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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Dodging Bombs & Tornados (Live from Boston)

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A gum covered dog, a bomb threatened hospital, and a tornado warning. A woman describes the cartoonish obstacles she had to overcome to visit her ailing father. She opens up to Geth about navigating family drama and the weirdness of getting emails about Father’s Day. Later on, the audience welcomes her to the “dead dad club” with no shortage of dark jokes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello Boston, it's beautiful anonymous.

0:09.6

What hour?

0:10.8

One phone call?

0:12.2

No names, no holds barred.

0:15.8

I'd rather no one on one.

0:30.2

I have a really Chris Gatherard here, welcome to beautiful anonymous.

0:33.9

I got to thank everybody who came to our four tapings at an Edinburgh Scotland.

0:38.4

The crowds were small but mighty.

0:40.3

And we got some good stuff out of them.

0:42.9

And I can't wait for the listeners to hear it someday.

0:46.9

Thanks again for coming everybody and remember if you're in Edinburgh August for the French

0:50.6

Festival I'm here all month with my show.

0:53.2

I'll father in the sun at the Gilded Blue at 6pm every day.

0:59.2

This week's episode.

1:01.6

It's a really tough one, it's a really tough one.

1:05.0

Our caller didn't just lose her dad.

1:08.2

Our caller lost her dad and then suffered through a cartoonish level of calamity.

1:14.6

Just thing after thing, bad luck thing after bad luck thing.

1:18.4

But I think it's a call that a lot of people are going to get so much out of.

1:22.0

Because so many of us have been through stretches like this where you just go through like

1:25.7

a stretch a life where you go, is there anything else that can go wrong?

1:29.9

And this caller's been going through that and the answer just keeps going, yes, here's

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