Dear Old Dads
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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...
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DOD288: Childfree By Choice, with Cecil Cicirello
Although we all miss Eli in this episode, we have an incredible treat of a guest host: Cecil Cicirello! Cecil shares how he and his wife determined th...
DOD287: Til Too Many Memes Do Us Part
A number of listener emails have been coming in, so the dads tackle a couple of these, including navigating family dynamics of people being invited an...
DOD286: Eli and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Well Eli had an absolutely surreal 12 hours immediately before recording, so the dudes get into it. At least we all have each other.
Join the Fa...
DOD285: How Many Dads Are We Buying for Anyway?!
It's a belated Father's Day round table! Plus, a listener question about a nephew who needs way more intervention than is being offered by their paren...
DOD284: It Must Be Hot Divorcée Summer Or Something
The dads work through listener emails. How many exactly? A NEW UNBEATABLE DADS RECORD. You'll have to tune in to find out! But it all boils down to a...
DOD283: When No One At the Pool Party Knows How to Swim
Tom threw a birthday party for Eamon and the chaos that ensued is quite literally unbelievable. We're not sure if Tom has actually recovered from this...
DOD282: A Talent Show with No Talent
A listener question about kids performing in talent shows is paired with incredible news from Thomas about one of the Smith kids facing their own fear...
DOD281: When Your Couple Friends Divorce
Thomas's friends are divorcing, and hearing the details hits a little too close to home. The dads dig into what it really means when someone can't sto...
DOD280: How Much Can We Control What We Find Attractive?
Thomas got served a weird Christian-y video about marriage and attraction.
In the bonus for patrons: Tom does what his kid wanted and...
DOD279: When Should You Tell Your Kid They're Neurodivergent?
The dads take a listener email about how and when to talk to your kid about a diagnosis like ADHD or autism. When do you share this information with y...
DOD278: I'm Not Gonna Cause I Don't Wanna
It's another "Tom is sane despite all odds" episode! The dudes revisit a topic that Tom brought up in a previous episode about whether or not permissi...
DOD277: This Husband's In the Doghouse
The dads spend today's episode exploring a few different areas of concern from a listener email. But at it's core: how do you negotiate one partner's...
DOD276: The Annual Poopy Pants Review
It's that time of year: Mother's Day happened last weekend. On a scale of perfectly clean butt to the most poopy of poopy pants, how did the dads do t...
DOD275: Does Banning Phones at School Work?
A recent NYT article discussed a study outlining the impact of cellphone bans in school. The dads chat about those results, and get into a number of t...
DOD274: You Better Ask Nicely
Eli provides some important news from his corner of the globe (and it hopefully continues to be funny and hasn't resulted in anything terrible for any...
DOD273: We Almost Did An Episode Before Remembering Eli Golfed
We started this episode with a plan in mind, and then we remembered that ELI BETHESDA BOSNICK went GOLFING (?!) recently and had to stop everything to...
DOD272: "Am I the Asshole?" Asks World's Biggest Asshole
Spoiler alert: this guy from r/AITA is definitely an asshole, but there's SO much to talk about from his unhinged post. In the story reserved for patr...
DOD271: Hell in a Handbasket, I Say!
The dads continue evaluating those morality survey results and there are some WILD positions in this half! Plus the dads categorize the issues they fi...
DOD270: Poll on Moral Issues Explains Everything Wrong with America
After absolutely bonkers Dentist stories, the dads explore a recent Pew Research Center study that surveyed Americans on whether or not various behavi...
DOD269: RIP Mr. Kitty 2012-2026
WAIT. NOW TOM'S GONE?! Lydia sneaks on the show as Thomas shares an important Smith Family update (IT'S NOT A FOURTH KID). Eli, Thomas, and Lydia disc...
DOD268: A Helluva Haeley Health Hupdate
Haeley recently had literal brain surgery, and Tom is here to share how it all went and what's next in their pursuit of her health. Many thanks to eve...
DOD267: When Your Partner Needs an Abortion
The dads continue visiting topics that haven't received the proper Dear Old Dads treatment. Beyond the position of "being pro-choice", how else can yo...
DOD266: When You're A Virgin Who Can't Drive
Eli poses a discussion topic for the dads that they somehow have not talked about before. Let's talk about virginity - the pressure to lose yours, to...
DOD265: Positively Negative
Pretty sure this is the first episode where the dads touch on adoption, and we have a great listener email to kick off discussion about a particular a...
DOD264: Choice Paralysis Analysis
Tom gives us a health update of his own that is WILD and exactly what we've come to expect and love about our Tom; then, the dads answer a listener em...
DOD263: If I Had a Nickel for Every Time Some Dude Used Polyamory as an Excuse to Cheat...
... we could turn off auto ads. I don't know. I almost titled this "If I had a new partner" instead of a nickel but it didn't actually make sense. Ann...
DOD262: Rent's Due, Kiddo
The dads dive into a question that they saw in the super fun Facebook group that you should definitely join - is it okay to charge your kid rent while...
DOD261: Does Inclusivity Have Limits?
A pair of topics for today! First - something awful happened at the BAFTAs and the dads dig into it. Who all messed up in that situation? Are we blami...
DOD260: You're a Lefty but Your Kid Wants to Join the Military
We have a listener question that asks something very reasonable: so many in this podcastiverse community are pretty left, and have strong feelings abo...
DOD259: If I Publicly Humiliate Us Both Will You Take Me Back???
A stunning press moment at the Olympics has the dads discussing "grand gestures" in romantic relationships. Does anyone ever actually want to be on th...
DOD258: Should We Expect Our Kids to Take Care of Us?
One of the dads was very surprised to find out that many people expect their kids to take care of them when they are elderly. Beyond that, it also is...
DOD257: Help, I'm Dating a Conspiracy Nut
We've got another listener question, and the dads dig into it almost right away! How do you tackle conspiratorial beliefs from your partner? Is this t...
DOD256: What If Your Friend Starts Dating Your Ex...
The dads are here today to answer a listener question in which their teenager's friend started talking (talking talking, iykyk) with the teen's very r...
DOD255: Talk About Body Talk
Y2K aesthetic is back beyond just butterfly clips and low-rise jeans, and #skinnytok is making sure our kids know it. How do we talk about bodies with...
DOD254: Barking Up the Wrong Family Tree
Following an update on Tom's mom's overseas end-of-life saga, the dads discuss a listener email about genealogy, family trees, and shared family histo...
DOD253: Maybe a Little Stitious
The dads take on a listener question about how to manage a situation where a kid from a bit of a troubled home is coming over unannounced frequently,...
DOD252: Choosing Between Career and Family
The dads get together (OR DO THEY) to answer a listener question about making choices between career and family. How do you make decisions between the...
DOD251: ZaaaaBOWnd
Following our last episode about preparing for death and wills, on today's show we have a major Eli health news drop paired with a medical-adjacent li...
DOD250: No Will? No Way!
It's the New Year so the two inevitables - taxes and death - are on our minds. Two of the dads lecture the third about not having a will. Make your pi...
DOD249: I Got You the Anthropologie Rock
Eli starts us off with the most fiendish hypothetical Dinner Party Question(tm) ever conceived. After some recovery, the dads discuss a popular prank...