Misbehaving In Maine

Dan Williams

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Comedy
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Award-winning comedy writer and regret artist Dan Williams tells stories from his life in Maine and from his afterlife in Pennsylvania. Tune in once a week for laughs as Dan learns just about everything the hard way, from how to kiss women your mother's age to how to locate roadkill and blow it up responsibly.

12/08/2025

The Music of Goodbye

When my great-grandmother, “Grammy Williams,” snapped her fingers to get the attention of some sinning child, that snap was the cocking of a gun. She never raised her voice. Didn’t have to. The angrier the quieter, and that’s far worse. On Halloween, she dressed like a witch. Off Halloween, she ran a preschool. It was called “Grammy’s House,” as in “My house, my rules,” in the sense of: “You’re in MY world now.” Don’t worry, she never hit us. Not with her hands. She hit us with her eyes and with that voice of hers, which would go so quiet it could only be heard by dogs and the damned. Let's meet this marvelous woman...

18 min
11/24/2025

When I Was A Child, I Worked The Land Like A Man

My favorite laws to break when I was a child were child labor laws. Grampa showed me how by putting me to work for the family’s blueberry-harvesting company when I was six, seven, eight, and so forth.

22 min
11/11/2025

My Hot Little War Against Intrusive Thoughts

OCD doesn’t care about what you want. You’ll be washing dishes with your mother, scrubbing a steak knife, and an intrusive thought will show you an image. OCD: Oh my goodness, look at this! It’s you! You’re stabbing your very own mother! Of course, you’d thought of stabbing your mother before, many times, but those thoughts were always yours, enjoyable because they were controllable. They weren’t intrusive. They weren’t from a mind that sounds exactly like yours, but is alien.

30 min
10/27/2025

I Should Have Danced With Her

When I was halfway through writing school, the program promised us a famous visitor: The journalist, memoirist, and novelist Joyce Maynard. Unfairly, everyone said one thing about her (as if that’s all there was to say): “She used to be J.D. Salinger’s girlfriend!” “Who’s that?” I said. I loved writing more than I loved reading back then. “J.D. SALINGER!” shouted the person I was talking to. We’ll call him “Julian,” what else? Julian screamed, “The Catcher in the Rye guy!” “Baseball?”

19 min
10/20/2025

Are You My Lover?

I always wanted to fall in love too much. How much? Take a look at my weird childhood. All Disney had to do was put eyeshadow and clothes or no clothes on animals, and I fell in love. With foxes, dogs, and lions, and when all the Bambi animals caught a raging case of mating season and an orgy was in the works, I was first in line.

18 min
10/13/2025

Remember When The Sun Was New?

The naps of deep youth: You chewed on your bed, banged your head on the wall, punishing your parents — you were just old enough to know they loved you more than was healthy for them; therefore, harming yourself harmed them — then, after whipping your hatreds into vortexes reaching the psychic cellar door where the Devil’s always knocking, you needed a rest.

12 min
10/06/2025

Are You Crazy, Grampa, Or Just Insane?

Grampa is my humor teacher. Once, at Dad’s birthday, I said to Grampa, “Thanks for making Dad.” A twinkle lit Grampa’s eye, and he said, “It was my… pleasure.” Gross, Grampa. And what a joke. Tight as hell.

17 min
09/29/2025

Bake Me A Cake In My Own Image

Here's a glimpse of my 20s, a decade my son loves hearing about. He's a huge fan of heartache and horror. Enjoy.

7 min

Award-winning comedy writer and regret artist Dan Williams tells stories from his life in Maine and from his afterlife in Pennsylvania. Tune in once a week for laughs as Dan learns just about everything the hard way, from how to kiss women your mother's age to how to locate roadkill and blow it up responsibly.

Creator

Dan Williams
Years Active

2024 - 2025
Episodes

35
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Dan Williams
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Misbehaving In Maine