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 a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, The Experiment, The New Yorker Radio Hour and many others.
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Fran Lebowitz’s Guide to Life (And Parties)
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Earlier this year, Anna interviewed writer and humorist Fran Lebowitz onstage at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California. But for most of her adult life, Fran’s lived in New York City, where she ...
Estrangement: We Were Close, Now I Don’t Know You
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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 ...
Race and Friendship After 2020: An Update
(00:32:27)
In January 2020, we released an episode with our listeners’ stories about when race became a flashpoint in their friendships. Today, we’re holding a reunion of sorts – checking back in with those same...
Between Friends: Stories About Race and Friendship
(00:46:10)
*This episode originally ran in 2020
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 flashpo...
An Update from the Sex Worker Next Door
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*This episode originally ran in 2015, with an update recorded in 2017.
Anna first talked with a woman we're calling Emma in 2015. At the time, Emma was supporting her family as a sex worker and wrote ...
Sandra Cisneros on Sex, Aging, and the Paranormal
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Sandra Cisneros is one of America’s most celebrated coming of age writers. Her book The House on Mango Street is a staple in American classrooms and has been translated into more than 20 languages. He...
Singing in the Pain: Hrishikesh Hirway on his Mother, Grief and Creativity
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Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and the host of one of Anna’s favorite podcasts, “Song Exploder,” which describes how a song is built track by track by the artists who made it. Music has always been a...
Conversations with My Dead Mother
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Elaine Mitchell came of age in the counterculture of second wave feminism. When she was diagnosed with likely curable rectal cancer at age 66, she decided to exclusively pursue alternative cures, inst...
I Wanted To Be A 'Good Girl'
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*This episode originally ran in 2019.
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...
India Walton: I Knew It Was Gonna Be Tough, But I Didn't Expect it to Get Nasty
(00:45:39)
India Walton grew up in Buffalo, New York, a starkly segregated city, where 85 percent of the city's Black residents live on the East Side. She started a family there at 14 and then a career as a nurs...
Inside John Waters' Home (But Not Inside His Colon)
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John Waters is the writer and director of such cult classics like Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, and his biggest mainstream success, Hairspray. He’s been making movies since the 1960s and this year he re...
How Clothes Help Us Find Our People and Ourselves
(00:31:16)
For many of us, the last few years of the pandemic has given us time to reflect on different aspects of our identities and how we show up in the world. That's meant more room to explore what silhouett...
Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants
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*This episode originally ran in 2016.
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. "...
Big Freedia Bounces Back
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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,...
Finding Meaning After My Husband's Public Death
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When talking about the death of his husband, Terry Kaelber doesn't use the word suicide, "I tend to say he took his own life out of deep distress about the environment through self-immolation." Terry ...
Knock Knock, Who's There? Bob the Drag Queen
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If you lived in Columbus, Georgia in the 90s, you might have spent time in a queer club called Sensations. But Bob the Drag Queen knew Sensations by day, not night – she was in elementary school when ...
What's Going On With Student Loans?
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Here we are again: Just weeks before the federal pause on student loans is set to expire, with indications that the pause will be extended, and hints at debt forgiveness, but no concrete course of act...
"This Isn't Just About Abortion": What the End of Roe Means to You
(00:37:27)
In the weeks leading up to and after the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which ended almost 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, we asked you to tell us how you’re feel...
Bottled Up: Your Stories About Alcohol
(00:41:26)
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 much for ...
The Highs and Lows of Being a Starbucks Union Organizer
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When we called Jacob Lawson, a 23-year-old Starbucks worker from Utah, he was on his way to another Starbucks store in Idaho to help them start a union. "It’s not too far from Utah. It's 150 miles, bu...
“No Call Goes Unanswered”: A Lifeline in Wyoming
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On July 16, 2022, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline becomes a 3-digit number: 988. This switch means that many local call centers across the country are preparing for a higher volume of calls. ...
The Very Hot Marriage of Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts
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When actress Niecy Nash and R&B singer-songwriter Jessica Betts first met in 2015, they struck up a deep friendship. So when they began to fall in love a few years later, they were both caught off-gua...
Cut Loose: Your Stories of Breaking Up
(00:40:56)
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...
'I'm Done Kissing Your Butt': From Manager to Labor Activist
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One of the first things Mary Gundel told us about her childhood was that the Florida foster care system left her with a persistent sense that she was invisible. "Nobody cared, nobody wanted me," she s...
How Harvey Fierstein's Bad Sex Led to Good Art
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When Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein was growing up in New York City in the 60s, he was surrounded by the beginnings of the gay rights movement, and protest art and avant-gard...
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