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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Raised by a zoologist in a house full of wild animals, this psychology professor’s life has remained just as untamed: coaching junior roller derby, a stint making high-end chocolate, parenting a trans kid, and that’s just for starters. Unpredictable but never aimless, her conversation with Gethard is just as wide-ranging as her life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody throwing six-year-olds into the roller derby. |
| 0:08.1 | It's beautiful anonymous. |
| 0:09.7 | One hour, one phone call, no names, no holds barred. |
| 0:17.0 | 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. |
| 0:27.1 | Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:29.1 | If you don't like a big long intro, man, I get it. |
| 0:32.9 | Skip about eight minutes ahead. |
| 0:34.6 | That'll put your right towards the call. |
| 0:36.2 | Enjoy it. |
| 0:43.8 | Hello. about eight minutes ahead, that'll put you right towards the call. Enjoy it. Hi, everybody, Chris Gafferard here. Welcome to Beautiful Anonymous, as I've been saying |
| 0:48.8 | lately, the show where we look at the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. |
| 0:53.6 | A show that Time magazine says is one of the 100 best podcasts ever, which is wild because |
| 0:58.8 | there's too many podcasts. |
| 1:00.9 | Thank you, Time Magazine. |
| 1:02.8 | Have to remind everybody some shows coming up, the big one for our community, the taping |
| 1:08.9 | of episode 500. We are coming up on episode 500. It is next month. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm hoping people come out to my beloved home state of New Jersey. Friday, October 17th at |
| 1:22.7 | Smodcastle Cinema. This is an independent movie theater owned by the one and only Kevin Smith. I've done |
| 1:28.4 | shows there before. It is such a great time, such a great vibe. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey is |
| 1:35.2 | such a charming town with a cool little mini downtown with good restaurants. You could go down to |
| 1:42.0 | Asbury Park beforehand, get yourself a dinner if you want to go down to the hipster hub, maybe play some pinball at the Silver Ball Museum, and then you come up to Smodcastle Cinemas 7 p.m. Beautiful Anonymous, episode 500. We want to make that a community event. And I'm hoping everybody grabs tickets for my people in the New York area, the next of that show, which is the variety show I've been hosting since January, which is going really great. |
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