DOD245: I'd Say My Biggest Weakness Is Stupid Interview Questions
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
If you're in the market for some fatherly advice from the dudes about interviewing for jobs, you're in luck! Listen in to hear the dads debate questions like, what do you do in the face of stupid interview questions?
And in the very special, patron-only bonus at the end, we share an email from ABSOLUTE LEGENDS - the parents from sex doll gate aka the episode that sent Eli to an earlyish grave.
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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. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's walking right out of this interview. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, |
| 0:39.7 | hello. Hello. I'm excited, by the way, and we'll get into it after our banter, but like, |
| 0:45.0 | I'm excited to do this episode because I've been the guy doing interviews for such a long time |
| 0:50.6 | that this is going to be a really fun topic. Dear God, I hate that. |
| 0:54.7 | Interviewing people? Yes. Fucking worst. Yeah. I'd rather fire a hundred people than hire a long. Well, okay, I don't know if I'm evil like you. That's a long. For me, I think it might come from a different place. Like, I feel like compassion or whatever. So like, I feel bad about how shitty everyone is. Because imagine Eli's impression of me, which is my internal monologue. |
| 1:14.3 | Hey, nice again. whatever. So like, I feel bad about how shitty everyone is. Because imagine Eli's impression |
| 1:12.3 | of me, which is my internal monologue. Hey, how's the going. And someone comes in. You can't have the |
| 1:18.6 | job because you're so fat. They just suck. Like, they're just not good at answering the questions |
| 1:25.1 | or anything. Like, when I had to do interviews at the state, we were trying to find somebody to do the kind of data stuff that I was doing, which is, admittedly, it was a little weird for the state. Like, if we were a tech company, it would have made perfect sense. There would have been a ton of good applicants. But we were kind of trying to do tech company stuff at the state in a way that wasn't really even like authorized for a while. |
| 1:45.7 | So it was a weird thing, admittedly. So we had to go through tons of applicants that were just |
| 1:49.8 | nothing. They were nowhere. Obviously, we put it all in the description. Like, we put it all |
| 1:54.5 | where someone could read it if they read it. Nobody read it. Not a single person. |
| 1:59.6 | I just click apply on everything. |
| 2:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.7 | The problem, Thomas, is like if you only showed up to jobs where you fit every part of the |
| 2:06.9 | criteria, almost nobody would ever apply for a job. |
| 2:10.2 | That's fair. |
| 2:10.9 | So you've got to show up and be like, look, I'm going to let you. |
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