Recorded live at "How I Learned To Lie, Cheat, Or Steal" at Happy Ending, NYC in 2013. Joe Veix has written for The Awl, McSweeney's, Death and Taxes, and myriad other publications. If you're friends with Joe, he is likely the most good looking friend you have.

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Joe Veix: Scam Free Zone

From "How I Learned The Language of Love"

Hillary Rea: So He Was in This Ska Band...

While co-hosting a special benefit show for Housing Works with Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Brad Lawrence told an anecdote about following a girl to New York. Recorded at Housing Works, NYC, November 2013.

Podcast Extra: Anecdote by Brad Lawrence

Tara Clancy (Paris Review; The Moth) reminisces about growing up in Queens with her family's elders, surrounded by hearing aids, Cab Calloway, and Chuckles candies. Recorded live for the theme How I Learned To Lie, Cheat Or Steal.

Tara Clancy: Geriatric Village

Humor writer Eric Noah Feldman told this story of a father and son who learn how to take care of one another. Recorded live for the theme "How I Learned Little Things Were Big." (June, 2013)

Eric Noah Feldman: Had It Bad

Moth StorySLAM champion Kate Greathead on post-breakup online dating. Recorded live on the theme "How I Learned Little Things Are Big."

Kate Greathead: Douche Filter

Storyteller, writer and comic book artist, BRADY DALE, gets tangled in the web of a tumultuous relationship. For the theme "How I Learned To Let Go."

Brady Dale: The Greta Cycle

Comedian, activist and author of the New York Times bestseller, How To Be Black, BARATUNDE THURSTON waxes off on the theme "How I Learned To Tell It Like It Is."

Baratunde Thurston: Becky

Revered journalist and broadcaster Katherine Lanpher tells a story about throwing her parents an anniversary party in honor of How I Learned's 4th anniversary.

Katherine Lanpher: The Anniversary Party

A BBC correspondent's inherently reserved and sensible ways are called in to question when he realizes he might have developed a strange new obsession.

Alex Gallafent: Furry Logic

Here's CHRIS GETHARD (The Chris Gethard Show; A Bad Thing I'm About To Do) on radioactivity in Jersey, adventurous boys looking for haunted shit, and most of all, Big Jerry, the fireman next door.

Chris Gethard: The Dad Next Door

Moth performer and Story Collider co-producer Erin Barker was once known in her neighborhood as the teenager who tried to burn her house down.

Erin Barker: Firestarter

Trapped in a winnebago with his father in San Antonio, Texas, a 13-year-old David Crabb (Co-host, ASK ME Stories) unexpectedly comes to terms with his homosexuality.

David Crabb: Gay Groundhog Day

Author and Buddhist practitioner SUSAN PIVER (The Wisdom of a Broken Heart) talks about the power of music, ecstasy, and being in the moment.

Susan Piver: Blues, Drugs, and The Buddha

Writer LAURA JAYNE MARTIN (Thought Catalog, McSweeney's) on taking a summer job as the driver of an ice cream truck. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

Laura Jayne Martin: The Ice Cream Biz

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