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Dear Old Dads

DOD216: What if Mental Illness Is Making You a Bad Parent?

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up and secure those tray tables in the upright and locked position. We get the Plane-ageddon scoop from Eli to kick off today's episode, and then the dads dig into an email from a listener struggling with balancing their mental health treatment and showing up as a parent in the way they expect. And then, how can we embrace the understanding that parenting will always inherently be imperfect and alleviate the guilt we carry when we aren't the kind of parent we've decided we should be?

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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.

0:28.6

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's not making a joke about this topic. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello,

0:39.3

even our history, that makes this sound way worse than it actually. I feel like that.

0:44.2

It does, but I was struggling to come up with something where I'm like, I am not going to fall into

0:48.1

the trap of mocking people. Today's topic, pedophilia? I don't know. Like, what could be

0:52.1

anytime Eli's on. Putting spaghetti in your butt, yeah. That's the one thing I don't know. Like, what could be... Anytime Eli's on, though. Putting spaghetti in your butt, yeah?

1:12.6

That's the one thing Eli doesn't joke about, putting spaghetti in your butt. I never talk about putting spaghetti in your butt. I'm very serious about it. Cooked or raw, Eli, cooked or raw. Depends on how elastic your rectum is. Okay. All right. Yeah. And the heatly, it would be so much harder to put cooked spaghetti.

1:26.8

And like how would you, how would you even, you know? I don't like determination. Yeah. That's just, yeah. I feel like that's one of those riddles the Sphinx would tell you, you know, and you'd be like, which is easier? Well, obviously, they're cooked because it's softer and then it's like, nope. You might need some kind of help. I would stop the Sphinx and ask a lot of

1:28.8

follow-up questions before I was just like, all right, let me see if I could figure out the riddle. I'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? That's how they do it. What, man, I'm bored. It's in here for 10,000 years. Everybody knows the fucking two legs in the morning, three legs in the whatever that stupid shit is.

1:48.3

This one's really got me.

1:49.7

I've spent the last like thousand years because raw obviously, you know, but it's not, it's longer.

1:56.7

It's longer.

1:57.9

So how really think of a lot of breakage.

2:00.0

Is it soft?

2:00.7

I never get tired of seeing someone trying to shove soft spaghetti up their ass.? Never get tired of seeing someone trying to shove soft spaghetti up their ass.

2:04.6

I never get tired of it. It's so hard to do. They think it's going to be easier. It's impossible. I can't wait for the internet to be invented. I'm not going to ask anybody any riddles anymore. I'm just going to be, I'm going to be set. There's some dude on Shark Tank with a device to try to solve this problem, you know?

2:17.7

Hey, sharks.

2:18.4

It's ever happening to you.

2:19.2

You don't know how much spaghetti you can get in your There's some dude on Shark Tank with a device to try to solve this problem, you know?

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