Time To Mood On
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On the final episode of Big Mood, Little Mood, Daniel M. Lavery reflects on more than eight years of offering advice on both this show, and Dear Prudence. As a parting gift, Lavery shares a piece that was influenced by many of the recurring conversations over his tenure titled: “Let Me Save You Some Time: A Field Guide To Avoiding Transition By Family Committee”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening AdFree on Amazon Music. Hello. Hello and welcome back to a final episode of Big Mood Little M. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm your host, Danny M. Lavery, and it's just me in the studio this week. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm going to be reflecting briefly on what it's been like for the last eight |
| 0:55.6 | years giving some advice in the Slate Studios. And then at the end of that, there's a piece that I've |
| 1:01.5 | written over the last few years that in some ways sums up a sort of constellation of advice |
| 1:08.2 | requiring situations that often tend to crop up together. So I wrote a sort of helpful |
| 1:14.7 | guide to someone in a very particular situation where you might be trying to transition like |
| 1:20.1 | you're opening a candy wrapper really slowly in a crowded movie theater. The long and short |
| 1:24.8 | of it is, my advice is that you shouldn't do that, but I go into a little |
| 1:27.7 | bit more detail about what that looks like and why. But in the meantime, this is my chance to |
| 1:33.8 | reflect and sign off and thank you all immensely for staying with me throughout the |
| 1:40.5 | Dear Prudence and the Big Mood Little Mood years. I have a number of letters from people |
| 1:45.8 | who've been listening for the whole time, and that's pretty remarkable. I remember when I started |
| 1:51.3 | at Dear Prudence, I was in my 20s. I was a lady. I went and took a really professional |
| 1:56.8 | headshot that I had to look at every week, and it's pretty remarkable to think of the changes that I myself have also |
| 2:02.8 | gone through over the years. It's been a strange, beautiful ride, and I've enjoyed almost every minute of it. |
| 2:11.1 | I had the chance to make a mark early in my tenure as Dear Prudence by establishing my belief that I don't think you need to |
| 2:21.0 | bring a present when you go to a wedding, which is not without controversy. And I'm not even sure |
| 2:27.4 | that it's one that I want to stand by. I just feel very strongly that if you go to someone's |
| 2:31.0 | wedding, it's already expensive and that's present enough. And if you |
| 2:34.3 | get a gift beyond that, good for you. But it was a lot to get thrown into, especially, you know, |
| 2:39.2 | being like 27 years old and being asked, well, what do you think about wedding etiquette, which was not |
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