Attempts at Friendship in Your 40s
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
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 this passionate about something, it's going to show up. If you're not into kayaking, don't worry. This one's also about being lonely, making friends in your 40s, and the need for real-world community when everything seems designed to keep us isolated.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who likes turtles. |
| 0:07.0 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call, no names, no holds barred. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.9 | I think it'll be more fun |
| 0:21.7 | and I'll get to know you |
| 0:24.3 | and you'll get to know me |
| 0:27.1 | Hi everybody |
| 0:28.5 | I know not everybody loves an intro |
| 0:30.7 | If that's the case |
| 0:31.6 | You're going to want to skip about 10 minutes |
| 0:33.2 | And that'll put you towards the beginning of the call |
| 0:37.0 | Thanks so much. |
| 0:44.4 | Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:46.1 | Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous, |
| 0:48.7 | where we take anonymous phone calls. |
| 0:50.8 | As I like to say, where we look at the human condition, |
| 0:56.4 | one anonymous phone call at a time, |
| 1:04.0 | in a few moments, I'm going to tell you about today's episode. And I'm also before that going to try to sell you some tickets to some live shows. These are some very frivolous things. |
| 1:10.4 | Our episode today is lovely. a lot of it is talking about |
| 1:14.4 | kayaks and kayaking and it's a good conversation but the timing of when everything went down |
| 1:21.7 | i have a feeling if the call happened on a different day last week that we would have expressed, I don't know, I can't |
| 1:31.3 | put words in anyone else's mouth. |
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