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 tries to pay its taxes without Thomas' fucking help because he's a bitch-ass, commie-ass bitch.

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

Hello, gentlemen.

Guest intro by Eli Bosnick, everybody.

Yeah.

Tom, I think you should keep doing those.

I think that was pretty good.

I think there's a lot of buzz.

A lot of rabble on the old discord. Not much poetry to it. Not much, you know. Disagree. Disagree. Welcome to our parenting show. Welcome to a parenting show where we're going to bitch about not being able to pay our taxes. This is the state of California. Did you guys get the good pods email?? I guess those all the time I throw them away. What are they? So Good Pods is this podcast ranking service. They're actually very sweet, very good people. I've had conversations with them before to make sure they're on a scam. Because I just assume it was a scam. Yeah, exactly. I just assume it's nothing. Like I just like, well, that's nothing. So to part the curtain a little bit, podcast listener, we get 150 emails a day being like,

hello, my friend, you have been featured on podchat.

It is the number one podchat in the podchetteverse.

I believe that we could get you over $1 billion in Fuzzy Cat Toys.

Please, go on to my Google calendar for like my secretary. You apparently work for me now,

and you find a 10-minute slot where I can explain to you, you only give me $100 a day and then I put you on the Potschette.

So 99% of the time you've got to forget those things. But some percentage of the time you're like, okay, let me check and see if this is real. And so we are on this thing called Good Pods. And Good Pods is basically the whole point of their organization is iTunes is enavigable, right? Because new and noteworthy is literally hand-chosen by a secret staff who iTunes won't reveal. And by the way, they're honest about that, right? That's not like me being like, here's the goss. If you ask iTunes like, how is new and noteworthy chosen? They're like, we have a secret man who does it. Yeah, it's a smoke system like the Pope kind of. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and wonderful.

So there's no way to find new podcasts that aren't by celebrities who are being chosen by the same Pope committee.

So Good Pods was like, hey, we're actually going to like aggregate download numbers using the public IAB fixtures. And also we're going going to, like, listen to the podcast and make sure

people aren't, like, racist and sexists and, like, not put fucking Ben Shapiro number one in his

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