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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Crisis Hotline Worker

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Chris speaks with a licensed therapist about what it’s like talking people through a crisis and how their jobs overlap. They also get into the strange joys of having kids and the weird things that they do learning boundaries.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody who likes corn and ray guns.

0:07.0

It's beautiful anonymous, one hour, one phone call, no names, no old spark.

0:30.0

Thank you so much for listening.

0:44.0

So, during the course of that episode, we had a lot of fun talking about marching band, what I played in marching band, what the caller played in marching band.

0:55.0

For all of the things we brought up on that call, marching band got the most reaction and you'll be happy to hear.

1:00.0

I finally went on the Facebook group, so many people in the episode 30 were reacting to the marching band part.

1:04.0

I just said, you got to feel a lot of a former marching band people made this really show.

1:08.0

What instrument did you play?

1:10.0

Within two hours, we had 135 responses and that is growing by the minute.

1:14.0

It went up earlier today and there's a lot of fun, every responses and some people listening, their instruments and some people talking about how they thought the marching band kids were big geeks.

1:24.0

And it's a fun community over there.

1:26.0

Thanks to everybody who's joined up with the Facebook group.

1:29.0

You're listening to this on Tuesday and if you are, guess what? If you're anywhere near Woodstock, New York, I'm doing a live, beautiful, anonymous taping and a stand up gig at the colony in Woodstock.

1:40.0

That's on the 12th, that's Friday, the week this comes out.

1:43.0

Thanks to everybody who came out to Rochester on Saturday.

1:46.0

And I got a whole bunch of new dates up there.

1:48.0

ChrisGeth.com, not going to want to miss that. I got a bunch of dates coming up all next year. New ones announced in Florida, three different cities and Arbor and Grand Rapids and Michigan, another one in Jersey, New Haven, Cambridge, San Diego, San Pedro, Seattle, Portland, a lot of great places that I get to go.

2:09.0

So ChrisGeth.com, if you want info on that.

2:12.0

Now, this week's call, you know, every once in a while you meet somebody who really does stuff that is selfless, really does stuff with the pure goal of helping others and really does stuff that puts their own well being on the line.

2:26.0

I got a crisis hotline worker. This is a licensed therapist talking about what it's like to help shepherd somebody through crisis. And I know on my end, I'm somebody who's been in crisis at point. So I really appreciate people who put themselves out there in this way.

2:43.0

And we talk a lot about the overlap in our jobs and we get all sorts of diversions, revolving, having kids and talk of poopy in here and and puke.

2:56.0

You like that? And talk about boundaries too. And a lot of other stuff, a lot of other ways that we figure out how to get through the days.

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