Red Bull: Risk Made Me Do It

Pasquale Rotella's love affair with electronic music began in an underground club. His fascination with spectacle had its roots in a youth spent on the Venice Beach boardwalk. As founder and CEO of Insomniac, his Electric Daisy Carnival is electronic dance music's top festival in the U.S. But all he wants is to make it bigger. 

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How the premiere event for dance music in the US, the Electric Daisy Carnival, got its start in underground raves in warehouses in dangerous, and far-flung, corners of Los Angeles. Ahead of next week's guest, one of the most important names in dance music, we dive into the rise of a music festival that has cemented dance music's weird and carnivalesque reputation in the U.S. 

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Overcoming crippling dyslexia, Don Montague has become one of the chief innovators in the action sports space. A pioneering windsurfer and kitesurfer, his bizarre idea for a kite-powered sailboat eventually caught the attention of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who became the founding investors in a company dedicated to creating a new energy source. Later this Summer, Montague and a small team will attempt to set a speed record sailing a kite-powered 60-foot trimaran from San Francisco to Hawaii. But the goal is bigger than that. By showcasing the benefits of kite power, Montague and his team hope to paint a future in which kites help power our energy grid.

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Sure, there are the personal gurus and the private jets, but the ultimate status symbol of the Silicon Valley elite might just be a kite and a surfboard. We look at the Valley's peculiar obsession with kitesurfing, and the role Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in making it grow.

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Rebecca Rusch has won nearly every extreme challenge she's tackled. But her evolution into the "Queen of Pain" began with a childhood struggle with her body. We speak to the top endurance athlete about her relentless drive to excel, the hallucinations that come with pain and the personal journey down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam that forever changed her. 

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The Leadville Trail 100 is one of the most difficult biking races in the world. And yet it regularly attracts the top names in the mountain biking community and local heroes alike. Ahead of next week's podcast with top endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch, we dive into the race's particulars but also into the life of the charismatic founder who created it as an act of desperation. 

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Surfer, musician, on-camera talent, Sal Masekela has worn a number of hats in his two-decade (and counting) career. From commentating on the X Games to producing the VICE World of Sports, he talks to us about the through line in all of his storytelling. And the family history that helped shape him. 

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The first ever X Games featured competitive bungee jumping, kite skiers flying way off course and so, so much neon. We look back at the adrenaline-soaked birth of an industry.

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Entrepreneur Tom Bilyeu used his family problem with obesity as the fuel to start a billion-dollar company. He’s since transitioned into a new line of work, querying entrepreneurs and empowering listeners on his successful podcast, Impact Theory.

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Magician Adam Trent knows that his performance discipline isn't always fully appreciated. In a hilarious hour of conversation he talks the triumphs and humiliations of his life as a magician, his power to connect to an audience of any size, and a new series on RBTV which has him criss-crossing Europe with magic serving as his only currency.

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