Tell Me About Your Father

About Tell Me About Your Father

Everyone on the gender spectrum has to deal with men and that's enough of a reason to study their impact on our lives. Join hosts Erin Hosier, Elizabeth Thompson and Matthew Phillp for this bi-weekly podcast discussing dads, father figures and the paternal mystique. Episodes include interviews with people who have compelling father stories, recaps of father-centered TV and movies, and our talk show ‘Daddy Issues,’ featuring a cavalcade of brilliant guests who help us parse pop culture news through a dadly lense. If it's about dads, we'll be talking about it. It’s your mom’s favorite podcast! tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com (https://tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Erin Hosier, Elizabeth Thompson & Matthew Phillp

Category

society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Apr 2020

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 144 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Nadia Bowers: Dear Dad

   Nadia Bowers shares with hosts Elizabeth and Erin how her father, psychiatrist Malcolm Bowers, MD, grappled with his daughter Sasha's addiction and her own struggles with anxiety.

2. 

   21 Jun 2026

   Dads: You've Come a Long Way, Baby

   “When your child is having an extreme outburst of emotions, for whatever reason it might be, repeat to yourself, ‘He's not giving me a hard time. He's having a hard time.’" The dad-themed books of my childhood were always found on the back of the toilet, or nearby. Filled with jokes about golf, alone time, toilet seats, alcoholism and contact sports, these short, often illustrated paper products reflected the expectations we had of fathers as the man in the house who most deserved a nap. On this Father’s Day episode of TMAYF, Erin and Elizabeth talked with Kevin Maguire (https://substack.com/profile/9805-kevin-maguire) of The New Fatherhood.org, and author of the new book of the same name (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin-maguire/the-new-fatherhood/9781538773062/?lens=balance), about the stark history and new realities of being a dad in the 2020s, his own experience with post-natal depression, how men have evolved as a species, breaking the cycles we inherit, and why psychedelics may hold the key to a personal paradigm shift for parents. Here’s to the guys who are doing the work like their children are watching. Happy Father’s Day to you and yours, Erin, Elizabeth & Matt It’s cool. Just do it. Get full access to Tell Me About Your Father at tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe (https://tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   12 Jun 2026

   Pride Cocktail Hour with Richard Lawson

   In our annual Pride episode, Matthew is joined by film and culture critic Richard Lawson for a living room conversation over cocktails. Starting with Richard's fresh-out-of-the-theater reaction to He-Man: Masters of the Universe and Matthew's just-finished viewing of Richard Gadd's HBO series Half Man and what they have in common, they move into queer coding in animation, Pedro Pascal's career calculus, the relentless nihilism of Half Man versus the false resolution of Masters, and what it means when a creator tears themselves open onscreen. Follow this podcast on Instagram here (https://www.instagram.com/tellmeaboutyourfather/) Follow Matt Phillp here (https://www.instagram.com/mattphillp) / Follow Erin Hosier here (https://www.instagram.com/erinhosier/) / Follow Elizabeth Thompson here (https://www.instagram.com/bizzyt) Get full access to Tell Me About Your Father at tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe (http://tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe) Get full access to Tell Me About Your Father at tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe (https://tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

Inside a recent episode

Nadia Bowers: Dear Dad

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I think she was so proud to be his daughter. And I think that he helped her, you know, certain colleagues of his, you know, maybe get some research jobs at Yale. You know, he was what her fiancee described him as her protector. And I think that when the Tourette's, well, that's another, so she had Tourette's and that sort of manifested when she was probably around eight or so. And it was vocal takes and physical. And my parents at the time, I think there's a lot more. now about, you know, a lot of kids grow out of it. There's different things you can do. Very few actually go into adulthood with it. […]

Who has been a guest on Tell Me About Your Father

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Nadia Bowers
• Ravi Gupta
• Victoria Laurie
• Chris Santa Maria
• Molly Shannon

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

62 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

62

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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