Deconstructing Dad Podcast
Keeping a positive outlook on life can be trying. Add in kids, divorce, dating, therapy, co-parenting, and self deprecating humor and you've got the modern day building blocks for becoming a successful single father! ...or something like that.
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 75 minutes
- Episodes
- 65
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2023
Ep 45: Blending Families Post Vasectomy
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 h…
Ep 44: Parenting Through a Digital Detox with Diary of the Dad
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, es…
Ep 43:Blending Families with Marcus The Token
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.
Ep 42: Football Follies and a Crap Filled Shower Head
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 throu…
Ep 41:Mental Healthy Facilities and Dumb Driving Instructors
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 …
Ep 40: Decon Dan Is On The Market!
Jay the Angry Ginger gets a new podcast mixer and is elated! Dan is selling his house and is a bit anxious.
We discuss how the holiday treated us and prepare ourselves for what's to come in the futur…
Ep 39: That's Right, The Dog Ate Its Face Off! (Family Traditions)
Hey Look kids, the Dad's are baaaaaack!!!!
Whilst cleaning out the garage, Jay The Angry Ginger discovers a corpse the haunts him. Dan shares his many Family "Holiday" Traditions and makes Jay feel l…
Ep 38: Dan Plans To Move On After Rigging The Polls Before Friendsgiving
The holidays are coming up. Dan is selling his house. He fills us in on what it was like to work the election. We both have separate COVID scares and Ginger to find meaning... not really.
Ep 37: Dealing With Dad's Death, Bad Backs, and One Bathroom!
It's been a few months since the last episode. Come catch up with us!
Topics:
Using our time better now that there is no commute time to work and back. Finding a different normal. Exercising the smar…
Episode 36: Rona Love, Kittens, and Bears Oh My!
Ginger's house gets a triple kitten invasion. The neighborhood bear can no longer eat my children and Dan's neighborhood bear is no raccoon!
Masks, where to wear them and why? Are kids adapting to th…
Ep 35: Another Quarantine Extension
Chris and Kristin Maier from the How Was Your Week Honey Podcast join Dan and Jay today. It's an extended episode, which is fitting for living in yet another extension of the quarantine.
Do you find …
Ep 34: Overcoming Pandemic Anxiety!
In this episode we three Dad's discuss the change in our everyday normal lives. Adapting to the NEW NORMAL. Working from Home. Homeschooling. Finding structure in the Chaos.
Ep 33: Ginger's Diagnosis
In the Last Episode, Jay "The Angry Ginger" eluded to having some ADHD issues. After struggling with admitting that this might be a reality, and sick of struggling living life through a fog of a mill…
Ep 32: Dad's Back From Florida
Jay The Angry Ginger returns from a Podcast Convention and spending a few day's with his Dad. Health issues aside, it was an excellent trip away. Getting home on the other hand? A Stolen Car. An Ex-W…
Ep 31: Inner Speech, Blackhole Movies, and Big Plans for 2020
In this episode the "Dads" discuss the dangers of teenagers taking selfies, the loss of Kobe Bryant and his daughter and how it hit us. Do we have Wills? Did you know that some people don't have Inne…
Ep 30: Jesus Phlots
Vision Board, Pneumonia, First Love, Phloting, Journaling, Cell phones dropped in the neighboring stalls, and infecting your children with your sickness, all on today's episode of Deconstructing Dad.
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Ep 29: A Better Late Than Never Christmas Gift
In this episode, Jay and Dan battle the odds that is our work, personal and holiday schedule to discuss our heavy work loads and trying to be the best absentee father we can be! Kidding!
Enjoy!
Ep 28: Deep Dives and Skid Marks with a Beaver Weasel
Grant @Insta_Grants2 on twitter returns to finish off our conversation. We discuss more about friendship, getting older and of course friendship.
Having "The Talk" with our kids. Is it different for …
Episode 27: Raising Children in the Realm of Suspicion
In this episode, my friend and old co-host Grant Markham joins me to discuss kids and Social Media. Should they have it? At what age? We also play catch up and delve in and out of our personal issues…
Ep 26: Calendar Catch Up and Drivers Training
Finally after a 6 month absence, Dan The Kilted Ginger and Jason The Angry Ginger find an hour in their buys schedules to play catch up!
What have we been up to for the past 6 months?
Pets, Relations…