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 just trying to help. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. That's a good one. I like that tie in to what we're going to talk about today. It was good delivery, too. I thought you really got in character on that one. You know what? That's because I can feel. I just like, I feel that in the bios. You're just like, I'm fucking just trying yeah, level with it. Trying to help.

That's all I'm trying to do.

Oh, boy.

Is it for me?

I'm just trying to help.

It's so fun when you try to help and everybody's like, you didn't do a good enough job at the thing you were trying to do.

And you're like, yeah, that's on me. Yeah, dude, I get nothing out of this. No matter how this resolved. The problem isn't for me. The solution isn't for me, but I'm trying to do the work to try to help. Yeah, totally. And slightly, I think related, but not exactly that, is lately I've had this desire. I wish, you know what we need is like a fast acting temporary, undisputable truth serum, where it's like you voluntarily could take it. Because sometimes I find myself just wanting to be like, look, I know that a lot of times in life, people are trying to tell you something for their own benefit or for their, they're trying to give you advice,wed toward that i do not give a fun i'm just trying to help like i'm literally i want

to swear on a stack of bottles daddy's drinking the truth sir yeah yeah i promise you this is not

me trying to insult you or trying to just like do anything like that i'm just saying maybe if you didn't scream all the time,

whatever it is. It's like, I wish I just want to be able. And with adults too, yeah. And with adults too, it's like, I might be wrong. Like, don't get me wrong. I could entirely be wrong about my view. But I wish there was some way to just be like, I wish I could communicate how much I promise you.

I'm just trying to tell you what I think,

and it's not some fucking battle.

Do you have that? Can I tell you the not being on the social internet has so transformed that for me because it becomes your instant. Oh, I'm talking about just in life. I don't do that on the internet at all. I'm talking about... Oh, see, I found that happen on the

internet all the time. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't even try that level of sincerity on there. Any kind of

communication. I remember, because I was so baffled by it, which was like, anytime I ever tried to

use a metaphor and a conversation on the internet, it was a lost cause instantly. Like, I never

successfully used a single metaphor

while trying to convince someone of something or convey my opinion to someone the entire time

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