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The Secret Room | True Stories

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The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A moment inside pandemic life in this extra edition of The Secret Room.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Ben.

0:10.1

Pandemic life is not easy.

0:13.1

It's raising new challenges that scale to our stations in life.

0:16.7

And today, in this extra edition of the Secret Room, a snapshot of life inside the pandemic.

0:22.5

I'm lucky enough to have a job and go into work every day.

0:31.7

But I'm unlucky that I have a job and I go into work every day.

0:35.8

I work with the public.

0:37.1

I work in the grocery industry.

0:39.1

And I have been in the grocery industry for over 25 years.

0:45.1

And I've never, ever seen anything like this in my entire life.

0:51.1

My life was turned upside down by unexpected health issues two years before the pandemic.

0:59.0

I felt like I was just making progress when it struck.

1:04.8

The stay at home order is kind of sadly similar to much of the last two years.

1:10.9

And I guess now I have the added worry though, because other people are in the same boat

1:17.8

I got.

1:21.0

It's the craziest, scariest, well maintained thing I've seen the way the workers work so

1:31.4

hard at keeping themselves healthy, how they work so hard and overnight to keep the

1:37.2

store stocked for the customers.

1:39.9

We even have plexiglass as barriers when you check out to help keep us safe.

1:45.6

And I know some of you have been laid off and aren't working and you're in my thoughts

1:51.6

and prayers.

1:52.6

I was worried constantly because most of my best friends are in the health care field.

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