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 Dad's, the podcast that's pretty sure you've wasted your life. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Wait, but you already did the

intro for this one last time. Are we still one in the future? No, I just wanted everybody to know that I'm

pretty sure they've wasted their lives. Yeah, that was actually really personal. And when a podcaster's

pretty sure you wasted your life, you know you are entire strengths. Hey, can I abuse our audience, our goodwill, my position of some authority?

What else is authority for? I would give a quick shout out to one of my favorite people in the

world, Matt McGuiver. He and his lovely wife today are having their second baby. Like she is in labor

today right now. I got a text

message from him this morning. So he's a listener to the show and he is a very, very, very good

friend of mine and a great guy. She's in labor right now, as I understand it. So pretty exciting. So

big love, Matt. I just wanted to shout that out. Woo! Go, Matt. Matt, it gets so much easier. Don't even count the first three months. You just cannot count it to like what you feel like as a human being. You just got to make it through. The way she's currently pushing a baby at her front hole, you have to push your life out of your brain. Did I hear second baby? This is the second one. Yeah. Yeah. It's like Eli, what fuck are you talking about it? You don't know anything about having more than one kid. The second kid is great because you get to turn to everybody here in life and be like, it's so much harder and nobody told me. Except for literally everybody. Except for everybody. I'll tell you what, I love them.

But Matt, if you're like, hey, man, you didn't say, I fucking told you guys.

I called you on the phone, Matt.

Well, here's the thing, though, if you want to make having two kids easier, the way to do it is to have three.

Because then you're like, okay, I was completely wrong. So I'll say this, if you've got four, you don't have to get their names right most of the time. Like I'm just like, I don't know, just like some of them will feed the other ones. Oh, wait, wait, is he having a remi? Never mind, this is easy. You can do whatever. If you're not having a remi, it's not even parent. It's the easiest thing. What are you going to play? Do you know what no one in the

history of the world has ever said? I think it was a better parent to my second kid. Yeah,

right. That's really where I hit my strength. That's where I did a great job. If your second kid is

just the best human ever created and then everybody else is impossible.

You mean middle child syndrome?

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