Foster Parents Who Love D&D (Live from Seattle)
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
A married couple who recently became foster parents talk about what motivated them to foster and how it's dramatically changed their lives.
They open up about how everyday is "emotional limbo" because they don't know if the kids will return to their birth parents. They also share their love of D&D, revealing character names such as Trina Tinkleberry the gnome.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Seattle, it's beautiful anonymous one hour one phone call no names no holds |
| 0:13.0 | bar |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, welcome to beautiful anonymous my name is Chris gethard it's an honor and a privilege |
| 0:34.4 | to bringing another phone call that represents human conversation in raw largely unedited |
| 0:42.7 | form as we tell human stories one by one each week here on the show and before we even |
| 0:49.0 | get into with this episode is about just want to go ahead and say that this is a baffling |
| 0:54.0 | and difficult week in America Supreme Court is taking away people's rights I don't like |
| 0:59.9 | it and I want to send love to all the listeners who are affected by this especially our |
| 1:06.2 | women who listen to the show you hear me pause there because I'm getting a mixture of |
| 1:12.7 | angry and sad a mixture of angry and sad right now if you know the history of our show a |
| 1:18.3 | lot of people have been listening since the beginning you know we were featured on |
| 1:20.7 | this American life after episode one it blew up it exploded in a way no one expected |
| 1:26.1 | it became something I never saw coming and I've always said so much of what we've always |
| 1:30.4 | known from day one with the people listening with the feedback with the demographic research |
| 1:35.1 | they do women have supported this show and I support women and I will tell you that the |
| 1:42.9 | idea that we're losing rights and moving backwards in this country is is baffling and |
| 1:48.1 | maddening and I just want to say much love to everybody out there and if you live in a state |
| 1:55.2 | in the United States where abortion is now illegal or restricted I want to let you know |
| 2:00.3 | about a site called aid and abet abortion dot com this is a site that is looking to help |
| 2:06.6 | people who need help and a good friend of mine is someone who's helping to spread word on |
| 2:13.7 | this site and I'm happy to use my platform to help that process much love to everyone |
| 2:20.3 | especially people who feel like their rights have been infringed upon and trampled this week |
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