The Happy Pod: Meet the world's internet dad
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This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in this edition, we meet the man described by his millions of fans as the internet dad the world needs.
I'm grateful for the platform that I've been given to be able to pour good back into the world. There's just so much negativity, and I want to try to make being a dad a cool thing.
Also... But it's not good to give up. In most cases, you can lose all the pieces, but still stand a chance. That's the beauty of chess, that we never give up in life. It's not over until it's over.
How chess lessons have changed thousands of lives in Uganda. Why Ukrainians are turning to humour.
The demand for comedy looks totally natural to me now. It's a tool which can help us process this stream of depressing information.
The 90-year-old lawyer with no plans to retire and the very smelly plant attracting thousands of visitors in Australia. We start with a man who's amassed millions of online followers by offering tips on how to tackle everything from ironing a shirt or making coffee to changing a car battery and fixing a toilet. Rob Kenny's dad left when he was a teenager, so after raising his own children, he decided he wanted to help others who might need parental advice. Rob, who lives near Seattle in Washington state, started in 2020 during the pandemic. posting a simple video of how to tie a necktie. Within days, he'd gone viral, with one viewer calling him the internet dad the world needs, while others said he'd adopted everyone who needs a dad and made them realise dads were supposed to be supportive. His YouTube channel, Dad, How Do I?, now has more than 5 million subscribers. Rob spoke to The Happy Pot.
One of my big goals was to raise good adults, not good kids, but good adults so that they could function in their own lives. I tried to include them along the way as they grew up. I tried to have them do stuff with me so they could learn. But then, you know, my kids were grown. My daughter's she'll be 33 this year and my son will be 30. And so I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do because that was my main goal in life was to raise good adults because my dad. unfortunately had failed at that so I was trying to figure out what to do and thought of this channel and then I thought I was going to help 30 or 40 people just try to download stuff from my brain to give some nuggets for people to be able to navigate life today I'm going to show you how to shave so this is pretty basic but if you've never done it and you don't know how to get started here's
Hey kids, so today I want to show you how to catch a football. Okay, I had a lot of requests for how to change a flat tire. It's a fairly simple process, but if you've never done it before, it might be a little bit intimidating. I wasn't expecting it to be what it is. I'm grateful for it, though. I'm grateful for the platform that I've been given to be able to pour good back into the world, because I think there's just so much negativity and stuff on social media that I'm grateful that I can be a little light for people to find a safe harbor where they can hang out with me and walk alongside and help people learn things.
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