DOD13: On Giving Our Kids Money
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
If you were a bazillionaire and could make it such that your kids never had to work, would you? Or would you make them earn their way with gumption and elbow grease and such? The dads discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. |
| 0:12.0 | Complete and undependent. |
| 0:15.0 | 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. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that always carries a little cash just in case. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Tom Curry, and I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, gentlemen. Hi-de-Hill. |
| 0:45.0 | This cash you speak of. Yeah. You guys don't do that? You guys don't have cash laying around? Fuck cash forever. It should not exist. Oh my God. I put cash. I'm a fucking crazy person. I think I'm like, I think I'm like 70% prepper, like hidden prepper. Sure. |
| 0:55.1 | Like I just, because I 100% not only do I, I don't usually have cash in my wallet, but I keep cash in my car and I plant cash in my wife's car. |
| 1:05.8 | Nice. Like there's always $100 in her car and my car and I don't rely. And I plant drugs in your car. So that's, |
| 1:12.0 | there you go. It just seems like I should be doing this. It seems like I should have cash. |
| 1:18.2 | Like, I'm in my mind. I'm like, what if something goes wrong and my wife is stranded? |
| 1:22.0 | She doesn't have any cash. And I don't know what that means. Like, what would happen where cash |
| 1:27.3 | would get her out of some dire emergency that her phone and credit cards would not fix? |
| 1:32.5 | I have no idea. |
| 1:33.7 | It's, I know that it's pointless, but I would feel fucking insane not to have cash. |
| 1:38.2 | I'm just picturing Haley now out in the wastelands, like Mad Max bouncy guy on front of the car. |
| 1:44.0 | But they do take cash still. He's just like, can't break a hundred. I picture her trying to get the last drops of a water bottle and just some dollar bills fall out. And it's like, wow, Tom, great. Wish you had given me water instead of cash. I know. I know. Do you guys, well, okay, I am a crazy prepper person. |
| 2:02.5 | I realize that. My car definitely has like a backpack in it with like, what if I get stranded? |
| 2:07.3 | Here's a blanket and some power bars. I never has happened. Is there a place you could get stranded |
| 2:12.1 | near you? No, I live in the suburbs. It's the least useful thing. But my brain is like, I should probably have road flares. |
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