Stories about Dads

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike Birbiglia on battling an online porn virus for his tech-challenged parents, Laura Silverman on bad marriage advice, and seeing the city on a stroll with a newborn's blind father, Ryan Knighton. (This program originally was broadcast on October 12, 2010.)

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0:00.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.
0:05.0	Taking out the trash, doing the dishes and administering punishment,
0:11.0	today on the show, all- true stories about dads.
0:14.0	My parents just click on every email attachment they'd get.
0:18.0	They'd be like,
0:19.0	we've got mail.
0:20.0	Who is it from?
0:22.0	XR XR Z bars at monkeys.
0:25.0	TV. It's a new friend.
0:27.0	Tech support.
0:28.0	Mike R biglia has got a story about that volatile triangle formed by you, your parents, and a computer.
0:34.8	Who wears the pants?
0:36.0	Laura Silverman's dad discovers the secret to a perfect marriage.
0:40.0	Spoiler alert, doesn't work.
0:42.4	Finally, first steps, a story about a new father taking his four month old on a walk through darkness.
0:48.0	Stick around it's all great. Now a lot of public radio listeners are familiar with the work of storyteller actor
1:02.4	comedian Mike Burbiglia in his are familiar with the work of storyteller actor
1:02.5	comedian Mike Burbiglia.
1:04.7	In his first appearance on this American life
1:06.6	a few years ago, he brought us the memorable story
1:09.6	that was simultaneously frightening and hilarious about his experience with a life-threatening sleepwalk disorder.
1:16.0	He's been on that program several times since and on the moth storytelling shows,
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