Our theme this month is "Work, Life, No Balance." Five storytellers share tales about the working world. We hear from a first-time teacher, Captain Quackers, and the king of the castle. Everyone has a story. What’s yours?

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This week on a special edition of the Stoop Storytelling Series, six stories set in the steamy heat of summers past.

Music:

Something Elevated by Broke for Free

Parisian by Kevin MacLeod

Naked Lunch by Jahzzar

Prime by DJ Williams

Candy by Jahzzar

New World by Kirk Osamayo

I thought You Were Cool by HolinzaCC0
Endless Grind by HolinzaCC0

Bird by James Pants
Waltz With Me by Beat Mekanik

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This week on the podcast, two stories about boys who’ll do anything — and everything — to get kicked out of boarding school.

Music: “New World” by Kirk Osamayo/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about (pretty gross) pranks.

Music: “Cool Boy & The Sunglasses Shark” by Gagmesharkoff/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, three tales of young women challenging the patriarchy.

Music: “Cold Kind of Woman Blues” by Cullah/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about using art to make change.

 Check out the video of the event, “Creating Art, Creating Change,” held in October by the Stoop Storytelling Series, in partnership with the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) and Art and Remembrance.

Music: “A Portrait of Absence,” by Aldous Ichnite/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about people navigating mental health challenges with humor.

Music: “Higher Junction,” by Mark Wilson X/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we have two stories of enduring romance.

Music: “Eternal Love“ by Kris Keypovsky/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about people taking a winding path to find their professional place.

Music: “Forest Funk" by Johan Vandegriff/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about young folks in the working world getting on the job experience they never expected — or wanted.

Music: “Rat-Boy" by Punk Rock Opera/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about how Christmas is not everyone’s cup of mulled wine.

Music: “Frosty (HS23)” by Beat Mekanik/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about repping Hanukkah in the land of Christmas.

Music: “Physics” by Danny Bale/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about being pegged as the wrong guy.

Music: "Big Sky Spy" by Mr Smith/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, we kick off the holiday season with two tales of holiday hijinx.

Music: “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about people who realize love had been right under their nose all along.

Music: “lost love letters,” by Fog Lake/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, stories from two people who not only turn the other cheek, but enlarge their hearts, after suffering harm.

Music: “Future Peace” by Uuriter/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, stories from two people creating their own spiritual path.

Music: "Meditation On Eternity" by Kirk Osamayo

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This week on the podcast, three storytellers share tales about their relationships with animals. Let's just say, "It's complicated."

The Stoop podcast originally aired these stories on August 1, 2016.

Music: “Elephant Sphere,” by Little Glass Men/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, three stories that prove we often know the least about the people closest to us.

The Stoop podcast originally aired these stories on May 16, 2016.

Music: “My Family Thinks I'm Crazy” by HoliznaRAPS/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, three dispatches from high school in which our heroes and heroines try to be cool — and fail. Which makes us love them more.

These stories originally appeared in our September 11, 2017 episode, “Cool in School.”

Music: “Out of School” by Jahzzar/Free Music Archive

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The pleasures and perils of watching your first R-rated movie in a theater.

These stories originally appeared in our October 29, 2018 episode, “R-rated!”

Music: “Young Lovers” by Mise Darling/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two tales of people doing battle with an undercover epidemic.

Music: “Dance,” by Kirk Osamayo/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two stories about canine chaos.

Music: “Good Feeling” by Benjimanji

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This week on the podcast two incredible souls — and two great performers — share stories that are an object lesson in how to live.

Between Life and Death by HoliznaCC0/Free Music Archive

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This week on the podcast, two Black women share their quest to tell Black stories in Baltimore.

Music: “Summer Pride” by Loyalty Freak Music

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This week on the podcast, two last minute wedding shockers!  

Music: “Just You and Me (I Like You Better)” by Atch.

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This week on the podcast: when weddings go wrong. 

Music: “I Can Be Your Love,” by lo-fi is sci-fi

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This week on the podcast, two tales of unconventional matches.

Music: “Two Is One,” by Troigo

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This week on the podcast, two stories of women living life to the fullest in honor of their sisters, who can’t.

Music: "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" by Blue Lotus

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This week on the podcast: three stories about people who are fixated!

Music:  “government funded weed,” Black Ant

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This week on the podcast: two stories of people reclaiming their bodies.

Music: “You’ve Got the Body + I’ve Got the Brains” by lo-fi is sci-fi

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This week on the podcast: two stories of doctors who refuse to confine their work to the hospital.

Listener's note: The audio of Carolyn Sufrin’s story improves about 1:30 into her story.

Music: “A New Path” by Kirk Osamayo

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This week on the podcast: two stories from people who came to the United States as teenagers.

Music:  “Julia Delaney” by Sláinte

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This week we conclude our three-part series featuring stories about the experience of both providing and receiving abortion care with two stories about the fight to make your own reproductive decisions.

Music: Pachyderm, “Two Mountains at a Time”

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This week on the podcast, two stories about young women having adventures abroad thanks to their connection to the Peace Corps.

Music:  “Travel Light” by Jason Shaw/Free Music Archive

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This week, we continue our three-part series featuring stories about the experience of both providing and receiving abortion care with two stories that get at the difficult decision-making that often has to happen in situations where a woman needs an abortion.

Music: “Fix This” by Hope For Agoldensummer

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This week we kick off a three-part series featuring stories about the experience of both providing and receiving abortion care. We begin with two very different stories that reveal the financial challenge of paying for abortion care.

Music:  “Bodies,” by Jahzzar

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This week on the podcast, two tales of epic journeys in search of work, education, and safety.

Music: “Alba” by Cambo

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This week on the podcast, tales from two women who face incredible obstacles and persevere.

Music:  “My name is” by Jahzzar

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This week on the podcast, two stories about forgiveness and connection during the festival of lights.

Music:  “A Piece of Peace,” by P C III

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This week on the podcast, two tales that get at the challenges of keeping Christmas.

Music: "Christmas Wish No. 3571" by Wiredrawn

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This week on the podcast, two tales of finding grace and strength in a time of profound suffering.

Music: "Memory Replaced" by Josh Woodward

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This week on the podcast, two tales about curative powers that fall outside the established medical field. 

Music: "Body is Perfect," by Derek Clegg

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This week on the podcast, two spooky stories for your Halloween listening pleasure.

Music: "Spooky," by Kirk Osamayo

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This week on the podcast, two men trying to make a big impression on the field.

Music: "Big League," by Chandeliers

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This week on a special edition of the Stoop Storytelling Series, five stories that uplift LGBTQ+ voices and spotlight the ongoing struggle for equality. The next live Stoop show is Thursday, June 27th at the Creative Alliance. The theme is “B-More Proud: Queer Tales of Charm City.”

Storytellers:

• Jabari Lyles
• Eric Thomas
• Rohaizad Suaidi
• Katy Caldwell
• Eric Anderson

Music:

• I Thought You Were Cool by HolinzaCC0
• Something Elated by Broke for Free
• Bird by James Pants
• Naked Lunch by Jahzzar
• Prime by DJ Williams
• Part VI by Jahzzar
• Love Love Love by HolinzaCC0

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This week on the podcast, two stories about things falling out of vehicles that aren’t supposed to.

Music: "My Car Drives Fast," by Dancer

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This week on the podcast, two children who want to stop being polite and start getting real with their parents.

Music: "Dear Old Dad," HoliznacCCO

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This week on the podcast, in honor of all the teachers returning to classrooms all over the country, three stories from first-time teachers.

Music: "No Substitute," Double-F the King

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This week on the podcast, an unforgettable story from John Milton Wesley about growing up in Ruleville, Mississippi among famed civil rights activists — and the men who killed Emmett Till, 67 years ago this week.

Music credit: "Wade in the Water," Roger McGuinn

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