Episodes We Love: You Must Change Your Life
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
“I remember them finding the drugs and holding them up in the sky. And I was like, 'Oh man, I’m going to prison.'” This week’s guest, the writer Mitchell S. Jackson, started selling drugs when he was 14 years old, then went to prison for drug possession years later. When his mother tried to buy drugs from him, he knew he couldn’t run away from his bad decisions. This episode was originally released on October 21st, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:14.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:18.0 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Steve Alman. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Cheryl Strait. |
| 0:24.0 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:35.0 | Share some better sweet days with me. |
| 0:42.0 | I check my bedbub every day. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, and this sugar, using my way. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 1:00.0 | Here we are beginning a new season of Dear Sugar's. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm very excited. |
| 1:05.0 | We have so many interesting things ahead. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, we are super, super psyched and just on a personal note. |
| 1:11.0 | Super psyched to see my partner again. |
| 1:14.0 | My sentiments exactly. |
| 1:16.0 | So one of my favorite poems of all time by Realka is our K-Actor so of Apollo. |
| 1:22.0 | And it culminates in this line that has come into my mind countless times throughout my life. |
| 1:28.0 | And it's this, you must change your life. |
| 1:31.0 | It's such a simple statement and it reads to me like a command that sort of echoes in my mind. |
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