A lawsuit for your broken heart

为你破碎的心提起诉讼

Planet Money

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2024-02-10

22 分钟
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Keith King was upset when his marriage ended. His wife had cheated, and his family broke apart. And that's when he learned about a very old type of lawsuit, called a heart balm tort. A lawsuit that would let him sue the man his now ex-wife had gotten involved with during their marriage. On this episode, where heart balm torts came from, what relationships looked like back then, and why these lawsuits still exist today (in some states, anyway.) And also, what happened when Keith King used a heart balm tort to try to deal with the most significant economic entanglement of his life: his marriage. This episode was hosted by Erika Beras and Sarah Gonzalez. It was produced by Emma Peaslee and edited by Molly Messick. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Gilly Moon. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • You can think of what Keith King does as, like, breakdancing, but on a bike.

  • I mean, one of my all time favorites was always a trick known as the double deck eight.

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  • The bicycle goes up on the back wheel, and you go around the top of the bike twice before you set the bike back down.

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  • Keith is a bmx rider.

  • He started doing it in the eighties.

  • I was with the sport when it would be considered underground or in its infancy.

  • As the sport grew, I was right there.

  • And he doesn't just ride.

  • He runs a bmx stunt company out of North Carolina.

  • They perform everywhere.

  • Halftime at NBA games, the Alaska State Fair.