It's me Alex. I'm one of the co-hosts of Why Your Dads. Thank you so much for being here.

We'll be joined by Sarah in our wonderful guest as Mae Wang. Not long from now, but I just wanted

to give you a quick intro to let you know what's going on. Sarah writes, you know, she's not going

to be in this introduction because she's writing. She's getting the ideas out and she's putting

them down on the pitch, which is great news. So I am here just to let you know that Why Your Dads

is a show where we watch movies and we talk about dads, but really it's an excuse to talk about

feelings and gender and masculinity and trauma and all sorts of other things that we do in a relatively

lighthearted and welcoming way. We thought if we told you straight up, we're going to have a show

and we're going to talk about how much it hurt growing up sometimes and how much it hurts

being a grown up sometimes. You wouldn't listen. Would you listen? No, but we figured if we hit it

in this like candy shell, you'd come right along and here you are. We talked about Blue Valentine,

which is a movie I had not seen because everyone told me it was very sad and it is very sad.

But it was also a really lovely journey. I was glad to go on it with Sarah and Esme.

Esme, if you don't know, is an author? She's the author of The Border of Paradise and the

collected schizophrenia. It was a delight to have her. Evidently, she and you'll hear about this

in the episode. She wanted to talk about Blue Valentine. We didn't put her up to this and we're

all the better for it, I would say. If you've been in a difficult relationship, this might be

a big one for you to listen to. We talk a lot about that sort of thing. But in all, I think we had

a delightful and a glorious time. Now, Wire Dads is made possible with support by NAC Factory,

which is a commercial content and video production company. It's based in Portland, Maine,

but it works all throughout these United States. It wants to work with you to make some really

lovely and compelling video for whatever your project is. So get in touch with the folks at NAC Factory

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