Dad Stories: a multi-generational podcast about childhood and growing-up
A boomer dad and his millenial child compare and contrast childhood experience stories in order to better understand what is really different between generations.
- Update frequency
- every 34 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
EP 51: Masculinity, Part 2: So Where Does That Leave Us?
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 Mascu…
EP 50: Masculinity: Sheesh, Where to Begin?
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 pers…
EP 49: Adulting Part 2, First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Eden in a Baby Carriage
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 th…
EP 48: Adulting, It Is A Lot Different Than I Thought It Would Be!
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 accuratel…
EP 47: Fifth Grade, So If I Am Now the King of the Hill, Why Doesn’t It Feel Like It?
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 th…
EP 46: Fourth Grade, May the Fourth Be With You!
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…
EP 45: Third Grade, ‘Shtuff’ Starts To Get Real!
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 re…
EP 44: Second Grade is for the Birds!
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 s…
EP 43: First Grade: Exactly, What Did the First Grader Do to Earn An F- In Art?
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 ou…
EP 42: So What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
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,…
EP 41: Showing the Love at the Animal Shelter
This episode takes some unexpected turns as we start out discussing our experiences travelling in the Pacific Northwest and end up spending most of our time talking about Eden’s experie…
EP 40: “I ran into a bear the other day.” ...“Oh yea? How did that go?”
After taking a few months off we are back with a new season! During part of our time off we spend some time travelling and being out in the woods. In this episode, we discuss some ideas…
EP 39: What do the Pope, Formula Car Racing and a Skeleton have in Common?
This episode is an old fashioned BS session. It has been awhile since we spent time discussing exploits from our past. For this session, we unintentionally focused on some of our lesser…
EP 38: Concerts and Dances: A Civil Conversation Between the Parents and the Children
This previously promised episode compares concerts and dancing between Boomer Parents and their Millennial Children. If one were to think that this topic is ripe for discomfort between …
EP 37: The Family Tree: The Oldest Branches
This episode covers stories about the oldest members of our family that we personally knew, Eden’s Great Grandparents. This episode brings to light some of the most interesting personal…
EP 36: Washington D.C., Rubbing Elbows with Famous People
With all of the excitement that happened in Washington D.C. this year, it reminded us of our time living in Washington D.C. To us, the most important thing was that is where we started …
EP 35: Bicycling! Get On Your Bikes and Ride
Spring is right around the corner. For some of us that means bicycling is back. This episode was made in hopes of conjuring up your own memories of learning to ride a bike and the inde…
EP 34: Parent Report Card-You Got Some Explaining To Do
If you ever reflected on your childhood and wondered why your parents did certain things, this may be the episode for you. If you are a parent of adult age children and you wondered how…
EP 33: Music in the Family: Turn that Darn Music Down!
With winter here and lots of time by ourselves due to the pandemic, we realized that we were listening to a lot more music than we usually do. Just like with streaming video, we are exp…
EP 32: Space Garbage: Everyone Talks About It But Is Anyone Doing Anything About it?
With this episode we go back to our pattern of talking about things we know very little about. For this episode we focus on our memories of the US Space Program. We will review memories…