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

I know 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 wants to know, why are you mad at me?

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, hello.

Well, I like that you're teasing the topic that we might get to. Yeah. Look, here's the thing.

I write two little intros on this piece of paper and I'm going to use them, God damn. That's right.

That's it. Maybe we're mad at you because you're gay. It works in so many different dimensions. It's fine. I had a student come out to his parents this year and his parents were cool and it made me so happy. Oh, that's nice. He was like, oh, tough weekend at coming ahead. And I was like, oh, yeah, what's up? Party in two hard. And he was like, I'm coming out to my parents. And they're really religious Catholics.

And I was like, ah, ha, ha.

Yeah, what even say?

Why?

I hope they don't deserve to die.

Oh, boy.

They were fine.

They were awesome, apparently.

They were like, cool. i like the stories you hear

where the parents were like yeah man we fucking know yeah like oh they have to pretend oh i love that

like elize's theater student is surprising anybody right yeah yeah to be fair to be fair have you

seen the video of the little he's got the little like bangs over his eyes and he's telling his big southern mom.

And she's like, honey, you're fine.

Like he fell and she's convincing him he's not hurt bad.

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