The Waves: Fleishman - and Middle Aged Marriage - Are in Trouble
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate Money host Emily Peck is joined by journalist and author Taffy Brodesser-Akner to talk about Taffy’s new show, Fleishman is in Trouble, based on her bestselling novel. They dig into why men’s magazines are more freeing to write for, how ambition can mess up a marriage, and how midlife crises and divorce are different experiences for women.
In Slate Plus, Emily and Taffy talk about Toby’s eating disorder, how empathy can make people mad, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wave Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and life after 40. |
| 0:19.0 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our |
| 0:23.1 | minds and today you've got me, Emily Peck, a business reporter at Axios and co-host |
| 0:27.3 | of Slate Money, and I'm joined by the one. |
| 0:30.3 | The only Tavvy Broduser-Akner, a writer for the New York Times magazine known for celebrity |
| 0:35.7 | profiles of everyone from Gwyneth, Paltrow, to Tom Hanks, to Bradley Cooper, and the author |
| 0:42.4 | of the 2019 best-selling novel, Fleischman is in Trouble, which just debuted as a TV series |
| 0:50.8 | on FX. |
| 0:51.8 | You can watch it on Hulu. |
| 0:53.6 | Taffy, I'm so happy to talk to you today on The Wave. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm so happy to beat her, thank you for having me. |
| 0:58.8 | So I had a whole long thing written out, describing the show, and why I want to talk about it, |
| 1:03.9 | but then I was like, let me just ask Taffy to do that. |
| 1:07.1 | Great, thank you so much, thank you so much. |
| 1:09.7 | So maybe you could just sort of like give us the premise for the show, and then why you |
| 1:15.1 | think it's a good thing to talk about it on podcast about feminism. |
| 1:18.7 | Okay. |
| 1:19.7 | Jason Trouble is a TV show from a book about a man who is luxuriating in his first post-divorce |
| 1:29.6 | summer of app-assisted sexual freedom, when his ex-wife drops the kids off a day ahead |
| 1:38.4 | of his custodial weekend, and then doesn't pick them up. |
| 1:41.9 | He looks for her, finds out where she is, makes peace with the fact that she doesn't seem |
| 1:46.7 | to be coming home. |
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