16 year old Emily Johnon struggles with aneorexia during her tenure at a Catholic high school in California when she has her first hard alcohol at a party with Dakota Fanning. Ms Fanning offers Emily her first cigerette. Emily breaks the fourth wall by asking Ms. Fanning about her best friend Kristin's dating habits. All of this is contrasted with her first experiences in Missoula, Montana where she now makes her home and makes people laugh with her stand up comedy.
Stories - True Stories Shared Live
Welcome to Tell Us Something. All of the stories are shared live and without notes. We hope you enjoy.
Barbara Bartmess is a single mother with three girls in 1979 when she meets Jim. After a whirwind romance, they marry. Their honeymoon in Twin Lakes, CO begins with a rainy hike in an area Jim had not been in a long while. This misadventure is the first of many in the beginning of their marriage, which has lasted 36 years.
Drinking and smoking her way through her twenties in Missoula, Montana after she retired from her career as a Hotshot in the Forest Service, Debbie meets the bass player in The Tom Catmull Band who shows her around Missoula and re-introduces her to herself. They end up working at Honey Teriyaki together, falling in love and re-discovering her roar.
Tracy Worley is loyal and has no exit strategy for marriage when suddenly her husband announces that he is leaving her. She explains whey she stayed as long as she did.
Staying in the Huntly Lodge at Big Sky Ski Resort, Lucia, her sister and their friend seek to freak out some of the other guests and are caught by the ski patrol.
Makhesh Begleiter shares a tale of a mutiny against his summer camp teacher by locking a her inside the fence at Lowell School.
Elise Baker shares her story of how her family has a close call on the Alberton Gorge when her sister and everyone else is thrown from the boat on one of the whitewater rapids.
A wiener dog and a huge dog each take a bite out of Jack Catmul on two separate occasions. He shares these experiences with us as part of the Zootown Arts Community Center 2015 storytelling summer camp graduation.
Sick for 2 months with walking pneumonia, Mason shares his story of that experience as well as learning about Craniosacral healing, exploring themes of fear and learning about his own health welfare.