Roberts & All The President's Men

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This week we celebrate the late, great Robert Redford the Bad Dads way: with a chaotic Top 5 Roberts and a deep dive into All the President’s Men — the newsroom thriller where Redford and Dustin Hoffman painstakingly peel back Watergate until the whole presidency caves in. It’s cigarettes, typewriters, and journalism that actually mattered.

What we get into

• Redford & Hoffman, peak charisma: why their odd-couple energy (and immaculate 70s fits) makes procedural journalism feel electric.
• The craft stuff: split-diopter shots, sound design that drowns phone calls in newsroom chaos, and that final typewriter barrage (“Nixon Resigns”) still landing like a gut punch.
• Truth vs. proof: editors wrestling with “we know it” versus “we can print it,” and why that tension hits even harder now.
• Deep Throat decoded: “follow the money,” the parking-garage paranoia, and how the film weaponises quiet dread.

Top 5 Roberts (no De Niro, no Redford — house rules)

We raid film, TV, music and pop culture for the best Bobs/Roberts/Robbies—from Sideshow Bob and Robert Englund to Robert Mitchum, Rob Reiner, Bob Odenkirk, Robert “Bob with bitch tits” Paulson, SpongeBob (Robert) Squarepants, and some gloriously fringe picks (RIP Rob Garrison, Cobra Kai’s OG goon). Expect arguments, deep cuts, and at least one guided detour through Spinal Tap and King Crimson.

The chaotic quiz: Redford or Red Ford (…or both)?

Sidey springs a quiz where every answer is either Redford (the man) or red Ford (the car on screen). Cue confusion, Christine vs Cars, The Sting, All Is Lost, and a tricksy Winter Soldier “both” that broke brains and buzzers.

Content note: swearing, savage tangents, and the occasional anatomical overshare. If you came for “balanced coverage,” you’ve wildly misread the brand.

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