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This Is Uncomfortable

That thing you buy and don’t tell your parents about

This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

Business, News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We’re keeping things just a little uncomfortable this week with another round of our favorite game: Financial Face-Off! But first: We need your help telling a new story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know those conversations you play over and over and over in your head, but find really difficult to actually have?

0:07.4

That's exactly what Death's Sex and Money does. It gets those thorny issues out into the open.

0:13.0

It's hosted by Anna Sal, who has surprisingly comfortable conversations with her guests about uncomfortable topics,

0:19.5

like the highs and lows of divorce, about near-death experiences and funny one-night stands.

0:25.6

All of these things shape the way we live and the decisions we make.

0:29.2

Some of her guests are famous, some not, and very often they're from the community of listeners, all talking about what we're figuring out as we go along.

0:37.7

Join in and find Death's Sex and Money from WNYC Studios, wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:44.4

Money is essential, but there's so much we aren't taught about it.

0:48.8

In fact, while I was in college, I racked up $20,000 in credit card debt on top of my student loan.

0:55.9

That was all before I actually learned anything about money.

1:00.1

I'm Janelia Spinal and on my new podcast, financially inclined from Marketplace,

1:05.6

I'll teach you simple money lessons so you don't make the same mistakes I did.

1:10.8

Listen to financially inclined wherever you get your podcasts.

1:17.3

Hey y'all, I'm Rimech Reis and welcome to This Is Uncomfortable, a podcast from Marketplace about life and how money messes with it.

1:25.8

So I've been thinking a lot about class lately and the different ways we signal our status to the people in our lives.

1:33.5

And it actually, it got me thinking of my older sister and this thing she told me the other day about her new job.

1:42.2

Hi. Hey, are you still are you free to talk now?

1:46.1

I mean, I mean, I'm never free, but yeah, I'm free now.

1:49.2

I've always had a bit of a day.

1:51.1

I've been trying to get in touch with Hadeel all day.

1:54.0

Her schedule is crazy busy.

1:55.5

She spends all day teaching and helping kids with autism.

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