The Silence of the Lambs w. Harmony Colangelo
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Clarice Starling was a revelation while the portrayal of "Buffalo Bill" became a bane for many trans people coming of age. The impeccably constructed film is the gold standard of copaganda. We unpack The Silence of the Lambs' complicated legacy with Harmony Colangelo!
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
You can Harmony's essay A Reluctant Defense of Silence of the Lambs' James Gumb here. You can find Harmony on Twitter here. You can find A Year of Queer Cocktails here. You can find This Ends at Prom here!
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.
You can find us on Twitter, Instagram and Patreon.
You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. She's also on Twitter.
Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.
Abigail Swartz of Gray Day Studio designed our logo!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Alex Seed. |
| 0:08.5 | You're listening to Why Our Dads. |
| 0:09.7 | It's a show where we talk about a whole host of things from feelings to trauma to dads. |
| 0:19.9 | From feelings to other feelings. |
| 0:23.9 | My way of talking about movies that usually have a direct dad theme. |
| 0:28.5 | And in this one, no direct dad theme. |
| 0:30.6 | No, there's a dad theme. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, you're right. |
| 0:32.6 | You're right. |
| 0:33.0 | There's actually several, several dad themes, which we talk about. |
| 0:36.5 | Holy shit. |
| 0:37.3 | I feel like this is your like, welcome to the bell pepper, which we talk about. Holy shit. I feel like this is, you're like, welcome to the bell pepper show, where we talk about all kinds of bell peppers, not just yellow ones. Look at this one. It's green. And I'm like, that's actually a yellow one. And you're like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is very yellow. This is yellow indeed. I just want to make sure that all pepper fans know that they're welcome. |
| 0:55.7 | Can you just give a... This is yellow indeed. I just want to make sure that all pepper fans know that they're welcome. |
| 1:01.3 | Can you just give a rundown, a quick rundown of what Silence of the Lambs is about? |
| 1:08.3 | Yes. Oh my God. I was born for this. Okay. The Silence of the Lambs is about an FBI training named Clarice Starling, who we love, and she's played by Jody Foster. |
| 1:13.6 | Basically, her former professor, when she was taking some kind of FBI class at UVA or something, |
| 1:21.7 | Jack Crawford, is like, there's a serial killer on the loose. His name's Buffalo Bill, and we can't figure it out, and no one who |
| 1:30.0 | works for the FBI can get Hannibal Lecter to talk because he hates all of us. And Hannibal |
| 1:36.7 | Lecter is this brilliant incarcerated serial killer, and we're doing a program where we're |
| 1:42.6 | talking to incarcerated serial killers to try and get insight |
| 1:46.6 | into what the serial killer at large is like. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alex Steed, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Alex Steed and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.