DOD209: My Kids Stopped Talking To Me for NO Reason
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Thomas stumbled on an article called "The Missing Missing Reasons." It explores Estranged Parents online forums and points out a strikingly consistent theme, and it is as hilarious as it is infuriating.
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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. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to Dear Old Dan's, the podcast that's not returning your calls. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello. |
| 0:41.3 | We're going full heath on this podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | We're not returning anybody's calling. |
| 0:46.4 | But we do read your emails. |
| 0:49.1 | We do. |
| 0:49.8 | We do, in fact, read your emails. |
| 0:51.5 | Not on this episode, which is a real interesting and to what Tom said. |
| 0:59.3 | You'd think that we were about to introduce an email from our listener. |
| 1:02.6 | No, we read him. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm not convinced Heath doesn't read emails and texts. |
| 1:07.8 | I just think he doesn't respond or care. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, he just doesn't care. Yeah. Hey, I really need to hear from you. I don't know. Are you live with it? I think he reads it and gets a little smile. I'm like, oh, that's nice. I feel love. What I think is he looks down at the notification and he reads like the first four words. And if they're not trapped under A, he's like, okay, I'll get to it when I get to it. |
| 1:31.3 | And here's the thing, all right? |
| 1:32.8 | Life's not a race. |
| 1:34.0 | At the end, when we get to the pearly gates, God's not going to be like, well, Eli, you answered 100 texts and Heath only answered seven, right? |
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