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Death, Sex & Money - Feeling Lost or Stuck? Try Craigslist, says John Wilson.

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The filmmaker behind HBO’s How To with John Wilson shares how his hobbies, like checking Craigslist ads obsessively, make him feel more deeply connected.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Anna. Before we get to our new episode, I have some significant, though incomplete, news to share from Death, Sex and Money headquarters. There's a big change coming for our show.

0:14.5

Since we launched in 2014, we've made it with WNYC, the public radio station in New York, which, like a lot of podcast

0:22.5

and digital media companies, is facing a really difficult budget situation.

0:28.1

Because of that, they have to make cuts, and we've learned that our show is affected

0:32.7

by those cuts.

0:34.7

But what exactly that will mean?

0:37.3

We aren't sure yet.

0:39.3

Here's what I can tell you.

0:41.1

The way we have been making death sex and money is ending at the end of this year.

0:46.6

We don't know yet what that's going to mean for you, our listeners.

0:50.8

I'm working with WNYC to talk to potential new partners or production homes for the show.

0:56.3

Right now, though, that is all I know.

0:59.1

I will share updates with you about the future of our show as I know them.

1:03.5

Until then, we are continuing to make death sex and money through the end of this year at WNYC.

1:09.0

And the team and I were supporting each other through this

1:11.9

uncertainty. They are such amazing colleagues, friends, and audio professionals. And I'm also struck by

1:19.8

how you have helped train us for this time of uncertainty by sharing your stories of making it

1:26.5

through transitions. Some you didn't see

1:29.3

coming. The team and I are in one of those life moments where you can't see around the corner,

1:36.0

where you know you're facing an end, but you can't see yet what that's making room for.

1:42.9

It takes faith.

1:49.1

And for me, this also comes with overwhelming gratitude for all that we've gotten to make together.

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