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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Gave My Dad a Kidney

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This caller gave her dad a kidney just a few weeks ago. She called in to talk with Gethard about the importance of living donation, but this conversation ended up being about so much more: overwhelming loss, unbelievable resilience, and why sometimes you just have to laugh so you don’t lose it.

If you’re interested in learning more about living donation, here’s a place to start: organdonor.gov

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody who has a laugh that's a laugh that hides the pain laugh.

0:10.0

It's beautiful anonymous one hour one phone call no names no holds barred

0:17.8

I'd rather go one on one I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.

0:28.0

Hi everybody, Chris Gethard here.

0:30.0

And if you're somebody who wants to get right to the phone call. The intro is not that long this week. It's

0:35.4

about five and a half, six minutes. If you go skip about five and a half minutes ahead, you'll

0:39.5

get right to the phone call. Thanks so much for listening. Enjoy the call.

0:45.0

Hi everybody, Chris Gethard here and welcome to another episode of beautiful anonymous and I have to say I've been out here

0:59.7

Meeting people I just did a show last night as of this recording. I'm recording this on Thursday, November 2nd.

1:06.6

Last night I did a show in South Hackensack, New Jersey, which is kind of in the middle of nowhere,

1:10.5

and I had someone come up to me who said I'm psyched on this

1:13.9

bonus content Wednesday coming I said any day now you all will be happy to hear

1:18.1

that Andrea and I have officially had an on-board and call we're building the

1:21.8

infrastructure right now getting everything in place

1:24.7

because I know I've been making you guys wait for this bonus content, but I promise you, I think

1:30.4

it's really good, the stuff we've been been recording and what I don't want to do is

1:35.2

scramble and be like we have to make it happen fast and then it comes out and there's something

1:39.0

wrong or it's a confusing system to use and then it's a pain in your butt so we're really just dot in every

1:45.0

eye, crossing every T, trying to get it right, but the beautiful anonymous bonus

1:49.7

content is coming soon and I think you're all really going to love it because we thought

1:53.8

hard about who this fan base is what they want how to give them something that

1:57.6

feels like it's totally worth it and also because I'm me and because I have such

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