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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

School Bus Mafia (Live from Phoenix)

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What could a bunch of 10-year-olds do to make a bus aid quit after 20 minutes on the job? A teacher describes what happened when he was running his family's school bus company and an aid ditched the kids in Times Square. He opens up about leaving the family bus business and why it drove him to drink at Gogo bars by night. He and Geth also discuss the school bus mafia, best Jersey bars, and how one knows if they're a good person.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello Phoenix!

0:07.0

It's a beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call, no names, no hold-paw.

0:14.0

I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.

0:28.0

Hi everybody, Chris Gether here. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous.

0:34.0

Thanks to everybody who enjoyed last week's episode. Thanks to everybody who's been buying tickets for both my live taping of my new special in New York City.

0:41.0

That's March 31st, April 1st, April 2nd, tickets for those at chrisgeth.com.

0:47.0

Also of course got the beautiful anonymous coming May 4th through 7th in Brooklyn, New York.

0:53.0

It's going to be the ultimate celebration of being a beautiful anonymous fan and I hope you'll get tickets at beautifulcononamys.com.

0:59.0

And I just also want to say if you can only make one show, make it the waffle brunch on Sunday.

1:05.0

That is dedicated to Holly, who was the child that we talked about in the episode Love Is Everywhere, which is a lot of people's favorite episode of the show.

1:15.0

And the caller from Love Is Everywhere, Holly's mom, will be there along with another whole bunch of her family members and all the proceeds from that show are going to go towards the Make a Wish chapter in Oregon that helped their family during their dark days.

1:31.0

Again, beautifulcononamys.com.

1:37.0

I'm very excited for you to hear this one.

1:40.0

This one, we recorded this a while ago.

1:43.0

This caller, first of all, we got a lot of Jersey connections.

1:46.0

So you will hear us say the word Johnny A's Hitching Post.

1:49.0

I'm not necessarily proud that I know where that establishment is and what it is.

1:54.0

But hey, I'm a Jersey guy. I've been around.

1:57.0

And yeah, our caller talks about having a past where he used to do something very different.

2:04.0

He used to live a different lifestyle. He used to walk on the edge.

2:08.0

And now it's trying to give back and trying to change those ways.

2:14.0

We get pretty philosophical about that, about teachers in general.

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