DOD239: Fake It Till You Make It
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A listener email sparks a discussion among the dudes about encouraging and supporting your kids' interests, especially when that interest is ABSOLUTELY not your cup of tea. How should we approach initiating interest-exploration for our kids, and what do we do if once they've found something they love, we actually can't stand it?
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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. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast where we all liked Breakfast to Tiffany's. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hey, I don't know if you've seen Breakfast the Tiffany's. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, |
| 0:38.8 | gentlemen. Hey, I don't know if you've seen Breakfast the Tiffany's lately, but I would like to |
| 0:43.1 | firmly distance myself from Mickey Rooney's performance in Breakfast to Tiffany's. Wait, is that a |
| 0:50.1 | problematic movie now? Yeah. I don't remember the movie well enough to know that it was problematic, but I mean, I'm referring obviously to the song. Oh, I know you are. I, this is very important to me. I hate to do like a tech call mid-show, especially because it's already difficult for Thomas to do tech today. I would like us collectively, I would like someone to go on YouTube and type in Mickey Rooney, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and then I would like our audience to hear that clip as well as us reacting to that clip. |
| 1:21.8 | It's spiritually important to me. |
| 1:24.0 | I bet it's fine. |
| 1:25.0 | I bet it's totally, totally cashmoh. Oh, no, I think I remember |
| 1:29.9 | this scene. I'm not even going to do that just in case. I know what you're talking about, |
| 1:32.9 | Eli. It's oh, yeah. Yeah. Yikes. Well, I like large parts of breakfast to Tiffany's. |
| 1:40.9 | I like still images of Audrey Hepburn. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.2 | I like the juice and eggs. |
| 1:47.4 | I like the juice and eggs. |
| 1:48.6 | The toast is a problem, though. I will say the toast. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.9 | The toast is a problem. |
| 1:51.1 | Not so good. |
| 1:52.2 | Honestly, just to watch Tom, |
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