The "Transactional Relationships" Edition

Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mallory Ortberg and guest Jos Lavery discuss why we feel so compelled to discuss human relationships as transactions, and discuss how to handle family members who might be committing insurance fraud.

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0:00.0	You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:08.1	Dear Prudence.
0:09.0	Dear Prudence.
0:10.0	Dear Prudence.
0:12.0	Dear Prudence.
0:12.1	Dear Prudence.
0:12.9	Dear Prudence.
0:14.3	Do you think that I should contact him again?
0:18.4	Help.
0:18.9	Help.
0:19.4	Thanks.
0:19.8	Thanks.
0:20.4	Thank you.
0:20.9	Welcome back to the Dear Prudence show.
0:34.1	This is Mallory Ortberg.
0:35.4	I am Dear Prudence.
0:36.6	And today in the studio, we have a friend of the podcast, Joss Lavery, with us here. He is a, sorry, I totally talked over you just now. Please say hello again.
0:46.9	Hello.
0:47.6	Fantastic. You did great. He's a writer and academic living in the Bay Area. And he and I are going to dispense some advice together today. We're going to try. And I hope that we get to do a real goofus and gallant. Was I explaining goofus and gallant to you the other way? You were, because I thought the word was dofus. Yeah. So I assume most of the listeners are familiar with goofus and Gallant. You assume most of your listeners are American?
1:11.2	I do. This is a, I do assume that.
1:14.0	Okay.
1:14.4	Yeah. And Goofus and Gallant was a really popular cartoon series in Highlights Magazine,
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