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Death, Sex & Money

All in the Family of Norman Lear

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The 93-year-old writer and producer behind shows like The Jeffersons and All in the Family talks about his childhood and how it shaped the way he's raised his own six kids. Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The fact of my life is wherever you are at the moment it took every bit, every second, every split second of your life to get there.

0:12.0

It's gone. You did it. It's over.

0:15.0

This is death, sex, and money.

0:20.0

Listen, little girl, respect it for the debt.

0:22.0

The living need dough.

0:24.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:27.0

I think he's going through male menopause.

0:30.0

And need to talk about more.

0:31.0

We don't often talk about that sex and money. I'm Anna Sale.

0:37.0

My name is Norman Lear. I was born on the 27th of July 1922, which makes me 93 if I'm counting directly.

0:47.0

Norman Lear is the TV writer and producer behind iconic sitcoms like The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Good Times, and Maude.

0:57.5

Carol, you want to move, then move?

1:01.0

You mean that?

1:02.0

No. His shows took real life and put it on the small screen.

1:07.0

All right, we both own a house, we both own a furniture, we both own a window the window half and half I want my

1:13.3

air clothes and they became some of the most watched TV programs of the 70s and

1:18.6

80s. Hold it Diane we are the Jefferson. Norman spends most of his time in Southern California,

1:28.0

but I talked with him a few weeks ago in the luxury building in Manhattan

1:31.0

where he has an apartment. It's been called New York's most

1:34.5

exclusive address. I wanted to be able to say to my kids, not you will not want for

1:40.8

anything at all, far from that, but you will not be desperate for a dollar.

1:45.0

And that meant different things along the way.

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