2 Dads 2 Decades

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Episode 47 February 04, 2026

Airplane! (1980)

1980 61 min Film: 88 min

This week, the Dads kick off their new 2 Dads 2 Decades series with 1980's Airplane!, and Steve arrives with the ultimate childhood credential: he first watched this movie at tw...

Comedy Contains A Meme Kareem Abdul-J'Appearance Missing Or Artificial Limb(s)

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Episode 48 February 11, 2026

Thief (1981)

1981 81 min Film: 123 min

Director: Michael Mann

4.5/10

This week, the Dads fire up the cutting torch on Thief (1981), Michael Mann's gritty directorial debut that launched a career and divided a podcast booth. Steve came in complete...

Asshole Cops Crime Drama Nontraditional Baby Acquisition Terrible Accent

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Episode 49 February 18, 2026

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

1982 87 min Film: 90 min

Director: Amy Heckerling

6.5/10

This week, the Dads dive into Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Cameron Crowe's undercover-journalism-turned-screenplay debut brought to life by first-time director Amy Hecke...

Chaos in a Mall Comedy Drama

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Episode 50 February 25, 2026

Strange Brew (1983)

1983 57 min Film: 90 min

Director: Dave Thomas +1

6/10

For their 50th episode, the dads crack open a 24-pack of nostalgia with Strange Brew (1983), the Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas comedy that somehow became every kid's unofficial g...

Comedy Hockey, Eh? Magic Video Game

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Episode 51 March 04, 2026

Ghostbusters (1984)

1984 78 min Film: 107 min

Director: Ivan Reitman

9.5/10

This week, the Dads continue their 2 Dads 2 Decades march with 1984's Ghostbusters.Steve has seen Ghostbusters well over a hundred times. He watched it on LaserDisc as a four-ye...

Comedy Fantasy

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Episode 52 March 11, 2026

The Breakfast Club (1985)

1985 77 min Film: 98 min

Director: John Hughes

8/10

This week the Dads get detention along with The Breakfast Club, and what was supposed to be a conversation about a teen movie turns into something closer to a therapy session fo...

Comedy Drama The Switchblade: The Official Weapon of Crime

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Episode 53 March 18, 2026

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

1986 84 min Film: 103 min

Director: John Hughes

5/10

Steve brought a childhood favorite to the table this week, and Nic brought a grudge he didn't know he had. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) is John Hughes's love letter to the pe...

Comedy Fantasy Hockey, Eh? The Rottweiler: The Official Attack Dog of the '90s

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Episode 54 March 25, 2026

Wall Street (1987)

1987 77 min Film: 126 min

Director: Oliver Stone

5.5/10

Nic brings Wall Street to the table this week, and the reasoning is hard to argue with: how have the Dads spent 50-plus episodes in the '80s and '90s without Michael Douglas? Ol...

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Episode 55 April 01, 2026

Beetlejuice (1988)

1988 59 min Film: 92 min

Director: Tim Burton

6.5/10

Beetlejuice (1988) is one of those movies where everybody thinks they've seen it more times than they actually have, and both dads discovered exactly that when they sat down wit...

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Episode 56 April 08, 2026

Road House (1989)

1989 76 min Film: 114 min

Director: Rowdy Herrington

5/10

Nic brought the pleated-linen-pants-and-mullet energy this week with Road House (1989), a movie both dads discovered in their late teens and have been unironically-slash-ironica...

Action Self-Surgery The Dirt Bike: The Official Vehicle of Crime The Switchblade: The Official Weapon of Crime

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Episode 57 April 15, 2026

GoodFellas (1990)

1990 95 min Film: 145 min

Director: Martin Scorsese

10/10

Steve picked Goodfellas (1990) to kick off the '90s leg of 2 Dads 2 Decades, and the dads immediately acknowledged the absurdity of trying to review a movie that is, by any reas...

Crime Drama

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Episode 58 April 22, 2026

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

1991 64 min Film: 99 min

Director: Joseph Ruben

6/10

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) lands on the podcast courtesy of Nic, who has a habit of bringing thrillers Steve has never seen. Pacific Heights, Cape Fear, The River Wild -- al...

Thriller Walking On Walking On Broken GlaaAAaass

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Episode 59 April 29, 2026

Wayne's World (1992)

1992 80 min Film: 94 min

Director: Penelope Spheeris

8/10

Some movies leave a line or two rattling around in your head for years. Wayne's World (1992) apparently colonized Steve's entire personality. The man is 46 years old and recentl...

Comedy Hockey, Eh? Welcome To The Movie Title!

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Episode 60 May 06, 2026

Menace II Society (1993)

1993 86 min Film: 97 min

Director: Albert Hughes +1

7.5/10

Menace II Society opens with a cold truth and never looks away. For episode 60, Nic brings this Hughes Brothers gut-punch to the table -- a film he's been watching since high sc...

Asshole Cops Crime Drama

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Episode 61 May 13, 2026

Clerks (1994)

1994 59 min Film: 92 min

Director: Kevin Smith

6/10

In 1994, a 23-year-old Kevin Smith maxed out every credit card he could open to make a movie about two guys talking shit behind a convenience store counter for 92 minutes. Steve...

Comedy Hockey, Eh?

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Episode 62 May 20, 2026

Desperado (1995)

1995 64 min Film: 104 min

Director: Robert Rodriguez

6/10

Nic picks the movie, and he picks one that wormed into his teenage brain during the blockbuster-video era of the mid-'90s: 1995's Desperado, Robert Rodriguez's stylish, blood-sp...

Action Crime

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Episode 63 May 27, 2026

Swingers (1996)

1996 85 min Film: 96 min

Director: Doug Liman

10/10

The dads land at 1996 in the 2 Dads 2 Decades run, and Steve has picked the movie that turned him into the guy who browbeat an entire cast party into watching it in late '97. Sw...

Comedy Hockey, Eh?

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Episode 64 June 03, 2026

Boogie Nights (1997)

1997 85 min Film: 156 min

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

10/10

In 1997, a 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson somehow talked New Line into $15 million and final cut, then spent it on a two-and-a-half-hour epic about a well-hung busboy who beco...

Comedy Drama Huge Artificial Dong(s)

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Episode 65 June 10, 2026

BASEketball (1998)

1998 65 min Film: 103 min

Director: David Zucker

5.5/10

BASEketball hit theaters in July 1998, about a month after Steve and Nic graduated high school, and promptly became the kind of pre-party background movie where, as Nic confesse...

Comedy Huge Artificial Dong(s) Kareem Abdul-J'Appearance Sports The Rottweiler: The Official Attack Dog of the '90s

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Episode 66 June 17, 2026

Office Space (1999)

1999 73 min Film: 90 min

Director: Mike Judge

7/10

Twenty years of movies, twenty episodes, one final destination: a soul-crushing office park somewhere in generic suburban America. Office Space is Nic's pick to close out 2 Dads...

Comedy Crime

Airplane! (1980)

Thief (1981)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Strange Brew (1983)

Ghostbusters (1984)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Road House (1989)

GoodFellas (1990)

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Wayne's World (1992)

Menace II Society (1993)

Clerks (1994)

Desperado (1995)

Swingers (1996)

Boogie Nights (1997)

BASEketball (1998)

Office Space (1999)

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