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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 American Life, and one of Time Outs 10 best comedians of 2015). Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one...
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2026 New Year's Resolutions
As the year turns, Gethard keeps the tradition alive by talking with callers two minutes at a time about their hopes for 2026. We hear from familiar v...
A Really F**ked Up Time to Be an Immigrant in the U.S.
Our caller immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico just weeks before 9/11. He talks with Gethard about growing up as an immigrant in the Midwest and how fi...
What's After Happening Now?
Home on a snow day, a Canadian caller talks with Gethard about parenting, mental health, and dealing with a difficult change in her life. Along the wa...
Athletic Trainer Turned Montana Game Warden
This week's caller is in the middle of a major life pivot, leaving a successful career as a college athletic trainer to become a Montana game warden....
Champagne Problems
This week's caller had the neighbor from hell. She shares that story with Gethard, recounts some recent travel adventures, and then opens up about a m...
Drama Amongst the Birthday Clowns
Gethard talks with a movie studio security guard calling in mid-shift. They get into local clown drama with surprising real-world stakes, the importan...
What It's Like When Your Partner Dies
A year after unexpectedly losing her partner, this week's caller shares how she's been rebuilding on her own terms. She and Gethard talk about grief,...
Public Access Forever
A grassroots journalist calling in mid-haircut connects with Gethard over a shared love for community media. Together, they break down why public acce...
Hoarding Disorder Expert
This week's caller has dedicated her life to understanding hoarding disorder. Years ago, she married someone whose relationship with collecting change...
Quit Opiates, Alcohol, and Cats
A caller checks in from a Costco parking lot to mark one year sober after 25 years of blackout drinking. He talks about kicking opioids, rebuilding hi...
Episode 500! (Live from Atlantic Highlands, NJ)
Here we are. Episode 500. We celebrated the only way that makes sense. With a few hundred listeners packed into a theater in Jersey and a caller whose...
Episode 500! Live This Friday at Smodcastle Cinemas!
You've heard us talk about it. Here's your reminder. In the last nearly TEN YEARS of Beautiful Anonymous, Gethard has had 499 unforgettable conversat...
A Different Adoption Story
Gethard talks with a caller who shares her story of adopting a young girl and what happened when, after a year, that child chose to return to her fost...
An Australian in Italy
An Australian on a solo vacation calls in from Italy. She and Gethard chat about travel, trade stereotypes about each other's countries, and get into...
WASBAND
This call starts at Burning Man but quickly opens up into a far more complicated conversation about grief, abuse, healing, and the long work of rebuil...
Railroad Life
This week, Geth talks with a railroad worker who shares what it's really like on the job. They get into the nitty-gritty of trains, unions, and infras...
First Responder
This week, Geth talks with a firefighter/EMT who's training to be a paramedic. They get into the vital importance of volunteer work, what it's like to...
Roller Derby Coaching, Chocolate Making Psychologist
Raised by a zoologist in a house full of wild animals, this psychology professor's life has remained just as untamed: coaching junior roller derby, a...
Wholesome Sex Worker
This week's caller takes us into the complicated, messy, and deeply human world of sex work. The conversation stretches from personal experience to bi...
Polyamorous Witch Librarian Who Also Worked at a Brothel
Does what it says on the tin. Gethard talks to a polyamorous witch librarian who once worked the front desk at a brothel, surprisingly perfect trainin...
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
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, an...
Tugboat Life
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...
Vietnam Veteran
This week, Gethard talks to a Vietnam veteran with a lifetime of stories. He's never listened to the podcast, but his granddaughter has, and she encou...
The World's Sickest Cat
This week's caller is a medical device engineer with a deeply personal stake in the healthcare system. She talks with Gethard about living with a rare...
Too Many Birds
This week's caller joined Gethard at 10:30 on a Friday night to talk about wrestling and her love of a New Jersey ska band, but the conversation quick...
Teenage Entrepreneur
In another installment of our unofficial "The Young People Are Alright" series, a 19-year-old entrepreneur calls in to talk about hustle culture, ment...
Your Kid's Not Broken. They're Just Different.
This week's caller is a mom of two young boys doing her best to face life head-on. Her oldest son is autistic and recently diagnosed with depression....
Pediatric Nurse With a New Baby
This week's caller is a pediatric nurse with a newborn at home, and she's learning in real time how her job is both a blessing and a curse when it com...
A Series of Moments In Between Taking a Piss
This week's caller is a medieval recreationist who sews their own centuries-old clothing and has an overactive bladder. And that's just scratching the...
We Can't Name It FeetFinder
Good morning! For reasons no one can quite explain, Beautiful/Anonymous has a long and proud tradition of attracting band directors, and this week's c...
Charlie the Bearded Dragon
It's 9 pm on a Friday, and the vibes are loose. This week's caller is a former teacher turned novelist-in-progress who's found fulfillment in writing,...
Thirteen Secret Second Cousins
A new master's degree, a recent family death, and...13 secret second cousins? This week's caller is processing a wild year of grief, discovery, and ch...
Left an Open Marriage
A strict religious upbringing, an older husband, and an open marriage she never expected. This week's caller talks with Gethard about how she got ther...
Perky 911 Dispatcher
A 911 dispatcher calls in to walk Gethard through the ins and outs of emergency dispatch. From how calls get prioritized, to the systems that keep eve...
First Day As a U.S. Citizen
This week's caller became a U.S. citizen hours before the call, so naturally, she gives Gethard an impromptu citizenship test. They cover life as a Ca...
SEX GOD
From Neptune to everywhere and back again. Our caller is in love, looking for joy, and figuring it out along the way. This one's silly, heartfelt, and...
Parade Girl Gets Parade Girled
Gethard is finally taking a well-earned, long-overdue vacation. But we're not leaving you hanging. Instead, we brought in a past caller/frenemy of the...
Hockey-obsessed Military Mental Health Worker
On the way to a hockey game where they're being honored for their non-profit work, this week's caller explains the tension it's caused with their day...
Running for Congress (Let's F***ing Go)
She might not have a background in politics, but this caller is thinking about running for office. She and Gethard talk about what it means to feel ca...
The Death Thing Is a Bonus
A death doula in training talks with Gethard about being a newbie in her field, why she thinks death should be joyful, and how planning your funeral m...