DOD175: What If Our Kids Don't Want Kids?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Lydia joins Thomas and Eli to talk about a recent NYT article about the hidden grief of not becoming a grandparent. How would we feel if our children decided they didn't want kids?
(Fingers crossed, this should hopefully be the last of the no-Tom episodes!)
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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. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Dear Old Dan's, the podcast that gets down to the nitty and the gritty. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick, and I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith. Welcome, Thomas. Hi. Unfortunately, our co-host, Tom Curry, is still unable to join us. We record these bad boys two at a time, and his wife Haley is still feeling sick, so send them some love if you're out there in TV land listening to it. But we have an amazing replacement, my friends. The one, the only, Lydia Smith. |
| 0:56.3 | Lydia, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:57.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.1 | The gritty to Thomas's nitty, I guess. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.9 | In that you are a large orange beast |
| 1:04.3 | with a really dominant sexual energy |
| 1:07.3 | that a lot of people identify with. |
| 1:09.3 | Hey, it's not wrong. |
| 1:12.2 | All right. I don't know, it's not wrong. All right. |
| 1:13.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:14.1 | It's the holidays. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm losing my mind. |
| 1:16.0 | It's taking on a new persona, everybody. |
| 1:18.5 | Getting begged for Christmas. |
| 1:21.5 | It's like when you move to a new school and you just decide to be a different person. |
| 1:26.0 | That's just doing a whole new bit. |
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