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Presenting Decoder Ring: Baby Shark

Decoder Ring is Slate’s culture documentary show and this month they have an episode on a subject of special interest to Mom and Dad Are Fighting listeners: Baby Shark. 

Baby Shark is an megaviral YouTube video, an unstoppable earworm, a top 40 hit, a Eurodance smash, a decades old campfire song, and the center of an international copyright dispute. This month on Decoder Ring we explore the strange history and conflicted future of the song, what makes it so catchy, and how it came to be.

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Do You Like Pina Coladas? Edition

Gabriel Roth, Carvell Wallace, and Rebecca Lavoie are joined by Katherine Goldstein to talk about her brand new podcast The Double Shift, a show about working mothers. They also discuss a follow up email from last week’s discussion about telling your kids about their biological parentage, plus as always: triumphs and fails and recommendations.

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Toddler Rabies Edition

Rebecca Lavoie and Carvell Wallace receive a transmission direct from the scene of a temper tantrum, and discuss a question about telling your kids about estranged parents. Plus, learn which member of the Lavoie household is officially a narc.

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What Next: Anti-Vaxxers Brought Back the Measles

The latest measles outbreak in the Pacific-Northwest is a self-inflicted wound. One that Texans, and Americans alike, should all pay attention to.

Guest: Dr. Peter J. Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development.

Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to whatnext@slate.com. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show.

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.

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Pesto in a Tub Edition

Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace discuss Gabe’s greatest-of-all-time parenting triumph, opening up to your kids, making it to year sixteen, whether divorced parents have it easier, and the anxiety of being an older parent. 

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Mom and Dad Are Fighting: This Job Sucks Edition

On this week’s episode, Allison, Carvell, and Gabe answer questions from listeners about what to think of their unaccompanied teenage kids and what’s reasonable to expect from an 11 year old who struggles with writing. Plus: parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and more. And on Slate Plus this week: peeing in public, yay or nay?

Recommendations:

Allison recommends The Boxcar Children Mysteries & Jesse Kelley tweet: kids robotics competition

Gabe recommends Ruffles All-dressed Chips (From Canada)•

Carvell recommends @animalsdoingthings on Instagram

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Podcast produced by Max Jacobs.

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Introducing Josie & Jonny are Having a Baby (With You!)

We’re here to introduce you to a new podcast: as new parents, comedians Josie and Jonny bring their humor and genuine curiosity into each conversation to get answers to questions they’re completely clueless about. Each episode of their podcast, Josie & Jonny are Having a Baby, features creators of all types talking candidly about what it means to raise a baby into a full on adult human. Check it out here in Apple Podcasts.

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Grandma Inception Edition

Rebecca Lavoie, Carvell Wallace, and Gabriel Roth discuss picky eaters with The Sporkful’s Dan Pashman, a listener question about kids and creative problem solving, “Triumphs and Fails” and recommendations. 

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