Debt Heads – Détails, épisodes et analyse

A narrative podcast turning the concept of debt upside down. 

Season One of Debt Heads is a five-episode mini-series that investigates the architecture of personal finance and the myths of financial responsibility. 

This is a storytelling journey into our lives and yours that uncovers the deeper structures that have created an economy that feels unsafe for most people. 

We are endeavoring to tell the Millennial story by exploring the insidious political and economic policies as well as the seismic but elusive cultural shifts that have defined America over the last four decades. 

We are not alone. You are not alone. 

All Debt Head Season One episodes are free on Spotify, Apple, Youtube. 

In the pilot episode of Debt Heads, revealing the truth about our finances leads to connections with strangers and catharsis with family relations.

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Credits: 

Writing/Editing/Production: Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster 

Theme Song: "Pay For That Money," Written and Performed by The Defibulators, PigCow Publishing (ASCAP)

Original Score: Ali Helnwein

Audio Mix: Jeff Seelye
Fact Checking: Serena Chow

Featuring: Cathy O'Neil

In the second episode of Debt Heads, we head to the mall to find out if life in plastic, aka using credit cards for everything, all the time, is actually fantastic. (This is part one of a two-part episode.)

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Credits:

Writing/Editing/Production: Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

Theme Song: "Pay For That Money," Written and Performed by The Defibulators, PigCow Publishing (ASCAP)

Original Score: Ali Helnwein

Audio Mix: Jeff Seelye
Fact Checking: Jennette Selig

Featuring: Donna Halper, former radio DJ, professor Emerson College

In part two of "The House Always Wins", we head to Washington DC to eat Amtrak hot dogs and learn infuriating revelations about the credit card industry and the specific, sneaky ways it works to keep us in debt forever. (This is part two of a two-part episode.)

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Credits:

Writing/Editing/Production: Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

Theme Song: "Pay For That Money," Written and Performed by The Defibulators, PigCow Publishing (ASCAP)

Original Score: Ali Helnwein

Audio Mix: Jeff Seelye

Fact Checking: Jenny Selig

Read more from our contributors:
Kathleen McDowell - Live Richly
Elena Botella - A New Money Order
Jon Ronson - Who Killed Richard Cullen?

In episode four of Debt Heads, we search for memories and meaning in the clearance aisles of TJ Maxx. 

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Credits:

Writing/Editing/Production: Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

Theme Song: "Pay For That Money," Written and Performed by The Defibulators, PigCow Publishing (ASCAP)

Original Score: Ali Helnwein

Audio Mix: Jeff Seelye

Fact Checking: Jennette Selig

In episode five of Debt Heads, we travel back thousands of miles and a few decades to the middle of nowhere (aka Rachel’s hometown) to find out why, for Millennials, it’s still a hard knock life. 

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Credits:

Writing/Editing/Production: Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

Theme Song: "Pay For That Money," Written and Performed by The Defibulators, PigCow Publishing (ASCAP)

Original Score: Ali Helnwein

Audio Mix: Jeff Seelye

Read more from our contributors:
Kathryn Ann Edwards - Optimist Economy

In anticipation of their long-awaited release of new episodes, Jamie and Rachel play a classic Millennial game and contemplate the prescribed path to adulthood. 

New episodes of Debt Heads drop June 25th!

Debt Heads is a production of Children People, LLC in association with Signal Co. No1.