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.

Why? Hello. I guess if Tom's not doing a... Yeah, no, this is just an announcement. So,

Tom, think of a quick...

Going to intro and announcement? Welcome to Dear Old Dad's announcement page. This is the announcement. No, Tom, honestly, let me introduce you to introduce the announcement. Because obviously people are going to be confused. Look, if we're doing something ponderous and tiresome that stops people from enjoying a podcast, we should draw it out as long as humanly possible. So ladies and gentlemen,

maybe we could do that for the full hour. That's a good idea. Now let's stop for a quick ad break

and then we'll get back to the Reds. Yeah, Normies. So just you may have noticed that there

are ads on the feed now. Things maybe need to be monetized a little more aggressively than

they might have in the best. So, but we're going to make a deal with you. So there's ads now. Things maybe need to be monetized a little more aggressively than they might have in the

so, but we're going to make a deal with you. So there's ads now. Yep, that sucks. Eli is going to do

a 30-minute TED talk on how much he hates the ads. That's cool. I hate them so much. We hate

them too. I hate them so much. But here's, here's, we're compensating. So while previously,

the patrons have always been ahead by a week or sometimes even two episodes, we're going to catch you up. So now the main benefit to

going to patreon.com slash Gerald Dads, in addition to just supporting the dads you know and love,

is an ad-free show. But we'll be on the same timeline. It makes my life easier, actually. I'm tired of all these different Thanos timeline things.

I don't know.

We're snapping our fingers. One of them's going away. And they're just going to be on the same timeline, but no ads for patrons. So if you would like to never hear the ads that Eli hates so much. So much. as a personal favorite,

Eli,

hop over to patreon.com

slash dear old dads.

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