Zad Bod

My son loves coming with us to sporting events, and we love taking him. On this episode, I talk about what I think he learns from taking these trips to and from the stadium, and tell a couple of stories about a game we saw as the visiting team, that time he went to a game with six of his friends, and how I recently took the step of taking him to a game on my own. It was great, and I'll tell yo...

It's the dog days of summer, and my extremely pregnant wife is somehow handling it better than I am. I talk about a recent trip I took with the family, spend a little bit of time wondering what it would be like to live on a golf course, and then most of the time debating with myself over whether I'd want to own a swimming pool, which we can't even afford to do anyway. All that plus som...

Ever since I started working out with kettlebells, my algorithm is absolutely littered with arguments about functional strength, functional fitness, functional training. What the function? It seems like a fight among bodybuilders, powerlifters, CrossFit, and whatever you'd call people who use kettlebells. Well, I got news for all of you - NONE of it is functional. People are functional. DADS a...

My wife is very pregnant and very busy at work, which is tough, but wow has she been unpleasant. And just saying that makes me realize that I never hear husbands complaining about their wives, but I hear wives complaining about their husbands ALL THE TIME. And it's fine that they do, but it's very concerning that we don't. Guys, it's time we take back what is a time-honored tradition...making fun...

Back from a week on the road, and boy are my legs tired! No really, traveling with a pregnant wife and a three year old is exhausting. But the kid loves to travel, and he's getting really good at it. So on this episode, I mostly just marvel at the various ways in which travel is so good for the little man, some obvious and some not so much. So listen up, because it's a trip!

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I love kettlebells? They may not be the best way to train for strength or the best way to train cardio, but maybe they are! But they're definitely a great way to train both at once, which means they are fast, Fast, FAST, and super convenient, and allow me to spend more time doing the important things in life, like playing golf!...I mean, spending time w...

Nikola Jokic is the best basketball player in the world. So they say. Scottie Scheffler is the best golfer since Tiger. That's nice. Why don't I like them more? I take a moment to examine that, but also, I don't think it's just me, because I often find myself getting a talking-to from the sports media over the fact that I don't like them more, which means it must be a popular sentiment. Anyway, it...

It's two steps forward, one step back for kids in every single aspect of their development, isn't it? On this episode I go over some areas in which my three year old is doing well, and some in which he's struggling. He's drawing! He's misbehaving! He's trying to be funny! He's not that funny! He's all over the place. If some of that is going on in your house, you sh...

We're about halfway through the 4U tee ball season, and I'm here to tell you how that's gone so far. In short, it's been good, but it's been good in that way where your voice goes up, like you're negotiating with the meaning of "good." I focus mostly on my son's first experience in a structured setting and his first time being on a team, but there's a bit...

Back from another absence, I explain what tripped me up and then find another beloved holiday to complain about. Then I offer a way-too-late review of season 2 of Apple TV's Severance, as well as finding a way to connect Rory McIlroy winning The Masters to the status of my son's potty training. It's actually quite a profound lesson, and I'm a changed man for it. You don't want...

The Masters is upon us, and it's time for a preview podcast unlike any other! For this edition of the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, I am only interested in two golfers. Ehh, maybe "interested" is the wrong word, because one of those golfers is Scottie Scheffler, but I do wonder aloud why I'm so indifferent to his dominance. But I spend most of the time talking ab...

My 3yo son has recently started playing tee ball, and if you didn't know that they played tee ball at three then let me tell you, it's gone about as well as you'd expect. But it's not the kids that are the problem; it's the parents! I describe some troublesome parental behaviors but also praise the coaches, give reason for optimism, and my belief that tee ball is a better sport...

Back again from another lengthy absence to talk about the perils of doing too much and the risk of failing publicly. Then it's on to Spring, which has me feeling full of energy and optimism, except for when it comes to taming my backyard. Hope springs eternal, but so do weeds! Then I talk about my kid graduating from the nursery and moving into his big kid bedroom to make space for the new bab...

We're halfway through the second season of my favorite TV show, Severance , and I want to share my thoughts on the journeys taken so far by Lumon's Macro Data Refinement team: Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Lower), Dylan G. (Zach Cherry), and Irving B. (John Turturro). Do I like this show, or do I love this show? I'm of two minds.

Part two of our fantasy football-based Post-Super Bowl LIX analysis focuses entirely on the Kansas City Chiefs. Where do they go from here? How different would I feel if they won? Or if they lost a close game? Why does this loss being a blowout make such a difference on my view of the 2025 fantasy outlook for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Taylor Swift? Press play and find out!

Well, the NFL season ended around halftime of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl LIX drubbing of the Kansas City Chiefs, but that is also when my 2025 fantasy football season commenced! I had so much to say that this spills out into a second episode. In part 1, I examine the 2025 fantasy outlook for Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith (spoiler alert: it looks good), make...

Good news, everyone. We have another baby on the way! Good news for everyone except my 3-year-old, that is. He's still undecided. I talk about his excitement, his occasional outbursts, his latest regression, and what we plan to do about it. I also talk about my sympathetic pregnancy, weight gain, alcohol intake, and whatever else expectant fathers have to contend with. Couvade, so sad? Not thi...

Well, it's been a long month of fits and starts and not a single 5-day school week for my kid! Sick days, snow days, a holiday two weeks after returning from *THE* Holidays, and my kid kinda sorta put my car in the shop. 2025 is really stumbling out of the blocks, and all I can do is make fun of it.

I spent this past week reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and all it made me think of is today's Internet filled with angry young boys and men. And that got me thinking about what I can do to prevent my son from turning into one of them. Weird episode, weird subject, but hey, parenting is weird I guess. Also, there is still some funny in this episode, which is more than I can say for The Fo...

Happy new year! This one goes out to anyone looking to continue basking in the glory of my...of YOUR fantasy football league championship. I finally won the title in my long-running league for the first time in 2024, and I make the case for why I owe it all to being a dad, even though everyone else in the league is a dad too. But they're not a dad the way I'm a dad, and they're not a champion the...

Just in time for the holidays, it's...a review of the holidays! Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas have taken on new meaning now that my kid is old enough to really experience them for the first time, and I share some observations, as well as a truly unhinged take that I didn't have when I started the episode but that came to me by the end. Namely, that I don't think Santa Claus is going to su...

I'm finally working out with barbells like a grownup! But I didn't just wise up and start doing the thing I should have been doing. Of course there has to be a story for how I eventually arrived at what is an obvious conclusion for everyone else. This is that story. Listen up and enjoy!

Well, it's been a while! I try to explain my absence from podcasting without actually saying anything, and then think out loud about how mightily I have struggled with this completely voluntary, arguably unnecessary project, weigh the pros and cons of trying to persevere at something so superfluous, and decide what life lessons there are in this that I can one day share with my kid. Thanks for ret...

Football is back, and that means fantasy football is back! My fantasy team is my favorite team, and this is my favorite time of year. Except I now have a toddler who talks and does stuff and routinely does the impossible -- he interests me more than fantasy football! So on this episode, I'm just thinking about how I'm going to play fantasy football differently this year, and how having a t...

The Olympics are under way in Paris, and I've mostly been watching basketball, anticipating track and field, tracking the golf leaderboard, and joining everyone else in wondering if I could have played handball. I wonder if you could have too!