Season 2: Episode 13: The wheelbarrow and Kamasutra for beginners

WWE Champion Jack Swagger Just Told Us Something He's Never Said on Camera | AUF S2 E24

He had a finance degree, a job lined up in Dallas, and a full ride from the University of Oklahoma. Then the phone rang — and Jake Hager (Jack Swagger) said no to all of it and went to WWE.What followed was a World Heavyweight Championship, an undefeated MMA run in Bellator, a trucking company called Hall & Oates, a divorce, a son who started his graduation speech with "Dad, don't cry" — and a man who finally figured out who he actually is.This is that conversation. No PR. No script. Just Jake.In this episode of Advice Unfiltered, Jake sits down with Chris and Tony for one of the most honest interviews he's ever done:🏆 How he went from broke college kid to WWE World Heavyweight Champion🤼 The phone call that made him say no to a financial firm job in Dallas🥊 Training for MMA on zero budget — taking a loan out on his house to fund his first fight camp💔 His divorce: "That was the biggest loss I ever took in my life. And I don't lose."👨‍👧 Why he started a trucking company — to be home for his kids🎤 His son's graduation speech started with "Dad, don't cry." He was already crying.🥋 What Power Slap actually is — the rules, the technique, and why calm beats angry🇺🇸 "We the People" — why the all-American character meant more than WWE gave it credit for💡 AND: The record he made up for WWE... and just confirmed live on this show for the first timePLUS: Chris and Tony announce they are flying to Las Vegas to attend Power Slap 21 LIVE — July 10th at the Cosmopolitan. Watch Ellie Dempster fight for the first-ever Women's Flyweight Championship and Jake Hager compete on the same card.👊 Power Slap 21 — LIVE & FREE on YouTube, July 10th---📲 Follow Jake: @realjakhager (Instagram)🚛 Hall & Oates Trucking: hallnoatesinc@yahoo.com🔥 Firefighters for Healing: firefightersforhealing.org (Ellie's charity — support it)📩 Submit your question: adviceunfiltered.com📺 Subscribe on YouTube — guests are only visible there🛍️ Merch: adviceunfiltered.com/merch📲 Follow Tony: @adviceunfiltered_tony📚 Chris's Book: "It Was Never Just About Me" — on Amazon---1:35:00 – "Till I'm Buried" outro#JakeHager #JackSwagger #WWE #PowerSlap #AdviceUnfiltered #MMA #Bellator #Fatherhood #MensMentalHealth #PowerSlap21

Male Birth Control, Prenups & Vibrators Named After Exes | Advice Unfiltered S2 E23

Male birth control pills. Parallel relationships. A vibrator named Big Jay. A tattoo spelled wrong. And a woman from Belgium who got everything she wanted and felt nothing.Season 2 Episode 23 of Advice Unfiltered is back to what you love — Chris and Tony unfiltered, unscripted, and answering the listener questions nobody else will touch.In this episode:💊 Scientists just developed a male birth control pill — would you take it? (And the hormone science that might make her fall out of love with you when she comes OFF the pill)💑 48% of Millennials are open to "parallel relationships" — one partner for physical needs, one for emotional. Fuck yes or fuck no?💍 She's hurt her fiancé wants a prenup. Are they wrong? Chris and Tony break it down📲 His girlfriend named her vibrator after an ex she still works with on Zoom calls🇿🇦 She spelled his name wrong in the tattoo. He says it's "close enough."🎉 Tony did 26 pull-ups at the NJ Fit Body competition and tied for second✂️ Christian shaved his head and just committed to his fitness journey on air👨‍👧 Co-parenting with someone you can't stand — the hard truth nobody wants to hear💰 "I got the promotion, the house, the life I wanted. I feel completely empty."🤝 Your friends started treating you different when you got successful — reveals or changes?💔 How do you tell your adult daughter you're sorry for being too strict?🏋️ **ANNOUNCEMENT: Ronnie Coleman — 8x Mr. Olympia — is coming on the show in August**🤼 **Jack Swagger (WWE/Power Slap) is on NEXT WEEK for July 4th**📩 Submit your question: adviceunfiltered.com📺 Subscribe on YouTube — guests are only visible on YouTube🛍️ Merch: adviceunfiltered.com/merch📲 Follow Tony: @adviceunfiltered_tony🏋️ Hardcore Synergy Fitness App: hardcoresynergy.fit📚 Chris's Book: "It Was Never Just About Me" — on Amazon now---⏱️ #RelationshipAdvice #AdviceUnfiltered #DatingAdvice #RonnieColeman #MentalHealth #MarriageAdvice #Prenup #CoParenting #SelfImprovement #RealTalk

She's About to Make Power Slap History. Meet Ellie Dempster. | Advice Unfiltered S2 E22

She doesn't dodge. She doesn't block. She stands there, looks you dead in the face, and hits you so hard you forget your name.Meet Ellie Dempster — undefeated Power Slap athlete, 2025 Rookie of the Year, and on July 10th at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the first woman ever to fight for the Power Slap World Championship.But her story isn't just about slapping. It's about a girl from Canada who moved to Thailand at 19, became a children's TV host, learned Muay Thai to teach orphans how to defend themselves, tore her ACL on stage in front of Joe Rogan and GSP, played rugby for 14 years, raised $115,000 for St. Jude's — and somehow ended up in Dana White's office holding a pair of shoes.This is that story.Chris and Tony sit down with Ellie to talk about:🥊 What Power Slap actually is (and why it's the fastest-growing sport on social media)🧠 The mental game — how she prepares to get hit and why she pictures a metal baseball bat🇹🇭 Her 7 years in Thailand working with orphans and combating child trafficking💪 The ACL tear that changed everything — and why it might have been the best thing that happened❤️ Firefighters for Healing — the charity she's representing on fight night👨‍👧 Why the first call she makes after every fight is to her dad🏆 What the world is about to find out about Ellie Dempster on July 10thWatch Ellie fight LIVE and FREE on YouTube — July 10th, International Fight Week, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.---🙌 Support Ellie's Charity:Firefighters for Healing — firefightersforhealing.orgShoe auction & merch — 100% of proceeds go directly to Firefighters for Healing📲 Follow Ellie: @elliedemps (Instagram, TikTok, X)📩 Submit your questions: adviceunfiltered.com📺 Subscribe on YouTube🛍️ Merch: adviceunfiltered.com/merch📲 Follow Tony: @adviceunfiltered_tony⚠️ Signal Awards voting is OPEN — help us repeat as champs!

Voices for the Voiceless — Veterans on PTSD, Divorce & Staying Alive | AUF S2 E21

Three men. Three branches of the military. One conversation that could save a life.In honor of Men's Mental Health Month and Father's Day, Advice Unfiltered presents its most important episode to date — Voices for the Voiceless.Dominic (Coast Guard), Tom (Army — Afghanistan infantryman), and Al join Chris and Tony for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what men go through and rarely say out loud.They talk about:🪖 Surviving deployment and coming home to silence💔 Divorce, losing custody, and the quiet apartment that nearly broke them🍺 Drinking to fill the noise — and the moment they chose to stop👨‍👧 The daughter who wanted to move in. The son who said "I want to live with Dad."💀 Suicidal ideation — what it really feels like, and why the strongest men wear the biggest masks🏋️ How fitness, faith, and finding your WHY pulled them back❤️ What it means to be a present father when the system told you that you weren't neededPlus: the world premiere of "Till I'm Buried" — an original song written by Tony as a Father's Day gift to the men on this episode.If you know someone who is struggling — a brother, a father, a friend — share this episode. You don't know whose life it reaches.---📞 If you or someone you know is struggling:988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988Veterans Crisis Line — call 988, press 1📩 Submit your questions: adviceunfiltered.com📺 Subscribe on YouTube — it helps the show find the people who need it🛍️ Merch: adviceunfiltered.com/merch📲 Follow Tony: @adviceunfiltered_tony🏋️ Al's handle: @al_be_physique | NJ Fit Body🎵 "Till I'm Buried" — available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, iHeartRadio & YouTube---#MensMentalHealth #VeteranMentalHealth #PTSD #FatherhoodMatters #AdviceUnfiltered #VoicesForTheVoiceless #SuicidePrevention #MilitaryVeteran #MensHealth #GoodMen

Men's Mental Health, Empty Nest Syndrome & What Women Don't Hear | S2 E20

Chris posted something about men's mental health. He lost 2,000 followers. And he has no regrets. In Season 2 Episode 20 of Advice Unfiltered, Chris and Tony unpack the backlash — and why men's mental health isn't a competition, it's a crisis. Plus Tony's son calls at midnight on his 18th birthday, and the show gets real about what it means to be a dad who fought to be there. This one is loaded: 💭 The men's mental health post that blew up and the comments that broke our brains 👨‍👦 Tyler turns 18 — and Tony processes what that midnight phone call actually meant 👨‍👧 Chris's son goes to his first solo birthday party, and dad loses it a little 📩 Q&A: Is it normal for men to lose their identity while taking care of everyone else? 📩 Q&A: How do I teach my son emotional strength without teaching him to hide his feelings? 📩 Q&A: She's been estranged from her adult child for a year and a half — should she reach out? 📩 Q&A: Her new man is almost too good to be true — is she self-sabotaging? 📩 Q&A: Wife says he's a great provider but a distant husband — where does he even start? 📩 Q&A: Husband was raised to handle it. Now he's being told he opens up wrong. Who's right? 📩 BONUS: The battery-powered overachiever question. Yes, really. Coming next week: 3 military veterans — Purple Heart recipients — join for the Father's Day episode. Don't miss it. 📩 Submit your question: adviceunfiltered.com 🎟️ Common Ground Grief Center Fundraiser — Martell's Tiki Bar, Point Pleasant NJ — Thursday 5:30–9:30pm 📺 Subscribe on YouTube — it helps new people find the show 🛍️ Merch: adviceunfiltered.com/merch 📲 Follow Tony: @adviceunfiltered_tony --- ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Intro: New producer makes a special appearance (Tyler!) 1:04 – Season 2 Episode 20 officially begins 2:32 – Tyler turns 18 + prom weekend recap 5:48 – "I'm a Man" — the midnight phone call that hit different 7:30 – What it means to be a dad who had to fight for time 9:30 – "Our job is to make them independent" — raising kids to leave 11:40 – "You don't understand" — social media comments that fired us up 12:45 – 🔥 The Men's Mental Health Post Backlash — June is Men's Mental Health Month 15:55 – Why men's mental health has existed longer than Pride Month and Juneteenth 17:00 – "Hurt people hurt people" — what Chris really saw in those comments 19:15 – Young women vs. older women: what the comment sections revealed 22:00 – "We had our kids taken from us" — the personal stakes behind this hill 26:00 – We are the example: how Chris and Tony chose not to generalize 28:00 – Men are afraid to approach women — and here's why 31:15 – "It's not a political thing. It's a human thing." 35:45 – "You women control a lot" — the truth about how men internalize criticism 38:00 – Why passing hurt to your kids is part of the problem 41:15 – Palate cleanser: First athlete with Down syndrome completes an Ironman 🙌 43:00 – Common Ground Grief Center — Thursday fundraiser details 45:00 – Next week preview: 3 military veterans + Purple Heart recipients 48:30 – Q&A: Ryan from Idaho — Men who lose themselves taking care of everyone 51:30 – Q&A: Marcus from Georgia — Teaching sons emotional strength 55:00 – Parenting moments: voice drops, dinosaurs & the fossil park plan 59:00 – Q&A: Simone from Martinique — "My new man is almost too perfect" 1:00:09 – Q&A: Lorraine from Portland — How do you repair a relationship with an estranged adult child? 1:05:35 – Hank from the Netherlands — The battery-powered overachiever question 😂 1:09:15 – Q&A: Alvaro from Spain — "My wife says I'm a great provider but a distant husband" 1:16:30 – Q&A: Greg from Denver — "Every time I try to open up, it comes out wrong" 1:21:00 – Wrap-up + upcoming events + Signal Awards + community updates 1:31:00 – Closing song: "Carry This Weight" (original) #MensMentalHealth #RelationshipAdvice #DadLife #AdviceUnfiltered #FatherhoodMatters #EmptyNest #MentalHealth #RaisingBoys #GoodMen #RelationshipPodcast