March 26, 2018

EP. 105 — Honne and Tatemae

Stuck between two cultures, a punk rocker calls in from the other side of the world to chat about finding his identity, navigating his country’s social norms and tells a story about how hard it was to finish a huge American burrito.

This episode is brought to you by Talkspace (www.talkspace.com/beautiful) and Tripping.com (www.tripping.com/STORIES).

Transcript

[00:00:05] CHRIS: Hello to all my 3-D girls. It’s Beautiful Anonymous. One hour. One phone call. No names, no holds barred. [00:00:18] THEME MUSIC: 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. [00:00:28] CHRIS: Hey everybody, Chris Gethard here welcome you to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. Thank you guys for supporting it and allowing me to do it. Chris Gethard shows also up and running now. Another one of my gigs. It’s up tonight, actually, if you’re downloading this on Tuesday when it comes out. Tuesday is like Gethard Day now. Beautiful Anonymous in the morning. Chris Gethard show at night on Tru TV and tonight’s episode is all call ins. I think I just like phones and maybe Beautiful Anonymous fans want to check it out, who knows? I’m not going to plug it too hard. We’re gonna get going. Talking about Beautiful Anonymous, you may notice the tone of both this intro

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