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Dear Prudence | I Love My Family. My Husband Doesn’t. Help!

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Guest Prudie Nadira Goffe is joined by actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata. Together, they answer letters about a neighbor-turned-last-minute-babysitter whose work has gone unappreciated, a widower whose family won’t stop judging his new girlfriend, and a reader struggling to balance time with their husband and extended family.  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 Nadira Goffe, Maura Currie, and Anuli Ononye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dear Prudence, I am your guest prudence.

0:05.0

Today we'll be offering advice to a neighbor turned last minute babysitter whose work has gone

0:14.8

unappreciated a widower whose family won't stop judging his new girlfriend a friend

0:19.7

friend worried that they'll be cut off every time they make a mistake in their relationships, and a reader

0:24.9

struggling to balance time with their husband and extended family.

0:28.8

Here to help me out is actress and comedian Sashir is a maida. Sashir was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live for four seasons,

0:36.2

hosted her own stand-up specials, The First Woman, and Pizza Mind,

0:39.4

and has starred in shows including Woke and Home Economics.

0:42.3

She is the co-host of the weekly

0:43.6

podcast Best Friends and a CLU Celebrity Ambassador for Women's Rights and plays

0:48.1

Jennifer Kale in the recent Marvel spin-off show Agatha all along. So Sheer

0:52.4

welcome to the show.

0:53.5

Thank you for being here.

0:54.5

Thank you for having me.

0:56.0

It's my pleasure.

0:57.0

I'm so excited, but before we get started,

1:00.0

I would like to ask you a question that we ask all of our guests which is what is

1:05.2

one piece of unsolicited advice that you would give to the world unprompted.

1:09.2

Okay I don't know this is like a thing I've been ranting about recently, so maybe it applies, but I would say let's stop consuming so much violence.

1:25.8

I don't think it's good for our brains.

1:28.6

I don't think it's good for our livelihood.

1:32.0

And really, that's, I mean, I guess maybe that's also a advice for people who are creating things like TV and movies and videos and such.

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