'Missed Connections' At SXSW: Dramatic Readings
During South By Southwest every year, thousands of people from around the world descend on Austin, Texas for concerts, conferences... and connections. Missed connections, to be precise. Yes, we're sure...
View Article'Missed Connections' At Coachella: Dramatic Readings
The second weekend of Coachella takes place this weekend in Indio, California. And that means it’s time for Soundcheck to dive back into the local "Missed Connections" section of Craigslist, where...
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Knee-Jerk Reaction: Michael Jackson And Justin Timberlake's Throwback Duet
A year and a half after Michael Jackson's death in June 2009, Sony and Epic Records released the first posthumous album of previously unreleased tracks from the pop star, called Michael. It was a...
View ArticleNow That's What I Called Music! Reliving The Trauma Of 7th Grade Through One...
Last week, the Now That's What I Call Music! series reached a milestone when it released its 50th hits compilation album in the U.S. To commemorate the occasion, Soundcheck producer Katie Bishop...
View ArticleMy 'Coffee' Addiction: The One Song I Need To Hear Over And Over Again
Hi, my name is Katie Bishop, and I’m a song addict.As a producer at Soundcheck, I hear a lot of music. I watch videos… I download track samples. I stream new singles on Soundcloud. I hear bands playing...
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About Last Night: Sylvan Esso And tUne-yArDs' Colorful Shows At Webster Hall
Earlier this week, Sylvan Esso, the experimental electronic R&B-infused duo comprised of singer Amelia Meath and electronic producer Nick Sanborn, and tUnE-yArDs, the project led by always-vibrant...
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I Wasn't Allowed To Watch: Boyz II Men's 'I'll Make Love To You'
Back in the summer of 1994, I had just wrapped up the second grade and was really busy doing things like pretending that I was Ariel in the pool, reading books about horses, turning 8 years old in a...
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Check Ahead: Chris Thile And Edgar Meyer, 'Bass & Mandolin'
When bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin player Chris Thile began performing together in 2003, only one half of the duo had been deemed a "genius" by the MacArthur Foundation. But exactly a decade after...
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In New Orleans: From Raising Hell to Raising Kids
A decade after Hurricane Katrina, Terri Coleman is teaching a summer class to incoming students at Dillard University—a historically black college in New Orleans. But 10 years ago, when she was about...
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In New Orleans: Becoming the Demo Diva
Simone Bruni never imagined she would someday run a demolition company. "I grew up in a very traditional Latin home," she says. "My mom did not work. I wanted her life. I wanted to be a stay at home...
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In New Orleans: Big Freedia Bounces Back
Even before becoming Big Freedia, Freddie Ross was known around New Orleans. Her "signature call"—an operatic bellow that she lets out when I ask to hear it—was legendary in the city. "They'd be like,...
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In New Orleans: A Doctor Stands By Her Adopted Home
Ten years ago when Katrina hit, Dr. Kiersta Kurtz-Burke didn’t evacuate. Instead she stayed inside New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, where she worked for six days, caring for 18 patients on the 5th floor....
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In New Orleans: How to Get Elected Coroner
Dr. Jeffrey Rouse is New Orleans' coroner—a job he describes as the “interface between law and medicine.” But ten years ago, he was working in a lab studying the brains of people with PTSD, getting...
View ArticleMake Room for Jem
This week's Movie Date podcast includes a very special radio play acted out by Rafer, Kristen, Sean Rameswaram (of the late, great "Sideshow" podcast), and Katie Bishop (of "Death, Sex & Money")....
View ArticleThe New York Times Podcast Club Talks Death, Sex & Money's Student Loan Secrets
Podcast obsessives, take a break from your earbuds to watch a first-ever live meetup of The New York Times Podcast Club, a weekly geek-out over the best in on-demand audio that expanded from a NYT...
View ArticleHow Do You Bring Up Your STI?
This week, we put out an episode about sexually transmitted infections. A lot of people featured in the episode talked about what happened after they told a potential partner about their STI. But we...
View ArticleDeath, Sex & Money's 2019 Year End Spectacular
The team reflects together on the best Death, Sex & Money moments of 2019—things you heard on the show, and things you didn't. Donate to Death, Sex & Money before the end of the year, and we'll...
View ArticleHow We Remember Those We've Lost
The Takeaway, along with Death, Sex & Money, and the WNYC newsroom, have been asking for listener memories and stories about the people they’ve lost during the COVID-19 crisis.Anna Sale, host of...
View ArticleA Widow’s Guide To Grieving
Five years ago, Leslie Gray Streeter's husband, Scott, had a heart attack and died. And in the immediate aftermath of losing her husband, who was just 44 years old, she says she found herself being...
View ArticleHow Bobby Berk Became A Boss
When Bobby Berk left his deeply religious home in rural Missouri at 15 years old, it meant dropping out of high school and figuring out how to pay for everything on his own. "I lived in my car, I lived...
View ArticleWhat Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night
Before the pandemic hit, actor Wendell Pierce was jetsetting around the world, filming scenes for the Amazon series Jack Ryan and starring in a London production of Death of a Salesman. But in March,...
View ArticleDrop Off: A 24-Hour Daycare's Struggle To Stay Open
Lesely Crawford runs two daycare centers in Pittsburgh—both of which are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. "It's like a hodgepodge of craziness," she told me, as she described their sleeping...
View ArticleGame Changer: Whether To Play, And Protest, In The NFL
Shelby Harris uses inhalers daily to treat his asthma, and worries about what getting COVID would do to his lungs. But when he was given the choice to opt out of the 2020-21 NFL season, the Broncos...
View ArticleGame Changer: A BMX Olympic Hopeful Looks To 2021
As soon as it was announced in 2016 that BMX freestyle would become an Olympic event, Chelsea Wolfe knew she was going for a spot on the team. "Growing up as a woman in BMX, you don't really get that...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On In Your Immigrant Family's Group Chat?
Producer Afi Yellow-Duke hears from listeners from immigrant families about how they're talking with their relatives about identity, race, racism, and politics in an unprecedented year. Follow our show...
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51 Years Loving A Man Named Sissy
Last year, we met Sissy and Vickie Goodwin, a Wyoming couple who had been married for 50 years. Around the time they started their lives together, Vickie learned of a secret Sissy had been harboring...
View ArticleI Killed Someone. Now I Study Police Violence.
Tom Baker is getting his PhD in criminology, and as part of his research he's spent hours watching and studying police shootings. "The goal is to identify...things that police are doing that could be...
View ArticleLiving Alone and Liking It. Sometimes.
During a time when a lot of us are feeling isolated, we revisit your stories about living alone—with all its perks and drawbacks. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got...
View ArticleAll That 2020 Has Taken From Us
"I guess 2020 just cost me hope." Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. And support our work at...
View ArticleDeath, Sex & 2020
The Death, Sex & Money team looks back on a year none of us expected. Want to revisit some of our favorite episodes this year? Check out our essential workers episode, our Financial Therapy...
View ArticleMarlo Thomas Is Her Mother's Revenge
Marlo Thomas thought marriage was "nothing that I wanted to be a part of" after watching her mother give up her singing career for her father's acting dreams. But then, at 42 years old, she changed her...
View ArticleI Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000.
What happened when a 27-year-old listener deep in credit card debt asked their older sister for financial help. If you're struggling with consumer debt, check out these resources. Support Death, Sex...
View ArticleWhen Grief Doesn't Move In Stages
Radiolab producer Rachael Cusick's mother died when Rachael was six years old. Her grandmother, Marilyn Ryland, stepped in as a parental figure for Rachael, and while they didn't talk directly about...
View ArticleFinancial Therapy: A Secret Gambling Addiction
We first heard from a listener we're calling Cora late last year. "My husband and I recently hit a pretty intense rough patch regarding our financial life, mental health, and the trust in our...
View ArticleFinancial Therapy: Struggling To Trust Again
Financial therapist Amanda Clayman gave a couple we're calling Cora and Garrett an assignment at the end of their first session—talk together about your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to money....
View ArticleFinancial Therapy: A Baby, And A Plan
In Cora and Garrett's final session with financial therapist Amanda Clayman, they talk about soon becoming parents, and their recent experience consulting a financial advisor while navigating Garrett’s...
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When A Banker Became A Nun
Sister Josephine Garrett grew up Baptist and worked her way up the corporate ladder—eventually becoming a vice president at Bank of America, where she managed a few hundred employees. But after...
View ArticleInheriting Divorce
I talk with producer Ian Coss about the many divorces in his family, and how learning about them inspired his podcast Forever is a Long Time. Listen to Forever is a Long Time here, and find The...
View ArticleTaking a restorative approach to youth justice
Before starting an internship with the Center for Court Innovation, Radio Rookie Deborah Ugo-Omenukwa had never heard of restorative justice — a process that allows people to take responsibility for...
View Article"There’s Never a Perfect Time to Say, 'I’m Blind'"
Back in 2021, we asked you to tell us about the hard conversations you were struggling to have in honor of the release of my book, Let's Talk About Hard Things. One of the people I talked to was a...
View Article“No Call Goes Unanswered”: A Lifeline in Wyoming
On July 16, 2022, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline becomes a 3-digit number: 988. This switch means that many local call centers across the country are preparing for a higher volume of calls....
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Big Freedia Bounces Back
Even before becoming Big Freedia, Freddie Ross was known around New Orleans. Her "signature call"—an operatic bellow that she lets out when I ask to hear it—was legendary in the city. "They'd be like,...
View ArticleBetween Friends: Stories About Race and Friendship
*This episode originally ran in 2020A text message gone wrong. A bachelorette party exclusion. A racist comment during the 2016 debates.When we asked you all about moments when race became a flashpoint...
View ArticleTrevor Noah Talks Depression, Radical Honesty, and Braiding Hair
*This episode originally ran in 2019.When Trevor Noah started hosting The Daily Show in 2016, he says he told his head writer early on that he might sometimes be late to work. "I'm suffering from...
View ArticleGabrielle Union Completes Herself
*This episode originally ran in 2017.When actor Gabrielle Union talked with Anna in front of a live audience back in 2017, she was about to turn 45 and had just released her first book of essays, We’re...
View ArticleYour One Night Stand Stories, Revisited
Today, we're celebrating the very short-term romance: the one night stand. Those moments in life when someone appeared in a flash, you connected, and then you went your separate ways. *This episode...
View ArticleAdopting As A Trans Couple
Anna first talked with Liam and Marisa about their love story back in 2014. Nine years later, we hear about the next chapter of their relationship: becoming parents. Did you know we have a weekly email...
View ArticleI Still Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns
Two years after Anna’s first conversation with a listener named Jack, she called him back for an update on his relationship with his dad, and his relationship to firearms. You can take our 10th...
View ArticleI Did Surrogacy For Money And Now I’m Starting Over
Anna follows up with Sarah Short, the mom who became a surrogate to pay off debt. They discuss her divorce, starting her own business, and why this chapter of her life feels “freeing.” And if you're a...
View ArticleRaphael Saadiq: Music Was My Therapy. It Had To Be.
This fall, Tony! Toni! Toné! is on tour for the first time in twenty years. Raphael Saadiq's career took off as a member of the R&B trio —a group whose music taught Anna, a pre-teen at the time, a...
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