Death, Sex & Money - This Senator Saved My Love Life
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about love—and how it changed everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Anna back in your Death Sex and Money podcast feed, hooray! |
| 0:06.7 | Since you last heard from me here, Death Sex and Money has moved to Slate and the team and |
| 0:12.2 | I have started back at work on new episodes for you. |
| 0:15.2 | But we wanted to share an episode with you this week in which we celebrate |
| 0:19.5 | romantic love and remind you of the origin story of this show. |
| 0:25.0 | More than 10 years ago now, I was in the middle of a painful protracted breakup with my ex Arthur. |
| 0:32.0 | We just couldn't see a way forward. and I was at a point of my life when I felt |
| 0:35.8 | a lot of time pressure to make sure I could see a way forward because I knew I wanted to be a |
| 0:41.5 | mom. That led somehow to me talking about love |
| 0:45.8 | and marriage and getting through relationship conflict with two people I had |
| 0:49.8 | just met, former Senator Alan Simpson and his wife Anne. |
| 0:55.0 | That's what this episode is about. |
| 0:57.8 | And as you listen now in 2024, |
| 1:01.6 | whether it's the first time you've heard this episode or if you're a long time |
| 1:04.8 | listener hearing it again, I think it makes it better, knowing that after we recorded this |
| 1:10.4 | episode, Arthur and I got married. We stayed friends with the |
| 1:14.9 | Simpson's dear friends, their whole family really. Alan Ann spoke at our wedding. |
| 1:20.0 | They visited me in the hospital after my first daughter was born and they just continue to be very precious guides to us |
| 1:27.5 | They're both 92 now and when we visited last they were both very excited to hear about Death, Sex, and Money's new home at Slate. |
| 1:36.0 | Speaking of our new home at Slate, Zoe Aulae, Andrew Dunn, and I have started up work with our new colleagues there and we are celebrating this new era |
| 1:46.2 | of Death Sex and Money with a live show in San Francisco on Thursday, February 29th. It's hosted at KQED's beautiful headquarters, and my |
| 1:56.1 | guest will include some people you've heard on the show before, comedian W. |
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