Hi everyone, just a heads up that this week's episode features candid and sometimes graphic

details about sex and pleasure.

So you may want to be more careful about when and where you listen to it.

My friend was like, you have to see this movie.

My babysitter told me to close my eyes during that first big sex scene.

I just thought they had some awesome sex scenes in that movie.

But I was peeking through the cracks in my fingers over my eyes.

That scene really made me say, hey, this could be life.

This could be real.

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

And I'm not Anna Sale.

I'm Lilliana Maria Berci-Ruis.

Or Lily Percy as I also go by here in the States.

I'm the executive producer of this show and this episode is a personal one for me.

It's about movies.

Movies have shaped and defined me more than anything else in my life.

Growing up in a Colombian immigrant family, when that was culturally Catholic but conservative

and evangelical in practice, I turned to movies to learn about the outside world and myself.

For example, Barbastry Sand in Yentel taught me that my options in life were not limited

by my gender.

Jody Foster in contact taught me that faith, mystery, and science could actually coexist.

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