Spokespeople

The marvelous Luna Malbroux brings us a tale of sex, love and avoiding being haunted by Harriet Tubman's ghost!

Lacking quarters and crucial bits of information about rural New Hampshire, a city girl ventures north via Amtrak in the era before cell phones. Today's storyteller regaled our live audience with this tale at the July 2015 show, "On the Road." About the Storyteller Tatiana Uschakow is from New York, walks everywhere, and is still much more equipped to deal with sewer alligators and subway rats than the beautiful California wildlife.

A fortuitous concert and an inconvenient illness led a man and some diapers to live nappily ever after. This story was told live at our April 2015 show, "Smoke & Mirrors." About the Storyteller Lance Eason grew up in Redwood City, which is about 30 miles geographically and 100 light years philosophically from his current and true spiritual home of San Francisco.

Santa Claus brings presents. The Easter Bunny hides eggs. The Tooth Fairy steals big wheels, right? Danny Nolan recounted the Tooth Fairy’s dark side in this story told live at our April 2015 show, "Smoke and Mirrors."

Eliza Scheffler loves to travel abroad, but her digestive system would prefer to stay closer to home. Eliza told this story of how to handle tummy troubles with grace at our March 2015 show, "There's No Place Like Home."

A trip to Buenos Aires becomes a crash course in speaking high-school Spanish with Japanese flair and fending off latin lovers. Regina Bediako told this tale live at our March 2015 show.

Today’s storyteller loves summer camp, but not so much the other campers. Discover how this polar-bear-documentary-loving, magic-card-playing, California native learned to open up to others on the last day of summer camp. This story comes from our April 2015 show, Smoke & Mirrors.

Today’s storyteller goes the extra mile. Actually he goes an extra 62 miles, guided by the legacy of former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and the hip-swiveling tunes of Miley Cyrus. This story was told live at our July 2014 show, "Slippery When Wet."

Cupid’s arrow strikes again and again and again! Three Spokespeople stories in one podcast, you ask? Yes! This week, we bring you tales of dating a man with a Roger Rabbit room, a movie date gone awry, and one love-inspiring poster. All stories are true (or so we’re told!) and shared live at our February 2015 show, "Oh NO Cupid."

What do grandmothers, porn, and New York State have in common? This moving coming-of-age story told live at our June 2014 show, "Internet Explorer: Stories From Cyberspace."

Ah, wilderness! Our intrepid storyteller heeds the call of the wild in Denali National Park only to find comfort in a climate-controlled school bus. This riveting tale was told live at our December 2014 show, "Frozen."

Sleepovers are for fighting and laughing and carefully managing intake of fluids. This story of one moist night in Massachusetts was told live at our December 2014 show, "Frozen."

It was the best of parking spaces, it was the worst of parking spaces. To obtain quick BART access, this storyteller got both a citation from the City of Oakland and an address for her holiday card list. Wisdom or foolishness?

Kid logic meets the mother of necessity. One budding inventor builds a machine to channel his own hot air, while he sleeps, into a means to blow away his elementary school enemies.

Having instant access to the full biography of every prospective object of your affection: blessing or curse? Today's storyteller remembers her days wielding the double-edged sword of the internet search engine through the battlefield of love in this story.

An evening watching the L Word turns into a night of celebrity courtship in the former hottest corner of Manhattan. This story was told live at our March 2014 show, "Starstruck."

One man's pain is another man's delicious, cheap lunch. Today's storyteller reflects on his glory days on Montréal's competitive eating circuit in this story told live at our April 2014 show, "Eat Me."

A hearty breakfast or broken by the fast? Today's storyteller appreciates the elements of a good meal after his day of atonement in the land of culinary underachievement. This story comes from our April 2014 show, "Eat Me."

One starry night in the french countryside, one world traveler finds love where she most wanted it, but least expected it. Enjoy this story of her ethereal love affair that was told live at our March 2014 show, Starstruck.

One girl's brush with stardom is another's volunteer sex ed class. This storyteller reflects on her 5th-grade role model, who discussed tampons and the menstrual cycle without making her students "scandalized."