DOD274: You Better Ask Nicely
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Eli provides some important news from his corner of the globe (and it hopefully continues to be funny and hasn't resulted in anything terrible for anybody) before the Dads discuss gut reactions to something their kid does that they would have never done themselves as a kid. How do we process that response, and can we eventually calm this response?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know 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. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's taken the activity bus. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:37.8 | Oh, Tom, did they tell you it was the activity bus? |
| 0:40.6 | No, this was the real activity bus. |
| 0:42.8 | I already got in trouble in our very early episodes. |
| 0:46.3 | There is an activity bus. |
| 0:48.1 | I took the activity bus every day. |
| 0:49.9 | Late, home from high school. |
| 0:52.2 | God damn it. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh. |
| 0:53.4 | Did that bus have a little less capacity than maybe a standard? |
| 0:58.6 | No, no, no. |
| 1:00.2 | I already got in trouble for that early in our recording history. |
| 1:03.6 | Was there a lot of hugs on that bus? |
| 1:06.5 | Early listeners of this show will know that I did take a bus like that when I was a young person because I went to school. You can't blame Tom for that because he was subject to all of the things that people are saying are offensive. Like literally, Tom. Yeah, I went to that school. Tom was called all of the offensive things. Tom, you can't be that mad at him. Your youth was very offensive, can I say? Yeah. |
| 1:29.1 | You are canceled. Oh. In the words of your mom. Just because it's like, well, here's my life. We just don't want to hear about it, actually. It's fine. You can do anything wrong. We just... It's a little problematic. A little trophy. Yeah. A little tropey. It's like when they came back from the war and they're like, I don't know how to be a civilian now. |
| 1:47.1 | That's like when they came back from the war and they're like, I don't know how to be a civilian now. |
| 1:47.1 | That's like Tom's aged into it. |
| 1:50.1 | That's how Tom came back from the activity bus. |
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