Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. Thats the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard (the Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, This American Life, and one of Time Outs 10 best comedians of 2015). Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one...
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580 episodis
A Proudly Unpredictable Human Being
A proudly unpredictable mom calls to talk with Gethard about errant mouth bones, thrift-store vendettas, and escaping a fundamentalist upbringing. Plu...
I Didn't Come Here to Win
Losing her job wasn't exactly the plan, but it gave this caller the reset she needed. She talks with Geth about ADHD, burnout, GenAI, and just how muc...
Prison Bound Week: Day 5 - Eight Years Later
It's Friday, and we've finally caught up.
All week, we've been following the Prison Bound caller from the original 2018 episode through three fo...
Prison Bound Week: Day 4 - COVID Lockdown
It's Thursday, and Prison Bound Week is almost caught up to the present.
We started on Monday with the original 2018 call, then followed the cal...
Prison Bound Week: Day 3 - Halfway Through
It's Wednesday, and Prison Bound Week continues.
We started Monday with the original 2018 call, and yesterday we heard from our caller nine mont...
Prison Bound Week: Day 2 - Nine Months In
It's Tuesday, which is normally when you get your weekly episode of Beautiful Anonymous, but this week, we're doing things differently.
Yesterda...
Prison Bound Week: Day 1 - The First Call
Yes, it's Monday. Yes, Beautiful Anonymous is in your feed a day early. We're doing something a little different this week.
Eight years...
Hacker Tendencies at a Hacker Convention
A sixth-degree black belt calls from a hacker convention to talk ham radio, phone phreaking, off-grid networks, hacking E-ZPass (fine, theoretically),...
This One Is NOT About Avatar: The Last Airbender
This week's caller has a full-time job, a toddler, and somehow also helps run an anime convention in their spare (lol) time. Gethard gets a crash-cour...
Gratuitous Live Turkeys
This week's caller had an encounter with a psychic that is tailor-made for Beautiful/Anonymous. She tells Gethard that story, shares memories of her f...
A Completely Normal Call That Goes Exactly As Planned
Let's all agree we can blame Mercury retrograde for the technical difficulties we had in getting this one off the ground. The rest of the chaos, thoug...
Stopped a Serial Killer?
Recovering from surgery and ten days into a liquid diet, our caller is hungry for conversation. Geth and this Good Vibes Caller compare shared surgeri...
Forty-One Unscripted Plays About Our Sport
This week, an audio engineer at a major sports arena calls in from a seat in the arena bowl. He and Gethard talk about what it's like to work in a pla...
Cheers to All the Sluts Out There
This week's caller is an environmental scientist who studies stormwater. She's also a mischievous little trickster. She and Geth talk about what our w...
Homeschooled Public School Theater Teacher
This week, Gethard talks with a middle school theater teacher about growing up homeschooled, her time in a traveling Christian theater troupe, and wha...
Psychedelic Researcher
This week's caller works in psychedelic medicine, and Gethard has questions. They talk about ketamine, psilocybin, what it really means to do this wor...
A Beautiful Anonymous Pastiche
A life that started in Pleasantville doesn't stay there. This week's caller talks with Gethard about marriage, motherhood, identity, grief, and how li...
Ten Years in the Making
This week's caller has been listening since the beginning and thinking about what she'd say when she finally got through. Ten years in, she tells Geth...
I Just Want To Be a Bridge
This week's caller wants to build something good in a place where help can be hard to find. She and Geth talk about small-town life in the South, harm...
Avatar Stories from Anonymous Benders
For Gethard's birthday, we're doing something kinda stupid but also totally sincere: an entire episode about Avatar: The Last Airbender. After months...
A Dancer's Revenge
This week's caller is a dancer and choreographer who takes Gethard inside the intense, demanding world of ballet and the path that led her to her life...
Air Force Veteran (One for Our Logistics Nerds)
This week's caller is an Air Force veteran and longtime listener who talks with Gethard about military logistics, global shipping, what you can learn...
The Most Important Guy You've Never Heard Of
An airline dispatcher calls to tell Gethard about the most important job at the airport that most of us don't even know exists. He tells us what it ta...
Existential Psychologist
An existential psychologist calls in this week and gets Gethard to open up about a tough dad moment before the conversation turns toward the lonelines...
SWAT Medic
A paramedic calls in this week, and he and Gethard bond fast over the real deal world of first response. This caller is operating at a pretty intense...
Two Years, Five Jobs
Our caller talks with Gethard about graduating from NYU into a job market that's getting worse by the minute, bouncing between temp jobs, losing healt...
6'3" Runt of the Family
A caller from South Jersey (Editor's Note: 856 4EVER) tells Gethard what it was like being more than six feet tall by age 10 and growing up as, by far...
A Card Game in the Sky
Our caller lost her husband to cancer when he was only 33. She talks with Gethard about working in oncology while carrying her own history of caregivi...
Ex-Mother-in-Law Ice Cream Dates
This week's caller tells us about a living situation so uniquely hilarious it feels like it came straight from a sitcom. He also shares how he found c...
Three Different Dads
This week officially marks the 10-year anniversary of the very first episode of Beautiful Anonymous, and we might have the perfect call for the occasi...
Pottery-Based Death Threats
A potter who just had their biggest sales day ever calls in to talk about what life has been like since their political post went viral. They talk abo...
Sorority House Jane Goodall
This week's caller is a 44-year-old sorority house director who lives in the house full-time and walks Geth through the ins and outs of the job. From...
The Witches Are Running This Episode (Live from Pittsburgh, PA)
Live from Bottlerocket Social Hall in Pittsburgh, Gethard talks to a witch as she prepares for a full moon ritual, and . . . let's just be honest, he...
Construction, Mob, Sex, Movies (Live from Hamtramck, MI)
Live from Hamtramck, Michigan, a Chicago caller joins us with an all-time pitch: "I'm a woman in construction. I technically worked for the mob in hig...
Sexual Awakenings to Robin Hood (Live From Chicago)
Live from The Hideout in Chicago, Gethard talks with a Detroit-based tattoo artist about silly ink, meaningful art, Disney adults, and the sometimes s...
Pregnant Ultramarathon Runner
An ultramarathon runner who's 37 weeks pregnant calls to talk with Gethard about trail running, support crews, and how some ultra runners are in it fo...
Morality Muscles, Midwest Chili, Medical Devices
A newly minted Doctor calls to talk about earning their PhD in medical devices, how they managed to end up in the middle of a red panda escape, and th...
Bubble Busker Bingo Card
This week's caller is an outsider whose deep love for one specific kind of art ended up shaping her entire life. Geth talks with her about creativity,...
Attempts at Friendship in Your 40s
This week's caller is an avid kayaker with a Friday night all to himself. He tries not to make this episode about kayaking, but come on, when you're t...
A Kiln, Political Activism, and a Baller Catchphrase
As Beautiful/Anonymous kicks off its tenth year, Gethard talks with a mail carrier turned artist who's done settling and ready to take some big swings...