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Big Mood, Little Mood: Writer's Block

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Folu Akinkuotu, the creator of Unsnackable, a newsletter about rare and inaccessible snacks around the world. Lavery and Akinkuoto tackle two letters: First, from a letter writer who thinks her boyfriend should save his life and quit his job. Another letter writer is wondering how to talk about weight loss without offending anyone at work. Plus, the story behind Unsnackable. Slate Plus members get another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood every Friday: sign up now! Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com 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 BigMood, LittleMood with Daniel M. Levery, happens twice week,

0:04.1

Slate Plus members get an additional mini episode or LittleBigMood every Friday.

0:09.0

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

0:30.1

Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I'm your host, Danny Levery.

0:38.8

And with me in the studio this week is Falu Akinkuro to the creator of Unsmackable,

0:43.8

a newsletter about rare and inaccessible snacks around the world.

0:48.0

Falu, welcome to the new show. You've been, you and I have given advice before in a previous

0:54.0

incarnation, but this is your first time on the new show. And I'm so thrilled not only that you're

0:59.0

here, but listeners, I wish you could see like the the tortoise shell glasses, the incredible blazer

1:06.6

slash coat. And the way you have your your phone propped up, you look like you were the like 1985

1:14.1

consummate businesswoman just being like got it. I mean that that is a goal, you know, working

1:22.0

working girl or something of that nature. Excuse me. This is the most high-powered snack

1:30.3

reviewer in the tri-state area. Do you know who I am? There's always things to aspire to. So maybe

1:38.2

quad-state area is that a thing? It could be. Let's make it with a good voice there.

1:43.3

Love the idea now of you like leaving a a convenient store. A lot of pretty woman just like,

1:49.0

oh, you don't know, you've just like wronged the greatest snack reviewer of all time. And

1:55.0

I'm sure. Yeah, it's so great to have you here. I am so looking forward to talking about sex.

2:00.9

Have you eaten anything good today? Uh, yeah, I had some Chinese honey butter potato sticks that

2:11.2

look like fries, but they're crunchy. So they're like fancy Andy Caps, like hot fries, but like a

2:21.9

little sweeter and a little thicker. So yeah, they were very good. Every word that you just said

2:28.4

sounded so good. Uh, not least the Andy Caps part because I completely, he's like a it's like a

2:33.8

dag wood thing, right? He was like originally a comics character that later became associated with

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