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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

A Real Life Superhero

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Military veteran and writer talks about his WWII super-spy grandmother, a more recent sad and startling ouija board prediction, and how his life has changed since he left the service.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello citizens of the universe.

0:07.7

My name is Chris Gether.

0:09.0

This is beautiful stories from anonymous people.

0:11.7

One phone call, one hour.

0:13.0

No names, no holds barred.

0:15.0

And just like shaking with rage right now.

0:17.1

I'd rather go one on one.

0:20.7

I think it'll be more fun.

0:23.2

And I'll get to know you.

0:25.6

And you'll get to know me.

0:29.2

OK, so one of my favorite things I'm going to do in this show

0:31.6

is I get to hear about other people's lives.

0:33.7

Other people who have had different experiences than I've had.

0:36.4

It's really pretty fascinating.

0:38.4

And this call today is a culture that I've always

0:42.0

been fascinated by.

0:43.0

That I feel like we all have opinions on.

0:44.9

And we all have words from afar.

0:46.5

This guy was a soldier.

0:47.5

This guy's a soldier who lived at real deal.

0:49.4

I was not expecting a call from this guy.

0:51.0

This guy calls himself a comedy nerd over and over again.

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