A fun episode! Jaydie comes onto talk with the StoryFellers and brings a breadth and depth of knowledge that Joe and Shlok desperately need. She talks about dowries, the effect and pressure they had on most marriages in fourteenth century Italy, and seeds the idea of a heist that features the concept.

The idea for the story featured in the next episode was borne out of Jaydie's focus in her graduate studies, and there's a wonderful focusing function that happens because of it. A lot of what we do here at StoryFellers is engage with and work on storytelling without any real expectation of seriousness, but it is nice to work with a topic that is innately weighty, and see what we can do with it.

In a quest to find as many balances as possible, there is something to be said about doing it with the concept of the podcast: apply the lens of silliness to seriousness, and maybe it'll lead to something new. You'll have to see in our next episode when we premiere the story that we come up with. It's a ton of fun.