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This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

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This is Uncomfortable is the award-winning show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Marketplace’s Reema Khrais explores how money shapes our decisions, relationships, and sense of self through conversations that are intimate, surprising, and deeply human. From the economic headlines that hit our wallets to the choices that keep us up at night, the show digs into the money questions we’re too afraid to ask and gives listeners a way to feel less alone in this increasingly complicat...

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Episodes (208)

Who can afford to vote?

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“This Is Uncomfortable” is back this week!

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Love in the time of coronavirus (rerun)

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Sep 10, 202023:36pending

WeWork too much (rerun)

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Aug 20, 202024:44pending

Life in the coronavirus heckhole

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Money makes me sick

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Jul 16, 202021:47pending

The fight for fair pay in Big Tech

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Jul 2, 202021:57pending

How to pay for college

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Jun 18, 202026:34pending

It’s expensive to get arrested

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Jun 5, 202025:19pending

Barred from benefits (from The Uncertain Hour)

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May 28, 202034:48pending

School’s out (forever?)

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May 21, 202021:00pending

Our parents’ debts (from Terrible, Thanks for Asking)

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From prison to pandemic

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May 7, 202018:57pending

Confessions of a shopaholic

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Apr 30, 202018:40pending

A $35,000 COVID bill

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Apr 23, 202019:29pending

What it’s like getting an abortion in Texas right now

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Apr 16, 202015:27pending

Zoom therapy in a pandemic

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Apr 9, 202018:56pending

Love in the time of coronavirus

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Hard choices

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Mar 27, 202019:06pending

COVID-19 comforts

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Mar 20, 202015:38pending

What’s a friendship worth?

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Mar 12, 202018:44pending

WeWork too much

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Mar 5, 202024:21pending

My boyfriend wants to pay my rent

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Feb 27, 202025:25pending

In sickness and in fraud

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Feb 21, 202022:13pending

Total financial control

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Feb 13, 202026:03pending

What’s your sign?

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Feb 6, 202025:09pending

Divorce Story

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Jan 30, 202021:54pending

“This Is Uncomfortable” is back next week

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Jan 23, 20202:36pending

I have class anxiety (rerun)

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Jan 16, 202020:03pending

Instrument of sabotage (rerun)

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Jan 2, 202024:29pending

When money makes it weird (rerun)

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Dec 26, 201931:02pending

Bonus: Money horror stories II

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Dec 12, 201919:27pending

Home/work (rerun)

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Nov 28, 201920:57pending

When your life depends on it

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Nov 21, 201922:35pending

Love thy neighbor, and pay off their debts, too

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Nov 14, 201923:06pending

Don’t buy your boss a gift

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Nov 7, 201924:18pending

Money horror stories

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Oct 31, 201921:06pending

Sperm, baby, sperm

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Oct 24, 201924:55pending

Instrument of sabotage

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Oct 17, 201924:07pending

TIU Live: I hate my boss

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Oct 10, 201919:50pending

F you, pay me

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Oct 3, 201921:10pending

Money advice with “Call Your Girlfriend”

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Sep 26, 201921:03pending

Can’t buy me love

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Sep 19, 201923:11pending

Everyday liars

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Sep 12, 201913:57pending

Cashing in on your kids

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Sep 5, 201915:58pending

Trapped in your personal brand

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Aug 29, 201919:45pending

The lies we tell our friends

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Aug 22, 201923:17pending

What dad left behind

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Aug 15, 201926:25pending

I have class anxiety

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Aug 8, 201919:53pending

That thing you buy and don’t tell your parents about

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Aug 1, 201916:06pending