This week, Jeff reports in from Cheyenne, Wyoming, whose hardy, pioneering spirit makes it the Dad 2.0 of cities. It’s beautiful and evolving and building new verticals (literally) every day. Plus: Lots of eight-foot-tall cowboy … Read More
Episode 17: Lying Naked On A Bed of LEGOs
If you’re ever in the mood for a languid, discursive discussion about The State of Things, find some time for a chat with our guest Charlie Capen, whose versatility has made him the one person … Read More
Episode 14: A Tenuous Hold On Your Circadian Rhythms
Emerging from the timeless, shapeless, (often) pantsless year-end void, it’s our last podcast of 2019! Amid all of the amazing revelations in the 2010s, millions of #dadlife Instagram posts made fatherhood became more visible in … Read More
Episode 2: “Make Stuff, And See Where It Goes”
Why start a podcast now, when everyone and their uncle already has one? By that logic, we should stop writing books, performing songs, and growing heirloom tomatoes. Just because there is a lot of something … Read More
Podcasts Are Big, But They’re Going To Be Huge. Start Yours.
It was a big week at Dad 2.0-quarters, as we passed the T-minus 150 days mark before Dad 2.020 in Washington DC. We opened donations and applications for this year’s class of Scholarship recipients. And … Read More
Dismiss Gen Z Influencers “At Your Peril”
The first banner ad, launched almost 25 years ago, felt like the first claim toward settling the untamed frontier of online content creation. (You can read more about the origin story here.) They may seem … Read More
The Internet Thinks Your 13-Year-Old Is An Adult
From the moment our kids are born, we launch into Protection Mode, purchasing steel-reinforced car seats, plugging the power outlets, and taking other precautions against the dangers we can see. As soon as a kid … Read More
FoF: Your “Dad Christmas” May Vary
Last weekend, Saturday Night Live aired a short film called “Dad Christmas,” when two kids spend the holiday at their newly-single dad’s crappy apartment (complete with a broken futon, “inside cigarettes,” and Deirdre the New … Read More
FoF: In LeBron We Trust
There’s something oddly comforting about this year’s NBA playoffs. Over the eight months since the season began, we’ve seen the usual drama, real and manufactured. Season-ending injuries, teams gutted and rebuilt for now (or tanking for … Read More
FoF: A Gun Joke Goes Wide Right
If you didn’t know who Jay Feely is last Friday, there’s a good chance you know who he is now. Last weekend Feely, a former NFL kicker and current football analyst for CBS Sports, posted … Read More