28 Feb 2026

The Mixtape: Jordan Watson

From Music 101, 4:00 pm on 28 February 2026

Jordan Watson is the brains behind the YouTube channel How to DAD, a YouTube channel with over 1.4 million subscribers. 

Watson once held the 100m world record for sprinting in jandals; now, he’s turning his attention to athletics. He’s being pitted against six of Aotearoa’s top athletes in the new series Out of My League. 

He joins Kara to talk about his life and career, including fatherhood, his experience growing up in an eel farming family and what it's like to have an audience of millions.

Jordan Watson

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