A Hell of a Guy
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Josh Gondelman, a comedian who has written for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and now writes for Desus & Mero. His debut essay collection Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results is available now.
Prudie and Gondelman dig into letters about if you should allow guests to speak kindly of your extremely unkind father-in-law at his funeral, how to handle a mother who doesn’t approve of your relationship, yet is bossy about your wedding plans, what actions to take when you boyfriend pees in the bed whenever he drinks, what to do when your parents side with a manipulative sister and her bullying boyfriend, how to help your husband tell better anecdotes that don’t turn people off, do you owe it to your Jewish community to be “more Jewish”, even though it’s not a big part of your identity.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | Just a reminder that the Dear Prudence podcast happens twice a week. |
| 0:07.0 | Slate Plus members. |
| 0:08.2 | Get an additional mini episode every Friday. |
| 0:10.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash Preetipod. |
| 0:17.4 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.6 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.7 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:22.4 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:22.9 | Dear Prudy. |
| 0:27.7 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:28.4 | Help. |
| 0:28.7 | Help. |
| 0:29.3 | Hi. |
| 0:29.8 | Thanks. |
| 0:56.5 | Thank you. Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again, and as always, I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery, with me in the studio this week in, I believe my first ever Brooklyn recorded episode of the show is Josh Gondelman, a comedian who has written for last week tonight with John Oliver and who now writes for Deezis and Morrow. |
| 1:01.0 | His debut essay collection, Nice Try, Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results is available now. |
| 1:07.2 | Josh, welcome to the show. |
| 1:08.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:09.4 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:10.7 | It's so |
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