How to Keep Going After You Lose a Child
Five years ago, this week's caller lost his 15-year-old son. Today, he's raising his 15-year-old daughter and navigating what it means to li...
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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. Thats the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard (the Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, This...
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20 of 586 episodesSecret Lives of Cruise Ship Workers
This week's caller met her husband while working on a cruise ship. She's got plenty of stories about life behind the scenes at sea: from a p...
Armored Combat Game Designer
This week's caller works in video games. The first half of the call gets into the current state of the industry and what it's like building...
Enough Good to Counteract the Bad
It's this caller's birthday, and she has a lot to celebrate: a career she's crushing, a new house, and the chance to provide for people she...
A Fish With Legs
A middle school Spanish teacher calls before first period to talk with Gethard about her deskless classroom, eating chocolate in front of he...
Arizona to Alaska
Smoking a cigar on a riverbank in Alaska, this caller tells Gethard about the therapist's offhand suggestion that sent him north, and the lo...
A Proudly Unpredictable Human Being
A proudly unpredictable mom calls to talk with Gethard about errant mouth bones, thrift-store vendettas, and escaping a fundamentalist upbri...
I Didn't Come Here to Win
Losing her job wasn't exactly the plan, but it gave this caller the reset she needed. She talks with Geth about ADHD, burnout, GenAI, and ju...
Prison Bound Week: Day 5 - Eight Years Later
It's Friday, and we've finally caught up. All week, we've been following the Prison Bound caller from the original 2018 episode through thre...
Prison Bound Week: Day 4 - COVID Lockdown
It's Thursday, and Prison Bound Week is almost caught up to the present. We started on Monday with the original 2018 call, then followed the...
Prison Bound Week: Day 3 - Halfway Through
It's Wednesday, and Prison Bound Week continues. We started Monday with the original 2018 call, and yesterday we heard from our caller nine...
Prison Bound Week: Day 2 - Nine Months In
It's Tuesday, which is normally when you get your weekly episode of Beautiful Anonymous, but this week, we're doing things differently. Yest...
Prison Bound Week: Day 1 - The First Call
Yes, it's Monday. Yes, Beautiful Anonymous is in your feed a day early. We're doing something a little different this week. Eight years ago,...
Hacker Tendencies at a Hacker Convention
A sixth-degree black belt calls from a hacker convention to talk ham radio, phone phreaking, off-grid networks, hacking E-ZPass (fine, theor...
This One Is NOT About Avatar: The Last Airbender
This week's caller has a full-time job, a toddler, and somehow also helps run an anime convention in their spare (lol) time. Gethard gets a...
Gratuitous Live Turkeys
This week's caller had an encounter with a psychic that is tailor-made for Beautiful/Anonymous. She tells Gethard that story, shares memorie...
A Completely Normal Call That Goes Exactly As Planned
Let's all agree we can blame Mercury retrograde for the technical difficulties we had in getting this one off the ground. The rest of the ch...
Stopped a Serial Killer?
Recovering from surgery and ten days into a liquid diet, our caller is hungry for conversation. Geth and this Good Vibes Caller compare shar...
Forty-One Unscripted Plays About Our Sport
This week, an audio engineer at a major sports arena calls in from a seat in the arena bowl. He and Gethard talk about what it's like to wor...
Cheers to All the Sluts Out There
This week's caller is an environmental scientist who studies stormwater. She's also a mischievous little trickster. She and Geth talk about...