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Oct 15, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 4
"Call Your Girlfriend" hosts and "Big Friendship" co-authors Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

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  • No walls were harmed in the making of this podcast.
    Screenshot via Netflix

    Money gets complicated when a marriage falls apart. Also, we’re looking for your stories about relationships and money.

  • Oct 1, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 3

    Can’t make rent, can’t get evicted

    Marilyn Hoffman, sitting on the porch of her North Carolina home. She's able to stay... for now.
    Reema Khrais/Marketplace

    Marilyn Hoffman is one of some 28 million Americans who could face eviction because of the coronavirus pandemic. And rent’s due again today.

  • Sep 24, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 2

    “Why don’t you fix your teeth?”

    Ryanne Jones, seen here at 22, promised herself she would give her son the health care she'd lacked growing up. "If it meant that I barely ate for a week, that kid went to his yearly checkup."
    Courtesy: Ryanne Jones

    One woman’s smile becomes a marker of poverty that feels impossible to escape.

  • Sep 17, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 1

    Who can afford to vote?

    A polling place during Kentucky primary election on June 23, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky.
    Brett Carlsen/Getty Images

    The fight over voting rights in this country has always been tied to money and power.

  • “This Is Uncomfortable” is back this week!

    Subscribe now for more uncomfortable stories about voting, power, health and moving back in with your parents.

  • Sep 10, 2020 · Season 3

    Love in the time of coronavirus (rerun)

    Mina Hughes and Seth Anderson had to cancel their wedding because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Courtesy: Mina Huges and Seth Anderson

    There are a lot of couples stuck at home right now. Some of them are out of work or dealing with canceled plans. Today, we’ll hear from two couples whose relationships are being tested.

  • Aug 20, 2020 · Season 2

    WeWork too much (rerun)

    WeBorn, WeWork, WeDie.
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Why we’re obsessed with our jobs, even though they’ll never love us back.

  • Aug 6, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 23

    Life in the coronavirus heckhole

    Joaquin Andrade on his bike.
    Peter Balonon-Rosen/Marketplace

    To get a new bike, this 11-year-old signed a contract to do the thing he hates most: math.

  • Jul 16, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 22

    Money makes me sick

    Believe it or not, this is what helping someone confront their finances looks like (in a pre-COVID) world.
    Ben Hethcoat/Marketplace

    Meet the professional auditor who can’t stand to look at his own bank account. Our team goes on an adventure to help a man who’s anxious about his spending get more comfortable checking his finances.

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Marketplace’s award-winning narrative podcast, “This Is Uncomfortable,” is a show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, host Reema Khrais digs into stories about the unanticipated ways money shapes our relationships, identities and the choices we make. Join Reema as she cuts through the uncomfortable to get to the root of how money plagues us. Produced and distributed by Marketplace from American Public Media, you can find “This Is Uncomfortable” wherever you get your podcasts.

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