Hey, everyone, it's Sam. If you like Talk Easy, there's another podcast I think you'll really enjoy.

It's called Death, Sex, and Money from the Good People at Slate, hosted by my friend and mentor, Anna Sale.

It's a show about all the things we think about a lot, but don't talk about enough.

From debt to breakups to grief, and it gets people to open up about the parts of life that can

feel really isolating and confusing. So my personal favorites include Jane Fonda, Miranda July,

Celine Song, which we dropped in this feed, and the late great Bill Withers. It's that episode

with Withers called How to Be a Man that served as a real true inspiration for Talk Easy.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again.

Without that episode, How to Be a Man with Bill Withers, just even now thinking about it, it gets me emotional.

Without that episode, I don't know.

I don't think Talk Easy would be what it is today.

And so before I get any more emotional than I already am, you can follow and listen to

death, sex, and money, wherever you listen to podcasts. I promise you won't regret it. Pushkin.

Hey everyone. This is Talk Easy. I'm Sanfroco, so thank you for being here.

Today marks 21 years since the attacks on 9-11.

You may remember that last September, we put together this special around that painful historic day.

And I was thinking, as we find ourselves toward the end of summer, in this kind of pandemic purgatory,

I wanted to replay this episode to celebrate frontline workers, the ones that have carried us forward since March of 2020,

and the ones that helped a nation in repair after the attacks.

For 10 months, these first responders, including firefighters, policemen, EMS, construction workers, the Salvation Army, all of them. They put their

lives on the line and families on hold. Every morning, rain or shine, they shuttled in and out of

ground zero to produce the

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