Tugboat Life
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
A couple weeks back, Gethard talked with a lawyer whose husband came up a few times. We learned two key facts about him: he’s got a lot of birds, and he works on a tugboat. Well, he got through this week, and that means Geth got to ask him a few questions about the birds and a million more about life aboard a tugboat. It’s a conversation packed with oddly fascinating details about this very specific, rarely discussed job.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who finally gets to ask all the questions from someone who does a thing |
| 0:07.8 | that they've always wondered about for their entire life. |
| 0:10.0 | It's beautiful anonymous. |
| 0:12.0 | One hour. |
| 0:13.3 | One phone call. |
| 0:14.7 | No names. |
| 0:16.1 | No holds barred. |
| 0:18.6 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:26.6 | I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me. Hi everybody. |
| 0:28.6 | Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:29.6 | If you're not into intros, I get it. |
| 0:33.6 | Do know we announce where and when you can buy tickets to a tender of 500 episode live |
| 0:39.4 | taping in this one. So if you're interested in live shows, you might want to check this one out. |
| 0:44.1 | If you're not into it, skip ahead about 10 minutes. That'll put you towards the |
| 0:48.1 | tail end of the intro. Thanks so much and enjoy the call. |
| 0:53.7 | Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:55.6 | Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous, whereas I've been saying lately, |
| 0:59.7 | we look at the human condition one anonymous phone call at a time. |
| 1:06.0 | You can hear a little bit in my voice. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm not feeling great. |
| 1:10.1 | I just had a really great talk with today's caller. I'm glad to tell in my voice. I'm not feeling great. I just had a really great talk with today's |
| 1:13.7 | caller. I'm glad to tell you my voice held up. It's actually giving out now in the intro that we're |
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