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Death, Sex & Money - Jane Fonda After Death and Divorce, Revisited

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

For one of our earliest episodes, I spoke with Jane Fonda about living her life in the public eye. This week, we're bringing you that conversation again. 

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Anna. A lot of new listeners have discovered death, sex, and money over the last few months.

0:06.7

So we've been thinking about ways to share more of our favorite older episodes with you, like this one from 2014 with Jane Fonda.

0:15.9

There's an HBO documentary coming out about her next week called Jane Fonda in five acts. So we're taking that as an

0:22.7

opportunity to share my interview with her again. And even if you're a longtime death, sex, and

0:28.3

money fan, this one is worth another listen. Enjoy. I come from a long line of depressive people

0:35.6

on both sides of my family. My father had low-grade

0:39.2

undiagnosed depression, and it went way back in his family, and who knew, you know,

0:44.1

little Prozac back in the Fonda clan could have changed all of our lives.

0:50.7

This is death, sex, and money.

0:54.4

I've got bad news for you, Johnson. We're all dead.

0:57.6

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,

1:01.3

S-E-X, and need to talk about more.

1:04.7

A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.

1:07.8

I'm in a sale.

1:15.6

We have these words to signify the American moment that shaped you. Millennials, Gen X, Boomer, Greatest Generation.

1:19.6

They're not always so precise, though.

1:22.6

Ask any millennial.

1:23.6

Maybe a better question is what do you think about when you think about Jane Fonda?

1:28.7

My name isn't pretty pretty. It's Barbarella.

1:31.3

The universe's sexiest space traveler or the divisive activist during the Vietnam War.

1:37.3

And we, as political people, have to be sure that we don't ever stop

1:41.3

until the people in this country understand that it's been an American defeat.

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