The Prince of Egypt w. Maya Williams and Max Wolpert
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around. In which we talk family, religion, and The Prince of Egypt with Maya Williams and Max Wolpert.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies. |
| 0:14.6 | Today we are talking about the Prince of Egypt and we're talking about it with Maya Williams |
| 0:18.6 | and we have a special appearance by Max Wolper. I am your host, Alex Steed. Welcome, welcome, welcome. You are Good to Feelings Podcasts about movies. It's exactly what it sounds like. This is a show where we talk about movies. We talk about the feelings they evoke. We are not film critics. We are not here to do that thing. We're here to talk about movies and talk about the ways they make us feel. |
| 0:41.4 | So, hello. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:44.5 | The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film directed by Brenda Chapman, |
| 0:50.2 | Steve Higner, and Simon Wells, written by Philip Luzemnick. |
| 0:53.8 | The film stars the voices of Al Kilmer, Ray Fines, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, |
| 1:00.1 | Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Miron, Steve Martin, and Martin Short. |
| 1:06.1 | Maya Williams is a religious, black, multiracial, non-binary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley |
| 1:12.5 | Brian fellow and was selected as the 17th Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine. |
| 1:18.5 | I really love Maya. Maya is great. We've been planning this appearance for quite a while, |
| 1:24.3 | and immediately after, you'll hear it on the show, immediately after we recorded it. like let's do this again immediately really really love Maya max walpert who we will hear |
| 1:33.9 | from in the extended intro um interview i i let me say who who max is first and then we'll get |
| 1:40.9 | into it fiddler composer storyteller professor maxeller, professor. Max is great. I love |
| 1:46.4 | Max. And I wanted to, um, I had this great conversation with Maya. And then I wanted to talk with |
| 1:52.0 | somebody about the musical background of this movie specifically. And it turns out that Max has a |
| 1:58.3 | really fascinating history with this movie in particular. |
| 2:02.3 | And so we started to have a conversation that was going to be just like a little bitty intro and then it got bigger. |
| 2:08.2 | And so you have two distinct conversations in this episode. |
| 2:11.3 | One, one Max and one with Maya. |
| 2:14.2 | And I'm so happy to bring that to you because I really, really enjoyed these two. |
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