DOD45: How to Fight
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Tom gives us some pointers on how to win your typical carwash fight club. No just kidding. This one is about having fights/arguments/disagreements with your partner. Is it healthy? How much is healthy? Is it unhealthy to NOT fight?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:16.7 | 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's not mad. It's fine. Everything's fine. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Tom Curry and I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.9 | Oh, you're just like your mother to say that. |
| 0:41.6 | You're just like your mother. |
| 0:44.7 | Who knows their partner's parents well enough to make a statement like that? |
| 0:49.0 | That's interesting. |
| 0:51.2 | And why would you make that statement? |
| 0:53.1 | That is the old cliche, but I'm thinking about it. I'm like, that would be insane. Is that just because you really want to hurt someone's feelings? Like, why would that be a thing you would say? Yes, that is exactly why. It is exactly what I heard someone's feelings. Yep, that is, that is putting the fucking, you know, bullet in the gun and like grinning while you fire. That's exactly what that is. I guess because my wife has, you know, pretty good parents. It wouldn't really make any sense. You know, it would be like, you're just like you're a mom. Be like, okay. Nice. Yeah. You're a nice lady. That's what Thomas writes on the inside of Valentine's Daycards. You're just like your mother. You better like have had a conversation about how you hate your partner's parent then. Like if that's, you're just like your, what? I thought you like. You don't like. What? No. You better have already had that conversation. Now we have two problems. Write one down because we're circling back. We have two problems. Did you guys... I know what this is about... So this episode's about fighting everybody. You got it. Did you guys have any friends whose parents fought? Like, fought, fought, God, it was the fucking |
| 2:00.8 | worst, especially if you had my |
| 2:02.6 | parent. I know you guys didn't have my parents, |
| 2:04.7 | but my dad- Oh, no, we very much did not |
| 2:06.7 | Eli Bosnick. My dad worshipped the |
| 2:08.8 | ground my mom walked on, and then |
| 2:10.7 | I would, my friend's parents would just |
| 2:12.7 | have these screaming fights, and I'd be like, |
| 2:15.0 | man, this divorce |
| 2:17.1 | rate is way too low. |
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