I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.

I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.

I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired.

Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy.

Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's not sure who its birth parents are. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. You wish, Tom, you. How desperately you wish. Still alive. I know. That lady is still alive, I think. I haven't checked in in a few weeks, but she's still, I believe, I think I would have told me. No, I think the world will do some kind of celebration.

You know, everyone, you occasionally run across those memes that are like, what are you going to do when it happens and everyone means when Trump dies? That's how I feel about when Tom's mob dies. Do you feel like you can't even entertain the thought of Trump dying? Because it's like, I'm not, you know what I'm? man, I'm trying to explain this feeling.

Like, it's not, and not, you know what I'm, man, I'm trying

to explain this feeling. Like it's not, we'll get to it when we get to it. You know, I can't get excited about it, you know, I just can't. It's too good a thing. It'll be like, what about when they redistribute all the wealth? Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen. So maybe that's it. Now I'm curious.

I want to ask you guys this on air.

This is a great segue.

Are you guys, stay optimistic, be optimistic, or hope for the best, expect the worst people? Stay optimistic, be optimistic. Really? Yeah. I actually can't. I'm not sure. I'm trying to think of how I, I think I, I don't know. I need an example. Well, I'll give you an example. So Haley is having surgery in like a little less than two weeks now, right? And Tom is already wearing all black. No, fuck you, no. I loved you so much. I'm right here. I'm just saying I'm positive. So I am as a personality, like I am optimistic, I am hopeful, I'm excited for,

like we have a solution in place, right? You know, like, I'm, it's like, I am excited for what's

next right. But other than that, you're hilarious. I do expect to be, but doesn't bother me.

Like, we're human beings. We're going to hurt sometimes. It's not upsetting to me. But like Haley will not let herself be excited. She is a person who is like, I'm going to

decide ahead of time that this probably won't work. And then if it does work, I'll be happy.

But if it doesn't work, I won't be so distressed if it doesn't work. And I found like just

kind of poking around that that is a fucking line.

Like, people tend to be hard one or hard the other way.

I mean, one is very clearly correct.

And then whenever you talk to someone who's the incorrect one, they're like, well, actually,

um, that's wrong. And you're like, oh, okay. Well, I don't know. I don't know that one is correct or not. Oh, it's the optimism one. It's the optimism one. They've done a tremendous amount of studies of this. It doesn't matter how many bad things happen to you. It doesn't matter what your life circumstances are. Positive outlooks are better for your mental health.

You handle challenges.

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