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Introducing: Business Dad

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Hi Dungeoncast fans! This week, we wanted to offer you a taste of another show on the Realm network that we think you'll appreciate -- please enjoy this clip from Business dad, which features a conversation between Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and actor Rainn Wilson about the power of D&D as a parenting tool. Why You Should Play Dungeons and Dragons with Your Kids with Rainn Wilson: Alexis sits down with Rainn Wilson to talk about having a child during his meteoric rise to fame, playing Dungeons and Dragons with his son, and his emphasis on rewarding positive character traits. You may recognize Rainn from his roles in TV and film, including playing Dwight Schrute in THE OFFICE, the Peacock Travel series RAINN WILSON AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS and AMC’s thriller DARK WINDS, Or you may have heard one of his several podcasts, including: "Radio Rental", "Metaphysical Milkshake", and his newest show, "Soul Boom". For more, listen to Business Dad wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.6

Hi, I'm Alexis Ohanian. You may know me as one of the co-founders of Reddit, but more recently, a large part of my identity is being a father to my two wonderful daughters. In my podcast business dad I'm hoping to open up the conversation about balancing careers and family. On this episode I talked to Rain

0:21.4

Wilson about having a child during his meteoric rise to

0:24.8

fame on the office. I will admit that as someone who's played a little bit of

0:28.4

Duchess and dragons in my day, I wanted to learn more about Rain's advice to play

0:32.4

D&D with your kids.

0:34.0

Rain, thank you so much for coming on Business Dad.

0:37.0

I am so excited to have you.

0:38.0

Thanks, Alexis.

0:40.0

Thanks for having me.

0:41.0

You ready to hear this?

0:42.0

The thing that I fought tooth and nail to bring my son into and I'm so

0:47.2

grateful he's in college now and he's still doing it and that is the salvation

0:52.2

for all of our children Alexis are you ready

0:54.2

Dungeons and Dragons a d and d and d or the original is there another edition I played a d and d

0:59.8

i played a d and d oh my god you're such a minute i love it no here's the deal d and d and d d and d d d d d d i love it no here's the deal d and d think about it it's a group of people in a room

1:07.0

you don't need devices it's old school imagination you create a character that's

1:12.0

creativity you have to work together. You're on a mission. You've got to collaborate and you spend hours eating pizza shoulder to shoulder using your imaginations and socializing and the phones we would have

1:25.8

d and d games and the phones stayed in a basket by the front door and he still does d and d and

1:31.6

I think that that is the ultimate solution to parenthood.

1:36.0

Okay, I'm inspired.

1:37.0

But it's just an example. It's just an example of like,

1:40.0

here's a kind of activity that we can share with our kids that gets them away from phones.

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