DOD8: What's a Healthy Masculinity? or Do We Even Need the Concept?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
At long last, we've finally devoted an episode to masculinity. How do we fix the terrible, emotionally stunted men in our society? What does it mean to be a good man and is it different than just being a good person? Also what kind of dudes are we? Who is the manliest man among us dad dudes?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:17.0 | 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 sure to remind you to oil the blades on the lawnmower every time you use it. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm joined by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick and I'm Tom Curry, gentlemen. |
| 0:41.1 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:41.9 | Hello. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, that instantly made me want to launch into a different angle on this show. |
| 0:48.8 | The lawnmower, okay. |
| 0:50.1 | Is it an angle at like about 30 degrees in alternating to get the lines exactly right? |
| 0:55.5 | It's related to what we're going to talk about. |
| 1:00.7 | Because I feel like part of the end of the world, this is a broad, I can fucking get out the board with all the thumbtacks and the yarn. |
| 1:08.6 | But like part of the downfall of this country and the whatever is toxic masculinity that's, you know, Trump's, Trumpism is a form of that and the kind of fascist leanings and all that. |
| 1:17.4 | And I swear to God, it's related. |
| 1:18.9 | The refusing to use electric powered stuff because it's not as cool and manly as the gas powered bullshit. |
| 1:26.4 | Is that anything? |
| 1:28.1 | You, oh, well, you don't, you guys don't really have conservative family, but that's, that's a very conservative thing. So, like, growing up, I had to do all that shit. I had to do the, you know, chainsaw with the two-stroke engine and the oil and the gasoline and all that and the weed whacker or whatever. and it's great because nowadays that shit's all electronic. |
| 1:46.1 | And I bought one that you can plug in and it's just better in every single possible way. It just does it. Yeah. Yeah. But you plug your lawnmower in? I haven't mowed a lawnmower. No, not the lawnmower. Well, they might have a plug in. Lawn mower, I have a battery one. But the, it was a funny story. |
| 1:59.7 | Well, I'm getting to that. |
| 2:00.8 | And we can decide if this is any good. |
| 2:03.9 | I think it's viewed as like a, I don't know what it is. Is it, is it because the fossil fuel industry had already hijacked Republicans? Is that what it is? Or do, maybe it just feels manlier to have an engine that goes like, you know, |
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