Hello to everybody who sanitizes their kitchen equipment thoroughly.

It's beautiful anonymous, one hour, one phone call, no names, no-vo-part.

I'd rather go one-on-one, I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.

Hi everybody, Chris Gatherd here.

If you're not a fan of the intro, I'll just implore you to check out beautiful anonymous.com if you want bonus stuff.

And if you want to skip right to the phone call, skip about five minutes ahead.

Thanks. Hi everybody, it's Chris Gethard welcoming you to another episode of

Beautiful anonymous and I have to say this is the time of life where I've realized that what this show can really provide.

Because I'd like to think we provide you with interesting conversations on a week to week

basis.

I'd like to think that we give you some things to think about. We expand access to human narrative

story by story. We let you in with people with different backgrounds, different interests,

different life paths, different experiences. different For almost 500 episodes now, we've been aiming to do all those things and I think honestly kind of nailing it.

But I do also know that it's official.

We've somehow avoided it on the show. There's been so little talk of politics.

Usually it flares up in presidential election years

here in the states.

It hasn't now.

But I'll tell you, I'm officially listening

to way too many political podcasts. I'm reading too many

political news sites. I am reading political stuff on Twitter, which is actual hell.

It's actual hell.

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