Dad Stories: a multi-generational podcast about childhood and growing-up

Jan 26 2025 51 ep. 37 mins 2
Dad Stories: a multi-generational podcast about childhood and growing-up artwork

A boomer dad and his millenial child compare and contrast childhood experience stories in order to better understand what is really different between generations.

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EP 51: Masculinity, Part 2: So Where Does That Leave Us?

Jan 26 2025 36 mins  
Send us a text This episode continues discussing the question, What Does It Mean to Be a Man? We start by trying to complete some of the discussions in Part 1 around the definitive definition of Masculinity. We discuss societal definitions caused by Movies, TV and Commercials. We then discuss the impact of Chivalry on masculinity. We introduce a satirical book that came out in the

EP 50: Masculinity: Sheesh, Where to Begin?

Jul 29 2024 47 mins  
Send us a text This episode starts with the question, What Does It Mean to Be a Man? Since, it is a topic too big and nuanced to be addressed by a couple of story tellers, this episode focuses on personal experiences. What did ‘My Old Man’ teach me about being a man? How did society influence the definition of manhood? What does ‘No Homo’ mean anyway? How does the Feminism

EP 49: Adulting Part 2, First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Eden in a Baby Carriage

Mar 31 2024 38 mins  
Send us a text This episode continues the discussion about events that led us to becoming an Adult or, more accurately, becoming more like an adult. From when we were in our twenties going into the thirties, we both experienced a lot of growth based on being exposed to ‘adult life’. In this episode, we discuss topics centered around family situations such as partners, marriage

EP 48: Adulting, It Is A Lot Different Than I Thought It Would Be!

Nov 14 2023 37 mins  
Send us a text Eden turns thirty! Recently Eden celebrated their 30th birthday. In light of that momentous event, we thought we would discuss events that led us to becoming an Adult or, more accurately, becoming more like an adult. From the twenties into the thirties, we both experienced a lot of growth based on being exposed to ‘adult life’. This will be a two-part series. In

EP 47: Fifth Grade, So If I Am Now the King of the Hill, Why Doesn’t It Feel Like It?

Jun 26 2023 38 mins  
Send us a text This is the fifth and last episode on our elementary school years. With this episode, we share memories about starting school academically behind, coping with overcrowded schools and the changes that caused, senseless vandalism and other shenanigans, working for lunch money, being on safety patrol , spelling bees and school assemblies as well as other topics. Lastly,

EP 46: Fourth Grade, Now I Want to go Parachuting!

Apr 24 2023 35 mins  
Send us a text This is the fourth episode on our elementary school years. With this episode, we share memories about our first memories of experiencing the natural world as well as realizing diversity in the classroom. We also discuss our special school pressures when it came to dealing with math especially math competitions and the pros and cons of counting with your fingers! We a

EP 45: Third Grade, ‘Shtuff’ Starts To Get Real!

Dec 29 2022 44 mins  
Send us a text This is our third episode on our elementary school years. Unsurprising but just like our first episode, on First Grade, we covered several areas that were not part of the script! The review of our report card revealed to us that we were both under a more focused attention on books we were reading’. It was interesting giving how topical books and schools are in the

EP 44: Second Grade is for the Birds!

Oct 02 2022 36 mins  
Send us a text This is our second episode on our elementary school years. To keep us honest, we invited Mom back to join us for this episode. Just like our first episode, on First Grade, we covered several areas that were not part of the script! The review of our report card would suggest that we both had school in the second grade figured out. Our report cards indicated very littl

EP 43: First Grade: Exactly, What Did the First Grader Do to Earn An F- In Art?

Jun 17 2022 44 mins  
Send us a text We have decided to go back further in time and explore stories from our elementary school years. We were a little worried that our memories couldn’t go back that far. After recording our first episode, on First Grade, we realized our worries were for naught. In this episode we explore our experiences from First Grade. As luck would have it, our moms had saved our r

EP 42: So What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Apr 03 2022 37 mins  
Send us a text This episode takes us back to our original model of comparing and contrasting our childhood experiences. In this episode, we discuss a question that adults frequently ask children, “So, what are you going to be when your grow up?”. It turns out that we had a lot to talk about. While Fireman, Policeman and Nurse were the most common jobs for children in the 60s, i