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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Oct 28, 2025

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 his life, and what it’s like to actually remember things again. He and Geth get into punk shows, lost friends, and how addiction doesn’t always look the way people think...


Oct 21, 2025

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 story pretty much sums up what this show is all about.

Our 500th caller is one year out from a stay in a mental hospital. She opens up about what it was like to lose...


Oct 14, 2025

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 conversations with our callers. This Friday, October 17th, we’re recording number 500. We'll be live at Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle Cinemas in beautiful Atlantic Highlands,...


Oct 14, 2025

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 foster family. It’s an honest conversation about one person’s experience with adoption, the unpredictability of parenthood,  and finding a way forward when something...


Oct 7, 2025

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 how the rest of the world views the U.S. right now, all while the caller gives us a little walking tour of the charming Italian town she's calling from.

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