Sarah Smarsh & Nick Smarsh: Are You Different Than Me?

Death, Sex & Money

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

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The bestselling author and Kansan talks with her dad about what happens when you grow up believing the hard way is the best way, and then cross over into a different class. 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. Support Death, Sex & Money today at deathsexmoney.org/donate. 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	Farming was not profitable. There wasn't any opportunity to make enough money to build a house or something like that.
0:14.0	Something drew my generation away from the small communities.
0:19.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:25.0	You and I both dead and gone by that.
0:27.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,
0:31.0	sell them the cash, and need to talk about more.
0:34.6	You know how to get things.
0:36.6	You got me.
0:37.6	I'm Sarah Smarsh and for Anna Sale.
0:40.6	Oh, Nick.
0:45.0	Are you woke up now?
0:47.0	Yes, are you?
0:50.0	Yes, are you?
0:52.0	Uh, yeah? I'm calling him from my home in Wichita, Kansas, about 30 miles from the wheat farms we grew up on.
1:01.0	He lives in Wichita now too, but spends 49 weeks out of the year
1:06.7	on the road as a traveling construction worker.
1:09.8	Yeah, I'm in my room at the Travelers Inn in South Haven, Mississippi looking out my window.
1:20.3	He drives all over the country in his 2007 Ford F-150 pickup with a crack in the windshield and a hole in the driver's side floor mat.
1:28.5	Last year he drove 26,000 miles for work. His truck is always stuffed with tools, a duffel bag, a cooler, a coffee maker, and can opener,
1:38.9	piles of receipts for tax purposes, and his lucky rock. Right now he's down south for several months,
1:45.8	renovating and building Wendy's restaurants.
1:48.4	Are you still split in a room?
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