Zad Bod

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!

It's been a long summer for no reason in particular other than that we have a toddler who turned into a gremlin once the temperature got hot enough. So what have we done about it? We've struggled. That's what.

Looking ahead to golf's last major, The (British) Open Championship, and the Olympics in Paris, France. Both of which will include Rory McIlroy.

Is it just me or is there not a lot of overlap between baseball fans and soccer fans? I get the sense that people who really like either sport tend to solidly dislike the other one. I'm a baseball fan, and I've been watching soccer too. Both sides make good points.

I'm about to travel to play golf, and I'd actually like to play well on a trip for once, so on this episode I'm taking stock of what kind of shape my golf game is in, and it turns out my golf game also has a bit of a belly.

Things have been a little too cheery and positive around here. Well, that stops now. Everyone talks about playing with their kid like it's some sort of good thing, but there's a lot they don't tell you, and it's time for some good old fashioned venting.

I've started taking my two-year-old to the driving range! It was his idea, I swear. He loves hitting balls, and he learns a ton every time we go -- some of it's even about golf.

I've been working out, being active, moving and shaking as much as I can handle for about a year and a half, and I see small changes in the mirror every day. And yet I weigh the same, wear the same size clothes, and look identical in photos from both then and now.. What is going on?? Listen in as I search for an answer.

I know I said the power clean is my favorite exercise, but I have since replaced them in my workout with the power snatch. Why? How's that going? Do I have a new favorite exercise? All that and more, so give it a listen!

I started mowing the lawn again this year after a few years of having someone else do it for us, and it immediately made me weaker, slower, and worse at playing golf. And yet, I kinda love it?

There's no time like the...no, actually, there's just no time. And yet, the solution isn't to do less. It might actually be to do more.

I haven't been running lately, and I fear that the way to get back to it involves using an old-timey torture device called a treadmill, which I really can't stand using, but is too convenient to ignore, but I really think I'm allergic to, but I could really use right now.

It's Major League baseball season, NBA and NHL post-season, and NFL draft season (?), and I can't stop watching all of it! Some thoughts on Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Shohei Ohtani, and why Millennials are responsible for the decline of trick-or-treating.

Simply an ode to my sweet chariot, a 2007 Honda Ridgeline pickup truck (or is it?) that I love almost more than I can say, but I can say and I do, right here.

I watched The Masters pretty intently, and recorded both before and after the final round of Scottie Scheffler's win over Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa, even Tiger Woods, and especially Rory McIlroy.

Having watched Dune at home, I can say that it is absolutely worth going to see Dune 2 on the big screen, even if it's to go see Dune 2. What does that mean? Do I like it? Do I not like it? Indeed.