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
June 27, 2025 • 79 mins
What do heart attacks, car accidents, and murder usually
have in common? Most of the time, when any of these things happen, someone
calls 911.
It’s one of the most reliable things we have – whenever
there’s any kind of emergency, here in the US, we know we can just pick up any
phone and dial 911 and get help. Even if it’s a phone that has no service.
This is an episode where I talk with someone who has an
unusual job. My gu...
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June 24, 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 did you throw away that you wish you had kept?
Links for this episode:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing/dp/1607747308/ref=sr_1_1
The...
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June 23, 2025 • 6 mins
In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside
of marriage is a sin against God. So, when Abbi becomes pregnant at 16, her
devout parents hide her away at the Liberty Godparent Home, a little-known
facility for pregnant teens on the campus of Liberty University. The Home says
it helps girls decide what comes next – whether that’s parenting their babies
or placing them for adoption. But inside the facility, the girls hea...
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June 20, 2025 • 106 mins
There was a time in his life when Dan was in a pretty
difficult situation. He was facing something that most people don’t ever have
to go through.
Even though he was not a violent person, and he certainly
was not any kind of career criminal, he made a bad decision and accepted a job
that, looking back, he never should have taken. But he did. And that lead him
to the tough spot he found himself in.
Dan was headed to prison. ...
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June 13, 2025 • 80 mins
When you live up north, where the winters are really cold,
one of the best times of the year is the day when you feel spring coming. That
first hint of warmer temperatures.
With the time change, there’s longer sunlight at the end of
each day, the birds start chirping, and everyone starts thinking about what
they’re going to do with this warmer weather.
And the lakes that have been frozen over solid for a few
months? That ic...
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June 10, 2025 • 35 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 amazing coincidence you've experienced?
Links for this episode:
YouTube channel Dating Beyond Borders:
https://www.youtube.com/@DatingBeyondBorders
Tim O’Brien:
https://timobrien.net/
Tig Notaro:
https://en.wik...
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June 6, 2025 • 103 mins
If there’s one thing children are good at, it’s their
ability to give their parents a good scare.
When our son David was about 2 years old, we were at home,
just a regular day, not much going on. At some point, either my wife or I, I
don’t remember which one of us saw it – but we noticed he had some kind of
liquid all around his mouth. Like he had been drinking a smoothie or something.
But there were no smoothies sitting around...
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May 30, 2025 • 82 mins
Have you ever had something bad happen, while you were
actually trying to do something good?
It’s kind of that old phrase – no good deed goes unpunished.
There was a thread about this online. This is what one
person wrote:
“I ran in the middle of a busy road to rescue a kitten. I
went door to door until I finally found the owner. The first thing she did when
she saw me holding her kitten was accuse me of stealing it. Ev...
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May 27, 2025 • 32 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 did you say that caused you to think “I never thought I
would say that”?
Links for this episode:
The music for the Benny Hill show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
Financial Peace University:
https://www.ramseyso...
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May 23, 2025 • 17 mins
To the Tallahassee Police, Rachel Hoffman was just a pawn to
be used in their war on drugs.
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May 16, 2025 • 55 mins
Many years ago, I had a small pickup truck. It was kind of a
junker.
Mostly, I just used it for when I had some stuff to haul to
the town dump. It wasn’t pretty but it mostly served my purposes.
But this little truck had a problem. It would constantly
overheat.
Even in the cold Maine winter, I would have to keep an eye
on that temperature gauge to be aware of when the engine got too hot. And
sometimes when it showed tha...
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May 13, 2025 • 26 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 it like to have a panic attack?
Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious
Introvert:
https://MeredithForReal.com
To check out the new Tuesday Question and get in the
discussion, join us at WhatWasThatLike.com/faceb...
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May 9, 2025 • 95 mins
On the morning of April 19, 1995, a former US Army soldier
parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building,
located in downtown Oklahoma City.
Inside the truck was everything he needed to carry out his
plan of terrorism and mass murder. He had a large bomb, which he created using
agricultural fertilizer and some chemicals, including diesel fuel. After
parking the car, he got out and walked toward hi...
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May 2, 2025 • 81 mins
Hey, this is Scott and you’re listening to What Was That
Like.
And the name of the podcast, What Was That Like, was chosen
very specifically – because that’s what I ask people who are guests on the
show. They’ve just been through something really unusual, like being attacked
by a monkey, or saving the life of a stranger, or some other crazy situation.
And I ask them to tell all of us – what was that like. All the details. So
th...
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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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