Brian Lehrer Weekend: Advice With Slate's Dear Prudie and Brian; What to Do About All the Cats; What to Do About All the Cats; The West Indian Roots of Hip Hop
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Advice With Slate's Dear Prudie and Brian (First) | What to Do About All the Cats (Starts at 43:16) | The West Indian Roots of Hip Hop (Starts at 1:07:58)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org it's the Brian Lair show on WNYC good morning again |
| 0:37.6 | everyone. Now we're going to do something we've never done before. A new way to share advice on this |
| 0:45.7 | show many of you know we do advice segments from time to time we've done health advice of various |
| 0:50.9 | kinds financial advice parenting advice we sometimes play a game we call advice roulette where callers |
| 0:57.4 | chosen at random asked each other for advice but today something new that I hope will be fun and |
| 1:03.2 | really interesting and helpful to some of you and some of you probably know that slate does this |
| 1:09.2 | much better than we do they have an ongoing feature on their website and in a podcast called |
| 1:15.0 | deer prudence people write in their advice questions and prudy who in real life is Janae Desmond Harris |
| 1:22.0 | responds with advice in her column on slate or on the deer prudence podcast she's also a contributing |
| 1:28.3 | writer for the New York Times often on advice related topics so this month Janae and I are teaming |
| 1:34.1 | up three Thursdays on this show and later this month I'll be on the deer prudence podcast with her |
| 1:39.9 | as Janae does usually invite a non expert partner long for the ride there and on both our shows |
| 1:45.9 | we'll take a few of your dilemmas and see if we can be of some help and this show being the calling |
| 1:52.5 | show that it is we're also going to invite you to weigh in on the two advice questions that we will |
| 1:57.6 | try to answer in this segment today hold your calls for now of course until you hear the question |
| 2:02.9 | but please join me in welcoming deer prudence aka Janae Desmond Harris hi Janae I'm so excited about |
| 2:10.1 | this welcome to w and yc hi Brian thank you so much for having me on I'm excited too and a little |
| 2:15.8 | nervous I've never done this live before so you want to introduce yourself to the listeners a |
| 2:21.5 | little bit like I don't give advice for a living really but you do and I'll tell the listeners |
| 2:27.2 | that your background is mostly in journalism you've been an opinion page editor for the New York Times |
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