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's just resting its eyes.

I'm joined by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. I'm Tom Curry. Hello, gentlemen.

What's that? I was resting my ears. I was just resting in my. My dad literally used to say that, that resting his eyes thing. And I used to believe it when I was little. Like, I'd be like, oh, dad's just resting his eyes. Like, his eyes just get tired. If I rest my eyes, I'm fuck, I'm 44 years old.

If I close my eyes for an extended period of time at all, I'm out. Yeah, I'm out. I can't play hide and seek at this point in my life. If I actually close my eyes during hide and seek, I am asleep. One peekaboo and then we just hear, kudongong, yep. He likes bye, he just falls down. I used to, with my oldest, when he was little, I used to read to him bedtime stories every night. So every night, we had like a little routine, you know, and I'd read him his stories. And I swear to God, I would fall asleep. I'd put myself to sleep reading. I'd just start nodding off in the middle of reading the book. Or I'd tell him a story. I did a lot of like just making up stories and just sitting in his room and just telling him stories and he loved it, but he never would like fall asleep to it. So it'd be like 30 minutes in to tell him the story. And I'd be like, and then the stories would just increasingly get less coherent as I would just nod off. And he would just, he wouldn't wake me up.

There was house Targary and they are the, right, yeah. I would just be like, and then the king, and then I'd be like, every, he's just to tease me, he's like, dad, every time the king shows up, I know you're about to fall asleep. It's like, whatever the story's about, it'd be like scuba diving or something. I'd be like, then the king.

And Michael Scott had a gun in the end.

I can't even read a book anymore without falling asleep. I have not exactly that.

That's better to be as a parent. I think that's better because what I have is can't fall asleep

during the day or at night and then the morning can't wake up, which is like the worst

possibility for a parent. And I'm dealing with that right now. Oh, it's no fun.

I'm like a five hours guy. Like, I'm fine. I sleep five hours a night usually between

five and five and a half. And I can do four and anything under four, and I'm a grouch.

I need some of your stem cells or something. Can you mail you? I can't. I need a solid 23 hours of sleep to feel okay. Anything short of that, I feel miserable. I actually don't even know if there's a number. I'm just tired. Like, it's just plain tired. Oh, I'm exhausted. Don't get me wrong. I actually had a sleep study done. This was back when I was in, I used to fall asleep. Like I was extraordinary like everybody else. I was crazy sleep deprived for a super long time through school and everything else. And I would fall asleep. I'd stop at a stop sign and I'd fall asleep as soon as my body wasn't moving.

So I kept, I kept pliers in my car and I would pinch my forearm to stay awake when I was driving.

Real safe stuff.

Real, real good idea, sort of safe stuff.

But I was working full time, like I was working a 40 hour a week or 45 hour a week job.

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