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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the pitch: Engineer by day. International award-winning clown by night. Learned to read and walk in her 20s. This caller has a lot going on, and every story branches into a whole new world of surprises.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody. We loved the title of that One Arctic Monkeys album. It's Beautiful Anonymous

0:10.1

One Hour. On Front Call, no names, no holds barred.

0:17.0

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.

0:26.9

Hi, everybody, Chris Gettered here.

0:29.2

And if you're somebody who doesn't like an intro, I get it.

0:32.8

There's info on our live taping for episode 500 in the intro.

0:36.9

If you're interested in that, check it out.

0:38.5

If you want to skip it, it's only about four minutes this week,

0:41.2

relatively short by my normal rambly standards.

0:44.4

Enjoy it, everybody.

0:50.6

Hi, everybody. Chris Gethirt here.

0:52.6

Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. As I've been saying lately, it's the show where we examine the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. One of Time magazine's 100 best podcasts of all time, which I still feel cool about, and I still like mentioning. And I'm trying to be a little less

1:13.5

apologetic and humble and embrace it. And it's cool that Time magazine said that. It's very cool.

1:23.1

I want to remind everybody, if you're catching up on episodes, we recently announced that we're

1:27.2

going to be doing a live taping for our 500th episode, which is coming out in October.

1:32.6

We're not going to pre-plan it. We're not going to have a whole bunch that we record so we

1:36.8

can release some certified, unquestionable banger. We're going to go on stage the weekend before.

1:42.5

Whatever we get, we're releasing. It will be at weekend before whatever we get we're releasing it will be at

1:45.9

smodcastle cinemas in atlantic highlands new jersey which is absolutely one of my favorite

1:51.2

little movie theaters owned by it's owned by kevin smith it's in atlantic highlands which is

1:56.3

a shockingly charming town on the northern part of the Jersey Shore. Come out to the Jersey

2:02.1

shore, everybody, and make a trip out of it. You come, you hang out, you get some good food,

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