Existential Psychologist
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
An existential psychologist calls in this week and gets Gethard to open up about a tough dad moment before the conversation turns toward the loneliness epidemic, AI psychosis, mental health TikTok, burnout, dating, the emotional work of helping other people while dealing with your own feelings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody ready to ponder the deepest questions life has to offer. |
| 0:08.0 | It's beautiful anonymous, one hour, one phone call, no names, no holds barred. |
| 0:16.0 | I'd rather go one on one, I think it'll be more fun, |
| 0:22.0 | and I'll get to know you, and you'll get to know me. |
| 0:27.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:28.3 | I know not everybody likes an intro. |
| 0:30.0 | That's fine. |
| 0:30.7 | Skip about like five, five and a half minutes ahead. |
| 0:33.1 | That'll put you right towards the beginning of the call. |
| 0:35.2 | Enjoy it. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah. put you right towards the beginning of the call. Enjoy it. Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to Beautiful Anonymous. |
| 0:50.5 | I feel so lucky to be here as always 10 years in, at least two more years to go, |
| 0:58.5 | building an archive of human conversation that I never totally intended and that you all |
| 1:04.0 | have supported and that feels like it has taken on deeper meaning when I thought I was just going to take dumb phone calls. |
| 1:13.1 | Anyway, hello, it's great to be here. |
| 1:15.4 | Hi. |
| 1:15.7 | This is being released on Tuesday, April 28th, 2026. |
| 1:24.5 | Wanted to go ahead in the course of this, say, happy birthday to Holly. |
| 1:33.4 | And Holly, long-time listeners of the show might know. |
| 1:39.3 | Episode 69 of the show was titled Love is Everywhere. |
| 1:43.6 | It was a very, very transformative experience for myself and a lot of us listening. |
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