Welcome to Dear Prudence, I am your guest prudence, Shaina Roth, a senior producer

and host here at Slate working on shows like The Political Galvest, What Next, TBD, and so much more.

It's Friendship Week at Slate, and today we'll be addressing listeners' friendship dilemmas

about a newly sober and vegan friend getting super judgey and not wanting to listen to your friend

group's constant griping.

And here to help me out is Rachel Bloom.

You probably know her.

She's really everything that you can possibly be in

Hollywood. She's an actress writer showrunner comedian. She sings, she dances, she

does everything but windows, although what do I know? She probably gets them

streak free if we're being honest.

Maybe best known for co-creating and starring

as Rebecca Bunch in the CW musical comedy drama

series Crazy X Girlfriend, which is a personal favorite of mine.

Her one woman show, Death Let Me Do My Show was a major hit on off-Broadway last year. of My author of I want to be where the normal people are a collection of hilarious personal essays

Rachel welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me what an intro

the only windows I do are 95. So before we get started we have a tradition here on Dear Prudence where if it's

your first time Prudy asks you for one piece of unsolicited advice that you would like to give to the world.

Please, I know what it is right now.

Signal when you drive, I cannot, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. It takes a flick of your hand. It tells other people where you're going.

I complain about this constantly in the car to the point where the other day my daughter heard me complaining

I was saying to someone like, but but but signal and my four-year-old said mama people really should take driving lessons from us so they can drive good and I was like you know what you're right but it's just so

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