I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.

I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.

I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired.

Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy.

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's hunting for a good intro. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.

Hello, gentlemen.

A Ching, ching, ching, ching, Merry Christmas. What? It's December 1st. It is December 1st. They know what that means. Advent calendars? That's right. Wow. Advent calendars of Advent calendars. Did you guys put your trees up? Of course.

No.

Jesus Christ.

What is happening?

The kids were hungry. of Advent calendars. Did you guys put your trees up? Of course. No. Jesus Christ, what is happening?

The kids were home for nine straight days through Thanksgiving and we're coming out of a war. Like we're just like, what? And the end of the month coincided with that. Our horrendous work thing.

His children could have been at boarding school for the last seven years, and he'd be like, I fucking leaned a ruler up against the fucking stairs on December 27th. Amazing Christmas trees I'll have you know. Do you remember last year when, like, every year for the past... Well, I don't even know. It's been a while. a while each year i'm like i could go bigger on the

christmas tree oh oh oh you get a real tree we get a fucking massive tree i like i started

bragging and then each year yeah i'll fucking brag about it what are you gonna do about it each year

i get a smaller girthier tree but whatever there's nothing technically stopping me from getting a bigger tree.

Like each year.

But like I'm still like, okay, I can't go too big.

You know, but each year I'm going like another foot.

Because we have this weird layout where our main room that we put it in, it doesn't have like the first floor of it.

So it's like our two story house.

It's got one big room. Right. And it's a weird design. It's echoy. And I don't love it except it has the benefit of I can put such a fucking huge ass tree in there. And so each year I'm like a little bigger. I ask the guy too at the Christmas tree place we go to. I've got to. here's how much I like this whole thing to perhaps go a different direction than you might think of me. I've got a Christmas tree place that we found when we got a year. Oh, you got a guy. Yeah, I got a guy. And there's one that I saw that was closer. I was like, I don't care. We've gone to this one for five years now or whatever. It's been you strap it to the roof of your car and drive it? What I was going to say is they strap it.

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