DOD167: Surgeon General Verifies This Is, in Fact, Way Too Effing Hard
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Parenting is so friggen hard nowadays that the Surgeon General had to issue a report saying so. He probably received a few too many emails from his kid's school and was like ENOUGH, I'm writing a report.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's recommended by the Surgeon General, but not the good one. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello, gentlemen. Sorry, are you saying there's a dark universe? Yeah, is there like another surgeon general? Well, there's the Florida Surgeon General. Oh, well, that's all the states technically have them. And that's the anti-Vax fucking nut job? You're familiar with that guy, right? Yeah. He's the surgeon general that aggressively doesn't seem to understand science or medicine. |
| 0:57.5 | They shouldn't get to be called the same thing. They should be like surgeon. They sure shouldn't, Thomas. Surgeon officer. Yeah, right? Yeah, they should. How many surgeon generals can we? Can it be a surgeon corporal? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They should be that. Surgeon Major. |
| 1:11.4 | Or the Surgeon General should be the surgeon president then. |
| 1:13.8 | It's weird existing in America because the governorship system is so bad, but we need it to get to live in a blue state. |
| 1:22.9 | So there's this weird thing where you're like, hey, Ron DeSantis shouldn't get to be Ron DeSantis. |
| 1:28.0 | There shouldn't be anything about the power structure of how politics works that Ron DeSantis should exist. |
| 1:33.9 | And then they're like, yeah, but do you want the average of America to make up how New Yorkers live? |
| 1:39.2 | And I'm like, nope, not that either. |
| 1:40.6 | I would like, I would like fascism, but I'm in charge, is what I realized, as I was |
| 1:46.9 | saying that, is I just don't want the other side to have any power. What are when this episode's |
| 1:52.2 | going to air, but we might already, we might have a little bit. This will be, I think, after the |
| 1:57.3 | election. Oh my God. So that's a, that well everyone how you guys feel in post election. Forgive us |
| 2:02.6 | for our ignorance. Let's all act how we think we'll feel after the election. |
| 2:08.5 | And there's just an empty chair. Let's not do that. Yeah. Tiny Tim's crutch and I was just like |
| 2:14.5 | God I remember this for 2016. Yeah. When I just like, I was so excited and positive. |
| 2:21.6 | It's so funny. |
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