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🗓️ 5 November 2025
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This week, Julia is joined by internet advicestress Eli Rallo to chart the history of the advice column. From Victorian agony aunts to the iconic twin-sister rivals Ann Landers and Dear Abby, they follow how advice became both moral instruction and mass entertainment. Plus, the girlies weigh in on history's biggest dilemmas, like: is a ginger man doomed to be single forever? Is my dog gay? And is my hot wife allowed to be naked in our own home? Digressions include crowdfunding therapy for trauma candy salad victims, the female urge to visit a psychic, and advice for living your most slayful life.
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| 0:00.0 | I think we should compare the sisters' columns so we can kind of decide between them. |
| 0:04.7 | I do think Abby, unfortunately, is more famous. It seems like she also was the richer one, |
| 0:08.6 | which I'm also like, unfortunately, she did pop off with that. But we'll read Anne Landers first. |
| 0:13.9 | Do you want to read the Dear Anne Landers first submission? |
| 0:17.5 | Dear Anne Landers, is it permissible for a woman to slap a man's face in a public place such as a restaurant? |
| 0:23.8 | My friend says she was justified because a slap in the face is a surest way for a lady to register a protest against a gentleman who is no gentleman. |
| 0:31.2 | And it's from Plus 20. |
| 0:33.3 | And Anne said, Dear Plus, what's the matter with your friend's vocal cords? A lady doesn't allow a gentleman to go so far that she has to give him a sock in the chops. This is so, like, 1950s core. A hundred percent. See, what I'm obsessed with here is that they start getting, like, cunty. Like, I feel like this is what the other advice columns were missing is they were too kind of authentic. These are like a little silly and a little bit like. |
| 0:55.1 | And this is I actually think what people want. Like I do think when people like ask for advice, they kind of want you to like rib them a little bit. Like they want a little shocker. When I would do like advice stuff on Instagram and I'd be like tell me about like your flop boyfriend and I'm like, I know you guys just want me to tell you to dump him. Like I know you want me to like drag this man. |
| 1:11.8 | That's what they want. |
| 1:12.6 | You want me to be a little c him. Like I know you want me to like drag this man. |
| 1:11.6 | That's what they want. |
| 1:12.6 | You want me to be a little cunty. |
| 1:13.6 | Like you don't really actually want like kind and open-hearted advice here. |
| 1:17.6 | Sometimes people want that. |
| 1:19.6 | So I think, I mean, is it permissible for a woman to slap a man's face in a public place? |
| 1:23.6 | Is it permissible? |
| 1:24.6 | Depends on what he says. |
| 1:25.6 | Yes. But I think it's interesting that she's |
| 1:28.9 | kind of like, use your voice because true. Like she's basically like you shouldn't even let him get |
| 1:34.5 | that far to say something so offensive. Why do you have to resort to physical violence? But I like it. |
| 1:38.7 | I think I think that's a great kind of, it's so short too. It's like think about yourself. |
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