Dear Prudence: The “Cat-astrophe” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Prudie and guest Ben Gullard get real about handling criticism. Then they tackle your letters! First up, a new take on cat conundrums: My wife thinks I love our cat more than her and I think she may be right! I’m upset that my husband doesn’t want my son to live at home for the summer. And lastly, I want to be free to talk about gross things at the dinner table but my husband won’t have it. Plus, Dear Prudence investigates the origins of vaginal glue.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. |
| 0:18.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.9 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | 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 | Help |
| 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 Ortberg. |
| 0:48.5 | With me in the studio today is Ben Gullard. Ben Gullard is an artist who lives in New York City. |
| 0:55.1 | We went to high school together, and I used to drive him to Wendy's once a week. He also once built a giant washing |
| 0:59.4 | machine for the set of the musical cats. Ben, hello, welcome. Hey, Mallory. How's it going? |
| 1:06.1 | It's going well. How are you? Good. Yeah, I also agree that it's going well. |
| 1:10.4 | Good. I'm glad to hear that. I love the washing |
| 1:12.5 | machine so much. And I feel like we've talked about this before, but I can't remember. Did it actually |
| 1:18.0 | work? Or was it just, that's a silly question. Of course it didn't work. Also, yeah, because the conceit is that the set of cats is a junkyard. |
| 1:26.2 | So I don't think a reasonable person would throw away a working washing machine. |
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