Chosen Family First
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Sarah Marshall, and a writer, media critic, and host of the modern history podcast, You’re Wrong About. She is also the co-host of the “feelings podcast about movies” You Are Good with Alex Steed.
Lavery and Marshall take on two letters. First, from someone wanting to approach their neighbor about their barking dogs. Another letter writer is concerned about scaring off a romantic relationship because of their non-traditional chosen family. Plus, Marshall takes us behind the scenes of her two podcasts..
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| 1:13.9 | Okay. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I am your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Sarah Marshall, a writer, media critic, and host of the Modern History Podcast You're Wrong About. |
| 1:17.5 | She's also the co-host of the Feelings podcast about movies. |
| 1:19.6 | You are good with Alex Steed. |
| 1:21.3 | Sarah, welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm so excited for the next hour of my life. |
| 1:32.3 | I am too, not least because I feel like with your own shows, you've got sort of the whole human experience covered. |
| 1:33.6 | Like you're wrong and you're good. |
| 1:35.6 | I know. |
| 1:44.6 | And like I'm such a spreader of that idea of humanity that like you must embrace your weakness because it's there that you are good and I think it's because that's such a hard concept for me and I'm get so stressed out and tough on myself. |
| 1:50.7 | Well, I appreciate both the ways in which those two attitudes are really expansive and the ways in which |
| 1:56.1 | they can keep a listener potentially slightly on their guard like you're wrong, but don't worry, |
| 2:00.3 | I like you. |
| 2:02.0 | And I think either sort of spin on it really works for me. Yeah, it's like podcast career as |
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