The award-winning Story Pirates Podcast takes stories written by kids and turns them into sketch comedy and songs. Made up of talented comedians, songwriters, and frequent celebrity guests, the Story Pirates inspire kids to create, bringing laughter to kids and grownups of all ages with hilarious sketches, catchy original songs from all genres, and interviews with the creative geniuses behind the stories… kids!
Lee, Rolo and Smitty start tracking down the other members of the Story Pirates in NYC, starting with Meghan, who is starring in her very own Broadway show alongside a theatrical ghost (Heléne Yorke). Featuring two new stories: ‘Why Are There So Many Commercials?’, a story about two kids who find out the truth behind the constant barrage of advertisements on TV, written by Sarah, a 10 year old from New York, and ‘The Tooth Problem,’ a terrifying tale of cavities come to life, written by two siblings from Wisconsin, Kade and Avery.
The Story Pirates are finally back home in NYC! Featuring two new stories: “Black Bird, Blue Bird,” a gentle folk song about two birds who are celestially connected, featuring the band Mipso and written by Joanna, an 11 year old from Colorado, and “Trying to Write a Story,” a tale of two authors who overcome a debilitating case of writers' block, written by a 10 year old from Alabama named John Bannon.
In this bonus episode, Story Pirate Eric interviews a witch to help him decide what he should be for Halloween. Featuring one of our favorite spooky stories from the archives, “Boo!” by a 7 year old from Florida named Nora.
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In this bonus episode, Story Pirate Eric interviews Frankenstein to help him decide what Eric should be for Halloween. Featuring one of our favorite spooky stories from the archives, “Zombies Ate My Homework!!!!!,” by an 11 year old from California named Paxton.
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The Story Pirates Podcast is back for Season 6! Coming October 19th, listen to new episodes wherever you get your podcasts.
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We’re off this week getting ready for Season 6, so here’s a taste of a series we’ve been releasing on the Creator Club feed. It’s called Idea Storm, and in it we give you ideas to try out in your own writing! Today’s idea is about how to introduce an exciting problem in your story. When you finish your stories, we’d love to see what you come up with! Grownups can submit stories at storypirates.com. And remember, we respond to every single story we receive!
Show Notes: If you want to listen to any of the stories we played clips of today, go to Season 5, episode 11 for the story “The Dangerous Plumbers,” Season 5, episode 19 for the story “The Town of Snake Therapists,” and Season 5, episode 6 for the story “The Magician’s Accidents.”
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We’re so excited to announce that the new season of the Story Pirates Podcast is coming October 19th! We also have two of our favorite deep cuts from last season: “Now We’re Cooking With Butter” and “Cicada Party.”
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Labor Day is here, and you know what that means: worms all around the world are headed back to school! Luckily, DJ Squirm-a-Lot has created the perfect playlist to help worms, and humans, get ready to learn.
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Waiting can be hard, especially if you’ve been waiting all year for an amazing trip to a theme park. Today’s brand new story, by Oscar and Miles from Colorado, shows just how painful that kind of waiting can be.
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Trees: we love them and we need them. But could it be that we underestimate them? In this brand new story by Wyatt, a 9 year old from Vermont, one tree does something that no one thought was possible.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.