DadsNite Omar and Samer

2 cool dudes with smooth mIn this episode of DadsNite Presents: Timeout with Omar and Samer we talk to...EACH OTHER! That’s right, by popular demand we’ve got a conversation between the founders of DadsNite. We share a little background on ourselves, how we met, how DadsNite came to be, and some of our favorite highlights from Season 1 and the miniseries. We’re also still raising money for Beirut through our Beirut edition DadsNite t-shirt and dad hat. Check those out a long with some more DadsNite swag we recently added to our Shopify store (link in bio, the camo dad hat looks tough). Tune into the episode, link is in the bio. We’ll be kicking off the next season of Timeout soon enough. In the meantime DM us if you know any cool dads who you think we should hear from in Season 2 (leave those lame ass dads out our inbox) and always remember...it’s not a guys night, it’s a DadsNite!

DadsNite Presents: Timeout with Omar & Samer, is hosted by two best friends, Omar and Samer. Two cool dudes with smooth moods who are always ready to be your hype man when you need it the most. Whether you need a friend to help you drink your last shot of vodka out of a Dans’s Cafe squeeze bottle, or a shoulder to cry on, Omar and Samer are the friends you can rely on. As life goes on, more and more of our friends are beginning to have kids. As a way to create a space where our friends in all different stages of life could reconvene, reconnect, and re-establish their ever evolving identities, the DadsNite movement was born.

In Season 2 Episode 003 Part 2 of DadsNite Presents: Timeout with Omar and Samer we wrap up our episode with the illustrious David Johnson. For all you Trekkies out there, David even through in a First Contact analogy in this one. We’ve really enjoyed hearing Dads responses to our standard last few questions during this mini series, and David’s responses had Samer ready to run through a wall for him! We continue to learn and grow from all these amazing black fathers perspectives so let’s all continue to have these conversations with each other as human beings and really think about why things are the way they are. Race is a construct.

In Season 2 Episode 003 Part 1 of DadsNite Presents: Timeout with Omar and Samer we had the incredibly knowledgeable and outspoken David Johnson stop by the show. David has always been pushing for cultural awareness, through his part in producing videos for the National Museum for African American History and Culture and hosting black history tours while living in DC, to homeschooling and raising his two boys. David’s positive energy and enthusiasm only made it that much more enjoyable listening to another great perspective on our continuing conversations about race, diversity, and equality. David’s wife also has a podcast called Mommy Hour so check it out here @corene.lavhan cause ain’t no Dads without Moms!

In Season 2 Episode 003 Pt. 2 of DadsNite Presents: Timeout with Omar and Samer we wrap up this amazingly informative episode with Kelvin McNeil and Isiah Ruff. At times throughout the episode we’ve really just been left speechless. We learned a lot from Kelvin and Ruff, but the most important lesson of all might be that sometimes you just need to listen. Listen to where people are coming from, listen to the people who are really going through it, and listen to yourself when you know something is wrong. If you don’t ask, you won’t know! Shoutout to two of the coolest Dads around.

In Season 2 Episode 002 Pt. 2 of DadsNite Presents: Timeout with Omar and Samer we continue our dialogue centered around Kelvin and Ruff’s experiences with black fatherhood and black parenting. It was at times almost disturbing to hear the things that black parents have to consider and teach their children, not because they want to , but because they have to. Things as simple as learning to drive or just tuning into the Disney Channel have vastly different implications for black children and the conversations their parents have to have with them. Understanding where these differences come from is an important step in continuing to encourage growth and positive change.