Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Good Enough Friends
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Dan Kois, former Mom and Dad are Fighting co-host, delivers an essay called Good Enough Friends. The piece explores the evolution of teenage friendship, online connections, and the awkward beauty of not being able to mute yourself IRL.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Tim Heidecker, you know me, Tim and Eric Bridesmaids, and Fantastic Four. |
| 0:05.0 | I'd like to personally invite you to listen to Office Hours Live with me and my co-hosts DJ Doug Pound. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.0 | And Vic Berger. |
| 0:13.0 | Howdy. |
| 0:14.0 | Every week we bring you laugh fun games and lots of other surprises. |
| 0:16.0 | It's live. |
| 0:17.0 | We take your Zoom calls. |
| 0:18.0 | We love having fun. |
| 0:19.0 | Excuse me? |
| 0:20.0 | That song. |
| 0:21.0 | Vic said something. |
| 0:22.0 | It's a song. |
| 0:23.0 | I like having fun. |
| 0:24.0 | I like to laugh. |
| 0:26.0 | I like to meet people who can make me laugh. |
| 0:29.0 | Please subscribe. |
| 0:31.0 | No. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Jamila Mew. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm a writer and contributor to Slate's Care and Feeding Parenting College. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Mom Tanayima, who is 10 and we live in LA. |
| 1:09.0 | Today on the show we're going to be exploring teenage friendship and how it has, or maybe hasn't changed over the years. |
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