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title: What's That, Daddy?
type: LP
releasedAt: 2026-02-22
coverArt: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
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blurb: |-
  The kid-question album. Every track is built around a real question one of the kids asked Daddy (or could ask) — the question is the opening line, the verses are the answer. Range is wide on purpose: some are funny science questions, some are heavy theology, some are road-trip nags, one is just a kid asking why at the world. Format constraint: every song opens with the question quoted. The hook is usually the answer in one-line form. Whatever DNA the track lives in (country, hip-hop, slow-rap, parody), it's locked to that question-and-answer skeleton.
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tracks:
  - num: 1
    title: Why Is The Sky Blue
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/why-is-the-sky-blue.mp3
    duration: 167
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      opener. Liam at 5, riding shotgun, looking up. Daddy gives the kid-grade answer (sunlight, scattering, blue wins) without dumbing it down too far. Sets the album's "answer honestly" rule.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/why-is-the-sky-blue.md
  - num: 2
    title: Are We There Yet
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/are-we-there-yet.mp3
    duration: 150
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      backseat refrain. Six hours from Highlands Ranch to anywhere worth driving to. Track is built around the question repeating; verses are everything Daddy says back ("two hours" / "thirty minutes" / "watch a movie" / "look out the window") that all mean the same thing.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/are-we-there-yet.md
  - num: 3
    title: What Does Daddy Do All Day
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/what-does-daddy-do-all-day.mp3
    duration: 143
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      the WFH-job-explanation song. Kid asks because Daddy never leaves the house. Daddy tries to explain laptops, meetings, the bedroom-office door. Lands somewhere honest: "I sit at a desk and I type and I talk."
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/what-does-daddy-do-all-day.md
  - num: 4
    title: Why Don't We Have A Cat
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/why-dont-we-have-a-cat.mp3
    duration: 170
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Ava's five-year campaign. Callback to song-pitch #6. The question gets asked every birthday, every Christmas list, every margin of every school worksheet. Daddy's answer changes with the year; the question never does.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/why-don-t-we-have-a-cat.md
  - num: 5
    title: Where Do Babies Come From
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/where-do-babies-come-from.mp3
    duration: 186
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Iyla in the bath. The pivot every parent rehearses and then fumbles. Daddy gives the truthful-but-age-3 answer; the song is the unsaid second verse Daddy thinks of later.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/where-do-babies-come-from.md
  - num: 6
    title: What Does That Word Mean
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/what-does-that-word-mean.mp3
    duration: 117
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Liam catches a song lyric on the Lexus stereo. Daddy hits skip, then has to explain anyway. Live-edit theology of pop music.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/what-does-that-word-mean.md
  - num: 7
    title: How Old Will You Be When I'm Twenty
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/how-old-will-you-be-when-im-twenty.mp3
    duration: 185
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Liam doing the math out loud at the dinner table. Daddy's age computed in the highchair. Funny on its face, slow gut-punch underneath: the math is unkind.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/how-old-will-you-be-when-i-m-twenty.md
  - num: 8
    title: Why Does Mama Have To Work
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/why-does-mama-have-to-work.mp3
    duration: 189
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Monday-morning question. Maria's pulling out of the driveway in the Centennial-bound car. Liam or Ava asking the unanswerable. Daddy gives a version of the answer; the verse Maria would give is left implied.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/why-does-mama-have-to-work.md
  - num: 9
    title: Is Santa Real
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/is-santa-real.mp3
    duration: 225
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      the dread question. Age-9 Liam, probably. The track is Daddy buying time mid-answer, choosing every word, knowing one of the four kids in the next room is still 4 and shouldn't hear what comes out.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/is-santa-real.md
  - num: 10
    title: Why Did Devo Have To Go
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/why-did-devo-have-to-go.mp3
    duration: 268
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      the heaviest track. The Australian Cattle Dog memorial reframed as a child asking what happened. Daddy walks Liam through it; song is half-explanation, half-grief.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/why-did-devo-have-to-go.md
  - num: 11
    title: What Happens When We Die
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/what-happens-when-we-die.mp3
    duration: 229
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      bedtime question. Faith-adjacent but deliberately not on Pew In The Back — this album holds the question without the worship frame. Daddy answers as a believer, but answers like a dad first, theologian second.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/what-happens-when-we-die.md
  - num: 12
    title: Why
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/why.mp3
    duration: 214
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/whats-that-daddy/folder.webp
    date: 2026-02-22
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      the question with no subject. A kid asks it back at the world — at the broccoli, at the rule, at the weather, at the bedtime. Daddy stops trying to answer the literal question and answers the bigger one underneath. Album closer.
    lyricsFile: whats-that-daddy/why.md
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