Evictions: Stories of things that had to go
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, both storytellers face the challenge of evicting some very unwelcome guests.
Part 1: While housesitting for her uncle, JiJi Lee’s peaceful stay takes a chaotic turn when a squirrel breaks in.
Part 2: When a serious mold infestation takes over the university campus, Joshua Wilson is tasked with eliminating it.
JiJi Lee is a comedy writer and performer. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Onion. And her work has been published in the McSweeney's humor anthology Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something.
Joshua Wilson is a Project Manager with over five years of successfully leading complex projects from start to finish. He splits my time between Boise and the Wood River Valley, where he co-founded a business providing skilled labor for high-end custom homes. He’s since managed facilities for Boise State and Northwest Nazarene University, where he championed multiple software integration projects to maximize business operations efficiency. He oversaw project management, capital planning, safety protocols, and team leadership. Now, in his junior year of a Computer Science degree at Boise State, he’s expanding his technical skills and actively seeking opportunities to apply his knowledge in software development, data analysis, and his unique background. Outside of work, he enjoys home improvement and automation projects, traveling, rafting, fishing, hunting, snowboarding, and mountain biking, often with his daughter.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:13.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:16.3 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:17.8 | I felt... |
| 0:18.8 | And I just thought, well, it was that golden moment. |
| 0:24.2 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:35.3 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to The Story Clatter, where true personal stories about science help us explore just how weird, wonderful, and deeply human this world can be. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm your host, Mishigayevsky, and today's episode explores some of the different ways to get rid of pests, from squirrels to mold. |
| 0:49.7 | Our storytellers get creative and go hard when it comes to evicting the unwanted tenants. |
| 0:54.2 | Our first story comes from comedy writer and performer Gigi Lee. storytellers get creative and go hard when it comes to evicting the unwanted tenants. |
| 0:58.0 | Our first story comes from comedy writer and performer Gigi Lee. |
| 1:03.7 | Her humor writing has been published in places like Reductress, The Onion, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. |
| 1:08.3 | Her story was reported earlier this year in Baltimore at a special show we did at the Baltimore Storytelling Festival. |
| 1:09.5 | Here's Gigi. |
| 1:26.7 | Music at a special show we did at the Baltimore Storytelling Festival. Here's Gigi. So a couple of years ago, my husband and I moved from Brooklyn to Silver Spring, Maryland. |
| 1:30.3 | Okay, nobody from Silver Spring, Maryland here. |
| 1:35.6 | And we were just really excited to finally have some peace and quiet and to have a dishwasher for the first time. |
| 1:39.7 | But we quickly realized that apartments are basically the same everywhere. |
| 1:45.2 | The walls are really thin, and we can hear our neighbors play Bad Bunny at all hours. |
| 1:51.3 | And I love Bad Bunny, but not at 2 in the morning. |
| 1:54.9 | So when our uncle asked us to house sit for him this past summer, we immediately said yes. And he lives nearby, |
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