Jun 9, 2026
This week’s caller has been listening since the beginning and thinking about what she’d say when she finally got through. Ten years in, she tells Gethard about the life that’s happened in the meantime: meeting her now-husband during a very heavy chapter for his family, spending a year on a sailboat, and the shape...
Jun 2, 2026
This week’s caller wants to build something good in a place
where help can be hard to find. She and Geth talk about small-town
life in the South, harm reduction, family, survival, and finding
ways to keep going when life has handed you way too much
already.
Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to
get ad free episodes and...
May 26, 2026
For Gethard's birthday, we’re doing something kinda stupid but also totally sincere: an entire episode about Avatar: The Last Airbender. After months of threatening to turn Beautiful/Anonymous into an Avatar podcast, Geth finally makes good on his word and talks to callers about bending, Zuko, Uncle Iroh, family...
May 19, 2026
This week’s caller is a dancer and choreographer who takes Gethard inside the intense, demanding world of ballet and the path that led her to her life’s work. She also opens up about a traumatic experience outside of dance and tells us about the ways movement has helped her turn her pain into purpose.
Sign up for
May 12, 2026
This week’s caller is an Air Force veteran and
longtime listener who talks with Gethard about military logistics,
global shipping, what you can learn from a grocery store if you
know what to look for, and the behind-the-scenes systems that keep
things moving.
Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get
ad free episodes...