Listen to Mr. 80 Percent!
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Introducing Mr. 80 Percent, a new six-part narrative podcast hosted by friend-of-Love-Letters Mark Shanahan. Mr. 80 Percent is a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing, often funny, always true story about Mark’s odyssey with prostate cancer. There’s sex, celebrity cameos, real talk about masculinity, and more sex. Listen to Mr. 80 Percent wherever you get your podcasts, or online at bostonglobe.com/prostate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone it's it's Meredith. Today is not a love letters episode drop. |
| 0:09.4 | Instead on this off week you're getting the first episode of a new podcast made by a voice that might sound familiar. |
| 0:17.0 | Mark Shanahan is my life person, my chosen family. Some would call him my work spouse but I prefer to call him the |
| 0:25.4 | person who's number one on the favorites list in my cell phone. I wrote an |
| 0:30.6 | entire chapter about Mark in my memoir and Mark actually appeared on season 2, |
| 0:36.7 | episode 1 of Love Letters. He's the guy who was afraid to set people up on dates, |
| 0:41.8 | that married guy who thought that single people could find love at Whole Foods. |
| 0:47.1 | Anyway, in 2013, Mark was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was in his 40s. It was scary and |
| 0:55.8 | strange and he and his family had to figure out how to manage their lives while |
| 0:59.9 | Mark got treatment for a disease that affects so many men. It was overwhelming. |
| 1:05.6 | Mark and our friends at the Boston Globe have created a podcast. It's called Mr. |
| 1:10.3 | 80% and yes that refers to something sexual. It's a story about the very |
| 1:15.7 | universal experience of prostate cancer, caretaking and living. I have to tell |
| 1:21.2 | you it is funny, ridiculous involves a lot of real talk about |
| 1:26.4 | sex and it also features me and my sister Brett. Mark is transparent about his |
| 1:32.1 | story and best of all it's really a narrative about |
| 1:35.2 | his incredible family including his wife Michelle with whom I share a love of |
| 1:40.4 | sexy romance novels that's all explained in the podcast. So your treat today is |
| 1:46.1 | episode one of Mr 80%. We'll be back next week with love letters. You can find the |
| 1:51.2 | rest of Mr 80% on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your |
| 1:56.1 | podcasts. |
| 1:57.1 | I hope you enjoy it. What do you know about the job of the prostate? |
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