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Working: Interviews That Get to the Point

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Ronald Young Jr. talks to Anna Sale, host of the podcast Death, Sex & Money, which recently joined Slate after a brief hiatus. In the interview, Anna explains her process for conducting the powerful and vulnerable interviews that her podcast is known for. She also talks about her early career as a politics reporter, her tips for making sure interview subjects feel respected, and how a Death, Sex & Money episode is born.  After the interview, Ronald and co-host June Thomas discuss something Ronald calls “the question behind the question” in interviews and in everyday conversations.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Anna shares how her relationship with money (and talking about it) has changed since she started the podcast. She also talks about one of her favorite interviewers, Terry Gross.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0

There's always a power dynamic in an interview, but I try to do more groundwork to invite them in for it to be a conversation. So it's not only sort of extracting, like me doing all that work and the person just feeling totally spent at the end of an interview.

0:30.0

Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, June Thomas.

0:33.4

And I'm your other host, Ronald Young Jr.

0:36.1

Ronald, it is so nice to be chatting with you again.

0:39.4

But tell me, whose voice, familiar voice, I should say, did we hear at the top of the show that was

0:45.6

Anna Sale she is the host of death sex and money which has recently relaunched as a part of the

0:50.8

slate family of podcasts.

0:52.7

So it's like our sister podcast or cousin or nibbling.

0:58.0

I imagine that most people who are listening to this show will be familiar with the wonder that is death, sex, and money,

1:04.3

but for those who have not yet heard it, Ronald, how would you describe the podcast?

1:10.1

Death sex and money describes itself as a podcast about things we avoid talking about and need to talk about more often hence the name of those taboo subjects that aren't exactly small talk fodder at a party.

1:22.0

Indeed, all right. I am very excited to hear this interview, but say, do you have anything

1:29.4

extra just for Slate Plus members?

1:31.8

So in our Slate Plus segment,

1:33.0

we tackle a little bit of the Money section

1:35.2

of Death Sex and Money.

1:36.4

And I ask Anna about her relationship with money

1:39.0

and what that looks like in her personal life.

1:41.0

That leads us to touch a little bit

1:42.4

about how she felt about the

1:43.4

cancellation of the show before it was revived here at Slate and how that

1:47.2

impacted her view of her own financial stability. It's really interesting to hear

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