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Big Mood, Little Mood: Unfair Will

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Ash Sky Keen, a mathematics tutor helping neurodivergent students navigate math education. Lavery and Keen tackle two letters. First, from someone who wants their parents to recalculate their will to adjust for monetary assistance their sibling already received. A second letter writer is waiting for a friend’s apology, and fearing it will never come. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: [email protected] 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

The monopoly game is back at McDonald's, and guess what? It's still twice as nice, because

0:04.6

with double peel, you can peel on pack. Then peel again on the McDonald's app, to when

0:08.8

prizes like, brand new mini-electrics, lovely McDonald's food, HP-ONMEN gaming laptops,

0:14.4

to be holiday vouchers, a thousand pounds in cash, plus tons of other incredible prizes.

0:19.3

18 plus UK only selected items, subjects of serving times and availability, and 17th

0:26.0

October. Game plan, prize claims, may require McDonald's app, seem at the rules.co.uk.

0:30.0

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

0:34.2

Sleep plus members get an additional, mini episode, or little big mood, every Friday.

0:39.1

Sign up now to listen at slate.com-slash-mood.

0:56.0

Hello, and welcome back to Big Mood, little mood on your host, Daniel Lavery, and with

1:07.8

me in the studio this week is Ash Skyking, and Tutor's Mathematics from Home with their

1:11.9

two-year-old child. They love community organizing, and helping neurodivergent students navigate

1:16.8

math. Ash, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me here, Daniel.

1:21.5

Thank you for briefly teaching me what an algorithm is. How involved would you say on

1:25.5

a scale of 1 to 10 is your two-year-old in tutoring people on math? Is it like you use the kid

1:31.7

to illustrate principles of math, or is it just like they're there? It really varies from day to day.

1:36.8

Sometimes I will have her watching a Netflix show while I'm hiding in the corner trying to focus

1:42.6

on my work, but sometimes she'll be right in my lap and participating in the conversation, and

1:48.1

honestly, we've been doing that together since she was six weeks old, and I came back from

1:52.6

parental leave. She would just be in my arms while I would be working on the whiteboard on Zoom.

1:57.8

In fall 2020, that has been, she was born, so she's been with me the whole time.

2:02.3

Beautiful. I'm excited because basically our first question is a math problem.

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