Ran Away to Mexico (Live from Beaut/Con)

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A woman explains why she fled home and her husband of 20 years to live in a small Mexican town. She describes how leaving for 5 months actually helped their marriage. Later on, a man from the live Beaut/Con audience joins onstage to discuss his experience being on the other side of "taking a break" from a relationship, along with some other surprise guests.

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0:00.0	Hello beautiful con on a miss date to it's beautiful anonymous one hour one phone call
0:10.2	no names no holds bar
0:15.4	I'd rather go one on one I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me
0:27.9	Hi everybody Chris gethard here and welcome to another episode of beautiful anonymous I feel very lucky to do this show
0:37.0	to try to be a drop of empathy in a world that often feels like a fast paced
0:44.7	white water rapids of whatever the opposite of empathy is a lot of people greatly enjoyed last week's
0:51.8	episode with our friend the old school hippie if you didn't catch that one you're gonna want to go back
0:56.1	I want to point out this comment by Trista this one blew my mind Trista said I loved this one she
1:01.7	reminds me of my mom who died two years ago at 74 can dole wins his Trista she was an RN and worked at
1:08.1	the first abortion clinic in Madison Wisconsin in the 70s along with her best friend who was her roommate
1:12.9	at nursing school I was lucky to spend a lot of time with them both and loved listening to them talk
1:17.2	about their time there what it was like this call was awesome want to let you know that I'm always going
1:23.2	out on the road quick plug I'll be in Jersey July 27th I'll be at the dojo and Morris planes would love to
1:29.6	sell that show out in my home state and then in August Oklahoma City Dallas San Antonio I'm coming
1:36.5	tickets for all those shows are available at chrisgeth.com now this week's episode this is a live
1:41.9	episode from beautiful cononymous few months back we had our first ever fan convention in Brooklyn
1:47.3	it was fun and reinvigorating and great this caller talks about leaving her husband behind
1:57.6	and going away and finding herself and it's it's very there's a couple very fun things about
2:03.5	this I want to point out one is in real life you you hear about things that are more layered than
2:10.3	in stories or in movies and there's a very fun running trend of me going did you
2:15.6	did you leave was this a vacation was this a break what was this but that's very real right to
2:20.8	take a leap and you don't know how it's going to end so how do you even define it along the way
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