DOD225: How Much Should Parents Let Their Kids Be Weird?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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(apologies for the late post, the Smiths had a travel nightmare!)
We've got a three bears situation over here today! Are parents responsible for addressing their kids' "weird" attitudes and behavior? And if so, how do we distinguish between what might be "weird" but flexible and what traits may be an innate facet of the person?
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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 getting weird. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.9 | Been weird out here, Tom. |
| 0:43.3 | Been weird. Speaking of being weird, I've got a weird morning going. First off, yesterday, |
| 0:48.9 | like every day around this time of the year, was a hundred and something, 102. I won't exaggerate. |
| 0:53.1 | It wasn't like a really bad one, but it was like 102, I think. Wake up this morning. |
| 1:11.5 | It's a dry hundred and two. Yeah. Well, well, that's what I'm about to say. Wake up this morning, you know, around 20 minutes ago or whatever. Morning. Morning is in quotation ready. That's a technical morning. And I hear what sounds like rain. And I was like, well, I can't. I must be losing my mind. |
| 1:12.8 | There's no fucking way it's raining. |
| 1:29.8 | And I text a lady, I'm like, is it raining? She's like, yeah. What the fuck was 100 yesterday? And she's like, well, it's, keep in mind, this is to reveal a very shocking secret. It's about 9.45 at this time. She says, well, yeah, it's already, it's 90 degrees at 9.45 in the morning and raining. |
| 1:31.3 | Is this global warming? |
| 1:44.4 | What the fuck is that? That's like Hawaii shit. I've never, that's a weird thing. I don't know what that is. 90 degrees. So it's still hot at 9 a.m. And it's raining. Okay. So anyway, that's the new climate we have or something. |
| 1:44.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:47.9 | I love that if you want to find out if it's raining, you text your wife. |
| 2:02.0 | Like, you don't like check the weather app or look out the window. You're just like, I'm not getting out of bed. I'm going to find out if it's raining. It's shocking. I don't know. I know that there's absolutely nothing more deadly for comedy than you shouldn't have observed the observation you just observed because I'm exposed to it on a regular basis. But what were you surprised by? Rain in the morning? Hot rain? |
| 2:08.6 | Oh, okay. Sorry, I forget that California's climate. So when Tom joked it's a dry heat, that's because |
| 2:13.5 | it doesn't rain in California. First off ever. Famously, we have droughts all the time. It never rains in summer. Like, I know it's not, is it, it's not technically summer? Wait, is it still technically summer? It's still summer? Yeah. It never rains in summer. Like, pretty much never. And if it does rain, it's because a storm moved in and it's actually rain temperatures like you know 60 at least right |
| 2:34.5 | it's cool yeah it doesn't 90 degree rain at 9 a.m. in the morning like because my lived experience |
| 2:40.2 | is you had no fucking idea what rain was you were like what water come out of sky what did you leave |
| 2:47.7 | a hose on on the roof They're big faucet? |
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