Credit: Spotify Gaming and music go hand-in-hand, and Spotify hosts over two million gaming-related playlists. This makes their jump into the so-called metaverse a no-brainer, since it’s apparently real, and we will, in fact, have to deal with it.…

They let me give a little speech at graduation. Not real graduation, but the little ceremony for theater kids where we talked about how great we were for being theater kids. I wore a shitty blue shirt that was too big and a suit jacket instead of a…

Yesterday Jeff Bezos launched himself into space in a flying penis to create sort-of history, becoming the second billionaire to accomplish something that the United States, Russia, and China have been doing semi-regularly for decades. Now, I’m not…

Are we not all just bottles of herbs and oils bunched together, trying to project a lifestyle? Annie’s Goddess Dressing The millennial champion of salad dressings. One day the iron-clad grip that Ranch dressing has on our cultural subconscious will…

Tom McGrath, director of the Boss Baby movies, is a very friendly, soft-spoken guy who likes cheap horror movies and told me his dream was to “bring families together” now that the pandemic is over. And I lied straight to his face. See, while The Dad…

On June 17th at 8pm EST, The Dad is partnering with Fatherly to co-host a conversation about fatherhood with President Barack Obama and five other dads on Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok. The Panel discussion will be moderated by comedian (and…

It’s amazing how a theatre degree becomes useful out of nowhere. Who knew that production meetings would be akin to arrangements with a funeral home or that an obituary is just another resume bio to be put into a program for review? Bless my BA and…

Finally finally finally finally finally finally Star Wars: Republic Commando is available for PS4 and Switch! After years of staring longing at used copies of the game running for like $150 on Amazon, you can download an affordable version of the…

1984‘s not-quite-hit space adventure, The Last Starfighter, never grew past the shadow of Star Wars, but it does have a couple of stand-out things going for it. For one thing, it was a pioneer in using CGI effects – one of the first to create space…

Here at The Dad, we usually prefer to share good news or positive stories. particularly anchored in fatherhood, parenting, and families. But we also believe that dads should be present and accountable within our communities, especially in times of…

There’s not much good to say about the year we’ve spent in the shadow of Covid 19. But if you look close enough there are some pleasant surprises. From dads starting their own business to people showing up for each other like never before. And in…

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Every third Monday of January we recognize the impact and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We honor the…

Boy, they sure seem to enjoy killing animals on this show, huh? Like any good dad, it is Mando’s sacred responsibility this week to take care of some spiders, and it’s not like he had seven thousand glasses to put over them. But after last week’s…

You’ll have to forgive me for this one, but the last time we saw Din Djarin and Baby Yoda it might as well have been a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….specifically 20,000 years ago, in the year 2019. With an incredibly divisive election, a…

I am going to share with you something that is deeply, profoundly personal. It’s something I had buried years ago in my mind. I wanted to physically bury all copies of this relic at one point, but my mom wouldn’t allow it. Long story short: I’d…

(Expert advice from The Dad Gaming Mario Kart Season 5 winner Joel Willis. With expert consultation from Season 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 winner Mick Winzeler and Season 9 winner Martin Flores.) As dads, we want our kids to be winners. Usually. The main…

The Dad Gaming League’s first event is Fortnite, on August 21. Sign up now to reserve your spot on the Battle Bus. The first gaming event we held was a custom Fortnite match in a private lobby of about 10 dads playing. People were randomly squaded…

Ghostbusters, Die Hard and Back to the Future all have hardcore fanbases. But people don’t just like Star Wars, they like knowing everything there is to know about it. I grew up with all the Essential Guides, Visual Dictionaries, and Incredible…

With both Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian season finale getting released this past week, the sun is now setting on this generation of Star Wars, so let us take a moment to reflect on the… Wait, hold on, sorry. It appears as though our galaxy…

In the recap for last week’s episode, I talked about how the show played into video game lore by introducing the force-heal power into the live-action Star Wars universe, which most of us now know was a setup for what goes down in The Rise of…