World's Greatest Dad with Ali & Neil

What does it really take to build a meaningful life as a parent, a partner, and a creator, especially when nothing goes according to plan? In this deeply personal episode of World’s Greatest Dad , we sit down with Texas barbecue icon Arnie “ArnieTex” Segovia for a conversation that goes far beyond the grill. From growing up on a farm in West Texas to drag racing, dirt bikes, bankruptcy, rebuilding...

Food Network star and Sandwich King Jeff Mauro joins World’s Greatest Dad for a raw, hilarious, and deeply personal conversation about fatherhood, career reinvention, and loss. Jeff opens up about raising a teenage son, losing his father to pancreatic cancer, navigating the end of his show The Kitchen after 12 years, and what it really means to lead your family when everything changes at once. Fro...

Brooklyn Beckham just dropped a bombshell statement accusing his famous parents of control, manipulation, and sabotaging his wedding. On this episode of World’s Greatest Dad, Neil and Ali unpack the Beckham family feud, generational trauma, celebrity parenting, and what it means to choose your spouse over your parents. From Anthony Hopkins’ estranged daughter to Michael Rappaport’s unhinged eating...

What happens when four dads get on a Zoom call with no producer, no FCC oversight, and absolutely no fear of dead air? Chaos. Regret. And somehow… a podcast. In this episode of World’s Greatest Dad , Neil and Ali welcome Mark Anderson and Fey for the show’s first-ever four-dad roundtable . The conversation immediately derails into audio issues, radio DJ trauma, parenting honesty, dad ego, and the...

Brian Stelter has covered the biggest media stories in the world at the New York Times and CNN, wrote the book that inspired Apple's "The Morning Show," but becoming a dad forced him to confront a much harder truth: he was moving too fast. In this deeply honest conversation, Brian opens up about career ambition, getting fired, becoming a stay-at-home dad, and how slowing down changed everything. H...

Midlife doesn’t have to be a slow fade, it can be a full-blown comeback. Greg Scheinman joins World’s Greatest Dad to talk about the moment at 47 when he realized success on paper wasn’t the same as happiness in real life. From getting sober and rebuilding his health to redefining what it means to lead as a father, Greg shares how simplicity, discipline, and consistency changed everything. We dive...

This week we sit down with acclaimed chef and World's Greatest Dad, Jack Yoss for a powerful conversation on modern fatherhood. Jack shares how raising kids across Bali, Bangkok, and the U.S. shaped his approach to parenting and presence. Jack explains how living inside luxury hotels and restaurant kitchens shaped his kids’ early childhood and his identity as a father. We explore what it really me...

What does modern youth culture really mean? In this episode of World’s Greatest Dad, Neil and Ali break down youth slang, why TikTok is the new MTV, fashion trends, and what kids actually care about today, from mental health to the new culture around money. A practical, funny guide for parents trying to understand Gen Z and Gen Alpha without sounding cringe. Plus: what parents can do to stay curio...

Chet Garner isn’t just the Emmy-winning host of The Daytripper, he’s also the father of five kids, a former attorney who walked away from a “safe” life, and a guy who believes the most radical thing a dad can give his kids is presence. In this episode of World’s Greatest Dad, Chet opens up about leaving a downtown Austin law career to chase storytelling, the wild early days of making a PBS travel...

Arnold Myint’s path to fatherhood wasn’t easy. From visiting orphanages in Thailand to facing adoption roadblocks in Tennessee, Arnold always knew he wanted to be a dad. In this episode, he shares how surrogacy brought him his daughter Henley, how his parents’ restaurant shaped his identity, and how he balances being a chef, storyteller, and single father. A moving conversation about resilience, a...

When artist and dad Strider Patton first decided to braid his daughter’s hair, he didn’t expect to start a global movement. But that’s exactly what happened. A San Francisco muralist and cofounder of The Rabbit Hole Children’s Theater , Strider turned his morning bonding time into Dad Braids , a viral project inspiring millions of fathers to show up with patience, creativity, and love (and maybe a...

Former NFL cornerback and current Food Network star Eddie Jackson joins World’s Greatest Dad for a Thanksgiving‑heavy conversation about family, food, and fatherhood. Eddie shares how his grandmother’s biscuits and his dad’s meal‑prep hacks shaped his love of cooking, why Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday, and how he balances tradition with modern dad life. From salmon‑and‑eggs breakfasts to si...

Comedian and actor Sandy Danto has spent nearly two decades making people laugh but these days, his toughest crowd is under seven years old. The stand-up veteran joins us to talk about juggling late-night gigs with preschool drop-offs, being the “trad wife” in a nurse-practitioner household, and the impossible art of keeping your cool when your kid is jumping off the bed for the fifth time . Sandy...

Before he was the host of Carnival Eats and Wall of Chefs , actor and food TV star Noah Cappe was the middle kid in a family of eight, a training ground for the parenting patience he’d need years later. But when Noah and his wife decided to grow their family through adoption, the journey took seven years, a global pandemic, and one magical twist: their daughter Wolfie was born on his wife’s 40th b...

Duff Goldman is used to handling pressure: from constructing gravity-defying cakes to judging young bakers on national TV. But fatherhood? That’s a new kind of wild. Duff shares how becoming a dad was once his biggest fear until one lightning-bolt shower epiphany changed everything. He opens up about overcoming a chaotic childhood to build a nurturing home, why Bluey’s dad Bandit deserves the “Bes...

Halloween’s not just for kids...or is it? Neil and Ali get into it: cabbage night crimes, the end of childhood, and why middle school might be the real horror movie. They compare notes on trick-or-treating, revisit ‘90s Halloween glory (The Mask, Point Break, The Great Pumpkin), and debate whether Jimmy Kimmel deserves to be canceled… again. The guys wade into the great candy corn debate, revisit...

Neil and Ali go deep, and sometimes off the rails, in the Parenting Trends 2025 episode. From luxe skincare for kids to Type C parenting to tradwives on TikTok, six-day Halloweens to inchstone parties, and more, they tackle the weird, funny, and revealing ways modern parents are trying to “get it right.” Along the way, Neil shares a surprisingly moving story about reconnecting with his Jewish root...

Comedian and “friendship expert” Matt Ritter (host of Man of the Year and author of The Buddy System ) joins Neil and Ali, where the conversation veers from toddler knife-throwing and double-stroller disasters to the art of making and maintaining adult friendships. From building out his “Dilfs of Larchmont” crew to rethinking how men sustain social fitness, Matt brings laughter, honesty, and pract...

Filmmaker Tommy Avallone has built a career telling quirky, deeply human stories from I Am Santa Claus to The Bill Murray Stories to the recent I Love You, You Hate Me about Barney the Dinosaur. But behind the camera, Tommy is also a dad navigating fatherhood with honesty, humor, and heart. In this conversation, we cover everything from his son’s “No Haircut Summer” to monster truck shows, Disney...

In this episode of World’s Greatest Dad, we sit down with speaker and performance coach Kyle Rodgers for a powerful conversation about what it truly means to choose fatherhood. Kyle shares how his own dad broke the cycle of emotional absence by committing to being present, and how that decision shaped the way Kyle now parents his own two young kids. He opens up about the weight of responsibility h...

Adam Sandler, sitcom jingles, and barbecue ribs aren’t the only things on Neil and Ali’s minds this week. In this jam-packed solo episode of World’s Greatest Dad, the guys dive into the wild Reddit story of a father who shut down his wife’s “period party” for their daughter and what it says about respecting kids’ boundaries. They tackle the Wall Street Journal’s piece on “FAFO” parenting (aka f**...

Join us as we sit down with Oliver Gee , host of The Earful Tower , for a heartfelt chat about life in Paris, raising kids across three cultures, and why wandering off-plan might be the best way to see the City of Light. Oliver shares how he swapped a newsroom career for podcasting, building a show that celebrates the stories hiding behind Paris’s cobblestone streets and 800-year-old walls. We tal...

In this back-to-school parenting episode of World’s Greatest Dad, Ali and Neil share real-life stories about fatherhood, kids, and family life. Neil dives into the first day of French immersion kindergarten in New York City, his daughter starting second grade, and planning a creative board game birthday party, while Ali talks about raising an 8th grader in Austin, navigating middle school parentin...

What happens when you trade algorithms for orioles? Michael Lombardo joins us to talk about his leap from Google and YouTube into fatherhood, community building, and birdwatching. Along the way, we dig into tech disillusionment, the addictive pull of screens, and why birds might be the antidote all dads and parents all over need to understand a chaotic world. With binoculars, poems, and plenty of...

Chef Jet Tila (Food Network, Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen) joins us for an unfiltered conversation about food, family, and fatherhood. Jet opens up about growing up in LA as the first U.S.-born child of Thai-Chinese immigrants, how his father’s choices forced him to restart life at 17, and why he ultimately walked away from a high-paying Vegas chef job to be present for his wife and kids....