The Stoop Storytelling Series
by The Stoop Storytelling Series
The Stoop showcases the extraordinary true stories of “ordinary" people, told 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.
Episodes
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Gimme Shelter
Laura Wexler and Jessica Myles-Henkin share stories from the Stoop about home - making it, losing it and leaving it. Nancy Murray finds home and family after she loses the only home she ever really had. Joe Challmes' apartment becomes a home for lost boys. Adote Akwei can't go back to his native...
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Spiritual Healing
Jessica Myles Henkin and Laura Wexler share stories from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore about people trying to figure it all out through faith (or lost faith). SB Morgaine undergoes an exorcism that makes her more gay. Baynard Woods goes on a mission for truth and along the way finds…
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Finders Keepers
Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler share stories about adoptive parents and their kids live from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore. Jim Mancini and his wife go across the globe to meet their daughter for the first time. Kevin Darrow Brown becomes a father to children who can't always stay...
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Art Project
Laura Wexler and Jessican Henkin share stories about artists taking their work about as far as it can go. Abe Burickson wonders if it's possible to create a work of art for just one person and kidnaps his friend in the process. Chrissy Ferrara starts a love affair with Starbucks. Kim Yates takes...
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Sinners aka Guilty Catholics
Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler share stories from the Stoop about lapsed Catholics and their sins from the past. Mide Akinsade plays a trick on his friend that backfires. Mary Cosimano sneaks into her school gym for illicit trampolining. Barbara DeCesare's dad is forced to face approaching old…
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Beasts of Burden
I'll never bee.... Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share some fauna stories from Baltimore, MD's Stoop Storytelling series. Kristi Birch becomes her cat's psychiatrist. Chick Ochlech invents a new way of fishing. Mike McClure plays matchmaker for elephants. Learn more about the Stoop at...
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Awkward
Cringes abound when Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin dip into the Stoop Storytelling series archives for some of the most beautifully awkward stories of the series. Eric Leikus takes a class on minority relations. Matt Hayat teaches some fighting words. Joe Wall sleepwalks at summer camp. Learn…
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Maybe some of those who travel are lost. Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share their stories of foreign travels from Baltimore's Stoop Storytelling Series. Homayra Ziad visits Jerusalem's Western Wall as a feminist Muslim, Charlie Wiener hunts down some Jewish soul food in Malaysia, and Kinobe...
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Baltimoored
As the thrill of June fades into the oppressive humidity of July, Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin share stories about being stuck in the city for the summer from the Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore, MD. Susan Kim waits poolside for adult swim to be over. Michael Ziccardi's porch party…
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Car Trouble
Click and Clack were nowhere to be found, so Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler share their favorite Stoop stories about car difficulty, but without any quick fixes. Bridget Caviola feels stuck in a rut. Andrea Seabrook has some car troubles crossing the border. Marc Maurer tells of the blind…
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Hindsight
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…
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Take This Job and Shove It
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...
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Mother Nature is a Mother...
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...
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Visions and Hallucinations
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...
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Young Love
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...
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Illin'
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...
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Family Secrets
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…
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Conjurings
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...
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Hell Raisers
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...
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Rock & Roll
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…
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The Mayoral Show
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…
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First Times
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...
About this show
The Stoop showcases the extraordinary true stories of “ordinary" people, told 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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