Charismatic con men, grief and The Royal Tenenbaums
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
We usually tease the episode with some pithy switcheroo about how the movie is about one thing, but is it possible that there are some dad issues to unpack? But this is a movie that refers to an entire family by the dad's name, so join Sarah, Alex and guest Rachel Vorona Cote as they unpack Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums.
Here's Rachel on Twitter, and here is her wonderful book Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.
We are selling this VERY limited run Why Are Dads shirt through November 18th.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Alex Steed. How are you this fine week? |
| 0:05.8 | I'm good. We just had an election. We're having a pretty hopeless looking coup right now, but a coup nonetheless. I wish I could get a massage, but I can't. |
| 0:18.8 | How are you doing? |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, a similar take on what's going on. You know, like a lot of people in this country, I don't know what's going on and so I'm just working on my house, working on stuff and sanding things and painting things and reading. |
| 0:36.1 | What are you sanding? |
| 0:37.3 | We have dogs and a lot of people who've been in this house have dogs and after eight years of |
| 0:41.7 | dogs all the floors need to look newer. |
| 0:45.0 | As if the dogs have never been there at all. |
| 0:50.0 | Exactly and we can start afresh for more entropy after. |
| 0:54.6 | And invite more dogs in to make their mark. |
| 0:57.6 | Precisely. |
| 0:58.6 | I decided to just start doing Christmas at the start of November. |
| 1:01.7 | So like I ordered a Christmas tree yesterday. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm getting a pink artificial Christmas tree. |
| 1:07.1 | It's the pretty and pink model. |
| 1:09.2 | It's beautiful. |
| 1:09.7 | I saw it and I love it. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm so happy about it. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, I'm very excited to set it up and I've decided that my |
| 1:15.2 | because I've never thrown Christmas before I always have traveled home to my parents and now |
| 1:20.7 | ironically I'm in Portland where I'm from and yet I'm not going to be able to see them probably very much. |
| 1:28.0 | It is liberating though because I'm like I am the Christmas thrower now. I'm doing it and so I've decided that Christmas starts on |
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