I simply love this time of year, that of the football playoffs and the biggest game of the year, the Super Bowl! While I don’ t have that much time to really follow sports, I have spent the past 35 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and consequently am a San Francisco 49ers fan (and SF Giants as well when it’s baseball season). Also, before they moved the football season out a week or two, the Super Bowl used to fall on or around my birthday. In fact, I remember back in 1985, Super Box XIX was held in the Stanford University stadium (I grew up on the Stanford campus) and I had a birthday party to watch the SF 49ers beat up the Miami Dolphins. Every time the 49ers would score, my friends and I would rush outside to hear the stadium crowds just a mile or so away.
Because many dads like sports (and we actually have a pretty good representation of dads in the Cast of Dads since there are plenty of dads who do NOT follow sports – we give Jeff Sass grief every time we talk about sporting events), we did kick off episode 56 (“Our Picks for the Big Game“) talking about the Super Bowl (and how I know the 49ers are going to win).
But, as is typical on the Cast of Dads, we went well beyond just sports, we covered movies, summits, secret projects, illness, New Year’s and a whole lot more (see The Topics below).
The Topics
Here are some of the topics we covered in Episode #56:
- Who will win the Superbowl?
- Dad 2.0 Summit
- The awesome Brene Brown
- Sass teases us about his new top secret dad project
- The Toxic Avenger
- How we spent New Years Eve
- Flu shots, schools and being safe
- Bugs!
- Contagion
- Washing hands
- Guys want to drive big trucks on piles of dirt
- Dig This Vegas
- Life of Pi and Beasts of the Southern Wild are great family movies
- Convoy
- CB Radios
- Ham Radios
- Do truckers still use CB Radios?
- No Agenda Podcast
- Doomsday Preppers
- 8 Tracks & Vinyl
- #LastPrintIssue of Newsweek
- We still need newspapers to start fires
- Dryer lint fire starters
- Girl Scout cookies
- Buy One, Give One Programs
- TOMS Shoes
- Start Something That Matters
- What is a Dorm Master?
- 50 Shades of Gray
- Bring Cast of Dads to New Orleans again
- Cashew Queso?
Did we miss anything? You will have to listen to the show to find out.
The Audio
As always, the full podcast is available on CastofDads.com and on iTunes. You can also listen to the podcast here: Cast of Dads – Episode #56 “Our Picks for the Big Game”.
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Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. Chapman, Jeffrey Sass, Max Kalehoff, Michael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.
HTD says: Go Niners!!!
