Death, Sex & Money - I Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns
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🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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A listener we're calling Jack wants to tell his dad that a passion for firearms is no longer something they share.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, a heads up. This episode contains mentions of gun violence and suicide. So please take care while listening. |
| 0:08.8 | The first time I came out, I was saying that I'm your exact same son and I'm gay. |
| 0:17.8 | This is a little bit more like saying, I'm not the person you think I am |
| 0:23.7 | and that's I think that's |
| 0:27.2 | more likely to be hurtful |
| 0:29.8 | this is death |
| 0:34.5 | sex and money |
| 0:35.9 | the show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:53.5 | Jack came out to his parents when he was 19 years old. |
| 0:57.0 | He was in his first semester of college and home for Thanksgiving break in West Virginia, |
| 1:01.0 | where I'm also from. |
| 1:02.0 | The way I got myself sort of psyched up to do it is that, you know, I had a, I figured out my scholarships for school, so I knew school was paid for, |
| 1:12.4 | and then I got a part-time job on campus, so I knew I could pay for my room and board. |
| 1:18.4 | And I was like, okay, you know, if this goes poorly, I'm going to be okay. |
| 1:25.0 | Like, I'm going to know where I'm going to be tomorrow. |
| 1:28.3 | So, Jack, nervously sat his parents down and told them. |
| 1:32.5 | My mom said, tell me something I don't know, and my dad was shocked. |
| 1:36.4 | Your mom really said that? |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.8 | Well, I mean, she's not in so few words, but yeah, I mean, she looked at me like, yeah. |
| 1:48.2 | But I suppose she and dad had not talked about it because my dad just stared at me for a solid 30 seconds, kind of slack jaw. |
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