598 - How To Say 'You Can Let Go Now' with Comedian Abby Schachner
Story Worthy
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4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:36.0 | Hey, it's Christine from Storyworthy. |
| 0:38.7 | Today on the show, writer-comedian Abby Shackner talks about how she said goodbye to her father. |
| 0:45.0 | This time I was going to do it right. |
| 0:47.0 | My father was dying and I was going to say, you can let go now, like a normal person. |
| 0:51.7 | And I start to cry. |
| 0:53.7 | Like my lips trembling. Like to see him, like, |
| 0:56.2 | you know, he's aged, you know how that happens, he looks old. And he looks at me in a way |
| 1:01.1 | that he hasn't, like, seen me like that. He, like, he wants to comfort me and I want to comfort |
| 1:06.5 | him too, but we both are incapable of doing so. So instead of saying you can let go now, I said, Dad, hey, Dad, Joe got a blow job in a church. |
| 1:19.3 | Today on the show, writer-comedian Abby Shackner talks about her eclectic family and saying goodbye to her father. |
| 1:26.5 | Stay close. |
| 1:29.6 | Hi, this is Abby Shackner, and you are listening to Storyworthy. |
| 1:51.5 | Hey! Welcome to Storyworthy. And I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:55.8 | Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, happy new year, and welcome to Storyworthy. Guess what? |
| 2:04.3 | What? It's my birthday. What? Today, January 7th. Happy birthday. I know. It happens, you know, |
| 2:11.0 | every year. It never stops. It's hard getting old in this town, man, I got to say, in Los Angeles. I think it's hard getting old in general, but yeah. Yeah, I guess so. It's not. It's hard getting old in this town, man, I got to say, in Los Angeles. |
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