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Miguel Gutierrez's Strongly Worded Emails About Art and Money from 2022-04-21T21:47:59.293040
This past March, choreographer Miguel Gutierrezposted a call on his Instagram. It asked performing arts institutions to honor their commitm...
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Hard: Softening Expectations from 2022-04-13T12:00
Carson Tueller became paralyzed from the chest down after an accident in 2013. "I absolutely know that there is a sense of loss and grieving that comes when you lose physical function," he told ...
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Hard: Little Pill, Big Pharma from 2022-04-06T12:00
When Dr. Irwin Goldstein started his career in urology in the 1970s, he remembers asking his mentor—an early pioneer in penile implant surgeries—"How the hell does an erection occur in the first...
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Hard: Erectile Disappointment from 2022-03-30T12:00
Bob first started experiencing erectile dysfunction in his 50s. "The erections wouldn't last," he told me, "and that became kind of a frustration." Bob and his wife, Joanne, tried asking their d...
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Why Lynn Nottage Cashed Out Her 401(k) from 2022-03-16T12:00
At the start of this year, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage achieved a feat. Three of her works—Clyde's, the musicalMJ, and an opera adaptation of her pl...
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Affairs, Throuples, and Big Monogamy: Your Relationship Questions Answered from 2022-03-09T12:00
We recently asked you to tell us about the decisions weighing on you about your romantic lives. The strangeness of the past two years has impacted all of our relationships—in both negative and p...
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Inheriting Divorce from 2022-02-23T12:00
Many of the marriages in producer Ian Coss’ family have ended in divorce. His parents’ marriage, his grandparents’s marriage, as well as some of his aunts and uncles’ marriages. Ian is mar...
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Where is Lisa Fischer's Backup? from 2022-02-16T12:00
Lisa Fischer has sung backing vocals for Dolly Parton, Bobby McFerrin, Luther Vandross and Beyoncé. She's also toured with the Rolling Stones since <...
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This Elvis Impersonator Does It For Love… And Money from 2022-02-09T12:00
Brendan Paul never meant to become an Elvis impersonator. He wanted to play in rock bands like Kiss and was an art major in college at UCLA. But one day in his early 20s, he got a haircut—one th...
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André De Shields On Living With His Shadow from 2022-01-26T12:00
Self-proclaimed “professional charmer” André De Shields has performed on stage for more than 50 years. Today, at 76 years old, he brings his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Hermes to the Broadwa...
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Downsizing After Divorce from 2022-01-19T12:00
When her kids were young, Jaimie Seaton and her family lived overseas in Asia while her husband worked as a high-ranking executive at a bank. "We lived in a huge house with a pool and staff and ...
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A New Year's Pep Talk From Robin Arzón from 2022-01-12T12:00
For people who love Peloton, the company's head instructor Robin Arzón is an inspiration. I know quite a few people who swear by Robin's tough love teaching style and confidence-boosting m...
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Why I Steal from 2021-12-29T12:00
Alice* lives in a small town, where the work dries up in the winter. She and her husband have jobs at a seasonal restaurant, where she says they each make about $500 a week. When it gets cold, t...
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A Season to Savor from 2021-12-22T12:00
For the last couple years, we’ve produced special year-end episodes where the entire Death, Sex& Money team shares moments we’re proud of, and looks back at the year we've been through. But ...
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The Weight Of Love from 2021-12-15T12:00
Recently, we asked for your stories about how weight and body size has affected your romantic relationships. We heard from single people who are dating, couples who have been together for ...
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Why Alan Cumming Doesn't Do Drama from 2021-12-01T12:00
Alan Cumming has a favorite Australian mantra: "Shouldn't be a drama." And he told me that he first came across it after a tumultuous period in his life. It was the mid-'90s, and he was st...
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Becoming A Parent Of Six, At 25 from 2021-11-24T12:00
On weekdays between 10 and 3, Yesi Ortiz is the warm, flirty host for the popular Los Angeles hip-hop station Power 106. But off the air, she’s a dedicated single parent of six adopted kids.
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“What I Live With”: The Aftermath of Fatal Accidents from 2021-11-10T12:00
Accidental injuries are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly 200,000 people die every year from overdoses, fires, unintentional gun discharges, falls, and car crashes. ...
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I Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns from 2021-11-03T12:00
Back in the spring, we asked you to tell us about the hardest conversations you've ever had, and the ones you haven't had yet. A listener we're calling Jack wrote in about a conversation he want...
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Order Up, Tapped Out: Life After Restaurant Burnout from 2021-10-27T12:00
In the last few months, millions of restaurant and hospitality workers have left their jobs. Right now, there are more job openings in this field than ever before. For many of these workers, the...
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Succession's J. Smith-Cameron On Old Haunts and New Normals from 2021-10-20T12:00
A few weeks ago, I was back in New York City for the first time since 2019. It was great—I saw coworkers in person, and I had lunch at one of my old spots, the Waverly Diner, with actor J. Smith...
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Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets from 2021-10-06T12:00
Three years into Amanda* and Sam*'s marriage, the couple found out that they were unexpectedly pregnant...with twins. Amanda says she took on the lion's share of the work at home while also jugg...
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Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings from 2021-09-29T12:00
Sometimes the path to parenthood isn’t a straight line. What happens when you hit speed bumps on the road to having kids?
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"You Should Be Carrying This. Not Me." from 2021-09-22T12:00
When a listener named Chloe was in college, she says she was sexually assaulted at a party by a former classmate. She filed a police report, but her classmate was never charged with a crime. He ...
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When A Banker Became A Nun from 2021-09-08T12:00
Sister Josephine Garrett grew up Baptist and worked her way up the corporate ladder—eventually becoming a vice president at Bank of America, where she managed a few hundred employees. But ...
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Decision Fatigue Is Real. We Called For Backup. from 2021-09-01T12:00
We recently asked you to tell us about the decisions you're struggling to make right now. There have been so many choices to make and risks to weigh lately, and after almost 18 months into this ...
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Financial Therapy: A Baby, And A Plan from 2021-08-18T12:00
In Cora and Garrett's final session with financial therapist Amanda Clayman, they talk about soon becoming parents, and their recent experience consulting a financial advisor while navigat...
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Financial Therapy: Struggling To Trust Again from 2021-08-11T12:00
Financial therapist Amanda Clayman gave a couple we're calling Cora and Garrett an assignment at the end of their first session—talk together about your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to...
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Financial Therapy: A Secret Gambling Addiction from 2021-08-04T12:00
We first heard from a listener we're calling Cora late last year. "My husband and I recently hit a pretty intense rough patch regarding our financial life, mental health, and the trust in our re...
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When Grief Doesn't Move In Stages from 2021-07-23T12:00
Radiolabproducer Rachael Cusick's mother died when Rachael was six years old. Her grandmother, Marilyn Ryland, stepped in as a parental figure for Rachael, and while they didn't t...
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Doree Shafrir On The Out Of Control IVF Train from 2021-07-14T12:00
For a long time, writer and podcaster Doree Shafrir didn’t know if she wanted kids. “It wasn’t a future that I fantasized about or necessarily saw myself doing,” she told me. But when Dore...
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When Indie Rockers Become Full-Time Caregivers from 2021-07-07T12:00
In 2010, Johnny Solomon's band, Communist Daughter, was on the rise. But behind the scenes, Johnny was struggling—he was drinking heavily, and abusing meth to the tune of $600 a wee...
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A Teen Musician Is Ready For His Solo. His Mom Is Not. from 2021-06-23T12:00
This week, I speak with Miguel Llapa, who is 18 and just graduating from high school. Miguel is a percussionist, and a soon-to-be college student, with congenital scoliosis — an abnormalit...
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"The Lying Stops Now": Your Hardest Conversations from 2021-06-16T12:00
Hard conversations often spark a change. Whether they shift something in a relationship, or a situation, or inside you, there is often a definitive "before" and "after" a hard conversation.
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Michelle Zauner's Joy Is Rooted In Vengeance from 2021-06-09T12:00
When Michelle Zauner of the indie band Japanese Breakfast returned home to Eugene, Oregon, to take care of her mother in 2014, she wasn’t prepared for what life would be like as a caregive...
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Mahershala Ali and Rafael Casal: Envy Is A Hell Of A Drug from 2021-06-02T12:00
Today, Mahershala Ali is an Oscar-winning actor who lands leading roles in TV shows like True Detective and Hollywood blockbusters like Green ...
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Alison Bechdel On Menopause, Mortality and Punching Pennies from 2021-05-26T12:00
Alison Bechdel went through menopause 10 years ago, when she was 50. I know this because she writes about it in her latest graphic memoir, calledThe Secret To Superhuman Strength. "I ju...
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A Former Pro Climber On Enduring Chronic Illness from 2021-05-19T12:00
Until 2018, Mason Earle was a professional rock climber. Mason started climbing as a kid, and developed a specialty in a style known as "crack climbing," where you climb by wedging your hands, f...
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Strictly, Entirely On The Fence About Having A Kid from 2021-05-12T12:00
A few months back, Avery Trufelman, host ofThe Cut podcast fromNew York Magazine, reached out with a request to talk. About becoming a parent.
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Where Noel and Anna's Hot Girl Summer Went Wrong from 2021-05-05T12:00
Last week, I talked with my friend and colleague Noel King, who is a co-host at NPR'sMorning Edition, about my new book. It's calledLet's Talk About Hard Things, and in front o...
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The 7 Hardest Conversations I've Ever Had On This Show from 2021-04-28T12:00
As the host ofDeath, Sex& Money, my job is to ask my guests to talk about the things "we think about a lot and need to talk about more." And sometimes, talking about hard things tha...
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When I Almost Died from 2021-04-21T12:00
A few years ago, I asked you to share your near-death experiences. You told us about car accidents...plane crashes...illness...suicide. And, you told us what happened after, when you didn't die....
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I Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000. from 2021-04-14T12:00
A few years ago, a 27-year-old listener we're calling Tessa was about $19,000 in credit card debt. An unexpected windfall helped them pay most of it off in one fell swoop. But even then, they we...
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When Claudia Rankine Brought Up Race In Couples Counseling from 2021-04-07T12:00
Before the pandemic, poet and professor Claudia Rankine traveled often for work. Her acclaimed 2014 bookCitizen: An American Lyric brought her unflinching perspective on race rela...
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A Friend In The Execution Room from 2021-03-24T12:00
This week, we’re sharing an episode of a new podcast calledThe Experimentwith you. It’s a show about America, and what happens when the big ideas and forces that have shaped our country...
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Finding Blessings and Throwing Vases from 2021-03-17T12:00
Donna Perry, who lives in Brooklyn, recovered from COVID-19 a year ago. That’s when producer Yasmeen Khan first interviewed Donna for aListen
Masks On, Tops Off: Inside A Texas Strip Club from 2021-03-10T12:00
Whenever Josh, a 32-year-old commercial truck driver, passes through El Paso, he usually pulls off the highway and heads to the Red Parrot—a topless bar where he goes to have some human contact ...
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Ugh, Dating Right Now from 2021-03-03T12:00
Recently, I asked those of you who are single and looking for a relationship to tell us how dating has been going for you during COVID. You told us about messed up momentum, lots of new rules, w...
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I Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't from 2021-02-24T12:00
Tony* wasn't sure what to say when the woman he'd slept with told him she was pregnant. First, he says, there was a long pause. They weren't a couple, and he didn't want to say the wrong thing. ...
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Your One Night Stand Stories from 2021-02-17T12:00
We just got through Valentine’s Day, our annual celebration of romance. Usually of the long-term sort...or if not long, at least, the sort where you’ve committed to be someone’s sweetheart.
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Getting Real About Getting Older, Live from 2021-02-10T12:00
Concerns about ageism. Dreams of moving in with roommates, Golden Girls-style. Desires to slow down, while still working 12-hour days. Worries about missing out on precious time with grandkids d...
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What The Border Taught Norma Elia Cantú About Being Free from 2021-02-03T12:00
When Dr. Norma Elia Cantú was growing up in Laredo, Texas, on the U.S./Mexico border, she was the oldest of what would eventually be eleven siblings—so she stepped into the role of coparen...
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Death, Sex & Money's Financial Therapy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Many of you are in financial transition right now. You've lost jobs, income, stable housing. And you're worried about what's to come.
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Sharing DNA, and Nothing Else from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Amy took a mail-in DNA test to find out more about her genealogy...and learned more than she bargained for.
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Lena Waithe Says Have a Dream... and a Sponsor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The actor and writer is having a big year—but it took a lot of work, patience, and some financial help from her mom to get here.
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After Suicides, a Texas Veterinary Community Opens Up from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Veterinary medicine has a suicide rate that's one of the highest in the healthcare profession. For the veterinary community in Dallas, those statistics hit home last year.
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Resources for Problem Drinking from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alcoholics Anonymous: Alcoholics Anonymous is an international resource which connects individuals who have/had a drinking problem. Alcohol Anonymous...
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Death, Sex & Money's Coronavirus Reading List from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As we limit our face-to-face interactions and watch more news about the COVID-19 pandemic roll in, it’s important to find community in other ways. That could look like hopping on the phone or Fa...
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Resources for Eating Disorders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you are in crisis, text "NEDA" to 741741 to be connected with a volunteer at the Crisis Text Line.
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John Cameron Mitchell & Marilyn Maye: I Will Survive from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The actor and Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator talks with 91-year-old cabaret singing legend Marilyn Maye about love affairs, alcoholism and their hopes...
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Lisa Ling & Awkwafina: Shut Up, Let Me Shine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Crazy Rich Asians actor talks with guest host Lisa Ling about how Bambi helped her process her mom's death, and why she has no qualms about turning down offers to do ...
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The 2019 Maternity Leave Lineup from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For the next few months, some of our favorite past Death, Sex & Money guests—and some new folks, too—are taking a turn in the host chair and interviewing the people they're most curious abou...
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A Father and Daughter Talk About Layoffs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We asked for your stories about being laid off. A listener named Stephanie wrote in about her dad.
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Daniel K. Isaac Is Opting For The Gray Area from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As a teen, Daniel K. Isaac fought his sexuality. But accepting that part of himself as an adult has meant finding new, complicated ways of relating to his mother.
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José Andrés Googled ‘How To Be A Father’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
José Andrés is at the helm of more than a dozen restaurants and is famous for his humanitarian work. But when it comes to parenting, he says he's often felt less than confiden...
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20 Death, Sex & Money Episodes For Your Valentines from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is there a better way to celebrate your loved ones this Valentine's Day than showering them with audio-goodies? Here are 20 episodes we think are perfect for sharing. Listen
When We Sent Our Son Away from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Diane Gill Morris moved her whole family, including her two young adult sons who have autism, into a house she thought they'd live in forever. Then one of her sons had a violent outburst, ...
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Autism Isn't What I Signed Up For from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When we posted an article on Facebook about deciding to have children, Diane Gill Morris told us, "If someone had told me this is what it’d be like, I never would have had kids." Listen
How Nikki Giovanni Finally Learned To Cry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The legendary poet talks with host Anna Sale in front of a live audience about standing up to her father, surviving breast and lung cancer, Listen
Let's Talk About Porn Again from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We're revisiting our most-listened to episode ever, about porn. Your stories about secret hard drives, fantasy plot lines, illegal downloads, titillating Tumblr feeds, and giving porn up c...
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How Do You Bring Up Your STI? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you have an STI, we've got an assignment for you. Send your voice memos to deathsexmoney@wnyc.org.
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Sexually Transmitted Secrets from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
STI rates are on the rise. But when we asked our listeners to tell us their stories about having an STI, what we heard about was how alone it makes you feel.
More About STIs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For a lot of us, the last time we learned anything about STIs was during a high school sex ed class—when we may or may not have been paying close attention. So we've compiled some reading recomm...
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So Many Sex Ed Fails from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You have a limited number of orgasms in life. Your penis will fall off if you get an infection. Kissing will get you pregnant. We asked you to share your "sex ed ...
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I Wanted To Be A "Good Girl" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andrea grew up attending an evangelical church in Texas, where she was taught to abstain from sex until marriage and keep herself sexually "pure." That early sex education Listen
Our Sex (Mis)Educations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We learn about sex from a lot of different sources—parents, friends, classes in school, pop culture, and even pornography. But as adults, many of us have had the experience of realizing that a l...
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When A Banker Was Called To The Convent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sister Josephine Garrett grew up Baptist and worked her way up the corporate ladder—only to realize in her late 20s that she wanted to convert to Catholicism and become a nun....
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I Married A Dreamer During The Trump Presidency from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Vanessa never thought much about the immigration process until she fell in love with Freddy, whose legal status in the U.S. is now in jeopardy.
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Married, Paralyzed and Moving On from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A couple reflects on the big strides they've made together since a cycling accident left one of them paralyzed two years ago—and on the things they still need to face.
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John Green Thinks Adulthood is Underrated from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
YA author John Green has built his career on his ability to connect with young fans—but in his own lowest moments, the isolation he's felt has been all-consuming.
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Why Governor Jennifer Granholm Cut Her Hair from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm ran for office, she was told not to remind voters that she'd be the first woman to hold the office — and that her hair needed to be short.
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Tell Us Your Sex Ed Fails from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What did you learn about sex that you wish you hadn't? Send a voice memo about how sex ed failures played out in your own life to deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. And we're working with the BBC ...
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When Fire Takes Everything: Rebuilding in Northern California from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two stories of recovery after loss.
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I Served 27 Years In Prison. Now, I'm Out On Parole. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lawrence Bartley was released on parole this spring. Now, he and his wife Ronnine are building an everyday life for their family on the outside.
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Jane Fonda After Death and Divorce, Revisted from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For one of our earliest episodes, I spoke with Jane Fonda about living her life in the public eye. This week, we're bringing you that conversation again.
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Hot Dates: Last Summer Nights from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We've been following eight listeners as they've dated this summer—this week, we do a final check-in as the warm weather winds down.
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Nick Offerman Can Take Directions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nick Offerman is famous for playing the most macho man on TV, but in real life, he says he has "all the colors inside."
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Alzheimer's and the World's Saddest Comedy Club from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Comedian Chris Garcia lost his dad to Alzheimer's last year. Now, he's turning his grief into conversations with other comedians for a new project from WNYC studios—and we're bringing you an ear...
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Hot Dates: From One Hot Dater to Another from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ceci and Miracle talk about what's happened since Miracle ran into one of her Bumble matches making out with her middle school teacher, and Ceci shares a big update.
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Tig Notaro Isn't a Blob Anymore from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the six years since Tig Notaro's famous comedy set about her cancer diagnosis and her mother's death, a lot has changed.
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Hot Dates: Open to Open Relationships from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Since we first talked, Jessie emailed to confess something about her dating life that she didn't tell me before. Plus, June's off Tinder!
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Manhood, Now: Live from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, we continued our conversation about being a man today with a live national special, featuring CNN's W. Kamau Bell and your calls.
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A Wife Interviews Her Husband About Manhood, Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Earlier this week, we got a voice memo in our inbox, from a husband and wife inspired to talk about masculinity together. So we asked them if we could share it with you.
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Manhood Now: What You're Reading from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We've been thinking a lot about what's changing for men, and we wanted to know about other resources that have helped our listeners th...
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Hot Dates: "I'm Supposed to Be Certain" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The first time we talked to Dan, he was wrestling with how to navigate consent in the #MeToo era. This week, he and I dig a little deeper.
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How to Be a Man With Bill Withers, Revisited from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We revisit our episode with the Grammy-winning songwriter and singer on his 80th birthday, for a conversation about a life lived with intention and the beauty of the perfect rhyme.
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Hot Dates: A Middle School Teacher Walks Into A Bar... from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Miracle decided to try a dating app, and got a blast from the past.
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Manhood, Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"You kind of learn what you're supposed to do. But nobody tells you anything." A conversation about what it means to be a man today, in partnership with FiveThirtyEight and SurveyMonkey.
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Hot Dates: Help from an OKCupid Guru from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Louis is at his wit's end with dating apps...so we called in reinforcements. Plus, some musings from Ceci.
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Hot Dates: Do As I Say, Not As I Do from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One of our summer daters has had some big changes in his love life already.
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John Prine Wanted to Be Normal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John Prine has been in the music business for 47 years, and at this point, he's fine being a self-proclaimed "oddball."
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Hot Dates: Romance Right Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dating in 2018 can be frustrating. But a lot of you are doing it anyway...and some of you are letting us listen in.
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Tayari Jones on Frills and Freedom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The bestselling author of An American Marriage talks about writing her own rules for adulthood.
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Your Student Loan Updates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thousands paid off. Cuts to the beauty budget. A foster daughter. Our listeners share what's happened since appearing in our student loans episodes last year.
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When 'Daddy Dates' Pay The Bills from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A 22-year-old who calls herself a “professional sugar baby” explains why she goes on dates with much older men for money—and why the men don’t always think of her as a sex worker.
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A Son, A Mother, and Two Gun Crimes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dwayne Betts committed a carjacking when he was 16 years old. For his mom, Gloria Hill, it was just the first in a series of events in her life involving a gun.
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Death, Sex & Money's Starter Kit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Death, Sex & Money began back in 2014, which means we have a lot of episodes for you to enjoy. But that also means there’s a lot to sift through, if you’re new to the show. So we as...
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15 Years Later, An Iraq Veteran Looks Back from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Thom Tran was grazed by a bullet four days into his deployment in Iraq in 2003. He's spent the last 15 years figuring out what that moment means for him going forward.
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From Indie Rockers to Full-Time Caregivers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When musician Johnny Solomon hit rock bottom, he turned to his mom for help. Now, as his mom's health declines, he and his wife—and bandmate—have moved in with her to reciprocate.
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Gifts From The Universe from 2021-01-27T12:00
Shortly after college, musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland walked away from a classical singing career to create experimental music. "The great thing about youth is that it isn't ...
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Marlo Thomas Is Her Mother's Revenge from 2021-01-20T12:00
As a young woman, actor and activist Marlo Thomas thought marriage was not a good idea. After watching her mother abandon her own successful singing career to support her father's career in acti...
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Just Ask Us: Your Stories About Life After 60 from 2021-01-06T12:00
A few months ago, we asked our listeners over 60 to tell us about their experiences of getting older, especially during the past year. And it turns out, you had a lot to say about it.
Death, Sex&2020 from 2020-12-28T12:00
In 2020, we put out more than 60 episodes ofDeath, Sex& Money—far more than we've ever put out in a year before. We decided early on in the pandemic that we wante...
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All That 2020 Has Taken From Us from 2020-12-16T12:00
When we asked you about what 2020 has taken from you, you told us about jobs, travel opportunities, relationships, milestones. Physical objects and feelings. Irreplaceable moments and loved ones...
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Stuck Apart, And Falling In Love from 2020-12-08T12:00
Marcy has had Joe* on her mind since she went to the prom with him during her senior year of high school. “He kept coming up in my, in my brain, like, well, I wonder whatever happened to h...
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Living Alone and Liking It. Sometimes. from 2020-12-02T12:00
Living alone has its perks. You can eat what you want, wear what you want, and listen to show tunes as loud as you want. You can let your dishes pile up for days—or you can be a total neat freak...
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I Killed Someone. Now I Study Police Violence. from 2020-11-18T12:00
Tom Baker is getting his PhD in criminology, and as part of his research he's spent hours watching and studying police shootings. "The goal is to identify...things that police are doing th...
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51 Years Loving A Man Named Sissy from 2020-11-11T12:00
Last year, we met Sissy and Vickie Goodwin, a Wyoming couple who had been married for 50 years. Around the time they started their lives together, Vickie learned of a secret Sissy had been...
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What’s Going On In Your Immigrant Family's Group Chat? from 2020-10-28T12:00
This past summer, as protests were erupting across the U.S. in response to George Floyd's death, racism and police brutality, producer Afi Yellow-Duke and I started talking about the conversatio...
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Alice Wong On Ruckuses, Rage And Medicaid from 2020-10-21T12:00
Growing up near Indianapolis in the '80s and '90s, Alice Wong wanted to leave. "I knew life was going to be so much better once I got into college," she said. Alice grew up in an immigrant...
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Audio We Love Fest: California Love from 2020-10-15T12:00
Interviewing people is hard. Interviewing a parent...is harder. But that's exactly what writer Walter Thompson-Hernández does in the final episode of his new podcastListen
Audio We Love Fest: Constellation Prize from 2020-10-14T12:00
When producer Bianca Giaever found herself feeling especially lonely, she decided to look for a stranger who was feeling lonely, too. In the basement of a Brooklyn church, she met Sophia, a form...
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Audio We Love Fest: Goodbye To All This from 2020-10-13T12:00
Every week in theDeath, Sex& Money newsletter, we share some of our recent favorite lis...
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Getting Real About Getting Older from 2020-10-07T12:00
The United States is a country that’s rapidly aging. According to Census Bureau estimates, the number of people over 65 in the U.S. will nearly double over the next 40 years. They’re also workin...
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Game Changer: A BMX Olympic Hopeful Looks To 2021 from 2020-09-30T12:00
As soon as it was announced in 2016 that BMX freestyle would become an Olympic event, Chelsea Wolfe knew she was going for a spot on the team. "Growing up as a woman in BMX, y...
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Game Changer: Whether To Play, And Protest, In The NFL from 2020-09-25T12:00
Shelby Harris uses inhalers daily to treat his asthma, and worries about what getting COVID would do to his lungs. But when he was given the choice to opt out of the 2020-21 NFL season, the Bron...
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Game Changer: A Minor League Pitcher's Lost Season from 2020-09-23T12:00
Mitch Horacek started the baseball pre-season in Florida, at minor league spring training for the Minnesota Twins. He'd just been signed by the team months before, after seven long years of play...
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How Maria Hinojosa Learned To Fluff Her Feathers from 2020-09-16T12:00
Maria Hinojosa is best known as the host of the public radio program Latino USA, a role she's occupied for over 25 years. But getting to that point in her career required navigating new...
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A Broadway Actor Turned Stay-At-Home Dad from 2020-09-11T12:00
Last week, we releasedan episode about the many challenges of childcarein America right now. W...
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor On Racism, Insecurity and Negotiation from 2020-09-09T12:00
"Through and through I'm a lawyer and a judge," says U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "But my life experiences do permit me to see things that others may not."
Before the Justic...
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Drop Off: A 24-Hour Daycare's Struggle To Stay Open from 2020-09-02T12:00
Lesely Crawford runs two daycare centers in Pittsburgh—both of which are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. "It's like a hodgepodge of craziness," she told me, as she described the...
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Books We Love: Inside The Bubble With Akwaeke Emezi from 2020-08-26T12:00
The third conversation in our "Books We Love" live Zoom series is with writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi. In the last two years, they've published three books: their critically-acclaimed debut,
"They Rely On Me": An Update From A USPS Mail Carrier from 2020-08-19T12:00
The United States Postal Service has been in the news a lot in the past week, as national anxiety rises about the upcoming presidential election, mail-in ballots,and the Postmaster ...
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This Senator Saved My Love Life from 2020-08-12T12:00
You have to give it to some elected representatives—they really will respond to the letters you send. Or at least, Alan Simpson did when my boyfriend (now husband) Arthur sent a plea for help. W...
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What Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night from 2020-08-05T12:00
Before the pandemic hit, actor Wendell Pierce was jetsetting around the world, filming scenes for the Amazon seriesJack Ryanand starring in a London production of Death of a Salesman. B...
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Rent Is Due Tomorrow from 2020-07-31T12:00
Today is July 31st—which means that for many of us, rent is due tomorrow. But we know from watching recent data that a lot of people won't be able to pay by that deadline. According to a recent ...
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Books We Love: A Big Conversation About "Big Friendship" from 2020-07-29T12:00
The second conversation from our "Books We Love" live Zoom series is with authors and longtime friends Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. They're the co-hosts of the podcastCall Your Girlfriend<...
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How Bobby Berk Became A Boss from 2020-07-22T12:00
When Bobby Berk left his deeply religious home in rural Missouri at 15 years old, it meant dropping out of high school and figuring out how to pay for everything on his own. "I lived in my...
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A Widow’s Guide To Grieving from 2020-07-15T12:00
Five years ago, Leslie Gray Streeter's husband, Scott, had a heart attack and died. And in the immediate aftermath of losing her husband, who was just 44 years old, she says she found herself be...
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Books We Love: Michael Arceneaux’s “I Don’t Want To Die Poor” from 2020-07-10T12:00
I always love talking with writer Michael Arceneaux. Last year, he joined me on the show to discuss his bestselling collection of essays, "I Can't Date Jesus," as well as growing up gay in a Cat...
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What Money Can't Solve from 2020-07-08T12:00
On November 2, 1983, Darrell Cannon was woken up by the Chicago police banging on his door. He knew the drill. As a longtime gang member, run-ins with the cops were common. He'd already served m...
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Skin Hunger: Part 2 from 2020-07-01T12:00
A listener we're calling Elle ended her relationship a few minutes after 2020 began. And she describes it as a pretty devastating breakup: "Basically I was on quarantine for two months alr...
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Skin Hunger: Part 1 from 2020-06-29T12:00
A few months ago, Nick van der Kolk, the host of the podcast Love + Radio, tweeted: "If I were @annasale, I'd be asking my listeners how they're coping with a lack of physical touch in their liv...
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When Six Feet Isn't An Option from 2020-06-24T12:00
As parts of the country start to reopen and some people consider venturing out of their homes more often, there are millions of people who haven't been able to socially distance throughout this ...
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An Essential Worker, Going Back In from 2020-06-17T12:00
Back in April,we shared stories from our listeners who are essential workers...
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I Love You, But There's This Money Thing... from 2020-06-10T12:00
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of spreadsheets and tax documents. But here's the thing: serious relationships are both romantic and fina...
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"This Has Been A Long Time Coming." from 2020-06-05T12:00
"I'm struggling. I’m not doing well."
"I cry, it hurts my heart, sort of physically it hurts."
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Financial Therapy: How Much Should I Help My Family? from 2020-06-03T12:00
Right now, Frenchie is feeling secure in her job as an administrator at a Texas college. But that's not the case for her dad and her three sisters. They're all experiencing various levels of fin...
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What Do You Need To Say Right Now? from 2020-06-01T12:00
What do you need to say right now?
As we take in the anguish that's surfacing today—about the fact that COVID19 is disproportionately impacting communities of color, about the violence of ...
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Financial Therapy: Why Did I Take That Risk? from 2020-05-27T12:00
Two years ago, Mathew* quit an executive job and struck out on his own to start an independent consulting firm. After months of bringing in "90% less than what [he] used to," business was finall...
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Financial Therapy: What Is Our Savings For? from 2020-05-20T12:00
Before the pandemic, Dale ran an event space in Knoxville, Tennessee. After cancelling every booking this month—which was set to be their busiest ever—she finds herself...
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Financial Therapy: Meet Amanda Clayman from 2020-05-18T12:00
Many of you are in financial transition right now. You've lost jobs, income, stable housing. And you're worried about what's to come.
And this time of uncertainty isn't just bringing up th...
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Madeleine Albright On Ambition and Obsoleteness from 2020-05-13T12:00
Madeleine Albright was in her early 20s when she wrote in an essay, "I am obsolete." She'd just become a mother to twins, and since graduating college had moved several times for her husband's j...
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What Is A "Good Death" During A Pandemic? from 2020-05-08T12:00
We recently got an email from a listener named Lindsay. She's a nurse who normally works in pediatric oncology, but right now is working in an adult ICU with COVID-19 patients. And even though, ...
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Samantha Irby Is Prepared To Gracefully Bow Out from 2020-05-06T12:00
Writer Samantha Irby currently lives what she calls "a pioneer woman kind of life." Most of that is due to her wife, Kirsten, who is into things like canning tomatoes and pickling vegetabl...
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Student Loans And The Pandemic: Your Questions, Answered from 2020-04-27T12:00
Even in pre-pandemic times, student loans were confusing. And since our lives flipped upside down a month ago, a lot has changed in the world of student loans, especially for the types of loans ...
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They Were Managing Their OCD. Then Came The Pandemic. from 2020-04-22T12:00
When COVID-19 first hit, listener Diane Davis thought she'd be able to handle it—despite the fact that she's been managing a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder for over two decades...
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An Immunocompromised Love Story from 2020-04-15T12:00
We've been thinking about Alana Duran, whom we first met two years ago in an interview about getting a kidney from her brand-new girlfriend at the time, Lori Interlicchio. In addition to being a...
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A Weekend Homework Assignment From Tayari Jones from 2020-04-10T12:00
When I checked in with writer Tayari Jones recently, we talked about how the past few weeks of isolation have been a time of self-discovery for her. "I feel that I'm living more for myself...
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Goodbye, John Prine from 2020-04-07T12:00
"I get these thoughts, and I like to make them into songs. They might sound odd at the time, but then people connect to them throughout their life," John Prine told me when we talked toget...
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"Nobody Comes Here To Hide": Remembering Bill Withers from 2020-04-03T12:00
When I spoke with songwriting legend Bill Withers for the very first episode of Death, Sex& Money, we talked about what it is to be a man. He told me it might not be manly to say "I'm scared...
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"We Are The Glue": Stories From Essential Workers from 2020-04-01T12:00
A few weeks back, we created aPandemic Tool Kitfor those of us who are staying ...
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A Surgical Nurse On Being Essential from 2020-03-30T12:00
A few days ago we asked to hear from those of you who are essential workers—those of you who can’t stay home right now. We wanted to know what you are thinking about, and what’s helping you. And...
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If You Can't Isolate, What Do You Need? from 2020-03-27T12:00
Over the last week, we've loved watching many of you use ourPandemic Tool Kitan...
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Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple from 2020-03-26T12:00
In 2014, I talked with musicians Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires when they were a year into marriage, and two years into Jason's sobriety. But their new life didn't come without its...
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What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine from 2020-03-25T12:00
As social distancing becomes the new normal for all of us, it's affecting us in different ways. For a listener we're calling Chloe—who stopped drinking a year and a half ago—<...
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We Made A Pandemic Tool Kit from 2020-03-20T12:00
In the past, we've created collaborative spreadsheets with your suggestions for getting through traumatic life events likeListen
Ben Sinclair Is A Fan Of Endings from 2020-03-18T12:00
For fans of the HBO series High Maintenance, Ben Sinclair is practically synonymous with “The Guy,” the laid-back New York City weed dealer he plays on the show. And ...
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Alone Together: A COVID-19 Call-In from 2020-03-13T12:00
Over the last few weeks and days, the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reshaped many of our lives. For some of us, we're working from home, our kids aren't in school, and we're worried about ou...
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Why You're Not Having Sex from 2020-03-11T12:00
A 34-year-old listener we’ll call “Marie” emailed us back in 2015. She’d never dated anyone seriously. She'd never been kissed, and she'd never had sex. She wasn't opposed to any of those things...
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Sugar Babies Cost Me $8,000 And My Marriage from 2020-03-04T12:00
A few months ago, a listener we're calling Ethan sent us an email. The subject line was: "Sugar babies cost me $8,000 and my marriage."
Ethan told us that he hired sex workers from the we...
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Sugar Babies Cost Me $8,000 And My Marriage from 2020-03-04T12:00
A few months ago, a listener we're calling Ethan sent us an email. The subject line was: "Sugar babies cost me $8,000 and my marriage."
Ethan told us that he hired sex workers from the we...
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Maria Bamford Didn't Wait For It To Be Perfect from 2020-02-26T12:00
When comedian Maria Bamford moved to LA in her early 20s, she struggled to cover her food and rent as she was breaking into the comedy world. "Although I had a college degree, I just did not kno...
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Cancer Changed Ken Jeong's Comedy from 2020-02-19T12:00
Ken Jeong described his role as Mr. Chow in the 2009 blockbuster The Hangover as "the most obscene love letter to a spouse one could ever have.” He peppered hi...
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No Slumping With Twyla Tharp from 2020-02-12T12:00
Twyla Tharp's mother first put her in dance classes when she was a child living in Southern California. "I've always been highly programmed," Twyla told me. But when she got to New York and real...
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Carmen Maria Machado Is Using The Word 'Abusive' from 2020-02-05T12:00
When author Carmen Maria Machado was in her mid-20s, she had her first relationship with a woman. She was in graduate school at the time, and in the beginning, her ex made her feel special. "I j...
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Who Are Your 'Quick And Deep' Friends? from 2020-01-29T12:00
Last week, we partnered with the NPR podcastCode Switchto bring you two episodes all about race and friendship. If you haven’t heard those episodes yet, definitely go back, and take a l...
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Ask Code Switch: What About Your Friends? from 2020-01-23T12:00
We're thinking about race and friendship on the show this week. Yesterday,we brought you...
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Between Friends: Your Stories About Race and Friendship from 2020-01-22T12:00
A text message gone wrong. A bachelorette party exclusion. A racist comment during the 2016 debates.
When we asked you all about moments when race became a flashpoint in your friendships, ...
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Inside Planned Parenthood from 2020-01-08T12:00
Saeed Jones's New Year's Determinations from 2020-01-01T12:00
When I talked to writer Saeed Jones, he told me about his late mother, Carol Sweet-Jones, and how she always made New Year's "determinations"—not "resolutions." He recently wrote about the...
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Death, Sex&Money's 2019 Year End Spectacular from 2019-12-25T12:00
We put 46 episodes ofDeath, Sex& Moneyin your podcast feeds in 2019. We talked together about everything from STIs and drinking to stillbirth and big workplace transitions. Today, t...
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Liz Phair's Rebellious Streak Works For Her from 2019-12-18T12:00
In 1994, musician Liz Phair was 27, fresh off the runaway success of her albums Exile In Guyvilleand Whipsmart, and on on the cover of Rolling Stone under the headline...
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The Children Of Heart Mountain from 2019-12-11T12:00
The Heart Mountain Pilgrimage is an annual reunion for Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at Heart Mountain, a WWII incarceration camp in Wyoming, and their families. "I haven’t been ...
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Cheating Happens from 2019-12-04T12:00
People cheat. But they don't often talk about the aftermath, and how they and their partners decide what comes next.
When I asked you to send in your stories about infidelity, I heard from...
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Anne Lamott: Death Sucks, And It's Holy from 2019-11-27T12:00
I recently joined writer Anne Lamott on stage in San Francisco at the Reimagine End of Life festival. Anne's written a lot over her 40-year career about death and grief, as well as about addicti...
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Hasan Minhaj's Honest Mistakes from 2019-11-20T12:00
Hasan Minhaj started doing stand-up sets during college, drawn to comedy by its "radical honesty." "I remember seeing Chris Rock's [special]Never Scared, and I remember him talkin...
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Who's Driving Your Uber? from 2019-11-13T12:00
I’ve learned a lot about the Bay Area from Uber drivers since I moved here a few years ago. Some of them are relatively new arrivals, like me, but others have watched the region change dramatica...
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A Former Debt Collector's Unpaid Bills from 2019-11-06T12:00
When Angela first started working at a debt collection agency, she says she barely understood what her job was. "I was so completely awestruck that people didn't pay their bills," she told...
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When Breast Cancer Pauses Life At 35 from 2019-10-30T12:00
Kate Pickert was 35 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. A longtime healthcare policy reporter, she understood a lot about medicine and the healthcare industry. But even with all...
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Scattered: The Camp from 2019-10-23T12:00
About a year ago, we put out an episode that was actually a pilot of another show, by comedian Chris Garcia. It was his story about grieving his father's death from Alzheimer's, along with a con...
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Saeed Jones Talks About Sex. And Death. And Money. from 2019-10-16T12:00
Saeed Jones' mother, Carol Sweet-Jones, died in 2011—six years after he came out to her over the phone from his college dorm room in Kentucky. They were close, but when Saeed walked...
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The Student Loan Nerd Helping Borrowers One Email At A Time from 2019-10-02T12:00
A few years ago, Betsy Mayotte stumbled upon thestudent loan subreddit—a section on Reddit where users ask each other questions ...
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Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 2 from 2019-09-26T12:00
Nathan realized he couldn't pay his rent and his monthly student loan payments. Beth* collapsed in tears while doing yoga because she couldn't stop worrying about money. Jordan set a calendar re...
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Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 1 from 2019-09-25T12:00
It's something that I think about—in some way—every single day.
When we asked you back in 2017 to tell us your stories about how student loans are impacting your life, we were ove...
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E. Jean Carroll: More Interesting, Not Damaged from 2019-09-18T12:00
When writer E. Jean Carroll first arrived in New York City in the early 1980s, she says she was "a nobody from nowhere." Even so, she headed straight for Elaine's, the legendary restaurant on th...
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50 Years Married To A Man Named Sissy from 2019-09-11T12:00
Douglas, Wyoming, natives Vickie and Sissy Goodwin got married in 1968. It was around the time they started their lives together that Vickie learned of a secret Sissy had been harboring since ch...
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Raphael Saadiq: Music Had To Be My Therapy from 2019-09-04T12:00
Raphael Saadiq's career took off as a member of the R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!—a group whose music taught me, a pre-teen at the time, a thing or two about romance and sexi...
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My Stillbirth During Anna's Maternity Leave from 2019-08-28T12:00
Pregnancy loss happens a lot. Of women who know they’re pregnant, 10 to 15 percent will have a miscarriage before 20 weeks. After that point, pregnancy loss is called a stillbirth. One in 100 pr...
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How Are You "Surfing The Urge" To Drink? from 2019-08-14T12:00
In our episodefeaturing your stories about drinking, our listener Rachel told us about realizing she'd slipped into a nig...
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Michael Arceneaux On Love, Liquid Courage And Letting Go from 2019-08-07T12:00
When writer Michael Arceneaux was in his early 20s, he went to a gay club for the first time—after years of being closeted and denying his sexuality. "I enter a space and I just loo...
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Bottled Up: Your Stories About Drinking from 2019-07-31T12:00
It can sometimes feel like alcohol—whether you're drinking it or not—is an intrinsic element of navigating adulthood. After all, over 70 percent of American adults drink. We take drinking so muc...
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Rashema Melson's Weakest Yet Bravest Moments from 2019-07-24T12:00
In early May, we got an email from Rashema Melson.I'd first met her in 2015, in her dorm's common room at Georgetown Unive...
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A Brother, A Sister, And Their Eating Disorders from 2019-07-17T12:00
Siblings Charlie* and Oscar* were always close growing up. But as they got older, there was one thing that they didn't talk together about: the way they eat.
Both Charlie and Oscar strugg...
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When Work Changes, So Do We from 2019-07-10T12:00
Right after returning from six months of maternity leave, I sat down in the studio with Uma Kondabolu. Uma's been on the show before with her comedian son Hari, but this time I wanted to talk wi...
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Tayari Jones&Carrie Mae Weems: What's It Like Up There? from 2019-06-26T12:00
Carrie Mae Weems always knew she was going to be an artist, but she didn't know she wanted to be a photographer until she got her first camera in her late teens. It was a gift from a boyfr...
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Sarah Smarsh&Nick Smarsh: Are You Different Than Me? from 2019-06-19T12:00
Mahershala Ali&Rafael Casal: Envy Is A Hell Of A Drug from 2019-06-12T12:00
Today, Mahershala Ali is an Oscar-winning actor who lands leading roles in TV shows likeTrue Detectiveand Hollywood blockbusters likeGreen Book. But he got his start as a poet-...
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Alia Shawkat&Esther Perel: Life In Our 30s, And 60s from 2019-06-05T12:00
Actor Alia Shawkat just turned 30, and she's got some questions about what's coming around the corner in this decade. So this week, she talks with Belgian-born psychotherapist Esther Perel about...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom&Trevor Noah: Optimistic and Depressed from 2019-05-22T12:00
When Trevor Noah started hostingThe Daily Showin 2016, he says he told his head writer early on that he might sometimes be late to work. "I'm suffering from depression and sometimes I d...
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Al Letson&Nikole Hannah-Jones: Sensitive, Not Scared from 2019-05-15T12:00
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones spends time in some pretty elite spaces—she's a staff writer atThe New York Times Magazine, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, and a force to be...
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Jason Isbell&Will Welch: Somebody Needs Me from 2019-05-08T12:00
Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell and GQ editor-in-chief Will Welch met in 2004, at what Jason says was "the lowest point of my life." Since then, the two long-distance friends have seen each other...
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Damon Young&Kiese Laymon: The "Good Dude" Closet from 2019-04-24T12:00
Writers Damon Young and Kiese Laymon both are on book tour, promoting their acclaimed memoirs. And while they've been friends via social media for years, they'd never met face to face before rec...
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Jane Fonda After Death and Divorce, Revisited from 2018-09-19T12:00
For one of our earliest episodes, I spoke with Jane Fonda about living her life in the public eye. This week, we're bringing you that conversation again.
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