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 rubs a little whiskey on the gums just to see if it'll work.

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

do you guys ever try that? Do you ever try the whiskey on your kids or did you have that

tried on you? Oh, I was going to say I try that all the time, but yeah, okay, for kids, no.

Yeah, I'm not teething anymore, but I make sure to liberally apply whiskey. I mean, I mean, like some, we know some podcasters that are definitely teething. I'm just saying, like, it's not outside the realm of possibility. We don't want to say who's business partner. You know, maybe a Benjamin Button baby that we don't like to talk about publicly. Did you guys try? Did your, did your folks ever do the

whiskey on the gums thing? Do you know? Like, did, did that folk remedy ever get like passed down from on high for your kids at all? Not at all, but Tom, I'm just going to guess your dad did. Like, I'm just, I have no idea. Like, I wasn't my, I didn't live with my dad as a baby. So I have no idea. down.

I was drunk the whole time.

So it's like, yeah, it's all a fucking blur.

Now, I lived with my mom exclusively. I'm sure my mom did. My mom probably just, are you kidding me? Yeah, I mean, I think whiskey is her solution to every problem. Yeah, I was going to say, canonically, your mom gave a monkey whiskey. So I'm pretty tricky. There's literally no chance that my mom didn't try alcohol to solve whatever the problem was. Like, absolutely. But maybe she was like, no, I got to keep this good shit for the monkey, though. Maybe she wouldn't use it on it. I don't know. That's true. That's true. I don't know that we had a lot of, I don't know that she was a good shit. She was a plastic bottle. Like, you know, like you hear a crunk. My dad too.

Yeah.

There's true. I don't know that we had a lot of, I don't know that she was a good shit. She was a plastic bottle. Like, you know, like you hear a crunk of the plastic bottle.

Yeah, that's how you know. I've told you about my dad's cheapness. One of our favorite family

stories was when my brother came home, I think he had just started gone away to college or whatever

and he came home and he opens the fridge and he sees old Milwaukee light in the fridge.

And he's like, God, dad, is this the cheapest beer in the world?

And he's like, cheapest I could find.

It's one of a famous lines.

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