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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

The Mattress Underground (Live from Beaut/Con)

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A cat enthusiast tells Geth about his descent into madness early pandemic when he tried to build the perfect mattress. He also introduces Chris to the online community of mattress reviews, describes his time living in a monastery, and shares a story about when his uncle "melted."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello beautiful anonymous day 5,000. It's beautiful and honest one hour one phone call. No names? No holds bars.

0:17.0

I'd rather no one on one. I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.

0:28.0

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. My name is Chris Getherd and I'm so lucky to be here talking to you.

0:37.0

I've been doing this show for seven years thanks to everybody who's been listening, supporting the whole time. You are appreciated.

0:46.0

And I'm going to speak in a moment to how appreciated you truly are.

0:52.0

Before we do just want to let you know that I have some shows coming up, Brooklyn, August 14th, Littlefield with Clare O'Kane, Dave Ross Monroe Martin and Sarah Sherman, aka Sarah Squirm from Certain Night Live.

1:05.0

It's going to be a hot show. Get your tickets right now. And then I'm out in Oklahoma City, August 17th, Dallas, Texas, August 18th, San Antonio, August 19th, Patterson, New Jersey, August 24th, Flemington, August 25th.

1:20.0

Doing a whole Jersey tour. A bunch of them sold out, but Hamilton has an on September 16th and La Noca Harbor has an on the 17th and Highland Park has an on September 24th.

1:30.0

So my Jersey people. I'll see you there. We're going to be announcing 11 more Jersey shows as part of that very dumb tour that I'm doing soon. So keep your eyes peeled.

1:39.0

Chris Geff dot com for all of those tickets, most importantly right now, August 14th, Brooklyn hot show, hot show, get tickets while they last.

1:50.0

Okay, strange thing to say, but I'm going to put it out there. And some people have sensed this. People have asked me about it, even at beautiful cononymous. People are asking me in person about it. I have to say.

2:02.0

People have been very, very respectful. Those of you who have sensed that something's going on have been very respectful. And I appreciate that.

2:12.0

Before I even get into it, because I know right now, I was going, what is he talking about? Everything's fine. Everything has worked out for, I think the best.

2:21.0

And I think everyone involved is happy to see what's going on with beautiful anonymous, but I wanted to let you all know that this will be the last episode as part of the earwolf network.

2:33.0

And I just have to say thanks to everyone at your wolf going way back to my earliest days here, seven years ago, even before that when I was pitching the show eight or nine years ago.

2:47.0

I've always felt very cool being part of earwolf a network I have admired for so long.

2:56.0

And yeah, thanks to everybody at earwolf, all the people over the years who have helped out going back to Greta Cone in the earliest days and Jeff all wreck all these people aren't here anymore. Chris Ben and Eric Dine.

3:12.0

Obviously, the Reverend John Dolor Harry Nelson, such a huge part of the show and the people who still work on it today have to thank Colin at earwolf Colin Anderson has had my back very, very hard.

3:25.0

Anita Flores, who's been producing the show during the pandemic years. I think we've only done one or two in studio shows with Anita, but during a very tough stretch.

3:36.0

Anita has been so great and I don't think anyone will be shocked to hear that on my way out from earwolf.

3:44.0

The person I have to thank the most and you can hear me getting choked up a little bit, Jared O'Connell, who has in so many ways been the spine of this show.

3:55.0

Jared is so good at what he does and I wouldn't even say provide it me with so much guidance or advice over the years because it hasn't even been a matter of that.

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