DOD173: Free-Range Parenting - Good Idea? Or Eli's Nightmare. Or Both.
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We were not able to locate the actor who normally plays Tom so in this episode he has been replaced by the combined forces of Lydia Smith and Heath Enright. The 4 of us discuss an article about a free-range parenting experiment.
Note: I (Thomas) made a blunder in the recording of this podcast and had to use backup audio which combines Lydia and I. As a result, the quality is a little sub-optimal to a degree that may even be noticeable to normal human people. I could apologize, but no one is more upset about it than me, so does that really make sense? I think I'll apologize to myself and then not accept my own apology.
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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. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that Tom Curry shows up to occasionally. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Eli Bosnick, and I'm joined, as always, by Thomas Smith. |
| 0:38.6 | But today we've got two special guests. |
| 0:40.5 | The one and only Heath Enright and the two and only Lydia Smith. |
| 0:45.7 | Hold on. |
| 0:46.3 | There's another Lydia out there. |
| 0:48.3 | Are you telling me, is she seeing anyone? |
| 0:52.6 | Can we find this twin? I joined today to announce um smith number four |
| 0:58.1 | okay yeah just kidding everybody don't worry this one is actually just a scream it's just a single |
| 1:05.8 | long how scream scombert smith yeah love it yes Lydia let now we're on the subject give us the Longed owl. Scream, Scumbert, Smith. |
| 1:11.1 | Yes. |
| 1:11.3 | Love it. |
| 1:12.3 | Lydia, now we're on the subject. |
| 1:14.2 | Give us your angle on the... |
| 1:16.7 | Vasectomy update. |
| 1:18.4 | How close are you to just taking his scissors to Thomas while he's sleep? |
| 1:22.6 | Give us your Remy update because we get the dad report. |
| 1:26.2 | Give us the mom's eye view. |
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