Dear Prudence: The “Capitalism is the Problem” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Writer and journalist Laurie Penny joins Prudence today to tackle your family and work quandaries! How can I convince my husband to buck social pressure and stick to being a stay-at-home dad? My apartment building reeks of pot and makes me nauseated – how do I make it stop without getting my neighbor in trouble? My husband keeps inviting his toxic father to visit and then ghosts me. Help! And finally, how do I stand my ground against harassment at work and still get tips? Hear more Prudence by joining Slate Plus: Slate.com/Prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | To get the full-length members' only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash prudipod. |
| 0:17.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.9 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:22.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:23.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:27.6 | Help |
| 0:28.6 | Hi |
| 0:29.6 | Thanks |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you Welcome back to Dear Prudence once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Orkberg. |
| 0:49.1 | With me in the studio today is my good friend Lori Penny, who I met on the hottest day of my life. We were in Philadelphia. |
| 0:56.4 | It was last summer. It was so hot I thought I was hallucinating. And at one point, I saw a grown man |
| 1:02.7 | wearing a three-piece suit clutching a quart of milk to his chest and weeping openly. |
| 1:12.8 | Lori, I don't know if you remember how hot that was. |
| 1:17.5 | It was a very, very hot day indeed, and I wasn't pleased at all. Sometimes I still dream about it. |
| 1:23.6 | It felt like I had transcended time and space. Yeah, I'm still not sure if I really met you that day or if you were just a figment of my imagination. Nothing about that weekend felt real. |
| 1:28.7 | Nothing about it. Lori Penny, for all of you listeners at home, is a writer and a journalist |
| 1:33.4 | whose book, Bitch Doctrine, is coming out next month. Congratulations on your bitch doctrine. |
| 1:37.8 | Thank you very much. That's very exciting. Yeah, it's a difficult title to have picked because I actually find it quite hard to say that word, because in the UK that's a much ruder word. |
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