The Peach Badge of Courage
Living in LA with his girlfriend, Michael has gotten used to agreeing with plans that he’s not at all enthusiastic abo...
02/09/2010
LISTENMission Impersonable
Cooper wants to be an actor, but he’s just a Tom Cruise impersonator. Hired to surprise golfers as the Mission Impossi...
10/20/2012
LISTENWhat We All Know To Be Tremendous
Heather’s childhood obsession with her mother’s beauty — and especially her mother’s perfect bosom — t...
03/09/2011
LISTENA Muffin Appears
Joanne is a free spirit who’s worked as a circus aerialist and a touring theatre performer, and her new Argentinian bo...
03/09/2011
LISTENThe Lightswitch
After reading a short story in his college creative writing class about a man with OCD, Matt has a flash of insight and ...
03/09/2011
LISTENThe Wild One
Max grew up in the early 1980’s on the south shore of Long Island, running with a very tough street gang that he descr...
10/26/2010
LISTENLittle Big Man (aka When Kobe Bryant Was 17)
Luke was a large, fat kid, but the summer he was 17, he grew from 5’10 to 6’4, and his height made him a hot commodi...
02/09/2010
LISTENFamiliar Pattern
Starlee gets a job in LA for a month, and has to rent a car. The first day she picks up the car, she’s talking to her ...
01/12/2010
LISTENI Thought You Were My Friend
Keith is 22, and is the artistic director of a professional theatre company in Wilmington, DE. He loves being accessible...
01/12/2010
LISTENStronger in the Broken Places
Amy’s been married to her husband for two decades. They’re a great match, laughing together and creating mischief de...
08/12/2019
LISTENFor The Love of Free Parking
Emerson is obsessed with finding free parking spots, to the point that if he sees a great parking spot, he’ll park in ...
08/12/2019
LISTENQ is for Questioning
Paul is working at a boarding school in Switzerland, and one summer day, smokes pot with a new friend, Adam, out in the ...
08/12/2019
LISTENA Dreamer Schemer Spendthrift
Shauna has hemorrhoid issues, which she knows could be helped by a hot tub, but she and her husband are reluctant to let...
07/22/2019
LISTENMissing
Sumer wakes to find her 2-year old is missing. The whole neighborhood joins the search, but it turns out, the baby was n...
04/29/2019
LISTENButterfly
Susanne is the mother of two kids, Tori and Liam, when she and her husband decide to have a third. After four miscarriag...
04/09/2019
LISTENContraction
Tyson and his newlywed wife Colleen are young, devout Christians – virgins until marriage – and discover on ...
04/09/2019
LISTENThere Will Be Blood
25-year old Adrien is finding her new home of NYC to be really lonely. She falls for a guy named Jose who she’s met at...
04/09/2019
LISTENBulletproof
Andrew grows up Jewish in the south, with an identity as a rather nerdy, dateless hypochondriac; he wants so much to be ...
12/04/2017
LISTENHookers and Blow
Marc is standing outside his building at 2am, when a prostitute approaches and asks if he wants sex. Marc says yes, and ...
02/24/2020
LISTENIn Labor
After high school, Aaron goes to live on a kibbutz in Israel, where he helps a cow give birth; but fails to bring peace ...
10/20/2012
LISTENUntitled
Kumail tells his Risk! Live in LA co-host Pete about the time in his life when he lived with three roommates in Chicago,...
11/05/2011
LISTENMother May I?
When Joy was little, her mom told the whole family that she’d talked to the Lord, face to face, and he’d reassured h...
10/26/2010
LISTENIncest Peppermints
Andrea confesses that when she was little she was in love with her brother, 3 years older than her, and knew she’d end...
10/26/2010
LISTENYou Say Penis, I Say Pienus
Sara hits puberty at age 11, and starts feeling many new feelings that she directs into a unique outlet: inspired by som...
06/01/2010
LISTENPersonal Best
Kevin decides to combat his nagging insecurity that he’s the weakest member of his comedy troupe, The State, by gettin...
06/01/2010
LISTENThe Deuce
Miles finally goes on a date with a coworker he’s had a crush on for quite a while — Dana. He gets wasted the ni...
05/17/2010
LISTENA Little Help From My Friends
When his comedy troupe breaks up, Kevin goes solo, but blanks out on stage on a high stakes night and tries to flee befo...
02/09/2010
LISTENI Love You, Man
Having a hard time adjusting to college, Mather gets drunk and conscripts a homeless man to be his confidante and dorm r...
01/12/2010
LISTENMistress O
Ophira is hired to write an article for a big, glossy magazine – Marie Claire — and has to come up with a pi...
01/12/2010
LISTENBarefoot in the Park
Brand new to NYC at 18 after growing up in conservative, closeted Cincinnati, Kevin tests out a gay bar on the Upper Wes...
11/03/2009
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