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Dear Old Dads

DOD168: What if All They Want to Do Is Video Games

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We all know video games are how satan steals your kids' souls. But what if that's all they want to do? And what if they become homicidal maniacs while playing them?

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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.

0:28.2

Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's falling back because we're stupid. We haven't fixed this yet.

0:35.3

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

0:38.4

Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Okay, didn't we fix this though? I thought, yeah. I remember

0:44.5

reading in the paper that they fixed this and then the spring came along and they were like,

0:50.6

ah, just kidding. And no one explained, because usually the news is pretty Eli-proofed,

0:57.1

right?

0:57.3

There's usually a brightly colored graph in the corner,

1:00.5

an interactive cell phone game that I can play

1:03.5

where they're like,

1:04.1

all right,

1:04.5

Eli,

1:05.1

let's explain how daylight savings time work.

1:07.6

But I remember a bunch of headlines about daylight savings time. Everybody was like, Skinner to Neal! And the assholes on my Facebook who take every good thing and turn it into like their own personal vendetta. They did that with that. I remember they were like, so you want farmers to die in the fields? And I was like, all right, this is going the way almost all things go. All right, all right. But then Spring came around and they were like, your clocks moved again. And I was like all right this is going the way almost all things go all right all right but then spring came around and they were like your clocks moved again and I was like

1:31.0

god damn it Congress you promised you did so I actually haven't looked this up because I had a similar

1:36.0

feeling Eli did they end up not did Biden not sign it or was it something that only starts

1:42.2

this really tracks Joe that's where Joe let us down this is where

1:47.1

Joe really failed us he was like you haven't worked the cricket fields like I have or it starts

1:53.5

he can't draw a clock and so it's just it's been on it I feel like I'm crazy I thought this

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