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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

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Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Julia Mounsey, a director and writer whose work has been presented at Under the Radar at the Public Theater, Soho Rep, JACK, Dixon Place, and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Lavery and Mounsey offer advice to someone who is wondering if they should honor their mother’s request to keep their abusive upbringing a secret. Another letter writer is wondering how to help a friend who is always getting in relationships that keep him unhappy. Plus, a listener's response to the letter “Grandma McGruff”. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a reminder that BigMood, LittleMood with Daniel M. Lavery, happens twice a week.
0:04.1	Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or LittleBigMood every Friday.
0:09.0	Sign up now to listen at slate.com-mood.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome back to BigMood LittleMood. I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio
0:39.4	this week, literally in the studio this week, it's very exciting. It's Julia Mountsy, a director and writer,
0:44.5	whose work is going to involve saying so much German, and I'm going to give it my best.
0:49.0	Her work has been presented at Under the Radar at the Public Theater, Soho Rap, Jack Dixon Place,
0:54.4	the Radical Young Festival at the Munich Volks Theater, and the Deutsche Schauspiel House in Hamburg.
1:00.6	Nailed it. I should have said Hamburg at the end. I didn't make the discount, the dismount quite, but
1:06.1	cool, isn't it? I'm just excited that you're here. I'm proud that you're here. I feel good that I
1:09.9	spoke so much German just now. I'm glad that you weren't part of the, I guess, moderate young festival.
1:16.0	No, I'm Radical, and I'm young. Technically. I appreciate that. I also want our listeners to know
1:22.0	if I sound different today. It's because I'm wearing a thumb ring. I don't usually do that, and I
1:26.6	feel like it's going to, it's going to add something to the advice. I just want you to know today,
1:31.0	if this is your letter that we're answering, you are going to be getting advice from one person
1:35.0	wearing a thumb ring. And that really, what's it going to do? It's going to make you more forceful,
1:38.7	more authoritative. It's like a certain kind of like really wonderfully gross guy that I love,
1:44.8	who's like maybe adjacent to like beach comar culture. It's very, you're sort of like outing
1:48.8	yourself as being from California. It is. I don't always do this. Like I don't often bust out.
1:54.0	I have a bunch of like fucked up guy rings that I only wear when I'm really like feeling myself.
1:59.2	Totally. And it really, it changes the way that I walk. I think the minute weight of a thumb ring
2:04.0	changes your whole gate. You're leaning over. You're mostly leaning to one side. You're mostly
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