How I Learned

CHLOE CALDWELL relays this one time she and a friend posted a Craigslist ad asking men to take them out for steak and scotch in exchange for filling out very special surveys.

Kevin Allison (The State, RISK!) talks about that one time he tried his hand at gay prostitution. Hilarity, among other things, ensued. (Bonus: the seven laws of successful whoring according to Kevin's roommate.)

Ted Travelstead (Vanity Fair; Sex Our Bodies, Our Junk) facing his fears... with hallucinogens... at a mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was recorded live at How I Learned I'll Never Do That Again (Most Likely).

The great Mark Sam Rosenthal reminds us what it felt like to be different in middle school --not great, in case you forgot. This story was recorded live at How I Learned to Make the Grade: Stories About Education.

Here's Tyler Coates (BlackBook Magazine) on his first big-boy back in Chicago where he worked for a Very Important Scientist (self-proclaimed).

Recorded at Happy Ending Lounge for the show How I Learned It's a Living! Stories from the Unemployed, the Underemployed, and the Working Stiffs.

The lovely New York Times Magazine "Drink" columnist, Rosie Schaap, dialed up her shrink of 25 years ago to find out why she had gotten kicked out of school in 8th grade after all. Was she as crazy as she'd been led to believe? Find out in this epsiode recorded live at How I Learned to Make the Grade: Stories About Education at Happy Ending Lounge.