being raised primarily by a man made me very, you know, manlike in many ways.

Like I never really felt inhibited about just going up to a guy and asking him if he wanted to have a drink or whatever.

And I think that one of the reasons why I always was able to date the guys I wanted to date was because I didn't wait for them to ask me.

This is death, sex, and money.

In a couple years, that old son's going to burn out and we're all going to be dead.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,

and do love them for what, and need to talk about more.

I got to get paid like something at least, you know?

I'm in a sale.

When journalist Lisa Ling was in her mid-20s,

she vaulted to national fame as a co-host on The View, the youngest one ever.

She'd been working in television news for almost a decade.

But on our first day at The View, she realized she was in for something really different.

On national TV, Meredith Vieira asked me my first day if I was still a virgin. Are you a virgin? We have to get to what matters. Then we'll get to the... First, let's get to what's important for the view. Because that's just how the view was. Did you know that was coming? Oh, I had no idea. I had no clue. And at that moment, I was thinking, oh, man, I wish I was still covering the refugee crisis

and goes about right now. The thing that was most challenging for me was as an Asian girl,

young woman, you know, I've always been very guarded about my personal life. That very moment,

I blinked and I saw my father's face with a raised eyebrow going, what are you going to say to that?

Lisa now hosts a show on CNN called This Is Life.

It's hard news about personal topics.

The show is pretty unvarnished for cable news.

The story she tells can get messy.

That's how Lisa thinks about her life, too, starting when she was a kid.

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