Death, Sex & Money
By WNYC Studios
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Description
Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of—and to regular people you haven't—about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Note to Self, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others.
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ExplicitHari Kondabolu and His Mom Answer Your Life Questions | When we first met comedian Hari Kondabolu and his mom, Uma, a year ago, we found out that comedy runs in their family. We had such a good time with them that we invited Hari and his hilarious mom to join us on stage again—this time, for a live ad | 5/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit'Precious' Paid Off Gabourey Sidibe's Gym Membership Debt | Gabourey Sidibe was 24 and working as a phone sex operator when she was cast as the lead in the 2009 film Precious. It was her first acting role. "It had better change my life for the better," she remembers thinking to herself. "That’s what I prayed fo | 5/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitKevin Bacon Shows Us His Cash | "We all have a different relationship with money," Kevin Bacon told me on stage when I recently interviewed him at The Greene Space in New York. "It's just as complex as death and sex." One thing I learned about Kevin Bacon's relationship with money in o | 5/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTwo Wheelchairs and A Baby | When Nikki Villavicencio and Darrell Paulsen found out they were going to have a baby, their first question was: What now? "It was a scared feeling. It’s not that this was not the right thing or the right feeling, but it was, 'What do we do next?'" Dar | 5/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNewlywed and Paralyzed | "I want to understand if this isolated feeling is normal." That’s what Rachel Swidenbank wrote to me just six weeks after a cycling accident left her husband, Hiroki Takeuchi, paralyzed from the waist down. The accident happened last summer, less than | 4/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlec Baldwin Talks Money, Family, Fame and Cocaine | "I completely forgot that this is an episode of Death, Sex & Money. We're taping this for your show!" That's how Alec Baldwin responded after I started our on-stage conversation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by asking him about money, and how he t | 4/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPleased to Meet You, Nancy | I first met Kathy Tu and Tobin Low two years ago, when they had an idea for a new podcast. The two friends wanted to make a show that would feature fun, honest and edgy stories and conversations about all things gay. And today, I'm so excited to final | 4/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Rashema Melson Left Georgetown | I met Rashema Melson in the middle of her sophomore year at Georgetown University. She'd made national headlines the year before when she graduated as valedictorian of her D.C. high school class after spending several years living in a homeless she | 4/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitA Prison Guard In Transition | Mandi Hauwert was 32 and a few years into her career as a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison when she started to wear eyeliner to work. "Just a little bit," she tells me. "Just to have some sense of feeling when I went to work that I was b | 3/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't | 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. "I told her that it was her choice and if she chose to keep | 3/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitLive from the Internet: Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires & You | We met Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires three years ago to hear about their love story. They met when Jason was still struggling with sobriety, and got married about a year before we first sat down. Since then, they've continued to create new music, m | 3/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitCristela Alonzo's Lower Classy Comedy | Comedian Cristela Alonzo says she didn't grow up with much. Her mom raised four kids on her own in an abandoned diner with no running power or water in South Texas. Things are different for Cristela these days. "I have the kind of money where I can go in | 2/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitCut Loose: Your Breakup Stories | When Nan Bauer-Maglin was 60 years old, her husband left her for his 25-year-old student. "I thought about suicide. You know, there’s a great feeling of rejection especially if you’re older," she told me. "You just feel ugly and invisible and sad and | 2/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe NFL Made Me Rich. Now I Watch It... Sometimes. | When Domonique Foxworth and I first talked, the former NFL player was attending Harvard Business School and looking forward to a career as a high-powered executive. "I want to get to the point where I feel comfortable saying the things I’ve achieved fi | 1/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMahershala Ali on Faith, Love and Success | We met actor Mahershala Ali and his wife, the artist Amatus, last year in Brooklyn, a few months after he filmed his scenes for Barry Jenkins' film "Moonlight." Now, ten months later, Mahershala has earned his first Academy Award nomination for his rol | 1/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Had Babies To Pay For My Baby | Sarah Short remembers being 19 years old, staring at the bill from the hospital where she gave birth to her daughter. It added up to about $10,000. "There's the anesthesia, the hospital stay, and the doctor—and I just laughed," she tells me. "I was lik | 1/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitTracy Clayton Is Speaking Things Into Existence | Right before the new year, Another Round podcast host and writer Tracy Clayton tweeted: there are so many things i want for 2017 and i believe in speaking things into existence so im gonna use this thread to do that — Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) D | 1/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitA Son and His Mom Laugh Through Darkness | In 2014, after Bex Montz dropped out college, transitioned and got sober, he tried to kill himself. Before losing consciousness, he called 911. When he woke up, the first thing he saw was his mom, Katie Ryan, sitting in the corner of his hospital room. | 12/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMy Awkward Money Talk With Sallie Krawcheck | Before she was a Wall Street executive or the CEO of an investment company for women, Sallie Krawcheck was a little kid, listening to her parents fight about money. "You just knew, once a month, they were gonna have a big fight and somebody was gonna | 12/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitLet's Talk About Porn | Porn. It’s something that people use in their most intimate, private moments. It’s a way to acknowledge desire—without any of the attachments of intimacy. For some of you, that's incredibly freeing. For others, it's caused some real problems. This | 12/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOther Americans | Since the election, Americans on both sides of the political divide have been feeling deeply alienated and profoundly misunderstood. So we've been asking our listeners one central question: What's the thing that you wish other Americans understood abou | 11/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat Money Can't Solve | 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 more than a decade behind bars for a murder conviction. But | 11/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitIf You're Not ____, Then Never Mind | Actor Amy Landecker got divorced in 2011. "It was the worst time of my whole life," Amy says. "People told me it was going to get better and I didn't believe them." Amy and her ex-husband share custody of their daughter, and Amy struggled with being awa | 11/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Was More Angry At God | Two years ago, Jane Chung was living in New York, working at a startup and having the time of her life. The business she co-founded, called Klooff—a sort of "Instagram for pets"—was growing by leaps and bounds. "Everything seemed to align," Jane says | 10/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEllen Burstyn & Gloria Steinem | Before the women's movement came around in the 1960s, Gloria Steinem thought her options for the future were limited. "I was being a freelance writer and not having any money to save, and assuming that I would be a bag lady," she tells guest host Ellen B | 10/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDiane Gill Morris & Officer Robert Zink | Diane Gill Morris first joined us last year to talk about raising her two boys, Kenny and Theo. Both of her children are autistic, and Diane told us about the challenges that have come with their diagnoses and the overwhelming responsibility she feels | 9/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitChris Gethard & Tim Dillon | Comedian Tim Dillon has lived a lot of life in his 31 years. "I was a child actor," he tells guest host Chris Gethard. "I started doing coke at 12. My mother's a schizophrenic. I was a closeted homosexual. I'm politically all over the map, though I lean | 9/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSonia Manzano & Justice Sonia Sotomayor | "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 Justice became a lawyer and a judge, she was a young woman growing up | 9/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Great Guest Takeover | A few months ago, we mentioned that we were working on a couple of special episodes during Anna's maternity leave. What we didn’t mention was that we were working on these special episodes with some familiar voices. We invited four of our fa | 9/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLife Is a Mystery | There are some interviews that just stay with you. My conversation with Elizabeth Caplice is one of those. I spoke with Elizabeth back in March for our episode about near death experiences called "When I Almost Died." A listener had suggested that we | 8/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitYour Death, Sex & Money Short Stories – Live! | Last year, we asked listeners to share their favorite short stories about death, sex and money. After receiving more than 140 suggestions (you can find them all here), we picked five of our favorites—and partnered with the public radio show Selecte | 8/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAnna Chlumsky Catches the Worm | At 10 years old, Anna Chlumsky delivered an iconic performance alongside Macaulay Culkin in the classic '90s movie My Girl. She became a child star, but the attention and job offers were fleeting. By the time she was a teenager, she'd stopped getting | 8/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitDating Was So Hard, Until It Wasn't | "When I want it badly enough, I can...really steel myself and just be like, 'Don't freak out, just stay still, kiss them. Just do it!'" This is how Katie Heaney talked about her dating life when we first spoke back in 2014. She'd just published her co | 7/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWe're Not Going To Have Karl Again | Karl Ives Scorah Towndrow was born last spring to parents Amber Scorah and Lee Towndrow. Neither of them were prepared for how deeply they would fall in love with their first child. "I remember having this feeling where I wanted to almost...absorb him | 7/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitTituss Burgess Airs His Laundry | Tituss Burgess says there isn't much that he won't talk about. "I'm comfortable airing my laundry," he says. "I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear." It's taken him years to get to that place. Raised by his mom in Georgia, the | 6/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitInside Planned Parenthood | The first thing that greets you when you step off the elevator at the Planned Parenthood in Brooklyn is a metal detector. "I didn’t necessarily expect it," a first-time patient told me. "But as soon as I saw it I was like, 'Oh yeah, that’s right, t | 6/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitDanielle Brooks Is Ready to Talk About Sex | Danielle Brooks started out her life in a very religious household. Her mother and father are a minister and a deacon, respectively, and she grew up singing in her church choir and participating in oratorical contests run by her congregation. And the chu | 6/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAn Update from Susanne | We met Susanne* and Mike* earlier this year, when they shared how they overcame heroin addiction together. They started dating when they were teenagers, and began doing heroin together only a few weeks into their relationship. What followed were years | 5/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitHow Jeff Daniels Got Sober, Again | Jeff Daniels dropped out of college and moved to New York City to become an actor. He left his family behind in Chelsea, Michigan, where his dad ran the local lumber yard. But a few years after moving to the city, Jeff says he got a letter from a young | 5/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitFrom Conversion Therapy to a Rainbow Yarmulke | When Chaim Levin first met Benjy Unger almost 10 years ago, Chaim immediately wanted to be friends. "He was like one of those bros from high school that was just so regular and nobody would guess that he’s gay," Chaim tells me. Chaim and Benjy grew | 5/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitDiane Guerrero on Debt and Deportation | Diane Guerrero was just 14 years old when she came home to an empty apartment. Her parents had been taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and would soon be deported to their native Colombia. "My family unit essentially died that day," she sa | 4/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhen I Almost Died | A few months ago, I asked you to share your near-death experiences. In all, we received more than 100 stories from you: through your emails, voice memos and—for the first time—our Medium page, where you can read the submissions. You told us about ca | 4/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitDead People Don't Have Any Secrets | When Amanda* met Sam* in her mid-20s, she thought he was the most interesting person she had ever met. "It was almost like he had tried to live his life a different way," she told me. "I was just enchanted by that." Three years into their marriage, th | 4/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRosie, Sixto, Hari, Uma, Mahershala, Amatus, Lisa & Dan | For Rosie Perez, it's her cousin, Sixto Ramos. For Mahershala Ali, it's his wife, Amatus. And for Hari Kondabolu, it's been his mom, Uma Kondabolu. Our recent live show in Brooklyn was all about times of big change in life and the family who keeps us g | 3/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAfter My Brother Avonte Disappeared | Danny Oquendo was in the spotlight long before his 14-year-old autistic brother, Avonte, disappeared from his New York City school. Growing up, Danny was a football star — “sort of a golden child,” he sheepishly told me — eventually playing for | 3/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitFalling in Love... With Heroin | Susanne* met Mike* when she was 16. He was 18, and her supervisor at the call center where they worked. They flirted and started dating. "Average teenager stuff," Susanne recalls. Soon after they got together, Mike offered Susanne heroin. She says she h | 3/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichael Ian Black's Middle-Aged Angst | Being a rebellious smart-ass helped comedian Michael Ian Black launch his career. And it occasionally got him into trouble. “Once I called the head of MTV a drunk,” he told me. “She was very offended.” It didn’t help that he was working for MTV | 2/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDANCE BREAK! | We've been asking you to tell us about the songs that have meant a lot to you during times of big change in your life. You've sent in more than 500 suggestions so far—along with a lot of great stories. Our listener Kevin Chung from Seattle sent us his | 2/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitLucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants | When Lucinda Williams was in elementary school, all the other kids brought rock collections and other standard fare to show-and-tell. But she brought a folder. "I put this notebook together of seven poems and a short story by Cindy Williams," she remembe | 2/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhy Jeb Corliss Jumps Off Cliffs | Jeb Corliss says he's "impossible to be in a relationship with." He's a professional BASE jumper and wingsuit flier—who's learned to very carefully analyze and control his emotions, including fear. "People don't realize that feelings get you in big tro | 1/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrooke Shields, Recovering Daughter | Brooke Shields became famous as a sex symbol long before she was actually having sex. At 12, she played a child prostitute in the film Pretty Baby. Soon after, she starred in the sexy teen romance Blue Lagoon. And at 15, she became the controversial fac | 1/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLiving Alone, One Year Later | Today, more than a quarter of American households are home to just one person. And living alone has its perks. You can eat what you want, crank up the stereo and let your dishes pile up for days. But there's also no one to help foot the bill, and no on | 12/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStop Calling Me 'The Homeless Valedictorian' | A year and a half ago, Rashema Melson’s story made national news. She attracted attention after she graduated at the top of her high school class in Washington, D.C., and earned a full scholarship to Georgetown, all while living in a homeless shelte | 12/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAutism Isn’t What I Signed Up For | Diane Gill Morris was 25 when her first son, Kenny, was born. About 15 months later, she and her husband realized that he’d stopped talking. By the time Kenny was officially diagnosed with autism, Diane’s second son, Theo, was eight months old. Less | 12/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHolland Taylor Steps Off Her Island | Actress Holland Taylor has played roles like Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice, an ad executive in Bosom Buddies, and the emotionally distant mother Evelyn Harper on Two and a Half Men. She's built a reputation for playing patrician, self-assured | 11/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhy You're Not Having Sex | A 34-year-old listener we’ll call “Marie” emailed us not long ago. She’s never dated anyone seriously. She's never been kissed, and she's never had sex. She's not opposed to any of those things. They just haven't happened for her yet. And she | 11/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKevin Powell Doesn't Fight Anymore | Born in Jersey City to a poor, hard-working single mother from the South, Kevin Powell was a gifted young writer who earned a scholarship to Rutgers. Then things fell apart. He got expelled after a series of violent outbursts, two of which were directed | 11/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAll in the Family of Norman Lear | I spoke with Norman Lear, the veteran writer and producer behind such hit TV shows as All in the Family and The Jeffersons, at his luxury apartment in Manhattan. He told me he wanted to make sure his kids would never be "desperate for a dollar" -- but | 10/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Power of Yesi Ortiz | 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 mother of six adopted kids. Her kids' biological mom is Yesi’s older sister, who had | 10/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Astronaut’s Husband, Left Behind | Dr. Jonathan Clark and his eight year-old son Iain watched the space shuttle Columbia launch from Kennedy Space Center on January 16, 2003. Sixteen days later, Columbia exploded upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Jon's wife, Dr. Laurel Clark, was | 10/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Sex Worker Next Door | I first heard from Emma—that's not her real name—after our cheating episode. She emailed me about all of the married men that she encounters through her job. "Am I facilitating cheating? I guess so," she wrote. "Can I sleep at night? Mostly." She w | 9/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Chaos to Sesame Street | Sonia Manzano, who spent more than 40 years playing Maria on Sesame Street, often gets asked by kids if she’s rich. It all depends on where you came from, she told me. Compared to Jennifer Lopez, she’s “poor as a church mouse.” But compared to wh | 9/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIn New Orleans: How to Get Elected Coroner | Dr. Jeffrey Rouse is New Orleans' coroner—a job he describes as the “interface between law and medicine.” But ten years ago, he was working in a lab studying the brains of people with PTSD, getting ready for a life in academia. When the storm hit, | 8/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIn New Orleans: A Doctor Stands By Her Adopted Home | Ten years ago when Katrina hit, Dr. Kiersta Kurtz-Burke didn’t evacuate. Instead she stayed inside New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, where she worked for six days, caring for 18 patients on the 5th floor. There was no power, and it seemed like no one wa | 8/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitIn New Orleans: Big Freedia Bounces Back | Even before becoming Big Freedia, Freddie Ross was known around New Orleans. Her "signature call"—an operatic bellow that she lets out when I ask to hear it—was legendary in the city. "They'd be like, 'Oh that's Freddie in the club'.... The signatur | 8/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIn New Orleans: Becoming the Demo Diva | Simone Bruni never imagined she would someday run a demolition company. "I grew up in a very traditional Latin home," she says. "My mom did not work. I wanted her life. I wanted to be a stay at home mom." But when Hurricane Katrina hit, Simone was 32 a | 8/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitIn New Orleans: From Raising Hell to Raising Kids | A decade after Hurricane Katrina, Terri Coleman is teaching a summer class to incoming students at Dillard University—a historically black college in New Orleans. But 10 years ago, when she was about the same age as her students, she was not the kind o | 8/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLife as a Wife | Cindy Chupack got married for the first time when she was 25. Two years later, the man she married realized he was gay. They got a divorce. Chupack went on to have a successful career as an author and screenwriter, working on shows like Sex and the City. | 8/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoy Williams' Public Breakup and Private Grief | Before singer-songwriter Joy Williams became one half of the Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars, she was a fledgling Christian artist in Nashville without much romantic experience. “Pure as the driven snow would have been the moniker at that point, | 7/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Funeral Director's Life After Burnout | When I first spoke with Caleb Wilde last year, he joked that he's damned to be a funeral director for the rest of his life. But there's some truth there. He's a sixth-generation funeral director in the small town of Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. It's a commu | 7/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitSiblinghood | For all the things we share with our brothers and sisters -- parents, genes, a childhood -- most of us have also wondered at one point or another how we could possibly be related to our siblings. As we grow up, it can be hard to update those relationshi | 6/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitA Dirty Cop Comes Clean | Retired NYPD officer Ken Eurell says the first time he stole money on the job, he was responding to a burglary call. When he got back in the squad car, he says his partner Michael Dowd pulled out a wad of cash he'd taken from the scene and handed over a | 6/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean2 Couples, 1 Poet, a Rock Band and a Dog | In celebration of Death, Sex & Money's one year anniversary, we brought two married couples, one Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a rock band, a dog and a turquoise couch onto the stage at BAM for a special live show during WNYC's RadioLoveFest. First, I | 6/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobert Earl Keen Quit Nashville and Stayed Married | When Robert Earl Keen moved from Texas to Nashville in 1985, things were looking up: He’d just gotten married and put out his first album, No Kinda Dancer. Nashville was the place to be for an aspiring country musician...but that ended up being part | 5/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrooklyn Left Me Broke, But I Came Back | For more than a decade, Heidi Reinberg, a 54-year-old freelance documentary producer, lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn -- just a few doors down from Mayor Bill de Blasio. Then, her landlord decided to sell. Heidi got priced out | 5/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanW. Kamau Bell Wonders How Much Is Enough | For a long time, W. Kamau Bell’s fear was that he would complete his career in comedy and remain anonymous. Then, Chris Rock took notice of his one-man show, and they teamed up to create the television series Totally Biased. Bell moved across the co | 4/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHedwig, Older and a Little Less Angry | The day I went to meet John Cameron Mitchell in his apartment, he had glitter stuck to his face and two ice packs in his freezer for the knee he injured on-stage during a performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. "I was doing Neil Patrick Harris’s | 4/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIn Sickness and In Mental Health | Giulia and Mark Lukach got married when they were 24. Three years later, Giulia began experiencing paralyzing anxiety and paranoid delusions. She started talking about committing suicide. Mark and her father drove Giulia to the emergency room while she | 4/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitCancer Changed Ken Jeong's Comedy | Ken Jeong describes his role in the 2009 blockbuster The Hangover as "the most obscene love letter to a spouse one could ever have.” He peppered his dialogue with bits of Vietnamese as an inside joke with his wife Tran. Ken met his wife while they | 3/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhere is Lisa Fischer's Backup? | Lisa Fischer has sung backing vocals for Dolly Parton, Bobby McFerrin, Luther Vandross and Beyoncé. She's also toured with the Rolling Stones since 1989, going from one swanky hotel to another, "eating caviar for breakfast" and playing sold out sta | 3/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitCheating Happens. | 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 so many of you. Listener Sasha* told us about how she suspected | 2/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReal Love: A Valentine's Special | This whole show started with a love story. I’d been married in my 20s, then divorced at 30. Months later, I started dating Arthur, a biologist studying wolves in Wyoming. The distance made things hard, and the relationship almost ended. Then I got a | 2/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSongs In The Key Of Strife | Teddy Thompson was six years old when his parents, English folk rockers Richard and Linda Thompson, split up. The breakup coincided with the release of the duo's most successful album. They were on tour together as their marriage dissolved. That same | 2/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMargaret Cho's Sex Education | The daughter of Korean immigrants, comedian Margaret Cho made a successful career in comedy by making fun of her parents, and telling jokes about the ethnic snacks they put in her lunchbox. Cho felt that her parents seemed out of touch, and she was | 1/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDesiree Akhavan's Breakthrough Breakup | At 16, Desiree Akhavan says she was voted the ugliest girl at her school. In a play that she wrote that same year, Akhavan included a sequence based on the incident, turning a sad, victimizing event into something entertaining. But when you ask Akha | 1/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLiving Alone and Liking It. Sometimes. | 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. There’s no one to stop you. But there’s also no one | 12/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Killed Someone. Now I Have 3 Kids. | Lawrence Bartley watched his youngest son's first steps in a visiting room at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. He is an inmate. On Christmas night, 1990, he killed a 15 year-old bystander during a shoot-out in a movie theater. Bartley was 17 at the time | 12/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJames McBride Resets | When you hear that someone’s a best-selling, award-winning author, what do you imagine their life is like? A big house with a BMW in the driveway? James McBride, author of the smash hit The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird, had all that for a whi | 11/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Funeral Director’s Dead Reckoning | Caleb Wilde jokes that he's damned to be a funeral director for the rest of his life. But there's some truth there. He's a sixth-generation funeral director in the small town of Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. He's been doing this for over ten years. In a comm | 11/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEllen Burstyn's Lessons on Survival | When Burstyn was 18, she got on a Greyhound bus going from Detroit to Dallas. She had 50 cents in her pocket and a hunch that she could find work as a model. The actress and director, known for her roles in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Exorcis | 10/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMy Father's Secret Life | Whitney Joiner was 13 when her father Joe told her he was HIV-positive. He said he hoped to see her graduate from high school. Five months later, he was dead. It was rural Kentucky in 1992, and Whitney and her family thought it was best to keep quiet. | 10/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe NFL Made Me Rich. I Won't Watch It Now. | It’s difficult, Domonique Foxworth says, to watch guys get knocked unconscious, carted off, then brought back out to play. And he knows something about injuries—a first-team All-ACC cornerback at the University of Maryland, Foxworth’s seven-year | 9/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeet the First Family...of Podcasting | Scott Aukerman and Kulap Vilaysack are the podcasting world’s ultimate power couple, but they couldn’t have come from more different backgrounds. When Scott was a musical theater-loving teenager in Orange County, California, Kulap was washing dishes | 9/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCult Comedy Heroes Have Bills to Pay, Too | Chris Gethard is at a personal peak, but in a professional valley. Maybe you’ve seen him in brief turns on The Office or Louie, but he’s best known for his Manhattan public access television show, The Chris Gethard Show. It’s beloved by New York co | 9/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChaz Ebert on Life Without Roger | Don’t call Chaz Ebert a widow. She’s Roger’s wife. Since his death in April of 2013, she says she still feels his presence. She knows it sounds a little crazy, but she says they still communicate in their own way. There was always magic in their r | 8/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Player Leaves the Game | Jozen Cummings can’t get any woman he wants. But for a while there, the New York Post's dating reporter was doing pretty well for himself. He used to take out multiple women a day: one for coffee, another for lunch, and another for dinner. He left the | 8/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDan Savage Says Cheating Happens. And That's OK. | Occasional infidelity adds excitement to Dan Savage's marriage. He's not afraid of talking about that, he told me. What he doesn’t like discussing is money. Namely, how his husband Terry likes spending it: on shoes, clothes, and records he may never | 7/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlpha Dad Gets Snipped | In a lot of ways, vasectomies couldn’t have asked for a better spokesman than Australian Clint Greagen: weightlifter, Australian football fanatic, loving husband, and stay-at-home father of four who blogs about pretty much everything -- including the | 7/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJane Fonda After Death and Divorce | What do you think of when you think of Jane Fonda? The sexy space traveller from Barbarella? Vietnam War activist? Fitness goddess? Fonda, now 76, has had quite the career. She’s also had three marriages — to a French director, an anti-war activist, | 6/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Married the Gay Father of My Child | New York-based performance artist Lucy Sexton was never one for convention. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when it came to having a family, she found a way to make it happen on her own terms. When she found herself childless, divorced, and pus | 6/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanConfessions of a Nashville Power Couple | Jason Isbell was performing in bars before he could drink in them. By his early 30s, he’d played the Grand Ole Opry, joined the Drive-By Truckers, and gotten married and divorced. And when he found himself drunk one morning in a McDonald’s parking lo | 5/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThis Senator Saved My Love Life | 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 Arthur sent a plea for help. We were in love, but I was a reporter in New York and he studied wildli | 5/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrooklyn Left Me Broke and Tired | Heidi Reinberg is tired of worrying about money. She’s 53 years old. She’s gotten by as a freelance documentary producer in New York for 30 years. But she told me her coffers have dried up just when her landlord is selling. She’s losing her apartme | 5/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Be a Man With Bill Withers | Maybe it’s not manly to say, “I’m scared.” But for Bill Withers, being a man isn’t about ignoring fear. It's about getting things done in spite of it, and knowing when to ask for help. Before he wrote some of the most memorable hits of the 70s | 5/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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