We are smack dab in the middle of moving madness, and stuck between two houses! We have the keys to the new house, but we want to keep our stuff in the old house so that it looks nice to potential buyers, but then what, do we sleep on the floor? I don’t mind doing that, but what about our sweet, beautiful, small children? Is this too much to ask of them, or a great opportunity for them to learn how to rough it? After all, one of them is almost 5 and the other is almost walking. It’s about time they toughened up. They’ve had it too good for too long, eh? This one goes out to anyone who has moved their kids from one home to another.

We’re moving! We are in the process of selling our house and buying another one around the corner. And moving is a big enough job on its own, but moving while having kids is proving to be a different kind of animal. On this episode, I talk about what’s different, what’s tougher on us, on them, and what is better than we could have ever imagined. All that and more. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the show!

You’re not going to believe this, but your resident kettlebell evangelist re-joined the gym! On this episode, I tell you about how I fell out of love with kettlebells, how a friend’s innocuous comment re-ignited my interest in barbells, and how one vacation turned into a workout boot camp, complete with a weightlifting lesson from a former Olympian. All that and more, so please enjoy and thank you for listening!

After a lengthy absence, last week’s episode wasn’t quite the summer recap pod that was promised since it focused on one single highlight, so let’s have that catch-up episode now, shall we?

On this episode, I abandon my complaints about the summer holidays so that I can continue complaining about the winter holidays. Baby Al is kinda talking and almost walking, but barely has any teeth. But that doesn’t seem to stop him from biting his brother. Meanwhile, Big Ern struggles to tell jokes but successfully raw dogged a flight! All this and more on today’s show. Thanks for listening, and enjoy!

NEW EPISODE ALERT! This is not a drill. We. Are. BACK!

On today's episode, a retelling of the Ocean's 11-style caper required to throw a surprise birthday party in my family. Months of subterfuge and deception led to the highlight of our summer so far, and I tell you all about it right here, so listen up and enjoy!

Ugh, sorry guys, I'm away for one more week. This time, though, it's not (as much) my fault. Even so, we will all have to content ourselves with two more old episodes, two more blasts from the past.

First, it's Episode 15, "To the Zadmobile!," in which I sing the praises of a silly but effective old car I have found to be the perfect Dad Wagon.

Then it's on to Episode 18, "Well, it's about time," which, true to its name, is just me thinking about how much harder but more important time management is when you have a family. Turns out, I need to listen to it again, myself. Join me!

Welcome to (hopefully) the last week of summer reruns! We (think we) will be back next week with a brand new episode, and maybe I'll get into what's kept me away all this time, but the short answer is just that summer has gotten away from me. Just as it does every year, as evidenced by 2024's Episode 27 - "Cruel summer," and 2025's Episode 51 - "The heat is on!," which suggest that I have an annual tradition of complaining about the summer. So, please enjoy two old episodes named after songs repackaged into a new episode named after a song. Talk to you again next week!

Hot Rerun Summer continues with another flashback bod pod! Episodes 7 and 8 were a two-part series in which I realized just how much of my understanding of fitness was polluted by bodybuilding. Somehow, this niche interest had become the dominant vantage point in exercise, at least in my own mind, even though I'm not interested in it for myself, and so I spend two episodes listing all the ways that I plan to rid my own fitness regimen from the insidious influence of bodybuilding. Give it a listen!

I don't know what I was thinking when I said I'd be back with a new episode this week. Now I'm going the other way and waving the white flag on putting out a new episode until July 17th! Until then, the summer of reruns continues, and today I give you the very first two episodes of this show, and the very first two bod pods! Episode 1 - "Work out as little as possible," and Episode 2 - "Work out as often as possible," make a nice little pair of foundational cornerstones to my ideas of achieving Dad fitness, even though they both contain a lot of bad information. Anyway, enjoy!

The run of reruns continues, and this time I'm going back not one but two years and digging up two episodes from June of 2024. In Episode 22, I tell you about taking a then 2 year old Ernie to the driving range for the first time, and in Episode 23 I do little more than whine at all the little inconveniences of playing with my child. I don't have any episodes from three years ago, so I better be back with a new episode next week!