Not the Actual Devil

Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Danny Lavery welcomes Kimi Culp, a multimedia producer, and the host of All the Wiser, a podcast about finding hope and possibility on the other side of pain. Lavery and Culp offer advice to someone who is concerned about the magazine selection in her dentist’s office. Another letter writer is wondering how to deal with a mother-in-law who freaked out up upon discovering her sex toys. Plus, a listener's response to the letter about the daughter taking swimming lessons. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: [email protected] If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Production by Phil Surkis Make an impact this Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund APIA Scholars. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a reminder that Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Levery, happens twice week,
0:04.1	Slate Plus members get an additional, many episode or Little Big Mood, every Friday.
0:09.0	Sign up now to listen at Slate.com slash Mood.
0:30.8	Hello, and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I'm your host, Danny M. Levery.
0:37.6	And with me in the studio this week is Kimmy Culp, a multimedia producer and the host of
0:42.5	all the wiser, a podcast about finding hope and possibility on the other side of pain.
0:47.5	Kimmy, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
0:51.5	I am too. And I think we have kind of a good balance of questions today.
0:55.9	Ideally, nothing so painful that we can't help somebody find their way through to the other
1:00.7	side. But I'm excited to sort of dive into this tapestry of problems this week.
1:06.7	Do you think you have a sense heading in of you feeling optimistic? You think we're going to
1:11.2	be able to solve these problems? I'm feeling optimistic. I am feeling good energy
1:17.2	between the microphones and with everyone listening. Beautiful. Yeah. And it's like a beautiful
1:22.0	summer's day today, which is both delightful and of course deeply worrying. So I'm going to choose
1:27.2	to focus on the nice part and enjoy it. So with all that being said, I will go ahead and read our
1:32.7	first letter. The subject is not the actual devil. What do you do when you're confronted with hate
1:39.8	in a medical office when they're your only option? I'm getting a big dental procedure done that
1:44.9	requires multiple stages over eight months. There's only one small surgery center that my insurance
1:50.0	covers in the procedure is not elective. I went yesterday for my consultation and when I was in
1:54.8	the lobby, I saw a magazine with a cover story about how the transgender movement is evidence of
2:00.4	demonism. There was also an article about recent earthquakes in Turkey being a result of its
2:05.7	citizens not following the right religion. I was honestly shocked. This is a legitimate doctor's
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