DOD227: Is Your Kid "Too Online"?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Part 1 of 2! In light of yet another terrible *motions to everything*, we thought it was time to talk about how to evaluate if your kid seems "too online," if certain spaces are worse than others, and what the consequences of that might be. The dads line up in a bit of a three bears situation on what this means to them exactly, but there's just so much more to dig into on this topic that we'll be finishing up the conversation on Thursday's episode.
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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. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's logging off and making you listen. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Greetings, Tom. I am Cyberdad. Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ah. We're doing an episode about the internet. I thought I'd keep it the medic. We are doing an episode about the internet. I don't get it. But I'm excited. On the internet. In reinforcement of the internet. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. I think we should just get rid of the internet. When we go full line. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. People are going to come around to my way of thinking. I'm convinced. Yeah. I don't, I'm not going to count it as that, Tom. I'll be honest. You know what I mean? It's like a justified true belief thing. you know like i don't i don't want to be on the same |
| 1:12.8 | scene is is the same thing as you on that but but yes ultimately you're but as long as we get to |
| 1:17.3 | the same goal it's fine yeah i don't you know like i don't really care like how you justify |
| 1:21.5 | getting there it's fine let's just fucking get there as the internet dies by yeah we need to |
| 1:26.2 | kill most of it i it's just we're done we're done what are we doing in society it long as the internet dies by the end of it. We need to kill most of it. It's just, we're done. |
| 1:28.5 | We're done. |
| 1:29.1 | What are we doing in society? It's over. The internet has killed. What would the internet have to do for us to be like, I think it's gone too far? Right. Yeah. So if you want the internet to die, all you have to do is go to my dad's house. because in my dad's house |
| 1:43.7 | it's fucking dead because I love |
| 1:46.3 | my dad I do I in my dad's house, it's fucking dead because |
| 1:45.8 | I love my dad. I do. I love my dad, but the man is 77 years old. When I say the man is not |
| 1:51.3 | How is he 77? You're 77. What the fuck? |
| 1:54.8 | That's weird. Yeah. That was awkward. Just like Who ate the smaller twin situation? I is |
| 1:59.6 | know. So he calls me up the other day, and he tells me the story, which is fucking boring, but it was long, about how Comcast pissed him off. He had Comcast, internet, and TV and everything. Yeah, who would ever tell a story like that to anybody? Oh, no, podcast, right? Extended, like, so he and I are cut very much from the same cloth. So Comcast pissed him off. So now he doesn't care what happens next in his life as long as he gets to turn off Comcast forever. And he's like, you know, my dad's whole thing is like, he's like, I'm retired. I have nothing better to do with my time than fuck with Comcast. They pissed them off once, and now it needs to bury them forever. |
| 2:37.3 | These are the saints that keep our society somewhat going, you know? |
| 2:40.1 | You know how they say? |
| 2:40.8 | It's actually a real economics thing that, like, nobody cares about the grocery store prices except for like five people. |
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