Public Access Forever

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

A grassroots journalist calling in mid-haircut connects with Gethard over a shared love for community media. Together, they break down why public access matters now more than ever: how local TV and community-powered news can connect neighbors, build trust where traditional media has fallen short and, most importantly, help people tell their own stories. They swap favorite public access oddities (including a cat-costume cuddle show) and Geth shares how his own public access days somehow ended up tied to a Supreme Court case.

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0:00.0	Hello to everybody who has put themselves out there on the airwaves.
0:08.3	It's beautiful anonymous.
0:09.9	One hour.
0:11.1	One phone call.
0:12.7	No names.
0:14.2	No holds barred.
0:17.0	I'd rather go one-on-one.
0:19.6	I think it'll be more fun,
0:21.9	and I'll get to know you, and you'll get to know me.
0:27.2	Hi, everybody.
0:28.2	If you're somebody who doesn't love an intro,
0:30.1	you're going to want to skip about eight,
0:31.8	maybe eight and a half minutes into this one.
0:33.6	It'll put you right at the beginning of the call.
0:35.9	Thanks so much.
0:44.6	Okay. one. It'll put you right at the beginning of the call. Thanks so much. Hi, everybody, Chris Gathard here. Welcome to Beautiful Anonymous. A show that I've been saying
0:50.0	lately where we look at the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. That's a nice
0:56.0	little tagline for a show, I think. I'm so happy to have you here. Thanks so much to
1:01.0	everybody who supports the show. We aren't sure why last week's episode took so long to get up
1:06.4	on Apple Podcasts. We're hoping that it's just a blip. That is, of course, the biggest podcast
1:12.7	platform in the world. So especially as an independent show these days, it really affects us
1:18.6	when the schedule is thrown off there. But it eventually got through. We're hoping it gets back
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