63 episodes

Curiosity. Comedy. Creativity. Kindness.

Daily Detour with Dan Roberts Dan Roberts

    • Comedy
    • 5.0 • 7 Ratings

Curiosity. Comedy. Creativity. Kindness.

    S2E6-🍎 Tutoring for Students and Parents 🎓

    S2E6-🍎 Tutoring for Students and Parents 🎓

    Lindsey Wander is founder of World Wise Tutoring, which has locations in Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Houston and more.  We discuss:

    *  5 tips for aspiring college students
    * Why Travel is good for you
    * How the pandemic has affected student success
    * Why the education system needs a reboot
    * Helping Students with ADHD, Autism, Aspergers...
    * Coaching Parents

    FREE Resources from Lindsey Wander
    * Practice Tests and more at World Wise Tutoring


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    • 56 min
    S2E5 Face Your Fears 💀 with John Davis ⚔️

    S2E5 Face Your Fears 💀 with John Davis ⚔️

    Guest
    John Davis is a dynamic speaker, accomplished leader, and expert in helping people overcome their fears and challenges.

    At 22 years old John Davis' spine broke in half, dashing his dreams of being a Stuntman. Doctors told him he may never walk again. Using what he now calls the "Five Fs," John overcame the limiting beliefs of others and brought himself back. He went on to perform over four thousand live comedy sword fighting stunt shows all over the world including  performing more than one hundred shows on the most remote bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan on six USO tours.

    John and Dan talk the "5F" process for overcoming your fears, Hollywood stuntmen, Bruce Lee, Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, jumping out of airplanes, handling a bullwhip, surviving divorce and more!

    Claim your FREE gift from guest John Davis
    https://www.corporateactionhero.com/free-gift-page.html
    It’s a downloadable copy of his CORPORATE ACTION HERO "5F" WORKBOOK!

    Plus
    Dan reveals how his Open Mic Comedy went.

    Ways to support the podcast:
    Nina Noir Notebooks on Amazon
    Dan likes to draw and his new character Nina Noir decorates a couple of notebooks you might find helpful. One is for your To Do list each day. the other is for your Usernames and Passwords. Both are under $10 each. Find them on Amazon.

    Daily Detour Shop
    Consider supporting the Daily Detour with a purchase from our Tee Public shop. Nina Noir shirts! Funny shirts, lifestyle shirts and yes, shirts with the damn podcast logo.
    Tees and hoodies that are perfect for Spring.
    Also: Coffee and travel mugs for work and home.

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    • 50 min
    S2E4 🐎 Horse Girl Author 📚Carrie Seim 👧

    S2E4 🐎 Horse Girl Author 📚Carrie Seim 👧

    Good News: Haley Sue Crandall loves horses. As soon as she saw her first horse, she wanted to ride. But Haley was born with a heart defect and her dreams wouldn't come true--until now.

    Guest: Carrie Seim is the creator of the best-selling Audible series: The Flying Flamingo Sisters, hailed by The New York Times as a Best Audiobook for Road Trips with Kids. Her new middle-grade novel from Penguin is HORSE GIRL, described as “Mean Girls meets Black Beauty.”
    Carrie served as a staff writer for several Nickelodeon comedy variety shows.
    She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, The New York Post, Condé Nast Traveler and NPR.
    Carrie is also an actress, an alum of the world-famous Groundlings comedy troupe, appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, and was invited to audition for SNL.
    Parody Commercial: The Mare Club for Men. Clyde Clydesdale, president of the Mare Club for Men has a solution for balding men: horse hair!

    Plus: Dan and his wife have their first official date-night since everything shut down because of the pandemic. Dan explains Clubhouse, does an Open Mic in the app and makes lame excuses for why this week's episode is late. He does apologize.

    Ways to support the podcast:
    Nina Noir Notebooks on Amazon
    Dan likes to draw and his new character Nina Noir decorates a couple of notebooks you might find helpful. One is for your To Do list each day. the other is for your Usernames and Passwords. Both are under $10 each. Find them on Amazon.

    Daily Detour Shop
    Consider supporting the Daily Detour with a purchase from our Tee Public shop. Nina Noir shirts! Funny shirts, lifestyle shirts and yes, shirts with the damn podcast logo.
    Tees and hoodies that are perfect for Spring.
    Also: Coffee and travel mugs for work and home.

    Review the Podcast
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    The Daily Detour now has a blog!
    Lots of NEW content, plus text versions of things you heard on the podcast, with additional info and commentary. Weekly word-search puzzles. And lovely full-color pictures! Check it out here.

    Dig Deeper  Dan’s website has all kinds of audio, video and pics to check out.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    S2E3 🧛🏼‍♂️Horror Fun with Director David Weiner💀

    S2E3 🧛🏼‍♂️Horror Fun with Director David Weiner💀

    It's the "Halfway to Halloween" episode!

    Guest-David Weiner, director of In Search of Darkness Part 2 talks about his doc, which is now on Shudder. Also discussed: Van Halen, Susannah Hoffs, Halloween Candy, David's time at Entertainment Tonight and Famous Monsters, reuniting Nightmare on Elm Street stars Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund--and more!

    Good News-Prancer the Demon Dog finds a home. You can follow him on Instagram.

    Parody Ad-Slasher Cereals

    Plus-Dan gets his 2nd vax! And snoops around in Clubhouse.

    Ways to support the podcast:
    Nina Noir Notebooks on Amazon
    Dan likes to draw and his new character Nina Noir decorates a couple of notebooks you might find helpful. One is for your To Do list each day. the other is for your Usernames and Passwords. Both are under $10 each. Find them on Amazon.

    Daily Detour Shop
    Consider supporting the Daily Detour with a purchase from our Tee Public shop. Nina Noir shirts! Funny shirts, lifestyle shirts and yes, shirts with the damn podcast logo.
    Tees and hoodies that are perfect for Spring.
    Also: Coffee and travel mugs for work and home.

    Review the Podcast
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    The Daily Detour now has a blog!
    Lots of NEW content, plus text versions of things you heard on the podcast, with additional info and commentary. Weekly word-search puzzles. And lovely full-color pictures! Check it out here.

    Dig Deeper  Dan’s website has all kinds of audio, video and pics to check out.

    • 1 hr 16 min
    S2E2 📜 History of Stand-Up 🎤 w/Wayne Federman 🤣

    S2E2 📜 History of Stand-Up 🎤 w/Wayne Federman 🤣

    Good News-Stand Up Comedy is coming back!

    Interview-Comedian, actor and author Wayne Federman discusses his new book, the History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chapelle, including:
    * Old Time Radio
    * Late Night TV
    * Strip Clubs
    * Richard Pryor
    * Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
    * Lenny Bruce
    * The "Chitlin' Circuit"
    * Dick Gregory
    * Moms Mabley
    * Maria Bamford
    * Janeane Garofalo
    * George Carlin
    * Garry Shandling
    * And more!

    Parody-Fake promo for the Silent Comedy Podcast.

    Buy the History of Stand-Up by Wayne Federman on Amazon.

    Review the Podcast
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    Daily Detour Shop
    Consider supporting the Daily Detour with a purchase from our Tee Public shop. Funny shirts, lifestyle shirts and yes, shirts with the damn podcast logo.
    Tees and hoodies that are perfect for Spring. 
    Also: Coffee and travel mugs for work and home.

    The Daily Detour now has a blog!
    Lots of NEW content, plus text versions of things you heard on the podcast, with additional info and commentary. Weekly word-search puzzles. And lovely full-color pictures! Check it out here.

    Daily Detour on YouTube  Videos, live-streams and bonus content. Check it out here.

    Dig Deeper  Dan’s website has all kinds of audio, video and pics to check out.

    • 55 min
    S2E1 Memoir of a Roadie 🎸

    S2E1 Memoir of a Roadie 🎸

    Disclaimer: Explicit Language, sex and drug references.

    Good News-We can all get vaxxed!

    Interview-Author Joel Miller takes us on the road with Stone Temple Pilots, Poison and more in his new book Memoir of a Roadie. It's a rocket-ride of famous faces from rock, film and tv having the time of their lives, so buckle up!

    Parody Commercial-Masterpiece Theater presents Memoir of a Roadie.

    Buy the Book-Memoir of a Roadie on Amazon

    Listen to Party Like a Rock Star podcast, hosted by Joel Miller.

    Daily Detour Shop
    Daily Detour merch is for sale at Tee Public.
    NEW! T-shirts and hoodies that are perfect for Spring, including new lifestyle/novelty tees.  Also: Coffee and travel mugs for work and home.

    The Daily Detour now has a blog!
    Lots of NEW content, plus text versions of things you heard on the podcast, with additional info and commentary. Weekly word-search puzzles. And lovely full-color pictures! Check it out here.

    Review the Podcast
    Thank you for listening to the Daily Detour. May we ask a small favor? Would you please write a review on Apple Podcasts? It will help more listeners find this program that you are enjoying. Or are at least tolerating. Thank you so much!

    Daily Detour on YouTube  Videos, live-streams and bonus content. Check it out here.

    Dig Deeper  Dan’s website has all kinds of audio, video and pics to check out.

    • 57 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Joe Edelman ,

Fun - Entertaining - Informative

Dan is GREAT at what he does. His shows are an easy listen filled with fun, humor, knowledge and an interesting guest.

CKSeim ,

So much fun!

Dan is an entertaining, funny and smart interviewer with a wild array of guests. I always laugh and learn something useful (or trivial!) on every podcast. Such a great listen.

The Corporate Action Hero ,

Fun and informative

I was honored to be a guest on Dan’s podcast and was impressed with Dan’s ability to make fun yet informative podcast that can help people get out of their own way.

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