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Death, Sex & Money

John Cameron Mitchell & Marilyn Maye: I Will Survive

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

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

4.67.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The actor and Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator talks with 91-year-old cabaret singing legend Marilyn Maye about love affairs, alcoholism and their hopes and fears about aging. Please give to our spring fundraising campaign and keep Death, Sex & Money strong. If we get 150 new supporters by April 30th, we'll unlock a special treat for everyone. Head on over to deathsexmoney.org/donate to give, or text "DSM" to 70101. And thank you! Don't forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter. Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, 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

You know Maryland.

0:01.0

What is this about?

0:02.0

Death, sex, and money.

0:04.0

I don't know anything about death.

0:06.0

Do you know anything about money?

0:08.0

Not enough.

0:10.0

Sex.

0:12.0

Uh, quite a bit.

0:14.0

This is death, sex and money.

0:18.0

What poor unfortunate creature had to die?

0:21.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:25.0

Money?

0:26.0

And need to talk about more.

0:28.0

I'm preorgasmic.

0:30.0

Does that mean I'm about to have one?

0:32.0

I'm John Cameron Mitchell, in for Anna's sale.

0:35.0

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the marvelous Maryland May.

0:41.0

I've known a jazz cabaret mistress Marilyn May for only about five years. She's

0:49.0

91 years old so I've known her for like 0.01% of her life.

0:53.6

And while her home base is the suburbs of Kansas City,

0:56.8

she's in New York a lot.

0:58.1

She's still working.

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