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 Dad's podcast that always finishes last. I'm Tom Curry and I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.

Tom, I hate to correct you right here in the intro,

but we actually already established on another episode of the show

that Thomas doesn't finish at all.

So I hate to throw a correction and just right there in the beginning.

I mean, that's technically last, right?

I mean, as long as I do it before the heat death of the universe,

I think I got to sneak one in there.

Resurrect my body like a million years.

You've got to be really careful which window you look out at the restaurant at the end of the universe

because one of them is just Thomas coming.

It's funny, I wrote that little intro thinking of the whole nice guys thing.

And then as soon as I read it, I'm like, nope, that reads different.

Yep.

That 100% reads different.

Well, I can wholesome us up again because I have to talk about the fact that we just got back.

I am, you are hearing a jet lagged me because we just got back last night from Scotland. This was a full nine, ten days, both of us away from the kids. Oh, that sounds so nice. Yeah, you know, I really miss the fucking kids. I'm not going to lie. It was good. It was, it was, it was, the trip was awesome, but I just have to say that like, they're just at that age, man. I know Tom, you got old, you got old grandparents for kids. You don't care about it. You don't have all the chemicals going on anymore. But these, this little, it feels like they aged a year in the week that we were gone. Like, we actually, both of us kind of, we felt a little bad. We're like, We miss like a week and a half of this prime development. Because all of a sudden, Arlo's like, he greeted me in a tuxedo.

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