A Really F**ked Up Time to Be an Immigrant in the U.S.

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Our caller immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico just weeks before 9/11. He talks with Gethard about growing up as an immigrant in the Midwest and how figuring out his place there led him to question everything else in his life, from religion to relationships to identity itself.

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0:00.0	Love's in
0:01.2	love's in
0:02.1	love.
0:23.0	Molaat come in the not even not really there. Piar to have in the heart of the heart in. Because they they're there's that they're that's the who's in this in the there's the world. He's this is this is the Hindi podcast The Don't, I'm not my son.
0:21.6	My, I mean, R.J. Kosh. Why? Dharcted his for him. This is a Hindi podcast,
0:22.5	Dharq'n't me to listen.
0:23.3	Meary,
0:23.5	R.J. Koshi,
0:25.1	on Spotify,
0:27.2	Apple Podcast,
0:28.4	and many other
0:29.3	platform.
0:34.9	Hello to everybody
0:36.2	who's fascinated by Lucha Libre.
0:38.4	Seriously, Beautifulanonymous.com.
0:41.4	So worth it this week.
0:42.9	It's Beautiful Anonymous, one hour.
0:45.2	One phone call.
0:46.5	No names.
0:47.8	No holds bar.
0:50.0	I'd rather know one-on-one.
0:52.6	I think it'll be more fun, and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
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