Trump, Turkey, and Teens Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Allison invite Emily Bazelon, host of Slate's Political Gabfest, and author Dwayne Betts, onto the show to discuss this month's surprise election outcome and how they're talking about Trump's presidency with their kids. Dan also chats with director Kelly Fremon about her fantastic new movie "The Edge Of Seventeen." And in our Slate Plus segment, the crew explains what they're thankful for this year.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, November 24th, the Trump, Turkey, and Teens Edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Alison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry 8, Sam 5, and Wally 3. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm also an editor at Slate. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 11, and Harper, who is 9, and who finally got her braces off. |
| 0:29.5 | Oh, happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, happy Thanksgiving to you, too, and to Harper and farewell and good riddance to her braces. |
| 0:36.9 | That was fast. Yeah, traces are a short-term good riddance to her braces. That was fast. |
| 0:38.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | Chases are a short-term thing these days, I feel like. |
| 0:41.6 | Reportedly she has to get them twice in her life. |
| 0:43.8 | That's what the orthodont said after he looked at our credit report. |
| 0:47.0 | So I missed the last episode because of the Election Day and I was working on that. |
| 0:51.8 | So how did that go? |
| 0:53.7 | And also, how are you feeling about the episode we did a few |
| 0:56.9 | weeks prior celebrating the coming Hillary victory? It seems like it worked out great all around. Yeah. |
| 1:02.8 | It seems like Hillary's president now. And I mean, I haven't read anything or looked at a newspaper or TV, |
| 1:10.0 | but I just assume that's the case. |
| 1:12.1 | What could have gone wrong? |
| 1:14.7 | We don't, I don't know. |
| 1:16.8 | Do we owe you guys an apology for that episode? |
| 1:19.2 | I just really don't know. |
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