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Dear Old Dads

DOD235: Passion or Pragmatism?

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8549 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Thomas shares something Arlo loves doing and has declared he'd like to do for a career and the dads dig into helping our kids navigate the choice between pursuing a passion or seeking stability. Stick around for the story at the end if you want to hear Eli's newest sadness earworm!

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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.

0:28.8

Welcome to dear old Dan's, the podcast that's not sure what it wants to be when it grows up.

0:33.8

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

0:38.6

Well, we can't do this. There's no fucking way. This is a dead end job. Podcasts. The podcast can't be a podcast. That's a fucking deadbeat job. There's no way. Well, Eli, you've got multiple jobs. When people ask you what you do for work, do you tell them that you do podcasting? No.

0:52.9

No. I do everything until they start waterboarding me.

0:56.4

That's the only time.

0:57.6

Yeah, I was curious because it does have, it's also got kind of like a negative cachet now, like a fucking white guy with a podcast. Yeah, from me. I've had that for a decade. Yeah. You got to fight through the I'm a white guy with a podcast, but I swear I don't sell

1:12.2

Omega Brain. Well, and I swear people actually listen to it. There's no upside to sharing what I do at all.

1:18.2

You got to fight through that. And then you get to the other side of that. And then you have,

1:21.8

they are like, what's the name of your podcast? And it's like, fuck the precious connection

1:25.7

between you and your grandma.

1:31.3

On my podcast, my podcast is called,

1:33.6

someone's going to come on your daughter's face one day.

1:35.0

You should check it out on iTunes.

1:36.0

It's a lot of fun.

1:39.7

I know I say this all the time, but it's so important to me.

1:43.7

People would rather live next to a child molester than an atheist.

2:01.8

A convicted child molester than an atheist. There's no worst title for my podcast. Now, I will say, here's one of the benefits is that occasionally someone will drag the title out of me and then I meet a fellow atheists. And they're like, oh, fuck, yeah, I'm an atheist, too. And I'm like, how cool is it?

2:02.5

The God is it real.

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