Episode 500! (Live from Atlantic Highlands, NJ)
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Here we are. Episode 500. We celebrated the only way that makes sense. With a few hundred listeners packed into a theater in Jersey and a caller whose story pretty much sums up what this show is all about.
Our 500th caller is one year out from a stay in a mental hospital. She opens up about what it was like to lose her grip on reality in a pretty intense way and shares how far she’s come with self-awareness, perspective, and so much humor. She and Gethard also get deep into some classic Jersey debates with our audience (porkroll vs Taylor ham? Does Central Jersey exist?), who share some of their best roadside emergency rest stop stories and try to convince our caller to divulge her government secrets
Five hundred episodes. Wild. Thanks to everyone who’s listened, called, and shared a piece of themselves with this show. Here’s to the next 500.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. |
| 0:06.4 | It's beautiful anonymous. |
| 0:08.1 | One hour, one phone call, no names, no holds bar. |
| 0:14.6 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:20.2 | I think it'll be more fun |
| 0:21.8 | and I'll get to know you |
| 0:24.5 | and you'll get to know me |
| 0:27.0 | Hi everybody |
| 0:27.7 | I know not everyone loves a long intro |
| 0:29.5 | This one's actually not that long |
| 0:31.9 | Considering it's episode 500 of the show |
| 0:33.8 | If you want to hear my thoughts on that |
| 0:36.3 | Check out the intro |
| 0:36.9 | If not skip ahead about eight and a half minutes That'll put you right at the beginning of the show. If you want to hear my thoughts on that, check out the intro. If not, skip ahead |
| 0:37.9 | about eight and a half minutes. That'll put you right at the beginning of the call. Thanks so much. |
| 0:43.0 | I've also got new t-shirts at chrisgetherd.bigartel.com. Go check them out. |
| 0:50.4 | Hi, everybody. Chris Getherd here. And I have to just offer up a massive, very genuine thank you to everybody who's been listening to and supporting this show. |
| 1:02.2 | This is episode number 500 of Beautiful Anonymous, which feels so wild to say. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, when we started the show back in 2016, I never would have guessed that we'd make it nine years, 500 episodes. |
| 1:18.1 | It feels like such a milestone. |
| 1:20.6 | But at the same time, when I think about how the show unfolded right out of the gate and And when I saw how people were responding to the idea |
| 1:29.9 | of real human conversations, of this being a platform |
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