DOD30: Toxic Self-Reliance
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Where does it come from? Is it always bad? Did Tom's dad suck?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. |
| 0:12.0 | Complete and undependent. |
| 0:15.0 | 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. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's carrying in all the groceries in one trip no matter how much it hurts. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined, as always, by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. If that's a toxic male trait, then I guess I'm a toxic male. I'm sorry. I'm going to get all of them. Why did they make them so conveniently handled, you know, the bags with the handles in a way that you could carry 400 of them if that's not what you're supposed to do. Why would they make them like that? |
| 0:54.8 | I will carry in the groceries in one job. My hand will be purple. When we go grocery shot, I got four fucking kids, the amount of groceries. It's an enormous amount of groceries. It's like it's huge. You know, it's a fucking enormous, enormous amount of groceries. I do not care. I don't care. Two bags of cat litter, put them on my shoulders. |
| 1:11.9 | Three gallons of milk, absolutely. |
| 1:13.6 | I'll hold shit of my teeth if I have to to bring that shit in in one trip. I'm realizing that I've lost this pleasure in life. In the post-COVID, we just order everything in multiple delivery people. Damn, that's sad. Isn't that how you guys do groceries now? |
| 1:28.9 | We do it 90% of the time that way, |
| 1:30.6 | but we always have to make like inter-delivery trips |
| 1:33.5 | for all the shit that we forget, |
| 1:35.2 | which ends up being fucking legion. |
| 1:37.9 | You know what we do is we just order another delivery |
| 1:40.1 | if we forget something. |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, it was so much more expensive to do grocery deliveries that we just, I started doing |
| 1:48.4 | in-person shopping again. |
| 1:49.8 | Plus, then you get to do the- |
| 1:51.0 | Wait, they charge extra for it there? |
| 1:52.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:53.2 | What's the one, the app that everyone was using? |
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