Dear Prudence | Encore: I Am Swamped With Plans and I Hate It. Help!

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🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode, Carvell Wallace (author of Another Word for Love and host of Slate’s How To!) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to cancel on family vacation plans that sound horrible to you, how to break it to your butch lesbian girlfriend that her friends might be misogynists, and how to convince your parents to let you go to a high school in a not so great neighborhood. 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 podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie and Anuli Ononye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what that is.
0:04.0	An ice cold beer.
0:07.0	What's different?
0:09.0	It's Budweiser, a perfect beer for party season.
0:14.0	Best enjoyed with your best buds.
0:20.0	Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no way. Best enjoyed with your best butts.
0:22.3	Cheers to that.
0:25.3	Budweiser, like no other.
0:26.7	Please drink responsibly.
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0:59.4	my name is daisy risario and i am a senior supervising producer of audio here at slate where i work with dear prudence
1:05.6	now if you are a regular listener you would already know that our dear Janae has been out on maternity leave,
1:11.9	and that continues for a little bit longer. But I did feel like maybe we should hear her voice.
1:17.1	And so for that reason, we are revisiting this episode that Jenae did earlier in 2024 with Carvel Wallace,
1:23.8	who actually also happens to be a slate host. He is co-host of a wonderful show called
1:28.9	How to. The questions in this episode are not holiday specific, but man, the answers and the
1:35.6	core problems in them really struck me as something that people might need to hear right around
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