Ep 44: Parenting Through a Digital Detox with Diary of the Dad
Release Date: 11/03/2021
Breaking Up & Heading To Paris
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
In this episode, the original Dad's meet up to play catch up! Dan has sadly gone through a break up and apparently was told he was missing ALL of the signs that it was happening. Meanwhile, he's owed a bit of money and maybe a hug or two. While still looking for a full-time status in the job market, a trip to France for he and his daughter has long since been paid for so he makes the decision to go! Jason struggles with finding the right time to bring the entire family together for Family Pictures. Because the last time this happened, things went over swimmingly, so why wouldn't...
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A Friends 50th Brings Out A Flame Thrower and a Pot Smoking Granny!
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
Friend of the show and long time contributing podcaster Grant aka The Kilted One returns to discuss turning 50 years old. He also shares his worries for sending his kids cross country alone for the week to stay with his parents and then shares more worries about them all returning to stay for a while to celebrate his 50th birthday. Grant is aware of some of his Mom's "adult choices" like drinking and smoking a little weed, but he's never had a conversation with his kids... and he doesn't warn them before they leave to go stay with her for a week. This leads us to discuss bits about our...
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Pregnancy Test Speculations and Pizza
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
This week I'm back with my girlfriend, Dr. Producer Kyle, to discuss a multitude of things happening in and around our lives. We start off with the big question of "How old is too old for a man to have a child?". This is response to Al Pacino, now in his 80's, fathering a child with his twenty-something year old girlfriend. Kyle brings up her love of the Earth and climate, and I confess to having ready made silly questions loaded up and ready to fire at my friend and long time collaborator, Grant a.k.a. The Kilted One. We also discuss a recent pregnancy scare that wasn't, but secretly...
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Binge Eating and Post Urination Drip with Neighbor Cole
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
On occassion my guest will resort to his old eating habits and shamefully eat from multiple fast food resturants in a single meal. After losing 100 pounds and living a much more healthier lifestyle, he still sometimes stuggles with his relationship with food. He also rarely admits when he goes off the rails. Well, he'll admit that he did, but most of the time he will promise to take to the grave what he actually eats when he does go on a bit of a binge. But not today. Today he opens up his mouth about opening up his mouth and pouring a shockingly amount of food into it. My guest today is...
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Abort Surprise Rallies, MRI Trauma, Little Mermaid Love
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
Father of the Year Jason The Angry Ginger is joined today on the show with Dr. Girlfriend. She has a name, and we'll get to that later... Things discussed today on the show and in no particular order... *Yo bro, you Pro Life? Run it's the Cops! *You can't logic MRI trauma but you can die from it! *So you and your boyfriend are from the same Family Tree? *The Machine is my spirit animal and I will shotgun this beer in his honor! *The Little Mermaid gets some secret love *Streaming Infidelity Confessions!
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First Coffee, Then Birds and Bees Stuff!
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
Dan and Jay grab a big cup of coffee and sit down for a chat about fatherhood, dealing with family illness, loss and making the "Sex Talk" comfortable for both parent and child.
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How Has Your Parenting Style Changed?
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
Grant returns to the show to answer one question, "What has changed in the way you view the job of parenting, over the years?" Should you be completely hands on? Should you be their friend or their overlord? When exacatly can the beatings begin? Okay, that last one was just to see if you're reading this show discription! We also discuss the last time we as parents exit a phase of our childrens adolecents and how we've handled that. We miss the younger, innocent, still in need of a parent years. Having the sex talk. How much information do you give between biological and...
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8 Things Today's Kids Wouldn't Even Recognize
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
As a father of 5 kids, sometimes you've gotta look back at your own life to appreciate the way the future turned out. Sometimes when you do that, you might have to ridicule how easy it is you're kids now have it. In today's episode, Grant (TK1) my On Hiatus cohost, and cohost to countless podcasts that are also currently on hiatus, joins me to talk about these very things. Would your kids recognize a VHS tape? Would they survive the time it takes to rewind a tape to play thier favorite song again? Could they even work a rotery phone? Remember having a pager but not being a drug dealer?...
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Too Many Birthdays, Not Enough Money!
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
In the ongoing attempt to deconstruct Dad, A.K.A. The Angry Ginger, Producer Kyle PhD once again takes on cohosting duties. Things discussed in this episode very from us taking Staycations to do some Home Improvements around the house. Being careful not to spend all of the money because we had 3 BIRTHDAYS to celebrate in the span of 2 weeks! Ginger then questions why won't his girlfriend ever dress up for him... even a lil bit? Because that topic didn't kill him, we segway to another terrible topic but one that has become important in our family for multiple reasons, School...
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Canadian Mitch's Gets Stitches!
Deconstructing Dad Podcast
I sit down with my long time cohost, Dan to discuss life, parenting and his recent health scare but before all of that he informs me that it's been a year since we last recorded. I can't believe it! We play a little catch up, even though we talk on occassion, there are still things we haven't been able to talk about. Like Dan's trip to the hospital. My trip to Disney with my daughter to go "Drinking Around the World" at Epcot. We wrap up the show with a story about a child that uses his dads phone to play a videogame but soon after, Uber Eats begins to show up. Multiple times. With...
info_outlineBlogger Tom Briggs best known from his Diary of the Dad Blog, joins Dan and Ginger to discuss fatherhood. Are things done differently across da pond? What's it like managing a successful #DadBlog, especially once it becomes your main job. We recall the days of getting grounded as kids and getting the cable TV taken away. Now when we ground our kids, you have to amputate them!
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See ya next week!