Becoming a Parent Of Six, At 25
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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 mother of six adopted kids. Managing both roles, plus romance, is a challenge.
This episode originally aired in 2015.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get going, I just want to thank you for choosing to listen to death, sex, and money as part of your mix of information that keeps you feeling grounded and aware of what's happening in people's lives around you. |
| 0:13.0 | The ecosystem of information is always evolving, but my goodness, there have been some recent shocks. |
| 0:21.3 | Public media losing federal funding in the U.S., local news continuing to struggle and fall away, |
| 0:28.0 | and some of our most storied journalism institutions hit very hard times. |
| 0:34.5 | And the big layoffs at the Washington Post last week prompted us to reach out to our Slate colleague David Plotz. |
| 0:41.6 | He's the longtime co-host of the Slate Political Gab Fest, who at one time was Slate's editor-in-chief. |
| 0:47.0 | And he grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and has long relied on the Washington Post for local coverage. |
| 0:52.8 | And he's been doing a lot of thinking about how |
| 0:54.8 | people get information about their communities now. So if you ask people where they get news about their |
| 1:00.9 | city, they don't like to answer it. They're like, I don't pay attention to the news. If you say |
| 1:06.4 | the word news, they don't. But then you ask them, how do you learn about what's happening in |
| 1:10.3 | your city? You ask them, you rephrase it. And then you realize it's more like this series of scattered. And then we text our friends. Did you hear about this? Right, right. David is currently running a company called CityCast, which has been setting up local newsrooms and cities across the country, 13 so far. |
| 1:28.7 | And after the post layoffs, they're hiring more DC reporters to help fill the gap. |
| 1:34.2 | Cities need great ways to connect and great news because that makes them stronger. |
| 1:40.7 | It also can be a great business. It will be a great business. |
| 1:43.8 | Historically, giving people information about their community is a great business. It will be a great business. Historically, |
| 1:44.2 | giving people information about their community is a great business. Now, it isn't at this moment |
| 1:48.8 | in newspapers, but historically, that's a very valuable service to provide. |
| 1:53.3 | Citicast has the same parent company, Graham Holdings Company, as Slate, where we make |
| 1:58.2 | death sex and money. And Graham Holdings Company also owned the Washington Post |
| 2:02.0 | before Jeff Bezos spotted. David and I talk about all this in a special Slate Plus conversation |
| 2:08.9 | that's out right now. Slate Plus members can hear it. And if you haven't become one of our listeners |
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