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What a Hell of a Way to Dad

What a Hell of a Way to Dad

Francis and Nate bring you weekly dad chats, plotting the growth of their daughters and themselves. Episodes are interspersed with interviews with various authors and journalists. The hosts are both veterans, so also expect a lot of meandering stories

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All Episodes

01:00:06

Your Honor, The Regulations Annoyed Me

What a Hell of a Way to Dad ·

2021/11/11

We get to the point at 17:51! This week, we discuss adventures in soundproofing, how to de-Ba’ath-ify yourself from the effects of the military making you react emotionally, Veterans’ Day, the 5-year anniversary of this podcast, and much more. However, we also focus specifically on a story about a metallurgist in Tacoma who faked the test results of decades’ worth of Navy metal castings for submarines because she thought the test standards were ‘stupid.’ It’s the most relatable thing we’ve ever

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01:00:23

Repetitive Stress Injuries: The Army Way

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2021/11/04

We get to the point at 23:04! This week, we’re discussing horror stories of Army physical training, inspired by this article (https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-holistic-health-fitness-82nd-airborne/) in which the Army apparently confronts the fact that its previous approaches to physical training completely wreck people’s bodies. Hope you enjoy! For week’s bonus, Francis and Joe discuss the history of the frontier fur-trapper wars in North America, also known as the Beaver Wars. Yes, there are

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01:03:41

DadChat: Culinary Edition

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2021/11/03

This is a full episode of DadChat, so if you don’t enjoy them then it’s probably better to skip it! Nate and Francis go full dad mode and discuss cooking, their least favorite chores, the benefits of pressure cooking for home canning, favorite winter all-day recipes, and a story about Nate finding a cast iron pan on the street and it somehow leading to an unexpected magical night in DC. Hope you enjoy! For this week’s bonus, Nate and Cynthia discuss the impact of watching famous Black role models of

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57:44

No, Do Speak Ill of the Dead

What a Hell of a Way to Dad ·

2021/10/21

DadChat ends at 13:25! This week, Nate and Francis discuss the recent death of Colin Powell, the first Black American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the man who lent his reputation to sell the Iraq War more than any other politician. We argue that you should in fact judge him for this, immediately, because he failed the moral test of his lifetime. We also discuss a recent Washington Post story that seems to imply America might also ‘send the Army in’ to solve supply chain

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44:43

My Death Machine is Solar Powered feat. Jasper Craven

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2021/10/14

Nate is out this week, and Francis speaks with defense journalist Jasper Craven (@jasper_craven) about a recent trend: trying to portray the U.S. military as ecologically concerned--call it ‘military greenwashing’ if you’d like. And it turns out, it’s not really possible when the military doesn’t disclose how much fossil fuel it consumes, not even to Congress. Read Jasper's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/greenwashing-the-military-industrial-complex-craven Subscribe to Jasper's substack

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11:01

*PREVIEW* 'Send in the Army' feat. Milo Edwards

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2021/10/13

This week, Nate and Milo discuss the peculiarly British phenomenon of calling for the Army to be deployed domestically--whether it's to quell a social conflict or fix a logistics issue. They love to call for the Army to be sent in. We get to the bottom of what this means, and why people want it. Listen to the whole thing on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57234686

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01:01:22

SwordsChat

What a Hell of a Way to Dad ·

2021/10/07

DadChat ends at 13:09! This week, Nate and Francis explore two themes. First, the story of a guy dressed as a ninja attacking a Special Operations aviation unit at an airfield in California (this really happened). Second, the theme of being Opposing Forces during military training and how much fun it is to cause havoc while shooting your fellow soldiers with lasers. You can read the ninja piece here:

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01:11:03

Let’s Cough Around the Lake

What a Hell of a Way to Dad ·

2021/09/30

This week, Nate and Francis discuss a recent Politico article about anti-vaxxers and covid deniers partying hard at the Lake of the Ozarks resort in southern Missouri. It’s an article from July, but we’d wanted to discuss this for a while for one specific reason: Francis’s whole family is from southern Missouri, and this piece speaks to a particular mindset that might be hard to comprehend from the outside. You can read the piece here:

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01:04:50

Morale is Low at the DHS / MAGA Office (feat. Ken...

What a Hell of a Way to Dad ·

2021/09/23

This week, Nate and Francis speak with friend of the show and investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein about the various things he’s got going on: reporting on DHS, reporting on labor law violations, and reporting on people in the military deciding to refuse one specific vaccine--it’s a great time. Ken’s got a new story out about how the leaders of the Senate GOP endorsed ‘Afghan Resistance’ have actually fled the country. Get it on the Intercept here:

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58:50

DadChat: We Will Not Be Mad Online Anymore

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2021/09/16

Nate and Francis return to have a DadChat in which we discuss the facts: we’re getting older, we can’t post as hard anymore, and we just don’t want to be mad online. But we’re embracing it, and we have hope for those of you worried about the inevitable march of time: you stop caring about dumb things. Hope you enjoy! For this week’s bonus, did you know there's a book of 'Violent Nomad Skills' by a former Navy SEAL? Did you know it's deeply, deeply insane? Nate joins our Zoomer correspondent Kevin

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01:12:24

Dogs and Cats First feat. Hussein Kesvani

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2021/09/09

This week, Nate speaks with Hussein Kesvani, a notable serious journalist and cohost of Trashfuture and 10,000 Posts podcasts, about a recent phenomenon in Britain: the decision to evacuate a bunch of dogs and cats from Afghanistan while leaving behind all the Afghan staff from the charity involved. We also touch on Taliban super-poster accounts and the ways Global North countries try and demonize refugees at every juncture. For this week’s bonus, we've decided to review the 2016 Coast Guard film

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01:04:58

*UNLOCKED* The Special Psychotic Relationship feat....

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2021/09/02

This week, Nate speaks with Alice Caldwell-Kelly (@AliceAvizandum) from the podcasts Trashfuture, Well There's Your Problem, and Kill James Bond, about the 2009 Armando Ianucci film IN THE LOOP, in which the British TV series 'The Thick of It' visits the topic of the Iraq War and James Gandolfini plays a grumpy American Lieutenant General. Why are politicians in both countries such deranged freaks? What are stereotypes of British general officers? All this and more, this week. For this week’s

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51:38

Afghanistan and How You Can Help feat. Arash Azizzada

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2021/08/26

This week, Nate speaks with Afghan-American community organizer Arash Azizzada (@87films) about his group Afghans for a Better Tomorrow (@afghanstomorrow, @afghansforabettertomorrow on IG), the work they’re doing to advocate for safe passage for Afghans, ways in which the US government could make it easier for people seeking refuge, and what he wishes Americans knew about our country’s involvement in Afghanistan (which massively predates 9/11). You can read Arash’s recent op-ed from the New York

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01:06:04

This Is The End feat. Joe Kassabian

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2021/08/19

We brought on Joe Kassabian of the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast to discuss the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, and we try to push back against the politicians’ line that the Afghan military didn’t want to fight--and ask call for everyone who can assist Afghan refugees (even if all you can do is humiliate your elected officials) to do so. For this week’s bonus, we’re reviewing films that everyone our age loved and that we're sort of embarrassed to like. In this case, Francis had never seen V FOR

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01:24:11

‘Reign of Terror’ and Untrooping feat. Spencer Ackerman

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2021/08/12

This week, Francis and Nate speak with reporter and author Spencer Ackerman about his new book REIGN OF TERROR, a comprehensive history of the War on Terror. Particularly, we home in on the concept of how the culture war created post-9/11 requires veterans to never question the war itself if they want to retain any respected status. It’s a phenomenal book that we both loved, and we strongly recommend you go out and buy it. In fact, if you buy it here you can get it from a local independent

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58:13

August DadChat: Gardening and Redwall

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2021/08/05

If you don’t like DadChat then skip this episode! This week, it’s a DadChat with Nate and Francis. We discuss gardening, Francis’ daughter starting her own podcast on her tablet, why libertarianism appealed to middle class white kids in the Midwest in the 2000s, our mutual fixation on Redwall books as kids, the underappreciated art of actually talented bass guitar players, and much more. For this week’s bonus, Nate speaks with Alice Caldwell-Kelly from the podcasts Trashfuture, Well There's Your

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01:12:46

The Antifa Olympics feat. James Stout

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2021/07/31

This week, Nate speaks with reporter, academic, and cyclist James Stout about the history of Antifa. What started as a reaction to European fascism became a movement often cited and rarely understood, but James’s academic research is focused on this topic--and, particularly, the 1936 Popular Olypics, an anti-fascist international competiton cut short by the advent of the Spanish Civil War. You can support James’s work on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout For this week’s bonus, Joe

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01:07:50

At Least We Saved Our Souvenirs

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2021/07/22

Dadchat/weather discussion until: 0:19 until 14:47 Transphobia in the UK discussion: 14:47 until 23:29 Repatriation of Pat Tillman jersey: 23:30 until end This week we discussed a recent story from Stars and Stripes about the repatriation of memorabilia from the Pat Tillman USO at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. In case you didn’t know, they named the USO after Pat Tillman despite his only real connection to Bagram being the fact that his remains were transported there and his body armor burned there

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01:02:22

Kings Raising up Kings (On Weed)

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2021/07/15

Dadchat ends at 17:43 We’re going to cover the events in Haiti and Cuba next week, but for this week we decided to do an episode where we discussed England’s performance in the Euros, the logistics of dropping fish into a lake from a plane, and what it’s like for Francis to be a former Midwestern stoner now able to purchase legal weed. This isn’t a politics-heavy episode but we enjoyed discussing our takes on what the end of weed prohibition (in certain areas!) means in practice. For the bonus this

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01:07:26

Interdimensional Jody (A Cautionary Tale)

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2021/07/08

Dadchat ends at 14:57 This week, we read a special investigation about an Army lieutenant colonel who’s managed to push the edge of the military’s (insane) adultery laws--by faking deployments, faking the death of one of his children, and juggling 6 partners on the side. It’s wild! Get the news story here: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-officer-affairs-women/ For this week’s bonus, Nate explains the 4th of July to Milo and forces him to listen to a deranged listicle from Military dot com

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