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 hanging with the older kids. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

Oh, come on, kids. Try these cigarettes. They're making cool.

Speaking of a thing I just said off Mike before we started, I've just realized I saw in

mind it's sort of a mini, not enough for a kid's story, a parenting story, but like,

I realize, okay, I'm playing

way too much of a video game with Arlo because it's the bet. I got to find a way to not, but it's the best thing, literally the most fun that could possibly be had by human beings, is playing a video game with your son. There's no, I don't know, how the fucking, I'm not supposed to not do it all the time. And he loves it. Arlo rules.

How could you not want to do that?

But here's the one thing.

If you offered me to play a games rule, Arlo rules. How did you not want to do that?

But here's the one thing.

I mean, this is not a complaint about Arlo. If you offered me to play a video game with Arlo right now, I'd say yes. I meant that kid once. This is not a complaint about Arlo, but it is a bad combination of our two neurodivergences. I think maybe because I've realized

he's, you know, got a touch of the tism

in the best possible way.

To torture the tism, man.

Oh, God. I think maybe because I've realized he's, you know, got a touch of the tism in the best possible way.

Toch of the tism, man.

How old people would say, yeah.

And I have a touch of the overloading fucking unbelievable ADHD.

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