The Wrestler w. Gaby Dunn
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
It's a movie about a big, messy sweetie who can't get out of his own way and all of the folks who suffer as a result. We talk The Wrestler, alcoholic dads, and more with the wonderful Gaby Dunn.
You can Gaby on Instagram and on TikTok!
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
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.
Ethan Hawkins of Corner House accompanied her on her rendition of The Wrestler.
Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.
Abigail Swartz of Gray Day Studio designed our logo!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. Hello, Alex Steve. What are we listening to? What is what is the person |
| 0:12.0 | who's listening to this listening to? Nice save. We're listening to a lot of hair |
| 0:19.6 | metal because we are watching the wrestler today with Gabby Dunn. Hell yeah. You're listening |
| 0:25.4 | to wire dads, which is a show in which we talk about feelings and emotions and having |
| 0:32.0 | been people raised with or without dads and we talk about what that means. We got some |
| 0:37.7 | interesting feedback recently because we released our Dark Knight episode on the You're |
| 0:42.2 | Wrong About Feed. I know somebody over there that is me. And I saw someone be like, oh, |
| 0:49.0 | wow, I thought your show was only about bad dads. So I didn't listen before. And then |
| 0:53.4 | I just find that interesting. I mean, I can't say that they should have thought it was |
| 1:00.4 | about something else because I still find the title mysterious. I don't know. Yeah, I think |
| 1:05.4 | it's just interesting that like the way the word dad is freighted with feelings makes |
| 1:10.4 | some people assume that like cultural conversations about it just have to be in a certain light. |
| 1:15.4 | It's a real roach act test for sure, because I think about it a lot. It brings a lot of |
| 1:21.4 | things. I think about it a lot, particularly my background is in marketing and branding. |
| 1:26.3 | So I think a lot about what words imply versus what they are actually meant to say. And |
| 1:34.1 | I think I think at the front end of the show, we thought a lot about talking explicitly |
| 1:39.8 | about dads. And then we realized that that was just an avenue for talking about bigger |
| 1:45.8 | things like why our friend Randy the Ram can get out of his own fucking way for a Randy. |
| 1:51.4 | We love Randy. I've thought of Randy many times since he recorded. Oh my God. Me too. |
| 1:58.2 | Can I read to you a little something that Carolyn was reading? And she brought to my attention |
| 2:03.7 | in the context of this show. Yeah. So we have in the past had your great friend and a person |
| 2:09.6 | who I enjoy quite a bit. That sounds so weird. Look, I'm being passive. We can both be |
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