
This Is Uncomfortable
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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Who can afford to vote?
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Love in the time of coronavirus (rerun)
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WeWork too much (rerun)
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Life in the coronavirus heckhole
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Money makes me sick
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The fight for fair pay in Big Tech
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How to pay for college
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It’s expensive to get arrested
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Barred from benefits (from The Uncertain Hour)
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School’s out (forever?)
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Our parents’ debts (from Terrible, Thanks for Asking)
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From prison to pandemic
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Confessions of a shopaholic
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A $35,000 COVID bill
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What it’s like getting an abortion in Texas right now
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Zoom therapy in a pandemic
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Love in the time of coronavirus
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Hard choices
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COVID-19 comforts
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What’s a friendship worth?
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WeWork too much
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My boyfriend wants to pay my rent
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In sickness and in fraud
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Total financial control
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What’s your sign?
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Divorce Story
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I have class anxiety (rerun)
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Instrument of sabotage (rerun)
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When money makes it weird (rerun)
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Bonus: Money horror stories II
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Home/work (rerun)
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When your life depends on it
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Love thy neighbor, and pay off their debts, too
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Don’t buy your boss a gift
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Money horror stories
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Sperm, baby, sperm
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Instrument of sabotage
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TIU Live: I hate my boss
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F you, pay me
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Money advice with “Call Your Girlfriend”
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Can’t buy me love
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Everyday liars
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Cashing in on your kids
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Trapped in your personal brand
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The lies we tell our friends
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What dad left behind
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I have class anxiety
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That thing you buy and don’t tell your parents about
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