Visit From Mike Birbiglia Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Dan talk with comedian Mike Birbiglia about his new book, The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad. They discuss what it’s like to not connect to your newborn right away, finally understanding parenting cliches, and comedy during quarantine. The hosts also answer a question from a parent who feels that their young one is transitioning from mommy to mom way too early.
For Slate Plus, Slate Staff Writer Ruth Graham joins to discuss adoption influencers. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Dan recommends You Pick Tonight, a father-daughter double feature podcast from Dan and Lyra.
Jamilah recommends It’s Just a Plant: A Children’s Story about Marijuana by Ricardo Cortés.
Elizabeth recommends learning to make balloon animals with your kids.
Other Recommendations and Resources:
Transgender Children & Youth: Understanding the Basics
“Gender Identity Isn't Too Confusing For Your Toddler” by Kasandra Brabaw
Transwhat? A Guide Towards Allyship
“In Our Gender Diverse Era, Parents Should Practice Humility With Their Kids” by Evan Urquhart
“Myka Stauffer and the Aggressively Inspirational World of “Adoption Influencers”” by Ruth Graham
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slates Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, June 11th, the Visit from Mike Barbiglia Edition. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:14.5 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm mom to three boys, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. and I'm currently in Navar, Florida. I'm Jimmy Lulamu. I'm a writer, communications consultant, a contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm the dad to Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 12. We live in Arlington, Virginia. Elizabeth, |
| 0:44.3 | how was your tropical storm? Well, it was 200 miles away from us and convinced me that if anything |
| 0:50.7 | larger heads this way, I am not going to be. They were like, oh, no big deal. |
| 0:55.5 | One to three foot, you know, rise and like the dock was underwater and all kinds of stuff |
| 1:01.3 | blew around. |
| 1:02.0 | So no big deal, but enough to teach me as a not native Floridian. |
| 1:07.6 | What your threshold is. |
| 1:09.2 | What my threshold is, yes. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah, I did prepare my whole box and, you know, got all ready. |
| 1:13.6 | We've survived a tropical storm in the first week of hurricane season. |
| 1:18.0 | Great job. |
| 1:18.7 | Congratulations. |
| 1:19.0 | It doesn't look good for 2020. |
| 1:21.5 | So today we've got a very exciting guest. |
| 1:24.5 | We'll be talking to comedian Mike Barbiglia about being a reluctant dad and his |
| 1:28.7 | new book, The New One. We're also discussing when Mommy turns to Mom, and as always, we have |
| 1:34.0 | triumphs and fails and recommendations. I think we should acknowledge that this week's show is |
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