Avatar Stories from Anonymous Benders
For Gethard's birthday, we're doing something kinda stupid but also totally sincere: an entire episode about Avatar: The Last Airbender. After months of threatening to turn Beautiful/Anonymous into an...
26 Touko 1h 7min
A Dancer's Revenge
This week's caller is a dancer and choreographer who takes Gethard inside the intense, demanding world of ballet and the path that led her to her life's work. She also opens up about a traumatic exper...
19 Touko 1h 13min
Air Force Veteran (One for Our Logistics Nerds)
This week's caller is an Air Force veteran and longtime listener who talks with Gethard about military logistics, global shipping, what you can learn from a grocery store if you know what to look for,...
12 Touko 1h 11min
The Most Important Guy You've Never Heard Of
An airline dispatcher calls to tell Gethard about the most important job at the airport that most of us don't even know exists. He tells us what it takes to keep multiple planes safely in the air, giv...
5 Touko 1h 10min
Existential Psychologist
An existential psychologist calls in this week and gets Gethard to open up about a tough dad moment before the conversation turns toward the loneliness epidemic, AI psychosis, mental health TikTok, bu...
28 Huhti 1h 10min
SWAT Medic
A paramedic calls in this week, and he and Gethard bond fast over the real deal world of first response. This caller is operating at a pretty intense level, working in roles that require very specific...
21 Huhti 1h 16min
Two Years, Five Jobs
Our caller talks with Gethard about graduating from NYU into a job market that's getting worse by the minute, bouncing between temp jobs, losing health insurance, and the exhaustion of trying to build...
14 Huhti 1h 17min
