Speaker 1: Sure, you're ready. Ready.
Speaker 2: We got a lot to talk about on this, Yes, this,
Speaker 2: we just talked about how we need to get started
Speaker 2: recording because this is gonna be a long one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: This today's episode. This is Operation this is Operation shot Collar.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Two week vacation in Italy. You had a week vacation
Speaker 3: down in thirty eight. Yeah, done at Grayson Beach greaton
Speaker 3: beach great and beach great.
Speaker 1: I say Grayson Grayson great name too and low key.
Speaker 3: They're kind of similar Italy. It's like the beaches on
Speaker 3: Italy very much remind me of thirty eight big time.
Speaker 3: Anytime in thirty eight. It's like, do I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm in Italy?
Speaker 2: You jokingly you have gotten flak on the internet for
Speaker 2: saying thirty eight is the Italy of the United States.
Speaker 3: Come on, it is, come on, come on. I know,
Speaker 3: like it's funny and I know I get I know
Speaker 3: he get joked on for it. But I'm thinking, dude,
Speaker 3: it's if you've been to both, it's right there, go there,
Speaker 3: just go there, just go there.
Speaker 1: Tell well he's wrong. Yeah, yeah, if you don't agree.
Speaker 3: Because I just went to uh, I think it was Carol, Carol,
Speaker 3: Caroli something somewhere close to Venice, but the beach of
Speaker 3: carol Ah and it I'm looking out at the beach
Speaker 3: by the way that's saying there powder incredibly soft powder. Sure,
Speaker 3: I'm saying, you don't even need to take along, like
Speaker 3: when you're washing off your feet when you come on
Speaker 3: like the boat walk of the concrete and got the
Speaker 3: little shower, it trickles off. Bro it's powder bong, dc mo.
Speaker 3: It was phenomenal. I thought it was a thirty eight
Speaker 3: Papa Team six. Welcome to another episode of four the Dads.
Speaker 3: I hope the coffees. I do hope the vibes are hotter.
Speaker 3: We have a lot to talk about on today's episode
Speaker 3: again vacation Breakdown. We got a ton a ton of
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Speaker 1: And since your.
Speaker 3: Boy was international, I am curious because a few fellow
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Speaker 2: Man Well, I sent you a tweet that I thought
Speaker 2: was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Oh the freezing.
Speaker 3: We do have a you know this isn't part of
Speaker 3: the the new dad shout outs that we have coming
Speaker 3: up on the show.
Speaker 1: But Saram did send me on the ft D.
Speaker 3: Here we go. We have a new dad alert. This
Speaker 3: one is from our boy, Adam Singer. Congratulations, congratulations Adam.
Speaker 3: He says, it's Friday. This is on X my man.
Speaker 3: Adam Singer says, it's Friday. We should post some good
Speaker 3: news to the timeline God willing. I'm gonna be a
Speaker 3: father in November. Get over your oh shit, not nihilism. Nihilism,
Speaker 3: what does that mean?
Speaker 1: An nihilist is I've seen this, yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: the memory. I'm not that. I'm not sure. I don't
Speaker 1: have a Sean McVay brain.
Speaker 2: An nihilist is almost in the belief of nothing like
Speaker 2: you're you're, You.
Speaker 1: Don't want any of the isms at all.
Speaker 3: You just strip yourself away, get over yourself, get over
Speaker 3: your nihilism and have a kid. It's why we're here
Speaker 3: after all. Come on, shout out, Adam Singer. This isn't
Speaker 3: written in Before the Dads, This isn't tagged by the
Speaker 3: old Papa Team six community. This is something we just
Speaker 3: came across on the internet and just a phenomenal reply
Speaker 3: by Freezing Cold Takes. Freezing Cold Takes on Twitter says congrats,
Speaker 3: and then drops a couple screenshots of Adam Singer in
Speaker 3: the past. This is Adam Singer responding to people in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty twenty twenty one and their comments of Adam
Speaker 3: Singer responding to people about having kids, saying things like
Speaker 3: I already don't want kids. This is why we don't
Speaker 3: have kids and don't want any or or don't have kids.
Speaker 3: Don't buy any physical things ever for any reason. Do
Speaker 3: whatever you want in markets, or have no kids and
Speaker 3: do whatever the hell you want. Just know that every
Speaker 3: time I pause, that means he's doing another comment. This
Speaker 3: I'm reading this is six total comments, and I'm sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there you go, production, production, production. This is why I
Speaker 3: have dogs and no kids. This is why we don't
Speaker 3: have kids. Problem solved. But now years later, five six
Speaker 3: years later, Adam Singer is now having a child. He
Speaker 3: came back around God willing get over your nihilism, then
Speaker 3: have kids, He replied to Freezing Cold Takes underneath Oh
Speaker 3: did he I have changed my mind on this important topic.
Speaker 3: That's like last week with Greg what is something that
Speaker 3: you feel like you had an opinion? That you had
Speaker 3: an opinion on a long time ago and have now
Speaker 3: changed your mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Adam Singer. Now he's changed his mind.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be I mean, that has to be.
Speaker 2: Parenthood kind of summed up as far as I haven't
Speaker 2: experienced it too much, but there are so many things
Speaker 2: that I held as truth when I was late teens, same,
Speaker 2: early twenties, and now I'm just like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: my whole world has been blown up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, being a young lad back in the day,
Speaker 3: it's when you were gonna have kids. You're gonna have
Speaker 3: a boy. He's gonna play every sport. He's gonna be
Speaker 3: the best, he's gonna be in the he's gonna be
Speaker 3: playing in the big leagues. When people cancel plans, what's
Speaker 3: so hard about canceling plans?
Speaker 1: Like, you got a.
Speaker 3: Kid who cares, figure out a way to get a babysitter.
Speaker 3: You know, you kind of judge your you judge your mates. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you judge your boys when they have to cancel on
Speaker 3: the bus.
Speaker 1: Everybody mowned and growned.
Speaker 2: When Taylor was like, yeah, hosting a family dinner like
Speaker 2: weekly is pretty difficult. Everybody's like, oh, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 2: Taylor's like, what you got ring Wall your kids got
Speaker 2: there is hard?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, you don't get it.
Speaker 3: It is you see a true progression of how it
Speaker 3: is your preconceived notions as you get older, when you
Speaker 3: get close to having kids are getting married. Then when
Speaker 3: you do get married, you complete buds training and you
Speaker 3: become a true Pop Team sixer. Your mind changes all
Speaker 3: the time, so you can't hold it against.
Speaker 1: Him, dude.
Speaker 2: Special shout out to Kevin who we met at eighth
Speaker 2: and Roast. They were getting their anatomy scan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was crazy. Sherman and I were getting a
Speaker 1: coffee yesterday.
Speaker 3: This was crazy dude at the favorite watering hole, coffee
Speaker 3: hole eighth and Roast over off of Charlotte.
Speaker 1: No free shoutouts, all the free shodows, no free shoutout
Speaker 1: because I did take an l while I was there,
Speaker 1: just oh mass well. The worker was like, oh what
Speaker 1: are you got going on the just working a little bit?
Speaker 1: Oh what do you do? I was like, oh, we
Speaker 1: have a podcast, and like oh, so you don't really work.
Speaker 1: I laughed it off, just kept walking.
Speaker 2: Right before that, he goes and what's the day on it?
Speaker 2: He's like, well, and so he like, you know, it
Speaker 2: takes a sharpy. What do y'all got going on? And
Speaker 2: as he like literally says, oh so no work, puts
Speaker 2: a period behind will and puts see you work.
Speaker 1: I sat down next to Sherman, I have my coffee.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm so fucking pissed off.
Speaker 2: It's like that that truly fucking fired me up. That
Speaker 2: got me mad.
Speaker 1: But when we were there, what was his wife's name is? Kevin?
Speaker 1: Oh No? Did start with the A. I thought I
Speaker 1: started with a K, like Kelsey starts with k no.
Speaker 2: But it was like it was like Kaylee or Kayla,
Speaker 2: like I had an a sound to it.
Speaker 3: Either way, Hey Kayla Yahyayla and Kelsey God, I hate
Speaker 3: it Kylie. She was so fired up. Kevin was in
Speaker 3: the bathroom. Sherman I sit down, and it's you have
Speaker 3: the entire coffee shop to pick a spot to see,
Speaker 3: to pick a spot to sit on. Sherman, I just
Speaker 3: choose to sit on like the love seat where we're
Speaker 3: just directly next to each other, arms touching, and we
Speaker 3: just sit on the little love seat next to the
Speaker 3: j O. She pops up over our shoulder and she's like, hey,
Speaker 3: my husband he's in the he's in the bathroom right now.
Speaker 3: We actually just got done with our visit on like
Speaker 3: having a baby. We're going in for another appointment here soon.
Speaker 3: And he loves your guys' show. He's gonna hate me
Speaker 3: for this. He's gonna hate me for this. And we
Speaker 3: just talked shop. Kevin came out. We congratulated him on
Speaker 3: completing Buds training and now becoming a future member of
Speaker 3: Papa Team six.
Speaker 2: He was stoked, and then we we literally just talked
Speaker 2: about their anatomy scan. It was so funny how weird
Speaker 2: the timing was of them leaving the anatomy scan seeing
Speaker 2: their baby for the first time. This guy listens to
Speaker 2: a dad podcast because he's having said baby and is
Speaker 2: excited about it. Sees the two hosts of the dad
Speaker 2: podcast and it is like, yeah, I just saw you know.
Speaker 2: You saw my daughter rog him over to the barista
Speaker 2: and be like, this is work, buddy, this is work.
Speaker 1: This is what I do.
Speaker 3: You see the impression we're making all about the show.
Speaker 1: Kevin, you shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3: That would have been brilliant, But that was That was
Speaker 3: a cool moment too, because Kevin's by like both the
Speaker 3: guys are right here. There's they're literally with nobody else
Speaker 3: and they're sitting arm in arm next to each other a.
Speaker 2: Park bench sized love seat, like we're talking the tiniest
Speaker 2: love seat. Will and I went there to like talk turkey,
Speaker 2: and obviously we're gonna sit across from each other, and
Speaker 2: Will just parks it on that bench and the other
Speaker 2: bench was comically far away if we were to talk,
Speaker 2: so I had to Papa Squad next.
Speaker 1: I had to Papa Squad. Now it does you know?
Speaker 3: I wonder if Kevin feels the same way because we
Speaker 3: have a follow up here from last week. We had
Speaker 3: somebody on Instagram make a comment four days ago.
Speaker 1: It's now edited, but it's it says Will and Sureham.
Speaker 3: This is from d lazy Will and sure Him act
Speaker 3: like raising kids as rocket science and they're in they're
Speaker 3: try to uncrack the code. He even edited it and
Speaker 3: still couldn't spell it right. And they're trying to crack
Speaker 3: the code.
Speaker 1: Wait, he's saying it's easy, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: he's saying.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a negative vibe in the comment section.
Speaker 2: He definitely feels like that. He's just like they're sitting there.
Speaker 2: They're trying to figure out how to do it. You
Speaker 2: fucking do it, dude. Oh, it's a show all about
Speaker 2: how to do something that's super fucking eas It's.
Speaker 3: Comments like those that just like internally make you boil
Speaker 3: for a moment because I just Barista. Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 3: the Barisa on a burner account that make you boil
Speaker 3: because it's like you just know, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, that's not what we do. We're not doing that.
Speaker 1: We're not doing that. We're enjoying the moment.
Speaker 2: We're in the moment right now, and we're just talking
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: That's all we're doing.
Speaker 3: Yere like, oh so good, you guys talk about fatherhood.
Speaker 3: Try making a moocha? Yeah, have you listened to the show?
Speaker 3: And if they say, no, hey, how about how about
Speaker 3: go and just check out the show? You would know
Speaker 3: that you wouldn't say a comment like that if you
Speaker 3: just checked out the show. No, I'm good on that. Okay,
Speaker 3: you're just projecting your own bullshit. You just want to
Speaker 3: be a hater for no goddamn Reese, will sure try
Speaker 3: making a frappuccino.
Speaker 2: Tell me how easy that is? We have another flashback?
Speaker 2: Or what do we call it greg Or.
Speaker 3: Greg's Got a Lot of Love Love Greg episode.
Speaker 2: Uh Mike Beviquah eighty four on YouTube. I think Greg
Speaker 2: and I read the same parenting book. I have a
Speaker 2: fifteen year old daughter, and I found myself agreeing with
Speaker 2: Damn near every bit of advice, question, success, failure, situation
Speaker 2: that he brought up. She's my stepdaughter, and my wife
Speaker 2: tells me that she and I have a weird relationship.
Speaker 2: But it's good to note that it's actually pretty normal
Speaker 2: since it looks exactly like Greg and his daughters minus
Speaker 2: the front row at the Taylor Swift God stirt, I
Speaker 2: haven't done that yet. Great, so don't forget to take
Speaker 2: out the trash. They never forgot to take out the
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mike. This was from Maggie Moo on YouTube,
Speaker 2: Top three sold. Nothing beats Grandma Maxine playing checkers. Greg
Speaker 2: is the best.
Speaker 1: Oh let's go, Maggie Moo, Meggy Moo. I take that,
Speaker 1: Grandma Maxine. That's that is a story. That's a story, dude.
Speaker 3: The teeth falling out in the middle of checkers, going
Speaker 3: into a stroke.
Speaker 1: What would your grandfather?
Speaker 4: Saying?
Speaker 1: It good?
Speaker 3: He's like, uh, Mac, you gotta move and I'm there, Mac, move.
Speaker 1: And she's just kind of.
Speaker 3: Sitting there quietly and I'm just sitting there. You know,
Speaker 3: I forget how old I said. I was like seven
Speaker 3: eight ors something like that.
Speaker 1: Damn it, Mac, scene you gotta move. Then her teachers
Speaker 1: fall up. I was like spread into the living room crying.
Speaker 1: Bro Mac and my grandpa.
Speaker 3: And again for people that are newly tuned in, my
Speaker 3: grandpa at this time was legally and I can laugh
Speaker 3: like these are my grandpa. Yeah, yeah, my grandpa was
Speaker 3: legally blind and my grandma was legally deaf, like she
Speaker 3: had insane antennis for like hearing aids.
Speaker 1: My grandpa had these specs.
Speaker 3: On that he just could Yeah, he can only see
Speaker 3: like silhouettes.
Speaker 1: So they complimented each other. Well, he just say he
Speaker 1: just saw that the silhouette wasn't moving.
Speaker 3: He just saw the silhouel as a movie. And I
Speaker 3: was like, Grandma, it's your turn. He's like, Mack, you
Speaker 3: gotta move, damn Max, you got And then I run screaming.
Speaker 3: Obviously I'm telling the story over again. I run screaming
Speaker 3: into the living room. My grandpa again, since he's legally blind,
Speaker 3: he still doesn't nessarly know what's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Grandma just rocked back. Grandma back, seen rock back
Speaker 1: and her teeth falling out, and he's like, I haven't
Speaker 1: her teeth fellow, her teeth fellow. We gotta call it's
Speaker 1: just us three in the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to help get her in the car
Speaker 2: and stuff. Right, Where did your dad come over?
Speaker 3: No? No, this was like they had to get they
Speaker 3: had to roll in the bed, the stretcher and everything
Speaker 3: into the house.
Speaker 1: Which was the story where you were actually.
Speaker 3: The skinny one to like get it through the door
Speaker 3: on the way out. But they had to get her
Speaker 3: on the stretcher. Oh my gosh. And she was good
Speaker 3: from it, she was, Yeah, she survived.
Speaker 1: What was the story?
Speaker 2: Where was it mac that fell out to pick up
Speaker 2: when your dad was backing up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, now this this is from my dad. Like I
Speaker 3: wasn't there, but my dad said he was taking her
Speaker 3: to a hair appointment. My grandma she would always get
Speaker 3: a perm. She always have all the old women they
Speaker 3: love to get the popes. She'd be wearing it was
Speaker 3: a gown every day, some floral gown and then she'd
Speaker 3: rip a perm.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 3: But my dad was taking her to the beauty salon
Speaker 3: one day. Yeah, it was I never knew of my
Speaker 3: dad taking her to her hair point. It was always
Speaker 3: my mom. It really was just always my mom. So
Speaker 3: this is like one of the very rare times my
Speaker 3: dad had to take her to her appointment.
Speaker 1: But it's his mother, his mother, it's my dad's mom.
Speaker 3: And he gets her up into the gets her up
Speaker 3: into the truck, helps her start to get in, and
Speaker 3: then as he kind of seventy five percent fully gets
Speaker 3: her in, he thinks she's going to finish getting fully
Speaker 3: in the truck.
Speaker 1: He starts walking around to the other.
Speaker 3: Side, and as he gets into the car and slams
Speaker 3: and slams in side of the door, she tips out.
Speaker 4: Brother.
Speaker 1: That had to be the driest thud of all times.
Speaker 1: Like a very subtle, very small little hill in the
Speaker 1: front yard. So she landed in grass. Oh no, she
Speaker 1: landed on the sidewalk and then rolls in the grass. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: damn it.
Speaker 2: Back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one might have got her. That one might
Speaker 1: have got her.
Speaker 6: Hip.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of times she cracked it. She
Speaker 1: cracked she corracked her. Oh no, back this one, yes,
Speaker 1: Greg goes in top three, So top three.
Speaker 2: So this one comes from stupendus.
Speaker 1: STUPIDU says six.
Speaker 2: Soed boys get out there and wash that truck at
Speaker 2: night when the daughter is coming home from the date.
Speaker 2: Excuse is that it was too hot during the day
Speaker 2: and I didn't want any water spots. Don't forget to
Speaker 2: ride that chalkway, boys, don't forget it.
Speaker 1: That's some game from stew That's some game. That's some game.
Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes in, I already told my husband he needs
Speaker 2: to watch love Greg's outlook, especially a look ahead, since
Speaker 2: he has older kids.
Speaker 1: BS.
Speaker 2: He isn't too bad to look at either. That one
Speaker 2: comes from E. M. K. Burd O. She is defender,
Speaker 2: not too bad to look at.
Speaker 3: She wouldn't subscribe to Youth Youth Sports Inc. Let me
Speaker 3: go get a look at old Greg. Oh, he calls
Speaker 3: the games all on Sundays Fox. Okay, Greggy boys football
Speaker 3: thing ain't too bad, ain't too shabby.
Speaker 1: Kind of like this stuff.
Speaker 3: The biggest take because I even went home after we
Speaker 3: recorded that episode. It was telling my wife because we
Speaker 3: we we don't talk about it like often because we
Speaker 3: know we're kind of far off from it, But every
Speaker 3: now and then we bring up the idea of like
Speaker 3: technology and phones and iPad, like just yes.
Speaker 1: When is gonna be the age? And you kind of
Speaker 1: like we're years out.
Speaker 3: We're doing the thing where we're gonna where we think
Speaker 3: in our heads we're committing to something early. Now we're
Speaker 3: obviously not obviously, but chances are we're going to change her.
Speaker 1: Mind by the time we get to whatever that point is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But something.
Speaker 3: I took away from Greg's episode was when he talked
Speaker 3: about failing inside the house that really like resonated with me,
Speaker 3: is like, you know, they're going to get exposed to
Speaker 3: a lot of things, and when we were on the
Speaker 3: topic of like tech and phones and everything else, he's
Speaker 3: like wanting them to fail inside the house so that
Speaker 3: way they're at least around you to talk through whatever
Speaker 3: the issues that might arise from those things that they're
Speaker 3: getting exposed to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was that was a good one.
Speaker 3: That was one where I was like, uh, oh, I
Speaker 3: can get on board. I could be talked into something
Speaker 3: there with the idea and the philosophy of they're failing
Speaker 3: around us, so we get to help be the teacher
Speaker 3: in those moments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like one of those very first it
Speaker 2: was like one of your first three lessons of the week.
Speaker 2: Was that horse trainer talking about like the your grip
Speaker 2: on the reins of a horse is like your grip
Speaker 2: on the reins of your child, of like allow them
Speaker 2: to fail to be there when they fail to help
Speaker 2: them learn from failure.
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, it all kind of coincides with that.
Speaker 3: This is the rocket science. That's the rode we're trying
Speaker 3: to crack from my man.
Speaker 1: D L A Z.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to figure it out, though he does.
Speaker 3: He figured he gotta you give him a phone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: rocket science. Father they take the crack and the cold.
Speaker 3: These two guys discovered fatherhood.
Speaker 6: Oh by the shirt lead the comment what a phony dude,
Speaker 6: what a bus a cash grab dude, I can what.
Speaker 2: I would love to meet people like that though, because
Speaker 2: you know he's it's those people that would be like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: what's all.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, You're never going to meet them. Ever,
Speaker 3: the negativity that I've experienced online throughout the years, I've
Speaker 3: never never met any of these people or have been
Speaker 3: told things like that in person, ever, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because it would be crazy, like if somebody like truly
Speaker 2: came up to me in the grocery store and was
Speaker 2: like Dad podcasts be like, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You a scientist, had another poopy diaper again a great
Speaker 3: show kid, and just walked off.
Speaker 1: I would belly laugh.
Speaker 2: I would belly laugh in that moment because I would
Speaker 2: so like that was incredible.
Speaker 1: You gotta say, oh, somebody needs a nap.
Speaker 3: Somebody didn't get there, ba ba, I got an extra
Speaker 3: binky in the pocket.
Speaker 1: You need a binky.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's my dad, by the way, that's one of
Speaker 3: my dad acts, binking in the pocket.
Speaker 2: I put a bankie in the pocket when we were
Speaker 2: going out onto the beach because I was like, I bet,
Speaker 2: I just bet that that binkie's gonna hit the sand.
Speaker 2: Jill already has six extras in the bag, very packed,
Speaker 2: but she doesn't have a quick draw mcgral binkie right there, dude,
Speaker 2: that feeling, there was no better feeling. And you can't
Speaker 2: tell tell anybody about the sneaky beankie. It just sits
Speaker 2: in your pocket. You don't let anybody know about it.
Speaker 2: And then when that one beankie gets dirty, Oh.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, sweetheart, I got when I put one in
Speaker 3: my pocket when we were at the You don't have
Speaker 3: one you didn't prepare.
Speaker 1: We did you get that one? We'd you find that one?
Speaker 1: Is it even clean? You know if dad stays on
Speaker 1: his toes, hey, you know, I stay ready.
Speaker 2: But that was why my dad hacks. It's a good
Speaker 2: dad hack. Extra banky dude. How was vacation? Let's not
Speaker 2: have into vacation, dude. Vacation was so good. It was
Speaker 2: crazy fun. It was very resting and relaxing, like we
Speaker 2: did a time. Jill is a mover and a shaker
Speaker 2: and a doer, wants to go on it adventures, very
Speaker 2: much like Charles.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I feel like you're just
Speaker 1: breaking down my wife right now.
Speaker 2: There was a lot every single day we're doing stuff,
Speaker 2: but there was a lot of relaxing stuff that we
Speaker 2: also did of just like hanging out pool side for
Speaker 2: you know, two to three hours. We were letting Scarlet
Speaker 2: take naps as long as she wanted because Jill was
Speaker 2: under the assumption of and people can take this as
Speaker 2: a dad hack or a mom hack or like whatever,
Speaker 2: but she was like, Scarlet's not going to sleep that
Speaker 2: well anyways because she's in a new spot. Yeah, let
Speaker 2: her just take some long naps in her new little
Speaker 2: pack and play bed that we got for her little crib,
Speaker 2: And so Scarlett was taking like these two and a
Speaker 2: half hour naps, three hour naps, and we just let
Speaker 2: her nap once instead of two in a day, so
Speaker 2: Jill and I would get to have like three hours
Speaker 2: to ourselves of just like hanging out by the pool,
Speaker 2: getting to be a couple.
Speaker 1: Dude. It was unreal.
Speaker 2: Got to go probably my favorite moment of the trip.
Speaker 2: I had this like awesome moment, dude, where we got
Speaker 2: to go to this part of Greaton Beach where like
Speaker 2: the true National Park is or the state park, sorry
Speaker 2: of it's like a hected beach. So the beach quite literally,
Speaker 2: I've been going to this beach since nineteen ninety three
Speaker 2: when my grandmother was living down the road. That beach
Speaker 2: in its dooms looked the exact same as if you
Speaker 2: took a picture from nineteen ninety three, it's exactly the same.
Speaker 2: Got to go there with my aunt on my mom's side,
Speaker 2: her sister and take Scarlet there for her to like
Speaker 2: see the ocean for the first time and experience that
Speaker 2: with like a sunset come in, dude, and I had
Speaker 2: like a crazy moment out there I was balling crying,
Speaker 2: and not like audibly crying, like it was just coming
Speaker 2: down quietly, and I was keeping it to myself.
Speaker 3: When you say balling crying, Like the the viewer and
Speaker 3: the listener they're thinking they're shaking. They're thinking you're shaking.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they've seen me where I on here.
Speaker 2: It was a very it was a very controlled you know,
Speaker 2: tears just kind of streaming down my cheeks. But I
Speaker 2: had sunglasses on, so nobody was really like a strong
Speaker 2: stone crust, oh dude, And it was like it was
Speaker 2: like healing almost. I can't describe that feeling of like
Speaker 2: getting to show my daughter a place that formed me
Speaker 2: as a young individual, of like showed me what love
Speaker 2: was from a family members showed me what adventure was.
Speaker 2: And being brave enough to go deep in the ocean,
Speaker 2: and learning how to do cartwheels on the beach and
Speaker 2: playing with my grandma, and like all these little moments
Speaker 2: are all tied to like this little stretch of beach
Speaker 2: and I like got to take my daughter out there,
Speaker 2: and then I got to we set her down the
Speaker 2: sand and she literally screamed at the ocean and started
Speaker 2: crawling towards it like a baby sea turtle. She was
Speaker 2: obsessed with the water. I'm sitting there just you know,
Speaker 2: the silent tears coming out. I'm biting my lip. I'm
Speaker 2: so proud of her, and I'm so stoked in the
Speaker 2: moment of like, oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, she loves this place. I picked her up.
Speaker 2: I found a little sandbar probably like forty or fifty
Speaker 2: feet out into the water, and just held her on
Speaker 2: the sandbar and I was just talking to her. I
Speaker 2: was like, your dad loves this place more than anything
Speaker 2: in the world. This is my favorite place. Like everything
Speaker 2: around here, this is like what I love to look at.
Speaker 2: And when I think of my happy place, I like
Speaker 2: think of here. And I love you more than that, Like,
Speaker 2: I love this place even more because I've gotten to
Speaker 2: take you here now, and I hope you love it.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy it, and we're gonna have like
Speaker 2: a ton of fun in the years ahead, hopefully of
Speaker 2: continuing to like come to this spot and make memories.
Speaker 2: If you love this place as much as I do,
Speaker 2: you might be a camp in girl. Yeah, you might
Speaker 2: be a sports camp girl, which is fine, But if
Speaker 2: you love the beach, we can come here whenever you want.
Speaker 1: When you laid that on her? What she say?
Speaker 2: She went, So she was on this shoulder right here,
Speaker 2: and she was sitting there and she was looking out
Speaker 2: into the ocean and she put her finger out and
Speaker 2: she pointed and she went.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, down. I said, that's right, honey, that's right.
Speaker 1: And I kissed her on the cheek.
Speaker 3: Dude, I give her a little kiss my phone because
Speaker 3: I took this note.
Speaker 1: I can't wait too. That mean England's over there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and we beat their ass. Dad she did, Honey,
Speaker 2: we were bikes.
Speaker 1: I had, uh.
Speaker 3: Like a similar moment where we're sitting there and we're
Speaker 3: laying on the bed, mama shower, and I want to say.
Speaker 3: Scotty was already down to sleep and Rue was going
Speaker 3: to do a sleepover with us, like sleep in our bed.
Speaker 3: And Rue and I had gotten back from one of
Speaker 3: the little shows that they do down the down in
Speaker 3: the kids club are the hotel area where they're.
Speaker 1: Doing like a metal razy dude. It was nuts, it
Speaker 1: was nuts. Those look so set.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were epic. Rue was enthralled looking at all
Speaker 3: these things going on. She's engaging. Anyway, we're on the
Speaker 3: back end the tail end of the trip and I'm
Speaker 3: laying with her in bed. She's got her pjs on,
Speaker 3: she's got this she wanted to wear like a two
Speaker 3: two over top. This's like rough two two and I'm
Speaker 3: a sweetheart, we can't. We don't see if you're going
Speaker 3: to sleep in our bed, you're not rocking it to
Speaker 3: to to bed.
Speaker 1: Oh damn. She took it off, but she's.
Speaker 3: Like holding in bed and I'm laying and I was like,
Speaker 3: and I'm trying to like set the tone because Rue's four,
Speaker 3: Like we're having some conversations at this age. It was like, hey, sweetheart, Candet,
Speaker 3: I tell you something, and she was like what. I
Speaker 3: was like, come closer, and she like nestles up to me.
Speaker 3: I was like, I love doing vacation with you so much.
Speaker 3: I've had so much fun this week and I just
Speaker 3: want you to know I love you so much and
Speaker 3: I can't wait to keep doing stuff like this with you.
Speaker 3: And I'm just trying to have a moment with her,
Speaker 3: and she just looks at me and she goes hey dead.
Speaker 3: Then I go yees, sweetheart, thinking we're in the moment,
Speaker 3: and she goes, can I snug on my two tuo?
Speaker 1: Like it's a stuffy tonight.
Speaker 2: I was like, you get off me, dude, Get off
Speaker 2: the bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get off the bed. After the magic show. This
Speaker 3: was either the night before or two nights before. I
Speaker 3: was like, dude, Rue, I like grab her hands and
Speaker 3: I'm looking at her and I go, dude, how much
Speaker 3: fun did you have today? Because we were on the beach,
Speaker 3: we had the water sides and stuff like that. How
Speaker 3: much fun did you have today? And she just looks
Speaker 3: at me because she goes, look at your nose when
Speaker 3: I do this, and she just like grasp my nose.
Speaker 1: Get off, I.
Speaker 2: Said, Scarlett, you see that sand dune over there. You're
Speaker 2: uncle Jordan and I. When we're little kids, we would
Speaker 2: go play armymen on that sand dune with these little
Speaker 2: green army men. We play there for hours and we played.
Speaker 2: There's so much that if you go and dig in
Speaker 2: that sand dune because it's protected and they don't get touched,
Speaker 2: you could probably find some of the army men that
Speaker 2: we played with. I've been able to find some throughout
Speaker 2: the years. And she looked at me and she went
Speaker 2: and I just fell the nice the hell you, Hanna,
Speaker 2: What the fuck was that?
Speaker 1: Dude? That's her cracking a coal one of that man,
Speaker 1: that was her cracking a cold.
Speaker 3: One moment, I look at my wife, so why are
Speaker 3: we doing all this vacation? She she ain't gonna remember
Speaker 3: any of this stuff.
Speaker 2: Why are we doing this? It just needs to be
Speaker 2: you and me. Let's get a sitter. What do we
Speaker 2: do leave the kids for two weeks?
Speaker 1: She doesn't get it.
Speaker 2: Hey, Scarlet, by the way, has been doing dramatic squeezes
Speaker 2: and I was like, I literally wanted to bring this
Speaker 2: to the podcast because I was.
Speaker 1: Like, do babies do this?
Speaker 2: Where she'll just grab food when we eat with her
Speaker 2: at dinner, and she'll squeeze it in her hand like
Speaker 2: super hard, and she'll look at me. She'll just lock
Speaker 2: eyes with me and start going and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden she'll go and like sit up and have
Speaker 2: like the nicest smile.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is she constipated? Like why is she doing that?
Speaker 1: Do your kids do that at all?
Speaker 3: They would go through like Scotty both through like when
Speaker 3: they're around that age, Like I feel like they're just
Speaker 3: getting used to being able to like figure out something
Speaker 3: else that's new, like being able to squeeze, because they
Speaker 3: would do that or like smush food or like just
Speaker 3: be violent with food, yes, or like when they can
Speaker 3: finally learn to drink and they're just like downing it
Speaker 3: over and over, or they're just learning to tip it
Speaker 3: back and they just keep tipping it back over and
Speaker 3: over just because, Yeah, they're Like Scotty, now she can
Speaker 3: learn that the milk can drip out of her bottle,
Speaker 3: so she'll just sit there and like shake the bottle
Speaker 3: and have fucking create a mess.
Speaker 1: Scotty's a wolverine. Scotty.
Speaker 3: The whole reason we called this episode or I called
Speaker 3: this episode Operation shot Collar, is because that is what
Speaker 3: needs to be on Scotty's neck. Scotty, she is an animal.
Speaker 3: She's an Australian cattle dog. She needs to run. She
Speaker 3: needs to move, yeah, at all times.
Speaker 2: And heard the people into an area where she can
Speaker 2: interact with them.
Speaker 3: Climbing everything. She's just a busy body. Scotty's hard. Even
Speaker 3: before we went on this two week vacation, my wife
Speaker 3: brought it up to me and she wanted to do
Speaker 3: big vacation. I'm like, sweetheart, it's going to be so
Speaker 3: tough with Scottie, like she has shown us time and
Speaker 3: time again, whether it's a thirty minute car ride, an hour,
Speaker 3: four hours driving to thirty eight. She's shown us time
Speaker 3: and time again.
Speaker 2: She don't give a fuck man because Scotty, don't give
Speaker 2: a fuck because Scott and Zilla.
Speaker 3: She don't operate like that. No, she's very different than Rue.
Speaker 3: Ru wasn't like a perfect sweetheart child. But Rue is
Speaker 3: much calmer. Yes, she had a much calmer personality than
Speaker 3: Scotty did. Yes, she could sit and relax. She's got
Speaker 3: more patience to her. Scotty, doesn't we go on this
Speaker 3: adventure the flights. I'm just telling you it's ain't going
Speaker 3: to be a walk in the park. Yeah, and boil
Speaker 3: was not.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's a tweet because you're about to get into
Speaker 2: a story and it's gonna answer this guy's question.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This came from Connor Sears.
Speaker 2: Connor said, Hey, I need some dad hacks from the
Speaker 2: Sikas out there. About to go on my first flight
Speaker 2: on Thursday with my two month old. Any tips or
Speaker 2: hacks that you would have for your boy. Much appreciated.
Speaker 2: That's a good one, good writing. Who's that from Connor
Speaker 2: Sears x dot com formerly Twitter.
Speaker 3: I would say the number one because it's a two
Speaker 3: month old, so you're very much in the newborn you're
Speaker 3: in the newborn phase. I would say, I don't know
Speaker 3: when his flight is, but if you can time it
Speaker 3: to where whether you delay the bottle or if you're
Speaker 3: going and the it would be an early bottle. Whenever
Speaker 3: you take off, whatever you're gonna do, time the bottle
Speaker 3: as you're ascending out of the air, because it helps.
Speaker 3: It helps keep their ears what from pop? It helps
Speaker 3: keep their ears from popping.
Speaker 1: Or their ears to pop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because at that age too, it's like
Speaker 3: after they get the bottle, it's usually you bottle, they
Speaker 3: fall asleep or take a nap, but hitting the bottle
Speaker 3: as you're taking off to minimize as much danger as possible.
Speaker 3: Two month old, I don't feel like is as bad
Speaker 3: now again, two month old might even be easier.
Speaker 1: Might but we don't want to put that on travel.
Speaker 1: We don't want to put that on we know, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't family shod we don't parent shame, We don't
Speaker 1: parents shame.
Speaker 2: When we traveled with Scarlett, uh, right around that two month, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we sleep deprived her right before the flight. So whatever
Speaker 2: that little stretch of two hours was that she would
Speaker 2: have napped.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Play play play play play play play play and you
Speaker 2: are staying up. And as soon as you get on
Speaker 2: the plane, and that plane gets on the tarmac, baba baba.
Speaker 1: That's you cooking. You're cooking right there.
Speaker 2: Because they're gonna ears, are gonna pop, they're gonna eat.
Speaker 3: And then they Yeah, and if it's if it's an
Speaker 3: early flight, that's all good. Like we would still you know,
Speaker 3: we wake Scotti orrew up even earlier, early, because they're
Speaker 3: still gonna be tired. But to your point, you play
Speaker 3: with them, You keep them up because you know they're
Speaker 3: gonna fall asleep again. Yes, Jack, keep them awake. I
Speaker 3: know you want the bottle. You might give them, uh
Speaker 3: and I'm guesstimating. Obviously it's been a minute. It's been
Speaker 3: over a year since Scotty's been in that range. But
Speaker 3: let's just say, you know, they have a five ounce bottle.
Speaker 3: I'm making this up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You might give them an ounce before you make the
Speaker 3: trip to the airport, if they're fussy, if they're pissed off,
Speaker 3: if their rattle just enough, just enough, like hey, you
Speaker 3: can have a little snack. But the main event. The
Speaker 3: main course is gonna happen when you take off? Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: on the plane.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we're gonna get that tummy full. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be.
Speaker 1: Hungry and you're gonna be sleepy. Yeah. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: meve Connor.
Speaker 2: What's the myth with Scott Zilla that when there's gonna move.
Speaker 1: It's hang on and prey.
Speaker 3: Hey you're laughing, dude, I I have, I have. It
Speaker 3: never felt like the right time of telling Charro because
Speaker 3: we were even over. The travel back was a full
Speaker 3: twenty four hours because a flight got delayed. We were
Speaker 3: in the airport, the first airport for a few hours.
Speaker 3: We landed in Newark. We were delayed so much we
Speaker 3: had to rebook the second flight all the way back.
Speaker 3: We had to rebook the Newark flight. No, we're supposed
Speaker 3: to be in Nashville by six pm on Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we didn't take off from Newark until nine thirty at night.
Speaker 3: We landed in Nashville at eleven pm. Italy time is
Speaker 3: seven hours ahead, so we essentially operated a full twenty
Speaker 3: four hours. Because our first flight in Italy was supposed
Speaker 3: to take off from Venice at eleven am. That didn't
Speaker 3: happen until one thirty, so we were delayed quite a bit.
Speaker 3: We spent probably a total of eight hours in airports. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then obviously the long flight from Venice to Newark
Speaker 3: it was a grind.
Speaker 1: That's not even delayed, that's just derailed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you were asking, how do you there's no
Speaker 3: stopping Scottie the whole saying you can never stop him.
Speaker 3: You can only hope to contain him. That is scott Zilla.
Speaker 3: Fortunately there was a sickoh a tier one. Johnny shout
Speaker 3: out Johnny from Buffalow, who was sitting next to us,
Speaker 3: that I'm just having a rapport with him before we
Speaker 3: get on the plane. I see that he's sitting next
Speaker 3: to us, so I'm just saying, hey, Johnny, this one
Speaker 3: right here. She's gonna be hard. You're gonna hear. I
Speaker 3: just want to apologize that. He's like, oh, buddy, he
Speaker 3: had his girlfriend with them, maybe fiance, maybe wife, I
Speaker 3: don't know. And we were doing the old joke he
Speaker 3: needs some birth control. This will be the birth control.
Speaker 1: It's a ping punk ball in the tornado.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Unfortunately, the family behind us, they had a young
Speaker 3: maybe eight nine months old, so we were kind of
Speaker 3: we were in a good we weren't alone, but we
Speaker 3: were just letting people know this one right here.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you hear crying when we're over the Atlantic,
Speaker 2: that's me.
Speaker 1: And my wife who's listening right now.
Speaker 3: The respect that I have for her, yeah, the guilt
Speaker 3: that I hold because she had to be the one
Speaker 3: that dealt with Scotty.
Speaker 1: The majority of the time.
Speaker 3: I did my best, and I could even tell when
Speaker 3: she's at her breaking point. She's like, you take her,
Speaker 3: you gotta take her, and I'm taking I know I
Speaker 3: got to take her, and in just in the back
Speaker 3: of my mind, I also know she's gonna be screaming
Speaker 3: for you again when this happens.
Speaker 1: And it's not minutes and minutes.
Speaker 3: This isn't the Rolodex where we travel and Charlie does
Speaker 3: everything with the kids. Like again, RU operated a little
Speaker 3: bit differently. This parental preforation that Scotti has for mom
Speaker 3: right now is obsessive. And I felt so bad for
Speaker 3: my wife because I snuck a thirty minute nap in.
Speaker 1: She stuck no napping during.
Speaker 3: The duration of that I thought four hours an eight
Speaker 3: hour flight, Yeah, Charlie didn't really Charlie didn't really sleep
Speaker 3: on that tomorrow because Scotti just wants Charle. But then
Speaker 3: she wants Charles and she's on Charroo. But again she's
Speaker 3: a busy body. She wants down. Charlie just wrestles with
Speaker 3: her the whole time because Scotty wants to stand, she
Speaker 3: wants to do stuff. And even when you're wrestling with her,
Speaker 3: Scotty's got that grin, that little shit grin and laugh
Speaker 3: that you're playing with her. And then she gets to
Speaker 3: a point to where she's mad and you just put
Speaker 3: her on the ground to wur She's walking up and
Speaker 3: down the aisle. We're letting her run around. But Scotty's
Speaker 3: not scared to make friends. So Scotti will the couple
Speaker 3: in the back that like the eight nine month old,
Speaker 3: she's like baby baby. I'm like, yeah, baby. She just
Speaker 3: wanted to play with that baby the whole time. And
Speaker 3: then she, the sweet mother of the child, starts doing
Speaker 3: high fives with Scotti.
Speaker 1: Thank you mother of that child, Thank.
Speaker 3: You mother of that child. And she did phenomenal. But
Speaker 3: in our head, it's like, you don't want this baby
Speaker 3: just sitting here. You don't want Scotty just in there.
Speaker 3: You're doing high fives for hours hours, but Scotty will
Speaker 3: do that. Grab Scotty and Scotty's just again you're fighting
Speaker 3: with her.
Speaker 1: The whole time until you can get her down.
Speaker 3: For some that Scotty maybe on the duration of that
Speaker 3: twenty four hour travel probably slept a total of three
Speaker 3: hours four hours.
Speaker 1: Oh perfect, good, yeah good, But it was.
Speaker 3: The flight home was extremely, extremely, extremely difficult. It almost
Speaker 3: there were moments to where we made comments to each
Speaker 3: other this might have ruined our entire vacation because we're
Speaker 3: gonna need another. We're gonna need another, We're gonna need
Speaker 3: soft tissue, deep tissue massages. We almost need another vacation
Speaker 3: from this hell that we've put ourselves in traveling back
Speaker 3: from Italy because of Scotty.
Speaker 1: Scotty.
Speaker 2: I love you, We love you, Scotty love Scotty's dad
Speaker 2: loves you.
Speaker 3: Scotty is a shitload of fun. Her personality is incredible.
Speaker 3: She has a blast. But she just does not sit still. Breakfast,
Speaker 3: doesn't sit still, has to get down dinner, sees a slide,
Speaker 3: side slide, doesn't eat.
Speaker 1: She's got it.
Speaker 3: She's again when I say Australian cattle dog, Yeah, she's
Speaker 3: like an animal where you have to let her down
Speaker 3: and just feed her on the side of the table. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you just have to let her take bites. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: she can run around, climb stairs. And again she's only
Speaker 3: twenty months old, so you're still having a monitor at
Speaker 3: all times because she could easily slip.
Speaker 1: She slept and felled plenty of times.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, and it is right back to it, if
Speaker 2: not faster and more after it.
Speaker 1: After she falls, that's not gonna slow her down.
Speaker 3: And some she takes a thump and she just gets
Speaker 3: right back up and tying, and I like, well, we
Speaker 3: stop breathing because right or just like watching her and
Speaker 3: observer he she gets up and keeps it moving, Like
Speaker 3: is she gonna cry?
Speaker 1: She's not gonna cry. She's tough as shit, she is.
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything encapsulate a child's personality like that
Speaker 2: video of the bounce House where you were poolside, and
Speaker 2: Will has this video where he's filming Scottie from super
Speaker 2: far away and Scotti is purposefully jumping into this ballpit.
Speaker 1: That is like she that toy was like a big
Speaker 1: girl toy.
Speaker 3: You're talking about the bounce house. Yes, there is no ballpit.
Speaker 3: Oh there, she's jumpings even more sense. She's jumping off
Speaker 3: the bouncy house onto the ground perfect like there's no.
Speaker 1: Ballpit at the bottom, good two feet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she just continually climbs and is jumping and
Speaker 2: is basically just putting her legs out completely straight, hitting
Speaker 2: her butt on the ground. On one of them, she
Speaker 2: hits and you kind of see her head go and
Speaker 2: you behind.
Speaker 1: The phone, oh, you kind of just watch her.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, her head pokes out
Speaker 2: from uh, underneath the bounce house and she looks at you.
Speaker 1: And just hit my smiling.
Speaker 3: She's a psycho, she's a wolverine man because she's trying
Speaker 3: to jump off the bounce house and hit the bouncy
Speaker 3: part with her butt and kind of propel herself.
Speaker 1: Yeah for her.
Speaker 3: One time she hits the bounce house and just poured
Speaker 3: face chest on the ground. She pops back up, gets
Speaker 3: back on it. Yeah, she's uh, she's tough. With the
Speaker 3: vacation a plus. Good vacation was a plus. So we
Speaker 3: hit three different spots. We were gone for two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we did like three or four nights in Austria.
Speaker 1: And while we were in Austria, we're like in the Alps,
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 3: So we hit On one of the days we go
Speaker 3: out hit the gondola, We climbed some mountains. Another day
Speaker 3: we go out to Hallstat Holstat Halstat, which is essentially
Speaker 3: where Frozen got inspiration for. So we wanted to take
Speaker 3: Ru to go see you know where Frozen was. This,
Speaker 3: This is where aarondel is. This is where Hanan and
Speaker 3: Elsa are. She sees the castle or not the castle,
Speaker 3: but the church with the big clock ship. Where's the castle?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We gotta find them.
Speaker 3: But we went there for a day, took a trip
Speaker 3: that was amazing. Then we go over to the the.
Speaker 1: Dolomites, Dolomites, Dola meat, the Dolomites, the Dolomites, the.
Speaker 3: Sunweese hotel resort, phenomenal, phenomenal spot.
Speaker 1: Everything's like farm, the.
Speaker 3: Table they have like lama walk, so Scotty, she loves
Speaker 3: her stuffy the lama. That's her safe space. So they
Speaker 3: have lamas there. Scotti is in all Islamas. We get
Speaker 3: to go on a lama walk. Rue gets to ride
Speaker 3: like a pony Trill rode a horse. They go on
Speaker 3: a horse walk.
Speaker 1: Oh damn. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We go out to what is it loose loosen, loose on.
Speaker 3: We make a trip there for a day to where
Speaker 3: we go and have a picnic. We're out, you know,
Speaker 3: around just playgrounds, enjoying ourselves. But the Dolomites incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then we our third stop was Carol Carole Carole Carole,
Speaker 3: which is by like an hour outside of Venice. It's
Speaker 3: on a beach, so we got a beach vibe, we
Speaker 3: got the mountain vibe, we got the beach vibe, and
Speaker 3: there was a well, there's water slides at each hotel,
Speaker 3: which I didn't know about. Y'all were ripping those water slides, ripping,
Speaker 3: bro y'all were ripping those waters.
Speaker 1: Rue loves the water slides.
Speaker 3: There was one that you can't go on, like the
Speaker 3: first part we were at in Austria. They had it
Speaker 3: was like this water park, this indoor water park game
Speaker 3: five or six different slides. I'm talking simple ones, medium ones,
Speaker 3: ones that are two that are three stories up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of them you had to do on a
Speaker 3: raft because in the middle of the in the middle
Speaker 3: of the water slide, it's like this half pipe you
Speaker 3: get shot out into, you know, then you go back
Speaker 3: in the total then you come out the exit on
Speaker 3: like a little half pipe before you come up. And
Speaker 3: then the other one was just like a speed demon
Speaker 3: one all enclosed circular, going all around the little indoor
Speaker 3: water park area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the ones on the third.
Speaker 3: Floor you couldn't ride if you weren't at least nine
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 1: Oh damn hits them both?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, how'd you swing that?
Speaker 1: They don't have great security there. Come.
Speaker 3: It was more like asking Rue, hey, would you want
Speaker 3: to do this? I would hold her on the one
Speaker 3: with the raft I went down at first. You can
Speaker 3: kind of my own instinctual guest could do this one
Speaker 3: or not if she wants to. We could do this
Speaker 3: one where I hold her Yeah, yeah, but the other
Speaker 3: one no, or you can't go on that one.
Speaker 1: She didn't want to.
Speaker 3: On day one, Parks, we were with our former neighbors
Speaker 3: that were good friends with shut Out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Shot at the Paler's. Paler made Travel. She's a travel
Speaker 3: agent who helped put this trip together.
Speaker 1: For that I forgot about it. She's as stud Megan.
Speaker 3: They have two kiddos around Roue's age, Parks who's five,
Speaker 3: Livy who's four, and Parks He's he's one that gets
Speaker 3: after it. He doesn't want to do the big dog slide.
Speaker 3: It's the red slide, big red slide. He doesn't want
Speaker 3: to do it. This is on day one, so I'm like, good,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't want to do this one anyway. It's dark
Speaker 3: the whole way down, it's fast, it fucking jerks you
Speaker 3: around a little bit, and again you've got to be
Speaker 3: at least nine to get on this one. Day two
Speaker 3: comes around, Rue gets an itch that she wants to
Speaker 3: do it, so we're going on to the top and
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I really don't know. I'm saying, I
Speaker 3: really don't know. I'm I can kind of push the
Speaker 3: boundaries if I'm like, I think Ru could do it
Speaker 3: if she if she's confident and she wants to, then
Speaker 3: I would be more instinctual on like letting her do it.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, let dad do this one again because
Speaker 3: I've done it like several times, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't think this is gonna work. So I'm sitting there, well,
Speaker 3: would I tell her to like cover her eyes the
Speaker 3: whole time down? YadA, YadA, YadA. So I go down first,
Speaker 3: speeding all the way down. They have this monitor that
Speaker 3: shows you your times on how fast you get down
Speaker 3: to the bottom. Me and my boy Brian, Brian Paler,
Speaker 3: we're trying to like break our records from the day before.
Speaker 3: We're trying to get sub seven sub seven seconds on
Speaker 3: getting all the way down that side on the big
Speaker 3: red slide.
Speaker 1: Sub seven.
Speaker 3: That's hard to do it, hard, hard, my boy rookie.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: So I go down the first time because I'm trying
Speaker 3: to test it out for Rue. I'm trying to go
Speaker 3: as kind of as slow as i can to see
Speaker 3: what I could tell Rue if she as go on this.
Speaker 3: I get to the bottom of my wife Charles. She's
Speaker 3: standing in the hold in Scottie. I get out of
Speaker 3: the water and I'm like, man, I'm gonna be honest,
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think Ruth should do this.
Speaker 3: I think she could get hurt, even if she wants to.
Speaker 3: I don't think she should do it. Yeah, And she's like, well,
Speaker 3: she's up there right now. She's with Brian though. So
Speaker 3: I'm at the bottom and I look all the way
Speaker 3: up and I'm like, Brian, Brian, he like looks over
Speaker 3: the rail and I go, don't let her do it.
Speaker 3: He looks down at me and goes she's already went down.
Speaker 3: No panic and su me because I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh God, like this isn't gonna be good. Ruth's flying
Speaker 1: down this slide.
Speaker 3: I get in the water because there's about ten feet
Speaker 3: of like narrow water that you get int too, where
Speaker 3: it's like up to shin level that like you're like
Speaker 3: standing in there as you explode into the water. I'm
Speaker 3: like standing there, waiting on just looking at the dark
Speaker 3: abyss of this tunnel of this red slide for Rue
Speaker 3: to come out, just wondering, Oh my god, is she
Speaker 3: crying already? Like what's happening? I hope she's okay. She
Speaker 3: shoots out of this slide, standing there and she's underwater
Speaker 3: for a second. She comes up and I go, I go,
Speaker 3: how was it? And she's like she's like stands up
Speaker 3: and gets everything together.
Speaker 1: She goes good and she rips that thing for the
Speaker 1: rest of the day, Oh dude.
Speaker 3: And honestly a massive relief because I was, legitimately I
Speaker 3: was like, no, I ain't no way, Brian, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: shut it down.
Speaker 1: She's already on slide bro shout out Brian.
Speaker 2: Shot just real probably just following him up the stairs.
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, where's your dad at I told her, sorry, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna let daddad test this out for you. I'll say
Speaker 1: you can do this. But she didn't wait for my signal.
Speaker 2: She's like, oh, Brian could tell me if it's good
Speaker 2: or not. Brian, go down it. Yeah, sure kid.
Speaker 3: These slides are long enough to where it's got stop
Speaker 3: lights up above at the entranced lifeguard.
Speaker 1: So once you yeah, there's no lifeguard.
Speaker 3: So once you go, it's sitting there on red light
Speaker 3: and it gets to the bottom, then a green light's like, hey,
Speaker 3: let's the next person know that they can go.
Speaker 1: Shout out Italy. I like that.
Speaker 2: Ye dude, that's so epic. What a coming of age
Speaker 2: moment because that's the type of stuff that you bring
Speaker 2: to the lunch room where you're like, oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: went down and slide that you have to be nine
Speaker 2: to go down?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. She loved it, bro, And I'm
Speaker 3: talking every spot was. There's pros and cons to each spot,
Speaker 3: but we loved them all. Like the trip was incredible.
Speaker 3: We got hit. Oh my god, it's been so long.
Speaker 3: I forgot about that. When we left Austria. The driver
Speaker 3: that we had that was chauffeur in us to is
Speaker 3: a four hour drive. Again, all of the travel, so.
Speaker 1: Traveling there, four hour drive.
Speaker 3: From Austria where we were at to the Dolomites was
Speaker 3: four hours. And then from the Dolomites down to the beach,
Speaker 3: yeah that was an hour outside of Venice and Cairole, that.
Speaker 1: Was a four hour drive. Yeah, so all of the travel,
Speaker 1: that chaos, that stuff is exhausting and it's hard as fuck.
Speaker 1: Beauty full sights though, I'm sure beautiful sits.
Speaker 3: I got a little car sickness because again, you're just
Speaker 3: in this and you know your boy's gotta you're in
Speaker 3: the you got a little things are crazy at driving
Speaker 3: narrow roads. And we left the first stop Austria to
Speaker 3: go to the Dolomites. We weren't even outside of the
Speaker 3: street off of our street from the hotel. When we're
Speaker 3: about to embark on this four hour drive, our driver
Speaker 3: pulls out, he kind of got He slow rolls a
Speaker 3: stop sign and we get fucking smacked by a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got hit by You got in a car wreck,
Speaker 1: bro on your vacation. We got in a car wreck.
Speaker 3: And this dude, he was already talking a little too much,
Speaker 3: like being too super nice. I'm like, bro, just listen,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a long drive. Like just we got
Speaker 3: four hours, man, yeah, rud. They're like they're already complaining
Speaker 3: a little bit, like we got a ride ahead of us.
Speaker 1: You got a ponytail, we get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that little fucking rat tails got that should have
Speaker 3: been the tail right there.
Speaker 4: May is not.
Speaker 1: He ain't got this bud. Yeah, we're not even now,
Speaker 1: we haven't even left the area.
Speaker 3: And we pull out and I feel him kind of
Speaker 3: slow roll this stops sign, but I'm not necessarily looking,
Speaker 3: and I see my wife because she's on the driver
Speaker 3: side of the van, and so is Rue in the
Speaker 3: back seat in her car seat. And I hear Charles
Speaker 3: start to say something. I look over and again it's
Speaker 3: he stops. It's a highway to where cars are flying
Speaker 3: probably going forty miles an hour, thirty forty miles an
Speaker 3: hour on the on this mountains. Yeah, kilometers they do
Speaker 3: the km's there. I canna meat there, And Charles says,
Speaker 3: I mean, I look over and I see this car
Speaker 3: coming to where it's inevitable. What's gonna happen unless they
Speaker 3: rip it to the left. But there's on coming traffic
Speaker 3: coming the other way, and just sure enough, everybody's able
Speaker 3: to stop, but this car smacks us on the front tire.
Speaker 3: We get show gage shot like, we don't know what
Speaker 3: the fuck happens. We're all paying it. I'll look over
Speaker 3: at char you all right, look over at Rue. We're
Speaker 3: checking on the kids, everybody.
Speaker 1: He was cool.
Speaker 3: He looks back to us as everybody, Okay, buddy, what
Speaker 3: the fuck was that?
Speaker 1: We get out of the car.
Speaker 3: The bumper and everything smashed in his car? You can
Speaker 3: he could barely back it up. He's like, car's broken.
Speaker 3: Car don't work. He can't drive us to the Dolomites. Now,
Speaker 3: he came from I forget where he came from, but
Speaker 3: it was a five hour drive for him to come.
Speaker 1: Whatever company he's with.
Speaker 3: I'm like, how far were you to get to us
Speaker 3: because we're kind of out there in the Alps, and
Speaker 3: he's like, it took me about five hours. I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, look at chart. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if we're fucking getting to the Dolomites today because
Speaker 3: I don't how the company works.
Speaker 1: I have no clue.
Speaker 3: This is like a smaller town that we're in when
Speaker 3: we were in Austria and.
Speaker 1: It was bad.
Speaker 3: The other car that hit us, their cars, their front
Speaker 3: of the cars like smashed in. Fortunately she lived like
Speaker 3: right around the corner. Her mom bikes down. No, yeah,
Speaker 3: cops come everything, and We're just kind of standing on
Speaker 3: the side of the road. They're talking Italian and shit,
Speaker 3: and I'm just thinking, how are we going to get
Speaker 3: out of here? And we megan or traveledger who they
Speaker 3: were still there. They were about to go to Germany
Speaker 3: for a couple of days when we when we were
Speaker 3: going off to the Doomites. And fortunately we just found
Speaker 3: this big this taxi service that had a vehicle that
Speaker 3: was big enough that we just paid euros to like
Speaker 3: we got to get there, Like, we can't stay back,
Speaker 3: we can't just hang back. We had no clue how
Speaker 3: we're going to get to the Dolomites. Cause he's fucked,
Speaker 3: he's scared for his life. He's like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: fired him. Oh yeah, you probably should. Yeah, like you
Speaker 3: got a family in the vehicle. Yeah, And buddy, I
Speaker 3: saw it. I don't know what you said in Italian
Speaker 3: to everybody else and what the lady was saying that
Speaker 3: was I don't know what went down, but you slow
Speaker 3: rolled that stop sign. Yeah, And he was scared for
Speaker 3: his life, and he's like, let me try in. He's
Speaker 3: trying to call his company and my boss blah blah
Speaker 3: blah and say, hey, we're gonna get a taxi.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be all good.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, please don't do that, like, please let
Speaker 3: me get I was like, buddy, how long is this
Speaker 3: driver gonna take to get here? You took you five hours?
Speaker 3: Like where's this other guy gonna come from? He didn't know,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, we're just gonna get this taxi. He's like,
Speaker 3: I don't have the money to pay for your taxi,
Speaker 3: and like you don't have to pay for the taxi.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna get the taxi. He's like, you might
Speaker 3: tell my boss that. I'll tell your boss whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Or like, are we gonna ask for a refund? Like yeah,
Speaker 1: you're goddamn right, we're gonna ask for a refund. We
Speaker 1: didn't get out of the parking lot. We just got
Speaker 1: in a car wreck, buddy. Yeah, and uh, anyway, we
Speaker 1: take the taxi, we get to the Dolomites.
Speaker 3: And god, yeah, I don't know where that or that guy.
Speaker 3: He seemed like scared enough. I don't know, like what
Speaker 3: the company is he worked for, But dude, we got
Speaker 3: smacked by a car.
Speaker 2: Shout out to y'all staying in it and hope for
Speaker 2: the best for that guy.
Speaker 1: But I hope he's not professionally driving for a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he started. I could tell he felt bad. Clearly
Speaker 3: he's yea, he felt bad. I'm with you. I'm just
Speaker 3: trying to figure out. We get to the Dolomites, bro,
Speaker 3: We're all good. Everybody's safe. Nobody's dinged up. Could have
Speaker 3: been bad bad if you a couple more feet for him,
Speaker 3: that's his door. Yeah, any farther, that's my wife. Any farther,
Speaker 3: that's Rue in the back. Yeah, we were We were lucky.
Speaker 1: He was lucky. He was lucky. He was lucky. Yes,
Speaker 1: we were lucky. He was lucky.
Speaker 3: Like it very unfortunate situation. But at all the spots
Speaker 3: we're at due incredible time. Well honestly so, it was
Speaker 3: just so nice to be kind of gone. It takes
Speaker 3: a few days to get fully checked out because we're
Speaker 3: seven hours ahead, get fully checked out out of everything
Speaker 3: back home, when I was never really fully checked out
Speaker 3: because there's stuff going on here at the shop moving parts.
Speaker 1: That happened.
Speaker 3: But as far as like getting to enjoy vacation, getting
Speaker 3: to be with the family, just us four taking on
Speaker 3: all these different all these different stops. The cost is
Speaker 3: it's it's expensive and exhausting and it's very chaotic at times.
Speaker 3: But the payout, the getting to see Ruin, Scottie and
Speaker 3: us just have a good time over in Italy, it
Speaker 3: was a plus.
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Speaker 3: I don't like have a distinct crack a cold one
Speaker 3: because we did some cool shit man Venice personally, Oh,
Speaker 3: tell me about the dude. The architecture beautiful, the city wonderful.
Speaker 2: I hear all everywhere. It's marble flooring everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean the stone there's marble all the
Speaker 3: streets and things like that. Very narrow, it's all water.
Speaker 3: There's no like car traffic anywhere. It's very cool to experience.
Speaker 3: Hot day yeah, upper eighties, round ninety okay, very hot day.
Speaker 3: We spent an entire day there because Charro she wanted
Speaker 3: to shop there because again, if you shop like over there,
Speaker 3: you can get purses and stuff.
Speaker 1: Like that for cheaper. Oh way cheaper, yeah, way cheaper.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because that's where going on that she wanted
Speaker 3: the girls to see Venice, and it was again hot.
Speaker 3: I wasn't. It's not an experience that I would do again.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I did it, but would I go back
Speaker 3: and do it again? Probably not really? Yeah, Venice, Yeah, Venice,
Speaker 3: VENI veniez ch.
Speaker 2: That's that's surprising you did, did you know?
Speaker 3: Maybe it was because of just the overall experience of
Speaker 3: having two kiddos with us. I was because you're doing
Speaker 3: nothing but walking the entire time. And I'm not talking
Speaker 3: just walks like you gotta because again it's it's like water,
Speaker 3: it's canals and shit like that. Ever, so there's bridges
Speaker 3: with stairs to go over top. So we had the
Speaker 3: stroller and I'm having to carry the fucking stroller over
Speaker 3: all of the bridges and stairs. Some people would help
Speaker 3: out every now and then, but it's just it's your
Speaker 3: it's your boy bending over our root.
Speaker 1: Can you get out? Can you walk over the thing?
Speaker 3: I gotta carry fucking thirty pounds we got on this stroller. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because your backpack up like you got all the bells
Speaker 3: and whistles to last a day out there, because you
Speaker 3: take it. We took an hour drive to get out
Speaker 3: to Venice. Once you're in it, you're there. We're taking
Speaker 3: the gondolas. The gondola ride was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I bet that was sick. So sick did they seeing
Speaker 1: it all?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, now that you say that, they
Speaker 3: kind of pissed me off that they didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what's up with that?
Speaker 3: Sing to me in a delly or Venetian guy was
Speaker 3: It's very clear that they do Venetian over here.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah he's different. Hey buddy, you do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: He doesn't like the tourism that's taking place in Venice.
Speaker 3: He's like ever since the nineties, ever since like COVID.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, last thirty year has been a bit of
Speaker 3: an uproar for the locals. Oh yeah, commercialize it a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There there was some airbnbs, airbnb's, there was some big
Speaker 2: music festival that really sut them off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got some he's got some stuff in the basement.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah that he was sharing inventing to us
Speaker 3: as we're tourists coming over there.
Speaker 2: Hey, you keep our city alive and are able for
Speaker 2: us to pay for our livelihood.
Speaker 1: But also fuck you don't come here.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you're our bread and butter, but we hate you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But the fifteen thousand steps, the ninety degree heat again,
Speaker 3: would I do it again?
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: That Venice feels to me, probably equally to Paris, as
Speaker 2: like a city of romance, a romantic place for you
Speaker 2: to go there with Charro. You're sitting down to dinner.
Speaker 2: The glasses of wine are cheaper than the glasses of
Speaker 2: sparkling water. You got a full belly, Apasta. You're holding
Speaker 2: your girl's hand underneath the moonlight. You're walking over these bridges.
Speaker 2: You're you aren't even walking anywhere, dude, You're strolling. That's
Speaker 2: what Venice.
Speaker 3: If it was me and my wife, yeah, in September, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would go again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're right.
Speaker 3: A lot of what I'm saying is baggage and PTSD
Speaker 3: from the day we had. I'm glad we did the day.
Speaker 3: I'm glad the fame, I'm glad we decide. I'm glad
Speaker 3: my wife leads us to do heart stuff and sweetheart,
Speaker 3: as you're listening right now, I'm not saying I want
Speaker 3: I want you to just continue to lead us. And
Speaker 3: then when I bitch and moan about it every now
Speaker 3: and then, you remind me you like doing heard stuff.
Speaker 3: I do enjoy that we do heart stuff, yeah, every
Speaker 3: now and then. Yeah, And you love her, Oh I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 1: I love my wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, love her. She is a fucking rock star. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But a lot of that is the PTSD. Of the
Speaker 3: entirety of the day because I'm like, when we fucking
Speaker 3: getting back, like the kids are getting Scotty chasing birds everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're trying to enjoy a nice lunch, which we were
Speaker 3: in the shade, and we enjoyed a nice lunch like
Speaker 3: in this big like open area where the church is
Speaker 3: sitting there.
Speaker 1: It's like one of the historical spots.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're like the oldest cafe sits to where it's
Speaker 3: just like outdoor umbrella. You know, they got the umbrellas,
Speaker 3: they got the seating. Let Scotty run around chase the birds.
Speaker 3: The seagulls that we heard are aggressive. Oh they are
Speaker 3: very Scotty, a little more aggressive. Yeah, even in thirty
Speaker 3: eight the goals are aggressive. They know where oh buddy, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know where they get get picked up from our
Speaker 3: table and it's like birds and seagulls just coming to
Speaker 3: fight over the bread. Yes, no, oh shit, like grabbing
Speaker 3: the kids getting away.
Speaker 2: Jill went into the ocean with Scarlet and the bag
Speaker 2: was unintended and I had like a towel kind of
Speaker 2: laid over me, and I was underneath the umbrella, so
Speaker 2: the birds thought I was sleeping and I saw them
Speaker 2: laying and start working their way yeah over to our bag,
Speaker 2: and I gave them.
Speaker 1: A little He took off real quick. Yeah, my crack
Speaker 1: a cold one.
Speaker 2: Jill and I got to do a date night and dude,
Speaker 2: epic epic date night of like feeling young and like
Speaker 2: hanging out with your beach crush kind of date night.
Speaker 2: It was fun, dude. We took bikes all the way
Speaker 2: from our rent house. We were like way back back
Speaker 2: back by the Public if people have been to thirty
Speaker 2: eight by the Public's grocery store near Watercolor.
Speaker 1: We're in.
Speaker 2: So that's like pretty inland from the beach as far
Speaker 2: as like staying on thirty A. But it makes the
Speaker 2: bike ride that much more fun because you're getting to
Speaker 2: go through all these little trails and stuff to get
Speaker 2: to Seaside. And we took the bike trails like in
Speaker 2: the pitch black and just had our little iPhone flashlights
Speaker 2: as we're going down these little sandy as all the
Speaker 2: way to Gosh, buddn Allies. I was about to say,
Speaker 2: I've been there so many times. To button Allis. We
Speaker 2: went up on the rooftop deck of budonn Allies. It's
Speaker 2: like pitch black, but you can like hear the ocean,
Speaker 2: but you can't really see it. And the date night
Speaker 2: was on July fifth, I believe because there was still
Speaker 2: some fireworks like going off just randomly on the beach.
Speaker 2: There would just be like a little bottle rocket or
Speaker 2: a little artillery shell or like a Roman candle would
Speaker 2: just like go off in the distance. And uh, Jill
Speaker 2: and I a.
Speaker 1: Little cheat code.
Speaker 2: This isn't a dad hack per se, but it could
Speaker 2: be if you're on a budget and you want to
Speaker 2: save a little money for date night. Jill nice is
Speaker 2: a dead heck, it's a dad hack. It's a date heck,
Speaker 2: it's a date hack, dude. Jill was like, because we
Speaker 2: had eaten a little bit before we went out, and
Speaker 2: she was like, hey, the would you want to just
Speaker 2: split the file at? And I was like, yeah, that
Speaker 2: actually sounds pretty good. And then when we ordered the
Speaker 2: file at some of those steak places will be like, hey,
Speaker 2: do you want a lobster tail or a crab cake
Speaker 2: with your file at? It's only this much more. And
Speaker 2: then when we were splitting the crab cake in the flea,
Speaker 2: we ended up getting the crab cake with it. I
Speaker 2: was like, dude, that's the ultimate date hack of all
Speaker 2: time is get the nice, expensive filet and then only
Speaker 2: for a little bit more, you get a whole lobster
Speaker 2: tail or a whole crap cake with it, and then
Speaker 2: you just split that.
Speaker 1: That's basically two.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, ah Nath and dude, it
Speaker 2: was so good just eating those crab cakes, having adult bevies, giggling, dude,
Speaker 2: as we're like riding our bikes back and just like
Speaker 2: all the young energy that's down there. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of families with like kids, but there's a lot of
Speaker 2: teens too, and just all these teens like running around
Speaker 2: and like getting into trouble and flashlights everywhere, and you
Speaker 2: just hear people like in the distance yelling and having
Speaker 2: fun and just like riding down those little trails with
Speaker 2: you know stuff, Dude.
Speaker 1: It was fun. That was like a really solid.
Speaker 2: Day night and just getting to like as much fun
Speaker 2: and dude, as easy as Scarlet takes it on us
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 1: Knock on wood.
Speaker 2: It's just like the continued story of Scarlet is just
Speaker 2: she will not stop taking it easy on us. It's crazy,
Speaker 2: Like that's awesome. It's awesome, like the entire vacation. It
Speaker 2: was just like all smiles, all giggles, I want to
Speaker 2: do anything and everything. Oh, we're going to a restaurant.
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna cry once. I'm just sitting there.
Speaker 1: Like, dude, how blessed are we? This is crazy?
Speaker 2: And getting to see my grandparents or her grandparents interact
Speaker 2: with their that's really cool.
Speaker 1: How h How hot was it out there? It was hot.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say when when we were over in
Speaker 3: Italy and they were like a couple of hot days
Speaker 3: because they had like heat warning stuff in.
Speaker 1: The Italy portion.
Speaker 3: When we were in Austria where the Palers they came
Speaker 3: from Italy before they got to Austria, and they're like,
Speaker 3: hopefully it cools down, because there was like a heat wave.
Speaker 3: Like the Europeans they don't believe in ac very much
Speaker 3: at all, right, so you're kind of sweaty. But we
Speaker 3: fortunately were in a week where it was like in
Speaker 3: the eighties. But I guess the week before was like
Speaker 3: in the nineties and they were having like all these
Speaker 3: heat warnings and everything else. But when I checked the
Speaker 3: weather app for Italy to like look ahead, it first
Speaker 3: popped up on Nashville and I want to say, in
Speaker 3: Nashville last week, did it ever hit one hundred? I
Speaker 3: know it was in like the upper nineties, right, I
Speaker 3: saw it was like that all week long. I was like, fuck, man,
Speaker 3: it is hot. So I'm sure down in Florida it
Speaker 3: was probably hot ast shit too.
Speaker 1: It was super.
Speaker 7: Third of July was ninety seven. I think the feels
Speaker 7: like was like one oh six. When I was on
Speaker 7: the golf course, dying felt good though, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Especially when you get in those shade portions. But yeah, dude,
Speaker 3: that hot man, Like you're like that sticky what Then
Speaker 3: when you get done, you're driving back, you just.
Speaker 1: Feel so goddam you just feel so like, you know,
Speaker 1: I need a shower so bad.
Speaker 7: Now there's a good feeling of like really really hot day,
Speaker 7: whether you go spend all day outside and it is
Speaker 7: that come home and you take me like a four
Speaker 7: o'clock nap to hit the couch after a good shower
Speaker 7: and you just you're out.
Speaker 1: We might be one of the best feelings ever. We
Speaker 1: had that.
Speaker 3: After our Venice day, because that was like, that was
Speaker 3: a long day. We spent all day over there in Venice,
Speaker 3: and then when we're traveling back, we get back. We
Speaker 3: go to dinner right away, like we changed real quick.
Speaker 3: Go to dinner right away. You can tell we're ready
Speaker 3: to get to the bedtime portion and put the kids down,
Speaker 3: and then you just get a moment. Oh yes, Scotty
Speaker 3: was already knocked out, ready to go. Ru wanted to
Speaker 3: see one of the shows, the magic shows that they
Speaker 3: were doing downstairs. But when you hit the shower afterwards
Speaker 3: and then get in the bed, oh that's a.
Speaker 1: Crack cold nothing like it. Incredible.
Speaker 2: My Sunday getting back, We got back on Thursday, came
Speaker 2: into the office Friday. Then Sunday I did this huge mowing.
Speaker 2: I was telling Chef I had this huge mowing day
Speaker 2: because I had a lot of catching up to.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 2: PG six would have been not happy with the way
Speaker 2: my yard was looking, and I gave it the royal treatment, dude,
Speaker 2: Like I really moved for a long time out in
Speaker 2: the sun. Didn't put any sunblock on, Shame on me.
Speaker 2: But I got that sun kiss dude on Sunday from
Speaker 2: being out like that perfect amount of time where it's
Speaker 2: not like a true sunburn, but like the sun zaps. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: came inside just like Jill let me nap on the couch.
Speaker 2: You hit that cold shower after you've been like outside
Speaker 2: like that. You gotta do it right away, right away.
Speaker 2: But first zap yourself with the hot water. Stop the burn.
Speaker 2: Then the cold water, dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you wait too long in the ac you
Speaker 3: start to get a little cold.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Then the idea of a cold shower gonna
Speaker 1: leave your brain a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And then get on the couch. Dude.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm literally like wincing in my seat right now.
Speaker 1: It was like one of the best naps ever.
Speaker 3: You're not only wincing your seat. I see Deeke over there,
Speaker 3: he's gripping. Oh, he's got something to get off of
Speaker 3: his chest.
Speaker 1: I genuinely was just curious how Bochi went. Oh how well,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Dude him as a whole story he did for Scarscar's
Speaker 2: first birthday that his dad almost ruined that I would
Speaker 2: love for him to recap on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, dude, Deeke, Thank you okay, dude.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I know, a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: I went by Scarscar did turn one.
Speaker 2: One July third, Happy birthday, Happy belated birthday to scarscar
Speaker 2: first birthday, Dude, you want a dad hack hubachi ubachie.
Speaker 6: Dude.
Speaker 1: It's it's a such a good.
Speaker 2: Meal and it's not the most expensive meal in the world,
Speaker 2: and you feel like you're having fun doing it. And
Speaker 2: Scarlet was losing her her fucking mind, dude the entire time.
Speaker 2: How was she when the fire happened. It was the
Speaker 2: perfect amount of like stoicism in her face where she
Speaker 2: was intrigued and impressed but like really studied.
Speaker 1: It and wasn't scared at all.
Speaker 2: No, and like it was kind of like leaning forward,
Speaker 2: like she was in her high chair and she's leaning
Speaker 2: forward the entire time, looking like this. And then oh, dude,
Speaker 2: this was the other great thing is her word that
Speaker 2: she was fixated on all week was dadad And we're
Speaker 2: staying with my parents, so I look like dad of
Speaker 2: the sentry because every five seconds is just literally dada
Speaker 2: dada like during the hibachi, like and she's looking over
Speaker 2: at me and being like ah, Like a couple of
Speaker 2: times she would squeeze her fists and yell at me,
Speaker 2: so like let me know, like check this shit out,
Speaker 2: check that shit out, dude. He did the fire torches,
Speaker 2: he lit like fire torches on fire and was juggling
Speaker 2: the fire torches and scarlet the entire time, had her
Speaker 2: hands up like this and just wasn't smiling, wasn't screaming,
Speaker 2: and was just locked in watching her enjoy that hibachi meal. Dude,
Speaker 2: like she was truly in hog heaven. And then we
Speaker 2: and I'll get into the story of my dad almost
Speaker 2: he didn't ruined hibachi night, but it's a funny story.
Speaker 2: We forgot to get Scarlett a cake. We forgot to
Speaker 2: get Scarlett a cake.
Speaker 1: And I didn't even.
Speaker 2: Think about it. Jill didn't even think about it. It
Speaker 2: was just a collective everyone forgot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go and get a cupcake or something.
Speaker 2: Habachi guy after he does the torches, he goes, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start cleaning up. I hope you guys had
Speaker 2: a good night, you know, gives us a little bout
Speaker 2: blah blah blah biania, start cleaning up, Please enjoy your meal,
Speaker 2: and goes back to like his truck was one of
Speaker 2: those mobile Hibachi services, so they like come to where
Speaker 2: you're staying.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, that's all Stuard.
Speaker 2: It was so sick and not expensive at all. Like
Speaker 2: you're pretty much kind of paying what you would for
Speaker 2: actual it was just like a twenty dollars service fee
Speaker 2: for the base.
Speaker 1: I was gonna see it maybe like an extra thirty
Speaker 1: bucks on top to come to your house and du
Speaker 1: who bought you? That's awesome? It was so sick. So
Speaker 1: he sneaks off to his truck. We're just kind of
Speaker 1: sitting there.
Speaker 2: He comes around with birthday cake and candle and starts,
Speaker 2: happy birthday to you, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I totally forgot about the cake. Sets that cake in
Speaker 2: front of Scarlet. Scarlett doesn't know how to blow it out,
Speaker 2: so we blow it out for her, but we made
Speaker 2: it like she blew it out, take the candle.
Speaker 1: Out, attacked it. Dude.
Speaker 2: I got some videos, so I'll send to you, Chef.
Speaker 2: I have never been more proud of my daughter in
Speaker 2: my entire life. I've told you on this podcast that
Speaker 2: she does like that little demon voice where she just
Speaker 2: constantly will go like because I do it to her,
Speaker 2: and she'll do it back, and she thinks it's funny.
Speaker 2: When that cake got in front of her, she literally
Speaker 2: started going like an animal over its prey and she
Speaker 2: started throwing her face into the cake She's never had
Speaker 2: cake before in her life, and she knew I throw
Speaker 2: my face in this. She gave it some test kind
Speaker 2: of like yeah, put her mouth on it, and she goes, oh,
Speaker 2: I know how to eat this, and just start slamming
Speaker 2: her face into it and before each time going am um,
Speaker 2: and it's just taking the icing off of this cake
Speaker 2: and looks up at me like she did during the hubachi,
Speaker 2: and the sugar was starting to hit her, like after
Speaker 2: three or four minutes, and she did one of those
Speaker 2: hand clutches and truly like set up. Have you seen
Speaker 2: the cotton candy girl that jiff that's like super famous
Speaker 2: on the internet where the girl has the cotton candy and.
Speaker 1: She's like does that show chef will pull it up?
Speaker 1: I will?
Speaker 2: Scarlet did that like full on sugar rush and looked
Speaker 2: at me and went and like did a warrior scream,
Speaker 2: like look what I just did to this cake. Dad, God,
Speaker 2: I was proud of my daughter. It was incredible. What
Speaker 2: a birthday. It was a birthday. And then the story
Speaker 2: that's so funny, dude, is I was going to do habachi.
Speaker 1: Just is this one with your dad? This is with
Speaker 1: my dad.
Speaker 2: I was going to do Hibachi to surprise my family
Speaker 2: for Scarlett's birthday. Do the mobile Hibachi service. I'm getting
Speaker 2: all this stuff, like, I'm filling out the menu to
Speaker 2: like get all this stuff for it, and all I
Speaker 2: need is the address of the house. And I'm like, Dad,
Speaker 2: what's the address of the rental home? He goes, No, Son,
Speaker 2: you can't send stuff to the rental home. This is
Speaker 2: all via texts. Can't send stuff to the rental home.
Speaker 2: You have to send it to this renting place and
Speaker 2: then you go pick up your package there. I go, Great,
Speaker 2: not looking to send a package. I'm looking for the
Speaker 2: address of the rental home.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure, it's kind of like this whole ordeal.
Speaker 2: They really told me they don't want people shipping packages
Speaker 2: because the namehood.
Speaker 1: They don't want any drivers. So it's got to be
Speaker 1: to the to the rental office. Dad. Again, Great, I
Speaker 1: love that. I'm not I'm not sending. Nothing's getting delivered.
Speaker 1: Nothing's getting delivered. I just need the address.
Speaker 2: I need the address for something that I'm wanting to
Speaker 2: do for Scarlett's birthday.
Speaker 1: Well, what is it?
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's a surprise that's going to be for
Speaker 2: Scarlett and the family and I'll let you know on
Speaker 2: the day what it's going to be, but right now
Speaker 2: I'm prepping this. It's a surprise, all right, So if
Speaker 2: I could get that address, that'd be sweet. My mom
Speaker 2: then says there's like three hours of no reply, and
Speaker 2: my mom goes, hey, papasherm we call him. He's also Sherman,
Speaker 2: Hey publisher, can we get that address? Still no reply.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there talking to Dieg. I'm like, what the
Speaker 2: WTF question mark is going on? Whole day passes, my
Speaker 2: dad doesn't send the address, so I'm still waiting for
Speaker 2: the address of this rent house that we're going to
Speaker 2: and the first text from my dad that next morning.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I'm thinking about it could.
Speaker 2: Be fun to do a mobile hibachi service for Scarlett's
Speaker 2: birthday for dinner. They actually can come to your house
Speaker 2: and they can do it. I found this mobile hibachi service.
Speaker 2: It's the exact same one that I was looking to do. Dude,
Speaker 2: I went up to Deeke. I mean, I was not
Speaker 2: actually heated at my dad. I was pissed, though. I
Speaker 2: was pissed because I'm like coming into that age where
Speaker 2: I like I can plan stuff, I can do stuff,
Speaker 2: I'm a dad too. Now, Dad like I can make
Speaker 2: some moves. I'm like, you read my freaking mind, dude,
Speaker 2: and you beat me to the punch. And then at
Speaker 2: that time, my Dad's like, hey, I'll treat you know,
Speaker 2: like this is my idea. I would love to treat
Speaker 2: for dinner. So I'm like, okay, like twist my arm.
Speaker 2: You know this sucks.
Speaker 1: But dude, just getting beat out by your getting out
Speaker 1: daddd by your dad. Isn't that kind of a testament
Speaker 1: to how like father, like son.
Speaker 7: You guys both had the same I would be tripping
Speaker 7: out going Hey we both had great minds, think alike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great minds, think alike.
Speaker 2: I Also, I was just seeing how much I'm like
Speaker 2: my dad, dude on this trip of worrying for Scarlet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to really put a button on that
Speaker 2: of like not try not to worry too much with Scarlet.
Speaker 2: And I'm seeing a little bit of my dad come out.
Speaker 2: It was so funny watching my dad because he was
Speaker 2: a worry wart with my brother and I with Scarlet.
Speaker 2: It's times ten. You were talking about the heat. Thank god,
Speaker 2: Jill's a nurse. He told us we couldn't go outside
Speaker 2: one day, Like he told Jill it was too hot
Speaker 2: for us to go outside, and Jill was like, it, no,
Speaker 2: it's not. He's like, it feels like one oh five
Speaker 2: and it's this and blah blah blah, you can't. She
Speaker 2: can't go out to the pool, and Jill's like, she
Speaker 2: absolutely can. She'll be in the shade, she'll be in water,
Speaker 2: so her body temperature will be down. I bring a
Speaker 2: waters so she's gonna be hydrated. I also have fruit
Speaker 2: snacks and she's gonna be eating blah blah blah. She's
Speaker 2: gonna be fine. And my dad is just pacing through
Speaker 2: the kitchen for the next hour thinking that my daughter's
Speaker 2: gonna die of a heat stroke. But then once I'm
Speaker 2: outside and I'm like watching Scarlet in the pool and stuff.
Speaker 2: I've even am kind of to myself like, hey, is
Speaker 2: it too hot for it? Because it you know, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. I saw the way that Jill had to
Speaker 2: talk my dad down, so I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Worry war Dad. I'll chill. Don't need two of them,
Speaker 1: don't need two of them. I'll chill out.
Speaker 2: Jill gott in this golf cart that we rented and
Speaker 2: just put Scarlet in her lap and like buckle the
Speaker 2: seatbelt around Scarlet like in her lap.
Speaker 1: And in my mind, I was like, I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I feel about that, but it's okay, it's okay, everything's
Speaker 2: safe and it'll be fun. I'm driving the golf cart
Speaker 2: and it'll be all right. And my dad comes out
Speaker 2: and like sees that, and I could tell my dad
Speaker 2: was biting his tongue so hard. We pulled out onto
Speaker 2: the main road. My dad, whoa, whoa, wait, what are
Speaker 2: we doing where we just she's not in the baby seat,
Speaker 2: she's on a baby seat. And my mom thankfully was
Speaker 2: there to kind of pat him on the leg and
Speaker 2: be like it's okay, like everything will be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to see I would love to
Speaker 3: see your stress level over in Europe, because if you
Speaker 3: get a cab or something, there's not a baby seat,
Speaker 3: you just have him on the lap.
Speaker 1: Dude, you had Scotty in the lap during that wreck. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Scotty was in a car seat. You're talking yeah yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just in like casual, like you get a cab
Speaker 3: or something like that, or a taxi, you just be
Speaker 3: used to sitting them like on your lap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first time you're kind of like, oh shit, is
Speaker 1: this is this even legal? Oh? But that's funny.
Speaker 3: I do have a question please for the Papa Shirm story.
Speaker 3: It sounds like this is before you guys went to
Speaker 3: Florida and you were trying to play the bachi. Yes,
Speaker 3: So my question why didn't you just give him a
Speaker 3: shout on the phone when he when he's call up
Speaker 3: day after the second response he gave where everybody with
Speaker 3: their parents would get frustrated because they're doing the thing
Speaker 3: that something's like, hey, I don't need you to tell me,
Speaker 3: I just need the address. When he gives you the
Speaker 3: second reply, why not just when he's trying to explain
Speaker 3: it and you're trying to be like, hey, it's a surprise.
Speaker 3: At that moment you pick up the phone and say, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm doing this thing. Maybe even tell him.
Speaker 1: That about your idea so that way he doesn't get
Speaker 1: to where he quote unquote out there. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good question.
Speaker 2: I would say that that week I was like very
Speaker 2: heavily editing, and my mind was very much heavily on
Speaker 2: editing slash prepping for trip to where I would look
Speaker 2: up and like hours had passed because I was getting
Speaker 2: so blocked into work.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was like a true avoidance of
Speaker 3: my father. It was more so I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 3: I just simply need the address. Let me just send
Speaker 3: me the fucking address. When he did drop the BATCHI
Speaker 3: how did that go? Did you get on the phone
Speaker 3: with him, ma'am? Yeah, and I called him cocksucker.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, that was the surprise that I was
Speaker 2: going to do. So that's actually kind of crazy, uh,
Speaker 2: that that happened that way. But you know, he very
Speaker 2: much he doesn't want to step on my toes and
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to He knows that he can be
Speaker 2: a control freak sometimes, yeah, and be a worry ward sometimes.
Speaker 2: And he has done a very good job of allowing
Speaker 2: me to be a dad in places that I need
Speaker 2: to be a dad. And so he was like, oh, well, son,
Speaker 2: you know, if it's I'll set it up, I'll get everything,
Speaker 2: and you just vin moo me like that way, you're
Speaker 2: paying for it. If you want to pay for it,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to take that. Like he's
Speaker 2: very much like he does a good job of realizing, hey,
Speaker 2: I don't want to step on my son's toes here.
Speaker 2: Like the Atlanta trip where we're going for the Baylor
Speaker 2: Auburn game, I had like gotten hotel stuff planned out.
Speaker 1: My dad is already booked.
Speaker 2: He's already booked and unbooked four different hotels for the trip,
Speaker 2: and each hotel was like closer and closer to the stadium,
Speaker 2: because I was telling that that the stadium is like
Speaker 2: not the nicest part of town. No offense to Atlanta,
Speaker 2: It's still they're great.
Speaker 1: It's a great city, but.
Speaker 2: There's some other places where I was like, hotels would
Speaker 2: be great. My dad's more convenience wise. I want to
Speaker 2: be directly out of the stadium into a hotel. And
Speaker 2: he's very type A and so once he gets on
Speaker 2: those type A things, starts booking, unbooking, booking unbooking. That's
Speaker 2: when I kind of put my hands up. I go,
Speaker 2: he's going to be a big old ball stress if
Speaker 2: I try and come in here and change stuff.
Speaker 1: I'll let Dad choose the hotel.
Speaker 2: Got you, So that a little bit of that played
Speaker 2: into the Habaji thing, But no, no part of me
Speaker 2: was like truly pissed at him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if that makes sense, just momentarily. Yeah, because you
Speaker 3: were trying to execute I you're trying to execute. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you simply needed the address.
Speaker 1: I had a huge dad loss by the way, on
Speaker 1: the trip, Yeah, a massive dad loss. We went to
Speaker 1: the dad loss.
Speaker 2: Is that much more fun because this was directly before
Speaker 2: our pictures, our family pictures on the beach. If you've
Speaker 2: ever seen me smiling in a photo, you can know
Speaker 2: when I'm truly smiling and happy in a photo. My
Speaker 2: eyes are very dead in these family photos, and I'll
Speaker 2: send some to Chef where he can put them up.
Speaker 2: I'm forcing a smile in these photos. You can see
Speaker 2: it in you can see it in my eyes. I
Speaker 2: had a major dad loss.
Speaker 1: Please share. Pt. Six is going to fry me on this.
Speaker 1: That's okay.
Speaker 2: When we set up our lease house in spring Hill, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: Property Management Group, some of our utilities are also paid
Speaker 2: through the website that we pay our rent too.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: You set up all your utilities water, gas, and electric,
Speaker 2: it's all three different companies and internet, and you have
Speaker 2: to show proof of all these things to the rental company.
Speaker 2: So in the process of showing proof to the rental
Speaker 2: company that I had set up these services. I had
Speaker 2: put all of these services in my brain that they
Speaker 2: all get paid on this one website. One of the
Speaker 2: services gets paid individually. Well, that would be the electric bill. Oh,
Speaker 2: one of the guests, that would be the electric bill.
Speaker 2: And as we know, wonderful suite, incredible and he can
Speaker 2: land them watch out, ladies. Intern Chris, Yeah, was at
Speaker 2: my house and I got a great text. I'll send
Speaker 2: that as well, the screenshot to chef Hey Sherman. The
Speaker 2: power's out at the house and I'm looking at the
Speaker 2: breaker box.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do, and he's watching your house.
Speaker 1: He's got the boys over, doesn't.
Speaker 2: He he's got the boys over, he's got my dog's there.
Speaker 2: And the power just goes out.
Speaker 1: And it's in the nineties. Oh in Nashville, Tennessee. Hot.
Speaker 2: It's hot, and we're about thirty seconds from taking family photos.
Speaker 1: And I see that text. I call him instantly.
Speaker 2: I say, hey, can you look at my neighbor's houses
Speaker 2: on either side and across the street and tell me
Speaker 2: if the power's on.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, yeah, you know, everybody's got their lights on.
Speaker 1: It looks like I go, it's a really good impression. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go look. I'll go look, Sherman. You know, Sherman,
Speaker 1: It's fine. This happens all the time at my house
Speaker 1: growing up. We'd lose power all the time. It's really
Speaker 1: no big deal, no big deal. We're just playing UNA
Speaker 1: in the living room.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Truthly, he was being so sweet, like, this is literally
Speaker 2: the conversation.
Speaker 1: Do I need to go check the break There's a
Speaker 1: breaker box on the outside of the house.
Speaker 2: I can look at. I go, Chris, it's not that man. Uh,
Speaker 2: let me hold on one second. I hang up, and
Speaker 2: I fucking lost it when I got off the phone
Speaker 2: because it all the dots were connecting. I was like,
Speaker 2: it's got to be power, like the power bill. It's
Speaker 2: got to be that I haven't been paying the power
Speaker 2: bill rather, you know, however I set it up or whatever.
Speaker 2: And so I lost my cool in the moment and
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 1: Fuck, dude, why would this happen?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 1: Of course, this fucking happens the last day. It was
Speaker 1: our last day of vacation.
Speaker 2: And as I told you all on this podcast before,
Speaker 2: Jill told me, if we ever come back to a
Speaker 2: house without power, I will leave you.
Speaker 1: She gets very angry because Sherman has a sherman has
Speaker 1: made this mistake in the past when we were at
Speaker 1: an apartment complex. Now you like, hey, Sweeter, you might
Speaker 1: get your wish. Yeah, you might get your wish. Honey,
Speaker 1: you get a new man. So I lose my cool
Speaker 1: in the moment.
Speaker 2: Jill has saw me to calm down, but she's also
Speaker 2: saying how embarrassing this is.
Speaker 1: For poor Chris.
Speaker 2: My mom and dad are there, and again I'm always
Speaker 2: trying to illustrate to my dad. I've got it, I've
Speaker 2: got things covered. I'm a dad. Now, I'm a full
Speaker 2: grown ass man. I can handle it. And I could
Speaker 2: tell that Dad was really trying to stay hands off.
Speaker 2: He was like, I do not need to interject in
Speaker 2: this moment. And then realize that the power bill was
Speaker 2: on a separate app that I had to download that
Speaker 2: I remember setting up because this was two months ago
Speaker 2: and I had a fraud alert with my debit card
Speaker 2: at the beginning of June, so this.
Speaker 1: Was a while ago.
Speaker 2: Not realizing when I have that fraudle for those three
Speaker 2: days that I didn't like get it reset with my bank,
Speaker 2: my autopay hit for my power bill on the app.
Speaker 2: When I downloaded that app, I also said, would you
Speaker 2: allow this app to send you a notification? No, because
Speaker 2: I do that with every single app. So the app
Speaker 2: had been sending me notifications since the beginning of June
Speaker 2: of We tried to process your auto pay and the
Speaker 2: bill didn't go through. And so what what was that
Speaker 2: July like seventh or like eighth?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so full month. It was like a sixty dollars bill. Dude,
Speaker 1: that was two hundred and ninety one dollars. Yeah. Did
Speaker 1: you have to call to get it back on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So so how did this all?
Speaker 2: How the Thankfully to Chef's point, I called Chris. I
Speaker 2: tell Chris, hey, I fucked up majorly. This is the situation.
Speaker 2: Just paid the bill. I'm going to try calling the
Speaker 2: company da da du Hang tight, We're gonna get you
Speaker 2: a hotel room. We're gonna put you in a hotel.
Speaker 2: And he, of course, Chris is, I can just go
Speaker 2: back to my place with with your dogs. I just
Speaker 2: take him because he's got his own place in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, Chris, where like, we don't want
Speaker 2: you drive in, you know, with the dogs and all
Speaker 2: that stuff. There's a hotel right down the road that
Speaker 2: you can go and come back on. I hang up
Speaker 2: with him, and I go trying to find the number
Speaker 2: of this power company because it's seven pm. Power place
Speaker 2: is closed. I'm getting voicemails. I'm like, God, I'm cooked.
Speaker 2: This is the part where I'm really freaking out, the
Speaker 2: part that was a huge dad loss, because Jill's just
Speaker 2: watching me unravel in this moment. And thank god, spring Hill,
Speaker 2: Tennessee has an auto system that right when you pay
Speaker 2: it comes back on in like ten minutes. So as
Speaker 2: I'm like calling all these numbers that I'm trying to
Speaker 2: find for this power company, I just get a text
Speaker 2: from Chris and it's like, let there be light and all.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh my god, you're kidding. He was like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, everything's back on. Everything's good, and dah dah dah.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh. So Jill really chalked
Speaker 2: it up to, Hey, all that stress, all that dog
Speaker 2: cussing that you're doing, all that bad attitude that you
Speaker 2: had that you went into our family pictures with, and
Speaker 2: then we get out of family pictures and you're able
Speaker 2: to resolve it in twenty minutes, and like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to see, like, don't unravel in moments of stress,
Speaker 2: like be a problem solver and just solve the issue
Speaker 2: at hand. You complaining about it is not going to
Speaker 2: fix anything, especially in front of your daughter, in front
Speaker 2: of me, in front of your parents, Like you could
Speaker 2: have handled that way better. Yeah, because I lost my cool.
Speaker 2: You could see it in my face and the family pigs.
Speaker 1: I was not having it.
Speaker 2: Dead in the eyes, dead in the eyes. Still great
Speaker 2: family pigs because Scarlet and Jill look so cute and
Speaker 2: sweet on the beach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're looking at you, looking at the family the ladies. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a tough that's a tough l. It was a
Speaker 1: tough l in front of the people that you love.
Speaker 3: That you wanted to prove you got it, your grown
Speaker 3: ass man, grown ass man that doesn't know how to
Speaker 3: pay the power bill.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 2: I asked Chris if he let you know and how
Speaker 2: he let you know? Because I did alarm him that
Speaker 2: like this is a situation in which your wife could
Speaker 2: leave you. Yeah yeah, he said he did you justice
Speaker 2: and everything was okay.
Speaker 1: Justice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then I asked him about posting all the
Speaker 2: videos online. He's like, well, I didn't think of that one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, Jill doesn't have Twitter, so he so
Speaker 2: he is fine. And no point that I think grace
Speaker 2: was served by Chris. He could not have been more
Speaker 2: gracious in that moment.
Speaker 1: Truly.
Speaker 2: If somebody's gonna be staying at your house and watching
Speaker 2: your house and your power go out, you want Chris
Speaker 2: in that house.
Speaker 1: It's Chris. You want to entered.
Speaker 2: Chris.
Speaker 3: Chris is a sweetheart heart. He was talking a little
Speaker 3: bit of ship on the vacation. I was kind of
Speaker 3: crapped on Will a little bit. Oh he did, he's
Speaker 3: taking an end zone.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't a good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He did about the resorts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like, uh, what was it seemed judgmental
Speaker 3: on his just from the get go. He saw the
Speaker 3: first photos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he saw the first couple of things that Will
Speaker 2: was posting, and he was just like I just thought, like,
Speaker 2: you're spending two weeks in Europe and you're not leaving
Speaker 2: the resort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so resorts and yeah, fair question, like he doesn't
Speaker 1: know what he doesn't know? He's walking with Wamas. Why
Speaker 1: is he doing that? Yeah, like, oh, they're not going
Speaker 1: to leave the resort. Why you come to Disney and
Speaker 1: then now you're in a resort there. Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 1: more expensive.
Speaker 3: And he's a you know, he's innocent, he doesn't know
Speaker 3: he's a he's a goon beret. He's a goom beret.
Speaker 3: And I kind of just asked him questions and let
Speaker 3: him talk most of the time. And it's like, well,
Speaker 3: that's an interesting take. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: And get to the answer too. And he's like, well
Speaker 1: then you know, you posted other stuff and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: they're doing I'm like, so.
Speaker 3: You're just judging the vacation a whole time, which again
Speaker 3: I'm like, Chris, what would you He's like, you know,
Speaker 3: we go backpacking or get you know, go out and about,
Speaker 3: and yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yeah, we've done it.
Speaker 3: We did a bunch of stuff like day excursions, like
Speaker 3: you know, two different days at each different spot. We're out,
Speaker 3: we're out going, we're out exploring, like we're out doing stuff.
Speaker 3: Not that I got to defend my position, but I'm
Speaker 3: curious and fascinated. Like, Okay, so you got some judgment
Speaker 3: going on on a two week vacation out in Italy,
Speaker 3: which is fair because he also brought up which I
Speaker 3: know parents and people have the question in their mind,
Speaker 3: like why go on trips if the kids aren't going
Speaker 3: to remember.
Speaker 1: It's like your story at the beach where you're.
Speaker 3: Telling Scarlet, I'm showing her where I'm going, us going
Speaker 3: to Italy, Like there is a part of you. It's like, oh,
Speaker 3: they're not going to remember the vacation. But I feel
Speaker 3: like what's valuable and this can be like the the
Speaker 3: like the lesson, the lesson of the week. But I'm
Speaker 3: thinking of my head.
Speaker 1: I kind of like Chris talk and I'm not like
Speaker 1: responding to him back, and I'm kind of busting his
Speaker 1: balls because of spress. You know, he's trying to walk back.
Speaker 3: I see you guys. It seemed like an A plus.
Speaker 3: It was like an awesome you know, nine out of ten,
Speaker 3: ten out of ten vacation.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yea, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a phenomenal vacation. I think the trip like
Speaker 3: traveling with your kiddos.
Speaker 1: I asked Chris.
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, if you and your wife want to travel,
Speaker 3: like my wife a core value of hers that Like
Speaker 3: when I think about my wife, I think of adventure.
Speaker 1: She loves to travel.
Speaker 3: I'm more of a like a home body, even though
Speaker 3: I would say evidence wise, Willie see might be the
Speaker 3: most traveled in the office. But with Charro I see adventure.
Speaker 3: She wants to vacate. She wants to go and see
Speaker 3: the world. She wants to go and just see stuff
Speaker 3: and explore and experience. And she's also firm on she
Speaker 3: doesn't want the kids to hold us back on doing
Speaker 3: things just because we have kids. Like I get like
Speaker 3: from Chris to standpoint, you can do a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff around America, which we have done a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff around America, but Charlie also wants to get international.
Speaker 3: Do some of the noses going to be No, it's
Speaker 3: going to be exhausting, but still wants to choose, like,
Speaker 3: let's go to these other parts of the world because
Speaker 3: she wants to see them. She'll love for the kids
Speaker 3: who experience them and for the for people that think, like, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: but they're also not going to remember.
Speaker 1: That's fair.
Speaker 3: But I don't think. I don't think the trip's value
Speaker 3: is in memory as much as it is also in capacity. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like I feel like something I take away from it,
Speaker 3: like when I think on it is like the kid
Speaker 3: that travels, you know, that's on has taken ten different flights,
Speaker 3: has eaten different foods in different parts of the country,
Speaker 3: different parts of the world. The kid that's that's sleeped
Speaker 3: in unfamiliar beds and unfamiliar settings. I feel like it
Speaker 3: cultivates a different baseline for kids who don't or for
Speaker 3: parents and people who don't travel for where like for example,
Speaker 3: like when we got back, Ru this morning wants to
Speaker 3: like make her breakfast now because every breakfast you'd go,
Speaker 3: you go downstairs, you'd go whether they have a little
Speaker 3: buffet or a little menu to select from. Ru's exploring
Speaker 3: the I want to go and get her orange juice
Speaker 3: on her own, going to get her food on he all.
Speaker 3: She's very independent, wants to do things on her own.
Speaker 3: So this morning she's like, Dad, I want to make
Speaker 3: my yogurt. Can you get out my kid's knife and
Speaker 3: my kid's cutting board. I want to cut the strawberries.
Speaker 3: You want to do these different things to where there's
Speaker 3: like her sense of wonder and her sense of like
Speaker 3: doing different things. She's not bringing it back because she
Speaker 3: remembers now that, hey, I did these things over over
Speaker 3: in Europe, like I want to do my own confidence. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it builds confidence, It builds like you know, a lot
Speaker 3: of the like the episodic memories that they're gonna have. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's not gonna have those, but a lot of like
Speaker 3: the trips and everything else. I feel like a kid's
Speaker 3: understanding of identity in family, identity is the patterns and
Speaker 3: repetition that they have doing other things to where that'll
Speaker 3: be kind of cultivated in them that they will have
Speaker 3: for themselves as they get into the next phase of
Speaker 3: their life, even though they might not remember the trip
Speaker 3: to Italy, the fascination I have, which I love when
Speaker 3: I listen to your story about you talking to Scarlet,
Speaker 3: about you having all these memories and love for that
Speaker 3: the beach, whether or not, I mean, she's one, she's
Speaker 3: gonna remember that conversation or not. The idea and hope
Speaker 3: is something I told Chris. I was like, one day,
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope we cultivate something with my kids
Speaker 3: to where when their parents they want to go back
Speaker 3: to some of these spots that we visited, that they
Speaker 3: see photos in that they went and visited when mom
Speaker 3: and dad took them to those places, that they want
Speaker 3: to take their kids to it and remember like, oh
Speaker 3: my mom and dad, we did this photo in this
Speaker 3: place and now they're giving it to their children and
Speaker 3: to the point because again you can just call it what.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 3: Very exhausting, it is expensive, it is fucking chaos. But
Speaker 3: choosing to do like letting our kids know, we choose
Speaker 3: to do these big, hard things with each other because
Speaker 3: again it's like when it's just you four, or when
Speaker 3: it's just you and the family and you're in the
Speaker 3: middle of that chaos, that shit is fucking hard, that
Speaker 3: shit is difficult, but you are doing it together like
Speaker 3: the whole thet strength of the wolf is in the pack,
Speaker 3: and the strength of the pack is in the wolf,
Speaker 3: like you are cultivating a lot of these things with
Speaker 3: your family. So those are a lot of the takeaways
Speaker 3: that I almost you're almost when I sit and try
Speaker 3: to reflect on it in like the hard moments when
Speaker 3: we are on vacation of just having that perspective. I
Speaker 3: know there was one moment which is like a crack
Speaker 3: a cold one with Charo to where we were sitting
Speaker 3: there by the pool. We were having a moment to
Speaker 3: read your boy, by the way, whether you want to
Speaker 3: include audiobooks or not, two and a half books down, Hey,
Speaker 3: come on, yeah, yeah, one read one listen to one
Speaker 3: and a half Listen to come On. But we were
Speaker 3: sitting there reading pull Side because the kids were in
Speaker 3: the kids club where they're like playing, they're doing alto crafts,
Speaker 3: they're doing all these things to where mom and dad
Speaker 3: can have a moment and she's like, we're doing a babe,
Speaker 3: and I just look over at it and I'm.
Speaker 1: Just like, dude, we really fucking are just doing it.
Speaker 3: Like this shit is hard, and sometimes I like resent,
Speaker 3: Like I like resent you for it because we're in
Speaker 3: those moments of suck and I know you're leaning on
Speaker 3: me and I'm leaning on you, and I know you
Speaker 3: have to take a lot of the brunt of the
Speaker 3: kiddohs because they're just it's mom a lot. I was like,
Speaker 3: but it is cool because if it was just me leading,
Speaker 3: there would be a lot of the reasons that I
Speaker 3: would have to wait to travel would be, you know,
Speaker 3: you're chasing the next thing ambitiously career wise. Hey, once
Speaker 3: we get to this dollar amount, or once we get
Speaker 3: to this status, or once we get to this position.
Speaker 1: Then we can look back and travel.
Speaker 3: But the fact that we've knocked out a lot of
Speaker 3: these different spots that Charles wanted to go see and
Speaker 3: do and take our kids to and how much experience
Speaker 3: our kids have had in airports and traveling and doing
Speaker 3: things to where you got to You gotta be durable,
Speaker 3: You got to be like pliable and learn on the
Speaker 3: fly and be fluid, and shit's going to be rocky
Speaker 3: at times. But the fact that we are choosing to
Speaker 3: do those things, it's like, it is sick that we're
Speaker 3: just out here right now in Italy. Yeah, reading a
Speaker 3: book next to the pool, and our kiddos are just
Speaker 3: having a blast.
Speaker 2: It's like those action movies or those spy movies where
Speaker 2: you'll have like the two spies or the two action
Speaker 2: heroes with you out there and they be like, hey,
Speaker 2: remember Portugal, Like, oh god, we're not doing Portugal, are we?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing it.
Speaker 2: And then they're like, do some crazy motorcycle jump. Hey,
Speaker 2: that is like what you're doing with Trial right now,
Speaker 2: is you're like building that callous if you will of like, hey,
Speaker 2: remember the ship we went through in Venice.
Speaker 1: Due to thousand percent.
Speaker 3: And then when the kiddos get old enough and you
Speaker 3: can give them shits for how hard it was with
Speaker 3: them in those moments and laughing about.
Speaker 2: We can handle this because this doesn't even touch the
Speaker 2: car wreck in the fucking Alps and having to figure
Speaker 2: all that stuff out.
Speaker 1: This is easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good for the parents too, and great minds
Speaker 2: think alike. Will my lesson of the week, Take your
Speaker 2: kids on adventures big or small. Let's go, dude, big
Speaker 2: or small. I put bike rides, fishing hikes, swimming, a
Speaker 2: late snack trip before bed, a beautiful spot to watch
Speaker 2: the sunrise or sunset. Just those little adventures so you
Speaker 2: can take if you're on a budget, or the bigger
Speaker 2: adventures of like a vacation, take your kids on those,
Speaker 2: because it dude, being a counselor at a summer camp
Speaker 2: and seeing the kids that we would go on these
Speaker 2: like week long truly, like week long canoe trips down
Speaker 2: the White River in Arkansas, and you can see it
Speaker 2: in the kids that have been out doing hikes and
Speaker 2: doing all that stuff. And you put them in a
Speaker 2: canoe and you hand them an ore and they're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: like I could do I could do a canoe. You
Speaker 2: hand them a fishing pole, They're already got the worm
Speaker 2: halfway on the hook. You're like, kiddo's got it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got it. Even if he's ever fished before, he
Speaker 2: gets it. He knows what he needs to be doing.
Speaker 1: He's got it. And then you got the other kids.
Speaker 2: I'm wet, I'm wet. You're like, yeah, dude, you're wet.
Speaker 2: You're outside. Welcome to the outdoors, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 2: it builds a lot of character, and it builds a
Speaker 2: lot of experience for kiddos and does little adventures right.
Speaker 1: In that confidence aspect too.
Speaker 3: I know there were a few times where we're leaving,
Speaker 3: you know, we drop them off a kid's clip for
Speaker 3: a couple hours, and they'd be kind of beside themselves,
Speaker 3: kind of sad. Scotty would just Scotty was tough. Hey, Ru,
Speaker 3: Rue was being a great big sister. Say sweet up
Speaker 3: before you go playing in your area. It'd be sick
Speaker 3: if you could say in this baby area right now.
Speaker 3: To help Scotty just adapt and know mom and dad
Speaker 3: is going to be gone, and you just you be
Speaker 3: her friend, like yeah, be the familiar face for her,
Speaker 3: because again, they're around kids where it's like other languages,
Speaker 3: other stuff. Ru'd come out of it and tell us
Speaker 3: about one friend that she made, and again it's like
Speaker 3: over there in Europe they know about four or five
Speaker 3: different languages at a time. It makes me feel like
Speaker 3: us just knowing English, it makes me want to learn
Speaker 3: a new language. But it's fascinating to me that the
Speaker 3: Europeans can just be fluid in all of these different languages.
Speaker 3: But to know you're you come out of it, and
Speaker 3: Rue tells you about a friend she made, and just
Speaker 3: the confidence that I feel like Ru has garnered from
Speaker 3: stuff like that, Like she now looks at waiters and
Speaker 3: waitresses wants to tell her tell them what her order
Speaker 3: is when she used to be very shy about that.
Speaker 3: And even something as simple as wake enough to go
Speaker 3: see a sunrise and stuff like that, to where you
Speaker 3: got to get them up early. They don't really know
Speaker 3: they're complaining they're doing this, dude, I just want to
Speaker 3: take you to go watch the SunFest sept forst say
Speaker 3: it's gonna be worth it, It's gonna be worth it.
Speaker 3: Then you get there, you watch the sunrise. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: not even they're doing things where it doesn't feel like
Speaker 3: it's worth it, but just going through those little moments
Speaker 3: of friction to start to create patterns and repetition for
Speaker 3: whether they're gonna remember it or not, like it will serve.
Speaker 3: It's going to serve not only you, but serve them,
Speaker 3: serve the family, serve all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: So and help give them some identity in themselves of
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if I can do this.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? When you were do you
Speaker 2: not remember and Italy when you went down the red slide? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that red slide's way bigger than this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, you're.
Speaker 3: Right that, Oh sweetheart, This forty minutes is gonna fly by. Hey,
Speaker 3: a little bit ago, it was two hundred minutes when
Speaker 3: we were gonna get there. You took a nap. One
Speaker 3: hundred minutes went away. If you lay your head down now,
Speaker 3: maybe you'll sleep through the red.
Speaker 1: Just be patient. We're gonna get there soon.
Speaker 3: Just all of this stuff that is fucking exhausting in
Speaker 3: the moment, it's just it's like embracing the fucking suck
Speaker 3: like the good dude it is because.
Speaker 1: We go ahead. I'm just gonna say, we're also the same,
Speaker 1: like I know me, I'll sit there back. Yeah, why
Speaker 1: do we like? This stuff is exhaust hell.
Speaker 2: Getting Scarlet to the beach, just getting her to the
Speaker 2: beach ship, all the things you gotta take and car.
Speaker 1: And be prepared for.
Speaker 2: Will shout out Jill, shout out Jill, like just love you, honey,
Speaker 2: and you're an absolute demon on getting stuff prepped.
Speaker 1: A true sick out.
Speaker 3: I'll be standing there like, oh, we just need the
Speaker 3: water bottles and a couple of snacks. Let's hit the voicemails.
Speaker 3: Six and one the dads you want to call in
Speaker 3: leave a story, event, win, lost whatever. Six on one
Speaker 3: of the dad's call evil voicemail. Well, I'm worried about
Speaker 3: this first one. I just saw the title of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spoil it. I'm just gonna hit play. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be good boys.
Speaker 5: Cole Lighter and Calling from the Great White North Rocky
Speaker 5: Mountain House, Alberta, Canada. A little late to the party,
Speaker 5: but I had to tell this story because my wife
Speaker 5: forgot Father's Day. Sunday night or Sunday morning, I guess.
Speaker 5: Wife comes in at five point thirty in the morning,
Speaker 5: baby monitor in hand to ask me to get up
Speaker 5: with our daughter. So of course I get up. No problems,
Speaker 5: nothing like going to watch a little Sunday Morning. Miss
Speaker 5: Rachel learning how to count again because I'm a oil
Speaker 5: real dad. Not long after that, my son, four year
Speaker 5: old son gets up, comes and joins the party, making breakfast,
Speaker 5: having a good time. Not long after that, my wife
Speaker 5: gets up, not a word said nothing. We go a
Speaker 5: couple hours when from the kitchen I hear, oh fuck,
Speaker 5: I forgot it's Father's Day. Oh just wandering?
Speaker 7: Do we?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Obviously I still have that in the pocket that I'm
Speaker 5: or do I use it on a little golf trip,
Speaker 5: a little a little bit of this, a little bit
Speaker 5: of that. Obviously, shockwave happened.
Speaker 1: Because she felt terrible because of course, yeah, love.
Speaker 5: The pod voice, keep it up that out.
Speaker 1: Oh man, he's in a good spot. Oh great, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it hurts in the moment, but just look
Speaker 1: look what you can now.
Speaker 3: Read right like you all the experts tell you everything
Speaker 3: is a negotiation, and look and look inside your house first,
Speaker 3: like every conversation you're having, you are negotiating with your wife,
Speaker 3: with your kids, with your loved ones, with your kiddos. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and now in the game, cards are stacked a bit,
Speaker 3: cards are stacked.
Speaker 1: Look at that, yeah, because that's on top. Yeah, Dad's
Speaker 1: on top.
Speaker 3: Whether you want to take us any data of his choosing,
Speaker 3: because he now has the leverage any whether it's a
Speaker 3: golf trip, whatever it is, whatever you want it to be.
Speaker 1: You now you now have that. Hey, honey, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: headed out. I'm going golfing. No, honey, remember we have
Speaker 1: what huh Oh that's weird. What Now he does need
Speaker 1: a plan.
Speaker 3: If you're going to just give any power to wifey,
Speaker 3: just make sure it's planned. But you're now not confined
Speaker 3: to a day that was already specified. Yes, now you
Speaker 3: have a rolodex of your choosing. Yes, you you don't
Speaker 3: have a Trump card?
Speaker 1: Uh? If you will?
Speaker 3: You just you have a you can plan accordingly. You
Speaker 3: have a Father's Day card that is now you can
Speaker 3: use it whatever day you want.
Speaker 1: And I'll cash this in. Yes, similar to a shockwave coupon.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so bummer that sucks.
Speaker 2: That sucks, but also congratulates, gives him a Father's Day
Speaker 2: coop or sorry, a coupons, a shockwave coupon, a shockwave
Speaker 2: and to put a bow on it, to put a b.
Speaker 1: On it, just because we hope you haven't a good father.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we want to celebrate. We want to make
Speaker 1: this right with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out Canada oil he was an oil field guy. Yeah, Alberta, Canada, Alberta, Canada.
Speaker 1: Roughneck. Here we go, last voicemount.
Speaker 4: Fella's what's going on?
Speaker 1: How we doing?
Speaker 4: I was just listening to the last episode and you
Speaker 4: guys are talking about Shirm getting best at Ever. I mean,
Speaker 4: first off, sherm, congrats. Maybe deserve, maybe not deserve to
Speaker 4: see a beast. But I was thinking through Father's Day
Speaker 4: a fellow pet sixer myself. Notice all these other dads, Okay, no,
Speaker 4: his best dad ever, best at ever? And I want
Speaker 4: to know, as as a gamer, as as someone that
Speaker 4: likes competition, what the fuck they did to deserve best
Speaker 4: at ever? You know, you have a guy out here
Speaker 4: who's been a dad for six months.
Speaker 1: You know, God bless him.
Speaker 4: He's in the transies. Were you telling me that's the
Speaker 4: best ad ever.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna sit here.
Speaker 4: And so I told my wife, you know, if you
Speaker 4: put a little post out there, she said, I'm the
Speaker 4: best dad to our son.
Speaker 1: Well obviously because competition is very low. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, we need to cut
Speaker 4: back on the old best dad everything. It's not you sure,
Speaker 4: we'll give it to you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Six months ain't no year. Six six months ain't no year.
Speaker 1: And thank you. I'm undeserving.
Speaker 2: I mean I hated bringing in that uh framed photo
Speaker 2: that said best at Ever. Like it killed me on
Speaker 2: the inside to like bring that in here and display
Speaker 2: that on my desk because I don't want to rub
Speaker 2: it in people's face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to rub in our faces.
Speaker 2: But if Jill is giving that, like if I received
Speaker 2: that award, I'm gonna display it. But I don't go, Hey, Truman, young,
Speaker 2: best at ever.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. I'm not that guy. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2: You could be, but you choose not to choose to be.
Speaker 2: And nor do I think I am the best at ever?
Speaker 2: I know I'm you know we said we stay here
Speaker 2: on this podcast. We joke a lot, right.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of haters out there, A lot
Speaker 1: of haters out there. We sat on this podcast. Doo
Speaker 1: thinks he's the best dad Animore. He got a one
Speaker 1: year old. It's a coffee monk, dude, get over your seat.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're the best dad. Ain't rocket science,
Speaker 1: You ain't cracking no code. What's the name on it?
Speaker 1: What's the name. Oh, so what are you doing today? Working?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Working? Nice?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you have any kids too? Oh so you're your dad? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: that shi it's easy. So so what do you do
Speaker 1: for like, oh, we got a podcast? Oh so not
Speaker 1: really work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're not working. But dude, shout and shout
Speaker 2: out to this guy and I get it there. Nobody
Speaker 2: is the best dad ever? Maybe Dan Gable was Dan
Speaker 2: Gable a dad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he.
Speaker 2: Fathered a lot of sing children. He did, so maybe
Speaker 2: Dane Gable's the best dad ever. And we'll just we'll
Speaker 2: leave it at that. And we got to frame those
Speaker 2: his best dad ever? I do?
Speaker 1: I do? And I couldn't, you know.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to look Jill and Nys and go, honey,
Speaker 2: I didn't earn this, Like who voted on this?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't just go to Walgreens and go buy
Speaker 2: this and then you know, title me the best at ever?
Speaker 1: Was There's a lot of hardworking dads out there. What
Speaker 1: does I say to Will?
Speaker 3: What does that say to the other dads who have
Speaker 3: not only father children, but have raised them to be
Speaker 3: adults and they're successful adults and kids that they're very
Speaker 3: proud of and happy with. And their kids are like,
Speaker 3: you know, you got some weathered, experienced fathers out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're pushing eighty right now. They did a hell
Speaker 1: of a job. Speaking of best dads.
Speaker 2: Ever, I would be remiss if we didn't close with
Speaker 2: the congratulations to Jeremy Klomp bringing in his sweet, sweet
Speaker 2: baby girl, Miss Laney, Miss.
Speaker 1: Laney, Lady Club, Lady Clump, and Lindsay Jeremy.
Speaker 2: Congrats, guys, we had another baby in the office and
Speaker 2: it's a sweet baby girl named Laney Klump.
Speaker 1: We got the curse still alive. Come on, baby, you
Speaker 1: work in this office. You have daughters. Come on, you
Speaker 1: have daughters. Man Taylor or Taylor should be popping here
Speaker 1: any moment. I know.
Speaker 3: So that could either happen this week next week. But
Speaker 3: another congratulatory will be coming soon. But shout out the Clumps.
Speaker 3: Shout out baby Laney. Another thing I would another thing
Speaker 3: that I would need to say, big shout out to Dominic.
Speaker 3: I met Dominic at the Newark Airport. I believe we
Speaker 3: were about to get on our flight to Nashville. I'm
Speaker 3: talking exhaustion at the time. I'm rolling ruin our little
Speaker 3: Pulley suitcase. She's crying, Mama had to go change Scottie.
Speaker 3: But we're finally getting to that nine thirty flight.
Speaker 1: It's been We're on the last leg of the whole flight.
Speaker 1: So I hit my man.
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, are you willing. I look at him
Speaker 3: with the dead look. I'm like, oh, yes, sir, kind
Speaker 3: of smiling like you see this.
Speaker 1: One crying like.
Speaker 3: Man, he wanted to pull out his phone and just
Speaker 3: say that he's been listening before the dads, going to
Speaker 3: pull out his phone and show and show his kid.
Speaker 3: And he was just fired up to meet me and
Speaker 3: talk about for the dads. And when he was talking
Speaker 3: about his kiddo, he was legitimately was garnering like tears
Speaker 3: in his eyes talking about I felt like I was
Speaker 3: in the moment with him again. Exhaustion was we we
Speaker 3: were we we were on e yeah, and I was
Speaker 3: sharing the moment with him. I wish I could have
Speaker 3: been in it with him even more because it was
Speaker 3: very fleeting, like charl walks like, hey, we got like
Speaker 3: the priority, the priority boarding with the kiddo's. We need
Speaker 3: to get up, we need to get out. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: shout out Dominic. It was a phenomenal interaction. And to
Speaker 3: see him legitimately tear up as he's talking about his
Speaker 3: kids just want to talk about the show and everything else.
Speaker 3: That was very heartwarming. And I appreciate you, Dominic for
Speaker 3: introducing yourself to me.
Speaker 2: Let's go huge shout out to you. He'll main anonymous
Speaker 2: because I didn't get to meet him. Only shout out
Speaker 2: I got in thirty eight guy driving by in a
Speaker 2: golf cart, Hell yeah, sir, Hell yeah, as the golf
Speaker 2: cart flies fast and I just turned and so on that.
Speaker 3: Last leg from Newark to Nashville, Scotty was starting to
Speaker 3: like fall asleep.
Speaker 1: For like ten twenty minutes at a time. Then we'd
Speaker 1: have to get moving.
Speaker 3: We're trying to hold her off to fall asleep on
Speaker 3: the plane, but she gets so where she's beyond exhausted,
Speaker 3: crying like screaming. I'm talking bloody fucking murder, screaming to
Speaker 3: where we're trying to get to the point.
Speaker 1: Where we're leaving.
Speaker 3: We're we're leaving the dock or whatever from the airport
Speaker 3: to drive out to take off the fly. So that's
Speaker 3: like a good ten to twenty minute process. Scotty is screaming, wrestling,
Speaker 3: choral wrestling, holding her, shaking or doing the physical. I'm
Speaker 3: holding her, I'm like sweetart like keeping a low voice.
Speaker 3: We're round everybody. The flight attendants are sitting up there.
Speaker 3: Everybody's trapped in. You can't be on the ground whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Scotti is just beside herself, bro talking. We went through
Speaker 3: war there at the end. But to the point where
Speaker 3: we get off the flight, A couple of gentlemen come
Speaker 3: over and just pat like, you guys did good, because
Speaker 3: that's one where no.
Speaker 2: Man, that's when you know, dude, when you're getting physical
Speaker 2: pats on the physical pats.
Speaker 3: Hang in there, dad, Yeah, Hey, you guys did a
Speaker 3: great job because we stayed composed and poised, like got
Speaker 3: a little and a couple of violent shakes in there,
Speaker 3: like please, Scottie, for the love of God, just fall asleep. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but couple, you guys did good in there.
Speaker 1: You did it. We did it. We're live.
Speaker 3: We're finally getting on the other side of the jet
Speaker 3: lag too. Take the trash out, take the trash out.
Speaker 3: Love you appreciate you. We will see you next week
Speaker 3: and we will come and shout out a lot more.
Speaker 1: Of the comments. We love you, guys, We love you.
Speaker 1: Take up the trash. Where are you from where? Yeah,