PODRE
PODRE is a podcast for people who are dads, people who have dads, people who don’t have dads, people who have seen films with dads in them, as well as step-dads, sugar dads, rad dads, ghost dads, the dad-curious, & the dad-adjacent. Writer, professor, and father-of-two Chris Brunt tells stories harrowing and hilarious from his family life, and interviews high-profile guests from the worlds of literature, film & theater, and academia. Regular segments include “Bad Dads” with historian Brad Franco, the conferring of the distinguished “Not-A-Terrible-Father-In-This-One-Instance Award,” and frequent unscripted contributions from the host’s maximally energetic children.
PODRE: a show about fatherhood. In all its fu*@#d-up glory.
Episodes
14 episodes
THE PODRE REVIEW Issue 1 (with Kaveh Akbar)
PODRE's newest bonus miniseries (yes, our highly-anticipated literary salon) kicks off with guest Kaveh Akbar, all-world poet and author of PILGRIM BELL and the forthcoming novel MARTYR, here to discuss poets who can handle the rock, the enduri...
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Episode 6
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59:02
Bad Dads: Cannibals
There are many ways of eating your child, but only a handful of reasons one might do so. In this edition of PODRE: Bad Dads, Chris & Brad search for answers in the literature of the Italian Middle Ages and in the 9th circle of hell of our o...
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Episode 3
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29:55
Bad Dads: Greeks!
Writer, professor, and gourmand John Harvey returns to PODRE for a very special edition of Bad Dads. Chris, Brad, and John look to their beloved poets of ancient Greece to determine which is worse: being a deadbeat dad, murdering your father an...
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Episode 2
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50:27
Bad Dads: God
PODRE is back with two new miniseries to get you through the summer. First up: Bad Dads, in which Chris Brunt & cohost Brad Franco discuss, argue, and occasionally agree on the worst dads in the history of humanity. We all need something to...
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Episode 1
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44:34
The Dad Who Is George Saunders
It's the season finale of PODRE. Congrats to us! To help us go out in style, George Saunders is here. The MacArthur Genius, the Man Booker Award winner, the National Book Award Finalist, the author of LINCOLN IN THE BARDO and TENTH OF DECEMBER ...
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Episode 9
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1:13:49
The Dad Who Came In From the Cold
What's it like to meet your father at twenty-eight years old? What's it like to find out you have a son at fifty-eight? For once, we have answers. Michael Frontain, biological father of your host, and beloved grandpa to your other host Julian, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:10:37
The Dad Who Parents. No, Really.
Dads matter, yes. But do they matter... as much? Are there fundamental differences in the roles of mothers and fathers? And if there are, is that ok? What do we really mean by "coparenting" and how much more involved is this younger generation ...
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Episode 7
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1:24:50
The Dad Who Was Afraid of Virginia Woolf
It's time to talk about moms. Difficult, one-of-a-kind, ride-or-die moms. Four-time Moth champ, memoirist, king of the one man show, and "Stories in High Heels" TikTok phenom Jamie Brickhouse is here to remember his Mama Jean, to work out why s...
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Episode 6
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1:08:39
The Chill AF Dad
What if, as a thought experiment, we concede that everything is, in fact, "basically fine?" Even, maybe... "pretty good?" What if we're each of us intrinsically Not-A-Terrible-Father? In that hypothetical dimension of reality, would this podcas...
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Episode 5
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1:21:49
The Drunk Father
Darkness in the family. It happens. How do we move forward as people and as parents when there are violent, traumatic experiences lurking back there in our early life? Friend of the pod, dad, author, and charming devil Daniel Magariel (ONE OF T...
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Episode 4
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1:16:34
The Legendary Dad
Has PODRE ever been credited with reviving an entire literary genre? No, but our guest today has. Mary Karr, author of THE LIARS CLUB (Viking 1995), two other best-selling memoirs, and five collections of poetry, comes from a long line of legen...
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Episode 3
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1:18:06
The Bear Dad
Did you have one of those dads who "never raised his voice?" No? Us either. What is a bear dad and is it ok to be one? If you have more than one child, are you a different parent to each one? PODRE discusses these and other pressing items with ...
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Episode 2
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1:20:41
The Dad Who Wasn't There
How do we know how to be a good dad if none of the old models are working? What if we grew up without a model at all? Can we learn how to be a good dad from watching HBO? Why is trust the most fundamental piece of a parent-child relationship? W...
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Episode 1
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