DOD186: Who Can Fix the Men?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Content Note: This episode includes some discussion of the treatment of marginalized communities under the Trump administration.
After reading a post from Reddit, the dads dive into a deep discussion on how men can change men's minds (and if we should even bother) regarding masculinity, the patriarchy, feminism, and politics. Have we already lost to the red-pilled man-o-sphere, or can we still reach people? I think we might have a three bears situation on our hands!
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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. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's all problems and no solutions. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. |
| 0:39.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:40.5 | I'm curious to hear how this, all problems and no solutions, huh? |
| 0:44.8 | Are you listening to this week's podcast? |
| 0:49.2 | I'm excited for this one. |
| 0:51.3 | I've decided not to participate so much as I've decided to just be the first to do. I said, Tom, what I thought, I sent you both what I thought was a very thoughtful screed that someone wrote. But no, it's being labeled as just all problems. Ooh. Tom is poisoning the well. I am poison. Well, that's the editorial control's the editorial control that I get by writing the joke. |
| 1:12.4 | When Tom shows up to our show, he heaves editorial control there at the opening. |
| 1:19.4 | That is my one moment of autonomy. You guys think when this is like the world's number one podcast |
| 1:26.1 | and we're like more famous than Joe Rogan and stuff, like we'll all be in like a super cool sound studio with like mics and headsets and stuff. It'd be really fun. Like all together? Yeah. Tom will still be doing this stupid job for some reason. Yeah. We have more money than God and he's like yeah, they need me down at the fucking bullshit factory. |
| 1:44.6 | Guys, I got to move out. |
| 1:45.7 | My boss had a phone call. |
| 1:47.6 | He says I got a phone call to the phone. |
| 1:51.7 | Look, I am definitely willing to quit my day job for $150 million Spotify contract. |
| 1:56.5 | I'll quit the shit out of my day job for $150 million Spotify contract. |
| 2:02.8 | I would take such a tiny multiple of that. |
| 2:05.2 | It's embarrassing. |
| 2:06.3 | Yeah. |
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