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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People — 563 episodes

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1

Ten Years in the Making

2

I Just Want To Be a Bridge

3

Avatar Stories from Anonymous Benders

4

A Dancer's Revenge

5

Air Force Veteran (One for Our Logistics Nerds)

6

The Most Important Guy You've Never Heard Of

7

Existential Psychologist

8

SWAT Medic

9

Two Years, Five Jobs

10

6'3" Runt of the Family

11

A Card Game in the Sky

12

Ex-Mother-in-Law Ice Cream Dates

13

Three Different Dads

14

Pottery-Based Death Threats

15

Sorority House Jane Goodall

16

The Witches Are Running This Episode (Live from Pittsburgh, PA)

17

Construction, Mob, Sex, Movies (Live from Hamtramck, MI)

18

Sexual Awakenings to Robin Hood (Live From Chicago)

19

Pregnant Ultramarathon Runner

20

Morality Muscles, Midwest Chili, Medical Devices

21

Bubble Busker Bingo Card

22

Attempts at Friendship in Your 40s

23

A Kiln, Political Activism, and a Baller Catchphrase

24

2026 New Year's Resolutions

25

A Really F**ked Up Time to Be an Immigrant in the U.S.

26

What's After Happening Now?

27

Athletic Trainer Turned Montana Game Warden

28

Champagne Problems

29

Drama Amongst the Birthday Clowns

30

What It's Like When Your Partner Dies

31

Public Access Forever

32

Hoarding Disorder Expert

33

Quit Opiates, Alcohol, and Cats

34

Episode 500! (Live from Atlantic Highlands, NJ)

35

Episode 500! Live This Friday at Smodcastle Cinemas!

36

A Different Adoption Story

37

An Australian in Italy

38

WASBAND

39

Railroad Life

40

First Responder

41

Roller Derby Coaching, Chocolate Making Psychologist

42

Wholesome Sex Worker

43

Polyamorous Witch Librarian Who Also Worked at a Brothel

44

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

45

Tugboat Life

46

Vietnam Veteran

47

The World's Sickest Cat

48

Too Many Birds

49

Teenage Entrepreneur

50

Your Kid's Not Broken. They're Just Different.

51

Pediatric Nurse With a New Baby

52

A Series of Moments In Between Taking a Piss

53

We Can't Name It FeetFinder

54

Charlie the Bearded Dragon

55

Thirteen Secret Second Cousins

56

Left an Open Marriage

57

Perky 911 Dispatcher

58

First Day As a U.S. Citizen

59

SEX GOD

60

Parade Girl Gets Parade Girled

61

Hockey-obsessed Military Mental Health Worker

62

Running for Congress (Let's F***ing Go)

63

The Death Thing Is a Bonus

64

Soul-Searching Sommelier

65

Religious Flash Mob

66

Issa Rae on Friendships That Need to Go, from IMO

67

Unintentional Grim Reaper

68

Colon Cancer Awareness Month

69

Curse of the Murderer's Tooth

70

America's Favorite Boy

71

The Worst Karen

72

This Is Life. You Get One Chance to Live It.

73

Sexy Renegade Clowns

74

Grandma Is a Thief

75

I Know What Living Through Hell Feels Like

76

The System Is Wrong

77

2025 New Year's Resolutions

78

Picking a New Name

79

My Son Tried to Murder Me

80

Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Star Trek

81

Sexting in Korean

82

Clothes on at the Nudist Resort

83

Listen Now: 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Podcast

84

Weight Loss Surgery

85

Invite Chaos

86

Election Day Special 2024

87

Trump Voter 2024

88

Steamed Placentas

89

A Little Communism is Fine

90

Halloween House

91

Dreaming of Kamloops

92

A City of Extremes

93

Jersey Anonymous

94

A Series of Charming Distractions

95

Grandma's Turn

96

Introducing: Origins with Cush Jumbo

97

The Squishy Squid

98

Biked Across My State in Two Days

99

A Dot Dot Dot Moment

100

Beautiful Follow Ups: Love Is Everywhere (Bonus Episode)

101

Running a Food Pantry

102

Vegan Lesbian Horse Girl

103

Countdown to Parenthood

104

American Teenager in 2024

105

Grandpa Murdered Grandma

106

Hoagie Mouth (Live from Philly)

107

The Resource Vector

108

Life at 1.5x Speed

109

Taking Off a Backpack Full of Rocks

110

Rules of Combat

111

The Most Thoughtful Caller

112

Raising the Roof Returns!

113

Our Nerdiest Caller Ever?

114

Raising the Roof (Skoolie Life)

115

Waiting for the Shame to Kick In

116

Local TV News Producer

117

Wrote the New Bible

118

Comedy-Themed Butt Tattoos

119

Borehole Geologist

120

Medieval Recreator

121

An Episode for Dave Matthews

122

Mother, Woman, Artist

123

Imagine a Road Trip in the Sky

124

The Hammer You Use to Smash Your Old Life Apart

125

Beautiful Follow-Ups: The Whirlpool Galaxy (BA+ Bonus)

126

Listen Now: The Cat in the Hat Cast

127

Calling from a Cruise Ship

128

Bonus: Gethard on Paul Giamatti's CHINWAG Podcast

129

Single on Valentine's Day

130

Heir to a Kite Store

131

The Pecking Order Is Real

132

Bonus: Dad at Peace

133

In Search of a City

134

Eat a Pickle

135

What Would Ian MacKaye Do?

136

Played Rugby, Changed My Life

137

2024 New Year's Resolutions

138

Piano Rock Priest

139

A Human Breathing

140

Santería

141

Niagara Falls

142

Introducing 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Talk Show

143

You're Not the Rizzler Anymore (Episode 400)

144

Left the Jehovah's Witnesses for Satanism

145

Never, Always, Should (F*** Jerry Lewis)

146

Gave My Dad a Kidney

147

Bought a Mardi Gras Float

148

Moved to an Island on a Whim

149

Introducing What It's Like to Be…

150

Ship Builders on Adderall

151

Ex-Belly Dancer

152

A Real Life Dog Pile

153

Mom With a Second on the Way

154

Secret Internet Relationship

155

Betrayed By My First Love

156

Two Bad Dads

157

The "Love Is Everywhere" Waffle Brunch (live from Beautiful/Cononymous)

158

Hoagies, Cats, and Lyme

159

Beautiful Chaos

160

Indiana Jones is a Terrible Archaeologist

161

I Survived a Bear Attack and Plane Crash in the Same Year

162

The Mattress Underground (Live from Beaut/Con)

163

Sex Injury

164

IVF at 44

165

Met My Brother At 51

166

Ran Away to Mexico (Live from Beaut/Con)

167

Old School Hippie

168

2 Furries Fall In Love

169

I Evacuated Because Of The Wildfires

170

Murder Wedding (Live from Beaut/Con)

171

Outside the Box Psychologist

172

American Teenager in 2023

173

48-Year-Old Grandpa

174

Mommy On OnlyFans

175

Adult Baby/Diaper Lover

176

Ex-Husband Tried To Kill Me

177

Hardcore Yo-Yo Enthusiast

178

Curing Cancer in New Zealand

179

Ugly Custody Battle

180

The Chill Priest

181

Chris Gethard Presents: The Lonely Dad Conversations

182

Jersey Italian Grandma

183

Punk Rock Lawyer

184

Lean, Mean, and Serene

185

School Bus Mafia (Live from Phoenix)

186

My Dad Was An Axe Murderer

187

Valentine's Day (Live from Sirius XM)

188

Diarrhea In Burning Buildings (Live From Pittsburgh)

189

Americanize My Accent

190

Tales From A Timber Faller

191

Dating 3 People At Once

192

Sex As a New Mom

193

2023 New Year's Resolutions

194

Snoop Dogg Stole My Xbox (Live from Asheville)

195

Boujee Dirtbag

196

Saving Feet, Saving Souls (Live from Durham)

197

Fell In Love With My Therapist

198

Great Grandma Was A Serial Killer (Live From Chicago)

199

Brain Surgery Changed My Boyfriend

200

Gay Zombies (Live From Edinburgh)

201

Let's Talk About Grief

202

The Putty Man (Live from Madison)

203

Library Boy (Live from Cudahy)

204

From Slinging Bibles to Slinging Knives

205

Could You Beat a Raccoon In a Fight? (Live from Edinburgh)

206

Succeeding At Failure (Live from Edinburgh)

207

Ranger Danger

208

Pole Dancing & A Talking Bird (Live from Portland)

209

Pharmacy Technician to Welder

210

Wedding Season (Live from Michigan)

211

The Nerd That Becomes the Bully

212

Dodging Bombs & Tornados (Live from Boston)

213

Big City To The Middle of Nowhere

214

Cocaine Lady Is Also a Scorpio (Live from Pittsburgh)

215

Young Guy With A Positive Attitude

216

Nothing But Threesomes (Live from Woodstock)

217

Quitting Journalism

218

Solo Traveler (Live From Sirius XM)

219

Heart Attack At 42

220

Foster Parents Who Love D&D (Live from Seattle)

221

Two Married People Have An Affair

222

Big Time Goof (Live from Ann Arbor)

223

Queerness and Faith

224

Drug Money For Law School

225

Improvisational Jazz

226

Raising a Son With Autism

227

Mixed-Orientation Marriage

228

The Land Of Smiles (Live from Denver)

229

Identical Twins

230

Attacked By Birds Listening to Beautiful/Anonymous (Live from Sacramento)

231

Autopsy Technician

232

New Job, Dead Dad

233

Monogamish

234

Clothing Optional Gay Resort (Live from San Francisco)

235

Hiked the Appalachian Trail

236

Divorced at 25

237

Warrior Shaman

238

First Burp, First Kid (Live From Omaha)

239

Dating and Disabled

240

Engaged, But In Love With Someone Else

241

I'm a Sugar Baby

242

Bonus: Dad On Pills

243

Traditional Mexican Parents

244

Bread-sexual (Live From Rochester)

245

Met My Fiancé at Her Wedding

246

300 Episodes, 300 Minutes

247

2022 New Year's Resolutions

248

Borderline Caricature of an Alaskan

249

Ex-Husband Was A Pastor

250

Adopting as a Trans Person

251

Sexual Dungeons and Dragons

252

Frog Bog and A Porn Closet

253

Mom Fell In Love With a Scam Artist

254

Crisis Hotline Worker

255

Met My Husband on Tinder

256

Honor Among The Barbers Of Kansas (Live From Philly)

257

Got a Squatter

258

Most Isolated City In The World

259

Used To Be A Monk

260

An Italian Living In The US

261

Famous In Richmond

262

Selling Sex Toys in Vegas

263

Psychiatric Nurse

264

The Funeral Industry vs. Disneyland

265

A Real Life Rom-Com

266

Quit My Job, Now I Sell Crossbows

267

Porno Disco Parties

268

Losing DACA

269

Diagnosed with Parkinson's At 30

270

Hippie Dippie Public Speaking Consultant

271

A Posh Liver Transplant

272

Dating During COVID

273

Odd Duck Trucker

274

It Happened For A Reason

275

Marijuana Mansion

276

Love Addict

277

Mr. Postman

278

Native American Biological Engineer

279

Saved By The Meow

280

The Real Netherlands

281

Apple Watch Saved My Life

282

Black Teacher In Minneapolis

283

27, Dating A 53 Year Old

284

Introducing Real Good

285

Moving To Another Country

286

I'm A Surrogate: Part 2

287

I'm A Surrogate

288

Chinese American Adoptee

289

Beautiful Shorties: One Year Later

290

Analyze My Dreams

291

Let's Talk About Sex

292

Beautiful Shorties: 72 Year Old Life Review

293

Hallucinating Gremlins

294

Choose Love Everyday

295

Beautiful Shorties: Mental Health Researcher

296

Unhoused

297

Widower Remarried

298

Beautiful Shorties: Trans Woman In The Bible Belt

299

My Son Is Deaf

300

My Friend Took Their Own Life

301

Bonus: New Jersey Is The World

302

I'm Narcoleptic And Collapsed During Sex

303

Gay 1st Generation Chinese American Best Friend

304

Beautiful Shorties: OnlyFans, Good Sex, & Grilled Cheese

305

I Was In A Harem

306

Dad Died By Euthanasia

307

Beautiful Resolutions for 2021

308

Mrs. Claus Uncensored

309

Chicano and Trans

310

Another 39 Year Old Grandma

311

My Friend Murdered Someone

312

A Pirate's Life

313

Everyone Is A Survivor (Tanya from Motor City Mayhem)

314

Beautiful Follow-Ups: Goosey Bumpies (#187 Motor City Mayhem)

315

My Husband Cheated With My Best Friend

316

Groundhog Day

317

Campaign Staffer

318

Get Out (Of The Closet)

319

Ending A Parade of Tragedies

320

315 Days Without Opiates

321

Fell In Love With A Hobo

322

The Orgy Dome

323

My Parents Were Psychics

324

My Dead Lover Is My Sperm Donor

325

Syrian Refugee

326

A Special Ed Teacher with Autism

327

Rescue Mission To America

328

Caught My Husband With A Sex Worker

329

Math Guy vs. Geth

330

Protesting Magician In Portland

331

A Posh Perspective

332

Asexual Ex-Conservative Lunchlady

333

Introducing California Love

334

Stalked By My Ex

335

Mexican American Iowan

336

A Bar Star Comes Out, Again

337

Romantic Wrestler

338

A Black Woman in America

339

Touching Strangers Faces

340

Quitting Weed

341

Native Alaskan in Anchorage

342

Quarantine Breakup

343

Parkour Yoda

344

EMT In The Epicenter

345

My Partner is a Medical Mystery

346

Don't Say The C Word

347

How To Date A Sketch Comedian

348

Union Worker vs. Robot Dog Uprising

349

London Is Savage (in Quarantine)

350

Love In The Time Of Coronavirus

351

My Girlfriend Cheated, I Got A Dog

352

I'm The Best Lyft Driver

353

Hit By A Truck

354

Phone Call Hole In One

355

An Octopus Living in Baltimore

356

Dry Eyes But 2020 Vision

357

200.5 Bonus: Two Hundred Things I've Learned From Beautiful/Anonymous

358

Citizen Of The World

359

Bigot Chicken

360

Punky Brewster Saves The World

361

Kinda Famous Secret Half Brother

362

Beautiful Resolutions for 2020

363

Dredging It Up Again

364

You Can Go Back To Your Seat Now, Thanks

365

Philosopher Chef

366

I Did Poopy & I Know Calculus

367

Foster To Adopt

368

Chill (with Justifiable Rage)

369

Polyamorous Group Real Estate

370

Aspiring Pro Wrestler

371

Motor City Mayhem (Murdered Dads)

372

Ayahuasca

373

I Love You, Dad

374

Traffic

375

Bad Luck Johnny

376

The Raccoon Roommate

377

Piles of Walking Goop

378

Jammers vs. Blockers

379

The Size of a Cantaloupe

380

Partner In Prison

381

A True (Modern) Love Story

382

The Choctaw & Irish Connection

383

Fighting Through Life

384

The Squirrel and the Giraffe

385

I Found Closure

386

Babysitting (Drunk People)

387

I've Never Told Anyone

388

No Guide Book to Grief

389

The Raccoon Incident

390

Clinical Psychologist

391

Go With The Flow

392

The Ultimate Bad Roommate Story

393

Life Is Weird

394

The Cuckoo's Nest

395

More Alike Than Different

396

The Adventures of Glandon Oakfoot

397

A Hero's Journey

398

Sky Full of Ghosts

399

Kaleidoscope of Danger

400

Called Once, Listened Never

401

Broke In The USA

402

Porn, Drugs, Murder & Learning To Love

403

Episode 1: Harry's Aussie Best Friend

404

Hold My Caipirinha

405

Jetmouth

406

My Dad Owns A Strip Club

407

Car Crash

408

Love At First [blank]

409

The King of Silver Linings

410

Meta Millennial

411

RINO

412

In Loving Arms

413

Crying Into My Boba

414

American Ex-Pat & Berlin Go-Between

415

My First Job Interview Ever

416

Beautiful Follow-Ups: Love Goes On (#69 - Love Is Everywhere)

417

144.5 Bonus: Beautiful Resolutions for 2019

418

Queer Feminist Pagan Yuletide

419

28-Year-Old College Student

420

A Bridge Between Humans

421

Gay Mormon

422

I Lost 150 Pounds

423

Basement Infidelity

424

House Burned Down

425

Color of Sunshine, Color of Moonlight

426

Wilderness Rehabilitation

427

Vanity & Sanity

428

Upward Slide of Happiness

429

Nap Time

430

I Survived A Mass Shooting

431

What's It Like To Be A Man Today?

432

My Year of Sexploration

433

Not Afraid of Life

434

Nervous Interrupter (Let's All F***)

435

40 Lbs of Cat

436

A Saudi Student in Canada

437

Major Postal Bitch

438

Goose, Not Maverick

439

Hanukkah With Fidel

440

Northern Ireland

441

Prison Bound

442

Out Of The Closet

443

39-Year-Old Grandma

444

I Cry On The Toilet

445

Smoking Weed in Christiania

446

She Killed My Father

447

The Chillionaire

448

Charity Laundry

449

Irish Wake

450

Quiet Rage

451

Death Row Lawyer

452

Virtual Dominatrix

453

If They Say No, They Mean No

454

Road Dogs

455

It's Quiet Time

456

Tasmanian Sex Ed Circus Performer

457

Honne and Tatemae

458

The Whirlpool Galaxy

459

Brady Bunch Wedding / Ron Paul's Baby Returns

460

Dealer Turned Surgeon

461

English Idyll

462

One Hundred Anonymous

463

Sober Mathematician

464

Chemo Chameleon

465

In The Candy Aisle

466

Boy Crazy

467

Monogamous Animals

468

The Puppet Master

469

Bonus: Beautiful Resolutions

470

Successful Stalker

471

Wisdom From The Bushman

472

Picture A Sunset

473

Hipster Hospice Chaplain

474

Black Cloud of a Husband

475

Cadaver Epiphany

476

Head Injury

477

Plant Splooge

478

Moravian Trademonk

479

A True Crime Investigator

480

The Relaxed Satanist

481

Sex Toys and Bourbon

482

Rabbits and Catholics

483

Hiding In A Storage Space

484

Civil War Survivor

485

Bloomin' Love

486

Coming Out with Katie Couric

487

A Big Hole

488

Charlottesville

489

Holy Moly

490

Homeschooled Bigfoot Hunter

491

Aussie Best Friend

492

American Studies

493

Tattoo Parlor

494

Love Is Everywhere

495

Married The Day We Met

496

Country AF

497

Sex Drugs and Retail

498

Deaf

499

Mother Moon (Live in Portland, Oregon)

500

Singer Who Won't Sing

501

Just Like A Johnny Cash Song

502

Rekindling An Old Friendship

503

Public Defender

504

First Kiss

505

Vinyl Market Researcher

506

Swingers

507

A Midwife Discusses Birth Schmutz

508

Trail Blazer

509

What Not To Ask A Trans Person

510

Cruise Ship Mafia

511

Ron Paul's Baby Part 2

512

Made Out With My Teacher

513

Fugitive Father

514

Bisexual Brahmin

515

Power Grid of Love

516

Illness, Love & Dogs

517

4 Kids 0 Spaghetti

518

Inside The Heroin Epidemic

519

American Daughter

520

Marching Band Teacher

521

Queer Black Punk in Appalachia

522

Escape From A Cult

523

Single Mom Cancer Survivor

524

A Sister Scorned

525

Fail Army Cop

526

5% Romantic Interest

527

Cuddly Pudge

528

Shakespeare On Molly

529

A Spooky Episode

530

IRL-ASMR

531

All About Cash

532

10,000 Pounds

533

Shopping at the Face Depot

534

The Mom is Anonymous Too

535

Daddy Dearest

536

Chronotopes in Paris

537

Hot Scoop

538

Noodlebody

539

I Cry When I Run

540

Anglican Bipolar Blacksheep

541

A Competitive Spirit

542

Make Fruit Baskets Great Again

543

Vegan Uncle Buck

544

Strangers on a Train

545

OTL in a Hopeless Place

546

Early Onset

547

At Sea On a Cardboard Boat (Live at the Vulture Festival)

548

The Hardest Part Is That You Love Me

549

Jack Mormon

550

Married to a Monster

551

Alcoholics Anonymous

552

Jersey Boy

553

4 Kids 0 Sex

554

Up All Night

555

Running Down a Stapler

556

The Cycle of Life

557

Mountain Man vs. City Boy

558

A Real Life Superhero

559

The Most Amazing Destruction

560

The Illustrator

561

Passport, Exodus

562

Ron Paul's Baby

563

Preview: Beautiful / Anonymous