We're three people with dead fathers and an interest in family dynamics, inherited trauma, and understanding our daddy issues through the therapeutic exercise of watching television.
Erin Hosier
Erin Hosier is the author of Don't Let Me Down, a memoir about her relationship with her late father and the music that bonded them, that inspired this series. She is also the coauthor of Hit So Hard by drummer Patty Schemel, and is a literary agent with Dunow Carlson & Lerner, where she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women's history (and untold stories of all kinds). An original co-host of the Literary Death Match, she has never appeared onstage and not pictured her father in the audience.
Matthew Phillp
Matthew Phillp has written about culture for Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, Attitude UK, was Editor-at-Large for DNA Magazine Australia for six years, and he produced and co-hosted the award-winning podcast talk show D List Radio with NYC nightlife promoter, Daniel Nardicio. He's a Lambda Literary Fellow for Fiction. His father died of a heart attack suddenly at age 35—a moment he remembers vividly despite being 3 years old when it happened. From that moment on, his mother refused to allow him and his two younger brothers to eat butter or salt until the mid 90s, which may be why he’s now older than his father ever was.
Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson has worked in media for over a decade, starting her career at the Village Voice. She went on to Paper Magazine and, later, to Condé Nast. Her late father Clay Thompson was a newspaper editor and beloved local columnist in her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona and she aspires to keep following in his footsteps—only without the pack-a-day Parliament Lights habit and frequently disproven conviction that anything can be repaired with duct tape. She misses him every day and hopes he wouldn't be too annoyed by this podcast.