My dad was the hardworking one that would just get out there and do it. She’d come up with all these crazy ideas of things for my dad to then build for us. I grew up in a supportive family where my mom was the ideas-woman and still is. How supportive were your own parents back when you were a kid trying to be creative?The opening of every episode of Super Dad spells it out. Wait, what is that? There’s a pirate ship just sticking out of the top of his backyard!” It’s probably 15-foot-tall and just towers over that white fence. When you’re in the neighborhood, you’re like, “Oh, look at the houses. We were in this very suburban neighborhood with white fences everywhere. But we started designing all these projects and every time I’d see the dimensions I was just like, “Wait, how big are we making this? Oh my gosh, that’s like bigger than my first apartment!” There is a pirate ship in the first season. When we first started working on it, I was living in Los Angeles, and we had a tiny backyard. What’s the craziest thing we’ll see you build?Everything is huge. The first episode went over really well, and I expect that will happen to the next seven. There’s way more heart in it than I ever expected there to be. I think that’s the Magnolia aspect of it. At the heart of it, it’s really a show about dads - and dads connecting about what it means to be a father in 2021. And it’s a build show with a lot of cool projects. Whether you’re 3-years-old, or you’re 65-years-old, there’s something in it for everybody. It’s a show that is really for the whole family. Give us a preview of what’s coming up.We’ve got seven more Super Dad episodes coming out on Discovery+ and the Magnolia app on July 15. So, I not only get to work with my best friends, but they also have made what we do so much better than it ever was. ![]() They’ve done nothing but make everything that I worked out for five years even better. And then in terms of my extended friends and family, in this last year, I was able to hire my two best friends who just so happened to be amazing editors and videographers to come on board. But it definitely does give us flexibility and the ability to go out and do fun stuff and make it part of our job. ![]() Sometimes it’s crazy and we’re distracted, and we’ve got this and that going on, and we don’t sound like we’re just a family getting to hang out all day together doing fun stuff. It’s allowed me and my wife to be at home together. I do not take lightly the fact that I literally have the best job in the world, with the best people that I could work with, my family, for one. How much fun is it to you that it’s a family affair, and by family, there’s your wife and your kids, but also your extended family of friends?It’s a dream come true. So, we got together, and that’s how Super Dad was born. When Magnolia came along with the new Magnolia network, and I got connected with Chip and Jo (Gaines of HGTV), they saw that side of what I was doing, and were like, “That would make a great TV show.” I and a couple of friends were already developing a similar idea. Dude Dad, we make everything from sketch comedy videos to testimonials to heartfelt pieces about what it’s like to be a dad in 2021, as well as build videos. So, you can go way deeper and have a lot more fun with it that way. We’ve now got 22 minutes, rather than three minutes. We obviously had the ability to do that, because it’s a different format. How similar and how different did you want Super Dad to be from Dude Dad? Super Dad basically has one piece of what we do on Dude Dad, but it takes that one piece and dives in way deeper. Something like that is how many three-minute-long videos we’ve done. How many Dude Dad vlogs have you made over the years?I think we’re at… 325 now, 330. During a call last week with Fatherly, the high-energy Calmus teased things to come on Super Dad, recounted how his mom and dad supported his creative endeavors and promised to support his own kids in whatever they do “as long as it’s not bad for their health.” Super Dad debuted in May on Discovery+ and the Magnolia app with one episode, and seven more are on the way, starting July 15. His new family-friendly show, Super Dad, is a super-sized version of Dude Dad: bigger budget, larger-scale projects, and 22 minutes vs. Now, Calmus has graduated to the big time. ![]() Taylor Calmus is an actor and comedian who found fame posting Dude Dad vlogs to YouTube, with viewers embracing him, his wife Heidi, and their two young kids, Theo and Juno, as he built stuff, DIY-style, for, with and inspired by his family and friends. And, if you don’t, we’re “building” to an explanation. ![]() If you’re familiar with Dude Dad, you totally get what we’re talking about.
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