PODRE

Chris Brunt
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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.

  1. 11/13/2023

    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 enduring cultural significance of The Simpsons, and three poems about fatherhood that will make your heart swell bigger than the rim when Steph Curry's on one of his heaters. It's basketball season. It's poetry season. It's PODRE, from the logo, BAAAAANG!In c...

    59 min

  2. 09/18/2023

    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 own current politics. As ever, we bring you the baddest dads of yesterday, today, and tomorrow here on PODRE. Don't be one of them! Brad Franco's book on Siena is here.The Count Ugalino episode of Dante's Inferno, along with excellent commentary and...

    30 min

  3. 08/14/2023

    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 and marrying your mother, or simply swallowing your children whole without even so much as a nice sauce or side vegetable. We also reach back into the past to hear Julian at age three teaching his mother the plot of The Odyssey (professors' kids: what are...

    50 min

  4. 06/12/2023

    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 aspire to, and what we've brought you is the bare minimum--the bar we all must clear. Please, please, be better than these dads.In this episode, we asked to speak to the manager and went right for the Alpha & Omega of bad dadness, the Big Guy, El P...

    45 min

  5. 05/01/2023

    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 and countless other surreal literary bangers. We talk about teaching Russian literature, how to see the best in people, how to write your dream novel, the all-too-human fatherly grief of Abraham Lincoln, and of course, having and being dads.George is no...

    1h 14m

  6. 04/24/2023

    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, is here to tell the story of our meeting and the development of our relationship. It is... not... unmoving. We didn't not cry a little.Then, an old friend-of-the-pod stops by to pick up his long overdue NATFITOIA. From now on, every NATFITOIA winner mus...

    1h 11m

  7. 04/17/2023

    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 of fathers in all of the family business? Literary critic and professor Dr. Monika Gehlawat sits down for a discussion about all this plus the value of parental differences, whether birth order is destiny, having immigrant parents, which long-dead novel...

    1h 25m

  8. 04/10/2023

    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 storytelling matters in our family relationships, and why we can't change until our stories do. We also talk about queer identity in families, growing up in East Texas, and our old friends addiction & recovery.Get a copy of Jamie Brickhouse's memoir ...

    1h 9m
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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.

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  • Creator
    Chris Brunt
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 PODRE
  • Show Website
    PODRE

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