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 Dan's, the podcast where one on the three of us doesn't have sick kids.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli

Bosnick and I'm going to knock on wood here before Haley yells at me so she knows that I did that.

Hello gentlemen. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't try and coax me away from that. Is Haley a

wood knocker? Oh my God. We got to stop everything and talk about superstitions. Yes. The only thing I care about.

This is all I can.

So we went down this, just maybe like six weeks ago, we went down this like long

ass rabbit hole.

Haley is really superstitious.

She's got the knock on wood that throws salt over your shoulder, the don't split

the pole when you're walking when you're holding hands.

There's all these superstitions, none of which, none of which I knew until she and I got together, none of which. So I'm saying stuff and she's giving me this fucking look and she's like, knock on wood. I'm like, what are you talking about? Are you talking about? Throwing salt, like not splitting the pole when you walk hands. Like,, so it turns out she's from the Hudson Valley area of New York.

I had no idea that like a lot of the superstitions that are a part of our area and specifically a part of her area are Scottish superstitions that come from the Appalachian region.

And the Appalachian region is wildly superstitious. Like, you can't open the door at night if somebody knocks on the door and you can't like whistle in the dark. And there's like a million of them. And like I'm laughing. We're looking all of these up and he was like, I would never. If there was a circle of stones in the woods, she's like I would would never go in that circle. And I'm like, what are you talking about? There's like all of these things. And like so many of them, she's just like internalized. Yeah. And then the kids have internalized. And her mom was visiting at the same time we were having this conversation. And her mom has internalized. Like these superstitions are wildly unconscious, but like Haley is an incredibly rational person

who is like, yeah, we are not doing these things.

Like we are 100% just not going to do those things.

I grew up not doing those things.

We are not doing those things.

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