DOD181: Let's Talk about Neil Gaiman...
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Recently, disturbing allegations of abuse by Neil Gaiman were reported on by Vulture. The dudes discuss the issues involved, from kink and the porn industry to relationships with fans to scientology...? In our bonus story (exclusively for patrons!), Eli takes us through an experience he had with that is AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY. You won't want to miss it!
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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. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to Dear Old Dan's, the podcast that is definitely not meeting its heroes. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, |
| 0:38.5 | gentlemen. What are you talking about, Tom? You get to podcast with me every week. Here I am. |
| 0:43.8 | You're welcome, Tom. Do you guys have heroes or idols or people that you've in your life |
| 0:49.4 | looked up to or, or, yeah, of course. Like a celebrity type folks like that. Yeah. I have always had like a don't meet your heroes kind of mentality. And I also kind of had like a maybe don't have heroes, you know, maybe just like the stuff they do. But like the only time I had an opportunity to actually meet in person like a musician that I really liked, there's this guy guy William Elliott Whitmore that I really, really |
| 1:10.8 | like. And Haley and I went to one of his shows. He played out in like DeKalb County at some dive bar, and he's like not terribly well known. And so he's just like selling his own merch. And I was like, oh, this is super cool. And I walked up to him and I was like, wait, I definitely should not meet this guy. What if he sucks? I've liked this guy. |
| 1:28.0 | Like, I've been waiting to see this guy live for literally |
| 1:30.1 | 12 years. Right. Oh, man. up to him and I was like, wait, I definitely should not meet this guy. What if he sucks? I've liked |
| 1:27.6 | this guy. Like, I've been waiting to see this guy live for literally 12 years. Right. |
| 1:31.5 | And I was like, maybe don't meet him. Maybe don't meet him. And then I was like, no, I'm going to meet him. And he was a super great. Like, he was a super nice guy, really generous, played the song that I wanted him to play. I was like, hey, if you could play |
| 1:40.9 | midnight that because, yeah, yeah, sure, I'll throw it in the |
| 1:42.9 | set. And like, he threw that song in his set for me. |
| 1:45.1 | He was a total sweetheart of a guy. |
| 1:46.9 | That rules. Yeah, like, he threw that song in his set for me. |
| 1:45.2 | He was a total sweetheart of a guy. |
| 1:46.9 | That rules. |
| 1:47.7 | Yeah, it was awesome. |
| 1:48.6 | It was awesome. |
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