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TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeNATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATIONWell, 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 wasn't there. But such is the burden of Gen X Dads, much like reciting "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" to our uninterested screen-addicted progeny, we must also account for the old man in Community's presence in this holiday tradition. And you know what? The movie is still pretty good. And maybe a gift we can give our kids is the choice to separate "art" from "artist." So Merry Xmas...
2025-12-231h 01TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE WIZARD OF OZYeah, 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 WICKED.The times, they are a-changin'...And it's not a bad thing: is there a more seminal piece of culture than the Wizard of Oz? People have been going back to L. Frank Baum's story in various media for almost a century, probably because it still has things to tell us about discovery, identity, and growing up. Engaging with a meaningful piece of culture through fresh eyes...
2025-12-091h 04TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeOVERBOARDKurt and Goldie! Dads love a long-term relationship!Goldie Hawn can do no wrong. It’s a Dad Movie credo. Kurt Russell’s Dean Profitt is perhaps the most feckless Dad we’ve encountered yet. Like, for real: ZERO FECKS GIVEN. Does it work? Does it matter? Kurt and Goldie baby in Garry Marshall’s 1987 morally-dicey rom-com OVERBOARD!What Makes This A Dad Movie? 38:15Who’s Your Daddy? 42:00The Kavanagh Rating 48:15
2025-11-1250 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE THINGHALLOWEEN BONUS EPISODE!The Dads choose "treat" for both us and you with a surprise bonus John Carpenter episode, 1982's horror masterpiece (featuring Kurt Russell, pre-"diabeetus" Wilford Brimley, and Black All Star Keith David) THE THING! WHAT MAKES THIS A DAD MOVIE? 49:30WHO'S YOUR DADDY? 53:00THE KAVANAGH RATING: 56:15
2025-10-311h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE NATURALDads love three things:Baseball;Robert Redford (RIP);A moral.Don't gamble and don't chase fast women and most of all DON'T THINK YOU'RE SUCH HOT POTATOES or you too might end up losing your prime seasons to bullet- and pride-related injuries. The Dads continue celebrating the singular career of Robert Redford (in time for October baseball, no less!) with our deep dive into Barry Levinson's 1984 called shot THE NATURAL.54:00 What Makes This A Dad Movie?57:30 Who's Your Daddy?1:01 The Kavanagh Rating
2025-10-141h 04TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeALL THE PRESIDENT'S MENThe Dads had just finished recording this episode when news of Robert Redford's death became public. Robert Redford did as much for cinema as any American ciitizen ever, and that certainly includes Dad movies. TD&M will spend the next few months dipping into Redford's unparalleled string of Dad hits, and today's film certainly qualifies: a perfect example of well-used star power (both in front of and behind the camera) to tell a story with a clear moral (Dads LOVE morals!) that reverberates even more strongly (and some might say, sadly) today. We'll miss you, Robert Redford. Y...
2025-09-301h 01TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeAPOLLO 13This week, in honor of this film's pear anniversary (and upcoming Imax release), the Dads dig into (in one Dad's opinion, anyway) Ron Howard's directorial masterpiece, a seamless blend of craft and scale that... hold on a minute... dad Tooky... did you say you watched this film... on a... a laptop?! (Dads Mike and Dave clutch their chests and die)Hanks! Harris! Quinlan! Bacon! Sinise! Paxton (not Pullman, goddammit Tooky)! Houston, we have a podcast: it's 1995's APOLLO 13!48:00 - What makes this a Dad movie?51:00 - Who's Your Daddy?59:00 - The...
2025-09-161h 05TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeHIGHLANDERTHE DADS' TEXT THREAD or A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAINDAD MIKE: We're gonna watch a bananas 80s movie!DAD DAVE: Great!DAD MIKE: It's a sci-fi fantasy epic!DAD DAVE: Oh yeah!DAD MIKE: It's got a soundtrack by Queen!DAD DAVE: OH SHIT THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES-DAD MIKE: It's HIGHLANDER!DAD DAVE: oh i thought it was FLASH GOR-DAD TOOKY: Sean Connery is my real father.*scene*...
2025-07-2250 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMIDNIGHT RUN (encore presentation)Hey friends! The Dads have been wicked busy doing Dad Shit (tm); apologies for the delay and thank you for your patience. We're hoping to get some new eps up by next week; in the meantime, sit back and enjoy an encore presentation of our discussion of the movie that launched this particular endeavor. Tune in or I swear to God I'll shoot the other Dads and dump them in a f!@#$%g swamp! [turns to other Dads and shakes head "no"]It's always time for MIDNIGHT RUN!
2025-01-2855 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeWHITE MEN CAN'T JUMPIT'S NOT THE REMAKE!Do yourself a favor and read this essay before, after, or during your viewing of this movie and/or listening to this podcast: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/02/03/on-hustles/Hanif Abdurraqib is the realest of deals, y'all. Buy all of his books and thank us later.Can you imagine an America pre-Rosie Perez? I'm glad I don't have to. Dig in as the Dads dissect Ron Shelton's basketbomedy, 1992'S WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP.
2025-01-1457 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeCON AIRLook, if you want to know why Gen X is so f#$%ed up, just know that a major studio made this movie with the thought: "This is what they want."Cage. Malkovich. Cage's hair. Cusack. Cage's accent. Trejo. Chappelle. More Cage. Ving Rhames. The guy from Star Trek: The Next Generation (not that guy, the other one). Cage shirtless. Steve Buscemi. And - did I mention - Nic Cage?THE SEATBELT SIGN IS ILLUMINATED, DADS.Simon West directed this, but (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer) only God can create 1997's CON AIR.
2025-01-0749 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTRADING PLACESIf Reagan's America were a film, it'd probably be this one. Happy New Year from your favorite Dads!This movie launched or re-launched a bunch of careers, made a bajillion dollars and has a case for the definitive movie of the 80s (for a bunch of reasons discussed herein); and YET it's still a bit of a funky rewatch. Nonetheless, we dig into the 41-year-old funk of John Landis' 1983 comedy TRADING PLACES. (please do not pause the podcast to look at our voices; gross)
2024-12-3151 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeWHILE YOU WERE SLEEPINGYou know the best part of the holiday season? Hanging out with your family!OK, maybe sometimes that's not the BEST part; families are tricky little communities of biologically-linked individuals, each carrying a boatload of what NPR's Linda Holmes evocatively named "little weirdsies". Family can be a tough hang, at this or any time of year.But what if... there was a family so perfectly warm and caring and charming that you'd break state (and possibly federal) laws to join them under false pretenses?Somehow, this movie about a lonely orphan who develops...
2024-12-2452 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeGOODFELLASDads love order. We like routine, a hierarchy, knowing where we stand at all times. The Mob provides the illusion of order.This movie reveals what a life of organized crime really entails: chaos, anxiety, terror, and senseless violence.This movie is an anti-Dad instructional video, and should be required viewing for all Dads. They should have it running in the delivery and waiting rooms. There should be an AI-generated Paul Sorvino PSA warning Dads to shape up inserted at regular intervals during these hospital screenings.This movie will make you a...
2024-12-171h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeENTER THE DRAGONBruce Lee was - for a brief period - perhaps the most famous person in the world. He died in 1973 (at the far-too-young age of 32).Dads Mike and Dave were born in 1974, the first generation to live in a post-Bruce Lee world, and the last to have members who experienced Lee's fame and the kung fu mania that followed it firsthand. Someday-Dad Tooky has never seen a Bruce Lee film BUT she has seen a great deal of Bruce Lee-inspired properties (see: our last podcast for THE LAST DRAGON). How will Tooky respond whe...
2024-12-1054 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE LAST DRAGONIt's a TDM switcheroo - Mike & Tooky present Dad Dave with a movie that they have seen but he hasn't...until now!This movie has everything. Punching. Kicking. Chazz Palminteri punching and kicking. Vanity. William H. Macy for some reason. A knockoff Cyndi Lauper. And the only cinematic villain to approach Darth Vader in ultimate 80s badassery, Sho'nuff.It's an intergenerational Dad-a-ganza as we bring you 1985's THE LAST DRAGON (produced by Berry Gordy).
2024-12-0352 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeANY GIVEN SUNDAYHappy Thanksgiving! Dads love the Three Fs: family, feasting, and football. So we thought it might make for a nice opportunity to watch one of the most realistic and grounded sports films ever made.Just kidding. Calling this movie "batshit crazy" does a disservice to guano. Oliver Stone and an all-star cast go full cuckoo bananas in a movie that the Dads fully recommend you boot up immediately after dinner in an effort to avoid uncomfortable political discussions. Trust us: you can't argue about anything when (spoiler alert!) a DUDE GETS HIS DANGED EYE KNOCKED OUT IN...
2024-11-261h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeDIRTY DANCINGWhat's that you say? DIRTY DANCING is a Mom Movie?We are here to tell you that not only is it a Dad Movie, it is the DADDEST MOVIE. And if you disagree, you can go jump in a lake. With Patrick Swayze. And Jennifer Grey. Which sounds cold. But hella sexy. This movie rules and if you have kids and don't cry watching Jerry Orbach do Jerry Orbach things, I don't want to know from you. Emile Ardolino directs us back to 1963 via 1987's DIRTY DANCING.
2024-11-1953 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeCOMMANDODads take a lot of heat, and deservedly so: Life in a patriarchy means that much of this society is a direct reflection of generations of Dads - we have FOUNDING FATHERS for chrissakes - so everything, good and bad (and let's face it, the scales are tipping the wrong way) must be laid at our feet. And yet: We will do anything for our kids. A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Especially if it involves driving a bulldozer into a gun store. Arnold! Rae Dawn Chong! The kid from Who's The Boss? Nick Fratelli from Cheers! Mark Lester...
2024-11-121h 01TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMR. MOMRIP to the magnificent Teri Garr, perhaps one of the patron (matron?) saints of Dad movies. No one was realer, funnier, or more fully and charmingly human. She and Michael Keaton make a pretty good meal out of these ingredients; it's pretty clear why the Oscar noms wait in the offing. Listen, Michael Keaton is having a moment, and deservedly so; but let's not let this year pass without memorializing the great Teri Garr. Dads, Moms, liberals, conservatives, cats, dogs - maybe the last thing we can agree on is "Teri Garr was great in that!" You c...
2024-11-051h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikePSYCHOCUE THE VIOLINS!And Happy Halloween from the Dads; enjoy our long shower with Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 slashsterpiece PSYCHO.
2024-10-2954 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeROXANNEElevator pitch: I'd like to take a 19th century French melodrama and update it, eliminating the graphic violence and changing the famously heartbreaking ending. Also, we should set it in a small town full of horny old ladies.Studio Executive: Ok, here's a ton of money.Only one person can land that pitch: Total Dad favorite and comic dilettante Steve Martin.Fred Schepisi directs Martin, Daryl Hannah, Shelley Winters, Fred Willard, and a right jolly cast of gentle weirdos through this Dad-candy (for whom among us Dads doesn't wish to change some unsightly...
2024-10-2253 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBERConfession: at the grocery store with my family, I will often and without warning turn suddenly a full 360 degrees in either direction while exclaiming "Crazy Ivan!" Let no one say this movie doesn't have a lasting impact.Baldwin! Connery! Glenn! Neill! Curry! Vance! Skarsgard! and James Earl Jones (RIP)! Who doesn't love a submarine movie? NOT DADS, that's who! John McTiernan helms this Cold War cold water epic, 1990's THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.
2024-10-1555 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeWORKING GIRLLEEEEEEEEET THE RIVER RUUUUUUUUUUUUN...(NGL, that songs rips)A Dad Movie? About a lady? Yeah, dummy, it's 2024. (OK fine, Harrison Ford was probably our hook at the time, but now... well, he still kicks ass in this flick) ALSO: Sigourney Weaver! Melanie Griffith! Joan MFing Cusack! Olympia MFing Dukakis! Oliver Platt! (and yeah, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey, too). This movie aged better than you probably think it did, and it's not even leath-uh.Mike Nichols directs the crap out of 1988's WORKING GIRL!
2024-10-0852 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeSWINGERSBefore Vince Vaughn was America's doughy best friend and Jon Favreau was launching Iron Man and the Mandalorian (that guy loves armor, huh?), these two babyfaces shot a shoestring comedy that captures the brief moment in America when chain wallets, indoor smoking, and swing dancing were not just tolerated but were emblematic of a lifestyle that can only be called "money". Ask your dad about it; he's probably got a non-ironic fedora in the back of his closet somewhere. Vegas, baby, Vegas! Doug Liman directs the ultimate late-millennium-man-child time capsule, 1996' SWINGERS!
2024-10-0155 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTIONGet busy Daddin', or get busy podcastin'.Carve your names into the eaves with the Dads as we attempt to break free from Frank Darabont's Steven King adaptation par excellence (featuring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, and the voice of Mr. Krabs), 1994's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
2024-09-2445 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeSTIR CRAZYWait, Sidney Poitier directed this?Huh.Ok, then.Pryor. Wilder. Poitier. Every Dad is born having seen this movie. It combines everything Dads know about the criminal justice system with everything Dads know about the rodeo. It's why your Dad is neither a lawyer nor a cowboy. Get your chicken costumes out because we're watching the comedy smash of 1980: STIR CRAZY.
2024-09-1751 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeSAY ANYTHINGThis movie features an all-time complicated Dad (John Mahoney), and is helmed by the wunderkind (Cameron Crowe) that launched a string of Dad movies, so you can-Hang on; just give me a second?(Goes to window; opens it)"It's after 2:00 am; goodnight, Lloyd."(Closes window)Sorry. That kid is out here every night blasting his Peter Gabriel. Which is fine, but sometimes you want to hear "Family Snapshot" instead. Anyway, enjoy 1989's SAY ANYTHING.
2024-09-101h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeRAIN MANAn odd companion piece to last week's episode (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) featuring another aspect of human existence (this week: ASD, last week: trans awareness) that in 2024 we have a vastly more informed cultural relationship to than we did at the time of these movies' respective releases. AND YET, I think it's fair to say that our deepened understanding of these communities owes something (good or bad, or likely, a combo platter therein) to these films made on the cusp of the 90s. Dustin Hoffman got all the flowers for his performance, but this is the m...
2024-09-0358 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE SILENCE OF THE LAMBSHannibal Lecter has been in the news recently for reasons both dumb and stupid. But Anthony Hopkins' performance is anything but - the only thing scarier than this film is the prospect of another four years of [REDACTED].Speaking of presidential trauma, Jodie Foster is equally incredible in this flick. Dads love Jodie Foster, because her movies are always real good but not so good that you can't eat popcorn during them, you know what I mean? Howard Shore and Jonathan Demme just nail their assignments, as does pretty much everyone else here; the Dads talk about...
2024-08-2756 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMEN IN BLACKAmerica has had a lot of Dads. The good (Michael Landon, Barack Obama), the bad (Bill Cosby, Alec Baldwin), and the confusingly discordant (RIP Bob Saget/Danny Tanner). But we submit here that America's greatest Dad is almost never pictured with an actual son or daughter, yet nonetheless appears in many films as a distant-yet-deeply-caring-dispenser-of-hard-truths-and-earned-wisdom. If that don't make Tommy Lee Jones a Dad, I don't know what does.The Dads are present for the birth of Blockbuster Will Smith in Barry Sonnenfeld's 1997 summer smash MEN IN BLACK!
2024-08-1953 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHREE MEN AND A BABYInside each of us is three Dads...(I've made this joke already, but c'mon)You've got a Guttenberg - sensitive and clueless.You've got a Danson - dashing and egomaniacal.You've got a Selleck - rugged and protective.These Dads are engaged in a relentless battle for dominance within you. When you suddenly have a baby (and I sincerely hope none of you ever receive a baby in the manner that the titular baby is delivered in this film), you will recognize these Dads as they rise and fall with your...
2024-08-1355 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikePREDATORGET TO THE CHOPPAH!(Dads love a good Arnold impression)The Dads turn on their thermal vision to dissect the film that launched the handshake that launched a thousand memes. Schwarzenegger. Weathers. Ventura. Van Damme (in absentia). And a bunch of vaguely problematic Dad stereotypes that somehow age like fine wine. It's John McTiernan's horror-action-war movie mashupsterpiece PREDATOR!
2024-08-0652 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeHIDDEN FIGURESListen, the Dads make no secret of our political leanings: would we would prefer this country and its institutions be run by women of color? LIKELY. Is this a topical issue at the moment? PERHAPS. Are we feeling (cautiously) hopeful right now? MAYBE. Did we want to honor this unprecedented time in American history by talking about a film wherein Black women do the near-impossible? YOU BET YOUR BUNS, JUNIOR.Up next: the best thing about 2016, Theodore Melfi's biopic of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson (based on Margot Lee Shetterly's book) HIDDEN FIGURES.
2024-07-3053 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike48 HOURSInside every one of us are two Dads, fighting for supremacy.One looks like Jack Cates.One looks like Reggie Hammond.Do I have to tell you which one to listen to?The Dads carefully dissect the not-at-all problematic and hugely influential "buddy" cop comedy from 1982 (featuring the breakout performance from Eddie Murphy), Walter Hill's 48 HOURS.
2024-07-231h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMIDNIGHT RUNSometimes - maybe most of the time? - we don't fully appreciate our Dads until we've had a chance to reflect on them. Their tiny brilliances, their hidden diamond facets behind their seemingly-workaday veneer...these can sometimes go unremarked upon until one day you look up and realize OH SHIT MY DAD IS THE BEST COMEDY OF THE 80S. Am I conflating Dads and MIDNIGHT RUN? Possibly. But with so many Dads to choose from (DeNiro's scruffy-but-noble Dad, Grodin's manipulative-but-noble Dad, Ashton's comically inept Dad, Kotto's perpetually frustrated Dad, Farina's don't-ask-what-I-do-for-a-living Dad, among others...), can you blame m...
2024-07-1655 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeGOLDFINGERTrue story: My Dad purchased a bunch of tvs from an electronics store. He was informed that he would receive a discount if he signed up for their in-house credit card. So he (of course) proceeded to do so under a fake name because everyone knows that LAWS DO NOT APPLY TO DADS. When asked for his name for the card he said: "Bond. Fenimore Bond."I think he still has the card, although the store has since gone out of business.(Someone please check the statute of limitations re: fraud charges in Florida? Thanks.)
2024-07-091h 01TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeKRAMER VS. KRAMERHow rare is it for a movie to serve as a primer on how to both BE and NOT BE a Dad? This film is the "Scared Straight" of Dad movies.Also Ted Kramer is a lousy person who is capable of great things. Or a great person who does a lot of lousy things. Is it any wonder that Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar? Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry all nail everything that can be nailed in Robert Benton's tastefully-directed tale of a dude learning to be less shitty, 1979's KRAMER VS. KRAMER.
2024-07-011h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERSPerhaps we don't touch on the dark side of Dads often enough. But ask anyone who's even been, had, or known a Dad and they'll tell you it's there. The obsessiveness, the pettiness, the gatekeeping... it's all there. Perhaps (as this podcast occasionally posits) the real merit of a Dad comes from our ability to recognize and (hopefully) evolve into a newer, more supportive form. But does America want that for us? This film shows us the full spectrum of Dad, from manipulative to honest, from sinister to openhearted, and from (perhaps most strikingly) from re...
2024-06-2556 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMAJOR LEAGUEForget the podcast, Ricky. Give 'em the heater.Lotsa Dad types in this one: Corbin Bernsen's asshole Dad, Chelcie Ross' Christian Dad (with a hidden stash of Hustlers), Tom Berenger's seemingly- cool-but-oh-wait-actually-kind-of-sad Dad, and James Gammon's tough love Dad. Plus you got a Sheen (Dads LOVE Sheens!) AND a Haysbert (the voice of Allstate - Dads LOVE insurance!) AND a Uecker (Carson's best guest; ask your Dad who Carson was). Oh, and this is a baseball movie, too. You know: baseball - the sport that only Dads watch (unless you have a Golf Dad and if that's...
2024-06-181h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeSUPERMAN II (THE RICHARD DONNER CUT)Happy Upcoming Father's Day! In honor of the holiday, and in the (very Dad) spirit of making amends for mistakes made years prior, we present this VERY Dad-centric original vision of the 1980 sequel to SUPERMAN: THE MOTION PICTURE. For reasons (see: capitalism), the original theatrical release was credited to Richard Lester after Richard Donner (originally hired to shoot 1 & 2 at the same time) was fired. This version, released in 2006, hews closer to Donner's vision for the story arc and is a PERFECT Father's Day movie (especially if your Dad is either a Kryptonian hologram or an ice sculpture). Hop in...
2024-06-111h 01TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE MALTESE FALCONDads love two things: MacGuffins and culturally irrelevant impressions. This film gives our Dads the chance to enjoy the ur-MacGuffin while dusting off our best Bogey (or even our Peter Lorre!) for the eyerolled "amusement" of our progeny. Also, it's one of the greatest movies ever mad yada yada yada. This week: John Huston's 1941 hard-boiled noir-blueprint THE MALTESE FALCON.
2024-06-0455 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeBLOODSPORTEvery Dad knows: you gotta take out the trash.What every Dad comes to learn: done correctly, taking out the trash is a vacation. A brief respite from the demands of family interaction, a chance to ever-so-briefly immerse oneself in a larger world. Trash has value: spiritual and emotional value. BLOODSPORT is trash. It is eminently disposable and probably toxic, AND YET... for 85 glorious minutes, watching it provides the kind of Dad-cation that we glimpse on our weekly runs out to the curb. Join us as we drag our cans to the...
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Open Mic PainThe Secret Life of Tooky Kavanagh!This week we are joined by the incredible Tooky Kavanagh! We talk about her secret comedy career, some of the incredible things she has been able to accomplish over the last ten years, and about so much more!
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2024-05-2744 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeBOOGIE NIGHTSDiscussion of this magnificent film inspired Dad Mike to say: "I'm going full Harrison Butker on The Girthmaster." I can't think of a stronger endorsement to listen to a deep Porn Dad discussion of Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 masterpiece BOOGIE NIGHTS.
2024-05-211h 02TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikePLANET OF THE APESThis may no longer be your Dad's favorite movie, but it's definitely your Dad's favorite Simpsons joke. Take a peek up Charlton Heston's loincloth with us as we explore the whos, wheres, whys, and WHA?s of Franklin Schaffner's 1968 monkeypocalypse PLANET OF THE APES.
2024-05-1447 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeOCEAN'S ELEVENPerhaps the most Dad-spirational movie of all time, this movie features beautiful people doing cool stuff in a fantasy city. Every Dad sees himself in a cool suit talking the racket, or tugging on our bucket hats at the track, ready for one big score. But the truth is: most of us are Julia Roberts: blissfully unaware of the danger at the edges of our existence until it's too late.ClooneyPittRobertsDamonCheadleReinerGarcia in Steven Soderbergh's 2001 heist comedy remake of OCEAN'S ELEVEN!
2024-05-0754 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeBULL DURHAMWell, I believe in the small of a woman's back... The hanging curveball... high fiber... good scotch.I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.I believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Dads everywhere have this tattooed on their khakis. This week: Ron Shelton's 1988 minor league baseball comedy tone poem BULL DURHAM.
2024-04-301h 05TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUADLeslie Neilsen is your dad's favorite actor, and probably his second favorite actor as well. Leslie Neilsen carried a handheld fart sound machine wherever he went. Leslie Neilsen's gravestone reads "Let 'er rip".Leslie Neilsen is the Chuck Norris of Dad humor, except he actually did all the stuff that we celebrate him for. THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD makes for a complicated watch after, say, 1994 (the Dads get into it), but in this space, we're just celebrating the simple gift to Dads that is Leslie Neilsen as...
2024-04-2354 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeBATMANThis movie needs a Dad! But I guess if it had one, it wouldn't really be a Batman, would it? Aren't most Tim Burton movies about missing grown ups in one way or another? He's got some stuff to work through, but then again, don't we all? Bruce Wayne certainly does; so does his counterpart Jack Napier/Joker in this astoundingly awkward mash-up of ideas, tones, and styles. We'll take you deep into the Freudian undertones of Timmy B's 1989 weirdly massively successful blockbuster (Keaton! Nicholson! Basinger! PRINCE, FOR CHRISSAKES! And...Jack Palance?), BATMAN!
2024-04-1654 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeSUPERMAN: THE MOVIELook! Up in the sky! It's our childhood!If you read comics as a kid, you read some Superman. And, love him or hate him, you knew who Superman was, and, secretly, you probably wished the people around you could be a little more like him. Granted, it's easier to have an unbendable moral code if you don't need to eat and nothing can ever hurt you, but still, you had to respect the guy. And if you are a Comics Dad (tm), I bet your kid knew something about Superman before they could say the word "...
2024-04-0959 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeGHOSTBUSTERSWhen you're a dad/And you want to watch/A film/GHOSTBUSTERS!As the Ghostbuniversters expands, we visit Ivan Reitman's ur-text, the 1984 classic that started the whole michegas.
2024-04-0257 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE MUPPET MOVIEKermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are the yin/yang of Dad Energy.Kermit: Moral. Respected. The clear leader. Perhaps a tad dorky, but effective. If you saw Kermit wearing cargo pants, you would not be surprised. A collaborator, but with a vision. He is what all Dads aspire to be.Fozzie: Relentlessly mocked, justifiably so. His laughs come from pity, not amusement. He panics when given responsibility. He drives, but poorly. He is simultaneously vestigial and functionary. He is what all Dads, upon reflection, know themselves to be.The cameos. The songs...
2024-03-2655 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeWHO FRAMED ROGER RABBITDads love cartoons. But you know what Dads really love? Horny cartoons that reference CHINATOWN.Also if you can get every classic Warner Brothers and Disney cartoon character in there as well...Dads eat that s*** up.That's why we're chowing down this week on (IMO) Robert Zemeckis' greatest achievement, 1988's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.
2024-03-1955 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeCATCH ME IF YOU CANWe talk a lot of Spielberg here at TDM, because Steven makes a lot of movies both for and about Dads. BRIDGE OF SPIES might be the ultimate "only Dads will watch this movie" movie. Every Dad remembers showing their kid RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK for the first time, probably a few years too soon because WATCH THIS PART WITH THE WHIP! JURASSIC PARK - in between the screams and the biting - is essentially a film about Sam Neill learning to become a Dad. Missing Dads are a huge part of Spielberg's oeuvre, to...
2024-03-121h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeAIR FORCE ONEWe probably shouldn't ask more from our President than competence. Make some laws, keep the trains running on time, and be generally moral. I might be giving away too much, but I generally like the current guy. But you put him next to President Indiana Jones, and yeah, the achievements look a little thin. But to be fair, President Indiana Jones (I mean James Marshall, but really, who are we kidding?) never seemed particularly well-positioned to address anything that wasn't punchable. He doesn't even know how fax machines work, for crying out loud! I tell you what, I will b...
2024-03-0551 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeELECTIONBeen thinking a lot this week about MADAME WEB, which (spoiler alert!) isn't a good movie, but seems to double-suffer from the background radiation of institutional misogyny. MADAME WEB isn't your enemy, fellow nerds - it's the (male-dominated) studio that serves it to us, undercooked and leaking on the plate.You know what I didn't understand in 1999? Tracy Flick is not a villain. Tracy's meme-ification - used to mock women of ambition, most notably in 2016 - echoes my profound misunderstanding of the film. She's a victim and a warrior, and yes, very often those two things, when...
2024-02-2755 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeGHOSTWhen your number's up, your number's up. Seems like a real Dad thing to say. But deep in our Dad Hearts, we fear the void. We fear the loss of control, the powerlessness, the inability to care for those we love. Sam Wheat - while not a Dad - is EveryDad.Cue the Righteous Brothers: it's time for Jerry Zucker's 1990 megahit GHOST.
2024-02-2055 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE DEPARTEDIt's hard to make a movie.It's even harder to make a movie that accurately depicts a specific place and set of characters. That said, if you DO make a movie in which you hope to portray a particular place and people, it's perhaps important to get actors who sound like they're from that particular place and time. That said - this movie is extremely Dad friendly, featuring such notable Dads as Nice President Dad (Martin Sheen), Angry Yelling Dad (Alec Baldwin) and Generational Icon Dad (Jack Nicholson). Other Dads represented: Film Dad ("It's based on...
2024-02-131h 09TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeROCKYNo Dads live forever, but some Dads are eternal.Carl Weathers is the Dad we never deserved but whom we were gifted nonetheless. With the news of his passing, we had to take a loving look at the first chapter of his most identifiable character, Apollo Creed. Let's all celebrate the life and work of Carl Weathers in this deep dive into John G. Avildsen's seminal 1976 classic, ROCKY.
2024-02-061h 10TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeENCORE PRESENTATION: THE PRINCESS BRIDEHey Dads:We had some travel-related recording delays this week so we're reposting one of our first forays into the Dadlands. Strong Dad energy in this film - Peter Falk, Rob Reiner, the guy from Dire Straits, the guy who wrote Aunt Dan & Lemon, Andre the freakin' Giant? I mean, this thing practically pulses with Dad Power. Plus more swordfights than you could shake an epee at, if that's your idea of a good time. Anybody want a peanut? Sit back and set sail for the kingdom of Florin with Tooky, Dave, and Mike for 1987's Dad...
2024-01-301h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMISSION: IMPOSSIBLETom Cruise wants to save your soul.I don't think this is an exaggeration; Ethan Hunt (his M:I alter-ego) believes he can save all the people around him, even when he can't. And Tom Cruise sees your pain, your drudgery, your humdrum lives, every day consisting of an unending string of moments where YOU ARE NOT TOM CRUISE, and therefore, are settling. It is, I believe, his (ahem) mission to elevate us, one pulse-pound at a time, from our mundane day-to-day into a higher level of consciousness. Of awareness of the preciousness of life, He will...
2024-01-2355 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMY COUSIN VINNYAll Dads have a fear of losing control.We struggle noisily, seeking affirmation for our efforts to keep the injustices of the world at bay.Yet, sometimes the world places us in a situation from which there is no escape, no recourse, no way to purchase or bludgeon or otherwise wrangle out way out of. This is the Dad Nightmare, from which there is only one path back to the head of the table: we must invoke the (extended) family. Ralph Macchio is no dad, but he is all of us, but he l...
2024-01-1657 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeGOOD WILL HUNTINGIt hasn't even been thirty years, and yet so much about this film feels distant and almost irretrievable. Robin Williams and Elliott Smith are sadly gone, as is much of the Southie neighborhood of Boston depicted in this film. Affleck and Damon aren't kids anymore. And yet, if you squint, you can still kind of see today's world peeping through: there's Stellan Skarsgaard playing a prickly genius; there's Harvard University, being held up for public ridicule; and there are some kids looking for meaning in a confusing world. That's where we come in: join we three New England Dads...
2024-01-0958 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeGLENGARRY GLEN ROSSAnother Chicago film classic! After last week's lighthearted romp through the Windy City and environs, the Dads try to close the sale on the film version of David Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Big Dad Energy abounds in this masterclass in machismo, featuring luminaries like Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Al Pacino, and the incandescent Jack Lemmon (as well as the "uncomfortable-to-varying-degrees" presences of Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, and the specter of the playwright himself). Two Webby Awards means we get Cadillacs; one Webby Award means we get a set of steak knives; no Webby Awards means we're fired, so stream...
2024-01-021h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE POSEIDON ADVENTUREHAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE DADS! This 1972 disaster flick (which takes place on New Year's Eve) has everything: tidal waves, turtle necks, charred corpses, soft rock anthems, and a spectacularly unfunny Leslie Nielsen. It's also got 5 Oscar winners, some pretty amazing practical effects, and is generally acknowledged to be the high point of the "disaster movie" craze of the 70s. Who's the Dad of this film? What makes this such a Dad Movie? And why they gotta do Shelley Winters like that? Thank you for counting down to 2024 with us! Now, come aboard - we're ex...
2023-12-2657 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeMIRACLE ON 34TH STREETYes, Dads, there is a Santa Claus...but is this him?The Dads use this Xmas film to dig deep into subjects as varied as: capitalism, New York real estate, balancing being honest with your kids vs. preserving a sense of wonder, and which was the hornier show - The Munsters or The Addams Family? This is a wide-ranging discussion that spans a number of divisive topics, but the Dads find consensus on: The performances of Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood (Yay!)The mansplaining of John Payne's Fred (Boo!)Wishing you a happy holiday s...
2023-12-1959 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeDIE HARDMerry Everything from the Dads! December is all holiday movies, and this is no exception... at least, for most of the Dads. It's the ultimate question of our time:Is DIE HARD a Christmas movie?It's got a tree. It's got a giant teddy bear. And it has real-life Santa Reginald VelJohnson. It also has gifts that endure in the form of career-defining performances from Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman, even as we mourn the loss of these two giants from illness and untimely death, respectively. Maybe it is a Christmas mo...
2023-12-121h 09TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE GODFATHER PART IIJust when we thought we were out...they keep pulling us back in!(We know that's from Godfather Part III, please don't write)The Dads dive deep into the one of (as Dad Tooky observed) one of the most "Dad-absent" films pf all time. Join us for a banana daquiri, a slice of cake, a glass of water, and a stiff pour from Francis Ford Coppola's vineyards as we dig into what might be the greatest American film of all time, his 1972 masterpiece THE GODFATHER PART II.
2023-12-051h 17TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE GODFATHEROur 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, & Mike make you an offer you can't refuse: Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 epic THE GODFATHER.
2023-11-281h 17TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikePLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILESHappy 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 still make Dads smile in 2023? Let's find out, as we dive Dad-first into John Hughe's 1987 breakout comedy PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES!
2023-11-2051 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE BLUES BROTHERSCRASH!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 Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips. Catch the Katy with the Dads for John Landis' 1980 musical road picture buddy...
2023-11-1457 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeSHAFTRest 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 commanding presence of Richard Roundtree, without whom this film would be a mere footnote. This week: we're just talking about (Gordon Parks' 1972) Shaft, baby!
2023-11-0759 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeYOUNG FRANKENSTEINHAPPY 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 Feldman, Teri Garr, and Peter Boyle puttin' on the ritz for your viewing pleasure. This Halloween, TDM was gonna make espresso, but instead you'll just have to enjoy M...
2023-10-3155 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeALIENIn 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.
2023-10-2457 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTOOTSIEWhat 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 that in mind, how does TOOTSIE play in 2023?(Spoiler: pretty well, at least for the Dads)Take a trip back to December of 1982 for maybe th...
2023-10-171h 01TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeBOWFINGERWhat'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 Oz's criminally-overlooked 1999 L.A. satire BOWFINGER!
2023-10-1058 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE FUGITIVECan 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 Chicago, and maybe they'll give you an ice pack when it's all over. Jane Lynch, Joey Pants, and a blink-and-you-miss-her Julianne Moore round out the players in Andrew Davis' 1993 action drama THE...
2023-10-0356 min
Dinner at Your Place?Tooky Kavanagh - Crocodile with Ray-Bans Comedian Tooky Kavanagh comes by and asks Danny to cook something he's never made before: Oxtails.Danny quickly tells Tooky about a hell gig he did the previous night before getting into a little Oxtail talk such as its good pricing, ease of cooking, and how the Oxtail is a wonderful comfort food. Tooky still won't make it for her husband though.Tooky then shifts into talking about her Caribbean heritage and the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti. She talks the the effect it had on her, her family, and how the physical landscape of her childhood...
2023-10-0259 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeWHEN HARRY MET SALLY...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 us like we're nuts: we're digging into Rob Reiner's (and Nora Ephron's) 1989 classic WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...
2023-09-2559 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeCASABLANCA"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 dive deep into Michael Curtiz' evergreen 1942 Best Picture Winner: CASABLANCA
2023-09-1958 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeJURASSIC PARKYou 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 that's why the Dads are here, elbow-deep in triceratops poop, to talk about one of the all-time summer blockbusters. Hold on to your butts, we're going to (1993's Stephen Spielberg classic) JURASSIC...
2023-09-121h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeDOUBLE INDEMNITYHow 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 MacMurray!).
2023-09-0555 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeFARGOAre white people ok? - Tooky KavanaghNo. - The Coen BrothersLace up your winter boots and fire up the wood chipper; it's time to go back to 1996 and Joel & Ethan Coen's FARGO.
2023-08-2956 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY1991 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 delivers and we couldn't wait to watch it, if only so we could finally say "Hasta la vista, Tooky." Get on board our helicopter and tell the pilot to get out as w...
2023-08-2257 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeA LEAGUE OF THEIR OWNDebra 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 HanksManager of the Year: Penny MarshallRookie of the Year: Lori PettyTooky of the Year: Tooky KavanaghJoin the dads as they cede the diamond to the moms for 1992's A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
2023-08-1557 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeJACKIE BROWNChristmas 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! Forster! DeNiro! Keaton! Fonda! Best QT flick? Maybe. Best Christmas ever? Undoubtedly. Hold onto your shopping bags and say goodbye to Beaumont as the Dads dive deep into the murky world of 1997's JACKIE BROWN!
2023-08-081h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeTHE PRINCESS BRIDEAnybody 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, & Mike as we duel "to the pain" with Rob Reiner's 1987 adventure classic THE PRINCESS BRIDE!
2023-08-011h 00TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeFACE OFFThis 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 operatic ode to plastic surgery: FACE OFF
2023-07-2558 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeRAIDERS OF THE LOST ARKTHE 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 your bullwhip and your fedora as Tooky, Dave, and Mike dig deep into Steven Spielberg's 1981 homage to adventure serials RAIDERS OF THE...
2023-07-1859 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeJAWSIs 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 scars as we take a deep Dad movies dive into the ur-summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's JAWS!
2023-07-1157 minTDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & MikeROAD HOUSECue 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 HOUSE.
2023-07-0558 min
The Wake UpWhat makes Tooky Kavanagh laugh?Comedian Tooky Kavanagh joined Paris and Jeremy to talk about Boston's comedy scene and what makes her laugh.
2023-06-0711 min
Haunted as HellThird Time's a Charm w Tooky KavanaghBoston comedian and all-around great human Tooky Kavanagh sees a deceased relative as a child, summons a spirit in a theater, and has a bone-chilling story with a lesson for all of us. Follow Tooky on TikTok and your host Emily on IG.
2023-03-0825 min
The Film SimpsThe Mitchells vs The Machines (with Tooky Kavanagh)The Simps welcome Tooky Kavanagh to review Sony's new Netflix movie The Mitchells vs The Machines which everyone really loved.
News items: Andrew Garfield says he hasn't received a call from Marvel regarding Spider-Man: No Way Home. Conan O'Brien is leaving TBS for HBO Max.
Trailers: Marvel Celebrates The Movies (featuring the first footage from The Eternals), Georgetown (directed by Christoph Waltz), Sweet Tooth (Netflix series), Pause with Sam Jay (HBO Max series), Halston (Netflix series), and Annette (starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard).
2021-05-062h 21
The Lamont XperienceThe Lamont Xperience Halloween Episode Featuring Tooky Kavanagh & Ken ReidEpisode Details: Today's Halloween episode of the The Lamont Xperience features comedian's Tooky Kavanagh & Ken Reid. Tooky hosts the Loud Women podcast with friend and producer Marissa Emmanuele, Ken hosts a weekly podcast called TV Guidance Counselor and both can be seen doing stand-up on stages throughout the US. The Lamont Xperience is hosted by Boston based comedian Lamont Price. Each 30 minute episode, Lamont goes behind the scenes of the entertainment, cannabis and comedy industries including interviews with entertainers around the globe. The Lamont Xperience is produced by Boston Cannabis Week & Xperience Creative, powered by Boston Hemp Company & MCR La...
2020-10-3035 min
8 Months Away From Being Fat Again8 Months Away From The Racist Diet Industry Part 3: The BS Body Standard Culture with Guest Tooky KavanaghWe're back and very excited to have the third part of our look into the racist diet industry!! On this week's episode we have the very funny and very fantastic Tooky Kavanagh with us to discuss her experiences as a Black woman in the American diet culture. She gives us an insight into her upbringing as someone thought to be "Not Black enough" and "Not White Enough" and sometimes Italian, depending on the Uber driver she gets. Tooky explains how changing schools changed her own outlook, how school girls are "trash" and shares a story about a train platform...
2020-07-141h 16
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 3 Finale Part 2: Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (w/ Tooky Kavanagh and Dicky Stock)(Part 2 of 2).. Alright Stoppies, you sick fucks. You know what time it is, because you assholes voted for it - and we couldn't be prouder/more disgusted. That's right baby, it's time for a Core-tastrophe of epic proportions - a nightmarish plunge into the twisted mind of the "Skrillex you bought on Wish" aka Corey Feldman, best known for starring in classic 80s movies like Stand By Me and the Lost Boys, but almost equally notorious for his serious drug addiction, history of severe mental illness, and of course ludicrously terrible musical forays. However nothing could prepare the public...
2020-07-011h 38
Beer With Geeks: A Geek Pop Culture PodcastEpisode 262: Marital SchadenfreudeFrank is joined by Tooky from Loud Women for a reality TV version of Hit Me With Your Best Shot. This week, it’s a glass of wine and Married at First Sight. Cheers!
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Beringer Pasarobles
La Finca TempranilloSpecial Guest: Tooky Kavanagh.Support Beer With GeeksLinks:Married at First Sight (American TV series) - WikipediaLoud Women - Tooky KavanaghTooky’s Website
2019-06-1940 min
The Comedy Studio PodcastST. PATRICK'S DAY SPECTACULAR WITH TOOKY KAVANAGHEveryone's Problematic Fave Tooky Kavanagh joins The Only Podcast for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Spectacular to discuss fan interactions, the American education system, and ghosts.
2019-03-2100 min