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Unique & thoughtful
Full of relatable nostalgia & excellent cultural commentary. Charming

Fabulous
The Jaws episode is stunning. I sent it to my dad. ❤️

You guys are my new dads
Ngl I have ✨daddy issues✨and this is really interesting. Came from You’re Wrong About, found another great podcast

Super podcast and suggestion
Loved the first episode. Good insight, humor...really great. Rewatched “Jaws”later that night with the dad perspective thrown in. My suggestion for one show would be Ron Howard’s 1989 “ Parenthood “. Steve Martin’s character, Gil delivered one line that changed my understanding of my dad forever. “My whole life is ‘have to’.” A movie with a basket full of dads! Keep up the great work and good luck with this podcast!

Honest and Nostalgic!
I’m a huge You’re Wrong About fan and would listen to Sarah Marshall read the phone book (do they still exist?) But this is infinitely more interesting.

Finally!
A podcast that makes Wednesday uploads exciting! I also got here by way of YWA and having twice the weekly ability to listen to Sarah’s graceful & smart intellectual academic renderings of All The Things, NOW FEATURING: MOVIES, makes my heart the happiest. Carry on!

Thoughtful and Beautifully Produced
I am a huge fan of You’re Wrong About and also a big movie buff and yes, I have daddy issues, so this podcast is perfect for me. I love how thoughtful Sarah Marshall is and how she and her cohost use films as a way to talk about fatherhood and masculinity. The music production is gorgeous and haunting making this an all round great listen. I need a break from murder and pandemic right now, Why Are Dads is the perfect balm for my fatigued heart.

Everything Sarah Marshall does is solid gold
Fantastic concept, can’t wait for more episodes.

Beautifully Crafted
This podcast is completely out of my normal realm of listening and I’m very glad I stumbled across it. This was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to many more episodes.

Love it!
As a person with a dad, I appreciate this. Thank you for helping me work through my boomer dad trauma with movie dad archetypes! Looking forward to the next episode. ♥️

man. dads.
i tend to scribble sarah quotes. today’s was “emotional intimacy allows us to become greater than the sum of our parts.” my dad died 1.6 years ago and i’m so so so messed up and processing—probs forever—i judiciously avoid any media about dads. i never would’ve heard this podcast, but i love (love, love) sarah on You’re Wrong About, & they played the first episode there. not only did this keep me listening (just one moment longer!) the whole time, but it made me cry in the good way, laugh in the pure-happy way, and then write my first-ever review on the podcast app, despite the fact that i love, uncomplicatedly or not, like, 70 other podcasts. very recommended. (hey sarah & alex—just fyi—you’re not at peace with them after death! ack. sorry.💔)

You’ll want to call your dad.
Do you have a dad, are you a dad, do you know a dad? This pod is for you! New dads, bad dads, absent dads. It’s all here. Sarah & Alex take a deep dive into the complex relationships we have with our dads and their diving bell is media. They've touched on an inventive ways to examine dadhood and their repartee is as entertaining as it is insightful and emotionally stimulating.

Great podcast
Just heard the first podcast and will be back for more! I learned so much about Jaws and Dads in film. LOVED IT!

Affecting, Funny, Beautifully Produced
Simply gorgeous, the production/editing and all the original music are amazing, so much so it feels an instantly cohesive whole from the jump. Sarah and Alex’s commentary is far-ranging, way surpassing what I expected from their framing of the podcast’s scope. Yes, of course, there’s a lot of smart thinking about and incisive observations on fathers, fatherhood, and masculinity, but then there are richly sourced deep-dives into film history, into literature and literary parallels, and so much more. Critically, it’s also very, very funny. That part makes everything else work perfectly, as a digestible and manageable whole that, in less capable hands, could have been overwhelmingly heavy. I can’t recommend it enough and I can’t wait to see where this podcast goes from here!

Sarah Marshall Makes Me Happy
I just love the way she expresses herself and makes her points about the topic. Thoughtful, considered, smart, funny, just my favorite podcaster

Jaws!
I too have had a major crush on Captain Brody all my life! I found my tribe! 🦈🙌🏻

Thank you!
Thank you Sarah for more content! I adore you!

Can’t wait for next episode
Smart, thoughtful, frank, and beautifully produced. I love the music and the informative asides. The show offers sound correlations between the film, the hosts’ lives and the greater human experience with humor, honesty and, ultimately, compassion. What a treat.

Please do Men, Women, and Children
It’s such a weird movie and I would love Sarah’s take on it

So Necessary, Thank You!
I’m a huge Sarah Marshall and I’m excited to get to know Alex! I’m someone who grew up with a single mom and only distantly remembers his dad personally but has much second person information about him. So amped about this show. One movie I’d love to hear you process would be My Neighbor Totoro, perhaps both the sub and dub to glean what you can across their differences. I recently saw it for the first time and felt such a profound joy in seeing the intimacy and kindness Mei and Satsuki’s father demonstrates towards his family. Perhaps you could make comparisons across Miyuzaki/Ghibli films about portrayals of fathers in the dubs, given there are a lot of big name American stars as voice actors if you’re more comfortable focusing the analysis on the American distribution.

We need to talk about the music
The episode content was fantastic. The music was cool at first but then it became too much, too kitschy. I hope this is parked down in future episodes.

Perfect for thoughtful dads like me
If an algorithm worked for 10,000,000 iterations to come up with the perfect podcast for me, this podcast would have been the result.

Beautifully produced
I run the risk of being biased, but Kendrick’s audio production—and her musical contribution—is absolutely lovely.

Love this!!
I really do!!