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 that is not taking notes. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

Hello! Boy, that has so many different meanings for me because I also, due to focus problems, couldn't take notes in class. So not only do I not take notes, I don't take notes. Can't take notes on those notes. Yeah, should be the, actually title for my memoirs. Thank you, Tom. I remember the first time I heard the idea of taking notes was actually doing citation needed with Eli. Like he would just make jokes like, we're not taking notes. Right. We're not giving notes or whatever. And I was like, oh, I never actually heard that. Because I don't come from an improv or comedy or theater background like you guys do. Right. So I don't have all the, I don't have all the, I don't have all the, I don't have all the, I don't have all the lingo.

Oh my God.

Sitting in my pocket.

I, that is, I'm sorry, Tom, I'm sorry you brought that up because. Will I be? Yes, exactly. I'm apologizing to you. No, but it's actually, it's, it's, I think it's actually important for this conversation because I think it could outline just how much I sucked back before I tried to get myself figured out.

And now I just moderately suck.

It's such an improvement.

You have no idea.

The gulf between how much I sucked and just moderate suckage.

It's like it's, it's, it's, you could fit like a Gandhi in there, like in that gap.

In high school, when I first started doing theater, my first play, that is a thing that

you do.

Now, I'm going to, I'm going to give the theater, fucking teacher, director, whatever guy.

I'm actually, now they think about it, I think he's a little bit to blame for this.

But that first show, when I didn't know how anything went, there is, after every rehearsal,

there's typically the notes session where the director gives notes.

And what directors tend to do when they suck, well, actually, they all kind of do this,

but they tend to do when they suck is they make a big production out of it because they want to show off that they're directing. So they'll make a lot

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