###Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… All of the Dads are back in the studios this week to talk about their recent movie night outing to see Wrath or the Titans, revisit the state of the student protests in Montreal due to proposed increase of the tuition fees. They also review the State of the BlackBerry as sent in by listener …

Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay…This week all of the Dads reunite and we finally find out what happened to Ben, Steph reports back from Legoland and his Pirates of the Caribbean cruise while Eric tries to explain the details of the new Canadian Copyright Law. Which, as it turns out, sparks a mega debate about the Movie industr…

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Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads managed to lure Steph out of the dungeons just long enough record a show before he heads off on his whirlwind tour of the Carribean searching for Blackbeards treasure which just happens be to Bluetooth’s headset. The also take some time to remember Gary “The Kid” Carter and t…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Back from a seven month hiaitus the Dads are back and in full form. FourSquatters beware, the Canuck is on a rampage, while Eric tries to defend Google’s recent prviacy policies and Steve & Francois explain GPS how your privacy is at risk with on device GPS apps while still glowing from by bein…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This weeks the Dads are joined by Stephen Hacket of 52pixels.net and the Ungeniused podcast on the newly launched 70Decibels network. As usual the discussion revolved around Apple and more specifically the recently launched iPhone 4S. But it’s not all Apple, Eric actually manages to get a word …

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… It’s the Fourth Series of the DadCast. In this season’s opener, the Dads talk about their summer projects, including new PC’s, tablets, TV, and how to cope when the Analogue Signal dies out forever. We’d like to thank our new sponsors this year, two awesome Canadian outfits: SplitReason T-Shirt…

How to Maintain a Healthy Eating Lifestyle What you eat each day affects your health and how you feel now and in the future. Good nutrition plays a major role in helping you lead a healthy lifestyle. When combined with physical activity, your diet can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight and reduce your risk of chronic conditions such as di…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay Part two of the show we recorded in the dead of winter, we continue without Eric and review the prospect of Anne Hathaway as the next Catwoman, we review the Green Hornet, and over analyse the Captain America costume and of course we loof forward to the rest of this summer’s comic book flicks. W…

How to Maintain a Healthy Eating Lifestyle What you eat each day affects your health and how you feel now and in the future. Good nutrition plays a major role in helping you lead a healthy lifestyle. When combined with physical activity, your diet can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight and reduce your risk of chronic conditions such as di…

Photo provided by Stephen Hackett of http://ForkBombr.net Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we had to sequester all of the Dads into their own man caves and home studios to avoid any risk of catching a Meat Space virus or bug. So we all jumped onto Skype where we were joined by a slightly chilled but otherwise healthy…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Bournemouth UK… In our year end International Extravaganza, Francois and Steve travel to Europe (UK and Switzerland) while the Steph tends to the rink and Ben and Eric spend some well deserved relaxing time with their families. Chris Allen joins the Dads to discuss PS3s and parhaat suomenkieliset nettikasi…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Part TWO of December 2nd show where Steve, Stéphane and François put on their big boy pants, sit down and discuss the recent Wiki Leaks controversy, the TSA aggressive pat-down fiascos, and the value of social medias like Twitter in civil disobedience cases. The Adam Savage razor blade airport …

The All new Adventures of Toaster-Ben Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… In this first of a two part mini-series: Mononque is Tweeting and up for the cataclysm. Google needs more presence on the web and the TSA fails the American Thanksgiving screening. Maybe their plan of action was put on the web by Wikileaks, the ultimate rep…

I Am Serious and Don’t Call Me Shirley! Nearly Live on Canadian National Day of Podcasting… We wanted to mark this most awesome celebration of Canadiana to not only pay honour to Leslie Nielsen but also to give back to the Podcasting community that have been listening to our shows and supporting the DadCast by going over some of the basic of podcas…

Quite possiby the Livest we’ve ever been… This week we welcome André Nantel, renowned FiB Montreal Systems Biologist, Photographer, Traveller, Gamer, and experienced Dad of two to the Mesa 14 Restaurant on Bishop for a very special live edition of the show. Among the many topics of the night, we finally find out what biologist love yeast so much, A…

The Man Without Fear Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… Fear Overcome In part two of the last week’s show the remaining Dads continue to struggle with Ben’s Skype issue while dissecting the Green Lantern trailer and giving Francois a crash course in The Green Lantern Corp lore. We also look at the the Cars 2 trailer, Mater’s Tall…

Old Detroit Needs a New Lawyer Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… On this weeks show we shout out to the Cupcake Camp Montreal crew before touching back on the RoboCop kid picture and the recent take down notice. Also we review the new Google apps, HotPot, Baraza, and Boutique.com. Somehow and at some point in the show Ben’s tech…

This special French edition of the DadCast was recorded on Tuesday November 9th TWENTY TEN with Alexis Corneiller of Montreal’s Ile Sans Fils project and stems from some discussions we were having on Twitter about the idea of a PodCast Café. Our Regular English language podcast will be back with episode 31 but for now why don’t you stick around pra…

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Nearly Live From The Wendy House Studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads return with a Clean tag, but that doesn’t mean they are not pissed about something. Francois finally kicks Bell to the curb, Ben hits out at big Box stores while Steve and Eric get their Geek ON about on-site/off-site back-ups and the merits of Carbonite.com. As we rant abou…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… In part two of this week’s show with Pier-Luc Petitclerc we continue our left turn from the show notes and revisit our childhood superheroes on the silver screen, take a closer look at the Montreal Tech Scene and the growing popularity of co-working locations like Station-C, Notman House and Ca…

@PLuc at PodCamp Montreal 2010 -photo by EvaBlue Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we’re joined by Montreal Habs Fan, WordPress and PHP Guru, Android and Linux enthusiast and all around Great Geek to know Pier-Luc Petitclerc (@PLuc). In this two part special DadCast, which incidentally loses the [clean] tag for the fi…

Stephen Hackett's Dog Cow Tattoo - Photo by iSMH on Flickr Nearly Live from the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we have the pleasure of being joined by with our first ever special guest dad: Stephen Hackett of founder of Forkbombr.net, guest writer for MacGasm.net and all around awesome dad of two great kids. Stephen joins us to discuss…

Nearly Live From the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay… Just ahead of the big Apple “Back to the Mac” announcement on October 20th that may or may not be about a new OS. The rumour mill has it that it should be 10.7 and not simply an incremental dot release. We should point out that the entire rumour is based on the Lion poking it’s snout out from b…

Photo by Blausky Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… We continue were we left off form last week’s show with as Francois was accusing Steve of being a Digg Apologist, which ends up becoming a review on the state of PodCasting. We review what we used to keep in iTunes and highlight some of the new stuff that stand out and has repl…

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… With the recent announcement of all the new tablet devices, we try to break down the differences and search for a way to fit them into our lives. Steve and Francois review the Apple TV and Netflix service, Steve gets grilled about his Kindle and the new TomTom traffic routing proposal. Ben prev…

Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we discover that Steph has been contemplating a new notebook for his WoW addiction, Steve and Francois review The Tipping Point and Freakonomics on Audible as well as Francois’ new White Balance Photographer’s Rights cards while the rest of the dads look into their more recent Twitter…

Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads break down their weekend at PodCamp Montreal and review some of the highlights of the show. Including the Old Spice debate, the Question of Social Media, The Delimma of Disconnecting. A big shout out to all the cool Tweeps and Folks we met and were finally able to put a face …

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we discuss McGoo’s new Drobo and various online backups, we toss around the rumours about the new Apple TV and the notion of streaming audio around the house. We get an eunexpected visit form Google Voice in our GMail, mull over a few location aware GTD apps and kick the BlackBerry To…

Three of Five 2FatDads @ PodCamp Montreal 2010 - Photo by @EvaBlue Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… It’s our third season and boy are we pumped, we’re laying it down so hard this year, or whatever it is I’m doing in this picture. So please join us for our first full show of the new season and our summer round up and of course …

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… As we start packing our laptop bags for this weekends’ PodCamp Montreal, we thought we’d put together a special 2FatDads introspective / retrospective from all of the chaos that happens before we start the show. This is most definitely not a how-to white paper on podcasting but more like an ins…

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Once the Dads finally got the show running, it went a little crazy with talk of social networks Vark.com, Farcebook, we review gaming on the iPhone and Steve’s penchant for musettes. The Dadcast is brought to you in part by Audible, download a free Audible today when you sign up for a gold memb…

Waiting for Mr Ben Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads goof off in the Wendyhouse while waiting for Mr Ben get online. Francois gets banned for life, Steph gets an A is Psych, Steve retires to coaching and Eric gets himself another drink. … Oh and we get an intern. Listen to this DadCast Click Here to Play in Y…

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we review Le Salon de l’Habitation a.k.a The Montreal Home Show, go over the progress of Schultzter’s home renovation, help him figure out how much do plantation shutters cost and help McGoo keep his kids and family safe online. The Dadcast is brought to you in part by Audible, downlo…

The Big Ranting Canuck, Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we announce our new sponsors: Audible and we talk about some great customer service from Pentax, some pretty appalling follow tactics by Tweetphoto, the eminent I5 chipped MacBooks Pros and the Steve Jobs recent flurry of emails. Hopefully we’ll see you all at …

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… So I’m not the only one having a bad week… Join us this week as we revisit a few of our favourite issues like Steph’s crappy HP phone, my busted up GPS unit and the joys of traveling by air. Dads on this week’s call: François Fortier, Stéphane Denault, Steve McGurn, and Ben NotKenobi. Listen to…

In Canada... We light our barbcues with the Olympic Flame wrapped in 14 Gold Medals Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Pardon our momentary outburst of Canadian Pride while we review the Vancouver Winter Games and bask in the glow of Canada 14 Gold medals. The most amount of for any host nation and the most amount of total golds…

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… The Dads have now discovered that Schultzter has been living in the second floor Kitchen and Bathroom showrooms of Home Depot rather than finishing his home renovations. This week they talk a little more about Google Buzz, Crossing the Social Streams and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Dads on thi…

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… The Dads have now completely abandonned their search for Schultzter after losing The Burg down a well in Chambly and are now simply looking to find the rest of the show. Along the way they ramble along about Foursquare, Google Buzz, Epic CEO resignations and how to use the iPad when you poop. D…

Nearly Live from the Wendhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads take their search for their fellow lost Dad: Schultzter all the way to Parliament Hill and bash out a few more phone issues all the while right all the wrongs of Canuck Politics. Listen to this DadCast Click Here to Play in Your Browser http://www.2fatdads.com/dadcasts/DadCast…

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Season 2 is in full swing and we’re still looking for The Schultzter. This week the Dads explore HDTV, PVRs, Blue Ray and up scaling DVDs. We run down some of the current TV shows we’ve been watching, and superficially review some of the summer flicks now available on DVD/Blue Ray and then in t…

Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… The Dads are all back from a summer of parenting, projects and travel. Join us in this episode 7 for the start of our second season as we try to figure out if Google’s Wave is nothing more than a ripple in the pond, one of the Dads has a startling revelation about Windows 7 and we debate the mer…

I’m still editing up the latest DaDcast… I love it when the other Dads forget we’re still rolling tape… For now I hope you enjoy this little teaser! Johnny Canuck [ad name=”2fatdads_post”] Listen to this DadCast Click Here to Play in Your Browser http://www.2fatdads.com/dadcasts/DadCast-Fat_Entourage_Promo.mp3 Another Proud 2FatDads Production…

Episode 4 Let’s Get Googly DadCast 4: Let's Get Googly Nearly Live form the Wendyhouse Studios… François Fortier is joined by Eric Schultz, Steven McGurn, Ben NotKenobi This week we look into the Google Chrome OS announcement and it’s impact on the everyday user. What will the Google Chrome OS be? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-…

We go Bing Bung Bang Bong for the latest Microsoft search engine, Eric’s dishwasher is declared a death trap on fire and Bell’s throttling ruins my movie night with the kids. Listen to this DadCast Click Here to Play in Your Browser http://www.2fatdads.com/dadcasts/DadCast_3_BingBung-BangBong.mp3 Another Proud 2FatDads Production…

Our very own Steven McGurn finally gets his Apple iPhone 3GS on the Rogers networks and gives us his brief review as the rest us, once again lament our BlackBerries. In This Episode: The Jesus Phone The Accelerometer Show Down AZERTY/QWERTY revisted The Fate of the Palm PRE is in Bell’s hands Don’t forget to subscribe to us on iTunes and visit our …

All the Fat Dads really love Google products, so we’re kind of biased and even a little when it comes to reviews on their new products. So when we heard about Google Wave, we couldn’t help ourselves but get a little carried away in the middle or DadCast One: Follow the Mononque. We had decided to leave it out of the hour long inaugural DadCast, but…

Our inaugural 2FatDads podcast is now available for download. This week Francois Fortier, Eric Schultz, Steven McGurn and Stephane Denault welcome you to the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay where they discuss the Apple iPhone 3GS, the TomTom 720, McAuslan beers and some chatter about twitter. We should note that all of the beers consumed before du…

Here is a preview of our first Full Length DadCast: Follow The Mononque! We hope you enjoy it. Listen to this DadCasthttp://www.2fatdads.com/dadcasts/2FatDads_FollowTheMononque_promo.m4a Another Proud 2FatDads Production | Open Player in New Window Follow The Mononque Comments are always welcome.By Francois Fortier, Stephane Denault, Eric Schultz, Steven McGurn, Ben Bilodeau