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Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Donna Perry has experienced tremendous loss this last year. But as she told producer Yasmeen Khan, the year has also brought "blessings," and reinforced the need to pick up the phone and call people.

Picking up the phone is what Death, Sex & Money is inviting people to do together on Friday, March 26. In fact, we've declared this day the first-ever "Pick Up the Phone and Call Day." If there's someone you've been meaning to call this past year, get on it. Text "call day" to 70101 and we’ll send you text reminders and tips leading up to our newly-declared holiday.

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0:00.0	My conversations with God are as if I'm talking to a best friend because God is my best friend.
0:07.5	And so my conversations with him are very like what are you doing?
0:12.6	You know, I don't get it.
0:13.8	I don't get you.
0:14.9	What are you doing?
0:19.5	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:23.3	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, then need to talk about more.
0:29.2	I'm Anna Seo.
0:39.2	As we were hitting this one-year mark of the pandemic, I wanted to talk to Donna Perry
0:45.1	because I had been thinking about her all year.
0:47.7	This is Yasmin Khan, producer at Death, Sex, and Money, who a year ago was reporting on
0:52.5	COVID in New York City and the WNYC Newsroom.
0:56.0	I first spoke with Donna almost exactly a year ago.
0:59.5	This was a time when I was reporting from home, calling around to different neighborhood
1:03.9	groups, you know, to try to get a sense of how people were doing on the ground.
1:08.4	I got Donna's number through an organization called East Brooklyn Congregations.
1:13.2	It's this coalition of mostly black activist churches.
1:17.4	And they told me about one of their churches, Brown Memorial Baptist Church, that was experiencing
1:22.1	a wave of infections.
1:24.6	And they asked if I would like to speak with a woman named Donna Perry, who I just recovered
1:28.8	from COVID.
1:29.8	So you get this name and this phone number of a woman named Donna.
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