DOD231: How to Handle Not-Cash-Money Things That Happen to Your Kid
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The dads gather to answer a listener question for an especially tough situation that the listener's friend is navigating. If a not-cash-money thing happens to our kid, how should we react? If a not-cash-money thing happens to your friend's kid, what can you do to be supportive during that moment? It's a real 2 bears and a psychopath!
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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... |
| 0:31.8 | Got to write an intro for this topic. Anyway, I'm Tom Curry. |
| 0:36.4 | Joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. |
| 0:41.4 | How's it going? I didn't write my response either, so I don't know what to. |
| 0:45.1 | Hot hello. I can't believe you didn't write a response with that well-rehearsed and well-choreographed intro. |
| 0:51.1 | We did all those rehearsals. A lot of time to really prepare. |
| 0:55.1 | Everything I do is scripted. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm a lazy on your part, honestly. |
| 0:58.8 | So what's going on with these guys? |
| 1:02.3 | Gentlemen, can I talk to you about something that's a new experience in my life that I've |
| 1:05.9 | been having for the last couple of weeks? |
| 1:07.8 | So I want to be clear, I did not injure my neck, but I have a special neck pillow for special neck pillow boys. And it's shaped like my head. And it's got the two little divvets in it. And I put my head in it. It's perfect. Supports my neck. And because I'm, I'm so hard right now. As I'm getting ready to sleep, I sleep a net. You're talking to two other special neck boys right now. Tom, the most special of neck boys. Put my arm underneath it. I could sleep like that. That pillow stopped working about one month ago. What do you mean if stopped working? Stop working. Stop working. Stop. I wake up. Stop pillowing. And I wake up with a neckache and have a constant |
| 1:47.1 | neckache all day, every day. Oh, so you had one that worked. Oh, okay. I had one that I just did |
| 1:54.2 | as my like comfort thing, but it never worked. My neck still always. Oh, no, it worked. You had it |
| 1:58.4 | and lost it. That's much worse. Yeah. I'm just curious. Can either of you guys sleep without your arms falling asleep? I've discovered as I've gotten older that I have, there is no possibility for me to sleep without one or both of my arms falling asleep. Oh, man. I found a way around that, Tom, and it took half my adult life. literally please enlighten well so for me it was that |
| 2:19.7 | I needed to well okay what's your default this is really important stop everything else yeah what's your |
| 2:25.0 | default sleep position that's doing this is it on your back with your arms like up is that why side |
| 2:29.2 | side sleeper so where here's the thing going that the arm that is not underneath my body is the one that falls asleep. Yeah. Are you reaching it up? No, just laying it on my side. It's just like my arms just fucking falls asleep. It's a piece of shit. It's a fucking piece of shit. I have nothing to say. Never mind. You're just completely underline. Tom, I've always wondered this because I was looking for new pillows and I was unclear about terminology. When you say side sleeper, do you mean that your body is balanced on its edge? Or do you mean that you are lying on your stomach, but you are not facing entirely down? No, I'm on my side. |
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