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Big Mood, Little Mood: Familiar Fraud

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes back Ben Gullard, an artist living in Brooklyn who designs exhibits for children's science museums.  Lavery and Gullard offer advice to someone who is wondering how to handle a parent who forged his signature to get student loans. Another letter writer is fed up with the mother of her daughter’s friend, who is always dropping off the friend’s siblings for an “emergency” babysitting situation. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Just a reminder that big mood, little mood with Daniel M. Laverie happens twice a week.

0:04.1

Slate Plus members get an additional mini episode or Little Big Mood every Friday.

0:09.0

Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and the move,

0:23.0

the move, in the move, in the move,

0:25.0

in the move, in the move,

0:28.0

in the move, in the world. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I am your host Danny and

0:37.5

Laverie and with me again this week in the studio is Ben Gullard, my favorite person.

0:43.7

We used to go to Wendy's all the time in high school,

0:46.0

and he's back to help me tell people what they should do with their lives.

0:48.9

Ben, great to see you.

0:50.1

It's good to see you, too, Danny.

0:51.5

It's terrific.

0:52.4

How you doing? How you been since the last time I saw you?

0:54.4

Good. Yeah, relaxed. Daylight savings time.

0:58.0

Oof. But you're looking...

1:00.5

What can you do?

1:01.5

Limber, you're looking supple, you can't do anything they just sometimes tell you the clock is different and you just have to roll with it

1:09.0

so our first question we are so not qualified to answer I just I guess I want to start with that. It's one of those things that's like I know parents can technically commit fraud by like taking out loans in their minor children's name and then like saddling their

1:25.2

kids with it. I don't know the ins and outs of it. It sounds awful, it sounds to Kensian.

1:29.9

It's probably the kind of thing where our answer is going to boil down to go see a lawyer.

1:35.0

So I'll just start by saying go see a lawyer.

1:38.0

We're just going to be talking about the sort of general principles and emotional

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