Death, Sex & Money - Daniel K. Isaac Is Opting For The Gray Area
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K 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.
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't have a good role model or someone to say, |
| 0:05.0 | here's a different perspective on it all. |
| 0:07.0 | And instead, I so hated this part of myself, |
| 0:11.0 | and I was going through puberty and trying to stop it at the same time. |
| 0:20.0 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:23.5 | I am a millionaire. |
| 0:24.9 | It's a weird thing to hear, right? |
| 0:26.2 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:29.6 | She can't be dead. |
| 0:31.2 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:32.9 | He will not leave me alone. |
| 0:33.9 | He thinks I am his love goddess. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm in assail. |
| 0:41.0 | 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. |
| 0:50.7 | He was already waiting their tables. |
| 0:52.7 | It was a steakhouse in the basement of a building that had a lot of finance folks in there. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, really? |
| 0:59.0 | And they started recognizing me a little, but mostly the show. |
| 1:03.0 | And then I was sort of unable to do my job as they wanted to talk more than they would to their server. And I could be like, help me understand this |
| 1:14.5 | thing that I don't. The jargon in the show. Yeah. But even now, I'm sort of like, it's fun to |
| 1:20.0 | get to learn about that world. When he was young, Daniel's world was very different. |
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