All the best stories live on the brink of a breakdown.
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0:31.3 | From the Independent Producer Project and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional. |
0:38.0 | It's a program of true stories and personal documentaries, and on this episode, up three stories about reaching the |
0:46.2 | breaking point. First the story of Davis that's not his real name and |
0:50.9 | you'll understand why in a minute he got himself a real |
0:54.1 | job at a real accounting firm that pays him lots and lots of real money but that's |
0:58.9 | also how he ended up drunk and alone at his office late one night, |
1:03.4 | standing in the middle of a pile of office supplies |
1:05.6 | and equipment he just smashed to the ground. |
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1:21.8 | interns that they brought on. |
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