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Other People’s Lives

The Anonymous Hotline - Episode 4

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If you’d like to share your story, call The Anonymous Hotline at 530-362-8918 and leave a voicemail. Resources and hotlines: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800) 273-8255 Crisis Text Line Text 741741 National Sexual Assault Hotline (800) 656-4673 National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233 Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration National Helpline (800) 622-4357 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We set up an anonymous hotline so that strangers could share their secrets and confessions.

0:05.9

These are some of the calls we received.

0:11.4

Hi, I'm currently in the mental and emotional stage where seeing people happy

0:21.5

bothersome and seeing people hang out with their friends bothersome.

0:26.8

I envy people that are happy and I know it sounds really toxic of me and really negative,

0:36.2

but it's really bad. I see people smiling and it just puts me in a bad mood because I want that.

0:45.9

You get me? I don't have friends, I don't have a family, I'm all alone in this world and it's

0:53.6

tough because I just want to be happy and it's really weird because my day can be normal,

1:02.0

whatever and I see a group of people hanging out having a good time and it just ruins my day.

1:07.7

Like I go home and I just cry, I throw tantrums like this stupid shit to my belt because

1:14.2

bothers people are happy and living the lives that I want to live.

1:17.6

Yeah, okay, so I don't know why I do this, but when I take a shit at home,

1:27.7

I sit directly on the porcelain, meaning I first lift up the seat and the lid and then the seat

1:36.8

and I sit directly on the fucking toilet bowl and take a shit.

1:40.4

When I have to sit in public, I don't do that, I fucking sit on the seat like a normal person,

1:45.9

but at home, no idea why I do it, I've been doing it for as long as I can remember and now I'm

1:51.7

in my mid-20s and I still do it.

1:55.2

My partner came out to me as a trans woman recently and I could not be more excited for and

2:05.8

proud of her because she's struggling with gender identity for so long and she's only out to me

2:16.2

and one other person and I just wish that I could scream at the top of my lungs,

2:21.4

how amazing my girlfriend is and how proud of her.

2:25.0

I am and that she's the most beautiful girl in the world.

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