DOD127: 'Not Dying' Is Women's Work
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The dads discuss when men completely ignore their health in the name of "being tough" and then as a result the women in their lives have to take care of them and arrange their medical visits and track their medications and do a million other things. But the man is TOUGH. So manly.
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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. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's got a pocket full of your meds. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. I don't want Eli's meds. I was going to say, I've got way more than a pocket full of whoever's listening to this is men's. I'm a whole pharmacy of everyone's listening's men's. Whatever Eli's taking causes him so many kidneys. Oh, that's the bonus story of last. Sorry. That's right. That's it. That's it. No. The different weird ways that Eli is unhealthy. And all the ways his body is trying desperately to finish the job. I think it's nice because, you know, look, for those of you who don't listen to our other shows, all none of you. My partner, No Illusions, had a heart |
| 1:11.6 | attack this past year, and it was very surprising and scary. And I'm just comforted knowing |
| 1:17.3 | that when I die, no one will be surprised, right? Everyone will be like, all right, there it was. |
| 1:23.3 | All right. Yep. So Kara or Marsh or are they going to switch off? |
| 1:27.6 | What are we doing? |
| 1:28.9 | What are we doing about filling that spot? |
| 1:31.9 | Well, so today we're going to talk about an article from the hard hitting journalism website of psychology today, which is essentially just clickbait. |
| 1:40.7 | Oh, is that not a good one? |
| 1:42.0 | I actually forgot. |
| 1:42.4 | No, it's fine. |
| 1:43.4 | The thing is psychology today. |
| 1:44.1 | Tom doesn't think psychology is real. So again, you got a big grain of salt. clickbait it's mostly that not a good one i actually no it's fine the thing is psychology |
| 1:44.2 | today psychology is real so you got again you got a big grain of salt that's not true that's not |
| 1:49.2 | true but psychology today is uh it's got got some good stuff it's got some not so good more clickbait |
| 1:55.2 | kind of stuff i i want to acknowledge that this article is not deep on the details here. But I did think it was |
| 2:03.2 | interesting and worth a jumping off point for a conversation. It's an article about how men's |
| 2:08.0 | neglect of self-care impacts their partners. Yeah. And is there anything worse, Eli, than men |
| 2:14.0 | neglecting their own self-care? Why? It's the auto ads, Tom. That's right. The kidney stones of our |
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