Rickwood Field is the oldest baseball field in the US.
It's also where comedian Roy Wood junior spent a lot of time growing up.
Racism was around, but his baseball field somehow was a separate oasis from all of that for blacks and whites, baseball, Birmingham and racing America.
On the latest episode of the Sunday Story from NPR's up first podcast, you're.
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Hey there.
Andy Tegel here in for Marielle Segarra.
Love and money don't mix.
It's a common sentiment in the dating phase.
It might feel tacky to ask someone about their financial situation.
When you're in a relationship, money matters might feel taboo, a subject to be tiptoed around, not an us thing.
So this idea that money is somehow unsexy or not intimate, I actually think it's kind of the opposite.
When we're talking about money, we're deepening our, we're deepening our intimacy because we're talking about really vulnerable things and we're also dreaming ahead together and creating a plan.
So that's also really sexy and important.
That's Lindsay Bryan Podvan.
I'm a financial therapist and founder of the financial wellness business mind money balance.
Lindsey says ignoring money talk when you're coupled up just isn't an option.
We cannot go through a day for most of us where we are not somehow interacting with money.
We're spending it, we're earning it, we're loaning it, we're lending it, we're losing it.
And when it comes to our relationships, that will almost always be incorporated into our relationships.