Dear Prudence: My Husband Wants Our 9-Year-Old Son to Play Tackle Football. Help!

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode, Bomani Jones (host of HBO’s Game Theory With Bomani Jones and The Right Time With Bomani Jones) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer questions from letter writers about workplace socializing, friends who are no longer likable people, and youth football. If you want more Dear Prudence, you should join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members. Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months. Podcast production by Se’era Spragley Ricks and Daisy Rosario, with help from Brandon Nix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Prudence.
0:05.5	I'm your prudence, Janay Desmeteras.
0:08.3	Today I'll be answering letters from readers with dilemmas about workplace socializing,
0:13.2	friends who are no longer likable people, and youth football.
0:17.6	To help me answer them, I'll be joined by Bommani Jones.
0:21.1	Bommani is a journalist and Emmy Award-winning executive producer.
0:25.3	He hosts Game Theory with Bommani Jones on HBO, and the sports podcast The Right Time
0:30.0	with Bommani Jones.
0:31.0	He's written on sports, music, culture, and politics for a variety of online and print
0:35.7	publications, and he regularly appears on ESPN.
0:39.5	Also, if you're a devout prudy listener and reader, you may also recognize him as one
0:44.5	of our guest prudy writers.
0:46.7	We ask smart thoughtful people like himself to step in his prudy for the day and give you
0:50.7	advice.
0:51.7	He did a great job.
0:52.7	To help you get to know him even better, I asked him for three little facts that you
0:56.5	won't find in his bio.
0:58.5	Number one, he was once caught sneaking into the Super Bowl.
1:02.8	Number two, the one time he dunked a basketball in a game, he had to flee because of the
1:07.6	projects and it was taken as disrespect.
1:10.8	Number three, he once covered a celebrity roast of Rudy Raymore.
1:14.8	Bommani and I will dive into your questions after a short break, and if we disagree, I will
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