Death, Sex & Money - This Senator Saved My Love Life

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🗓️ 7 May 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

My boyfriend Arthur and I broke up. Then Alan Simpson intervened. And what this expert on the federal deficit taught me about love changed everything.

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0:00.0	Ms. Anna Seo's, this is Alan Kaye Simpson in the Wiles of Wyoming, former U.S. Senator.
0:07.0	This is a message I got on my cell phone.
0:10.0	I need to talk to you about an urgent matter.
0:13.0	Nothing life-threatening at all, I can assure you.
0:16.0	Al Simpson is famous for being the Simpson in Simpson Bowles,
0:20.0	that group that made recommendations about American debt a few years back.
0:24.5	I'm a reporter and I was covering politics, but there was no reason for Al Simpson to be calling me on my personal cell phone.
0:31.5	Anyway, give me a buzz.
0:32.9	It's your convenience.
0:33.7	I called them back.
0:35.4	And then I was walking up 6th Avenue in Manhattan talking to former Senator Al Simpson
0:41.4	about my ex-boyfriend, Arthur.
0:44.6	In other words, Senator Allen Simpson had called to talk about my love life.
0:53.2	This is death, sex, and money.
0:56.1	They don't get it. I'm dead.
0:58.0	The show from WNYC, about the things we think about a lot.
1:01.7	Look, I'm not going to discuss my private life, total strangers.
1:04.5	And need to talk about more.
1:06.0	Money can't buy happiness.
1:07.6	It is happiness.
1:09.4	I'm Anna Sale.
1:15.5	Al Simpson was a Republican senator from Wyoming for 18 years. We'd never met. He didn't know me, but he knew about me from a letter. Dear Senator Simpson,
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