Death, Sex & Money - Married, Paralyzed and Moving On
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A couple reflects on the big strides they've made together since a cycling accident left one of them paralyzed two years ago—and on the things they still need to face.
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming up on the anniversary of your accident, Hiroki. |
| 0:03.4 | Is that, does that date stick out in your mind? |
| 0:06.7 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 0:07.3 | I mean, I've definitely felt like this week I've been feeling a bit down, actually. |
| 0:12.8 | Just, I think it's a sense of as the time passes and it becomes more permanent, you know, it becoming more real. |
| 0:25.4 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:28.7 | I wish I was dead. |
| 0:30.6 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:33.9 | They have to show me that sometime. |
| 0:35.7 | I think that can be arranged. |
| 0:37.6 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm putting in half the money or I'm not going there. |
| 0:41.7 | Grace! |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Anna's sale. |
| 0:46.5 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi. |
| 0:49.6 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:51.0 | When I asked Rachel Swidenbank and Hiroki Takuyuchi to go to a studio in London to talk with me, it took a minute to get the settings right. I'm noticing there's a little bit of bleed. Can you turn down your headphones because I'm hearing myself back? Do you know how to do that? How do we do that? There seems to be lots of controls. I first interviewed Rachel and Heroki about a year and a half ago. |
| 1:12.4 | Rachel had written me about a cycling accident |
| 1:14.6 | that left Hiroki in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. |
| 1:18.8 | Hey, sorry. |
| 1:20.4 | Apparently there's some bleed. |
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