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The paperwork, the silence, the grief that ambushes you in a hardware store — Roger Nairn and Scott Cunningham cover the stuff everyone else skips. This is Dead Dads, the podcast for men figuring out life without their father.
Listen NowMost grief resources hand you the five stages and send you on your way. But nobody mentions the password-protected iPad you can't get into, the garage packed with "useful" junk that somehow feels sacred, or the wave of grief that hits you out of nowhere in the middle of a hardware store. That's the gap Dead Dads was built to fill.
Hosts Roger Nairn and Scott Cunningham both lost their fathers. They looked for the conversation they needed and couldn't find it — so they built it themselves. As Roger put it in a January 2026 blog post: "We started it because we couldn't find the conversation we were looking for." The show covers the full, messy, unfiltered reality of losing your dad, including the parts most people skip entirely.
Dead Dads goes where other grief content won't:
In posts like "Why Standard Grief Advice Feels Useless When Your Dad Dies" and "Man Up Is the Worst Advice You'll Get After Your Dad Dies," the brand goes deeper into why conventional wisdom fails men — and what honest conversation actually looks like. Episodes feature real guests sharing real stories, from John Abreu, who received the call and then had to tell his own family his dad was dead, to Greg Kettner's raw account of his grief journey.
This isn't therapy. There's no clinical framework, no forced optimism, and no tidy resolution. It's peer-to-peer, honest, and occasionally darkly funny — because sometimes that's the only way through.
From the first horrible hours to the grief that resurfaces years later, here's what you'll find on the show and in the community.
The hours and days after your dad dies are chaotic in ways nobody warns you about. Dead Dads covers "The Day My Dad Died: An Honest Account of Those First Horrible Hours" — the shock, the logistics, and the strange emotional numbness that descends before the grief fully arrives.
The funeral ends and the world moves on — but you don't. The show explores what happens in "After the Funeral: How to Build Real Support When Everyone Goes Home," tackling the loneliest phase of loss that most grief content ignores entirely.
Password-protected iPads. Garages full of junk. Paperwork marathons. Financial landmines. Dead Dads treats the logistical reality of loss as seriously as the emotional one — because the two hit you at the same time.
Loss doesn't follow a timeline. "Why Your Dad's Death Still Hits Hard Years Later and What to Do With It" addresses the grief that resurfaces long after the world expects you to be "over it" — and why that's completely normal.
Sons are handed impossible expectations after a father dies. Posts like "Stop Trying to Be the Man of the House After Your Dad Dies" and "After Your Dad Dies, You Stop Knowing What You're Working For" confront the identity crisis that no one prepares you for.
Still hearing your dad's voice? Dreading going back to your childhood home? Feeling unexpectedly free — or guilty about feeling free? Dead Dads covers the experiences that feel too strange to say out loud, and names them as normal parts of grief.
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Roger Nairn and Scott Cunningham both lost their fathers. This isn't research — it's lived experience.
No PR pitches. No polished bios. Guests like John Abreu and Greg Kettner share the unfiltered truth of what losing a dad actually looks like.
"Death. Jokes. Closure. Not always in that order." — the only framework you'll find here.
The show is built specifically for men grieving the loss of a father — a demographic that's largely underserved by traditional grief resources. That said, anyone navigating paternal loss will find something real here.
No. Dead Dads deliberately avoids prescriptive frameworks, forced optimism, and clinical language. It's honest conversation between people who've been through it — take what's useful, leave what isn't.
Good — that's exactly the kind of story the show wants to tell. Posts like "The Grief Guilt Trip: Why Feeling Bad About Your Relationship With Your Dad Is Normal" and "Living Without His Approval: The Unexpected Freedom After Your Dad Dies" address the full complexity of fathers and sons, not just the easy cases.
Yes. The website has a "Suggest a Guest" feature where you can submit names of real people with real stories. The only rule: no PR pitches, no polished bios. You can also leave a message about your dad directly on the site, or submit a review at deaddadspodcast.com/reviews.
All written content lives at deaddadspodcast.com/blog. Posts like "You Still Hear Your Dad's Voice. That's Not Crazy. That's Grief." and "Why Going Back to Your Childhood Home After Your Dad Dies Wrecks You" go deeper on topics covered in the episodes.