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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

The Point of It All

Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Inkoo Kang, a TV critic for The Washington Post, and host of the podcast, All About Almodóvar.  Lavery and Kang give advice to a letter writer experiencing job burnout and wondering if she’ll feel hopeless forever. They also take a deep dive with their own experience with job burnout, which somehow leads to a discussion on who was actually wearing wigs on the TV show Mare of Easttown. Slate Plus members get another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood every Friday, sign up now for just $1 for your first month. Email: mood@slate.com Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just a reminder that BigMood, LittleMood with Daniel M. Levery, happens twice 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 slash mood.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood with Danny Levery.

0:37.3

I'm your host, Danny Levery.

0:39.1

With me in the studio this week is Inkyu Kang, a TV critic for the Washington Post,

0:43.4

and host of the all-about element of our podcast.

0:46.8

And you welcome to the show.

0:48.9

Thank you. I only have medium moods, but thank you for inviting me onto this thing.

0:53.5

I feel like that's denoted by BigMood, LittleMood.

0:56.9

It creates room for something in the middle, I think.

1:01.2

Yes, that's where I am.

1:03.0

I mean, I admire that deeply.

1:04.7

I hope to get there myself.

1:06.7

I'm also really excited to have you here.

1:09.9

Not least, because when I was thinking about your podcast,

1:15.4

I thought it's weird that I've never seen Almond Ovar movies.

1:19.6

And I went and I looked up his like filmography.

1:22.4

And I saw a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

1:25.1

And for a second, I had that confused with,

1:29.2

what's that John Casavetti's movie?

1:31.0

Like, Woman on the Edge or something?

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