Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

All right.

On today's episode, I have on Nick from Means TV and J.T.

from Second Thought and the D program as well as other things.

And we're here to have a kind of a conversation about fatherhood, more or less.

Nick is getting ready to have his second child, I believe.

J.T. has two children himself.

I, of course, have three children.

And Nick kind of reached out as he's having his second child with, you know, just some questions

and some, you know,

commiseration he wanted to share with me kind of privately, personally, between texts,

just, you know, having some of these discussions.

And it quickly became clear that it could make for a good and useful episode for others.

So if you're a young parent or a young father, if you're thinking about becoming a parent or a father, you're wrestling with issues.

Like, what does it mean to be a father or a man in today's society?

What does it mean to navigate having multiple young children with a relationship and a job and all the financial, social, economic, political

insecurities and unknowns going on in our society. This is the conversation for you. I think I had a

really interesting, great time. And it's clear that, you know, Nick is working through some shit and we're

working through it with him. And, you know, when you're about to have a child or a second child, these sort of questions

and this uncertainty and a lot of anxiety is inevitable. And, you know, anybody that's had children

absolutely deals with it on some level. And so, you know, hopefully this is a productive

and useful conversation for people in

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