An Australian in Italy

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

An Australian on a solo vacation calls in from Italy. She and Gethard chat about travel, trade stereotypes about each other’s countries, and get into how the rest of the world views the U.S. right now, all while the caller gives us a little walking tour of the charming Italian town she's calling from.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello to everybody who's from one place, but in another place and talking to somebody in a third place.
0:10.3	It's beautiful anonymous one hour.
0:13.1	One phone call.
0:14.4	No names.
0:15.7	No holds barred.
0:18.2	I'd rather go one-on-one.
0:28.2	I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
0:33.7	Hi everybody. Chris Getherd here. If you don't like an intro, I get it. Just a reminder,
0:54.9	the beautiful anonymous episode 500 taping is coming up in New Jersey on the 17th. So if you want to buy tickets, please do so now. In the meantime, if you want to skip about six and a half minutes ahead, that'll put you right at the beginning of the call. Thanks. Hi, everybody. My name's Chris Getherd. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous a show, whereas I like to say, we look at the human condition, one anonymous phone call
1:01.3	at a time. This week's episode, for the people who love being a fly on the wall, for the people
1:06.7	who love just listening to Life Unfold on the phone lines. This is one of the tracks that the calls can
1:12.4	sometimes go down. Man, this one is for you. Before we get to that, I want to say a few things.
1:18.8	Thanks to everybody who's been watching my new special, A Father and the Sun on YouTube. It didn't
1:24.2	blow up the world, but it did a little better than I thought it would.
1:27.9	I think a lot of that's because of beautiful anonymous listeners checking it out.
1:31.0	So thanks so much.
1:32.7	Speaking of shows, this is coming out on October 7th of 2025.
1:39.8	Now, on October 17th, 10 days from when this comes out, we're doing the episode 500 live
1:50.2	taping.
1:51.3	Now we're doing it in New Jersey.
1:52.4	Now I understand that if we did it in a place like, I don't know, Brooklyn, New York,
1:58.6	Philadelphia, Chicago, it would be much, much easier to get a few hundred
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