Death, Sex & Money - Who’s Driving Your Uber?
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re revisiting an episode about the transitional lives of Uber drivers. Anna and then-producer Katie Bishop hitched multiple rides in the Bay Area and heard stories about immigration, domestic violence, personal finance, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Death, Sex, and Money from Slate. I mean a sale. Our show has just joined Slate |
| 0:07.4 | this year as you may have heard and as we celebrated with our revival episode in |
| 0:12.1 | your feed last week, the team and I are busy. with our But in the meantime, as we put down new roots and keep refining our mission for this new era of the show, |
| 0:27.4 | we're going to share some episodes with you that really to me exemplify the spirit of death, sex, and money and what we want to do together with |
| 0:35.2 | our listeners. And as you listen to these classic episodes, here's what I want you to |
| 0:40.6 | pay attention to. We talk about death sex and money here, yes, but I'm most proud of how |
| 0:46.2 | we do that. We are a show that tries to get to the heart of things that doesn't pull punches |
| 0:52.3 | when there's a tough for delegate question. I'm going to ask it. And I'm also going to give our guests room to explain. |
| 1:00.0 | To try to help me and by extension us the listeners understand something specific |
| 1:06.4 | about their experience to make it concrete in all of our imaginations and objective, to listen closely, to hear the moments of |
| 1:16.1 | transition and difficult choices that have made up each person's life, that's |
| 1:20.8 | affected how I move through the world. |
| 1:24.0 | And I feel like this episode that we're sharing today |
| 1:27.2 | that we first made in 2017, |
| 1:29.8 | it really shows that. |
| 1:31.8 | What happens when I look up and ask some questions about what's |
| 1:36.4 | going on with all the other people moving around the community where I live? |
| 1:42.3 | Are you in school? |
| 1:43.0 | Are you out of school or what stage of life are you in now? |
| 1:46.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:48.0 | Figuring it out. |
| 1:49.0 | Uh-huh. |
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