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 that's absolutely sure the monsters under the bed are real.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith.

Wait, is this a spruptacular? What month is it?

Ooh, get ready, everybody. The perfect spooktacular. It's funny. We're going to talk about

what we're going to talk about, but Max has been encountering monsters for the first time

because we are reading him Calvin and Hobbs right now.

And Calvin and Hobbs just has a tremendous amount of talk about monsters in it. Wow. And so I always say

like, oh, that's silly because we know monsters aren't real. And one of the things, one of the things I'm

proudest of as a parent is when we read Sheila Ray the Brave, which is about a mouse who gets afraid when she gets lost in her way home from school, one of the things that she does when she's brave is she's confronting a monster. And I say, as part of that, I say, Sheila Ray says, fear is the man killer, the wheeze. And so when we talk about that monsters aren't real, I say, what does Sheila Ray the Brave say? And Max goes, feel your mark, Louise. And it's the best. It's the best. Because he says almost none of the words. Yeah. He just sort of lands it on the Louise. It's great. Oh, that's awesome. Look, Dune must be the best book ever. It must be. It must be the best. That's what that's from, right? The fears of mind. Yeah, it's from Dune. It must be. There's no other reason you would try to make a billion movies about this goofy-ass thing if it wasn't the best book to ever exist. They take it so seriously, too. No, I've never read it.

It's, in my opinion, it's very much just fine.

So that's the crazy thing.

It's dokey.

Like, I don't have anything bad to say, but I'm like, eh.

The ideas in Dune fucking rock, the execution is, I think, like, bottom quarter of sci-fi.

Wow. Sandworms and Ahadib and Goumjab and the Harkin'in'n.

So much of that shit is awesome.

Well, that's the thing, is that he says it, like someone who wasn't really paying attention

to a game of risk is describing the game three months later.

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