Story Shuffle 37: stories inspired by BELLS

The 37th Story Shuffle was held Saturday, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016 in Fishtown, Philadelphia with the theme of BELLS as part of an annual holiday party.

Find all the recorded audio here or choose from below.

1. Cory Donovan: My Brother’s Wedding Day
2. Italian Stories from Luke Butler’s Wedding
3. Michael O’Bryan Grew Up Kinda Poor
4. Patrick McNeil’s First Tinder Date
5. The Maintenance Cottage by Chris Wink

Story Shuffle 36: stories about MASKS are now live

The 36th Story Shuffle was held Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 in Fishtown, Philadelphia with the theme of MASKS as part of an eery and oh so fun Halloween party.

Given the ghoulish nature, only a handful of storytellers chose to have their stories recorded. Find all the recorded audio here or choose from below.

1. Jared Levy’s Life Raft
2. Christopher Wink: This Knife Murdered Someone
3. The Attack by Andrew
4. Lindsey McNeil: A Mischief Night Prank
5. Meredith Butler on the importance of protective masks

Story Shuffle 14 ADVERSITY audio is now live

The audio from Story Shuffle 14 audio is live, having taken place outside around a firepit in Kensington, alongside a vacant lot with a fine collection of abandoned cars.

Find the posts here or listen to them below. Facebook photos from Brady Dale of the presenters here.

1. Todd Oskin, the host
2. Eric Smith
3. Lansie Sylvia, no audio by request
4. Andrew Panebianco
5. Melissa
6. Chris Seminack
7. Brady Russell
8. Melissa Weigel
9. Jackie Rodriguez
10. Kris Kershner
11. Emma Jacobs
12. Christopher Wink
13. Malik

We also had a handful of audience members who chose not to tell a tale.

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Story Shuffle 13 COMPETITION audio is now live

Story Shuffle 12 audio is live, having taken place in a tidy rowhome in South Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood.

Find the posts here or listen to them below. Facebook photos from Brady Dale of the presenters here.

• Syracuse rooster call contest: Emma Jacobs
• I want to be a trash-tronaut when I grow up: Patrick McNeil
• How Kansas high school debate teams haze new members: Brady Dale Russell
• Learning about competition from my 8-year-old niece: Shannon McDonald
• My pyramid of gentrification: Christopher Wink
• This bat is going to ruin our party: Melissa Weigel

Story Shuffle 11 SCARS audio is now live

Story Shuffle 11 audio is live, having taken place in a converted textile factory in the Callowhill neighborhood.

Find the posts here or listen to them below. Facebook photos of the presenters here.

• Scars we don’t remember: Christopher Wink on leaving the Grand Canyon
• Matching scars: Yael Borofsky and Frank Berry recount how they first connected
• Emma Jacobs: a Senegal Surprise
• Diana Lind: a coincidental discovery of scars
• Kim Paynter: scars from softball
• Alissa Burger: Scars for art’s sake
• Steve Medvidick is crying in a coastal Italian village
• Patrick McNeil: The Girl who Swallowed Scars
• Carolyn Beeler broke her nose, she thinks
• Shannon McDonald: this scar changed how I celebrate my summers
• Brady Russell was hit by a car on his bike but he probably deserved it
• Renee Sarah is helping to heal one of her student’s scars

Story Shuffle 10 PARENTS audio is now live

In a South Street apartment, the tenth in our every-other-month series of Story Shuffle was held with a bevvy of salads, snacks and wine.

All of the audio is now live.

Choose from the stories below or find them all here.

• How my father kept me from being kidnapped (I think): Shannon McDonald
• What it means when a child’s toys are in too many different homes: Patrick McNeil
• Four Temperaments of Parenthood: Christopher Wink
• High school strip poker and the unlikely punishment — LeAnne
• Emma on parents [No audio]

Story Shuffle 9 JEALOUS audio is now live

In a Passyunk Square apartment, the ninth in our every-other-month series of Story Shuffle was celebrated over wine and cheese.

All of the audio is now live.

Choose from the stories below or find  them all here. Check out the Facebook photos here.

• Jealousy can motivate you to achieve success: Christopher Wink
• Someone you’re jealous of, may be jealous of you: Shannon McDonald
• Don’t be jealous of what you don’t really want: Melissa DiPento
• We’re jealous of those who we think we could be: Patrick McNeil
• Be jealous of pickup artists for different reasons: Dan Victor
• Jealous of high school theater crew: Brady Dale Russell

We went in the order of the last three digits of our driver’s license numbers, from highest to lowest, as suggested by newcomer Brady Dale Russell.

Story Shuffle 8 Anniversaries audio is now live

Celebrating with champagne and tater tots, the one year anniversary of Story Shuffle was celebrated in Fishtown just a tad late, marking the eighth in our every-other-month series, one night after coming just short in winning our nomination as Best Podcast at the Philly Geek Awards (Talkadelphia rightly brought the award home).

All of the audio is now live.

Choose from the stories below or find  them all here. Check out the Facebook photos here.

1. Celebrating One Year Anniversary of Story Shuffle
2. Fuck Anniversaries by Daniel Victor
3. “You have to go far enough away to be seen:” Christopher Wink on Voyager II
4. Alex Irwin: Celebrate 10th Amendment Day
5. Patrick McNeil: the Creation Myth of the McNeil Clan
6. Sean Blanda has an empty book to record important dates
7. Melissa DiPento talks about the kid’s table [no audio]
8. Erica G’s worst summer of her teenage life turns out OK
9. Shannon McDonald on Anniversary Role Models
10. Lisa Kaneff on inauspicious wedding anniversary beginnings

Story Shuffle 7 ROAD TRIP stories are now live

In a fine rowhome in the Newbold section of South Philadelphia, we held Story Shuffle 7, with a theme of ROAD TRIPS.

Choose from the stories below or find  them all here. Check out the Facebook photos here.

1. Story Shuffle 7: ROAD TRIPS in South Philadelphia — the kickoff
2. Emma Fred-Cassorla goes a bit too south
3. Shannon McDonald on shore road trips not fully formed
4. Josh Rothstein takes a bicycle trip from Tokyo to Kyoto
5. Andrew Thompson on anti-Semitic Kiwis
6. Mat T remembers Gavin’s boner
7. Chris Reber chases a Boy Scout from his troop with a canoe
8. Christopher Wink hitchhiking in South Dakota: trusting strangers brings reward and risk
9. James Kennedy has a bicycle fight with the Amish
10. Holly Otterbein audio not posted
11. Rachel Playe wants you to meet Teddy, a road trip camp mate
12. Brian James Kirk goes down to Tennessee at the Why’re

Story Shuffle 6: Rebirth audio is now live

The sixth Story Shuffle, with a theme of Rebirth, went down in the Rittenhouse neighborhood of Philadelphia last month, hosted by Eric Smith.

Find all the audio here or choose from below.

1. Christopher Wink learns civic pride from an old neighbor
2. Chris Illuminati on taking his infant son to his alma mater
3. Allie Harcharek on becoming a foodie
4. Eric Smith on being asked for a Hug his first day in Philadelphia
5. Shannon McDonald talks about how different birth and rebirth really are
6. Mikey Il spills on why he’s so damn skeptical of bachelor parties
7. Jess Anne gives advice on not giving advice