And that's coming from ME. You know. The guy who once unnecessarily wandered around a Korean airport completely naked.
Today's episode contains a very special treat thanks to all of you. Sometime ago I asked you to share your most embarrassing moments on the Stranger Facebook page. You delivered. And then some. Meg and I were delighted to include some of our favorites from your offering in this episode. So check it out, and feel a little closer to your wonderfully-awkward Stranger family.
As always, thanks for your incredible support of Strangerville and the outpouring of love as we have embarked on this beautiful journey, collecting stories and sharing the best parts of life with you. We love you.
Please enjoy:
This time in Strangerville we explore stories from people (including many of you!) who have survived a nearly insurmountable amount of embarrassment. A young woman experiences the unthinkable during a college class presentation. A tanning bed mishap invokes a panicked response that only makes things worse. A newlywed has an uncomfortable encounter with his mother-in-law. And a grandmother unwittingly puts on a show for an entire restaurant full of people. Laugh and cringe with us and feel a little better about your own badges of honor.
Intro: Meg Walter
Segments:
1. Marshal Law by Lauren
2. Like Unsticking Something From A Pan story and music by David Peterson
3. Scarred For Life by Dianne Young, Dana Simmons Geddes, & Jamie Young Clark
~It Just Gets Stranger
I love Dianne! That poor thing! Good thing for her to see the amazing humor in it.
ReplyDeleteI laughed my face off. Like, my face actually came off. I'm suing you for this. My face was my money maker. Worth tens of dollars.
ReplyDeleteLOVE!
DeleteSo this is my favorite thing I've ever listened to in the history of listening to things. It was like a train-wreck that I didn't want to stop watching because it was so gloriously hilarious.
ReplyDeleteMy gut hurts from laughing so hard! I could totally picture each of those poor people in those circumstances. Thank you for providing proof that I'm not the only person to whom embarrassing things happen.
ReplyDeleteMy embarrassing moment made it on Strangerville! I feel like a celebrity today!
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I downloaded this podcast to listen to on our flight home from Indonesia. Thank you for all you do keeping us entertained. Also, we just saw the Queen of Colors. I took a picture.
ReplyDeleteIs there a text copy for the hearing impaired?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, still no. But you can find hundreds of stories from you fellow Strangers on the Facebook page (I asked people to share their embarrassing moments and we read many of these on the podcast). You can also find a write-up Meg included on her own site, in which she shared one of her best embarrassing stories: https://medium.com/i-should-be-deserving-to-be-to-mars/strangerville-episode-18-f4d5f4bac79a
DeleteI hope that someday we will have the manpower to produce transcripts for our episodes.
I peeeeeeddddd my pants when I listened to Dianne tell her story. This is the kind of stuff I dream about and pray, pray, pray that it never ever, ever never happens to me!!!! Bwahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteSame. That was one of the most amazing stories I've ever heard in my life.
DeleteHi Eli
ReplyDeleteI've found that VoiceBase is pretty easy to use. It automatically converts speech to text pretty accurately and only needs a quick review after conversion to check if everything's accurate. Here's the link if you want to check it out: https://www.voicebase.com
Eli, You are the next generation Garrison Keillor. I grew up listening to his tales of the Lake Wobegon and now I long to hear the tales of those crazy kids from Utah. It is a delight to know that the art of story telling is not dead.
ReplyDeleteYour comment just made my day. Thank you. We hope to bring many more actual stories for years to come.
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