What Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

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

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

While spending the pandemic with his 95-year-old father in New Orleans, the actor is thinking hard about family and parenthood.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna, and before we get to the episode, I want to say hello to any of you who might
0:04.6	be new to Death Sex and Money, and encourage you to check out our Death Sex and Money
0:09.1	Starter Kit.
0:10.5	It includes some of our all-time favorite episodes from the last six years of the show, intimate
0:15.3	conversations with celebrities and listeners about money, relationships, infidelity, grief,
0:21.0	mental health, and a lot more.
0:23.3	You can find that at deathsexmoney.org slash starter kit.
0:27.5	Thanks for listening.
0:28.5	We're glad you're here.
0:31.0	There's going to be hardship in life, and no matter what.
0:35.5	And so the best thing to do is be prepared for that.
0:39.8	And I was brought up there when the hardship comes, get working on it immediately.
0:45.3	This is Death Sex and Money.
0:50.8	All this death, you don't think that ripples out.
0:53.2	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:56.7	I always meet my private clients here in Swarov, comfortable in the office.
1:01.0	I need to talk about more.
1:03.3	Go shake your hands and make some money.
1:05.6	I'm Anna Sal.
1:07.3	For the past few years, Wendell Pierce's work as an actor has taken him all over the world.
1:14.0	I was in Montreal.
1:15.6	I was in Morocco.
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