Yes, we see you Dads

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A father's day favorite.
We hear from dads, people talking about their daddies, and we hear about the joys, and challenges, of Black fatherhood. We see you, Black dads. Featuring dads Chris Stewart, Rob Fields, and Sam Adewumi.

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0:00.0	Hey, Stoop listeners, it's that time of year again.
0:05.0	We're coming up on Father's Day and we wanted to celebrate you dads out there.
0:09.7	We see you, dads.
0:11.3	This is one of our favorite episodes.
0:14.0	So we thought we'd share it with you again.
0:17.1	And maybe you can share it with the dads that you adore.
0:26.5	Okay. And maybe you can share it with the dads that you adore. Hey, Lila.
0:28.0	Hey, Anna.
0:29.6	I gotta say, this time of year, you know, during Father's Day, it's a bit of an emotional time for me.
0:38.4	Yeah, I can imagine.
0:40.4	It really gets me thinking about my dad a lot and missing him.
0:44.5	Yeah.
0:45.0	And then sometimes I wonder, you know, was I too hard on him as a dad?
0:50.5	You know, I always wanted that Hollywood dad, the one you see on TV, the one that sat down for chats about boy troubles and the one who made dinner and sang in the kitchen with mom dancing,
1:02.3	slow dancing, and, you know, would cry when you went away to college.
1:09.6	You know what I'm talking about? The TV dad?
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.3	Everybody wanted that dad, but that was a fake dad on TV.
1:16.1	It was.
1:17.6	I just felt like looking back, I'm like, was I too hard on him?
1:21.8	Too many expectations.
1:25.0	You know, poor dad.
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