Dear Prudence: The "Eternally Engaged" Edition

Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week we’re revisiting some of the trickiest, thorniest questions of the past year. First up: I’ve been engaged for five years with no wedding in sight. Help! What do I say to strangers who tell me I’m “not dark enough” to be from my home country? I’m terrified of the doll my wife made our kid – can I say something? And finally: My husband gets furious when I talk about bodily functions at the dinner table – is he right? Hear more Prudence by joining Slate Plus: Slate.com/Prudiepod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Deliverer because anything goes this Christmas. Yes, even sprouts on a pizza or gravy on sushi.
0:10.0	The rules are, there are no rules. Have a Cantonese on Christmas Eve or a faulty on
0:15.7	Boxing Day and when you're so over the leftovers bring on the ramen from big brands to
0:21.9	local favorites this Christmas it's all on your doorstep with
0:25.0	deliver room. Geographical restrictions, T. C. C. Service and delivery fees apply.
0:29.2	You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence Podcast to get the full length
0:34.3	members only version every week. Join Slate Plus at slate.com slash Prudipod. Dear Prudence, dear Prudence, dear Prudence.
0:46.0	Dear Prudence.
0:47.0	Dear Prudence.
0:48.0	Dear Prudence.
0:50.0	Do you think that I should contact him again?
0:54.6	Help.
0:55.6	Thanks.
0:56.6	Thank you. Welcome back to the Dear Prudence show. I'm your host Dear Prudence,
1:11.6	also known as Mallory Orberg., if you were wondering, is Mallory back this week?
1:16.4	The answer is no.
1:18.0	Once again, you have been duped.
1:20.4	This is the greatest hits.
1:22.0	We're running some of our favorites, some of the most controversial, some of the most surprising,
1:27.1	some of the ones about haunted dolls letters we have received in the last calendar year. So you're going to get a healthy
1:34.5	heaping of advice from dear prudence, but it's not going to be given by me right now
1:40.3	because I'm not really here.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.