I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.

I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.

I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired.

Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy.

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's not afraid of resisting generational trauma.

I'm Eli Bosnick, and I'm joined, as always, by Thomas Smith. Yeah, oh, yeah, hi,

that's me. I'm that one. How's it going? This is, it's awkward saying hello to you when we've been trying to figure out how to record for a good hour and a half. It's true. Yeah, you got stay for the post beam. Yeah, when Tom's not here, we're just like, what, how does anything, Both of us have other podcasts we do.

We do.

Some of them were in charge of, but yeah.

And you in. out here we're just like what how does anything both of us have other podcasts we do we do

some of them we're in charge of but yeah and you introduce some of them yeah i can get away with it

because i don't introduce any of mine it's so weird it's like you know when you try to dance but on the

other side or whatever and you're like oh first off i'm so dumb i thought this was symmetrical

you had me when you try to dance. I understood the meaning, the metaphor. Yeah, I don't do a lot of dancing. I didn't realize that traditionally the non-male partner was doing a different thing. And then you're like, that's so much harder, even though it's the same thing, but just slightly different. And that's this, that's this. Anyway, do we do a show yet? This is so hard. I'm sweating foolish. Hey, you know the only thing worse than trying to do a show without the meat in our sandwich Tom Curry? Why? It's the auto ads. Yes, the auto ads. You've probably heard 10, 12, maybe 67 of them by now. After all, we have been recording for almost a minute. But you can make those go away over at patreon.com forward slash dear old dads where you'll not only get a commercial free version of every single episode. You also get bonus episodes. We just recorded a little bonus AMA last week. That was fun. You're probably already having your ear tubes if you give us your money. It's a good

time. It's good vibes over there in the Dear Old Dad's Patreon. I checked it out for the first time. Yeah, it's a lot of participation, a lot of comments. It's fun. But it's nice. The vibes are good. It's not, it's not shitty vibes. There's only like 20% of people who want to pay us to be mean to us. That's true. That's true.

So head on over, be one of the nice ones at patreon.com forward slash dear old dads.

Rip into it.

If we pay for someone to be mean to us, it's great and a fun time.

That's a good time.

But if someone who pays us as mean to us, then that's...

It depends on how much you pay us.

There are patrons who have given us an amount of... Like, April Poff, if the next time I see her, she just flying kicks me in the chest, I'll be like, wow, look at you. You got some air there. I'll be honest, that's true. Even if April never paid... That's just because of April.

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