Dear Prudence: The “Death of the Ego” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Prudie learns about birthday spankings this week! Plus, how smartphones ruined pushing your friends into pools. Then, your letters! Should I report the employee who creeped me out at an internship I no longer have? How do I let my friends and family know I’m upset they bailed on my big birthday? I’m in a dishwasher war with my mom. Help! I just came out to my husband and kids – how do I leave my marriage without hurting them? Executive Producer of Slate Podcasts Steve Lickteig joins Prudence. 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. |
| 0:18.8 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.8 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:22.6 | Dear Prudy |
| 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 Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again. |
| 0:45.1 | And as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:48.8 | This week in the studio with us, we have a Dear Prudence celebrity. |
| 0:53.8 | We have someone who's from every week's closing credits |
| 0:56.8 | here in the studio, Steve Liktai, who's the executive director of Slate Podcasts. And I'm pretty |
| 1:02.3 | jazzed for the two of us to be able to give advice together. So many worlds converging. But first, |
| 1:09.4 | oh, my friends, oh, my sweet darlings, do we have something to talk about? |
| 1:15.0 | This week, while writing the live chat, I learned something. |
| 1:20.0 | I became wiser. |
| 1:21.4 | I became more experienced in the ways of the world because I was informed of something I did not previously know about. |
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