True Tales with Larry: The Crazy True Story of a Boat Ride Without a Boat
There are certain phrases that make a person pause mid-sip and reconsider the structural integrity of reality. “Boat ride without a boat” is one of them. It sounds like something a magician says right before your uncle loses a watch, or the title of a children’s book written by a man who has never seen water but has heard rumors. And yet, if you spend enough time collecting funny true stories that actually happened, you learn a humbling lesson: real life has no script su
Larry’s Crazy True Story About Being Locked in a Museum
Comedy Podcast Larry says the worst part about being locked in a museum was not the darkness, the silence, or the security guard who later described him as “a suspicious adult male in sensible shoes.” The worst part, according to Larry, was realizing he had spent the first twenty minutes whispering apologies to a wax figure. That detail is why the story works. A lesser man would start with panic. Larry starts with manners. He does not say, “I was trapped among pric
Larry’s Crazy True Story About a Garage Sale and a Priceless Mistake
Larry swears he is not a collector. This is important because every collector says that right before they describe the climate-controlled room where they keep 43 lunchboxes, three broken jukeboxes, and a velvet painting of a sad clown that they claim is “investment grade.” Larry says he is different. He does not collect things. He “rescues objects with character.” That is the sort of sentence a man says when his garage has become a museum curated by a raccoon with a m
Larry’s Storytelling Podcast Classic About a Bus Ride Full of Chaos
Some stories arrive wearing a tuxedo. They have polished setups, clean turns, thematic symmetry, and an ending that lands so neatly you can almost hear a screenwriting teacher clap from the back of the room. Larry’s bus ride story is not that kind of story. This one stumbles in with a plastic grocery bag, a half-dead phone, three strangers arguing about directions, and the kind of public transportation atmosphere where everyone has silently agreed that eye contact is
True Tales with Larry: The Comedy Story of the Lost Luggage Legend
There are two kinds of travelers in this life: people who pack calmly, and people who treat a suitcase like a panic room with socks. Larry is the second kind. He does not pack so much as conduct a search-and-rescue operation in his own bedroom. He stands over an open suitcase at 1:12 a.m., holding three phone chargers, a half-used bottle of hotel shampoo from 2017, a blazer he has not worn since a wedding with cash bar trauma, and one mysterious cable that might belon
True Tales with Larry: The Funny Story of the Dog Show Disaster
Larry claims he never meant to become “the dog show guy.” That is the sort of thing a man says after he has been photographed in khaki shorts, holding a poodle named Duchess of Maple Lane, while a judge in a navy blazer asks whether he is aware that the animal is wearing someone else’s wig. The story has lived in our circle for years. It gets requested at dinners, brought up at birthdays, and dragged out whenever someone says, “Nothing embarrassing ever happens at those
Larry’s Hilarious True Story About a Talent Show He Could Not Escape
Larry had the kind of face that made people assume he was available. Not happy, exactly. Not eager. Available. There is a difference. Happy people get asked to join committees. Eager people get handed clipboards. Available people get volunteered for things while standing too close to a folding table. That is how Larry ended up in a talent show. Not because he had talent. He was very clear on that point. Larry had skills, yes. He could parallel park a van on a hill.
Some podcast stories begin with a crime, a betrayal, or a suspiciously confident man near a barbecue grill. Larry’s begins with a set of keys, a laminated feeding schedule, and the kind of cat that looks at human affection the way a judge looks at a parking ticket appeal. That is the beauty of “Larry’s Cat-Sitting Catastrophe.” It has the classic architecture of a great funny podcast story: a small favor becomes a municipal-level emergency, the hero is underqualified but