Post-vax advice, with Carolyn Hax

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

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With more and more Americans vaccinated and cities reopening again, we’re having some joyous reunions — and a lot of social anxiety. Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about how to navigate a post-vaccine America.

As excited as we are about being vaccinated and emerging into the world again, there are some awkward conversations and social anxiety mixed in there, too. On this special episode, one of The Post’s beloved advice columnists, Carolyn Hax, takes questions from our listeners about how to date, how to talk to people in your life who aren’t getting vaccinated, and how to handle family members who might make comments about pandemic weight gain.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.7	It's Friday, July 2.
0:24.4	Today, a conversation with the Post's advice columnist about navigating life after getting vaccinated.
0:36.4	Well, Carolyn, welcome.
0:38.4	Thank you.
0:40.4	I feel like you need no introduction because you are super famous in the world of the post.
0:47.2	But I would love to just have you say, far listeners, who you are and what you do.
0:50.7	I am Carolyn Hacks and I am an advice columnist for the Washington Post and in syndication.
0:56.8	And I've been doing this since 1997.
0:59.8	And I have to say, I mean, for people who don't read the column, I mean, your column is legendary.
1:06.0	People are obsessed with it.
1:07.5	I feel like it's often, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but it is often like the most
1:11.2	red thing on the post website.
1:14.0	People love you.
1:15.2	And I remain mystified by that, but I am going with it.
1:18.2	So yes, you're right, that sometimes it is the most red.
1:20.9	And I still am stunned when I see that.
1:24.6	So how did you actually get into this line of work of giving people advice as your job?
1:31.2	Well, I was working in the style section for the editor Peggy Hackman.
1:37.2	And she was the editor of Style Plus, which doesn't exist anymore.
1:40.2	And she was telling me that she was being asked to consider some advice columns for younger
1:45.8	readers.
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