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

I know now 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 only parenting podcast that still doesn't know whether to open its gifts in front of everyone or wait until you get home.

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

Hello, gentlemen.

Well, can tell you what we did.

Fuck, yeah, you did.

I guarantee you the Smiths make the correct decision, which is they open their damn

presents when they get home.

No, that is the wrong decision.

No, this is Christmas all over here.

You and your insane cavalcade of present, the human sacrifice, like fucking Amazonians throwing a teenage girl into a volcano.

People want to see their presents open.

They brought a present.

They want that.

Well, also, Tom wants to know if he has to disown another branch of the family in real time. You don't want to go home and do that. I thought the presents are like the most exciting part for the kid too. And like, really? You wait until you get home? You take that and just you make the kid wait. So well, I can't wait to talk about it. We pulled off the perfect Eli is going to make fun of us birthday party for Arlo. Arlo, as of today, recording is five years old. Big boy. Yay, Arlo. I can't believe it. This man, he is the funniest kid in the world. And he's tiring five, and we did the perfect birthday party, in my opinion, that I can't wait to get Eli's take on it. I got hear about the present situation though that was I was gonna be part of it but Lydia uh brilliantly

how many fucking new tools and bits and bobs and things do you have as a parent because

we have a bunch of them and one of them is like this wagon there's like bigger wagon

that for like anything outdoors yeah the I give up wagon the I I give up wagon. This is great. It's just one of those folk. We had one of those like folding cloth wagon things that was like, yeah, I used it once. But this one is like heavy duty. This one's like huge. Yeah. It's for people who are like, hey, we can't put our kids in strollers anymore, but man, do we not give a fuck? Is there a child wheelbarrow? Oh, we don't put our kids in it. Oh, I did. Oh, I just did so many kids in that thing. Oh, yeah. Okay. I bought it and used it one time for Halloween when the kids were. Oh, that's a good idea. It was like, and they were a pretty big age difference.

Did you tow it behind the car?

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