DOD261: Does Inclusivity Have Limits?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A pair of topics for today! First - something awful happened at the BAFTAs and the dads dig into it. Who all messed up in that situation? Are we blaming Alan Cumming?! Is there actually a limit to inclusivity? Then - Tom shares some important and personal updates.
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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. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's not sure exactly what this episode's about. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello, Tomifer. Like, he doesn't even listen. I mean, he blacked out what I was saying. Yeah. I think the episode's going to be about hockey for some reason or maybe Trump. I'm not sure. Exactly. We got a. We got a focus board. I'm not sure that any of this has anything to do with parenting at all. |
| 0:56.8 | We got a lot of stuff to talk about. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm excited. A lot of stuff. We have so much stuff to talk about. I don't even know which thing for the pre-show banter we should even pre-show banter about. I don't even know. Well, gentlemen, let's start with what's going on in my life right now, because I am here in the center of Snowmageddon. |
| 1:14.4 | 17. Let's start with what's going on in my life right now because I am here in the center of Snowmageddon. |
| 1:14.4 | 17 inches of snow last night. |
| 1:19.0 | Quadruple what you were used to. |
| 1:21.5 | And they have closed my son's school for today. |
| 1:24.4 | And tomorrow they are talking about closing it for the entire week, to which I, as a parent, say, |
| 1:32.3 | no. |
| 1:32.5 | No. |
| 1:32.9 | You cannot. |
| 1:34.4 | I will not allow it. |
| 1:35.5 | You must take my son back from me after the second day. |
| 1:39.3 | And they say to me, Eli, the roads are dangerous. |
| 1:42.8 | It would literally cost lives, to which I say, the roads are dangerous. It would literally cost lives to which I say which lives. |
| 1:46.4 | Which ones? |
| 1:50.0 | That is what he said. |
| 1:51.3 | He had this conversation on the phone with us on the line. |
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