
Death, Sex & Money
Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.
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Dec 22, 2021 • 26min
A Season to Savor
I share some of the advice, tools, movies, and TV shows that I savored in 2021.
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Dec 15, 2021 • 50min
The Weight Of Love
Your stories about how navigating weight and body size inside a relationship has sometimes made your partnerships stronger...and sometimes broken them apart.
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Dec 1, 2021 • 33min
Why Alan Cumming Doesn't Do Drama
The Scottish actor and I talk about body image, celebrating aging, why he isn't in a monogamous marriage, and the joys of taking ecstasy.
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Nov 24, 2021 • 35min
Becoming A Parent Of Six, At 25
On the air, Yesi Ortiz is a warm, flirty host for a popular L.A. hip hop station. Off the air, she's a single parent of six adopted kids. Managing both roles is more than a challenge.
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Nov 10, 2021 • 39min
“What I Live With”: The Aftermath of Fatal Accidents
In the U.S., nearly 200,000 people die every year from accidental injuries. But what happens when you cause one of those accidents—and you survive?
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Nov 3, 2021 • 40min
I Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns
A listener we're calling Jack wants to tell his dad that a passion for firearms is no longer something they share.
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Oct 27, 2021 • 45min
Order Up, Tapped Out: Life After Restaurant Burnout
Five current and former food service workers reflect on their career changes and the future of their industry since the start of the pandemic.
For more from Cara, Lesely, and on navigating child care in the pandemic, listen to last year's episode here.
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Oct 20, 2021 • 40min
Succession's J. Smith-Cameron On Old Haunts and New Normals
I talk with the Succession actor over egg creams and omelets in New York City.
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Oct 6, 2021 • 29min
Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets
Amanda's husband Sam had a lot of secrets, most of which she discovered after his death. That made grieving, and moving on, a lot more complicated.
We're putting together an audio survival kit for listeners going through infertility. If you've struggled with infertility, tell us—what's helped you through it? Tell us about the things you've listened to, read, done or thought to yourself in a voice memo (please keep it to under a minute) and send it in to deathsexmoney@wnyc.org.
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Sep 29, 2021 • 46min
Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings
What happens when you hit speed bumps on the road to having kids? Today, your stories of IVF, IUI, adoption, choosing to not have kids and managing your expectations through it all.
We're putting together an audio survival kit for listeners going through infertility. If you've struggled with infertility, tell us—what's helped you through it? Tell us about the things you've listened to, read, done or thought to yourself in a voice memo (please keep it to under a minute) and send it in to deathsexmoney@wnyc.org.
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