Listeners respond to our discussion about what to call a baby shower for the dad-to-be, suggesting Huggies and chuggies, beer shower, beer for diapers, diaper kegger, baby boot camp, and Baby Fat Tuesday. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “More Names for a Dad-Focused Baby Shower”
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I’m Grant Barrett.
And I’m Martha Barnette.
What do you call a baby shower for the father-to-be?
I know now because I received, we received a thousand emails about it.
We sure did.
We had this conversation a couple of weeks ago with Sherude from Austin, who wanted to know what you call it when it’s guys getting together to support the father-to-be.
And we had a couple things that we threw out, dad slur party, which some people use.
But our listeners, the emailers, had a ton of ideas.
The emailers and the callers.
We heard from Tiffany Maddox in Dallas who suggested Huggies and Chuggies.
You know, the thing is, a lot of these, I cannot tell you how many of these involved beer.
Right.
There was Huggies and Chuggies, beer shower, diaper kegger, beer for diapers.
And the guy who called with that suggestion said that it’s a great thing because the guys don’t have to think about what to buy for the father-to-be.
The father-to-be provides the drinks, and the guys just bring diapers.
You don’t have to shop.
You don’t have to really make decisions.
You just bring a bunch of diapers.
But why is that a problem for men to go shopping for babies?
It’s a stereotype, right?
Yeah, okay.
But there were lots more.
Sam Boucher suggested baby boot camp, which I kind of like.
Oh, wow, yeah.
And Joni said that she hosted a baby cue that worked out really well.
That sounds frightening.
It does sound a little frightening to me, but she said it was really popular.
And there was Mustache Bash and Baby Fat Tuesday.
The Baby Fat Tuesday or Baby Fat Tuesday?
Exactly.
Okay.
It’s like Fat Tuesday is the last party before Lent, and this is the last party before your baby arrives.
Right.
Baby Fat Tuesday.
Okay.
I like that.
And I’ll share some more of these later in the show, but I did want to end with Linda Woods from Spokane who wrote, I wanted to add that I heard once that the very first recorded man shower was when the three kings brought gifts to baby Jesus.
There we go.
Gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
I don’t think there was beer involved.
No.
Gold would go over very well at a baby shower.
You’re looking at the bills and you’re looking at the things you need and you’re like, yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
More gold.
More diapers.
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