We all make plans and then fatherhood, career shifts, and responsibility change the route.

In Cars, Lightning McQueen believes speed and success define his worth. One unexpected detour lands him in Radiator Springs, where slowing down becomes the very thing that forms his heart.

In this episode of Holy Chaos on Tap, we explore how God uses detours to teach humility, presence, and a deeper understanding of vocation, especially for dads.

Inside this episode:

1. 🛣️ Dad Fail Confessional — Nick talks about getting married, his mom passing before the wedding and being impatient at bedtime with kids
2. 🎬 Pop Culture Dive — ambition, identity, and humility in Cars
3. 📖 Scripture Moment (NABRE) — how God directs our steps through unexpected roads
4. 🧉 Barstool Theology — why detours aren’t punishments, but formation
5. 🙏 A closing prayer for dads learning to slow down and redefine success

If you’re a dad navigating a slowdown you didn’t choose; parenting, career, or life, this episode offers encouragement, perspective, and faith-centered wisdom.

🍻 Raising kids. Raising glasses. Raising faith.

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This season, "Raising Little Saints with TV Screens", dives into what it means to find God in the shows we watch with our kids. Episode 109 – Encanto: Healing the Family You’ve Been Given,

Nick unpacks a truth Catholic dads feel deeply: healing doesn’t start by fixing your family, it starts by loving the family you already have. From generational pressure to unspoken expectations, Encanto gives us a surprisingly honest look at how families break… and how they begin to heal.

Nick talks about what it means to carry burdens you didn’t choose, why performance isn’t the same as purpose, and how grace works quietly through ordinary faithfulness, especially in imperfect homes.

Inside this episode:

🏠 Dad Fail Confessional — The kids at the holiday break and the twins are out of control at mass

🎬 Pop Culture Dive — generational wounds, gifts, and grace in Encanto

📖 Scripture Moment — healing that begins with love, not control

🧉 Barstool Theology — why God works through the family you didn’t design

🙏 A closing prayer for dads trying to lead with patience, mercy, and courage

You don’t need a perfect family to raise saints.

You need grace, humility, and the courage to heal what you’ve been handed.

🍻 Raising kids. Raising glasses. Raising faith.

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This season, "Raising Little Saints with TV Screens", dives into what it means to find God in the shows we watch with our kids. Episode 108 - Festivus Faith: When Ritual Loses the Heart, takes a quick detour as we close out the year with a final episode around Nick's favorite show! Not really a show he watches with the kids...yet.

In this "short" episode, we dive into Seinfeld’s “The Strike” and unpack what Festivus accidentally reveals about modern spirituality: we don’t reject faith because it has rituals, we drift when rituals lose their soul.

From the Airing of Grievances to the Feats of Strength, Festivus becomes a mirror for performance-based religion, burnout, and the pressure to “get it right.” But Catholic faith offers something radically different — not empty motion, but real encounter.

Inside this episode:

🎄 Dad Fail Confessional — when faith becomes just another task

🎬 Pop Culture Dive — Festivus vs. sacramental life

📖 Scripture Moment (Matthew 15:8–9, NABRE) — honoring God with more than words

🧉 Barstool Theology — why Catholics don’t perform faith, we receive it

🙏 A closing prayer for dads hungry for meaning, not motion

If faith has ever felt dry, forced, or performative… you’re not broken.

You’re hungry.

And God feeds hungry fathers.

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