
Death, Sex & Money
Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.
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Jan 11, 2023 • 43min
Why the Creators of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Treat Their Partnership Like a Marriage
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as Daniels, on their friendship, learning to play to their strengths, and making their hit film Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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Jan 4, 2023 • 40min
Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp Talk About Their Divorce, Anxiety, and Slowing Down
The co-creators of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On talk about collaborating while getting divorced, navigating grief, and finding joy in the everyday.
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Dec 28, 2022 • 29min
Trevor Noah Talks Depression, Radical Honesty, and Braiding Hair
The former host of The Daily Show sometimes struggles to get out of bed. But he's comfortable saying that with a smile.
*This episode originally ran in 2019.
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Dec 21, 2022 • 23min
Radiolab’s Lulu Miller Steals All Her Best Ideas From Her Kids
Anna talks with Terrestrials host and creator Lulu Miller about becoming a parent and being inspired by her kids’ curiosities. Plus, a clip from Terrestrials’ “The Water Walker.” We recommend you check out the whole incredible series here.
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Dec 14, 2022 • 40min
Estrangement’s Alternate Endings
In our last episode, we look at how estrangement changes shape over the course of a life: how it can bend or harden, and how it affects new relationships, old memories, and the idea of family.
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Dec 7, 2022 • 49min
Then I Blocked Them: How Estrangement Became Official
When we first asked for your stories on estrangement, we wondered if it was like a slow pulling away, or like a flipped switch? In episode two of our three-part series, we talk to four listeners for whom estrangement might have been a long time coming, but the choice to cut ties was recent and abrupt.
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Nov 30, 2022 • 33min
Estrangement Purgatory
Brian is on the fence. On the one hand, he no longer believes in the religion he was raised in, “It’s high control,” he told us, “rules on everything from what to watch on TV," and "what you do in the bedroom.” But leaving would mean losing contact with his parents and wife.
In our first episode of Estrangement, we talk through the stakes—what could you gain by cutting ties, and what feels impossible to lose?
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Nov 23, 2022 • 39min
Fran Lebowitz’s Guide to Life (And Parties)
The writer shares her thoughts on talent versus luck, her vendetta against hiking, and how she’s made and kept friendships over the years in a live conversation at the Berkeley Repertory Theater.
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Nov 21, 2022 • 3min
Estrangement: We Were Close, Now I Don’t Know You
In Death, Sex & Money’s new three-part series about estrangement, we talk to listeners about cutting family ties, leaving religion, and ending friendships. We also talk to listeners on the other side of estrangement, still desperately wishing for contact, and about what happens after the break. Hear more starting Wednesday, November 30th.
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Nov 16, 2022 • 38min
Race and Friendship After 2020: An Update
“Some conversations I’m just not willing to engage in anymore.”
Check out Matt’s photo series of other Korean adoptees, Where are you really from?. And Chrishana and Sarah talked about reading Big Friendship, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman’s book – we recorded an episode with them in the summer of 2020. Plus, the Pandemic Toolkit we mentioned, full of activities and coping mechanisms for stress and isolation, still lives here.
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