Jason Isbell & Will Welch: Somebody Needs Me

Death, Sex & Money

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

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Nashville singer-songwriter and the editor-in-chief of GQ Magazine sit down together to talk about their close friendship, Will's recent cancer diagnosis, expensive risk-taking, and their shared sobriety. This episode is part of our 2019 Maternity Leave Lineup of guest hosted shows while our regular host, Anna Sale, is out on leave. Are you new to Death, Sex & Money? Check out our starter kit of some of our favorite episodes. And subscribe to our weekly email newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Three things my wife hates, as you know.
0:03.0	Me?
0:04.0	Yeah, you, your stupid face.
0:07.0	Yep, that's two.
0:08.0	I can't remember what the third one was.
0:10.0	Me wearing cowboy boots was pretty bad.
0:14.0	This is death,
0:18.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:21.0	I would prefer not to talk publicly about any of those three things.
0:24.0	Yeah.
0:25.0	So why don't we go do all three?
0:26.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,
0:30.0	they had sex, and need to talk about more.
0:33.5	Get a job.
0:35.0	I'm Jason Isbel in for Anna Sale.
0:38.0	And today I'm talking to my best friend Will Welch,
0:41.0	who also happens to be the editor-in-chief of GQ magazine.
0:45.0	One thing that is funny that we do encounter is people think it's weird that we're friends.
0:50.0	That's true. It's partially chalked up to like what people perceive as like you know
0:53.8	a Nashville folk Americana singer-songwriter and a guy who was like the editor-in-chief of
0:59.7	the place with the fancy suits and the shiny shoes.
1:02.0	Will recently became GQ's with the fancy suits and the shiny shoes.
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