Dear Old Dads
Hey kids, get ON our lawn! Dear old Dads is a podcast examining and deconstructing all things Dad. From parenting to patriarchy; manning the grill to manning up; Dear Old Dads asks – what even is a dad anyway? What does it mean to be a good man in today's world? What should it mean? Listen along as we definitely find the correct, concise answers to all these questions and more! Featuring Eli Bosnick, Thomas Smith, and Tom Curry!
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DOD138: I'm a...Sad Sad Fish with a Sad Sad Face
06/21/2024
DOD138: I'm a...Sad Sad Fish with a Sad Sad Face
...and I'll do my sadfishing all over the place. An article from Parents described the phenomenon of sadfishing, wherein youngsters post vague, emotional statuses, photos, memes, etc. in the hopes of support and community as they navigate some of those tough moments, but do they actually receive what they're looking for? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email
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DOD137: Happy Father's Day
06/19/2024
DOD137: Happy Father's Day
The dads discuss how they celebrated their Father's Day this year before checking out some REALLY HELPFUL fatherhood from other dads that was published in the New York Times. Seriously, you won't believe how helpful it is. /s And patrons get multiple stories in today's bonus, including a really heartwarming update! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll keep your mouth shut when you're around Max. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email
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DOD136: You WILL Have Fun, Damn It!
06/14/2024
DOD136: You WILL Have Fun, Damn It!
This dads discuss how family trips and activities might be harder on kids than we realize. Are we putting too many expectations on our kids? How do we have a successful family trip? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email
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DOD135: Some Softball Hardball
06/07/2024
DOD135: Some Softball Hardball
Thomas's kids finished the baseball season and it was a very surprising success. However, what's next? At a certain point, Phoebe will have to start playing a different game entirely, for some reason, called softball. Why the inequality on that? What other aspects of our kids' lives feature this kind of thing? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD134: The Airing of Grievances
05/31/2024
DOD134: The Airing of Grievances
The dads have been through a year-long tax weirdness that just resulted in the state of CA freezing Tom's kid's bank accounts. No normal episodes can happen until the grievances have been aired. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD133: More Like Harrison BUTTker
05/24/2024
DOD133: More Like Harrison BUTTker
The dads listen to the recent commencement speech from Harrison Butker that is way more inside Catholic baseball than they expected, but also Eli disturbingly understands every single reference. Are women people? Should they be allowed to vote and have jobs? This sentient mayonnaise has opinions. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD132: AITA Makes Local Eli Lose Mind
05/17/2024
DOD132: AITA Makes Local Eli Lose Mind
We are finally covering an r/AITA that Eli sent a million years ago, and it's honestly a bit nonsensical but it launches Eli into one of the most amazing things you'll hear in Dear Old Dads history. Buckle up! For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD131: Hey Kid, Here's Some Shitty Lemons
05/15/2024
DOD131: Hey Kid, Here's Some Shitty Lemons
Thomas shares some medical news for one of the Smith kids, and the dads chat about how to show up for your child, and talk to them, in tough situations that aren't their choice, especially if you carry your own personal history and experiences with that same diagnosis. A great conversation all around and a couple of admissions that Tom's take...is...right? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD130: Grieving Exes Hold Hands. The Dads Debate.
05/10/2024
DOD130: Grieving Exes Hold Hands. The Dads Debate.
On r/AmItheAsshole, a woman shares a moment she had with her ex-husband at their child's funeral and the subsequent reaction from his new wife. In seeking comfort, who do you turn to, and what boundaries do you have with others as your dynamic with them changes? We'll just say...the guys do not see eye to eye on this one. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD129: Easy Kids vs Tough Kids
05/03/2024
DOD129: Easy Kids vs Tough Kids
If you're a parent of more than one child, chances are you have 1 or more kids who are super easy and chill, and 1 or more kids who is... not. How do we handle that? What's going on there? The dads discuss, and they NAME NAMES. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD128: The Age of Nonconsensual Deepfakes
04/26/2024
DOD128: The Age of Nonconsensual Deepfakes
AI technology is advancing ridiculously quickly. Some day, if not today, AI image generators will be able to create incredibly realistic pornographic photos and video of... anyone. Including children. So, what are our responsibilities as dads? Is it possible to make this technology safe for our kids, and if it isn't, who bears responsibility for that? Also, little easter egg: only patrons will know what the constant noise in Tom's background is. You need to have heard the April 2024 bonus to be in the know! For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD127: 'Not Dying' Is Women's Work
04/19/2024
DOD127: 'Not Dying' Is Women's Work
The dads discuss when men completely ignore their health in the name of "being tough" and then as a result the women in their lives have to take care of them and arrange their medical visits and track their medications and do a million other things. But the man is TOUGH. So manly. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD126: Birthday Parties - The Parental Cold War Arms Race
04/17/2024
DOD126: Birthday Parties - The Parental Cold War Arms Race
The one and only Arlo turned 5 years old! Thomas shares the details from what he considers the best birthday party ever, and the dads chat about the pressure of kid birthday parties and the glory of one Charles Entertainment Cheese. And, the amazing patrons get a sack update; whose sack will it be this time? Trick question, it's always Eli's sack. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD125: Teaching Our Kids To Read Good
04/12/2024
DOD125: Teaching Our Kids To Read Good
Eli has been teaching Max to read... OR HAS HE. Max is an amazing reader already and the dads talk about how their kids learn anything and whether or not it is, in fact, magic. Then for reasons that will likely come out in litigation, Tom and Eli hijack the show to talk about books. Thomas is filing suit and cannot comment further about this episode at the current time. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD124: Call Your Own Damn Pizza
04/10/2024
DOD124: Call Your Own Damn Pizza
It's time for another "Am I the Asshole" iteration of Dads! This time it's a dad who won't call to order pizza for his daughter who has anxiety. But there are a lot of details that make or break the assholeness. The dads go on to talk about challenges like this they've had with their kids. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD123: Partners Who Roast Each Other
04/05/2024
DOD123: Partners Who Roast Each Other
Do you know that couple? Are you that couple? That gives each other shit a lot. Like, a lot. And it's all "joke" but is it though? Thomas had a recent encounter with one such couple and has thoughts. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD122: Eli Sleeps With Other Dads
03/29/2024
DOD122: Eli Sleeps With Other Dads
Eli came back from a bro-cation and the dads chat about friendships, making friends as a dad, and different approaches to spending time with friends. Disclaimer: you may hear Thomas die in this episode (of laughter). For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD121: Should We Nuke The Nuclear Family?
03/22/2024
DOD121: Should We Nuke The Nuclear Family?
During and after COVID, there were many think pieces about the inadequacies of the nuclear family. Tom wants to talk about it. Should we all be living with our parents? Jesus Christ should we? Ugh, but like, ugh should we? I guess? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD120: Tom and Eli Crash Thomas's Funeral
03/20/2024
DOD120: Tom and Eli Crash Thomas's Funeral
Thomas and his family went to a memorial service recently; this sparks discussion about...well... Tom and Eli's business ideas? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD119: Model Role Models
03/15/2024
DOD119: Model Role Models
What responsibility do we have as role models for our kids to help them keep their own expectations of their skills, development, and identity reasonable for their age? A text between Tom and his son kicks off the discussion for this extra-long episode. And Thomas has his semiannual bone to pick with clocks changing. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD118: Sex vs. Intimacy
03/08/2024
DOD118: Sex vs. Intimacy
Do men know how to ask for non-sexual intimacy? Do they tend to over-sexualize any kind of touch? That dads discuss a Trevor Noah clip about men needing physical intimacy and not knowing how to get it. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD117: When Kids Protect Parents
03/01/2024
DOD117: When Kids Protect Parents
After Eli tries a few new catchphrases that absolutely do not catch on, the dads talk about when kids protect their parents. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD116: Should Men Pay For Dates?
02/23/2024
DOD116: Should Men Pay For Dates?
was the question the dads started with, and then they got to talking about Sugar relationships. And it turns out Thomas and Eli are in the market. Hit 'em up. Not Tome though. Tom is busy being a little lad. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD115: When Your Kid's Drawings Suck
02/21/2024
DOD115: When Your Kid's Drawings Suck
For a dad who is always used to trying to be encouraging, to help his talented kid keep going when they are discouraged, what does he do when... the opposite? When a kid is... extremely bad at something, but is completely convinced they are good? Look, we all know which extremely bad decisions are wrong there, but what about as the kid gets older? Is there a time when a little more realism is warranted? For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD114: Friend Request Your Kids?
02/16/2024
DOD114: Friend Request Your Kids?
Tom raises a question for the dads to discuss: how do we model appropriate online behavior for our kids, especially if we aren't really online ourselves? And how much of it is just a natural part of growing up? Also, is Tom's dad Hitler? Great conversation around these questions and more! For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD113: A Hallmark Holiday
02/14/2024
DOD113: A Hallmark Holiday
The dads talk about if they celebrate Valentine's Day, what it means to tend to your relationship, and how to show up for your partner over time. Do kids change this? Is it okay if they do? Also, Tom MAY OR MAY NOT sing in this one. Plus! Eli has a *very* spicy patron-only, sworn-to-secrecy, story. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD112: Make Up or Break Up?
02/09/2024
DOD112: Make Up or Break Up?
After a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, the dads discuss some devastating news... a certain couple has gotten back together. Maybe a certain couple that certain dads did not approve of being together. This spawns a discussion on getting back together with your (in Tom's case, invisible) exes. Is it a good idea? or a GREAT idea! Or bad. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD111: Eli Plots A Murder
02/02/2024
DOD111: Eli Plots A Murder
We've got a bit of a jackhole and Hyde situation in this episode. Eli confessed an entire murder plot on the air for some reason. And Thomas is... trying to get his kids to do ice skating. I don't know, man, what do you want from me. Eli is going to ice a guy and Thomas has got his kids on the ice OHHHH that's it. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD110: Would You Rather Be Cheated On or Stabbed?
01/26/2024
DOD110: Would You Rather Be Cheated On or Stabbed?
Today's episode is centered on an Am I The Asshole post on Reddit that is an absolute doozy. It inspires a fun and hilarious conversation about jealousy, monogamy, monogamy, and... whatever Tom is. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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DOD109: There's an App for That
01/24/2024
DOD109: There's an App for That
The apps. if you're a parent, you already know the hell that we are talking about. Each dad has 7 different apps for tracking their kids' school or daycare or whatnot. These are their stories. ALSO PATRONS GET AN AMAZING TOM UPDATE. You won't want to miss it. For extended episodes, bonus content, and most importantly, for an AD FREE SHOW, make sure to ! Join the Facebook Group! For comments, email Follow us on Twitter: Facebook Page:
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