Welcome to Dear Prudence. I'm your prudence, Janay Desmond Harris. Today, we'll be discussing

letters from readers who are obsessing about their lackluster high school tennis careers,

their awkward interactions with their crushes, and whether participation in civil war reenactments

is a dating deal breaker. Here to help me out is my guest, Damon Young. He's a writer,

critic and humorist, and a self-proclaimed professional black person. He's the author

of what doesn't kill you, makes you blacker, and he hosts the podcast stuck with Damon Young,

where he and his guests talk about the headlines and tackle listener-submitted questions

much like we do here. Hey Damon. Janay, should I call you their prudence, prudence,

dp, like what should I call you here? My friends call me prudence when they text me, asking

for advice. My mom says her name is prudence senior. I've learned that sometimes, so I don't

read the comments on the column because I'm not psychologically strong enough, but sometimes

people will like screenshot them and email them to me when people are upset with what I've

said, and I saw there that people are calling me prudence, like a combination of Janay

and prudence, prudence, dp, with an accent on the e. So take your pick. I think I'm

sigwijane. I think that's a safe, that's a safe pick right there. I'm comfortable with that.

Okay. So before we get started, I know you have a lot of opportunities to give advice on your own

show, so you're probably not like overflowing with it the way most people are, but I did want to

give you an opportunity to just give the world one piece of unsolicited advice. Okay, the first

piece of advice, the best piece of advice I have is the first piece of advice I've ever, I remember

hearing and that's don't eat yellow snow, right? And is it a metaphor? Well, it can be taken

literally where you're not supposed to eat snow that has been tampered with, but it's also a metaphor

for life where if something just doesn't feel right, if something just doesn't feel right in your

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