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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Tales From A Timber Faller

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Bears, mountain lions, and a lost pinky toe. A logger from Montana shares crazy stories about animal encounters, broken legs, and "Lucky one nutted Norm." He explains why his sons aren’t allowed to be loggers and educates Geth on the dangers of an Idaho jammer. He also discusses why after 41 years on the job and many injuries, he still can’t imagine retiring.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody who's lost a tell here and then it's beautiful and honest one hour one

0:12.4

phone call no names no hold spot

0:16.6

I'd rather go one on one I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me

0:28.9

Hi everybody my name is Chris Gathered welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous

0:35.7

I feel so lucky that I got to have this conversation I feel so lucky that I get to share it with you

0:41.7

Before I get into that just want to let you know that if you're listening to this when

0:44.9

it comes out my next live dates are Pittsburgh January 28th the live beautiful anonymous

0:50.7

taping is there's still a few tickets available as of this recording and on February 3rd and

0:58.2

February 4th are going to be in Boseman and Mizzoula Montana and that is very serendipitous

1:04.4

this was not planned as Italian to that but I happen to be talking to a mountainan on

1:10.7

this episode of the show and I mean what a mountainan he is this is a logger this is a guy

1:18.4

who for 40 years has felled trees as his job and we're able to talk about the lifestyle of that

1:26.5

some of the more sensational stories how he sees his place in America knowing that a lot of

1:33.4

Americans view this as a sort of antiquated thing that used to exist when he still does it

1:38.4

there's so much to talk about I will warn you straight away if you're squeamish there are

1:44.6

absolutely parts of this show you're not going to want to hear once you hear the phrase Idaho

1:48.7

jammer you might want to think about taking a break if you're squeamish I did not know what

1:54.5

and Idaho jammer was before this episode and I hope I never encounter one in person anyway

2:00.6

you guys will hear why this call was great I mentioned at the end of the call I could have talked

2:06.2

to this caller for five hours six hours and never run out of questions to ask and I doubt he would

2:12.7

ever run out of stories to tell because our friend who lives in the woods and lives by the woods

2:19.1

and lives of the woods he's never running out of stories not anytime soon and I thank him

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