This Is Uncomfortable

A podcast by Marketplace

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166 Episodes

  1. “Unlocking the Gates” on housing and economic opportunity

    Published: 3/6/2025
  2. How it all began: celebrating 10 seasons!  

    Published: 10/24/2024
  3. Check your Venmo, please

    Published: 10/17/2024
  4. The gifts of mortality and movement, from “Notes From America”

    Published: 10/10/2024
  5. When death is your career

    Published: 10/3/2024
  6. Windfalls and vet bills

    Published: 9/26/2024
  7. The things we leave behind

    Published: 9/19/2024
  8. Hired, fired, can’t retire (updated rerun)

    Published: 9/12/2024
  9. Wait, I think I’m being underpaid

    Published: 9/5/2024
  10. What have you learned from the show?

    Published: 9/3/2024
  11. “Why did you buy more bones?”

    Published: 8/29/2024
  12. Hanif Abdurraqib on what it means to “make it”

    Published: 8/22/2024
  13. “This Is Uncomfortable” is back Aug. 22

    Published: 8/15/2024
  14. An update from Hana

    Published: 6/28/2024
  15. Meet Jasmine! And her new pod, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints”

    Published: 6/21/2024
  16. Join our Uncomfortable book club!

    Published: 6/7/2024
  17. The promise of a miracle cure

    Published: 4/18/2024
  18. The high price of cheap clothes

    Published: 4/11/2024
  19. No more panic shopping

    Published: 4/4/2024
  20. The bias we don’t talk about

    Published: 3/28/2024

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This is a show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Marketplace’s Reema Khrais digs in with stories about the unanticipated ways money affects relationships, shapes identities and often defines what it means to be an adult. How much money do you lend a friend? Who can afford to vote? Can you get your life back after being wrongfully convicted?