Ep. 223 - Parenting Is No Squid Game | TJ Stukes and Bryan Ward

Welcome to a new episode of The Dad Up Podcast. I’m excited to share this amazing guest with you. TJ Stukes, a.k.a. Player 182, on the Netflix Series Squid Games The Challenge, might look familiar to sports fans and reality TV aficionados. Here's where you may have seen him before. He’s a retired pro athlete. At 6'8" tall, TJ has had an impressive basketball career, joining the Harlem Wizards in 2009 after college and playing for more than 20 years as "Tomahawk" Stukes. The Wizards toured the United States raising money for schools and children's nonprofit organizations. TJ now works as an assistant basketball coach at Northern New Mexico College, where his wife, Samantha, is head coach of the women's team. In 2005, just before he began his basketball career, Stukes took part in an MTV2 reality show called Nike Battlegrounds hosted by LeBron James. More recently, he and his wife Samantha have competed on the TBS gameshow The Cube, winning $50,000. TJ also has numerous credits as an actor, including a role in the Adam Sandler movie Hustle, and an Adidas commercial. Make sure you check out TJ’s links below or in show notes. Please make sure you are subscribed to my show so you don’t miss any of my awesome guests. Dad Up! Dad Up Instagram: https://instagram.com/daduppodcast Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe TJ Stukes’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjstukes TJ Stukes’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php TJ Stukes’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tjstukes