DOD242: When Kid-Friends are Fighting and Your Child Might Be the Issue
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After some quick Thanksgiving plans chat, Thomas recounts a tough parenting situation that he and Lydia experienced recently in which they had to simultaneously consider their child implicated in the mess, the friendships at stake, and the interpersonal challenge with other parents involved.
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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 Playing Nice. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Give me the podcast. I want to play with it all by myself. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey, we haven't talked about this. I wanted to bring this up. Are you guys excited for Thanksgiving? |
| 0:48.8 | Because we're recording right before. We're not going to record the week of Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. I'm wondering |
| 0:54.1 | what you guys are doing for Thanksgiving. I'll give the easy answer. I am headed once again |
| 0:58.7 | to Rock City. I'm talking, of course, about Cleveland, Ohio, the greatest city in these fine |
| 1:05.3 | United States where I will be visiting my entire extended family on my father's side. |
| 1:10.7 | Three generations, we have folks coming from California, folks coming from Pennsylvania, |
| 1:16.4 | folks coming from all the way at the tippy top of Maine, all gathering in one place to eat |
| 1:22.0 | nutloaf and celebrate the one thing that we all have in common, the last name of a man who we're all related to. |
| 1:30.1 | Did you say they eat nutloaf? I think you've described this before. Yes, I can't call anything |
| 1:33.6 | nutloaf. Sorry. This is a yearly tradition here on dear old dads, which is I remind you guys what my |
| 1:38.2 | Thanksgiving is like. And you guys hate it. So my aunt and uncle who host... Can I just fuck a body pillow instead of learning about nutloaf? |
| 1:46.9 | No, I've tried that before, but if it's a strong no from my family, let me tell you. |
| 1:51.5 | So my aunt and uncle are lay Buddhist priests in the Zazan tradition, and so they are vegetarians. |
| 1:58.6 | And so instead of turkey or chicken, although when my grandfather was alive, her dad, we did go to the store and we would buy like a little bit of turkey. |
| 2:08.5 | And he would just have it in a plastic container. |
| 2:11.5 | It was the only time meat ever entered their house. |
| 2:13.8 | And he would just be like, yeah, you can't have Thanksgiving without turkey. |
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