Dear Prudence: The “Workplace Politics” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Prudie is joined by herself on a very special solo episode of Dear Prudence. First up, a listener voicemail: My partner is worried our role playing is bad for me, but I don’t think it is. Then onto your letters! Then onto your letters! Will strangers ever stop commenting on my daughter’s red hair? My wife had an emotional affair with a friend, now that friend is trying to convince me it was more than that. Help! I’m pregnant with a child I don’t want, while my sister can’t conceive. How do I talk about this with her? And finally, how do I tell my co-workers I don’t want to talk politics, even if we agree? 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 to get the full-length |
| 0:07.8 | member's only version every week. Join Slate Plus at slate.com slash prudipod. |
| 0:17.4 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.7 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. 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? |
| 0:28.1 | Help |
| 0:28.4 | Help |
| 0:28.8 | Thanks |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you Welcome back to Dear Prudence. |
| 0:44.3 | And as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:48.7 | With me in the studio this week is me. |
| 0:51.5 | I am gloriously alone, as we all are. There will be no one to disagree or agree with, |
| 0:58.9 | and it's just me. You're getting the unadulterated, dear prudence experience in this week's podcast. |
| 1:05.0 | So if that works for you, great, enjoy. And if it doesn't, just wait a week and you'll get someone else. |
| 1:11.0 | Friends, I have a confession to make. I've been remiss every week that I record this show. |
| 1:15.9 | I tell you all to call a phone number and leave a voicemail and that you might hear your voice |
| 1:19.8 | on an episode of the show, and I haven't been playing your voicemails. I get so many letters |
| 1:24.1 | I've been dipping back into the mailbag and reading the letters and preferring the written word over the spoken word. And no longer, it ends today. We're going to open the show with a damn voicemail because I've promised you that I would answer your voicemails. And then I failed. I failed to execute. I failed to deliver. I've over promised and I've underdelivered, which is the one thing my mother always told me never to do. It stops now. It stops today. We're going to take a voicemail. Hi, I'm a mature woman |
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