Change the Subject or Change Your Life
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Sequoia B. Holmes, host and creator of the pop culture podcast Black People Love Paramore.
Lavery and Holmes offer advice to someone who is tired of her friend complaining about her ailments. Another letter writer is starting to wonder why their partner is with them. Plus, the story behind Black People Love Paramore, and a pro tip on how to keep your cereal crunchy.
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm your host, Danny Ann Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is my guest, Sequo B. Holmes, |
| 0:45.3 | the host and creator of the pop culture podcast, Black People of Paramour. |
| 0:50.0 | Sequoia, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:53.8 | I am so, so glad that you're |
| 0:55.5 | here. I'm very excited to talk about your show, which is a doubly charming title. And I also |
| 1:02.1 | enjoy the musical effects of Paramore. So I'm looking forward to that part of it too. Nice. We love |
| 1:07.3 | the musical musings of Paramore. I said musical effects and was sort of struggling for my |
| 1:11.5 | words. I should preface this by saying, I got back from a work trip to Australia the night before |
| 1:17.7 | last and I woke up this morning at 3.45 and I did not go back to sleep afterwards. So I'm a little bit |
| 1:24.8 | like infected by Southern Hemisphere time still. |
| 1:29.8 | And that is going to be haunting me today as I try to, like, struggle to give people advice and remember where I am. |
| 1:35.7 | The last two days, all I've been doing is saying things like, where did I put down my AirPods? |
| 1:39.3 | I just had them in my hand a second ago and struggling to remember words. |
| 1:42.9 | So that's where I'm at right now. |
| 1:44.6 | Brutal. Totally feel you. I mean, it's great. It was my first big trip in a really long time, |
| 1:50.7 | and it was really fun to get to be there, and I had a wonderful time. But yeah, I am just |
| 1:56.2 | mentally and spiritually on the moon. Nice. I like the moon. It's a nice place. |
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