Dear Prudence: The “P.S.A.” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A request from Prudence: be the kind of Starfleet that you wish to see in the world. Then, onto your questions with awkward situation pro Emily McDowell. My friend surprised me by covering my hotel room for her wedding – do I need to up the ante on the gift? How do I politely inform my all-female office that women can pee on toilet seats, too? And some parental conundrums: Do I need to reconnect with my abusive mother? My mom wants me to call her creepy boyfriend “Dad.” 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 |
| 0:21.4 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:23.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:28.2 | Help |
| 0:28.5 | Help. |
| 0:29.2 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.5 | Thanks. |
| 0:30.5 | Thank you. Welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again. |
| 0:44.7 | And as always, I am your host, Mallory Ortberg, also known as Dear Prudence. |
| 0:48.5 | We've got a great guest in the studio this week who's going to be able to help us all figure out what we need to say in those moments |
| 0:54.7 | in our lives when we have nothing good to say. And I'm looking forward to that immensely. |
| 0:58.7 | And in the meantime, I have a general piece of advice for all of my listeners. Sometimes life feels |
| 1:04.1 | bewildering and overwhelming. You might find that familiar at present. And you think, what am I doing? |
| 1:09.2 | What's this all building towards? What kind of world |
| 1:11.4 | am I trying to help create or be a part of? And if you find that question to be disorienting or |
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