Interview: Daniel Mallory Ortberg on 'Something That May Shock and Discredit You'

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🗓️ 10 March 2020

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Daniel Mallory Ortberg is the writer behind Slate's Dear Prudence advice column. But now in his new book, Something That May Shock and Discredit You, Ortberg writes about something closer to home: his journey of transition from Mallory to Daniel. He talks to Sam about his relationship with religion, the power of self-knowledge and being able to fully own who you are.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is LA.
0:01.3	Hey, this is Danny.
0:03.0	Hi.
0:03.7	How you doing?
0:04.8	I'm good, how are you?
0:05.5	Sometime during our child, my guest today,
0:08.2	the writer of Daniel Malloy Orberg,
0:10.5	Daniel and I got on the subject of religion and God
0:13.8	and growing up in the church.
0:15.5	And how the Bible, if you think about it,
0:18.5	is full of stories of transition,
0:21.8	which is something that Daniel can relate to
0:24.7	because Daniel is trans, and Daniel just recently
0:27.3	went through a gender transition.
0:29.6	So that taught prompted a question.
0:32.1	Which of those Bible figures and Bible stories
0:34.5	you wrote about would have the easiest transition
0:38.5	in which would have the hardest?
0:39.8	Ha, ha, ha, ha.
0:41.7	Oh my gosh, I have no idea.
0:44.0	I have no idea.
0:45.0	I kind of love that, and I'm also kind of horrified by it.
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