DOD223: Divorced Dad Diving into Dating
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The dads receive a question from a listener who has gone through a divorce and is ready to jump back into the dating scene, but they don't know what to do, where to turn, or maybe even...how to flirt. Are you Team Coffee or Team Dinner Date?
Then, ONLY patrons get to hear a funny Lydia story about dating and the apps (Lydia approves its inclusion).
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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. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's swiping right or left. I'm not actually sure. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, it's a good point. I hear Swipe Right a lot, but I don't know is the joke that you don't like that person and you do like, you know what I mean? Like I, oh, it's right right. I think swipe right is to like somebody. I think swipe right. Here's the funny thing. I've done this in recent memory and I have no idea. You would know better than I know. And I have actually never used one of those apps. The only reason I know is that back when I had an in-person office on the cubicles, I had like a 12,000 square foot office that I worked. And so in the center where all the management offices. He tried to date all his employees. Where is this going? He had his employees who were willing to fuck him swipe it. This is terrible. But like everybody on their cube had like their little like name tag. And I realized that like you could walk up to somebody's name tag and put your finger on it and just swipe it and it would swipe their name onto the floor. |
| 1:28.5 | And I thought, what a fucking great way this would be to fire somebody is just to walk up and swipe |
| 1:32.8 | left on them. |
| 1:33.4 | We're continuing from our last episode. |
| 1:37.3 | Hey, Alicia. |
| 1:38.3 | Alicia, first of all, congratulations on the baby. |
| 1:42.7 | You're going to laugh. |
| 1:43.9 | You're going to laugh. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay. Can we? the baby. You're going to laugh. You're going to laugh. |
| 1:47.3 | Okay. Can we agree that as I continue my lifelong project to turn Tom into a thumb ring-wearing |
| 1:55.4 | polyamorous man who refers to all of his partners as lovers? |
| 2:00.0 | The first thing that we need to do when that mission is successful is put Tom on the apps |
| 2:05.2 | because if you think chat GPT depresses you, wait until you get on a dating app in 2025, the year |
| 2:12.6 | of our Lord. |
| 2:13.6 | Here's the thing. |
| 2:14.3 | It's the worst experience a man will ever have and it's not anywhere close to as bad as it is for women. |
| 2:21.1 | Being on a dating app as a man is like learning that you're in hell and there's a separate worse health. |
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