Latest Dadblogger Podcast Episodes
Episode 58: Michael Ian Black Keynotes Dad 2.0 Digital
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 24, 2020 01:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYou think you know a guy, and then Michael Ian Black turns his sardonically comic persona on its head with his terrific new book, A Better Man, a (mostly) serious letter to his college-aged son, Elijah. Male role models were scarce after Black's dad died abruptly when he was 12, so Black essenti...
Episode 57: Season 2 Wraps (Thanks for the Earballs!)
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 17, 2020 03:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter 57 episodes, Jeff and Doug wrap Season 2 with a state-of-the-business chat, about doors closed and subsequent windows opened. Press trips are returning, cold pitches are finding warmer ears, and we're focusing our efforts to make family life easier and reverse America's plummeting birth ra...
Episode 56: Taylor Calmus Is Not A One-Man Show
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 10, 2020 01:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSince Taylor Calmus defines a Dude Dad as "an invested father dedicated to raising kids in the most epic way possible," he says he's clearly not the only one. And he's quick to thank his parents (who sent him from rural South Dakota to LA for "a semester abroad") and his wife Heidi (who refused ...
Episode 55: What Fresh Hell Is Spelling "Coxsackie"?
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 02, 2020 21:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat Fresh Hell podcast co-creators Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson will tell you: the best recipe for a successful online content marriage is when one is an Idea Cannon and the other knows her way around a spreadsheet. Together, they've converted their careers as writer/performers and complementa...
Episode 54: I Am Brad Meltzer
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 26, 2020 22:59 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Brad Meltzer delivered the opening keynote at the 2016 Dad 2.0 Summit, his core message was about legacy, and our impact on everyone from our families to total strangers. And of the myriad genres his career has spanned — fiction, nonfiction, television, comic books, etc. — he considers his ...
Episode 53: Darren W. Carter Has Burned A Lot of Meat
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 19, 2020 19:19 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe episode's title fits Cleveland Dads Group co-founder Darren W. Carter well, both as a foster parent of five ("As long as I am here, I'll have love to give") and aspiring pitmaster ("I'll shovel out to my pit barrel cooker before I shovel my driveway"), because parenting and barbecue are swee...
Episode 52 -- Casey Palmer Opened the Big Door
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 12, 2020 21:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsToday we celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada (and don't call it "Canadian Thanksgiving") with Torontonian Casey Palmer, who began blogging with purpose seven years ago when his first son was born. Now he's set his sights on thornier social issues and risked his PR-friendliness, in part because his ...
Episode 51: Recapping Dad 2.0 Digital
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 06, 2020 02:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe first Dad 2.0 Digital began with a Black book and concluded with a Kind heart, and dads from all over the world tuned in for three days of programming delivered directly to our desktops. Tune in for an extended discussion about the importance of meeting more than once a year, how digital eve...
Episode 50 -- John Kinnear Fights For the User
Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 28, 2020 18:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen John Kinnear started his Ask Your Dad blog, he established himself as one of the online dad community's premiere Answer Men. As Marketing Director at Clearlink and site manager at Reviews.org, he has come to Dad 2.0 Summit many times to teach us how to be the signal amid the noise and creat...
Episode 49 -- Tom Riles Held Darryl Strawberry's Baby
Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 21, 2020 21:17 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTom Riles has made a career by turning bad situations into better situations. When his PA job was ending, Henry Winkler asked him to move to LA. He met his wife while they were busting fingers playing 16-inch softball. And on the day he learned his infant daughter would need heart surgery, he st...
Episode 48 -- Jorge Narvaez Is Keeping the Light On
Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 14, 2020 19:09 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week, Reality Changers creator Jorge Narvaez offers up a healthy dose of the reality he'd like to change, both as a stay-at-home dad and full-time content creator. The stress of confinement can sap your creativity, and Jorge discusses how the key to perseverance is to embrace an "abundance ...
Episode 47 -- James Lopez Came From the Worst
Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 07, 2020 15:33 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJames Lopez has built Fatherhood Is Lit on several tenets he tries to live up to every day: Be different, be proud, have fun, and don't settle. And when it comes to working with brands, be unorthodox. He'd rather invest his time in father/child events that have a far more lasting impact than an ...
School's Not Out Forever
Parenting Pobal - September 03, 2020 20:00 - 29 minutesWe're back after a year off from podcasting to talk about Olivia's first day in big school (who cried, who didn't, did we remember to pick her up on time...) and Thomas' first day in preschool (the child who repeatedly eats dirt is apparently smart enough to be in preschool nearly a year ahead o...
Episode 46 -- Alec Lace Has A Million Things Going On
Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 31, 2020 15:10 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn March 2018, Alec Lace didn't know what a podcast was. Within a year, he was representing his First Class Fatherhood podcast on Media Day at the Super Bowl. Alec works hard, but he also works smart, which is the only way you can work two jobs, parent four kids, and post 382 podcast episodes in...
Episode 45 -- Mike Adamick Is a Middle-Aged Undergrad
Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 24, 2020 17:34 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMoments before attending his orientation as a rising junior at Berkeley, author Mike Adamick joined us to talk about his early career as a journalist, how his blog jump-started his book-writing career, and his new life as a college kid, studying sociology and gender relations with a peer group h...
Episode 44 -- Live and Let Dai Manuel Reboot Your Life
Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 17, 2020 19:38 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen you first encounter the Big Moose Energy of Dai Manuel, you might be surprised to learn about his struggles with obesity and alcohol abuse that respectively sabotaged his self-esteem and almost tanked his marriage. His successes are hard-won, and he's eager to share them to illustrate that ...
Episode 43 -- Josh Levs Debunks Your Myths
Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 10, 2020 19:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen "Chief Everything Correspondent" Josh Levs keynoted Dad 2.014, he had just launched an EEOC complaint challenging Time Warner's parental leave policy and announced his deal for All In, a compendium of several years of research into fatherhood. Six years later, he's still putting facts first...
Divide and Cuddle
Parenting Pobal - August 06, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutesWe did a semi-Parent Trap and split the kids up. One with the mother, one with the father - a weekend of peace and bliss and fun and memories. The ladies went off for a night in a hotel while the boys basically reverted to caveman norm and lounged about eating junk food. Plus the reason for Kare...
Episode 42: All About the Didgeridoo
Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 03, 2020 21:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSince 42 is the Answer to Everything, we devote this episode to introducing the world to Dad 2.0 Digital, our online event that will be delivered to you October 1-2-3, 2020. Much of the programming will be familiar — keynotes, breakouts, workshops, Spotlight readings, Sponsor networking, and Dad...
Is this the end of the endless
Parenting Pobal - July 29, 2020 21:00 - 19 minutesThis week we have a chat about prepping for school as best we can with the crazy lack of proper guidelines. Also Derek gets insanely excited about the fact that the kids are going back to creche for a few days each week - something about being able to read emails.
Episode 41 -- That's the Space I Live In
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 27, 2020 16:37 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRoberto Santiago first became known in the Dad 2.0 Community when he read a Spotlight post about caring for a child born with complete bilateral cleft lip and palate. That experience, of learning how to teach your kids to find comfort in their own skin, has been especially valuable now that his ...
Episode 40, part 2: Decisions That Normal People Don't Make
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 23, 2020 16:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPart 2 of our discussion with educational pioneer Jaime Casap (check out Part 1 here) begins with a celebration of math as life, rather than a mere textbook full of static equations and formulas. We also continue our discussion of collaborative education, which gets so meta that Jeff and Jaime a...
Covid Hiatus
Parenting Pobal - July 21, 2020 20:00 - 22 minutesWe're back after a Covid (Karen) Hiatus - not that we had it, just that when you aren't doing anything you don't have a lot to talk about. This week we talk about meeting our parents for the first time in months and the prep for school. There is also a shameless plug for another podcast and a sh...
Episode 40, part 1: Decisions That Normal People Don't Make
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 20, 2020 16:19 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOur guest Jaime Casap thinks one of the worst things you can ask a kid is "What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's an outdated question that confines a person's impact too specifically. The better questions is: "What problem do you want to solve?" After 14 years at Google, most recently...
Episode 39 -- A Wonderful Thing That Sucked
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 13, 2020 13:48 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEach year, our guest Whit Honea serves in one of the most important roles at Dad 2.0 Summit: Presiding over the Newbie Seminar to help first-time attendees meet each other and find their way around. Whit has been part of our team since the beginning, either in an organizational capacity or speak...
Episode 38 -- Doing the Honky Tonk On A Pedal Tavern
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 06, 2020 19:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week, the creator and host of the Fatherhood Is DOPE podcast (and future Tennessee governor) Aaron McGee joins Jeff and Doug to discuss life in Nashville as an early import from Jackson, Mississippi. He has a lot to say about how his upbringing, education, and faith made him into a compelli...
Episode 37 -- That Instant Feeling of Acceptance
Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 29, 2020 15:50 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHalf his life ago, our guest Jim Joseph achieved the two primary goals he had set for himself as a teenager: to work in marketing and to be an engaged father. Which made his decision to come out in the late 1990s all the more terrifying, since he was told he would jeopardize both. Having weath...
Episode 36 -- Minor Revolutionary Acts of 2020
Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 22, 2020 19:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week, Jeff became an engaged father in the most literal sense. And in posting his announcement online, expressing his joy felt like a little rebellion against the male tendency to bottle up emotion. A lot of what we're doing now feels similar, and more than just how we're trying to "ruin ou...
Covid gradutations
Parenting Pobal - June 21, 2020 19:00 - 25 minutesIn the middle of Covid we said goodbye to Montessori. When we left the creche back on 12 March, over three months ago, we assumed we would all be back and life would be normal again within a few weeks. Fast forward, a more severe lockdown, restrictions we could never imagine having to endure an...
Episode 35 -- Mondays Mean I Might Get Paid Today
Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 15, 2020 15:31 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFrom the moment he started writing jingles at 19, Stewart "Brittlestar" Reynolds has been a compulsive creator. He's spent his entire adult life making music, videos, scripted content, brand campaigns, and most recently the Social Media North conference, because "the Internet needs more Canada."...