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 slouching toward the apocalypse. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

Hello. You know, you bring up a good point, Tom. I'm not going to even try to have good

posture anymore. Why? Yeah. Why face it chin up? Let posture go. I stole that line, by the way.

I stole that line from my high school civics teacher who published a newsletter.

His name was Mr. Miller.

I remember what his fucking first name was because I was a kid.

He had the Miller newsletter.

Yeah, Mr. I think that was it.

And I remember his Miller newsletter and the subheadline underneath it was slouching toward the apocalypse.

And it was like he published a monthly newsletter on his take on the world.

And I still have them somewhere.

They were actually really cool.

Was it unhinged though?

Because that was back in a time when people shouldn't have voted out.

No, it was super hinged.

It was awesome, actually. Yeah.

I still have those newsletters. He didn't actually offer them to everybody. He gave them mostly to

staff, like to other staff members. I saw one sitting on his desk, and he and I had a pretty good

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