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RISK!'s monthly LA live storytelling at the NerdMelt. Featuring:
Mather Zickel ("Newsreaders", "The Ten", "Childrens Hospital", "Arrested Development")
Nathan Rabin (former Head Writer for The Onion's The AV Club, My Year Of Flops, You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me)
Cameron Esposito (TBS' Just for Laughs Chicago, Host/Creator of Put Your Hands Together & Wham Bam Pow podcasts)
Moshe Kasher (Author of Kasher in the rye, champs podcast,  hour special "live in Oakland")
Hosted by Kumail Nanjiani (HBO's "Veep", "Franklin & Bash", "Portlandia", "Newsreaders").

RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning live show happens monthly in New York and Los Angeles. It’s featured people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Lili Taylor, Rachel Dratch, Andy Borowitz and more, dropping the act and showing a side of themselves we’ve never seen before. The weekly podcast gets hundreds of thousands of downloads each month. Slate.com called it “jaw-dropping, hysterically funny, and just plain touching.”

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RISK!'s monthly NYC live storytelling at the PIT. Featuring Kevin Allison ("The State") and guests:
Harrison Greenbaum (Winner of the Andy Kaufman Award, Comedy Central's "Comics to Watch")
Chesley Calloway (New York Comedy Festival, Comedy as a Second Language)
Hallie Haglund (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
Vic Henley (Letterman Show, Comedy Central)

RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning live show happens monthly in New York and Los Angeles. It’s featured people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Lili Taylor, Rachel Dratch, Andy Borowitz and more, dropping the act and showing a side of themselves we’ve never seen before. The weekly podcast gets hundreds of thousands of downloads each month. Slate.com called it “jaw-dropping, hysterically funny, and just plain touching.”

www.risk-show.com/tour

This week, Rhea drops some little known Superman facts on us to help us prepare for Man of Steel, we take a look at the richly premised, gun kata extravaganza Equilibrium, and we miss Ricky (he'll be back next week!).

Articles discussed this week:
Via io9.com - Stunning Behind-the-Scenes Photos Show Iconic Movies in a New Light
Via io9.com - Super-Weird Facts That You Probably Didn't Know About Superman

Follow us on Twitter! Cameron is @cameronesposito, Rhea is @rheabutcher and Ricky is @rickycarmona. Discuss the show using the hashtag #WhamBamPow!

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On this Very Special Episode of One Bad Mother, Biz and Theresa celebrate Father's Day! We talk about our own dads and discover that despite every single television advertisement we've ever seen, all dads might not be total idiots.

We call Al Madrigal, comedian, Daily Show Correspondent, and one of the hosts of the podcast Minivan Men, to talk dad stuff and get some advice. We're also joined by our husbands for a Very Special genius and fail segment this week!

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Minivan Men, with Al Madrigal, Chris Spencer, and Maz Jobrani
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Show Music
Opening theme: Summon the Rawk, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"But You Love Me, Daddy (with Jim Reeves)" by R. Stevie Moore (http://www.rsteviemoore.com/)
Telephone, Awesome, Beehive Sessions (http://awesomeinquotes.com, also avail on iTunes)
Closing music: Mama Blues, Cornbread Ted and the Butterbeans (www.cornbreadted.com and available on iTunes)

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Jordan and Jesse are taking the show to Scotland for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! But they are only appearing for one night - so get your tickets soon! Tickets are available directly from the venue box office - which you can find here.

Melissa brings the case against her boyfriend, Henry. She's been looking for a way for Henry and her friends to bond, and thinks she's found the solution -- teaming up for a charity mud race. But Henry wants to opt out of the race, citing a forced atmosphere of fun and camaraderie. Must he join Melissa and her friends? Only one man can decide.

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Special thanks to Philip Schaefer and Glen K. Amo for this week's title!

Song: RISK! Theme by Wormburner and John Sondericker

Song: Feels by Giraffage

Live Story: The Storm by Camille Lowman

Live Story: David Appleton

Live Story: Nathaniel Bates

Live Story: Shon Kennedy

Song: Ghosts by Nonaphoenix

Mark Frauenfelder Recommends: "Good Dog" and Super Durak

Mark Frauenfelder, founder of BoingBoing and host of the Gweek podcast joins us to weigh on his latest obsessions in the form of geeky pop culture. This time, it's Graham Chaffee's Good Dog and the virtual version of Russian card game Super Durak, for iOs.

Chaffee's book, out this week, is a tour through a stray dog's life as he weighs a life of independence against the security of being a house pet, exploring the psychology of dogs in a vein similar to White Fang. Frauenfelder also suggests downloading the Super Durak app for a card game with a unique twist -- there are no winners.

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Charlie Wilson: Creating Funk Jams with the Gap Band, Overcoming Addiction, and Recovering a Career

From his years as the frontman of the funk-R&B group the Gap Band, to singing hooks for rappers like Snoop Dogg and Kanye West, to his solo career recording R&B hits in his airy tenor, Charlie Wilson has been all about music. He grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a Pentecostal preacher and a music minister mother. Wilson spent his early years singing for his father's congregation and formed the Gap Band with his brothers, Ronnie and Robert, as a teenager.

In the late 1970s and early 80s, the Gap Band took their signature funk and R&B sound and made chart-topping hits like "Burn Rubber on Me", "Outstanding", "You Dropped a Bomb on Me", and "Party Train". The band's management was rocky in the mid 1980s, and Wilson's life took a downturn. A few years later, he was addicted to drugs and living on the streets. But a love for music and sense of pride helped right the course, and he retooled his career into Grammy-nominated solo work.
Wilson talks to us about crafting the now-classic sounds of the Gap Band, encounters with Stevie Wonder and Sly Stone, and why he returned to music after years of isolation and addiction.

Charlie Wilson's newest record is Love, Charlie. He'll receive BET's Lifetime Achievement Award on June 30th.

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Comedy: Al Madrigal Meets the "Cholo Soccer Dad"

There's a very specific kind of subculture you might encounter in East Los Angeles. Al Madrigal explains his encounter with it in this clip from his new stand up special, Why Is the Rabbit Crying?.

Al Madrigal is a stand up comic. You can catch him on the road in selected cities this summer and fall, and on TV as The Daily Show's Latino Correspondent.

The Outshot: "The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton" by The Mountain Goats

Jesse explores a song about two high school friends, a death metal band, and dreams. It's "The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton".

The Mountain Goats are on tour this summer. You can find those dates on their website.

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Year he, year he! The neweth episodic of Throwing Shade hath cometh! Witness stories like lesbians denied family rates at Hands on Children's Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, 50th anniversary of JFK's biggest gift to women, The Equal Pay Act, Representative Marsha Blackburn's inability to grasp the reasons for The Paycheck Fairness Act, and welcome new interns, Jamie and Kala! 
We survived the purge! 
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Comedian Kyle Bottom returns to talk giving up World of Warcraft, a bizarre plant woman, and an electrifying city crew. We also count down the top 10 horses.

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