A cigarette debate slides into a menacing car ride toward the Stardust Motel.
The episode starts with cigarette smoking treated as a ridiculous test of stamina, then slides into a dirtier, more threatening story set inside a car.

Creepypasta read aloud, with the readers heckling themselves.
Lotsa Pasta is a horror reading show where the stories are genuine creepypasta and the delivery is anything but solemn. The readers break off to mock a story's structure, try out a cartoon voice, or wander into bathroom jokes before finding their place again.
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Lotsa Pasta is a creepypasta reading show, and the fiction is only half of what a listener gets. The other half is the people reading it. Stories are read with at least one other voice on the recording, and that voice rarely stays quiet. In 'Paid by Poltergeists Part One', a caustic, chain-smoking narrator can barely keep a stranger's name in mind between drags, and the reading stalls while someone remembers it was supposed to have a professional tone. 'Paid by Poltergeists Part Two' has the narrator climbing into a car beside a shadowed man with a pistol and demanding a fresh pack of cigarettes. Voices get tried and dropped. One reader toys with a cartoon character's voice, then admits a whole story read that way would be unbearable and starts again. The commentary often goes after how a story is built. In 'An Ode to Danny', a tale told through witness testimony turns into a running joke, as each witness offers backstory, from science class to gym class with prom still to come, and nobody will say what happened that night. 'Shidding & Farding & BUTCHERING' includes a story called 'Butcher Face' that opens by warning it will be long; the reader calls that a lie, since it is about a third the length of other stories they have read. Christmas gets a numbered series of its own. In 'A Very Merry Pastas Part Twelve', the readers choose from a shortlist of holiday titles and settle on 'The Carolers', a folklore-style account that one of them likens to an SCP file or a Christmas Slender Man. Between stories, the talk goes anywhere. Home studio setups come up more than once, from a dual-monitor rig to a basement room that is going to become a new studio. 'Definitely Not Afraid of Children' drifts into how kids learn that a knife can hurt, and it closes with talk of a special built around a story someone in the room has written. Bathroom humor comes back again and again, from episode titles to an endorsement of bidets. Chuck Greenwald introduces himself as the host, and several cold opens start with the same shouted, profane call-and-response. The language is strong and constant, and the jokes reach for drugs and sex as readily as for ghosts. Every episode title spells out its number in words, and the catalog behind them is large. It suits a listener who wants creepypasta in loud company, with the scares interrupted, argued with and sometimes started over.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys creepypasta but would rather hear it among loud, joking company than as hushed narration, and who is comfortable with constant strong language and crude humor.
What sets it apart: The horror fiction is real, but the readers will not stay out of it: they stop to try character voices, poke fun at a story's structure while reading it, and let tangents about studios or bidets run before going back to the page.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A cigarette debate slides into a menacing car ride toward the Stardust Motel.
The episode starts with cigarette smoking treated as a ridiculous test of stamina, then slides into a dirtier, more threatening story set inside a car.
A haunted-room reading turns cigarette ash, bitter tea, and hard-boiled bluster into comic menace.
A loose braid of Shakespeare quotes, self-directed therapy, and an HR email opens into a comic consultation with a stranger edge. A woman reports hearing breathing from across the room whenever she is alone in bed, and the scene keeps shifting its weight through a cigarette, a…
A shaggy comic mystery where every search for the story finds another detour.
The episode shapes a loose recording-room chat into a comic investigation, with every clue quickly buried under another tangent. It moves from a new studio setup and a six-month struggle to a recommendation for Four Lions, then back to a night in an auditorium where shadows…
Bathroom panic, loose riffs, and a plain house turn a creepy setup into filthy comic fuel.
This single-episode review leans into a profane, bodily kind of comedy, using bathroom panic, tossed-off names, and the odd turn into "Butcher Face" as its main engine.
A fake hand, a knife, and a loose, funny look at where fear begins.
A home recording setup gives this single-episode review an easy, conversational frame, as the host and guest talk through how children learn what can hurt them and why the unexplained can harden into fear.




Patient tales from the uneasy dark.


A comedic podcast where hosts engage in dark, irreverent banter about horror stories and pop culture.
["Patricia Barnes's ghost-for-hire story on 'Lotsa Pasta' keeps getting undercut by cigarette jokes, and Tanrano Trim leans into that rhythm.", "The hosts recap part one, where Patricia killed a woman for a murdered husband and then got pulled deeper into unfinished business around dead children.", "The reading jumps into Patricia's origin flashback, with Emily, William, Ronald Reagan banter, and a crash that turns the back seat into a nightmare.", "The later stretch follows Mindy/Starla, Porky, and the Stardust Motel, with bleach, insulin, and a box of cigarettes becoming Patricia's tools for the next move."]
Lotsa Pasta episode 311, "Paid by Poltergeists Part One," opens with Chuck Greenwald and Tamron Otrin trading Shakespeare lines before a ghost-for-hire story takes over.
Lotsa Pasta's "Episode Two Hundred Ninety-Eight: An Ode to Danny" opens with Ramsey's Vanderslice and the hosts treating Danny Boy as a listener whose recommendations kept shaping the show.
Lotsa Pasta opens with a long bathroom-anxiety riff that jumps from a shitting scale to a Walmart stall being walled off with caution tape.
Lotsa Pasta episode 290, “Definitely Not Afraid of Children,” centers Skutch McGee and a horror conversation built around kids, parenting mistakes, and family trauma.
Lotsa Pasta’s “A Very Merry Pastas Part Twelve” marks the show’s twelfth Christmas episode and revisits an eight-year history with roughly 200 weekly listens across major platforms.
Lotsa Pasta’s “The Vamp-Wire Part Two” resumes a cop-procedural narrative in which Ethan Davis and Roland Mackey investigate vampire ferals, a disposal pit, and police involvement.
Lotsa Pasta’s “The Vamp-Wire Part One” combines crude group banter with a reading of “So We’re About 99% Sure the New Guy in Town Is a Vampire.” Captain Death, Deputy Dewey, Punxsutawney Trill, and Lanky Lucifer discuss Sonic 3 versus Mufasa, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Borderlands, and Galaxy Gas before beginning the story.
Lotsa Pasta’s “Episode Two Hundred Seventy-Nine: Straight Outta Deepwoods Part Three” reads and critiques a chapter titled “Death of Deepwoods, PA,” in which Katie Ross enters Jameson Scott’s exhibit and confronts a supposedly dormant statue.
Lotsa Pasta’s Episode Two Hundred Seventy-Eight: Straight Outta Deepwoods Part Two combines informal discussion of comedy, filmmaking, horror, and the opening pages of Return to Deepwoods PA.
The hosts engage in a crude, improvised comedy segment about cereal mascots and offensive jokes.
The hosts engage in chaotic, humorous banter about pizza and inappropriate jokes after technical issues derail their horror storytelling episode.
A comedic skit where characters argue about the political affiliations of bottled water brands.
The host returns after a trip to Halloween Horror Nights, catching up with listeners and discussing the experience before diving into horror stories.