The Nerdologues meet a lot of cool people, but one of our coolest new friends of 2015 is Tanner Woodford, executive director of the Chicago Design Museum. Tanner contributed to a Your Stories a couple months ago and suggested doing a special recording as part of Chicago Design Week. The first part of that recording is what you've got now! Tanner curated the night and suggested the theme, "Discovery," and we got something really special out of it. This episode, enjoy:

• Cover Stories: Baby
• Cover Stories: Lose Yourself
• Claire Friedman: Art Major
• Tracie Hall: The Real Kwanzaa
• Philip Burton: Petroglyphs
• Joey Nakayama: Process Nerd
• Mike Joosse: Mall Dreams
• Cover Stories: Umbrella

Thanks to Cards Against Humanity for sponsoring this episode and to the Chicago Podcast Coop for, well, everything!

Your Stories is heading to Adler After Dark this month. Get your tickets and submit your own story pitch here!

We're also giving our good friend/fellow podcaster Mark Colomb a send-off at our regular monthly July show. Details on that are here.