Viral Youtuber "Dad, How Do I?" On Being A Dad and Sharing The Gospel After Negative Backlash ft. Rob Kenney
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Rob Kenney is best known as the man behind the viral Youtube account, "Dad, How Do I?"
He shares videos explaining things that dads ought to have taught their kids...
How to tie a tie, how to change a tire, how to make good food, etc.
And he hit a nerve when he burst onto the scene in 2020, tapping into the father-hunger unconsciously felt by many young people today.
But there's more to him than just fixing stuff.
He's a Christian, and he wants to share his faith.
In this conversation, we go into how he intentionally stepped into the identity of FATHER, and the backlash he endured from sharing his faith on his Youtube channel, and what it means for Christians today.
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On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
0:53 Dad, How Do I? story
3:05 Sharing Faith and How People Interact With Christianity Today
14:53 The Moral Argument for God
23:42 Hard Fatherhood and Fragility
29:58 The Identity of FATHER
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Resources Mentioned:
Dad, How Do I?: https://www.youtube.com/@DadhowdoI/
Dad's Faith Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dadsfaithchannel
Dad, How Do I? Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063074990
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dadhowdoi/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/dadhowdoi/
TT: https://tiktok.com/@therealdadhowdoi
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| 0:00.0 | I was hoping that they were kind of getting the gist that there's more to me than just, you know, |
| 0:05.4 | showing you how to fix things. But boy, I got a big backlash for it. |
| 0:12.5 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm excited to be joined today by Rob Kenny. Rob, |
| 0:18.0 | thanks for jumping on the podcast today. Yeah, of course. Thanks for having me, Jeremy. |
| 0:21.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.7 | So we saw Rob kind of take off in doing these videos, these, Dad, How Do I, videos online. |
| 0:31.1 | And man, it had such a powerful emotional resonance. |
| 0:34.1 | And Rob, I'd love to maybe just tell the story a little bit about how that happened. And then, you know, I'd love to kind of, we'll drill into, you know, more of what's going on kind of culturally, you know, and also in the faith world. I'd love to kind of dialogue with you a little bit about, you know, fatherhood in general. But yeah, tell everyone a little bit about your background, your story and what happened there. Yeah, yeah. So if people aren't familiar with me, |
| 0:55.1 | I started the channel, Dad, |
| 0:57.0 | how do I, during the pandemic, |
| 0:58.7 | I was, it's something I had thought of a couple years prior, and I thought I was going to have |
| 1:04.6 | 30 or 40 followers, and I'd kind of answer some questions about stuff that, you know know a lot of stuff I learned the hard way |
| 1:11.9 | I came up with the name dad how do I because I pictured one of my kids in the other room saying |
| 1:16.4 | dad how do I and then I'd come running and supposedly fix it or at least try to figure out how to |
| 1:22.2 | fix it you know and so I just again thought I'd have 30 or 40 followers. |
| 1:27.9 | I'd have this nice tight knit group. |
| 1:30.5 | And then I would be able to share my faith too, you know, |
| 1:33.0 | and kind of the stuff that I learned along the way. |
| 1:36.3 | But it blew up overnight. |
| 1:38.0 | And so I was scrambling to try to figure out, |
| 1:40.7 | oh my goodness, what happened here? |
| 1:42.5 | I just, you know, loaded how to tie a tie, how to shave, |
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