DOD222: Back to School! Here's a Dozen Poorly Made Apps for Ya
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Tom needs some more "old man yells at clouds" time to go off about the first few days of school for his kids. The dads get into it and talk school apps, communication, miscommunication, and various other logistics that seem to be purposely set up to be more complicated than they have to be.
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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 sending you an invite to peach jar, |
| 0:33.8 | apple tree, power school, here comes the bus and every other fucking thing |
| 0:38.5 | that you can imagine in order to connect with us. I'm telling us. Eli, it's happened. Guys, Eli, Eli, it's just... Call the hospital. It's going to be a Tom yells about stuff. Tom's going to yell at a cloud, guys. Welcome to dear old dads. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome to the Winter Soldier we just activated. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.7 | Tom. always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, hello. Welcome to the Winter Soldier we just |
| 0:55.6 | activated. Yeah. Tom just said, here's a question. If Tom was having a stroke in the middle of |
| 1:02.6 | our podcast, how many episodes do we think we would do before? Before anybody noticed? I don't know if you |
| 1:10.0 | guys noticed, but what I said, goop, goop, goop for 46 minutes on the last one, |
| 1:15.8 | turns out that was a little problem in the old domoomeroon. |
| 1:20.8 | Still went to work, though. |
| 1:22.2 | Got a bonus. |
| 1:25.0 | It says goop, goop, go, go, go. |
| 1:27.0 | It killed the part of my brain |
| 1:28.0 | that feels bad about firing people |
| 1:29.6 | so I'm even better at my job |
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