#74 Making Friends

Reply All

Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, a story about people who start hearing voices in their heads. But, instead of trying to get rid of the voices, they try to make more. Reporter Laura Klivans has the story. Our Sponsors Mailchimp – Send better emails. Also visit Mailchimp’s new non-profit online store Freddieand.co. Fracture – Get 10% off, and don’t forget to mention Reply All in their one question survey. Squarespace – The easiest way to create a beautiful website, portfolio or online store. Use the offer code “REPLY” to get 10% off your first purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Reply All. I'm Alex Goldman and I'm P.J. Boat.
0:10.0	And this week we have a story from Laura Clivens, who is a reporter at KQED in San Francisco.
0:20.0	Hi Laura.
0:21.0	Hi.
0:22.0	So this story, it's one you've been working on for a while.
0:26.0	Yes, it is. Yeah, I've been reporting it for a year and a half now. And it is about this woman.
0:33.0	She lives in Missouri. Her name is Shea. And that's not actually her real name.
0:39.0	And she has a really big secret.
0:42.0	This is a very mysterious tease.
0:44.0	Yeah, that is.
0:46.0	So Shea is right now, she's 30 years old. She is small and thin. She has light brown hair.
0:54.0	Primiturally going gray and she wears glasses.
0:57.0	I object the idea that a 30 year old with gray hair is prematurely gray.
1:00.0	Oops.
1:01.0	I'm also going gray.
1:03.0	She's accurately going gray.
1:05.0	Exactly.
1:06.0	A fairly gray.
1:07.0	A human is supposed to.
1:09.0	Okay. To tell you her story, I want to go back about 10 years ago when Shea had just graduated from high school.
1:18.0	Where were you living or are you doing with each of your days since you graduated from high school?
1:22.0	I was living in my parents' basement.
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