Busy Dads Do Sci-Fi

Busy Dads Do Sci-Fi episodes:

• 05.25.2023

  87: BMX Darings Dodging Simple Felonies

  "Does a spaceship make it sci-fi?"   Come along with us for an episode that was originally recorded in January of 2021, deep in the throes of the pandemic.  So, does this mean The Busy Dads are back?  More will...

  
• 07.27.2021

  86: Brody Double Dies Straightjacket Future

  Have you ever seen a movie that you're not sure is good or not?  Event after a few weeks, you're still like "was that good or was it just different?"  Enter:  THE JACKET.  Continuing on with our time travel suite,...

  
• 04.27.2021

  85: Boring Donnie Darko Seeking Futures

  You know how you like a movie and then you dislike it and then you like it again?  No?  Only me?  Ok. The Busy Dads take a weird transparent worm out the chest to Donnie Darko, the only good movie...

  
• 03.10.2021

  84: Bald Dude Dealing Simian Feces

  I can't tell if Brad Pitt is a great actor or a terrible actor. It doesn't matter, because the Busy Dads are taking a trip from the not so distant future to the not so distant past.  And, once again,...

  
• 02.17.2021

  83: Bruce Dillis Dodgers Sexy Farmgirl

  Oh, so he is like playing Bruce Willis but Bruce Willis ISN'T playing Joseph Gordon Levitt?  Hm.  That hardly seems fair. In this episode, a continuation of our EPIC time travel suite, the Busy Dads take a look at the...

  
• 02.02.2021

  82: Biolateral Dimensional Dicks Saving Futures

  When you've got a movie that has been consistently billed as the smartest time travel movie ever made, what else can you do but make fart jokes about it? The Busy Dads tackle the monster that is PRIMER in an...

  
• 01.19.2021

  81: Bleak Dark Dank Space Fatalities

  What do you get when you cross Robert Patinson, outer space and a baby?  Sounds like a fever nightmare I once had in 2006. Surprisingly, you get HIGH LIFE, a fantastic piece of meditative science fiction.  Listen along as The...

  
• 01.05.2021

  80: Biblical Dude Decides Scripture Fails

  Come on now!  I'm pretty sure that we've ALL slept with our own mothers at some point. Well, perhaps not to THAT extent.  However, in this episode Kevin and George take a look at the amazing facts, incredibly coherent and...

  
• 12.22.2020

  79: Bug Delicacy Delight Starving Filth

  Remember that movie about the remnants of humanity stuck on a train and they had to constantly move on the train or they'd all freeze to death and Captain America and John Hurt and Ed Harris and Tilda Swinton were...

  
• 12.08.2020

  78: Burned Dude Dead Sawing Foot

  Wow.  Winter Break seemed extra long this year. Kevin and George (and Producer Vic) are BACK...from the dead?  Maaaaaaaybe.  More specifically, they are back with the brand of mediocre podcast that only two busy dads can bring you.  Sit back,...

  
• 04.03.2019

  Ep. 77: Black Drowing Depths Scottish Fudgecake

  "Cockroaches." --Kevin   In the third installment of our Inhuman Women Suite, Kevin and George take a look at the Jonathan Glazer flick UNDER THE SKIN.  Scarlett Johannsen has come to Earth and she's seeking men to turn into intergalactic...

  
• 03.20.2019

  Ep: 76: Bella Dolce Dripping She-Breast Fornication

  "That's why I had to move out of Highland Park." --George   Often a monster movie comes with a level of suspension of disbelief.  At times, that level can be asking too much from an audience.  The movie SPRING, from...

  
• 03.06.2019

  EP. 75: Blues Dominated Disaster Saturated Future

  "Let's just read the notes!" --Kevin IO is a Netflix original movie that we just couldn't.     We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners.  As such, some of what we discuss falls into the realm of...

  
• 02.20.2019

  Ep. 74: Biomechanical Damsels Dating Shiny Fatfaces

  "Subby Lawrence." --Kevin   What is one of the worst things a movie can do?  Is it when it's just bad?  Is it when it's good but could be better?  Perhaps both.  However, as I write this, I find myself...

  
• 01.23.2019

  Ep. 73: Brothers Ditching Deity Suspended Freaks

  Every once in a while you come across a movie that was birthed of a fantastic idea.  No one really nurtured it by giving it a huge budget or a ton of publicity, but it didn't really matter.  Perhaps the...

  
• 01.09.2019

  Ep. 72: Boring Doers Debating Scientific Fallacies

  "Dondo!" --G Spider-Man:  Into The Spider-Verse manages to have something that very few big screen adaptations of the wall-crawler have had:  heart. I think that this is the only thing that the cross-dimensional versions of George and Kevin can agree...

  
• 12.19.2018

  Ep. 71: Baby Daughter Delivered Secretly Filmed

  "I just don't think about it." --Theo   CHILDREN OF MEN was a 2006 dystopian science fiction masterpiece that showed up what a slowly decaying world would look 20 years into a global plague in which no human can reproduce....

  
• 12.05.2018

  Ep. 70: Bio-Diversified Damsels Shooting Fauna

  "Fingerling potatoes." --Kevin   Annihilation is an Alex Garland joint.  We watched the movie.  Some of us even read the book.  Ok, one of us.  It was Kevin.   Let us know what you think, listening.  Hit us up at busydadsdoscifi...

  
• 11.14.2018

  EP. 69: Worry Free (Sorry to Bother You)

  "This could be our raciest episode.  I said raciest." --Kevin The Busy Dads take a long, hard look at Boots Riley's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, which in turn leads to a long, hard look at themselves and the world that...

  
• 10.31.2018

  EP. 68: Flee From New Jersey (Escape From New York)

  "I think the 15 pizzas are here." --Kevin John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is long considered a classic of 80s Sci-Fi and a gem of the cult movie genre.  Kevin and George take a look at it and ask,...

  
• 10.10.2018

  EP. 67: Screamers and Second Variety

  "Mark Twain." --Kevin   1996 might not be known as the best year in Science Fiction, or maybe it is.  I don't know.  I didn't exactly do any research on it.  However it was the year that the Philip K....

  
• 09.26.2018

  EP. 66: Star Trek 2...the First One

  "NOPE!" --George What does one talk about when everything that can possibly be talked about has been talked about?  This is the dilemma that confronts the BUSY DADS as they take a long, hard (hah) look at STAR TREK 2: ...

  
• 09.26.2018

  EP. 66: Star Trek 2…the First One

  “NOPE!” –George What does one talk about when everything that can possibly be talked about has been talked about?  This is the dilemma that confronts the BUSY DADS as they take a long, hard (hah) look at STAR TREK 2: ...

  
• 09.12.2018

  EP. 65: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

  "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER" Isn't that what we're all after?  A meaningful answer.  So, in lieu of our Wrath of Khan episode, we are instead going to be doing another dramatic reading of a great Science Fiction Short...

  
• 08.15.2018

  EP. 64: Extinction is Extinct, But Not Dead

  "We don't know what's good for us." --George   As though we are going to find a diamond in the rough if we just keep sifting, Kevin and George return once again to the "treasure trove" of the Netflix Sci-Fi...

  
• 08.01.2018

  EP. 63: Possessed by Possession's Possessiveness

  "Heinrich was my favorite character." --George The BUSY DADS take the plunge on the 1981 horror/thriller/sci-fi cult classic POSSESSION.  What seems to be the simple story of a spy being broken up with by his crazy wife ends up becoming...

  
• 08.01.2018

  EP. 63: Possessed by Possession’s Possessiveness

  “Heinrich was my favorite character.” –George The BUSY DADS take the plunge on the 1981 horror/thriller/sci-fi cult classic POSSESSION.  What seems to be the simple story of a spy being broken up with by his crazy wife ends up becoming...

  
• 07.18.2018

  EP. 62: Orbiter 9 On Fire

  "Sorry to bother you." --Kevin We are back and "better than ever!  So better in fact that we've decided to jump back into the dumpster fire that is Netflix's Science Fiction section to review ORBITER 9. Also, join us in...

  
• 05.30.2018

  BDDSF CLASSIC: Ep. 33: The Return of Tarkovsky's Ghost (Stalker)

  As if George's life wasn't busy enough, his favorite Russian film making antagonist is back from beyond the grave.  Kevin and George sit down, crack a bottle of non-flavored seltzer (thanks, Vic) and talk about Andrei Tarkovsky's iconic masterpiece STALKER....

  
• 05.30.2018

  BDDSF CLASSIC: Ep. 33: The Return of Tarkovsky’s Ghost (Stalker)

  As if George’s life wasn’t busy enough, his favorite Russian film making antagonist is back from beyond the grave.  Kevin and George sit down, crack a bottle of non-flavored seltzer (thanks, Vic) and talk about Andrei Tarkovsky’s iconic masterpiece STALKER....

  
• 05.16.2018

  Ep. 61: Huge Peter Dinklage (Avengers: Infinity War)

  "I love chaos!" --Kevin Kevin and George talk about the movie that the entire planet has seen twice.  The culmination of 18 movies and 10 years of movie making and it, SOME HOW, did not manage to let George (a...

  
• 05.02.2018

  EP. 60: Sci-Fi Shorts Round Up (Oats Studios' Adam)

  "...shorter." --Kevin   In this episode we take another look at Neil Blomkamp's Oats Studios and their new three part short series, Adam. What did it do for us?  What could it do for you?  How does one tell a...

  
• 05.02.2018

  EP. 60: Sci-Fi Shorts Round Up (Oats Studios’ Adam)

  “…shorter.” –Kevin   In this episode we take another look at Neil Blomkamp’s Oats Studios and their new three part short series, Adam. What did it do for us?  What could it do for you?  How does one tell a...

  
• 04.18.2018

  EP. 59: Not The Man From Earth Sequel (Mr. Nobody)

  "That doesn't sound right.  That sounds negative." "It sounds fecal."   How can one movie make George go from crying during the viewing to throwing a keyboard at Kevin while discussing it the next day?  How can the same movie...

  
• 04.13.2018

  BDDSF CLASSIC: Ep. 20: Sleep Exhaustion, Parsecs and the end of MAN FROM EARTH

  This time BUSY DADDIES Kevin & George walk through the quiet cult film MAN FROM EARTH.  Kevin discusses the vast differences between sci-fi authors Yoss and Richard K. Morgan.  George lavishes praise upon the podcast WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE and...

  
• 03.28.2018

  EP. 58: Altered Carbon Dies At The End

  "If you just wanna hear the Altered Carbon part of the podcast, skip to 33 minutes 14 seconds." --George Don't worry.  We certainly don't go out on a high note.  As George and Kevin attempt to remove some potty humor...

  
• 03.14.2018

  EP. 57: Oh! So WE Are The Apes. Or Are They US?!

  "Oh, so we're still talking about the birds and the bees here." --George We have just recently watched WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (I know, we're late).  So, the Busy Dads decide to go back and talk a...

  
• 02.28.2018

  EP. 56: Flying Horses and Fish Sex (The Shape of Water)

  "Is this a documentary?" --Kevin   Guillermo Del Toro has served us up the perfect mix of Swamp Thing and Amelie that we've all been waiting for.  With a combo like that how could you possibly go wrong?  Well, according...

  
• 02.14.2018

  EP. 55: Is Anybody Out There (The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers)

  "Listener drive." --George The Busy Dads jump into the vast world created by novelist Tim Powers in his 1997 fantasy/sci-fi/period/action/time-travel epic THE ANUBIS GATES. Ever wonder if you can outrun a 15 foot tall magic clown in 19th Century London? ...

  
• 01.17.2018

  EPISODE 54: Dark Toilet (Black Mirror, Season 4, Ep. 1)

  "Is BLACK MIRROR the visual answer to everything that I critiqued about BRIGHT?" --Kevin Everyone's darling dystopian Sci-Fi series is back, but this time there's a bit of a twist.  We start off the season on a bright palette homage...

  
• 01.03.2018

  EPISODE 53: Not So Bright

  "Bright is not a movie" --Kevin David Ayer and his best friend Will Smith can never make a movie together again after Suicide Squad.  So they have come to Netflix.  They've teamed up with Joel Edgerton for a cop movie...

  
• 12.20.2017

  EPISODE 52: Did I Stutter? (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)

  "Whatever you do don't pull your punches!" --Kevin Star Wars is known the world around.  It's pervasive and it's iconic.  The Busy Dads have watched the most recent entry into the Star Wars saga, THE LAST JEDI directed by Rian...

  
• 12.06.2017

  EPISODE 51: The Gods Are Angry (Stranger Things 2)

  "The name of this episode should be DO WE HAVE TO?" --Kevin After a well-written and critically acclaimed first season The Duffer Brothers return to Netflix with STRANGER THINGS 2.  Kevin and George revisit their favorite characters from Hawkins, Indiana...

  
• 11.22.2017

  EPISODE 50: The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury

  "What would you do if you knew this was the last night of the world?"   For our Thanksgiving special Busy Dad George does ANOTHER reading of a great Ray Bradbury short.  This time around it's THE LAST NIGHT OF...

  
• 11.08.2017

  EPISODE 49: Loved Ones On Fire (Alien: Covenant)

  "I think that believes how in depth you are." --Kevin (tired and still on East Coast time) It's a sequel to Prometheus.  It's also a prequel to Alien.  Oh, and it's a prequel to Alien Vs. Predator.  Wait.  No.  It's...

  
• 10.25.2017

  EPISODE 48: Last Episode Plus 30 Years (Blade Runner 2049)

  "Stupid people ruin shit." --George As part of our exploration of all things Blade Runner, the Busy Dads take a solid look at the new sequel to the cult classic.  What does a movie like Blade Runner 2049 mean for...

  
• 10.11.2017

  EPISODE 47: Do Fanboys Dream of Electric Fords (Blade Runner)

  "The meditative quality of this meditative movie was moving." --Kevin In a continuation of our return to some of the classic of Sci-Fi, and in anticipation of the sequel, the Busy Dads will finally take a look at the Ridley...

  
• 09.28.2017

  EPISODE 46: The Orville...'Nuff Said.

  "I don't know how Moonraker isn't Sci-Fi if The Orville is." --Kevin We take a look at the first 3 episodes of the hot new FOX show The Orville.  From the mind of Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, Ted, American Dad)...

  
• 09.13.2017

  EPISODE 45: Paging Mr. Blomkamp (Oats Studios Short Films)

  "Why we gotta talk about people?" --Kevin Neill Blomkamp is a big name in Sci-Fi, unless you were to ask Kevin. In this episode we take a look at three separate short films from Blomkamp's OATS STUDIOS:  Firebase, Rakka and...

  
• 09.01.2017

  EPISODE 44: Netflix Dumpster Diving (Embers)

  "It's so European.  Maybe even worse:  it's Canadian!" --Kevin We might get a little out of hand on this one.  If that's the case, it's only because we care so much.  The independent "sci-fi" movie EMBERS brings out the best...