Hello, analog listeners. It's me. I'm back already. No, not really. Ha ha. This was

recorded beforehand. I wanted to put together something that was important to me. I had this

idea for a while where I wanted to gather together a selection of my co-hosts who are dads,

either recent or not so recent dads, who have maybe young kids or grown-up kids,

and ask them some questions. I wanted to put this together for me and maybe for you in the

future, maybe you're going to become a parent at some point, and you would like this advice too.

And so basically what I did was over the last couple of weeks for some of my regular

podcast recordings, I took some time after those with my co-hosts and asked them a couple

of questions.

And it's the same questions I asked to everybody.

And it was really as a way for me to think about some stuff that I should be thinking about

now and then some bigger picture stuff too, which is also really important to me as I begin my journey as a dad. So you're hearing from me now. I'm recording

this about a week before I get to start my paternity leave. So yeah, this is something I wanted

to put together, even though I'm not around this month. And we'll be back on this show, I think in early May, because Casey

you'll be recording a guest episode in April, but I wanted to put something special together

and I thought Analog was the best place for me to do that as it's our feelings podcast, of

course. So I really hope you enjoy these little sets of conversations.

Okay, so Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt, my co-hosts,

I'm thoroughly considered here on Relay.

I'm going to ask you two questions to help me be a dad.

So I'm going to be guided by the two of you specifically.

The first question is, can you give me a piece of advice for my first month of being a dad?

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