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>> We may all have stories to tell, but not all of us are so confident in our story telling abilities.
Thankfully, that's where drunken Telegraph story telling comes in.
A show in Tacoma that teaches anyone how to tell a story and do it in front of a live audience.
Take a look.
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>> I love to talk.
>> This man is the size of three football players crammed into one kevlar vest.
>> I've been a talker since I was a kid.
>> He's massive.
>> I talked so much that my mother ended up buying me a little cassette recorder when I was a kid.
>> This was a huge sniper thing.
>> Here, why don't you tell it to the recording.
>> And then suddenly, I see his eyes, and I think he sees me.
>> And we're struggling and I'm thinking, oh my God, this old man is gonna die.
>> We decided we're gonna do this story telling show, we're gonna do curated stories.
We also knew we wanted to do a story slam.
>> There's a sign-up right here at Megan's table right here.
>> The people in the community want to hear stories and want to have a chance to tell their own stories.
That's what I wanted to bring.
And tad wanted too, to bring that together.
>> You got five minutes, okay?
>> This story begins with two neighbors in particular, T.J. and grant.
T.J. was leaving down in mid-December, asked his neighbor grant, would you keep an eye on the house for me?
Fair enough, be gone for a couple of days.
T.J. comes home and all of his Christmas decorations are gone.
The whole house, he does it up really nice, 100%.
And they're on the house that's across the street for sale, okay?
[LAUGHTER]
>> I see coming down the street a van with blacked out windows, and my husband says it's the paddy wagon.
So we watch to see all the cops come rolling out, but they don't.
Instead, two boys get out.
And these kids, they just get out of the van.
And I think does the driver not see all the cop cars?
Does the driver not see the cop in the alley with the pistol like this?
Does nobody else see what I see?
>> They start at one place, and by the time they're done with the process, they realize what that story means in a more full way for themselves.
>> What I learned from all of that was that being neighbors could also be about having just the corner of your stories meet.
>> So it's not just entertaining for us, but story tellers themselves have an experience of transformation.
>> I hope that when people walk away, they think I have a story to tell, that they go through their lives, and they think back on their memories and say, well, how would I tell my own story?
[APPLAUSE]
>> You can find out about the next drunken telegraph show by going to their website.
By the way, the name comes from author Rudyard Kipling when he visited Seattle in 1989.
He wrote, "The drunken telegraph, telephone, and electric wires tangled on tottering posts whose butts were half whittled through by the knife of the loafer."
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