Death, Sex & Money - Death, Sex & 2020
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🗓️ 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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| 0:00.0 | Yo, |
| 0:02.0 | 2020. |
| 0:03.6 | Holy. |
| 0:08.1 | This is |
| 0:09.3 | death, sex, and money. |
| 0:12.9 | The show from WNYC |
| 0:14.9 | about the things we think about a lot |
| 0:16.7 | and need to talk about more. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:28.0 | And we are doing something different this week. |
| 0:30.6 | This episode is about things we've thought a lot about and talked about a lot as we have made it through this wild year. |
| 0:39.8 | This time a year ago, I was just back from a packed work trip to New York City, |
| 0:44.9 | where I jammed my days with lunch dates, in-person meetings, crowded subway rides, |
| 0:50.5 | holiday parties, and a fun-filled recording with the entire death sex and money team where we were stuffed in a studio together in New York. |
| 0:59.1 | Well, one positive thing we can say about 2020, I didn't have to do many work trips. |
| 1:04.6 | The show saves some money on our travel budget, but we also had some expenses that we did not expect, like a conference call line that |
| 1:12.2 | wouldn't crash, and what we now call the magic cord, which allows me to record conversations |
| 1:17.5 | through my smartphone. We did a lot with that magic cord. In 2020, we wanted to show up for you, |
| 1:24.6 | be with you. So we made many more episodes this year than we ever have before. |
| 1:29.9 | When, like a lot of companies and businesses, there was less money coming in to WNYC, our home station. |
| 1:36.9 | So for this year-end episode, I didn't get to be all together with the team in a studio. |
| 1:42.1 | But I talked with each producer one-on-one over Zoom about what we made and how we made it. |
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