The Doofus Dad Podcast

The Doofus Dad Podcast


Latest Episodes

037: Why being a dad is scary
April 18, 2021

Being a dad can be downright scary, and I'm not just talking about the baby stuff. How you appear in the eyes of your impressionable 12-year-old son or daughter can be as terrifying as driving a newborn home from the hospital. Let me explain...

036: God’s parental practical joke
March 17, 2021

God definitely has a great sense of humor as well as a penchant for practical jokery. In this episode, I look at one of His best jokes related to parenthood.

035: Image is everything — even for moms and dads
November 18, 2020

What is the image you project to the outside world? How we choose to see ourselves is pretty much how we act and how the world views us, so choose wisely!

034: The Top 5 ways to know you’re too political
November 13, 2020

If you have a scowl on your face every time you look in the mirror, and you're losing friends on social media at an alarming rate, there might be a problem. You may be too political. Here's a surefire way to find out.

033: Social media and the death of civility
October 22, 2020

Every time a national election rolls around, I'm reminded of the kindness and consideration of social media and how I never, EVER, long for the days prior to Facebook and Twitter. Because life was so much worse then and we're all so enlightened now.

032: The decline of the American TV father and the rise of ‘Doofus Dad’
October 14, 2020

There are a few reasons I named this blog "Doofus Dad" and they're not all about self-deprecating humor. The American view of fatherhood isn't what it was during the days of "The Andy Griffith Show."

031: My top 9 best things about being gainfully unemployed
September 30, 2020

There are definite advantages to being gainfully unemployed if you look hard enough and make several of them up.

030: The human design flaw of married-with-children sex
September 23, 2020

It's an uncomfortable topic, but one that needs to be addressed, I think. The process of having children simply affects men and women differently — no matter how tight you are with your soul mate — and no greater is this difference than where it applie...

029: How THE HELL can you vote for Trump??
September 16, 2020

This is a question I hear a lot these days, especially over social media. People have various reasons for voting or not voting for a particular candidate, so I wanted to make a suggestion on how we Americans should approach the process of casting our b...

028: Casting the first fly — Indoctrination on the Bighorn River
September 09, 2020

This podcast tells the story of my first (and only, to date) fly-fishing expedition. An expert angler at an outdoor writers conference in 2016 was kind enough to take me fishing on the Bighorn River, near Billings, Montana. It was quite an adventure.