DOD254: Barking Up the Wrong Family Tree
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Following an update on Tom's mom's overseas end-of-life saga, the dads discuss a listener email about genealogy, family trees, and shared family history. Do you feel connected to stories from your ancestral lineage just because they are "family"?
To close the episode, Eli shares a story of personal growth; and for the patrons, a Smith kid milestone! It's not a baby announcement, don't worry.
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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. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's still ticking somehow. I don't know. I'm |
| 0:34.8 | Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Eli Bosnick and Thomas Smith. Hello, gentlemen. I know that's going to make sense in the context of our pre-show chatter, but I love the idea that you just hate being on our fucking podcast. No, I love my podcast. Someone's first episode. Well, you know, that's not what I'm at. I want to stop hitting my wife and learn how to be a better day. just like, ah, fuck it. And the guys like, no, I was on the right track. |
| 1:12.6 | I love this show. I took it a different way, which is, it is surprising that none of us have died yet. Like, it just seems kind of, I don't know, odds wise. Spoilers for when Tom dies. Oh, you're right, sorry. I'm going to get in that anyway. I was just trying to do some foreshadowing. |
| 1:27.8 | Here's the thing. When I die, it's going to be sad, but everybody can go on, which is cool. There are people in the podcast of hers who can die and everybody gets to keep podcasting, which is cool. But when Tom dies, we're going to have to admit that he's happier. And I don't know how we play that in the air. |
| 1:31.0 | Appropriately. |
| 1:33.0 | How soon do we sub in Haley? |
| 1:36.2 | Pretty much immediately, I would think. |
| 1:37.7 | Haley's new show, Witch Fingers. |
| 1:40.6 | What? |
| 1:40.7 | Witch fingers? |
| 1:41.8 | What? |
| 1:42.2 | Yeah, she just describes different superstitions that we have to follow. |
| 1:45.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:50.2 | All right, so I want to give a quick update because I think this is fucking insane. |
| 1:54.2 | So. |
| 1:54.3 | Mom days, 26. |
| 1:56.4 | Moms clock or whatever. |
| 1:58.6 | 2026, 7. |
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