I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.

I know what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.

I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired.

Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy.

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast you can trust because it's not trying to share its candy.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, Joe. I mean, no one wants my candy. I'm a vegan, Tom. You know, I've got like a dark, I've got that baking chocolate that you would try, tasted like bitter chocolate. Holy shit. You can't have chocolate chocolate. Wait, you can have chocolate. Most of the time now. Oh, not like milk chocolate, though. Yeah, most of the time no. Oh, wow. Because it's, oh, yeah. Wait, now I need to know which candies are vegan, because like...

That's rough. Skittles, Oreos, airheads. You can't have any, like, Reese's? No, no Reese's. No. I never thought of that. No milk

of any kind, obviously. Yeah. Those, uh, Justin's dark chocolate cups. I was going to say they do make the dark

chocolate cups. Those are good. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Can you have those. Try to help poor unfortunate souls.

It's a tough existence out there, but gentlemen, gentlemen, you know the only thing worse than your candy

selection when you have chosen veganism as a lifestyle. Why, it's the auto ads, the dry, bitter, vegan baked

goods of your ears. My goodness. Isn't the auto ads a vegan scone to your listening experience

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episode. And again, you get all of that for as little as a dollar over as patreon.com forward slash dear old debts. All right. So, guys, I wanted to, first of all, are you both there? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, there was a slight pause and I had a terrifying moment where I was going to introduce the whole episode and you guys were going to be like, oh, no, you went off the air. You mean like how that happens to me almost every time I say anything? I've adopted a feeling of like, yeah, if they're gone, they're gone. If they're gone, they're gone. Either what I said was not interesting in any way or they died. And either way, I'll just keep... Now it's Thomas' show.

It's just my feelings.

It's all right.

I brought a subject today that was actually brought to me by my friend.

My buddy Barack, who listens to this show as well.

We were talking about Stranger Danger the other day.

I wouldn't think the Obamas would still be...

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