DOD262: Rent's Due, Kiddo
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The dads dive into a question that they saw in the super fun Facebook group that you should definitely join - is it okay to charge your kid rent while they live in your house after 18 years old? What about if they're 30? And at market rates?
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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. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that wants its check on the first. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.5 | Can you imagine me making a demand like that? |
| 0:42.7 | Can you imagine me trying to tell someone to have something right on the, like, on time? |
| 0:48.1 | No, I just realized that there must be times in your life when people are late and rude and you just have to be like, well, |
| 0:55.5 | here we are. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.9 | 445. |
| 0:59.3 | I guess we'll go to a different movie. |
| 1:02.5 | Yeah, it depends on how bad it is. |
| 1:04.5 | That's the other thing is like dealing with other people with ADHD, the times that they're |
| 1:09.4 | worse than you, it bothers you even more. |
| 1:28.2 | Because you're like, can you fucking, like, come on. We all, yeah. Have you ever seen that meme online? Oh my God, you people can't do anything? Yeah. It's that. It's, oh, my God, us people can't do anything. But this brings up a very interesting question. And don't take this as an attack. Open your heart, Thomas. When someone is late to you, as an ADD person who, like all ADD people, has the most bat-shit explanation |
| 1:37.2 | for lateness that isn't, I don't care about you. What do you think? Like, when someone shows up at |
| 1:42.5 | 4.45 for the 3 o'clock movie, are you just like, man, fuck it traffic, am I right? Or do you think? Like when someone shows up at 4.45 for the 3 o'clock movie, are you just like, man, fucking traffic, am I right? Or do you have a separate thing that you project onto another mind? Oh, I don't know. It's usually... You're late, too. You're there at 450. Yeah, I feel like reject the premise. Thomas, yeah, Thomas Smith has never, he would have to notice that somebody else was late. |
| 2:02.3 | That's true. |
| 2:02.8 | He's already in the three o'clock movie. |
| 2:05.0 | Oh, no. |
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