Story Night

In some of the moments we perform as someone else, we can discover who we always were. Ian Logan told this story at our Story Night event on January 4, 2018, when the theme was “identity.” The song for this episode is “Don’t Stop Ne Now,” by Queen. There is a bit of an audio […]

When the Red Hot Chili Peppers don’t cut it and when a singer is no Hollywood heartthrob, it’s tempting to give up music that accompanies a couple. Then something comes from someplace that changes the whole story. Megan Vaughn told us this story at the December 2017 Story Night when the theme was soundtrack. The […]

In some of our most desperate or inspired moments we resort to something that we would never plan. And yet what we do works. Kim Weaver found herself resorting to an unusual method to calm a rebel during a ninth-grade math class. It worked, and she developed a reputation the students would not forget. Kim […]

This is exactly the kind of accent I hoped we would get at Story Night months ago when I invited musicians to provide one song per night. It took an event dedicated to musical themes to add to what Lisa Nystrom did once during an earlier Story Night. Stephen Littfin provided a song written by […]

We’re reintroducing an additional storytelling form here at the podcast. This story was one I told in 2011 when I had a podcast for about a year. This story launched that effort and was the opening chapter in the book of stories, Spill Your Guts’ Guts. The story is of my quest to secure the […]

The roads were fine. It was the parking lots. And one guy couldn’t sleep. It was full on summer when Garrett Bull told us this story, but it’s about a winter temp job that involved a few slides, some chains and one person who continuously confessed that he didn’t know. Garrett told this story in […]

Playing cards of most kinds opens you up to runs of bad luck, some by the universe’s random operations and others by your opponent’s designs. So one time during a run of bad luck Suzanne took luck into her own hand. It ended up revealing a different kind of misdeal. Our thanks to Suzanne for […]

So much can happen while someone else travels 36 miles in the wrong direction before realizing it and turns around. Sometimes our fears give way to a sweet reality. Sarah Jaffa from the Kitsap Regional Library told this story at our November 2017 Story Night event when the theme was “What Goes Around.” I might […]

This is a story that affects a special place in the heart of the host of the Story Night podcast, because of a 2-year period in which the host was party to a “too-good-to-be-true” scheme, because of his parents and because it was told by a former colleague at the Kitsap Sun. Travis Baker tells […]

At the World’s Fair in Spokane Scott Park got a realization about being alone. The story actually begins when he was much younger and shared a vocal in his class. The reception there wasn’t ideal. He told the story at our Story Night event in September 2017 when the theme was solo. Scott ended up […]