The HeyDad Podcast

The HeyDad Podcast episodes:

• 11.04.2020

  43: No More Non-Dad (or: "There's a wolverine, and you have to sleep train it")

  Big news - Tyler's gonna be a dad!  We discuss the things Tyler has to unlearn from the rest of us, our Dad accidentally(?) roasting all of us, and how long we'd all last on the show "Alone." Even when Tyler...

  
• 10.20.2020

  42: Gideon Says the Big One (or: "A sweet taste of pre-Covid life")

  We pulled this one out of the vault (Kevin forgot to release it)! Gideon says a bad word, Andy goes on a run, Derek's kids call him by his name, Tyler has a very relatable "You know what I hate?" -...

  
• 05.20.2020

  41: More Quarantine Life (or: "I'm too fat for my jorts")

  The phrase "HeyDad's stupidest episode ever" gets thrown around a lot these days, but we're pretty confident this one takes the throne.  We discuss apartment timeshares, discover maternity clothes, debate the best ways to get a pharmacist's romantic attention, and introduce...

  
• 04.14.2020

  40: Ryan Rucker (or: My Favorite GirlDad)

  *This episode was recorded pre-Coronavirus, so you will hear a glorious dearth of quarantine, social-distancing, shelter-in-place, etc. references. Ryan Rucker is an old friend of Tyler's and a much better dad than any of the HeyDad guys. Tyler and Kevin talk...

  
• 03.31.2020

  39: Quarantine Life (or: "I meant it as a compliment.")

  Well y'all we're sheltering in place. Spending a whole lot of time with our families. Allowing more screen time than ever.  So do you want to listen to us complain and make dumb jokes? To listen to Kevin whine? To listen...

  
• 01.13.2020

  38: Potty Training (or: "You're not ready for Module 4")

  Happy New Year! It's time for a topic that's been requested a lot - potty training! The guys discuss the various ways they've messed this up, judging other parents, mailing it in, and provide zero practical advice.  ICYMI: We launched a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/heydad If...

  
• 11.27.2019

  Special episode: Guns (or: "we're here to ruin Thanksgiving.")

  We're back with a very different episode from our usual silliness.  Kevin goes deep into the issue of guns and mass shootings in America, prompted by the fears that he (and so many others) feel when dropping their kids off at...

  
• 11.22.2019

  37: Back to School (or: "Yard Duty Tenure.")

  School's been back in for a while so we should probably talk about it.  Parent teacher conferences, standing up to fake bullies, explicit lanyards, "yes, and" with your kid's teacher as they tell you what your kid is doing wrong -...

  
• 11.12.2019

  36: Halloween (or: "Depression Peanuts and G.I. Joe Turds”)

  Halloween recap! The guys talk about a T-Rex fight at school, Tyler's encounter with a banshee, Kevin calls his sweet beautiful oldest son a wuss, and there's a lot of arguing about tootsie rolls. Also somehow we make "it's a...

  
• 10.29.2019

  35: Andy's Vasectomy (or: "You're still a man.")

  And we're back! Season 3 kicks off with quite possibly our best episode ever. There comes a time in a man's life when he needs to stop making people. That moment recently came for Andy, and naturally Tyler and Kevin decided...

  
• 07.25.2019

  34: Performance Review (or: "San Francisco's hottest club is...")

  If being a dad is "the most important job you'll ever have," then it's time for a performance review. Tyler does some very basic internet research on how to do one of these, then pulls Kevin into the office with...

  
• 07.09.2019

  33: Shea Serrano (or: "Splotch and Blob")

  A very special epsiode of the HeyDad Podcast, where we get a chance to interview Shea Serrano from The Ringer. He's an amazing writer, full-on Thing on the Internet, and a Dad of three boys. We talk about positivity, hard...

  
• 06.11.2019

  32: Father's Day (or: "I text you every time I try")

  It's Father's Day! So naturally we asked the only non-dad on the show to talk about his parenting angst.  Tyler shares his perspective on losing the "non" in his title, and the rest of the guys share about how and why...

  
• 06.04.2019

  31: Lies (or: "Did you know in the olden days everyone drank blood?")

  Lies! A story about Kevin's 1st grader regularly coming home with wildly incorrect information becomes a wider conversation about lying and kids. Andy shocks everyone with some truly terrible boyfriend behavior in the cold open, and the guys tell very real...

  
• 05.10.2019

  30: Mother's Day (or: "Somehow we got our mom to be on the podcast!")

  Mother's Day! The guys describe how watching our wives give birth makes us borderline worship them, Tyler seamlessly works a Beyonce reference into a discussion about birth, we all talk about some of the things we love about watching the women...

  
• 04.22.2019

  29: The FurBaby Special (or: "it's time to talk about non-dad stuff")

  Tyler takes the wheel and finally gets his chance to convince us that having a dog is like having a kid.  Tyler lays out the similarities, Andy makes some confessions, and Derek finds a way to mention his remodel again. The...

  
• 04.02.2019

  28: Cleaning (or: that fat dude from Seinfeld got eaten on the toilet")

  How, just how does everything get so messy so quickly? The podfathers discuss messiness, conflict about said messiness, expectation setting, and how to deal with one of the more annoying realities of parenting.  You know what I hate is back,...

  
• 03.06.2019

  27: Worrying (or: "is it legal to bleach a kid’s mouth?")

  Having a kid turns even the most optimistic of us into worriers. You love them so much and they're so dumb and dangerous and helpless. In this episode we talk about irrational worries, the co-parenting dynamic when one person is...

  
• 02.21.2019

  26: My kid is too hard on himself (or: "You failed because you were ticklish")

  Episode 26. What do you do when your kid is too hard on himself? What is the right amount of worrying about a kid? Is it ok to project current behavior into the future (what will be be like when...

  
• 02.06.2019

  25: Parenting for an Audience (or: "Blueberry-related crimes.")

  Heyoooo it's new episode time. Today we're talking about when you have to be a dad in front of other people, and all of the complications that brings. Derek lives at his in-laws for two months, Andy delegates potty training...

  
• 01.23.2019

  24: Secrets (or: "She sees surprises as insults")

  Y'all be cool ok it's time to talk about secrets. Specifically, how our kids cannot handle them at all and make the process of keeping any kind of secret/surprise from them a total nightmare for the whole family. We also...

  
• 12.18.2018

  23: Holiday (or: "Did...did someone tell you?")

  Holiday episode! We're not gonna bury the lede here, Derek uncorks an incredible story at the end of this episode that will shake you to your very core.  We also talk about whether the holidays are better/worse with kids, Kevin tells...

  
• 12.10.2018

  22: Keeping Score (or: "This Nintendo Switch ain't gonna buy itself.")

  Episode 22 is all about keeping score, the pettiest, most tempting, and most unsatisfying aspect of co-parenting. (Extremely Emperor Palpatine voice): Good, gooooood, let the resentment grow. This is part two of the conversation we started last episode, and it's a...

  
• 11.26.2018

  21: Who's going to take care of me? (or: "Welcome to podcast therapy.")

  Season Premiere! The long wait is over. This episode centers on a conversation we've been having a lot lately: how do I take care of myself while I'm taking care of all of these other people? How do I ask for...

  
• 11.14.2018

  20: Sports (or: "My strength will overcome my chubby big brother")

  Season finale! Podcasts are doing "seasons" now, and we're not trying to get left out so guess what? SEASON FINALE. So many questions left unanswered for next season. Will they? Won't they? Who shot Mr. Burns? Will these guys ever stop...

  
• 10.24.2018

  19: Back to School (or: "Bedtime club? Tell me more!")

  Back to school means so many things. Exhausted kids, annoying pick-up dads, pants-peeing, trolling kindergartners by making them spell hippopatamus, and probably other things too. But we didn't talk about the other things we mostly talk about the stuff I...

  
• 09.24.2018

  18: Work-Mode vs. Dad-Mode (or: "This is my mom, this is the spoon. Anyway, my room's upstairs")

  Episode 18 is all about the topic we get asked about more than any other - the transition from work-mode to dad-mode. Why is it so hard? Also Kevin talks about the carte blanche he's given his kids to make fun...

  
• 08.29.2018

  17: Road Trips (or: "You know what? You drive.")

  We're back! The guys talk through how traveling is so different post-kids, all of us confess to being mediocre + overly sensitive drivers, and Tyler tells us all how he lost the security deposit on his RV rental. Plus, Derek writes...

  
• 07.24.2018

  16: Technology (or: "A Tantrum in a Goat Field.")

  We're back with episode 16! The guys talk about technology and our pathetic attempts to integrate it into our kids' lives without ruining them. Andy talks about the 80+ times he's seen Trolls with his kid, Derek laments Atley's YouTube obsession,...

  
• 06.27.2018

  15: Ask HeyDad (or: "The entire male species can't possibly be collectively continually constipated?")

  You have questions, we have answers maybe. We're tackling the big stuff - why dads take so long to poop, how to be encouraging without being patronizing, should boys sit or stand to pee, do aunts/uncles have to buy kid...

  
• 06.13.2018

  14: Father's Day (or: "I go ham in that bath")

  Father's Day y'all! The most important day of the year approaches and buckle up because we are extra full of ourselves this week. Tyler's gift to the dads is free rein to brag about what they're awesome at as dads,...

  
• 05.25.2018

  13: Launch (or: "HeyDad.com is LIVE!")

  HeyDad.com is finally live! The guys celebrate the launch of HeyDad.com, we talk about the journey to get to this point (What. A. Ride.), what we hope it accomplishes, and how you can join. Also, the guys pitch Kevin on new...

  
• 05.01.2018

  12: Extra Credit (or: "No one gave your wife a parade...")

  Confession time on the HeyDad podcast. Even though we do a (marginally) good job projecting our woke, feminist, bona fides...sometimes deep down we're still cavemen. In this episode we get into the idea of extra credit - wanting to be...

  
• 04.04.2018

  11: The Day I Became a Dad (or: "Here at Kaiser we value skin-to-skin time.")

  Usually it's just moms telling their birth stories and stealing all of the glory because they actually had the baby - but we were kinda involved too! So we're telling ours. Everything changes when you become a dad, except you're...

  
• 03.20.2018

  10: The 10th Episode Extravaganza (or: "What a Ride")

  Episode 10! The guys get together to look back on their immense success. We share some of the clips and stories that we weren't able to fit into previous episodes, since the listening public can only handle so much wisdom and laughter. We reminisce about...

  
• 03.06.2018

  09: Your Problems are Stupid (or: "At least I got to feel superior?")

  The last few weeks we've been busy working on all the other HeyDad stuff - shooting our promo video and getting HeyDad.com closer to launch - but we're back, and as self-important as ever! In this episode, we talk about being a...

  
• 01.25.2018

  08: Where Did My Friends Go? (or: "Good Dad, Bad Friend.")

  Having kids makes building and maintaining friendships waaaay more complicated. Tyler (non-Dad) and the three dads hash it out - why don't we see each other as much? Why is it such a big deal to miss a kid's nap?...

  
• 01.08.2018

  07: Taking Family Photos (or: "So I Want to Talk About Andy Taking His Pants Off")

  Taking family photos is inarguably the worst thing there is. The guys talk about why we even bother, explore the seemingly illogical desire for a third party to tell you that your kids are bad, and we interview a photographer...

  
• 12.12.2017

  06: Holiday (or: "A Sharecropper in a John Steinbeck Novel")

  The Holidays! The guys talk about presents, Santa, managing expectations, we get into some hot takes about Holiday-themed coffee drinks...all the important stuff. Also Derek unleashes an epic monologue about Christmas-themed TV episodes. It's a good one.

  
• 11.30.2017

  05: Josh Lovelace (or: "Danny Trejo and the Terrific Trejo Band")

  Our first interview! Josh Lovelace of NEEDTOBREATHE joins us to talk about his new kids record: "Josh Lovelace and Friends Present: Young Folk" (it hit #1 on iTunes!). We talk about being a great dad despite the constant need to travel,...

  
• 11.16.2017

  04: Thanksgiving (or: "Chain Wallets at JC Penney")

  Thanksgiving! Turkey, mashed potatoes, football, family and (once upon a time)...sweet sweet naps. The guys talk about navigating Thanksgiving with kids, Derek pays a weird homage to his dad via "stuffin' muffins," and Tyler tells us all about the worst...

  
• 11.06.2017

  03: Vacation (or: "The Vacation Dad Abides")

  Vacation Dad - can he be more than a cranky, hurried, harried ruiner of fun? The guys discuss vacations, how they've changed post-kids, and what to do about it. Derek's kids learn a swear word (kinda), Andy steals some fidget...

  
• 11.06.2017

  02: Getting Pregnant (or: "Are You Sad? You Should Birth Me")

  Episode 2 is all about how the guys made babies. We discuss gas station nachos, Kevin's x-men baby that heals from the womb, and Tyler learns where babies come from! Also, we get into our first "Dadlemma:" should I leave...

  
• 11.04.2017

  01: Pilot (or: "I'm the Only One that Drives a Sweet Motorcycle")

  In this inaugural episode, the guys talk about why they're starting the podcast, lie about riding motorcycles, discuss why Coach Taylor is the GOAT TV dad, learn what the STEM acronym means, rant about bad Ziploc commercials...lots of good stuff....