Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
MOLD
This week's caller talks to Gethard about a mysterious illness that turned her life upside down and the horrifying discovery that took years to uncove...
Stuck
A caller from South Georgia is feeling stuck. He's not entirely sure how old he is, struggles to figure out what he wants from the future, and wonders...
Raised by a Criminal and a Drifter
A 25-year-old with a quarter-life crisis calls to talk with Geth about capitalism, growing up too fast, complicated sibling dynamics, how childhood sh...
How to Keep Going After You Lose a Child
Five years ago, this week's caller lost his 15-year-old son. Today, he's raising his 15-year-old daughter and navigating what it means to live with gr...
Secret Lives of Cruise Ship Workers
This week's caller met her husband while working on a cruise ship. She's got plenty of stories about life behind the scenes at sea: from a painful bre...
Armored Combat Game Designer
This week's caller works in video games. The first half of the call gets into the current state of the industry and what it's like building a career i...
Enough Good to Counteract the Bad
It's this caller's birthday, and she has a lot to celebrate: a career she's crushing, a new house, and the chance to provide for people she loves. The...
A Fish With Legs
A middle school Spanish teacher calls before first period to talk with Gethard about her deskless classroom, eating chocolate in front of her students...
Arizona to Alaska
Smoking a cigar on a riverbank in Alaska, this caller tells Gethard about the therapist's offhand suggestion that sent him north, and the long, rambli...
A Proudly Unpredictable Human Being
A proudly unpredictable mom calls to talk with Gethard about errant mouth bones, thrift-store vendettas, and escaping a fundamentalist upbringing. Plu...