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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ever heard of "granary bread?" Yeah? Then you're probably British, like this week's caller. If not, then get out your malted barley and listen to Gethard celebrate cultural differences with a mother and social media expert from England's rural south. Opening up about difficulties in her past, she says: "you know, it was 14 years ago, but it's still one of those things, when I open my heart to a stranger on the phone, can still make me cry."

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0:00.0	You know, sometimes you see one of those news notifications pop up on your phone and
0:03.6	you're like, wait, huh?
0:05.3	What?
0:06.3	Wait, well, you probably what you need is somebody to explain those moments to you and
0:10.6	Vox is on it.
0:11.8	Okay.
0:12.8	You probably know Vox.
0:13.8	This is VOX.
0:14.8	You've seen it around as the folks who distill all the noise about news, policy, culture,
0:18.6	and everything that matters into the perfect explainers.
0:21.9	Now they have a new podcast with an episode every single afternoon.
0:25.0	It's called Today Explained and it answers the big questions about today's news.
0:29.5	Remember, it's Vox.
0:30.5	VOX, the podcast is called Today Comment Explained.
0:34.0	Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app like Stitcher or Apple Podcast.
0:37.7	Today explain, we'll be waiting for you whether you're winding down or psyching up.
0:59.5	Hello, everybody.
1:12.6	Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous.
1:14.9	The podcast where I, some guy, relatively low level comedian who has been doing a little
1:21.2	better since I got started, talks to people on the phone, talks to people on the telephone,
1:26.0	and that's the whole podcast.
1:28.2	And people listen because there's a lot of people out there in the world who it turns out.
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