DOD82: The Neurospice of Life
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
After disclosing some serious friendship-ending habits, Eli shares breaking news and the dads discuss processing diagnoses and not-diagnoses, as well as navigating resources and advocating for their kids. Also, Tom regularly pulls the Mean Girls conference call tactic with insurance companies and healthcare providers. BUT IT WORKS.
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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. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the family podcast that diverges from the norm. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bos, gentlemen. Oh, oh. Hello. I feel like I've used that before. Oh. Yeah, I just, we sign old daly, both realize we don't have anything for this bit. Like, this is. Yeah. I know it's low stakes, but I don't have a normal human response to it. Like, how's it going on a podcast? I'm doing well, Tom. I mean, you could have told me that like 70 episodes ago. You know, like 70 episodes ago would have been the time to say, hey. With humor this whole time. And then we ran out of jokes. And then we're like, fuck, humans. Let's try a different intro. Yeah. Let's NPR it up, guys. |
| 1:10.9 | You know that thing? |
| 1:11.5 | That's awkward moment at every beginning of this American life where Ira Glass is like, I'm joined, of course, as always, by the wonderful and hilarious. Tom Curry, Tom. Tom, welcome. Welcome to the show. Right? Like, he just turned in the studio and saw them sitting there. We could do that. Or me and Thomas could |
| 1:28.0 | complicate our names to the extent that everyone just sort of stays silent like a normal |
| 1:31.8 | NPR reporter. Lakshmi Su Singh and everyone's like, yep, absolutely. As a white person |
| 1:37.7 | loved that. I understood it. And I'm not going to say it wrong. So here's what happened in Yemen. |
| 1:48.3 | I'm just saying there's a lot of white fear on NPR. |
| 1:50.6 | If you listen for it, there's a lot of white. |
| 1:52.8 | That was actually their original post-colonic before News of the World was there's a lot of white fear here, but they turned it on. |
| 1:59.6 | Hey, Tom, Tom, you know the only thing worse than |
| 2:03.1 | the white fear on NPRs? Is it the awkward silence after that little bit? I think it was, |
| 2:08.1 | it was the awkward silence Thomas left. But second to that, second to that, the only thing that |
| 2:14.1 | ruins our podcast more than me is the auto ads. |
| 2:18.0 | Yes, if you haven't heard one already, you'll be hearing one soon, podcast listener. |
| 2:22.3 | These auto ads are the unskippable YouTube clips of our podcast. |
| 2:27.6 | They're here to make sure that you never follow a thought or a sentence without a weird local shampoo commercial, at least in my case. |
| 2:34.8 | But you can avoid those shampoo. |
| 2:36.7 | Wait a minute, there's such a thing as local shampoo? |
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