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's throwing softballs. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnik. Hello, gentlemen.

That intro was a soft.

Nice. I like it.

Yeah, how dare you?

Our takes are such hard ball takes, Tom.

Between you not being able to see your exes and...

It's not my fault.

They become transparent after I break up.

That's true.

They should think about that different.

It's like a weird invisible man sequel made of your mental illness.

Being a mental illness, I'm trying so hard to have my first vacation, fellas.

I feel like I should share this with the audience and with you so that you can all ridicule me when I fail. Because that's accountability, right? You tell someone something and then they just... And then you don't do it. Yeah, and then they make fun of you or something. Right. They try and then you're like, no, actually what happened, Arlo has AIDS. Arlo has HIV. Yeah, exactly. There'll be a good reason. That's it. That's accountability.

I'm trying so hard to, like, record stuff before we go so that we can do this trip out to see you all. The Matryon Pajama Party. Yeah, yeah. And so, and it's not going to work. But I'm trying. I want everyone to know, I'm doing my best. And even if it means I only work like half the entire time, that'll be an improvement from last year. Yeah. Well, it's a huge improvement from last year. I didn't even, I didn't even get to do it. Thomas had two activities. Like there were two activities. Thomas was like, I'm going to go to this dinner and I'm going to catch the plane home. You know, it was a rough year. I don't remember why, but it was just a weird rough year. I don't know what you had going on. We can actually say that now. Someone stole your company. Yeah. And I had to work night and day to be able to afford the absolute fucking war crime that is attorney's piece. And everyone's all like, hey, well, you don't have to work that hard. That was the best thing. I don't blame anyone. I'm not mad. But everybody would be like, well, hey, just don't. Don't do that much work. I was like, yeah, sure. Yeah. I love that because we, and not to reject the sympathy of listeners, because it's actually really lovely. But when we will obliquely reference working hard, I will often get an email or a message from someone being like, hey, I just want you to know that like, if there was one gamma month, I would be totally fine with that. Like, we love your stuff and I want you to be well. And I'm like, that is so amazingly sweet of you.

My child eats all the weeks, unfortunately. He eats every. He never skips a week of the eating. I would love him to stop. I told him, I told him fasting's good for you. But, you know, he doesn't listen. I think it's so good too because it's, and again, I echo your sentiment of it. I'm sure it all because it's from a good place.

But it's also funny because I think what people here good too because it's, and again, I echo your sentiment of it. I'm sure it all comes from a good place.

But it's also funny because I think what people hear is they're like, to them, look, people love our stuff, I'm sure. But to them, they're like, oh, this is just a fucking podcast, though. Like, you don't have to. What do you do? You get on, you joke around with your buddy. That's it. Right?

You chitter-chatter.

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