84: Buried Below pt.3: Listener Episode

Grant & Maia
Dec 18, 2024
2 min read

Updated: Aug 7

Listener Chaos, Served Four Ways: Grant & Maia kick things off with Bermuda-Triangle banter before diving into a quartet of jaw-dropping listener tales, a stagehand ancestor who helped John Wilkes Booth, Holly’s Spanish beach-town grifter who faked her mum’s ashes, Noelle’s 23-hour travel day that ends in a 70 mph smash-up and a broken heart, and Chris’s projection-booth moment that finally humbles “Dick the Marine.” Add in protein-shake shrapnel, Broadway ear-worms, a car-park karaoke video that HR now owns, one savage 1-star iTunes review, and the eternal question: how many owls do you have to see before you know something’s wrong? All that—and more—this week on Well, I Laughed!

Chapters/Key takeaways to listen for

[00:00:00] Sweaters & Wordle Whispers: Pre-show chitchat, ASMR Wordle, and that lone one-star review
[00:30:16] Camp Show-Tunes Forever: Wizard-of-Oz theatre camp memories and why everyone knows “525,600 Minutes”
[00:38:27] Ancestor at Ford’s: Listener Nicole reveals her great-great-grand-Spangler, the Booth co-conspirator who held the getaway horse
[00:50:12] Holly’s Spanish con-woman saga: Biker-bar bosses, fake funerals, and disappearing cash
[01:12:08] Naked in Newark: Noëlle’s airport pick-up gone wrong: wrong car, no AC, and a highway pile-up at 70 mph—twice
[01:31:12] The Ringing Comes From Inside the Pocket: Projectionist Chris recounts the day his dad’s phone alarm humiliated him in a packed cinema
[01:45:06] Car-Park Karaoke: “Christine” discovers Stores has archived every one-woman concert she’s ever sung in the company lot
[01:57:30] Housekeeping & Cameos: Where to send YOUR stories, why Grant’s screen-time is down, and cameo shenanigans

Quotes:

"Wit is art." - Grant Thomas
“Find the family that will love you for who you are and treats everybody with dignity and respect." - Maia Warner

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