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Dear Old Dads

DOD264: Choice Paralysis Analysis

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tom gives us a health update of his own that is WILD and exactly what we've come to expect and love about our Tom; then, the dads answer a listener email involving choice paralysis and how to help our kids, if it's something they experience, through it. Personally, I blame the Grail Knight scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for mine. "He chose...poorly."

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Transcript

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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.

0:28.9

Welcome to Dear Old Dan's, the podcast that's not quite sure what it's about. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, hello.

0:40.2

Let's talk about you quitting caffeine. You said it before. I'm dying.

0:43.6

How anyone could survive that and why you would do that to yourself.

0:48.9

So I, just to set the stage here, the maximum daily allowance for caffeine that is safe for most people

0:56.7

is about 400 milligrams.

0:58.2

Is it where Tom's going to tell us we're all doing something wrong or something?

1:01.0

No, no, I'll tell you like how bad this was.

1:03.7

Yeah, no, this is definitely Tom about to tell us, and exponentially speaking.

1:09.7

So about 400 milligrams is the maximum amount of caffeine that you're supposed to drink in any given day.

1:15.9

Your average cup of coffee, about 80 milligrams.

1:19.2

So you can have, you know, pretty good amount of coffee, about five, six cups of coffee,

1:23.1

depending on the strength and how it's brewed and everything.

1:26.1

I have been consuming for years somewhere around a gram of caffeine a day.

1:32.2

So about two and a half times.

1:33.6

So between 10 and 12 cups of coffee a day.

1:36.2

So I typically, well, you know, like life is a little hard.

1:40.8

Life is a little tough.

1:42.2

Sure.

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