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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting slate's parenting

podcast for Thursday December 17th the Dan Goes to the Mall edition I'm

Allison Benedict and editor at slate and the mom of Harry Seven, Sam Four, and Wally

2.

I'm Dan Coise.

I'm also an editor at Slate and I am the dad of Lyra who is 10 and Harper who is 8.

And we're both in the New York studio looking at each other.

So weird, very weird.

And Dan is sitting. Normally he stands, but he's sitting.

I couldn't make the printers work, so I had to bring my laptop into the studio and I didn't

want to hold a laptop the whole time.

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