Dear Prudence | Are My Friends Becoming Doomsday Preppers? Help!

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jenée is joined by Seema Yasmin, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet, medical doctor, author, and professor. Together, they’ll help a listener set on decorating their home with their old burlesque photos and posters without looking too narcissistic, another feeling isolated when her friends invite her ex-girlfriend to parties and events, a listener upset that their friend didn’t stick up for them after their music choices got them labeled a “horrific bigot,” and a listener concerned their friends are becoming doomsday preppers. Want more Dear Prudence? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/prudie-plus to get access wherever you listen. This week’s podcast is produced by Jenée Desmond Harris, Maura Currie, and Daisy Rosario, with special thanks to Anuli Ononye and Sophie Summergrad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Prudence. I'm Your Prudence, Janay Desmond Harris.
0:09.9	Today we'll be helping a listener who wants to hang a nude photo of herself over her bed without appearing conceited.
0:16.6	Another who was ditched by all her friends after a breakup. Someone who is labeled a horrific bigot by their whole soccer team based on their musical taste.
0:25.0	And finally, a person concerned about their friends becoming doomsday preppers.
0:29.9	Here to help me out is Seema Yasmin.
0:32.1	She is an Emmy Award winning journalist, poet, medical doctor, author, and professor.
0:36.4	Yes, all of those things.
0:38.4	Yasmin is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and faculty affiliate at the
0:43.0	Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence. She is the author of eight nonfiction fiction,
0:48.4	poetry and children's books, including the recent young adult book Unbecoming and children's
0:53.4	history book, The ABCs of queer history.
0:56.3	During the COVID-19 pandemic, her medical journalism helped debunk the spread of misinformation.
1:01.6	Her podcast, Our Big Shot, is about the history and future of vaccines.
1:06.1	Welcome to the show, Seema.
1:07.3	Did I get everything you do in your life there?
1:09.2	It sounds freaking obnoxious.
1:11.0	Hi, Jeannay, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to do this.
1:14.7	Thank you so much for coming on. And my first question for you, as you know, is about one piece of
1:21.7	unsolicited advice that you have for our listeners.
1:24.8	Eat a ton of fiber every day.
1:28.1	Look up what the guidelines are for you.
1:29.7	It's like 25 grams for women age 50 or younger, 38 grams for men age 50 or younger.
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