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Dear Old Dads

DOD80: Tool Time with Tom and Thomas

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tools! The Toms love em! Eli is also here! Let's talk tool talk and talk man stuff tool talk. Tools. Hammer.

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0:00.0

I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.

0:09.0

I know 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.

0:28.5

Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's hosted by Tools. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen.

0:38.3

Hello.

0:42.2

Eli's big excitement for this topic, bleeding through right from the intro.

0:48.6

The hammer is the bang, bang one.

0:51.2

And the screwdriver is the other one.

0:57.5

He got all the two of the tools.

0:59.9

I named them all.

1:01.0

Welcome to Can I Name Tools, the newest podcast.

1:05.2

Well, then I covered all two of them, so I'm not sure what we're doing here after that.

1:07.8

Yeah, that's okay.

1:09.0

End of show.

1:09.6

End of show.

1:09.9

Anyone got a parenting story?

1:11.2

Can we talk about the weird meme of like handing your dad the wrong screwdriver?

1:16.8

Like, dad's getting mad about it. Dad's not caring about it. Some dad's care. But like, no one in that meme ever acknowledges that it's because the screwdrivers are named entirely nothing to do with their shape and size, right? Phillips said, oh, Philip said, right, like the cross, like Prince Philip. You're right, a flathead screwdriver is just nothing to do with what it's shaped like. Well, okay, but here's the thing. Flat, right? You're like, okay, that must be the single line one, right? And it's like, no, no. Yeah, it is. That one you get, right? But Phillips head? What the fuck is a Phillips head? It's not the flathead. That was my first order of business. Look, I'm the person who can't fucking remember shit. But like, once I know there's a flathead one, then my brain is like, brilliant. Then the other one is the other one. And that was it. The kids that get taught this stuff in school, a lot of them now referred to it as like the plus and minus one. I've seen that. And it makes me fucking crazy because like I grew up with a dad. Because Phillips would be rolling over in his fucking grave. It makes so much sense.

2:17.7

Like plus and minus actually makes more sense, right?

2:20.0

But like I grew up with a dad that was really, really, really.

2:23.8

His hobby was home improvement and woodworking.

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