DOD233: This Is Your Brain on Sports

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Our dudes gather today to talk about what obligation parents have to decline their children opportunities in sports that have a high risk of brain injury and possible development of CTE. Is there a middle ground, where they can play things like football and soccer up to a certain level, before it gets dangerous - or is it always too risky?

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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	Let's see how long it takes me to remember what we're doing for this one.
0:32.3	I'm just like my memory is so bad.
0:34.6	Let's not tell him.
0:35.4	What did we agree to? Eli, let's not tell him the whole episode.
0:40.1	Look, I know it.
0:41.0	I know it.
0:41.7	Say one of the letters.
0:42.9	Yeah, do it. Go for it. No, don't let him work on anything. Just start right away because he's going to check the slack. But if you just start. You know, me. Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that Thomas totally knows what it's about.
0:53.6	I'm Tom Curry.
0:54.4	I'm joined as always by Eli Bosnick and Thomas Smith.
0:57.0	Hello, gentlemen.
0:58.0	I'm Tom Curry.
0:54.4	I'm joined as always by Eli Bosnick and Thomas Smith.
0:57.0	Hello, gentlemen.
0:58.0	I'm barely here.
0:58.8	Hi.
1:00.2	Man, I'd love to talk about today's topic, but I need Thomas to jog my memory.
1:06.7	Yeah.
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