DOD267: When Your Partner Needs an Abortion

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The dads continue visiting topics that haven't received the proper Dear Old Dads treatment. Beyond the position of "being pro-choice", how else can you show up for your partner when they are considering (and perhaps get) an abortion?

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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.
0:28.4	Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's a brick, and we're drowning slowly. I'm Tom Curry.
0:33.7	I'm joined as always.
0:34.9	Thank you. Thomas Smith and Eli Bosick. That's for you, Thomas. That's for you, buddy.
0:39.1	I was going to write the podcast that's happy to write this check, but, you know.
0:43.2	Oh, that's good. That's good. Nobody uses checks, so is this a metaphorical check? It's a metaphorical check.
0:50.5	The podcast is ready to hand you this mimeogram.
0:55.7	Fifteen, there's still time for you.
1:00.2	Five for fighting and Ben Folds are the same band.
1:02.4	They're all the same men.
1:04.0	Dame Matthews band, same bands.
1:05.9	Fashioned pumpkin, same band.
1:07.6	They're all the same band.
1:09.1	Now you're just being fucking stupid.
1:10.6	What is happening in your mind?
1:12.2	It was funny and plausible at the first one.
1:16.9	That's nothing.
1:17.8	What you're doing now is nothing.
1:19.8	Do you know who the smashing pumpkins are?
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