Dear Prudence: The "You Can’t Treat People That Way" Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Jasmine Guillory is back in the studio with Prudie to talk about how to handle a partner who doesn’t believe in antidepressants, counsel a woman in an emotionally abusive relationship with a physically disabled man, and, for a bit of relief, adjudicate a parking-space dispute. Plus: do you, or do you not, have to go see the new Ghostbusters movie?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.1 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:09.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:10.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.1 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.2 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:14.3 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:18.4 | Help. |
| 0:18.9 | Help. |
| 0:19.4 | Thanks. |
| 0:19.7 | Thanks. |
| 0:20.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome back to dear. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome back to Dear Prudence. |
| 0:34.1 | We're excited to have Jasmine Guillory back in the studio with us. |
| 0:37.0 | But first, I want to talk about a metaphor that I've found especially useful as I've been looking through the mailbag this week. Most of you might be familiar with my take on raccoons, which is that they are horrible garbage cats. I don't trust them, and I don't appreciate the fact that they have four hands instead of feet. |
| 0:55.7 | And one of the worst things about raccoons is a trait that I think all human beings share, which is the desire to wash off garbage in an attempt to pretend that it's something edible. |
| 1:06.0 | You've seen raccoons doing this. Some people claim it's cute. Those people are wrong. When a raccoon turns over a little |
| 1:11.9 | piece of trash and its creepy little paws and it's dipping it in the water and it's sniffling at it |
| 1:17.4 | and it's turning it over and over and again and it's trying to turn it into something that it isn't. |
| 1:22.0 | And we're all a little like those raccoons sometimes, turning over ideas and things that we'd like to do, that we know |
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