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Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's doodling as doodles. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

Hello, hi, Thomas Smith, here, ready to go. Now, wait, if you doodled a doodle, does that mean we're inside a doodily-do? Like, podcast-averse-wise. It's the most meta-doodle-do is different than a dooddle, though. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, no, I think a doodle. But if you doodle a doodle, I think it becomes a doodley do by default, right? A doodle doodle do. I think we're too close. Are you doodling a doodily do? I'm just saying, if you've got an art board of your doodily do. And these are the conversations that you can expect on Daryl. These are the what. It's a hard hitting. This is the quality programming. I'm worried we're getting too heavy too early.

Maybe we should like... expect on dear old. These are the what... It's a hard-hitting... This is the quality programming.

I'm worried we're getting too heavy too early. Maybe we should like...

That's easy to...

Trigger warning. Doodley. Doodles.

Doodley warning. Doodle-do do.

So I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while because we have a discussion today on your kids' artwork, and I will say, in our household, we run the spectrum in terms of talent.

My household, too, Tom. My household, too.

God, and I, like, it's funny, because when I was a kid, like, my most hated classes were art and music.

I fucking hated art. I was like, God, can I just go back to English or history or social studies or literally anything? You could have gone to a small-ass town where you don't have funding for those classes. And then you wouldn't have to take him, Tom. I never had art or music. I would have loved that. I fucking hated art class so much. I was so bad at it. And I just would be so discouraged. Like they'd be like, all right, time to, we're going to learn the shading. And then the teacher come over and they'd be like, you didn't even try. Like, I tried so hard. Yeah. I'm just terrible. Why do we do that? Like I fucking hate it. Have you heard Jacqueline Novak's joke about that? Her new special is on Netflix. It's called Get On Your Knees.

No.

It's insane.

It's, it's, fucking hate it. Have you heard Jacqueline Novak's joke about that? Her new special is on Netflix.

It's called Get On Your Knees. No. No. It's insane. It's it, she is so brilliant. I don't particularly

adore her delivery, but she is one of the best writers of comedy alive today. Everyone should watch it,

but she's got a great joke in that special about art teachers and how like an art teacher would show you how to draw and be like, that's what it is? And you're like, yeah, you're good at art. What am I doing here?

Yeah, that sounds familiar.

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