Show Notes
Your kids have watched you succeed. Have they watched you fail — and then watched you fix it?
Ryan pours the Naked and Famous: equal parts mezcal, yellow Chartreuse, Aperol and fresh lime, shaken. It's the drink that closes out our run of Chartreuse Last Word riffs.
Then the stories neither of us is proud of. A sick kid, a red plastic bowl left on the nightstand, a dad who said the wrong thing first and then spilled the carpet-cleaner water on himself. A three-year-old's first stomach bug. Nine months in a one-bedroom apartment during a house build that nearly broke one of us, in front of a one-year-old. What our kids actually learn from those moments isn't that Dad is perfect. They learn how Dad repairs.
Faith: John 21. After Peter's denial, a charcoal fire, a breakfast on the beach, and "do you love me?" three times. Repair, from the One who never had to.
Business: a wave of layoffs, plenty of open jobs, and plenty of people out of work at the same time. Why? Is the work beneath us, or are we living on one paycheck?
It's okay for your kids to see you fail. How you repair it is what they'll copy.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open — it's okay for your kids to see you fail
00:21 Welcome in — nine episodes in
02:03 The pour — the Naked and Famous
04:05 Let them see it — have your kids seen you fail?
04:56 The puke bowl, and owning it
10:27 A terrified three-year-old
12:49 Nine months in a one-bedroom apartment
16:18 Faith — John 21, breakfast on the beach
19:44 When they fail — repair at home
23:30 Pay the bills — Sursum apparel
25:49 The Elevated Craft shaker
28:36 Business — have you ever been laid off?
33:07 Open jobs, people out of work — why both?
37:12 Don't build your life on one paycheck
42:02 Take us out — repair is what they'll copy
THE POUR — the Naked and Famous. Equal parts mezcal, yellow Chartreuse, Aperol and fresh lime juice, shaken and served up. Created by Joaquín Simó at Death & Co in New York, a riff on the Last Word and the Paper Plane. Tools and past kits: https://dadtails.com/gear
MENTIONED — John 21:1–17 · the Elevated Craft cocktail shaker · Sursum apparel (our new apparel line; first drop in October) · SideKart, our new segment
THE FIELD NOTES — one email a week: the episode before it's public, plus the cocktail and the kit. https://dadtails.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Music from #Uppbeat — "Groove Sauce" by Stan Town.
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