Episode 563: The Only Thing Gelatinous Cubes Fear is a Trip to Target with a 3-Year-Old, with Shelly Mazzanoble

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

You enter the main chamber of the Cave of Woe (aka Target) and your Level 1 Fighter child starts screaming. Roll a d20 with disadvantage to see if you have a breakdown! Shelly Mazzanoble, author of How to Dungeon Master Parenting: A Guidebook for Gamifying the Child-Rearing Quest, Leveling Up Your Skills, and Raising Future Adventurers, joins Biz's party to talk monster faces, Stephs Curry and Furry, and the family treasure of playing Dungeons & Dragons together.

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0:00.0	This is Biz, and this is the final season of One Bad Mother.
0:04.6	So join us this last year as we remember to judge less, laugh more, and celebrate all the OBMs who have been on this journey with us.
0:14.1	This is still a show about life after giving life.
0:17.6	And yes, there will be swears.
0:20.5	This is One Bad Mother.
0:26.2	This week on One Bad Mother, the only thing gelatinous Cube's fear is a trip to Target with a
0:32.7	three-year-old. I speak with Shelley Mazinobel about her new book, How to Dungeon Master Parenting.
0:40.4	Welcome, Shelly.
0:43.5	Yay, thank you.
0:46.3	I never get to use a gelatinous cube reference.
0:49.6	And I want you to know.
0:51.4	You've been holding on to that one. Well, I actually actually have a hilarious, why I think hilarious question,
0:56.3	but before we get into that, two things. One, I want everybody to know a little more about you,
1:01.5	and that is that you, Shelley, are also the co-author of Welcome to Dragon Talk,
1:08.1	inspiring conversations about Dungeons and Dragons and the people who love to play it.
1:13.4	Also, when not writing about her life as a part-time sorceress, she also writes about parenting
1:20.2	reality TV and the humorous side of middle-aged life in her weekly substack, middle-aged
1:26.7	lady mom.
1:28.1	Those are, that sounds like a costume waiting to happen.
1:31.2	She lives in Seattle, Washington.
1:32.8	She also co-hosted the very popular podcast, Dragon Talk, and official Dungeons and
1:38.1	Dragons podcast.
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