When the O’Briens stop in the hills of West Virginia to pick up Aunt Margie, James spends time with Michael’s uncle, Otis, while Michael is forced to hang out with his creepy cousin, Daryl. It’s an up-close look at the crooked branch of Michael’s family tree.

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Content Advisory: Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors was recorded in 2010, before I started running content advisories before episodes. I’m not going back and adding advisories to each audio episode. Just know that any given chapter of Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors is likely to contain any combination of the following:

Family arguing, violence, swearing, demons, religious imagery, atheism, gambling, smoking, and so much crude humor.

This chapter is particularly cruel by design. Yes, it’s meant to get the cheapest of laughs at the expense of others, but there’s also a reason for its cruelty near the end. A branch of my own family comes out of the hills, and while I see humor in some of my relatives, I’ve also seen the effects of poverty, isolation from others, and working for companies that do not care about the people doing the hardest work.

With that in mind, onward…

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