I Just Want To Be a Bridge
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week's caller wants to build something good in a place where help can be hard to find. She and Geth talk about small-town life in the South, harm reduction, family, survival, and finding ways to keep going when life has handed you way too much already.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody that doesn't want to feed Southern cliches, but every once in a while. |
| 0:09.0 | It's beautiful, anonymous one hour, one phone call. |
| 0:13.0 | No names, no holds barred. |
| 0:16.0 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.0 | I think it'll be more fun |
| 0:21.7 | and I'll get to know you |
| 0:24.3 | and you'll get to know me |
| 0:27.0 | Hi everybody |
| 0:27.9 | I know not everybody likes a long intro |
| 0:29.5 | This one's particularly long |
| 0:30.7 | Probably want to skip like 11 or 12 minutes ahead |
| 0:32.9 | If you want to get right to the phone call |
| 0:34.5 | Thanks so much |
| 0:35.4 | Thank you. want to get right to the phone call. Thanks so much. |
| 0:50.8 | Hi, everybody, Chris Gethardt here. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. |
| 0:56.5 | Thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let's get this out of the way really quick. |
| 1:02.3 | I've got some live shows coming up, some stand-up shows. I've got a big one, June 19th in New Jersey. There's only about 50 tickets left for that out of close to 400. I'm hoping my jersey |
| 1:06.8 | people show up. That's going to be a really great show. We've got live stream tickets on sale. |
| 1:12.3 | I once did an episode of my old TV show where we had a celebrity in a dumpster and people had |
| 1:17.1 | to guess what was in the dumpster. And for some reason, it's become kind of legendary in the |
| 1:21.1 | world of underground comedy doing a reunion show, 10 year anniversary of that, June 11th. |
| 1:28.6 | You can buy a live stream ticket for that. |
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