TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike

Our long national nightmare is over... Finally, the Dads Dad their way into the Daddest movie of all time, a Dad Movie so Dad that another word for "Dad" is in the title. One of the greatest films ever made, it launched/cemented the careers of some of our greatest Hollywood stars AND it gave us the sharpest joke in 2023's Barbie Movie, a legacy that continues to grow. Tooky, Dave, &...

Happy Thanksgiving from the Dads! We hope your holiday travel plans unfold more smoothly than Neal Page's (Steve Martin) and Del Griffith's (John Candy) did in 1987. We hope you spend the holidays in the warm bosom of your friends and family, not hurtling the wrong way down a freeway between two semi trucks, stranded in an airport car rental lot, or between two pillows. Does this comedy...

CRASH! Sorry, I keep trying to type this intro, but- CRASH! -police cars keep- CRASH! CRASH! -they just keep spinning out and crashing into- CRASH! CRASH! BOOM! CRASH! FLIP! CRASH! So many car crashes! So many quotable lines! So many R&B stars! SO MUCH COCAINE! Is it as fun as the old Dads remember? Does it have anything to say to our Millennial Dad? And does anyone want an Orange Whip? Orange...

Rest in Power, Richard Roundtree. The Dads take this moment to reflect on the crowning achievement of the great actor's cinematic career, one of the definitive Blaxploitation films with an iconic Isaac Hayes soundtrack, and an invaluable visual retrospective of a pre-Giuliani New York. The Mafia? Black Nationalists? Harlem drug kingpins? Our three Dads? None of them can face down the commandi...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM THE DADS! This spooky season, we fill your treat bags with dad jokes from the original horror-comedy-spoof; this film walked so SHAUN OF THE DEAD and THEY CLONED TYRONE could run. But does it play in 2023? Should it be exhumed for a yearly viewing, or should it stay dead and buried? The Dads have thoughts, and this film has Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder, Cloris Leachman, Marty Fe...

In podcasts, no one can hear you scream. TDM wishes you a happy spooky season with this Dad-fueled dive into a classic film which offers an explanation as to why Dads hate to take a detour when they're driving home: A XENOMORPH LAYS EGGS IN YOUR FACE, THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T PULL OFF THE HIGHWAY. This week, Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror franchise starter ALIEN.

What does TOOTSIE have to offer our modern-day dads?  The behavior of stars like Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray have been held up to greater scrutiny in a post-#MeToo world, and rightly so. Our understanding of gender and sexuality has become more nuanced, as has our understanding of the corrosive effect of the patriarchy on our society. Hopefully, we're smarter than we were in 1982.  With th...

What's the greatest Eddie Murphy performance?  COMING TO AMERICA? Maybe.  48 HOURS? Ok. DREAMGIRLS? Sure; he was nominated for an Oscar. NORBIT? ... All fine choices (except for NORBIT). But for the true Dad Connoisseur, you can't beat Eddie as action movie hero Kit Ramsey AND Kit's homely brother Jiff in a performance for the ages (alongside American treasure Steve Martin) in Frank...

Can a "Dad Movie" be a "Dad Movie" without any actual dad characters? YES! Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford display the utmost in dad-bonding: they almost never hang out, they don't know each other all that well, but BY GOD THEY'LL GO THE EXTRA MILE FOR EACH OTHER. Join our dads as they cling for dear life to this unrelenting thrill ride through the streets of Chicag...

The Dads dig deep into the ultimate romcom, the movie that makes (in the words of Dad Tooky) "New York look like a scented candle." Geese and ducks and pigs better scurry when they hear our sizzling hot takes on...the likely availability of affordable apartments in New York in the late 70s? Roll down the windows, put your phone on the side, and don't crinkle your forehead looking at...

"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful podcast..." "Of all the podcatchers on all the phones in all the world, I downloaded this podcast onto mine..." "We'll always have podcast..." "The problems of three little Dads don't amount to a hill of beans on this crazy podcast..." "Here's listenin' to you, kid." The Dads...

You found our next episode! Clever girl! But you didn't say the magic word. (Wayne Knight waves a finger disapprovingly) All the dinos are Dads (until they're not). Sam Neill becomes a Dad! Richard Attenborough is a terrible Granddad! Jeff Goldblum is the ur-Zaddy! And Laura Dern singlehandedly dismantles the patriarchy! This film might win the award for Most Dad Movie of All Time, and t...

How could we have known that podcasting could sometimes smell like honeysuckle? This week, we're rated noiR as we do a deep dad dive into the soul of mid-WWII America and find things are a little bleak. Join Mike, Tooky, & Dave as we lower the blinds and muck around in the shadows of the human soul in Billy Wilder's 1944 ur-noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY (featuring Hall Of Fame Dad Fred MacMu...

Are white people ok? - Tooky Kavanagh No. - The Coen Brothers Lace up your winter boots and fire up the wood chipper; it's time to go back to 1996 and Joel & Ethan Coen's FARGO.

1991 was the year for enduring trends in popular culture, artists and ideas that will stand the test of time: Jesus Jones! Hypercolor t-shirts! Myst! Democracy in the former Soviet Union!  Ok, the only things that have actually held up since 1991 are Clarence Thomas (boo!) and this week's film TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (yay!) One of the few sequels that outstrips the original, T2 still deliv...

Debra Winger (ahem) dropped the ball! Thankfully, Geena Davis was there to do the splits and catch it. Check the stats on this 1992 web gem: Comeback Player of the Year: Tom Hanks Manager of the Year: Penny Marshall Rookie of the Year: Lori Petty Tooky of the Year: Tooky Kavanagh Join the dads as they cede the diamond to the moms for 1992's A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

Christmas 1997: after you opened your Beanie Babies and your Tamagotchi, maybe you rolled off to the local multiplex to catch the latest flick from wunderkind director Quentin Tarantino. Maybe you ditched your family to spend almost three hours with a down-on-her-luck yet luminous airline stewardess, an open-hearted bail bondsman, and a terrifyingly charming small-time gun runner. Grier! Jackson!...

Anybody want a podcast? Have fun storming the podcatcher. You think they'll download it? It'd take a mira... ok, ok, we'll stop. (Wallace Shawn voice: I'm just getting started!)   Swordfights, tight tights, Robin Wrights, and an honest-to-goodness Giant fill this tale of true love (and hopefully keep the R.O.U.S. nightmares at bay). Scale the Cliffs of Insanity with Dave, Tooky...

This movie starts with a mustachio'd Nic Cage murdering a child...the Nineties were a whole vibe, friends. Explosions! Visible wire work! Gina Gershon and Margaret Cho! Joan Allen and John Travolta, rubbing each others' faces for some reason! SO MANY DOVES! Cue up the choir and tie your brother's sneakers, because Cage and Travolta are playing each other in John Woo's 1997 oper...

THE DIAL OF DESTINY is in theatres now, so we had to go back to the Well of Souls to answer some burning questions: Are these stunts the best stunts, or just the best stunts? Is Tom Selleck replacement-level Harrison Ford? Is it ever not ok to shoot a nazi? Why did it have to be snakes? We make it up as we go along, and Tooky finally discovers the origin of the "Top. Men." meme! Grab you...

Is Chief Brody America's Wine Dad? Is JAWS the only acceptable Copaganda? Does Tooky have a Matt Hooper type? Was there a time when the paragon of American lower- and middle class resort towns was represented on screen by Martha's Vineyard? Suck it, Dershowitz! One today's episode: three podcasters went into the water...anyway...we delivered the pod... Tooky, Dave & Mike compare...

Cue up THESE ARMS OF MINE because its time to get up close and intimate with Rowdy Herrington's 1989 trash-terpiece. Is this a great bad movie or just a great movie? What is Ben Gazzara's economic vision for Jasper, MO? Has Emmett ever removed his long underwear? Is "cooler" a viable career path? Join Tooky, Dave, and Mike as we enthusiastically rip the throat right out of ROAD...