March 5, 2018

EP. 102 — Dealer Turned Surgeon

How did this self-described East Coast dirtbag go from selling drugs out of his mom’s minivan to doing brain surgery? His answer: Donnie Darko. Gethard asks him some hard hitting questions like: What skills acquired in drug dealing are useful as a brain surgeon? Why did he go vegan? Can he control a monkey’s brain with a special USB stick?

This episode is brought to you by Mack Weldon (www.mackweldon.com code: STORIES), RXBAR (www.rxbar.com/beautiful code: BEAUTIFUL), Talkspace (www.talkspace.com/beautiful), and Care/Of (www.takecareof.com code: STORIES).

Transcript

CHRIS [00:01:31] Hello to all my Guanous cool cats. It’s Beautiful Anonymous one hour, one phone call. No names, no holds barred. THEME MUSIC [00:01:39] I’d rather go one on one, I think it’ll be more fun, then I’ll get to know you and you’ll get to know me. CHRIS [00:01:55] Hello, everybody. It’s Chris Gethard, your pal on the other end of a mysterious phone line, bringing you the show where you get to eavesdrop via audio on someone else, who shares details about their personal life, oftentime over shares, details of their personal life. Feel very lucky to do this show. Feel very lucky that you’re tuning in. Thank you so much for that. Couple of tour dates up at Chrisgeth.com. We’ve got Bloomington, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. Check those out if you’re in those towns. I’ll see you in a couple of months. What else? Last week’s episode, a lot of people responded positively to this one. I will tell you, I want to go ahe

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