Death, Sex & Money - Stuck Apart, And Falling In Love
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🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
51 years after they went to prom together, a couple reconnects and falls in love during the pandemic. But despite being 15 minutes apart, they're waiting to see each other in person.
Thanks to our friends at NPR's It's Been A Minute With Sam Sanders for collaborating with us on this week's episode. Check out their episode, about being stuck together during the pandemic, by finding them wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | We both agreed that, you know, we didn't want to see each other and do that until we could actually hug each other and see each other's faces and, like, look into each other's eyes. |
| 0:11.2 | And, I mean, I honestly, I don't know what's going to happen. |
| 0:19.0 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:23.5 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:43.8 | And here with me is the host of the NPR podcast. It's Been a Minute, Sam Sanders. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, Annesale. How are you? |
| 0:53.0 | I'm good. I'm really excited to get to work with It's Been a Minute. It has been a minute since life has been normal. It has. Something I have been thinking about is the way in which I have, for most of these months, |
| 1:00.9 | thought about it as a time when everything is different than it used to be. |
| 1:05.4 | But something I have been thinking about since we started talking is the way in which |
| 1:10.3 | things are not changing |
| 1:12.0 | because of how our lives are right now. Like all of the momentum that creates evolution and |
| 1:19.7 | change in our lives is not there. So so much is just staying the same, stuck in place. |
| 1:26.9 | Staying the same. Yeah. And like when I think of, stuck in place. Staying the same. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.3 | And like when I think of like stuck in place, a lot of this year has been people stuck in |
| 1:35.7 | their physical spaces. |
| 1:37.4 | Stuck at home, can't be with folks you love, or you're like tied up in living with folks |
| 1:44.0 | who you have been coming to hate. |
| 1:46.4 | So this week on death, sex and money, and over on it's been a minute, |
| 1:49.9 | we're offering up two very different takes on being stuck, together and apart. |
| 1:56.2 | Well, your story that you're going to share in your episode, it's quite romantic. |
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