Big & Salty, a podcast of stories by Chris Wells, told before a live audience. Many of the stories were written for The Secret City, a secular church of art I founded in New York City in 2007. The first season will be 12 episodes with a new episode every two weeks.
Latest episodes
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Catching the Cat
When Chris and Bobby learn they’ll have to leave their cottage in the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, they decide to pack up and drive cross country to help Chris’’ mom, Lyn, m…
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Monsters
I was performing in a drag show at a small cabaret theater in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles. After every show I would go across the street to the Casbah, a seedy b…
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20 min
The Great Beyond
Winter in the Swiss Alps. I was nineteen years old and I rode the ski lift to the top. While attempting to snow plow, I realized several things: I didn’t know how to ski,, I was no…
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Inside Dick’s
Late one night, Chris wandered into Dick’s in the East Village, a chill neighborhood gay bar. An encounter with a stranger leads to an intimate and explosive outcome. Produced by M…
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18 min
The Devil Dive
I was about to turn 35 and I wanted to do something to commemorate the terror of adulthood. I decided to go to Magic Mountain Amusement Park to experience some scary rides. Four of…
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Aged Liver
I’m a working actor, living in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. I’ve driven my car into the ground so now I’ve got an old Toyota Corolla from Rent a Wreck. When a frien…
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The Summer I Got Close
Welcome to Big & Salty, a podcast of stories by me, Chris Wells, told before a live audience. Many of the stories I’ll be sharing were written for The Secret City, a secular church…