Into the Unknown
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Dan and guest host Ezekiel answer listener questions from a mom whose ex-husband’s abrupt move may upend her living arrangements. And the hosts strategize how they’ll survive Elsa’s new big song in Frozen 2 with Slate’s Ruth Graham. For Slate Plus, the hosts advise parents on how to talk to kids about big social issues, like climate change and racism. Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends improving with your kids, which is fun and free.
Ezekiel recommends The Lorax movie - the 1972 version only.
Dan recommends The Authority, a new podcast where Dan and Slate’s Laura Miller break down His Dark Materials.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
Hosts
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.
Ezekiel Kweku is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s also a politics editor at New York Magazine‘s Daily Intelligencer.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 7th, the Into the Unknown edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column and mother to Naima, who's six, and we live in Englewood, California. Hey, I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer and editor at Slate. I'm the author of How to Be a Family, and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 12. We live in Arlington, Virginia. My name is Ezekiel Kwe. I'm politics editor at New York Magazine and father to James, who's too, and I have |
| 0:38.4 | another boy on the way who's due on Thanksgiving. I live with my wife in Oakland. |
| 0:43.7 | Holy shit. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Um, does your other child live with you too, or |
| 0:49.8 | I'm just saying. We all live together in Oakland, yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | We all live together. |
| 0:56.3 | That's good. |
| 0:56.9 | I was hoping you all weren't having issues |
| 0:58.9 | because two can be quite terrible, |
| 1:01.1 | I've heard. |
| 1:02.4 | But we're so excited to have you. |
| 1:04.2 | I salute everyone who is a repeat customer |
| 1:06.8 | at the baby store. |
| 1:07.9 | I don't know if I'm built for it, |
| 1:09.5 | but I'm excited to hear to hear more about |
| 1:14.0 | some of your experiences with all those children. Today on the show, we've got a question from a mom |
| 1:18.5 | who's contemplating a move to make sure that her children can be near their father. I so can relate. |
| 1:25.7 | And we're joined by Slate writer Ruth Graham later on the program who's going to talk about her impending sense of dread about Frozen 2. |
| 1:34.6 | Whomst amongst us does not have an impending sense of dread about Frozen 2. |
| 1:39.7 | Are we going to be stuck with another let it go style earworm or should we just allow our kids to indulge themselves in those terribly pleasant songs? |
| 1:50.6 | Who's to say? |
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