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. I can't remember if it's supposed to do an intro for the Q&A.

I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.

Hello, gentlemen.

Hello. November Q&A. So do I do an intro? I can't remember. Should I intro one? I think the reason we can't remember is we've gone back and forth. When it's been a bonus episode, we don't. Because I joke that that was the little vacation of not having to do it. But this is just, I think it's just like a normal episode Q&A.

We'll have to discuss with the rules lawyers. We'll talk to the

archivists to decide. It's also confusing because the Q&A, it makes it sound like we're going to get

past the single Q. And so, you know, I can never remember what the rule is. It feels like a

thematic episode every time. I was going to say, you know, this is a November Q&A that we're

answering in November. This is very exciting, guys, very exciting. New personal record. This is like

finishing vulgarity for charity in the same year you did it. Right. It's the same decade.

Let's not get crazy. Yeah. I get so hyperfixated on the dumbest things. Let me tell you. The episode numbering systems. I'm telling you, it matters so much to me for no reason. We talk about whether or not you do the intro or not. You know, it just made me think of that. Yeah, if I can part the curtain slightly for our listeners early on when we started recording, Thomas was like, oh, this will be session one, session two, and then he and Tom made a mistake and got off on their session numbers. And so I now just label our Zencasters with the date, and Thomas is physically incapable of not going, so this is session 33. This would be a session. For anyone who still wants to. Yeah. For all the people who would like to be correct in their session. No, but you were the one who didn't screw up. That's the funny thing. And then you got rid of the system. I was willing to. That's right. I went real Tom and Tom's dad on this system. There you go. It's good energy.

I will recognize when I'm wrong. I converted back to your numbering system and everything. And so when I say it's

session whatever, that's, you know, that's too late. I already threw you out like a sad,

wooden duck or a book. As a matter of canon, I obviously can't remember episode numbers that's been established

over 600 times. So why should it be any different on this show than any other show? So I just

asked Thomas. The thing I wanted to say that's so funny about it is whenever we're figuring

something out, like whether it's this show or like some of the changes we're doing on OA, where it's major important decisions, but I cannot do it until I first solve the completely not important thing of, okay, but are these episode numbers? Do I, do I number these ones? Are these numbered episodes? And I'll realize that I'm talking at length about these things that no one gives a shit about

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