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 full of joy and happiness and much less nerve pain.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Nick Watch. I would say a lack of intense pain is the closest Tom comes to joy. So I think that's right. And we found it. We found it today. Tom, the people cry out. When I was at this live show in Portland this past weekend, people were like, how's Tom doing?

That's so sweet.

That's actually true. It's not even a bit. I was there too. A lot of people last much. So update us, Tom. How's your neck? What happened? Yeah. Fucking amazingly better. Like phenomenally wildly, crazily better. Hey, Tom, shut the fuck up. Is there a place where people could go right now to already have a lot of this talk that is more personal and more in detail? Is there some place folks could go? Ooh. What do you think? Anyone know? Patreon. I was queuing you for some. Oh, sorry. You said, Tom so I was thought you... No, I said Tom shut the fuck up.

Oh, Tom, shut up.

Why, of course, Thomas, they can get their update.

The full neck watch update over at patreon.com forward slash dear old dads,

where we talk about how Tom's operation exposed his greatest weakness.

Was it his fear of death?

And it turns out Tom also did a crazy thing.

It was going to be about alpha male boot camps.

And then we realized that Tom's actually, he did that for a list.

Tom did an alpha male bootcimal.

You get to watch me and Thomas hit the break super hard on making fun of the people who do those things. Yeah. To be like, oh, cool. Yeah, like some, not all of them are this. Not that bad. It's kind of that bad. If someone put a bunch of shoes in a cash paper, I'm going to pull the lever. I'm not going to not do what I'm told to. Everything except that last joke at the this month's bonus on Big Drop. Backoff, last year old dad. That's the joke that Thomas made on the show. Shut up. Loves an edge joke, everybody. But give the Normie some amount of neck update, though. Like, give us a taste of the neck. Give us a little... Just a little... Just a touch. Yeah. The surgery was fucking unbelievably successful. It's just fucking... It's an amazing... Amazing, like, just... It's so much better. I'm still in a lot of, like, post-surgical discomfort. Like, whatever. Who cares? The nerve pain, though, my thumb is still numb. They said there's nothing they can do about that. That's just going to be the case until the nerve heals. Well, like what the guy said, he's like, yeah, that nerve was like crushed and severely deformed. So like it just gotten smashed. Yeah. Oh, shit boss. So it hurt like a son of a bitch for a reason.

Can I have all my nerves crushed? Can someone crush all my nerves so I don't have pain anymore?

Is that a thing we could do? But like they went in, it's fucking amazing. They go in through the front of your neck meat and then they like pop out the old discs. They put in spacers, they screw in some plates and screws,

and then they sew you back up again, and then eventually bone will overtake those spacers

and it'll fuse up together. But like what it did is it immediately just created space,

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