DOD24: Mental Illness and Accountability
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How should we deal with the fact that people who have caused us trauma clearly have issues of their own? What's the right balance of accountability, forgiveness, and willingness to cut people off?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:17.0 | 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. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's just getting into its own. I'm Tom Curry, and I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.4 | Hey, oh, how's it going? |
| 0:40.0 | I'm here. |
| 0:43.2 | Present. |
| 0:44.9 | Present. |
| 0:45.7 | Present. |
| 0:46.3 | Hey. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm editing in mine from earlier. |
| 0:50.2 | I don't know what Thomas is talking about. |
| 0:52.1 | This is one flowing take. And Thomas didn't have a good one. I'm leaving all of that now. That's all in. The whole thing. Ten seconds of silence. False art. That's it. It's a two-man show, Eli. I hope you got to like 33% more fucking material. You guys had that one classmate who did that, right? |
| 1:12.2 | I always did. |
| 1:13.2 | Like, even in Shetown, USA, there was that one nerd kid who was like, present. |
| 1:18.6 | And you're just like, why? |
| 1:20.6 | Thanks. |
| 1:21.3 | Yeah, awesome. |
| 1:22.3 | Who is that for? |
| 1:23.7 | What you're looking for, motherfucker is here. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah. |
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