This Is Uncomfortable
A podcast by Marketplace

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166 Episodes
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“Unlocking the Gates” on housing and economic opportunity
Published: 3/6/2025 -
How it all began: celebrating 10 seasons!
Published: 10/24/2024 -
Check your Venmo, please
Published: 10/17/2024 -
The gifts of mortality and movement, from “Notes From America”
Published: 10/10/2024 -
When death is your career
Published: 10/3/2024 -
Windfalls and vet bills
Published: 9/26/2024 -
The things we leave behind
Published: 9/19/2024 -
Hired, fired, can’t retire (updated rerun)
Published: 9/12/2024 -
Wait, I think I’m being underpaid
Published: 9/5/2024 -
What have you learned from the show?
Published: 9/3/2024 -
“Why did you buy more bones?”
Published: 8/29/2024 -
Hanif Abdurraqib on what it means to “make it”
Published: 8/22/2024 -
“This Is Uncomfortable” is back Aug. 22
Published: 8/15/2024 -
An update from Hana
Published: 6/28/2024 -
Meet Jasmine! And her new pod, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints”
Published: 6/21/2024 -
Join our Uncomfortable book club!
Published: 6/7/2024 -
The promise of a miracle cure
Published: 4/18/2024 -
The high price of cheap clothes
Published: 4/11/2024 -
No more panic shopping
Published: 4/4/2024 -
The bias we don’t talk about
Published: 3/28/2024
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?