Episode 68: Zoe vs. Chris

How well does an AI really know Uncle Chris? And more importantly, how badly can it screw up?

This week on The Dad Brotocol, RC introduces Chris to Zoe, his increasingly sarcastic AI sidekick, to see what she's learned from the podcast. What starts as a simple trivia game quickly turns into an unpredictable mess of questionable personality assessments, technological incompetence, and two brothers arguing with a computer.

Along the way, we investigate Chris's mysterious webcam problems, discover some new family joke lore, and find out what happens when an AI starts asking the questions instead.

It's funny, frustrating, surprisingly personal, and occasionally completely ridiculous. In other words, it's The Dad Brotocol.

RC vs. Chris vs. Zoe. Nobody wins.

Episode 65: Iron Man 2

The MCU journey continues with Iron Man 2, a movie that is definitely about Iron Man—and an episode that frequently is not.

RC and Uncle Chris break down Tony Stark’s daddy issues, the greatness of Black Widow, War Machine, Justin Hammer, Whiplash’s unexplained obsession with his bird, and whether Iron Man 2 is actually any good. Along the way, they discover QR codes can apparently be held for ransom, debate the athletic merits of curling, draft John the IT Guy and a giant donut, completely destroy the One-Liner Tournament, and somehow stumble into a meaningful conversation about fatherhood, asking for help, and the legacy we leave our kids.

Chris is looking for a job, so RC decides the real solution is to get him a hobby.

This week we argue about an old guy slapping a kid at a baseball game, talk hiking, books, horror movies, squirrels, chickens, and whether Chris should start playing music again. We also try out a new music segment, Chris tells the story of lying in a job interview, and we wrap things up with a very questionable game of Bed Wed Dead.

Before we were dads, we were bros.