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Welcome back to The Days Grimm Studio! In today’s episode, Brian Michael Day and Thomas Grimm are joined by the one and only Zach Pollard for what might be his last local appearance for a while. We’re catching up on everything that’s happened since the team moved into the new studio back in December.

Zach opens up about his major life update: he’s packing up and moving to Wilmington, North Carolina, to live by the beach. We dive into the geopolitical risks of moving, the potential for hurricanes in his new hometown, and why he’s choosing the coast over Mexico.

The conversation takes a hilarious turn as Zach details his "elemental" lifestyle, defending the quirks of his Honda Element

We also get an inside look at the chaos of local stand-up comedy. Zach recounts a recent show at Six Strings that went from a predicted 30 people to a packed house of nearly 140, forcing him to move 100 chairs and the stage itself right before his set. He shares the nerve-wracking experience of performing "edgy" material—including his infamous Casey Anthony jokes—in front of a crowd that included a woman from his hometown who had experienced a personal tragedy.

From farm town rumors and rabbit-raising at home to deep-dive conspiracy theories about US infrastructure and the rise of AI, this episode covers the wild, the weird, and the witty.

If you enjoyed this deep dive with Zach, make sure to hit that subscribe button and let us know in the comments your craziest local comedy story! Share this episode with someone who needs a laugh today.

TIMELINE:

00:00 - Introduction to the new studio

03:42 - The Honda Element "features"

05:26 - Moving to North Carolina

06:20 - Trump’s tweets and Robert Mueller

10:28 - The Six Strings comedy show chaos

12:46 - The Casey Anthony joke incident

19:11 - Farm town rumors and animal stories

21:00 - Raising rabbits at home

26:09 - US Infrastructure and AI conspiracy theories

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Five deaths. Five completely different ways to go out. One very loud debate about which one is the most unhinged.

Welcome back to Deaths of the Month — the segment where Brian, Thomas, and producer Corey dig into the strangest, most ironic, and most historically underappreciated deaths tied to a single calendar month. This is March edition, and the lineup does not disappoint.

The hosts open with Bobby Bloom, the singer behind the 1970 hit "Montego Bay," whose death at 28 was ruled accidental — but whose insurance policy, suspicious circumstances, and a confession given 21 years later paint a much murkier picture. Then comes Brandon Lee, killed on the set of The Crow in 1993 in a firearms accident most people have heard about but few actually understand. The hosts walk through the full technical chain of events: a squib load, a bullet fragment lodged in a barrel, a blank round fired behind it and why it was more a cascade of protocol failures than a single moment of negligence.

From there, the conversation shifts to Enrique Granados, the Spanish composer who survived a German U-boat torpedo attack during World War One, only to drown trying to save his wife, weighed down by a belt full of gold coins he refused to let go of. Then Jerome Rodale, the organic farming pioneer who coined the modern use of the word "organic," suffered a fatal heart attack live during a Dick Cavett Show interview immediately after announcing he planned to live to be a hundred.

Rounding out the five is the bonus deep dive: a Ukrainian chess grandmaster found dead under circumstances that were officially ruled accidental but come loaded with enough unanswered questions to fuel the conversation well past the official verdict.

The episode closes with an honorable mention, a Mississippi man killed when lightning struck his home along with practical lightning safety tips the hosts drop in without losing the tone.

This is the kind of history podcast that doesn't talk at you. It reads Wikipedia out loud, gets into arguments, ranks things incorrectly, and makes you want to look up every name mentioned. New episodes of The Days Grim drop weekly.

TIMELINE:

• 0:00 — Intro and cold open (whiskey store story, setting the vibe)
• ~4:30 — Death #1: Bobby Bloom — Montego Bay singer, accidental shooting, suspicious insurance policy
• ~14:00 — Death #2: Brandon Lee — The Crow, squib load, pioneering CGI aftermath
• ~28:00 — Death #3: Enrique Granados — Spanish composer, WWI U-boat, gold belt, drowning
• ~40:00 — Death #4: Jerome Rodale — organic farming pioneer, heart attack live on Dick Cavett Show
• ~52:00 — Death #5: The Ukrainian chess grandmaster — nitrous oxide, Moscow apartment, unanswered questions
• ~1:02:00 — Rankings debate and final order revealed
• ~1:10:00 — Honorable mention: Mississippi lightning strike house fire
• ~1:17:00 — Lightning safety tips, local house fire story, outro

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