Death, Sex & Money - Maria Bamford on the Lucrative Nature of Oversharing
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Maria Bamford is a comedian and actress who you may know from her standup specials, her Netflix show Lady Dynamite, or her 2020 interview with Anna on our show. She’s just released a book called, Sure I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere. In this new conversation, recorded live from the stage of City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco, Maria and Anna discuss some of the themes and stories that she writes about in her memoir, including her experience of hospitalization, advocating for herself at work, and her relationship with her parents, before and after their deaths.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. Just a quick note before we get to our new episode. Earlier this year, we did a series of live national call-in shows centered around our mental health. The series was called Hold On. And it came about largely because of how often we hear from mental health providers in our community of listeners, counselors, social workers, therapists, |
| 0:21.9 | and more. They've told us through the years that our podcast has been a useful addition to the work |
| 0:27.5 | they do. We take this as an enormous compliment, and we wanted to make it even easier for |
| 0:34.4 | mental health professionals to share our show with clients and patients. |
| 0:39.1 | That's why we created a new episode resource guide called The Things We Need to Talk About More. |
| 0:45.6 | It's organized around the recurring themes in our interviews, death, sex and relationships, |
| 0:51.3 | money, family relationships, addiction, mental health, and moving through |
| 0:56.1 | life stages. You can find this new episode guide on our website at deathsexmoney.org |
| 1:02.5 | slash guide, and you can also download the guide as a PDF to make it easier to share. |
| 1:07.9 | Let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you at death, sex money, at WNYC.org. And now, my conversation with one of my favorite people to talk about |
| 1:17.6 | mental health with comedian Maria Bamford. They'd be like, well, we're just here to have a good time. |
| 1:25.1 | I am not a good time. I am not a good time. |
| 1:30.7 | I am an assignment from a therapist. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm some comedian, some other comedians come to see and go, huh. |
| 1:40.1 | And I can sell out a room in Portland on a Tuesday. |
| 1:50.9 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 1:55.7 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, |
| 2:05.4 | and need to talk about more. I'm in a sale. |
| 2:17.4 | Maria Bamford is a comedian and actress. You may know her from her many stand-up specials or her Netflix show, Lady Dynamite. |
| 2:19.7 | I first interviewed Maria on the show back in 2020, and she has an excellent new book out called, |
| 2:25.6 | Sure, I'll Join Your Cult, a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere. |
| 2:31.6 | The book is honest, very funny, and genuinely helpful. And I got to talk to |
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