Rain Man w. Eric Michael Garcia
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
We discuss all things Rain Man—from the plentitude of dad issues to the many things it got wrong about autism—with journalist Eric Michael Garcia. Bonus: We also love on Oliver Sacks super, super hard.
Eric's book We Are Not Broken: Changing the Conversation About Autism will be out later this year. You can find Eric on Twitter here.
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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. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:04.0 | This is such a great episode. |
| 0:06.0 | This is such a great episode. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.0 | Like, no shade on our other episodes, |
| 0:12.0 | but this is like the tomato of our garden. |
| 0:14.0 | So Eric Michael Garcia has been a friend of this show for a while, |
| 0:18.0 | and then was on your wrong about. |
| 0:20.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:22.0 | And we were talking, and he was like, |
| 0:24.0 | it would be cool. |
| 0:26.0 | To cover Rainman. |
| 0:28.0 | And I know that Eric writes about autism, |
| 0:30.0 | Eric himself is autistic. |
| 0:32.0 | So I mentioned it on Twitter, |
| 0:34.0 | not realizing the baggage |
| 0:36.0 | that Rainman has as a movie |
| 0:38.0 | and an institution. |
| 0:40.0 | And so when I first started to see that, |
| 0:42.0 | I was like, I wonder what this episode is going to be like. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah. |
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