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KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

#138: Kramer vs. Kramer

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Divorce is a horrific experience for everyone involved. Spouses falling out of love is brutal, and children -- especially young kids -- end up as collateral damage. Such is the story of the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as a couple on the outs, with a young son caught in the middle. Kramer vs. Kramer is a notable picture because, in 1980, it won the Academy Award for Best Picture... and Best Director... and Best Screenplay... and Dustin Hofmann won Best Actor... and Meryl Streep won Best Supporting Actress... and on and on. So it's a critically-acclaimed movie unlike many others. But it's also an important look into the world of divorce, especially from the point-of-view of a man who's assumed not to be able to love his child like his ex-wife could, that they couldn't form a special bond on their own... and also of a woman who makes a major mistake, tries to find herself, and realizes the error of her own ways. Kramer vs. Kramer is one of the great dramas of all-time, so why not put an episode of KnockBack all about it on the docket? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

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0:06.4

Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Knockback. My name is

0:14.8

Kamma Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my brother Dagen versus Moriarty.

0:18.3

Degan. Thank you so much for being here today. How are you?

0:25.5

Welcome to a very special episode of Knockback. You know why it's special? Kyle because they're all special. You should

0:30.6

know this. Wow. You should know this. Wow. I didn't anticipate that.

0:34.0

You didn't even give me a chance to think about it.

0:37.0

You just kind of sprung on me so I didn't know.

0:40.0

I don't know if I would have come to that conclusion.

0:42.0

Let's say... I don't know if I would have come to that conclusion.

0:44.0

Let's say you would have. Let's just agree.

0:47.0

Now, I'm going to be a little crazy on this episode.

0:50.0

Let me tell you why.

0:51.0

I'm running an experiment this week. I don't think this was the week or even the time period to conduct this experiment in, but I decided to do it anyway. A little crazy. I haven't had caffeine in three days now.

1:04.6

It's been over three days at the time of this recording actually.

1:08.4

And why I decided this was, I may have told you this before, Carl.

1:12.0

I'm not a headache guy. Like I'm not a guy who typically gratefully gets headaches. You know, thankfully I'm not afflicted by that thing. My grains or otherwise what like a minute like many people are but I found probably in

1:27.6

dribs and drabs over the last couple of years that if I don't have coffee regularly like let's say I have my first cup between

1:36.6

nine and ten in the morning that I have a couple of cups throughout the later in the

1:40.7

morning or early afternoon or whatever if I don't have my two or three cups by a certain time,

1:45.3

I get headaches, I was finding I would get a headache.

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