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Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Cryptic ConversationsA show made of audio message conversations between Mike J and Daniel Grothe.Crypticconvos on Facebook"The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donate with PayPal.The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said.Facebook — Daniel is on it.
2026-04-1031 min
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Goodbye - Thank you!The last episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt. Thank you for all you did. Thank you for being there. "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donate with PayPal.The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said.Facebook — Daniel is on it.
2026-04-0347 min
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'From The Pile...Ten letters. Ten people who waited decades to say it. Contractors. Archivists. Analysts. A game warden who stopped running solo checks. A detective who never closed the file on Carol Ann Dempsey. The Wormhole. Nothing else."The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donate with PayPal.The Arc...
2026-03-271h 05
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'You Are a Candle...The official scientific explanation for spontaneous human combustion is that you are a candle. Your fat is the wax. Your clothes are the wick. A wrapped pig confirmed it. The report was filed. Everyone went home.One problem. Nobody can explain who lit the match.Tonight Daniel goes through the cases the science couldn't close.Also: Gilberto Valle donated eighty-six dollars to a sick dog in Austria at two in the morning. The Wikipedia Legacy Section had no comment."The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you wa...
2026-03-211h 14
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'DarkMeatDave vs. Gilberto ValleAn NYPD cop with a badge, a gun, a psychology degree, and a username on a fetish website that I will not be repeating in a place where the algorithm can see me. He never touched anyone. He just wrote things down. Detailed things. Things with oven temperatures. A jury said guilty. A judge said hobby. He currently works in construction. I have chosen not to ask what he builds. The Cannibal Cop - Gilberto Valle. Also a man named DarkMeatDave427 has been banned from four cooking forums and I have follow-up questions."The d...
2026-03-131h 07
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Things the Alps Are Not Telling You...This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt — ancient European Wildmen. The Wilder Mann. The Basajaun. A Soviet scientific expedition into the Almas that your history teacher never mentioned because your history teacher was useless.Also a wild boar showed up and derailed everything because that's the world we live in now.You're welcome."The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donat...
2026-03-081h 34
Field Notes for PastorsRooted: The Power of Place in Ministry with Daniel GrotheIn this episode, we talk with pastor and author Daniel Grothe about the importance of place, presence, and agrarian imagery in shaping a faithful approach to ministry. Together, we explore how practices like gardening, shepherding, and rootedness help us resist abstraction and rediscover the incarnational nature of Christian leadership. Daniel shares stories from his own life and church that reveal how suffering, patience, and attention to people and place can lead to deep renewal. We reflect on how God works through seasons of death and growth to bring about a harvest of joy.Daniel...
2026-02-2341 min
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'The Crypt Didn't Miss You Either...PITC is back. No explanation. No apology. Daniel just walked back into the Crypt like he never left — and the Wormhole has been backed up for two months. Somebody's gonna have a bad time. New episode. Now.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.us/save-mikey> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”
2026-02-221h 12
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Christmas on Planet StupidIt’s Christmas… but the joy isn’t landing. In this special holiday episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt... demonic Elf on the Shelf incidents, a drunk chain-smoking Santa with a naked Grey alien “helper”... Then we get serious. From Reagan and E.T. to Close Encounters and Taken, Spielberg’s long UFO history becomes the springboard into something darker: what if disclosure never happens because the invasion already did—through AI, distraction, and the slow dumbing-down of the human race?Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://daniel...
2025-12-181h 00
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'The X-mas Special that did't happen...🎄🩸 Merry Christmas… I guess. 🩸🎄So yeah — the Christmas Special with the Mikes didn’t happen. Shocking, I know.But fear not, my festive little ghouls… predictions were made, holiday feelings were felt (against my will), and the halls are officially decked with bones and existential dread.Listen on all the apps, on my website, and — and I swear on my Art Bell shrine — artbell.us actually works.No irony. No punchline. Reality is weird.🐶 And seriously, before you go back to arguing with your family about nothing:If you can help Mikey, please donate to his fundraiser. Every bi...
2025-12-1246 min
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'A show that was probably a mistake...A show that was probably a mistake… I mean, absolutely a mistake. The Mikes are here—yeah, that’s right, for ONE week only. And through some cosmic lapse in judgment I decided to open the wormhole for Larry the Dog.And look, I know… that was a mistake. I admit it. My bad. I’ll say sorry on behalf of both timelines. But listen anyway! It’s painful, it’s emotional, it’s ridiculous—so basically perfect.Do me a favor and crawl over to DanielGrothe.us, or whatever app you use while pretending podcasts make you smarter.And...
2025-12-062h 01
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Perchtenlauf - Krampus is coming!Daniel has somehow survived:Thanksgiving (barely)Black Friday (he still has bruises from that old lady with the shopping cart)Survivor Series (don’t even ask)Cyber Monday (his bank account is now a haunted house)Stranger Things (long story…)…and his first Perchtenlauf, where he learned that Austrian demons run faster than American ones.And naturally, he’s back in the Crypt—sarcastic, traumatized, and ready to talk about things that should’ve stayed buried.🎧 Listen to the new episode now.It’ll warm your cold little heart… or rip it out. Depends on your mood.
2025-12-011h 11
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Black Turkey DayDaniel survives another Thanksgiving by weaponizing spite, reading your possessed-poultry emails, and dragging us all back to Chernobyl where Mothman apparently moonlights as a safety inspector. The Mikes on Mics finally crawl out of whatever cornfield abduction they were enjoying, grace us with their presence for exactly one episode like the prodigal fanboys they are, and spend twenty minutes simping harder for John Cena than a 14-year-old at a 1998 Backstreet Boys concert. Happy Thanksgiving! I hope the Black Bird pairs great with cranberry sauce...Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:
2025-11-231h 28
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Thank the UFOs! (not UAPs..never)Mike and Mike could not link up yet again.... So yeah I'm here to save us all! Get ready for some out of this world audio! And Cranberry Sauce... Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive her...
2025-11-1553 min
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'The Cutting Room FloorHalloween is over. The pumpkins are rotting, your candy hangover has settled into the marrow, and guess what? We’re not done. Not even close. This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt, we’re crawling into the vault of cinema — the realhorrors. The reels that were burned, buried, locked away, or politely swept under the studio rug because apparently “society can’t handle that.”Meanwhile, the Mikes from Mikes on Mics are mysteriously absent. Are they sick? Busy? Dead? No. They’re probably under a blanket like the trembling little Blanket Baby Boys they are. It’s fine. I’ll car...
2025-11-091h 14
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Halloween BabyTrick or treat, you sexy witches and you ugly, rotting ghouls… it’s Halloween.And honestly—fuck the last few months. We don’t care. The network doesn’t care.It’s Halloween, and that’s all that matters.So the Mikes and I did the only thing that made sense in this flaming madhouse of a year:We came together to give you the special you actually deserve.Please… have a safe and happy Halloween—because we sure as hell won’t.And for the love of all things unholy…do not let it involve blankets.Over babies.Seriously.Don’t...
2025-10-291h 54
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Halloween From The Wormhole - Season Finale!This week, we go out in style — or at least in sarcasm. The Wormhole is wide open, and somehow the Mikes made it back through — though Mike S looks like he aged three centuries...Nothing says “Halloween spirit” like trying to make sense of Vince Russo’s booking logic while surrounded by demons.And if that’s not horrifying enough, we’ve got five brand-new listener horror stories straight from you — the brave souls who keep proving that reality is way sicker than anything we could make up.Please consider helping...
2025-10-251h 40
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Halloween From The Wormhole - The Sequel!The Mikes talk about.. Wrestling.. I guess? And...Just when you thought it was safe to defrost Grandma’s leftovers… I drag you screaming into Part Two of the Halloween Story Special — five new tales straight from The Wormhole that will ruin your appetite, your sanity, and possibly your relationship with CM Punk.Because here in the Crypt, we don’t just tell ghost stories—we deep fry them and serve them with a side of trauma.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys...
2025-10-191h 27
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Halloween From The Wormhole... The First Round!I’m kicking off Halloween season the only way I know how — with five brand new horrors from The Wormhole!The Mikes aren’t here (thank God), which means it’s just me, the darkness, and whatever’s breathing behind you right now.Happy Halloween, you weirdos.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in i...
2025-10-151h 00
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Bouncing Through the AbyssBetween beer steins and UFOs grounding planes over Munich... October is dark, weird, and it’s heartbreakingly human.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.atLet Daniel ... Send you to Hell! with 15% off...!
2025-10-061h 00
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'ChangeLovePalooza!Life changes. Body changes. Paranormal rebrands. True crime dead-ends. Basically: one wrong street, one wrong date, one wrong snack at 7-Eleven and—boom—you’re the next cold case file.Also, the Mikes on Mics give their predictions for Wrestlepalooza. Which is like asking two drunk raccoons to predict the stock market.Listen now 👉 www.danielgrothe.usAnd yeah, Mikey’s fundraiser is on the site too. Help the little guy out or you’re officially worse than CM Punk suing his own dog.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:
2025-09-221h 36
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Mr. Pascal & The MushroomsThis week on Piledrivers in the Crypt, we’re talking about mushrooms. Not the fun pizza kind… no, we’re diving into the fungal nightmares that want to crawl up your spine and wear you like a sock puppet. And just when you thought it couldn’t get weirder… enter Woooooo!… a flamboyant Grey Alien. Meanwhile, the Mikes decided the world really needed their take on WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia. Nothing screams “family-friendly entertainment” like oil money, fireworks, and a show that lasts longer than my will to live. Horrors so soul-crushing you’ll start begging for anothe...
2025-09-131h 36
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Love Bites.. Kills.. Sometimes For No Reason!🎃💀 BIG RETURNS this week on Piledrivers in the Crypt! 💀🎃Yeah, apparently I don’t know when to stay dead. New episode is out—and no, it’s not just me screaming into the void (though close).We’ve got: Crimes so pointless they make your life choices look reasonable. BIG RETURNS you didn’t ask for but are getting anyway. The Mikes on Mics rambling about wrestling like it’s a holy text.It’s dark, it’s sarcastic, it’s probably bad for your health. Listen now… before we all get canceled.Please consider helping...
2025-09-071h 53
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'The (Final) InterviewThe Alien Interview.. Yes it's real. And... Yes the wall has arrived. This might be the last Episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt. Thank you my friends. It's been a ride!Please consider helping Mikey & Me:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.at
2025-07-201h 28
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Unbreakable Insiders?Messages from the Past ... Insider Messages... from the WiD? w/ Daniel Grothe archives.Plus: The Mikes on Mikes… talking wrestling… or politics… or maybe both?Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.atLet Daniel ... Se...
2025-07-142h 09
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'SummerSlammed by the Sun...Bikinis, BBQs… and bloodshed. It’s summer, baby. And guess what? The sun’s trying to kill you. Not the government. Not your neighbor. Not some guy on a podcast screaming about lizard people and fluoride. Nope. Just our good ol’ flaming death orb in the sky turning the Earth into a microwaved Hot Pocket of doom.Meanwhile… over at the Kayfabe Zone with the Mikes on Mics... things are getting way too political. Like C-Span but with concussions levels of political. I don’t know what they’re doing over there. I’m just trying to talk about solar flar...
2025-07-071h 21
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Manifest like a Machine... Or Champion... Or King...This episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt is for all of you who’ve screamed “I’m a divine being!” into a mirror while overdrafting your account.Don’t wish it… manifest it.Meanwhile, in The Kayfabe Zone: it’s Night of Champions meets King of the Ring.Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your...
2025-06-301h 39
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Emergency Broadcast - Please Help...This is an emergency broadcast. Please help if you can. Thank you so much!PayPal DonationsWebsiteMikey's FundraiserBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daniel-grothe-s-piledrivers-in-the-crypt--6010318/support.
2025-06-1703 min
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Bank on the Abyss...!Piledrivers in the Crypt is back and this time… aliens are NOT in space.Meanwhile the Mikes on Mics… they’re talking about something called “Money in the Bank.” I don’t know what that is. We don’t have that. If you do...Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”...
2025-06-161h 46
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Murder in a Box... Mayhem in the Bank!This week: the infamous Glass Box Killer. Yes, you read that right—someone out there is turning murder into an IKEA DIY project.Meanwhile, the Mikes on Mics sweat their way through the facts of Money in the Bank. Nothing says “summer fun” like men in spandex trying to avoid third-degree burns from steel ladders. Spoiler: the only thing hotter than the action is the collective body odor in that arena.AND—for the love of everything gory and unholy—if you want to help a real fighter, toss a coin to my...
2025-06-081h 24
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Oakville Sent a Message… and You Deserved It!It rained goo. People got sick. And somehow… you probably deserved it. This week - The Oakville blobs—yes, that grotesque biological mystery from Washington state!Plus: a very special Wormhole message that you do not want to miss. Seriously.And the Mikes on Mics are here again, talking about… well, things. Wrestling things. Other things. Probably yelling. Possibly crying. Who knows. Listen and find out.Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> Pa...
2025-06-011h 31
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'The Monster of Tyrol! (not me...)The Monster of the Alps... Guido Zingerle! Also Saturday Night Main Event in the Kayfabe Zone.Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.atLet Daniel ... Send you to Hell! with 15% off...! -> Daniel's Facebook
2025-05-251h 25
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Welcome to the Umbra!(00:00:00) Welcome to the Umbra!
(00:24:21) Piledrivers in the Crypt
Ever wonder what’s lurking just behind the veil of reality? No? Well too bad—because this week, we’re ripping it open.You could ignore it and keep living your little Matrix life… or you could listen now and discover why your shadow might be the most honest thing about you.Oh.. and the Mikes try to do a show too.. again...Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gof...
2025-05-191h 39
Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'Cursed...Yes I believe in curses. And not much to say but this : Thank you!Please consider helping Mikey:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.atLet Daniel ... Send you to Hell! with 15% off...! -> Daniel's Facebook
2025-05-1228 min