Not Tonight, Honey
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer, co-hosts of the new podcast series from The Mash-Up Americans titled, Grief, Collected.
Lavery and Choi and Lehrer tackle two letters. First, from a letter writer who is engaged to someone they may be sexually incompatible with. Another letter writer is wondering how to return an ornament to an ex who stalked her during their breakup. Plus, a deep dive into Choi and Lehrer’s new podcast series, Grief, Collected.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon |
| 0:01.9 | Music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big Mood, |
| 0:05.2 | 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. |
| 0:15.4 | Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I am in the studio this week as your host, Danny Lavery. |
| 0:43.2 | And before I introduce you to our guests, I want to mention that in a little over a month, |
| 0:48.0 | Slate will be releasing a Dear Prudence book anthology of my tenure as Dear Prudence. |
| 0:53.4 | That's going to be coming out April 4th, |
| 0:55.5 | and you can pre-order it now or get it at bookstores and places where generally you find books |
| 1:01.4 | in the very near future. So do keep an eye out for that. And then with me in the studio this week |
| 1:06.6 | is Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Ler, the co-founders of the Mash Up Americans. Together, they co-host a new |
| 1:12.8 | podcast series called Grief Collected. With curiosity and empathy as the driving forces, the series |
| 1:19.0 | asks if Americans even know how to grieve. Amy, Rebecca, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you so |
| 1:24.8 | much. We are so, so excited to be here. I'm so looking forward to it as well. And I love the copy for that because it's also like it's a little aggressive. It's like, do you even know how to grieve? What's the matter with you? And I always really, really like that kind of energy. So, well, you know, it's American, right? Make it competitive from the start. Do you know how to grieve, right? |
| 1:47.4 | America's next top mourner. It turns out we may not know. So that's the answer. Well, that's very, very exciting. I don't know that there's lots and lots of grief in today's letters. I feel like I tried |
| 2:02.8 | to keep an eye out, but I'll have you rank me on it at the end of the episode. Also American. |
| 2:08.3 | We love to rank. Yeah. We're going to rank it. Just tell me how I'm doing. Give me a grade. |
| 2:12.6 | Give me some homework. But do you feel ready? Do you feel prepared to tell people how to how to live their |
| 2:17.7 | lives? I mean, we were born ready for this. Ask our spouses. I mean, I would love to now do an |
| 2:27.3 | episode where both of your spouses come on the show. So at the end of this. They're like, my, |
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