Citizen Ruth with Candace Jane Opper

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Is it possible that sometimes folks get so carried away in representing their causes that they overlook the humanity of the people about whom they purport to care? We discuss the criminally underrated Citizen Ruth, the abortion debate, and the heavenly Laura Dern with our wonderful friend Candace Jane Opper. You can find Candace's book Certain and Impossible Events here (https://www.candacejaneopper.com/book)! You can find Candace on Twitter (https://twitter.com/candaceopper?lang=en). Why Are Dads (https://www.podpage.com/why-are-dads/) is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens. You can find us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/whyaredads), Instagram (https://instagram.com/whyaredads) and Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/whyaredads). You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. (fanlink.to/ctuc) She's also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/carekendrick). Fresh Lesh (https://www.freshlesh.com/) produces the beats for our episodes. Our Liz Climo "You Are Good" merch can be found here (https://www.teepublic.com/user/whyaredads)!

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0:00.0	Hello, Alex Steed.
0:05.0	Welcome, person who is listening to us.
0:09.0	We're talking exclusively to you, and you are listening to Why Our Dads?
0:13.4	What are we talking about today?
0:15.6	We're talking about Citizen Ruth.
0:17.1	That's right.
0:18.0	Alexander Payne's first movie and I would say Laura Derns, well you can't say her best movie. There's so many best
0:25.2	Laura Durn movies. It's one of Laura Durn's best movies.
0:29.6	Laura Durn has several career peaks however you slice it and this is just one of them.
0:36.0	Absolutely.
0:37.0	Laura Dern has a peak like every three years.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:40.3	This was the post- Jurassic Park Peak.
0:42.8	Yeah, and this is a movie that is very dear to my heart and we got to bring back our first guest, Candice Opera, to talk about this movie and I think Candice talking about film is really a joy to experience also and I was happy to do that.
1:00.5	Yeah, I was happy as well and we're going to talk a bit about what
1:04.0	Candice has recently brought into the world in a couple minutes. You talk about
1:08.6	why this movie was appealing to you to discuss in an episode, but we didn't really talk about the historical moment slash milestone.
1:18.0	Why did you want to talk about this in late January?
1:20.0	Yeah, I originally picked this idea to you as something that could coincide with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which is January 22nd, 1973.
1:30.4	And that's sitting because this is a movie that as much as it is a woman named Ruth, it's also about the abortion debate.
1:38.0	I do want to say for people who have to wait quite a while for us to establish this, that I believe you and I are ardently pro-choice people.
1:45.6	Yeah, yes. But I just want to make sure that it's clear up front.
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