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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & 2020

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

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

4.67.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Death, Sex & Money team looks back on a year none of us expected.

Want to revisit some of our favorite episodes this year? Check out our essential workers episode, our Financial Therapy conversation with Frenchie, the live conversations with Back Issue hosts Tracy Clayton and Josh Gwynn and author Akwaeke Emezi, our episode on conversations in immigrant families, part one of our Skin Hunger collaboration, our update with Sharron, and our Game Changer episode featuring Shelby Harris. Find our Pandemic Tool Kit here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, 2020.

0:03.4

Holy.

0:05.6

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

0:13.4

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and neither talk about more.

0:21.3

I'm Anna Sale.

0:28.5

And we are doing something different this week.

0:30.8

This episode is about things we've thought a lot about and talked about a lot as we have

0:36.5

made it through this wild year.

0:40.2

This time a year ago, I was just back from a packed work trip to New York City where I jammed

0:46.0

my days with lunch dates, in-person meetings, crowded subway rides, holiday parties, and a

0:52.4

fun-filled recording with the entire Death, Sex, and Money team where we were stuffed in

0:56.6

a studio together in New York.

0:59.0

Well, one positive thing we can say about 2020.

1:02.7

I didn't have to do many work trips.

1:04.6

The show saves some money on our travel budget.

1:07.8

But we also had some expenses that we did not expect, like a conference call line that

1:12.1

wouldn't crash.

1:13.4

And what we now call the Magic Cord, which allows me to record conversations through my

1:18.0

smartphone.

1:19.6

We did a lot with that Magic Cord.

1:22.1

In 2020, we wanted to show up for you, be with you, so we made many more episodes this

1:27.4

year than we ever have before.

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