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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Religious Flash Mob

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

A long-time listener, first-time caller opens up about finding belonging in an unexpected place: a religious cult she joined in college. She and Gethard discuss the appeal of tight-knit communities, the difficulty of leaving controlling environments, and the surprising role a flash mob played in her story.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody who made it out.

0:06.7

It's Beautiful Anonymous.

0:08.2

One hour.

0:09.0

One phone call.

0:10.1

No names.

0:11.3

No holds barred.

0:16.9

I'd rather go one-on-one.

0:19.6

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

0:26.9

Hi, everybody, it's Chris.

0:28.3

If you are someone who's not into an intro, I get it.

0:31.3

This week's intro does have last-minute instructions on how you can get the beautiful anonymous magazine if you want.

0:37.0

But if you're not

0:37.7

interested in that, it's all good. You don't want to skip about nine and a half minutes ahead.

0:42.1

That'll put you right at the beginning of the phone call. Thanks.

0:49.3

Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous, the podcast,

0:55.6

where we explore the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. I feel really lucky

1:00.7

to be here, as always, bringing you a conversation that I really loved having. I'll tell you

1:08.7

more about that in a minute. First, I have to just say a huge

1:11.7

and massive thanks. People are very excited about Beautiful Anonymous the magazine. I announced it

1:16.2

on the show last week that it was printed up, sent out a little note to my email list, put it on

1:20.6

social media that it's out here. And people have really responded to the degree where the people

1:26.8

who run the company that are,

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