DOD221: F*** Around and Find Out Parenting
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Tom kicks the show off with a pretty major sleep update that no one saw coming! Then, the dads chat about a parenting style that has been dubbed "F*** Around and Find Out" (FAFO) parenting. What makes this style unique, or is this just a rebranding of another approach? What kind of crazy hot take is Eli going to come in with this time?
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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. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's definitely fucked around and found out. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:37.9 | Isn't that what being a dad is? You fucked around and then you found out? You found out. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm less in the fucked around phase of life, still solidly in the finding out phase of life. |
| 0:48.2 | I feel like I've found out a lot more than I've fucked around. Like, I feel like my ratios are |
| 0:53.1 | imbalanced for sure in the finding. Like, I'm quite sure, thank you. I've found around. Like, I feel like my ratios are imbalanced for sure in the finding. |
| 0:55.0 | Like, I'm quite sure. Thank you. I've found out very, like, who do I need to like petition to say, like, I get it? We could be done now. I think every time I fuck around Tom finds out. That's true of a lot of people, I think. Tom, maybe you're a voodoo doll of me. Have you considered that or I'm a voodoo doll of you. |
| 1:11.3 | Well, okay, just can we stop? |
| 1:13.6 | Can just whoever you, Tom, maybe you're a voodoo doll of me. Have you considered that or I'm a voodoo doll of you? |
| 1:11.3 | Well, okay, just can we stop? Can just whoever you've upset, can we just take the pins out? I love meth. That's what I'm going to say. That's good. That's not good. Yeah, that's bad. Oh, boy, I'm up and I'm so awake right now. I'm feeling great. I'm in the middle of my day, just ready to... |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, man. |
| 1:29.9 | Just I'm so... |
| 1:30.8 | Straightness. Oh, boy, I'm up and I'm so awake right now. I'm feeling great. I'm in the middle of my day, just ready to... Oh, man. Just, I'm so awake and ready to record attentive. I've listened to everything you guys have said, whatever it was. Yeah, but the problem is Lydia's asleep. Yeah, those are the two most. Yeah, are you guys ever both awake at the same time? |
| 1:44.3 | Only three times and when it happened, they conceive a child. |
| 1:47.0 | That's what they do. |
| 1:48.4 | It's like the average. |
| 1:49.3 | Hey, we had a miscarriage. |
| 1:50.2 | You've got some weird midnight hockey league that you're in. |
| 1:53.1 | Like, I've never heard of a hockey league that plays at fucking like 11 o'clock at night |
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