DOD35: Mental Illness and Personal Responsibility
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Part 2! The conversation continues when Eli drops a hand grenade about personal responsibility.
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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. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads. The podcast is just picking up where it left off. I'm Tom Curry. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:36.3 | Hey-oh! Hey! |
| 0:38.7 | Now, if we were to continue last week's conversation, right where we left off, what would |
| 0:43.1 | that sound like, Thomas? |
| 0:44.6 | Oh, here, let me do an impression of that. |
| 0:47.9 | This is sort of tricky. |
| 0:50.9 | You know, it's funny, me and Thomas have been anticipating this episode worriedly for different reasons. But the reason that I have been worried about it is because |
| 0:59.2 | I strongly believe that it actually does not matter whether or not you have a mental illness. |
| 1:05.8 | What you do is what you do, right? Everything's luck. |
| 1:11.5 | Roll of the dice. |
| 1:12.9 | No such thing is free will. |
| 1:14.3 | Blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:15.8 | None of that's real. |
| 1:17.0 | None of that is real. |
| 1:22.8 | That is the creation of a philosophy classroom being translated to Tumblr, |
| 1:28.6 | being then translated to TikTok, being half remembered and spat out in a Facebook fight because you don't want to take responsibility for losing your car keys. |
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