Searching For Atticus

In "Light of My Life," Dad and Rag go to great lengths to conceal the fact that she's a girl - even though in private, she strongly identifies as one. That got Blake thinking about a couple of friends who are parenting children whose gender identity is different from their sex, so he called up one of those dads ("Steve") to talk about his daughter ("Anna"). In this podcast, we changed the family's names and altered Steve's voice to protect their privacy.

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Casey Affleck stars as man trying to keep his 11 year-old daughter safe about a decade after a pandemic kills more than 90 percent of the women on the planet. It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate movie for the moment. In this episode, we talk about the power of made-up bedtime stories and debate the ethics of saying “Because I said so.”  We ask what knowledge and ideas are too much for us to share with our kids, and discover the answer to the question “How long should a woman’s legs be?”  We examine the challenge of accepting your children’s love and support in hard times - when you think it’s your job to be the strong one. As always, we wrap up by placing this dad on a sliding scale somewhere between Darth Vader and Atticus Finch.

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Here's a bonus bit of our conversation about the movie Taken, starring Liam Neeson. Watching Neeson's character Bryan go to extremes to rescue his daughter Kim appeals to the protective instinct that's present in a lot of us dads. 
In this clip, Blake, Kofi and Rich start out asking "Just how protective should dads be?" We may fantasize about intimidating boyfriends, but are there other tools we can use to keep our daughters safe? Just how should we employ our own "very particular set of skills?"
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Liam Neeson in what for many is a career-defining role: playing a retired special ops agent and divorced dad who employs a “very particular set of skills” when his teenaged daughter is kidnapped by sex traffickers. It’s the first of a trio of blockbuster movies, featuring plenty of revenge and violence. Beyond the action, there are some compelling questions: Why do guys like Neeson’s kick-ass dad character so much? Is his daughter Kim more worthy of rescue because she’s a virgin? And in an alternate universe, would our pal Blake really end married to   Famke Janssen?

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From time to time, we'll post a bonus feature. Sometimes it will be a portion of our conversation that didn't quite fit into the main podcast. Sometimes it will be an interview with someone who shares experience or expertise well beyond our own. Sometimes it will be a reflection on something that's been eating at one of us since we recorded our chat. Today, Rich reflects on the importance of contrition and the power it has to improve all sorts of relationships.

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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in a ridiculous NASCAR spoof that provokes some surprisingly profound questions, such as:
Where’s the line between spirited little boy and angry young man? Can a friendship be a friendship if you give more than you get? Can an absent dad work his way back into a child’s life, even with only one thing to offer? And of course, when you say grace, do you pray to the grown-up Jesus, or “Little Baby Jesus?”
Hop in the driver’s side window and take a ride as we laugh and chat, wrapping it all up by rating Ricky Bobby, Cal Naughton Jr., Jean Girard and Reese Bobby. Who’s closer to Darth Vader? And is anyone come close to Atticus Finch?

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Will Smith and his son Jaden star in the inspiring real-life story of Chris Gardner, who went from being a homeless single father to a successful stockbroker in the early 1980s. It’s a story close to Kofi’s heart – having spent part of his childhood relying on shelters and food banks. Will spends much of this movie running, so we debate what he’s chasing and whether the chase serves as a metaphor.  We talk about loneliness, faith in your dreams, and the power of affirmation from your five year-old child.  And we introduce the Finch-O-Meter: our scale for rating the men and the dads in each film we’ll watch. 

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Blake, Kofi and Rich are three guys who grew up without fathers in their lives. That’s put us all on a quest to better understand what it means to be a dad and a man.

On each podcast, we watch a movie and discuss how its characters and themes relate to our own experiences as fathers, husbands and friends.

The films we discuss cover all genres: from heart-racing action to heart-breaking drama, from nail-biting suspense to gut-busting comedy.

 Yeah, we hit on some heavy stuff. We talk about our fears and failures, the mistakes we’ve made and the ways in which we try to make things right. But we also laugh – a lot.

There’s a new episode every other Friday. If you’re a father, a son or a brother – or if you know someone who is – give us a listen. 

If you like what you hear, please subscribe and write a review. For comments, follow the Searching for Atticus podcast Facebook page or ‘searchingforatticus’ on Instagram. 

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