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What a Hell of a Way to Dad

Jun 30, 2022

Due to some personal issues we weren’t able to record a new episode this week. This week’s episode is an unlocked bonus which originally appeared on our Patreon in February.

Francis speaks with military tech journalist and friend of the show Kelsey Atherton (@AthertonKD) about developments in the autonomous...


Jun 23, 2022

It’s a full hour of DadChat, in which Nate and Francis discuss jokes that small kids find funny, the pain of being owned by a teenager, the first time we can recall seeing our parents drunk, and much more.

For this week’s bonus, Francis speaks with Steve Beynon (@StevenBeynon) of Military dot com about the recent...


Jun 16, 2022

DadChat ends at 24:09!

This week, Nate and Francis discuss a recent story about a Chief Warrant Officer 3 in a Special Forces support unit who got hemmed up for selling millions of dollars of government property to civilians. We discuss the ways in which we’ve experienced defrauding the military, and how to...


Jun 9, 2022

This week, Francis and Nate discuss Memorial Day, the slow retreat of troop discounts (we think this is a positive thing), some experiential differences between life as a PAO and life as an infantryman, and–perhaps unsurprisingly–yet another story about how Navy morale is so bad that record numbers of sailors are...


Jun 2, 2022

This week, it’s something slightly different: Nate and Cynthia discuss the 22nd season of Law and Order, a show that’s definitely copaganda but has the distinct honor of also becoming a hollow shell of its former self. Gone are the glory days of Lenny Briscoe, and instead we’re met with a world in which computers...