Good Riddance 2020 Edition

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Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On this week’s episode: Our favorite Plus segments of 2020. We’ve got some funny stories about odes to neighborhood racoons and barfing kids. We’ve got therapeutic screams into the void. We also have important segments on colorism, racism, and equity and how the pandemic is impacting the adoption system. If you like what you hear on the show, sign up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. In Slate Plus: We have a bonus behind-the-scenes clip of Jamilah trying to determine how devastated Dan will be about Eddie Van Halen passing. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. Tune in to The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show hosted by Jamilah. Watch it on Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.5	Welcome to Momma Data Fighting.
0:06.8	Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, December 31st,
0:10.1	the Good Riddance 2020 edition.
0:12.3	Hey, welcome everyone, I'm Dan Coise.
0:14.0	I'm a writer at Slate.
0:15.0	I'm the author of the book, How to Be a Family.
0:16.6	I'm the Dan of Harper, who's 13 and Lyra, who's 15.
0:20.0	And I'm welcoming you to our clip show.
0:23.2	That's right, in the long and proud tradition
0:25.2	of network sitcoms, burning off an episode
0:28.7	with a collection of clips from the years past.
0:32.0	We're doing the exact same thing because it's the holidays
0:34.3	and we're all with our families.
0:35.7	And we want to make sure you have something to listen to,
0:38.5	but we don't want to abandon our families to do it.
0:40.7	So today on the show, we are going to steal
0:42.9	that classic holiday format to give you a chance
0:45.9	to hear a compilation of all the great Slate plus segments
0:48.8	that we've run over the course of the year.
0:51.2	Think of this as a way to peek behind the curtain
0:53.8	at what it is Slate plus members get all the time.
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