How Much Can Your Love Life Change in One Summer?

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

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

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, we followed eight listeners as they dated over the course of the summer. We heard about having sex for the first time, being ghosted, downloading and deleting dating apps, and grieving one partner while falling in love with someone new. In this episode, you’ll hear the final check-in with our eight daters (you can listen to the first and second episode here). Death, Sex & Money is now produced by Slate! To support us and our colleagues, please sign up for our membership program, Slate Plus! Members get ad-free podcasts, bonus content on lots of Slate shows, and full access to all the articles on Slate.com. Sign up today at slate.com/dsmplus. And if you’re new to the show, welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Find us and follow us on Instagram and you can find Anna’s newsletter at annasale.substack.com. Our new email address, where you can reach us with voice memos, pep talks, questions, critiques, is [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last week, I had the great pleasure of being in New York City for the Tribeca Festival.
0:05.9	As part of its audio programming, we hosted a live taping of death, sex, and money, with the actress Alison Williams.
0:12.4	You'll get to hear that interview in your podcast feed soon. It was great.
0:16.5	But the other thing that was nice for me about being at Tribeca is I got to hear about new audio work that is just premiering.
0:24.0	One of Tribeca's featured new shows is called We're Doing the Whiz, and the series is out in the world starting today.
0:31.7	It tells the story of a mostly white performing arts high school that decided in the early 2000s to do a rendition
0:39.8	of The Wiz, the 1975 musical that's a black reimagining of the Wizard of Oz. The podcast is
0:47.8	hosted by two people who were in that high school performance, Ian Koss, who is white, and
0:53.8	Sakina Ibrahim, who is black.
0:56.1	And if you're a Slate Plus member, you get a treat this week. You'll hear me talk to Ian and
1:00.9	Sakina about their high school production and the somewhat rocky origins of making a podcast
1:07.0	about it. I did feel like from the very beginning that Ian wanted to make this as part of his own
1:15.5	truth and reconciliation project.
1:19.3	Is that how you would put it in you?
1:22.7	Yeah, that's fair.
1:23.9	That's fair.
1:24.5	We talked about it.
1:25.7	I felt that way right away.
1:27.3	I was like, oh, he's trying to work out. Like, why don't I have black friends? Like, okay.
1:33.1	Again, Slate Plus members can hear that episode right now. If you're not yet getting these special Slate Plus drops, remember, you can sign up right in Apple Podcasts or on Spotify or go to slate.com slash
1:46.7	DSM Plus. And all of you do go check out the new series, we're doing the Wiz, wherever you get your
1:53.0	podcast. Now, on to the episode. A few weeks ago, we shared some of your falling in love stories, ones that happened by chance.
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