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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Pharmacy Technician to Welder

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Getting arrested on New Year's Eve was a blessing in disguise. A woman describes how working as a pharmacy tech led to pill addiction. She opens up to Geth about starting detox in prison and healing her relationship with her son. She also shares what it's like welding "space crap" with lasers and what she's learned in recovery about empathy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody with cool gear.

0:08.2

It's beautiful and anonymous one hour.

0:10.2

One phone call, no names, no old's barred.

0:13.3

I'd rather no one on one.

0:21.3

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

0:29.5

Hi everybody, Chris Gatherer here and welcome to another episode of beautiful, anonymous.

0:34.5

I'm just going to get into it today.

0:36.7

It's nice to not be plugging too much stuff.

0:38.9

It's nice to not have too much things to tell you guys about except for the fact that we

0:42.9

got a great episode.

0:43.9

An episode that I have to say affected me greatly, an episode that ever since we recorded

0:49.8

it, I'm just thinking about it.

0:51.8

I'm excited for you to hear it.

0:53.8

This is real life.

0:54.8

This is real life right here.

0:56.9

Our caller, I don't want to reveal too much, but our caller has gone through some stuff,

1:04.7

hard stuff, real life stuff.

1:07.8

Types of stuff you read about newspapers, but you also know somebody in your hometown

1:11.9

or somebody you went to elementary school with who fell down this path.

1:16.4

But what our caller has wound up doing now is unpredictable, unbelievable, a testament

1:26.1

to her strength, testament to her resilience.

1:30.8

And I have to say, it's just one of the realest conversations I've ever had.

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