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Death, Sex & Money - Inside John Waters' Home (But Not Inside His Colon)

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The delightful and rebellious writer-director welcomes us into his apartment to talk about money, family, friendships, and colonoscopies. 

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0:00.0

Do you have any close friends who you think are snobs?

0:03.5

Yes, and I think they're kind of funny, some of them, you know.

0:06.5

But they're always so serious.

0:08.3

Once Valentino I was with on his yacht, I'm name-dropping, but it's a good story.

0:12.3

And we pulled in, and we had dinner with other people.

0:15.9

And the waiter said to Valentino, water with bubbles without.

0:19.1

And he went,

0:19.4

Bubbles make you fat.

0:23.5

And he was not kidding.

0:25.4

And I've never had bubbled water since.

0:27.7

Oh, I want for you to have some bubble water.

0:29.8

It tastes so good.

0:30.9

No, no, no, thank you.

0:32.5

I don't want to be bloated, as they say in Baltimore.

0:40.0

This is

0:41.2

death, sex, and money.

0:44.9

The show from WNYC

0:47.3

about the things we think about a lot

0:49.3

and need to talk about more.

0:53.7

I'm going a sale.

0:57.0

Hello.

1:03.0

I'm overdressed because I'm going on television right after.

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