Dad Club

Greg ran Chicago in 2:57. Two years ago, his stretch goal for his first ever marathon was 3:30. Ten years before that he had two herniated discs and could barely walk. He tells the whole story this week. Jay taped this three days before the NYC Marathon, hurt, nervous, and planning to be boring for twenty miles and then full send. After the fact... 3:56. In the books. Also this week: a two year ol...

Lou took his first steps this week. On FaceTime. With his hundred year old great grandmother watching from the other side of the country. It's called LouTV and it's live on TikTok. Also this week: Greg is three days out from the Chicago Marathon and has to eat seven hundred and fifty grams of carbohydrates in one day, which we worked out to be three loaves of bread. Ms Rachel released her...

A case at Cornell led us into the conversation neither of us was ready to have: not how to raise a nice boy, but how to raise one with an actual backbone. One who will say something out loud in a room where nobody else will. Then Greg asked who the best male role model in public life is right now, and the silence that followed is the whole episode. Before that, the good stuff. Sadie started school...

Our first guest is Jay's brother Andrew: dad of three, ad agency owner in St. Louis, inventor of the Dad Pad, and a man who came on this podcast with a list of demands. He wants to be our title sponsor. He believes he was the original co-host. And he absolutely will not power rank his own children out loud, because as he puts it, this could be played back ten years from now. We get into the be...

There is a version of Sunday where you see every snap and your wife still gets her whole day back. We found it. Hey Dads. We're back and in the studio! First up, Jay's brother wants to know why Dad Pad isn't the sponsor of this podcast, which is a question he should probably be asking himself. Then: the parenting move where a mom offered her five year old a box of matches and a shovel,...

Mary Beth Barone says every white dad either cares how the dishwasher is loaded or cheats on his wife. Great news for our wives: we're definitely dishwasher dads. Bad news for anyone who has ever put a small cup in the big cup spot in front of Greg. Also this week: What you actually do when your daughter needs a public bathroom and there's no family restroom. Why the Wolff house has zero sippy cup...

Sam Altman thinks the drive to school should be an AI podcast about your own kids. Alex Hirsch replied "what if you just talked to your children" and got roughly twenty times the engagement. We take both sides, and Greg ends up somewhere neither of them expected. Plus: Greg flies LA to Portland alone with an eleven month old and learns what a 5PM departure does to a baby. Jay hires the one baby pr...

Hey papis - this week we have everything. Veteran dad advice, LeBron to Philly, and a fight about the butt spatula. First up, a real card carrying member of Dad Club emailed us. Kevin from Maryland is flying with a six month old and wants to know how to survive it, so we get into checked bags, the Doona, the three seat hack, night flights, and why you should rent the gear instead of hauling it. Th...

Hey Dads - big week this week. First up, a mom wrote in asking how to support your wife postpartum. We realized right away that this was a great question and a huge trap. Then we ranked the worst fathers of all time, starting with Odysseus, because Christopher Nolan just spent three hours reminding us the original action hero ghosted his kid for twenty years. Also this week: real dad hours, a $25...

Hello dads - What should you actually bring to the hospital? We answer the question every new soon to be card carrying member of Dad Club asks, then get into our dads of the week: the guilt of being relieved when the nanny arrives Monday morning, how to do 24 hours in Vegas without the kids, and the real fear of going from one kid to two. Plus, Jay reintroduces the world to French News of the Week...

Hey dads! This week, two guys who are extremely not qualified to give you a toddler milestone map give you a toddler milestone map. The CDC confirms your kid is a sociopath until age two, we walk through the official Dad Club potty training method (leave him outside, no pants, all summer), and we get honest about the day your alcohol tolerance quietly filed for divorce somewhere around 38. Also on...

Hey Dads - welcome to the very first episode of Dad Club. We’re Jay (Brooklyn, chasing a 1.5-year-old named Sadie) and Greg (LA, 10 months in with Lou), and we’re starting this show to vent, breathe, brag, and figure out dad life together. This week we talk Father’s Day wins, as well as the bittersweet side of the holiday—Greg’s first Father’s Day without his dad after he passed last November. We...

Hey dads. This week we get into the deep end early: the actual day our kids showed up. From there we get into this week's dad-ness: taking a trip without the baby and the guilt-slash-relief that comes with it, the World Cup turning us both into people who suddenly care a lot about soccer, and why Bluey is the only cartoon that respects your intelligence. We also get into the big stuff nobody warns...