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This American Wife Episode 71 - Mike Sager, Victoria Patterson

He's smoked pot with Snoop Dog, and smoked crack with Rick James. He's recorded gangster rap with Ice Cube. His story on the Wonderland murders inspired the movie Boogie Nights. His name is Mike Sager, and we have stories from his incredible career in journalism, plus a look at his new book "High Tolerance." Victoria Patterson is the acclaimed author of the new book "The Peerless Four."On the eve of some sports stuff happening (like, I think, the Super Bowl and the Olypmics or something), she tells a more personal tale of the sporting life. Stay with us.

Produced and edited by Eric Martin.

Correspondents at large: Paul Jay, Jen Goldberg.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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RSVP for the Thursday, December 19th show by clicking here or on the flyer above.

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Guys I'm telling a story at this on Thursday. It's our 2nd anniversary show at M Bar - it's free, and it also has the amazing gentlemen from Walking The Room telling tales of their own.

RSVP and then come see it and stuff!

No, none needed, thanks.

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This American Wife Episode 70 - David Nadelberg of Mortified, Dwayne Perkins

"Mortified" - David Nadelberg is the creator and producer of the show "Mortified", a nationwide stage show, television show, and now movie (www.mortifiednation.com), where grownups get up and read terrifically embarrassing writing from when they were kids. We also learn the shocking truth about the host's own mortification. Dwayne Perkins is a comedian, and the author of "Hot Chocolate for the Mind." He is very nice and helpful. Stay with us.

Produced and edited by Eric Martin.

Correspondents at large: Paul Jay, Jen Goldberg.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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Time to get MORTIFIED.

I did the voiceover for this little sketch for UCB Comedy and it's delightful.

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This American Wife Episode 69 - Bounty Killer Cast and Crew, Nick Antosca

"Nature's Bounty" The new movie Bounty Killer features an all-star cast, and also some surprising connections to our host. The truth comes out in in interview with director Henry Saine, costar Barak Hardley, and producer Colin Ebeling. Also, writer Nick Antosca is working on the upcoming JJ Abrams/Alfonso Cuaron series "Believe," and tells a story called "Rat Beast" from his book "The Girlfriend Game." It will freak you out real good.

Produced and edited by Eric Martin.

Correspondents at large: Paul Jay, Jen Goldberg.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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Episode 69, guys.

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This American Wife Episode 68 - Allie Goertz (Cossbysweater), Danny Lobell

"That's Amore" Danny Lobell (RISK!, This American Life) loves pizza, and he has some absolutely incredible stories about his love of pizza. Allie Goertz (aka Cossbysweater) is a singer-songwriter loves nerdy things, and has some absolutely incredible songs about her love of nerdy things. Love and pizza goes together like peanut butter and chocolate, as you are about to hear.

Produced and edited by Eric Martin.

Correspondents at large: Paul Jay, Jen Goldberg.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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After a brief hiatus, This American Wife is back with a new monthly run of episodes, and I am so excited for you to hear these absolutely awesome songs and stories. This will certainly change your life for the better.

Everybody seems pretty eager to forget that at one point 21 years ago, there was a concerted effort to call sleeping with other people "Humpin' Around."

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Do you have a story inside of you that you want to share with the world? Have you ever seen or heard a story at the Moth, at RISK!, or on This American Life, and thought, “I could do that!"

Well, here is the workshop for you!

In this brisk four-week workshop, we’ll teach you everything you need to know about developing and performing your own personal story for the stage - culminating in actually performing your story at an invited class show!

And who are we, to be teaching you these fundamentals of writing and storytelling?

Anna David - Anna is the New York Times-bestselling author of Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007), Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010), Falling for Me (HarperCollins, 2011) and By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There (Simon & Schuster, 2013). The creator and host of True Tales of Lust and Love, the hit monthly storytelling show, Anna is currently editing an anthology of the best essays performed at the live show, which will be released by Counterpoint/SoftSkull in February, 2014. She’s told stories at UCB and The Improv, been published in The New York Times, Playboy and everywhere in between, was the dating expert on G4’s Attack of the Show for three years and has been known to offer sound bites on The Today Show, The Talk, The CBS Morning News and many more.

Eric Martin - Eric is the host and creator of This American Wife, a popular podcast and now web series from Fremantle Media that gently parodies the public radio format. Eric has told stories all over Los Angeles, including The Moth, the UCB theater, RISK!, and Public School. His story “Going Down" was featured on the top-rated RISK! podcast’s best-of episode. He is also an award-winning audiobook narrator.

Here are the details:

4 Classes - Saturdays 4-6pm, August 3, 10, 17, 24

Week #1: Fundamentals of Storytelling - Finding Your Personal Story

Week #2: Writing - Developing Your Story

Week #3: Performance - Getting Your Story on its Feet

Week #4: Class Show!

Location - 1308 Factory Place #505 - Los Angeles, CA 90013 (map)

Cost: $300

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Very excited about this. We've told a lot of stories on stage, on RISK!, at The Moth, at our monthly show True Tales of Lust and Love, and on the This American Wife podcast, and now we've got a fun workshop to help you tell your own stories.

Because you have amazing stories. Am I right?

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Before You Were Funny Episode 22 - Scott Chernoff, Eric Martin

Hey hey, I guest on this show along with Conan writer Scott Chernoff! Listen here to the sketch that DIDN'T QUITE get me into Thousand Oaks, CA's premiere (and probably only) comedy group back in 1999. Justin Michael and Jacob Reed reveal their would-be Channel 101 past, and Scott channels Bob Dole's '96 campaign. It's a powerful hour of audio. I produce this show, and was thrilled that they asked me to get behind a mic - check it out!

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This is, simply, the most adorable video in the history of adorable videos.

Dog Takes Puppy on Journey in Shopping Cart: Cute Dog Maymo and Puppy Penny

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THOU SHALT NOT WORSHIP FALSE ZODS this weekend. Here’s the real deal with Chris Tallman and Patton Oswalt.

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I can listen to this at least a dozen more times.

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FREE COMEDY: ANNA DAVID’S TRUE TALES OF LUST AND LOVE from June 8th 2013

“Paul F. Tompkins, Brian Finkelstein, Dave Ross, DC Pierson and Eric Martin join Anna David for the first-ever all-male True Tales of Lust and Love, where they detail the dangers of joke proposals, taking advantage of the fact that you look like Fred Savage, falling for the same type over and over again, high school infedility and making bad break-ups worse.”

I was happy to be asked to relate my own embarrassing story in this rare “no girls-with-a-backwards-s allowed” edition of Anna David’s excellent series. An unusually chatty crowd also appears. Do give this one a listen— you won’t be sorry. Then go listen to the other episodes. You’ll be even less sorry than you weren’t before!

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Look at these guys.

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This American Wife Episode 67 - Sascha Rothchild, Margot Leitman

"Fallow Period" - First up, Sascha Rothchild, author of "How to Get Divorced by 30," and known for her appearances on a radio show and television series that is apparently called "This American Life" (??), and Margot Leitman, author of the new book "Gawky: Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase," indulge the host's desire to really dig into that time of the late 80's and early 90's that they all grew up in.

Produced and edited by Eric Martin.

Correspondents at large: Paul Jay, Jen Goldberg.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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This American Wife is back with a new monthly episode, and both of these ladies are awesome and this is a great episode and you will love it.

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True Tales of Lust and Love - Episode 18

This last Saturday, I told a story along with Paul F Tompkins, Brian Finkelstein, Dave Ross, and DC Pierson for the first all-male revue of Anna David's True Tales of Lust and Love, a monthly show at the Mint here in Los Angeles.

Here is the podcast of that show. It was a great one. Brian and Paul bookend the show and are absolutely brilliant, while the middle three stories unexpectedly turned into a Fred Savage Wonder Years epic song cycle.

I love these guys and it was an honor to share the stage with each of them. Check it out!

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Today, I got an email from a someone pretending to be comedian Dave Anthony. I did what I thought Dave would do: send this poor bastard a bunch of nonsense emails and see how long I could keep it going.

Many have done things like this before me with much funnier results, but I can’t tell you how fun it was to respond to these emails. Dave, I hope this makes the not so fun aspect of having your email hacked a little more fun.

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This is absolutely worth every moment of your time.

My audiobook version of Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie LeDuff's brilliant memoir "Detroit: An American Autopsy" is now on sale.

Last week, I got the amazing good news that my narration received an Earphones award, and I was interviewed for the latest issue of AudioFile magazine. Charlie wrote a hell of a book, gritty and raw, hysterically funny and heartbreakingly sad, a tale that will stay with you long after it's done.

You can check it out and listen to a sample here.

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