Episodes We Love: Buyer's Remorse

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Sugar, Wbur, Dear, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Advice, Steve Almond, Boston

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Buzz Bissinger owns more than 100 pairs of leather pants and over 200 pairs of leather gloves, having spent more than $600,000 on leather goods in the span of three years. Mr. Bissinger has a spending addiction, and he joins the Sugars to offer guidance to a letter-writer whose therapist and family don’t take her spending seriously.

This episode was originally published on April 14th, 2018.

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0:00.0	Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.
0:14.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:22.0	I'm Steve Olman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:43.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:51.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve.
0:58.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.0	So today we're going to talk about spending addictions.
1:04.0	Yeah, you know, I'm so glad we're doing this because when it comes to spending addictions, we have trouble recognizing that it's not just being a shopaholic and it's fun and so forth.
1:14.0	So there are real addictions out there.
1:16.0	Don't muddy the waters with your petty little problem, but it's not petty.
1:20.0	It's huge for some people as we know from our inbox.
1:23.0	Right. And actually has, like any addiction, has had many negative consequences, families destroyed, enormous debts accrued.
1:32.0	We're going to talk to somebody today, Buzz Bissinger, who has really struggled with this and wrote beautifully about this in GQ magazine.
1:40.0	He's the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Livingston Award.
1:42.0	And of course, he's the author of Friday Night Lights.
1:45.0	Great book that was turned into an amazing television show.
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