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Dear Old Dads

DOD259: If I Publicly Humiliate Us Both Will You Take Me Back???

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A stunning press moment at the Olympics has the dads discussing "grand gestures" in romantic relationships. Does anyone ever actually want to be on the receiving end of one of those, or are they primarily done for the benefit of the person "giving" them? And in the patron exclusive bonus, hear how Tom's kids absolutely blew the rest of us out of the water for Valentine's Day.

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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...

0:31.6

That's in love with you. That's in love with you. Melissa, if you're listening, go to... I have a Times Square right now. I have a big sign. I paid for a shit. I already ran out of time. I can only pay for like three seconds. I got that five-minute billboard that all the white supremacists get for their podcast. I'm old. I was going to say the podcast holding a boom box outside your window, but, you know, that's all right. Is that a grand gesture? That's like a, I don't know. It's a weird. It's a weirdo behavior. Yeah, for the pores. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joining Thomas Smith and Eli Bostic. Yeah, like grand gestures are fucking bizarre. Can we just talk real quick about the Olympic.

1:11.4

Have you guys been watching the Olympics at all?

1:12.8

Olympic hockey, baby.

1:14.0

You've been watching Olympic hockey.

1:15.3

If you want to have one remaining thing to be proud of the U.S. for,

1:19.3

it's U.S. women's hockey is so good, so fucking good.

1:23.7

They've allowed one goal.

1:25.7

They've shut out five teams in a row.

1:28.2

We beat Canada.

1:29.5

The place where hockey is, we beat Canada five to nothing.

1:33.9

Stomped them.

1:34.6

It wasn't even close.

1:36.3

The U.S. women's hockey team is the best team of anything ever.

1:40.2

Like, it's amazing.

1:41.7

Really?

1:42.1

Having said that, the gold medal game is on this Thursday. I don't know when this comes out, but it's on Thursday. It will be funny if Canada stomps us and I've oversold it. Haley and I try to watch the Olympics. She has some things that she likes to watch, and I'll watch them with her because I'm just like, yeah, if you like it, we'll watch it. So we watch the figure skating stuff. Like we watched most of the men's figure skating. And like the buildup was like, this guy is going to be great. He's like this never before. He's the only person he can do this stuff. It's going to be amazing. And then he fucking totally choked like he got in his head. And he totally choked. And I felt so bad for that guy. I was like, oh, it wasn't at all a good time. Like I was like, oh, I can't wait to see him do. And none of it looks like anything to me either because everything, they're like, oh, he totally fucked that up. And I'm like, sure did. Piece of shit. Sure to that fucking asshole. I can tell him someone fell, but when they're like, he does this better than everyone, I'm like, wow, it looks like he jumped up and then he landed. He sure was spinning. He missed a quarter of a rotation on that quadruple sow cow. And I'm like, I think I had beef sow cow for dinner. I don't even know what this is about. You know what you're going to?

2:52.1

The fucking the gymnastics and the skating, they both have the same situation,

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