Episode 70: Despicable Dads

 
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“Only a dad, but he gives his all - To smooth the way for his children small - Doing, with courage stern and grim - The deeds that his father did for him - This is the line that for him I pen - Only a dad, but the best of men.” That’s a poem by Edgar Albert Guest about the duties of being a good, respectable and honest father - none of which we’ll talk about today. Today we talk about mean fathers that are murderers, psychopaths, and incestuous assholes from hell. We laugh at some of them, fear others and learn some lessons, albeit not in the way that Ward Cleaver would have intended. Today we talk about Despicable Dads.

 
 
 

LINKS TO SOME OF THE MOVIES WE TALK ABOUT

Night of the Hunter ($2.99 on Amazon)

Chinatown (free on Tubi)

The Shining ($2.99 on Amazon)

The Stepfather (free on Youtube)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me ($2.99 on Youtube)

Natural Born Killers ($2.99 on Amazon)

Happiness (free on this site)

mother! (free on Hulu)