Stories of COVID-19: Pandemic Love Stories
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In our fourth installment of this series, love conquers all, even the obstacles presented by COVID-19.
Part 1: Having planned to tie the knot in April 2020, Jared Waters finds himself separated from his fiancée by COVID lockdown instead.
Part 2: The pandemic prompts Jamie Brickhouse and his partner of thirty years to consider getting married for the first time.
Jared Waters is Stand-up Comedian residing in New York City. He hails from Brunssum, The Netherlands. Jared gained his stand up legs in Tampa, Florida. His hard work and consistency with the ability to work clean and edgy has led him to be one of the most impressive Up and Coming comedians in the New York. When Jared is in between jokes, the future of this great nation is residing on his shoulders as Kindergarten teacher and host of the Podcast “One Man, One Tree, and a Hill”
Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, Jamie Brickhouse is the New York Times published author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, and he’s appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage, The Moth Podcast, Risk! Podcast, Story Collider Podcast, and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon Beavis and Butthead. He is a four-time Moth StorySLAM champion, National Storytelling Network Grand Slam winner, and his daily #storiesinheels TikTok videos have over two million views. Jamie tours two award-winning solo shows, Dangerous When Wet, and I Favor My Daddy. His new show, Stories in Heels: Tall Tales of the Women Who Changed My Life debuts at the Gotham Storytelling Festival in New York City, November, 2021.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider's third and final series of stories of COVID-19. |
| 0:18.8 | This week, we're bringing you two pandemic love stories. I remember when |
| 0:24.1 | I was younger, I read the Hunger Games book series and if you've read this series, you might |
| 0:29.2 | remember that while they're in the midst of this big war, two of the characters get married |
| 0:34.2 | and they have this big wedding. And I remember when I read this, I thought, |
| 0:39.4 | that's so unrealistic. How can they take this time to celebrate while so many overwhelmingly |
| 0:44.9 | terrible things are happening? Shouldn't they be focused on the task at hand? How can they even |
| 0:50.9 | feel this joyful given the circumstances? Now, in 2021, I understand a little bit better. |
| 1:00.0 | Even in the midst of a war or a pandemic, we still fall in love. |
| 1:04.0 | We still find these moments of joy. |
| 1:07.0 | In some ways, we have to, in order to get through through in order to remember what we're fighting for. |
| 1:12.8 | In our stories today, love conquers all, even the obstacles presented by COVID. |
| 1:19.5 | Our first story today is from Jared Waters. |
| 1:22.4 | It was recorded in December 2020 in New York City. |
| 1:35.1 | So we met, we met at Disney World. Disney World is a place where we were working. |
| 1:36.9 | We're both doing our internships there. |
| 1:38.8 | And I got in Disney Jail. |
| 1:40.1 | Disney Jail is a place where they ask you on your application. |
| 1:43.3 | What do you least likely want to do? And what would you really like to application. What do you least likely want to do? |
| 1:45.0 | And what would you really like to do? And what I least likely wanted to do was food services. |
| 1:50.0 | And that's what they put me. And they put me in this jail, this prison that I was in. |
| 1:54.0 | Right. Technically I could leave the jail, but it's a jail designed for you to quit. That's the reason why they call it Disney Jail because they don't want to fire anybody on the property. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Story Collider, Inc., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Story Collider, Inc. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.