Live Events Audio Programs
Winners and Losers (Unabridged)
Winners and Losers tells the stories of some of the most innovative businesses of recent times, explaining how a few succeeded in creating and dominating entirely new markets while so many others die in today¹s ferociously competitive online era.
Explaining clearly, with many interesting examples, what contributes to success and failure in creating and developing a company. Levis shows how companies like Amazon and Google rose from nothing to enormous heights, while IBM, Kodak, and AOL plummeted from them; how Nokia bounced from near bankruptcy to global leadership; and it charts the incredible rise, fall, and rise again of Apple.
This is not a "how to succeed in business" textbook, but is far more interesting and more than accessible, even for those with no background in business or economics.
Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the West
The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one-man performance based on Twain's writings. The early years of Samuel Clemens, the Mississippi River experiences, and his move to the silver mining area of Nevada are portrayed by exuberant actor McAvoy Layne; some of the most famous tales, from "The Blue Jay Yarn" to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" are woven into the history of this most colorful author. Amusing stories from "Letters from the Sandwich Islands" and questions from the live audience conclude this delightful performance.
David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure
LIVE recordings of new, previously unreleased David Sedaris stories!
"Cat and Baboon"Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado"Author, Author"
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City"Innocence abroad"
Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina"Laugh, Kookaburra"
Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, CaliforniaDiary entries
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. This is the audio recording of David Foster Wallace delivering that very address. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.
Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every listen.
Un-Cabaret Stories: Mommy Dearest
Julia's mother is an important character in her story, and this program collects several classic stories about Julia and her mom.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in her acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, LA's legendary alternative comedy show.
Un-Cabaret Stories: What Does Happen in Vegas?
Julia Sweeney went to Vegas for the film festival, but she stayed for the lap dance.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Julia Sweeney goes biking in Ecuador, earns the best massage of her life, and goes scuba swimming with dolphins.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Un-Cabaret Stories: Travel Sex
Julia Sweeney goes wild in Ireland and lives in Greece on $1 a day.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Un-Cabaret Stories: Oaxaca Cooking School
Julia goes to cooking school in Mexico, learns to make mole using stone age tools and that she shouldn't take travel advice from some random woman on a treadmill.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Un-Cabaret Stories: Galapa-Scope
Julia's travel rampage continues with a trip to the Galapgos, with side trips into the politics of evolution, a brief debate about astrology with Beth, and how to deal with a crazy fellow traveler.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Un-Cabaret Stories: Galapa-Gross
Julia experiences the struggle for survival in nature and class struggle with her fellow travelers.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Un-Cabaret Stories: Morocco Ho
Julia loses herself in the desert of Morocco and reclaims her sexuality, despite a chafing camel ride and a misfire with one of the tour guides.
JULIA SWEENEY launched her career playing "Pat" on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to write and star in the acclaimed one-person shows God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.
This performance was recorded at Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, L.A.'s legendary alternative comedy show.
Pushing 40, coping with the break-up of a four-year relationship, Julia Sweeney suddenly had a frightening revelation: "How could I forget to have a family?" Admittedly, her prospects were bleak. She was previously divorced, with no current boyfriend - and no uterus (the result of cervical cancer and a hysterectomy).
Undaunted, Sweeney decides to become a single mother, by adopting a girl from China. Along the way, she will have to prove to herself that she is up to the challenge of motherhood. Beautifully written, wonderfully performed, In the Family Way is Sweeney's comedic monologue about the daughter who changed her life.
Julia Sweeney was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1989-94, and is best known for the mysteriously androgynous character, "It's Pat!". She has also served as a consulting producer on Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. She performed her first monologue, God Said, "Ha!", in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and on Broadway, as well as in a film produced by Quentin Tarantino. The CD version was nominated for a Grammy. Her most-recent monologue is Letting Go of God, which she has performed on both coasts.
Julia Sweeney says she was a "happy Catholic girl" when, one day, she walked into church and signed up for a Bible-study course. "What an eye opener that was!" she says. "Next thing you know, I was on a quest for something I could really believe in. I traveled to places like Bhutan, Ecuador, and my local Starbucks looking for answers. Would I embrace Buddhism? New Age pseudo-science? Was I a freak for feeling the way I did, or were there other people out there just like me? I was grappling with serious questions. But, somehow, a lot of the things that were happening to me seemed, well, funny."
Equally comedic and insightful, Letting Go of God is Sweeney's brilliant one-woman show about her struggle with her faith. Grappling with the seeming contradictions in Adam and Eve, Noah, the Ten Commandments, and even the teachings of Jesus - and trying to understand the Bible's messages about morality, family values, and human suffering while faced with door-knocking Mormons and wise-cracking priests - Sweeney takes listeners on her very personal journey from God to "not-God".
This performance was recorded on November 19, 2005, at the Ars Nova Theatre in New York City.
Julia Sweeney was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1989-94, and is best known for the mysteriously androgynous character, "It's Pat!". She has also served as a consulting producer on Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. Letting Go of God is her third monologue. She performed her first, God Said, "Ha!", in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and on Broadway, as well as in a film produced by Quentin Tarantino. The CD version was nominated for a Grammy.
In one year Julia Sweeney got a divorce (amicable), bought a small bungalow in Hollywood, and looked forward to a life that said, "Here dwells a happily single young woman!" But then the axe fell. Her younger brother, Mike, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and moved in with her. Her parents came to be with Mike and moved in with her, too. Julia was now on seriously intimate terms with the people she had spent half a lifetime growing up away from.
Just weeks before Mike died, Julia was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer (what Mike called her "sympathy cancer"), and within days of burying her brother she underwent a radical hysterectomy, beginning her own journey through "the International House of Cancer".
Drawing from these Job-like travails, Julia wrote this remarkably funny and touching monologue about a family that managed to persevere with humor, grace, and love.
The News from Lake Wobegon, 1-Month Subscription
"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown...." Garrison Keillor first did his monologue in 1974 to an audience of 20 in a St. Paul theater. Today, more than 2.2 million people tune in each week to hear the tall tales and sweet stories about the citizens of this small Minnesota town. It's a town where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average." Keillor's monologues capture the nuances of country life and of growing up American with eloquence and subtle humor - the luxury of rhubarb pie, the Krebsbachs' thrifty vacation, the vapor lights of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility. Step into "the little town that time forgot" and you'll forget it's not your own town, yet feel so close to home.
With Katie's help, investigate the thinking that fuels addictive behavior. This is a groundbreaking program for addicts and their families, and anyone interested in a life of greater freedom.
The Secrets of the Power of Intention
In this live lecture, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explores intention as an all-pervading force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. Intention, he explains, is not something you do, but an energy you're a part of. Not only do you emanate from the field of intention, but if you align yourself to it, your desires become fulfilled and you find yourself at peace.
Healing, manifesting your desires, and creating miracles are genuine possibilities, and indeed, probabilities, when you listen to Dr. Dyer and connect to the power of intention.
The Power of Intention: Live Lecture
In Dr. Wayne Dyer's newest public television special, taped live in front of 1,000 fans in Boston's historic theater district, he transforms conventional thinking about making things happen in our lives into a profound understanding of how each person possesses the infinite potential and power to co-create the life he or she desires.
To accomplish this, Dr. Dyer takes the audience through a journey into the seven faces of intention:
1. creativity
2. kindness
3. love
4. beauty
5. expansiveness
6. abundance
7. receptivity
Throughout this audio program, Dr. Dyer illustrates his points with signature stories that move the audience to tears, as well as abundant laughter.
This program includes 20 minutes of bonus audio not heard on TV: Dr. Dyer speaks for the first time in 20 years about the very personal and profound event that transformed his own life.
Anthony Bourdain, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Eric Ripert are all well established, accomplished chefs. Here, they share their early cooking experiences, what influenced their cooking styles, and what made them want to be chefs forever.
Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles, the author of the best-selling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the host of the popular Food Network series, A Cook's Tour. Panelist Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef and owner of Prune, and Eric Ripert is the chef at Le Bernardin, both New York City culinary landmarks. Moderator Michael Ruhlman is a journalist and author of The Soul of a Chef and The Making of a Chef.