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Dad jokes with an honest center.
Dadville pairs loose, joke-heavy banter with sincere interviews about family life and personal formation. Guests range from musicians to athletes to friends, with conversations moving easily from sock jokes to grief, faith, ambition, phone habits, and raising teenagers.
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Dadville is a parenting conversation show with a loose, funny instinct for turning almost anything into a bit. The episodes do not stay in one lane for long. A guest can arrive through jokes about shirts, hotel showers, socks, tacos, or a completely unnecessary hypothetical, and within minutes the conversation may be about identity, grief, faith, ambition, attention, or the fear of getting parenting wrong. That range is the show’s center of gravity. It is funny on purpose, but it is rarely only funny. The most revealing moments often come when the room stops performing and starts naming what parenthood feels like in real time. One episode turns toward the discomfort of raising teenagers without a personal reference point. Another lingers on the oldest child as the family’s first experiment, loved deeply but inevitably parented through trial and error. Phone distraction becomes more than a complaint; it becomes a question of whether a child feels fully seen. Chore charts, Lent, app blockers, and repeat stories all sit inside that larger concern. The guest list broadens the frame. Ben Rector reflects on success, pace, and the difference between being capable of a bigger spotlight and actually wanting it. Andy Roddick brings stories from the strange overlap of school life and professional tennis. Jamie Winship adds police work, mentorship, spiritual discernment, and the pressure of learning what training cannot teach. Matt Maher talks about culture, faith, songwriting, and music that serves people long after it leaves the writer’s hands. Greta Eskridge brings a more intense thread about childhood in a digital world, trust, temptation, accountability, and family healing. Dadville works best for listeners who like earnestness without stiffness. Its humor can be goofy, but the emotional floor is real. Parenting is treated as improvised, sacred, embarrassing, and often unfinished. The show keeps returning to the same practical hope: fathers can laugh at themselves and still take their presence seriously.
Made for: Dadville is for parents and family-minded listeners who like casual comedy wrapped around sincere conversations about kids, faith, creativity, and growing up alongside a family.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the quick pivot from absurd banter to emotionally specific parenting talk. The show lets guests stay conversational while still reaching grief, ambition, digital boundaries, spiritual formation, and the daily work of being present.
Welcome to Dadville! Join musicians and sometimes-comedians Dave Barnes and Jon McLaughlin in the journey of life, love and the pursuit of dad-ding on the Dadville Podcast. Get your fill of dad jokes, laughs, and heartfelt conversations while these guests talk about parenting while leaving you with new lessons for your own kids. Stick around for visits from Momville as each share their unique insight into this crazy world of parenting. Pull up a lawn chair and join every Tuesday.
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A funny, generous conversation about the pressure to chase a role that looks right from the outside.
The guest's conversation with Dave Barnes and John McLaughlin turns a question of fit into a warm, funny reflection on knowing the role that actually suits a person.
A warm, funny opening gives way to an honest conversation about teenage parenting, loss, and fatherhood.
McKittrick Simmons comes to Dadville as a guest the hosts know some listeners may be meeting for the first time, and the opening bit about his often-mispronounced name quickly settles into something more candid.
A warm, energetic conversation about police work, discernment, and seeking wisdom when training is no longer enough.
Jamie Winship's story moves from the pressure of police work in DC into the more personal question underneath it: what a believer does when training, instinct, and experience no longer feel like enough.
A warm, funny conversation about faith, songwriting, and the lives songs find after leaving their writer.
Matt steers the conversation toward the lived texture of faith: the community that shaped his songwriting, the places people return to for culture more than climate, and what happens when a song stops belonging only to its writer.
Dad life with sports-bar timing.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
Folktales with music, heart, and momentum.
Dave Barnes and John McLaughlin chat about Ben Rector's tan, beard, and spring break before launching into a sock shootout.
A podcast episode featuring an interview with McKittrick Simmons on the Dadville podcast, discussing fatherhood and parenting.
Andy Roddick discusses his tennis career, rivalry with Federer, and life as a dad on the Dadville podcast.
This episode introduces a podcast about parenting boys and girls, featuring therapists sharing insights and hope for families.
Dave and John discuss dad guilt and building a chore chart as they navigate parenting challenges.
A podcast episode featuring Matt Maher discussing his experiences promoting music at college radio stations.
Dadville’s Stephen Kellogg talks about balancing a nearly 3,000-show music career with raising four children.
Dadville hosts Dave Barnes and Jon McLaughlin interview Greta Eskridge, a homeschooling mother of four and author of 'It's Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn,' about her husband Aaron's pornography addiction and affair roughly 12 years into their marriage.
A podcast episode featuring a conversation about when it's acceptable to skip church, with humorous banter and references to a past interview with Matthew McConaughey.
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