Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence,

Janay Desmond Harris.

Today we'll be offering advice on how to react to tacky gifts from your ex-husband's girlfriend,

what it means when your date says our energies didn't mesh,

and whether to call out a friend who inexplicably lies about having a master's degree.

Here to help me out is the comedian Jenny Hagel. She writes for late night with Seth

Myers and the Amber Ruffin show and is the host of the live show Jenny Hagel gives advice and

late night trash can with Jenny Hagel. Welcome to the show Jenny.

Hi thank you for having me. Thank you so much for being here since you have your own advice show I'm sure you're And since you have your own advice, Shell, I'm sure you're overflowing with advice.

It's bad.

I am obsessed with giving people advice,

even if they didn't ask for it.

I cannot stop myself. It's like when someone has the

hiccups, you can't stop it except instead of hiccups coming out is just

advice. Amazing, well that's going to come in really handy today and before we

start I want to ask you for one piece of

unsolicited advice. Thank you I have a hundred pieces but I'll limit myself to

one I'm begging to be asked. My piece of unsolicited advice that I would give today is to get an analog watch.

I feel really strongly about this. I think that we are all getting deeply sucked into our phones and sometimes we want to be but sometimes we don't even mean to be and I think a really common thing that happens to me is that I will pull out my phone to check the time and then while I have my phone to see what time it is I'll be like oh it's

1245 oh wait did I get a text message from so and so let me check my email did I do

word all today where does word come from I wonder what the origin of the word word is.

Oh etymology.com let me read this.

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