The Most Important Guy You've Never Heard Of
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
An airline dispatcher calls to tell Gethard about the most important job at the airport that most of us don't even know exists. He tells us what it takes to keep multiple planes safely in the air, gives us some behind-the-scenes info about our airports, and he and Gethard get deep into airplane etiquette.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody wondering how safe are we really when we're up there in the friendly skies. |
| 0:09.0 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour. |
| 0:11.0 | One phone call. |
| 0:13.0 | No names. |
| 0:14.0 | No holds bar. |
| 0:15.0 | I'd rather go one on one. |
| 0:19.0 | I think it'll be more fun |
| 0:21.7 | and I'll get to know you |
| 0:24.3 | and you'll get to know me |
| 0:27.0 | Hi everybody Chris Getherd here |
| 0:28.6 | If you're not a fan of an intro |
| 0:31.1 | You'll want to skip maybe three |
| 0:33.1 | Three and a half minutes ahead |
| 0:34.2 | That should put you towards the beginning of the call |
| 0:35.9 | Thanks so much. Enjoy it. |
| 0:44.7 | Hi everybody. Chris Getherd here. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. I feel so lucky to |
| 0:50.2 | be here. I'm on very little sleep. That's okay. I'm not saying my wife snores because that would |
| 0:58.5 | throw her under the bus. So I'll just leave that non-statement floating out there. But yeah, |
| 1:06.2 | I haven't got much sleep lately. Hope everybody else is doing well. I hope everybody's feeling good. |
| 1:09.9 | I want to put out there. My tickets for my jersey show are on sale. I mentioned offhand |
| 1:14.7 | last week that I have one coming up in Boston and a bunch of people reached out to be like, |
| 1:20.9 | I don't see the ticket links. Those will, as soon as I get the link, it'll go up at chrisgeth.com, |
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