Comrades: Happy Father’s Day!
I am thrilled to host my friend J, who has launched a new Substack called BaD (Based and Devoted) Dad. We have known each other over a decade and our children are less than a month apart. On Father’s Day, we reflect on how becoming fathers is the best thing we’ve ever done and what we’ve learned on the journey so far.
BaD Dad’s Substack:
My Father’s Day post from last year:
How To Make Fatherhood Great Again
Comrades: Fathers are the foundations of strong families. Families are the foundations are strong societies. Destroy the father, destroy the family, destroy society.
Meanwhile, The New York Times featured “dadfluencers” - the one in the middle flaunts his trans kid for clout:
A note on Ryan Holiday’s creepy “cool Stoic dad” charm offensive:
PS: No one has answered all 10 questions correctly to Subversive Jeopardy! Want to take a shot at winning the free upgrade so you can listen to this podcast and all the others? I will post the results and winner on Tuesday. Thursday and Sunday will feature two more podcasts.
How To Play Subversive Jeopardy! (CONTEST + PRIZE)
Comrades: Welcome to Yuri’s Subversive Jeopardy! RIP to a fellow legendary Canadian: Today’s Jeopardy category is “DEMORALIZATION ‘BLACK’ HOLE”. Below are 10 prompts about organizations that start with the word BLACK. The challenge for you, dear reader, is to guess if each describes:
Previous podcasts with J from BaD Dad:
How To Celebrate Lunar New Year (INTERACTIVE PODCAST + POLLS)
Listen now (40 min) | Comrades: Happy Year of the Rabbit! This bonus post is my red envelope gift to you. Hope it gets your weekend off to a fun start. I am thrilled to host my rooftop Korean friend K for another podcast. Lunar New Year is a special time for Asian families, so we will focus on those 2 topics today. Our previous conversation can be found at
How To Rooftop
Listen now (49 min) | Comrades: You ask, Yuri delivers. I am pleased to publish a first podcast interview with my Rooftop friend K. He is one of the funniest and sincerest people I know, so perhaps this will encourage him to launch a series called “Rooftop Dispatch”. For historical background on Rooftop Koreans with a Scottish brogue, I highly recommend the Count Dankula vid…
Finally, let us pray for a fellow father named Sung Kwon, who lost everything:
