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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for March 3rd, 2016, The

Donna Prump Edition.

I'm Dan Coise.

I'm an editor at Slate and the dad of Harper who's 8 and Lyra who's 10

Allison's gone! It's super Tuesday today as I record this and as Allison is Slate's news

director she is dealing with news.

So I am on my own today, single-dadding it out on mom and dad are fighting or dad is fighting

with himself. I am pretty excited. Those of you who are Dan

Haters might want to tune out because this whole episode is just going to be me

belittling stay-at-home moms and plugging the card game I invented. I'm sure this episode will be fine even without the moderating influence

of Allison Benedict. I'm sure I can handle doing sharp newsy interviews even

without our news director. I'm sure I won't say something so awful

that every listener emails me to complain. This episode is going to be totally fun

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