Hi, this is Van and Al Simpson in Cody, Wyoming, asking you to turn off your cell phones and give us your full attention.

And this is Big Al from Cody. Enjoy the show.

Hey, this is Anna, and this episode of Death Sex and Money is a little different. We're bringing you the three conversations

I had on stage at our live show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in May. There were about

850 people in the room. I sat on stage in a white arm chair. To my left was a

turquoise couch and to my right a live band, Luscious Jackson. But the night

started with Tracy K Smith, who walked out on stage and read part of her poem,

My God, it's full of stars.

Perhaps the great error is believing we're alone,

that the others have come and gone,

a momentary blip.

When all along space might be chock full of traffic bursting at the seams with energy we neither feel nor see flush against, living, dying, deciding, setting solid feet down on planets everywhere,

bowing to the great stars that command, pitching stones at whatever are their moons.

They live wondering if they are the only ones, knowing only the wish to know,

and the great black distance they

we flicker in. And This is Seth Sex and Money. I'm Anna Sale. I'm so glad we're here together. We make this show in a small studio at WNYC.

You maybe listen to this show all by yourselves with your ear beds in. So it's so special to be in a room together.

This is Radio Love Fest, a partnership of Bam and WNYC, a listener supported public radio station.

It's our first birthday this week, so we're celebrating.

And to help us do that, our house band for tonight is Luscious Jackson

Luscious Jackson

Jill Knif and Gabi Glaser have been playing together since they were teenagers.

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