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 Dan's, the podcast, the band cell phones from the studio. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always.

Thomas wishes. I thought you were going to joke like we're banning the cell phones from the listeners. Like, that's how they listen, Tom. No, you guys get your cell phones. We just don't. Everyone has to download the show on their computer now. On to their computer and listen. Carry your laptop around your house like an old person.

Reminds me of a story of my mom.

I love my mom so much. She really wants to support the shows. But a lot of the time she'll get to a part of the show where I'll be like, and then I fucked a goose. And she doesn't like it anymore. I get it. I'm her baby. Weird. I wonder why. She held me and, like, sang me to sleep, but now I'm like, fucking bitch.

And she's like, okay, that's enough of that. I get something wrong, and I'd like to not dwell on it. So when she finds an episode where I don't swear at least a little bit longer into the show, she'll listen to it a bunch of times. It's so sweet.

Yeah.

So sweet and adorable.

So my mom has her podcast player set up.

I don't know how.

I don't know what setting she activated to do this. But she has it set up so it starts the episode from the beginning every time.

So she has listened to Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square, our episode of Gam about that, like 20 times.

Not the full episode.

She's listened to the first like 36 minutes while she does her morning walk.

Oh my God.

She never just pauses it and continues.

She just starts it fresh and enjoys the content.

And that's what we want you to do,

podcast listener.

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