Storytellers Shlok Sharma and Joe Greenfield spin brand new tales on the fly.
First, hear them spontaneously come up with pitches, and in the next episode hear them present the finished story.
It’s like getting to hear the writing process in real-time, except more chaotic, and with a lot more talking.
WE ARE BACK!
This long awaited episode has got it all: sadism, dowries, and nuns! The StoryFellers (writing it out, it feels like a band, like The Lumineers) had a lot of fun writing this, and putting together the details from the last episode, and it was an absolute blast getting to do this with THE Jaydie Halperin!
Also the deepest apologies from Shlok Sharma for not putting this out sooner, he is awful at editing things on time. This will be better in the future! Plus, doesn't the wait make the episode that much more worth it? No? Fair enough!
Without any further adieu, "Venetian Blind!"
25 Jul 2025
Episode #16 – The Makings of a Dowry Heist w/ Jaydie Halperin
A fun episode! Jaydie comes onto talk with the StoryFellers and brings a breadth and depth of knowledge that Joe and Shlok desperately need. She talks about dowries, the effect and pressure they had on most marriages in fourteenth century Italy, and seeds the idea of a heist that features the concept.
The idea for the story featured in the next episode was borne out of Jaydie's focus in her graduate studies, and there's a wonderful focusing function that happens because of it. A lot of what we do here at StoryFellers is engage with and work on storytelling without any real expectation of seriousness, but it is nice to work with a topic that is innately weighty, and see what we can do with it.
In a quest to find as many balances as possible, there is something to be said about doing it with the concept of the podcast: apply the lens of silliness to seriousness, and maybe it'll lead to something new. You'll have to see in our next episode when we premiere the story that we come up with. It's a ton of fun.
2 Jul 2025
Episode #15 – Serial Killer Dynasty
Hosts Shlok Sharma and Joe discuss the funny premise and controversial characters of Jack the Ripper and Jeffrey Dahmer in this episode.
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