Good Riddance 2020 Edition
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting podcast for Thursday, December 31st, the Good Riddins 2020 edition. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey, welcome, everyone. I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm the dad of Harper, who's 13, and Lyra, who's 15. And I'm welcoming you to our clip show. |
| 0:23.2 | That's right, in the long and proud tradition of network sitcoms, |
| 0:27.0 | burning off an episode with a collection of clips from the years past. |
| 0:31.9 | We're doing the exact same thing because it's the holidays and we're all with our families. |
| 0:35.8 | And we want to make sure you have something to listen to, but we don't want to abandon our families to do it. So today on the show, we are going to steal that classic holiday format to give you a chance to hear a compilation of all the great Slate Plus segments that we've run over the course of the year. Think of this as a way to peek behind the curtain at what it is Slate Plus members get all the |
| 0:56.3 | time. And if you like what you hear, you could consider signing up for Slate Plus. It's only $35 for the first |
| 1:03.5 | year. Slate.com slash mom and dad plus. And if you are a plus listener, first of all, thank you. We love you |
| 1:09.9 | more than the other listeners. I just |
| 1:11.5 | hate to say it, but it's true. Your support really makes the show possible. So enjoy the show as a |
| 1:17.6 | reminder of stuff you've already heard, but also we have a separate never before heard plus |
| 1:24.0 | segment just for you, an incredible moment captured live during a taping that we |
| 1:30.3 | have never forgotten. |
| 1:31.3 | So you will enjoy that. |
| 1:33.0 | Enjoy everyone. |
| 1:34.0 | And thanks for listening to Mom and Dad are Fighting in 2020, the worst year. |
| 1:38.7 | Beloved former Mom and Dad are Fighting co-host, Alison Benedict, here today with a wild story |
| 1:44.0 | that involves a shower |
| 1:45.6 | ode to a neighborhood critter and also a call to the feds. All right, Allison, take us back to the |
| 1:53.3 | beginning. All of a sudden on Slack, a couple days ago, we receive a very excited message from you |
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