DadLine

J.C. and Michael talk WandaVision, R.E.M., Twin Peaks, and who shot J.R. It's also a big anniversary for COVID, but we forgot to buy flowers.

What's it like working with a personal coach? We interview Ivana Robinson about her work coaching women through life transitions.

J.C. and Mike check in with each other on parenting through the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th. (Note: This episode was recorded on January 13th.)

J.C. and Mike talk with Marcellus Cadd who is a county courthouse connoisseur and the proprietor of Geocaching While Black.

J.C. and Mike look back at the first year of DadLine. Did anything else happen this year? We didn't notice.

Mike's family gets a surprise visitor. Mike and J.C. talk about how to prepare as a family for COVID showing up in your home.

J.C. plumbs the mysteries of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Neighborhood Dad Marcus joins us to tell us how he and his family are making their way through quarantine life.

Is listening the main skill involved in connecting with people and making friends? In this episode, guest Liz Mosley talks about her experience organizing small "creative listening" groups, and why so many of us have a hard time listening to each other without offering advice.

What is TikTok, and why does it frighten adults? J.C. and Mike enlist some help from a TikTok expert (Mike's daughter Anna) to get the inside scoop.

Boston Globe reporter Billy Baker joins Mike and J.C. for a conversation about loneliness and friendship, the subject of his upcoming book We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends.

To wrap up Season 1 of DadLine, J.C. and Michael check in with the partners of some of their favorite Dads. Happy Father's Day to all!

Birds in the yard. LEGOs on the table. This week J.C. and Michael make some room to slow down and enjoy these pastoral times.

With summer around the corner, and amateur cooks everywhere getting more practice than they ever expected, J.C. and Michael check in with some of their gentlemen friends on what everyone is cooking up at home right now.

What day is this? Where's my sandwich? J.C. and Michael give in to the weirdness of quarantine time.

The college decision deadline for high school seniors is coming up on May 1st. J.C. and Michael check in with DadLine art director Maria, who took a gap year between high school and college, to find out how it feels to come up to the deadline and choose "none of the above" instead.

J.C. reports in with big news, and the Dads take questions from callers and email.

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Welp, here we are. J.C. and Michael check in with each other from their secure bunkers in undisclosed locations, and talk about how to keep yourself and your family sane during this... unusual moment in time.

Have you coached a sport for your kids that you never played? In this episode J.C. and Michael talk to Scott, a Dad with no prior soccer experience who has helped build a whole soccer club in his region so his kids could play the sport they love.

Kids driving you crazy? Work wearing you down? Consider unwinding with some quality hours devoted to old-timey hobbies like ham radio and model railroads. This episode includes our first-ever podcast interview via amateur radio.

What do you do for a living? Do you have a hard time explaining your job to your family? Michael and J.C. visit with neighborhood friends to try and understand what Dads do all day.

How do kids feel about Dad jokes? We called in the experts - neighborhood urchin Caleb, and college student Maria.

What city has the best playground scene in the world? Hint: You might know the place for, well, other reasons. Michael and J.C. talk with Becky Russell, author of Play! Amsterdam, as well as Anna Van Lingen and Denisa Kollarova, co-creators of Seventeen Playgrounds.