DOD36: What is Genuine Friendship?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
First off, Eli has had a WEEK. And let's face it, it's always hilarious whenever Eli complains about anything. So that's the first half of the episode. Then it gets real real deep real real fast. How do we hold our friends accountable? And how do they hold us accountable? Or... do we not have any friends?
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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 that is absolutely propping its eyelids open with toothpicks and declaring everything is just fine. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith |
| 0:39.2 | and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. All right, everyone shut up. I've had a terrible week. |
| 0:44.1 | I get up this morning and the coffee is not ready on time. I mean, I don't even, no, just |
| 0:50.9 | I may have teased. I may have teased. |
| 0:56.6 | This is the problem with our show having a delay. |
| 0:58.7 | Not that I expect any empathy from our audience, |
| 1:01.3 | because when they tore my ball sack open, |
| 1:03.7 | our audience was like, well, that's on you, man. |
| 1:05.4 | You're the one with the balls in the first place. But I'm just saying, it's my time to vet. |
| 1:09.2 | And I'm going to call this event. |
| 1:10.7 | I title this event if you will |
| 1:12.7 | single parents definitely don't exist |
| 1:15.1 | that's been my bit from fucking day one of parenting it's impossible there's no way |
| 1:20.4 | I know you shouldn't like talk about listener feedback because then it becomes a cycle of like |
| 1:24.5 | oh I'll get on the show if I say something dumb but one of the dumbest pieces of feedback that we have gotten for this show was someone who wrote us an email being like, single parents do exist. And I was like, I know, that's the joke. And they were like, it makes it seem like you don't. Hyperbole also exists. It's a, oh, my God. The end of that conversation was like, I don't think you should listen to any podcast. I think you should break your iPhone in half and just walk into a deep body of water. I don't know what to tell you, man. This piece of feedback is not doing it for either. But no, I want to talk about my week because, as some people will know, again, I know we're on a delays. This is two weeks ago when you're hearing it, whatever. And it got surgery this week. She got a breast reduction. |
| 2:04.4 | And she asked, Because, as some people will know, again, I know we're on a delay. This is two weeks ago when you're hearing it, whatever. |
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