PODRE
PODRE is a podcast for people who are dads, people who have dads, people who don’t have dads, people who have seen films with dads in them, as well as step-dads, sugar dads, rad dads, ghost dads, the dad-curious, & the dad-adjacent. Writer, professor, and father-of-two Chris Brunt tells stories harrowing and hilarious from his family life, and interviews high-profile guests from the worlds of literature, film & theater, and academia. Regular segments include “Bad Dads” with historian Brad Franco, the conferring of the distinguished “Not-A-Terrible-Father-In-This-One-Instance Award,” and frequent unscripted contributions from the host’s maximally energetic children.
PODRE: a show about fatherhood. In all its fu*@#d-up glory.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2023
THE PODRE REVIEW Issue 1 (with Kaveh Akbar)
PODRE's newest bonus miniseries (yes, our highly-anticipated literary salon) kicks off with guest Kaveh Akbar, all-world poet and author of PILGRIM BELL and the forthcoming novel MARTYR, here to disc…
Bad Dads: Cannibals
There are many ways of eating your child, but only a handful of reasons one might do so. In this edition of PODRE: Bad Dads, Chris & Brad search for answers in the literature of the Italian Middle Ag…
Bad Dads: Greeks!
Writer, professor, and gourmand John Harvey returns to PODRE for a very special edition of Bad Dads. Chris, Brad, and John look to their beloved poets of ancient Greece to determine which is worse: b…
Bad Dads: God
PODRE is back with two new miniseries to get you through the summer. First up: Bad Dads, in which Chris Brunt & cohost Brad Franco discuss, argue, and occasionally agree on the worst dads in the hist…
The Dad Who Is George Saunders
It's the season finale of PODRE. Congrats to us! To help us go out in style, George Saunders is here. The MacArthur Genius, the Man Booker Award winner, the National Book Award Finalist, the author o…
The Dad Who Came In From the Cold
What's it like to meet your father at twenty-eight years old? What's it like to find out you have a son at fifty-eight? For once, we have answers. Michael Frontain, biological father of your host, an…
The Dad Who Parents. No, Really.
Dads matter, yes. But do they matter... as much? Are there fundamental differences in the roles of mothers and fathers? And if there are, is that ok? What do we really mean by "coparenting" and how m…
The Dad Who Was Afraid of Virginia Woolf
It's time to talk about moms. Difficult, one-of-a-kind, ride-or-die moms. Four-time Moth champ, memoirist, king of the one man show, and "Stories in High Heels" TikTok phenom Jamie Brickhouse is here…
The Chill AF Dad
What if, as a thought experiment, we concede that everything is, in fact, "basically fine?" Even, maybe... "pretty good?" What if we're each of us intrinsically Not-A-Terrible-Father? In that hypothe…
The Drunk Father
Darkness in the family. It happens. How do we move forward as people and as parents when there are violent, traumatic experiences lurking back there in our early life? Friend of the pod, dad, author,…
The Legendary Dad
Has PODRE ever been credited with reviving an entire literary genre? No, but our guest today has. Mary Karr, author of THE LIARS CLUB (Viking 1995), two other best-selling memoirs, and five collectio…
The Bear Dad
Did you have one of those dads who "never raised his voice?" No? Us either. What is a bear dad and is it ok to be one? If you have more than one child, are you a different parent to each one? PODRE d…
The Dad Who Wasn't There
How do we know how to be a good dad if none of the old models are working? What if we grew up without a model at all? Can we learn how to be a good dad from watching HBO? Why is trust the most fundam…
Trailer for PODRE season 1
PODRE. A new podcast about all things fatherhood. Hosted by writer, professor, and father of two Chris Brunt. Premiering this March. Listen now to check the vibes.