Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)
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Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 19, 202647 min

The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not. Find out (but not really) in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is an iHeart Podcast, guaranteed human. So like by age 11 or so, at least 70% have a phone. I'm Dr. Joy, and this is Therapy for Black Girls. We spent our surviving middle school run

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getting into what's happening inside your kid's brain, the group chats, and their friendships, and what you can do about it. Your child is not doing this on purpose.

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That's the kind of perspective we've been pulling from the psychologists and psychiatrists who study this for a living. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls

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