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Eli McCann tells a story on The Porch in 2012 about some surprising encounters with strangers while couchsurfing through eastern Europe with a friend.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Couchsurfing.mp3

This week on Strangerville Shorts, Eli and Jolyn read some of the poetry they’ve written over the years and discuss some very heavy topics.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Poems.mp3

In this episode of Strangerville we explore stories about fear to ring in Strangerville’s first Halloween. A five-year-old regales us with tale of a hairy toe. A woman wakes up on a basement floor, alone and terrified, somewhere in Thailand. And a family experiences senses and sounds from beyond.

Segments:

1. The Hairy Toe by Charles and BreAnna

2. Trapped in Thailand by Annette Thacker

3. Something Else Happened Here by Isabel Rojas

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Episode_9_The_World_of_Fear_1.mp3

Eli and Jolyn analyze the most important parts of the recent presidential debate.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Debate_1.mp3

This week on Strangerville Shorts, Eli tells a story live at The Porch about a time he wandered a foreign airport naked, searching for his clothes.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Korean_Bathhouse.mp3

This time in Strangerville we hear stories from people who leave home and discover new things about themselves. A New Yorker quits her job and finds herself a few months later walking the Camino de Santiago. A drama teacher has a close call hiking and hitchhiking through the Californian wilderness. And a woman adopted as a baby from Korea returns to her homeland and unwittingly discovers that everything she formerly believed about her biological family was completely incorrect.

Segments

1. Find a Way by Gemma Rogers

2. Bear Necessities by Dana Rose Fleming

3. Asian Surprise by Amanda Peterson

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Episode_8_The_World_of_Discovery_1.mp3

This week on Strangerville Shorts, Eli tells the story of his 2004 Ukrainian appendectomy.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Hospital_Bohdan.mp3

This week on Strangerville Shorts, Jolyn and Eli peruse a few of the tens of millions of emails they have received to the Strangerville email account.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Fanmail_2.mp3

This time in Strangerville we explore the world of travel through some stories that may make you just want to stay home from now on. TSA overreaches, figuratively and literally. A 13-year-old girl tries to take explosives onto a plane. A young woman escapes her problems for an inappropriately-romanticized life in Ireland. And a heroic woman combs the planet to reunite her family after the events of one day change everything.

Segments

Intro: By Eli McCann and Jolyn Metro

1. How Can I be one with Rainbow? by Dana Rose Fleming

2. The Day that Changed Everything by Leisl Morris

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Episode_7_The_World_of_Travel_3.mp3

This week on Strangerville Shorts, enjoy a clip from a BBC Radio 4 segment in which Eli talks about the meaning behind Mary Poppins’s classic song, Feed the Birds.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Feed_the_Birds_1_1.mp3