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.

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that just walks right into your room without knocking.

God damn it. I'm joined by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick and I'm Tom Curry.

That's a huge business opportunity. You're telling me we're feeding this into people's bedrooms.

Are we making any money on that? Like how much? We're right in your bedroom.

Sponsors are going to love us. Very different genre. Yeah. Thomas, I think you wanted to talk today a little bit about spoiling your kids and how great that is.

I've got, I got, yeah, minor story that's, you know, again, it's like emblematic of a million things that happen.

But just so, just happened to me this morning.

So it's fresh.

Want to talk about it.

I want to talk to you guys about, like, how much is spoiling your kids okay? Or is it spoiling or what? You know, because in this day and age, it's so hard to know. We have so much more access to things to resources than at least I did when I was a kid. So here's what happened this morning. And this is kind of a, this is a, it's not a fight that Lydia and I have, but it's just

we're different people. And this is a difference. I feel like you could take her though. That comes. This is a difference that comes up, you know, and it's this morning I had to get my day to take him into daycare. Lydia is amazing. She still, even though she had to work, she still like grabbed them clothes and everything. And I was like, oh, great, got their clothes. I got to get them

dressed, you know. And Phoebe's finally,, she still, like, grabbed them clothes and everything. And I was like, oh, great, got their clothes.

I got to get them dressed, you know.

And Phoebe's finally, it's so proud of Phoebe, how big she is. She can basically just dress herself, pick out her own thing. She's great. Arlo, none of that yet. And so I'm helping Arlo get dressed. and keep in mind it's a, you know, it's a morning.

We're always late to go to the fucking daycare.

It's a half hour drive, you know, it's a morning. We're always late to go to the fucking daycare. It's half hour drive, you know, so blah, blah, blah. We're trying to get dressed and Arlo's like, I don't want that shirt. And I'm like, all right, buddy, like this is, I know this shirt is fucking fine. You know, it's one of those battles you have 400 times a day with your kid. It's a shirt I've seen him wear a thousand times.

It's totally fine.

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