DOD201: Would You Let Your Kid Be a YouTuber?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The dads answer a listener email - what should you do if your kid's friends have a YouTube channel and you're worried they might put your kid in some of their videos?
Join the Facebook Group! facebook.com/groups/dearolddads
For comments, email thedads@dearolddads.com
For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to pledge on Patreon!
This content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website atcreatoraccountabilitynetwork.org.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to Dear Old Dance, the podcast that's starting its own YouTube channel. I don't know. I didn't write anything. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always. |
| 0:36.3 | We're definitely not. Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. And we are not going to start her own |
| 0:39.7 | YouTube channel. We're not doing that. We're starting somebody else's. We should start |
| 0:45.2 | somebody else's. We are now, Andrew Tate's YouTube channel. We should start a YouTube channel |
| 0:50.2 | for our show and then we just switch it to someone else's, like, knitting Twitch |
| 0:55.3 | without ever acknowledging it. |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, I think we should start it as the Joe Rogan experience, and we're that, and then |
| 1:01.9 | we have a million, million, billion viewers, and then we turn into us. |
| 1:06.0 | Can we be one of those counts that just does, like, shorts of scenes from, like, peeky blind blinders but with a weird sepia lens oh no |
| 1:14.4 | that's all just AI there's no actual people that do okay well we can do are they getting checks |
| 1:19.1 | activated the AI I don't know I don't all I care about is are they getting checks they must be |
| 1:24.1 | checking someone somewhere is making money or they wouldn't do it. |
| 1:28.1 | Ah, the internet sucks. It's ruined. Anyway. Sure does. But gentlemen, you know the only thing worse than the social internet? Oh, I want to, I had some chit chat. That's some chit chat. First off, that was me leading into, hey, patron bonus everybody is out. So it's out. Wait, is it out? What day is this for? The patron bonus is out |
| 1:46.8 | I like how you were like, |
| 1:47.6 | Eli, |
| 1:48.0 | Eli, |
| 1:48.2 | My! So it's out Wait, is it out? What day is this for? The patron bonus is out. I like how you were like, Eli, Eli, shut up, shut up, shut up. Andrew Tate. I have COVID. God damn it. I don't know where I am. I don't know what show this is. I forgot a true story last night. This is dear old woking arguments, by the way. Phoebe asked me, yeah. Phoebe asked me what something in the fridge was. For dinner. And I was like, I don't know, it looks like ranch probably. And I open it, give it the smell. Is this a totally smellless thing? I was like, what is the substance that has no smell? |
| 2:18.1 | That is, that can't be right. How does I have no snow? And then I realized, oh, fuck, I have no sense of smell. I've lost it. I've zero. I smelled so many things to check. I keep not believing it. I keep being like, that can't be right, though. I didn't really lose my sense. this, but yep, I forgot that COVID did that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Thomas Smith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Thomas Smith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

