In this week's show, Dara talks about his experience of fatherhood and his ever-evolving relationship with his daughter. He continues to fall at the same hurdle on a regular basis - will he, or can he change? He shares a personal father moment that made him cry and wonders why it can be so difficult to cry for oneself.

After laying out some movie role models for his daughter, Dara turns his attention to his own father and reads a short piece he wrote about his father's embodiment of a type of masculinity that has had a lasting positive impact. He realises he overlooked his father's sense of humour and to redress the balance he relays a recent exchange that shows there's dog in the old life yet...

Finally, Dara reads three poems about fatherhood that he thought were particularly lovely. The poets featured are Galway Kinnell, Ross Gay, and Carl Dennis.

The ClearOut episode on the American father - https://theclearout.com/podcast/big-bad-daddies-from-tony-soprano-to-my-father-in-several-easy-steps-episode-20/

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