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 wants you to go out and play outside once in a while.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.

Oh, hello. Have we talked about this? About going outside to play? Have we talking about it? Because we bought the house. The reason we moved was for the yard. We had no yard. Zero yard. A great house. Our first house, fantastic house, great location, very close to downtown, but not.

It was a great location.

I love the house to death.

And then a couple of things happened.

We had kids.

I don't know if you know that.

We have a couple kids.

And also with COVID and me quitting my actual job, we didn't really need to be close to like downtown where the work was.

And so that's why we bought the new house, was the, is, it has a decent size yard. You know, I figured the kids, my vision, back in my day, my parents used, my mom, you should just tell us, just fucking get out of here. Just don't come inside until dinner is what you would tell us. Like, you're just not allowed in here. You know, and we just, you know, do whatever. Play fucking get eaten. Fall on a barbed wire fence. Get giant scar. I have massive amounts of scars on my body. Go explore an abandoned mine in the back of the yard full of brides and snakes. Right where your dad buried his gold that he jumped off the flame with. Fall down a mind shaft.

Yeah, see the ghost of the fucking, yeah, whatever pirate.

By the way, podcast listener, he still hasn't read the diaries.

No, oh, I completely forgot about it.

I think about those diaries four times a day.

Four times a fucking day.

The minute we stopped.

I'm going to fly out to California and I'm going to read the diner. You could. You probably could. Oh, you know what? For patrons, we'll turn them into an audio book. Yes. Ah, yes. Definitely. Let's sell my trauma, everybody. It's so fun. Let's be real. That's what I'm always doing anyway. That's what this whole show is. What are you talking about? We're just

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