Welcome to the Unhinged Dads Podcast!
We're Brian and Dave — two longtime friends navigating the beautiful chaos of fatherhood, with kids ranging from toddlers to teenagers (ages 2 to 18, to be exact).
Join us every week as we dive into real talk about life, the universe, and everything — from raising kids in this wild modern world to the unfiltered, slightly unhinged truths about marriage, work, friendships, and trying (and often failing) to suck a little less as dads and humans.
No sugarcoating. No perfect-parent BS. Just raw, honest, and often hilarious conversations from guys in the trenches.
We go live every Thursday at 8:00 PM Mountain Time on YouTube, Twitch, Kick, and Bitchute. Come hang out, laugh with us, and maybe even feel a little less alone in the dad life.
Stoicism for Dads | And Why Keeping Score Kills Friendships: Episode 29
Dave finally gets to use the philosophy degree. Brian flew to West Texas, and for the first time in 29 episodes they are in the same room.
They cover the actual history of Stoicism: Zeno, the Cynics, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. What the Stoics believed about a harsh, ordered world. Why the modern manosphere version is mostly nonsense. And how the useful part still works: you do not control most of what happens. You control how you respond.
Then they went off script. Non-transactional friendships. The ones where nobody is keeping a ledger. Helping someone because you can, not because you are owed. Why those relationships hold when everything else is on fire, and why turning them into scorekeeping destroys them.
We cover:
• Where Stoicism actually came from
• The core idea that still holds: control your response
• How modern versions get it wrong
• Why keeping score kills real friendships
• Choosing to show up when the ledger is not balanced
Recorded live from West Texas.
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Live every Thursday at 8:00 PM Mountain Time on YouTube, Substack, Instagram, Twitch, Kick, and BitChute.
What friendship have you kept that would not survive a balance sheet? Drop it in the comments.
20 Oct 2026
Legacy Bad Habits | They Learned It From You Episode 28
The worst part of parenting is not catching your kid in a bad habit. It is realizing they learned it by watching you.
Brian and Dave talk about the habits that get handed down without a speech: the snap, the shutdown, the catastrophizing, the tone, the justification. Kids copy what you do under stress, not what you preach when you are being intentional. Personality comes preloaded. The playbook is learned, and it is not the one you sat down and wrote.
We cover:
• What it feels like when you hear your own voice coming out of their mouth
• Why they pick up the stressed version, not the Sunday version
• How to name it out loud and take ownership without dumping your guilt on them
• Showing the replacement instead of just lecturing
• How raising them forces you to raise yourself
Live every Thursday at 8:00 PM Mountain Time on YouTube, Substack, Instagram, Twitch, Kick, and BitChute.
www.unhingeddadspod.com (http://www.unhingeddadspod.com/)
Which of your worst moves have you already seen come back wearing a smaller body? Drop it in the comments.
10 Sept 2026
Episode 27: From "Dada" to "Bruh" | Parenting Through the Ages
Dada. Daddy. Dad. Bruh. That is not your kid getting lazy with your name. That is the job title changing out loud.
Brian and Dave talk about how a dad's role has to change as kids grow: caretaker, teacher, coach, mentor. The fights usually start when you keep doing last year's job after the kid has already left it.
In this episode:
What "Dada," "Daddy," "Dad," and "Bruh" actually mean as job descriptions
Why pouring cereal for a kid who can do it starts the day on fire
The packing test: check the bag, hand them the list, or answer the text from the road
Why child two will ignore everything you learned on child one
The quiet grief of the last time they fell asleep on you
How to stay close in the Bruh years without grabbing the wheel back
Not a childhood-development lecture. Just what the work looks like when the title changes and you still have to show up.
Live every Thursday at 8:00 PM Mountain Time on YouTube, Substack, Instagram, Twitch, Kick, and BitChute.
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