Parental Blind Spot
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Ben Gullard, an artist living in Brooklyn who designs exhibits for children's science museums.
Lavery and Gullard offer advice to someone who doesn’t understand why his partner can’t see that their parents are abusive. Another letter writer is butting heads with her boyfriend’s sister.
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 1:11.0 | Happy shopping. Hello and welcome back to big mood, little mood with me in the studio this week is Ben Gullard, an artist living in Brooklyn who designs exhibits for children's science museums. |
| 1:14.2 | He's also my oldest and best friend in the world. Ben Gellard, welcome to the show. |
| 1:19.1 | Thanks for having me. I want you to know that this is how I found out what your job is. |
| 1:22.9 | I figured. Yeah. That's really cool. |
| 1:27.8 | Because it changes a lot and also you're the type of person that, you know. |
| 1:29.3 | I forget things. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.5 | I forget things like, what is my oldest and best friends in the world? |
| 1:33.1 | It's a job. |
| 1:34.5 | But, you know, it doesn't matter. |
| 1:34.9 | No. |
| 1:36.2 | You used to work for art. |
| 1:37.1 | I did. |
| 1:38.1 | Then you lived upstate. |
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