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About Daddy Talk
Daddy Talk is a weekly podcast exploring kink, D/s dynamics, relationships, identity and personal growth through real conversations with real people. Drawing from years of one-to-one work with submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters from around the world, TheFunnyDom unpacks the questions, challenges and experiences that shape modern dynamics and relationships. Thoughtful discussion, honest conversation, practical kinky insight—and the occasional Daddy joke. That's Daddy Talk. New episodes weekly.
- Publisher
- TheFunnyDom
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Jun 2026
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
19 episodes in the feed.
5 Oct 2026
Condescending Care
In this episode of Daddy Talk, A new Hard Take on dirty talk, a new Daddy joke and I speak on Condescending Care, a new term and tone from My 1-1 work I share part of a punishment task completed by one of My 1-1 folk who fkd around and found out. A beautiful open conversation with littlefox, a submissive listener who has recently gone through an experience we all face at some point. Patreon supporters receive each episode early, along with occasional additional content as things evolve. Episode 19 will drop here first, and release publicly the following week on Spotify and Apple podcasts New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
28 Sept 2026
Rope Conditioning
In this episode of Daddy Talk, A new 'In Bed with Daddy' sharing a recent unplanned vibey scene (intro tune by the one and only Deore! (@deorebby) – A new Hard Take segment, this time its trauma and kink – I share what mistake so many folk i speak with make and some new Ask a Daddy questions. New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Deore on ig - @deorebby And check out her debut album TANTRUMS (out now!) 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
21 Sept 2026
Daddy Walks
In this episode of Daddy Talk, A new Ask a Daddy with kink and relationship questions from the regular ig Q&A – A new For those Who Are segment, and I share the latest from My many conversations with new kinky folk and talk about the battery of power behind power exchange and My own new health endeavor. New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
14 Sept 2026
JD Fantastic
In this episode of Daddy Talk, Ask a Daddy answers to a ghostingly bad bf, and I welcome erotic massage provider JD Fantastic ( @jd_fantastic on ig) to the studio where we discuss massage, donut daddy, kink and his Hitachi graveyard. This episode also sees the debut of a NEW segment of Daddy Talk - For Those Who Are... New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow JD Fantastic @jd_fantastic on ig━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
7 Sept 2026
1-1 With Daddy
In this episode of Daddy Talk,This week I'm sharing a special conversation with one of My recent 1-1 offer kinksters, so be a pervy fly on the wall and listen in on a private discussion between Daddy and one of the lucky few who were chosen to try My 1-1 space as a gift. PLUS A new Hard Take segment, this time its something I love that makes Daddy hard! New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
31 Aug 2026
Dynamic First
In this episode of Daddy Talk, Another peek in My Vault of kink'' segment featuring a very vibey impact scene with a very good California girl – A new Hard Take segment, this time its tackling some bad advice I heard this week online – I share how I'm doing after that personal loss recently and talk about the difference between Dynamic and kink play. New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
24 Aug 2026
Service Dom?!
In this episode of Daddy Talk, Another 'In Bed with Daddy' segment featuring one of My own past scene recollections intro tune by the one and only Deore! (@deorebby) – A new Hard Take segment, this time I get riled up about the term 'service dom' – Plus I explain a little about littlespace in Ask a Daddy and we have more of My lovely visit with Annie Undone (@annie_undone) New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Deore on ig - @deorebby And check out her debut album TANTRUMS (out now!) Follow Annie on ig - @annie_undone 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
17 Aug 2026
Annie Undone
In this episode of Daddy Talk, A new wonderful kinky guest this week, Annie Undone, a queer, kinky ,married relationship anarchist joins us and there's a new Ask a Daddy segment with some little questions and big answers, plus a very vulnerable share from Daddy himself and ofcourse a new daddy joke. FOLLOW Annie @annie_undone on ig New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
10 Aug 2026
My submissive enters the chat
In this episode of Daddy Talk, A very, very special guest joins us, My own submissive partner V is here to talk about meeting Me, what she has learned, what lays ahead and what it's like being in a dynamic with this sadistic Daddy. New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
3 Aug 2026
Deore
In this episode of Daddy Talk, I welcome the one and only Deore! (@deorebby) – Kinky brats very own champion singer songwriter, her new album 'Tantrums' is OUT NOW and is as beautiful as her Doms leather shoes as seen on the cover art! We talk dynamics in terms of diff types of cola, her own dynamic and how she makes her kink authentic art and how she'd like life to be one great CNC scene! New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Deore on ig - @deorebby And check out her debut album TANTRUMS (out now!) 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
27 Jul 2026
Ask a Daddy Special
In this episode of Daddy Talk, Our 1st Ask a Daddy special, I take questions from kinksters around the world – A new Hard Take segment – Daddy joke -And some personal thoughts on reconnections and ending dynamics New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
20 Jul 2026
Don't f--k in the atrium!
In this episode of Daddy Talk, Another 'In Bed with Daddy' segment featuring one of My own past scene recollections (intro tune by the one and only Deore! @deorebby) – A new Hard Take segment, this time its aimed at swingers – I check back in with Ash, the lovely sub from Ireland – And more of My kink chat with Master Joshua from NY Follow Master Joshua @masterjoshuanyc New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Deore on ig - @deorebby And check out her debut album TANTRUMS (out now!) 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
13 Jul 2026
A Master and a Daddy
In this episode of Daddy Talk, I speak with Master Joshua, a NYC professional Dominant about labels and what He does for kinksters. A new segment with a spicy share, new Ask a Daddy questions answered and ofcourse a new Daddy joke! New episodes every Monday. Follow Master Joshua - on ig @masterjoshuanyc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
6 Jul 2026
Fk Normal Not Vanilla
In this episode of Daddy Talk, A new Daddy joke, more from My lovely chat with our 1st live special guests. Axel & Evie - the couple who sleep with people for money, (FOLLOW them @evieaxelagain) and I talk on vanilla sex, how NOT to avoid drop and what Switching REALLY is. New episodes every Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. Simply go to - www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on My Patreon. Simply go here and subscribe today -www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
29 Jun 2026
Spank you for the memories San Francisco
In this episode of Daddy Talk, I reflect on a memorable trip to San Francisco, answer listener questions, and share a conversation with one of the wonderful subs from my community and debut a new Daddy joke segment! In this episode: • Reflections from San Francisco • Listener questions and practical advice • The debut of Daddy Jokes Featured this week: 🎙️ 1-1 Conversation A conversation with Elena about kink, growth and personal experiences. ❓ Ask A Daddy Two listener questions answered. 😼 Daddy Jokes A brand new segment featuring jokes of highly questionable quality. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content through Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Send me a DM on Instagram. @thefunnydomreturns ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every Monday.
22 Jun 2026
Evie & Axel, the couple who sleep with others for money
In this episode of Daddy Talk, I sit down for a live conversation with Evie & Axel (@evieaxelagain) to talk about their unique and sweet relationship and kink. Also in this episode: – Another 'In Bed with Daddy' segment featuring one of My own past scene recollections. Intro tune by the one and only Deore! (@deorebby) – A new Hard Take segment, this time its 24/7 Vs bedroom – I share what happened at a recent kinky play party – And our 1st special guests live in conversation, Axel & Evie - a lovely couple of lovers who sleep with people for money. We had such a beautiful chat, I think I should have them back, what do you think?New episodes every Monday.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Evie & Axel on ig -@evieaxelagain Follow Deore on ig - @deorebby And check out her debut album TANTRUMS (out now!) 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
15 Jun 2026
Kneeling on the rice
In this episode of Daddy Talk, I explore whether rope has become a little too fashionable, debut a brand new segment, and answer more listener questions about dynamics, connection and kink. In this episode: • A Hard Take on rope being TOO fashionable? • The debut of In Bed With Daddy (Feat. Music by Deore) • Listener questions and practical advice Featured this week: ❓ Ask A Daddy Two listener questions answered. 🖤 Hard Take Has rope become too fashionable for its own good? 🛏️ In Bed With Daddy A beautiful shared story from a member of the community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Enjoying Daddy Talk? Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content by supporting the show on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor This episode is proudly supported by OZGAGA. Use link - https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA for 20% anything you buy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Deore @deorebby on ig And check out her debut album TANTRUMS (out now!) 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Just DM @thefunnydomreturns on ig ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every Monday.
15 Jun 2026
Pleasure Doms Aren't Real
In the first episode of Daddy Talk, I explore why I believe "Pleasure Dom" is a trite trend, speak 1-1 with a submissive in Ireland and more! Featured this week: 🎙️ 1-1 Conversation A discussion about confidence, expectations and finding the right dynamic. ❓ Ask A Daddy How do I support my Dominant and stay submissive? I've always been a sub, how do I explore Dominance? 🖤 Hard Take Pleasure Doms Aren't Real ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. Just visit the link below. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Want more episodes of Daddy Talk? Daddy Talk episodes pre-release exclusively on My Patreon. Listen to new episodes here! www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 Podcast Sponsor OZGAGA - Your BDSM & Kink Fetish boutique Use link for 20% off Today!https://ozgaga.com.au/?bg_ref=NGKbi4DDnA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Send your voice message questions, stories & Daddy jokes: ig: @thefunnydomreturns
10 Jun 2026
Welcome.. This is Daddy Talk.
Welcome to Daddy Talk. A weekly podcast exploring kink, D/s dynamics, relationships, identity and personal growth through real conversations with real people. Drawing from years of one-to-one work with submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters from around the world, Daddy Talk blends listener questions, personal stories, practical advice, provocative opinions and the occasional Daddy joke. This short trailer offers a taste of what's to come. 🎙️ Episodes 1 & 2 launch publicly on June 15. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Work With Me I offer private 1-1 guidance and dynamic support for submissives, Dominants, switches and curious kinksters around the world. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Support The Podcast Get episodes early and access years of guides, writings and bonus content on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefunnydom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📨 Ask A Daddy Have a question for the show or a story you'd like to share? Send a DM on Instagram to @thefunnydomreturns ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every Monday.
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
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