Oh, Fudge: A Christmas Story w. Mara Wilson
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Join Sarah, Alex and guest Mara Wilson as they discuss "gleaming sex", deranged easter bunnies, and Jim Jones' connection to the America portrayed in the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story.
You can find Mara on Twitter and on Instagram. You can find Mara's book Where Am I Now? here.
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, Instagram and Patreon.
You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. She's also on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:01.3 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:02.9 | This is Why Our Dads. |
| 0:04.6 | We should say, I guess, that Why Our Dads is a show in which we talk about what it's like |
| 0:10.3 | to be the grown children of dads by watching movies. |
| 0:16.2 | For any listeners who are interested, we have a Patreon, which you're more than welcome to support |
| 0:22.1 | and get some bonus episodes, ideally weekly, when we're able to do so. |
| 0:26.9 | If you're not able to do that, we're just glad you're here listening and learning about |
| 0:32.0 | a child's burning desire to own a firearm. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.7 | And this is our month, oh, Christmas movies, which I'm very |
| 0:39.5 | happy that you were willing to do. We never even had a conversation about this. We were just like, |
| 0:44.1 | and obviously we're going to do a month solid of Christmas movies. Because I'm not a Christmasist, |
| 0:49.2 | but I'm a Christmasist. I'm not a Christmasist. Well, that's not true. I kind of am a Christmasist. I don't think I'm |
| 0:55.2 | consciously a Christmasist. And there are some places in times, you and I are very alike in a lot of |
| 1:02.3 | ways, and we're also very different in a lot of ways. And we also share an April 22nd Taurus birthday. |
| 1:09.6 | I feel like there are a lot of times when we are just |
| 1:12.6 | unsaid the same exact person in agreeing on a Christmas month was one of those places. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, they were just, we never had a conversation about it until right now. It's just like, |
| 1:23.9 | yeah, what else would we be doing? That's just what we're doing. So we are talking with Mara Wilson today about a Christmas story. |
| 1:32.2 | And also the second of the movies that tend to be on TV just like 24 hours a day |
| 1:40.0 | and that you can kind of tune in in the middle of something and watch a little bit of and have a good time. |
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