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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Soul-Searching Sommelier

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A brand new sommelier (that’s a wine expert for the less fancy) needs some help figuring out what her next move should be. She and Gethard get real nerdy about ancient wine-making techniques, and then, as is often the case, the conversation takes a more serious turn when our caller opens up about a tough situation with a family member.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello to everybody who's feeling a little bit under the weather.

0:07.6

It's beautiful anonymous one hour.

0:09.5

One phone call, no names, no holds Bart.

0:16.9

I'd rather go one-on-one.

0:19.9

I think it'll be more fun

0:21.6

and I'll get to know you

0:24.3

and you'll get to know me.

0:27.0

Hi everybody, it's Chris Getherd here

0:29.1

and I know not everybody loves an intro.

0:32.2

If you ordered the magazine

0:33.7

and haven't sent us your address,

0:36.2

please listen to the intro this time. That being said,

0:39.9

if you just want to get to the call, I didn't do a great job timing it, but I think if you skip

0:45.0

eight or nine minutes ahead, that should put you right towards the beginning of the call.

0:48.8

Actually, it might be closer to seven. I don't know. It's somewhere in that range. You'll figure it

0:52.9

out. Thanks so much for listening.

0:55.2

Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here and welcome to beautiful Anonymous, the show where we explore

1:01.0

the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. I feel so lucky as always to bring you

1:07.1

this show. We are coming up on 500 episodes, which feels so weird to say, so wild to say.

1:16.2

And I'm sure I'll get very nostalgic about the early days of the show in the coming months.

1:21.7

But for now, a few things to tell you about. One is that I have caught wind. It has been explained to me that a lot of

1:29.2

people use YouTube as their podcast platform of choice. And that was never part of our infrastructure

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