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Professional Dads is a funny, honest conversation between two friends from Middle Tennessee who are raising eight kids between them and still figuring most of it out.
Brent Atkinson and Donald Rush talk about marriage, fatherhood, middle age, faith, work, and the small stuff that drives dads crazy: thermostats, loud noises, Disney World, and the one strap that never stays tied down. Expect stories, friendly arguments, and plenty of rabbit holes.
Brent Atkinson and Donald Rush talk about marriage, fatherhood, middle age, faith, work, and the small stuff that drives dads crazy: thermostats, loud noises, Disney World, and the one strap that never stays tied down. Expect stories, friendly arguments, and plenty of rabbit holes.
Update frequency:
every 5 days
Average audio length:
68 minutes
English
United States
6 episodes
since Oct. 17, 2026
episodic
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Two dads, five kids between them, and not much proof anyone acted right in public. Brent Atkinson and Donald Rush swap stories about raising kids with manners and being kids who needed them.
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The heat wager update: who turned it on first, and whose house is better insulated
The ele…
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Brent and Donald ask whether life is too expensive or kids just aren’t being taught to work, from $8 lawn jobs to dad economics.
From mowing a graveyard for $20 to washing dishes at 14, we compare our first jobs with what our kids face now: free-range childhoods, no cell phones, gravel roads, and p…
Brent and Donald share their funniest, hardest, and most unforgettable mission trip stories from Haiti and Honduras: a tap tap ride, a mouse in the rental car seat, 90 yards of concrete poured by hand, and the Gold Bond story that gets told on every trip. Underneath the laughs is why these trips ch…
Brent and Donald aren't marriage counselors, but between them they have 49 years of marriage, and most of it is what NOT to do.
In Episode 3, the guys talk about:
• What surprised them most about being married
• The best advice their fathers and grandfathers gave them
• What annoys their wives: sl…
CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome back2:01 Something everyone loves that we can’t stand (Disney)7:51 The Rush ancestry and why Donald won’t take a DNA test16:33 What annoys us more now than at 2521:55 Are people too sensitive?27:07 Modern conveniences we could live without31:08 “This is why we can’t have nice t…
In our first episode, Brent Atkinson and Donald Rush introduce themselves: how two Middle Tennessee dads became friends, what they thought of each other at first, and why they decided to start a podcast. They also get into how their wives reacted, and whether either of them is actually qualified to…
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