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The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it.

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The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it.

    Jess ditches the leg

    Jess ditches the leg

    Jess Walton is a childhood cancer survivor and amputee. For years they've used a prosthetic leg, despite the discomfort. This is the story of how they went from being an ‘inspiring disabled speaker’ to finally saying f*ck the leg.

    • 23 min
    Geoff takes on the world's tallest Christmas tree

    Geoff takes on the world's tallest Christmas tree

    It’s 1999, and the last Christmas of the century is fast approaching. Geoff Law gets a call from Bob Brown that sends him on a tall task: to decorate the world’s tallest Christmas tree.

    • 21 min
    Out of the closet and into the frat house

    Out of the closet and into the frat house

    Growing up, AJ Lamarque was always just ‘one of the girls’. But in his twenties, he inadvertently joined a very big, very American college fraternity. Strangely enough, this crash course in male friendship — in the strangest of settings — taught him a great lesson.

    • 22 min
    Kids of Liberty

    Kids of Liberty

    Many years ago, when MySpace reigns supreme, a young Marty Smiley takes a leaf straight out of the American Revolution playbook and stages a boycott of his high school canteen. The cause? The skyrocketing price of muffins. The unlikely name of his rag-tag group of revolutionaries? The Kids of Liberty.

    • 28 min
    New episodes — Main character energy

    New episodes — Main character energy

    There are times where you feel like you're just a side-character in someone else's narrative, or maybe you're off-stage waiting in the wings. But then something happens and suddenly you're the main character, the hero — or villain — of your own story.

    • 2 min
    The guinea pig years

    The guinea pig years

    As the demands of school, teenagerhood, and family life increase, so do the numbers of Vanessa's guinea pig herd.

    • 26 min

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