I Evacuated Because Of The Wildfires

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A dogwalker from Nova Scotia speaks with Chris about being forced to evacuate due to out-of-control wildfires. She describes how quickly the fires grew and the pain of seeing people in her community lose their homes and in some cases, their pets. Later on, she opens up about what she learned from the 'Love is Everywhere' call.

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0:00.0	Hello to everybody who thinks that sandwich is a mess.
0:09.3	It's beautiful anonymous one hour.
0:11.7	One phone call.
0:12.9	No names, no holds for.
0:13.9	I'd rather no one on one.
0:14.9	I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
0:28.8	Hi everybody, Chris Getherd here.
0:30.8	Welcome to you to another episode of Beautiful Units.
0:34.3	A show where we talk to people one at a time, people get to go off in different directions.
0:40.4	People get to tell us stories, people get to keep it very real.
0:44.5	And this one today is quite real.
0:46.8	Before I get into it, I want to say that I really loved the feedback to last week's episode.
0:51.8	We aired our first episode from beautiful anonymous in Brooklyn, New York.
0:56.1	A lot of people were excited to hear Shell Shag play live.
0:58.6	And in the comments, I noticed a lot of people appreciate the resolution to the parade girl,
1:03.6	saga, as the community has come to know it.
1:06.6	This is of course a caller who called up in the summer of 2022, got on the show and then
1:13.4	proceeded to somehow keep getting friends of hers on the show who showed up live in
1:18.4	person in Brooklyn and then got on stage at the end of that call.
1:21.2	And man, if you skipped that one, but you want to hear it just descend into pure joyful,
1:26.4	lovable chaos, don't miss out on that.
1:30.0	Now, this week's episode, you might hear it in my voice, then my voice is a little raw.
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