The Compulsive Storyteller with Gregg LeFevre

In this week's episode, entitled "Circle Jerks", Gregg learns the hard way what the New York gallery scene is like. After getting the run around he finally meets someone willing to offer the truth. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across...

Introducing a new segment on the show called Pass the Mic. Once or twice a month we will invite a talented guest with an interesting story to join us on the pod to tell their story and or to chat with me about the art of storytelling.  The first guest is Kevin Allison, creator and host of the RISK! podcast where, since 2009, people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share. Kevin i...

In this week's episode, entitled "Tiananmen Tea Hustle", Gregg tells a story from a trip to China and the price of being a "stupid American tourist" The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across all podcast platforms. Want to tell your own stor...

We're on vacation but that doesn't mean there's nothing to listen to. Check out this guest episode from "So - There I Was." A show about aviators (like my mom!) and the incredible things they get into. Join hosts, Fig and Repete, as they bring in some great aviation raconteurs to relate the glamorous, hilarious, poignant, tragic, and incredible tales of aviation.

This week we have another Summer Rewind where we dig up a favorite episode from past seasons. For our LAST installment we're revisiting "Escondido", It takes place in the 80's in Mexico. Puerto Escondido was just a sleepy little fishing village when my girlfriend and I headed there on vacation. We soon found out the laid back lifestyle hid some dangerous characters, and we quickly got ourselves in...

We're on vacation but that doesn't mean there's nothing to listen to. Check out this guest episode from How To Be Human, a podcast that is a guide to exploring the common and often confusing themes of humanness including spirituality, connection, wellness, self-acceptance, and more. Host, Anna Toonk, uses humor, honesty, and intuition to discuss the unanswerable questions we all share.

This week we have another Summer Rewind where we dig up a favorite episode from past seasons. For our second installment we're revisiting "Divers and Dealers" I'm spending the summer with my girlfriend at her place in a small lobster fishing village with just as many drug smugglers as lobstermen. What starts out as an idyllic getaway goes south when an ill conceived joke makes me an enemy of the c...

We're on vacation but that doesn't mean there's nothing to listen to. Check out this guest episode from Reading and Writing Podcast , an interview with storyteller and author Alaya Dawn Johnson , World Fantasy Award-winning author of the new novel THE LIBRARY OF BROKEN WORLDS .

This week we start our Summer Rewind where we dig up favorite episodes from past seasons. For our first installment we're revisiting "Signor Pizza" Summer's here and I'm starting my new job at a pizzeria on Cape Cod. The problem is the place is mafia owned and the boss has taken a liking to me. With new responsibilities come new ways to disappoint the Boss, and things start to get very dicey. The...

In this week's episode, entitled "The Wildest Street in NYC", Gregg tells stories from downtown New York City, and the things he saw on Canal Street. Thieves, vandals, and more roam the street and you never know what will happen as you walk down the sidewalk. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevr...

In this week's episode, entitled "Suds", crack open a cold one and listen to gregg tell three stories about beer. Hear about schoolboy hijinks, a dive bar with a lunchtime show and classic beer snobbery. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday a...

In this week's episode, entitled "Art Stories", Gregg has three stories about his off beat experiences in the art world. In the first, "Art Critic '' he closes a door to a well known art critic forever. The second, "The Flintstone '', involves his fabrications team's relationship to a special tool and the last entitled "Big Time Dealer" Gregg learns a harsh lesson about dealing with dealers. Link...

In honor of Father's Day coming up, this week's episode, entitled "My Dad the Mariner", Gregg tells stories from his Dad's time in the merchant marines. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across all podcast platforms. Follow on instagram @T...

In this week's episode, entitled "Dating Disasters", Gregg has three stories of dates gone wrong. One with a polyandrist, another with a fanatical Yankees fan, and the third with an eerie Dutch innkeeper. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday...

In this week's episode, entitled "Eagle Scout", Bad Scout Gregg breaks every rule in the Scout handbook leading him into one jam after another. From a stray bullet in a church altar, a daring theft from all his fellow Scout's mothers, to actually setting another Boy Scout on fire listen in to find out if he makes amends or gets expelled from the Boy Scouts of America forever. The Compulsive Storyt...

In this week's episode, entitled Free Fall, Gregg shares stories of three spectacular falls. Count yourself lucky if you never find yourself in one of these situations! The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across all podcast platforms. Follow...

While on spring break this week we're airing an epsiode from the the Compulsive Storyteller archive. "Ratatouille Too" takes us to hilarious loft dinner party in New York City.  After days of preparation, my girlfriend and I are ready to entertain her new boss, a French Diplomat and his wife. The menu is set, the hors d'oeuvres are ready, the loft is arranged, all that's left to do is tuck Ratsky,...

In this week's episode, entitled Free Fire Zone, Gregg's search for a new studio takes him to the most dangerous and exciting place he's ever been.  The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across all podcast platforms. Follow on instagram @TheCo...

In this week's episode, entitled Lol Haha , Gregg shares three very funny stories, Hamster Sex, Cherry Bomb and Falling Magician. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across all podcast platforms. Follow on instagram @TheCompulsiveStoryteller...

In this week's episode, entitled Street Comedian , Gregg gets to know a black comedian who practices his stand up in Washington Square Park at the center of  Greenwich Village. He's brilliant and creative but also, like so many comedians, mean spirited and cruel. After a long relationship with him, Gregg is left wondering why he continues to take his abuse. The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a...

This  week's episode is entitled "3 NYC Street Stories" In the first, Baseball Bat, Gregg is pursued into the basement of a Deli by an out of control garbage truck driver wielding a baseball bat. In the second, Wrong Way, Gregg let's his attempt to help a severely disabled young man be subverted by a couple of pretty women and a free meal. In the finale, God is Good , Gregg happily watches a nasty...

In this week's episode, entitled Motorcycle Gangs of the Guggenheim, Gregg meets a lovely woman singing blues in a club and invites her to the opening of "The Art of the Motorcycle" at the Guggenheim Museum. The director Thomas Krens has created the ultimate in edgy openings by inviting both black tie patrons and motorcycle gang members. Ironically, the only violence at the event is visited on Gre...

In this week's episode, entitled Sleeping Cop, Gregg is  running late, speeding along in his van for a nighttime delivery of one of his sculptures to a wealthy collector's house in an affluent suburb of Boston. The winding road he's on is completely deserted, so when he realizes that he's  headed in the wrong direction, he runs a red light, does a sweeping U turn and runs the red light again back...

"As a companion piece to CNN's new four part documentary "Giuliani: What Happened to America's Mayor?" we've decided to repost our Guilani Episode from March 2, 2022. In it, I set out to help create a public art project for the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 41st Street. But the undertaking leads to my entanglement with the now infamous mayor, Rudi Giuliani. The Com...

Off this week but will be back next week Wed Jan 18 with another story! The Compulsive Storyteller Podcast is a series of short personal true stories in 20 minutes or less written and narrated by me, Gregg LeFevre. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday across all podcast platforms. Follow on instagram @TheCompulsiveStoryteller and visit our website thecompulsivestoryteller.com