Magnolia (Dads Can Be Very a Lot) with Emma Copley Eisenberg
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
We are joined by Emma Copley Eisenberg for a discussion about intersections of fate, Aimee Mann, the enduring beauty of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and one of the most sprawling movies about unpacking dad relationships of all time! Join us as we unpack Magnolia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.8 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:08.1 | We are about to embark in an episode of a show called Why Our Dads. |
| 0:13.6 | We are about to sail the choppy seas of the dad ocean. |
| 0:18.2 | We are indeed. |
| 0:19.3 | What is why are dads about? |
| 0:20.7 | Oh, well, the ocean of Dad is a vasty, salty place full of the echoes of emotional withholding |
| 0:30.0 | and resentment. |
| 0:31.6 | When you take your ship onto the sea, anything can happen, Chief. |
| 0:36.2 | Why Our Dads is a show where we take our friends out onto the sea, anything can happen, Chief. Why are dads as a show where we take our friends |
| 0:39.9 | out onto the orca of our podcast and sail the seas of dad feelings? But we don't want to kill |
| 0:48.6 | the shark. We just want to pet the shark. Yes, absolutely. We don't want to, we don't want to burn the engine out |
| 0:54.6 | because that just leaves us stranded out in the sea. We're trying to have a three-hour tour, |
| 0:59.7 | and so far we've successfully gotten back to port each time, but you never know. |
| 1:04.6 | So we're going to talk about Magnolia. This is something you feel very strongly about as a movie for covering at the start of the year. |
| 1:14.1 | What's your elevator pitch for what Magnolia is? |
| 1:18.4 | Oh my God. |
| 1:19.3 | Magnolia is a wonderfully ambitious film about, I think, nine characters and their intersecting lives during a single day in the San Fernando Valley. |
| 1:29.9 | And it's about weird weather in L.A. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, that's fantastic. |
| 1:33.6 | That's a literal pitch. |
| 1:34.9 | Yeah, I mean, I think that that's great. |
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