The Nerdologues

This month, Your Stories welcomes the wonderful House Theatre to share the story of their latest production, The Hammer Trinity, and some fantastic stories result!

Have a seat and get ready to slap your knee: Tyler Langford is in the house (with his own banjo!) to weave some tales and tunes about his love of bluegrass, banjo, ragtime, etc. Mountain music! Man this is fun. Tyler tells me about his first band (he's a founding member of UCB!), demonstrates a few different ways to play the banjo (clawhammer being his method of choice), and has lots and lots of favorite artists to share insight on.

This week, Clayton and Kellen welcome Kevin Treski to chat about the Chicago Gaming Union - and all sorts of things that make the Windy City great!

Paul could probably start a country music career of his own inspired by tales of various and sundry "rooms" and roommates from his five years spent in Eugene, Oregon, before landing back in his home state of Illinois. He prefers telling the stories through the lens of Garth Brooks songs, and we have a wonderful time singing the megastar's classic lyrics in between Paul's memories of living with bandmates, rats, and the cougar-esque manager of the coffee shop he worked at (look into the song That Summer for more details on their relationship). 

Clayton's back this week as we welcome special guest and friend Rob Grabowski to mostly talk about games, kind of!

Help celebrate our birthday with the second part of our third annual Annual episode, which features another bunch of great storytellers, friends, and songs from 2014! 

Dear friend and bibliophile Chris Crotwell sat down with me to chat freely and at any volume we chose about his home away from home, libraries. Chris happens to be a librarian with a Master's of Library Science, so he's not just a card-carrying member. He has a ton of first-hand library experience from the other side of the circ desk, and he is even a part of a new teen program being instated at public libraries all over Chicago.

Kellen mans this episode alone and things get pretty serious as he and guest Charley Carroll chat about video game addiction.

Have some relaxing #chilltime with Mike and I as he tells me all about his deep love of the enigma that chillin' can be. It can't always be planned. It doesn't always have to be alone. It's best done with one wall of the room being replaced by a giant aquarium.