Introducing: Last Day

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Wittels Wachs has made the show about a topic that's actually too enraging, terrifying, and depressing for An Arm and a Leg: the opioid crisis. And it's as entertaining, empowering and useful as we could ever want. It's called Last Day. Here's episode 1. (In case you need convincing that it's entertaining, we'll tell you: In this episode, she interviews comedians Sarah Silverman and Aziz Ansari at length.)

Part of what makes Last Day so good is that Stephanie is a great storyteller — as well a truly tireless crusader, and a witty, real-as-they-come human being. We should know — we had her on An Arm and a Leg to talk about how she and a few other Texas moms got state laws changed to cover hearing aids for kids. (You can catch that episode here: https://armandalegshow.com/episode/mom-vs-texas/)

If you haven't already met her there, you're going to love her here.

It turns out that nearly everybody you know is either struggling with — or loves someone, or knows someone — who is struggling with some really difficult shit.

...and for some reason, we continue to keep these stories hidden away. Just eating at our insides.

This is a show about that.

Stephanie Wittels Wachs, from Season 1, episode 1 of Last Day.

Last Day made a second season, about suicide and mental health, and its third season, about America's gun-violence epidemic, is coming this spring. You can listen to everything, and subscribe to get new episodes, here: https://lemonadamedia.com/show/lastday/

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0:00.0	Hey there, we are working hard this month on some big projects we've got coming up.
0:04.6	Stories I am super excited about.
0:06.9	And meanwhile, I want to share another show with you.
0:09.9	This one takes on a topic that, although it is definitely tied to the cost of health
0:13.5	care, is just too big, too complicated, and honestly, too enraging, terrifying, and
0:19.6	depressing for me to tackle in this show, that's the opioid crisis.
0:23.9	And actually, somebody else has made the podcast about this topic, one that goes deep and
0:29.1	does it in an incredibly human way, determined to find answers to tough questions, find
0:34.2	a way through, find connection at every step.
0:37.6	That show is called Last Day, and the person is Stephanie Whittles-Wax, a couple things
0:42.4	about Stephanie.
0:43.4	First, when she found out that insurance companies in Texas weren't required to cover hearing
0:48.4	aids for death and heart of hearing kids, like her own young daughter, she basically went
0:53.0	to war and got state law changed.
0:56.0	We told that story in an episode of this show that is still one of my favorites, Mom versus
1:00.8	Texas.
1:01.8	Second, after her younger brother, Harris, died from a heroin overdose, she did a couple
1:07.1	things.
1:08.1	One, she wrote an incredibly moving and sometimes hilarious book called Everything is Horrible
1:13.6	and Wonderful.
1:14.6	And then, she started a podcast company, Lemonada Media, to make Last Day.
1:20.6	You're about to hear the first ever episode of Last Day, which means if you haven't met
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