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[Background Sound]

Interviewer: Hello to everybody who can’t break the flower pot. It’s “Beautiful Anonymous”. One hour. One phone call. No names. No holds barred.

[Background Sound]

Interviewer: Hello everybody, my name is Chris Gathered. It is a pleasure to be here in this hosting seat, talking to you regular humans once again. Just, that’s what it is.

If you’re finding the show for the first time, welcome, here’s what it is: ah, a regular guy talks to other regular people on the phone, and we just remember that this world is just full of stories.

[Phone Ring]

Voice Mail: Thank you for calling “Beautiful Anonymous.” A beeping noise will indicate when you are on the show with the host.

Caller (female): Hello?

Interviewer: Hello?

Caller (female): Hi there, how are you?

Interviewer: Good. How are you?

Caller (female): Ah, I’m doing very well, thanks.

Interviewer: Where are you from?

Caller (female): I’m calling, I’m calling from, ah, Perth in Western Australia.

Interviewer: Perth!

Caller (female): [Laugh] Yes, yeah. I’m super nervous. So, I’m just kind of like, just catching my breath a little bit here.

Interviewer: Well, don’t be nervous. I am so thrilled to talk to you. I, I don’t— I wonder, I feel like we mentioned it on the show before, but for years now, whenever I announce my tour dates, there will be a segment, “Australia.” And then other people have told me, “Perth, Australia is the most desolate city in the world, and everybody skips it, and they go to Sydney and Melbourne and a few other places in Australia.”

But Perth always gets left out of a lot of touring artists’ schedules, and people overlook it. And I’m sitting here going, the city that’s overlooked because it’s desolate and nobody wants to— that sounds like me. That sounds like my soul and my spirit. I gotta get to Perth. So, I’ve been fascinated-

Caller (female): Yeah.

Interviewer: with your town for years now.

Caller (female): Well, I’m I… I am humble— I’m but a humble representative of one of the biggest states ah, in the whole world, ah, second only to a state in Russia. And ah, yeah, one of the most isolated cities in the world, depending on how you want to— depending on what your definition of isolated city is. But ah, you mentioned Perth only recently on an episode, and that’s kind of what made me think about it. But you’re totally right, we get overlooked and—

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