Familiar Fraud
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes back Ben Gullard, an artist living in Brooklyn who designs exhibits for children's science museums.
Lavery and Gullard offer advice to someone who is wondering how to handle a parent who forged his signature to get student loans. Another letter writer is fed up with the mother of her daughter’s friend, who is always dropping off the friend’s siblings for an “emergency” babysitting situation.
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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 big mood little mood. I'm your host, Danny and Lavery. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm your host, Danny and Lavery, and with me again this week in the studio is Ben Gullard, my favorite person. |
| 0:47.2 | We used to go to Wendy's all the time in high school, and he's back to help me tell people what they should do with their lives. |
| 0:52.6 | Ben, great to see you. |
| 0:53.7 | It's good to see |
| 0:54.3 | you too, Danny. It's terrific. How you doing? How you been since the last time I saw you? Good. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, relaxed. Daily savings time. Oof. But what can you do? Limber, you're looking supple. You |
| 1:06.5 | can't do anything. They just sometimes tell you the clock is different and you just have to roll with it. |
| 1:12.5 | So our first question, we are so not qualified to answer. I guess I want to start with that. It's one of those things that's like, I know parents can technically commit fraud by like taking out loans in their minor children's name and then like saddling their kids with it. |
| 1:30.0 | I don't know the ins and outs of it. |
| 1:31.6 | Right. |
| 1:31.7 | It sounds awful. |
| 1:32.5 | It sounds Dickensian. |
| 1:34.0 | It's probably the kind of thing where our answer is going to boil down to go see a lawyer. |
| 1:38.3 | So I'll just start by saying, go see a lawyer. |
| 1:41.4 | We're just going to be talking about the sort of general principles and emotional entanglements, |
| 1:46.1 | but I cannot stress this enough. |
| 1:49.1 | No one should ever, ever ask me for advice about loans or money or anything. |
| 1:54.0 | I don't like to look at my bank account. |
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