DOD1: Why Are We Like This? Get to Know the Dads
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It's the inaugural dadisode! In this first episode, we all talk about our backgrounds. Why and how are we dads? Also how were we dadded as kids? We quickly find out that our upbringings spanned a very interesting range of great to shitty. Is Tom's dad Hitler? Find out!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. |
| 0:12.0 | Complete and undependent. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that tries to answer the question, |
| 0:32.5 | what the hell did we get ourselves into? I'm Tom, and I'm joined by my co-host, Thomas |
| 0:36.5 | Smith and Eli Bosnick, |
| 0:37.8 | and we're tough guys answering tough questions, like, how much crying is too much crying? |
| 0:43.7 | And when will my house stop smelling like this? Gentlemen, thank you for joining me for our inaugural |
| 0:48.2 | episode. You were talking about how much crying I'm doing, right? Yeah, same question, by the way. |
| 0:53.3 | I think it's just generally speaking, the act of parenting involves far more. |
| 0:58.4 | I think I cried in totality more than all of my children put together. |
| 1:02.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:03.3 | We're all dads on this show or we wouldn't be doing it. |
| 1:06.4 | Thomas, tell me a little bit about your experience as a dad and growing up. |
| 1:10.3 | Yes, I got my first job as dad when I'm pregnant my wife. No. Yeah. So my dad, |
| 1:17.3 | Cred, if Cred is anything you could call it, is I have two kids, two beautiful children that are my life. |
| 1:23.7 | Phoebe and she's four and then Arlo is turning three very soon. He's almost three. I can't believe it. Phoebe is almost in kindergarten. It's unbelievable. You know what? No one ever tells you is how fast it goes. No, I'm just kidding. That's the number one. I want to mention that once in a while. No one tells you that. We're going to, that's part of the mission here. I want to tell you the things that no one else will tell you. How fast it goes also, say goodbye to sleep. You're not going to hear it |
| 1:47.0 | anywhere else. Well, I got to write this shit down. Hang on. Right it down. Say goodbye to sleep. No sleeping. What really motivates me parenting wise and what makes my story semi interesting, perhaps is that I was raised by a goblin. |
| 2:00.7 | Like I was raised... |
| 2:01.6 | I was raised by a goblin. Like I was raised, I was raised by what I, |
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