Drama Amongst the Birthday Clowns
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Gethard talks with a movie studio security guard calling in mid-shift. They get into local clown drama with surprising real-world stakes, the importance of keeping your dreams alive no matter what your day job is, and what happens when Spielberg catches you with your proverbial pants down. Plus, Geth's favorite TV appearance: Noches con Platanito.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who lives for clown drama. |
| 0:08.6 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour. |
| 0:11.1 | One phone call. |
| 0:12.2 | No names. |
| 0:13.4 | No holds barred. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.9 | I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me. |
| 0:27.4 | Hi everybody, Chris Gatford here. I know not everyone's into the intros. I will say the info on how to submit |
| 0:34.1 | for issue two of Beautiful Anonymous magazine is in this week's intro. So if that |
| 0:38.3 | interests you, you will want to check it out. If not, I forgot to time it, but skip about, I would |
| 0:43.1 | say eight to nine minutes. That'll put you right towards the beginning of the call. Sorry, |
| 0:47.0 | I usually try to time them specifically, but that should get you right where you want to go. |
| 0:50.9 | Okay. Thanks. |
| 0:53.8 | Hi, everybody. Chris Getherd here, welcoming you to another episode |
| 0:57.5 | of Beautiful Anonymous, which, as I've been fond of saying lately, is a show where what we do is we look |
| 1:02.8 | at the human condition, one anonymous conversation at a time. We've been doing it for years. We're |
| 1:09.3 | coming up on 10 years. I'm very psyched to tell you that |
| 1:12.3 | we're going to be announcing some touring dates soon. We rarely go on tour anymore, but if you are |
| 1:19.6 | in the Rust Belt of America, if you're out there out in the Midwest, on through the Rust Belt. |
| 1:25.3 | We've got some news coming for you guys about some shows coming up in a few months. |
| 1:29.0 | And Andrea and I have talked, it's the 10-year anniversary of the show, and I'm way more of a homebody than I've ever been. |
| 1:36.3 | But we're really committing to this idea of 10 cities for 10 years. |
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