I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.

I know what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.

I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired.

Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy.

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the show that's crushing your dreams gently. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

Business meeting, why are we bumming out our audience so much? Well, because we're talking about parenting. It's a fucking bummer, man. That's true. That's true. It is a bummer. It is a bummer. Oh, God. Why care about something this much if it hurts all the time? Yeah. That's a good question. Yeah, I think honestly,

parenthood,

one of the things

that parenthood prepares you

for the time. Yeah. That's good question. Yeah. I think honestly, parenthood, one of the things that parenthood prepares you for the least is caring about something that hurts. Because when you're a young person, hopefully, right, assuming you don't have a bad romantic relationship, everything that you care about, you care about because it feels good, right? It's like a passion in your life or it's a romantic partner or it's like a calling. most of the things that you care about, you care about because it feels good, right? It's like a passion in your life,

or it's a romantic partner, or it's like a calling. Most of the things that you do when you're a

young person, right, you do it because they feel good, because they make you feel good.

And then you become a parent, and it's just a series of feeling like a failures.

Like, have you guys gotten to feel success as a parent? Yes. Yeah. I will say, I've been, I feel like I've felt successes as a parent. Rarely. Yeah. I think it doesn't come till later. I'm so looking forward to it. Yeah. Because I'll tell you, other people check in with me and tell me it's a moment to feel successful, but I'm already caught up in the next

bad thing, right? People will be like, oh, it's so amazing that Max is doing this, or it's so

incredible that this is happening. And I'm like, oh, yeah, but today is on a different color fire.

You have to understand. So I'm afraid I can't celebrate with you this other fire that we managed to put out.

It's a different fire.

And gentlemen, gentlemen, would you like to know what fire my life is on this week for the past week or so?

So about two weeks ago, my sweet little boy, got a sore throat, little laryngitis, little pharyngitis, I believe.

Big old swollen tonsils.

We had them check for strep, no strep.

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