TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are these movies good, or are Mike and Dave wallowing in toxic nostalgia? Every Tuesday, TDM promises to bridge the generation gap, one dad movie at a time.
Intro/outro music: "It's Almost Late Night" from the album WE HAD A GOOD RUN by Dave Rabinow, available at www.daverabinow.com
Episodes
119 episodes
THE LAST DANCE (Episodes 6-10)
The second half of this docuseries is marked as much by the absence of fathers as by their presence; we barely hear from MJ's kids (and when we do, we get no insight into MJ the Dad). The surrogate Dads (Phil Jackson, Dean Smith) fall away; mos...
THE LAST DANCE (Episodes 1-5)
What if we built a whole docuseries out of Dads?MJ = the demanding DadPhil = the cool DadScottie = the young Dad who's still figuring it outBill Cartwright = the Dad who the whole neighborhood respectsJerry Re...
WRESTLEMANIA X7
You may find yourself asking the question: "Wither Wrestlemania 17?" Or even: "Wither Wrestlemania at all? These be not movies; gaze upon ye podcast title and weep!" Listem, I could explain how Dad Tooky wanted to revisit the WWF of her childho...
HOOP DREAMS
HOOP DREAMS is on the short list of great American movies. Full stop. Regardless of genre, era, etc. I don't think most cineastes would push back on that. HOOP DREAMS is also full of Dads: absent Dads, supportive Dads, substitute Da...
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 praying...OK, I'll stop. Enjoy Robbins' and Wise's landmark 1961 movie musical WE...
SMOKEY & THE BANDIT
"This is the movie ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER wants to be." - Dad Tooky KavanaghHal Needham directs 1977's SMOKEY & THE BANDIT!
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 was to Gen X what in many ways Gilda Radner was to boomers - surprising, unafraid, deep...
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 turkey and Xmas without the small talk plus Fourth of July without the humidity, its Super ...
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 we dig into Adam McKay's 2008 shaggiest-of-shaggy-dogs comedy STEP BROTHERS.Stay golden, ...
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 magnificent Diane Keaton, who we lost in 2025.Working from a Nancy Meyers script and featuring...
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 PRINCESS BRIDE; today we discuss his 1992 blockbuster as well as his impact on our lives and ...
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 wasn't there. But such is the burden of Gen X Dads, much like reciting "'Twas The Night ...
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 WICKED.The times, they are a-changin'...And it's not a bad thing: is there a ...
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 wrestling? I like to think so.)The Dads know Thanksgiving holidays can be rough (see: above); in...
OVERBOARD
Kurt 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.&nb...
THE THING
HALLOWEEN 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 THI...
THEY LIVE
Have a happy Halloween with this sci-fi creepfest from the Dads!You know what Dads love? Being right about something. So when John Nada (played with nihilistic aplomb by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, RIP) realizes that the inherent unfairness of ...
THE NATURAL
Dads 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- a...
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
The 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 m...
APOLLO 13
This 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......
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
It's the conclusion of HOT HITCHCOCK SUMMER!Snuggle up with the Dads in our sleeper car as they pay homage to the man who sort of invented the modern thriller. Despite it's lack of on-screen fatherhood, NXNW is a Dad movie th...
VERTIGO
Our Hot Hitchcock Summer Series continues! The Dads look deep within themselves through the eyes of ur-Dad James Stewart, and if you think he's in wholesome IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE mode here, boy, are you in for a surprise. Speaking of surprises,...
CRIMSON TIDE
Oh, this is some down-the-middle Dad manna right here. Gene Hackman. The leading Dad face on the Dad Movie Mt. Rushmore (which, to be clear, is a virtual-only Mt. Rushmore and the Dads believe in indigenous rights); first-ballot inn...