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This week's caller has a full-time job, a toddler, and somehow also helps run an anime convention in their spare (lol) time. Gethard gets a crash-course in anime as he talks with our caller about what happens when the thing you love starts becoming a whole lot of work. Plus, an energetic 18-month-old brings some adorable kid chaos to the call.

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This week's caller had an encounter with a psychic that is tailor-made for Beautiful/Anonymous. She tells Gethard that story, shares memories of her free-range '90s childhood, and opens up about an experience from those years that left her with a unique phobia. It might sound a little strange at first, but as she and Geth get into it, we learn just how deeply it still affects her life, to this day. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Random Questions with this week's caller. Leave us a voicemail at (973) 306-4676

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Let's all agree we can blame Mercury retrograde for the technical difficulties we had in getting this one off the ground. The rest of the chaos, though, is entirely on this week's caller, a true maker of mischief who calls in on their birthday eve eve looking for a little trouble. They come in hot with a competition that pits Maryland against New Jersey, but it's not all fun and games. She and Gethard talk existential comics, understanding heritage, and the weirdness of childhood. Plus, Geth tells us why he's the most inspired he's been in years. Most importantly though, this caller and the High Priestess pull off a perfect, not-at-all-confusing soundboard bit. Hell yeah, brother. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Random Questions with this week's caller. Leave us a voicemail at (973) 306-4676

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Recovering from surgery and ten days into a liquid diet, our caller is hungry for conversation. Geth and this Good Vibes Caller compare shared surgeries, shared interests, and decide whether or not he once stopped a woman from becoming a serial killer's next victim. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Random Questions with this week's caller. Leave us a voicemail at (973) 306-4676

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This week, an audio engineer at a major sports arena calls in from a seat in the arena bowl. He and Gethard talk about what it's like to work in a place built for tens of thousands of people before the fans arrive, the changing landscape of live sports events, which artists travel with the best crews, and the surprising amount that sports and musical theater have in common.

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This week's caller is an environmental scientist who studies stormwater. She's also a mischievous little trickster. She and Geth talk about what our water can tell us about the health of the world around us and share a few changes you can make in your own yard to help care for your corner of the planet. Then she shares something that really shifts the energy of the rest of the conversation toward the slightly, delightfully unhinged. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Random Questions with this week's caller. Leave us a voicemail at (973) 306-4676

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This week, Gethard talks with a middle school theater teacher about growing up homeschooled, her time in a traveling Christian theater troupe, and what it was like adjusting to public school life. She and Geth talk about the importance of arts in schools, what kids learn when they get comfortable being on stage, and why 6th grade boys might be the toughest crowd of all.

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This week's caller works in psychedelic medicine, and Gethard has questions. They talk about ketamine, psilocybin, what it really means to do this work responsibly, how therapy changes when the problem is the world around you, and why real connection might be the thing we all need most right now.

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A life that started in Pleasantville doesn't stay there. This week's caller talks with Gethard about marriage, motherhood, identity, grief, and how listening to Beautiful/Anonymous made her realize how many different stories make up her own life.

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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 of her family today. But first, we kick things off with some Jersey mall talk.

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