DOD195: Representation Matters
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The dads (yes, all of them - Eli FINALLY got his act together to join for an episode) got an interesting listener email about representation in media, and how it has come a long way but also has far to go. They discuss the successes and missteps in specific shows, and discover some surprising media consumption facts about several of the hosts!
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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. |
| 0:23.0 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's readying its TikTok. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as sometimes by Eli Bosnick and Thomas Smith. Hello, gentlemen. Oh, is it noon |
| 0:41.0 | already? I guess I just woke up. Oh, here I come. Lazy, daisy donuts get glazy. That's what |
| 0:51.1 | they call me. Because I come on donuts. |
| 0:56.7 | Didn't you miss me? A lot. |
| 1:00.9 | Didn't you miss the person who listened to the show for the first time last week and was like, |
| 1:04.7 | oh, finally, some healthy masculinity. I'm so excited to share. |
| 1:09.5 | Hey, my men's group at my church, I found these fellas and they're just as well. |
| 1:14.8 | And I know some of us are big Jordan Peterson fans, but I want you to hear what these guys have to say. And I'm like, come on your donut holes. |
| 1:19.1 | Make you cream extra crispy. |
| 1:22.1 | I strongly suspect that there's a non-zero number of people who are like, oh, |
| 1:25.9 | Eli's not here. Click and they just turn it off. the 100% believe that that's the case. But think of the two or three people. The most non-zero. Yeah. Thinking the guy who gave us the four stars and said would be better if Eli died over on Citation, he is. Think about how happy with that episode he was. |
| 1:46.6 | It's the funniest thing anyone's ever done. |
| 1:48.7 | It's the funniest thing ever. |
| 1:52.5 | Like it's one star for each of the hosts and yours is zero. And I was the one that was a zero. |
| 1:54.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.3 | It's perfect comedically. |
| 1:56.5 | Jesus Christ. |
| 1:57.3 | Okay, but I don't want to encourage this bullshit behavior. |
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