4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Does what it says on the tin. Gethard talks to a polyamorous witch librarian who once worked the front desk at a brothel, surprisingly perfect training for library life. They get into the realities of coven community, late-discovered neurodivergence, leaving a faith tradition, and why public libraries are such vital spaces, now more than ever. It’s wide-ranging but never scattered. More like a life filed neatly into sections by someone who knows how to organize a catalog.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who worked where in your 20s. |
| 0:08.3 | It's beautiful anonymous. |
| 0:10.4 | One hour, one phone call, no names, no holds pond. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.6 | I think it'll be more fun, and I'll get to know you, and you'll get to know me. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi, everybody, Chris Gatford here, and I know not everybody loves a long intro. |
| 0:31.8 | So if you're not an intro person, you just want to skip like three and a half minutes this time. |
| 0:36.3 | That'll put you right towards the beginning of the call. |
| 0:38.8 | Thanks so much. |
| 0:39.8 | Enjoy it. |
| 0:45.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:46.8 | My name's Chris Getherd and welcome to Beautiful Anonymous, |
| 0:49.2 | a show where we look at the human condition one anonymous phone call at a time uh thanks to everybody who's |
| 0:57.9 | been supporting the show i saw someone recently you know we switched from twitter to blue sky |
| 1:03.5 | if you want to call the show follow me over on blue sky like many people i was just feeling |
| 1:09.2 | enough is enough with the Twitter thing. And somebody said |
| 1:12.7 | something that made me feel so nice because I've been laughing about how I had 83,000 plus followers |
| 1:17.5 | on Twitter. And I'm now, I'm up to 979 on blue sky. So maybe we'll break a thousand soon, everybody. |
| 1:24.1 | But somebody left a really nice comment. Volft Trap on Blue Sky said, say what you will |
| 1:31.5 | and the difference in followers between Twitter and Blue Sky. The quality of the calls has been |
| 1:35.8 | on a wild hot streak since switching over here. Great call, Chris, and thank you, caller, |
| 1:40.3 | for being such an incredible example of making the most of life. That was in regards last week's call which is such a kind thing and thank you for saying it um wanted to reiterate |
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