Daniel K. Isaac Is Opting For The Gray Area

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

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

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As a teen, Daniel K. Isaac fought his sexuality. But accepting that part of himself as an adult has meant finding new, complicated ways of relating to his mother. Please give to support Death, Sex & Money. If we get 150 new supporters by April 30th, we'll unlock a special treat for the whole community. Head on over to deathsexmoney.org/donate to give, or text "DSM" to 70101. And thank you! And don't forget to subscribe to our weekly email newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	I didn't have a good role model or someone to say here's a different perspective on it all and
0:07.3	instead I so hated this part of myself and I was going through puberty and trying to stop it at the same time.
0:17.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:23.0	I am a millionaire.
0:25.0	It's weird thing to hear, right?
0:26.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,
0:29.0	she can't be dead.
0:31.0	And need to talk about more.
0:32.8	He will not leave me alone.
0:33.9	He thinks I am his love-godice.
0:36.7	I'm Anna Sale.
0:37.8	When Daniel K. Isaac landed his role as a hedge fund analyst on the Showtime show
0:46.2	Billions, he didn't have to go far to learn about people who work on Wall Street.
0:50.3	He was already waiting their tables.
0:52.3	It was a steakhouse in the basement of a building that had a lot of finance folks in there.
0:57.0	And they started recognizing me a little, but mostly the show, and then I was sort of unable to do my job as they wanted to talk more than they would to a to their server and and I could be like help me understand this thing that I don't.
1:15.0	The jargon in the show.
1:17.0	Yeah, but even now I'm sort of like, it's fun to get to learn about that world.
1:22.0	When he was young, to get to learn about that world.
1:28.0	When he was young, Daniel's world was very different. He was raised by a single mom in Korea town in Los Angeles.
1:31.0	They didn't have much money. He also didn't have a lot of friends his own age.
1:35.2	I'd skipped the second grade and started school early, something such that I was always two years
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