Review of Beautiful Anonymous Cleaning, driving, relaxing. These are all activities I somehow used to do in silence. Now, I have become so accustomed to listening to podcasts while doing these, I require the background conversations in order to be even partially productive. Sadly, my favorite shows have been slacking. So much for weekly episodes! After much hesitation, I finally decided it was time to branch out in the vast world of podcasts. Personally, I love discussion topics that make the listener think outside of their typical thoughts. Philosophical, unsolved questions that anyone can have their own relation to are what really draw me in as an avid, returning streamer. So, when reading thoroughly through reviews, one caught my eye. I thought it was a really interesting concept to base the entire theme of a podcast on hour-long phone calls. Conventionally, I am used to hearing the same people, normally a group of friends, express their input on the subject matter, with perhaps an occasional guest speaker. With the phone calls, every episode would be different, and that sounded exciting. After giving an episode a shot, I was relieved to discover the host did not ruin the show, like others I have tried in the past. He doesn’t attempt to be something he is not, and his genuine humor breaks the gloomy mood a podcast can sometimes take on when dealing with psychological elements and experiences. In fact, he reminds the guests that he is not a trained psychologist himself. In my opinion, this improves the show because the way of thinking is quite attainable to anyone. After a bit more research, I found realized I had already known who the host is from his comedy career. He had even appeared on one of my all-time favorite shows, The Office, which only increased my eagerness to listen in. A particular episode that stood out to me was Episode 259, called Analyze My Dreams. Out of the Beautiful Anonymous episodes I have finished thus far, Analyze My Dreams impacted me the greatest. In this, a specific quote stuck with me: “Sometimes when you hear other peoples’ pain, you don’t hear it, you feel it.” Rather than only letting the caller speak, Chris adds an equal amount of personal anecdotes to create a mutual exchange of advice. With him expressing his own feelings, I wonder, does he ever get worried his celebrity reputation may change from his podcast presence? In the future, I would like a caller to be a cast member from The Office, so we could get some insight from his feelings on his acting past.