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
TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
MY COUSIN VINNY
All 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 lives our deepest fear. And he knows our deepest secret - there is another, better than us, smarter than us, and possessed of a partner who exceeds even him. And gets an Oscar for doing so. Join the Dads in Alabama for Johnathan Lynn's existential legal drama, 1992's MY COUSIN VINNY.