Athletic Trainer Turned Montana Game Warden

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week's caller is in the middle of a major life pivot, leaving a successful career as a college athletic trainer to become a Montana game warden. He and Gethard talk about the pressure to chase achievement for the wrong reasons and what it means to realize you built a life you never actually chose. They also get into the ethics of hunting, some wild ride-along stories, and we get an update on the caller's dad, our friend the timber faller from episode 355.

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0:00.0	It's easy to know you want to make a change in your life, but it is hard to actually do it.
0:05.4	How to Be a Better Human from TED is a podcast for when self-help feels too daunting or just not for you.
0:10.8	I'm Chris Duffy, the host of How to Be a Better Human, and trust me, I do not have it all figured out.
0:15.1	But join me as I talk to experts about actually attainable ways we can try to improve our lives.
0:22.0	Whether it's facing fears,
0:27.1	setting boundaries, cleaning your house, or all sorts of other topics. Find how to be a better human wherever you get your podcasts. Hello to everybody who loves a good career change. It's beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call.
0:40.9	No names, no holds barred.
0:47.0	I'd rather go one-on-one.
0:49.9	I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
0:57.6	Hi, everybody. If you're an intro skipper, I get it. I'm not mad at you. Also not trying to create a phrase.
1:05.8	You intro is not actually that long on this one. You want to skip like four minutes, maybe four and a half.
1:11.3	That'll put you right at the beginning of the call.
1:13.1	Enjoy it.
1:17.7	Hi, everybody.
1:18.6	Chris Getherd here.
1:20.2	Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous.
1:23.3	It's a phone call podcast.
1:24.9	We talk to people on the phone anonymously, and sometimes I like to say we look at the human condition one phone call at a time.
1:31.5	It's a nice little sentence I came up with at some point, and I've been sticking with it.
1:35.8	Hi, happy to be talking to all of you again.
1:39.8	I wanted to let everybody know.
1:41.0	First of all, thank you to everybody who ordered T-shirts.
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