes at certain times.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
No amount of money, no amount of possessions is going
to fix it either, Like you were saying, with the
promotions and all that stuff, It's say, I feel like
the number one way to get in the mindset of
being able to say good yeah after a shitty situation,
or being able to say hey, I get to do

(51:17):
this is when you are actively trying to better yourself
and giving yourself some self love, giving yourself some opportunities
to win, but to also grow and develop as a person.
I currently am going through that. I've talked about it
on the pod of like, bro, I am going through

(51:37):
the shit right now, Like this is hard. This is
like the last couple of weeks for me. I've been
really really shitty, been bad, And I had a conversation
and sit down with Jill of like, let's it's not like, oh,
things are really shitty. Well what if I got like
the biggest promotion ever what this podcasters blew up and

(51:58):
we had five point two million views per episode? Like, oh,
then I would feel less shitty. No, it's like, Suman,
where are some actual things in your life that need
to change? Like one, I'm I am not sleeping well
I'm on a terrible sleep schedule. I'm not eating well,
I'm out of shape, I'm taking in way too much

(52:21):
caffeine just to keep afloat during the day, and then
that makes me feel even shittier and sleep even worse.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
And it's like Sherman, you have to break.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
This cycle, and it is going to be a hard
cycle to break, but you need to lock in for
the benefit of your wife and daughter, to be a
more present father, to get out of these fonks in stuff.
You need good sleep, you need some good energy, So
you got to have a better diet. You got to
take care of yourself.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Like that.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Is like the example I would apply to marsh It's like,
find those things in your life that you can better
yourself on because then ultimately that is going to make
you stronger and able to say good in the in
the shitty situations. Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Absolutely, that would be absolutely nothing changes. If nothing changes, Yes,
And I would say too, you have self love for
yourself for a second, but the minute you have a
little bit of self self love for yourself, like be
fucking hard on yourself.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Yeah, challenge yourself, your challenges.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Change isn't going to happen like the moment change happens.
And again every area is when you're sick and tired
of being sick and tired. Yes, and dude, it for
me it's just I I take an approach of just
being hard of like just being hard.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
On myself when it does get to that point.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Yes, it's like, Hey, you don't want to get to
a day where it's like, oh, I'm seeing a lot
at the end of the tunnel. It's like, no, be
the fucking light in the tunnel. And just that's how
you approach it. That's just how you approach it the
whole Nobody's coming to save you. Like that is to me,
the entire mentality about it. Because you might have every
reason to justify every feeling in the world that comes
through your mind. Yeah, every justification every Hey, you might

(54:01):
be right in the situation you're talking about, but no
matter what, unless you take full responsibility and accountability, like
you know what, all of this shit starts with me,
then nothing's going to change and you're gonna continue to
be a finger pointer. And I'm not saying marsh is
a finger pointer. I'm almost just getting in this this
mentality of like you know when those conversations because they're
happening and towards the end of the year, like it
happens with me all the time, where you talk about,

(54:21):
you know, not taking care of yourself, not sleeping, Well,
I haven't worked out like a month and a half.
You're talking about the caffeine and take on on my
ninth or tenth cup of coffee. It's it's fucking nine
pm at night.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
That's me.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I mean there's a part where I'm sitting there looking
at my looking at my pale naked body in the mirror,
and I'm just like, God, you are a piece of shit.
And at some point I just know in my head, dude,
will win. Are you going to be sick and tired
of being sick and tired about it and wake start
waking the fuck up early in the morning and taking
care of your business.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Yeah? So yeah, mars fucking and hey.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
And the self love, like uh, I would say to that,
the self love can be the wor working out like
the suck, like the stuff that does suck to do,
that's hard to do, Like when you are bettering yourself
and you're taking those moments of like bettering yourself, that

(55:11):
can be.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
The self love.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
So to your point, don't let the self love be like, oh,
I you know, I'm great, everything's great. It's these people's fault.
Have that self love be more like pouring into yourself
for improvement the aka therapy aka going to the gym,
aka pouring into positive hobbies, positive people in your life,

(55:33):
et cetera. Yeah, yeah, so that was a good point
of like, don't let self love distract you.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I didn't want to.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
No, not at all, Not at all. It's just form
my approach. It's more of just the way I get
in my own face. It's like, get in your face
about it. Picture yourself grabbing you by the throat and
putting yourself against the wall and be like, when are
you gonna wake the fuck up? Let the heart turn black.
Let the heart turn black. Yes, let the heart turn black.
The only way, the only way I know how.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
It's a good, good way. It's a good way.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I've I've come to adopt it, and I'm I enjoy it. Oh,
I got some that's sorry.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Real quick.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
We have a lot of dads that say the word
failure a lot, like phone calls and stuff like that,
and I would love to hear you guys talk about
that for two seconds off that comment because the guy's like, Dude,
I don't want to be a failure. I think you
guys are a good example that I get having a
loss doesn't make you a failure, like preparing for it
and coming out of it, because that's what I got
from his is him being like, dude, I'm I'm a
failure because these things are all happening. Like you guys
are a perfect example and continuous to say, it's not

(56:29):
about the losses that come your way.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
It's about preparing and what you learn from it. Just
the coolest part I thought from the comment.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Yeah, fail A failure is someone that is failing to
act in the moment, like when you when you don't
take action, or something needs fixed and we're not taking
proactive steps to fix it. I think that is the
only definition of like the word failure. Hard things are

(56:57):
going to happen all the time. You're going to mess
up all the fucking time. You're gonna give your kid
Bobby for a week, You're gonna give them the wrong formula.
But like that is not like when you have those
hiccups or when you are beating yourself up like, you're
not a failure. A failure is exactly what Will was saying,
quitting and going his fault, his fault, his fault, my

(57:20):
job's fault, my wife's fault.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Yeah, that's a failure.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Taking taking the fail the failing to act and more
of like uh I would I would The wrinkle I
would say, is the failing to respond because it's all
about it's it's it's at the end of the day,
it's gonna be all about how you respond in every
moment because again we're we're nothing but a makeup of
all of our failures, and it's it's surely like, how

(57:44):
do we respond in those moments where we didn't show up?
Because fatherhood, parenthood, in this area of parenthood that we're
talking about is it's not about being perfect, not about
looking back and be like, look at all these wins
I had. No, it's just it's fining a way to
be consistent and show up. Like, even if you do
have a bad day or a bat moment, you're never
defined by that moment, that bad day, that bad week.
It might last a month, but if you if you

(58:05):
wake up the next day and go about it, go
about it a different way and respond the right way.
That to me is where you're going to ultimately start
having progress. It's all about progress. It's all about showing
up because again it's it's never about chasing perfection. It's
about showing up because that's what parenthood is because you're
gonna have bad words, like you know, I mess up
all the time with how I feel like I talked

(58:26):
to Rue every now and then and I'm like, ah,
that didn't that didn't come out the way that I
thought it would or the way I wanted it to. Like,
I'll have another opportunity. I need to figure out the
next opportunity seem to come.

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Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Keep it switching around to a lighter note. This is
Lewis twenty two on YouTube. Imagine the excitement when Chefchack
becomes part of PT six one day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
What way did they just whomes? Yeah? Just imagine the
excitement when Chef Chack becomes part of PT six.

Speaker 7 (01:02:06):
One got me sick? Hopefully not anytime soon. I need
to kick some stuff out, I will say.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
I feel like it.

Speaker 7 (01:02:15):
Goes without saying being on a dad podcast as a
twenty four year old, I am excited for that one day.
It's super cool. It's cool to watch you guys interact
and talk about it and stuff. And I think it's like,
I think a lot of guys, some of isn't even
talked about a lot is there are a lot of
young guys out there that really aspire to be to
be dads, and it's not talked about because you're twenty

(01:02:36):
four and it's like, hey, let's go, it's Saturday, let's go,
let's go hang out or do stupid shit. Yeah, but
it's like, I think there's a lot of dudes out
there that it never really gets communicated as much. Where
I feel like women you see it all the time.
Where women are like, I can't wait to be a mother.
I do think there's a very strong contingent of young
men out there like myself there, like, hey, when that
day comes, it's gonna be a sick, fucking yeah, awesome

(01:02:57):
ride and you aspire for that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
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captain St six seam and team. He's definitely having a
boy first. By the way, you think I'm you should
always five daughters. I'm fucked. Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
By the way, here's here's one from a from Josh
Josh rabe uh for on YouTube. ET six Dad hack
for the Christmas tree problem to piggyback off Chef the
train works? Does the train work Chef? Because we got
an interesting video from Chef last week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Run yeah, let me let me put so I get home.

Speaker 7 (01:03:34):
This is Wednesday, Wednesday night, and uh, for those listening,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
I just moved back to Nashville. I live with my
mom and dad.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
Shout out, it's really awesome saving on some money right now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
But I get in there.

Speaker 7 (01:03:45):
My mom she listens to every episode and she was
laughing and she goes, hey, I listened to the episode.
The train doesn't work the train, like we didn't put
ornaments on the bottom half of the tree when you're
a toddler because you destroyed everything. Oh no, I'll play
the I'll play the video right now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
You did have ornaments down below because because.

Speaker 7 (01:04:08):
Me grab them, no, and welcome back, welcome back. So
to my surprise, that was a great way to start,
you know, my Wednesday when I get home, and so
I take a little video and send it to the
fellas and I'm just sitting there thinking I should have
thought that through because my parents, my whole life, told
me that I was a fucking menace.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Yeah, look the only dad hack out there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
It seems like, don't put ornaments on the bottom half
of the tree. I will say, we got I do
have scott Zilla in check. She'll go over there. I'll
kind of tell her, gentle, because Charles always sitting here
like with it, whether she's patting waffle or like, you know,
doing something she doesn't want to rip off. She back gentle, gentle,
and she'll kind of like look at you and be
kind of soft about it. But I've been keeping her,
We've been keeping her in pretty good check with the

(01:04:53):
with the ornaments. She hasn't been too too much of
a problem to society recently when it comes to the ornaments.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
I got some love this pod comments that we can
run through really quick, rip all out of the comments,
So go ahead. Tristan Morris R. Seventy nine Underscore on YouTube.
Fella has been listening for a while now, but this
episode hits a little different. Wife just let me know
she's pregnant yesterday and we are ecstatic. Question, how did

(01:05:23):
y'all break the news of pregnancy to your family members?
Thanks for all the advice that's gonna come and handy
real soon.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
What I did when we were having root for the
first time is I went on a Amazon and got
the coffee cups that says like Grandma and Grandpa, and
then they have like the stats the stats below. It
looks like a nutrition a nutrition label on the side
of a of.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
A food box. Yeah, we got up little coffee cups.
They opened it up, had it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
And then I want to say, I got a T shirt,
like I got these t shirts on Amazon that said
like uh something with like uncle or Tarano. So I
can't fucking remember, I don't know, but anyway, that's what
I did. I got gifts, they opened it up, they
saw tears.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Jill went on a FaceTime rampage when she found out
that she was pregnant because she was nervous, and so
she faceigned one of her nursing friends of is this
a positive pregnancy test? So now that nursing friend knows,
she facetimes her cousin. That's basically her sister shout out Megan,
who has a child, is this a positive preak? Like

(01:06:27):
does this look positive? Yes, that's posibly Okay, Now cousin knows. Well,
now that those two people know, my mom has to know.
That's my closest person to face times her mom.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So by that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Time, when Sherman got home and she laid out the
pregnancy test, which fun little wrinkled, we weren't able to
post our video because I come in and I see
the pregnancy tests on the sweater. I yelled out, I
fucking told you because I told Jill that we were
gonna go one for one and doing the math in
my head.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
We went one for once, So fun times there. Yeah,
so I just facedign my my mom and dad.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Yeah, listen, there's no way, there's no perfect there's no
perfect way.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
They're going to be ecstatic. They're gonna be ecstatic and
shout out Tristan.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
I My next comment is actually about a person that
is announcing number three.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Will and Shurm. I'm a father of two amazing boys.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
Four and two, and my wife and I recently found
out that we're expecting our third baby. To add to
the anxiety of the whole process, wife, he wants to
wait until birth to find out the gender. That means
agreeing on two names and not being able to mentally prepare.
Would love to hear how you fellas would handle the situation. Sincerely,

(01:07:41):
Nick H from Saint Francis County, Missouri.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Howltt what he's got a third one? Let's fucking go.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
I'm assuming that was planted to be a that was
planned it would be a surprise for all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Willie one, Yes, sir, Nick's having number three?

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Yo?

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Is that not crazy?

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
That's awesome, dude. I want to sit here and FaceTime him.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
He texted me and he goes, hey, man, what's the
plan If if Will doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Pick up that, it's me? You know what are you
gonna have to jump in there? You know? Spotify? Is
that Google? With that one? From? He goes.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
You know that that brain plus CT we don't know.
I said, I'll hold his hand and guide it to him.
If it didn't click, I was gonna be like, hey,
Saint Francis County, will is that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Where you laid that one up for me?

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
I think you might have said Nick h first and
for something. Oh, I did say the name of my boys,
name of my best friend.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
I said the text. I said.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
If he doesn't get it, I'm going to be really
worried for you. But yes, Nick, Nick's having his third
So congrats.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Congrats Nick and Rachel. Yes absolutely, I'm thinking my head
like yeah. Charles brought up waiting, like, hey, I want
to say with Scottie. Maybe because we did a fresh
transfer to he you don't know the gender through IVF.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
But she was like, do you want to wait until
the birth? I'm like, no, no, no, no, we ain't wait
to know. I gotta know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Really fun story for you guys. My mom and dad
decide to do that with me. My mom's gonna hate
that I'm telling the story, but I love my mother.
Very spiritual gal and God told her she was having
twin girls, and so because of that, she then told

(01:09:34):
everybody that she was having twin girls when all fat staff.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Was bacon in the oven.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
So she is looking people dead in the eyes and saying,
I'm having twin girls. All the gifts are coming in.
They paint the nursery pink and yellow. Pink and yellow nursery.
And then sure enough, she had a follow up dream
where an angel came to her because I am the
second born and I'm named after my dad, which was

(01:10:04):
very rare. She had an angel come to her in
a dream just a couple of nights before I was
born and said, it's actually a boy, and you need
to honor your husband and name him after your husband.
And I was wearing pink onesies in that pink and
yellow nursery.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
I beg that angel case aau.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
I see you've been telling everybody you've been getting way
too many games.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Big Man was joking, Big Man's joker. Hey, we need
a cute thing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Big Man was joking up there, we gotta fix out
at dinner when we're praying a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
I love you, mom. That's a very fun story to tell.
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
So yeah, very very surprising. When she came out into
the waiting room and said it's a boy. Actually it's
not twin girls and his name Sherman. So yes, uh well,
let's do one more comment and then we can go
into our call.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
We like that. How are we doing on timing? We're good?
Oh sorry, well then we'll do crack of Colvin.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
This come from Stephen Stephen karafone four seven one five
on YouTube. I love this guy, repeat offender, sicko Steve. Here,
you are a sicko. Steve told the wifey I wanted
for the dad's merch for Christmas. I come home to
a package plastered and busting with the boy's tape. I
play dumb like a champ. Next day another box appears.

(01:11:33):
This woman's out here double sickoing me with surprise gifts.
Now I gotta sit here for two weeks pretending I'm
not thinking about those boxes. Twenty four to seven hashtag
wife's a sickle.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Stephen Karafone is a true PT siko. So wife got
him some some merch, got him some merch for crimbis.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Shout out, joining the PT six father shout out, then
shout out joining the p.

Speaker 8 (01:12:00):
And shout out our merchs being like, hey, can you
guys have a package option next year as a gift
because their hubbies were bringing the boxes in with busting
with the boys tape on it, and so we got
a lot of pictures from the wives of their husband
holding the box where they're like, well, they know what.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
They're getting this year, So we might have to talk
to you about a gift option.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
That's kind that's sneaky. I'll put it under the tree.
I don't know what you're getting.

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
And maybe a little gift bundle, A gift bundle package
would be kind of fun too. Around Christmas comes with
the hat a shirt of day measure.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
For the dad's tape measure.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
But just old Willy watch up on there hitting the
peter panstairs, Hony, there's it's crazy up here, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Awesome? Oh read the tweet.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
I got a Willy one shelf tweet special here that
I would This might have to be a new segment,
Will if that's okay with you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
You're saying you found a tweet that you read in
my voice and it made you chuckle. Yes, may I
take man, just take a shot at the dark on
which one it might be.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
Before you do, I just want to preface for Ptsikos
out there that don't follow Will Compton on Twitter, go
ahead and change that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
It's at underscore Will Compton, And.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Sometimes he tweets a lot about football, but sometimes he'll
put out these tweets where he has a internal dialogue
with the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
And Will what you get off to you enjoy him?

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
I love him because I read them in your voice
and it makes me so happy. What tweet do you
think that is this week?

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
I think I guess too.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Let's let will guess first and then you can guess, chef.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
I would say Polar Express. Okay, pure Polar Express, ding
ding ding, And I knew whenever I fired that one off,
I was like, I bet sure sees this.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
This was tweeted on but you're telling me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
This was tweeted on December twelfth by Will Compton to
the Worldwide Web.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Polar Express a great movie, But you're telling me a train.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Pulled up in the middle of the night and conned
a bunch of kids to get on board by saying, hey,
it was headed to the North Pole. Magic or not?
That has to be a felony written all over such
a great tweet, dude, It was Pizza Friday. Why it's
pizza Friday? Movie night, a nice weekly tradition that we have.

(01:14:40):
We were watching Polar Express. Yeah, great movie. I've seen
it before. It's a good movie.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
And I'm sitting there and I'm sitting there watching it
this second time through. It was my second or third
time seeing the movie. You know, Ruse fired up. We
saw last year. But she kind of doesn't remember where
I remember. Police says, yeah, but she's enthralled by this movie.
Not a lot of words throughout the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Yeah, a lot of just.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Fascination and imagination, singing and yeah, singing and dancing. And
his train comes in the middle of the night, and
this kid is just outside in his backyard, not really
bundled up, and he stands there and sees Tom Hanks,

(01:15:28):
the the what is it called, the engineer, the train conductor,
and he's just like headed to the North Pole, and
and the kid just gets on and then you get on.
They get on the train, and the car is just
a bunch of kids.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
You don't think.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
There's no adults, there's no nothing. It's just hey, you
got this golden ticket. We're going up to the North Pole.
You get to meet Santa Claus, you get to meet
Santa Claus and you're just gone in the middle of
the night. That's crazy, that's crazy, It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
I know that Will had one eyebrow up, one brown.
I looked over my wife. I looked over my wife.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
I said, could you imagine, because you know what, we
got the train, we got the railroad basically in the backyard.
Could you imagine if Rude just got up in the
middle of night, went outside and got on a train
because she thought it was headed to the North Pole.
Bro I want to watch any fantasy I want to

(01:16:25):
watch any fantasy movie with Will, Like The Goodies and
at the end they go, Yo, there's the fucking pirate ships.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Real, there's a treasure. Imagine if you're looking for Hey it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Just to confirm, I went to Google and I was like,
is Polar Express is that they want to No?

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
No, no, no, no no. I typed in.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
I was like, because I kind of missed, I kind
of missed a oh man, a part that I was
trying to get confirmed, which was right before that. I'm wondering,
is that based on a dream? You know what I mean?
Like kid goes asleep and then it's a dream. But
then they're telling me like, no, this is just it's
just a it's just like magic.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Hey, magic or not, that's just a fella. Dad comes
in and kissed some good night.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Like it lose to a couple of subtle hints that
the train's gonna be coming at midnight. The clock strikes
whatever it is, and then the kid just goes outside.
But it's not a dream. Yeah, so I think, all right,
maybe this is a dream. And I missed that part
before I fired this one off. I confirmed that it
like wasn't a dream. And the kid just went out
in the backyard got on a train because he thought
I was going to the North Pole. That's crazy because
we're driving. My wife and I were driving to that

(01:17:29):
double date and I'm just like, sweetheart that Pole Express.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
And buddy, he wait. He wakes up at the end
of the movie and he goes, was it a dream?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
We just teaching our kids it's okay to go outside
in the middle of the night when they're stowing on
the ground waiting for a train. Is hey, you guys
going to the North Pole? She said, Baby, you know,
it's just a movie. Like we ain't gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
Let's go enjoy.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Let's go enjoy our Saturday our Saturday brunch.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
It's okay, Honie just caught me off guard. Yeah, of course,
of course. Crack a cold one. Crack a cold one, guys,
Crack a cool one.

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Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
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Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Scarlet is rolling over by herself. Oh nice bro, and
I have finally caught it on video. Roll the tape
how to.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Roll over crazy booty, butte, thank you? Go on, there
you go? Yeah good.

Speaker 9 (01:19:45):
Josh Corlan.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Is so good.

Speaker 9 (01:19:53):
Oh my goodness, Screlet, whoa.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
And welcome back. Let me get the let me get
the do it again, Scarlett.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
The original video was minutes. I'm about to go and
you kind of push them back over. I hang on,
give me a second, let me get the camera ready.
There are this arms going like this, and I'm like,
come on, we've been going for two minutes. I run
out of road, run out of memory on my phone, Scarlett,
She's going like this and then dude, my dad voice.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
I was cringing listening to my dad voice. I'll play
it really quick if we want, we can react to
my dad voice.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Thank you, go on, there you go?

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
Yeah that ain't no ya get over there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Oh there we go.

Speaker 9 (01:21:02):
It was so good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
Oh my gos scarlet celebration. I love it. What am
I doing?

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
You got your back? Oh, you got der back in
And the first time I don't know if I had
touched on this on the pod. The first official flip
by herself was unseen because dad As was doing tummy
time with her and she was getting so close to
flipping over. This was when Jill was I forget Oh,

(01:21:37):
she was working. It was on one of my solo
Saturdays and I'm doing tewny times. She won't flip. I'm like, oh,
I'm hungry. I gotta make a PB and jay. So
she's her playpin's right there by the kitchen, so I'm
able to keep an eye on her.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
I go get the bread.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
And the peanut butter and jelly out, and I swear
I look into the playpen and she's on her back.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
I was like, you gotta be kidding me, Damn. I
just sat there with you for almost thirty minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
And as soon as I get up, and it was
because she wanted to see me in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
That was like, what goal flip her back over? Yes,
she never did it. I was sitting there like, so
then I go stand in the kitchen. I'm like scarch card,
Scotch car.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Look at Dad, Look at Dad, flip over, look at that.
She never did it, and now I finally have evidence.
I'm not crazy. Look at that. Look at that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
He ain't shit, man, man, man, you ain't Joe daddy girl.
Oh my crack a cold one. Christmas traditions, Yeah, Christmas traditions.
My wife, she loves to do what are them calendars
called the dure Yeah, the Advent calendars. Yes, or she
has these little slots, you know, entire month of December,

(01:22:51):
and she likes to get this throwback camera to where
it prints out the little the little photo, whether it's
or whatever it is. But every night, some kind of photo,
whether it's me and the kiddos or and the kiddos,
the kiddos, Yeah, tonight was the was the grandparents Lola
and open the kiddos. Yeah, take a picture every night,
throw it in the Advent calendar.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
We do Christmas cookies. We're making them. My told that
story on Saturday Night. Christmas cookies.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Obviously pictures with saying now whenever you have, but just
overall Christmas traditions.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
That you do as a family.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
I love that putting up, the putting up the trees,
and an easy obvious one that was always my favorite
because of the tradition of my godparents sending me a
custom ornament every single year. Yeah, that's when I got
to unbox my newest ornament.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
And you don't appreciate custom ornaments and just in my
until you get older, Yes, just the way it is.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Yeah, well you're like, damn, why you just send me
an ornament?

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
And I wanted this toy, I wanted you know, this
video game, I wanted this or that, you just send
me an ornament. But now they're older, Like we still
have that nineteen eighty nine Willie see ornament from when
I was born.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Oh yeah, a couple of from back in the.

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Day, the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Annual ornaments that Charle and I might have when.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
It was just me, charl and Waffle, the me, Charle,
Waffle and Rue and now all of us was Scottie. Yep,
there's always an ornament every year, man, that I just appreciate.
We did busting ornaments one year. I got a couple
of buses hanging There's one hanging on Roue's little tree,
one hanging on ours.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Massive Star Wars fans, so I gotta get the lead,
you know, I gotta yield to ornament.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
We got to talk some Star Wars one day. I
didn't realize that you were so into it, dude. I
love Star warss going though. I'm sorry, but overall, just
Christmas traditions. There's just nothing tis the season. There's nothing
that just brings life together in the season together like
Christmas traditions, like where we.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Have another like Advent.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
I believe it's an Advent calendar where there's like chocolates inside.
So he's got a little you know, she's got to
crack one open each night. She's always fired up and
sitting right next to her for dinner. Can I open
this one? That? You know what fires me up about
this Advent calendar. She's kind of got to sitting next
to her at dinner, and it reminds me of like,
you know, kids these days, they's sitting there in the
mornings Like for me, we grew up on the cereal
boxes where you're sitting there eating cereal and you'd be

(01:25:03):
looking at the box the entire time because you didn't
have the phones, you didn't have everything else going on.
But she's all fired up because she's got this advent
calendar sitting next to her and there, you know, I'll
try to have her spot these animals or it's got
all the numbers on us. I'm like fine, thirteen, Like
what you know what two numbers are in thirteen? And
so she's looking at this box will time just salivating
at the opportunity, like hey, you finish your dinner, you
get to eat the chocolate. She'll want to pop the

(01:25:25):
chocolate out early because she just want to see is
like what it is, whether it's just stocking a deer
Santa claus An ornament, what a snowflake. Yeah, she just
wants to sitting right there like, okay, I get that
if I eat my dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
But just Christmas traditions, man, my to throw.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Onto the traditions talk my parents. I was that kid
at school. I don't remember what grade. It was maybe
fourth or fifth that my parents had me believe in
so hardcore, dude in Santa they were so good.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Just to give some dad hacks, some tips.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Dad would get his big old work boots and he
would stamp them real hard in the fireplace. He'd build
a fire and then he would stamp them on the fireplace,
and he would put ash footprints throughout the living room.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Ever by the tree where the gifts are, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
He would go over to the cookies where the cookies were,
and my mom would get the cushions and sit next
to the cookies and push the cushions in so it
looked like Santa was sitting there drinking and eating the cookies.
They even did it for the Easter Bunny. People don't
even do that for the Easter Bundy. They'd leave glitter
rabbit paus like with glitter around the yard and on

(01:26:36):
our front porch. I'm like, oh, well, they when I
found out Santa wasn't real, in full tears, I go, is.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
The Easter Bunny not real either? That's how bad they
had me, dude. It was how old? How old were
when you found out about Santa Claus? I take fourth grade? Yeah,
I was close to that too.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Like I would look my friends in the eyes and
be like, I don't care what you say.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
I swear to God. And you know, when you're a.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Kid saying I swear to God, Like that's the biggest
of the biggest, Yeah, I swear to God, saying Israel,
I've seen him with my own eyes. Like when we
lived with my grandparents, my grandpa would dress up as
Santa Claus and then my mom would wake me up
in the middle of the night. I remember this so vividly.
She woke me up in the middle of night. My
brother and I are like sleeping together on this full

(01:27:22):
sized bed. She wakes me up and she's like, hey, come, look,
and she took me to the crack of the door
and just had the crack of the door open, and
I just see the back of Santa Claus like putting
down presents.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
I'm just like, holy shit.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
And from that moment, I would whether you're at the
whether I'm at the cafeteria and class, whatever it is,
I'd be like, I, guys, I it makes sense what
you're saying, but I shit, you, I have seen this man.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
I have seen this man.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
And I'm like, maybe maybe, maybe he doesn't bring all
the presents, but I'm just telling you, there's got to
be one there at least, no matter what.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
And old Billy two shelves just sitting there dressed as Santa,
just laying the presence down, Yeah, laying.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
The presence down, dressing a full Santa suit fir. Yeah,
I was about fourth grade as well. Maybe maybe a
little bit later.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
I don't. I don't know, but dude, I would go
toes with my boys.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
Man for everyone would try and break it to me,
and I'm like, I don't believe you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Like I get it. I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Everything you're saying about the optics at night time and
everything else, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
How's he going from Abu Dhabi to Saint Francis, Missouri
in the same day.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
Yeah, they're like, you know, they would be tracking him
on TV.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
And then my dad we'd always read this story at
night before, you know, as Christmas is coming, and if
he'd go out, he'd be playing there he isn't. I'm
just like, oh my god, it'll just be some star
apparently airplanes. Yeah, yeah, it's a different color. Maybe it's
got a little orange in the star or something. I'd

(01:28:54):
just be like, man, yeah, I guess that's him.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
And my dad would my dad would go in the
backyard when there's an airplane now in the front yard,
and Mom would take us out and look, it's him.
My dad would be in the backyard going to team
with the jingle bells. I mean, bro, they had me
also for editing purposes, we can put this at.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
The beginning smart because it's a family show. Is a
family a family show.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Warning is necessary? Yes, did I tell you guys that.

Speaker 7 (01:29:22):
When my brother was in fifth grade, I was on
a family vacation with him my dad, and uh, that's
when I decided to tell.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Him Santa wasn't real. When I ruined the entire vacation,
fucking chef man. I was really really proud of that one.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
As a middle schooler, my brother did, if I'm remembering correctly.
On my brother was the one that told my parents,
need you need to tell Sherman. He's catching flak at
school and he's like, he's coming to me about it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
You need to tell him. It's time.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
I'd get made fun of for having pointy years in
elementary school. My mom told me to tell the kids
that I was an undercover elf that would go tell
Santa who was on the naughty list, and so then
making fun of my ears that that's a surefire away
to get on the nipty list.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Did it work?

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
This kid has forty years anything Santa's real? What fucking goofball?

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
My sweet mother? Yeah, thinkase, she set me up for success.

Speaker 1 (01:30:29):
I mean you like do like say they have Santa
or we had like a picture thing at school one time,
and I'm like, this is a bullshit Santa. That ain't anything.
There's this reindeer I had, like a mascotthead Ar.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
I'm like, who's in there? You ain't no fucking reindeer?

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
Man? Was that?

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Ricky? Ricky?

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
I know that ain't Santa Claus. I'm big, I'm big
as ship.

Speaker 10 (01:30:58):
Hey, I want to get one thing. I know you
ain't the real thing, So just gumkley I seen the
real You got my scratchy voice going the real one.
He's around the same size as my daddy. Yeah, you
ain't as big as my daddy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Did.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
The Nie set a situation where she started to which
she watches it, but she had a situation where she goes, hey, mom,
why do I gotta tell Sanna what I want again?
When I just told him last week what I wanted? Like,
why doesn't he remember what I want? And the lines
that they danced on to get around that one was
basically the whole like, oh, there's a network of people

(01:31:36):
that help Sanna get for it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Dada dada. That one wasn't the real one.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
The first one was so he's gonna tell him again,
but she just goes, why do I gotta tell him again?

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
I was like, ah, oh, she's on to it. Man,
It's a tricky dance.

Speaker 1 (01:31:50):
Christmas traditions, man, Yeah, embrace him because again, as you
get like as Paris being older, you're gonna think like, uh,
I'm speaking more so to dads because life gets moving,
like you might think, oh, we got another year. Like, bro,
you're on, We're only going to have so many chances.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
With our little ones. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
In traditions, it's like, traditions matter because they slow life.
They slow life down like kids grow fast. You know,
life is chaos. A lot of the times, our day
to day feels just like uh, you know that organized
chaos with the Google calendar reminded on it. And traditions
they remind you that, hey, this is home. The sense

(01:32:33):
of belonging, the sense of community, just the sense of
embracing you know, whether it's gifts and gifts don't even matter.
It's just the feeling that you have from having family traditions,
from having these Christmas traditions. It's like when Charles wanted
to do these few things, these things that we do
each night. It just fires me up because this is
how we are molding our kids for how they feel

(01:32:55):
when they get older and have a family.

Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
You know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
The big gifts, the expensive gifts like you. I remember
when I first got my second genesis. I remember a
few different gifts that I got along the way. But
it's not the gifts don't matter, it's the feeling you have. Yeah,
that what your parents created when you were in these moments.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
It was the letters of My grandmother lived in Florida,
and when she got really sick, we do Christmas there. Well,
Santa would always leave a note. Jordan Sherman, I almost
missed you guys. I was in Texas. You guys were
n't there. I said, Hey, they must be at Grandma's
in Florida. Yeah, so I went and double checked. Found
you guys. Glad we got everything figured out. Love, Saint Nick.

(01:33:35):
Those are the little details. Doesn't have to be some big,
grandiose gift. No, it's just the magic of.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
The Yeah, it doesn't have to be big. It can
be the same movie you watch every year. Yeah, the
same meal, the same dumb joke.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Jingle, all the way. Dude, such a banger, dude. Yeah,
it's the repetition.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
The repetition builds that safety builds, that culture.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
Yep. Because again, it's not gonna be the gifts.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
It's gonna be the feeling that you gave them that
they are one day going to pass along. They're one
day going to pass along, because man, we're only gonna
get what about ten opportunities with our little ones, Like
if you're a new dad, or you're in it with
the toddler, or you have a six seven, you know,
and I would love for parents to chime on, to
chime in in the comments that have been through this
entire process. Now you have grown kids that are now adults.

(01:34:24):
But I'm thinking to myself, like you get on Instagram,
you see all these things like how many summers you have?

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
How many opportunities we're gonna have with our little kids?

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
And usually the age, the common age that all the dads,
that all the people that kind of speak to parent
culture they talk about is these ten opportunities. It's like,
we're gonna have ten Christmases. And then you know, as
they get older, that fourth grade, they're gonna they're gonna
it's gonna be about their friends. When you get done
with Christmas, they're gonna be ready to get out of
the house. Hey Mom, Dad, can I go here? Can
I go there? Can I do all these things? Because

(01:34:52):
they're gonna have They're gonna have other things going on
externally in their life to where the parents side isn't
as cool anymore. You'll still have those foundational tradition traditions,
which is why it's embraced them now so that way
they know what it's going to be like. They know
what that repetition is going to be. Like you're in
and you're out. But with our little ones that's here
for us right now that we get to enjoy. We're
only gonna have about ten of those opportunities. So it's like,

(01:35:15):
embrace those things. Embrace those things because that's the legacy
you're gonna leave for them that they're going to carry
over when they are parents one day.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Yes, it's like, dude, every year.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
For me, it's like when I was busting Matt Malone's
balls or somebody's balls the other day on the stream
when we had the Christmas Story playing on the left,
I think I was sitting right next to Jared and
I was kind of walking through all these scenes because
that is the you're a quote the movie was on mute,
and I'm kind of telling him, you know, I'm I'm
like mouthing the quotes that are going on right now. Hey,
here's what's gonna happen next. Kid's gonna start swinging on them.
He's like, oh, crying for me when Wain crying like

(01:35:45):
he's about to jump him right now, start swinging all Mom,
it's gonna come watch this. But every year at Christmas,
Christmas Story is on T and T twenty four twenty
four hours around the clock. Yeah, and my mom just
always had the Christmas Story on like that movie to
be playing around the clock all day long, like while
we were doing Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
So it something that I remember the feeling of.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
All these traditions that we had, you know what I
mean to where you're wanting to carry those things over.
So that's like the thing that you're going to leave
with them as you build out these traditions.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
With your family.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
And again we're talking about holiday season right now, but
this goes for all traditions you have. We do like
pizza Friday, movie Day. You know, we're going to do
things annually set whatever it is to where they're going
to know that we are going to repeat some of
these traditions.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
You're in and you're out.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
So it's like things to look forward to as a
family because you hope that one day they carry it forward. Yeah,
and then that's how they remember mom and dad when
mom and dad are no longer around. Yes, so shout
out to shout out to Christmas traditions.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
Embrace them.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
And dad's if your wife's sitting there bugging you about
doing wanting to do this certain thing all the time,
whether it's every day or once a week, whatever it is, dude,
embrace it because you don't know how many times we're
going to have these these moments, these seasons, like with
our kiddos.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
Yes, and shout out, shout out, jingle all the way,
shout out Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, his son is actually in
the terminal list dark Wolf by the way, No ship.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
Who?

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
Yeah, Patrick Schwartzengg and White Loatus season four and in
White Loadus season four, Patrick, don't want that one is
Dark Wolf, the one that just came out.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
That's the prequel. Yeah, that's that's the one, I think.
Patrick Schwarzenegger said, he's in Dark Wolf.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
Is that what he's saying, Patrick Schwarzenegger, I don't recognize him,
but the terminalism, he's the terminal I was like, not
dark Wolf, he's in the original.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Oh the O G O g's in the og.

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
God that scene in jingle all the way putting it together,
Arnold Schwartzinger, Jamie, your dad is so proud of you,
he loves you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Well, he's not here.

Speaker 1 (01:37:54):
How do you know that, because Jamie, I'm your father,
chat packs Old.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
I showed Cat for the first time that movie the
other day.

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
I didn't realize or remember how crazy the jet back
scene was because in my mind it's all could happen.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
And then he sliding around on a jetback due in
three sixties above. I'm like, every ship Ultraman? Is that
what the guy's name was? Was it Ultraman?

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
Great call? Oh it's double time. Let's hit the voicemails
six and one.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
The dad's call in for a chance to be featured
on the show again, whether it's a dad win, a
dad loss calling to check in, give us some game,
put us on a dad hack, something to put in
the survival kit, whatever, it is call in six and
one the dads.

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
We will feature you on the show. Let's rip them.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Shocked that no dads have farted into the voicemail by
the way, oh don't don't challenge him saying I'm shocked
that we have a god named fart voice faults help
on a shelf?

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Out here we go. What's up? Boys?

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
This is Kenny from Georgia. Huge fan of the show.
I'm a twenty six year old soon to be father
of two. Got an almost four year old little boy
right now. Ken, the wife and I are expecting the
second one coming up here first week of morning. Super
fun to be a dad again. Can't wait to dive
headed first back into the newborn trenches. I did have
a question Christmas time coming up. This is the first

(01:39:24):
year that we have been participating in the elk on
the Shelf deal that happens. I'm absolutely on a heater
right now. I have fought in. We are producing and
it's going well. But I'm starting to get to the
point where I'm shooting off the hip and I'm looking
for some new ideas. Curious to see are y'all doing
the helf thing at your house?

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Is if you are.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
Maybe you got some stories, maybe you got some advice,
need some new ideas, looking for some fresh content in
the house right now. So appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
Thank y'all. A couple questions. Kenny, by the way, that
was Kenny. Shout out Kenny, Kenny, thank you for calling in.
Listen to your boy.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
I was never an ELF on the shelf guy, so
I don't even know the rules of ELF on a shelf.
I was the type of kid to where since I
didn't know what was going on. I got older, my
boys were talking about ELF on a shovel man.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
That just sounds gay. Bro, Will let me introduce you. Hey,
I'm just being honest. That's young Will. I'm not saying
that now. I would love to embrace Yeah, Elf, that's
some pushy ship dude. You talk about ELF on What's
Gonna Happened? School was essentially just shame Gillis, you're just

(01:40:31):
kind of gay, kind of gay dude. That just sounds weak.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
It's ELF's fucking up your house and your dad hasn't
done ship about it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
That's so that's my first question is what is explain
ELF on a ship? Because I don't even know what
it is. Charle brought it up this year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
We know we didn't do it or we didn't get
into it. I don't know if we're too late, like
if you have time starting on.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
The first a prime example.

Speaker 11 (01:40:54):
Yes, too late, too late now to do it? You
can yeah, okay, you just you buy the elf on
the shelf. Perfect example for this right here our studio.
If we had our own elf on a shelf, you
would have all these feathers scattered all over and you'd
have the elf sitting right there, so that the kids go,
who made this mess? And then little elf sitting there,

(01:41:16):
Oh my gosh, the elf did it. And he only
operates at night when they're sleeping, and he goes around
and he does little mischievous things around the house. But
he also watches you to make sure that you're being
good or else. He'll tell Santa Claus. Yeah, it's kind
of a tool that it sounds like a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
No, it's great. You can have an elf. Listen, hear
this out.

Speaker 7 (01:41:38):
You can have an elf around, right, and let's say
Rue is acting for whatever reason, you'd be like, hey,
you know, elf, whatever you name him, he's watching all
the time, like if he's gonna repeat every night, whenever
you go to sleep. The magic in the elf is
that when they go to sleep, the elf reports back
to Santa, told him what he saw for that day,
and then that's what that's when you move him around

(01:41:59):
the house and so and like you said, Shirt, you
can have him do fun stuff, but it's like it's
a tool that like you can't touch him or else
the magic goes away.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
I did see the.

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Video or this mom like put the chicken bones and
you killed him because you touched him.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
The idea that came up for Kenny of just creative stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
I would go nuclear with it.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
I would park the car a little bit in the
front yard and just have the elf sitting up there
on the steering wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Who parked the car like that? Who moved my car? Honey?
Look at the healthy park my car like that? That's crazy. Yeah,
the indre cars stuck there all day because you can't
move him. That's true.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
If you get good videos, parents at home, police tag
us because we would love to be a part of it.
Because the best one I've seen is the kids will
get drawn on and the elf will be sitting there
with a sharpie and the parents are.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Like, who why'd you guys draw on your face?

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
And the kids like what and goes to the bathroom
and they got glasses and like a mustache, and the
elf did it with a marker and the parents, Oh, dude,
if you do it at home, please tag us.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
I'd love to reshare that. That'd be fun. Is the
one with the irons scroll? I can't you this speaking
of kitchen? So basically, the elf is just the authority. Yes, yeah,
it's a tool. Wait why is the elf calling the shots?
And not really?

Speaker 1 (01:43:09):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm not I'm just trying to
learn this game. So you just have the elf sitting
so random.

Speaker 4 (01:43:16):
I'm gonna tell Santa if you mess up. But the
kid can't touch it because then it breaks the whole
allure of the elf being a real thing in your house.
But parents do it in a way where it's like
there was one we got tagged in. It was like
a bathtub and there was dirt in it and they
did an elf and a shove monster jam and it
was all these monster trucks and it was like, oh, look,
the elf when you were asleep had a monster truck jam.
And it's just cute and fun. But it's for the

(01:43:37):
kids to believe that Santa's watching them all the time
so they'd be good. So some sick of parent was like,
I don't want my kid fucking around anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
Elf.

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
I saw a seaman team sixer with a got a
kitchen aid and they put a Barbie doll on the
kitchen aid and turned it on slow so it was spinning,
and Elf on the shelf was sitting there with some
dollar bills in his hands. I was like, what are
we doing out on the shelf. It's gone full of il.

(01:44:08):
He's gone full of ill. But it's crazy when people.

Speaker 7 (01:44:12):
Do so.

Speaker 1 (01:44:14):
I could have the elf just sitting on rouge dresser.
It wakes up in the morning and I could have
the elf just sitting there with a knife.

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
It wakes up and sees herself and now I'm just
next to ru and I'm like, he saw you didn't
eat your dinner last night.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
I don't think it's a little extreme. That's hard core.
That's a horror movie. You don't have to do it
like that. But wait, you could, but you god.

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
She just wakes up and goes to the bathroom brush
her teeth. He's sitting there with winer fluid in one. Honey,
Oh my god, I.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
Get a helf on a shelf. You put a little
fifty one jersey on it. That's that's Willy one elf
right there. Oh honey, he must have seen you asked
me to hey, come look at this a bunch of times.
He must not like that. He might he must want
me to be able to watch the b dinny dock.
I think he wants me to watch the dock.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Honey.

Speaker 1 (01:45:24):
Oh, I'm thinking about the Willy one elf. Now, it
could be good, just always standing over the elf.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
Take you helf on a shelf. It's just willy one
elf standing over it, Willy wan elf on a shelf. Hey,
next year could go crazy with willy one elf on
a shelf.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
That could go crazy. I would buy one. Wedding pop
Quizzes is our second call.

Speaker 6 (01:45:53):
Sure, will Brook's here from Mississippi. Carle in Dallas See
in team sixer right here, and I love it. Getting
married in May. Pumped for that. The fiance told me
expectations didn't have She wanted to do the planning. I

(01:46:15):
don't have to worry about it. I get some stuff
here and there. You know what colored flowers do you
like do you like this linen tablecloth? Opinions are all wrong? Yeah,
just shake it off, keep going. But you know, getting
close to the time, getting around family and friends, everyone's

(01:46:36):
asking how the planning is here. I am just standing there,
you know, just noding talking here. It comes out of
left field. Quizzes hop pop quizz is talking about where
is it at? What's our band name? What's all this
this and that? Hey, I know it's in Mississippi. I

(01:46:58):
know it's in May, May sixteenth, Yes, sir, that's pretty
much it. Everyone laughing. I'm the I'm the butt of
the joke.

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
Oh Brooks, I just got to sit there, shake my head.

Speaker 6 (01:47:09):
Hey, sorry about that. Shure him as you know, winger dog.
Here's something that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Goes crazy, man, Sir Brooks, shake my head.

Speaker 6 (01:47:18):
They're laughing at me. This is a different type.

Speaker 8 (01:47:21):
But good.

Speaker 6 (01:47:22):
This is what's going to be like from now on.
But the joke. But hey, we're gonna keep going. Love y'all, boys,
keep moving seeing a team six.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
Out Brooks to quote last week, welcome to the fucking show.
Brother Brooks is on his way to becoming a Bill Compton.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
The dad that you just you laugh at, you laugh
with we'll get Brooks over there. Look at him.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
He don't know what he don't know how to unlock
this door.

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
But I'll tell you where Brooks will be on May sixteenth.
He'll be in his being one suit, standing right where
he needs to stand in order to say I do.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
And do the ring.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
He'll he knows all the main things that he needs
to hit everything else.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
You know, people are hitt him with you write your
own vowels, and he's like, what are you talking about?
We gotta ride our own I thought you just didn't
sickness and in health Like, yeah, those are vowels you
can say, but are you guys?

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Do you not? When are you doing the wedding dress reveal? Wait?

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
What are you like when she walks out for the ceremony?
You talking about that?

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Dudes? Do the diaper party?

Speaker 5 (01:48:38):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
Yeah, like a batchelor party?

Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
No, no, no, diaper like don't don't guys do? Yeah,
like a diaper party? Oh for when you're having a baby. Yeah,
oh yeah, that's when you're having this.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
Yeah, yeah, gonna we go. Yeah, you're talking about the
wedding shower.

Speaker 6 (01:48:55):
I believe.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
We have any Make.

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
Sure y'all bring the the newboyn diapers too. When you
come to the diaper party, it's right after the bachelor party.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
They got sizes on these diapers.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
We're gonna be a shady Oaks country clud t times
at this time, y'all be there for the bachelor party.
I don't know what the bachelor party gifts are. Apparently
I gotta get my bachelor some gifts. But I thought
my company was enough.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):
Yeah, yeah, groom the groomsman gifts. Oh yeah, Shakia battle Shaki. Yeah,
get some good groomsman gifts.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
I did, uh some cool buffalo hide leather wallets with
like guys, real nice and easy price tag wise, it
leans more to the expensive, but it wasn't like terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:49:50):
I got the boys this uh like whiskey smoker. Oh
that's nice for like old fashions.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
Yeah, that's sick. I think Nick is probably the only
one who used it. Nick would hit me ou it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
I just smoked this bourbon bro Nick.

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
I really want to meet Nick in person. We can
talk about that man off the pod, but I really
want to hang out with Nick. God, that's no surprise
to me, no surprise.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
Yeah, Yeah, he's the man. He's a purist you get
him a gift. He was like diving into all things whiskey. Yea,
all things whiskey. I'm trying to think what else, dude. Yeah,
there's gonna be so many little things. Hey, if you
want to sound smart, dude, just find out like the
little things about your uh, your wedding. I would even
kind of push for like one big thing of like

(01:50:38):
it's gonna be the guy's thing for us. Jill's mom
was like, hey, what if we had a cigar cutter
there that was like rolling cigars, Yeah, and cigars.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
I said, absolutely, we should do that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
So then I like leaned really heavy into that, and
I would talk about that when people would bring up
the wedding, so I didn't have to answer a lot
of questions because I'd be like, Hey, we're gonna have
a cigar a cigar cutter there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
It's gonna be kind of nice.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
And then nobody's really worried about anything else because you
just told them the most exciting part of your wedding.

Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
Yeah, yeah, you won't be involved in a whole lot no,
and which is okay.

Speaker 2 (01:51:11):
All I cared about is we got a couple of
apps that I wanted. I wanted.

Speaker 1 (01:51:14):
I don't even know if we got toasted ravioly, but
I was like, I want either toasted Raveolar or Rocky
Mountain oysters.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Get rid a rocky voice. That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:51:23):
The bull testicles, Yeah, man, they're tasty. Yes, very very
we got We got emails here again. If you are
international and can, I don't, or you'd rather just write
in instead of leave a voicemail six on one of
the dad's at gmail dot com and here we go.
We got one here from Luke Jones. Shout out Luke

(01:51:43):
and men. After four months of BUDS training, I am
now standing by for orders to PET six in June.
Good Wifey has been in the trenches with morning sickness.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
Not so good but also good.

Speaker 1 (01:51:55):
We've tried all traditional approaches, nausea bands, cold raps, brought diet,
preggie props, preggie pops. Doesn't help that the military has
us living twenty six hours from home, so family support
is tough. I fly for a living, so the wife
is home alone a lot. She's gonna be one tough
Empty six member. We're looking for any intel on things

(01:52:18):
that helped your spouses or things from fellow PT six members.
We don't care how weird they are, we will try it.
Much love to the boys in the studio. Started listening
to the show a couple months ago, and your boy
is caught up ps Oli pop. Chris Bapple is the
fucking shit Sorry for cussing, and the dark Wolf before terminalists.

(01:52:38):
Recommendation is elite, very respectfully. Luke from North Carolina, Florida, LA,
now North Dakota.

Speaker 2 (01:52:47):
Luke hopping around, hopping around the morning sickness. I don't
have I don't have anything.

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
I feel like Charle got it for a little bit,
but not not too badly. And I could listen, I
could be messing that whole thing up. She could be
sitting there right now like bullshit, dude, I was You
just weren't any help.

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
Pregnancy pops are real thing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Jill didn't have it too terribly, but she did have
some morning sickness. Pregnancy pops are great. But the thing
that really helped her. They sell them at Walmart, Target,
any any grocery store. It's like these little candies and
you can find them in the like pharmacy aisle. But
it's like these little pregnancy morning sickness candies that are

(01:53:29):
almost like a Jolly Rancher and those really helped. Jill
should throw two of those in at a time, and
they taste like candy. Those were the trick, Luke, and
that's just for Jill. I don't know if that's gonna
solve your empty sixers issues, but hang in there and
your empty sixers sounds like an absolute.

Speaker 1 (01:53:49):
Yeah, we need we need Beat six to sound off
in the comments to help our boy.

Speaker 3 (01:53:52):
Yeah, pepper boy, Luke, that would be huge. I have
a comment before the emails that I forgot to read
this one up for empty six or boys. I cannot
tell you how much I love this podcast. My husband
Trevor put me on while I was pregnant with our
first child back over the summer, and I was hooked.
I love y'all's dynamic and banter. We now have a
three and a half month old little boy named Cooper.

(01:54:15):
Coop Cooper shout out Coop, and listening to the pod
is a part of my daily routine. I stamp late
to pump and listen for thirty minutes at night while
I make bottles, clean the kitchen, and mentally prepare for
the next day. Keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
Much love for milk Team six. Thanks you go. That
came from Sarah Klegan. Shout out, Sarah, Dude, Empty six
is showing out, man. They really are they like actually
really are.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
It's it's awesome to see. I meant to read that
one earlier because that was a really cool one.

Speaker 1 (01:54:45):
Yeah, I got another one hear from an Empty six
er Katie witt Will and surem. I just want to
send a quick message for hubby and I maybe we
get a shout out on the pod. My husband is
currently Seemen Team six and Rounds are literally getting shot
this Podcus is both hyped for the next chapter hopefully soon.
We've already been using embraced the suck and good in

(01:55:07):
our house and we are fully bought in with team.
Just wanted to give you both a huge shout out.
You guys truly rock and your podcast means more than
you know. Thank you for everything you put out there.
Keep doing what you're doing, Andrew and Katie Andrew Katie
shout out especially Katie right now from an MPT sixer
from the Empty six squad.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
Absolute sick of Katie Andrew enjoy shockwave brother, y'all, Just
keep on keep on shoe.

Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
Yeah, look, keep on shooting, bro. You are as the man.
You get drained, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
Make sure you're eating a lot of stuff and make
sure you stay hydrated. Man, make sure you drink a
lot of water, eat a lot of chicken and steak.

Speaker 2 (01:55:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
And when the women are on, they're'll wake me up
and about let you know they honey is time.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
Yeah, get your six flag, get your flash bat. We
go rah go ra des shock wave two loops on it,
two loops.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
This one comes from Aaron swandle Hey Boys new listener
as of last month, but party pt six for four
and a half years. We've got a four and a
half year old girl and almost two year old boy.
Just wanted to share a little reminder that we're all
out here embracing the suck together. Today was dot dot
dot A lot started with the morning meeting before daycare

(01:56:26):
drop off whatever, normal chaos, but the real storm came later.
My wife and I only have one car, so I
pick her up from work, then we get the kids
from daycare like usual. Side note, we also have an
eight year old dog, and because we apparently hate peace,
we added a three month old puppy two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Aaron. We get home at four pm.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
My wife has to leave at four fifteen to get
our daughter to dance. We let the dogs out in
they're buzzing. I'm unloading the kids lunchboxes and one is
completely destroyed.

Speaker 2 (01:56:59):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
I'm trying to order a new one on my phone
while my wife is changing our son's massive diaper situation.
This guy's in the trenchets. My daughter's dancing around me, singing,
clinging to my arm while I'm trying to buy this lunchbox.
My wife comes out hands me the dirty diaper. I
toss it in the trash and immediately notice it kind

(01:57:19):
of splattered.

Speaker 2 (01:57:21):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
I look up and the puppy is licking something off
the hardwood. It is, in fact the shit. Then I
see it on the rug.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
Good. Then I look at the puppy again, also shit
all over. Good.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
I run her up stairs for a fast bath before
my wife has to leave. From downstairs, I hear the
other dog has shit on them too. Honey, good, send
them up. I bathe them. Both dogs, look down and
realize I have shit on my pants.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
Good. It's now four point fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
I come downstairs with the dogs and my wife is
washing our daughter's hair in the kitchen sink, because yes,
she also had shit in her hair.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Good. Only thing that got.

Speaker 3 (01:58:00):
Me through was your show, especially Shirm's story about the
dog locked in the nursery. I felt so seen anyway,
appreciate what you guys do. You seriously make me feel
less alone in this dad journey.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
Much love.

Speaker 1 (01:58:13):
I love the storytelling too. Nothing gets me going great
these people send it in. Their stories are good.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
Yeah, I got one more. I'll go speed to her
on it uh via email, KiB says what's up? Will
and Shurm and the boys Pt. Six are here to
an awesome nine year old steps On and a two
year old boy who I can only assume has CTE
from his wild stunts. Just wanted to say what you
guys have done. Creating this community of support honestly and

(01:58:41):
showing the fun and less than ideal moments of fatherhood
has helped me more than.

Speaker 2 (01:58:45):
You can ever imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
Every week I look forward to listening in and getting
a break from reality with a laugh and some dad advice.
Me and my amazing wife decided it was time to
head back to buds and have one last kid. We
found out out in mid November that she was pregnant,
and last week have the first ultrasound. Let's boys, I
feel like I have been dropped into a war zone.

(01:59:09):
As the radiology tech gave us the news that my
wife is pregnant with twins. The only reaction I could
get out was just laughter. That turned into thousand yard
stare as I realized we are not prepared for twins
at all. Now I need a little advice in parentheses,
probably a lot of advice, but we'll stick with just one.

(01:59:30):
I think I'm most worried about me and my wife.
You being caught up in everyday chaos that comes with
four kids and three of them being under the age
of three. How do you guys manage to make time
for each other and prioritize date nights or just one
on one time in the chaos? Any tips or things
you guys do to keep the flame alive while in

(01:59:51):
the trenches of newborn and toddler phases. Much love for
what you guys have created in the community that you've grown.
Gonna keep this one anonymous as we he won't be
announcing until sometime January, so let's just make a note
that blank that last email wants to remain anonymous. Yeah, oh,

(02:00:13):
twins twins, I said while I was reading the email too.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
If I got the.

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
News of twins, fear would just take over my body.
I don't see how parents twins do it. Like Roan
from Barstow.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
I was about to say, you know, who is somebody
that I really want to have a conversation with and
talk with is Round Dude.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
We should get Roan on that acause Anytime Great was
their first shot out. It was twins. All he knows
is twins. So that's basically what he says, is like,
I don't know what I don't know, Like my first
experience is twins, so I don't know any other life.

Speaker 2 (02:00:47):
Like yeah, it seems difficult and hard, but.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
I'm just thinking, dude, no one like again, you have
Scotty five months like imagine twins.

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (02:00:55):
It was great look into what Ron is going through
with twins.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
At the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:01:01):
We have the pleasure of having dinner with him in
New Orleans and that was super Yeah. And while we're
sitting there, I happen to be sitting next to him
during the meal and Will says, hey, both of you
all are having kids.

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
Blah, blah.

Speaker 3 (02:01:15):
Well that just hits it off. We start talking about
all the shit we're going through and we're laughing. We're
talking about, oh, why I'm doing this, I'm dealing with
this blah blah blah, and at the end of it
with perfect comedic time, comedic time, and he just goes Srman,
think about everything that you just said though, and multiply
that by two.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
Yeah, it's like, oh shit.

Speaker 1 (02:01:36):
I could not imagine dude, the double well, not like
the double bedtimes, but like say you get one down
and the others still awake, you know what I mean,
Like you finally get one down and you're.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
Just like, you're gonna wake up your brother, You're gonna
wake up your sister.

Speaker 3 (02:01:47):
Yes, I was thinking about those solo saturdays I do.

Speaker 2 (02:01:51):
Jill and I were laughing.

Speaker 3 (02:01:52):
I was like, could you even imagine me with twins
on one of those solo saturdays, Like one you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:58):
Know, no one's sleeping, well, the other one's not. But
the other one that's not is always waking up the
one who you are assuming is sleeping well. Yes, Oh man,
God bless you bro, God good luck out there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:12):
Luck out.

Speaker 3 (02:02:13):
I don't have any advice for Jacob other than recruit
an army.

Speaker 1 (02:02:17):
Dude, recruit an army, get the get the in laws. Yeah,
he takes a village the twins. When I get three hunder.

Speaker 3 (02:02:26):
Three, dude, he's a sick Oh, he's gone through it.
He knows what he's doing. But twins is gonna take
an army. Yeah, you got call in. I'm calling the
goon berets by God, like, I'll take any Hell, if
you can hold a baby, you're a part of the army,
come join.

Speaker 2 (02:02:42):
This is one where you're having them conversations with God.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:02:46):
Because he's got the steps on, he's got the one
that's how old two or three two?

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
It's two years old.

Speaker 1 (02:02:52):
So he understands the suck of like raising, like embracing
the suck of raising that first. Yeah, getting through sleep training,
whatever it is, getting them to sleep through the night,
the tantrums. He's in the thick of it right now
with two year olds and their tantrums.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
That nine year old step son is about to become
his best friend.

Speaker 1 (02:03:09):
Yeah, he knows the world of one of raising one.
Now he's sitting there thinking, how in the fuck am
I going to do it with two.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
Nine year old step son is a part of the army. Now, yeah,
you just looking welcome to the ranks.

Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
Brother, Why did you have to do this to me? Hey,
you're pretty funny. I'll give you that here, you're a
funny dude. But yeah, that he was.

Speaker 1 (02:03:33):
Asking though, prioritizing the relationship, prioritizing wife, which we do
talk about that often. Erry, It's it's truly just it's
just intentional prioritizing with the wife. Because your relationship with
your wife, as far as that fun flare all of
that stuff where it's it's you two against the world.
That is like that priority basically falls down to the
bottom because you're both in You're both in your brain

(02:03:56):
sacrificing everything for everything else to function. You to be work,
whether the kids, whether it be I'm worn out on this,
like you're all prioritizing each other while you're trying to
handle your own business. That we always forget to prioritize
the relationship, the marriage.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
And speaking on this is the perfect episode because you
had brought up traditions. I really really like I have
to set a tradition of a date night with Jill,
and I really want to make that happen whereas in
the books, this is date night.

Speaker 2 (02:04:29):
We we have date night.

Speaker 3 (02:04:31):
You if you don't do it and don't set it
on a schedule and make it a priority. As Willie
one chef says, it ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (02:04:38):
It ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
And by god, we have to do it. And I
think that's probably the move for anybody, including myself.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
You have to you have to do hearing you.

Speaker 1 (02:04:49):
Talk and it's like my boy who is earlier in
the episode, is it ah, what was his name?

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
I'm blinkoln on his name. He's not doing well. Yeah, yes,
Like you just have to.

Speaker 1 (02:05:02):
Take yourself by the throat, put yourself against the wall
and talking to you sherm and you just say yes, wake.

Speaker 2 (02:05:08):
The fuck up and do it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:09):
It's like Tony Robbinson this quote that I would, uh,
will I will always think about where it's like you
got to turn your shoulds in the must like you
just you gotta stop saying we need.

Speaker 2 (02:05:17):
To do this, we should do this, blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (02:05:19):
Just you've got to do it. You've got to prioritize
and be intentional or it'll never happen. And it takes
both of you to prioritize it because calendars, schedules, kids, work, everything,
life goes fast and next thing, you know, like I'm
sitting here at the end of the year right now.

Speaker 2 (02:05:33):
Like, man, I do shit for my New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 1 (02:05:36):
Yeah, I can't wait to reset the clock and say
all the things I'm going to do next year. And
now I'm in my head thinking I'll be letting myself
down again next year. And it's like that conversation right
there is where I got to proverbiably perverbably proverbially right
there is, right, just got to grab myself by the throat,
bro it just will stop fucking talking to yourself, like

(02:06:00):
the stop already planning for the failure that you're just
basically putting a quarter in the machine and you're gonna
do it again. No, it's got to end. You gotta
be sick and tired of being sick and tired about it. Yeah,
but yeah, that's I digress.

Speaker 2 (02:06:14):
I'm you got a lesson.

Speaker 1 (02:06:16):
I'll be honest with you. It's ten thirty six right now,
I'm starting to get sleepy. I'm starting to get sleepy.
We got a big Monday tomorrow, same we gotta get ripping.
I actually have a This is one from an Instagram
that I follow called the Stoics. So this isn't parentid
this is this is just to me, something I have
bookmark that I feel like plays into a few of
the themes we've been talking about tonight. Okay, so the

(02:06:40):
Stoics on Instagram, you create the majority of your misery.
Your opinion takes harmless moments and poisons them with fear, insulting, catastrophe.
Nothing out there is destroying you. Your own opinion is.
You become the enemy inside your own mind, and you
feel every blow you delivered to yourself. So just a
simple quote from the Stoics with two c's if you

(02:07:01):
want to follow that on Instagram.

Speaker 3 (02:07:03):
Strong internal dialogue, give a strong internal dialogue.

Speaker 2 (02:07:08):
It's all internal dialogue.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
Sure, it's all internal dialogue. This one is based around
the four hundred meter dash.

Speaker 2 (02:07:19):
I ran the four hundred meter dash in high school.

Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
I have a lot of love for track, and I
thought it'd be fun to compare the strategy of a
four hundred meter dash with fatherhood.

Speaker 2 (02:07:31):
Okay, with parenting. I'll keep it quick. Some game, give
us some game.

Speaker 3 (02:07:36):
The so recently passed away legendary coach Clyde Hart.

Speaker 2 (02:07:41):
He coached at Baylor.

Speaker 3 (02:07:43):
He coached Michael Johnson, Jeremy Warner, Lashawn Merritt, and most
decorated track athlete in US history, Alison Felix. Those are
basically the four biggest names in the four hundred meter.
No guy knows what he's talking about, Coach Hart said,

(02:08:03):
the four hundred isn't about how fast you can run,
It's about how slow you can slow down.

Speaker 2 (02:08:11):
We'll break it down for you.

Speaker 3 (02:08:13):
The strategy of a four hundred meter is from the
zero to the fifty meter mark. You want to have
a fast, powerful start, but not go all out sprint
to start. How does that work with fatherhood? That's waking
up on purpose, not in the panic, getting the kids
moving while staying calm, cool and collected, being present, eye contact, jokes,

(02:08:35):
hugs at the door. You are setting the tone for
the day, not trying to win the entire day in
that moment, but setting the tone for it. Fifty meters
to two hundred meter mark, this is the most important
phase of the race. This is where you have to
run hard and stay loose. Upright, posture, smooth arms, controlled breathing.
You should feel fast without forcing it. For fatherhood, that's

(02:08:59):
low walking in at work, being productive, reliable, focused, no
unnecessary stress carried from home, having that strong internal dialogue,
staying poised in the moment. You're running hard, but you're
in control. Two hundred to three hundred meters, that's when
you attack the curve and I fucking love did you
run track?

Speaker 2 (02:09:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:09:20):
High school, in middle school, I did my here but
not ah not a.

Speaker 2 (02:09:27):
Lover of track like yourself.

Speaker 1 (02:09:29):
Yes, my favorite part of the four hundred meter race
is attacking the curve.

Speaker 2 (02:09:34):
Let's attack the fuck.

Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
It's the two hundred and three hundred mark where you
are starting to feel tired. Yeah, it's starting to hit,
but you have this curve in this natural inertia that
you can lean into and use that pain with the
momentum that you already have going into the turn. The
race starts to bite at this moment. Focus on maintaining
mechanics and not speeding up. How does that apply to fatherhood?

(02:09:58):
Mental shift? You're years before you pick up the kids
or before you get home. Take that extra breath in
the car, get in the right mindset. If you are
not currently in the right mindset, check yourself a little bit,
put the phone away. Remember your kids don't need exhausted you.
They need present you. They need you to show up

(02:10:19):
three hundred to four hundred meters. That's when you finish strong.
That's when you make sure you're still kicking, picking up
your knees, and have a good evening at home. If
we're going to apply it to fatherhood, asking your kids
about their day, asking your wife about their day, being
patient even.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
When you're drained.

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
Help lead backtime dishes, bedtime, homework, dinner, any of those routines.
No quitting mentally just because you're home. And I applied
his quote from earlier. It was the four hundred isn't
about how fast you can run, it's about how slow
you can slow down. And in dad terms, the best

(02:10:57):
dads aren't the loudest or the flashiest, high octane twenty
four to seven.

Speaker 2 (02:11:02):
They're the ones who slow down the least when it
gets hard. Well done. That was really good. Thank you,
great analogy. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:11:11):
The old proverbial four hundred meter perverbial, as we say
in Dodgeball and The Underdog Story, the proverbial pumpkin.

Speaker 1 (02:11:24):
Hell yeah, hell yeah, good sord boys great, So make
sure you take out the trash. We love you, We
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Speaker 3 (02:11:42):
I love this community. Thank you for leaving comments. Thank
you for sending stories even when they're DMS to our
personal pages. I love reading them. And everybody that purchased
Black Friday stuff, it was our absolute pleasure to get
to send those videos to you guys, and it was
really fun. And thank you for taking the time to
buy stuff for our Black Friday sale.

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
You crush those videos. You crushed the videos, bro, Thank
you good work. It was very fun. Hey, embrace the
suck Papa Team six Semen Team six Milk Team six
gooon berets. Those in butts training have a great week
next week.

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