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 Dads, the podcast that always clicks the barbecue tongs twice before it uses them.

I'm joined by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick, and I'm Tom Curry. Gentlemen, good

afternoon. Hello. What's up, dads? I think we could all, we could do a dad thing where it's like

the dad noises as you try to get up from the sofa. Like, that's how we...

I'm coming! Okay, as I think the only person over 40 on this podcast, fuck you.

Okay, that's a legit response to any kind of physical movement.

I was saying the other day, it's a symmetrical sound.

When you go down, you give the like, ah, yeah, you know, and then when you go up, you got to give like the reverse of that.

You're like, you know, like trying to get up. I have reached that age where there is no ability to move

without some sort of exhalation. I don't even understand how I ever did it. I have no idea.

I wake up and the whole thing hurts and doctors don't want to fix it anymore. That's kind of where I'm

I made a note of this the other day that I'm past the time where something is hard and I go, oh, I should like get that in shape. And now I'm just like, I guess I should take some Tylenol because that's going to hurt later. My mom was visiting this past weekend, which means my son sleeps in our attic. We have like a finished attic where we put him when mom visits, which means like climbing upstairs and walking downstairs with him.

And I was just like, oh, man, oh, man, I really wish you knew how to navigate stairs without hurting yourself.

Now, be careful if you end up having a second kid.

You don't want children in the attic.

It's a whole thing.

Just don't even be flowers up there. Yeah, exactly. It's a problem. It's a problem. Hey, so this weekend, I was hanging out with a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in a long time. He's a stay-at-home dad. And I was actually telling him about this show. and I asked me to give kind of a listen to it,

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