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...

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...

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...

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 w...

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 wi...

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. 

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 a...

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 recogni...

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 dre...

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 "Drinki...

Producer Kyle PhD joins Jay (sometimes refered to as The Angry Ginger) in this episode where they discuss the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of thier first year living together. Some of the things discussed are summer vacations interupted, a couple of car crashes, a quick getaway to Vegas, too much roof damage for the insurance to cover, and recovering from an expensive Christmas.  We also try to sol...

In this episode, Jay makes an impromtu call to an old cohost for a response to a draft of his new blog post. The review gets personal but it should convince anyone to read the blog...or not. 

Kyle returns to the show as we continue our conversation that started with Part 1 which was previously released over the summer. Yes, it's been awhile. My apologies for my absences and for not being a very good podcaster.  I'm working on that... so in the meantime please enjoy the rest of a conversation I had months ago with my now live in girlfriend in which we discuss her past dating and sexual...

Cohost Dan sits this one out so my girlfriend. Ahem, excuse me. My now live-in girlfriend, can sit down on mic with and discuss dating after divorce and then dating me. We talk about the slow development from first date to denying we're dating to actually dating to "Hey, ya wanna move in with me and my FIVE kids!? You can bring yours along if ya like!" Now that we're blending the family and trying...

Dad's and their riding lawn mowers... am I right? Dan has a new one and he's proud landscaper! Ginger has officially begun to blend families. Talks of travel sports, time for the parent over the child. Divorced and decision making around availablitiy is a real thing. Ginger's daughter calls for a late night pick up. Dad's been drinking. To send and Uber or not? We weight in on the School shootings...

In this episode, Ginger scars his son, whom he thought was sleeping in the backseat, but apparently was wide awake and getting a life lesson from an Eminem Song. Dan becomes a Home Depot-Set Building-Theater Dad. We read about a mother who gets pulled over for drunk driving but denies ever having a drink... until her frightened unbuckled young son tells the truth from the backseat.  We also share...

In this thought to be lost forever pre-christmas episode, Dan and Ginger discuss the holidays and upcoming plans, the adorble cutness of childrens school christmas concerts and how that wears off. Dan also looks back at a time in his youth when he was part of a championship football team and contemplates making a documentary... once he comes into some money that is. 

In this ep, the great and powerful dads return to discuss one tik tok-er's unique way of living unblended while another one demands that all men in basements get their microphones revoked!  Dan has had it up to hear with parents weaponizing their children. Off with the dead beat dad's heads.  Ginger's health has taken a surprising turn. Two words, "Heart Attack"? Maybe it's not that bad? Maybe he'...

Wrapping up our second day of Podtoberfest. The final hour and half of it all, The Maier's (Chris and Kristen), from How Was Your Week Honey join us to not really discuss parenting as much as we discuss things because we are parents. 

In what starts out as a great weekend for Ginger, a surprise birthday party, attending a post pandemic concert (is it post?), and family photo's, suddenly turns into one bad thing after another! One kid takes a trip to the hospital, another gets in a bad car wreck while another decided Covid is what the house was missing. All of this and sooooo much more.  Dan finally lands a beauty and feels bles...

Dan is thinking about getting a Vasectomy. Jay recently got one. What better time than now then to relive the horror of it all. We're 6 weeks out since Jay had one, so after dropping off his sample he shares the good the bad and the very ugly of it all.  We are also both in relationships. We've got kids. They've got kids. Small discussions have begun, in different ways, of how we are going about b...

Blogger 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!  Find, Follow and say...

Jay and Dan have our first guest on the show. We discuss Blending Families, race, stereotypes, mixing cultures and chasing your dreams while being a stay at home/working father. 

We take a break from releasing our banked episodes and jump in with an episode that took place just days ago!  Dan has been a home owner for months now and you wouldn't believe the crap he went through to buy the house and then it gets down right gross when he moves in!  Ginger's Son inherits his love for Batman comics and almost kills him playing football. Getting old sucks! Ginger also swears by...

In this episode, Ginger struggles to deal with his children's anxiety and depression. Two of them visit the hospital, but it's not like it was when he was a kid. It's accepted. It's talked about. It might just be the cool thing to do among their peers? Another overcomes her anxiety and pandemic fears only to be treated like absolute crap for no reason at all. Dad wants to go killer bear, but the k...