The story of the 1960s continues in Season 3 Episode 6 as Aaron, Dave, and Mateo take on what has become one of the dad’s favorite books they’ve ever read together, Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman.

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The story of the Sixties continues Season 3 Episode 5 where Dave and Aaron are joined by Ryan Ash to take on the movie The Right Stuff, the memorable movie about the Mercury 7 astronauts.

In this episode the dads discuss:

· Did they ever want to be astronauts?

· Do they think they have the Right Stuff?

· What even is the Right Stuff?

· The marriage of Chuck and Glennis Yeager.

· The marriage of John and Annie Glenn.

· And much, much more!

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The story of the Sixties continues in Episode 4 of Season 3 as the dads take on the 1960 election between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy after reading The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 by Gary A. Donaldson.

The 1960 election was one of the closest elections in history, and changed the way campaigns are run, candidates are chosen, and how we think about presidential candidates.

Also in this episode:

• The dads discuss why everything is all the boomer’s fault.

• Dave accuses Aaron of fake news

• The dads explain why they started reading Theodore White’s The Making of the President: 1960, and quickly switched to a different book.

• Dave and Aaron ponder whether their wives are too classy to listen to the podcast.

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Look, we’re busy dads who barely have time to do a podcast, but for Season 3 we’re endeavoring to send out regular emails with even more great content with a head for history and a heart for fatherhood. Sign up for our emails at https://mail.baddadpod.com/subscribe If our kids take it easy on us (doubtful, but hope springs eternal at the beginning of a season) we are also going to be posting clips for all of our episodes to our YouTube channel. Occasionally we may even post some stuff to ⁠Instagram ⁠.

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