Death, Sex & Money

Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.

Chaz Ebert on Loss, Intuition and Her 'Cougar' Group Chat

Betting on America: Two Gamblers, One Presidential Election

From Social Work to Improv to the Best Show on HBO

Why I Chose Estrangement

How a Betrayed Spouse Became an Infidelity Expert

Will He Still Love Me When I'm Off Ozempic?

A Celebration (and Critique) of American Freedom

The Making and Unmaking of a Productivity Perfectionist

Haley Joel Osment Is Not Your Typical Former Child Star

Search Engine: When Is It Time to Stop Drinking?

My Father Planned His Death. I Didn’t Stop Him.

My Secret Life as a Hoarder

Bob the Drag Queen says Polyamory is Expensive

Martha Wainwright on Post-Divorce Confidence and ‘Folk Tits’

One Man’s Meticulous Quest to Cure Grief

The Weight of Love

Two Friends, at 35 and 95, Confront Loss and Find Hope

Life and Death Inside the Playboy Mansion

Miranda July’s Perimenopausal Thriller

A Former Debt Collector's Unpaid Bills

Olympic Legend Greg Louganis on Outliving and Outperforming Expectations

What’s Missing From the Overdose Crisis Conversation

The Mayor of the Most Controversial City in the U.S.

Sex Parties and Shakespeare With Carvell Wallace

Baby Reindeer’s Intimacy Coordinator on Sex and Trauma on Screen

Kara Swisher and Orna Guralnik on How to Get People Talking

Mark Duplass on Making Money, Mental Health and Midlife

My Shy Bladder

I Was Afraid of Losing Myself to Motherhood. I Found Myself Instead.

Why You’re Not Having Sex

Bonus: After the Interview, Our Guest Had Some Questions

The Night Magic Mushrooms and Jam Bands Helped Me Walk Again

My Eating Disorder Turned Into an Obsession With Money

'Tom' Felt So Alone Not Being Able To Drive. We Made An Introduction.

Filling the Health Care Gap (and Filling Lips!) in Appalachia

You’re at a Crossroads. We’re Here to Help.

A Tarot Reader Explains Why Intuition is So Tricky

A Sociopath's Guide to Death, Sex, and Money

From Indie Rockers to Full-Time Caregivers

I Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000.

The Very Hot Marriage of Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts

A Former Pro Climber On Enduring Chronic Illness

Who’s Driving Your Uber?

Four Interviews and a Revival

This Senator Saved My Love Life

Life After Death: News About the Future of Death, Sex & Money!

Four Interviews and a Funeral

Your Inheritance Stories: When Death, Family and Money Mix

Meshell Ndegeocello Thinks Authenticity is Unsustainable

Productive Discomfort: A Job Training Program for Single Moms That Centers Mental Health

Maria Bamford on the Lucrative Nature of Oversharing

Underdogs, Training Montages and Buzzer-Beaters: When Sports Movies Got You Through It

In Our Marriage, Psychosis Comes and Goes

Raphael Saadiq: Music Was My Therapy. It Had To Be.

An End of Life Doctor’s Shocking Loss

Married With No Kids and a Ranching Business with No Heirs

Jonathan Goldstein, Heavy Weights, and What We Owe Old Friends

Feeling Lost or Stuck? Try Craigslist, says John Wilson.

A New York City Mover Who Carries More Than Your Boxes

Ellen Burstyn at 90 Today

Revisiting Ellen Burstyn at 81

I Did Surrogacy For Money And Now I’m Starting Over

A Headline Stays Static Even As A Life Transforms

Why Ezra Klein Thinks “We're Living Through A Mistake”

A Trans Elder’s ‘Final Act’: Musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Secrets, Turn-Ons, and Fantasies: Your Stories About Porn

Bells and Bills: The Price You Paid For Your Wedding

The Crude Reality of Debt from This is Uncomfortable

Why Writer Brandon Taylor Likes Being “A Little Bit Lonely”

I Still Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns

Can You Help Your Kid’s Anxiety By Changing Your Behavior?

‘It Just Denies Reality’: Abortion Access and the Law After Dobbs

Ocean Vuong on Telling Lies, Building Family and Loving the Knicks

Hold On: Should I Tell My Boss I’m Depressed?

Hold On: When Shame Keeps You From Therapy

Hold On: Let’s Talk About Psych Meds

Hold On: My Diagnosis, My Self

Hold On: How to Support our Teens' Mental Health

Hold On: How Therapists See the Mental Health Crisis

Leaving the Extreme Right, and a Marriage, Behind

The Voice of NYC's Subways Comes Out as Trans

John Green on OCD, Writing, and Loving Middle-Age

The Movies That Taught Us What Sex Could Be

Alice Wong On Medicaid, Rage, and “Good Care”

Kate Bowler on Shame, Productivity, and Living with Chronic Pain

How to Face Your Fears With Steve-O, Laurel Braitman, and Rev. angel

A Trans Parent’s Adoption Journey

My Sex Life Became A Screenshot. Then I Lost My Job.

How to Say Goodbye to Your Pets

Your One Night Stand Stories, Revisited

Gabrielle Union Completes Herself

Margo Price After Cheating and Drinking

Your Estrangement Calls Answered Live

From Fan to Friend: The Unlikely Friendship Between Pico Iyer and Leonard Cohen

Why the Creators of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Treat Their Partnership Like a Marriage

Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp Talk About Their Divorce, Anxiety, and Slowing Down

Trevor Noah Talks Depression, Radical Honesty, and Braiding Hair

Radiolab’s Lulu Miller Steals All Her Best Ideas From Her Kids

Estrangement’s Alternate Endings

Then I Blocked Them: How Estrangement Became Official

Estrangement Purgatory

Fran Lebowitz’s Guide to Life (And Parties)

Estrangement: We Were Close, Now I Don’t Know You

Race and Friendship After 2020: An Update

Between Friends: Stories About Race and Friendship

An Update from the Sex Worker Next Door

Sandra Cisneros on Sex, Aging, and the Paranormal

Singing in the Pain: Hrishikesh Hirway on his Mother, Grief and Creativity

Conversations with My Dead Mother

I Wanted To Be A 'Good Girl'

India Walton: I Knew It Was Gonna Be Tough, But I Didn't Expect it to Get Nasty

Inside John Waters' Home (But Not Inside His Colon)

How Clothes Help Us Find Our People and Ourselves

Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants

Big Freedia Bounces Back

Finding Meaning After My Husband's Public Death

Knock Knock, Who's There? Bob the Drag Queen

What's Going On With Student Loans?

"This Isn't Just About Abortion": What the End of Roe Means to You

Bottled Up: Your Stories About Alcohol

The Highs and Lows of Being a Starbucks Union Organizer

“No Call Goes Unanswered”: A Lifeline in Wyoming

The Very Hot Marriage of Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts

Cut Loose: Your Stories of Breaking Up

'I'm Done Kissing Your Butt': From Manager to Labor Activist

How Harvey Fierstein's Bad Sex Led to Good Art

What Our Teachers Are Carrying

Maria Hinojosa on Partying, Partnership, and Her New Pulitzer

How Much Climate Anxiety Helps?

"There’s Never a Perfect Time to Say, 'I’m Blind'"

Anna Sale Introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

Siblinghood

Hard: Softening Expectations

Hard: Little Pill, Big Pharma

Hard: Erectile Disappointment

Why Lynn Nottage Cashed Out Her 401(k)

Affairs, Throuples, and Big Monogamy: Your Relationship Questions Answered

Inheriting Divorce

Where is Lisa Fischer's Backup?

This Elvis Impersonator Does It For Love… And Money

André De Shields On Living With His Shadow

Downsizing After Divorce

A New Year's Pep Talk From Robin Arzón

Why I Steal

A Season to Savor

The Weight Of Love

Why Alan Cumming Doesn't Do Drama

Becoming A Parent Of Six, At 25

“What I Live With”: The Aftermath of Fatal Accidents

I Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns

Order Up, Tapped Out: Life After Restaurant Burnout

Succession's J. Smith-Cameron On Old Haunts and New Normals

Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets

Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings

"You Should Be Carrying This. Not Me."

When A Banker Became A Nun

Decision Fatigue Is Real. We Called For Backup.

Financial Therapy: A Baby, And A Plan

Financial Therapy: Struggling To Trust Again

Financial Therapy: A Secret Gambling Addiction

When Grief Doesn't Move In Stages

Doree Shafrir On The Out Of Control IVF Train

When Indie Rockers Become Full-Time Caregivers

A Teen Musician Is Ready For His Solo. His Mom Is Not.

"The Lying Stops Now": Your Hardest Conversations

Michelle Zauner's Joy Is Rooted In Vengeance

Mahershala Ali and Rafael Casal: Envy Is A Hell Of A Drug

Alison Bechdel On Menopause, Mortality and Punching Pennies

A Former Pro Climber On Enduring Chronic Illness

Strictly, Entirely On The Fence About Having A Kid

Where Noel and Anna's Hot Girl Summer Went Wrong

The 7 Hardest Conversations I've Ever Had On This Show

When I Almost Died

I Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000.

When Claudia Rankine Brought Up Race In Couples Counseling

A Friend In The Execution Room

Finding Blessings and Throwing Vases

Masks On, Tops Off: Inside A Texas Strip Club

Ugh, Dating Right Now

I Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't

Your One Night Stand Stories

Getting Real About Getting Older, Live

What The Border Taught Norma Elia Cantú About Being Free

Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Gifts From The Universe

Marlo Thomas Is Her Mother's Revenge

Just Ask Us: Your Stories About Life After 60

Death, Sex & 2020

All That 2020 Has Taken From Us

Stuck Apart, And Falling In Love

Living Alone and Liking It. Sometimes.

Miguel Gutierrez's Strongly Worded Emails About Art and Money

I Killed Someone. Now I Study Police Violence.

51 Years Loving A Man Named Sissy

What’s Going On In Your Immigrant Family's Group Chat?

Alice Wong On Ruckuses, Rage And Medicaid

Audio We Love Fest: California Love

Audio We Love Fest: Constellation Prize

Audio We Love Fest: Goodbye To All This

Getting Real About Getting Older

Game Changer: A BMX Olympic Hopeful Looks To 2021

Game Changer: Whether To Play, And Protest, In The NFL

Game Changer: A Minor League Pitcher's Lost Season

How Maria Hinojosa Learned To Fluff Her Feathers

A Broadway Actor Turned Stay-At-Home Dad

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor On Racism, Insecurity and Negotiation

Drop Off: A 24-Hour Daycare's Struggle To Stay Open

Books We Love: Inside The Bubble With Akwaeke Emezi

"They Rely On Me": An Update From A USPS Mail Carrier

This Senator Saved My Love Life

What Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night

Rent Is Due Tomorrow

Books We Love: A Big Conversation About "Big Friendship"

How Bobby Berk Became A Boss

A Widow’s Guide To Grieving

Books We Love: Michael Arceneaux’s “I Don’t Want To Die Poor”

What Money Can't Solve

Skin Hunger: Part 2

Skin Hunger: Part 1

When Six Feet Isn't An Option

An Essential Worker, Going Back In

I Love You, But There's This Money Thing...

"This Has Been A Long Time Coming."

Financial Therapy: How Much Should I Help My Family?

What Do You Need To Say Right Now?

Financial Therapy: Why Did I Take That Risk?

Financial Therapy: What Is Our Savings For?

Financial Therapy: Meet Amanda Clayman

Madeleine Albright On Ambition and Obsoleteness

What Is A "Good Death" During A Pandemic?

Samantha Irby Is Prepared To Gracefully Bow Out

Student Loans And The Pandemic: Your Questions, Answered

They Were Managing Their OCD. Then Came The Pandemic.

An Immunocompromised Love Story

A Weekend Homework Assignment From Tayari Jones

Goodbye, John Prine

"Nobody Comes Here To Hide": Remembering Bill Withers

"We Are The Glue": Stories From Essential Workers

A Surgical Nurse On Being Essential

If You Can't Isolate, What Do You Need?

Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine

We Made A Pandemic Tool Kit

Ben Sinclair Is A Fan Of Endings

Alone Together: A COVID-19 Call-In

Why You're Not Having Sex

Sugar Babies Cost Me $8,000 And My Marriage

Maria Bamford Didn't Wait For It To Be Perfect

Cancer Changed Ken Jeong's Comedy

No Slumping With Twyla Tharp

Carmen Maria Machado Is Using The Word 'Abusive'

Who Are Your 'Quick And Deep' Friends?

Ask Code Switch: What About Your Friends?

Between Friends: Your Stories About Race and Friendship

Inside Planned Parenthood

Saeed Jones's New Year's Determinations

Death, Sex & Money's 2019 Year End Spectacular

Liz Phair's Rebellious Streak Works For Her

The Children Of Heart Mountain

Cheating Happens

Anne Lamott: Death Sucks, And It's Holy

Hasan Minhaj's Honest Mistakes

Who's Driving Your Uber?

A Former Debt Collector's Unpaid Bills

When Breast Cancer Pauses Life At 35

Scattered: The Camp

Saeed Jones Talks About Sex. And Death. And Money.

The Student Loan Nerd Helping Borrowers One Email At A Time

Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 2

Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 1

E. Jean Carroll: More Interesting, Not Damaged

50 Years Married To A Man Named Sissy

Raphael Saadiq: Music Had To Be My Therapy

My Stillbirth During Anna's Maternity Leave

How Are You "Surfing The Urge" To Drink?

Michael Arceneaux On Love, Liquid Courage And Letting Go

Bottled Up: Your Stories About Drinking

Rashema Melson's Weakest Yet Bravest Moments

A Brother, A Sister, And Their Eating Disorders

When Work Changes, So Do We

Tayari Jones & Carrie Mae Weems: What's It Like Up There?

Sarah Smarsh & Nick Smarsh: Are You Different Than Me?

Mahershala Ali & Rafael Casal: Envy Is A Hell Of A Drug

Alia Shawkat & Esther Perel: Life In Our 30s, And 60s

Tressie McMillan Cottom & Trevor Noah: Optimistic and Depressed

Al Letson & Nikole Hannah-Jones: Sensitive, Not Scared

Jason Isbell & Will Welch: Somebody Needs Me

Damon Young & Kiese Laymon: The "Good Dude" Closet

John Cameron Mitchell & Marilyn Maye: I Will Survive

Lisa Ling & Awkwafina: Shut Up, Let Me Shine

The 2019 Maternity Leave Lineup

A Father and Daughter Talk About Layoffs

Daniel K. Isaac Is Opting For The Gray Area

José Andrés Googled ‘How To Be A Father’

When We Sent Our Son Away

Autism Isn't What I Signed Up For

How Nikki Giovanni Finally Learned To Cry

Let's Talk About Porn Again

How Do You Bring Up Your STI?

Sexually Transmitted Secrets

So Many Sex Ed Fails

I Wanted To Be A "Good Girl"

When A Banker Was Called To The Convent

I Married A Dreamer During The Trump Presidency

Married, Paralyzed and Moving On

John Green Thinks Adulthood is Underrated

Why Governor Jennifer Granholm Cut Her Hair

Tell Us Your Sex Ed Fails

When Fire Takes Everything: Rebuilding in Northern California

I Served 27 Years In Prison. Now, I'm Out On Parole.

Jane Fonda After Death and Divorce, Revisited

Hot Dates: Last Summer Nights

Nick Offerman Can Take Directions

Alzheimer's and the World's Saddest Comedy Club

Hot Dates: From One Hot Dater to Another

Tig Notaro Isn't a Blob Anymore

Hot Dates: Open to Open Relationships

Manhood, Now: Live

A Wife Interviews Her Husband About Manhood, Now

Hot Dates: "I'm Supposed to Be Certain"

How to Be a Man With Bill Withers, Revisited

Hot Dates: A Middle School Teacher Walks Into A Bar...

Manhood, Now

Hot Dates: Help from an OKCupid Guru

Hot Dates: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

John Prine Wanted to Be Normal

Hot Dates: Romance Right Now

Tayari Jones on Frills and Freedom

Your Student Loan Updates

When 'Daddy Dates' Pay The Bills

A Son, A Mother, and Two Gun Crimes

15 Years Later, An Iraq Veteran Looks Back

From Indie Rockers to Full-Time Caregivers

Sharing DNA, and Nothing Else

Lena Waithe Says Have a Dream... and a Sponsor

After Suicides, a Texas Veterinary Community Opens Up

Opportunity Costs: I Never Felt Inferior

Opportunity Costs: More Is Not More

Opportunity Costs: The Class Slide After Divorce

Opportunity Costs: An Education or Nothing

Opportunity Costs: Friendship and Fertility

Preview: Opportunity Costs

All Your Workplace Rage

Pull Quote: Plunging In

I Felt Like The Story Had To Change: Life After Heroin

I Can't Fix It: A First Responder and Heroin

Your Workplace Rage, And Mine

Gabrielle Union Is Fed Up

Finding Love, And A Kidney, On Tinder

What Lisa Ling Regrets

A Bitcoin Mogul Goes Broke

Why She Steals: Your Reactions

Life in Our 20s: Advice from Niecy Nash, Alia Shawkat & Terri Coleman

Ellen Burstyn's Lessons on Survival

Why I Steal

Our Student Loan Questions Live: Part Two

Our Student Loan Questions Live: Part One

Tracy Clayton's 2017 So Far: Therapy, Forts and Auto Bill Pay

As Harvey Hits, Looking Back at New Orleans

Katie Couric on Death and Dishonesty

When Grief Looks Like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Cookie That Ended Jeff Garlin's Sobriety

Bonus! Anna Talks Interviewing with Jesse Thorn

After 27 Years In Prison, My Husband Might Get Out

Becoming a Father in Prison: Updated

Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 2

Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 1

Coming Soon: Our Student Loan Secrets

Who's Driving Your Uber?

Hari Kondabolu and His Mom Answer Your Life Questions

'Precious' Paid Off Gabourey Sidibe's Crunch Gym Debt

Kevin Bacon Shows Us His Cash

Two Wheelchairs and A Baby

Newlywed and Paralyzed

Alec Baldwin Talks Money, Family, Fame and Cocaine

Pleased to Meet You, Nancy

Why Rashema Melson Left Georgetown

A Prison Guard In Transition

I Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't

Live from the Internet: Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires & You

Cristela Alonzo's Lower Classy Comedy

Cut Loose: Your Breakup Stories

The NFL Made Me Rich. Now I Watch It... Sometimes.

Mahershala Ali on Faith, Love and Success

I Had Babies To Pay For My Baby

Tracy Clayton Is Speaking Things Into Existence

A Son and His Mom Laugh Through Darkness

My Awkward Money Talk With Sallie Krawcheck

Let's Talk About Porn

Other Americans

What Money Can't Solve

If You're Not ____, Then Never Mind

I Was More Angry At God

Ellen Burstyn & Gloria Steinem

Diane Gill Morris & Officer Robert Zink

Chris Gethard & Tim Dillon

Sonia Manzano & Justice Sonia Sotomayor

The Great Guest Takeover

Life Is a Mystery

Your Death, Sex & Money Short Stories – Live!

Anna Chlumsky Catches the Worm

Dating Was So Hard, Until It Wasn't

We're Not Going To Have Karl Again

Tituss Burgess Airs His Laundry

Inside Planned Parenthood

Danielle Brooks Is Ready to Talk About Sex

An Update from Susanne

How Jeff Daniels Got Sober, Again

From Conversion Therapy to a Rainbow Yarmulke

Diane Guerrero on Debt and Deportation

When I Almost Died

Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets

Rosie, Sixto, Hari, Uma, Mahershala, Amatus, Lisa & Dan

After My Brother Avonte Disappeared

Falling in Love... With Heroin

Michael Ian Black's Middle-Aged Angst

DANCE BREAK!

Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants

Why Jeb Corliss Jumps Off Cliffs

Brooke Shields, Recovering Daughter

Living Alone, One Year Later

Stop Calling Me 'The Homeless Valedictorian'

Autism Isn’t What I Signed Up For

Holland Taylor Steps Off Her Island

Why You're Not Having Sex

Kevin Powell Doesn't Fight Anymore

All in the Family of Norman Lear

The Power of Yesi Ortiz

An Astronaut’s Husband, Left Behind

The Sex Worker Next Door

From Chaos to Sesame Street

In New Orleans: How to Get Elected Coroner

In New Orleans: A Doctor's Adopted Home

In New Orleans: Big Freedia Bounces Back

In New Orleans: Becoming the Demo Diva

In New Orleans: From Raising Hell to Raising Kids

Life as a Wife

Joy Williams' Public Breakup and Private Grief

A Funeral Director's Life After Burnout

Siblinghood

A Dirty Cop Comes Clean

2 Couples, 1 Poet, a Rock Band and a Dog

Robert Earl Keen Quit Nashville and Stayed Married

Brooklyn Left Me Broke, But I Came Back

W. Kamau Bell Wonders How Much Is Enough

Hedwig, Older and a Little Less Angry

In Sickness and In Mental Health

Cancer Changed Ken Jeong's Comedy

Where is Lisa Fischer's Backup?

Cheating Happens.

Real Love: A Valentine's Special from Death, Sex & Money

Songs in the Key of Strife

Margaret Cho's Sex Education

Desiree Akhavan's Breakthrough Breakup

Living Alone and Liking It. Sometimes.

Becoming a Father in Prison

College Sweethearts: Transformed

James McBride Resets

A Funeral Director’s Dead Reckoning

Ellen Burstyn's Lessons on Survival

My Father's Secret Life

The NFL Made Me Rich. I Won't Watch It Now.

Meet the First Family...of Podcasting

Cult Comedy Heroes Have Bills to Pay, Too

Chaz Ebert on Life Without Roger

A Player Leaves the Game

I Love You, But There's This Money Thing...

Dan Savage Says Cheating Happens. And That's OK.

Alpha Dad Gets Snipped

Jane Fonda After Death and Divorce

I Married the Gay Father of My Child

Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

This Senator Saved My Love Life

Brooklyn Left Me Broke and Tired

How to Be a Man With Bill Withers