21 episodes
Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors Christopher Gronlund
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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A humorous coming-of-age story about a family traveling cross country in a possessed station wagon.
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Chapter 1 - Into the Inferno
When Michael O’Brien’s father, James, buys a new car just in time for the family vacation, he signs away more than his old ’74 Gremlin as a trade in.
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Content Advisory: Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors was recorded in 2010, before I started running content advisories before episodes. I’m not going back and adding advisories to each audio episode. Just know that any given chapter of Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors is likely to contain any combination of the following:
Family arguing, violence, swearing, demons, religious imagery, atheism, gambling, smoking, and so much crude humor.
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Chapter 2 - The Big Orange Hole in the Ground My Grandmother Loved So Dearly
Michael ponders what strange force has kept his parents together, while James and Michael’s mother, Mary, strike a series of deals regarding The Inferno and Mary’s pet Chihuahua, Lucky. Also witness the opening moves in the ongoing mental chess match that Michael plays with his evil younger siblings, Elvis and Olivia.
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Content Advisory: Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors was recorded in 2010, before I started running content advisories before episodes. I’m not going back and adding advisories to each audio episode. Just know that any given chapter of Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors is likely to contain any combination of the following:
Family arguing, violence, swearing, demons, religious imagery, atheism, gambling, smoking, and so much crude humor.
Episode Transcript >>
Buy the Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors e-book here. -
Chapter 3 – When I Dream, I Dream of Hell
The morning the O’Brien’s get ready to leave for their road trip to the Grand Canyon, everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.
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Chapter 4 – St. Christopher vs. The Dead Cow
Finally on the road, the O’Briens’ trip to pick up Aunt Margie in West Virginia begins with an argument. Things only go downhill from there.
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Chapter 5 – The Genetic Puddle from Whence I Crawled
As the O’Briens pull into Aunt Margie’s driveway and Michael gets his first glimpse of her house, he thinks about his family history and where it all went wrong.
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Chapter 6 – Fried Squirrels and “Buttermilk”
When the O’Briens stop in the hills of West Virginia to pick up Aunt Margie, Michael gets an up-close look at the crooked branch of his family tree...
Customer Reviews
Hell on wheels
A random search on iTunes led me to this podcast. I wasn’t sure it was going to be my sort of thing, but from the first chapter I was hooked. I love the story. It reminded me of three things. Firstly the big old Mercury Cougar my husband had when we were first courting (I am a Limey and we don’t have too many of them in UK). Secondly one of our trips to the U.S. and a visit to the Grand Canyon. It is true what Chris says, in that, sitting cross legged on the ground and looking out into that great vastness, I felt perfect peace like nothing I have ever felt before or since. Definitely spiritual. And, thirdly, the time I bought a hearse, well it was the car that used to go and collect the dead bodies. It was in a showroom and the dealer had had a hard time selling it. Nobody wanted to buy it when they found out the previous owner was a funeral home. Until I went in dressed in the usual Goth attire, chains ‘n all. While I was looking over the car outside, the salesman told my son the history of the car who immediately said that I was definitely going to buy it then. Which I did. I always felt there was a presence in the car, whom I called George and apart from a few times when the windows went up and down on their own, it was the best car I have ever owned. Thanks Chris for a really enjoyable listen and for bringing back some great memories.