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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Picking a New Name

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week's caller has a simple pitch: help me pick a new name. What follows is a fun and free-wheeling discussion about names, identity, and all the ways we define ourselves. Oh, and Orville Peck. A lot of this call is about Orville Peck.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

0:05.8

Oh yeah.

0:06.6

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

0:15.3

autobiographies, true crime, and more.

0:19.3

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight.

0:23.4

Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible.

0:25.8

No way.

0:26.4

Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening.

0:29.2

Terms apply.

0:34.0

Hello to everybody who gets very distracted by hot cowboys and masks.

0:38.9

It's beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call, no names, no holds bar.

0:47.0

I'd rather go one on one.

0:50.0

I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.

0:57.0

Hey everybody, it's Chris.

0:59.0

This is sort of a pre-intro before the intro.

1:02.0

I just have to say a massive, massive thanks to people over at the Facebook group,

1:06.0

beautiful anonymous community.

1:08.0

Something really touching happened and I have to just say a massive thanks. I wish

1:12.3

I could name a name, but this person posted anonymously. Everybody knows beautiful anonymous.com

1:18.8

is a thing that we plug each week. You get ad-free episodes. You get extra time with each caller.

1:24.8

If you're at that upper tier, you get a secret number once a month and you get follow-up calls with past callers. And it's been so fun. And I'm really proud of it.

1:32.3

But I have not wanted to be sleazy and push it too hard or make it too salesy. There's

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