April 4, 2022

EP. 313 — New Job, Dead Dad

A daughter opens up about losing her dad and going through a big career change at the same time. She shares the strange way she got her new job and how it felt to plan a funeral for someone she never really knew. 

Transcript

BEAUT-313-20220405-NewJobDeadDad_v2MH.mp3 Chris Gethard [00:00:04] Hello to everybody who’s very soft spoken. It’s Beautiful/Anonymous. One hour. One phone call. No names. No holds barred. Theme Song [00:00:29] (THEME SONG). Chris Gethard [00:00:29] Hi, everybody, Chris Gethard here. Welcome to Beautiful/Anonymous. I’m in Los Angeles. I like Los Angeles. It’s warm. I’m staying at a friend’s place where there’s a big window where I can see a mountain in the distance and there’s trees and it’s beautiful and it’s lovely. But I’ve also always found the city lonely. That’s just me. It’s nothing against the city, it’s just how I mix with the city. I’m not a hater. But I will say that it makes me even more grateful than usual that I have a job where the whole goal is to connect with one person at a time and then try to use it to connect a whole lot of us all together. And there’s just these little

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