Mask And You Shall Receive
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Bay Ryan, a postgraduate ecologist.
Lavery and Ryan tackle two letters. First, from someone who is frustrated by loved ones who don’t take COVID precautions seriously. Another letter writer feels struggles to say any back after his partner says anything romantic. Plus, the latest on daylight saving time.
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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 and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Bay Ryan. A 26-year-old disabled indigenous NB living in central Waikato, New Zealand, a postgraduate ecologist with a master's on the COVID backburner. He's often a terse advocate for neurodivergency and academia, trans welfare, and learning to do less. Bay, welcome to the show. Loads, lovely to finally be here. I'm so excited. I also love, I don't know that I've ever started off with somebody's exact age, and there's something so charming about the specificity of like, they is 26. He is this many years old. |
| 1:11.9 | I know. |
| 1:12.6 | I didn't, I'm not good at writing bios about myself as anyone. |
| 1:18.2 | So I'm glad you've admitted it. |
| 1:20.7 | And I'm never sure what is important slash non-important information to include. |
| 1:27.9 | What would you say are your other top two shortcomings as a person? |
| 1:31.2 | In no order, just whatever comes to mind, explore the space. |
| 1:34.6 | Doing too much. |
| 1:37.8 | And my terrible sleep schedule. |
| 1:42.5 | Doing too much, bad sleep schedule. That sounds, that sounds fixable. I think we can address that today. Absolutely. Yeah. I think that by the end of this episode, my goal is for you to be almost asleep and doing less than you came in with. Yeah. So I hope everyone listening will help me in just sort of |
| 2:02.7 | like trying to send lullaby vibes to bay throughout the episode. I'm sorry, that sounded like a threat. |
| 2:08.3 | It does, doesn't it? Like a psychic attack trying to cause you to nap. And I don't think that I cultivate |
| 2:14.5 | enough the psychic energies of the people who listen to this show in order to force my guests into altered states. |
| 2:21.1 | And I think that's going to be my new thing in 2023. |
| 2:24.0 | Excellent. Good. |
| 2:25.8 | With that out of the way, I would love to tackle our first letter. |
| 2:30.0 | And if you don't mind, I'll start reading it. |
| 2:32.4 | The subject is breaking point. |
| 2:34.5 | I'm a mid-30s queer person who's been sick for 10 years because of a neuroimmune post-viral |
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