Dear Prudence: The "Butt Out" Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Mallory and Slate’s Aisha Harris talk about butting in where you don’t belong. Should you call Child Protective Services because you think someone’s kids aren’t learning enough algebra? How do you deal with a colleague making inappropriate remarks about your employees’ personal lives? And as always, there’s more of everything at Slate Plus -- visit slate.com/prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.7 | So later this month, I am going to be doing a live event. |
| 0:07.0 | If you live in the Bay Area, Jessica Winter and I will be live at Books, Inc. in San Francisco on July 29th to discuss Jessica's debut novel, Break in Case of Emergency. |
| 0:16.7 | The book is a tragic comedy about friendship, family, and fighting for one's sanity in a toxic workplace. |
| 0:22.5 | The event is free, although registration is encouraged, go to slate.com slash live for more information. |
| 0:28.7 | Hope to see you there. Come by, listen, ask questions, hang out. |
| 0:37.1 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:38.2 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:39.3 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:39.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:41.2 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:42.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:44.4 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:47.7 | Help. |
| 0:48.1 | Help. |
| 0:48.7 | Hi. |
| 0:49.1 | Thanks. |
| 0:49.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:52.3 | Hi, and welcome back to the Dear Prudence podcast. I'm Mallory Ortberg. And with us in the studio this week is Aisha Harris, another writer at Slate. Let's get started. |
| 1:02.7 | I wanted to talk this week before we went into our letters a little bit about sort of a consistent stream of questioning that's been coming in, mostly through the |
| 1:12.5 | live chat from people who are sort of curious. You know, I've got some trouble with my neighbors. |
| 1:17.7 | I don't like the way that they're raising their kids. Nothing urgent, nothing where anyone's life is in |
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