Welcome to Dad Jeans, the podcast of, by, for and about dadding in this infant century number twenty-one. Brought to you by two men—the formerly hip Jeffrey Dinsmore and formerly happening Brendan Hughes—who now have relatively young children and are sorting out what it is that has happened to their…
Jeffrey Dinsmore & Brendan Hughes
Summer vacation is over and it's time for a little more Dad Jeans in your ears! In case you're wondering what is going on at the beginning of the episode, we lost 30 minutes through a recording failure. But never you fear! We get back on track! The Dads don't give up!
Tonight we introduce our first episode thumbnail created by AI! Look at that guy's weird ear! Makes me want to vomit!
Welcome back to our annual ho ho hotacular with the dads gabbin' about all your favorite holiday predicaments and predilections including: cookies! Elves! What's in Santa's lap! Bruce Springsteen! With very special guest: Elon Musk!
The dads are finally back in the decidedly unfilthy garage to talk about Twitter's demise! What they been doing! Current events! Macrame wall hangings! With a special premiere reading from Jeffrey's new balls-to-the-wall action podcast: Professor Blowjob and the Storm-Fighters of Courage!
Oy bruv! You fancy a podcast with yer mates down at the pub? Take a listen to Dad Jeans, the podcast for right geezers!
Civilization's fate will be determined by one of two movies from 2021: Licorice Pizza or Don't Look Up. The red pill or the blue pill. There can be only 1. Hear which path the Dads have chosen on this week's Dad Jeans. Plus: all the other usual bullshit!
This is Elvis, baby. Lemme tell ya something. When I'm not busy recording international hits or getting underage girls all shook up, ya know what I'm doing? I'm listening to Dad Jeans while eating a fried peanut butter banana sandwich. Those boys are a real hoot, good clean fun. If you like to TCB like me, put some fried PB&B in your veins and some of this hot stuff in your ears, baby.
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! Now get rid of your gas stove, you turkeys!
This week, Jeffrey welcomes his very special guest Brendan to discuss Brendan's podcast Dad Jeans featuring his very special guest Jeffrey, host of Dad Jeans!
Someone gave us one star on iTunes. One person. It's all 5s and that one monster giving us a 1. Here we are, producing free content for like 8 years or whatever, and some creep rolls in and destroys our perfect rating for his personal pod jollies. It's a sick world. Enjoy.
Join the Dads for another thrilling episode full of Dad-related content including news slumps! Working from home! Grave new worlds! Nerd wives! Screaming kids! Plus Jeff unleashes his newfound Owen Wilson impression!
The Dads are back in the new filthy garage to hear Brendan's harrowing tale of breaking up a dog fight and also terrible roommates! Rock at 46! Loop-de-loops! Gloomhaven! Dinner after vacation!
Our kids are old so this week we're living vicariously through the experience of (relatively) new dad and longtime Friend of the Pod Ryan Summers!
This week, we cover celebrity wedding guests! Claudia vs. Froggy and the naming of our anxiety voices! And the sprint of irrelevance!
This week we return to our normally scheduled programming with our patented and oft-imitated Dadcentric riffs on white mediocrity! Cults! Alone time vs. me time! Losing our weirdness! Support networks! Useless dads!
After many months of tree climbin' and moonshinin' we have returned to talk about what we did on our summer vacations and more new tales of amateur Dadding!
Shake your money maker! Make your money shaker! Join the Dad Jeans morning zoo crew to learn the secrets to making and spending money: the financial way!
In this episode we take the time to wholeheartedly apologize to Britney Spears, and also to the "leave Britney alone" guy, who as it turns out is now a porn star, look it up. #FreeBritney
Tonight we're talking about: Brendan's big move! The joys of pressure washing! Getting bikes! Big emotions! Hideous ear accessories! Whispering weirdoes!
If I see a gunny sack in the first act, it better be deployed in the last.
Enjoy this pawsome new Dad Jeans for mew and meowers.
Happy New Year! Jeffrey and Brendan ring in the year with a new segment called AntiGra! ("Against the Grain") and we do a deep dive into maladies, our grave new world, Taytay and more.
More mush from the men of Dad Jeans. Today Brendan and Jeff discuss Cher's rib removal, facial tattoos, what to buy a 13-month old girl for Christmas, and the scourge of gifted and talented education. Listen in to equip yourselves for the coming week of parenting conundra.
Tonight we're talking about The Great Brain! Cumbergrinch! Watching vs. doing! Bullshit jobs! Talking things out! Politics and more politics! Show notes: https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/ Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber The Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald
Tonight we're talking about Biden yard signs! Minimalizers! Reaching across the aisle! The sad death of outgoing voicemail messages! The pros and cons of entrepreneurialism! Plus calls from GOFOPs Brian Lavatory Perkins and Michaela Block! Show notes: Groom Mate Nose Hair Trimmer
Tonight we're celebrating the end of the American nightmare and talking about the rapidity of irrelevance! Four Seasons Landscaping! Quiet music! Politics, politics, and more politics! With a special appearance by FOPs Michaela Block and Zorn Chamblad!
Tonight we're URGING YOU TO VOTE as we talk about election insecurities! Nihilistic victories! The home is no longer a sanctuary! Spouse presents! Changing your frame! Container Store hate! Anti-clickbait!
Tonight we're talking about butt lickers! Mine Craft fanatics! Social dilemmas! Creeps! Being fine! Scrivener! Mid-tier friends! Notes: The Social Dilemma - Netflix Creep 1 & 2 - Netflix
Tonight we're talking about White House super spreaders! Jeff's take on The Mezzanine! How Brendan listens to music! Cat Seat Headrest! Das Boot! Matching Halloween outfits! Notes: The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial Simon starring Alan Arkin Blands article: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-07/welcome-to-your-bland-new-world-of-consumer-capitalism
Tonight we're joined by Love You creator Brian Kahn to talk about our families not getting us! Oranges and Lemons! Terrifying our children! Drive-thru blow ups! Giving yourself a break! Links: Love You: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtgyEWqL5jQ3vakMVlNotw Oranges & Lemons: https://open.spotify.com/album/3suXBde2fATz1UzA6f7UoA?si=Hrd-LuS7TcSiKJ0jK1Me0A
Tonight on Brendan's birthday we're talking about drawing boundaries! Kids with disposable income! The uselessness of Instagram! Avoiding adventure! Disinterest in our children! Avoiding work! Political defeat!
Tonight we're talking about living among the octopi! YouTube parenting! Career emergencies! Grappling with genders! Passing time! Proper online arguments! Links: https://www.thecut.com/amp/2020/08/youtube-myka-james-stauffer-huxley-adoption.html
Tonight we're talking about teaching our kids political hate! Kids shows and books we love! Challenges! And a very special meandering Spite Club with our old pal Brian L. Perkins! Links: www.brianlperkins.com
Tonight we have special guests galore with Jeffrey's wife Sarah Cole! Music legend Frankel a/k/a Michael Orendy! And we're talking about mommy boards gone wrong! New vinyl! Weird orthodontia! Shitty usernames! Awful joke structures! Anti-racist resources: How to Be an Anti-Racist: Ibram X. Kendi Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race: Reni Eddo-Lodge The New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander So You Want to Talk About Race: Ijeoma Oluo Records: Frankel - Big Plans Hinds - The Prettiest Curse Brown Recluse - Evening Tapestry Evans the Death - Evans the Death
The boys take on the horrors of everyday life, including, but not limited to, but perhaps most especially especially, the children going to school without leaving the house.
Tonight we're talking about inoffensive grandpas vs. the revolution! The tragedy of the well adjusted! Unattended birthday parties and the moms who make them happen! The KLF! 2001! Amazing dads! TikTok teens! Not socializing!
Tonight we're talking about coming around on Biden! The instantly forgotten Axios interview! Children as an extension of you! Pursuit of sensation! Spongebog Squirepants! Bad Covid words! The terror of underwriting!
And we’re back! Tonight we’re talking about: WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT AT ALL TIMES, COVID-19.
This week we’re talking about: outbreak preppin’! The end of civilization! Secret shames! Ripping kids off of fences! New jobs! The annoyance of shoes! Becoming a cynic! New themes songs! Valuable insights from the minds of professional dads!
Tonight we’re talking about having it average! Goofy foot Segways! Missing busses! Boomercrats! The modern mall! What the Constitution Means to Me! Plus exclusive inside scoop on the Taylor Swift documentary!
The boys are back and we’re worse than ever! Tonight we’re talking about: government failures! Multiple realities! Elephants in the White House! Sad dads!Baby love! Limits and curation! Roadblockers! Plus we unveil our new mantra: a life more ordinary!
Tonight we’re talking about Glenn Steadman! Halloween with children! The misery of the Sopwith Camel! Midsommar! The impossibility of breakfast! David Foster Wallace! Derailers! Stocks! Bonds! Blood diamonds!
Tonight we're talking about whatever.
Tonight we’re talking about Ian Dury & the Blockheads! Taking women seriously! Pop in the sauna! Soybeans! Johnny Tremaine! Hanging with Tanya Donnelly! Surprise visits! Dandelion art! Hushed conversations!
Tonight we’re coming to you completely unedited to talk about mini-disc ice breakers! Eight Is Enough! The treasonous Mr. Barr! Taking a stand against hunger and weapons! Dad recommendations! F**king cancer!
Tonight the Dads are joined by Very Special Guest Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month a/k/a NaNoWriMo! Learn about what it takes to start a national movement! Bask in the accumulated wisdom of three dads just trying their best to get through the day! Learn more about NaNoWriMo at: https://www.nanowrimo.org/.
Tonight we meet at Occidental College in praise of Avery Brooks! Indie pop mixes! Skiing adventures! Sad dads! Schitt’s Creek! Terrible child musicians! Aggressive intactness! Download Jeffrey’s indiepop mix at http://jeffreydinsmore.com/welcome-to-the-jangle-what-i-learned-from-pop/ pw: 1nd1ep0p
Welcome to Season 4! This week we’re talking about: horse children! Marathon mania! The Brothers Gibb! Conservative MAGA punks! The real story being the pee tape! Shooting dirty looks at kids!
Jeffrey here. Episode 100 is not the jolly celebration we had been anticipating because something unbelievable and awful happened to me in the last week that I needed to talk about with Brendan. Thank you for listening & we love you all.
Tonight we’re talking about deplorable men! Heroic women! Listening to our own advice! Conference call etiquette! The 8 elements of worldview! With a special call from American treasure Zoram Chamblad!
It’s been a long, strange summer, but we’re back in the filthy garage to talk about: StoryCorps! Time vises! Rear Window vacation! Emmy robberies! Kavanaughnsense! Crying in softball! Men problems!