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Live From NYC Podfest 2!

RISK!

RISK!

Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Personal Journals, Arts

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2015

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

AJ Jacobs, Sasheer Zamata, Jackie Kashian, Eddie Brill and Matt Braunger share stories that kind of aren't about butts at NYC Podfest 2015. Support RISK! on Patreon at Patreon.com/RISK Make a one-time donation to RISK! at PayPal.me/RISKshow Get tickets to RISK! live shows at RISK-show.com/tour Get the RISK! book at TheRISKBook.com Take storytelling classes at TheStoryStudio.org Hire Kevin Allison to make a personalized video at Cameo.com/TheKevinAllison Hire Kevin Allison as a coach at KevinAllison.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, this is Kevin. On today's episode live from NYC Podfest, you'll hear jacky-cation.

0:08.0

I'm 5'4", too much info, too much info. But Kevin told me it's a podcast so I gotta describe myself. Anyway!

0:17.0

That and more. But before we start, I just want to say, you know, trips to the post office are never convenient.

0:24.0

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0:40.0

You'll never pay full price for postage again. Here's how stamps.com works. Using your own computer and printer, you buy and print official US postage for any letter or package.

0:52.0

Then just hand the mail to your mailman or drop it in your mailbox. It's that easy. It's no wonder. 500,000 small businesses are already using stamps.com. We use stamps.com at risk and the story studio. And we love it.

1:07.0

And right now you can use our special promo code RISK to get this special offer. It's a no-risk trial plus $110 bonus offer that includes a digital scale and up to $55 free postage.

1:21.0

So don't wait. Go to stamps.com before you do anything else. Click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in RISK. That's stamps.com. Enter RISK. Also, as you might remember, Chris Castiglion was a member of the RISK team for a long time. He created our site at riskdeshow.com.

1:42.0

And with his business partner, Maton, Chris went on to create an online class called 1 Month HTML. Lot of RISK fans took the class and commented on just how easy it is to learn to code with the 1 Month video course.

1:58.0

But remember, the 1 Month guys have an even more popular course. 1 Month Rails. 1 Month Rails is a series of bite-sized video lessons and step-by-step tutorials that teach anyone even a total beginner how to build their first web application like a photo sharing app in just 30 days.

2:18.0

If you get stuck, there's always a real person that can help you. In 1 Month Rails, you'll learn Ruby On Rails, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, GitHub, and more. Over 14,000 students have already started building their dream app and taking their career to the next level.

2:35.0

So what are you waiting for? And roll now at 1month.com slash RISK loves you. Enrollment is typically $99, but if you join now, you'll get a one-time discount of 25% off for joining. And of course, you'll be helping to support RISK.

2:52.0

Again, it's 1 Month Rails 30 minutes a day for 30 days and you'll actually build your first web app.

3:00.0

And now, here is RISK Live from NYC PodFest 2015.

3:30.0

Hello! Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's so great to see you all here. Holy crap! Happy New Year. How's everyone doing tonight?

3:43.0

I think we're all just very grateful to have gotten through this first fucking week. Holy shit! We all got up to a real start, didn't we?

3:56.0

Oh my goodness, massacres and it's always like the busiest damn week of the year. Someone should record a song. It's the least wonderful time.

4:09.0

But we're at the weekend. We're at our first weekend of the New Year's. Let's celebrate!

4:18.0

Now, how many people here have heard the RISK podcast before?

4:25.0

Just in case you haven't, if you're a newcomer, if you were just grabbed off the street in this peculiar neighborhood,

4:35.0

RISK is the show where people tell true stories that they never thought they dared to share in public.

4:40.0

So, it's the kind of stories you would not hear on NPR, right? It's the kind of things that Ira Glass cannot run.

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