Death, Sex & Money - "Nobody Comes Here To Hide": Remembering Bill Withers

Death, Sex & Money

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Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Songwriting icon Bill Withers died this week at 81 years old. Today, we revisit my conversation with him—from the very first episode of Death, Sex & Money.

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0:00.0	Bill Withers died this week of complications from heart disease.
0:04.9	He was our guest on our very first episode.
0:08.1	I reached out to him as a fellow West Virginia, and though he rarely gave interviews, he agreed to do this one, for a show that didn't yet exist that had a kind of funny name.
0:18.1	And it's one of the best conversations I've had.
0:22.5	Thank you, Mr. Withers.
0:29.1	Don't worry about that, sugar. If something bothers me, you know, I would say I don't want to talk about that. I'm not that fragile, you know. This is death, sex, and money.
0:38.8	Death is just a part of life.
0:40.8	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot...
0:44.6	Do you like sex.
0:45.8	And need to talk about more.
0:47.7	There's more to life than a little money, you know.
0:51.2	I'm Anna Sale.
0:55.2	Who in the world would come up with a title like that?
0:59.6	It's all the essential stuff, right?
1:02.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:03.4	If you reverse them, it's a story of a lot of people's lives.
1:07.2	That's a story of rock and roll right there.
1:12.2	This guy knows something about that.
1:15.1	My name is Bill Withers.
1:18.0	And you know his song.
1:24.7	Ain't no sunshine.
1:26.6	Lean on me.
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