DOD226: Is Self-Improvement Isolating You?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The dads gather to discuss the unexpected toxic masculinity behind much of the self-improvement sold toward men these days. Why are these activities so... solo? Do 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. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to Dear Old Dan's The Podcast in the Ice Bath. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:36.9 | Hello. |
| 0:39.1 | It's a really nice flow to it. |
| 0:40.2 | I like that turn of phrase. |
| 0:40.8 | You like that? |
| 0:41.5 | Can we use that? |
| 0:50.6 | I think, you know why it sounds so good? It's recording from the ice bath. The acoustics are better. Yeah. They don't tell you that. It's the Wim Hof thing. Well, would you believe the weather's... I mean, never mind. |
| 0:52.3 | It's totally fucking normal here. |
| 0:53.7 | Everything good. |
| 0:55.4 | Have you guys ever tried an ice bath? |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.6 | We've talked about this. |
| 1:11.7 | Did we? Yeah. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. So in high school track, I remember I used to get it successfully occasionally and when you can get it successful, as in it shuts down all the fucking nerves. Then it actually feels great. Talk about pain tolerance differences people have. I think the ice stuff is actually a test they do for that to see |
| 1:16.5 | like people's pain tolerance. Yeah. You put your hand in like ice water or whatever and see how long |
| 1:21.1 | you can hold it. It makes my nerves go fucking insane. I haven't done it since then because the last |
| 1:26.5 | time I tried it was like so unbelievably painful. I couldn't do it since then because the last time I tried, it was so unbelievably |
| 1:29.1 | painful. I couldn't do it. Do you know anybody in your lives that does ice baths? I did. Yeah, |
| 1:34.1 | that's how I ended up doing one is I had a friend who was like full on meat cult and ice baths was |
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