Life After Scapegoating
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Danielle Moodie, host of the podcast, Woke AF, where she explores the many facets of what it means to be "woke" in our modern life.
Lavery and Moodie take on three letters. First, from a career counselor who wants to keep their students from exploring particular jobs. Another letter writer was scapegoated by his colleagues, but wants his life back. Finally, a letter writer is looking for advice on how to come out as non-binary to their father.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.7 | 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 and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. |
| 0:39.6 | I am your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in the studio. |
| 0:42.5 | This week is Danielle Moody, the host of the podcast, Woke AF, where she explores the many facets of what it means to be, quote, unquote, woke in modern life. |
| 0:49.8 | Danielle, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.4 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm so looking forward to this. We have a real, like, series of doozies today. I'm very, very excited. Yeah, they're all my favorite. They're all just, they will take us places. How are you? How's your week going? How's your day going? You know, my week is going well. I feel |
| 1:13.2 | like I am swimming in quicksand. I think it's because the earth is spinning faster. I don't know if |
| 1:19.5 | you got that memo a couple of months ago. And yeah, we're just racing towards the end of the |
| 1:25.1 | year. Because it's fall or like just as a general... |
| 1:28.5 | No, because, yeah, climate change. |
| 1:30.6 | Apparently we have, you know, altered our atmosphere. |
| 1:34.6 | No big deal. |
| 1:35.8 | And that makes it spin faster? |
| 1:37.8 | Yeah, correct. |
| 1:38.9 | Well? |
| 1:40.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.5 | So when you're feeling out of control, just know that you're not crazy. |
| 1:45.3 | I just want you to know that I googled that as soon as you said it. |
| 1:49.0 | And the first thing that showed up was a link from NPR and it said, |
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