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's only got two weeks of PTO and God damn it, we're not wasting them.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.

Oh, yeah. I got socks with sandals on. I got my nose is all white from sunscreen and I will not be rubbing it in. Not even a little.

And that is very different than why Heath Enright's nose is all white when he's on vacation. Permanently on the beach. Permanently. Eli, did you just get back from a vacation? Well, I, so I'm technically... Are you always on vacation though? You take about like, what, do you? 25, 30 weeks a year, something like that. That's true. Yeah, no, that's what they say. I'm always off. But yeah, no, this is my like being. I know he works so hard, actually.

Vacation. weeks a year, something like that? That's true. Yeah, no, that's what they say. I'm always off. But yeah, no, this is my like being... I know he works so hard, actually.

Vacation of the year. I'm taking two weeks here. I take a week in January when I go on a trip

and then I usually throw in another week somewhere in the year. But this is my big vacation for the

year. I'm off from all the shows except this one for two weeks. And we just

got back from visiting my mom at her new house, which is amazing. And yeah, I was like,

you know what we haven't talked about on this show yet? Vacations. So there's a couple of topics

that came up for me while I was thinking about sort of what to talk about in vacations. I there's a couple of topics that came up for me while I was thinking about sort of

what to talk about in vacations. I've got one big question that comes up for me having a small

kid that I'd love your guys's advice on. But I figure, let's start with the history. Did you guys

take vacations growing up? Oh yeah. Yeah, we did. My dad was pretty good about, we did, we did a family, we didn't make Eli guests first. We should have made Eli guest first. No, we, we, we did family vacations. We always had to go somewhere we could drive. I don't think we ever took an airplane, but we took, we took, we took lots of family vacations. Yeah, lots of, Really? Where'd you go? Yeah, one a year?

Yeah.

Oh, where do we, we went to... We didn't go, like, again, it was driving vacations. So we would go to, like... We went to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky to go check out the cave. We went to St. Louis one year. I don't... To go to Six Flags. we went to Wisconsin Dells.

We went up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

We went several Wisconsin Dells. We went up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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