Strangers

By Lea Thau

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What's Strangers about?

From Lea Thau, Peabody award-winning producer and creator of The Moth Podcast and The Moth Radio Hour, comes her new storytelling baby, Strangers. Each episode is an empathy shot in your arm, featuring true stories about the people we meet, the connections we make, the heartbreaks we suffer, the kindnesses we encounter, and those frightful moments when we discover that WE aren't even who we thought we were.

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LAST EPISODE

The Schmidts, Part 2

10.30.2020

Part two of Sequoia Schmidt's story. Enjoy! You can find her at sequoiaschmidt.com. And you can find me at patreon.com/strangerspodcast.

Strangers episodes:

10.30.2020 The Schmidts, Part 2 Part two of Sequoia Schmidt's story. Enjoy! You can find her at sequoiaschmidt.com. And you can find me at patreon.com/strangerspodcast.
10.23.2020 The Schmidts, Part 1 Meet Sequoia Schmidt - a most interesting and unusual young woman from a most interesting and unusual family. This is Part 1 of her story. Part 2 drops next week. Enjoy!
07.24.2020 Wilmot of Helena Wilmot Collins is an interesting man with an interesting story. This is it. I hope you enjoy it. Find more Strangers content, new and old, at www.patreon.com/strangerspodcast - it's only $1 per month to join - or stay subscribed here ...
05.07.2020 The Cape, Chapter 1 Lea is back, but where has she been? The story officially starts here.
03.27.2018 Hi 15 minutes of life
10.12.2017 Do You Like My Little Lie? It’s the time of year when skeletons come out of the closet. We honor the dead, as we get ready for holidays among the living, where secrets will be spilled, and secrets will be created that will haunt us for ...
10.28.2016 The Truth Ashley’s husband, Corey, is accused of the worst thing imaginable. What follows sends the family on an ever darkening journey, swinging between answers, hypotheses, emotions, and, ultimately, the truth. This story is not appropriate for children.
05.30.2016 The Son, The Goddess, and Leopoldo Born in a coven of lesbian witches in a Haight-Ashbury commune after the fall of Saigon, young Joshua Safran soon hit the open road with his single mother, Claudia, and things only got stranger from there. A word of warning: ...
01.15.2016 The Waxing Virgin — Then and Now Four years ago, we met Becca, a virgin in her 30s who waxed genitals for a living. On this episode we play her original story, along with an update about what Becca has been up to since then…
10.24.2014 Falling Slowly Strangers, at its core, is about the beauty and the struggle of human connection and what happens in those moments when we get closer to someone else, or, say, further removed from ourselves. Often that change is subtle and slow, ...
10.14.2014 Big Jim & Smokey Joe A waitress, a former bomber pilot and a retired railroad engineer embark on the adventure of a lifetime. A version of this story was previously featured on Season 1 of Strangers. Get the full story here.
08.15.2014 Love Hurts While doing a story about online dating, Lea gets her heart broken (yet again). Get the full story here.
06.15.2014 Two Men and a Baby Two young men receive a surprise delivery. And it’s a newborn. Whaaa! Get the full story here.
05.17.2014 The Long Shadow Murder, music, mystery. A controversial event in 1997 changed the fate of two band mates. Get the full story here.
03.14.2014 Jenni Rowell: Life, Interrupted Imagine waking up every morning and seeing a stranger in the mirror… Get the full story here.
04.11.2013 Franky Carrillo: Life A man spends 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, but comes out ahead… Get the full story here.

Strangers

What's Strangers about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Strangers episodes:

The Schmidts, Part 2

The Schmidts, Part 1

Wilmot of Helena

The Cape, Chapter 1

Hi

Do You Like My Little Lie?

The Truth

The Son, The Goddess, and Leopoldo

The Waxing Virgin — Then and Now

Falling Slowly

Big Jim & Smokey Joe

Love Hurts

Two Men and a Baby

The Long Shadow

Jenni Rowell: Life, Interrupted

Franky Carrillo: Life

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