Pottery-Based Death Threats
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
A potter who just had their biggest sales day ever calls in to talk about what life has been like since their political post went viral. They talk about the simultaneous blessing and curse of viral attention as a small business owner, the economics of online rage, and the emotional whiplash of suddenly having thousands of strangers invested in your life. Plus, if you stick around behind the paywall, so much Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody that knows Yip Yip makes Appa go. |
| 0:07.9 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour. |
| 0:10.3 | One phone call. |
| 0:11.5 | No names. |
| 0:12.7 | No holds bar. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.6 | I think it'll be more fun and and I'll get to know you, and you'll get to know me. |
| 0:27.1 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:27.8 | I know not everybody likes a long intro. |
| 0:30.1 | If you want to skip about 11 minutes ahead, maybe 11.5, that'll put you right towards the beginning of the call. |
| 0:35.6 | Thanks so much. |
| 0:39.6 | Hi, everybody. Chris Gathard here. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. |
| 0:44.4 | You're going to love this week's call. |
| 0:47.3 | I think the caller's really cool. |
| 0:49.4 | I think the caller went through some intense stuff. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm going to give some warnings on that coming up. A few things I have to put out there. One is I had something crazy happen. I just want to speak it into existence. I got put on a show. It was called the Roast of New Jersey. It's at this theater in New Jersey called the Count Basie Theater, very, very influential kind of arts |
| 1:12.2 | hub down near the Jersey shore. And I was like, the roast of New Jersey, what is this? |
| 1:19.1 | And I think a lot of the comics involved were, and I just went in, took it super seriously |
| 1:23.6 | and had a set that the entire state of New Jersey is now talking about and I'm getting |
| 1:31.2 | the sense that I like leveled up after years of trying to become New Jersey's patron patron saint |
| 1:40.1 | stand-up comic. I think it's finally happening based on that show. So if you were there, |
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