611: Bad Dads in Pop Culture
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
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/611
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- Dad Goals: Tony Micelli | Dr. Jason Seaver
- Overbearing: King Triton | Marlin
- Absentee: Reese Bobby | Mufasa
- Villain: Darth Vader | Adam
- Idiot: Ozzy Osbourne | Wayne Szalinski
- Toxic Legend: Shakespeare dads | Bryan Mills
- Exceptional: 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 Island
- Knox: book - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (see also: Knox’s Father’s Day Gift Guide & Reading Guide)
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| 0:00.0 | But he was just trying to make lemonade from lemons, okay? |
| 0:03.8 | And trying to make the things that he had done that weren't great, like not being a present husband. |
| 0:10.2 | He was trying to change that in the way that he was a father. |
| 0:13.0 | Or maybe like psychologically, he has such a need for chaos that he has to self-sabotage so that he can then, like, use the chaos to actually be a good dad instead of being a boring dad, which is also good. |
| 0:25.0 | Why would you ruin? |
| 0:25.9 | Okay. |
| 0:26.5 | Let's do it. |
| 0:27.5 | Let's just go off mic for a second. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.3 | Why are you being so mean to me? |
| 0:30.6 | I love him so much. |
| 0:31.2 | You start with the dark stuff. |
| 0:33.4 | It's worse. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah. It's worse. Hello and welcome to our number 6-11 of the podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | And when your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:48.2 | The podcast is a show dedicated to delightful idiocy, |
| 0:51.0 | and we're committed to educating you on the things entertained, |
| 0:53.1 | but do not matter. |
| 0:54.5 | To find out more about these paternal proceeds, check us out at knoxonjami.com. |
| 0:58.8 | You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Blue Sky at the podcast. |
| 1:03.1 | Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking fail fathers in pop culture. |
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