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If you've ever wondered how Death, Sex & Money gets made, the answer is pastries, ProTools software...and a lot of time in Slack. If you're not familiar with Slack, it's essentially a private chatroom that lots of companies use, including WNYC. And since we're usually a bicoastal team, we rely on it to keep in touch with Anna throughout the day when she's not on maternity leave. Slack is where we talk about lots of important stuff. Like, what we should eat...
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...and parenting secrets...
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It's even where Charlotte, who works with us in WNYC membership, helps us set lofty public radio goals:
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(We're actually not that far off! See below for more on how you can help us get there.) Right now, we're also shooting many (many!) drafts of episodes back and forth in our Slack channel as we make final tweaks to our next batch of episodes. Look out next week for more on what we've got in store for you!
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—Producer Anabel Bacon and the Death, Sex & Money team
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Your Responses: Humans Are Humans
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We're in the middle of our spring fundraising drive right now, and one of our favorite things about this time of the year is getting to hear some nice things from you all about what Death, Sex & Money has brought to your lives:
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"I just recently found your show and I am so excited every Wednesday. I feel like the team is my friend. As a practicing Christian living in the Bible Belt (deep East Texas), I find myself going down the same road as a lot of the people you interview, but I end in a different place than them due to my faith.
I love love love that you do not push anything as 'THE' right way. You are just sharing stories of life. And that makes me feel accepted. It is such a relief to be able to hear stories about people who believe differently than me and not feel like my beliefs are being demonized. I want to give your team and the people you interview a big hug and tell them (you), ‘Thank you for sharing your story.'
So thank you. Thank you for making my world a little bit bigger and also a lot smaller. Humans are humans are humans and that is comforting. It feels nice not to feel alone."
—Madalaine, 23, Texas
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If any of Madalaine's feelings sound familiar, we hope you'll consider giving to support the show so we can keep doing what we do. If 150 of you join in, we're going to host an exercise class for the DSM community in New York later on this year (and livestream it for anyone who's not here!). We can't wait to meet all of you in person!
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Listen to This: Audio We Love
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We recommended the first season of Love Letters when it first came out last year, but we just checked back in on their feed and are loving the second season, which is all about how the heck you meet someone in 2019. If you enjoyed our summer dating series, you'll probably like this, too—all season, they're following a 44-year-old single woman named Erin in Boston. We especially love the episode where they head out on the town with Erin to try to find a guy the good old fashioned way...in a bar.
And the most recent episode of Invisibilia really knocked us off our feet. In it, we meet Megan, a woman living with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. In 2013, when her mental health issues became debilitating, she made the decision to have a electricity-delivering device implanted in her brain that, in theory, would allow her to control her moods. The episode is called "The Remote Control Brain,"and it's as story about tech, but also a love story about how we care for people whose minds work differently than our own.
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Keep your ears peeled next Monday...
...for a special announcement about what's coming up on DSM over the next few months!
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