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From cringe dad jokes to the biggest parenting decisions, no topic is off-limits on Daddies Podcast.

This week, hosts Rob Stott and Marcus Hurley tackle the realities of single-child families, the financial costs of raising kids, and how to handle the tough questions children ask as they grow up. It's an honest, funny, and relatable chat about finding your footing as a dad.

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00:00I think what this kind of brings up for me is me not going into the specifics of death.
00:07Like that is obviously me trying to protect my daughter from like, cause death is scary.
00:12And it's a big concept as well for a new brain to drive, you know.
00:16And so it's protection versus honesty.
00:19And the quote from Finding Nemo comes to mind, uh, where I think Marlon, Nemo's dad says,
00:27I'll never let anything happen to you.
00:29And then Dory, they're in like the whale's mouth and Dory's like,
00:33but if you don't let anything happen to her, nothing will ever happen.
00:36I don't know why I put her on an American accent, but it is that kind of,
00:40my role is to kind of raise this child, but the world is going to intervene from time to time.
00:47So I can't homeschool her or say death is real and like the fish is in fish heaven and blah,
00:53blah, blah.
00:53And Santa Claus, when do you break that?
00:55Oh my God.
00:56Um, but what does that bring up for you in terms of, are you, do you think you're overly protective
01:02or do you think you're kind of going with the flow?
01:06I think I'm probably a coward.

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