863. Inside Dads: The Rock, and Other Action Films

Small Beans

Comedy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Our limited series with co-hosts Abe Epperson and David Bell digs deep into the internet meme of the “dad movie.” We can all probably name a dad movie, but can we isolate the tropes that really make this a bona fide film genre? Let’s find out! Features: Abe Epperson: https://bsky.app/profile/abeepp.bsky.social David Bell: https://bsky.app/profile/moviehooligan.bsky.social Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	It's time for Dad's now.
0:07.0	Look.
0:09.0	It's all about dads.
0:12.0	I don't want you talking about anything but Dads, because it's all dads now
0:24.0	yeah
0:27.8	it's inside
0:32.1	dad's oh
0:34.4	inside
0:37.1	Dave I Ooh, Inside Dads.
0:38.4	Oh, Dave.
0:41.0	I take pleasure and gutting you, boy.
0:44.7	Boy.
0:46.4	You're on Inside Dad's.
0:48.6	I am.
0:49.3	And we're covering 1996s The Rock.
0:53.5	We are. We had to. I mean, it's like premier dad. It's our second Michael
0:59.5	Bay, but, um, I think that's justified. Yeah, we'll take a break from Michael Bay a little bit.
1:06.2	You know, we've done a bunch of ones. We did a comedy. We did Wall Street. We did Alex
1:10.3	cross. You know, like, we did kiss the girls. We did a comedy. We did Wall Street. We did Alex Cross. You know,
1:11.5	like, we did kiss the girls. We did. You do kiss the girls. You do a Michael Bay. It works out, man.
1:17.9	It's fine. But yeah. There was always going to be multiple Michael Bayes on this.
1:22.1	We did cover Armageddon. We're talking about dad films, dad movies and dads for decades, basically.
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