October 24, 2022

EP. 342 — Library Boy (Live from Cudahy)

Anonymous notes in the library and a will they/won’t they story spanning years. A woman shares the epic tale of her own “You’ve Got Mail” situation and what she learned from the experience. She explains how hiding letters in books turned into 8 months of back and forth with a mystery guy otherwise known as “library boy.” Geth and the live audience ask all your burning questions including, “what happened?!” Later on, she reveals the fate of her mystery man and why she’s happy now. 

Transcript

Speaker 1 [00:00:06] Hello, X-ray Arcade. It’s Beautiful/ Anonymous. One hour. One phone call. No names. No holds barred. Hi, everybody. Chris Gethard here. And we’re many years into this show. Hundreds of episodes in. And yet it still surprises me all the time. I just had the honor of going to Wisconsin for the first time. It’s kind of become a running gag on the show. You’ve heard me say how I’ve never been to Wisconsin. If you’ve followed over the years, that’s not new information to you. Well, guess what? Finally went and I did a show at the X-ray Arcade, which is just outside of Milwaukee. And it is a show that surprised me. It blew my mind. It blew the live crowd’s mind. And I think it’s going to blow your mind. This is one of the most epic journeys you’ll ever hear when it comes to the emotion of love. Am I going to say that it’s a love story? I don’t know. Because love stories go in different directions tha

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