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Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
WAIT. NOW TOM'S GONE?! Lydia sneaks on the show as Thomas shares an important Smith Family update (IT'S NOT A FOURTH KID). Eli, Thomas, and Lydia discuss how to support kids through loss, especially when grief (or not grief?) may look different for each of your children.
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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. |
| 0:22.9 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.2 | All right, Tom. |
| 0:29.7 | Welcome to Deerodaz, the podcast that's, |
| 0:34.3 | oh, fuck, the beginning of our show. |
| 0:37.4 | Oh, I forgot once again, the beginning of our show. Oh, I forgot once again, the beginning of our show. |
| 0:42.4 | Oh, no. |
| 0:45.1 | It's because I'm here once a fortnight. |
| 0:47.9 | I've forgotten this thing. |
| 0:50.0 | I could say whatever I created this intro. |
| 0:52.6 | I didn't have to do this. |
| 1:27.5 | Whenever anyone in podcasting has a fill in the blank intro, I'm like, you stupid piece of shit. All right, no one else talk, as in Lydia, don't talk. We'll get Lydia's laughter from the Zencaster, and then I'm going to make a hair sure. Well, you're not normally in this. I hit record and then it took me a second and realized you're not in the slate of recording. And now we're recording, Lydia. Now we're recording. Do your makeup laughs. Low-res laughs. Eli actually insists you get a clean laugh at his joke for the... That's important. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah. I think that's fair. |
| 1:29.5 | I think that's fair. We spent the first 20 minutes of every record laughing in 32-bit at my bits, at my jokes, |
| 1:35.3 | and then everything else is proxy media. |
| 1:41.1 | One-eighth size proxy media. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick, joined, always by Thomas Smith and sometimes by Lydia Smith. |
| 1:49.6 | Thomas, Lydia, welcome to the show. |
| 1:52.6 | Hi. |
| 1:52.9 | You know, I am sometimes. |
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