Hoagies, Cats, and Lyme

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

A graphic designer who moved home and is helping her family run their 90-year-old hoagie shop tells Gethard about winning a national grilled cheese competition and the sandwich that sent her to the hospital, fostering over 30 cats, accidentally breaking into a stranger’s apartment, and her long journey to getting diagnosed with Chronic Lyme, a controversial illness she helps shed some light on. Then, she and Geth trade taco recommendations.

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0:35.0	Hello to everybody who doesn't serve it wit or wit out with.
0:39.0	It's beautiful and anonymous, one hour, one phone call, no naps, no holds, but...
0:46.0	I'd rather no one on one.
0:51.0	I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
0:59.0	Hi everybody, Chris Gatherer here. Welcome to Beautiful Anonymous.
1:02.0	I'd like to give these heads up now because I've taken the liberty of staying sane by connecting with you with bigger intros.
1:07.0	Some people really, really love them. Other people just want the phone calls and for those people, I love you.
1:14.0	I appreciate you. I understand. You're going to want to skip about 12 and a half minutes in.
1:19.0	That's when the intro winds down and the phone call begins. Thanks. Enjoy.
1:25.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Beautiful Anonymous. My name's Chris Gatherer and I'm lucky to be your host.
1:31.0	Lucky to do this. Lucky to be someone who has somehow stumbled backwards into being the steward of a near decade long archive of real human conversations.
1:43.0	From people who have almost nothing to say who just want to chit chat to people who have lived through truly intense circumstances and want the tale chronicle somewhere to people who have thoughts on the world and politics and identity and just need to feel heard for one hour in their lives.
2:06.0	We have it all here and man, I'm still perpetually a little confused about how this happened.
2:14.0	But I'm so grateful that it did and I feel so lucky that I get to be here and I get to be a part of it and you know that's the chaos of life.
2:23.0	That's the chaos of life. That's how life sometimes throws chaos at you and you roll with it and you figure it out.
2:29.0	You don't land where you always expect to do. But you deal with it and that's one of the major themes of today's call as well.
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