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An Arm and a Leg

Your TikTok Mom has some medical-bill tips, and a hell of a story

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Forty-something mom Shaunna Burns went viral on TikTok, thanks in part to a series of videos dishing out real-talk advice on fighting medical bills. She's the virtual mom that thousands of Gen-Z followers love. And her stories will curl your hair.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Dan, super quick. If you appreciate what we're doing here on an arm in a leg,

0:04.4

I want to ask you to help us out. The biggest source of funding for this show is you.

0:09.1

And right now, any donation you make is going to be matched dollar per dollar thanks to news match from the Institute for Nonprofit news like you give us 50 bucks. They make it a hundred just like that.

0:20.9

You can do that right now at arm and a leg show dot com slash support thanks okay here's the show

0:27.5

hey there if you've got little kids around you might not want them to listen along with this one. For one thing there's a lot of

0:34.0

cussing which we haven't beeped and for another the story touches on topics that

0:38.1

could be kind of intense. If you want to check it out for a preview there's a

0:41.4

transcript at arm and a leg show.

0:44.0

But I hope you'll stick around to listen.

0:45.9

This one's really good.

0:46.7

Shauna Burns is ready to be your mom on Tik-Tok.

0:53.4

She doesn't dance or sing, she just talks.

0:55.6

And she's not the kind of Gen Z kid

0:57.5

we think of as the Tik-Tok demographic.

0:59.7

She's in her early 40s.

1:01.0

She's got three daughters.

1:02.0

And when she posted her first video last year

1:04.4

she used the hashtag I know I'm old y'all she was already leaning into her momness then a

1:09.6

few months later right before Thanksgiving she posted this.

1:12.8

Hey guys it's me Shauna I keep getting comments on my videos that people wish that I was their mom would

1:17.9

you be my mom we please be my mom I wish you were my mom and the answer to that is

1:22.4

fuck yeah bichs I will be your fucking mama.

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