Rad Dad Secrets - The Beginning - a podcast by Eric Wagnon & Jefferson Harmon

So the big question is this, how do regular dads like us who weren't given a playbook on parenting will only have 24 hours in a day to make it all happen How do we provide for our families in a way that will allow us to raise happy, successful children and have a thriving marriage while still being a man and doing the things we love That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. 
This is Rad Dad Secrets Secrets, episode number one. My name is Jefferson harmon. I am a dad of five kids. I've been married for 14 years and I live in southern Oregon and I'm Eric Wagnon and I have been married for 14 years as well. We've had six kids. I live in a little town called Rocklin in northern California just outside of Sacramento and we're happy to have you guys here, we're absolutely stoked out of our minds to be getting this going and getting our first episode up and running. And what we wanted to do is start out and tell you guys where we came up with the name totally Rad dads and we're, we're stoked about it. I'm simply because dads are age typically grew up in the eighties and nineties. And Rad was like the raddest word of all. I mean, that was, that was that you could use it for almost anything. It just depicted the best. Right And I think that's as dads what we all want to be. Do we want to be totally Rad. So that's where the name came from. It. My, my buddy over here, the cofounder, Jefferson Harmon, he, uh, he actually called me one day with this idea of uh, he, he initially was like, dude, preserving fatherhood, you know, we've got to have that. And so I. where'd you, how'd you initially come up with the idea for preserving Father had jeff, I don't know where it came to me one day and I just said, man, preserving fatherhood. I think that's a really good, really good name. I think fathers nowadays are, are being, you know, kind of taken through the mud and we're just kind of viewed as mumbling, mumbling idiots and not really necessary here, um, you know, in society. So I came up with that name and then, uh, when we, when we first met a man a couple of months ago and started brainstorming ideas about what, how we wanted this course to go or this, this, this, this thing to go, uh, we kind of went away from preserving fatherhood that didn't, that didn't resonate with us well as a native. I remember I googled it and it sounded awesome. I was like, preserving, heck yeah dude. We to preserve fatherhood. And I googled it. A bunch of sperm banks started popping up on my feed. I was like, Ooh, I don't know if I'm preserving fatherhood right. And uh, I, I don't know who came up with that was it, I don't know if it was me or if it, if it was you and all of a sudden it just came to me or us and it was totally Rad Dads. That's like, wow, that, that, to me as a dad as an eighties kid. Oh, I'm totally on board with this. Amen brother. No. And so we're stoked about the name. Um, but you, you went into it a little bit when you talked about why you came or where this idea came from and when you called me, I mean, it gave me goosebumps, like literally it gave me goosebumps and I was like, man, this is so much bigger than us, you know, and we're, we're a couple of regular dads, right We're, we're trying our hardest where we're tripping up everywhere. We're struggling but we're pushing through it and you know, we've gone through some hard times, but we've, both gone the extra mile and try to learn and become better and better and, and uh, we want to be able to share that with you and also, you know, through our facebook page, have you guys share some insights with us and help each other along the way.

But why the podcast I mean, going back to it. I mean, you mentioned dads are portrayed as these bumbling, expendable chumps, right And, and I mean if you look, if you watch TV shows, and this is not just today, but I mean go back even when we were kids. I mean, look at the simpsons, you have got homer Simpson married wi

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