DOD260: You're a Lefty but Your Kid Wants to Join the Military
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
We have a listener question that asks something very reasonable: so many in this podcastiverse community are pretty left, and have strong feelings about the United States military and various federal agencies. What if our kids wanted to pursue careers in those fields? Would we stop them? But first, please enjoy a ridiculous story from Thomas and Lydia's Valentine's Day evening (safe for work). And only the patrons get exclusive cooking insight from Donovan at the end of this episode!
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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. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to Dear Old Dan's The Podcast. It definitely should read some reviews before it chooses a date movie. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:39.5 | Why, that's so specific. |
| 0:41.4 | How was I supposed to know what Schindler's list was a list of? |
| 0:44.7 | I thought it was about grocery shopping. |
| 0:46.9 | A list of good things about his wife. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm pro-choice. |
| 0:51.3 | Why would Sophie's choice be a sad? |
| 0:54.6 | Have you guys seen the movie Kids? Yes. |
| 0:57.4 | Kids is not a good date movie. |
| 0:59.7 | It is an aggressively bad date movie. |
| 1:03.8 | And like when I was in high school, there was this girl I had a crazy crush on. |
| 1:07.3 | We kind of had this like, will-they won't-they thing going on. |
| 1:10.6 | We were very much friends and she would kind of flirt and then kind of back off like, will-day, won't-they thing going on. We were very much friends, |
| 1:11.5 | and she would kind of flirt and then kind of back off and it was all very weird. But like, we were hanging out in my buddy's basement and, like, we're sitting there and she was like leaned up against me and like I had my arm around her. And I'm like, hey, like, this is getting comfortable, you know, like finally. |
| 1:25.3 | And then my buddy's like, hey, let's watch a movie. |
| 1:27.1 | And I'm like, yeah, great idea. |
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