Game Day Bites #DadChat

CouponGame Day Bites – what are YOUR favs? Is Game Day THE thing in your home? Do you LOVE tailgate parties? Are you kids die-hard sports fans? Who can’t resist great snacks when watching The Game, whether tailgating it in the parking lot, watching in the stands, or just having a television party at home. Let’s talk SPORTS and FOOD this Thursday, October 24 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT/9:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET at #DadChat! Sponsored by Mars Bites, they are generously giving away THREE $100 Walmart gift cards, too!

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Men vs. Women: Cars

Hot Babe in Hot Car

I can’t believe I haven’t taken on cars in this series on Men vs. Women! There are such gigantic differences in how we look at, buy, appreciate, and deal with the horseless carriage. In many ways, I think our respective attitude about cars is emblematic of our attitudes about most everything. Again, this is not a right or wrong, just a big difference.

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Celebrity Experts

Celebrity experts in Social Media and Politics

I was speaking with a Social Media friend about so-called celebrity experts in the SoMe world. We quickly distinguished between the real knowledgeable person who actually did their own tweets and others that sort of fell into fame for no apparent reason. This topic even came up in a recent #blogchat where someone was negatively talking about a SoMe celebrity who had tens of thousands of followers on Twitter, but followed only a handful himself.

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Hasbro’s Playskool Rescue Bots Take Over #DadChat

Hasbro Transformers Rescue Bots Game System

             Click on the image to go to the Beam Box website        

Warning: The Bots are coming to #DadChat. Hasbro’s Playskool Rescue Bots are coming! Be prepared since they may take over and if you’re very lucky, you may win a prize package including a game console and a Rescue Bot of your choice…or, gulp, you may be transported back to your childhood! BEWARE!

We will have our usual free-for-all chat/discussion but Hasbro is also generously giving away FIVE prizes – Transformers Rescue Bots Beam Box Game System and one additional Rescue Bot Game Pack figure (a $57.98 value!). As always at #DadChat, you will have to earn the prizes! One winner per family.

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I’m MAD as Hell!

Albert Finney in Network

It was an iconic movie moment when Peter Finch, in Paddy Chayevsky’s movie Network screamed out, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more!” I wonder how many readers saw that movie when it came out? Or even know of it at all? My question is why is everyone so angry these days over often very trivial things?

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Choosing to Stay Single + The Government Shutdown

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Featured guests:

Cherylyn Harley LeBon – Co-Chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board – for “Political Talk.”

Pastor Drew Sams for “Spiritual Talk.”

Dr. Jennifer Weberman (The Parenting Playground) for “Therapy Talk.”

Today’s radio show is inspired by this week’s “A Dad’s Point-of-View” column, Staying Single is NOT Good for Your Kids, Part Two. Is the choice to stay single a good one? But, as always, we’ll talk about whatever is on our minds!

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