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Dear Old Dads

DOD232: New Kids on the Roblox

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times' recently ran a piece where they just get it completely wrong (surprise) on tackling security issues with Roblox and other online offerings after some particularly troubling incidents connected to the game. Eli comes prepped with an analogy that makes way more sense as we chat about the inevitability of our kids being in online spaces. How three bears is this one going 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Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's not yet been replaced by AI. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Oh, Tom,

0:40.2

when I replace you with AI, he won't ever admit it. You know, it's so funny because like when

0:46.8

AI, I just tell us this story real quick, when AI first started to roll out and you start to see

0:52.1

and you're like, oh man, like it kind of sucks now, but you can sort of see how it could become this really huge big deal thing. And I'm like, man, this is going to change a lot of lives and like throw people out of work. And, you know, I just read something the other day. Like Ford's like, ah, like 50% of white collar jobs are going away. I've been using AI more and more over the last two or three months. Like I use it every day now for a few things. It is so unbelievably bad. Yeah. I can't even tell you. I'm going to grouse about AI in a funny way real quick. I decided... Old man yells at the cloud. Am I right? Old man yells at the cloud. Here we go.

1:44.1

Haley and I decided that like as part of my, like, my retirement podcast is just going to be to, because we'll all be old as fuck at some point. Like, we're not going to be relevant anymore. I'm just going to have a show. Already now. Old men yell at clouds. And that's it. we're just going to fucking shake our fists in the air on microphone,

1:46.5

which isn't so much different than what this is about to be.

1:47.2

But I... That's what I'm saying.

1:48.0

That's, And that's it. We're just going to fucking shake our fists in the air on microphone, which isn't so much different than what this is about to be.

1:46.6

but I that's what I'm saying that's now Tom we're in now we're right here so I was going to buy this program this workout program and I looked at it as like an online personal training thing you know it's pretty expensive like $60 a month or something but I'm kind of stuck and I'm kind of bored.

2:01.3

I don't know what you guys, but I fucking hate doing my own programming. It's like the least fun thing about working out for me. I don't like it. Oh, not programming like coding. You mean like? Yeah, like programming my workouts. Wait, what does that mean? Sorry. Oh, just scheduling them out? Well, no, like figuring out what you're going to do at what weights and how you're going to like map your progression so that you're doing that progressive overload.

2:21.4

Oh, yeah.

2:21.7

Isn't the AI? That would be something to be good at, wouldn't it? Well, so here's what I thought. So I was like, I was going to buy this program. I've read a lot of good things about it. I was like, that's fucking expensive. So I was like, well, I'll use AI.

2:30.8

I've been using AI for a whole bunch of stuff for my day job.

2:33.6

I'm trying to get better and better at it, trying to learn it, trying to use it more and more.

2:36.7

So I'm like, I'll use AI. I've been using AI for a whole bunch of stuff for my day job. I'm trying to get better and better at it, trying to learn it and trying to use it more and more. So I'm like, I'll use AI to do it. I go through this whole process of telling AI what my limitations are, what my weights are, what equipment I have. We build this whole workout program. I look at it and I'm like, this actually looks pretty fucking great. Like this looks great. It all checks out. It all makes sense. I start going through it for the last few weeks.

2:53.7

Does one lift is back. look at it and I'm like, this actually looks pretty fucking great. Like, this looks great. It all checks out. It all makes sense.

2:51.3

I start going through it for the last few weeks.

2:53.7

Does one lift his back breaks in half? I was like, damn it. AI. So I go through it and every day, I log what I have done, right? So I tell it like, okay, here's what I've done. And one day I had a really bad workout. I had a really bad workout.

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