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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Union Worker vs. Robot Dog Uprising

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Fired from his union position, this guy turned to gig economy jobs in the midst of coronavirus. Things are serious right now, but Geth still gets a chance to find out if he ever steals a jalapeno popper and they muse about a future filled with robot dogs

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody trying to figure out which side are you on?

0:09.2

Beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call, no names, no codes barred.

0:15.2

I'd rather go one on one, I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll

0:26.2

get to know me.

0:28.6

Hi everybody, it's Chris.

0:31.1

Here's a stupid question, how you doing?

0:33.7

How you feeling out there?

0:35.4

Everybody listening to this show?

0:37.8

I know the answer, stress, scared, bored,

0:42.4

full of confusion.

0:43.8

It's all of us out, we're in it together and uh, man, weird times, weird times, but uh,

0:50.8

I gotta say, I say it all the time, but man, bringing conversations out there, human conversations,

0:59.2

I really hope more than ever, just listening to other people talk, makes it feel a little bit

1:05.2

more like you're able to go outside and you just drop on a conversation as if you're in a public

1:10.3

place. Like, we used to be allowed to go to, I'm doing well, my family's doing well,

1:15.9

I had mentioned that we fled New York.

1:19.5

Last week and a bunch of people reached out and wished us luck and said they hope we're safe,

1:25.3

we are. Thank you guys all for your concern. I do want to say, I got out, you know, before,

1:31.7

before the news started really hitting, started hitting, um, Elmer's Hospital, which you may have

1:35.1

read about, that's in my old neighborhood, that's actually about two avenues from my house,

1:39.8

about a five minute walk from my, from my apartment. So much love to my neighbors and queens,

1:45.9

and I hope everybody stay and safe, being smart, doing the right thing. All right,

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