DOD199: The Smiths Take Manhattan
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Thomas has returned from a family "vacation" to New York City, which was simultaneously wonderful and insane. Also, Eli aka Mary Poppins aka Mrs. Doubtfire aka Pilsbury Doughboy (???) watched ALL of the Smith children one night and has stories to share.
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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. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's something, something New York, New York. I'm not sure. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm Tom Curian. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello, it's me. |
| 0:45.5 | Mary Poppins. |
| 0:48.2 | The greatest nanny of them all. |
| 0:50.8 | Yes. |
| 0:51.6 | I kind of had you pegged for more of a Mrs. Doubtfire. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm not going to laugh. Yeah, that was the voice you were of a Mrs. Doubtfire. I'm not going to laugh. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, I thought that was the voice you were doing. Mrs. Doubtfire. Yeah, yeah. Maybe like Mrs. Doubtfire and Uncle Buck. We have that in the contract. Tom and I are revising your joke by a two vote majority that you're doing, you're actually doing Mrs. Doubtfire. So if you could please take that. system that's just between the two of us. |
| 1:11.0 | Counterpoint, I stole the podcast. |
| 1:13.8 | Eli love actually doing Mrs. Doubtfire. So if you could please... We've got a buzzer system that's just between the two of us. |
| 1:11.1 | Counterpoint, I stole the podcast. Yeah. Eli loves joke critiques. It's his favorite thing. It's my favorite. I love it. Notes are his favorite. I send him a list of AI generated notes on his comedy after every show. And that way we both kill ourselves. That's great. Yeah, no, everybody wins. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, it's nice. |
| 1:29.1 | Honestly, that's what my audience relationship feels like right now. AI generated, but it's not a good a, it's like Da Vinci 2. Right. It's when they were like, the new chat bot can say motherfucker. Wow. Speaking of AI, I got an ad in my feed the other day for like a wearable. |
| 1:47.8 | This is fucking crazy. |
| 1:49.1 | For like a wearable that you can get that is an always on AI microphone. |
| 1:53.7 | Oh my God. |
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