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Workplace skullduggery! Disappointing your grandma! And of course, the woes of long distance love in a time of national electoral turmoil. Three stories about betrayal with Igor Torgeson, Jennie Josephson and Matt Flanagan. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: “I Know It Was You, Frodo: Stories of Betrayal” The music: This week’s music was discovered at the Free Music Archive and includes: “What Do You Say To That” by Jason Karaban The Accurate Betrayal by Tarred Brigade and “That’s Life Frank Sinatra Tribute” by ProleteR Our opening music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Part One: Igor Torgeson “Stolen Balls” Part Two:  Jennie Josephson “Hellsgiving” Part Three:  Matt Flanagan “Paul Revere Had It Good” Behind the story:  Thanks to our brand new patrons for their sup

Herschel had “fun at Disney,” Debi had “fun at a birthday party” and Jennie had “fun underwater.” MP3 Show Notes: Thanks to our patrons for their support! Thanks to the Storybackers: Sunny G., Jeremy Clark, Robert Russell, Allen Roth, and James Thatcher. And special thanks to the Starting Story Lineup: Patrick Kohn, Preston Monroe, Cory, Louise Martzinek,  Ander Lund,  Benjamin White,  Mike Escutia, Linda Thompson,  Terry Cook, John H. Maloney, Patrick Wolfe, Chimaera, Greg Skinner and Jeffrey Zylks! Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: “It was supposed to be fun!” The music: Our opening and closing music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer This week we used some terrific selections from The Free Music Archive, including: “Underwater” by Town Hall “Swine Flu Birthday” by The Mostly Bad Virus “Ain’

Spoiler alert: it’s shocking. Jennie, Sarah and Alan talk about the time they were shocked by that thing that happened. MP3 Show Notes Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. The music: Our opening and closing music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Alex is also raising funds to create gorgeous murals in Boston and New York City. Alex’s talent as a musician is exceeded only by his murals, so check out his proposed projects! Music in this episode also came from The Free Music Archive including: “Local News” by Fixtures and “This is My Home” by Mr. & Mrs. Smith Thank you to the amazing artists! Theme: Storytellers: Jennie Josephson, Alan Zibel, Sarah Kleinman Part One: Jennie Josephson “Block Shock” Part Two:  Alan Zibel “Local News” Part Three:  Sarah Kleinman “Lemonade” Behind the story:  This will be fo

Kate Flanagan pulls a “Carrie”, Jennie Josephson comes to blows with Effing Mittens, and Tom Merritt shatters his nice-guy image. Nooooooooo!!! MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: That Time I Was The Villain…and didn’t realize ’til later. The music: Our opening and closing music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer An amazing thing happened this week where we were having a hard time finding music that was as good as last week’s music, even with all the bountiful options at the Free Music Archive.  So just on a whim, I searched available songs from the two artists we featured last week and BAM: Jason Karaban’s “Low Road” is so perfect for our show this week. This is an artist who has been creating beautiful music for years, and I just discovered it last week. Love when that happens. C

Jennie cuts her thumb for love, Nick Holly fails to outrun the police, and Jessica Kozak, well… let’s just say she won’t be hunting for jobs on Craigslist any time soon. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: That Sinking Feeling The music: Our opening and closing music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer The Free Music Archive is filled with (they say) podsafe music, which is where three of the amazing songs in this week’s episode came from. I’m always humbled by just how much beautiful music is floating out there on the internet, just waiting for new ears to call home… I highly recommend you check out Toussaint Morrison’s “Baby, I’m Bad Weather” in full. It’s a tremendous song, and I can’t wait to see this artist from Minneapolis by way of New Orleans break big. I feel the same way a

Matt Flanagan is overwhelmed by cookies, Chris Black sees red, and Jennie Josephson sits on a fire hydrant and cries. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: How Did I End Up Here? The music: Our opening and closing music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Additional music featured on the podcast includes: “L.A.” by the Nighttime Adventure Society “Super Headache Bitch” by Nic Waterman Storytellers: Matthew C. Flanagan, Chris Black, Jennie Josephson Part One: Matthew C. Flanagan “Ting?” Part Two:  Chris Black “Don’t Mess With Frodo ” Part Three:  Jennie Josephson “May 19, 2010” Production Notes:  Oh, so you’re supposed to levelate before editing, eh? Lesson learned.

What if Jennie had embraced her inner Really Rosie, if Jackie had embraced The Cheddar and if Fred had lived in Camelot just a little while longer. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: What Might Have Been The music: Our opening and closing music is a selection from “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer “Do It All Over Again” by Muck and the Mires as featured on The Free Music Archive. Great garage band rock as originally featured on “Live at WFMU on Three Chord Monte on 7/16/10“. WFMU was super important in my heavy metal awakening back when I went to high school in New Jersey. How cool that we get to use it in a storytelling podcast! “Mr Cheeseman” by scomber on the digccMixter, a creative commons music library. Matt found this, and I absolutely adore this song, both for its evil perfection in the conte

Matt Flanagan almost gives the internet his phone number. Spoiler alert: Now we have a Google #  (920) STORY-ME or (920) 786-7963 Call us, tell us a short story! Unless you tell us not to, we might use it during a future episode MP3 Show Notes: Form: A Point Five episode. Theme: The Phone Number (aka Matt Does Not Understand The Internet) The music: No music on this one, but we should just thank Alex Cook anyway for all the music he’s let us use on the show so far. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear more of Alex’s songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Matt Flanagan & Jennie Josephson

Jennie attends the worst party ever, Alex takes command of a hitchhiking situation, and Greta tells a shocking joke and makes an even more shocking admission! MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: A Very Long Way The music: “Yes” “Mountain Prelude” & “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Jennie Josephson, Alex Cook, & Greta Schwartz Part One: Jennie “Jewish Jelly Donuts” Part Two:  Alex “Georgia” Part Three:  Greta “The Little Red Wagon” Behind the story:  More to come!

It’s St. Patrick’s day which means we’re telling drinking stories! Colleen is nurtured by strippers, Flanagan can’t decided between a wine cooler, a WuWu, and a Stormy Prom Night, and Seth runs hard in the Big Easy. MP3     Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, three drinking stories and the consequences thereof. The music: “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Alex is going to be on this very show, this very next week! Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio’s Music Alley. Check it out at music.mevio.com including “358 Hangovers A Year” by Jim Paquette, and “Drunken Sailor” by Blaggards. Storytellers: Colleen Basis is an acting coach and part-time Canadian homemaker. She is a graduate of The George Washington University. Matt Flanagan is a writer and fart producer. He don’t

Jennie gets banned from covering the Lakers, Sarah confronts the bridesmaids dress from hell, and young Ptolemy endures the terror of Jazz Dance. Special thanks to Alex Cook for the amazing music! MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: Humiliated The music: “Unlocked Door” and “Mountain Prelude” used by permission of Alex Cook. Did you know Alex is going to be on the show in two weeks? You should check out his music, so you’re fully prepared for his amazing story. If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Ptolemy Slocum is an actor and director of The Nerdist School. You’ve seen him on the final season of The Wire, the final season of The Sopranos, last season of Veep, and so much more.  Check out his imdb page Sarah Parsons is a video storyteller for Yahoo! She produced the award-winning video “Guardians of the Golden Gate Bridge” Go watch some fun stuff on Yah

Dave goes spelunking in a septic tank, Jennie’s walkin’ on broken glass, and Herschel writes his first ever love song. Three stories about camp on this musical, Jew-sical, all too true-sical episode of Tell It Anyway. MP3     Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: Camp. The music: “Unlocked Door” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer As for that other music, a very long time ago, I recorded some songs from my camp and badgered my dad’s engineer PZ into editing it. So if that part sounds at all good, it’s because of PZ. And because Sarah and Mandy have such beautiful voices. Storytellers: Herschel Bleefeld, actor and born storyteller. You’ve seen Herschel on all the commercials. All of them.  More about Herschel at IMDB.  Herschel is an alumni of George Washington University’s improv comedy group Recess. Dave McHugh, writer and

Bits n’ Bobs: Thoughts and interviews from the first month of Tell It Anyway MP3 Show Notes: Form: The. 5: Bits n’ Bobs from previous episodes, plus a little behind the scenes post-game. Theme: Looking Back The music: No music on the .5 episodes, b/c that saves me like, hours, of time! But if you enjoy the music in previous episdoes, and want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Kate Flanagan, Chris Himes, Igor Torgeson, Matt Flanagan & Jennie Josephosn Behind the story:  I decided, for my own well-being, that we’re only doing four episodes a month. If there’s a fifth week, we do a .5. I had recorded some extra interviews with some of our storytellers, to give you a better sense of who they are, but of course there are some really fun stories in here as well. I also wanted to give you an inside look at our learning curve over the past few months. Next week we’re back with a full episode about summer camp. I can’t wait.

The Fear-vengers: Young Jennie beats back her journalism fears, Charlie’s mom stands up to Ike Turner, and Jen conquers the fear beneath her back brace. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: Fear The music: “Unlocked Door” and “Mountain Prelude” used by permission of Alex Cook. If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Charlie Parrish is a stunt man, a stunt coordinator, a former US Army infantryman.  Need we say more? Oh yeah, he helps run a martial arts school in Texas and died once.  Learn more about Charlie at his website and on IMDB. Jen Spyra is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She’s also that voice you hear at the top of the show. was a senior writer for The Onion at the time of this interview.  She is the author of such classics as, “Nothing Gets Me Wetter Than A Monotonous Domestic Routine” and “David Bowie Asks Iman If They Should Just

There’s a strange animal in Robert’s kitchen, Jennie gets some inspiration from a proud bird, and Cricket says, “Just Bring it, Florida.” MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: Animal Stories The Music: “Unlocked Door” and “Mountain Prelude” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer How to subscribe to the audio podcast Storytellers: Robert Scheid is an actor, improv comedian, and award-winning teacher (Ep 3, Animal Stories). He is also the host of The Scheid Show. If you’re in LA and you enjoy high quality improv, check out The Captains of Industry, because Robert is in that. Cricket Hunt is an actress, improv comedian, singer, and equestrian. Jennie Josephson, podcast producer and writer. Works at Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt. Jennie grew up in a radio studio, but sadly did not pay so much attention.  More about Jen

The perils of fat-shopping, free raw bars & teen pregnancy. Three stories about Shame with Kate Flanagan, Chris Himes and Jennie Josephson. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: Shame. The music: “Unlocked Door” and “Lazybones” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Kate Flanagan, writer and Irish Catholic. Chris Himes, video programmer at Yahoo. He has no social media profile. That we know of. Chris is an alumni of George Washington University’s improv comedy group Recess. Jennie Josephson, podcast producer and writer. Works at Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt. Jennie grew up in a radio studio, but sadly did not pay so much attention.  More about Jennie Part One: Jennie “The Blue Dress” Part Two: Katie “The Raw Bar” Part Three: Chris “Late” Behind the story:  So this is our second Tell it Anyway expe

Toy tragedies, baby Batman, and a young girl home alone in Manhattan. Igor, Matt and Jennie talk about their childhoods.  Everybody’s got to have a first podcast, so here’s ours. MP3 Show Notes: Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect. Theme: Childhood Music: “YES” used by permission of Alex Cook. Thank you Alex! Speaking of which, if you liked the music in this episode, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer Storytellers: Igor Torgeson, Matt Flanagan, Jennie Josephson Part One: Igor “Bap!” Part Two: Jennie “Alone at the video store” Part Three: Matt Flananan “The Batman of Wellesley, MA” Behind the story: We’ve been talking about a storytelling podcast for a long time, but this one came together in 24 hours. Matt, Igor and I went to my office in Los Angeles, and had a little chat about how the 3fer format would work. Take a little Aristotle, add a pinch of Del Close, and give permission for people to ask questions and tell their own st