Hey there, it's Alex Steed, cohost of Why Are Duds. Thank you so much for joining us.

My cohost Sarah Marshall will join us for the proper episode in a couple minutes. In the

meantime, I just wanted to welcome you to Why Are Duds, which is a show about figuring

out what it's like to be kids of a dad. What it's like to have grown up with or without

dads with good dads with bad dads with dads generally. It's an excuse for us to talk

about feelings and to do so by way of talking about movies that we love and that you love

or maybe, you know, maybe that we just all know about. So for this week's episode, we

talked about pretty in pink with our friend Julie Klasner.

Julie is an author, a comedian, an actor, a podcaster, a writer. She was in the great sitcom

Difficult People with Billy Eichner, just absolutely fantastic. And she helped birth

Billy on the street, which is one of the greatest, greatest shows. Julie has been podcasting

for years with the great How is Your Week, which Julie Klasner. And she's written Art

Girls Are Easy, which is a young adult novel that came out a while back. She's done it

all. She's fantastic. We were so lucky to have her and so lucky to have her talk about

among other things comedy writers. I know that plays into pretty in pink. So like I said,

we talked about pretty in pink. Lots of conversation about Ducky, lots of conversation about Andrew

McCarthy, lots of conversation of course about Molly Ringwald, the legacy of the brat back,

the legacy of John Hughes. We covered all sorts of bases. This is an episode we're talking about

because as Sarah will talk about in a couple of minutes, it's prom season,

thread around prom season. We wanted to get into prom. And here we are talking pretty in pink.

I had a wonderful time. It was so incredible to have Julie on the show. She was a fantastic

presence. Before we begin, I just want to let you know that Why Are Dead is made possible

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