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Mom and Dad: Into The Unknown

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Everlane. Check out your personalized collection today at everlane.com/momanddad.  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.  Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.  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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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No one knows your Ix or top picks like your friends.

0:04.0

That's why Tinder has launched its new Tinder Matchmaker feature,

0:07.5

where you can invite friends to help find your next Tinder date.

0:11.0

Looks a little too much like your ex? Nope, profile full of fishing picks. Big no. Has good taste in podcasts?

0:20.0

Okay, this could work. The group chat just got a whole lot more interesting.

0:25.6

Get on Tinder and find the new Tinder Matchmaker feature today.

0:29.2

The following podcast contains explicit language. The Into the Unknown Edition.

0:33.0

I'm

0:35.0

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

0:38.0

Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 7th, The Into the Unknown Edition.

0:43.4

I'm Jimmy Lillemue, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mother to

0:48.8

Naima, who's 6th and we live in Inglewood, California.

0:52.1

Hey, I'm Dan Coise.

0:53.0

I'm a writer and editor at Slate.

0:55.0

I'm the author of How to Be a Family,

0:57.0

and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper who's 12,

1:01.0

we live in Arlington, Virginia.

1:02.0

My name is Ezekiel Quaiku.

1:04.0

I'm politics editor at New York Magazine and Father to James, who's two.

1:07.8

And I have another boy on the way who's due on Thanksgiving.

1:11.0

I live with my wife in Oakland.

1:13.0

Holy shit, congratulations.

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