Xenomorph Mom Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Listen to Slate's parenting podcast where we discuss talking to children about death and our favorite moms from TV and film.Mom and Dad Are Fighting is sponsored by Macmillian, a publisher of children's books, including Tractor Mac. A favorite of families across the country, Tractor Mac depicts life on the farm through fun and heart-warming stories about friendship, teamwork, and more. Tractor Mac is on sale now from Farrar Strauss Giroux. Tractor Mac is on sale now from Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
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| 0:00.0 | Mom and Dad are fighting is sponsored by McMillan, a publisher of children's books including Tractir Mac. |
| 0:06.4 | A favorite of families across the country, Tractir Mac depicts life on the farm through fun and heartwarming stories about friendship, teamwork, and more. |
| 0:15.2 | Tractor Mack is on sale now from Ferar Strauss-Juru. |
| 0:18.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. I welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:27.0 | Slight's parenting podcast from Thursday, May 7, 2015, the Xenomorph Mom Edition. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Dan Koyce, I'm an editor at Slate and I'm the dad of Harper who is 7 and Lyra who is now 10. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, happy birthday, Lyra. Hooray! I'm Allison Benedict also |
| 0:46.2 | an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry six Sam four and Wally too. |
| 0:50.4 | Hey Allison. Hey Dan. On today's episode we will talk to the novelist and critic to Then for Mother's Day, we'll discuss the best moms and pop culture history with the help of Slate's culture team. |
| 1:05.5 | Plus, Triumph and Fales, Our First Live Show, a Contest, and more. |
| 1:11.5 | If you are a fan of mom and dad are fighting, please tell a friend. This |
| 1:15.4 | week I would love for you to find an online-only friend, someone who you've |
| 1:20.1 | barely met in person, but you know you just hit it off with them on Facebook or on |
| 1:24.6 | Twitter or by sexting or however. I think many of us have people like this in our |
| 1:28.6 | lives, I definitely do, and so I want you to please tell one of them about mom and dad are fighting because we want more listeners because more listeners mean that I can feed my growing children, caviar and lobster tails. |
| 1:39.6 | No, more listeners means we can do more and better live events around the country and we are very excited to announce our first live show. |
| 1:48.0 | It is Sunday June 7th at Motorco in Durham, North Carolina. We are headed down to the triangle for a live |
| 1:55.4 | show at Motorco in Durham. We will be joined by Mack McCowan of |
| 1:59.3 | Merge Records and Superchunk. Allison, am I saying his last name right? |
| 2:02.8 | I'd have actually never said it out loud. |
| 2:04.2 | I just realize right now. |
| 2:05.2 | I think it's MacCon, but I'm not. |
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