Praise with No Raise
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Jackie Keliiaa, a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in Oakland, California. She currently produces Good Medicine, a live comedy show featuring all Native comedians.
Lavery and Keliiaa tackle two letters. First, from someone wondering about polyamorous etiquette, relative to his partner’s partner’s partner. Another letter writer is wondering if he should cut his losses with his employer, or stick with them through a potentially profitable transition. Plus, an update on the letter, “Which Friends? What Benefits?”
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| 0:48.3 | That's slate. I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Jackie Kelly E. A |
| 1:20.5 | a stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in Oakland, California. She currently produces Good Medicine, |
| 1:25.7 | a live comedy show featuring all native comedians that travels around the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 1:30.8 | Jackie, welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.1 | Hello, Danny. So happy to be here. |
| 1:34.5 | I am so happy that you're here. |
| 1:36.6 | And I'm so happy that when I joined this call, you were in the middle of learning something new and exciting about my producer, Phil, who is such a glorious enigma in my life. |
| 1:46.9 | I know some things about him, but I did not know that he had never seen the movie Titanic. |
| 1:51.5 | I know. It's such a foundational piece. |
| 1:53.4 | And I don't know how it came up for the two of you because you were just getting set up for the show, I thought. |
| 1:57.9 | We were singing a song together. Danny was in the line. And then I was like, remember that scene when they're all dancing and they're doing like a jig like down below and the quote unquote worker supporters? Vividly. Yes, right? You remember that scene where they're holding hands and, you know, but he had no concept. And he doesn't even know who the king of the world is and like what that line is because he's never seen the movie. |
| 2:20.6 | I had assumed that you two were talking about the career of Billy Zane. |
| 2:24.6 | And that was how it had come up. |
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