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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Emma Gray, author of A Girls’ Guide To Joining The Resistance, and Claire Fallon, a culture critic based in New York. Together, Gray and Fallon host the podcast, Love To See It, a snarky but affectionate dissection of dating reality shows Lavery and Gray and Fallon offer advice to someone who is trying to cope with racist coworkers. Another letter writer is concerned about a surgical decision they made when their child was born. Plus, a listener wrote in offering a folksy expression from her Grandmother’s diary from college. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: [email protected] If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Production by Phil Surkis This Pride Month, make an impact by helping Macy’s and The Trevor Project on their mission to fund life-saving suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a reminder that Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery, happens twice a week.
0:04.1	Slate Plus members get an additional, many episodes or Little Big Mood every Friday.
0:09.0	Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.
0:36.3	I'm your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in the studio this week are two guests.
0:40.8	Emma Gray, a webby-nominated podcaster and author of a Girls Guide to Joining the Resistance,
0:46.4	a primer-on-young limited activism, and Claire Fallon, also a webby-nominated podcaster and culture
0:52.0	critic based in New York. Together, they host the podcast Love to See It, a snarky but affectionate
0:58.2	to section of Dating Reality Shows. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having us.
1:03.2	You're excited to be here. I am excited as well and I can hear the name of your show just like
1:10.1	in my head, just like love to see it. We're going to start saying it that way.
1:15.6	I hope so. I hope we just end up like drooling the entire answers that we deliver.
1:21.6	Do you focus on any shows in particular? Is it just like any and all our fair game? Do you have
1:26.2	favorites? Well, we started with the Bachelor. We've been doing this since 2015.
1:32.6	So we started just focusing on the Bachelor and then in the years since, you know, for our own
1:38.6	sanity and the fact that there's just so many reality dating shows kind of in the zeitgeist
1:44.1	now. We've expanded it. We talk about love is blind. We talk about the ultimatum. We talk about
1:51.2	shows like farmer wants a wife. We kind of let ourselves dive into any and all reality romance and also
2:00.4	romantic narratives in like movies and books. Yeah. Right now we're recapping and discussing
2:06.8	classic romcom set in high schools and teenage romcoms, which we're having fun with during
2:14.8	the Bachelor hiatus. So yeah, the Bachelor is kind of our home base, but when we can venture a
2:21.8	field, that's usually a treat for us at this point. Well, if you guys ever decide to end up doing
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