The Fingers Episode
Bill, Brad, and Dominic recall the strange circumstances surrounding their broken or missing digits, with guest host John LaSala.
🎤Live Story: Just the Tip by Bill Worley
Bill reveals how he lost the tip of his finger—knife fights, dive bars, a guy losing an eye—before revealing something even stranger: the truth.
keywords: funny injury story, unreliable narrator, severed finger, missing finger, story slam
🎤Live Story: The Pillowfighter by Dominic Dierkes
Dominic breaks his finger doing jiu-jitsu without health insurance, then bites through his own tongue under anesthesia and gets a personal follow-up call from the panicked anesthesiologist.
keywords: broken finger, jiu-jitsu injury, no health insurance, ER horror story, medical bill anxiety, hospital surgery gone wrong, biting tongue during surgery
🎤Radio Story: A Perfect Night by Brad Lawrence
Brad drunkenly breaks his finger during a dumb, hypothetical bar fight in a Brooklyn blizzard, but he refuses to leave, determined not to ruin a perfect night.
keywords: bar life, New York City blizzard, broken finger, drunken injury, barfight fantasy, Brooklyn nightlife, dating a bartender
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