015: The Top 6 ways to cope when your teenager drives solo for the first time

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Sending your newly legal teenager out alone and behind the wheel of a hurtling death machine is sobering, to say the least. Here's how to cope.

Ep. 014: My Top 5 Driving Idiots (Plus 1)

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These are the drivers that are responsible for inching me toward road rage, which isn't a good look for anyone. Are you one of these? Please say no...

013: Why "Jaws" is the greatest dad movie of my generation

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In this podcast episode, I dig into what makes Steven Spielberg's astounding movie, "Jaws," a classic — for dads specifically, for me personally, and for the world at large.

012: My Top 10 truths about winter storms in the South

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If you live in the South, you know that the phrase "winter storm" carries a much different meaning than it does in, say, Minnesota. Let's discuss.

011: My Top 10 Reasons Why Bohemian Rhapsody might be the Greatest Rock Song Ever

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Sure, you've heard people discuss "Bohemian Rhapsody" before. But you've never heard ME discuss it. It's time Queen got the Doofus Dad treatment.

010: Talking is hard

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This episode, "Talking is hard," isn't really dad-related. It's just me deconstructing the odd challenges of speaking into a microphone, specifically for voiceover work and audiobooks. You might find it interesting, who knows?

009: Doofus Dad's Foolproof Guide for Setting Up a Home Office

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PODCAST: This is Chapter 1 of my upcoming book, "Doofus Dad's Foolproof Guide for Working from Home," which doesn't yet have a release date because I haven't gotten around to writing all the other chapters. In light of our current worldwide conundrum driving millions of folks into home offices, I figured I'd better hurry up and release Chapter 1 so that people would have plenty of skewed and tongue-in-cheek information as soon as possible.

008: The Curse of the Common Name

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If you are blessed with a cool name — Gordon Lightfoot, Ernest Hemingway, or Tiger Woods, for example — life is all downhill the moment you're born and the world is your oyster. But try slugging through life when sharing the same dull name as every practically everybody else, like Mark Johnson. I've decided, however, to beat the system and become THE Mark Johnson.

007: THE TOP 6 WAYS FOR DADS TO AVOID PISSING OFF THEIR TEENAGED DAUGHTERS

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Teenaged daughters are volatile creatures, much like a wolverine or, perhaps, a honey badger. If a well-meaning dad simply makes eye contact with his teenaged daughter for too long, he may lose a nose or ear. Here is what I recommend, although it's unlikely that any of it will work.

006: My Top 11 Things Every First-Time Dad Should Know

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Unfortunately, babies don't come with an instruction manual, and ask my wife — I'm an instruction manual guy. Sure, there are a zillion parenting books out there, but theory and practice are two entirely different things, so I had to implement on-the-job learning. This list of 11 important things for first-time dads gets right down to the nitty gritty of the matter. Just understand, though, that you're still gonna make an idiot out of yourself at some point. Just don't drop the baby on its head.