The University of Illinois is a pretty special place to at least a couple people in the Nerdologues, but certainly for group founder Kevin Reader. He was an artist-in-residence at U of I's Allen Hall a few weeks ago, and for the last night of his residency, he and Eric ran a really special Your Stories show made up of some very talented University students and alums. This was a really cool thing we got to do; thanks for having us, Allen Hall! This episode, enjoy:

• Eric: Blood Red Summer
• Eric: Dakota
• Eric Garneau: Failure
• Avalon Ruby: Head Wound
• Brock Russell: Blacking In
• Rachel Pellegrino: Triple Extreme
• Jesus Monroy: Costa Rica
• Sarah Miller: Time Amongst the Parrotheads
• Kevin Reader: A Toast and a Eulogy
• Eric: Portions for Foxes

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Don't forget to submit your favorite stories and songs from the last year of podcasts! That helps us put together our year-end episodes and also our Fifth Anniversary Show at the Hideout this December!

Your Stories will be doing a show at the Chicago Podcast Festival next Friday and we're very excited!