DOD237: How Many Net Productivity Units Are Your Friendships Providing
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode centers on the importance of friendship despite what dude self-help spaces might tell you. Also more hot takes that the dads dig into include: being vulnerable enough to apologize when you've wrongly let a friendship go, and whether or not you can truly build friendships in online communities. No way you get this kind of content from the anti-friendship dude-bros trying to sell you their course on crypto! But first, some brilliant tattoo discussion.
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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 Dan's, the podcast that just needs an excuse. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.0 | I don't know what that means. I'm going to always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. I don't know what that means. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm going to do another I have head trauma and forgot what the topic is. |
| 0:44.0 | What is that? |
| 0:46.3 | It is a not so subtle lead-in to the topic, I promise. |
| 0:49.8 | I promise. |
| 0:50.2 | I do try to make them reasonably thematic. |
| 0:53.9 | Do you guys think listeners will be mad at us when it's eventually revealed that Thomas has |
| 0:57.8 | terrible early onset dementia? |
| 1:00.0 | I think they're going to be mad at us when they're like, he didn't remember what episodes |
| 1:04.2 | were about 40 seconds. |
| 1:05.5 | But once we announced Tom also does. |
| 1:07.0 | After you had signed them, yeah. |
| 1:09.6 | No, that's fair. |
| 1:10.4 | I, dudes, I have a fucking crazy day today. I'm the only reason I'm going to talk about it is because it is family related. It is, like, related to topics we talk about in the show. So we're, of course, going to QED as we're recording. We're flying out tomorrow, and I already hate it. And I, as in, I can't wait to be at QED. I hate the fact that I have to fly for 32 fucking hours, whatever God, God knows how long it is. I don't function on planes. I don't sleep on planes. It's agony to me. The difference between the people like Lydia who sleep on a plane and the people like me who can't, I might as well be in hell for a while. And then she comes out of it and is like, oh, how are you doing? I'm like, I literally went through a trauma. She sleeps through hell. Yeah. Like it's, it's, well, oh, it's like fucking the space movie with the guy, Nolan, where they, where they go to the planet. And then the guy's, exactly. And then the guy is like, it's been 25 years or whatever. |
| 2:04.8 | It's that. Remember the relativity thing where the guy turns old on the ship? That's exactly what |
| 2:09.4 | it is where she'll wake up and I'll be like, oh, oh, it's so nice to see you. So nice to lay |
| 2:16.5 | eyes on you. |
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