DOD67: Emotionally Volatile Children
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eli has a friend who has a kid who is prone to heavy emotional fits. The highs are high but the lows are low. Thomas has a friend who has a friend named Thomas who has a similar situation. What do we do? How do we not let them be the kid from the Twilight Zone?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.7 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's not sure exactly where Eli is going to take us today. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:39.3 | Choo-choo! Everyone, hop on the story train. All we know about this is that Eli has a very |
| 0:47.5 | funny story. That is the jumping off point primarily that Thomas and I got when we were chatting |
| 0:53.9 | about what we're going to do. |
| 0:54.9 | But I think if Eli's got a story that he qualifies as very funny, I'm down. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm in. |
| 1:00.8 | Was it, Eli, was it that time that I launched my new podcast? |
| 1:04.5 | Was it? |
| 1:04.7 | Oh, that was so funny. |
| 1:07.0 | That was just totally organic that I brought that up right now. |
| 1:28.7 | What's the new podcast? A new podcast, you said? Oh, no, no, it wasn't that story. Okay, it wasn't that story. Well, okay, well, since we're on it, you know. No, I launched where there's woke. Please go check it out. It's amazing. Eli is on the bonus content about elevator gate. Tom could have been on it except if I mentioned it to him, he'd be like, what's the elevators don't have gates? Who's a dockons? What's a dockons? |
| 1:34.9 | Bonus bonus content? We should like do a pop quiz about various in-house internet dramas and have him try to guess what they are. |
| 1:46.6 | Like, okay, Tom, for 10 points, what was GamerGate? |
| 1:51.3 | That is a gate in the game world of Warcraft. |
| 1:56.9 | Nailed it. |
| 1:57.3 | People were fighting about getting into, and then one of them did. I don't know. I don't know. I know peripherally what Gamergate was. I think, yeah, Gamergate had enough mainstream reach that somehow Tom observed some of it. Perred about it. In atheists, podcast drama or whatever, like, it's going to be great. Seriously, thank you so much for letting me mention it let's get to your amazing story though i can't wait to hear what it is all right |
| 2:21.9 | well before we do that thomas we should probably apologize for the only thing worse than gamer gate |
| 2:26.2 | and that of course is the auto ads yes if you feel like you're being harassed out of the podcast |
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