Premium: Sean Szeps - Not Like Other Dads
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Josh's husband Sean’s memoir Not Like Other Dads was released in early June and has been a raging success. For this premium episode, they sit down and talk about the book, his motivations for writing it, and his experience, of their experience, of becoming parents.
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| 0:00.0 | G'day, this is an abridged version of the episode that you can hear in full by signing up at |
| 0:04.9 | Uncomfortableconversations.substack.com slash subscribe. Enjoy the freebie. |
| 0:12.0 | So you wrote a book? |
| 0:14.5 | Yes. That's good. You were punished for it. |
| 0:18.5 | That was a long writing process. I've got to tell you, wowsers, for people who don't know what it's like to write a book, what would your advice be about what it's like to write a book? Don't do it. Don't run. Get into therapy, that's what I would say. Yeah, well, especially if you're going to write about your life, right? |
| 0:39.0 | Maybe any type of writing. Wasn't the whole process like a therapy session for you? |
| 0:41.5 | Like one big, long, personal, self-indulgent, exhausting, boring therapy session. |
| 0:48.3 | I reckon, if I'm, like, being quite serious about it, it's probably 10 years of therapy to write a memoir. I appreciate the use |
| 0:55.7 | of the word reckon. Welcome to Australia. May, I can do the full Aussie for you. Why did you |
| 1:01.9 | write it? Where did it come from? So, during the two lockdowns, when things opened up, |
| 1:09.6 | I was at a bookstore in Belmain and I went up to the |
| 1:13.3 | woman. Suburb of Sydney. |
| 1:14.5 | Suburb of Sydney. Walk up to the woman at the front and I go, do you have any gay books? |
| 1:19.1 | And she's like, excuse me? Thinking of being offensive. I'm like, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. |
| 1:23.7 | She slips you like a gay porn magazine from under the counter. Do I? Do I ever? |
| 1:28.3 | And she was, I was like, LGBT-QI-plus. She's like, let me look it up for you. We have called me by your name with Timothy Shalame. And I was like, I've already read that twice. I'll take it. And she was like, no, we don't. We don't have anything. but I can order some for you, which ones would you suggest? |
| 1:27.5 | And I was a deer in headlights. |
| 1:29.0 | I was like, no, we don't. We don't have anything. But I can order some for you, |
| 1:44.8 | which ones would you suggest? And I was a deer in headlights. I was like, I don't know. I was |
| 1:49.1 | hoping there would just be a section and then I could feel good about myself for grabbing a |
| 1:52.6 | book about my community. So I went home, Googled it, started to do some research. I'm just a big |
| 1:57.8 | fan of memoirs. Like, I actually like them. I like reading them. |
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