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You Are Good

Strictly Ballroom w. Carmen Maria Machado and Eve Lindley

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In which Carmen, Eve and Alex put on their dancing shoes, go to Australia, and talk Strictly Ballroom.

Find Carmen online:

https://carmenmariamachado.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from the battle for Los Angeles.

0:11.3

Welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies.

0:14.4

Today we are talking about Strictly Ballroom.

0:17.0

We're talking about it with our great friend Carmen Maria Machado.

0:20.7

I am one of your host,

0:21.8

Alex Steed, and I will be joined by today's co-host, Eve Lindley. Sarah Marshall is out an assignment.

0:29.7

You Are Good, a Feelings Podcasts about movies is exactly what it sounds like. We are a podcast

0:34.1

about movies. We are not critics. We're not here to say what they got right and what they got wrong necessarily.

0:39.9

Although, you know, sometimes we do that.

0:41.6

Of course.

0:42.2

We are people with eyes and brains.

0:43.7

But what we are doing is watching these movies and saying, here's what it makes me think about

0:48.6

who and how I am in the world.

0:51.1

We talk with each other about exactly that.

0:53.5

And of course, we talk about the movie

0:55.3

itself. Carmen Maria Machado is an American author, essayist, and critic best known for her

1:01.8

body and other parties, a 2017 short story collection, and also the memoir in The Dreamhouse, which was published in 2019 and won the 2021

1:14.6

Folio Prize.

1:16.9

Love Carmen.

1:18.0

Truly, truly, truly love Carmen.

1:21.2

And Carmen's work, of course.

1:22.7

Eve Lindley is my co-host today.

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