DOD108: How To Handle Grumpy Kids
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Tom wants to talk about grumpiness in our kids. And maybe ourselves. How do we handle that? How does it change as kids get older? Also, bonus question, what's like the main trick a magician does?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:16.7 | 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 only podcast recording from inside a garbage can. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:38.1 | Hello, John. |
| 0:38.7 | I am so sorry. |
| 0:40.2 | That is how we were going to unveil our charity fundraiser for the unhoused. |
| 0:45.1 | And I can't believe that is how Tom would introduce this topic. |
| 0:49.3 | It's an Oscar the Grouch reference. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm starting to see a problem with, like, problematic. |
| 0:55.2 | I've said it. I've said it. |
| 0:56.0 | I've said it for years as the one. |
| 0:57.5 | God, Tom, Tom, you, the language you bring to our podcast is so violent. |
| 1:04.2 | That's me. |
| 1:05.0 | I just wish, I just wish you had other people in mind when you spoke, you know. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 1:10.8 | Just speak from your heart. |
| 1:11.7 | Listen to your heart song a little more, right? |
| 1:14.1 | I know that we're all connected. We're all madder in this universe. That's worse than telling me he used to watch an entire sunset. That's actually the worst. Yeah, that's the other thing to help. Tom, how did it work? Did you try watching an entire sunset between this episode and the last one? |
| 1:27.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:28.1 | No, do you think I'll ever try watching an entire sunset between this episode and the last one? Oh, yeah. |
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