Rules of Estrangement
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Marie Manner, a research and development data scientist.
Lavery and Manner take on two letters. First, from someone who is wondering if it’s okay she doesn’t have a big reason to cut her father from her life. Another letter writer is wondering if she should pursue a long-time crush.
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. 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 atood, Little Mood. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm your host, Danny Lavery. |
| 0:41.6 | And with me in the studio this week is Marie Manor, who works as a research and development data scientist and enjoys mentoring, volunteering, and teaching in STEM. |
| 0:50.1 | Marie, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.5 | Thank you very much, Danny. |
| 0:52.4 | It is an absolute pleasure to be here. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm so glad. I also really appreciated your immediate reply after I sent you the questions, which was, |
| 1:00.6 | there's nothing about data in here. And I'm truly sorry. I tried as hard as I could, but no one had any |
| 1:06.9 | data-related problems. I have been ready while I'm reading these questions to work in some |
| 1:11.3 | kind of graphing or data-related anything, but I'm kind of coming up empty. So that's a bummer, |
| 1:17.4 | but maybe more interesting for everybody else that is not me. I mean, I'm just going to maybe |
| 1:21.6 | keep you on call now in case I get a future question. I'm here for it. I'll just say, |
| 1:26.8 | like, do you think graphing would help? The answer is probably yes. I always think that graphing would help. There's nothing like a good graph. Lots of colors, dots. Do you have like a general, like, kind of catch-all advice for people who might want to incorporate more graphs into their life? Like, where would you recommend that they start? Like, obviously, my thought first goes to chore wheels, but... |
| 1:47.6 | As a human without kids, I have no idea if that would help things. I don't know. I've never |
| 1:53.4 | done a chore wheel in my life, so maybe. I never have either, or at least not since I was myself a |
| 1:58.7 | child, but I feel like you do occasionally hear that from people with like sort of contentious roommate relationships maybe where no one's just |
| 2:05.5 | sort of like pitching in and doing their share and everyone's sort of begrudgingly staring at the sink, |
| 2:10.6 | counting up how many dishes everyone else has contributed. I mean, I'm definitely guilty of that, |
| 2:16.2 | but it's kind of an easy fix. You just put them in the dishwasher. |
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