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There are ordinary travel mistakes, and then there is the kind of mistake that makes a man stand in a hotel room at 1:17 a.m. Holding a stranger’s bowling shirt, whispering, “Larry, what have you done?” That is the sweet spot of True Tales with Larry , a comedy podcast built on the dangerous idea that real life, when properly cornered, is funnier than fiction. The episode commonly referred to by listeners as “The Wrong Suitcase” is one of those rare pieces of audio sto

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 was not what you would call a tool guy. He owned tools, technically. A dented red toolbox lived under his laundry room sink, wedged between a bag of grout from 2009 and a bottle of carpet cleaner he bought after what the family still refers to as “the chili incident.” The toolbox contained one hammer, two screwdrivers, four Allen wrenches from furniture he no longer owned, a tape measure that snapped back with the hostility of a mousetrap, and a mysterious metal th

Larry swore the room had no door. This was a bold position to take, given that six of us had entered through one twelve minutes earlier. But Larry, a man with the investigative instincts of a raccoon inside a pantry, had been spinning in slow circles under a flickering red light and had reached the emotional stage of the escape room experience best described as “colonel at sea.” “There’s no door,” he said again, louder, as if the architecture might be shamed into conf

Larry did not set out to become a cautionary tale in the expanding universe of comedy podcasts. He did not wake up one Saturday morning, iron a black shirt, pat his pockets for mints, and think, “By sunset, I will have attended the wrong funeral and somehow become emotionally invested in a family I have never met.” That would have been odd planning, even for Larry. What happened instead was more believable, which is why it is funnier. Real life rarely writes clean jok

Comedy Podcast Larry did not set out to become a fitness influencer. Larry set out to buy a rotisserie chicken, a bag of discount socks, and, if the universe was kind, a family-size tub of cheese balls from the warehouse store near the bypass. That is how these things begin. Nobody wakes up one morning and says, “I think today I’ll become the kind of man strangers tag in videos with captions like ‘grindset king’ and ‘no excuses, only reps.’” Especially not Larry, w

Some comedy podcast moments arrive wearing a tuxedo. You can hear the setup getting polished from across the room. The host slows down, the guest leans in, the producer maybe lets out one suspiciously timed chuckle, and everyone knows a Big Funny Story is about to be marched onto the stage and asked to dance. Then there are the better moments. The ones that kick open the side door holding a lukewarm coffee, bleeding from one eyebrow, saying, “You are not going to believe

Comedy Podcast Larry did not set out to become a fitness influencer. Larry set out to buy a rotisserie chicken, a bag of discount socks, and, if the universe was kind, a family-size tub of cheese balls from the warehouse store near the bypass. That is how these things begin. Nobody wakes up one morning and says, “I think today I’ll become the kind of man strangers tag in videos with captions like ‘grindset king’ and ‘no excuses, only reps.’” Especially not Larry, w