Latest from The Dad Show
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One Kid Out, Three Kids Back
Half a mile solo. Five lunches to pick. One streak intact.
The school-year premiere. Up at 6:30, the same front step as every year, and a ten-year-old walks half a mile to middle school — alone, for the first time ever — while Pete realizes a summer of bike rides is what trained her for it. Plus a nervous Rubik's cube hour, the quietest kitchen since June, an unauthorized ice cream stop, a smart aleck in the TV room, the raffle prize that put two kids in charge of the school lunch menu for a week, and the nightly ride that survives day one.
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Flying Solo
48 hours. Zero casualties. One skillet cookie.
Mom departs for 48 hours at the Ritz-Carlton; Dad assumes command of the home front. Bonus screen time, delivery pizza, a 6 a.m. cat tribunal, a bike convoy to the farmer's market, a 4-H fair with actual owls, a tug-of-war, a big sister quietly being great, and pancakes before the clock runs out. The Summer 2026 finale.
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The Lobster-A-Thon
Fifteen years. Two cars. One lobster-based economy.
Year fifteen of the great family migration to Bar Harbor: lazy mornings, a 75-night bike streak, a thirty-minute paddleboard prodigy, Zosa's Island, a five-minute international incident at the Canadian border, and lobster in every known form.
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The Last Great Cat Search
The hardest episode we've ever made.
A hard one: saying goodbye to Zosa. Days of watching a silent AirTag, an answer that came from a stranger's kindness, and how the family walked the kids through their first big loss.
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BÜNKBÄDD
Twelve tools. Four hours. One vanishing allen wrench.
The big-girl bed arrives (free, off the town's secret bed conveyor), so the old bunk bed — bought new from IKEA four years ago, now wearing 200 cat stickers and 100 stuffed animals — has to come out: 12 tools, 4 hours, one vanishing allen wrench, a room-sized sliding puzzle, and an archaeological dig back to 2022.
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The Missing Cat Quest
The cat has a schedule. The family has an AirTag.
Zosa the youngest cat leaves after breakfast and comes home after everyone's bedtime — so the family AirTags her, discovers her aliases and her dinner circuit, and mounts a full neighborhood quest following the dot.
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Old Home Day
The chickens retired undefeated.
The whole town shows up for Old Home Day — church pancakes, a parade everyone's in, a retired champion pet-show chicken — and Pete's son defends his cake walk title and goes home with a giant snake cake.
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The Hundred-Dollar Summer
She learned to ride a bike. Then she started a business.
A 10-year-old learns to ride a bike, immediately rides ten miles, then launches a lemonade-and-egg empire — $100 in two hours. Dave does the math.
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The Longest Sunday
Mother's Day: the highest-stakes brunch in sports.
Mother's Day anxiety for dads — the pressure to make it perfect, the kids' "help" that makes everything harder, and somehow pulling it together.
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The Coaster Convert
He hated the roller coaster. Then he got back in line.
Spring Break at Hershey Park — one kid refuses every roller coaster, gets talked onto one, hates it, then immediately wants to go again.
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Nobody Slept
Two guests. Zero sleep. Infinite giggling.
Dad's daughter hosts a sleepover with two 10-year-old friends. Giggling until 2am, snack raids, and the dad trying to hold it all together.
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Z2's Big Problem
Z2 did not order kittens.
The family cat Z2 (zee-too) wants nothing to do with the two new kittens — until he slowly, reluctantly caves.
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Lost in Space (Kind Of)
One kid, briefly absorbed by the Smithsonian.
Spring break in DC goes sideways when an eight-year-old vanishes into the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum — and resurfaces mid-tour with a school group from Ohio.
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The Dad Skill Set
Superpowers nobody puts on a résumé.
Assembling furniture at midnight, the art of the dad voice, and other superpowers nobody tells you about.
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Sports Day Disasters
The most competitive person at the kids' race was a dad.
Relay race meltdowns, wrong-direction sprints, and the dad who got more competitive than the kids.
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The Screen Time Wars
Five more minutes. Always five more minutes.
The epic battle over tablets, timers, and kids who somehow always have five more minutes left.
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Kitchen Catastrophes
'Helping' triples the mess. Every time.
Dad cooking disasters, mystery ingredients, and why "helping" in the kitchen always triples the mess.
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Are We There Yet
Snack negotiations. Backseat treaties. Suspicious silence.
Road trip survival stories — snack negotiations, backseat treaties, and the moment silence becomes suspicious.
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Back to School Chaos
The volcano erupted in traffic.
Science projects revealed at drop-off, picture-day outfit crises, and a volcano that erupted in traffic.
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Stuff We Bought So You Don't Have To
The three-dollar foam sword beats everything.
Real dad product reviews: bubble blizzards, ceiling stars, and why the $3 foam sword beats everything.
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So Nobody Told Us
There is no manual. This is the manual.
The parenting manual nobody gave you — snack logistics, kid lawyers, and what actually counts as a win.
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The Cat Chronicles
Biscuit chose chaos.
Biscuit the counter-knocking cat, a homework-eating legend, and the TV-blocking tabby who chose chaos.
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You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The kite flew. So did the kid. Briefly.
Two dads trade their most unbelievable kid stories — a kite that flew with the kid and a boy who gave himself a personal day.
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