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Storytime with GamerDude
by Storytime with GamerDude
GamerDude has taken the stories he tells during his Twitch stream and put them in podcast form. They're stories about gaming, growing up, family, relationships, food, music, movies; basically, stories about life.
Episodes
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We're Back With Season 8!
After a bit of a hiatus, GamerDude is back with Season 8! This week, GamerDude talks about the need for a break after 6+ years of weekly episodes, and what prompted him to fire up the podcast mic for another season.
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Idioms, Old Sayings, and Other Words Of Wisdom
This week's episode is inspired by an idiom that GamerDude heard on the game show, "The Floor." One young contestant couldn't complete the phrase "Carrying ____ to New Castle." (The answer is "coals," which GamerDude explains in this episode.) That answer got him to thinking about many of the...
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Brushes With Greatness
For the first episode of 2024, GamerDude talks about his "brushes with greatness," which is times in his life where he as met, or interacted with, or at least seen, someone who is famous. GamerDude first talks about how he was a very minor celebrity back in his radio DJ days, and how the people…
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Stories about endings, and beginnings, and year-end sales.
The end of the year got GamerDude to thinking about the post-Christmas sales his dad used to take him to the day after Christmas. He remembers the deals his dad was able to negotiate, and how the annual "getting Christmas Stuff on-sale" trip was another family tradition. GamerDude also talks…
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Stories For Christmas 2023
It's GamerDude's annual Christmas Episode (one of many, actually!) and this week, he's talking about the non-denominational aspects of Christmas. He talks about how the feeling of Christmas is supposed to be about getting together with family, and friends, and loved ones, and sharing love, and...
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Stories About Christmas Music, And 10 of GamerDude's Favorite Non-Traditional "Carols" (REPEAT)
For this week's episode, GamerDude decided to go back to Season Three, when he first did this episode about Christmas music, and shared 10 of his favorite non-traditional Christmas songs. GamerDude's stories this week include stories about the holiday concerts in school, and learning to sing...
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Another Year Is Drawing To A Close
This week, GamerDude talks about how we all tend to react to the approach of the end of the year, as we take stock of what we hoped to accomplish, what we did accomplish, and what we plan to do next year. He talks about how his decision to take early retirement came at the end of the year, and…
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Stories About Christmas Decor (Remastered)
GamerDude has gone back to Season 1 to remaster the episode with his stories about setting up the Christmas decor between Thanksgiving and Christmas when he was a kid. He talks about his dad's four-foot tall Christmas star, his mom's candle-powered angels, and her NOEL sign, and his parents'...
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Being Thankful, Family Politics, The Kids Table, and Other Thanksgiving Traditions
GamerDude is talking about Thanksgiving again this week, with another reminder of how important it is to be thankful, especially in these days of tough times and a world seemingly suffering from a global case of COVID-related PTSD. GamerDude revisits the topic of "family politics" and how they...
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Being Thankful For Thanksgiving And Forgotten Thanksgiving Foods
This week, GamerDude is talking about being thankful for Thanksgiving. He talks about how Thanksgiving used to be a calm period of time between the excitement of Halloween and Christmas, and he talks about why he always tries to remember to be thankful for what he has. He also talks about some...
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Stories About Stories For Storytime
This week, GamerDude talks about the stories he tells, and why he chooses to tell the stories he does. He talks about preserving his dad's stories, because they are not only his dad's stories, but they give insight into his dad, and into GamerDude. The stories helped form the basis for the kind…
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The Case For Wired Ear-Phones, Calculators, and Dials, Knobs and Levers.
This week, GamerDude is talking about some older technology and devices that he believes we should hang on to. He talks about his wired headset/ear-phones, which inspired this week's episode. He discusses how inexpensive they are for what they do, and how much of a hassle ear buds can…
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Mischief Night (Remastered) and The Best and Worst Halloween Candy
GamerDude goes back to Season One to re-master his favorite Mischief Night story, about the time he was TP'ing the new neighbor's spite fence. He also brings back his Best and Worst Halloween Candy list because, well, it's Halloween time!
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Halloween Stories From Season One (Remastered)
GamerDude has gone back to Season One to remaster the stories he told back then about Halloween when he was growing up. He talks about what Halloween was like, and trick-or-treating in his neighborhood, from visiting with Charlie Chips to the family that gave out copies of the New Testament every...
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BREAKING: Old Dude Rants About Rising Prices!
This week, GamerDude talks about how the cost of everything continues to go up, and rants about the gouging that's become normalized due to the pandemic. He talks about the Big Mac index, and how the price of a Big Mac from McDonald's has changed in the nearly-60 years since its release. He talks...
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Halloween Hype, and Forgotten Candy From "the Late 1900s."
This week, GamerDude talks about how Halloween has evolved in his lifetime from a holiday about kids going out to get as much free candy as they could, to a holiday where everyone seems to compete to see how much gore decor they can fit on their front lawns. (Yes, it's basically an "old man rant"...
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GamerDude's Mom (Remastered)
GamerDude has remastered another episode from Season 1. This episode originally released for Mothers' Day, but GamerDude wanted to share the stories again.In this episode, he talks about how everyone has different relationships with their moms, and every mom has her own unique issues. GamerDude...
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A "Best Of Storytime" Redux (From 2020)
This week, GamerDude is re-posting a "Best of" episode from 2020. This is one of the first episodes where GamerDude started re-editing and cleaning up some of the sounds and glitches from episodes in the first season of Storytime.In this "Best of" episode, GamerDude talks about his love for…
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Roller Coasters, Waiting In Line, Sex, And Other Things We View Differently As We Get Older
This week, GamerDude got to thinking about how our view of things change as we get older. For example, riding roller coasters used to be a huge deal; GamerDude would actually plan trips around amusement parks and locations where he could ride a roller coaster. But as he's gotten older, the aches...
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More Unsolicited Life Advice
This week, Gamerdude has more "life advice" to share with you. This week's episode was inspired by the recent prevalence of the phrase "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." GamerDude talks about the importance of paying attention to the way people actually act, and believing that...
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Life Really Is Like A Box Of Chocolates
This week, GamerDude talks about how life rarely ever turns out how you expect it to. He talks about how he had plans when he went in to college, and how he wound up changing majors five times. He also talks about how unreasonable it is to actually expect anyone in their late teens or early 20s…
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Things We Used To Do
This week, GamerDude is talking about experiences that used to be an ordinary part of peoples' lives that no longer are. He talks about the experience of reading a road map (as well as folding and unfolding one) and how the entire road map experience is no longer necessary. He talks about the...
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Top 15 Movie Themes
This week, GamerDude decided to go back to Season 2, when he first did this episode about his Top 15 (plus one Honorable Mention) movie music themes. After giving it a listen, he decided not to change a thing, and instead wanted to replay it because he had so much fun putting it together. So, if...
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Talking About Grandfather Clocks, Yo-Yos, and Wet Signatures
GamerDude is stepping back into the way-back machine this week and revisiting some more things that used to exist that have just faded away from our lives. He was inspired by memories of his grandmother's Grandfather Clock, and how he remembers those big clocks being a fixture in so many homes.…
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Explaining The Writers'/Actor's Strike, And Talking About Indictments
GamerDude decided to go a little more "current events" in this week's episode. He first talks about the writers'/actors' strike going on in Hollywood. He looks at some of the history of writers' rooms and actors' residuals. He talks about summer re-runs, and DVD sales, and how the business model...
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GamerDude's Grandparents - Remastered
GamerDude has gone back to Seasons 1 to re-edit and re-produce the episode he did about his grandparents. (In all of these re-masters, GamerDude tries to clean up some of the technical glitches that occurred in some of the episodes from the first season, and also edits them so they sound...
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What Do Phone Calls, Tattoos, Piercings, and Hair Color Have In Common?
This week, GamerDude talks about how doing certain things, or society's view of having certain things, has changed over the years. He first talks about the process of making a phone call when he was a kid. He remembers when the only phone anyone had was the house phone, so you had to learn to…
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Why Are Words So Hard? And Why Do I Care So Much?
This week, GamerDude talks about words again. He starts things off by revisiting the word "niche", which, for most of his life had only one pronunciation: "nitch." He discusses how, in recent years, the pronunciation "neesh" has become accepted, for reasons that escape him. He understands how…
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Indiana Jones, Sequels, And Life Before The Internet
The latest Indiana Jones sequel inspired GamerDude to talk about why certain sequels just don't work, and also reminded him - once again - of the differences between the generations. He talks about the time when Raiders of the Lost Ark released in 1981, and how different the world was then -...
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Embolisations, Paragangliomas, and Other Fun Words To Say
This week's episode is about Mrs. GamerDude's adventures handling a paraganglioma, and is made with her knowledge and approval. GamerDude talks about what the initial diagnosis was like for her, and what a paraganglioma actually is. He talks about the trips to the hospital, and the preparation…
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The Best of Storytime Redux
With some personal things going on, and his voice not quite 100%, GamerDude has gone back to Season Three for one of his favorite Best of Storytime episodes. In this episode, GamerDude shares stories about how he drove on his aunt's farm when he was 11, and how he spent quality bonding time with...
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Growing Up As A Christian Scientist (Remastered)
GamerDude has gone back to Season One for another one of his "very special episodes." He has re-mastered and re-edited this episode about Christian Science to get a cleaner, better-sounding version. In this episode, he talks about what Christian Science is, and what it was like to grow up in a...
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Stories About Books (Remastered)
Those who follow GamerDude on Twitch or Twitter know that he's been struggling with some allergy-related voice problems this week (which you'll hear in the intro to this week's episode!) So, he's gone back to Season One to remaster one of the most popular episodes from that season: GamerDude's...
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Return of The Best of Movie Tropes
GamerDude loves to talk about movies and tv, and over the years he's done several episodes about movies, television, and the tropes we see over-used in them. This week's Best Of episode revisits some of the tropes GamerDude has compiled over the years, from the ever-present parking space out…
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Stories About Being Bullied (Remastered)
GamerDude has gone back to Season One for this "very special episode" about being bullied as a child. He has re-edited this episode to clean up some of the pops and clicks from the original version. GamerDude wanted to share the stories in this episode again because being bullied happens to so…
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Lust + Politics = Scandal!
This week, GamerDude talks about how the lust for power, or love, or sex, usually leads to scandal in the political arena. He also talks about how some political types survive these scandals while others simply disappear. GamerDude talks about the sexual scandals involving trump, from the Access...
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Okay, Boomer; Let's Talk About "Generations"
This week, GamerDude talks about the "generations" sociologists have created to characterize people born in different eras. He goes back to 1908 to talk about The Greatest Generation, which fought World War Two, and goes through the chronological sequence of generations as described by the Pew...
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Growing Up As The Fat Kid (Remastered)
GamerDude goes back to Season 1 this week for his "very special episode" about growing up as the fat kid. He has re-edited, tightened up, and cleaned up some of the pops, and sounds, and gaps in the original episode in order to preserve and present the stories in an even better form. GamerDude...
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Commercials: Bringing Us Ads, Characters, and Jingles That Stay With Us
This week's episode was inspired by a casual mention of "Josephine the Plumber" in an episode of the Golden Girls. We have commercial spokespeople these days like Flo from Progressive, Jan from Toyota, and the Limu Emu, but GamerDude grew up with some of the all-time classic commercial characters...
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Catching Up On Sleep
This week, GamerDude talks about sleeping and dreaming. First, he talks about how his sleep habits have changed as he's gotten older, and how he used to be a stomach sleeper who now needs four pillows just to sleep on his back.GamerDude also talks about how peoples' sleep-patterns, in general…
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Remembering Tuna Salad, Bowling Alleys, No Bike Helmets, And Skate Keys
This week, GamerDude takes another trip, wandering down Memory Lane. The Easter weekend prompted his recollections about hunting for easter eggs and all of the egg salad his family ate after the holiday. This prompted him to remember the bowling alley his dad took him to on Easter Sunday, while...
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Another Helping Of The Best Of Storytime
GamerDude goes back to Season 2 this week, for more of the Best of Storytime. He pulls some stories about his shopping with his mom, the clicker she used to stay on-budget, and the brand comparison she taught him. He also pulls some of his recollections of the mall, and how it used to be THE…
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Stories About Pets
This week, GamerDude talks about the pets that he's had in his life. The first pet he remembers is the dog that his parents had before GamerDude was even born: Barney. GamerDude talks about how Barney protected him when he wandered away from the house as a child, and how Barney had a bit of a...
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Covid +3: Three Years of Covid, and Remembering The "Before Times"
It's been three years since the United States first locked down as a result of the Covid pandemic, and GamerDude talks about how Covid is one of those generational events, like December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001, where things changed forever after the event. He remembers what he was reading,...
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Iconic Movie Themes: Remastered
This week, GamerDude has gone back to Season 2 for his Top 15 (okay, Top 16) Iconic Movie Theme Songs, and cleaned up the original production a bit. Included in the list are current themes and older themes, with multiple appearances by John Williams. GamerDude talks about the themes, and the...
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The Most Important (And Best Tasting) Meal Of The Day
GamerDude talks about breakfast this week, and what breakfast was like when he was growing up. He talks about how breakfast was primarily cold cereal, with some occasional crock-pot oatmeal mixed in to the rotation. He also talks about discovering the wide variety of breakfast foods and options...
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Smells, Sounds And Sensations We Remember
This week, GamerDude talks about sensory memories: those memories that are triggered by a certain scent, or sound, or the way something feels. He talks about how some sensory memories have disappeared because the source of the memory no longer exists, like his grandfather's shed. He also talks...
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Let's Talk About Snacks!
GamerDude returns to one of his favorite topics: food! And this week, he's revisiting snacking! GamerDude talks about the apples, oranges and raisins his mom tried to get him to eat as snacks when he was a kid, and also discusses how his mom always baked, and always had a full cookie jar, which…
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Stories About Star Trek: Remastered
GamerDude has dipped back into Season 1 of Storytime for one of his favorite episodes, where he expresses his appreciation for the Star Trek universe. He took this episode back to the production room and re-edited and re-produced it, cleaning up some of the sound issues that he didn't fully...
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Car Shopping With GamerDude
Thanks to COVID and the strange effect it has had on the car market, from slowing the production of new cars to increasing the prices of used cars, GamerDude found himself in a unique situation: he had a used truck that was worth more than he bought it for. Combined with the facts that he wasn't...
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GamerDude has taken the stories he tells during his Twitch stream and put them in podcast form. They're stories about gaming, growing up, family, relationships, food, music, movies; basically, stories about life.
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