“I WALKED ACROSS THE BORDER”

Therapy Gecko

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Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A caller tells his story of illegally immigrating into the US from El Salvador, and why he is debating moving back home. Later a caller worries her line of work may ruin her family dynamic and a final caller tries to move to Australia after surviving cancer. Look away. I am a gecko.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:03.0	Hi, what is your name?
0:05.0	It's Rolando.
0:06.0	Rolando, what's going on?
0:08.0	Uh, well, I sent you the text, you know, you want to hear how I got to the US what I
0:17.5	tell me as if you sent me nothing
0:21.4	bet so um I bet. So, you know, I've been in the US for about, I don't know, now it's been 11 years and I didn't really get here you know the
0:39.2	plain way per se I'm from Central America and you know I kind of walked here when I was 15.
0:48.7	You walked here. Yeah. From what from where?
0:53.0	Central America. I don't want to say the country, but the Central America.
0:59.0	Why don't you want to say the country?
1:01.0	I don't know, I guess I I'm I don't want to put a specific
1:06.0	country to it well I guess everybody from Central America does it I'm Salvadorian
1:11.8	Salvadorian how far away is El Salvador from the U.S. and what's the walking? How long to take you to walk there?
1:20.0	I guess I shouldn't say walk. I mean I did take some you know car
1:27.7	transportation here and there but it was with like a do you know what a coyote is?
1:37.0	Oh shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah like a coyote yeah
1:43.7	yeah like those are people who are who like they they bring bring people
1:50.6	over the border yeah for, for a payment.
1:54.0	So it's actually, um, it cost my mom, I believe about $10,000 for the trip.
2:03.2	Wow.
2:04.2	Yeah.
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