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 once again is taking a stab at its never-ending June Q&A list.

Yeah, because now it's like July or something. So we probably should be done with those by now is what you're saying. I feel like these Q&As are kind of like use it or lose it time. Like, you know, we're getting to the end of the year. We've got to like get through these things or we run out of cues. Q&As are our paid time off. This is it. Yeah, it's our taking a vacation. This is our PTO. Yeah. Can I tell you how many brilliant, heartfelt, amazing emails I have in my inbox I just can't get to because of mental problems? Like, it reminds me of that. Because there's the, like, we have amazing questions. We are almost getting through them.

But I feel bad.

Like any question unanswered. I'm like, oh, that person put thought into that.

And I think of my, my email inbox that I just, I just quit.

I just stopped.

I was keeping up with the kind of.

And then I just plain stopped.

And I feel so bad every day about it.

There'll be something from like 2019 probably in there.

That'll be the most amazing, heartfelt, brilliant thing.

I'll just, I have maybe like five years from now I'll read it and reply and be like,

hey, sorry, you're still alive?

Side note, speaking, and maybe this is a little too inside baseball, but have you ever

gone to the other inbox, the like, this has been filtered for spam, but beyond spam inbox? And someone's like, hey, I just want you to know that tomorrow's my wedding, and it would mean everything to me. And you're just like, oh, fuck. Hey, man, do you remember two presidential administrations ago?

Yeah.

When you guys, if I would wish you a happy birthday, is you, oh, man, you were sacrificing yourself on an asteroid for the rest of the planet, and I'm, yeah.

Well, okay, but also a little insight, but you guys, I'm sure you get the same thing where it's like, hey, I'm going through the, can you give me a phone call? And then they expect a phone call. Have you gotten these? Those, those I get. Somebody from the podcast world. Yeah, like I'll just, we've gotten it. We've gotten any number of people like, hey, you know, Tom, you really, you know, you said some things, you know, really whatever. Anyway, I'm going through this thing. If you could call me and then they leave their number and then they tell you like, I'll be around on Saturday. And I'm just like, neat. Okay. What? That's insane. I'm sorry. That's insane. What? never... It's insane. I've never once called,

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