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The Stoop Storytelling Series

"Everyone has a story. What's yours?" The Stoop features "ordinary" people telling the extraordinary true tales of their lives in front of live audiences as large as 1,400. Stoop stories are weird, wonderful, hilarious, and heartbreaking — and, above all, intimate. Founders Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin host the podcast.
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Jun 27, 2016

Coulda Shoulda Woulda...

Everything makes so much more in retrospect. Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their favorite hindsight stories from the Stoop Storytelling Stage in Baltimore, MD.

Ryan Shields learns the hard way to never borrow a friend's car. Violet Gray wishes she noted where she parked her car on a night out. Tad Klobcic comes to terms with his adopted son's medical condition. 

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

Jun 20, 2016

In the immortal words of Blink 182, "Work sucks. I know." Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their favorite stories of people quitting their jobs from the Stoop Storytelling Stage in Baltimore, MD. Jim Meyer recalls his days as a shopping mall monarch. Meghann Shutt learns the perils of being a mascot duck. Kevin Hoffman encounters a bizarre employee health care plan.

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

 

Jun 13, 2016

Sometimes the outdoors ain't so great. 

Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their favorite stories of people facing natural obstacles from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore, MD.

Miriam Greenleaf-Miller has hot feet, Rona Kobell wades into the wrong part of the Chesapeake Bay, and Josh Granger has a bad day at the beach. 

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

Jun 6, 2016

Do you see what I'm seeing?

Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their favorite stories of trips, visions, and supernatural sights from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore, MD.

Ryan Cole ditches the Running of the Bulls to take acid in Pamplona. Kate Pratt feels a presence in the morgue. Matt Manning checks in a patient who's being visited at night by her dead husband.

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

May 30, 2016

The intersection of puberty and romance is full of wonder and terror. Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their favorite stories of young love from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore, MD.

Ben Doyle (a storyteller still in high school!) crushes hard on his best friend. Marion Winik sneaks around to find a good place to make out in the 70s. Katherine Noel worries about her love letters to a camp crush were wrong.

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

May 23, 2016

Bring on the chicken soup, because we're calling in sick! Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share adventures in sickness and health from the Stoop Storytelling stage in Baltimore, MD.

Morgan Smith's game of blackjack goes worse than he could have ever imagined. Beth Stierman was living in Uganda, but she had a bout with malaria that transcended time and space. Josh Kuderna investigates a weird lump on his head. 

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

May 16, 2016

Everyone has them. The stories about you're family you don't tell anyone else... Except on the Stoop Storytelling stage. 

Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their favorite family secret stories from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore, MD. Josh Riley's step-father's erratic behavior helped him understand what made him different growing up. Kim Le tries to unpack the meaning behind some archival footage featuring someone who looks a lot like her father. And Barbara Gale doesn't quite finish finishing school. 

Learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

May 10, 2016

Obsessions that test the boundaries of the living and dead. Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share stories of conjuring told live at the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore, MD. 

Alexandra Deutsch has some help preparing an 1896 Christmas Diner Party in her century-old home. Violet LeVoit seeks comfort from heartache at a punk rock grave. Michael Hughes experiences an awakening in the middle of the night.

Email the grave you'd visit with a broken heart to info@stoopstorytelling.com and learn more about the Stoop Storytelling Series at stoopstorytelling.com

May 2, 2016

Not the literal hell! Pioneers who raised righteous hell tell their stories live on the Stoop Storytelling Series stage in Baltimore, MD. 

Liz McAlister, a former nun, takes on the US Military's nuclear power during the Cold War. US Representative Elijah Cummings still feels the repercussions of fighting for equality all the way back to his playground swimming pool days. Deborah "Dakini" Keane celebrates the joys and shenanigans of skinny dipping with her friends during a simpler time. Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin take us from story to story.

For more about The Stoop visit stoopstorytelling.com.

Apr 25, 2016

Hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share some of their favorite Rock & Roll stories from The Stoop Storytelling Series, all told live in Baltimore, MD.

Mimi Dietrich and her quilting friends wind up in an elevator with two bananas and more tattoos than she'd ever seen in Hershey, PA. Terry Sapp follows his favorite Hair Metal band on tour decades after their heyday. Jeff Eline's high school rock group does their best at a Battle of the Bands. We encounter fans and fanatics of Journey, Kansas, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, The Cure, Twisted Sister, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

For more about The Stoop visit stoopstorytelling.com.

Apr 18, 2016

On this episode, an experiment in non-politics. 

What is an election if not a fancy job interview? We decided to ask our mayoral candidates to tell us a story from their first job, without campaigning. 13 candidates told their stories. In this episode we hear highlights from each candidate's story. You can find the candidates' unedited stories on our website: stoopstorytelling.com

Candidates in order of appearance: Emanuel McCray (D), Elizabeth Embry (D), Alan Walden (R), David Marriott (Green), Brian Vaeth (R), Catherine Pugh (D), Armand Girard (R), Carl Stokes (D), David Warnock (D), DeRay McKesson (D), Joshua Harris (Green), Patrick Gutierrez (D)

Apr 11, 2016

In the first episode of the revamped Stoop Storytelling podcast, hosts Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share some of their favorite "First Times" stories. Ab Logan tells the story of his first kiss, physician Ethel Weld remembers a profound first from her medical school days, and Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen shares how she found her voice.

Learn more about the Stoop at http://www.stoopstorytelling.com

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