What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.
A storytelling podcast, with first-hand amazing stories presented by Scott Johnson and Meredith Hackwith Edwards. Each storyteller tells their own personal true story, with all the details of what happened. Animal attacks, plane crashes, mass shootings, and more – you'll hear what happened directly from the person who experienced it, and the inspirational outcome of how they came out on the other side.
Episodes
April 29, 2025 • 39 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the
Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers
given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What's a common social etiquette rule that makes no sense?
Links for this episode:
Meredith’s foot fetish episode:
https://www.meredithforreal.com/podcast-episodes/episode/7cc267d5/ep-274-whats-up-with-foot-fetishes
Euphemisms for farting:
https:/...
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April 25, 2025 • 14 mins
George Pickering Sr heard his son’s medical prognosis, but
he wasn’t ready to accept it.
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April 18, 2025 • 63 mins
When you hear the word “grandparents”, what comes into your
mind?
For me, it’s someone who loves their grandchildren
unconditionally. And they just want to GIVE all the time. There’s some truth to
the phrase “If Mom and Dad say no, go ask Grandma!”.
“Grandma” brings up an image of an older woman, in the
kitchen baking cookies. “Grandpa” means the old man out in the garage,
tinkering with the lawn mower and having me “help” by han...
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April 15, 2025 • 22 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the
Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers
given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What's the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell
someone?
Links for this episode:
Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott:
https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Conversations-Achieving-Success-Conversation/dp/0425193373
Meredith’s podcast is Meredit...
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April 11, 2025 • 67 mins
If you’re a parent, you know that the birth of your first
child is an incredible experience. For Steve and Camre, it didn’t happen at all
the way they expected it to.
Steve got the call at work that Camre was at the hospital
and had already delivered the baby. He dropped everything and drove there
frantically, and he was confused because the baby wasn’t due for another 7
weeks.
He ran into the hospital, and the first thing he sa...
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April 4, 2025 • 77 mins
Asian elephants are incredibly huge animals.
An adult elephant can be roughly 9 to 11 feet tall. Just
standing next to one is pretty intimidating. But imagine being on top of one of
them. It would be like if you had an average size man, then another man was
standing on the first man’s shoulders. Then you would be sitting on that second
man’s shoulders. That’s pretty high up.
For Leilani, it was a dream from her childhood to inter...
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April 1, 2025 • 31 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What made your neighbor so terrible?
Links for this episode:
Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious Introvert:
https://MeredithForReal.com
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March 28, 2025 • 12 mins
Floyd loved exploring the caves of Kentucky, but one day
things didn’t go as planned.
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March 21, 2025 • 69 mins
The thing about living in an apartment or renting a room is… you have to deal with other people.
Depending on how the building is laid out, it’s almost like living with strangers. If your next door neighbor accidentally starts a fire, your home could burn too. If the person above you has a flood, it’s very likely that you’ll be dealing with that problem as well.
Not to mention, what if your neighbors in this same building are jerks...
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March 18, 2025 • 27 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What’s the most disgusting thing you’ve found in someone else’s home?
Links for this episode:
Using hollowed-out fruit for ice cream bowls:
https://www.tastingtable.com/1616069/hollowed-out-fruit-ice-cream-bowls/
Dogs eating condoms:
https://pawp....
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March 14, 2025 • 47 mins
Imagine you’re out in public, just going about your day. Let’s say you’re in the grocery store.
And as you’re pushing your shopping cart down the aisle, you notice a tall man, maybe 10 feet ahead of you, looking at the items on the shelf. And suddenly, that man collapses to the floor.
What would you do?
Most people don’t really know what they would do, until a situation like that actually comes up. Some people just freeze. If it ha...
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March 7, 2025 • 45 mins
I’ve had more than 200 people come on this podcast and share a story of something crazy that they’ve been through. If nothing else, I’ve learned one thing. Life can change in an instant.
For Dan, he’s just enjoying the outdoors on a trail in Alaska, and suddenly he’s on his back with the snout of a grizzly bear in his face.
Amy was just at work in her office in Oklahoma – then just seconds later she’s trapped under a pile of rubble...
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March 4, 2025 • 27 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What always makes you laugh?
Links for this episode:
The poop knife story on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_poop_knife/
Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious Introvert:
https://MeredithForReal.c...
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February 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Scott tells the story of Stephen Slevin.
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February 21, 2025 • 86 mins
We all have a few scary moments in life that we’ll never forget.
You know what I mean – a time when something is happening, or about to happen, and you know that the outcome could be really bad, and it’s happening so fast you don’t even have time to react. It’s almost like you’re watching a movie, and just waiting to see how it’s gonna end.
One moment like that for me was several years ago, when we lived up north. Winters in Maine ...
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February 18, 2025 • 24 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What overused word or phrase are you sick of?
Links for this episode:
Corporate jargon:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDXnlVoRK9B/
Meredith’s episode about how cuss words become cuss words:
https://www.meredithforreal.com/podcast-episodes/episod...
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February 14, 2025 • 65 mins
Today’s story takes place off the coast of Somalia, a country in Africa.
If you look at Africa on a map, you’ll see Somalia on the east coast, right on the water of the Indian Ocean. In fact, of all the countries in Africa, Somalia is the one with the longest coastline. And for the Americans listening, to give you an idea of how big it is, Somalia is almost the same size as the US state of Texas.
But here’s the thing about Somalia....
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February 7, 2025 • 80 mins
Here in Florida, we know about hurricanes.
My wife Jeanne and I will never forget Hurricane Elena back in 1985. That storm came into the Gulf of Mexico and just hovered offshore. There were instructions to evacuate because of the danger of high winds and flooding.
What made it interesting for us is that Jeanne was pregnant with our first child, and she was at full term. So while everyone else was either leaving town or getting to a...
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February 4, 2025 • 29 mins
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What's a situation or condition that no one understands, until they're in it?
Links for this episode:
TheHotline.org
LoveIsRespect.org
Meredith’s episode about victims staying with their abusers:
https://www.meredithforreal.com/podcast-episodes/...
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January 24, 2025 • 71 mins
Few things are sadder than seeing a loved one slip gradually into dementia.
This is what happened to my grandmother – my mom’s mom. She got to the point where she couldn’t live on her own any more, but she didn’t really have other debilitating health issues. So she didn’t need to be in a hospital, or a nursing home. She just needed someone around to help her with daily living, because she would forget things.
So my parents converte...
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