Dealer Turned Surgeon
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
How did this self-described East Coast dirtbag go from selling drugs out of his mom's minivan to doing brain surgery? His answer: Donnie Darko. Gethard asks him some hard hitting questions like: What skills acquired in drug dealing are useful as a brain surgeon? Why did he go vegan? Can he control a monkey's brain with a special USB stick?
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| 0:00.0 | Whatever you're wearing right now, I am informing you Mac. Well then is better. |
| 0:08.0 | Anytime these people want me to endorse what they're selling, proudly do so. |
| 0:12.5 | Because I tell you I'm wearing their underwear right now and it feels like my private area is more well taken care of. |
| 0:19.5 | Never before. And I mean that. This is well made underwear that I'm wearing. |
| 0:23.5 | And it's held up for two years now as well. |
| 0:26.0 | If you're a guy, you're going to want this stuff if you're not, but you have a guy in your life, you're going to want to hook them up. |
| 0:32.0 | You go to macwellden.com, you get 20% off using the promo code stories. That's m-a-c-k-w-e-l-d-o-n.com. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm telling you guys, I'm not lying. Really good stuff for you or the men in your life. |
| 0:45.5 | Growing up, reporter Jonathan Hershey's family was a little different. They followed a controversial spiritual leader named Franklin Jones. |
| 0:53.5 | To Jonathan's parents, Franklin Jones was a god. But to people outside the group, he was a cult leader. |
| 1:00.5 | Dear Franklin Jones is a new podcast from Stitcher. And I'm telling you, I listened to the first episode and I was blown away. |
| 1:08.5 | Jonathan Hershey's telling story from his perspective is very personal. And I really do have a feeling that fans of beautiful anonymous would respond well to this story. |
| 1:16.5 | It's a cool gripping show that I listened to. Subscribe to Dear Franklin Jones in Stitcher Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. |
| 1:31.5 | Hello to all my go on his cool cats. It's beautiful anonymous one hour on phone call. No names, no holds barred. |
| 1:46.5 | I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me. |
| 1:54.5 | Hello everybody, it's Chris Gatherer, your pal. And the other end of him is serious phone line. Bringing you the show where you get to eavesdrop via audio on someone else shares details of a personal life. |
| 2:08.5 | Often times over shares details of their personal life feel very lucky to do this show feel very lucky that you're tuning in. |
| 2:16.5 | Thank you so much for that. A couple of tour dates up at criscf.com. And I'm Bloomington Indiana and Chicago Illinois. And check those out. If you're in those towns, I'll see you in a couple of months. |
| 2:27.5 | What else last week's episode? A lot of people responded positively to this one. I will tell you. I want to go ahead and thank the caller get. |
| 2:36.5 | And one of the things a lot of people in the Facebook group were we're thanking the caller for talking openly about fertility issues, infertility issues, the fear that comes along with that. |
| 2:48.5 | There were a lot of people saying, hey, I dealt with this too. No one really talks openly about it and it was so nice to hear someone just put it out there. And I think that's very true. And thanks and caller if you're listening again to our English friend, our English friend. |
| 3:04.5 | Thank you. I think it really meant a lot to a lot of people. So thanks for that. You know, didn't love the call was Londoners. People from London call her said London not not her favorite place to say the least. And I had some fun with that. And I will tell you. |
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