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Your Father's Favorite Movies

Kai Haalandshows.acast.com

A fresh generational perspective on movies your dad probably thought were pretty cool back in the day.


Join Kai Haaland, Chase Crawford, Derek Julian, Jake Toarmina, Dakota Gray, and plenty of our favorite guests and fellow film fanatics as we break down your father's favorite action movies from the 80's and 90's (post-screening), offer fresh takes, provide some behind the scenes trivia, celebrate our nostalgic ties and introducing them to first time viewers.

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Episodes

Die Hard, 1988

@YFFMPodcast The 1988 movie, Die Hard. "40 stories of sheer adventure!" Come out to the coast, get together, and have a few laughs with Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, and Paul Gleason. For this year's holiday episode, we encourage you to kick back, relax, take off your shoes and curl your toes into fists on the carpet as you watch this stress-packed, explosive action (or should we say Christmas) movie classic. This week the crew breaks down how Bruce Willis made...

Dec 25, 20221 hr 36 minEp. 17

Speed, 1994

@YFFMPodcast The 1994 movie, Speed. "Get ready for rush hour." Enjoy your morning commute on various forms of LA public transit with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, and Joe Morton. This movie is The wild ride of 1994, starting hot out of the gate with the action that never falls below 50 MPH.. guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your bus seat. In this episode the gang discusses how Speed relates to the LA experience, just how real was that blazing hot chemistry betwe...

Dec 14, 20221 hr 37 minEp. 16

Police Story, 1985

@YFFMPodcast The 1985 movie, Police Story. "From the master of action comes more screen excitement than you've ever seen." Clear your good name by taking your boss hostage at gunpoint with Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Yuen Chor, and Bill Tung. So you think you know Jackie Chan?? Think again, idiot. Unless of course you've seen this classic Hong Kong legendary piece of cinema, in which case you're cool. Join the YFFM gang as we break down the crazy stunts in this movie and just how m...

Dec 01, 20221 hr 24 minEp. 15

Under Siege, 1992

@YFFMPodcast The 1992 movie, Under Siege. "In 1992 a battleship's been sabotaged by nuclear pirates out to steal its warheads. Now, surrounded by terrorists, a lone man stands with a deadly plan of attack." Take those pies out of the oven and save Honolulu from nuclear annihilation with Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney and Patrick O'Neal. This week the gang covers action hero, martial arts master, and real law enforcement agent, Steven Seagal's most successf...

Nov 16, 20221 hr 41 minEp. 14

Halloween, 1978

@YFFMPodcast The 1978 movie, Halloween. "The night he came home!" Make some popcorn, put on a scary movie and try not to get murdered with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Nancy Kyes, and Kyle Richards. This Halloween, for our final edition of spooky season, the gang does perhaps the most influential scary movie ever.. John Carpenter's Halloween. The movie that creted horror movie cliches before they were horror movie cliches. In this episode we cover the important questions like;...

Nov 01, 20221 hr 34 minEp. 13

Dawn of the Dead, 1978

@YFFMPodcast The 1978 movie, Dawn of the Dead. "When there's no more room in hell... the dead will walk the earth!" Let's go to the mall with David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, and Rudy Ricci. For our third edition of Spooky Season we enter the world of Zombies. The gang asks the important questions like what would you do during a zombie apocalypse? how did a movie with such a small budget afford to hire a crew of so many? Why can't we find this movie streaming on any legal plat...

Oct 25, 20221 hr 40 minEp. 12

The Lost Boys, 1987

@YFFMPodcast The 1987 movie, The Lost Boys "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire." Jump in the family van for a trip out to Santa Carla (the murder capitol of the world) with Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest, and Edward Herrmann. For this spooky season episode we enter the world of vampires AKA the only sexy movie monster.. sorry Frankenstein. Speaking of vampires.. did we mention this movie is bat-shit crazy? Join the gang ...

Oct 15, 20221 hr 37 minEp. 11

The Thing, 1982

@YFFMPodcast The 1982 movie, The Thing. "Man is the warmest place to hide." Grab your favorite whiskey and spend an Antarctic winter one thousand miles from no where with Kurt Russel, Keith David, A. Wilford Brimley, Donald Moffat, and David Clennon. In this episode we kick off spooky season with the psychological terror movie of the 80's in which no one can be trusted.. not even your dog. Grab a glass of whiskey and watch some of the best "valmorphication" ever put to the screen. If there's one...

Oct 05, 20221 hr 43 minEp. 10

RoboCop, 1987

@YFFMPodcast The 1987 movie, RoboCop. "Part man. Part Machine. All cop." Keep crime off the streets of Detroit, and corruption out of 15 story boardrooms with Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ferrer. This episode we are joined by *actual human police officer* Ryan to give some fresh takes on this 80's classic. We get to ask him hot takes on the realism of this absurdist action flick, like.. is it police protocol to dual wield pistols out the window of a police ca...

Sep 20, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 9

The Mummy, 1999

@YFFMPodcast The 1999 movie, The Mummy. "The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed." Find out just how much harm could ever come from reading a book with Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, John Hannah, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Jonathan Hyde. A librarian nerd-girl and an ex-con treasure-hunter bad-boy team up, with a surprisingly potent degree of sexual chemistry I might add, for the adventure of a lifetime; reviving a dead ancient Egyptian adulterer who is b...

Sep 10, 20221 hr 31 minEp. 8

Commando, 1985

@YFFMPodcast The 1985 movie, Commando. "Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay." See how many men have to die in order to save one daughter with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, and Bill Duke. Colonel John Matrix has left his military career behind in order to live a normal life. Instead of Green Berets he now eats cereal for breakfast with his daughter. Oh wait, she's been kidnapped by some bad guys working for a South American dictator? What e...

Aug 30, 20221 hr 17 minEp. 7

Road House, 1989

@yffmpodcast The 1989 movie, Road House. "Dalton's the best bouncer in the business. His nights are filled with fast action, hot music and beautiful women. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it" Tonight is BYOK night (bring your own knife) to this Rowdy* 2 hour bar fight, with Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliot, Ben Gazzara, and Kieth David. The most poppin' bar in all of 3rd World Missouri, Double Deuce, has it all! Come for the fight scenes, stay for the tits.. this move has plent...

Aug 21, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 6

Top Gun, 1986

The 1986 movie, Top Gun. "Up there.. With the best.. Of the best." Feel the need.. The need for speed with Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan, and Tom Skerritt. Feel free to fast forward past cringy sex scenes in order to get to your favorite shirtless male volley ball scene. Tom Cruise successfully evades non-specified enemy fighter pilots as well as his sexual orientation in the greatest military recruitment commercial of all time! Did I mention that fighter jets...

Aug 11, 20221 hr 33 minEp. 5

True Romance, 1993

@yffmpodcast The 1993 movie, True Romance. "Stealing, Cheating, Killing.. Who said romance is dead?" Fall in love and leave your sketchy pimp on the frigid streets of Detroit for the glamorous, sunny lifestyle of selling cocaine to movie executives in Los Angeles with Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken and Brad Pitt. Wait.. there's also Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, Val Kilmer and and a bunch of other big names in this movie? Must have been...

Jul 30, 20221 hr 17 minEp. 4

Face/Off, 1997

The 1997 movie, Face/Off. "In order to catch him.. he must become him." Avenge the death of your child and save the world from a maniacal lunatic with Nicholas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon and Alessandro Nivola. Casper Troy's face: who wore it better? You decide in this action-packed blockbuster on steroids, also known as the olympics of over-acting. This movie is the kind of peach you could eat for hours.. enjoy the ride! Directed by John Woo. Written by Mike Werb & Michael...

Jul 20, 20221 hr 37 minEp. 3

Cliffhanger, 1993

The 1993 movie Cliffhanger. "Hang on!" Don't look look down as you embark on this vertigo-inducing thrill ride through peaks and valleys with Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner and Rex Lynn. When a plane crashes in the mountains of Colorado, the baddest mofo of the Rockies must now confront his girly emotional traumas in order to save his friends and destroy a shitload of cash in the process, all the while showing off his world-class climbing abilities and body-build...

Jul 07, 20221 hr 26 minEp. 2

Point Break, 1991 (sloppy edition)

@yffmpodcast The 1991 movie Point Break. "twenty seven banks in three years. Anything to catch the perfect wave" Shred some gnar with Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey, Lari Petty, and John C. McGinley in this action movie about a former football star turned FBI agent that has to learn to surf in order to penetrate the underground surf culture of Los Angeles to track down a gang of bank robbers known as the "Dead Presidents".. Get pitted! Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Written by W. Peter I...

Jul 02, 202253 minEp. 1
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