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 Dance, the podcast, where everyone is the tough kid. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. I very much was the easy kid. Sorry. That's true. You wouldn't think it. I feel like I'm the tough kid in every other aspect of life. Yeah, I wouldn't. Yeah. Who was the tough kid? My older brother and then eventually my younger sister. No, I followed all the rules. I mean, I had things here and there. Don't get me wrong. But it wasn't when it was like at the times where it mattered, like, you know, in public. I was like always followed all the rules, did everything, you know, my parents wanted me to do and all that. Oh, so you were the kind of tough kid that it was easy to ignore that they were going through something? Yeah, there you go. This one's got crippling depression, but I'm telling you, he's never made a scene in a restaurant. Yeah, there you go. That's exactly pretty much it. Yeah. He's sad all the time, but he's not asking for much. But he's also quiet all the time. So. Yeah, I wasn't sad. No, I just was very particular about stuff. So like my mom had a hard time. Nobody had any time to figure out what was going on. You know, it's funny. I just had this is also relevant too. My mom came to watch the kids play baseball. I haven't gotten to talk about that at all. I, for some stupid reason, we have the kids

playing baseball. I don't remember. It's like someone, someone practice. Why would you want anybody

playing baseball? When you told us you did that, I was like, who did that to you? Yeah, I know.

That's how I felt too. Baseball? You've got to go watch. No, hold on. I only do you have to watch baseball now, but you have to watch bad baseball. Worst bad. Well, all baseball is bad, Tom. Yeah. That's what I mean. Like, you're like, all baseball is the worst, and you've got to watch, like, substandard the worst. How mad at yourself are you? Tell me at least the T has the

pitch clock. Okay. You're overshooting it. You're overshooting it so much. I'm not, we're not watching

anything in the neighborhood of baseball. We're watching. You are. No, we're watching. You're watching.

You're watching what is identical to me and Tom as baseball. Yeah. I seem to know. If you sat me and Tom down at the World Series in the best seats and you sat me and Tom down at Phoebe and Arlo's next game, we would be like, these are similar experiences. Oh my God. If the food is the same, yes. That's what I was going to say.

We would notice the hot dog difference. Yeah. Right. There's a hot dog related difference. Let me ask you this. Genuine question. We had the funniest fucking conversation. And it sucks because I don't know if it'll entirely work for you guys because you don't know anything about fucking sports. But we had the funniest conversation. I want to ask you this. you know the difference between a force out and a tagout?

No, of course not.

A tag out?

Hold on maybe. But we had the funniest conversation. I want to ask you this. Do you know the difference between a force out and a tagout?

No, of course not.

A tag out.

Hold on, maybe I do.

Yeah.

A force out.

We're talking baseball.

Does it involve Jedi?

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