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Dear Old Dads

DOD183: We Watched Justin Baldoni's TED Talk...

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of 2.

Now that he has been outed as a crap and a fake feminist, we wanted to watch Justin Baldoni's TED Talk from 2017 out of morbid curiosity and/or to see if maybe he had made any good points. So was this foreseeable? How would we have looked at this TED talk at the time, not knowing anything about him?

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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 dads, the podcast that's feeling lively and not at all in trouble for it.

0:34.1

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. No, no, no, gentlemen. Don't turn off your podcast player. We're the good ones.

0:41.4

We're the good ones. Oh no! Oh no! Every good man who might have possibly tried our podcast

0:46.9

for the first time. Oh no! They're gone. It's just us and Andrew Tate now. Hey, Andrew.

0:54.1

That's the world now. You should kill yourself. Don't edit that out. That's actually great advice. No. Whatever the legal consequences of telling Andrew Tate to kill himself are, I'm willing to accept them with an open heart. Our entire podcast project was like a Manchurian candidate type thing just for that. I don't know if that's the right word. Just for this one moment. Yeah, we got there, guys. We got them. We can rest now. Done and done, dusting off our hands on our way to federal prison. There's no federal prisons anymore, Tom. Oh, sorry. Who's going to put us there? I meant Guantanamo Bay. I get those confused sometimes. Yeah, right. Because my great, great grandfather did come over here in Alice Island, and I know that that's not valid anymore. Hey, you know what's fun about this whole thing is like I was... Only Trumpers are dying that but I was also

1:45.3

stressed in my brother I was like oh I think I need to do a certain thing for my taxes

1:48.9

and they're like wait that doesn't matter now like it does it literally they will

1:53.0

dismantle the IRS it's already been dismantled here's my life advice I'm the

1:57.2

Eli of the show today just fucking screw your your taxes. Do them. Like, fill out

2:01.0

the, do some amount of it. But like, don't, don't stress, man. Nobody's coming after you. So crazy hard. Just be like, I made this is weird advice, guys. This is, this is weird advice right at the beginning of the show. Okay, but Tom, roll play with me. Roll play with me. Okay, You're the auditor from the IRS.

2:18.4

Sure.

2:19.0

Okay.

2:19.4

And you're fired.

2:20.2

Done.

2:20.7

End of role play. beginning the show. Okay. But Tom, roll play with me. Roll play with me. Okay. You're the auditor from the IRS. Sure. Okay. And you're fired.

2:20.2

Done. End of role play. You don't have a job. Trump is fired. It's already even, I can't even get to the role play before your role. Exactly. Tom, do you need work? We could maybe pay you a few dollars to help out around the podcast like I know you've lost your job recently you've checked my tax return and I've

2:35.5

declared six dollars this year okay okay to help out around the podcast. I know you've lost your job recently. You've checked my tax return

2:34.8

and I've declared $6 this year. Okay? Okay? Yeah. Go ahead. So it appears that you've declared $6. I'm holding up a framed picture of Donald Trump as the president is what I'm doing right now. All right. The audit is over. Yeah. See? This is it. I didn't want to be an asshole, but I almost interrupted and said, hi, I'm Elon Musk.

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