Rory Scholl: What I want is to smile again
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2012
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Rory Scholl has to show up on day one to a new job -- with a severe case of Bell's Palsy. "When I said this to one of my co-workers I slurred my words, which was nothing new: I had a lot of three martini lunches."
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ... Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:28.4 | where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:32.3 | This week's storyteller is Rory Scholl. |
| 0:34.7 | The story was recorded in July 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. The theme of the event was |
| 0:40.3 | medical misadventures. |
| 0:42.3 | I've always thought it would be fun to work at an ad agency with big clients on huge campaigns |
| 0:55.8 | that would be seen globally. |
| 0:57.6 | And finally, I was answering the phones at one. |
| 1:01.5 | I was working at this little agency in Soho as an office manager. |
| 1:07.0 | It was a miserable job, miserable hours, and miserable pay. |
| 1:12.1 | And even though I could get away with murder at this place, I actually found like a side room they didn't use that they |
| 1:16.2 | stored like old printers and laptops and stuff in there. And I was selling their stuff on Craigslist |
| 1:21.8 | out of their lobby as a side project. They're out of business now. I don't know why. |
| 1:28.8 | But they, |
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