Podcast Episodes

WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

When you're a Dad you're a Dad all the way / From your first stupid joke to your last dying day...

Listen to this podcast softly and it's almost like …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

SMOKEY & THE BANDIT

"This is the movie ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER wants to be." - Dad Tooky Kavanagh

Hal Needham directs 1977's SMOKEY & THE BANDIT!

5 months ago

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN

Oh, Catherine O'Hara...

For Dads Of A Certain Age (DOACAs), the presence of Catherine O'Hara in any project was a sign that we were in good hands. She…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

SUPER BOWL LX

It's the mooooost wooooonderfullll tiiiiime of the yeeeeeaaar....

It's the Dad-est of all the (unofficial) holidays, it's Thanksgiving without the tur…

6 months ago

STEP BROTHERS

These are dark times, friends. And in dark times, Dads need to smile. Which is why we hope our voices are like a combination of Fergie and Jesus as w…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

BABY BOOM

This week: the Dads toast one JC Wiatt, one of the great unsung movie Moms as well one of the most luminescent movie stars of the century, the magnif…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

A FEW GOOD MEN

Happy 2025 from the Dads.

We really wanted to mark the passing of Rob Reiner, who we've featured in our episodes on WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and THE PRINC…

7 months, 1 week ago

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION

Well, the Dads finally made it to Chevy in this most Chevy of Chevy movies.

It's hard to explain the phenomenon of Chevy Chase in 2025 to someone who …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Yeah, we (Dads Mike and Dave) were as surprised as you are:

Dad-In-Waiting Tooky Kavanagh did not see this film until AFTER watching BOTH parts of WIC…

8 months, 1 week ago

THE IRON CLAW

Tolstoy said "Every family is unhappy in its own way". Boy, would he have loved the Von Erichs. (Would Leo Tolstoy have enjoyed professional wrestlin…

8 months, 3 weeks ago