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 undependent.

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 too cool for its own show. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello,

Daddy-O. That was cool. That was my coolest. Daddy-o. I have a single toothpick in my mouth. You can't

see, but... And he can flip it. He spits it out and it flips and then he catches it again.

Tooth care. You wearing sunglasses inside?

On the back of my bald head? Absolutely. Either one of you guys wear baseball caps? You baseball cap guys? No, no, no. Oh, see, I like this. I like this. I'm just trying to avoid fans. You know, if I want to live like a normal person. Were either of you guys cool in school? Were you guys like cool kids?

Do they have like a popular click in school?

I'm just checking.

I don't know, Tom. and were either of you guys cool in school were you guys like cool kids do they have like a popular

click in school i'm just checking i don't know thomas like i was drama kid cool drama kids

decided we were cool on our own and so yeah you have enough cool in there yeah exactly okay all right

so that yeah that i would say that that counts like within the within the sort of niche because because were all the drama kids included? Yeah. Oh, so there were no like, there was no, oh, were there not cool. Of course there were not cool drama kids. I thought you meant was the hierarchy. There's got to be exclusion. Otherwise, it's not. Yeah, no, the hierarchy included all drama kids, but some of them were lower than others.

And I was at the top. Good. As long as there's subjugation of human. Exactly. Then we're good. That's what coolness requires. Yeah, exactly. It's so funny. I have to like explain to Finn, not explain, but just sort of remind. He gets it, but it's a reminder because Finn is struggling. I know I've mentioned before's struggling to find his people. He doesn't really have a friend group. He's in his junior year of high school. So he's really not found, and he's probably not at this point, right? Like, high school is like pretty much going to be over for him fairly swiftly. Just being real, like unless he could find a group, maybe his senior year, but at this point, if he hasn't, he might not. And I keep explaining to him, like, this whole stratification system that, like,

school creates where there's, you know, this lunch table and that lunch table and like,

these guys are in this window. I'm like, all of that. It's eternal and it immediately goes away.

It feels so big for like the first 12 years of your schooling life. It feels so big for like the first 12 years of your schooling life.

It feels so big.

And then it's so funny how that just immediately drops off and doesn't exist ever again forever.

It's just nonsense.

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