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From Diapers to Deadlines: The Ultimate Balancing Act 219

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As we prepared for our biggest event of 2024, the Freiburg Fair, an unexpected twist added a layer of excitement and chaos to our lives—parenthood! Join us on Share the Struggle as we navigate the uncharted waters of being first-time parents, balancing the demands of a growing business while embracing the joys and challenges of a newborn. This episode is packed with candid moments, from playful banter about working from home to managing a flood of apparel orders, all colored with humor and heartfelt discussions. 

Ever wondered how a feeding schedule that varies unpredictably from one and a half to three hours can turn your world upside down? We share our own late-night struggles and the poignant joy of seeing our baby girl develop day by day.  We even touch on societal trends of having children later in life and reflect on how our past experiences have uniquely prepared us for this adventure.

The journey doesn't stop with parenthood; managing our business has its own set of hurdles. From the pressure of making our largest apparel purchase ever to the need for additional resources, we lay bare the financial and logistical challenges we face. Despite these hurdles, our optimism remains unshaken. We discuss our evolving priorities, the importance of timing, and how becoming parents has reshaped our worldviews. This episode is a rollercoaster of laughter, confessions, and the relentless hustle that defines our journey, making it a must-listen for anyone balancing business ambitions with the beautiful chaos of family life.

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Chapters

00:00 - Preparing for the Freiburg Fair

09:10 - Preparation and Challenges of Parenthood

18:50 - Navigating New Parenthood Challenges

23:53 - The Business and Family Journey

36:08 - Parenthood Preparation and Timing

43:01 - New Parenthood Adjustment and Priorities

56:24 - Loud Proud American Social Media Promotion

Transcript
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It's make it or break it season for Loud Proud American.

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Just over a week until we roll out to our biggest event of 2024, the Freiburg Fair.

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Tune in as we lay out the details behind the chaos, the pressure of saving our business with a few weeks of work and navigating the challenges of first-time parents with a newborn.

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All that and more on this episode of Share the Struggle podcast.

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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.

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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.

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The choice is completely yours.

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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.

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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.

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You have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.

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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.

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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.

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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.

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You are right where you need to be.

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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

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What it do, what it do, what it hot diggity do.

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I am so excited to be back with you.

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Oh, it's true.

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Ooh, the high notes Girl, you've been taking singing lessons on your time off.

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I got time on my hands.

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Time on my hands Got.

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Time on my hands Got too much time on my hands.

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Don't speak that too loud because you might cut back on that two hours of sleep.

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You get a night.

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You know what I mean man, that ain't even what I'm talking about.

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Like, I just have too much time on my hands for the simple fact that, like I'm used to working multiple jobs my entire life, since I was 16 years old, I've been working double jobs and now just sitting home Goodness, I'm going stir crazy.

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I'll tell you what.

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I'll tell you this right now To all the stay-at-home moms out there y'all, I don't know how you do it.

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It ain't nothing for me.

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Nothing for me.

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I don't even know if I want to look forward to retirement, to be honest, I can't wait.

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I just don't even know if I want to look forward to retirement.

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to be honest, I can't wait.

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I just don't.

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I could settle into a groove and do nothing faster than you can say groove.

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You know what I'm saying.

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It's just too much time.

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Listen, I got two things to say to you, little mama.

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Two things to say.

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Number one you're a fresh mom.

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Okay, you're a fresh mama, so I'm going to avoid all the jokes about jobs, because you laid it on the line there for me to get sexual real quick, but you're holding my baby over there, so I'm going to refrain from getting naughty.

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But number two you got to wait until our six-week follow-up.

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For God's sakes.

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Hey.

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October's around the corner.

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Listen, the only follow-up that I need is you to be following up on how I'm looking over here.

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You know what I'm saying.

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You be looking daddy-licious.

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Well then, you can feel free to touch, because I already passed inspection.

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Now, what I was going to say is if you're feeling like you got all this time on your hands, you come to work with Big Daddy over here, because I am stressed the F out.

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I've been helping you.

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Yeah, helping me, tell me where to go.

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Or where to stick it.

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Yeah, that ain't true either.

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I was down there in the office and I was helping you sort things, make new designs, don't you even act like I ain't been helping.

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Well, you've been helping.

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When you come in there, you start throwing out commands.

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The been helping.

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Well, you've been helping.

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When you come in there, you start throwing out commands.

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The next thing you know you say I'm going to see my baby.

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And the next thing you know, I get crackers in the water.

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four hours later, you know what I mean, true.

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Slide the chips under the door, baby, I'm starving in here.

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Oh my God, your office is literally attached to the house.

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I don't want to hear it.

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With the amount of apparel that I'm waiting to arrive, like what's on order right now, you ain't even going to be the same thing in the office.

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You're going to have to use the two-way radio to be like baby you in there.

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What else is new?

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You're up to your nipples in cardboard boxes and shit in that office.

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Well, when UPS gets here, it's going above and beyond the nipple.

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I can't even breathe when I go in the office.

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You're like, hey, can you come check out this design?

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I'm like, can you clean your office first?

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I clean it enough to be functional when it's this time of year and we got the granddaddy of them all upon us.

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It's about just hitting and getting.

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I feel like I need like a canoe to like swim in my way in there.

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Listen, you know, there ain't no water involved, because Big Daddy can't swim.

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You're right.

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How high is the water, Mama?

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I'll say to three feet high and rising.

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Have you been taking singing lessons?

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No, but I have been warming up on my lullabies.

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You have been.

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But none of them are previously recorded or released lullabies.

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They just happen, naturally.

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You do have your own liberty.

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Lullabies.

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I make things up on the fly man.

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Whatever the situation calls for is when the tune happens.

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That's how your song Shittin' with a Bonerer came out.

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Oh, that's my favorite country song I've ever written.

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I gotta I mean I'm gonna record that one and put it out, because, fellas, there ain't no struggle in life, fellas, there ain't no struggle in life greater than having to take a big old shit when you got a raging boner.

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Because you gotta command that thing.

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You gotta make a decision.

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Are you going to put that sucker below the water level?

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You know what I mean.

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You're going to put it below the baseline or you're going to leave it out?

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And if you leave?

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it out and you push them too hard.

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The next thing you know you start peeing across the room.

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It ain't easy.

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Shitting with a boner.

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Shitting with a boner.

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Oh Lord, I've been sitting here shitting with a boner.

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Yeah, I think he came up with that song probably four years ago.

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Oh, easily, and it's just stuck because it's a hit.

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I got to record that because now it's going out on the podcast and people are going to hear it.

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The next thing you know, I'm going to see it on TikTok.

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You know what I mean.

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Yeah, you need to get that copyrighted.

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I am sitting on a real hit here.

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No, you're sitting with a boner, exactly.

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I'm sitting and shitting with a real hit and a boner.

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We've started this podcast episode off completely, completely inappropriate.

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Do you have notes?

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No, I didn't think so.

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I ain't got time for notes.

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At this time in my life when we're trying to manage being parents for the first time, having a newborn at home, preparing for the biggest event of the season, I am flying by the seat of my bunghole.

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Okay, I don't have a list for nothing right now.

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I have a question for you.

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Is it the seat of your pants or seed?

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I always have a question Seat Seat Okay, but I said of my bunghole, because I have worn through my denim, through the nylon, through the cotton.

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I am riding in the pine with just me, bunghole princess.

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I mean, I guess, if we're talking about your bunghole, it could be a seed as well.

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No, we ain't planting trees, honey.

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We ain't planting trees Trying to make them trees, you know what I mean.

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Well, we live in Maine, so we're surrounded by pine trees.

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Goodness.

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Anyway, we're clearly off subject here, but this is the time where I'm ultra focused on one major task at hand, and that's getting as prepared as I possibly can be for the fair, and I get so ultra focused on this that I literally don't have the mental capacity for much else in my life.

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I feel bad.

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This is when I go zero, dark, 30.

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I don't respond to shit.

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I don't answer shit.

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I don't think about the shit other than the biggest.

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Well, I can't say shit again.

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I've said it enough.

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You know what I mean.

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Next thing, you know, I'm going to be thinking about shitting and I'm going to think about having a boner With a boner, because I'm sitting over here looking at you or looking at me over there, and that's getting me a little Randy, goodness.

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What you think, you ain't got them.

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George Jetson boob pumps on, listen I yeah.

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No, we still got stitches over here.

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I think the people listening right now are going to realize hey, here's two young parents Well, emphasis on young Blur that one out.

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Here's two young-ish new parents over there that are clearly sleep deprived Because I don't have a clue what the hell they're talking about.

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Yeah, welcome to our life.

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It's random, as shit it is.

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It is completely random, but what I was trying to say a minute ago is that this time of year, I'm so focused on the fair that I lose sight of certain things.

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I'm zero, dark, 30.

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I don't respond to Facebook messages or social media of any sort, which I have to start doing because their messages are piling up.

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Maybe I should just give you the list.

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Maybe we're stumbling onto something as we talk this out.

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I'm going to give you a list of social media activities.

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Should I get a pen and piece of paper?

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Not right now.

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People would be bored as hell.

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I was talking through it.

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Okay.

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But yeah, maybe we can cross two things off the list.

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I can get some things off my plate and you can feel less bored, so we'll work on.

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We'll work on that.

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I got some videos to make that I have to edit up, that we have to post, but I haven't even posted.

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Uh, like thank you, stuff from windsor and we've got all these these things.

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But this is when I can't spare any ounce of um energy on anything other than the major task at hand, which is getting ready for our biggest event of the year.

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This happens every year.

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Every year, I feel like we're going to roll into it much more prepared.

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Every year we go to the fair and we say, hey, why are you doing it like this?

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Next year?

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We're going to be here three, four days early.

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We're going to enjoy ourselves, we're going to ease into it.

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Every year we say that we do, and that's never happened yet.

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Well, this time it's a little different, because we kind of have our hands full.

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We certainly do, and that's where I'm headed today, because, as much as we've had, the biggest task, the biggest challenge, the biggest uphill climb of the year every year is us getting ready for the Freiburg Fair.

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This year, not only are we getting ready for the Freiburg Fair, but if you guys have been listening for the long haul here, if you've been around over the course of the past year, you know that, based off of some family circumstances, we started the year a little behind and we put ourselves in a financial bind that we weren't able to prepare with inventory that we normally would.

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So we've had to read and react to each event.

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We make a few bucks at an event, we roll it into product for the next one and you keep on snowballing those events to hopefully get to the point where you're back in business and you're sitting at a comfortable level.

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Well, we were doing great at that, but then we freed up our schedule rightfully so to welcome our beautiful bundle of naps over there.

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She's looking rather peaceful just finished now boob juice and wrapped up her programs over there.

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Yeah, I've been watching the fake fish like it's a, like it's murder, she wrote.

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And she's an 80 year old woman in a house coat.

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I don don't even get it.

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She loves it.

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She's two weeks old and acts like full grown.

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I don't get it.

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Yeah, she's over there muckling on to a cow with a housecoat watching freaking Judge Watney.

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Judge Judy Judy Justice.

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You watch Judge Judy man and that broad doesn't let anybody get a word in edgewise.

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I don't know how you can make a proper decision.

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Just a minute, you don't let them finish.

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Just a second, just a second.

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Shush, shush, shush, shush, shush your mouth.

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Let me finish.

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I love her.

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Oh my God, I can't stand it.

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Anyways, we freed up the schedule and then took every other cent we had and dumped it into this fair.

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We are yet again going to roll into this event on red, getting ready to count how many times I can overdraft and then, just in the words of Las Vegas, put it all on black and just see what happens.

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I feel great about what's going to happen, but what I'm saying here is the challenge has probably never been bigger, based off the situation and the circumstances that we have.

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And then we sprinkle in the fact that you and this guy over here are first time parents.

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We have a two week old at home and we're sleeping in short segments and we're trying to balance out what her routine is, what our routine is, and factor it all together and make it all happen.

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I just wish for once in our ever loving lives, we could do things easily.

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Yeah, right, that's the problem.

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In our ever-loving lives we could do things easily.

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Yeah right, that's the problem.

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It's like we're always handed this deck of cards.

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This is how I look at it.

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Talk to me.

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Deck of cards.

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All right, that's been shuffled by a jalopy, okay?

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And you're like, all right, give me an ace, give me an ace.

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And you're like, all right, give me an ace, Give me an ace.

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And you're like ha Joke's on you.

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Two of spades.

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Here's a joker.

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He's not even supposed to be in the deck.

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That's a naked little person on TV.

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What's going on here?

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Don't worry about my TV show.

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That's a naked little person getting a spray tan.

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How am I supposed to focus Spray tan?

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How am I?

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supposed to focus.

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This is Little Women of Dallas, okay.

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I do love Dallas.

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I know.

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But I'm having a serious conversation with you.

00:14:10.890 --> 00:14:15.615
I'm having a serious conversation and I turn around and there's a naked little person getting a spray tan.

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She's about to be a bodybuilder.

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She's bodybuilding.

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That's what it is, competition, okay, anyway, moving on.

00:14:22.884 --> 00:14:23.407
I'm going to continue.

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That's what it is competition okay anyway, moving on, I'm gonna continue to look towards you and the baby but when you look up there, and then I follow your eyes and I turn around and I see you naked oh my god get you were dealt a joker and a two of spades.

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Continue and god says what you gonna do with that fool.

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That's what happens.

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And then what happens every time we run that shit.

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We get a full house.

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We fucking murder it.

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Send it home, cash a check, kick the can down the road.

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Kick it Tone.

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Take those big ass size 13s and kick it for the homies.

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I just well flashback into my DJ mode.

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I'm about to DJ in a couple of weeks, not even a couple of days.

00:15:12.966 --> 00:15:13.668
It's a couple of days.

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Yeah, for your birthday.

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Daddy gonna pay the bill somehow, baby, not that I'm in the mood to DJ, because that's the last thing I need to do right now.

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Hey, you have about 17 hours and 7,000 hours with the work to do.

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Let's sprinkle in a party.

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That's how we live.

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That's how we run this shit.

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That's true.

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I run this shit like cardio.

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I was waiting for you to finish that.

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I am sleeping, something about.

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Cardi B, yo right Sure.

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Don't you fall asleep on me now you get your shit together Listen, I'm listening.

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I got nothing.

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You can't set that up and then walk away.

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I got nothing.

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I'm going to put this out there before we move off from the subject, because this is going to drop on a winning Wednesday and that's going to give you a couple of days to fine tune your schedule to come out to Bentley Saloon Friday night, 7 to 11, for the Loud Proud American Night at Bentley Saloon, which reminds me we've got to make a flyer and you've got to post that sucker tomorrow and start pushing for it.

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It is Loud Proud American Night.

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We encourage as many of you beautiful Loud Proud Americans out there to come on out with your gear on representing, showing out, putting out.

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You know what I'm saying.

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I got you.

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Thanks, babe.

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The final DJ extravaganza of the year at Bentley Saloon for yours truly, maybe even the final ever, I don't know, ever, ever.

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Forever, ever, Forever ever.

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Could be, so get your ass out there.

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It's been a little while since I DJ'd.

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I think I had last month off at the saloon you did.

00:16:48.128 --> 00:16:53.428
Man, I feel crusty, I mean rusty, that's both.

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Rusty, rusty, you do just fine.

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You do fine every time.

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Oh girl, you were just saying that.

00:17:00.461 --> 00:17:02.428
You would just be saying that.

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I wonder what Paisley would do.

00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:06.605
I'd be thinking you'd be trying to size me.

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What'd you say?

00:17:07.367 --> 00:17:10.068
I wonder what Paisley would do for Daddy DJing.

00:17:10.068 --> 00:17:13.347
You should practice, she'll love it.

00:17:14.663 --> 00:17:15.887
You got headphones for her already.

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She's over there looking as peaceful as I wish I was.

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She's used to it with you DJing with me.

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When she was in the boom.

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In whom?

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Whom.

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I think that was a good idea, because she doesn't squawk for nothing.

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No, when she intends to squawk like she's tired and hungry, oh she can squawk, oh mm-hmm.

00:17:39.560 --> 00:17:45.611
But as far as the dogs barking or fire trucks, whatever, it don't matter, that don't matter, ain't no thing.

00:17:45.611 --> 00:17:47.654
She could sleep right through that, yep.

00:17:47.654 --> 00:18:06.450
So as we're gearing up for the Freiburg Fair and trying to make as much stuff as possible, we're also trying to settle into our routine, and we've said this the whole time that everybody says, hey, your whole life's going to change and your motto has been about the case.

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We're just adding a beautiful element to our life.

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She's going to fit in, correct.

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But on the way to getting her to fit in is the topsy-turvy, whirlwind ride that we're on currently, which is all of us getting to know each other here feeling it out, that's right.

00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:31.833
Getting a routine down, and you can't establish a routine with a newborn that just has to eat every couple of hours.

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There's no real like.

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You can hope and pray for one, but like this isn't the stage where we get her to mold to us, you know.

00:18:39.192 --> 00:18:41.788
So what's it like for you right now?

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Give us a little screenshot as to what's happening over there and how you'd be feeling.

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I'm feeling pretty good.

00:18:48.846 --> 00:18:53.250
Like you said, we're trying to figure out the routine.

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It's a lot of work with the fact that her schedule is uncertain.

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You don't know if she's going to want to to feed at the, if she's going to want to feed at the two hour mark or the three hour mark.

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Just now she wanted the one and a half hour mark.

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So I mean, that's a little um challenging.

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Sometimes we're just getting comfortable and we're just figuring it out and we're we're riding this roller coaster.

00:19:21.828 --> 00:19:26.778
It hasn't been as terrible as everyone has made it out to seem.

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Everybody wants to tell you their scary stories, of course, but I think that we're managing and I think we're doing good.

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She's wonderful and yeah.

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So I think I think we're doing.

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I think we're doing okay, we're getting there.

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It's only been two weeks, but I think we're adjusting and adapting.

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And watching her already strive is so amazing to me.

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Yeah, watching her show interest in a couple of things and she's only two weeks old, she's definitely ahead of the game.

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Old Like.

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She's definitely like ahead of the game, Like she's starting to acknowledge, like her hands and like her tongue, and just showing like a little bit of a personality.

00:20:13.691 --> 00:20:31.733
So like with the uncertainty of like the schedule and that kind of being a little bit overwhelming, on top of like breastfeeding and pumping, like there are definitely goods outweighing the struggle.

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Yeah, you can get to the point in the middle of the night where you're just so zonked out and you're just like I don't know what you want right now.

00:20:39.607 --> 00:20:45.064
I don't know what you need right now, and you're just trying to navigate that and figure that out, and you just get so run down and beaten.

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But then as soon as you get your head on the pillow and you black out for whatever amount of time it possibly is you wake up and it's like it just starts all over.

00:21:04.154 --> 00:21:05.497
And you see the face, you see the smile, and they go.

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That's why I'm doing this and it's all worth it.

00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:08.782
You know, yeah, I think um this, the trick right now is just the?

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Um.

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The nighttime is getting her to kind of switch.

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Right now, she sleeps great during the day and the nighttime is a little bit challenging, but everything that we're showing her and everything that we're doing for her is all is all brand new.

00:21:24.442 --> 00:21:30.780
Like she always had a constant flow of food when she was in the womb, like she slept when she wanted to.

00:21:30.780 --> 00:21:34.127
She, um, you know, everything is new to her.

00:21:34.127 --> 00:21:36.300
Like she was naked in the womb.

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Now she's wearing a diaper and clothes, like so it's just she's adapting to us and we're adapting to her, and I think that, you know, I think we're all doing a great job, including you, Daddy.

00:21:49.428 --> 00:21:50.028
Oh, thanks, babe.

00:21:50.028 --> 00:21:56.826
Speaking of diapers, we've been working through the stack of diapers that everybody wrote on at the baby shower.

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Yeah, they're hilarious.

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There's been some hilarious ones that have just seemed to come out at the perfect time.

00:22:02.455 --> 00:22:07.867
There was one in there from Mary about a big one, whatever, just for me.

00:22:07.867 --> 00:22:14.740
And go figure, you're like you've got to change her and I take the freaking onesie off and I've got a big load of poo.

00:22:14.740 --> 00:22:15.961
And it's addressed to me.

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Or the other day, first diaper of the morning, there's a note on there from her godparents.

00:22:22.029 --> 00:22:27.356
It says first one today.

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Half asleep I pulled that one out.

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Yeah, so that's been funny.

00:22:28.563 --> 00:22:31.556
That's like a little boost of energy to get those things For everybody out there listening that doesn't know what the hell we're talking about.

00:22:31.556 --> 00:22:36.002
I think it's probably a common thing at baby showers I don't know when.

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They take a bunch of diapers out and friends and family will write messages on the diaper and you know Sharpies.

00:22:42.355 --> 00:22:48.705
So that's been kind of a fun little element, speaking of her schedule and figuring things out and kind of tying it all back to the fair.

00:22:48.705 --> 00:22:58.321
One of the things that we're trying to weigh out and navigate is what's the right decision for her, what's the right decision for you, right For me, when it comes to the schedule and the fair.

00:22:58.321 --> 00:23:02.269
How much time should you guys be there?

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And one of the big questions that we have is adjusting her nighttime routine or getting her on one, because we just feel like we don't want to be the noisy people in the campground.

00:23:15.262 --> 00:23:26.630
They pack us in there so tight that I'm just a little self-conscious and worried about if she's having a freakout, you know, because she's looking for a bottle or whatever at 3 in the morning and you're waking up a campground.

00:23:26.630 --> 00:23:27.070
You know what I mean.

00:23:27.134 --> 00:23:29.262
So it's like we're just trying to navigate that.

00:23:29.262 --> 00:23:29.958
But we've got a plan.

00:23:29.958 --> 00:23:36.549
We're going to try to get things worked out here, but it's just one more element that we have to figure out, you know.

00:23:36.549 --> 00:23:38.674
But it's all coming together.

00:23:38.674 --> 00:23:49.721
It all just sprinkles another layer to the amazing challenge that we have, and I know that we're going to come out on the other side of the challenge, feeling so overwhelmingly accomplished.

00:23:49.721 --> 00:23:50.201
You know.

00:23:50.502 --> 00:23:52.448
I agree, yeah, we just got to get there.

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One of the things that's different for me this year is that in years past after Freiburg, I basically had nothing on my calendar.

00:24:01.161 --> 00:24:17.267
So it was also like, hey, just get through this event and at the end you can sleep, you can unwind and you can kind of relax and get into your normal life of not being on the road, you know, like doing things at home.

00:24:17.267 --> 00:24:18.875
This year that's not the case.

00:24:18.875 --> 00:24:29.467
We're trying actively to fill some dates on the calendar and it looks like as soon as we come home from Freiburg, maybe a week later, so we might be in Connecticut.

00:24:30.496 --> 00:24:32.402
I've got a wedding to DJ in October.

00:24:32.402 --> 00:24:34.026
I've got a wedding to DJ in November.

00:24:34.026 --> 00:24:38.606
I'm trying to get an event in November out of the state November, december.

00:24:38.606 --> 00:24:40.823
So we're trying to fill a few more things.

00:24:40.823 --> 00:24:43.721
So there's another challenge.

00:24:43.721 --> 00:25:04.182
On the other side of this challenge, you know what I mean, where in years past it's been like let's just get through this and then let's enjoy the holidays, enjoy the family, because traditionally we spend all summer on the road, so when it's over it's nice to be like all right, you got a few weeks to get ready before the winter time you can do barn chores, you can do all those things.

00:25:04.743 --> 00:25:07.315
This year I don't really feel like we have that opportunity.

00:25:07.315 --> 00:25:12.656
Part of it is because we've had a little more time during the summer, so we gotta like make up for it on the back end here.

00:25:12.656 --> 00:25:16.925
So there's a whole other challenge that awaits for us outside of the fair.

00:25:16.925 --> 00:25:20.881
So that's kind of changed my mindset a little bit, you know.

00:25:21.522 --> 00:25:32.906
And then for you you're going to be thinking about, you know, after the fair you've got a few more weeks and then you're going to start to settle into, like, what's the routine of you going back to work you know and navigating those things.

00:25:32.934 --> 00:25:37.406
And then it's like, if I'm trying to leave for events and you're trying to go back to work, then how do we handle all that?

00:25:37.406 --> 00:25:42.047
So there's a lot of moving parts which can be rather overwhelming if we look at all of those at once.

00:25:42.047 --> 00:25:56.849
So instead of that, we get right back to the basics, which is focusing on getting her established and knocking off as much inventory as we possibly can to put herself in the best position that we can to be as successful as we can.

00:25:57.170 --> 00:25:57.510
I agree.

00:25:58.531 --> 00:26:01.720
Man, that's what's going on over here.

00:26:02.020 --> 00:26:02.482
It's a lot.

00:26:03.835 --> 00:26:08.405
You might not think that it's a lot, but it is a lot.

00:26:08.405 --> 00:26:28.003
Yeah, I just made I think it was, if I'm thinking out this correctly here, other than maybe the first order that I ever made for the business I think this week I made the largest apparel purchase for the brand that I've ever done at one swoop.

00:26:28.003 --> 00:26:35.583
It's stressful to look at your list because you sit down and you take your inventory and say, okay, these are some of my popular items.

00:26:35.583 --> 00:26:36.499
I've got to fill these.

00:26:36.499 --> 00:26:40.505
I got to fix this Like you're trying to get full size runs on the shelf.

00:26:40.714 --> 00:27:12.428
You're trying to create a few new things and you're really trying to navigate the budget and massage the budget as much as you can and this is one of the biggest orders that I've ever made and we're now navigating through all the things that we have here that we can but patiently awaiting the arrival of all this merchandise and these designs, and then I literally have the biggest crunch session of pressing that I think I've ever given myself.

00:27:12.428 --> 00:27:15.318
It's going to be utter chaos.

00:27:15.579 --> 00:27:17.468
It's going to be tight, real tight this's going to be tight, real tight.

00:27:17.848 --> 00:27:18.290
This is one.

00:27:18.290 --> 00:27:27.361
I wish that I had set us up with two heat presses and I could teach you how to press at the same time, because we could really sling some stuff if it was the two of us.

00:27:28.865 --> 00:27:30.147
Yeah, you need to clean up your office.

00:27:31.295 --> 00:27:37.454
Yeah, I mean we also we're talking about adding an office you know what I mean and then getting a little better, bigger option here.

00:27:37.454 --> 00:27:52.007
But I think for us to continue to move forward, we're going to have to find the time and the money to invest in, Because we could handle a heck of a lot more inventory if two of us were going strong on it.

00:27:52.007 --> 00:27:52.488
You know what I mean.

00:27:52.488 --> 00:27:56.266
Like, right now it's kind of a one-man gang on a lot of those things.

00:27:56.266 --> 00:27:59.144
But just interesting things to think about.

00:27:59.144 --> 00:28:08.523
There's all these other layers of the business that we want to try to add to the business, but it's hard to focus on any of those when you have to attack what's immediately in front of us.

00:28:08.644 --> 00:28:09.765
Yeah, we need a building.

00:28:09.765 --> 00:28:10.507
That's what we need.

00:28:12.148 --> 00:28:12.730
You ain't kidding there.

00:28:12.730 --> 00:28:14.420
The tough thing is, we found a few good ones.

00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:15.102
You ain't kidding there.

00:28:15.102 --> 00:28:16.486
The tough thing is, we found a few good ones.

00:28:16.486 --> 00:28:19.154
We just haven't been in a good financial spot to bite on them right now?

00:28:19.154 --> 00:28:22.506
Yeah, but it'll all work out.

00:28:24.615 --> 00:28:27.494
Yeah, we've been sizing up a couple of what are those?

00:28:28.056 --> 00:28:28.981
Contractor trailers or something.

00:28:28.981 --> 00:28:32.535
Yeah, like the contractor's offices we've looked at, I mean, we got our eyes on a few things.

00:28:32.535 --> 00:28:35.565
We need a different vehicle for the family, for the business and the family.

00:28:35.565 --> 00:28:41.556
That'll kind of do, do both.

00:28:41.556 --> 00:28:44.442
And, um, we need to add some storage in a second office, maybe a production type of scenario.

00:28:44.442 --> 00:28:46.386
So, um, yeah, we've got a lot on our plate.

00:28:46.386 --> 00:28:49.203
We just unfortunately can't afford any of that at the moment.

00:28:49.203 --> 00:28:59.227
But you will never afford those things If you don't think about those things and plan for those things and research those things and shoot for those things, because you have to set them as goals.

00:28:59.488 --> 00:29:00.569
That's what we do you have to.

00:29:00.674 --> 00:29:20.337
That's all you can do, and I know that we're going through some, uh, growing pains here, growing through those, but I feel, like the fact that we've navigated the dangerous waters that we have over the past you know year, I think that we're positioning ourselves for an amazing victory.

00:29:20.417 --> 00:29:21.039
I think so too.

00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:24.307
I think that there's bigger, brighter things on the horizon.

00:29:24.307 --> 00:29:28.286
We don't really sit back and think about all that.

00:29:28.286 --> 00:29:40.056
We have been through as a family and as a business since we started this business A lot, I mean, we actually started the business on the cusp of covid.

00:29:40.056 --> 00:29:41.760
We navigated the pandemic.

00:29:41.760 --> 00:29:43.326
We stayed in business.

00:29:43.326 --> 00:29:48.623
We've gone through the 2020 craziness we're on our second election as a business.

00:29:48.623 --> 00:29:52.114
We've gone through recessions and inflations.

00:29:52.114 --> 00:29:55.102
We've gone through unemployment unemployment.

00:29:55.102 --> 00:29:59.394
We've gone through crazy, freaking, just weather scenarios.

00:29:59.394 --> 00:30:03.707
We've lost some of the most important and closest people to us in our lives.

00:30:03.707 --> 00:30:08.606
We've navigated so much loss and so much difficult times.

00:30:08.606 --> 00:30:20.859
The fact that we are still in business and we still have an opportunity to grow this business just shows us that we should probably give ourselves a little more credit than we have been for our business, you know.

00:30:21.521 --> 00:30:22.363
Yeah, absolutely.

00:30:22.363 --> 00:30:32.828
And then to take the all the loss and everything the heartache, we've welcomed this little bundle of joy.

00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:36.000
It's crazy.

00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:48.001
I don't think that when we embarked on this journey like when I left the dealership and you left the vet's office and we were both unemployed that was what four or five years ago, yep.

00:30:48.462 --> 00:30:51.388
Because I've been at the office for four years.

00:30:51.694 --> 00:30:55.361
I think it was October 2019 that we left.

00:30:55.642 --> 00:30:59.749
Yep, because I started, november 1st was my first day.

00:30:59.749 --> 00:31:05.563
It was my anniversary date because I was out of work for a month.

00:31:07.425 --> 00:31:09.229
I know that we haven't set records.

00:31:09.229 --> 00:31:17.387
I know that we still haven't actually hit the first goal I set for myself as a business, like our first year gross number.

00:31:17.387 --> 00:31:18.230
We were close.

00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:20.061
We were real close last year.

00:31:20.061 --> 00:31:27.376
We've faded off a little bit this year, but I think we're about to make it back and hell or high water.

00:31:27.376 --> 00:31:31.508
I'm going to find a way to achieve that goal over the next couple of months after this fair.

00:31:33.915 --> 00:31:54.211
So we haven't rewritten the record books or set history here, but we got to give ourselves some credit for all the shit we've been through and to think back and say that like there's no way if in 2019, when both of us were out of work, if somebody asked us, like where do you see yourself in five years?

00:31:54.654 --> 00:31:58.317
This shit right here ain't at all what I would have said, ain't it?

00:31:58.317 --> 00:32:00.922
Ain't it.

00:32:00.922 --> 00:32:33.067
And then, in the midst of all the downtime, like we've been able to do and achieve and experience things that we never thought possible and and that's another thing that I'm actually thankful for with the business that we've adjusted our way of living quite a bit, but it also provided us a whole new way of living, you know, because just the opportunity, just the time, and those are the reasons why I'm hell bent on keeping the business active, because I feel like this is going to be a great opportunity for Paisley to grow and to learn and experience.

00:32:33.067 --> 00:32:54.080
So, man, there's just so much on our plates and so much to think about, but every time I get down and I'm stressed out, I think about the opportunity that's on our immediate forecast and the fact that, if we get through this, we're one step closer to keeping this going and active and growing for our little bundle of jewelry over there.

00:32:55.123 --> 00:32:55.503
I agree.

00:32:55.503 --> 00:32:58.028
I'm just watching her sleep.

00:32:58.028 --> 00:32:58.730
She's peaceful.

00:32:59.454 --> 00:33:01.323
Well, that's one of the things that put me in this predicament.

00:33:01.323 --> 00:33:05.335
I sat around on the couch and watched her sleep for a week and a half, and then now?

00:33:05.375 --> 00:33:07.038
Well, she's just so cute.

00:33:09.483 --> 00:33:10.105
She is cute.

00:33:10.105 --> 00:33:13.603
I'll tell you what she's so cute she cost me two weeks of work.

00:33:13.603 --> 00:33:15.623
I got to get my ass back to work.

00:33:15.623 --> 00:33:18.336
Today was cute.

00:33:18.336 --> 00:33:18.979
She cost me two weeks of work.

00:33:18.979 --> 00:33:19.741
I gotta get my ass back to work.

00:33:19.741 --> 00:33:20.223
Today was a good day.

00:33:20.223 --> 00:33:32.980
Brought my mom to work at 5 30 and then went right to work and we just got some shit done and, uh, I'm ready to close my eyes and and rub my thighs and go to sleep, but me too, but we're about to kick this man with jam into overdrive.

00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:33.359
You know what I?

00:33:34.020 --> 00:33:36.683
mean you might be Okay.

00:33:38.164 --> 00:33:44.570
As we sit here on an impromptu like reminiscence Is that a word?

00:33:44.570 --> 00:33:47.441
Reminiscence, reminiscent, reminisce.

00:33:47.441 --> 00:34:18.505
As we be sitting here reminiscing y'all about the past four or five years and the business and all we've gone through, all we've grown through, maybe I find myself in this frame of mind where I want to recall and look back and pat ourselves on the back, because this is a time for reflection, considering I don't know what day it is right now.

00:34:18.715 --> 00:34:20.000
This is the 17th.

00:34:20.461 --> 00:34:22.778
Okay, so this is going to drop on the 18th.

00:34:22.778 --> 00:34:29.123
If you're a Winning Wednesday weekly listener, like if you listen on the dot- Mm-hmm.

00:34:29.123 --> 00:34:34.824
But then the following day, the 19th Yep, 9-19, y'all.

00:34:36.365 --> 00:34:37.168
That's my birthday.

00:34:37.869 --> 00:34:38.750
Yeah, it is.

00:34:38.750 --> 00:34:40.556
So maybe I mean, is it?

00:34:40.556 --> 00:34:50.090
Are we just wired as homo sapiens, as the humanoids, as creatures?

00:34:50.090 --> 00:34:57.148
Are we just wired to reflect when our birthday is upon us?

00:34:57.434 --> 00:34:58.400
Yeah, every time.

00:35:00.016 --> 00:35:01.623
It's funny you say that because I've been here.

00:35:01.623 --> 00:35:13.842
I have no plan, no intention of reflecting on the business, thinking back on things and where we were five years ago, it just happened naturally, just bubbled up, just happened naturally, just act natural.

00:35:13.842 --> 00:35:18.043
And then I realized it's my birthday.

00:35:18.043 --> 00:35:27.505
So maybe that's just that pre-programmed reaction that I need to self-reflect on life and where I am and the fact that I'm 40, damn too Mm-hmm.

00:35:28.536 --> 00:35:30.943
Paisley and I are so excited to give you your birthday present.

00:35:31.750 --> 00:35:32.476
Don't spoil it.

00:35:32.476 --> 00:35:34.936
You're the worst at keeping secrets when it comes to presents.

00:35:34.936 --> 00:35:35.777
I know, I know.

00:35:35.817 --> 00:35:37.639
It's because my love language is gift giving.

00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:46.588
It is I have a problem and this just came so random.

00:35:47.088 --> 00:35:49.371
Don't even elaborate on it, because I'm going to figure it out.

00:35:49.490 --> 00:35:50.112
No, you're not.

00:35:50.112 --> 00:35:54.644
I'm telling you you definitely won't, unless you were perusing through my phone.

00:35:54.644 --> 00:36:07.702
I mean, you have my lock password so I'm not really worried about it, but I will say so unexpected here's one of the things that's dumb about um, like technology.

00:36:08.041 --> 00:36:15.409
I'm not saying this has happened because it hasn't, and I haven't been like on social media, but how annoying is it that if you look at something, then all of a sudden it'll show up on my timeline.

00:36:15.409 --> 00:36:17.835
Or if I look at something, then all of a sudden it'll show up on my timeline.

00:36:17.835 --> 00:36:25.063
Or if I look at something, yes, like we always know when the other person is like curiously thinking about a poor decision.

00:36:25.063 --> 00:36:29.117
You know, yeah, you're like dude, are you looking at trucks right now?

00:36:29.117 --> 00:36:30.001
Or you know what I?

00:36:30.061 --> 00:36:32.110
mean, or I'm like have you been shopping for campers?

00:36:32.110 --> 00:36:37.038
Yeah, because it'll just like all of a sudden now your timeline is full of four excursions.

00:36:37.137 --> 00:36:41.400
You know, this happens, like every time we start searching for things.

00:36:41.860 --> 00:36:43.342
Especially around the holidays.

00:36:43.422 --> 00:36:46.465
Yes, well, that's my point Like it ruins surprises for people.

00:36:46.465 --> 00:36:55.130
So I just think, like I get it, like the whole mission is to sell shit to people and I understand it, but it ruins surprises.

00:36:55.130 --> 00:37:01.858
Mm-hmm, but it ruins surprises, don't worry, I'm so busy that there's no way I'll be on a timeline and I'll see something, but I just wanted to comment on that.

00:37:01.858 --> 00:37:03.043
I think that's bullshit.

00:37:03.304 --> 00:37:03.644
I agree.

00:37:06.295 --> 00:37:20.543
I guess, when you get to this point of age though I don't really feel like birthdays, like they don't mean as much to me anymore Like I feel like I've crossed a point where, like I don't even think about them, you know, maybe like I've crossed a point where, like I don't even think about them, you know, um, maybe you think about the big ones.

00:37:20.543 --> 00:37:21.266
I thought about 40.

00:37:21.266 --> 00:37:25.179
I didn't think about 41, and for half a year or so I was telling everybody I was 42.

00:37:25.179 --> 00:37:30.356
Anyways, like I say, I like I bought myself a year Cause I guessed the wrong age for almost a full year.

00:37:30.356 --> 00:37:33.541
I'm sure, when I get to 50, I'll really think about things.

00:37:33.541 --> 00:37:52.076
I don't like to spend too much time thinking about my age, cause then I think about, like people that we care about, people we love, and then when we lost them and you start to like draw parallels like I lost my brother when he was, you know, like 50, like you start thinking about those things and you're like oh my God, man, I don't want to.

00:37:53.438 --> 00:37:55.581
I feel like I'm just getting my life started here.

00:37:55.581 --> 00:38:06.188
There's a new chapter, a new book being written about my life right now, since we've welcomed Paisley, and I don't want to think about closing that book anytime soon.

00:38:06.188 --> 00:38:13.688
I feel like there's a whole new world of challenges and opportunities that have been provided to us.

00:38:13.688 --> 00:38:23.199
The fact that I get to start this book after 42 years, I think, is pretty remarkable, scary as all hell.

00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:33.018
But oh hey, pay what up, girl, what you doing I'm just checking in on the world smiling.

00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:35.583
Join the podcast, as long as she doesn't start freaking out.

00:38:35.603 --> 00:38:37.646
Just keep it cool kid, she probably will.

00:38:38.329 --> 00:38:38.909
Keep it cool.

00:38:39.614 --> 00:38:43.123
She's got daddy's temper and mama's attitude.

00:38:43.746 --> 00:38:44.246
It ain't good.

00:38:45.737 --> 00:38:47.043
We are screwed.

00:38:47.135 --> 00:38:48.802
I'm already worried dude Me too.

00:38:49.054 --> 00:38:54.804
I am already worried Me too, that little like uh, uh, that she already does.

00:38:54.804 --> 00:39:02.922
When she tries to do something and she can't figure it out and she freaks the hell out.

00:39:02.943 --> 00:39:08.661
Yeah, it's that pout like for me, it's the fits of rage when she's trying to accomplish something on her own and she can't.

00:39:08.661 --> 00:39:12.914
I have that ski, that skill set currently.

00:39:12.914 --> 00:39:15.300
You know what I mean yeah, yeah, you freak out.

00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:16.302
Out.

00:39:16.342 --> 00:39:16.461
Oh.

00:39:16.643 --> 00:39:17.264
I am nervous.

00:39:17.264 --> 00:39:18.326
She has your patience.

00:39:18.927 --> 00:39:31.420
I feel like she might have acquired how do I frame this politely for the both of us the worst qualities that either one of us possess.

00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:33.963
She already grabbed both of those.

00:39:34.715 --> 00:39:35.237
Yep, I am scared shitless.

00:39:35.237 --> 00:39:36.483
Yeah, she has zero, both of those Yep, by the horns.

00:39:36.503 --> 00:39:37.286
I am scared, shitless.

00:39:39.333 --> 00:39:39.434
Yeah.

00:39:39.914 --> 00:39:43.661
She has zero patience, none and a shitty attitude.

00:39:44.456 --> 00:39:45.119
Not always.

00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:48.884
Not always Just when she's hungry or has a wet diaper.

00:39:48.934 --> 00:39:54.400
When she's in a mood or she's trying to accomplish something that she can't quite figure out yet, because she's two weeks old.

00:39:54.400 --> 00:40:00.112
And she thinks that she's in weeks old she gets sassy and angry, oh my God.

00:40:00.112 --> 00:40:10.039
Yeah, I said to you the other day she was having a freak out, when we were like trying to feed her and change her and I was like how soon is too soon to call the counselor?

00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:30.271
You know, she's over there just throwing her ones up like a trooper she's looking at you like I can't believe that I'm a first-time dad at 42, but what I will say is there was no chance.

00:40:30.554 --> 00:40:40.188
I was prepared to be a first-time dad at 32 oh fuck, no, like to think, I mean well, I am 32, so hello.

00:40:40.188 --> 00:40:47.967
But like to think even let's just be honest, like going back to your point, like where would we be five years ago?

00:40:48.295 --> 00:40:50.621
like, or where I couldn't have done this five years ago.

00:40:50.621 --> 00:40:52.465
No, me neither me neither.

00:40:52.606 --> 00:40:53.215
That's what I'm saying.

00:40:53.235 --> 00:41:20.141
Like, even like two years ago, like, let's just be honest, like we, I feel like we've both had so much time to like grow and like develop as a couple as like a team, and so, with that being said, like I mean we talk about like things happen for a reason and timing is it.

00:41:20.686 --> 00:41:29.179
It's all about the timing and I mean I couldn't have even thought of a better timing than where we're at right now.

00:41:29.179 --> 00:41:46.168
Like, to be honest, they always say, like you know when you're, you're never ready to have a kid, but I feel like, in some way, shape or form, like mentally, like we were, we were ready yeah, you know what I mean.

00:41:46.168 --> 00:42:20.106
Like we had done our homework, we had done our work with ourselves that had prepared us to be parents, in the sense that, like, it's okay for us to bring a child into this world, but at the like, of course, we're not going to know what the fuck we're doing, like children don't come with a rule books or you know a manual of any sort, but I think that, like, because we've gotten to a good place in our lives, this is all manageable.

00:42:20.809 --> 00:42:35.016
Yeah, it's one of those things where I think we're handling things so much easier than we would have, because, by giving ourselves the time that we have, we're just that much more prepared.

00:42:35.016 --> 00:42:46.597
You're never fully prepared, but I know that the way we've reacted to these high stress, low sleep situations five years ago wouldn't have gone this way, oh God, no, ten years ago wouldn't have gone this way.

00:42:46.597 --> 00:42:49.887
Oh God no 10 years ago, I wouldn't have dreamed of going this way.

00:42:50.769 --> 00:42:50.869
No.

00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:58.487
I just feel like for me I've made this mental shift in my mind that just says like you're a grown ass man.

00:42:59.050 --> 00:42:59.474
Figure it out.

00:43:00.059 --> 00:43:01.021
Yeah, and that's it.

00:43:01.021 --> 00:43:01.523
You know what I mean.

00:43:01.523 --> 00:43:14.329
Like I had the episode not too long ago where I said and it literally I was talking on the podcast and I mentioned changing the way in your mind that you ask yourself a question, and I had that whole rant about Triple H asking are you ready?

00:43:14.329 --> 00:43:17.630
Yeah, and it's the truth, because it just reframed the question in my mind.

00:43:17.630 --> 00:43:24.771
And when I see people on TV or I see people in public, like we just had a doctor's appointment.

00:43:24.771 --> 00:43:25.753
We went to go see Christine.

00:43:25.753 --> 00:43:32.202
There was a couple that came out.

00:43:32.222 --> 00:43:39.143
Remember, I looked at you and I didn't see the baby at first and I literally thought, oh, they're young enough to still have, like, the pediatric office.

00:43:39.143 --> 00:43:40.166
Yep, you know what I mean?

00:43:40.166 --> 00:43:41.949
Yeah, because you can go to that.

00:43:41.949 --> 00:43:42.831
This is their doctor.

00:43:42.831 --> 00:43:46.550
That's what I thought Like I'm like, oh, this is their doctor, they're still kids.

00:43:47.141 --> 00:44:04.594
And then I saw him like hold the door for her and I was like, oh shit, there's a baby and I'm looking at it and I'm like, and I looked at you and said we're going to be all right, it's true, but the point is is in my mind when I see that, whether they're doing a great job or not.

00:44:04.594 --> 00:44:09.204
My instant reaction is I'm a grown ass man, I'm going to figure it the fuck out.

00:44:09.204 --> 00:44:18.530
And there's not a lot of people, or there's a lot less of the population, that start having kids at our age than younger.

00:44:18.530 --> 00:44:19.452
You know what I'm saying?

00:44:19.452 --> 00:44:24.217
Like I think that there's been a shift in society where people are having kids older.

00:44:24.217 --> 00:44:33.871
Like I feel like that's starting to become a little bit more common, but there are still a lot more people having kids in their early twenties than there are their thirties and forties.

00:44:33.992 --> 00:44:34.353
You, know yeah.

00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:43.914
But I'm not saying that I'm, that I am, uh, the most mature of individuals, but I'm a grown ass man.

00:44:43.914 --> 00:44:46.806
I'm going to figure it out and I'm also going to make this confession.

00:44:46.806 --> 00:44:49.148
I'm going to put my hand on the Cabela's catalog.

00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:50.063
Eye to the sky.

00:44:50.063 --> 00:44:52.905
Yep, the truth from the sky.

00:44:53.320 --> 00:45:06.065
You know it, full confession mode Up until, like the past few months, like as the impending birth became closer.

00:45:06.065 --> 00:45:30.992
Up until then, in my entire life I never envisioned myself not being at a party, not being in a bar, not being like on the road chasing dreams, like I always thought the thing that was going to keep me from having kids was the desire to always be at the bar, to always be the center of attention, to always be out late at night.

00:45:30.992 --> 00:45:36.873
I never thought of myself as the one that was like on the couch with the little one at seven o'clock.

00:45:36.873 --> 00:46:01.710
I never envisioned that for myself until now, and it's scary to see and to say, but like I don't even want to go to the bar on Friday and DJ Cause, I'm going to leave my child to go to the bar Like it's, it's weird, I've never in a million years would have thought of that, and you know the whole thought process of leaving my child and going on the road to like bike weeks and all these things to keep the business running.

00:46:02.311 --> 00:46:05.829
That's scary too, Cause I know this is all really new, but I don't.

00:46:05.829 --> 00:46:12.293
I don't really see myself like not wanting to be, like I have a hard time seeing myself wanting to be away from home.

00:46:12.460 --> 00:46:13.461
You know what I mean, right.

00:46:13.983 --> 00:46:20.784
And I'm totally content with working my ass off at home and then getting what time I have with her.

00:46:20.784 --> 00:46:41.693
But it's tough when it's like okay, I only have so much time with my daughter and I have so much stuff to do For me to carve any time out of that and then spend it at a bar like it's not a priority for me anymore and that should scare anybody listening because that's always been a priority of mine.

00:46:42.454 --> 00:46:42.695
Right.

00:46:43.340 --> 00:46:52.610
I've never embarked on a relationship where I wasn't like I hope you're okay with me doing whatever the fuck I want to do, because, like this is this is me.

00:46:52.610 --> 00:46:58.110
Like you have to be okay with me hosting wet t-shirt contests.

00:46:58.110 --> 00:47:05.788
You have to be okay with me wanting to be out till three in the morning and nothing about me says that like like I don't want you to be with me.

00:47:05.788 --> 00:47:16.309
Like I encourage you to be with me, but like I need my partner to be okay with like doing wild and crazy stuff and living this college lifestyle all the time.

00:47:16.309 --> 00:47:22.023
So for me to be turning 42 and realizing you know what I'm.

00:47:22.023 --> 00:47:26.068
Uh, I'm okay with the couch that I was crazy.

00:47:26.088 --> 00:47:30.135
I mean, for the last 10 years that we've been together.

00:47:30.135 --> 00:47:30.755
That's what we did.

00:47:30.755 --> 00:47:34.045
That's exactly what we did.

00:47:34.045 --> 00:47:40.172
We stayed up, we partied, we did all the things and we got out of our system.

00:47:40.172 --> 00:47:40.873
We traveled.

00:47:41.541 --> 00:47:42.947
I don't think it's all out of my system.

00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:56.396
No but I'm saying like, and I mean there was times when I was just like, please get out, go do something so that I can watch, sit on the couch and watch trashy TV or do something on my own.

00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:10.005
Yeah, I think that I've always had this desire to be like on the microphone in front of a crowd, entertaining and drinking and doing all this crazy stuff, and I feel like I've lost a lot of that, like she's matured me already.

00:48:10.005 --> 00:48:14.987
The thought of becoming a dad, that process, like I don't know if I want to continue doing those things.

00:48:14.987 --> 00:48:17.306
I'm going to be honest, I don't know if I want to continue to do those things.

00:48:17.306 --> 00:48:21.201
That's why I said come out Friday night because it could be my last night doing this.

00:48:21.201 --> 00:48:24.541
I don't really know, I'm not prepared to make that decision right away.

00:48:24.541 --> 00:48:26.643
I don't really know I'm not prepared to make that decision right away.

00:48:26.643 --> 00:48:41.150
The things that I still want to do is like I still want to go to Nashville, tennessee, for long weekends or for a week and hit all the freaking bars on Broadway and show a bunch of freaking college kids how to drink.

00:48:41.251 --> 00:48:43.711
I want to take the random trips to Texas.

00:48:43.711 --> 00:48:47.434
I want to walk through the stockyards and go to rodeos.

00:48:47.434 --> 00:48:48.855
I still want to do those things.

00:48:48.855 --> 00:48:58.702
But spending all my nights at a local bar, like being a honky-tonk hero for the locals, like no offense.

00:48:58.702 --> 00:49:00.628
I love all y'all, but like I don't know if I have that in me anymore.

00:49:00.668 --> 00:49:00.889
Right.

00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:07.510
Man, that's a 42-year-old confessional right there man I next thing.

00:49:07.550 --> 00:49:20.172
I know I'm gonna need metamucil and back pills I have a question how are you feeling with this whole like two-week adjustment and transition, being like a new dad like you asked me the question.

00:49:20.172 --> 00:49:25.143
I'm curious what your well, I think what your thought process is.

00:49:26.264 --> 00:49:29.224
So first thing, I kind of talked about some of that just a minute ago.

00:49:29.224 --> 00:49:33.208
With connecting that there's been a major mental shift for me.

00:49:33.427 --> 00:49:37.969
And a lot of people are going to be like hey man, you're overreacting, you do this all the time.

00:49:37.969 --> 00:49:43.574
But it's true, there's a part of me that has changed and a philosophy in me that has changed.

00:49:43.574 --> 00:49:49.336
Like if anybody of my friends called me right now, I was like hey man, I need you to come to the bar.

00:49:49.336 --> 00:49:57.840
Like you know what, I would say no man, I'm not doing it.

00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:03.047
That's a major difference in me and that's part of like her being here and me making an adjustment, because people that are listening they don't really like know me intimately.

00:50:03.047 --> 00:50:11.820
That to my closest friends is going to sound like I told them I was moving to Canada.

00:50:12.503 --> 00:50:13.083
You know what I mean.

00:50:13.105 --> 00:50:14.748
This is true.

00:50:14.748 --> 00:50:18.036
That is absurd to most people.

00:50:18.036 --> 00:50:20.280
So there's been that part.

00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:27.715
Part of this adjustment to her has been me adjusting to a mental shift in my mind that tells me I'm a dad.

00:50:28.219 --> 00:50:28.340
Yeah.

00:50:29.603 --> 00:50:38.271
Now, the other side of that is like we kind of talked about, like the early part of being a dad and being adjust, you know, adjusting to everything.

00:50:38.271 --> 00:50:41.664
This early phase is all about mom.

00:50:41.664 --> 00:50:42.547
You know what I mean.

00:50:42.547 --> 00:50:47.740
All the difficult tasks is about you, about mom.

00:50:47.740 --> 00:50:48.161
You know what I mean.

00:50:48.161 --> 00:50:49.164
All the difficult task is about you.

00:50:49.164 --> 00:50:49.664
Who she wants is you.

00:50:49.664 --> 00:50:50.146
You know what I mean.

00:50:50.146 --> 00:50:54.603
Like, I get my time, but, um, the adjustment, the difficulty, all that stuff is more on you than it is on me.

00:50:54.603 --> 00:50:59.652
Um, for me it's just trying to remain calm.

00:50:59.652 --> 00:51:11.911
And high stress situations, trying to remain positive when it's easy to be negative, um, those have been like my, my things, you know, trying to support you as much as I can.

00:51:11.931 --> 00:51:33.711
Like, I want you to feel like you're supported, I want you to feel like I'm there for you, like there has been a couple of times when I didn't even know you two got up you know, like you are up before she makes a noise and then you're on the couch and I just happen to roll over and be like where is everybody, you know, and I try to pull myself out of the slumber and come out and just see if there's anything I can do.

00:51:33.711 --> 00:51:38.007
Yeah, I think you do a great job with that I feel supported.

00:51:39.784 --> 00:51:46.248
I couldn't ask for a better partner, and I understand that there are certain things that you can't do.

00:51:46.248 --> 00:51:59.045
You don't have tits, we can't milk you, but I mean there are other things that you do to kind of make up for that and I'm super grateful for that.

00:51:59.045 --> 00:52:06.467
And you have no problems changing diapers, getting a bottle ready or just holding her so I can take a poop.

00:52:07.028 --> 00:52:07.871
Yeah, well, there you go.

00:52:07.871 --> 00:52:08.552
Poops are important.

00:52:08.552 --> 00:52:11.030
Thankfully you can't poop with a bone.

00:52:11.030 --> 00:52:11.976
You know what I mean.

00:52:11.976 --> 00:52:12.679
That's right.

00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:14.387
We wouldn't be in the situation that we're in.

00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:16.987
We'd be in a weird situation.

00:52:17.507 --> 00:52:17.789
We would.

00:52:17.789 --> 00:52:36.706
I think that one of the difficulties for new dads in the beginning is that you're and most of what I've experienced is the knowing and accepting the fact that you're not going to be perfect Like knowing and accepting that you're not going to be fully adequate.

00:52:37.329 --> 00:52:57.570
You know, what I mean, like accepting the fact that, like, there's things that my new child wants that I have no chance of fulfilling, there's things that you need to do that I have no ability to help, and it's balancing the fact, or balancing the ability to say to you there's nothing I can really do, but I'm here, at least I'm asking.

00:52:57.570 --> 00:52:59.563
I don't know what else to do you have to make.

00:52:59.563 --> 00:53:04.762
That's been one of the most difficult things is there's so many times where I just can't do anything.

00:53:04.862 --> 00:53:05.282
There's nothing.

00:53:05.342 --> 00:53:07.467
I can actually do in that moment.

00:53:07.507 --> 00:53:21.943
And that part is is difficult, and I know that those tides will change in the future and there might be times when I'm sure she's gonna go through a phase where, like, dad's the only one that can take care of something you know what I mean and then you're gonna have to make that adjustment.

00:53:22.023 --> 00:53:26.052
You know, like we, there's a cycle for for parents and for kids that we go through.

00:53:26.052 --> 00:53:38.769
But in the beginning for me it's just like doing the best I can to show you that, um, that I'm trying and that I want to be here for you, even though I can't really do a lot of the things that she needs me to do.

00:53:38.769 --> 00:53:48.086
So that's like a it's a hard balancing act that you played mentally as a dad in the beginning.

00:53:48.086 --> 00:53:58.744
You know, and I've had a lot of other dads reach out to me when this was, you know, before the birth and saying like, hey, man, you're gonna feel rather useless at times, you know, and you're gonna feel that like, no matter how hard you're trying, you don't make a difference.

00:53:58.744 --> 00:54:03.563
But as soon as mama shows up like it's, everything's good again, you know what I mean.

00:54:03.563 --> 00:54:08.000
So, like everybody told, you know, I just had to experience it for myself.

00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:08.481
And.

00:54:09.824 --> 00:54:15.728
I feel like we already have the connection and there's things that I can do, like I've been able to diffuse some situations and stuff like that.

00:54:15.728 --> 00:54:17.327
So that's, yeah, makes me feel good.

00:54:17.327 --> 00:54:34.967
But, to answer your question, I think it's the mental perspective that I have for myself and then, you know, just adjusting to the fact that, like I can't fix everything, I can't make everything better, and I just have to be okay with that, and that's been a challenge.

00:54:34.967 --> 00:54:36.333
But I feel like I'm getting through it.

00:54:36.353 --> 00:54:36.760
You know what I mean.

00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:38.748
Yeah, oh boy.

00:54:38.748 --> 00:54:41.702
Well, I think it's about that time.

00:54:41.802 --> 00:54:44.063
Sparrow, sparilla, here she comes.

00:54:45.387 --> 00:54:46.210
Goodness.

00:54:46.210 --> 00:54:49.648
Well, I think we got a pretty well-rounded episode here.

00:54:49.648 --> 00:54:50.255
You know what I mean.

00:54:50.275 --> 00:54:52.688
Yeah, paisley, just wanted you to know that she's here too.

00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:56.686
Yeah, and she's about ready for us to be done, so she can get our attention.

00:54:56.686 --> 00:55:00.244
And your reward for a great episode is you can have one of them brownies right there.

00:55:00.485 --> 00:55:00.987
Oh, thank you.

00:55:00.987 --> 00:55:03.965
I've been sizing them up this whole time.

00:55:04.184 --> 00:55:05.047
For the people listening.

00:55:05.047 --> 00:55:06.931
That's not a hippie brownie okay.

00:55:07.393 --> 00:55:07.492
No.

00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:08.862
That's not no tie-dye.

00:55:08.862 --> 00:55:10.750
Psychedelic brownie over there, that ain't got nothing in it.

00:55:10.750 --> 00:55:12.708
Ain't no funky bunches in there okay.

00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:16.588
That ain't no hippie brownie, that's a surefire fat kid brownie right there.

00:55:16.619 --> 00:55:18.202
That's nothing but pure chocolate and good.

00:55:18.603 --> 00:55:19.244
From Shaw's.

00:55:19.643 --> 00:55:22.387
Shaw's yeah, my mama's workplace, workplace.

00:55:22.387 --> 00:55:28.115
But, you earned yourself that fat kid brownie over there and if I was you, I'd have lathered that son of a bitch up in peanut butter.

00:55:28.780 --> 00:55:29.824
Well, maybe I might.

00:55:30.219 --> 00:55:31.204
I'm thinking about doing the same thing.

00:55:31.204 --> 00:55:35.360
The only downside to this decision is there's no milk in that fridge other than your breast milk.

00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:36.806
You ain't drinking that.

00:55:36.806 --> 00:55:42.387
If you come to our house and you see a Harris Farm gallon of milk in there, don't drink it.

00:55:45.344 --> 00:55:46.748
Yes, don't For the baby, if you did.

00:55:47.661 --> 00:55:54.474
But on that note, we want to say thank you for supporting our American dream.

00:55:54.474 --> 00:55:55.340
You're supposed to come in here.

00:55:55.340 --> 00:55:57.547
You can wash your fucking hands.

00:55:57.567 --> 00:55:58.570
You're a little savage.

00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:00.204
Don't swear in front of the baby.

00:56:01.168 --> 00:56:01.528
Earmuffs.

00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:03.981
That's it and that's all Biggie Smalls.

00:56:03.981 --> 00:56:30.489
If you're a Loud Proud American and you find yourself just wanting more, find me on YouTube and Facebook at Loud Proud American, or the Face page, as my mama calls it.

00:56:30.489 --> 00:56:33.539
If you're a fan of the Graham Cracker, you want to find me on Instagram.

00:56:33.539 --> 00:56:37.692
Or all the kids are tickety-talking on the TikTok.

00:56:37.692 --> 00:56:45.146
You can find me on both of those at Loud underscore, proud underscore, proud underscore American.

00:56:45.146 --> 00:57:01.119
A big old thank you to the boys from the Gut Truckers for the background beats and the theme song for this year's podcast.

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If you are enjoying what you're hearing, you can track down the Gut Truckers on Facebook.

00:57:06.068 --> 00:57:07.646
Just search Gut Truckers.

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Give them, motherfuckers, a like too.

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I truly thank you for supporting my American dream.

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Now go wash your fucking hands, you filthy savage.

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