DOD207: THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We've got a very focused topic today because our dear Tom has some huge non-neck related news to share! It's like the 2nd or 3rd good news Tom has ever had!

Then in the patron only story, Eli shares an emotional story about Max's birthday party.

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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.
0:28.4	Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's now got four full-time kids in the Curry house.
0:35.2	Finally a dad. I'm Tom Curry.
0:37.7	I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.
0:41.0	Hello, gentlemen.
0:41.8	That's right, everybody.
0:42.9	He's adopted me and Thomas officially.
0:47.1	And for a whole week of not being an excruciating psychological or physical pain,
0:52.6	Tom decided to keep things up.
0:55.2	He's like, wait, I could take on so much.
0:56.4	It's like when you're, you know, training with heavier weight. Like you're swinging the bat with the donut on it. And Tom's like, I've been living life with this pain. Now I can do anything. Everything's easy mode now. Everything is easy mode. I just, you know, I actually looking back, I think I needed to live in excruciating, excruciating pain in order to, like, make me appreciate only the mild pain of daily existence.
1:18.6	Well, you know, it's like how God did the Holocaust in order to, I don't know.
1:23.5	Finish that sense.
2:00.9	Yeah, Giles Corey's looking over at Tom like, relax a little bit. Yeah, no, we decided. It is canon that Tom is Giles Corey in a previous, like that was his previous life. One of. I feel like that's an insult to Giles Corp. One of his previous lives for sure. Oh my God. Hey, Tom, any news? Anything going on? Anything? There's not a week that goes by that is not like, hey, what could be life-changingly enormous going on? You're like, so I haven't been able to say anything about this for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks, but for the last several months, plans been in place and now it's turned over, and I feel like I can talk about it publicly. Finn and Amen, my for the last several months, plan's been in place, and now it's turned over,
2:06.3	and I feel like I can talk about it publicly. Finn and Aman, my biological kids, are now full-time with us. So it's been a custody change. I know.
2:12.5	So instead of two full-time and two part-time kids, I've got four full-time kids in the house now.
2:20.2	And I will say, like, everything changes.
2:22.8	Just literally, like, everything has changed.
2:26.5	Everything has changed.
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