13 Years Later – Franky Carrillo #3: Still Franky
This is a brand new installment in the Franky Carrillo saga that I’m very excited to share with you. Franky is the same great storyteller he...
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Summer of Strangers: Franky Carrillo #2: Life Now – 2017
I hope you heard Franky’s story from last week , because it’s heartbreaking, and uplifting, and enraging, and inspiring, and it’s the founda...
Summer of Strangers – Franky Carrillo #1 Life
Franky Carrillo was 16 when he received a double life sentence for a crime he had nothing to do with. This is his story. It's one of the mos...
14 Years Later: And Justice for All?
Last week we posted Sharon Houston's hilarious and beloved old Strangers story And Justice for All? and this week we're following up with Sh...
Summer of Strangers: And Justice for All?
Welcome back to our Summer of Strangers. Today's story is an old S trangers episode with Sharon Houston , and next week we'll do a follow-up...
10 Years Later – The Son, The Goddess & Leopoldo
Thank you for all the love we’ve received about Joshua Safran’s story from last week. This episode is a follow-up with Joshua about his life...
Summer of Strangers: The Son, The Goddess & Leopoldo
Joshua Safran was born in a coven of lesbian witches in a Haight-Ashbury commune. After the fall of Saigon, young Joshua Safran hit the open...
Summer of Strangers: Unconditional
This is a story of mothers, love, regret, and redemption, and of secrets from many years past that cast long shadows into our lives. It’s ab...
Something Old, Something New, Something Light, Something True
In this episode, we wrap up The Hopeful Locals and preview our SUMMER of STRANGERS with a Strangers story that has been offline since 2014....
The Hopeful Locals #7: John
This is Episode 7 of the Hopeful Locals, but this installment can also stand alone . Today you’re going to meet John Doyle, and I’m going to...
The Hopeful Locals #6: Cowboy Country
As L.A. burns behind me, I drive deeper into cowboy country through Wyoming to Montana, trying to untangle the many contradictions of the co...
The Hopeful Locals #5: Visionaries of The Wind River, Part 2
The hope holds strong in this second episode about people working for change on the Wind River Reservation. It is brought to you by Tink Med...
The Hopeful Locals #4: Visionaries of the Wind River, Part 1
This is Episode 4 of The Hopeful Locals (Episode 7 if you’re a paying subscriber and get bonus episodes!). You’re getting this episode ad-fr...
The Hopeful Locals #3: Erika
This is Episode 3 of The Hopeful Locals for free subscribers (Episode 6 for paying subscribers). Our storyteller today is Erika Warren-Yarbe...
The Hopeful Locals #2: On the Road Again
This is Episode 2 of my series, The Hopeful Locals . It’s a direct continuation of Episode 1, so if you haven’t heard that, I’d go start the...
The Hopeful Locals #1: A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Woman
This is the prologue to my new series, The Hopeful Locals , and I hope you’ll enjoy it. The story continues on Friday. Huge thanks to Dengue...
Introducing 'STORIES by Lea Thau'
Hi friends, I’m back! New episodes start dropping Tuesday! Also, heads-up: I’ll be changing the name of this podcast from Strangers to STORI...
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, a...
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...
Me For Mayor?
Have you ever had the fantasy that a chance encounter with a stranger could tell you who to be? Karin Gutman was working as an assistant whe...