Tales of Our Folly

This episode’s storyteller is multi-hyphenate multi-talented Amy Heidt, who shares her tale of being a big fish in a small town and the confidence that helps create, which can then fuck you when you really gotta step it up.Subscribe | Like | Contact (talesofourfolly@gmail.com)Get more Tales of Our Folly at www.talesofourfolly.com

This episode features friend of the show Chadwick Hopson, an Actor, Producer, Writer, and Director of The Knights Young. Chadwick sits down for a one on one with Joe to talk about what it’s like letting go of the myths of success in the entertainment industry, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to get down to the business of making art on your own.Subscribe | Like | Contact (talesofourfolly@gmail.com)Get more Tales of Our Folly at www.talesofourfolly.com

This episode’s storyteller is Emmy® winning writer, producer, and performer Amy Rhodes who shares her tale of a farm girl’s first big college party.Subscribe | Like | Contact (talesofourfolly@gmail.com)Get more Tales of Our Folly at www.talesofourfolly.com

This episode’s storyteller is Yaani Mondschein, a New York actress who calls LA home when she’s not traveling around the country shooting TV and Film projects, or raising funds and volunteering as founder of the Charitable Living organization. Yaani shares her tale of one of her very first auditions where she took the credo “go big or go home” a little bit too far.Subscribe | Like | Contact (talesofourfolly@gmail.com)Get more Tales of Our Folly at www.talesofourfolly.com

This episode’s storyteller is another from our infamously lost recordings of our first ever all female lineup. Joe sits down with LA’s storytelling fairy godmother Jessie Rosen, host of Sunday Night Sex Talks and blog-keeper of the now put to rest Twenty Nothings, to discuss storytelling both as host and performer.Get more Tales of Male Folly at www.talesofmalefolly.comSubscribe | Like | Contact (talesofmalefolly@gmail.com)

This episode’s storyteller is another from our second all female live show back in March. LA based multi-hyphenate Angela Gulner, host of the unbridled female podcast Welcome to the Clambake, shares her tale of walking that fine line of when you are indeed all women, but there’s just that one chick who just keeps f***ing with your s**t.Get more Tales of Male Folly at www.talesofmalefolly.comLike | Contact (talesofmalefolly@gmail.com)

This episode’s storyteller is from our second ALL FEMALE LINEUP this past march in which we did not lose the audio file. LA based stand up and writer Ali Waller shares her tale of what it really means to party all the way, and how important it is to have that partner who’s going to keep an eye out for you when you do.Get more Tales of Male Folly at www.talesofmalefolly.comLike | Contact (talesofmalefolly@gmail.com)

In a set of circumstances where male folly played out from the stage into real life, after our first ladies-only show last November, my producer, Brian, and I, managed to lose the sound file containing the recording of the show.It was an epic show, and so, as a way to rectify the shitty situation, we reached out to all the ladies in that lineup and asked if they’d be comfortable having a one-on-one conversation, with me, Joe Tower, about their story, female folly, and how stories of folly play parts in their lives overall.Now, one bonus episode per month will be a one-on-one conversation with someone who’s done our show – perhaps a storyteller that performed before we started recording the shows; perhaps a performer who didn’t feel comfortable with their story ending up on the podcast; friends of the show, enemies of the show; the performers, actors, writers, storytellers, comedians, and artists of every medium who have made the show what it is.But, ladies first. And so, for your listening pleasures, I’d like to present our inaugural TALES OF MALE FOLLY ONE-ON-ONE!From City Tavern in Culver City, this is my conversation with stand-up, storyteller, actor, and writer, JENNA BRISTER. Jenna is a 5-time Moth StorySlam winner, can be seen in the feature film, Permanent, and is the writer for the Lifetime made-for-TV movie, Killer Twin.She is, without a doubt, a Tales of Male Folly MVP, and one of the coolest chicks I’ve ever known.Get more Tales of Male Folly at www.talesofmalefolly.comLike | Contact (talesofmalefolly@gmail.com)

This episode’s storyteller is actor, writer, director, and LA based improv comedy maestro Brian O’Connell who shares his tale of the demise of his relationship with his super-ex, and cops to a male folly classic: just not knowing when to say when.Get more Tales of Male Folly at www.talesofmalefolly.comLike | Contact (talesofmalefolly@gmail.com)