Uniquely honest conversations with famous and renowned musicians. We talk about how these artists have navigated the mangle of the music industry to keep on making great music and winning new fans after decades of highs and lows. We dive into past, present and future and discuss business, fandom, creation and collaboration. What defines success in today's music business? From the artist's point of view. The Guardian: “Making a hit record is tough, but maintaining success is another skill ent ...
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The Song Sommelier Podcasts
1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. Thats the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard (the Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, This American Life, and one of Time Outs 10 best comedians of 2015). Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one anonymous caller, and he cant hang up first, no matter what. From shocking confessions and family secrets to philosophical discussions and shameless self-promotion, anything can and will happen! T ...
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EMMY AND JAMES BEARD NOMINATED HOST JERMAINE STONE TALKS TO HIP-HOP PERSONALITIES AND WINE PROFESSIONALS TO FIND THE PERFECT MATCH BETWEEN MUSIC AND WINE IN AN INFORMATIVE, ENTERTAINING, AND ORGANIC WAY. ON EACH EPISODE GUESTS CHOOSE A SONG OR BOTTLE OF WINE, JERMAINE SELECTS A PAIRING, AND THEY DISCUSS THEIR CHOICES ON THE SHOW.
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What It's Like When Your Partner Dies
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A year after unexpectedly losing her partner, this week's caller shares how she's been rebuilding on her own terms. She and Gethard talk about grief, community, resilience, and the power of telling our stories so we don't have to carry them alone. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Ran…
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A grassroots journalist calling in mid-haircut connects with Gethard over a shared love for community media. Together, they break down why public access matters now more than ever: how local TV and community-powered news can connect neighbors, build trust where traditional media has fallen short and, most importantly, help people tell their own sto…
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The Art of Longevity Episode 84: The Charlatans, with Tim Burgess
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I’ve been trying to get Tim Burgess to join me on The Art of Longevity for at least 10 seasons. Ultimately, a new Charlatans album, We Are Love, seemed like the right reason to finally do it. I’ve said it before, but I’m genuinely amazed and thrilled about how many ‘old bands’ have put out a recent album that is up there with their very best work. …
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This week's caller has dedicated her life to understanding hoarding disorder. Years ago, she married someone whose relationship with collecting changed the course of her own life. Now she's on a mission to educate others and replace stigma with compassion. She and Gethard get into what hoarding really looks like, the reasons people find it hard to …
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A caller checks in from a Costco parking lot to mark one year sober after 25 years of blackout drinking. He talks about kicking opioids, rebuilding his life, and what it's like to actually remember things again. He and Geth get into punk shows, lost friends, and how addiction doesn't always look the way people think it does. Plus, Dog Talk makes a …
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Episode 500! (Live from Atlantic Highlands, NJ)
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Here we are. Episode 500. We celebrated the only way that makes sense. With a few hundred listeners packed into a theater in Jersey and a caller whose story pretty much sums up what this show is all about. Our 500th caller is one year out from a stay in a mental hospital. She opens up about what it was like to lose her grip on reality in a pretty i…
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Episode 500! Live This Friday at Smodcastle Cinemas!
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You've heard us talk about it. Here's your reminder. In the last nearly TEN YEARS of Beautiful Anonymous, Gethard has had 499 unforgettable conversations with our callers. This Friday, October 17th, we're recording number 500. We'll be live at Kevin Smith's Smodcastle Cinemas in beautiful Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Get your tickets now, then come hang…
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Gethard talks with a caller who shares her story of adopting a young girl and what happened when, after a year, that child chose to return to her foster family. It's an honest conversation about one person's experience with adoption, the unpredictability of parenthood, and finding a way forward when something you've hoped for doesn't turn out the w…
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An Australian on a solo vacation calls in from Italy. She and Gethard chat about travel, trade stereotypes about each other's countries, and get into how the rest of the world views the U.S. right now, all while the caller gives us a little walking tour of the charming Italian town she's calling from. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free…
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This call starts at Burning Man but quickly opens up into a far more complicated conversation about grief, abuse, healing, and the long work of rebuilding. But the playa stays in the mix throughout, a touchstone for how this caller has tried to redefine life along the way. And, of course, we make a stop at the Orgy Dome. Sign up for Beautiful/Anony…
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This week, Geth talks with a railroad worker who shares what it's really like on the job. They get into the nitty-gritty of trains, unions, and infrastructure, and explore how the rails often reflect bigger truths about where the country is headed. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Ra…
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This week, Geth talks with a firefighter/EMT who's training to be a paramedic. They get into the vital importance of volunteer work, what it's like to serve in rural communities versus tourist towns, and how showing up in moments of crisis can remind you what humanity is all about. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access…
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Episode 108: Wine and Hip Hop Dual Citizenship
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In this episode of Wine & Hip Hop: Dual Citizenship, Jermaine reflects on the healing this country needs and shares his perspective on immigration not as politics, but as the story of culture, connection, and what we create when we come together. From the Caribbean migration of the 1970s to the Bronx, Jermaine explores how Jamaican traditions like …
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Roller Derby Coaching, Chocolate Making Psychologist
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Raised by a zoologist in a house full of wild animals, this psychology professor's life has remained just as untamed: coaching junior roller derby, a stint making high-end chocolate, parenting a trans kid, and that's just for starters. Unpredictable but never aimless, her conversation with Gethard is just as wide-ranging as her life. Sign up for Be…
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This week's caller takes us into the complicated, messy, and deeply human world of sex work. The conversation stretches from personal experience to bigger questions about society. It's thoughtful, challenging, and impossible to boil down. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad free episodes and access to exclusive audio including 5 Random Quest…
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Polyamorous Witch Librarian Who Also Worked at a Brothel
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Does what it says on the tin. Gethard talks to a polyamorous witch librarian who once worked the front desk at a brothel, surprisingly perfect training for library life. They get into the realities of coven community, late-discovered neurodivergence, leaving a faith tradition, and why public libraries are such vital spaces, now more than ever. It's…
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
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Here's the pitch: Engineer by day. International award-winning clown by night. Learned to read and walk in her 20s. This caller has a lot going on, and every story branches into a whole new world of surprises. Sign up for Beautiful/Anonymous+ to get ad-free episodes and access to exclusive audio, including 5 Random Questions with this week's caller…
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A couple weeks back, Gethard talked with a lawyer whose husband came up a few times. We learned two key facts about him: he's got a lot of birds, and he works on a tugboat. Well, he got through this week, and that means Geth got to ask him a few questions about the birds and a million more about life aboard a tugboat. It's a conversation packed wit…
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The Art of Longevity Season 12, Episode 6: Suede (Revisited)
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“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.” Those words were spoken at one time by David Bowie, and thus are gospel to us here on The Art of Longevity podcast. Fortunately, some bands still live by that same philosophy. For evidence, we revisit the world of Suede. Suede has refused to become boring. Somehow, this ban…
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This week, Gethard talks to a Vietnam veteran with a lifetime of stories. He's never listened to the podcast, but his granddaughter has, and she encouraged him to call in as a way to share and preserve the experiences he's carried for decades. He recounts some harrowing moments from his childhood before walking us through the catastrophic day in Vi…
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This week's caller is a medical device engineer with a deeply personal stake in the healthcare system. She talks with Gethard about living with a rare liver disease, how Martin Shkreli changed the course of her life, and the three-legged, half-tailed foster cat who might just send her back to therapy. Check out The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time as …
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The Art of Longevity Season 12, Episode 5: Tom Odell
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Now well over a decade in the music industry, Tom Odell is motoring through a successful second phase as an independent artist. His recent albums have leaned into more introspective, personal material that has resonated so much that he now attracts bigger audiences to bigger shows (an arena tour is forthcoming), and continues to grow a very large b…
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This week's caller joined Gethard at 10:30 on a Friday night to talk about wrestling and her love of a New Jersey ska band, but the conversation quickly turned into something else entirely. We hear about her tugboat captain husband (who happens to have Geth's secret dream job), her own work representing our most vulnerable population, and the utter…
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The Art of Longevity Season 12, Episode 4: Amy Macdonald
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Singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald has never been one to chase trends - an impressive show of resistance for an artist whose music journey began with teenage stardom (the streaming monster hit “This Is The Life” was all over the radio when she was just 19). Macdonald could be forgiven for trying to stay in the spotlight, but she was never that bothere…
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In another installment of our unofficial "The Young People Are Alright" series, a 19-year-old entrepreneur calls in to talk about hustle culture, mental health, and the lessons he's learning from his first relationship. He's thoughtful, ambitious, and asking big questions about what it means to grow up in a world where the American Dream feels incr…
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The Art of Longevity Season 12, Episode 3: Turin Brakes - revisited
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In the intervening four years since Olly Knights first joined me, the band has been on something of a creative roll; two fine albums, a successful acoustic tour and something of a collective raising of the game. To my mind, this is how established bands of longevity should operate; to hell with the mainstream and gatekeepers, just do the very best …
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Your Kid's Not Broken. They're Just Different.
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This week's caller is a mom of two young boys doing her best to face life head-on. Her oldest son is autistic and recently diagnosed with depression. She talks with Gethard about parenting a neurodivergent child, advocating in a world that doesn't always get it, and staying grounded through it all with warmth, humor, and zero B.S. Sign up for Beaut…
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The Art of Longevity Season 12, Episode 2: Estelle
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Estelle is old school. With a modern twist yes, but nonetheless, if this most eclectic of artists leans in any particular direction it is towards ‘classic’. She even says it in one her own songs; "I'm not of-the-moment. I am a classic, yeah, I live at the MoMA” (The Life, opening track of her 2012 album All of Me). She is quite the proverbial eclec…
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This week's caller is a pediatric nurse with a newborn at home, and she's learning in real time how her job is both a blessing and a curse when it comes to new mom anxiety. She and Geth talk about sleepless nights, the emotional toll of pediatric care, and why it's hard to turn off worst-case-scenario thinking when you've seen it all firsthand. Plu…
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