TBH with Toby B. Hemingway Podcast

Toby B. Hemingway

A roundup of all the latest funny-sad, personal and honest (of course) stories from Los Angeles-based writer Toby B. Hemingway's popular Substack newsletter. tbhemingway.substack.com

  1. TBH Podcast | DADLAND Vol. 1

    07/12/2025

    TBH Podcast | DADLAND Vol. 1

    Been a while since one of these dropped. I’ve been busy over at DADLAND, so this edition of the TBH Podcast is full of the new stories from there. Please SUBSCRIBE to DADLAND if you haven’t already! Here’s what you can expect from this batch: The Swearing Game (8:08) kicked things off back in June. My kids are both horrified and deeply amused by my poor language. Now it’s getting weird. Blood On The Diamond (12:17) gives you a window into my hopeless inability to cope with my son’s hopeless Little League baseball team. Things only got worse in the playoffs, but at least no one got hurt again. When a persistent shoulder injury led to surgery, Ken Burns’ Hemingway documentary seemed like the perfect six-hour-plus distraction. Alas, his detailed dive into Poor Old Papa’s (22:27) life only left me feeling more sad and nauseous. Do You Think About Moving? (31:42) is a question I hear way to much, thanks to Team Trump. The recent immigration raids in Los Angeles have only made that question ring louder in my life. I don’t, yet, and here’s why. Lastly, I love nothing more than a nice cold beer. But drinking gets more challenging with kids and age. It was time to sort the wheat (and hops) from the chaff! So for fun I decided to do Dad Beers Ranked (36:05). Enjoy the show and again, please move over to where the action is right now and subscribe to my series DADLAND. It’s free! Toby This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tbhemingway.substack.com

    43 min
  2. TBH Podcast Ep. 10 | February Digest

    03/01/2025

    TBH Podcast Ep. 10 | February Digest

    February… the hard to spell, quick month. Done. Just like that. Robbed a few precious days, it always feels. It kicked off with a sporting coup here in Los Angeles. Former Dallas superstar basketball player Luka Dončić became a Laker. Right at the beginning of a big rec league season for my son. I saw some parallels. I wrote about them (10:37). Rain came to LA, not that long after the fire. Which had me thinking about the everywhere James Taylor song “Fire and Rain” (21:38). I hadn’t given it much thought previously, or more than a cursory listen. Though it is in an excellent episode of The Simpsons. Anyway, it’s okay. Hopefully you are, too. We’re making some updates at the house. I went online to find a fridge and was unexpectedly made to reckon with the shameful disaster that sits quietly in our kitchen (25:06). Speaking of the improvements, the men working on our garage got me thinking about my days of laboring jobs and the feeling of being connected to one’s work, without being connected to the rest of the planet online. A sacred space (28:14). I hope you enjoyed the month’s stories. Thanks so much for reading and listening. Please subscribe to everything. Make comments. Push like thingies. It all helps support in obvious and secret webland ways. - Toby Thanks for reading TBH with Toby B. Hemingway! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tbhemingway.substack.com

    32 min
  3. TBH Podcast Ep. 9 | January Digest

    02/03/2025

    TBH Podcast Ep. 9 | January Digest

    What a crazy way to start the year… in specific, with the Los Angeles fires. A tragedy which began as fear that people you know were in danger and that it could quickly spread anywhere, from any direction; settled into a deep and ongoing sense of city-wide grief, over all that had been lost. I talk more about it all to start this episode, and somehow I cranked out five stories this chaotic month: I had started off the year here on a more positive note, in Reflections In The Rearview (12:52). Talking about how the year had ended and in hope that in 2025 we were due for a better one. Guess it’s easy on January 1st. By the time of my second story for the month, Fire, Fire Everywhere (16:31), we were around 24 hours in to what would be a series of smoky, uncertain days, but I could never have predicted just how long we’d be in this mess. In Feeling Good When Times Are Bad (19:33) I was already beginning to think about how we all might be able to help each other and what it means to feel like a good person. Particularly when others are suffering. The loss of David Lynch was another sad note to start the year. But it did give me a chance to celebrate my favorite of his works, in Give It To Me Straight (22:30). What a fascinating man and one-of-a-kind artist he really was. To round out the month I found myself writing about our gardener. A man who came with the house, I seem incapable of firing, who often brings two ear-splitting leaf blowers to the house, and yet I find myself completely charmed by. Somehow that gets me onto the scourge of 6-dollar donuts, in Blowing Up (26:51). That’s enough from me. Thanks for taking the time. - Toby Thanks for reading TBH with Toby B. Hemingway! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tbhemingway.substack.com

    32 min

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A roundup of all the latest funny-sad, personal and honest (of course) stories from Los Angeles-based writer Toby B. Hemingway's popular Substack newsletter. tbhemingway.substack.com