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 undependence.

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 is just playing around. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

All right, Thomas, what do we do to make that seem bad?

Because that's our new game, right?

God damn it.

What do we talk about today to really rank this for Tom?

How can you distort my beautiful intros?

I'm going to say, I feel like he got a pretty ironclad one there. You got it. You locked it in this week. Racism. I wanted to tell you guys something. I don't know how to feel about this, but it was just a thing. It was an interesting thing that happened. I've mentioned, I think, before that Arlo, well, any of our boys because of Lydia's dad, have a 50-50 shot

at being colorblind, essentially, 50-50 chance, because genetics, what's fucking weird

is that?

I had to try to explain that to Phoebe, by the way, and it was like, how in the world do you

put that in words that a kid will understand?

I just said, like, genetics and then just hoped that would work. Like, that would explain it. But anyway, once Arlo was born, I'd always be curious like, oh, Arlo, what color is that? You know, like, I just be very curious to see, like, when I could tell. Because it's very fascinating. Just constantly testing him. He's just like, are you gaslighting me? is fucking what, what, I just, you ask me all the time. What is going on, dad? A little bit. Don't you know what color that is? Well, but it's actually pretty important because Lydia's dad has a pretty sad story about like, and also, of course, this was the fucking 50s or whatever when they just beat people who are different or whatever. but he has a story about how he you know because you don't know like if you're just fucking born

the way you're born. And then you would never know that you're seeing color differently until, you know, until something really tips it off. And apparently when he was in, you know, like kindergarten or something, he colored a tree red instead of green or something and just

like got made fun of and the teacher was shitty. And so like I did want to know just to be ahead of it,

you know, just to be like sort of in the same way that he has to know about his allergies. And I

always am afraid of that because kids are pretty imperfect in their ability to recount truthful

information. But he at least, he has an idea that he can't eat eggs, you know, and it's nice because it's like, okay, so at least in that little way, he might be protected against some situation where I'm not there.

You know what I mean? Like, just trying to know it as soon as I can to help him as much as we can. And so talking about playing with kids, all through his, I keep wanting to say his childhood, but his fucking four, all through his babyhood, through his whatever, like in the, in the, in the bath, we had these different rubber ducks that were different colors, you know, just all the basic fucking red, green, blue, whatever colors. And I would constantly ask him, I'd be like, which color's this? Which colors this? Just to figure, and they like that anyway. They actually fucking love it. You know, like, and whenever I'd asked him, I'd have to stop Phoebe from answering every time, you know, because she has to fucking like answer any question asked. And so they loved it. But I got pretty confident that he wasn't colorblind because he, he nailed all those every time. He'd know exactly which color each one was. And I did it enough times. I was like, okay, maybe there's something about the rubber ducky that he, you know, is able to like memorize or something, you know, maybe some other thing I'm not seeing. So I do it with different toys, you know, and I did it enough times that I stopped

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