The sky is clear, the path is smooth, the bills are up to date, your relationships are going, let’s say decently. Then sometimes life decides to hit you like a shit ton of bricks. Maybe it was that wedgie that Kevin Smart gave you in front of PE class in second grade, or the real reason your dearest friend no longer speaks to you.

Today on Oh Shit! I Just Remembered I Have Trauma, host Adrianne Frost and storytellers Kambri Crews and Tracey Starin takes some serious and not so serious looks at coming through and kinda staying stuck in those memories that break on through when you least expect it.

Oh, and fuck you, Kevin.

Kambri Crews is the Founder of QED in Astoria, Queens, voted the #1 comedy venue in all of NYC by readers of Time Out NY! Author of the NY Times best seller Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir (Penguin Random House). It's available on Bookshop, Amazon.com & Barnes & Noble. Crews has performed at most of NYC's top indie comedy venues, including Joe's Pub, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, The Peoples Improv Theater, The Bitter End, Comix NY, and famed literary venue KGB (bar); and at such shows at The Moth, Risk!, Seth Herzog's Sweet, UCBT's School Night, Liam McEneaney's Tell Your Friends, and the NY/LA comedy show Mortified. Kambri has been referred to as a "world-class storyteller".

Tracey Starin is a writer and storyteller from Queens. Her stories can be heard on podcasts such as Story Collider, RISK!, and The Volume Knob, as well as PBS' Stories from the Stage. She has performed on stages all over the greater NYC area, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Tracey hosts an annual storytelling show at Venture Way Collaborative in Hadley Massachusetts, as well as a monthly storytelling open mic at called Just One More Thing Storytelling Show, on the last Wednesday of the month at Pine Box Rock Shop in Brooklyn.

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MENTION OF SEXUAL, EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL ABUSE

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This episode was recorded July, 2025.

Sometimes revenge is a dish best served with a side of stories, so you get a little laughter and wisdom thrown in for good measure. Adrianne, Sandi Marx and Carol Scudder talk about the art of revenge. It could mean lighting a fire to burn those love letters and cry a river or dancing a ritual to make them pay once and for all?

Let's hope that voodoo that they do works pretty well.

Sandi Marx is a fixture on the New York storytelling scene. She has appeared on PBS’ Stories From The Stage, Two Truths and A Lie, Generation Women and more, and is a seven-time Moth Story SLAM champion. Her book, Slightly above Average: Memoirs of a Successful Village Idiot, is available wherever you buy books. She's a retired talent agent and happy grandma and mom currently living in Connecticut. And Sandy can be heard on a multitude of podcasts such as Risk, Story Collider, and many more.

Carol Scudder is a New York City based actor whose work spans film, television, theater, and comedy. Her films include The Sun Is Also a Star and television includes Go Ahead Make My Dinner and The Sopranos. She's performed in The Extremists at the Assemble Roxy Edinburgh Fringe, Head Games, Ars Nova, and IO West, and numerous productions at venues including 78th Street Theater Lab, Northern Stage, and Here Center for the Arts. Carol has also appeared in multiple national and regional commercials, as well as storytelling and stand-up on stages such as BAM, Eastville Comedy Club, Climat Lounge, QED, Stand Up New York, and East Village Comedy Club.

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This episode was recorded July, 2025.

Who didn't want to be all that they could be when they grew up? A fireman, a doctor, a teacher, a movie star... practicing Oscar speeches in front of the mirror or saving people from burning buildings, or both! Host Adrianne Frost, Rita Rigano (The Moth, Generation Women) and Jude Treder-Wolff (Stories From The Stage, Improv In Real Life) talk about the dreams they had, the ones that got left behind and the ones they held onto and (maybe?) finally made come true! Well, perhaps not the fireman part... or the Oscar part. DAMNITT!

A dream is a wish your heart makes... yeah, tell that to my mortgage and kids.

Rita Rigano is a NYC based storyteller. She's performed at Generation Woman, New Tricks, Story Collider, The Moth, and many others. She recently hosted Happy Hour Story Hour at The Duplex. You can hear her on the Story Collider and No Name NYC podcasts. Check out more on her website, RitaRigano.com, which is usually up to date.

Jude Treder Wolff if the host of the storytelling show, Mostly True Things, has performed at You Are Not Alone at The Magnet, Stories From The Stage, Celebrating Women’s History Month at Bloomingdale’s and more. She teaches online and in person improv and developing emotional intelligence through improv. Jude also created and hosts a podcast titled Improv in Real Life.

This episode was recorded July, 2025.