Lease On Love
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Ethan Casteel, a software engineer and transgender man about town in Somerville, MA.
Lavery and Casteel tackle three letters. First, from someone wondering how to talk to her child about transness. Another letter writer is trying to negotiate solo time away from their partner. A third letter is from someone who feels guilty accepting rent from their boyfriend.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Big Mood. |
| 0:38.7 | Little Mood. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Ethan Castile, |
| 0:43.4 | a software engineer and transgender man about town in Somerville, Massachusetts. |
| 0:47.7 | Ethan, welcome to the show. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, welcome. |
| 0:51.0 | That was silly. |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, I'm being welcomed to you. |
| 0:55.5 | I think that's apt. Welcome to my was silly. I mean, I'm being welcomed to you. I think that's apt. |
| 0:58.5 | Welcome to my childhood bedroom where I am staying. |
| 1:03.5 | That is remarkable. How would you characterize your childhood bedroom in like one phrase? |
| 1:09.2 | It doesn't have much of my old stuff in it. My mom's turned it into her office. |
| 1:11.4 | Beautiful. And it helps me to visualize it perfectly. Then if you are ready and I am ready and you're in your childhood bedroom |
| 1:16.4 | and I'm in the studio, I think we are ready to just dive in and start answering questions. |
| 1:21.7 | I'm kind of excited about the first one because I was slightly on the fence in terms of whether |
| 1:26.1 | or not I thought it was like a genuine, |
| 1:29.3 | slightly naive cis person or possibly somebody who was just trolling and looking to have a little |
| 1:35.0 | bit of a laugh. And I figured either way, this type of person definitely exists. And I'm really |
| 1:40.3 | happy to answer this kind of question. So I will stop editorializing and just read it. |
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