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The Happy Pod: Meet the world's internet dad

Sat, 25 Jan 2025

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Meet the man behind the YouTube channel 'Dad, How Do I?'. He teaches his millions of subscribers how to do everyday tasks. Also: the man in Uganda who is changing lives through chess; and the flower causing a stink.

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0.089 - 3.291 Rob Kenny

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26.141 - 35.644 Unknown

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36.104 - 52.789 Oliver Conway

Discover how to lead a better life in our age of confusion. Enjoy this BBC audiobook collection, written and presented by best-selling author Oliver Berkman, containing four useful guides to tackling some central ills of modernity. Busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity, and the decline of nuance.

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53.3 - 64.149 Unknown

Our lives today can feel like miniature versions of this relentless churn of activity. We find we're rushing around more crazily than ever. Somewhere, when we weren't looking, it's like busyness became a way of life.

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64.469 - 70.294 Oliver Conway

Start listening to Oliver Berkman, Epidemics of Modern Life. Available to purchase wherever you get your audiobooks.

77.74 - 93.053 Valerie Sanderson

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.

93.533 - 102.796 Rob Kenny

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.

103.957 - 113.36 Robert Katendi

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.

113.837 - 120.2 Valerie Sanderson

How chess lessons have changed thousands of lives in Uganda. Why Ukrainians are turning to humour.

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