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Dear Old Dads

DOD255: Talk About Body Talk

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Y2K aesthetic is back beyond just butterfly clips and low-rise jeans, and #skinnytok is making sure our kids know it. How do we talk about bodies with our kids in healthy, positive ways? And how does that fit in a world where we've intentionally tried to stop commenting on other people's bodies entirely?

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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.

0:28.4

Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's chic as heroin. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

0:37.9

Hello. Hey, gentlemen. Hello.

0:38.9

Hey, folks out there, if you're sucking dick for our podcast, you're doing too much, okay?

0:43.4

Can I just say, we're giving this bad boy away for free?

0:46.7

That's a tier that we didn't advertise necessarily on our Patreon, but, you know.

0:51.1

Oh, yeah, if you want to suck a dick for our Patreon content, that's between you and that monopoly money guy who I picture representing capitalism.

1:00.0

You guys are quite a bit younger than I am. So like the heroin chic tread was not really a part of your lives, right? I did not understand what you were talking about in the address.

1:08.4

There's no reason Thomas would ever be in touch with culture in any.

1:13.3

Okay, but Eli, if I was aware of a cultural touch, though, that's like, it rises to a pretty significant level.

1:19.8

No, but it was a bad thing, so it probably happened to you.

1:22.8

I mentioned at some point in third grade, someone came in and they were like hey kid start doing heroin it's

1:28.4

heroin sheik also there's a thing where if you're give this to anyone else if tom was young enough

1:33.5

like you kind of had to participate in culture until you can become a conscientious objector like

1:37.9

later in life you know i feel like as a kid that is very true culture stuff that i didn't

1:42.3

necessarily know about you know later right and later you could just kind of drop out of life. And it's great. Like, the more I drop out, the happier I am, actually. Yeah, just doing heroin by myself over here. Don't know anything about it being chic or whatever. Sheik as fuck, though. You know, like I'm accidentally chic as fuck. Everyone eventually does heroin by themselves.

2:06.9

You guys never did a lot of cocaine, but there's a real moment the first time you do cocaine by yourself.

2:10.0

And you're just like, because it's me and cocaine time.

2:12.3

Now, two things happen at that point.

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