Live From Our Living Rooms Edition
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth taped a live version of the show. If you want to watch the recording of the livestream, you can catch it on Slate’s Facebook and YouTube channel. It was super fun! They answered audience questions live and even had a super special guest, Shasha Léonard, to read the questions. And, as always, they shared triumphs and fails as well as recommendations.
In Slate Plus: They talked with Slate’s Greg Lavallee about his wonderful piece: Why I’m Teaching My Kids That Computers Are Dumb Machines. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends the Aerobie Flying Disk.
Jamilah recommends The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey and Michaela Angela Davis.
Dan recommends supporting student journalism and the film What the Constitution Means to Me.
Additional Recommendations:
The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Oh, hello, I didn't see you there. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to a very special live mom and dad are fighting here at slate.com. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 15, and Harper, who's 13. |
| 0:21.8 | They're currently upstairs in our house in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Jimmy Lillamue. |
| 0:27.7 | I am a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column, |
| 0:32.3 | a host of Slate's absolute bestest, most terrible show in the world, |
| 0:36.6 | the kids are sleep, And mom to Naima, |
| 0:39.0 | who is seven, and we reside in Los Angeles, California. She's in the other room, but she's |
| 0:43.7 | mad at me, so she might not come out of spite because I told her that it would be cute if she did. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver who's six, Teddy who's four. |
| 1:00.7 | They are theoretically in bed, hopefully asleep. |
| 1:04.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:04.6 | Jeff's taking care of it, so we'll see. |
| 1:06.6 | We live in Navar, Florida. |
| 1:08.2 | And for once, there is not a single hurricane headed our way. |
| 1:11.6 | Truly amazing. |
| 1:13.0 | A real October miracle. |
| 1:17.1 | So we're very excited to be doing this live show. |
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