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Paternal is a show about the brotherhood of fatherhood. Created and hosted by Nick Firchau, a longtime journalist and podcast producer, Paternal offers candid and in-depth conversations with...
When Jordan Ritter Conn was a teenager growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, he met with a half dozen male friends every Saturday n...
Brooklyn-based psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Smith has a motto: Feel everything, don't look away. But how exa...
Tom Junod spent more than two decades as one the most celebrated writers in the men's magazine game, winning two National Magazine Awards an...
John Elway. Joe Namath. Johnny Unitas. Peyton Manning. Look into the backstory of just about any star quarterback you've ever heard of, and...
As a teenager, Julian Brave Noisecat often heard ghost stories about the history of the Canim Lake Indian Reserve. He considered them simply...
When Robert Gallery was a senior at the University of Iowa, he was one of the most respected and feared college football players in the coun...
What were the first words you said to your child when you became a parent? Was there something you needed to say to officially welcome him o...
Jonathan Malesic spent more than a decade in what he thought was his dream job as a college professor. But after years on the clock he found...
Proponents of Artificial Intelligence assure us that everything in life is about to change: Work, education, healthcare, art, and even how w...
How did Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on fatherhood influence the American Revolution? What did Charles Darwin learn about evolution from watc...
In the final scene of the 1986 coming-of-age film Stand By Me , the film's narrator sums up boyhood friendship with the simple line, "I neve...
James Patterson has sold more than 425 million books over the past 30 years, making him one of the richest and most successful authors in th...
You could fill an entire bookshelf with guides on babies and toddlers, or the best strategies for dealing with teenagers. But for Dr. Kennet...
Christopher Blackwell has been a lot of things in his life. As a young boy he was a son longing to connect with his father over classic cars...
Austin Davis was just a teenager when the trajectory of his life changed forever. A fatal shooting rattled his neighborhood in the working c...
Jake Tapper has been a leading figure in American media for more than a decade, serving as the chief DC anchor at CNN, the host of the netwo...
Award-winning research psychologist and professor Dr. Michael Addis returns to Paternal for the latest in a series of special episodes, this...
Acclaimed author Joseph Earl Thomas spent much of his childhood watching everyone around him, trying to figure out where he belonged. He gre...
Authoritarian parents. Permissive parents. Disengaged parents. Lighthouse parents. How would you describe the parents you had as a kid and,...
Meet Frank. He's a 62 year-old father of four grown kids, and grandfather to seven grandchildren. Back in the summer of 2017, Frank decided...
Bruce Oake didn't speak until the age of two, but once he started, he never stopped. A precocious kid with boundless energy growing up in Wi...
Paternal closes out the year with a collection of the best conversations from 2024, curating five of the best segments from the past year in...
When David Robertson discovered a mouse living in his minivan years ago, he knew it meant trouble. But what happened next - six weeks of Goo...
Sixteen years ago, novelist Charles Bock was the kind of guy who would never, ever want to appear on a podcast about fatherhood. He was sing...
Four years after the worst of the COVID pandemic, is it really possible that America is still trapped in an epidemic of loneliness and isola...
In one of the tightest presidential elections in U.S. history, is it possible that thousands of disaffected young men might be the ones cast...
Over the past 10 years, Jason Reynolds has become one of the most prolific and celebrated writers working today. He writes for a young audie...
Gary Vider is the son of a con man. His father Manny ran a series of schemes in and around New York City for years while Gary was growing up...
Once you hear the story of the Black civil liberties group MOVE, it's almost impossible to believe you had never learned about it before. Du...
After a particularly feverish Twitter rant in 2018 landed him an invite to write a guest opinion on boys and violence from The New York Time...
Over the past few years comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell has become one of America's most recognizable purveyors of humor and smart soci...
Everyone at some point has ridden in the back of an Uber, but how often do we think about the people behind the wheel, or how they got there...
Peter Doocy isn't the first guest to appear on Paternal as the son of a very famous father, but he's definitely the only one who can claim t...
Paternal celebrates Father's Day with a special episode paying tribute to all the new dads out there celebrating the holiday for the first t...
Michael Andor Brodeur is a "big man." That's the term he uses to describe himself after more than 30 years of lifting weights - some of thos...
When you're talking to Bakari Sellers about fatherhood, you're talking to a man who truly is a link between generations. As the son of a fam...
If you were a child of the 1980s and early 1990s, you lived through a golden age for sitcom dads. From The Cosby Show to Growing Pains and R...
Paternal listeners email the show regularly with requests to cover various topics on the show. Some are serious and some are silly, but one...
Rob Flanagan is a husband and father who lives with his family outside of Boulder, Colorado, and roughly one year ago he and his wife Dana b...
Growing up on the Wasauksing First Nation indigenous reserve in Ontario, journalist and bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice learned early in...
Most people know Kwame Alexander as the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover, the bestselling children's book about two young broth...
Longtime political journalist Tim Alberta spent more than three years speaking with pastors and churchgoers across the country in a search f...
Curtis Chin spent most of his childhood looking for a comfortable place to sit. And that was especially difficult for Chin, who grew up in t...
Paternal closes out the year with a collection of the best conversations from 2023, curating five of the best segments from the past year in...
Award-winning research psychologist and professor Dr. Michael Addis returns to Paternal for the latest in a series of special episodes, this...
Back in 2016, Brandon Stosuy began to notice something strange about many of the people around him. Seemingly no matter where he went - jogg...
Isaac Fitzgerald has a large tattoo on his right forearm of Saint Jude, the patron saint of impossible or lost causes. It might seem like a...
Bill McKibben doesn't exactly do memoirs. But the latest work from the bestselling author and influential environmental activist is about as...
Acclaimed author Andre Dubus III once wrote that he's drawn to writing about "working class men who work with their hands … men up against i...
Over the past few years comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell has become one of America's most recognizable purveyors of humor and smart soci...