Caring or Controlling?
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Rax King, the James Beard award-nominated writer of Tacky (forthcoming from Vintage Books in 2021) as well as the host of the podcast Low Culture Boil.
Prudie and King dig into letters about whether you should hire someone who shares a last name with the most prominent Nazi who ever lived, what to consider when your wife tells the same stories over and over again, what actions to take with a partner who asks you questions with irritation about every thing you do, how to express to your therapist that it may be time to take a break, how to be less judgmental of your friends on social media.
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| 0:20.4 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
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| 0:28.6 | Thank you. Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence show once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Daniel M. Lavery, with me in the studio this week is Rax King, who may have one of the greatest names of any guest who has ever appeared on the show. I'm going to say it one more time. Rax King is the James Beard Award nominated a writer of Taki, forthcoming from vintage books in 2021, as well as the host of the podcast, Low Culture Boyle. Her writing can also be found in glamour, Mel Magazine, Caterpult, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her Hedgehog and Toothless Pekingese. Rax, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. If nothing else, I'm really glad that the Hedgehog and Toothless Pekinese are getting their due in the advice column podcasting world. Are they with you today? Are they going to be kind of like providing you with |
| 1:27.6 | sucker as you try to think of how to tell people to lead their lives? The hedgehog may come out |
| 1:33.6 | of his little grumpy guy nest and chew on some kibbles. The Pekingese, if she were in here, |
| 1:39.8 | she would be barking out the window, telling other people how to live their lives. So she's in the |
| 1:43.7 | other room. What do hedgehogs eat? I just realize I have no idea. My little man eats cat food kibbles |
| 1:52.5 | as his main course and if he's good, he gets a blueberry. If he's good, he gets a blueberry. I hope he's |
| 1:58.9 | good today. He's mostly not good, but he gets a blueberry anyway because I I'm a bad mom. That feels very red wall. Just one hedgehog with his single berry, like taking a break from his little quest. Yeah, he holds it in his hands. Like, it's a, like it's an apple or something. It's really good. God damn, man, that's so fucking cute. It's really upsetting. I'm sorry for whispering obscenities at the start of the show, but that's just really, really cute. |
| 2:23.6 | And speaking of obscenities, actually, that's kind of where we get to start our first letter. |
| 2:27.1 | Would you be so good as to read it? |
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