DOD252: Choosing Between Career and Family
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The dads get together (OR DO THEY) to answer a listener question about making choices between career and family. How do you make decisions between the two when they absolutely affect the other? We know the toxic concept thrust onto women that "they can have it all," but is there also a version of this targets men?
In the patron-only bonus segment, check out how pillar-of-the-atheist-podcast-community Eli Bosnick totally fumbled atheism.
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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 that's always only had two hosts. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always with no exceptions by Eli Bosnick. Hello, |
| 0:39.1 | Eli. Hello, Tom Curry, who's also here 100% of the time. I love that as the least |
| 0:46.7 | reliable member of the cast, I'm throwing shade. I love that like, of all the three of us, |
| 0:51.6 | I'm like, I can't make it it again and I'm throwing fucking shade right now |
| 0:55.9 | look you gotta take your wins where you can |
| 0:58.1 | get them you know even if they're illusory |
| 0:59.8 | even illusory wins those are |
| 1:01.9 | the most important wins if you learn anything |
| 1:04.3 | they're the only wins I'm getting these days |
| 1:07.1 | so I gotta fucking make them up as I go |
| 1:10.2 | yeah exactly what are we fucking sit around waiting for real wins? I will say audience, I know that you're all very upset that Thomas Smith isn't here. We're upset that Thomas Smith isn't here. We suspect he'll be here again, but we don't know. You know, he could appear, he could disappear. You never know. He's a busy man. He's got shit going on. He's got |
| 1:28.5 | priorities. We don't know what they are, but they're not the show. Yeah, exactly. They're not us. |
| 1:33.1 | Before we dive in, Tom, would you like to place, knowing Thomas as well as we do, as his |
| 1:38.1 | best friends in the entire world, what would you like to wager is happening that Thomas is not |
| 1:43.5 | here on our radio program right now? |
| 1:47.1 | All right. |
| 1:47.8 | Well, let's see. |
| 1:48.6 | We're recording this at 12.15. |
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