00:00Hey, Will, it's Dad. I need the password to get into Outlook. It's not Crabcake69.
00:09This is a story about a dad. Mine.
00:12Wait, are you doing a documentary on me?
00:14A Jewish actor and poet from Brooklyn.
00:16Stop doing it.
00:17When I was little, my dad stopped living with us.
00:20Bye.
00:20We just didn't know what he did when he wasn't being our dad.
00:25Hi, this is Dave Christen for Artbeat.
00:28He had these fursadas that were very charismatic.
00:32He was a hundred different people to everybody.
00:35After his death, I still had unanswered questions about my dad.
00:39And then I found a screenplay he wrote called Groovopolis,
00:43basically about a square businessman called by a greater force to loosen up.
00:47I'm actually more passionate about the new music I found.
00:50I felt the problems I was having in my heart showing me what the same problems were in my real life.
00:55As strong as he was, there were some ways that he was very, very weak.
00:58He was diagnosed bipolar.
01:00He didn't think of the effect on his family.
01:03He wanted to be free.
01:05Of course, that desire for freedom becomes a constraint in itself.
01:10Everybody's dad danced once.
01:11Even yours.
01:12I felt it was now possible to explore things that were always off limits.
01:17We're a family that was kind of split apart.
01:19I want these kids to be filled up so that when they become grown-ups, they can give.
01:23And not be angry and not be hostile.
01:26Was he like that freewheeling character he was writing about at the time?
01:30Had he been transformed on an island in Groovopolis?
01:34I found it!
01:36Without knowing who he was, I didn't know who I was.
01:48Hey mom.
01:49I can't do this.
01:49No, no, no, no, no, no.
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