Daddy Unscripted Podcast

Joe has been a good friend of my family for close to 2 years now. He is the first single Dad to be a guest on the show, and does a good job of bringing that approach to the conversation. Joe has very strong family ideals and that can be attributed to his strong relationship with his own Dad. We talk about how important his fathering role is to him and how easy it is to recognize the importance it will have on his son not only now, but further along in his life, as well. As deep as this episode got, you can tell from the first couple minutes, we shared a lot of big laughs as well. So, this has more than just one side of the emotional spectrum for you all to enjoy.

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If the normal episode with Jose and I was considered late at night, this second section was definitely into the wee hours. For our Fork in the Road , we just kept right on talking in that small hotel room in Santa Monica. We talked a little about podcasts, photography and writing. Our road got even more forked, when we started discussing what celebrities we thought would be perfect best friends for us, if we ever met them. This reminded me of the Disney movie ‘The Kid’, where Bruce Willis says at some point that his best friend in Elementary School was Timothy Wheaton. That was hilarious to me when I saw that movie. We talked a little about sports, since Jose is a Philly product and covered just about everything in this episode.

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Jason is another longtime friend of mine that brings something very different and interesting to the podcast. Of course, you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out what that is. Actually, his tales of interest are on both sides of “fatherhood” for him: with his own Dad(s) as well as his being a Daddy to his two kids. Jason definitely dug deep in this episode and it was refreshing to have this conversation with him. Jason and I delved into a lot of issues and talked about the difficulty of getting your newborn on a schedule. We agreed that if Dads had to do what Moms do through pregnancy and childbirth, there would basically never be any more babies born. So, see, women? This podcast is not just about men and for men.

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This is a quick little episode to celebrate Father’s Day; my 26th Father’s Day without my Dad around for me to call, text or to give a cheesy or homemade gift to. The 8th such holiday that I am being heralded as a Dad. That’s pretty cool for someone who never imagined even being able to find the right person to marry, much less have kids.

My Dad’s last Father’s Day was during my Senior year in High School. The doctors had very recently diagnosed his brain cancer. I was 17 and that was the last time I would be able to praise him for being the fantastical Father that he had been to me and my 7 siblings. I well up with tears as I look back on my 17 year old self, completely unable to process what was going on. It is what it is, but I can’t stop regret from flooding over me when I think about it. Regret for the things I never said, for my fear of being present and dealing with the situation better. Even just to take a handful of minutes to think about what he must have been going through. Aside from the obvious of his steady decline from the cancer, the shame he was feeling of having his teenage son, his youngest, his baby taking care of him during that time. Now, an adult, and a father, I cry just thinking about how I would feel with my kids having to take care of some of the things I was doing for my Dad in those final months and weeks of his life. I know it brought his humility level to a place no adult or parent ever dreams of going. He was a great man, a wonderful Father and at the most basic level of everything: I miss him greatly, whether it is Father’s Day or not.

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This was a long and winding road to this podcast recording happening. Oh, did I just put that Beatles song in your head? You’re welcome. Jose (which you will see all of his links at the bottom of this post) and I have known each other for quite a few years now, and knew of one another for at least a year before that. Jose started dating one of my best friends, Jessica, way back then and he and I finally started talking some time after that. Basically, it’s just one of those “I met you on the internet and we didn’t meet in person until….” kind of things. And the ‘_ until _‘ of that is actually this very night of recording the episode. Jose and Jessica were in Santa Monica for just two nights, so we really squeezed this (and the subsequent FITR episode) in to their jam-packed schedule. For that, I am very grateful. It was fun sitting and talking for so long with Jose, and there are quite a few gems in this episode. We really dug into the terminology of ‘stepdad’ and ‘stepkids’ and heard from a side of that relationship you maybe don’t hear from so often.

Jose’s particulars are:

Twitter: @joserosadophoto | @millenialangry | @sadcreative

Facebook: Jose Rosado Photography | The Angry Millenial Podcast |

www.joserosadophoto.com | www.theangrymillenialshow.com | Creatives Aga;nst Depression

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So this is the Fork In The Road episode that Ryan was trying to force us to segue into more than once from our normal episode. Not that we didn’t enjoy talking about being Dads, but we had not even talked about the (at the time) brand new trailer release for Star Wars: Rogue One at all before this episode, because we wanted to do it on air. So, we were both kinda bursting at the seams to get into our Fork episode.

I won’t spoil too much of the episode (even though we do have some spoilers in the actual episode *spoiler alert*) for you, but we actually saw Star Wars Episode VII together at the 1:30am showing on Opening Night. So, to say we share a passion for the Star Wars universe together, is putting it extremely lightly. We hashed out some of the rumors about the new and upcoming movies, we went through some of our own personal Star Wars history and we even gave our own opinions on some of those theories that are swirling around since everyone first saw Episode VII (I’m still apparently outnumbered when it comes to my theory).

You don’t have to love Star Wars as much as us to enjoy this episode. It definitely helps…but hearing our fervor might be entertaining enough. Enjoy our utter and unabashed nerdery!

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So, I finally got to sit down and record with Ryan. Ryan is the Dad I was supposed to be recording with the night that I recorded Episode 001 (there’s a little more on that inside that episode, so feel free to go back and give it a listen, if you haven’t already). I missed out on our chance to get a Pre-Daddy recording with him, so we waited and did this episode when he was already a couple months in on being an official Dad to his newborn little girl. Ryan’s history of his own childhood was something I hadn’t known about him, so it was a good bit of insight to me, but also good to have someone on who was a “product of divorced parents” and had some experience to share about living between two parents (in different states, even) and having step-siblings.

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Welcome to my first Fork In The Road episode. This came just at the tail end of my previous episode with screenwriter/producer Michael Colleary. Michael and I share an affinity for cinema (that’s even more fancy than saying “films”, right? Well, we are that fancy about it!), so I figured we would have a second episode just geeking out about the movies we love. You’ll hear right off the bat, I think he was not very excited when I led him into it by saying Top 5 lists…but when I clarified that I meant movies, his eyes lit up, his voice changed and we were on our way. We split hairs about Quentin Tarantino, Michael piqued my interest in a number of TV shows I had not yet put any energy into (thank you, Netflix!) and there was even a little discussion regarding how Friends can often turn him into an outsider in his own home, amongst his wife and two daughters.

If you didn’t catch our main episode together, feel free to go back and check that one out! I may have to go back to the well on this one some day down the road, because I feel like we only scratched the surface on how much we could have talked about movies!

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For this episode, the entire family went up to the Los Angeles area, to a place we’ve been many times before: my wife’s cousin’s house. We all love spending time up there and I’m usually more busy hovering over the kids than getting to spend as much time as I’d like just sitting and talking with the grown-ups of that family. Michael and Shannon are my kind of people. They love telling stories (of which they have some doozies!), they love talking about movies and the industry (they are both seriously talented writers) and we have pretty similar tastes in films.

I will openly admit, I never sat down and did any kind of research before this sit-down with Michael. I didn’t really think I should or that I needed to. So, I quite honestly didn’t even know before I googled him for notes after the episode that he was writer/producer of one of those guilty-pleasure-type movies of my younger days: Face Off. Yes…that Face Off: of the days before Nic Cage kinda seemingly jumped off the deep end a little.

As I said before, I’d love to hear your feedback and for you to find the podcast in iTunes and leave a review, rate it and subscribe to it. All of that brings it a little (or a lot) more into the public eye and enables the podcast to get more great guests in to record! As always, thank you all so much for your support. It’s fun to make these…but it is also with the hope that others get some enjoyment and fulfillment from it too!

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If you listened to Episode 001, you know that my first episode was supposed to be part one of a two-part episode with a friend who was on the brink of becoming a Dad. Well this is the other two-parter that I arranged, with a different friend of mine, Kenn. Kenn and I go way back, and I’ve known his wife since she was in Jr. High! We recorded this episode just before their very first child was born, and we discuss the seriously incredible journey that led to that point for them. To say they struggled with getting pregnant is a massive understatement. We also talked about Kenn’s history with his own Dad and Mom and what he’s bringing (or not bringing) to the table as he prepared to be a first-time Dad.

The second part of this episode (at the time this is being released) has yet to be recorded, where we follow up with Kenn and see what the first few months have been like with their little girl in their lives; how much his expectations and ideas were wrong or right. That time will come. For now, enjoy this first sit down with a guest for the podcast as you hear about this couple’s resilience and perseverance to finally have a little family of their own.

As I said before, I’d love to hear your feedback and for you to find the podcast in iTunes and leave a review, rate it and subscribe to it. All of that brings it a little (or a lot) more into the public eye and enables the podcast to get more great guests in to record! As always, thank you all so much for your support. It’s fun to make these, but it is also with the hope that others get some enjoyment and fulfillment from it too!

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