Professional Dads

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 changed both of us and what they taught our kids.

In this episode:

- What a tap tap is and why nobody is ever on time

- How Brent got talked into his first trip, and how Donald ended up spending five weeks in Haiti

- The mouse in the rental car seat

- Donalding, the official term for slow-walking through an airport

- Pouring 90 yards of concrete in four days (and the men who unionized)

- Why teenagers give up their spring break to do this

- The Gold Bond story and the fishing village story

- Never eat food you haven't seen prepared, and other lessons learned the hard way in the Sock Drawer

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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: slurping coffee, unfinished projects, and stained shirts

• Snoring on mission trips, and the night Donald checked whether Brent was still alive

• A mouse trap that looked like a home invasion

• Why they should never be on the same Codenames team

• The Sock Drawer: what drives them nuts in other marriages

• Things that get husbands in trouble, and the one trick for answering "What do you want for dinner?"

Next time: the international travel stories.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome back
2:01 Something everyone loves that we can’t stand (Disney)
7:51 The Rush ancestry and why Donald won’t take a DNA test
16:33 What annoys us more now than at 25
21:55 Are people too sensitive?
27:07 Modern conveniences we could live without
31:08 “This is why we can’t have nice things”
34:52 Should dads have off-limits spots in the house?
38:27 An unpopular opinion: Brent doesn’t like pets
47:20 The “Help us” lemonade stand
50:31 Slate floors and other home projects
53:51 Things that should be illegal but aren’t
1:04:05 The dad shoe progression (Hey Dudes, Crocs, Skechers)
1:06:07 Costco pants, beards, and bald spots
1:10:23 Dad tip: “That ain’t going anywhere”

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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 call himself a Professional Dad.