Kringles, Orchestras, and Core Memories

Dadville with Dave Barnes and Jon McLaughlin

That Sounds Fun Network

Kids & Family, Parenting

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Welcome to the vortex of Jon and Dave, where the fellas discuss the profound struggles of the middle-aged musician—a job akin to being a 60-year-old accountant desperately trying to invent a new Greek number! They dive into the logistics of hosting a terrifying 100-kid Halloween rager that thankfully "backed down" from a midnight curfew to 11 PM. Hear about the genuine fear of losing a child in a "nanosecond" at College Gameday, and the proud father who risked his life on a step ladder to hang up black lights. Find out if the plan to sell sweatshirts to the seventh-grade crowd was a "quick shipment" success. Plus, one host finally achieves the ultimate parenting victory: sleeping an unbelievable 11 hours and 50 minutes, a feat not accomplished since infancy. Finally, we tackle the burning regional question: Do you call it Thanksgiving, or The Thanksgiving? Hint: we don't know either. Join us: ⁠http://dadville.substack.com⁠ Wanna advertise? ⁠⁠Click here⁠ Thanks to our sponsors! Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at ⁠⁠⁠http://shopify.com/dadville⁠⁠ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp - Our listeners get 10% off their first month at ⁠⁠http://betterhelp.com/dadville Quince - Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://quince.com/dadville⁠⁠ for⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! NIV - Save an additional 10% on any NIV Application Bible and NIV Application Commentary Resources by visiting http://faithgateway.com/nivab and use the promo code DADVILLE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dadville
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:06.2	Hi, I'm Dave Barnes.
0:07.4	And I'm John McLaughlin.
0:08.5	And welcome to Dadville.
0:10.7	Dadville is a podcast where we talk about life, love, and the pursuit of awesome dadding.
0:16.0	It's funny thoughts and deep talks.
0:17.9	So please, enjoy your time here in Dadville and enjoy this episode with...
0:22.4	Dave and me...
0:25.6	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:34.1	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:37.6	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:42.4	They looked good, really, really good.
0:46.9	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:53.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:57.1	Thanks, Canva. I've just started, John. I don't care. I don't care anymore. Nobody's the boss of me.
1:03.6	No one's supposed to hear my sound check. Oh, that was wonderful. Hey, hey, I feel like my voice is a little low. Or maybe... Well, I've said that for years,
1:13.3	if we're being honest. I feel like you could brighten it up a little. I know. You know, you're a little more excited. Well, we talked about this. Whoa, you live up here a little more. Wow. What is that over there? Well, we talked about this. I forget who the guest was, but we did talk about how we're supposed to talk up here.
1:25.7	Oh, Emerson Hart.
1:26.5	Who's Emerson?
1:27.2	Oh, Emmy Hey, hey.
1:29.2	I just want to reiterate, which we talked about. His episode will have not come out yet when this does. But I just want to say one of my favorite musical moments, and I said this in the podcast, but I just want to loop back because I couldn't really lean into it while he was here because I didn't want to be that guy. But genuinely, that
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