Hard conversations and favourite podcasts with Anna Sale of 'Death, Sex & Money'
Sale's show tackles big questions and tough choices that are often excluded from polite conversation
Originally published on April 9, 2020.
There are certain topics that are banned from dinner table conversations — things that make us cringe when they're brought up.
Anna Sale wants to change that, by having intimate, in-depth conversations about the things that make many people uncomfortable. And it's all right there in the title of her podcast: Death, Sex & Money.
Launched in May 2014, the show tackles big questions and hard choices that are frequently excluded from polite conversation. It features intimate chats with celebrities and listeners about money, relationships, infidelity, career shifts, parenting, mental illness, divorce, gender identity, dying, and more.
Sale won a Gracie Award for best podcast host in 2016 for the show. She joined us remotely to talk about why it's important to address difficult issues and how she makes her guests comfortable enough to share intimate stories.
She also told us about some of her favourite podcasts. You can find her picks below.
Podcasts featured this week:
Death, Sex & Money – "Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of — and to regular people you haven't — about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here." This episode is the story of one woman who worked in the collections industry for 15 years but then got banned from it for life.
Reply All – "A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super Tech Support case."
Nancy – Nancy is back! And they are diving into the taffeta-covered world of kids who do drag, featuring a 15-year-old drag kid, LGBTQ advocate and emcee.
Throughline – Vinayak Savarkar helped popularize the term "Hindutva" — the idea that being Indian is inseparable from being Hindu. In this episode of Throughline, co-hosts Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah explore how this idea is resurging today.
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