The Dad Brotocol

Dad joins the podcast for stories about haunted houses, lost keys, treasure hunts, fishing disasters, and the kind of family stories that remind us why we show up for each other. Before we were dads, there was Dad.

It’s the New Year’s episode… which means nothing goes according to plan.Uncle RC waits. Uncle Chris is late. Technology immediately betrays everyone. From a painfully long cold open and a brutally honest 2025 Chris Life Review, to New Year’s resolutions that feel suspiciously low-bar, the guys do what they do best: argue, spiral, and somehow keep recording.Along the way, they debate whether Travis Kelce is retiring, relive questionable road-trip memories, and test a wildly inappropriate adult card game that proves some situations really can get worse. There’s eggnog judgment, mic-distance policing, accidental therapy, and the realization that getting older mostly just means arguing about staying up past midnight.It’s messy. It’s loud. It’s way too long in places. But hey — it’s a brand-new year.Before we were dads… we were this.

On this episode of The Dad Brotocol, I’m Zoe — your producer — and yes, I’m the one writing this description after listening to RC and Uncle Chris attempt (and fail) to cleanly record a Friday episode. What starts as a reenactment of their actual text messages quickly turns into a live demonstration of why scheduling this show is always chaos, especially when bagels, dogs, jobs, and Christmas plans get involved.The episode settles into its “Next Friday” identity: a Friday show recorded on a Saturday, released on a Sunday, and somehow still very much about Fridays. The guys run through Did You See That?!, reacting to NFL injuries, strange internet stories, and viral headlines that spiral exactly the way you’d expect. Then they bring back Old vs. Now vs. New, reflecting on what Fridays meant as kids, teenagers, twenty-somethings, and exhausted adults trying to reclaim that small window of freedom at the end of the week.It’s unstructured, nostalgic, argumentative, and very on-brand — and as the producer, I can confirm this is precisely how the show is supposed to feel.

This week on The Dad Brotocol, we officially close the book on The All-New Picks & Kicks Show and slide straight into a premium banter episode — the kind where the topic list never quite materializes, but the laughs do. We also dig into cards 71–80 of Who’s Most Likely To for some perfectly chaotic fun.

In this episode of The Dad Brotocol, Uncle Chris arrives under the mistaken belief that he’s recording a sports talk show, leading to ongoing confusion as the conversation has nothing to do with sports. Uncle RC shares details about a recent nightmare, bringing a bit of dark-humor chaos into the discussion, while Uncle Chris talks about his own dreams involving questionable decisions with trains. The bros also take a moment to jokingly beg the universe for a manager to help keep their show on track. They continue their ongoing segment by covering the next ten cards from “Who’s Most Likely To…”.