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The Dead Dads Podcast helps men navigate what it really means to carry a father's memory forward — with honesty, humor, and zero pressure to make grief look good.
Listen NowNobody tells you that honoring your dad's legacy is one of the most complicated things you'll do after he's gone. There's no roadmap for standing in his garage, surrounded by forty years of "useful" junk, trying to figure out what to keep, what to toss, and what the hell any of it meant to him. There's no guide for the grief that ambushes you in a hardware store aisle because he used to love those places. Roger Nairn and Scott Cunningham — the hosts of Dead Dads — started this podcast because they couldn't find the conversation they were actually looking for after losing their own fathers.
Honoring a father's legacy isn't one grand gesture. It's a hundred small, ongoing decisions:
Most grief resources aren't built for men who've lost their dads. They're clinical, polished, and quietly suggest you should be further along by now. Dead Dads takes a different approach: peer-to-peer, honest, and occasionally darkly funny — because that's closer to how men actually process loss. Whether your dad died recently or years ago (grief that persists long after the funeral is real — "Why Your Dad's Death Still Hits Hard Years Later and What to Do With It" goes deep on this), this is a space where you don't have to perform your grief.
From practical episodes about estate logistics and password-protected iPads to raw conversations about seeking approval from a man who's no longer there ("Living Without His Approval: The Unexpected Freedom After Your Dad Dies"), Dead Dads covers the full, uncomfortable spectrum of what it means to carry your father forward.
Hosted by Roger Nairn and Scott Cunningham — two men who've lived this — every episode goes somewhere most grief content won't.
Paperwork marathons, estate logistics, garages full of "useful" junk, password-protected devices. The show covers the unglamorous aftermath of loss that somehow no one prepares you for.
The hardware store. A sports game. A song on the radio. Episodes explore the unexpected grief triggers that catch you off guard years after the funeral.
Not the sanitized eulogy version — the real one. Conversations about flawed fathers, complicated relationships, and what it means to honor someone you're still figuring out. See also: "The Day I Realized My Dad Was Just a Man and What That Changes."
Graduations, marriages, kids he never met. Episodes tackle how to navigate massive life moments without being able to pick up the phone — covered in depth in "How to handle massive life milestones when you can't call your dad."
Practical ways to preserve memory — from building a memory box ("How to Build a Memory Box to Honor Your Dad After Loss") to honoring unfinished business ("Beyond the Bucket List: How to Honor Your Dad's Unfinished Business and Personal Legacy").
No PR pitches. No polished bios. Guests like John Abreu and Greg Kettner bring unfiltered, firsthand accounts of navigating life after losing a dad.
“Men who found Dead Dads are finding words for things they'd been carrying alone.”
"Great show and insight" — 5 Stars
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The primary audience is men who've lost their fathers, but the conversations — grief triggers, legacy questions, complicated relationships — resonate with anyone navigating father loss. The show's tone is built around how men tend to process grief: direct, occasionally dark-humored, and light on forced positivity.
Not at all. Grief doesn't have an expiration date. Episodes like "Why Your Dad's Death Still Hits Hard Years Later and What to Do With It" speak directly to men who lost their dad years ago and are still working through it.
That's exactly who this show is for. Dead Dads doesn't require you to have had a storybook father. Posts like "My Dad Was a Flawed Man. That's Exactly Why His Legacy Matters" and "The Day I Realized My Dad Was Just a Man and What That Changes" go straight at the complicated stuff.
Yes — the show actively invites both. You can leave a voice message about your dad, submit a review, or suggest a real person with a real story at deaddadspodcast.com. No PR pitches, no polished bios — just genuine stories.
The blog at deaddadspodcast.com/blog/ goes deeper on many of the same themes — including "What I Wish I'd Asked My Dad Before He Died (And How to Start)", "Father's Day Without Your Dad: Redefining a Holiday That Now Hurts", and "He Never Met Them. Here's How I Made Sure They Know Him Anyway."