Fictional Dads To Look Up To | (Ep. 193)
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
You have heard this SASF axiom: "A good dad can't be present in children's fiction." This is because if he was, there'd be no story for the kids to take care of -- BUT... there are a few exceptions...
- Brian and Nate search for those elusive MG/YA unicorns: the good and present father.
- What about To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch? Jeremiah Land from Peace Like a River? Guido in Life is Beautiful? In these stories, the good dad becomes the protagonist.
- Uncle Frank in 100 Cupboards? Nate explains why he'd never call Uncle Frank a good father figure.
- Heading further afield: what about Mustafa from The Lion King? Bandit from Bluey? Gomez Addams?? - Finally the guys turn to real life: Ralph Moody's father, Pa Wilder, Bible characters including Nate's pick for best dad in the whole Bible: Jesus's earthly father, Joseph.
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| 0:00.0 | What happens if you take a good dad like that and you put him into a story? Well, it's like, |
| 0:06.9 | it is now a story about the dad. So he's now the hero in order for the kids to have an adventure, |
| 0:14.8 | to be the main characters. They either have a bad father, a dead father, an absent father. |
| 0:22.5 | So you have to remove the heroic protector |
| 0:25.5 | so that they actually are challenged themselves. |
| 0:30.6 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:34.5 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell |
| 0:37.5 | That a ghost of a king on a row |
| 0:39.3 | Sasp |
| 0:39.6 | Sass. A.k.a. K.P. The podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, Nate, would you like to say anything |
| 0:45.0 | to our new K-pop fans? |
| 0:48.0 | And to be honest, they thought, |
| 0:49.6 | they heard you, I think either you or me |
| 0:51.9 | made an askance comment about K-pop as a genre and they were most |
| 0:55.6 | displeased. I would never. Yes, please stay around and listen. I would never. What I want to know |
| 1:03.9 | really right now, Brian, is have you watched K-pop Demon Hunters with your sons yet? No, I watched |
| 1:08.9 | 30 minutes with my wife. |
| 1:11.5 | Come on now. |
| 1:12.0 | I know. |
| 1:14.2 | I don't think I would show it to my sons. Come on. We got to show it to your voice. I want to know what happens. See what we got to see what. I want to know what their reactions are. I want to know how they engage with it. Really? Yeah. I do. I've tried to shield them from the existence of K-pop |
| 1:28.8 | And this is it's easy |
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