Dear Prudence: The “Women Are Too Distracting” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Jessie Lane, a social worker, mother, excellent cook, and holder of many opinions (and in this episode, holder of a baby). They tackle questions about how to deal with a coworker who tells the boss about their seemingly private suggestions for workplace improvement, how to tell your family about your sister’s boyfriend’s predatory behavior, what to do when your kid doesn’t fit in well with your family’s childcare, how to deal with a queer friend offended by a straight partner’s bigoted remarks, and how to deal with a male friend who feels too distracted by female friends to continue the friendship. In the full-length, ad-free version of the show, Slate Plus members can hear Prudie and Jessie Lane tackle additional an additional voicemail about what do when your parent decides to marry their high school girlfriend (whom they haven’t seen in 50 years) just a few months after being widowed. Not yet a member? Sign up at 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 |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudy |
| 0:23.0 | Do you think |
| 0:25.7 | that I should contact him again |
| 0:27.9 | Help |
| 0:28.5 | Thanks |
| 0:29.9 | Thank you |
| 0:30.7 | Thank you Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show for the first time and without precedent. |
| 0:49.4 | I am your host, Daniel Orkberg. We've got a couple of firsts in the studio today. It is our 100th episode. This is my first time with a slightly new introduction. And we have a guest with a baby. And I'm very excited about that. And our guest is Jesse Lane, who is a social worker, a mother, an excellent cook and holder of many opinions. Jesse, welcome to the show. Jesse and family, welcome to the show. Hi. How's your baby doing, man? My baby is doing really good. He has doubled his weight in eight weeks. Congratulations, baby. That makes me happy. He's sleeping, but he's probably going to |
| 1:29.1 | make a few noises and possibly later a few digestive noises. I think that I think that's great because |
| 1:35.1 | it will help us kind of check in with his just like gut instinct. I think that he will sort of |
| 1:40.3 | represent just the primal, preverbal forces of good. And he's just going to... |
| 1:46.6 | He's going to be a gut check. Yeah, yeah, 100%. I've definitely studied that. And I'm not just |
| 1:52.7 | speaking off the cuff at all. Jesse, it's so fun to have you on the show. You and I have known one |
| 1:59.3 | another kind of a while and have gotten to |
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