Dear Prudence: The “Ongoing Fling with a Famous Person” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Charlotte Shane, author, essayist, and co-founder of TigerBee Press. First up - what to say when your sister compares your desire to have a child with adopting a cat. And how can I respectfully deal with attending friends’ engagements and weddings when I am still single and not feeling the festive spirit? Then - an affair with a famous person (of course we guess) has been going on for years, but do I need to alter my expectations? And finally, my wife got a great job in a distant city, but the kids and I don’t want to leave...are we jerks? 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. |
| 0:18.7 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.8 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.4 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:23.6 | Do you think |
| 0:25.7 | that I should contact him again |
| 0:27.9 | Help |
| 0:28.5 | Hi |
| 0:29.4 | Thanks |
| 0:29.9 | Thank you |
| 0:30.7 | Thank you Welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:49.3 | With me this week in the studio is Charlotte Shane. Charlotte Shane is an author and essayist, the co-founder of |
| 0:55.9 | Tiger Bee Press and host of the monthly reading series, Bad Advice from Bad Women. |
| 1:01.3 | Charlotte, welcome. Thank you for having me, Mallory. Thank you so much for being willing to |
| 1:07.6 | come on the show and to give. Actually, I should ask, like, are you planning on giving bad advice today? Are you going to switch it up and try to give good advice? Like, what's your, what's your angle? That's a great question. You know, I didn't even read the questions you sent me. I was just like, I'm going to wing it. I don't want to know anything about anything that's going to happen here. I'm not even going to read. Thank God. |
| 1:28.3 | Because lately all my guests have been a bunch of tryhards who show up with notes and thoughtful, like, thought out in advanced responses. |
| 1:37.3 | And I'm sick to death. |
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