The VAMP Storytelling Podcast

We were cleaning up around the So Say We All office the other day when we came across the beauty from the vault we’re going to share with you tonight. We've always wanted to have a podcast, and after our first December show in 2009, we actually took a crack at it. The only problem was we had no idea what to do with it after we made it and then it sat on the shelf for the last 14 years. But today’s the day!Learn more about VAMP and all of So Say We All's programs, how to get involved, and how to support at www.sosayweallonline.com. Or go straight to our Patreon and help our New Year start on the right foot.

I know it’s only September, but if you’re familiar to Southern California, you can already feel autumn settling on our southern California landscape. The dirt is starting to smell louder, like boiled peanuts, the cactus flowers bloomed just on time and the bees came back, the crows are flying around like curtains around sundown; it’s a whole carnival. To help get us in the mood for that today, we’re going to play you a show titled, “Season of the Witch,” where you’re going to meet a lovely flock of characters.Featuring: Amanda Qassar, Arianna Remmel, David Schmidt, Shelly DeAngelis, Jennifer Coburn, Elaine Gingery, and Ginger Nocera.*** Learn more and SUPPORT So Say We All at www.sosayweallonline.com ***

We just had a great time collaborating with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, producing a showcase of true stories created in response to their phenomenal Cecilia Alvarez Munoz retrospective, “Breaking the Binding.”It was so good in fact we wanted to turn it around and put it out so everyone who couldn’t make it in person could have a listen. It’s doubly cool if you’ve seen the retrospective or are familiar with her art, but the stories also stand on their own, and we’re going to run the whole show for you now, uninterrupted.*** Learn more about upcoming live shows, how to get involved, support us, and more at www.sosayweallonline.com ***

We’re super excited for our upcoming show this Sunday, April 16th at Bar Lubitch in West Hollywood, and so to get in the mood for the drive and show, today’s stories come to you from our inaugural show in Los Angeles, “Midnight Strikes.”Featuring:Jennifer CorleyTravis LoweKirsten HernandezShannon KernagenDustin MarquelAnd Sam DiSalvo

I couldn’t let February skip by without summoning up a show because February is our anniversary month. We turned fourteen this year to a packed house, another indicator that people are venturing back out into the post-quarantine world so it was a very happy anniversary indeed. So for today’s podcast, I have plucked from February 2013’s show, “Dirty Talk Vol.2” for your pleasure, featuring:David LathamJennifer JamallHolland HolzerJuliete EscoriaDelia KnightJustin HudnallMake sure you subscribe to The VAMP Storytelling Podcast if you haven’t already, and if you would please leave us a rating and review magically more people will find us. Learn about all the upcoming shows mentioned and how to get involved at www.sosayweallonline.com.Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

We took a little break over the Holidays, because we had live shows to focus on, and Southwest Airlines stranded our Program Director, and families were knocking on the door, but we are back here in January with a full show for you done in one epsiode, from our January 2014 VAMP Storytelling showcase, "Are You Gonna Eat That?" featuring:Leon Deklebaum, Felix Flanders, Eliza Jane Schneider, Carlyn Budd, Jenny Goff, Gary Gould, and SSWA’s beloved mom, then and forever, Nancy Cary.Find us online at www.sosayweallonline.com, on IG @sosayweallonline.com, and the Tweets @sosayweallsd.Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Today we’re serving up Part Two of, “Will It Fit?”, a charcuterie board of stories to keep your headspace zen.Featuring:Kaitlin MalcolmMichelle O'NeillElizabeth MarroMentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

We have a delicious buffet of stories for you this month slathered across two episodes, heated up and served from our November 2018 live show, “Will It Fit?” It’s the perfect collection of stories to plug into your ears while you walk the dog around the block this Thanksgiving just when your uncle starts explaining how Jewish space lasers work.Featuring:Tiffany CooperTim ColeRose BylerBrienne HayesIf you want to learn more about So Say We All, including how to get in touch, upcoming live shows you can be a part of, and more, pop over to our website, www.sosayweallonline.com.And just to put a little bug in your ear, the last Tuesday of the month this November is Giving Tuesday, and if you can spare a little bit of disposable income from Jeff Bezos and want to share your charitable bounty, we would be so grateful if we made your “nice” list. Just hop over to www.sosayweallonline.com/support and make it rain.Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Now is our most beloved time of year, the spooky season. which in San Diego is not heralded in by falling autumnal leaves, but the all-powerful Santa Anna, The Red Wind, whipping out of the desert passes dry as a bone before smashing with gale force into the county. Wildfires turn into apocalypses, infants and animals refuse to be calmed, and we remember what Raymond Chandler wrote:“Every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks.”In the storytelling business, we try to pull together shows around this time with themes that fit the mood, and so our October episode today is called, “Spirits.”Featuring:Tim WestBrent HannifyLeon DeklebaumLynn CooperKevin ManleyAri KriegerAriana RemmelMentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

From So Say We All in San Diego, welcome back to The VAMP Storytelling Podcast. It’s part two of the show we began last episode, “That’s My Jam,” featuring stories about the songs that shaped our lives, and   today features a bouquet of flowering  voices: Delia Knight, David Latham, Katie Haroff, and starting us off, Jennifer Stefnik with her story, “New Kids On The Block Rule!”Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Despite the passing heat wave, you can begin to smell the faintest hint of fall in the air, and that has us all so percolating with anticipation we wanted our next two episodes to reflect our excitement. So we’re going with “That’s My Jam,” a great show all about songs, hobbies, and obsessions that set the stage for big life moments.Featuring: Nas Helewa, Jennifer D. Corley, Leon Decklebaum, and Eber Lambert.Help So Say We All keep on helping people tell their stories and tell them better by making a one-time donation or becoming a sustaining member at www.sosayweallonline.com/support.Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Welcome back to The VAMP Storytelling Showcase on this late summer afternoon from everyone here at So Say We All in San Diego, California. We’re doing part two of “Neighborhood Watch,” today, with three storytellers hoping to wow you. Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Living in the manicured suburbs of Del Cerro–the Hillcrest of tomorrow I like to think of it as–has really done a number on me. I woke up here one day and realized I had become the guy who yells at cars that drive too fast, and sets out trail cameras to discover which local critter has been getting into the cat food.But the seedy underbelly truly reared its ugly head when I was introduced to the social media website, “Next Door,” which is an online community for absolutely terrified white people to alert their neighborhood to “suspicious persons,” or say horrible things about the little old lady whose terrier made the unforgivable choice to relieve itself on someone’s water-guzzling lawn. It’s a magical way to draft everyone on the block into a militia, and make them targets of suspicion at the same time. It’s a pretty amazing business strategy.So this episode and next we’ll be trying to introduce the antidote to that festering pit of pettiness and paranoia with wholesome, revelatory true stories from our August 2014 Showcase, “Neighborhood Watch.”Featuring:Suzanne HoyemBenjamin HardieJulia MixerMentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Support So Say We All during our annual summer fund drive: www.sosayweallonline.com/supportIt's part two of Woah, Mama! Featuring the alternately gut-punching and tickling narrative touchies of Jordan Coburn, Madison Ford, Dallas McLaughlin, and J Carroll; recorded at The Whistle Stop in San Diego. Be sure to swing by So Say We All's Youtube page if you want the full audio / visual experience, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review so the algorithm deems us worthy!To learn more about The VAMP Storytelling Showcase and So Say We All, the literary arts nonprofit responsible for it, visit www.sosayweallonline.com.Mentioned in this episode:VoSD Trailer All Hosts

Support So Say We All during our annual summer fund drive: www.sosayweallonline.com/supportSummer is officially upon us. Here in San Diego, we still haven’t the kind of flattening heat waves or exploding forest fires that wipe whole towns off the map like we have in previous summers. Considering all the other things going on in the country, it’s almost like California understands we’re working with a full plate at the moment and doesn’t want to add to it. Not yet at least. We’ve got a hell of a show that will hopefully take your mind off of all that for the next hour, on the theme of, “Woah, Mama,” a live show debuting just a minute ago in May of 2022–Mother’s Day might have had something to do with our going with it. We’ll hear from Part One’s storytellers today, featuring Laura Preble, Debra Bass, TJ Tallie, and Milo Schapiro.The VAMP Storytelling Podcast is produced by Justin Hudnall.Leslie Furguson was our volunteer producer for the live show.Joe Hudak is our Production manager.Jennifer Corley is our Program Director.And Brent Hannify is our Social Media Manager who gets the word out.All the original music you hear was provided by the inspired Kurt Kohnen of AMFM Music with the exception of our end credits theme, "Blue Little" generously provided by 10:32.Support is made possible by The California Arts Council, The San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, and the supporting members of So Say We All. We’d love to have you as one of those members, just go to www.sosayweallonline.com/support or our Patreon, www.patreon.com/sosayweallonline. We would deeply appreciate the love.

Welcome back to all our beloved friends out there, but an especially heartfelt greeting to the strangers joining us today for the first time; we hope you don’t stay strangers for long once you hear today’s episode on the theme of “Red Flags,” part two.Featuring:Ed Farragut, Anastasia Zadiek, and Jake Arky.Produced by Justin Hudnall.Intro and interstitial music by Kurt Kohnen of AMFM Music, outro music courtesy of 10:32.Learn more at www.sosayweallonline.com, and if you like what we do and want to support us by becoming a supporting member, we’d love to have you, just pop over to https://sosayweall.wildapricot.org/.

On this first episode of The VAMP Storytelling Podcast featuring stories from our community, we wanted to lead with our best foot forward. After a thorough review of our copious story archive, we have resolved to bring you a show on the theme of “Red Flags,” interpreted by five brilliant voices over the course of two episodes.Featuring:Jenn Stiff and Jean Guerrero.Produced by Justin Hudnall.Intro and interstitial music by Kurt Kohnen of AMFM Music, outro music courtesy of 10:32.Learn more at www.sosayweallonline.com, and if you like what we do and want to support us by becoming a supporting member, we’d love to have you, just pop over to https://sosayweall.wildapricot.org/

This is not a normal episode, this is more of a little fireside chat where we tell you all about who we are, where we came from, and what we're going to be doing here at The VAMP Storytelling Podcast. You'll be able to expect amazing, raw, true stories from our live shows on a variety of changing themes, so we felt it was only appropriate if we lead with our own.If you want to learn more about So Say We All, the San Diego-based literary and performing arts nonprofit that makes this and other shows possible, visit out our website at www.sosayweallonline.com. And please do check out our other podcasts, Incoming, and Listen With The Lights Off.The VAMP Storytelling Podcast is produced by Justin Hudnall.Intro music by Kurt Kohnen of AMFM Music, outro music courtesy of 10:32.