Very Special Guest Mike Holmes Jr. joins the party via shaky satellite uplink and it's Holmes on the Homies of the Dad Den! Birth Stories! Relationship Advice! Being parented by a famous dad! All right here, right now, on The Real Dad Podcast!
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 140
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 139
We're just regular Dads without super powers; four guys who get colds when it's cold out and don't know the exact words for what the surface around a pool is called, so sometimes it drives us a little nuts when the kids JUST WON'T LISTEN!
Feb 13, 2025•54 min•Ep. 138
The dads wrestle with growing up and growing old: Joey's therapist helps him process grief, Dave's son gets his babysitting certification and Mark struggles with basic vocabulary.
Feb 06, 2025•56 min•Ep. 137
The Dads check in with some podcast heavy-hitters (via Dave's data plan) to discuss growing out of lay-downs, tracking cellphones, and how our boomer parents (tried to) show their love. But does any of it even matter if your Numerology is wrong and your kid is meant to be your sworn enemy?
Jan 30, 2025•51 min•Ep. 136
Brolaw Brother-in-law Ian joins the Dads (minus Mark) to talk kids with unique brains, how growing up has changed, and how to run your family like an all star sales team!
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 135
As Winston Churchill once said: "Never give in—never, never, never, never..." But did he ever have to drag his four year old, kicking and screaming to get a hair cut?
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 134
What are you saving up your fatherly experience points for? Are you going to be a Car Dad and learn how make that HEMI purr? How about a BBQ Dad so you can master the fine art of smoking a sausage? Or perhaps, you just want to be able to do a Rubix Cube real good...
Jan 09, 2025•50 min•Ep. 133
It's good that our kids aren't scared of the adults anymore, right? Right?... RIGHT!?
Dec 26, 2024•52 min•Ep. 132
Grief comes in many forms, sometimes in anticipation, and almost always when you're not expecting it... So how do wrestle with humanity of our own old Dads while trying to keep the show going for our kids?
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 131
Cryptocurrency expert Professor X joins the Dads for a beginner's guide to Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Kung Fu fighting a thousand Agent Smiths in a torrential downpour, all while looking damn fine in your black trench coat and sunglasses.
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 130
How quickly do we want our kids to grow up and what's going to cause it? Booze? Swears? (The fun ones, not the the bad ones)...or maybe even the glittering promise of Youtube stardom? (Don't Forget to Like & Subscribe!)
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 129
A Haiku to describe this week's episode: Screens instead Sports? Pwning N00bs for Scholarships? Brent Walker is back!
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 128
Dave digs deep and shares a harrowing near death experience while competing in a half marathon and the Editors dig deep and admit they posted the last two episodes out of order. Welcome back Mark! (again). Welp!
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 127
Nah....but it'd be fun to try it out, wouldn't it?
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 126
Whether it's following in the family trade, high tension gender reveal parties, or life or death martial arts showdowns, are we expecting too much from our kiddos?
Oct 24, 2024•48 min•Ep. 125
Whether it's an overfull plate of celebrity home show appearances (Mark), or an earth-shattering meltdown at a post-apocalyptic Swiss Chalet (Dave), the stresses on your parenting mental health are a complicated caboodle. So how do you divvy up the Parenting Mental Load? You know you can't do it alone, and for many of you there's someone sitting just sitting two pillows down the couch, but just how much are you willing to share?
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 124
Those darn kids with their stocked snack drawers, fancy dance classes, and name brand cereal! They've got it all, why can't they step up the the plate and JUST DO IT (TM) ? Well wait, maybe it's not just platitudes, maybe it's our own bad attitudes? Perhaps we've gotta look in the mirror, go easy on our Dad Bods, and show a little of our own Dad Gratitude!?
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 123
Mark and his Chaotic Good energy are off this week, so the remaining Dad's have an intimate chat about A+ Coaching, Making Friends as Adults, and The Big Man Upstairs.
Sep 19, 2024•58 min•Ep. 122
Are you feeling like you're pushing a mountain up a mountain? Having a hard time "choosing happiness"? Struggling to go from nervous to nervous-cited? Well, don't let the title fool you, it's time to try out the magic C-Word...COMMUNICATION, with the Real Dads!
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 121
"Professor" Brent Walker is back to talk Dress Codes, Compliment Sandwiches, and starting Forest Fires with your buddies!
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 120
Mama Mia! It's a big, sloppy Spaghetti Dinner on this episode of The RDP: An amuse-bouche of wedding shenanigans, a salad course of Mid-Thirties Athletic Recovery, Forkfuls of Road Trip advice, and finally Weird Erections for dessert!
Aug 29, 2024•56 min•Ep. 119
Being a Dad can be tough, whether you're high stakes camping with Grandma, dealing with a "Dexter phase", or your kid swipes bike-riding bragging rights from under your nose. But it's all going to be okay. Probably!
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 118
Mark's back from his sabbatical, so the dads can finally talk about what's on ALL our minds: Brian's Vasectomy! Plus: The Olympics, Breakfast Cereal, and the tricky definition of the word "gaping".
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 117
Special guest dad Ian Campbell sits in for Mark for a wide ranging chat of fears, thrills, phones, and... fungus?
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 116
The Dads do their best Siskel & Ebert Impressions and review Eminem's new album "The Death of Slim Shady" and Pixar's latest offering "Inside Out 2", then discuss what effect Shady's loathsome lyricism might have on a kid, and what effect Inside Out 2 had on Mark. SPOILER: He Cried!
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 115
Vasectomies, Organized Sports, and tips for becoming a Confident Conversationalist! All things that take BALLS, this week on The Real Dad Podcast!
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 114
The Dads are (finally) joined by Jordan Hayes to ponder the age old questions: How much info is too much info? How much info is not enough? And how do we have tough conversations when we're still chewing on the topics ourselves?
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 113
The Dads discuss safety on the job site & safety on the home front, all the while graced by the wit and wisdom of Jeff Gill, Operations Manager for The Kawartha Home Hardware Group of Stores, our new sponsors!
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 112
SEX! Just in time for Father's Day, it's The Sex Episode! Sex before marriage! Sex after kids! Sex in the morning and in the afternoon! Then the guys teach Mark how to cook dinner.
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 111
