Citizen Ruth with Candace Jane Opper
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
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!
You can find Candace on Twitter.
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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome, person who is listening to us. |
| 0:09.0 | We're talking exclusively to you. |
| 0:11.1 | And you are listening to Why Our Dads. |
| 0:13.4 | What are we talking about today? |
| 0:15.5 | We're talking about Citizen Ruth. |
| 0:17.0 | That's right. |
| 0:18.1 | Alexander Payne's first movie. |
| 0:20.5 | And I would say Laura Dern's, well, you can't say her best movie. |
| 0:24.4 | There's so many best Laura Dern movies. |
| 0:26.9 | It's one of Laura Dern's best movies. |
| 0:30.0 | Laura Dern has several career peaks however you slice it and this is just one of them. |
| 0:36.2 | Absolutely. |
| 0:37.0 | Laura Dern has a peak like every three years. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.7 | This was the post-Jurassic Park peak. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.2 | And this is a movie that is very dear to my heart and we got to bring back our first guest, |
| 0:50.9 | Candice Opper, to talk about this movie. |
| 0:53.8 | And I think Candice talking about film is really a |
| 0:57.7 | joy to experience also. And I was happy to do that. Yeah, I was, I was happy as well. And we're going to |
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