In The Booth with Shawn Booth
You may know Shawn Booth from The Bachelorette, you may know him as a fitness guy who owns a gym in Nashville, or you may just know his dog, Walter.
Tune in as Shawn sits down with people from all walks of life: artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, military personnel, badass moms, fitness professionals, and everything in between. You'll hear motivational stories, healthy habits that lead to success, relationship tips, and more.
However you know him, you'll get to know the real Shawn and his guests right here on In The Booth.
In The Booth with Shawn Booth
Fatherhood, Puppy Parenting, and Tour Life
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This episode was recorded just hours before Shawn's trip to the hospital with Dre to have their baby!
We welcome SamCat back as she takes a few days off from tour life and Producer Andrew shares a wild story about him and his wife attempting to surprise each other with dogs from the same breeder. Shawn and SamCat somehow end up diving into a conversation about iconic Hollywood roles and how they shaped the actors' careers. Ever wondered how Matthew Perry or Daniel Radcliffe navigated their careers post 'Chandler' and 'Harry Potter' respectively? Well, we've got you covered.
As we forge ahead, we discuss the emotional rollercoaster called parenting (Hint: It has more loops than you can anticipate!). Shawn shares his journey into fatherhood, touching on the preparation, the anxiety, and the pure joy it brings. As we wind down, we couldn't help but ponder over the intriguing concept of reincarnation and old souls.
So, whether you're from Buttermilk, Kansas, Manhattan, New York City, or White House, Tennessee, we've got something for you in this fun episode!
Welcome back to In the Booth, and I'm Sean Booth and I'm officially a dad right now.
Speaker 3Heyo.
Speaker 2I haven't had the kid yet, but when you're listening to this, I am a dad, so that's pretty wild.
Speaker 3That is way to start it off, yeah it's going great.
Speaker 2So far. It's going fantastic. This week has been wild, but we are here and we are back. She is back, we got Andrew in the house, we got a fun episode for ya and, yeah, dre's going to get induced tonight in about eight hours, so no big deal.
Speaker 3You're awfully calm, you think so. Yeah, I feel like you would be a little more. Well, I guess eight hours is still Still got basically a whole work day ahead of you, so I could see how you can. You can't be anxious already, I guess, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2I'm anxious. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm anxious.
Speaker 3It has nothing to do with me, so yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is like one of the last things I got to do this podcast and I got to coach a class and then it's just like I'm going to take a nap.
Speaker 3Yeah right, You're going to take a nap. I'm going to try. That's a good joke.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm going to try, but hey, thanks for tuning in. Wherever you're from, maybe you're from Buttermilk, kansas, maybe you're from Manhattan, new York City, or maybe you're from White House, Tennessee. Thank you for tuning in to End the Booth. Here we go in the house. Right now she is back, she is with us. She is in a holiday sweater, turtleneck style. Looks like she should be on a Hallmark movie Red and also black pants, alligator boots and, the biggest surprise, if you're not watching on YouTube she's changed her hair color.
Speaker 3Oh, I was like what I mean?
Speaker 2it's a bold. It looks fantastic.
Speaker 3Thank you.
Speaker 2Beautiful, shiny. And what color is that?
Speaker 3I don't actually know the answer to that. This journey started at the end of the summer. I don't know if you've been paying attention you haven't but I just let my natural roots grow out. I was trying to figure out what my natural hair color is. I feel like the older I've gotten, the darker it's gotten. So it's just a little experiment. And then for the last six weeks I've had some sort of in-between muted blonde hair color which.
Speaker 3I think was more of my natural hair color. And then I went and I was like you know, I want to go one step darker. I wanted to have some milk chocolate on top and a caramel frappuccino on bottom. I have neither, but I don't know. I'm leaning into it. It's less ginger than it looked when I first got it done, so I'm adjusting.
Speaker 2Okay, we'll go with ginger cat though.
Speaker 3Okay, we'll go with that it is. It's ginger-ish yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like you're kind of like a seasonal Sam Adams beer. Right now you're a winter lager on your head.
Speaker 3You know what? I'm okay with that. I didn't really have any expectations but, like, I had an idea in my head and it didn't go that way. So I'm just trying to like be open-minded. I don't hate it and I'm learning to love it.
Speaker 2I love it. Okay, it's grown on me. It grew on me as soon as I saw you. It looks fantastic, thanks. And across the way, we got Andrew in the house. And Andrew has a fantastic story. He just got a puppy, him and his wife, but it's not the probably traditional way you would have think that you would get a puppy. So here he is. Welcome Andrew to the podcast. What up, what up, what up? You having to tell the story? I do? Yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1So my wife Lily is in PA School at Lipscomb. She graduates probably when this comes out and or she will have been graduated and we were both. Well, I was originally like, oh, I'm going to get her a puppy for graduation gift, because we've been talking about it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We want this English cream golden retriever, very specific dog. I look it up, I'm like, oh my gosh, perfect timing.
Speaker 1Pickup day at a breeder in White House, tennessee, which is 30 minutes north of Nashville. Pickup dates December 10th Couldn't be better timing, stars aligned. I put down a deposit, ready to rock and roll. I hate surprises. So I'm like multiple times. I'm like I'm just going to tell her that I'm getting her dog. There's so much going on in the season Bow stressed out. We go home for Thanksgiving, we're doing whatever random family stuff and as families do, we're like debating something and she's got to pull up her phone to do a Google search and when she does that, I'm behind her and I see her recently visited Pages for Daystar Goldens, which is the breeder site, and immediately my heart starts racing. I'm like what the heck?
Speaker 2You're like did she find out? How does she know?
Speaker 1Yeah, I go, what is that? And she immediately puts her phone down and is like oh, me and your mom were looking at comparing the dog that your parents have versus the dog that we want. And immediately I go I didn't say this a lot in my head, I'm like that's a lie.
Speaker 1For sure. And so I text the breeder, thinking that Lily has come in after me and put a deposit down I was like fourth pick of the dogs, Like she was going to be fifth or sixth and he immediately responds and goes call me. So I know something's up.
Speaker 1I call him and he essentially immediately caves yeah that guy explains the story, as Lily put a deposit down like five days before me and then, when I was like thinking about doing it, I'm putting the deposit down I called her dad, who was also aware that Lily was getting a dog and he calls the breeder, and essentially this whole plan to just like string me along unfolds for the next like month.
Speaker 1So I was supposed to get like a fake location to go to. He was telling me like and it wouldn't have mattered, I wouldn't have gone there because Lily's pickup time was like three hours before me, but he was like going to set like the location that he had originally told me was like out in East Nashville, and we ended up going to White House, which is north, and so he like played into it. But the second I pressed him on, like what's the what's going on? He immediately came and it was I don't want to keep this secret anymore, like you guys are trying to do the same exact thing and so he's like these guys are way too stressful for me, right now Like what are the?
Speaker 2chances of that, though the same breeder?
Speaker 1I know same breeder, same Like we both requested, like the female, there's five females and yeah, I mean within like days of each other. And he was laughing because we went through like the same checklist of like because we're going home to Michigan in a week and a half and she's too young to go to a kennel. And so we both asked him like separately, like would you be willing to take the dog back for a week while we're gone? And he was like sure, and there was like multiple other things where we had both like done our checks and balances in the like exact same order, and so it was ended up being fine and a fun experience.
Speaker 2Man, I wish he let that play out a little bit longer.
Speaker 1I don't know what he had to do was say no. I said, is she on the list? And all I had to do was say no and I would have just chalked it up to like oh yeah, she probably like was like poking around, and then that would have made my surprise. I would have gotten even more excited for the surprise because I'm like, oh, she's like thinking about it, but like isn't going to pull the trigger without like talking to me first.
Speaker 2Yeah, and you're going to be like we got a puppy from that exact website you were looking at. Yeah, and I was like what was your surprise going to be? How are you going to surprise her?
Speaker 1So my original plan was going to be to go pick the dog up on my own when she was so it actually would have been like today I would have done my pickup today while she's like wrapping up school, and then when she got home, the dogs would have been playing in the yard.
Speaker 2Okay, nice.
Speaker 1And she was going to and her surprise wouldn't have worked as well because she was going to try and bring me, she was going to try and get me out to White House, Tennessee, and just like tell, like just cause, like, oh, I have a surprise for you. We're like going 30 minutes north of town. I'm like I would have never done that. I would have never just like got in the car. I've been like all right.
Speaker 3Even for a surprise from your wife.
Speaker 1I mean, I would have done it, but I would have been like just tell me what's going on. Yeah, so I can like mentally prepare.
Speaker 2What would your first guess be if you were in the car going to White House, tennessee, and she's like, oh, we're just going for a ride.
Speaker 1I probably would have either figured out, dog, or we were like going to like we also need to buy a new car, like maybe we were going to look at cars, but dogs way better. Yeah, dogs way better.
Speaker 2Between.
Speaker 1Yeah, so she's just at home right now feeling, hopefully not breaking out of her crate, and I forgot how much we have this. So this is our second dog and I forgot how puppy stage is. Gee whiz, she's also tiny. When we got our dog Dax he was the same like eight or nine weeks old and he was double her size. Like I could take Dax when we got him like on walks around like the neighborhood at nine, 10 weeks old, this dog's the size of a football.
Speaker 2The cutest though. That's such a cool stage, it is fun, and so then you thought you were getting the fourth pick, so you ended up getting a earlier pick in the game.
Speaker 1We got an earlier pick in the game.
Speaker 2Number three I'm so weird.
Speaker 1This is our cause. You're like there was three left and it's like you look at all.
Speaker 2I know it's like how can you decide? Yeah, I know they're all perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 1They're all just like sweet little nuggets of fur, so I'm not going to, and then you're like rejecting them off of. Like well, this one's got a little bit finer fur.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1So we'll pass on her and it's like geez, we went with the one that has like kind of like Walter. Walter is an English golden retriever. Yeah, no. He's he's got to be. He's so low.
Speaker 2He's a low rider. Yeah, his dad's from Europe, but I feel like they consider the English cream golden retrievers, ones that are the bright white coat Right.
Speaker 1Yeah, I more think. I guess I don't actually know the difference between this. Somebody can fact check. But I always thought that the English golden retrievers like the year we're like that, would that just meant like European?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Which is like Walter's.
Speaker 2That's what Walter is.
Speaker 1And got like a boxy face. That's was the deciding factor for us. We just literally said to the breeder like which dog do you think of these three is going to have the boxiest face?
Speaker 2Yeah, We'll take that one. Yeah, and that's supposed to be the original golden retrievers from Europe. So those are like the original goldens. Everybody's always like why is Walter so low to the grounds? And I'm like that's normal. When they started breeding the American goldens, then their legs started getting longer and different narrow faces.
Speaker 1But I don't think they show like these dogs, like Walter you said, came from like.
Speaker 2His dad's a show dog named Mateo.
Speaker 1Yeah, this breeder doesn't even allow. So he the litter when you like the deposit down, like it doesn't matter how early you are, you could be the last guy to sign up, but if you're going to show the dog you immediately go to first. So he reserves the first pick male and female every litter for somebody who's going to show the dog.
Speaker 2Really.
Speaker 1And he basically waits until like the last minute.
Speaker 2What Can you just say? Yeah, I plan on showing the dog.
Speaker 1I think you have to show like some type of Thrification, all that stuff. But yeah, it's pretty wild. That's exciting. So like process.
Speaker 2We need to get Sam cat a dog when she's back from off the road.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't know. I feel like if I got a dog right now it would be child abuse, so I'm going to. I just know. Like he's saying, I think the idea of cuddling next to a dog every night when I go to sleep sounds awesome, but everything that comes with it it's like. Puppies aren't necessarily a gift unless everybody's willing to put in and take care of and it's like, too I'm hoping.
Speaker 1I don't remember exactly what that's, but I'm assuming it's like it's like a month of Like training and like stress and then they kind of like mellow out and you can trust them a little bit, yeah.
Speaker 2And especially with golden retrievers. They're so smart, the larger breed dogs they learn how to potty train like that first week.
Speaker 1Yeah. So, yeah, hopefully everything goes Smooth and quick. I'm like I enjoy the puppy phase but like I would love to fast forward like Three months and have her, you know, like the size She'll be when she's six months. All of the like Nonsense that we're going through now will be surpassed. You'll miss the cuddles, but like you can cuddle with them forever.
Speaker 2Yeah, you still cuddle with them. Yeah, yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Hopefully you bring her in here soon.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't know if Alex will.
Speaker 2Yeah. Walter came in here. His hair is probably still on the floor, but probably yeah. Yeah, but yeah, we'll get you a dog. Samcat, you said you've been a little seasonal, not depression.
Speaker 3You're just feeling off, maybe seasonal depression. I just have been. I feel like the last couple. Now it feels like months, but let's say several weeks. I've just been off, I've been. I mean, anybody who has heard me speak for more than 30 seconds know that I've been on tour all year. It is December. We were trying to do the math of how many days on the road we've had this year and it's like 150 maybe.
Speaker 1I don't know more.
Speaker 3It's just a lot and I think that there is a genuine just. Even if I worked a nine to five job, that was a little more quote unquote, normal. There's something to be said about end of year burnout and holiday burnout and just I don't know. I've been going, going, going. It feel like it's catching up to me.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think I'm going to chalk it up to just being burnt out.
Speaker 3I do feel. I mean, I do feel like that is. In a way I feel as though I've aged so much this year in the fact that I feel way more of a homebody than I've ever been, but then I also feel like it's because it's I've been away from my home more than I've ever been.
Speaker 3Right so it's almost like when I come home I'm like I don't want to do anything but lay on this couch and recharge, and it's been a lot. But I have one more solid weekend and then it kind of. I still have a lot of travel next year, but it will just be a lot different than what I did this year. So I'm hoping that this is just part of the learning curve.
Christmas Traditions and Future Touring Plans
Speaker 2Yeah, it could be. I think once Christmas rolls around, you get some rest, you'll be ready to go for the new year.
Speaker 3My favorite thing about Christmas is doing absolutely nothing. I go to my parents' house and it's like borderline criminal the amount of movement I do and I love it. I read I lay on the couch, it's just cozy.
Speaker 2Until Christmas Day, because I've seen Instagram stories, I feel like there's a lot of movement on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3There is a lot of yeah. Basically it starts with mimosas and my mom makes like a cinnamon roll cat cinnamon roll casserole thing.
Speaker 2Sure.
Speaker 3And then I force my family to play a drinking game with me to National, impune Christmas Vacation. Depending on how much we drink in the first time, I might make them play it again a second and then from there it's just like. Wherever the day takes us, we don't have any kids. Kids at our house, like our kids, are in their 20s and 30s. So we don't have any of the youngins. Those come over later in the day.
Speaker 2So, or Christmas Eve, I'm going to say probably not a good idea to have them come over later in the day.
Speaker 3Nah, we're pretty harmless. I mean it's chaos, but it's not like a blackout, like rager. But also those children are part of my family, so they'll see it eventually.
Speaker 2Yeah, they will. Well, what's your plan for 2024?
Speaker 3Oh, wow.
Speaker 2You still going to be going on the road. What's the future? Look like here.
Speaker 3Yeah, so I'll be with Old Dominion for the remainder of the remainder of we haven't even started but for the remainder of the touring season in 2024. I'm kind of taking it a year at a time. Right now I don't have, I have ideas, but I don't know that I've solidified any specific goals when it comes to touring. I've just tried to be as open and absorbent this year and learn as much as I can. But I am going to stay with Old Dominion through 24 of December for sure. But next year is more festivals, private shows, just a way different beast than right now. We are on a headlining tour. So the best way I can describe it is that this year I am the host of Thanksgiving every show we're hosting. Next year I'm showing up to a potluck and my responsibility is like roles.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 3So that's nice. The difference in the stress level and the difference in the hostess level is much, much different. So I'm interested and I'm excited to see that I don't know that side of touring, because I haven't really had that, that'd be a good little change. Yeah, I'm just trying to get to the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2What are you going to do next couple of weeks? What are some Christmas things? What we got here in Nashville? We got some the Grand Laudoperies, like the huge thing here where it's a massive hotel with.
Speaker 1Christmas lights this year.
Speaker 2Is it the Polar Express?
Speaker 3Yes, I heard that Did you go. Are you going to go?
Speaker 2No, I need to.
Speaker 3I was going to say that's your theme.
Speaker 2I've seen photos. Yeah, we can like hop on the train and get some hot chocolate.
Speaker 3It's geared towards children, much like a lot of the holiday adventures are. But also go and look at lights and hey, I have that excuse now. Watch kids having a good time, but like yeah it is magical to see that happen.
Speaker 2I'm going to take my infant to go to the Polar Express.
Speaker 3How long do you think it'll be until you take that little nugget out for an adventure?
Speaker 2I was talking about today at the gym, because we were saying that now is kind of a rough time to have a baby because it's so easy to get sick. Right, yes, it's a season of sickness. I have never, probably in the six years of owning the gym, have had more emails in the past like two weeks of people being like I am so sick, I can't come to class. I got something. I woke up feeling so sick and I feel like this year is worse than ever.
Speaker 3I agree.
Speaker 2So I don't know what the protocol is with an infant. I know, probably a couple of weeks at least, but I was like I want to start taking them everywhere and I'm adjusted. Not only do I want to do that, but now that my entire Instagram feed is just baby videos, for some reason probably because I'm crazy I've been seeing a lot of videos pop up on my explore page of babies in Scandinavia, where they just have them nap outside in the winter cold and it's apparently good for the babies. Okay, Like other countries, I think maybe Sweden, norway, norway they literally will have these videos of like 10 to 15 strollers outside of a building and they're all sleeping and they're like obviously you can't do that in the US because everybody's shitty and you can't trust anybody.
Speaker 2Somebody's gonna steal your kid. But a lot of people do that, apparently and I'm like I want all the research on that. I'll nap outside with them.
Speaker 3I have seen videos like that, but I would encourage you to do more research than just Instagram videos before you leave your child outside. Yeah, I'm not an expert in that field, but I do. I would say that there's definitely benefits to that. I know I've heard other things where they leave the children outside for sunlight to reduce jaundice, and I don't know what country that is, but I have seen that also on the internet. So I think that, yeah, nature heals.
Speaker 3I don't think that's a new concept, but I think that also, like you're saying, I don't know that America is the best place for you to experiment.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll sit outside with my baby and then my gun next to me, yeah right.
Speaker 3I've seen also not necessarily newborns, but in Japan they have like children go out and like grocery shop at a very young age. They go out and do like life admin skills without the supervision of adults, but just society as a whole identifies that they're a child and they try and like take care of them and make sure they get to their destination safe. There's like a whole I think it's Netflix has a whole series on it and first of all, toddlers are essentially just drunk adults, so that's hysterical to begin with, but then they're also trying to go out and get bananas or they have to go pick up the laundry or something. They take public transit. It's hysterical.
Speaker 2Basically like McCulloch-Hulkin and Home Alone. Right, he's a little bit younger.
Speaker 3But we've only had one McCulloch-Hulkin. This is like an entire country of that.
Speaker 2This is McCulloch-Hulkin season and I think I said it to you when we were doing the Halloween podcast, I think every year at Google what's McCulloch-Hulkin? Up to now, and now he popped up he was receiving some award.
Speaker 3He got his Hollywood star. Is that what it was? Yeah, he got his name and About time. They don't put handprints. Do they put handprints? That I'm.
Speaker 2Yeah, handprints and the Hollywood star.
Speaker 3So he got that honor a few weeks ago now, but Catherine O'Hara, who plays the mother in Home Alone, was there for him. And he called her mom and it was really cute. It was very emotional and McCulloch-Hulkin is now older than Catherine was when she played that role of being his mother, which is also insane to think about.
Speaker 2But the father really hurt. The father died, oh, really, yeah, oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, he died a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3It's weird to think about. You revisit these people, but they're stuck in a moment of time. You forget that they've all aged and some have passed away since then and people who probably see him.
Speaker 2I mean, that's his whole identity forever.
Speaker 3So let me ask you this I was actually talking about this with one of the guys on the road this weekend. We were talking about Matthew Perry. Rip has recently passed away and obviously everyone knows him as Chandler. If you were someone who got a role like that like, say, daniel Radcliffe went on to try or I don't wanna say try, but he did do Broadway afterwards but it's like, hey, man, you're Harry Potter. Would you lean into that and you're just like I am Harry Potter, or would you still continue to try to work outside the character?
Speaker 2I guess it depends. Everybody is always gonna view you as that person, so that's why it's tough for those guys to get more gigs after that. But he said to his credit and which probably helped him get other stuff is that Chandler was so him and that's why it worked Like that character was made for him and nobody else in the entire world. So I think he's lucky in that sense. But other actors, I mean I guess, like look at Leonardo DiCaprio. He was jacked from Titanic and went on to do a billion other movies.
Speaker 3But he was other things before that, like he had sitcom experience.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I feel Eating Gilbert Grape.
Speaker 3Yeah, those are huge movies Like I think that when you get into like a, you know, like Matthew Perry is, chandler is like that was a 10 year series. Harry Potter was a seven movie series plus books. It's like those are really really defined characters.
Speaker 2I don't know that you're ever gonna be you know like from one movie From one movie as opposed to every Monday night for 10 years. Yeah, that's a whole different ball game, for sure.
Speaker 3But then again I watch a lot of Hallmark movies around this time of year and one of the characters from Mean Girls which was, like when I was in high school, a huge movie Gretchen Weeners. Gretchen Weeners is in every single Hallmark movie. That's not her name, that's her character name from Mean Girls. So I am just basically lying to you as I'm saying like, oh, I don't think it's a one off movie thing.
Speaker 2Yeah. But I think when I notice people too and I'm trying to think in my head, it was somebody recently I'll be like, oh, that's so and so from there, from that movie. But then like five, 10 minutes later I won't even think about anymore because they're doing a good job at their new character.
Speaker 3Okay well you've completely skirted my question. So my question is if you were one of those actors like if you got the role of Ross Geller or Chandler Bing or Harry Potter would you be like ugh, or would you just lean into it and be like, yep, I've done seven years worth of work and I can live off this salary and I am Harry Potter for the rest of my life. Who cares?
Speaker 2I think you would probably want to do something different. I think it'll get old after a while. Yeah, I'm still Sean B from the Bachelorette, and that was seven years, eight, nine, 10 years ago.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And I'm like that was one season that long ago and I can't even imagine something like a Ross Geller.
Celebrities and Film Roles
Speaker 3I know, but that's so different. Like you were a moment in time of reality TV. Like, let's say, someone like Harry Potter, people are like, oh my God, I grew up reading your books. That's way different than a season of reality TV.
Speaker 2Yeah, I guess, what about Jen Anston? She's done everything after friends 100%.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying. Would you rather have that kind of trajectory?
Speaker 2I would rather have that you would Right.
Speaker 3See, I wouldn't, I was just like yeah, I'm Harry Potter.
Speaker 2Baby You're like yeah, fuck you, I'm Harry Potter. Yeah, I'm Harry Potter.
Speaker 3You never will be, and I'm going to rest on this income that I have. And just now you can build your own personal life without a focus of like financial or professional stress.
Speaker 2And you wouldn't want anything else. Nobody, no other roles, nothing. You're like unless I'm a cameo as Harry fucking Potter. Don't ask me to be.
Speaker 3No, that's not necessarily true, but I do feel like there's been publications or whatever talk about how people get really almost like negative towards it.
Speaker 1They what is the?
Speaker 3word I'm looking for they. They don't hate it, they resent it. They resent it, they resent it, they resentment.
Speaker 2You're walking down the street and people are like what's up, Chandler? And it's like, yeah, my name's actually Matt.
Speaker 3Yeah, but at the same time Chandler has awarded you Correct, he's awarded you the lifestyle that you get to live. So it's like I guess I'm not saying would I ever be interested in not acting again? No, I'm not saying that, but like I wouldn't be resentful towards it.
Speaker 2That's the word I was looking for. I think at some point you would If you were doing it for that long and you're like trying to get coffee or something somebody came up to you and then I would open my Chase Bank app and be like hey, harry, okay, what's up, chandler?
Speaker 3Yeah. That's got a lot of digits baby, and then I'd be like I'm Chandler, and then I'd move on.
Speaker 2You're out of Hungry Talk Central and everybody's like hey, harry, you're like. My name's not Harry, asshole, it's Samcat.
Speaker 3Until you get there, until you're in those shoes, I'm sure it's way easier for me to say sitting here, because I've never even come remotely close to having that experience, but I don't think that it would form resentment for me.
Speaker 2At least I would hope it would.
Speaker 3Yeah, what if you were a character like Now, if you're like on the Jersey Shore, yeah, I'd be like stop recognizing me.
Speaker 2No, if you were a character like Napoleon Dynamite or what's his face Bo-rat, bo-rat, he's good, then you know, like that guy's, this is me. It's a Bo-rat.
Speaker 3But it's also like that's a character I don't know. It's too broad of an idea.
Speaker 2I guarantee you what's his name From. Like the Goonies, here you go. Not him like the truffle shuffle. Oh yeah, have you seen him now.
Speaker 3He doesn't look like that anymore. I feel like you can easily, you can easily phase out of that Like that was a childhood star.
Speaker 2You don't look the same. You know who's exactly who you're talking about. Who resents stuff like that and gets pissed off? Jonah Hill, that's like a perfect example.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Because he's a very sensitive guy.
Speaker 3And. I feel like he's probably inscured, but isn't it insane to me, though, because Jonah Hill is, I can't. What is it gonna be? What movie, I guess, is what he's resentful for?
Speaker 2Superbad.
Speaker 3Superbad. So that's one movie. That is a one off, but I feel like he's had plenty of roles since then.
Speaker 2Yeah, but everybody thinks of him as like the overweight funny guy. Where then he went on to get in awesome shape. I was working out with him in New York City every day for like a few months. We were at the same boxing gym.
Speaker 3And we were he did. He lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I was in the boxing ring. I'm like, is that Jonah Hill right next to me? And I'm like, can I box him? And he was so lean and cut up and he was awesome. But then he started getting so much negativity for that Cause. People are like oh, you're not gonna be the funny guy anymore. And everybody's like I'm working on my health, I feel fantastic, assholes.
Speaker 3Thanks for asking, I'm still funny.
Speaker 2Thank you. And you see clips of like him on night shows and they're just being dicks to him.
Speaker 3I do feel like he's had a rough go. I feel, like he's been touch and go in the media in general for mental health struggles with. I mean listen, I cannot imagine the things that people say to celebrities on the internet like they're not even human will never not baffle me. So I can't imagine being the level of fame that he has. It's coming in every direction. You have to be a tough person to ignore that.
Speaker 2Yeah, and his brother passed away, and then he did the Netflix show with his therapist, which I thought was very well done, but then his ex-girlfriend came out and started blasting all his text messages all over the world and everybody's like fuck this guy.
Speaker 3And I just feel like, how alone does he feel?
Speaker 2Alone.
Speaker 3I don't know what his friend group or his family situation is, but I feel like, even if you have the best support system, when the whole world feels like it's coming down on you, it's probably not a good time?
Speaker 2Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3Dang, how do we get so sad?
Speaker 2Damn, what is one movie role? If somebody was like, hey, samcat, you're gonna be the star of a movie, what would you like the movie to be?
Speaker 3And what would the role be that you?
Speaker 2know you're gonna kill. That is a really good question, and it's like reality, like I have to have the skill set to be able to do it, or it's like oh, if somebody was holding a gun in your head and said you have to win this audition for this or pick any role to win an audition, what would you go to?
Speaker 3Oh my God, I've never thought of this in my life.
Speaker 2I'll go first, because I've thought about this.
Speaker 3I was like obviously, this is so specific and I usually have answers for your questions, to the edge or not.
Speaker 2I feel like I could be in a military movie, like a war movie, like a jarhead. I've watched so many movies with Jake Gyllenhaal. I'm like I could do that role.
Speaker 3Okay, but are you the lead? Being like what's that? Are you the lead role?
Speaker 2I could be the lead.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2But I'm saying like, I don't think. I think I can be something that's more of myself, and I think I could be somebody who's in the Marines, even though I've never been in the military.
Speaker 3Okay. But, but you could act like it, I could act like it.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah, and it's not. You know, I don't have to show a lot of emotion. Yeah, actually, probably a lot of emotion. You know those movies.
Speaker 3I always said I'm like I don't know. Yeah, I didn't think too far.
Speaker 2But I'm like I could put on, you know, some fatigues and be out in the desert and run around with a gun and act all tough and yeah.
Speaker 3I feel like you know, I don't necessarily have the skill set, but if I could be one character, it would be Forrest Gump.
Speaker 2That's, I mean, that's tough.
Speaker 3I know, but that's a first of all that's a fantastic movie.
Speaker 2It's like the most.
Speaker 3That's like the most famous movie ever Character of all time. Okay, you asked and I said does it have to be realistic?
Speaker 2Let me hear you sound like Forrest Gump.
Speaker 3No, that's what I'm saying. I don't have the skill set to do it, but if I could be any role, I would want it to be that.
Speaker 2No, I'm not saying if you want, I'm saying, if I had it going to your head, I know which role could I get, is what you're asking me.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't think I could get the Forrest Gump role, but I'd want it.
Speaker 2What about Mean Girls? You just talk about that movie.
Speaker 3Yeah, I could do Mean Girls. I could do. You know what? I would pick Reese Witherspoon's character in Sweet Home Alabama because Sweet Home Alabama is one of my favorite movies. It's not my number one favorite movie and I have watched it so much that I could probably do the whole movie as my audition. I think I know every word to that movie.
Speaker 2Yeah, I could do that. One People say I look like that guy. Do you think that?
Speaker 3Don't ruin that for me, john. Sorry, I've never thought about that till right now, Every time you watch Sweet Home Alabama.
Speaker 2now I gotta think of me. No, that's my favorite movie. Yeah, I could do that role. That dog in that movie is awesome too.
Speaker 3Boon.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Turns into Bryant, or Bryant turns into Boon, I don't know.
Speaker 2And what's his name Is?
Speaker 3Patrick Dempsey.
Speaker 2What's his no, what's his nurse name or his doctor name?
Speaker 3Mcdreamy Mcdreamy. Yeah, Mcdreamy's in it.
Speaker 2He was in Love Can't Buy your Thing right when he was super young. That movie was awesome.
Speaker 3I've never heard of that movie, but maybe what Am I at all.
Speaker 2Where he's like kind of a dork in the high school and he like cuts this girl's lawn, he falls in love with her and I think he pays her to pretend to be his girlfriend and then chance of falling in love with him.
Speaker 3That's a classic. It's a whole big thing. Romcom I don't think I've seen that, but I do love. I've heard mixed reviews on Patrick Dempsey as a human.
Speaker 2Really.
Speaker 3Which? What can you trust? These days to hear, but you know, I feel like he's still had a very successful career, so he can't be that bad.
Speaker 2you know, like he's been around, You're always gonna hear, no matter if you're the best person in the world, you're always gonna hear something negative or something completely misconstrued.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2That's just cause nobody wants to say all the good stuff, and then the people saying shit, I've probably done stuff way worse. It's a messed up world.
Speaker 3Especially when I feel like the hierarchy of working with an actor as big as Patrick Dempsey like he could have been having an off day in the substitute assistant production assistant of the assistant heard him say this coffee shit or something and they're like, oh God, patrick Dempsey is such a dead guy.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, it's like some add-on in the film who's? Literally in the room and he's like they had no really experience. Yeah, exactly, it's crazy. People like to jump to a lot of assumptions and conclusions without any facts, but that's the world we live in.
Speaker 3This is the world we live in, and I think in the world we live in I could be in Sweet Home, alabama, cause I can do a Southern accent, like I came down from Alabama.
Speaker 2Alabama.
Speaker 3That's Greenbow Alabama. See. Forrest Gump iconic, yeah, see.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right. Well, we got Forrest Gump and Harry Potter, two roles that Sam Cat wants to take on.
Speaker 3I didn't say I wanted Harry Potter. I said I wouldn't be resentful towards it.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, what do you got going on the rest of the week?
Christmas Shopping and Excuse Avoidance
Speaker 3I am finishing up this tour. Hi, where are you at with your Christmas gifts?
Speaker 2Have you purchased them all? Do you want to know?
Speaker 3I'm sure you've done none.
Speaker 2I've got zero, but I also feel like I kind of have an excuse this year.
Speaker 3I don't feel like that's the excuse at all.
Speaker 2No, you don't think that it's the excuse that I'm having a baby tonight on December 12th. No, I don't at all. Am I expected to still get baby?
Speaker 3Yes, because December 10th exists. December 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, all the November existed. October existed.
Speaker 2Yeah, who gets their Christmas gifts? In October?
Speaker 3People are having babies at the beginning of December. Booth, that's who I'm not one of them.
Speaker 2They take care of the people around them. I'm in the smack dab in the middle. It's not like the babies are going to have a baby right now. I'm basically having a baby during Hanukkah.
Speaker 3What does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 2That means that the season already started. I have no time.
Speaker 3You are full shit because you've had nine months of her baking this baby for you to be able to prepare for the holiday season.
Speaker 2Yeah, I haven't been busy at all, but from December 11th, the first week of this baby's life, it's December 11th to December 18th. That's like prime Christmas shopping.
Speaker 3I'm not denying anything you're saying. What I'm saying to you is you should have been prepared before this week presented itself, and there have been plenty of those weeks.
Speaker 2I've been preparing for a baby. You know how hard that is.
Speaker 3I'm pretty sure Dre knows better.
Speaker 2It actually hasn't been that hard. I'm saying like Because a lot of people and brands have sent us stuff which we're so thankful for, and these companies.
Speaker 3I'm like we are so freaking lucky. So then you had more time to get gifts for the people around you. Because, no, I haven't had more time because I had to work more. And yeah, yeah, oh, woes.
Speaker 2But I'm still going to do it. I'm still going to do it. I'll get all the gifts, but it might be a shorter list this year.
Speaker 3Sure, that's fair. Shorter list I agree with Immediate family, my co-workers and Walter and Walter, yeah, but Walter's immediate family, Right what's?
Speaker 2your list look like In some friends. Yeah, I mean, but then the friend list yeah.
Speaker 3First of all, I do have to say. Something I'm really not good at is giving gifts, so apologies in advance. I love it. It's not that I don't love giving gifts, I just I don't have that knack where it's like oh my gosh, this is exactly what Sean would like, because he said X, Y and Z and then I pulled it together and now this is lovely and I have friends that do that and I love them for it. But man, I do not have that gene.
Speaker 2What would?
Speaker 1you get, I try.
Speaker 3Dude, I have no idea. That's what I'm saying I would stress and I'd be like okay, here you go, here's a coffee mug. I don't know Like I would not, I'm not good at it. You wanna know what everybody's getting in my family this year?
Speaker 2Swag tour, swag t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, the whole thing, oh, and she tries to knock me for not doing a Christmas shopping. You're literally giving them free merch? No, I bought it. You bought it yes.
Speaker 3I bought it.
Speaker 2So say, Marcia, you're throwing out on stage.
Speaker 3No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I bought them like actual stuff that's available to purchase if you go to the show, but you bought it while you're working. No, well, I mean technically yes, yeah.
Speaker 2So don't knock me for my Christmas shopping. You didn't have to do any Christmas shopping, you're literally working.
Speaker 3But guess what? And you go to the souvenir stand, guess what? Everyone that I will spend Christmas with will open a gift for me, isn't?
Speaker 2that what the point?
Speaker 3of it is.
Speaker 2What about if your family doesn't like Old Dominion?
Speaker 3Then they can go fuck themselves.
Speaker 2That's all I have to say about that I mean I don't know and guess what they do love.
Speaker 3Old Dominion and my dad already asked me for a hat or a t-shirt or something and I was like jokes on you pops. I already got it, so they'll probably listen to this before Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're getting an Old Dominion t-shirt.
Speaker 3They already know. Okay, they do.
Speaker 2Yeah, and a shot glass and a key chain.
Speaker 3No, no, no, no, like I got good stuff, I didn't get any drinks.
Speaker 2What is good stuff when you have to have a band?
Speaker 3gear Like quality sweatshirts, quality hats like, not just the Gildan cotton tee.
Speaker 2Those are pretty sweet.
Speaker 3I got those too, but you know, those are like the additives. Yeah, okay, and like you said, there's still plenty of time for me to get anything else and I'm not having a baby, so look at all the time I have.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, we didn't even finish our nursery yet, but I was like hey.
Speaker 3Guess what? The baby's gonna come home and the baby's gonna sleep, whether they have a nursery or not.
Speaker 2Yeah, and also we don't know the gender yet, but I'm like I can put together a crib or a nursery on Amazon?
Speaker 3Yeah, probably prime, get a nursery ready in one day, the stuff will beat you to your house before you will.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Are you? Have you nested other than the nursery being not ready?
Speaker 2Nested, I mean no.
Speaker 3So when you were talking about how stressful it was to prepare for this baby. What were you?
Speaker 2doing Sean, it's very stressful. Yeah, it's stressful.
Anticipation of Becoming a Parent
Speaker 3You haven't nested and you haven't finished the nursery, you did a. Christmas shop. What did you do? I feel like you're just exposing yourself by me asking simple questions.
Speaker 2No, no, no, Nested.
Speaker 3Has Dre nested it at all? I feel like maybe that's more of a woman thing. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2Yeah, sure, nesting.
Speaker 3Yeah, do you even know what nesting is? Is this like a everything shower again?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, you're getting ready for the baby to come. You wanna feel comfortable and everything's situated.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, she's ready to rock.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's tonight. Ready to rock, ready to rock.
Speaker 2It's tonight. It's crazy.
Speaker 3I'm gonna have a human being For the rest of your life, by the way.
Speaker 2I'm gonna be a dad tomorrow. That's wild.
Speaker 3For the rest of my life, this is your last sleep without a baby.
Speaker 2I keep saying this is my last and my last and, like Drake, you're saying that, I'm like, stop saying that.
Speaker 3Oh, so you can say it, but she can't.
Speaker 2Well, because she says it about like Walter, like this is the last time I'm gonna play together, walter, I'm like no, no, no, don't listen to that. Walter is gonna be fine.
Speaker 3Walter's still invited.
Speaker 2I refuse to, not. She's like he's not gonna get as much attention. I'm like, yes, he is.
Speaker 3I think everything ebbs and flows.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3But he's not gonna lack attention. No exactly, maybe at a different time of day than he's used to, but it'll happen.
Speaker 2Yeah, but definitely I've been saying it to you. Like last night I was like all right, last night sleeping without a baby. And this morning I was like all right, my last workout without a baby and I'm like okay, last podcast last class, I got to teach like it's weird.
Speaker 3Yeah, but it's good weird.
Speaker 2It's great.
Speaker 3It is the beginning of the rest of your life.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Not to be dramatic, but it is, it's no longer the life that you are accustomed to.
Speaker 2No, completely different. Yeah, I'm anxious. I was getting a little emotional this morning thinking about it.
Speaker 3I feel like you're getting anxious as we talk about this, are you gonna?
Speaker 2jump out of the seat or you're gonna hit some normal blasts. It's so crazy because everybody all week last week is like are you ready, Are you ready, Are you ready? I'm like nobody is ready.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 2You can't prepare. I keep saying, like I noticed myself like she'd get contractions, like oh my God, I'm like, can we just like hang in there, Like I'm not ready, I'm not ready. Like I gotta do way more like I gotta get way more stuff situated here, need some more rest, like keep it in there, and I'm like I would probably be saying that for the next like eight months.
Speaker 3Well, yeah.
Speaker 2I don't. You're never ready.
Speaker 3You are never ready. You just learn as you go.
Speaker 2Yeah. So then today my mind I'm just starting to think about like the actual birthing process, which I haven't put much of thought in.
Speaker 3Well, you don't have to do much, that's good, you just have to be there supportive.
Speaker 2I'm like I've seen a video maybe when I was in middle school, I was like, ooh, I can't watch that anymore. Now I have to be right there it's gonna be wild?
Speaker 3Are you gonna cut the infill cord? Yes, are you weird with guts?
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, I was, but I think it's different.
Speaker 3I mean pretty.
Speaker 2Guts are guts.
Speaker 3Yeah, I was like it's pretty the same, but I do feel like it's a different experience than if it's like a traumatic situation that you would see someone's guts yeah.
Speaker 2Cause I was kind of just asking Charlie all the questions this morning. I'm like, all right, so they take the baby out, and then what, and then what.
Speaker 3Well, there's also people there that will walk you through it, that are going to be a little more level headed than you, because it won't be the most emotional, biggest experience of their life.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3But I do feel like it's just like staying level headed. I think I don't know. I mean, I don't know that there's any other situation that's more full of emotion. No, you check off every emotion. Yeah.
Speaker 2Scared, happy nervous.
Speaker 3Nauseous, nauseous.
Speaker 2Sick to your stomach. Yeah, they asked if I wanted to deliver. They're like dad, do you want to deliver the baby? And then Dre Mealy said no, he doesn't, because she doesn't want me to.
Speaker 3Well, there's also, I've heard I'm sure people on the internet can convert here but that dad's like, yeah, I am going to deliver, and then they pass out because they're not used to the environment. And then the wife or the mother of the child is like great, so now he's passed out and I'm giving birth. We could have just avoided this by having the doctor do his job and you could have stood with me, but you know.
Speaker 2There's a lot of stories like that, where dads pass out and then they have to take care of the dad. And I was listening to an audiobook and, not to be too dramatic, there was a dad who literally passed out, hit his head and died.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 2That's all it's like, and all because you couldn't handle the environment. I'm going to be like hanging on to the bed.
Speaker 3Don't lock your knees out.
Speaker 2Like they should create some type of you know, ppe where you have to, you know, strap yourself in like a work site. The dad's got to strap themselves into something in case they fall.
Speaker 3Not the bed, because if you fall you bring the whole bed down.
Speaker 2No, like you got attached to the wall like a block wall.
Speaker 3That draw the curtains around.
Speaker 2Yeah, some fall protection.
Speaker 3Some fall protection for the person who's not even giving birth, the person who is simply just observing the environment. Okay, yeah, I'm sure, yeah, that'll, that'll get passed real quick.
Speaker 2I'm going to cut the umbilical cord. Yeah, I am going to do that.
Speaker 3I think that once you get in there, you'll be better than oh yeah. Your brain would like you to.
Speaker 2Absolutely. She's not even nervous, which is wild, she's just like.
Speaker 3I feel like that's why I've said this a million times. Obviously, I've never had a child myself. I've been around a lot of people who have, and I think that mother nature makes you so uncomfortable at the end that you're like I will literally do anything to get this baby out of it. And they were like literally anything.
Speaker 2How about this? You're like okay, not what I was going for, but I'll do it. Yeah.
Speaker 3And I just think it's like I'll do anything to get this baby. I want to be holding this baby. I'm done being pregnant. I think that's just the way the universe, and like mother nature, works.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3So that's why she's not nervous. She's like I'm ready, done, done.
Speaker 2Yeah, she was in so much pain last night just from the baby moving around and I'm like, yeah, probably because there's no more room left.
Speaker 3Yeah, you feel everything. Eviction notice yeah.
Speaker 2And I was like holy shit, the thing is like doing flips. It feels like just trying to get out of there.
Speaker 3It's going to be wild for Dre to see the baby out and doing the same movements and she'll be like oh, I know exactly that's what my rib felt like two days ago, type of thing.
Speaker 2That's the weirdest thing is like for nine, almost 10 months now, tomorrow is full term We've been with this baby like in the same room and right there, and now it's like no, now it's going to be.
Speaker 3Here I am, this is what I look like. What are you most nervous about? Like what if she has a cone head, like I did? Or he? I know you don't know the gender, I know.
Speaker 2I've already prepared myself for that A lot of babies do? Because I'd be freaked out if I didn't hear that story. Yeah, because everybody comes out a little misshaped.
Speaker 3Every, every newborn baby looks like an alien.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm going to be like your dad, because your dad was like oh my God, this baby is so ugly.
Speaker 3Yeah, and my grandmother as well, who had five children of her own, was just like something is wrong with that kid. Yeah, look at me now Just absolutely turning heads these days.
Speaker 2That's nerve wracking because I'm like, all right, I got to give the baby a little time to like come to life.
Speaker 3Yeah. But, yeah, like they just showed up, they just woke up.
Speaker 2I love how they so, from what I understand, they take the baby out. I'll cut the cord. They immediately put the baby on her chest. Yes, From mom to skin skin to skin and then she'll probably have it for like a minute or two.
Speaker 3Said it he or she?
Speaker 2And then they take the baby and then put them under some type of like light or something like that for John Is yeah, right.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, they maybe make sure the vitals are OK.
Speaker 2Do some testing.
Speaker 3Clean them off.
Speaker 2Clean them up and then they give it to the dad. I'm like that's cool. Yeah, I'll take the clean baby.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean, I guess that's. I feel like I know that I don't know much about skin to skin, but I know that it is mentioned in everything that ever has birth at all.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 3And. I could be done for asking this but like, has it always been skin to skin with dad too? Um, I feel like that was always more popular.
Speaker 2No, it's becoming more popular, more mainstream, okay, more accepted, where I literally watched a video the other day. They've always talked about it, but a lot of people never bought into it. Okay, and a lot of dads didn't do it. Yeah and thought it was kind of just like hoopla, and there's so many scientists. So that is relatively recent and I would say probably with social media too, right you?
Speaker 3see a million videos of dads like a whole new baby just like what we were talking about earlier, when, uh, our environment, who you hang out with and what you absorb, eventually, yes, infiltrates into your life. So if you see your friend had a baby and their husband held a baby all of a sudden, hmm, you should hold the baby as well. Yeah and I'm sure that doctors and everything Lean into that if it's beneficial for the kid.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I think they even say, like their heartbeat will like sync up with your heartbeat.
Speaker 3Oh, that's scary. I mean not scary, but like that's cool. It's cool, yeah, yeah. And I know that babies can't like see you perfectly when they're first born, but man, it's got to be wild for a baby to come out. And then it's like they've been hearing your voices, I know, but that's like voices and smells and everything. Like they depend on more so before their site. Like they know who mom and dad is based off their voice, so they'll start smiling Even when they can't open their eyes yet. That's insane, insane biology environment. I don't know what we're doing nature.
Speaker 2You're looking the baby's eyes. That's crazy, like the eyes. Will they be open tonight, tomorrow?
Speaker 3I mean, yeah, babies can open their eyes almost like immediately. It's just they don't really stay open. They sleep a lot.
Speaker 2The Bryant said Uh, a buddy of ours at the gym, one of his daughters came out and she just came out and just looked around, was not crying at all. And he was just, they were just like whoa, like not crying eyes wide open and just like looking around that everybody that is. The scariest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
Speaker 3I would keep one eye open on that kid at all times. What? That's an old soul reincarnated. Do you believe in reincarnation? Uh, more so than other things, I think okay, I feel like that's a baby with an old soul just came out. I was like, oh, same shit, different day.
Reincarnation and Excitement for a Newborn
Speaker 2Yeah, that's a weird. That's a weird Thank reincarnation. So it's like if I were to pass away, I could then wake up as Someone else. Latina woman.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 2Completely different, but I was in a previous life, sean Booth and now yeah. I'm Somebody else.
Speaker 3I don't know that. I don't know why I picked Latina woman, because that's the exact opposite of yeah, yeah, you really could. But I do think that there's something we said about like kids that you meet that have old souls. I'm just like that kid has definitely been alive in another life.
Speaker 2Well, what would your soul be? I don't know.
Speaker 3I I've never felt like I've lived another life. I'm just saying that.
Speaker 2I haven't either.
Speaker 3I'm not saying that. I guess what I'm saying is reincarnation might not be every person that's on the planet, maybe it's only some people. I believe there's something truthful about it. I just don't know what I believe is what I'm saying. Because you've met people who you've met, kids that are way too old for how old they are. You know what I mean. Like they act like, you've definitely lived a different life. How would you have learned this in your short nine years seven years.
Speaker 2Everybody's different.
Speaker 3I'm just leaning into the fact that it's reincarnation. Whether or not it's true or not, I'd like to believe it Keeps life more interesting, spicier.
Speaker 2So who knows, maybe it's gonna come out your grandfather saying Do people who believe in reincarnation not believe in heaven? I don't know because then don't people say, your soul goes to heaven.
Speaker 3But yeah sure.
Speaker 2I'm saying my soul goes to a Latina woman. Yeah, so what?
Speaker 3is. I don't, I don't know all the rules, I'm saying I just like, personally, I like to believe in it, just keep things spicy.
Speaker 2Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 3That's as much as I know, that's as much as I'll deliberate on it.
Speaker 2Yeah, the bottom line is nobody knows anything.
Speaker 3We're all a bunch of everybody's trying to guess.
Speaker 2Nobody knows a thing.
Speaker 3I, yeah, I would 100, but myself in the line of knowing nothing. It's good time.
Speaker 2There's margaritas? Yeah, all right, here we go.
Speaker 3I feel like you've gotten progressively more anxious, as this podcast has gone like moving a lot. You were like oh happy, what are we doing for Christmas? And all of a sudden we ended on baby and you're like all right, here we go.
Speaker 2I know, because I'm gonna try. What are you doing?
Speaker 3for Christmas. You didn't tell us that you're gonna be watching a newborn. Obviously You're staying here.
Speaker 2I started a trend years ago where I Make myself watch not make myself, but I watch the polar express every Christmas Eve. It's like I don't know. I don't know when I started it, but I love it and I won't watch it all December. So if it's on tv, I'll change it. I'm like I'm looking forward to doing that this year with a new teammate. Yep, yeah, I'm gonna stay home. We got some family coming my dad's coming into town next week or Friday. Today's.
Speaker 3Wednesday and one day.
Speaker 2Wow, okay, friday dad's coming into town and, yeah, we'll probably just have Most family and friends at the house, definitely not expecting to travel anywhere?
Speaker 3is big Steve excited to be a grandpa times three yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, this will be his third grandchild. He called me there night. He's like hey, can you just make sure that you know you call me when the Baby's born, so I don't have to find out on Instagram? I'm like yes, dad, of course I'm not gonna Pledge you. I mean what I could see you getting caught up in the moment. No, no, no, you think I'm gonna post on the right way of the hospital being like no, no, no, no no, no, no, I didn't say that.
Speaker 3I said I could see you getting caught up in the moment.
Speaker 2Yeah, getting to call your dad. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3I'm like super excited called his dad or your dad, I don't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, that's like uh, that's, that's one of the best parts, right. Yeah, also, nobody knows if it's a boy or girl. So he's kind of coming in like like seal team six. He's just flying in for the weekend, saying hi, taking a photo and being a grandpa and then Flying out.
Speaker 3He's got things to do. I got it.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's big Steve Um.
Speaker 3I can't believe it's here.
Speaker 2I know trace parents are here, they're. Locked and loaded locked and loaded the her mom's. Like I am not going in the delivery room. She's like yeah, I don't want you in there. Okay the mom's like I don't want to be in there.
Speaker 3Nice, you're gonna be in the waiting room, which is hilarious.
Speaker 2That causes a lot of tension, I know I can imagine that like this has been great and they're both like, yeah, like on the same page, Um, but I gotta imagine that moms are probably like I need to be in there.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean yeah, it depends on who your mom is. I feel like if I were to have a child, I would obviously want whoever the father is there, and then I don't know if I would have anybody else in, because no one else was there when we made this. It's for us. Yeah you know, yeah but then again, like if I'm in that moment and I feel like I'm gonna die because I'm about to have a baby. Maybe I need my mom, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there right.
Speaker 3I'd like the option how about that? But I I feel like I have to be in it to really know.
Speaker 2Yeah, because drave was even last night. She's like maybe I should ask your sister to be in there.
Speaker 3Um sometimes it's nice to have a little team morale.
Speaker 2I know I'm like I like that idea. That's a Saw a little team there. Megan was in the room when my older sister, jesse yeah, her kids but she's also supportive for both drae and you exactly like it's just team drae or just team shaw and like this is a team effort of us. Yeah, yeah. So it's going down. How many nurses and doctors are in the room? Like five, six.
Speaker 3I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2I know our doctor just like comes in at like the last man's like all right, here we go, bang, bang, good job. Congrats, I'm out of here.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, I hope it's not exactly like that. But yes, it is pretty. The nurses are the caretakers. Yeah for sure, um, but I don't know how many. I think it depends on the birth as well. Like, if it's an easy delivery, I would assume that doesn't need as many nurses.
Speaker 2I know that's the thing too right the unknown. There's so many factors.
Speaker 3If you haven't been watching. Just as we've been talking about drae giving up earth, sean is Wiggling much, much more, rubbing the seat, stretching a little bit more. The anxiety is rising. The toe tapping has grown.
Speaker 2I'll be able to take a nap today.
Speaker 3Yeah, the fact you're like I'm gonna finish this, I'm gonna coach and then I'm gonna take a nap.
Speaker 2Sir. Well, we go in at eight o'clock and then you gotta do the whole check-in thing.
Speaker 3I don't know what time they start like pumping her with drugs and something tells me you're adrenaline Will help you stay awake, at least until oh, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2Drae was like oh yeah, we can just sleep when we get there. Yeah he's like, I'm like, you think we can sleep?
Speaker 3I think you can rest. I don't think you can sleep, no, I I feel like I wouldn't be sleeping for like a week, but that's me, because I don't. I lose sleep over the dumbest things.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean I was up at four o'clock this morning to work in, so I'm like I want to Get up, do a bunch of stuff today so that I am tired, so I can rest a little bit during the day.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Um, but every dad's just like, yeah, it's so uncomfortable, but it's not about us. We understand that, ladies, we know.
Speaker 3Yeah, it is what it is.
Speaker 2I mean you gotta be like through it, Like some guys were like Our people when I said what should I pack? They're like a blow-up mattress. I'm like that seems a little bougie.
Speaker 3I'm not bringing a blow-up mattress to the hospital like Are you good at sleeping in chairs? Maybe not a couch?
Speaker 2No, I'm not, but I feel like that's just part of the process. Yeah, like he's got to do it, he's got to sleep in your chair, like, imagine if I'm like, and they're like, nurses walk in there, like and it's an air mattress being blown up and I'm like laying on a king-size air mattress on the floor.
Speaker 3You probably wouldn't be the first, though that's the thing they'd be like. All right, dad's taken care of.
Speaker 2Yeah, I do, I would love you want to talk about a podcast idea.
Speaker 3I would love, love, love, love, love, love to hear the inside scoop of nurses Because they see every walk of life ever especially like. I'd love to pick a nurse's brain Similarly to the way you're describing. Wife is going in, yeah to, maybe it's her first delivery, maybe it's her 12th, we don't know. But dad it's got like the whole nine yards, brings in his own TV.
Speaker 1You know they exist.
Speaker 3Oh you know nurses have experienced them. Yeah doesn't even check in on the wife, the sitting there watching football, probably playing video games. Yeah, you know that exists. I would love to pick the brain of nurses that I've had that.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, we're gonna. Um. Jay wants to ask the doctor Um to come on the podcast.
Speaker 3Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, she's been great.
Speaker 3Besties. Isn't that like against hippa? Can we do that?
Speaker 2I know that's what we're trying to figure out.
Speaker 3It's like I don't know if there's a law against that, but I guess if drays Consenting in willing, then it's not breaking any laws.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, well, here we go, it's happening.
Speaker 3I feel like we have to wrap this. You're shutting down slowly.
Speaker 2Yeah, my mind is wandering right now.
Speaker 3That's okay, I feel like it should be. Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 2I mean.
Speaker 3I can feel your tension, like just it's not bad tension, but I can feel it rising. It's a lot, it's rising.
Speaker 2Yeah, I feel it rising too.
Speaker 3Your face is still nice and normal colored.
Speaker 2There we go. That's good. Let's hope it stays like that. So I don't pass out tonight. Positive thoughts.
Speaker 3I will give you positive thoughts, but hey, you know what? In 24 hours you're gonna be a dad.
Speaker 2No, big deal.
Speaker 3No, big deal.
Speaker 2There you go. I'm a dad now when you're listening. We enjoy, uh enjoyed talking with you guys today. We'll see you soon. I'm out of here. I gotta go have a kid you.
