DOD203: Tom Is Gen X but His Neck Is From the Lost Generation

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We all know Tom is old as shit. But did we know just how old? No. He's so old we're not sure they have a generation name for him. How does the generation we were born into shape our lives and perceptions?

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0:00.0	I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.
0:09.0	I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.
0:17.0	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.
0:28.5	Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's got at least one Gen Xer. I'm Tom Curry, and I am that Jen Axer. I'm joined by, as always, my co-host, Eli Bosnick and Thomas Smith.
0:39.3	Hello, gentlemen.
0:40.1	Kawai.
0:41.1	Hey, my fellow Gen Zers, what up.
0:44.2	It's me, your 37-year-old Gen Z podcast host.
0:50.6	I had a moment where somebody, I think, referred to, like, you know, us geriatric millennials. And I was like, I don't think I'm that. But is that, I don't want to be like, you're old and I'm not 86. I don't think that's geriatric millennial, is it? There's nothing sadder. There's nothing sadder in the world. No, Tom's a geriatric millennial.
1:11.6	No, I'm not a millennial. Tom's a Gen Xer.
1:12.6	Were you born in the 70s?
1:14.5	Born in 78.
1:15.5	Oh, okay, sorry.
1:16.3	You're even older than I thought you were.
1:20.9	I thought you were born like 1981 or something.
1:24.0	No, no, no.
1:26.1	1978, baby.
1:27.3	Yeah, there's nothing more millennial than us being like,
1:30.3	you guys are the old millennials and we're the Gryffindor millennials.
1:34.4	Jesus fucking Christ.
1:37.0	At least the silent generation had the fucking decency to die.
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