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 podcast that is finally going to figure out the am I the asshole that Eli put in our notes over a month ago.

Jesus Christ, I hope so.

I need to understand this.

I'm Tom Curry.

I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. Hello. How's it going? All right, so we missed it by a week or so, but Mother's Day has come and gone. I got to tell you guys my Mother's Day story. So obviously I'm not buying anything for my mom like my actual biological mom. I'm fresh out of monkeys. The monkey delivery service is little pricey for alcoholics down in Panama. She can't compete with Gilligan like the gifts that Gilgan is the best gift giver. That is. Thoughtful. Did I tell you like I found out she got black mold? She lived through black. That woman is going to live for fucking ever. I found it over Christmas.

Like, she got black mold in her lungs and just like, I don't know, drank enough doers that she killed her.

I mean, if you were black mold, would you want to hang out with your mom?

But I do, I do always buy my, for lack of a better word, my stepmom, right? Like my dad's 44 year long girlfriends in my life. Yeah, who he may or may not have been married to this whole time or not. Yeah, yeah. The mystery lady. And that's, that's great. So I always get her something for Mother's Day because in many ways she fulfilled parts of that role for me in my life. And I know she looked forward to that.

You don't have to read the card to us in everything, Tom.

It's so sweet.

Well, I don't know how else to express it.

Once a week, you know, it's just, it's not, it's not.

Thanks for your work on the tape.

Yeah.

You know, it's a complicated relationship, Eli Bosnick.

Oh, God.

Ouch. It's a complicated relationship, Eli Bosnick. Oh, God. But I always get her something. Usually what I do is I send her like a plant or flowers or whatever. But this year I was like, I'm so fucking tired of sending her like a plant or flowers or something. How embarrassing is that Tom does more for whoever this lady is than I do for my mom. I'm not doing it. Oh, for your mom? I thought you were going to say for Lydia, I was in agreement. For your mom, fuck your mom. For your mom just write like in a card, a mean thing your dad said and was like, you were probably standing there. Love, you're so much mirror to my mom that she deserves. Disagree. So then I got to thinking. I was like, well, I like giving gifts.

We've talked about this on the show before.

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