West Side Stories Petaluma
Dave Pokorny Presents...The Story Behind the Story, a closer look into StorySlams of West Side Stories Petaluma. Listen to the this live streaming show the last Wednesday of the month. Dave and Juliet Pokorny visited the Moth in NYC in 2010. This had such an impact that they came back to Petaluma and created West Side Stories Petaluma. Starting with Cinnabar Theatre and the Pelican Art Gallery, in 2013 West Side Stories Petaluma moved to Sonoma Portworks and in 2015 expanded and added a GrandSlam each December at The Mystic Theatre. Dave Pokorny Presents is the producing company of Dave & Juliet Pokorny. You can visit the website at davepokornypresents.com to see more of what they produce. Dave Pokorny: made his living as a stand-up comic in San Francisco and has worked with such talent as Ellen DeGeneres, Jim Carrey, Bob Saget to name a few. He has a one-man show called Based on a True Story.
Episodes
Matt tries to answer whether any of us really know our fathers.
John recounts tales akin to Tom and Huck on the Missippi River because hasn't everyone said "We should build a raft" at some point in their life?
The swim that will haunt Katherine forever.
Flashback to the days when Mary knew all the town gossip working at the local flower shop.
Rick takes us back to Haight & Ashbury and how easy it was to make friends (or roommates) with hippies in less than a day.
Leslie reminisces about her first and best friend; her mom. She reminds us that moms always know more than we do.
Bobby remembers the time he became a man, the Italian way.
Lendri takes us back to the time she took her class on a field trip to gold country and had an experience she'll never forget.
Carlos compares real problems from his childhood in Columbia to the "real" problems facing Gen Z.
Flashback to Ben's favorite adventure as a caregiver for dementia patients.
JP remembers the time his mom forced him to come to parties to overhear partygoers conversations as her hearing declines and he learns the joy of gossiping.
Michaels takes us back to the time his friends Tony Soprano-esque dad asked him to commit identity theft for a chemistry class.
His dad being part of the Philidelphia 9, and the bright side for him was watching how their neighbors and Quakers all rallied around his family and all the Philedelphia 9 and eventually cleared their name.
His wife wanted a horse, which was a big learning curve, but having a partner is about being better today then you were yesterday...a should out to Linda for being his bright side.
Thinking of the bright side of death, when his mom died he found journal pages all over, he spent a few years with a write friend putting it togehter he got the nerve to give it to his dad, who had been divorced from his mom when she died. After hid dad got the journal, he reunited with Paul for several years never saying anything about the journal but, "there's 2 sides to ever story".
The time her heard the best bar band in America. He sat next to someone at the bar that explained human behavior, maybe he was drunk, but on the bright side...it was Bruce Springstien.
The time she was moving out of her condo and got locked in a closet. After waiting a while her Gen Z neighbors heard her and got her out. On the bright side, even though she felt "old" for getting trapped in her closet, she did get her entire deposit back.
After a long day of work, she decides to go into the hot tub. While she's going out, her cat gets into a wild fight with another cat. Patty tries to break it up with her towel leaving her buck naked. The bright side is her cat was find and to her knowledge no one saw her in her "birthday suit".
The 2 times she stayed up all night. The first night was the time her exboyfriend and she went to a Party and he left with another woman, leaving her to stay up all night to get the train. The 2nd was a few months later, when she decided to go out after 11pm, she tried to avoid seeing her ex and went to another bar, and ran into him anyways. On the bright side, he introdcued her to Nate and 21 years later they are still together.
Basketball tryouts at 11, he really thought even though he didn't know the game that well, he would get on the team. When he didn't, the bright side was that he learned he likes individual sports.
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