Listen here“I was definitely aware that first day going into work — so, first time — that I was crossing a line. Like that I was non-sex worker and after that day, I had participated in sex work of some form. So, that one I knew when I got up

The First & Last Time I Dropped Acid in Prison, with Casey Hardison

Jun 5th, 2017 31m 20s

Casey Hardison was 22 years old when he tried LSD for the first time. That trip sent him on a global, psychedelic mission that eventually ended in a British prison cell. But little did Casey know, his mission was NOT over. It had simply entered

My First & Last BASE Jump, with Chris McNamara

May 18th, 2017 25m 14s

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The First & Last Time I Saw Someone Die, with Ignacio Genzon

Jun 28th, 2016 14m 45s

“I’m on the couch watching TV and my great grandmother is in her bedroom sleeping. The door was open to her bedroom and I start to hear her toss and turn and kind of like talk in her sleep. And then she starts to moan in her sleep. And it dawne

At home, by Ben Adair

Dec 27th, 2015 40m 10s

“My first apartment was this little one-bedroom coach house off Griffith Park Blvd. It was a beautiful apartment with wood floors and matchy match tile in the kitchen and bathroom. I remember laughing when the landlady, one of those Encino 70-y

The First Time I Changed Pop Music, with David Ritz

Nov 19th, 2015 18m 54s

“So I didn’t think that much of it because I hadn’t written a song before. I just thought, oh, this was an interesting evening, you know. Happy to be of help. But he said, “No, no, no, this is going all over the world. You don’t understand, thi

The Last Time I Felt Beautiful, with Francesca Lia Block

Sep 19th, 2015 15m 3s

“I mean there were times when I could say, ‘Oh my wedding, I felt pretty.’ Or, you know, I went on a date and I looked in the mirror and I was pretty. Or, after I had sex I felt pretty. Or, after I had my babies, I felt really good about myself

My First Diagnosis, with Pamela Yelsky & Elinor Casteneda

Sep 2nd, 2015 19m 53s

“You know, it’s not the same as cancer. Someone’s diagnosed with cancer of any kind, people always go straight to, ‘Oh, how awful that he or she would have to go through that.’ But when you tell someone you’re HIV+ or that you have AIDS, even t

The First & Last Time I Died, with Bettina Hubby

Jun 25th, 2015 11m 54s

“I remember being on the gurney in one of those tiny little aprons and looking down at my feet. I started seeing these lines growing up my legs – my blood vessels were turning blue. It was slow, like a vine was creeping around my leg. It was qu

My First & Last Bank Robberies, with Joe Loya

May 24th, 2015 13m 1s

"The first time I robbed a bank, I understood that I was amping up my game. … Here I am a petty criminal and I wanna innovate with my narrative, amp it up and become a serious criminal. So I’m like f–k it, I’m gonna go rob a bank. I had already