Brent, Karl, and Shawn catch up after a couple months, swapping travel stories about California, Disneyland, high prices (including $7 gas and expensive food), and how media portrayals compared to what they experienced. They debate Disneyland versus other parks, discuss crowds, pricing tactics, and favorite rides, then shift to the World Cup atmosphere and fan culture. The conversation turns personal: Karl shares career dissatisfaction around turning 50, how a friend’s funeral and meeting Laura prompted major life changes, and the group reflects on regrets, risk-taking, and appreciating fleeting family moments. They also share updates on a son’s wedding, a daughter publishing a fiction book, an upcoming move to Sandy amid high housing costs, Shawn’s recent marriage, and the idea that mistakes and risks are essential to growth and fulfillment.

00:00 Three Dad Bods - Episode

0300:41 Intro & Catching Up

01:56 California & Disneyland

14:29 World Cup & Life Updates

22:44 Regrets & Life Reflections

34:00 Friendship & Fatherhood

01:02:33 Closing Thoughts

Karl Christen, Brent Willey, and Shawn Smith open the Three Dad Bods podcast noting it’s the first time all three are married, then Shawn shares that he eloped in Las Vegas and describes renewed happiness at home. The conversation shifts to a bittersweet time of year as they remember late friends Mark and Glynn, including visits to their graves and reflections on Mark’s extraordinary funeral and Glynns’s final battle with cancer. They discuss why they started the podcast, highlighting a past interview with Glynn's that they’ve shared as a story of hope, faith, and perseverance. Shawn recounts being with Glynn's daily in the hospital and at hospice, including Glynn’s last words and death. They then trade memories of childhood, sports, neighborhood adventures, and Marks kindness, musical talent, popularity, military service, and path to becoming a police officer.

Three Dad Bods Reunion: New Marriages, Divorce, Faith Shifts, and Saying GoodbyeBrent, Carl, and Sean reunite after about a year away to catch up on major life changes, starting with jokes about appearances and tattoos. Carl shares how he met his wife on the LDS dating app Mutual, how their dating progressed quickly into exclusivity, and details about their April 25 backyard wedding, Alaska cruise honeymoon, blended family of ten kids, and updates including his daughter’s upcoming humorous fiction book publication and family engagements, plus his dad’s prostate cancer. Sean explains his divorce, leaving Mormonism after years of being physically in but mentally out, and how honesty about his beliefs ended his marriage; he says he’s happier now, dating someone new, and exploring Buddhism as a philosophy while remaining unsure about religion. Brent recounts his mother’s decline with dementia, hospice, her death at 95, and powerful experiences he felt around her passing, leading into reflections on love, free agency, and their close-knit West Valley upbringing.