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A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Who Can Afford to Have Sex? (aka Babies)

A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

Society & Culture, History, News, Personal Journals, News Commentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Everybody loves babies - they're adorable, and if you're a comedian, they're the best audience you could ever hope for. But childbirth is also an emotional and financial minefield. Worse, American society has some warped ideas about who gets to make the choice about whether to have a baby in the first place. This week, Gaby wanders through the minefield with guests Anna Sale (Death, Sex & Money), Noel Leon (DC Abortion Fund), and Think Progress senior editor Tara Culp-Ressler.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

You got problems that you either be concerned with, you don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.

0:08.0

You're a freak with a dark shameful secret, but you're not the only one who can teach your ill and financial fears to the blessed sun.

0:16.0

Now your healing has begun, it's back with running with Gabby.

0:22.0

Gabby Dunne here, who's ready for an existential crisis brought on by the harsh financial realities of a supposedly sacred cultural institution.

0:30.0

It wouldn't be bad with money if that wasn't the case. Welcome to the show.

0:36.0

You guys, something weird happened when I turned 28 last year, and about to be 29.

0:42.0

And that something is noticing babies. Not having them, just noticing them, being fascinated by them, looking at them in the streets, and on buses.

0:51.0

Trying to make them laugh. If you can make a baby laugh, that's the most pure audience you'll ever get as a comedian.

0:57.0

So I liked babies. I thought babies were okay. My mom is a person who will interact with a baby on a plane and stuff.

1:05.0

And then I would make fun of her, and then I became that person.

1:09.0

Where if there's a baby at a restaurant, I get distracted from the person at the restaurant with me, and I'm like, sorry, there's a baby.

1:15.0

We're waving at each other. We're like best friends. Don't worry about it.

1:19.0

Why all of a sudden did I start noticing babies? And then I thought, well, maybe do I want to have a baby?

1:27.0

I just was on a plane last night, and there were babies on that plane, and we know what I did. Put headphones in.

1:33.0

Because they weren't my babies, and they weren't my problem.

1:36.0

So it's still like on the fence, you know? But it is a weird time where it's like, if I'm like dating someone, and we talk about kids, I will say that I probably want one.

1:47.0

I like them. I don't know. We did a JBU sketch about how I like babies. I know it's very off-brand.

1:52.0

I used to be a person who would be like, no way, no how.

1:58.0

And now I'm like, I don't know. I mean, if I feel that way now, by the time, you know, in like five years or seven years,

2:06.0

I can't really predict, but maybe I'll want one.

2:11.0

So this show is about choosing to have babies, because that's what it should be for every person with a uterus, a choice.

2:17.0

And too often, it's an economic punishment that society tries to impose on low-income women for having sex.

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