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Di: Kevin Maguire
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"Like one big group text with other guys fumbling their way through fatherhood." — Esquire

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  • Think Like A Kid Again, with Austin Kleon

    Think Like A Kid Again, with Austin Kleon
    Jun 12 2026
    For a hundred years, parents attempting to undertake creative endeavours have had a ready-made excuse, courtesy of Cyril Connolly: “The enemy of art is the pram in the hall.”Kids, the thinking goes, are where creativity goes to die. But Austin Kleon thinks Connolly got it exactly backwards.This month on the podcast, I sat down with Austin—author of the New York Times bestselling trilogy Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going—to talk about his new book, Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again. This book is a love letter to his two sons, and a collection of everything they taught him about creativity.Austin spent his career helping people tap into their creative potential, Then his kids arrived, and he realised he wasn’t the teacher anymore. He was, in his words, “the apprentice to the beginners,” the studio assistant in his own home, saving the drawings, keeping the paper trail, and watching two small artists figure out how to “let it rip.”We talk about why children aren’t an obstacle to your creative life but an opportunity for it to grow, the gentle art of benevolent neglect, and how watching your kids create might be the best way to quiet your own inner critic—and re-parent the artist you used to be.Subscribe to the Podcast* Spotify* Apple Podcasts* YouTube* Pocket CastsWhere to Find Austin Kleon* Buy Don’t Call it Art* Read his blog, especially the parenting tag* Subscribe to his newsletter* Follow him on InstagramEpisode ReferencesBooks & Essays* The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Sir Ken Robinson* The Idle Parent Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson* Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman* Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg* 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl* The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson* Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann* Playing With My Son by Andy Baio* Heidi’s Horse by Sylvia Fein* American Elf by James KochalkaFeatured Artists, Musicians & Innovators* John Baldessari – The legendary conceptual artist whose revolutionary “Post-Studio Art” teaching style shaped a generation of creators.* Creative Growth: Childhood to Maturity at MoMA – The historic 1939 solo exhibition tracking artist Dahlov Ipcar’s development from a young child to an adult.* Lynda Barry – The MacArthur-winning cartoonist, author of What It Is, and professor of interdisciplinary creativity.* Ruth Asawa – The brilliant San Francisco wire sculptor who believed art education should be accessible to all children.* Eleanor Coppola – The visionary documentary filmmaker who beautifully balanced her own creative life alongside an iconic filmmaking family.* Brian Eno – The experimental ambient music pioneer whose philosophy centers on answering the ultimate creative question: “What is it that I actually like?”* Michel de Montaigne – The Renaissance essayist whose father instituted a spartan pedagogical plan, including raises with peasants and learning Latin as a first language.Misc* Cyril Connolly’s “Pram in the Hall”* Jeff Tweedy on Making Art without ControlTimestamps0:00 — welcome to this episode03:59 — advice for a first-time author06:45 — Austin's houseful of weirdos in Austin, Texas08:03 — bottling the energy of two little kids10:36 — growing up in rural Ohio cornfields17:45 — Owen's magic line23:50 — being your kids' apprentice27:17 — young parents, keep a dairy36:00 — kids know what they like40:56 — scarcity vs. abundant fatherhood42:36 — read some mother artist memoirs47:17 — kids as a source of creative energy47:52 — go to therapy before you have kidsCreditsHost: Kevin MaguireManaging Producer: Elizabeth Van BrocklinSound Editor: Sam WilliamsTheme Music: SOHN Get full access to The New Fatherhood at www.thenewfatherhood.org/subscribe
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    53 min
  • The Good Side of Anger with Sam Parker

    The Good Side of Anger with Sam Parker
    Apr 17 2026

    We've all been told that anger is a problem—something to control, suppress, or apologise for. But what if the real problem isn't that we have too much anger, but that we have no idea what to do with it?

    This month on the podcast, I sat down with Sam Parker—senior editor at British GQ and author of Good Anger: How Rethinking Rage Can Change Our Lives—to dig into why so many fathers have a broken relationship with this most fundamental emotion. Sam argues that anger isn't the enemy. Aggression is. And that learning to feel anger without shame or fear might be one of the most important things we can do—for ourselves, our partners, and our kids.

    We talk about the moment each of us realised we'd been burying our anger for decades, what happens in your body when a boundary gets crossed, and why repairing after you've lost your temper matters more than never losing it in the first place.

    Subscribe to the Podcast

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    Where to Find Sam Parker

    Sam's website

    Find Sam’s book Good Anger on Amazon and Bookshop.org

    The Good Father newsletter on Substack

    Episode References

    The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

    The Gottman Institute: The Four Horsemen

    Kevin's essay: "Where's My Jenny?"

    The New Fatherhood Therapy Fund

    Inside Out (Pixar, 2015)

    Timestamps

    00:00 — welcome to the anger episode

    03:39 — meet Sam's family: Jessie, baby Olive, and life in Kent

    04:32 — rethinking what anger is for

    05:18 — when anger gets swept under the carpet

    06:15 — suppression vs. aggression: the anger problem nobody talks about

    07:10 — the "I don't really get angry" myth

    9:49 — anger does not have to equal violence

    12:39 — how anger can manifest in the body

    14:06 — what is "good anger"?

    14:48 — the discomfort caveat

    17:45 — Sam's boxing breakthrough

    19:11 — anger can be clarifying

    20:44 — how anger hijacks the brain

    27:50 — managing anger between siblings

    33:05 — getting mad near a newborn

    39:00 — dad's role was disciplinarian

    42:24 — resentment as anger's cousin



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    54 min
  • Dads Get Messy at This Year’s Oscars, with Bilge Ebiri

    Dads Get Messy at This Year’s Oscars, with Bilge Ebiri
    Mar 11 2026

    From Jay Kelly to Sentimental Value to One Battle After Another, Oscar season 2025 is overflowing with dads—absent ones, ambitious ones, ones who chose career over family and are now reckoning with the cost. We dig into how this year's best films moved beyond the “scary dad" trope to give us fathers who are flawed, human, and genuinely complicated, and what that shift says about how the world is thinking about fatherhood right now.

    Credits

    Host: Kevin Maguire

    Managing Producer: Elizabeth Van Brocklin

    Sound Editor: Sam Williams

    Theme Music: Sohn

    More of Bilge’s work:

    Bilge’s writing on Vulture

    Bilge’s dad’s film notebooks

    Review of Train Dreams

    Review of Jay Kelly

    Review of Hamnet

    Review of One Battle After Another

    Bilge’s Dad Watchlist

    The Champ

    The Shining

    Bigger Than Life

    Train Dreams

    Jay Kelly

    One Battle After Another

    Walking with Dinosaurs

    Other show references:

    Subscribe to TNF newsletter

    Kevin’s essay on Train Dreams

    Timestamps

    00:00 Hello

    00:31 Becoming Nemo’s Dad

    03:30 Let’s talk movies!

    05:00 Film diaries c. 1940s

    06:10 Apocalypse Now

    07:20 Present dad award

    10:43 Core memory of The Shining

    15:00 Masculinity crisis

    16:48 [SPOILERS] Train Dreams

    19:15 Providing vs. protecting

    19:58 [SPOILERS] Hamnet

    20:20 [SPOILERS] Sentimental Value

    21:04 [SPOILERS] Jay Kelly

    23:50 [SPOILERS] More Train Dreams

    27:24 [SPOILERS] Leo is best film dad

    29:10 The Shining easter egg

    31:21 Letting go in the teen years

    33:00 Watching movies with your kids

    36:43 The outcast dinosaur



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    39 min
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