Podcasts about bad dads

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/25/25

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You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we're trading bullets for custard pies and gangsters for tap-dancing tweens as we revisit Alan Parker's delightfully eccentric musical comedy Bugsy Malone (1976). It's a film that plays like a Prohibition-era crime saga — if it were directed by Roald Dahl and cast entirely with children.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/23/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/22/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/21/25

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You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we're taking a tumble — both literally and metaphorically — as we break down our Top 5 Falls in Movies and TV, followed by a closer look at the slow-burning, Palme d'Or-winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. No kids' section this time around — just a lot of bodies hitting the floor (sometimes figuratively).

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/18/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/17/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we're hanging off helicopters, sprinting across rooftops, and disarming nuclear bombs with the pulse-pounding Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018). Strap in as we break down the sixth entry in the franchise that somehow keeps getting better with age — just like Tom Cruise's running form.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Fallout is a masterclass in high-octane action, espionage, and what happens when your best-laid plans go completely off the rails. Picking up where Rogue Nation left off, the film follows IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as he races to recover stolen plutonium and prevent a global catastrophe, all while being shadowed by CIA operative August Walker (a moustachioed Henry Cavill in full-blown hammer-mode).Mission: Impossible – Fallout is everything you want from a blockbuster: smart, stylish, and absurdly entertaining. It's the kind of movie that reminds you why the cinema was invented — big screen thrills, practical effects, and heroes just trying to do the right thing, even when the odds are impossible.Perfect for older teens and up, it's a great gateway to the M:I franchise or a highlight for returning fans. Just be warned — you may find yourself trying to reload your arms like Cavill afterwards.An action film operating at the absolute peak of its powers, Fallout proves that this franchise isn't slowing down anytime soon. In fact, it might just be the best of the bunch.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/16/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/15/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/14/25

Hey Podtimists,Just dropping in a little treat to your feed made by our friends over The Legend of Podcast: Trails through Trails. They've compiled a list of both some good dads and bad dads from video games and they're talking about em baby. Also Chase was recently on their season 1 wrap up so give that a listen as wellSee you all soon!---Timestamps:(0:00) - Intro(1:35) - Welcome to Video Game Dadtimism!(3:58) - Bad Dad #1 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33(6:13) - Bad Dad #2 - The Last of Us series(7:32) - Bad Dad #3 - Elden Ring(9:02) - Bad Dad #4 - Megaman series(10:38) - Bad Dad #5 - Final Fantasy VII(11:59) - Bad Dad #6 - Resident Evil 2(14:48) - Rad Dad #1 - Mario series(17:49) - Rad Dad #2 - Persona 5(21:57) - Rad Dad #3 - Yakuza/Like a Dragon series(25:26) - Rad Dad #4 - Trails in the Sky(28:43) - Rad Dad #5 - Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire(31:16) - Rad Dad #6 - 1000xRESIST(35:05) - Honourable mentions(38:56) - Hot Dad rating scale(44:29) - Wrapping up

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week's episode packs a punch as we dive into Top 5 Juniors in Movies and TV, followed by a deep dive into the intense war thriller Warfare (2025). No kids' TV show this week — we're keeping it strictly grown-up.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/11/25

Any takeaways from this episode?We're kicking off our totally tubular '80s summer rewind series with the cult classic Say Anything (1989), starring Ione Skye and John Cusack. Kira's teenage heart is swooning, while Izzy is…confused. We're unpacking emotional enmeshment, obsessive crushes, and that infamous boombox scene (spoiler: it doesn't go how you remember it). Come for the nostalgia, stay for the love lessons—and the healthy dose of side-eye.What We Cover:Lloyd Dobler: Dream guy or giant red flag?Diane's wild ride from golden girl to jail visitorThe messy, manipulative father-daughter dynamicWhy first love is intoxicating (and often dysfunctional)80s tropes that shaped a generation of datersReal talk: Will Lloyd and Diane make it?Where to Watch: Say Anything is currently streaming on Hulu.New to RomCom Rescue? We're a therapist + dating coach duo who dissect your favorite rom-coms for the love lessons inside. Because you deserve a healthy happily ever after—with boundaries.Come talk with us about your favorite rom-coms on instagram, tiktok, & youtube and Bluesky!Get show notes, transcripts, and more information on at Rom-ComRescue.com

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/10/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're stepping into the ring with Hands of Stone (2016), the boxing biopic that tells the story of legendary Panamanian fighter Roberto Durán.Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, Hands of Stone chronicles the life and career of Roberto Durán, one of boxing's most iconic and ferocious competitors. The film stars Édgar Ramírez as Durán, delivering a fiery performance that captures both his aggressive fighting style and his turbulent personal life. Robert De Niro plays legendary trainer Ray Arcel, bringing a more restrained, mentor-like energy to balance the film's intensity.The movie charts Durán's rise from a poverty-stricken childhood in Panama to becoming a world champion, with his infamous 1980 "No Más" fight against Sugar Ray Leonard (played by Usher Raymond) serving as the emotional and narrative centerpiece. Alongside the boxing drama, Hands of Stone explores themes of national pride, personal redemption, and the costs of fame.Robert De Niro, no stranger to boxing films after Raging Bull, plays Arcel with quiet wisdom. His scenes with Ramírez are a highlight, exploring the mentor-protégé dynamic with subtlety.While Hands of Stone doesn't reinvent the boxing biopic, it hits many satisfying beats. It's a film about second chances, pride, and perseverance — all wrapped in some bruising fight scenes. Édgar Ramírez gives a passionate, physical performance, and De Niro's presence lends the film extra gravitas.Some of the storytelling can feel a bit formulaic, and it occasionally leans too heavily on sports movie clichés, but for fans of boxing dramas, it delivers plenty of punches — both literal and emotional.Join us in the episode as we discuss Durán's legacy, the art of the boxing biopic, and whether this one truly goes the distance.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/9/25

Today's Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling's first adult novel and one Nick and John think she may have been writing before she was inspired to write Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It's that autobiographical, a transparency of sorts for the several unhappy women Jo Rowling Murray has been. Nick explains all the projects we now know she was working on between 2007 and 2012, the dates of Deathly Hallows and Casual Vacancy's respective publication dates, as well as the degree to which readers can assume that the novel's Simon Price is a fictional portrait of her father, Peter Rowling. John describes the three Gospel parables embedded in Casual Vacancy and why he thinks the book was a project the author was working on before the Hogwarts Saga as well as why it reflects a religious crisis akin to Harry's ‘struggle to believe' in Deathly Hallows.New to the Lake and Shed Kanreki Birthday series? Here's what we're doing:On 31 July 2025, Joanne Murray, aka J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, will be celebrating her 60th birthday. This celebration is considered a ‘second birth' in Japan or Kanreki because it is the completion of the oriental astrological cycle. To mark JKR's Kanreki, Dr John Granger and Nick Jeffery, both Nipponophiles, are reading through Rowling's twenty-one published works and reviewing them in light of the author's writing process, her ‘Lake and Shed' metaphor. The ‘Lake' is the biographical source of her inspiration; the ‘Shed' is the alocal place of her intentional artistry, in which garage she transforms the biographical stuff provided by her subconscious mind into the archetypal stories that have made her the most important author of her age. You can hear Nick and John discuss this process and their birthday project at the first entry in this series of posts: Happy Birthday, JKR! A Lake and Shed Celebration of her Life and Work.The seven HogwartsProfessor birthday videos posted thus far in this series can be read at the links below:* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsTomorrow? It's Cuckoo's Calling, the first Comoran Strike publication in Rowling's oeuvre (or ‘in Robert Galbraith's, if you prefer the second of Mrs. Murray's pseudonyms), in which Nick reveals the real-life Deeby Mac to whom the book is dedicated and John talks about the parallels between the first and seventh Strike novels. See you then!Links from today's Lake and Shed conversation for further reading:* ‘Bad Dad:' A History of Rowling's Relationship with Peter Rowling, Her Father; * ‘Christmas Pig 1: Jack Jones, Peter, and John,' Rowling's Use of the Names ‘Peter' and ‘Simon' for Bad Guys in Her Stories;* ‘Exceptions to the Peter-John Rule: John Bristow, Dolores Umbridge, Matt Cunliffe;'* Casual Vacancy: The Characters Derived from Rowling's Life and Why the Book Should Not Be Read through a Biographical Lens;* The Christian Hypocrites and Sympathetic Sikhs in Casual Vacancy;* The Review of Casual Vacancy in Christianity Today (2012);* The Casual Vacancy and the ‘Good Samaritan' Gospel Parable; and* J. K. Rowling on the ‘Good Samaritan' Event in Casual Vacancy Get full access to Hogwarts Professor at hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/8/25

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TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/7/25

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You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we're ticking all the right boxes with our Top 5 Watches in film and TV. From time-stopping devices to classic wrist candy, we're delving into the chronometers that do more than just tell time.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/4/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/3/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Groovy, baby! Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we're throwing on our crushed velvet, dialling up the mojo, and time-traveling back to the swinging '60s with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). Directed by Jay Roach and written by (and starring) Mike Myers, this outrageous spy spoof remains one of the most quotable and culturally impactful comedies of the ‘90s.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/2/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 7/1/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/30/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we're embracing all things angular, round, and abstract with our Top 5 Shapes in Movies & TV, diving into Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness, and finishing up with a charming kids' pick: Shape Island. It's geometry, but make it cinematic.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/27/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/26/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're descending into the mind-bending, minimalist sci-fi thriller that is Cube (1997). A cult favourite from Canadian director Vincenzo Natali, this low-budget psychological puzzle box is as disorienting and claustrophobic as it is thought-provoking.Cube begins in medias res: a group of strangers wakes up in a strange, sterile room with hatches on all six sides. Each door leads to another nearly identical room—some are safe, others are lethal traps. No one knows how or why they're there. The group includes a cop, a doctor, an escape artist, a math whiz, a paranoid conspiracy theorist, and an autistic man with extraordinary numerical abilities.What unfolds is part escape room, part social experiment, as they try to survive—and escape—the Cube.Cube is rich in metaphor and minimal in exposition. It avoids explaining who built the structure or why, focusing instead on how ordinary people behave under extreme pressure. As the group's dynamic shifts, alliances form and collapse, revealing how quickly fear and distrust take hold.The traps are inventive (acid spray, wire slicing, sound-activated death rooms), but the real tension comes from the breakdown of civility and the slow unravelling of each character's psyche. The cube itself becomes a symbol of bureaucracy, control, and the meaningless complexity of modern systems.And the maths—there's a lot of maths. Prime numbers, Cartesian coordinates, permutations. It's as if Saw, Waiting for Godot, and a high school algebra textbook all collided.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/25/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/24/25

Check out our other socials here: https://linktr.ee/closecallspod   In this episode we list the best dads in comics. Let us know what superhero you'd like to have as a dad.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/23/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we're spinning in circles—in the best possible way—with our Top 5 Loops in film and television. Whether they're time loops, narrative loops, or just delightfully circular plot structures, these stories keep us guessing and coming back for more. We're also checking out Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire In The Loop and revisiting the chronologically chaotic world of Power Rangers Time Force.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/20/25

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/19/25

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're bending time, smashing starships, and looping through one of the most mind-bending episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5, Episode 18 – "Cause and Effect". It's a perfect example of how sci-fi can take a deceptively simple concept—what if you're stuck in a time loop?—and turn it into a suspenseful, clever, and surprisingly rewatchable piece of television.

TONY CONRAD'S BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY FOR 6/18/25

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In this episode, we're discussing bad dads in pop culture. From animated disasters to prestige TV nightmares, we're ranking and ranting through the overbearing control freaks, the mysteriously absent father figures, the ones who really tried but just didn't have the range, and the toxic legends that make your own awkward family barbecue look like a ‘90s sitcom finale.Relevant links: Our full show notes are at knoxandjamie.com/611We've restocked and added even more goodness to knoxandjamie.shop. Get shopping today and snag our Twister Deep Dive episode for free!Dad Goals: Tony Micelli | Dr. Jason SeaverOverbearing: King Triton | MarlinAbsentee: Reese Bobby | MufasaVillain: Darth Vader | AdamIdiot: Ozzy Osbourne | Wayne SzalinskiToxic Legend: Shakespeare dads | Bryan MillsExceptional: Daniel Hillard | Joel | Cassian Andor Red Light Mentions: Passenger Princess Jamie | Ember Coffee Mugs (NOT AN AD)Green lights:Jamie: movie - The Ballad of Wallis IslandKnox: book - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (see also: Knox's Father's Day Gift Guide & Reading Guide) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Slacker's dad used to take all 4 boys to the construction site...and hope a hammer didn't hit them! What's your bad dad or "don't tell mom!" story?