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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People — 581 episodes

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1

Arizona to Alaska

2

A Proudly Unpredictable Human Being

3

I Didn't Come Here to Win

4

Prison Bound Week: Day 5 - Eight Years Later

5

Prison Bound Week: Day 4 - COVID Lockdown

6

Prison Bound Week: Day 3 - Halfway Through

7

Prison Bound Week: Day 2 - Nine Months In

8

Prison Bound Week: Day 1 - The First Call

9

Hacker Tendencies at a Hacker Convention

10

This One Is NOT About Avatar: The Last Airbender

11

Gratuitous Live Turkeys

12

A Completely Normal Call That Goes Exactly As Planned

13

Stopped a Serial Killer?

14

Forty-One Unscripted Plays About Our Sport

15

Cheers to All the Sluts Out There

16

Homeschooled Public School Theater Teacher

17

Psychedelic Researcher

18

A Beautiful Anonymous Pastiche

19

Ten Years in the Making

20

I Just Want To Be a Bridge

21

Avatar Stories from Anonymous Benders

22

A Dancer's Revenge

23

Air Force Veteran (One for Our Logistics Nerds)

24

The Most Important Guy You've Never Heard Of

25

Existential Psychologist

26

SWAT Medic

27

Two Years, Five Jobs

28

6'3" Runt of the Family

29

A Card Game in the Sky

30

Ex-Mother-in-Law Ice Cream Dates

31

Three Different Dads

32

Pottery-Based Death Threats

33

Sorority House Jane Goodall

34

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

35

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

36

Sexual Awakenings to Robin Hood (Live From Chicago)

37

Pregnant Ultramarathon Runner

38

Morality Muscles, Midwest Chili, Medical Devices

39

Bubble Busker Bingo Card

40

Attempts at Friendship in Your 40s

41

A Kiln, Political Activism, and a Baller Catchphrase

42

2026 New Year's Resolutions

43

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

44

What's After Happening Now?

45

Athletic Trainer Turned Montana Game Warden

46

Champagne Problems

47

Drama Amongst the Birthday Clowns

48

What It's Like When Your Partner Dies

49

Public Access Forever

50

Hoarding Disorder Expert

51

Quit Opiates, Alcohol, and Cats

52

Episode 500! (Live from Atlantic Highlands, NJ)

53

Episode 500! Live This Friday at Smodcastle Cinemas!

54

A Different Adoption Story

55

An Australian in Italy

56

WASBAND

57

Railroad Life

58

First Responder

59

Roller Derby Coaching, Chocolate Making Psychologist

60

Wholesome Sex Worker

61

Polyamorous Witch Librarian Who Also Worked at a Brothel

62

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

63

Tugboat Life

64

Vietnam Veteran

65

The World's Sickest Cat

66

Too Many Birds

67

Teenage Entrepreneur

68

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

69

Pediatric Nurse With a New Baby

70

A Series of Moments In Between Taking a Piss

71

We Can't Name It FeetFinder

72

Charlie the Bearded Dragon

73

Thirteen Secret Second Cousins

74

Left an Open Marriage

75

Perky 911 Dispatcher

76

First Day As a U.S. Citizen

77

SEX GOD

78

Parade Girl Gets Parade Girled

79

Hockey-obsessed Military Mental Health Worker

80

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

81

The Death Thing Is a Bonus

82

Soul-Searching Sommelier

83

Religious Flash Mob

84

Issa Rae on Friendships That Need to Go, from IMO

85

Unintentional Grim Reaper

86

Colon Cancer Awareness Month

87

Curse of the Murderer's Tooth

88

America's Favorite Boy

89

The Worst Karen

90

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

91

Sexy Renegade Clowns

92

Grandma Is a Thief

93

I Know What Living Through Hell Feels Like

94

The System Is Wrong

95

2025 New Year's Resolutions

96

Picking a New Name

97

My Son Tried to Murder Me

98

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

99

Sexting in Korean

100

Clothes on at the Nudist Resort

101

Listen Now: 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Podcast

102

Weight Loss Surgery

103

Invite Chaos

104

Election Day Special 2024

105

Trump Voter 2024

106

Steamed Placentas

107

A Little Communism is Fine

108

Halloween House

109

Dreaming of Kamloops

110

A City of Extremes

111

Jersey Anonymous

112

A Series of Charming Distractions

113

Grandma's Turn

114

Introducing: Origins with Cush Jumbo

115

The Squishy Squid

116

Biked Across My State in Two Days

117

A Dot Dot Dot Moment

118

Beautiful Follow Ups: Love Is Everywhere (Bonus Episode)

119

Running a Food Pantry

120

Vegan Lesbian Horse Girl

121

Countdown to Parenthood

122

American Teenager in 2024

123

Grandpa Murdered Grandma

124

Hoagie Mouth (Live from Philly)

125

The Resource Vector

126

Life at 1.5x Speed

127

Taking Off a Backpack Full of Rocks

128

Rules of Combat

129

The Most Thoughtful Caller

130

Raising the Roof Returns!

131

Our Nerdiest Caller Ever?

132

Raising the Roof (Skoolie Life)

133

Waiting for the Shame to Kick In

134

Local TV News Producer

135

Wrote the New Bible

136

Comedy-Themed Butt Tattoos

137

Borehole Geologist

138

Medieval Recreator

139

An Episode for Dave Matthews

140

Mother, Woman, Artist

141

Imagine a Road Trip in the Sky

142

The Hammer You Use to Smash Your Old Life Apart

143

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

144

Listen Now: The Cat in the Hat Cast

145

Calling from a Cruise Ship

146

Bonus: Gethard on Paul Giamatti's CHINWAG Podcast

147

Single on Valentine's Day

148

Heir to a Kite Store

149

The Pecking Order Is Real

150

Bonus: Dad at Peace

151

In Search of a City

152

Eat a Pickle

153

What Would Ian MacKaye Do?

154

Played Rugby, Changed My Life

155

2024 New Year's Resolutions

156

Piano Rock Priest

157

A Human Breathing

158

Santería

159

Niagara Falls

160

Introducing 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Talk Show

161

You're Not the Rizzler Anymore (Episode 400)

162

Left the Jehovah's Witnesses for Satanism

163

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

164

Gave My Dad a Kidney

165

Bought a Mardi Gras Float

166

Moved to an Island on a Whim

167

Introducing What It's Like to Be…

168

Ship Builders on Adderall

169

Ex-Belly Dancer

170

A Real Life Dog Pile

171

Mom With a Second on the Way

172

Secret Internet Relationship

173

Betrayed By My First Love

174

Two Bad Dads

175

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

176

Hoagies, Cats, and Lyme

177

Beautiful Chaos

178

Indiana Jones is a Terrible Archaeologist

179

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

180

The Mattress Underground (Live from Beaut/Con)

181

Sex Injury

182

IVF at 44

183

Met My Brother At 51

184

Ran Away to Mexico (Live from Beaut/Con)

185

Old School Hippie

186

2 Furries Fall In Love

187

I Evacuated Because Of The Wildfires

188

Murder Wedding (Live from Beaut/Con)

189

Outside the Box Psychologist

190

American Teenager in 2023

191

48-Year-Old Grandpa

192

Mommy On OnlyFans

193

Adult Baby/Diaper Lover

194

Ex-Husband Tried To Kill Me

195

Hardcore Yo-Yo Enthusiast

196

Curing Cancer in New Zealand

197

Ugly Custody Battle

198

The Chill Priest

199

Chris Gethard Presents: The Lonely Dad Conversations

200

Jersey Italian Grandma

201

Punk Rock Lawyer

202

Lean, Mean, and Serene

203

School Bus Mafia (Live from Phoenix)

204

My Dad Was An Axe Murderer

205

Valentine's Day (Live from Sirius XM)

206

Diarrhea In Burning Buildings (Live From Pittsburgh)

207

Americanize My Accent

208

Tales From A Timber Faller

209

Dating 3 People At Once

210

Sex As a New Mom

211

2023 New Year's Resolutions

212

Snoop Dogg Stole My Xbox (Live from Asheville)

213

Boujee Dirtbag

214

Saving Feet, Saving Souls (Live from Durham)

215

Fell In Love With My Therapist

216

Great Grandma Was A Serial Killer (Live From Chicago)

217

Brain Surgery Changed My Boyfriend

218

Gay Zombies (Live From Edinburgh)

219

Let's Talk About Grief

220

The Putty Man (Live from Madison)

221

Library Boy (Live from Cudahy)

222

From Slinging Bibles to Slinging Knives

223

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

224

Succeeding At Failure (Live from Edinburgh)

225

Ranger Danger

226

Pole Dancing & A Talking Bird (Live from Portland)

227

Pharmacy Technician to Welder

228

Wedding Season (Live from Michigan)

229

The Nerd That Becomes the Bully

230

Dodging Bombs & Tornados (Live from Boston)

231

Big City To The Middle of Nowhere

232

Cocaine Lady Is Also a Scorpio (Live from Pittsburgh)

233

Young Guy With A Positive Attitude

234

Nothing But Threesomes (Live from Woodstock)

235

Quitting Journalism

236

Solo Traveler (Live From Sirius XM)

237

Heart Attack At 42

238

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

239

Two Married People Have An Affair

240

Big Time Goof (Live from Ann Arbor)

241

Queerness and Faith

242

Drug Money For Law School

243

Improvisational Jazz

244

Raising a Son With Autism

245

Mixed-Orientation Marriage

246

The Land Of Smiles (Live from Denver)

247

Identical Twins

248

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

249

Autopsy Technician

250

New Job, Dead Dad

251

Monogamish

252

Clothing Optional Gay Resort (Live from San Francisco)

253

Hiked the Appalachian Trail

254

Divorced at 25

255

Warrior Shaman

256

First Burp, First Kid (Live From Omaha)

257

Dating and Disabled

258

Engaged, But In Love With Someone Else

259

I'm a Sugar Baby

260

Bonus: Dad On Pills

261

Traditional Mexican Parents

262

Bread-sexual (Live From Rochester)

263

Met My Fiancé at Her Wedding

264

300 Episodes, 300 Minutes

265

2022 New Year's Resolutions

266

Borderline Caricature of an Alaskan

267

Ex-Husband Was A Pastor

268

Adopting as a Trans Person

269

Sexual Dungeons and Dragons

270

Frog Bog and A Porn Closet

271

Mom Fell In Love With a Scam Artist

272

Crisis Hotline Worker

273

Met My Husband on Tinder

274

Honor Among The Barbers Of Kansas (Live From Philly)

275

Got a Squatter

276

Most Isolated City In The World

277

Used To Be A Monk

278

An Italian Living In The US

279

Famous In Richmond

280

Selling Sex Toys in Vegas

281

Psychiatric Nurse

282

The Funeral Industry vs. Disneyland

283

A Real Life Rom-Com

284

Quit My Job, Now I Sell Crossbows

285

Porno Disco Parties

286

Losing DACA

287

Diagnosed with Parkinson's At 30

288

Hippie Dippie Public Speaking Consultant

289

A Posh Liver Transplant

290

Dating During COVID

291

Odd Duck Trucker

292

It Happened For A Reason

293

Marijuana Mansion

294

Love Addict

295

Mr. Postman

296

Native American Biological Engineer

297

Saved By The Meow

298

The Real Netherlands

299

Apple Watch Saved My Life

300

Black Teacher In Minneapolis

301

27, Dating A 53 Year Old

302

Introducing Real Good

303

Moving To Another Country

304

I'm A Surrogate: Part 2

305

I'm A Surrogate

306

Chinese American Adoptee

307

Beautiful Shorties: One Year Later

308

Analyze My Dreams

309

Let's Talk About Sex

310

Beautiful Shorties: 72 Year Old Life Review

311

Hallucinating Gremlins

312

Choose Love Everyday

313

Beautiful Shorties: Mental Health Researcher

314

Unhoused

315

Widower Remarried

316

Beautiful Shorties: Trans Woman In The Bible Belt

317

My Son Is Deaf

318

My Friend Took Their Own Life

319

Bonus: New Jersey Is The World

320

I'm Narcoleptic And Collapsed During Sex

321

Gay 1st Generation Chinese American Best Friend

322

Beautiful Shorties: OnlyFans, Good Sex, & Grilled Cheese

323

I Was In A Harem

324

Dad Died By Euthanasia

325

Beautiful Resolutions for 2021

326

Mrs. Claus Uncensored

327

Chicano and Trans

328

Another 39 Year Old Grandma

329

My Friend Murdered Someone

330

A Pirate's Life

331

Everyone Is A Survivor (Tanya from Motor City Mayhem)

332

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

333

My Husband Cheated With My Best Friend

334

Groundhog Day

335

Campaign Staffer

336

Get Out (Of The Closet)

337

Ending A Parade of Tragedies

338

315 Days Without Opiates

339

Fell In Love With A Hobo

340

The Orgy Dome

341

My Parents Were Psychics

342

My Dead Lover Is My Sperm Donor

343

Syrian Refugee

344

A Special Ed Teacher with Autism

345

Rescue Mission To America

346

Caught My Husband With A Sex Worker

347

Math Guy vs. Geth

348

Protesting Magician In Portland

349

A Posh Perspective

350

Asexual Ex-Conservative Lunchlady

351

Introducing California Love

352

Stalked By My Ex

353

Mexican American Iowan

354

A Bar Star Comes Out, Again

355

Romantic Wrestler

356

A Black Woman in America

357

Touching Strangers Faces

358

Quitting Weed

359

Native Alaskan in Anchorage

360

Quarantine Breakup

361

Parkour Yoda

362

EMT In The Epicenter

363

My Partner is a Medical Mystery

364

Don't Say The C Word

365

How To Date A Sketch Comedian

366

Union Worker vs. Robot Dog Uprising

367

London Is Savage (in Quarantine)

368

Love In The Time Of Coronavirus

369

My Girlfriend Cheated, I Got A Dog

370

I'm The Best Lyft Driver

371

Hit By A Truck

372

Phone Call Hole In One

373

An Octopus Living in Baltimore

374

Dry Eyes But 2020 Vision

375

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

376

Citizen Of The World

377

Bigot Chicken

378

Punky Brewster Saves The World

379

Kinda Famous Secret Half Brother

380

Beautiful Resolutions for 2020

381

Dredging It Up Again

382

You Can Go Back To Your Seat Now, Thanks

383

Philosopher Chef

384

I Did Poopy & I Know Calculus

385

Foster To Adopt

386

Chill (with Justifiable Rage)

387

Polyamorous Group Real Estate

388

Aspiring Pro Wrestler

389

Motor City Mayhem (Murdered Dads)

390

Ayahuasca

391

I Love You, Dad

392

Traffic

393

Bad Luck Johnny

394

The Raccoon Roommate

395

Piles of Walking Goop

396

Jammers vs. Blockers

397

The Size of a Cantaloupe

398

Partner In Prison

399

A True (Modern) Love Story

400

The Choctaw & Irish Connection

401

Fighting Through Life

402

The Squirrel and the Giraffe

403

I Found Closure

404

Babysitting (Drunk People)

405

I've Never Told Anyone

406

No Guide Book to Grief

407

The Raccoon Incident

408

Clinical Psychologist

409

Go With The Flow

410

The Ultimate Bad Roommate Story

411

Life Is Weird

412

The Cuckoo's Nest

413

More Alike Than Different

414

The Adventures of Glandon Oakfoot

415

A Hero's Journey

416

Sky Full of Ghosts

417

Kaleidoscope of Danger

418

Called Once, Listened Never

419

Broke In The USA

420

Porn, Drugs, Murder & Learning To Love

421

Episode 1: Harry's Aussie Best Friend

422

Hold My Caipirinha

423

Jetmouth

424

My Dad Owns A Strip Club

425

Car Crash

426

Love At First [blank]

427

The King of Silver Linings

428

Meta Millennial

429

RINO

430

In Loving Arms

431

Crying Into My Boba

432

American Ex-Pat & Berlin Go-Between

433

My First Job Interview Ever

434

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

435

144.5 Bonus: Beautiful Resolutions for 2019

436

Queer Feminist Pagan Yuletide

437

28-Year-Old College Student

438

A Bridge Between Humans

439

Gay Mormon

440

I Lost 150 Pounds

441

Basement Infidelity

442

House Burned Down

443

Color of Sunshine, Color of Moonlight

444

Wilderness Rehabilitation

445

Vanity & Sanity

446

Upward Slide of Happiness

447

Nap Time

448

I Survived A Mass Shooting

449

What's It Like To Be A Man Today?

450

My Year of Sexploration

451

Not Afraid of Life

452

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

453

40 Lbs of Cat

454

A Saudi Student in Canada

455

Major Postal Bitch

456

Goose, Not Maverick

457

Hanukkah With Fidel

458

Northern Ireland

459

Prison Bound

460

Out Of The Closet

461

39-Year-Old Grandma

462

I Cry On The Toilet

463

Smoking Weed in Christiania

464

She Killed My Father

465

The Chillionaire

466

Charity Laundry

467

Irish Wake

468

Quiet Rage

469

Death Row Lawyer

470

Virtual Dominatrix

471

If They Say No, They Mean No

472

Road Dogs

473

It's Quiet Time

474

Tasmanian Sex Ed Circus Performer

475

Honne and Tatemae

476

The Whirlpool Galaxy

477

Brady Bunch Wedding / Ron Paul's Baby Returns

478

Dealer Turned Surgeon

479

English Idyll

480

One Hundred Anonymous

481

Sober Mathematician

482

Chemo Chameleon

483

In The Candy Aisle

484

Boy Crazy

485

Monogamous Animals

486

The Puppet Master

487

Bonus: Beautiful Resolutions

488

Successful Stalker

489

Wisdom From The Bushman

490

Picture A Sunset

491

Hipster Hospice Chaplain

492

Black Cloud of a Husband

493

Cadaver Epiphany

494

Head Injury

495

Plant Splooge

496

Moravian Trademonk

497

A True Crime Investigator

498

The Relaxed Satanist

499

Sex Toys and Bourbon

500

Rabbits and Catholics

501

Hiding In A Storage Space

502

Civil War Survivor

503

Bloomin' Love

504

Coming Out with Katie Couric

505

A Big Hole

506

Charlottesville

507

Holy Moly

508

Homeschooled Bigfoot Hunter

509

Aussie Best Friend

510

American Studies

511

Tattoo Parlor

512

Love Is Everywhere

513

Married The Day We Met

514

Country AF

515

Sex Drugs and Retail

516

Deaf

517

Mother Moon (Live in Portland, Oregon)

518

Singer Who Won't Sing

519

Just Like A Johnny Cash Song

520

Rekindling An Old Friendship

521

Public Defender

522

First Kiss

523

Vinyl Market Researcher

524

Swingers

525

A Midwife Discusses Birth Schmutz

526

Trail Blazer

527

What Not To Ask A Trans Person

528

Cruise Ship Mafia

529

Ron Paul's Baby Part 2

530

Made Out With My Teacher

531

Fugitive Father

532

Bisexual Brahmin

533

Power Grid of Love

534

Illness, Love & Dogs

535

4 Kids 0 Spaghetti

536

Inside The Heroin Epidemic

537

American Daughter

538

Marching Band Teacher

539

Queer Black Punk in Appalachia

540

Escape From A Cult

541

Single Mom Cancer Survivor

542

A Sister Scorned

543

Fail Army Cop

544

5% Romantic Interest

545

Cuddly Pudge

546

Shakespeare On Molly

547

A Spooky Episode

548

IRL-ASMR

549

All About Cash

550

10,000 Pounds

551

Shopping at the Face Depot

552

The Mom is Anonymous Too

553

Daddy Dearest

554

Chronotopes in Paris

555

Hot Scoop

556

Noodlebody

557

I Cry When I Run

558

Anglican Bipolar Blacksheep

559

A Competitive Spirit

560

Make Fruit Baskets Great Again

561

Vegan Uncle Buck

562

Strangers on a Train

563

OTL in a Hopeless Place

564

Early Onset

565

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

566

The Hardest Part Is That You Love Me

567

Jack Mormon

568

Married to a Monster

569

Alcoholics Anonymous

570

Jersey Boy

571

4 Kids 0 Sex

572

Up All Night

573

Running Down a Stapler

574

The Cycle of Life

575

Mountain Man vs. City Boy

576

A Real Life Superhero

577

The Most Amazing Destruction

578

The Illustrator

579

Passport, Exodus

580

Ron Paul's Baby

581

Preview: Beautiful / Anonymous