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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Diagnosed with Parkinson's At 30

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A woman with Parkinson's talks about how getting brain surgery changed her life. She also educates Geth on the definition of masking and how medical marijuana has helped her. We decided to make a special t-shirt in honor of today's caller. Go to Podswag.com/beautiful to grab your new favorite shirt, available in blue or red. All proceeds will be donated to The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody who bought a cat when they were high.

0:09.0

It's beautiful anonymous one hour with phone call, no names, no holds bar.

0:16.0

I'd rather go one on one.

0:20.0

I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.

0:28.0

Hi everybody Chris Gather here.

0:30.0

Hope you're doing well on this lovely Tuesday morning or winter for you to choose to listen to this in the future.

0:36.0

You can still be doing well the other six days of the week. I'm not mad at you.

0:39.0

Put special love to those people who listen to it right away when it drops.

0:42.0

Hello, first of all, we're coming up on 300 episodes. That's incredible.

0:47.0

Never imagine that would be the case the show has changed my life.

0:53.0

And guess what? Starting this Friday we're going to be sharing hashtag beautiful flashbacks on Facebook and Twitter.

0:59.0

Each week we're going to highlight one of our favorite episodes from the past.

1:02.0

Keep an eye out in the beautiful anonymous Facebook group. Follow the show's Twitter at butanon and check those out.

1:08.0

And I have to say getting the list together. A lot of people in the Facebook group kind of voted on which episode they wanted in the pipeline to sort of be re-explored, re-highlighted.

1:18.0

And if you're a newer fan of the show, if you've caught on midstream or you missed a bunch along the way, we're going to be highlighting a lot of the ones that the fan based themselves point to as some of the high watermarks of the shows coming up on the 300 episode run.

1:30.0

So thanks to everybody who helped contribute to that and organized that as well.

1:35.0

Now, this week's call you're going to hear it's it's one that very near and dear to me very near and dear to me ever since we recorded this one.

1:44.0

Caller has Parkinson's. This is one of those things I say it right away. It's one of those things we all know exists.

1:50.0

We all kind of see it in life. Some of us are more up close than others. Some people have it or see it in their families.

1:56.0

And some people maybe just in passing meet others you have it. But it's one of those stigmatized things we don't ask enough about.

2:03.0

And our caller is going to fill us in. So much talk about the effect it has. The way people react to you treatments and some treatments where you hear about them, you go, oh my God, man.

2:15.0

I can be like a lot of it. Sometimes I can be scared in a sci-fi way of technology and then some of your technology is saving people's lives every day.

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