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Storytelling Podcasts

If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK! Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this surprisingly uncensored show where people tell jaw-dropping true stories they never thought they'd dare to share in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.

Location:

New York, NY

Description:

If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK! Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this surprisingly uncensored show where people tell jaw-dropping true stories they never thought they'd dare to share in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.

Twitter:

@RISKshow

Language:

English


Episodes
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Revelations, Revisited

10/2/2025
Scott Whitney revisits his story from 2013 about losing his faith called ā€œRevelationsā€ with Kevin. He has many new insights twelve years later. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! šŸŽ¤Radio Story: Revelations by Scott Whitney (Content note: cults, suicide ideation) A Jehovah’s Witness struggling with his faith, Scott knocks on the door of a traumatized recluse to attempt to convert him. The brief, troubled friendship convinces Scott to leave the church. CURRENT keywords: Awake!, door-to-door, Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Watchtower 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC (December 11) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:49:45

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The Best of RISK! #33

9/30/2025
Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by Cyndi Freeman. šŸŽ¤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen SYNOPSIS: In 1975, the North won Vietnam’s civil war, and LP's dad, high ranking in the Southern Army, was imprisoned. The children lost everything, hunted for food, swam to school, and after 7 years, got their father back. šŸŽ¤Radio Story: Black Is the Loneliest Color by Larry Dorsey Jr. SYNOPSIS: Larry saves a suicidal Black man’s life on the streets of SF and examines his tendency to bridge things between people of different races and classes. keywords: Black experience in San Francisco, homeless, knife attack subway, people experiencing homelessness, public violence bystanders, racial isolation, urban survival stories šŸŽ¤Live Story: What the Blorp?! by Kerri Doherty SYNOPSIS: Kerri falls in love with a guy who tricks her into helping him lie to the army while he resumes his other life with his wife and daughter. keywords: army, cheating, lying to the army, relationship šŸŽ¤Radio Story: The Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis SYNOPSIS: Daryl backs the Ku Klux Klan into a corner and demands that they tell him why they hate him, and he really listens. keywords: blackness, changing minds, communication, conflict, empathy, grand dragon, ku klux klan, open minds, prejudice, racial hatred, racism, resolution, unchecked bias šŸŽ¤Live Story: Orgasmic by Yossi Rosenberg SYNOPSIS: Yossi is a shy guy raised in a conservative Jewish household with intimacy issues. He gets involved with the Orgasmic Meditation Scene, a somewhat iffy tribe that practices clitoral stimulation as a meditation. keywords: clitoral stimulation, culty, Orgasmic Meditation šŸŽ¤Radio Story: Breaking Point by Heather Farley SYNOPSIS: Heather has a psychotic break and leaves a Rauschenberg painting worth millions left to her in the divorce on a park bench. keywords: divorce, Psychotic Break, Rauschenberg Painting šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad Lawrence SYNOPSIS: (Content note: child sexual abuse, murder, suicide) In a church where guilt is weaponized and silence rewarded, teenage Brad listens to a friend's secret that echoes into adulthood, long past her violent death. keywords: abortion, childhood abuse, church youth group, evangelical guilt, murder, shame, strangulation, U2 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on December 11, 2025 • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:23:27

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Live From DC!

9/25/2025
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in July of 2013, when Kevin Boggs, Stephanie Garibaldi, R. Levin and Amy Saidman told stories at the first RISK! live show in Washington, DC in association with SpeakeasyDC. šŸŽ¤Live Story: Standing Up by Kevin Boggs Working as a waiter at an upscale Washington DC restaurant, Kevin gets into an emotional fight with an angry customer who calls him a "faggot." Keywords: Waiter, Rude customer, restaurant šŸŽ¤Live Story: Virgin Sacrifice by Stephanie Garibaldi Stephanie visits a Mayan village, where Mayan culture lives on to this day. When the villagers decide she is a "fertility goddess," they begin preparing for her to marry a young man from the village. Keywords: fertility, Indigenous, Mayans šŸŽ¤Live Story: Mofo by R. Levin R. discovers new things about herself while experimenting with a group of fellow moms in the kink community, where she ends up meeting her husband. Keywords: Kink, BDSM, Privacy, Moms šŸŽ¤Live Story: Little Sister by Amy Saidman Amy learns how to stand up to her older sister, and in the process, ends up unexpectedly bonding with her. Keywords:: Older sister, little sister, funeral 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in New York City TONIGHT! 9/25 at Caveat • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:02:59

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Midnight in Manila

9/23/2025
Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story ā€œMidnight in Manila,ā€ about the time he was pulled into a nightmare of corruption, false rape charges, and five years in a Philippine jail. Check out all of our Conversation Stories! šŸŽ™ļøConversation Story: Midnight in Manila by Scott McMahon SYNOPSIS: Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story ā€œMidnight in Manila,ā€ about the time he was pulled into a nightmare of corruption, false rape charges, and five years in a Philippine jail. keywords: Philippine jail, American imprisoned abroad, wrongful imprisonment, framed, corruption, corruption in Philippines, Manila, Manila prison survival, false rape charge, held without trial 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live!⁠ • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:52:09

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Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright

9/19/2025
Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated series. Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test your Springfield IQ. Hear exclusive stories from our guests who were there! Perhaps some scenes that almost never aired, the jokes that died, the ones that lived and the moments that still shock me at the mic. Produced and showrun by Monica Gil-Rodriguez. From Audacy Podcasts and CRE84U Entertainment. Follow now to get new episodes first — and drop your wildest Simpsons’ theory in a review for a chance to be featured on our uniquely unique podcast, Simpsons Declassified. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:02:57

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Queer

9/18/2025
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in July of 2013, when Cameron Esposito, Kris Grey and Kevin Allison shared radically different stories of LGBT life in the early 2010’s. šŸŽ¤Live Story: All the Rage by Kevin Allison SYNOPSIS: A man living in Kevin's neighborhood started screaming, "Faggot!" at Kevin whenever he was in eyeshot. Then one day the man switched from screaming to punching. keywords: gay, homosexual, lgbtqia, queer, faggot, violence, homophobia šŸŽ¤Radio Story: The Other by Kris Grey SYNOPSIS: Kris talks about how peculiar it was to be a trans man attending the various sex parties among the gay men on Fire Island, most of whom had never seen a vagina before. keywords: Hate crime, Street harassment, Growing up gay, internalized shame, transgender, Trans man, Queer nightlife, internalized stigma, cruising, genderqueer identity šŸŽ¤Live Story: Come Together by Cameron Esposito SYNOPSIS: The week that gay marriage was made legal throughout the land, Cameron told the moving story of her family's coming to grips with her being gay. keywords: civil rights, lesbian identity, Catholic upbringing and queerness, same-sex marriage, LGBTQ community spaces, coming out to Catholic parents, gender nonconformity, gay rights history 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in New York (Thursday, September 25th) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:04:45

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Shit Happens

9/16/2025
Kevin Allison, Rachel Frost and Luke Oyler share stories about being wasteful. Live Story: The Pickles Pickle by Kevin Allison Kevin flushes a jar of pickles down his brother's toilet while making his first student film in college and causes a plumbing issue, which becomes a story the Allison family retells for years to come. keywords: Pickle jar, brother, student film šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Inside Scoop by Rachel Frost Trying to be a perfect girlfriend, Rachel hides her human bodily functions from her "rolling sixes" boyfriend, to the point where she scoops her own poop out of a toilet when it fails to flush. keywords: clogged toilet, perfect girlfriend, poop, embarassing šŸŽ¤Live Story: My Least Favorite Pants by Luke Oyler Luke pursues his lifelong dream of shitting his pants while visiting friends in the cafeteria of their college. He succeeds and everyone at nearby tables can smell it, as he runs off outdoors shaking the shit out of his shorts. keywords: poop, pooping pants, shitting pants, performative pooping, pooping in public 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC September 25 or December 11, 2025 • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:39:59

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The Power, Revisited

9/11/2025
Tori Weston revisits her story about surviving childhood sexual abuse from 2014 called ā€œThe Powerā€ with Kevin Allison. Tori has many new insights eleven years later. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! šŸŽ¤Radio Story: The Power by Tori Weston (Content note: child sexual abuse, suicidal ideation) At 12, going on 13, Tori was raped by her stepfather. When she came out about it, the situation pitted family member against family member. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC (September 25 or December 11) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:01:43:36

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Post Mortem

9/9/2025
Chelsea Dalsey tells Kevin Allison about her journey with addiction and the process of truly coming to terms with her experience. Check out all of our Conversation Stories! šŸŽ™ļøConversation Story: Post Mortem by Chelsea Dalsey SYNOPSIS: While working on cadavers in med school, Chelsea desperately hides her addiction to heroin and cocaine. Now, decades later, she has a realization about why she was finally able to quit the drugs. keywords: med school, addiction, recovery 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in New York on 9/25 • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:54:09

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The Best of School Stories #1

9/4/2025
A compilation of some of the best school related stories from the podcast. šŸŽ¤Live Story: Taking A Long Time by Angie Chatman SYNOPSIS: At age 8 Angie is in 2nd grade. A policeman visits and when he asks for a volunteer he hand shoots up. He handcuffs her in front of the classroom and refuses to let her go until she says "please." The fright causes her to pee, until the teacher finally insists he let her go. Angie's mom does nothing about it, but tells her, "Change is going to come." šŸŽ¤Live Story: Found In Translation by Eli Reiter SYNOPSIS: Eli is an Orthodox Jewish Kid who becomes friends with a Muslim student at school. When the conflict in Israel heightens and his friend is there, Eli worries about his safety – discovering that friendship crosses boundaries. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC September 25th • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:27:38

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The Fingers Episode

9/2/2025
Bill, Brad, and Dominic recall the strange circumstances surrounding their broken or missing digits, with guest host John LaSala. šŸŽ¤Live Story: Just the Tip by Bill Worley Bill reveals how he lost the tip of his finger—knife fights, dive bars, a guy losing an eye—before revealing something even stranger: the truth. keywords: funny injury story, unreliable narrator, severed finger, missing finger, story slam šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Pillowfighter by Dominic Dierkes Dominic breaks his finger doing jiu-jitsu without health insurance, then bites through his own tongue under anesthesia and gets a personal follow-up call from the panicked anesthesiologist. keywords: broken finger, jiu-jitsu injury, no health insurance, ER horror story, medical bill anxiety, hospital surgery gone wrong, biting tongue during surgery šŸŽ¤Radio Story: A Perfect Night by Brad Lawrence Brad drunkenly breaks his finger during a dumb, hypothetical bar fight in a Brooklyn blizzard, but he refuses to leave, determined not to ruin a perfect night. keywords: bar life, New York City blizzard, broken finger, drunken injury, barfight fantasy, Brooklyn nightlife, dating a bartender 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC (September 25th and/or December 11th) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:41:23

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Hurt

8/28/2025
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in July of 2013, when Trevor Noah and Robin Gelfenbien shared about scars they've healed from. šŸŽ¤Live Story: Vargas by Robin Gelfenbien In college, Robin is bullied by a whole pack of frat brothers who call her "Vargas," after a character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In the end, she gets to confront the leader of the group about it. CURRENT keywords: bullying, frat life, hazing, sexism šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Best Looking Person in the Family by Trevor Noah Growing up in South Africa during Apartheid, Trevor watched his mother deal not only with the prejudice they were facing, but with an abusive boyfriend who shot her in the head. CURRENT keywords: Best Of Risk, celebrity storyteller, South Africa, apartheid, prejudice, abuse, violence 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NY: September 25th and December 11th • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:42:53

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My Secret Career: RISK! Reacts

8/26/2025
Kevin hears C. J. Guy’s ā€œMy Secret Careerā€ story from The Secret Room for the first time and gives you his hot takes. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions. šŸŽ™ļø Story: My Secret Career by C.J. Guy CJ reveals his secret career path that started with dropping out of law school without informing his family and becoming a flight attendant. He maintained the lie for eight months until his sister discovered the secret. keywords: flight attendant, law school, german, hogans heroes, lie, secret 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC (December 11th, 2025) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:36:49

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Young Rebels

8/21/2025
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in June of 2013, when Ethan Ullman, Katy Frame, Ben Lerman and Rob Lathan share stories about youthful indiscretions. šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Amazing Adventures of Ethan and the Lunch Monkey by Ethan Ullman In school, Ethan and a friend call a lunch lady who was mean to them "the Lunch Monkey." Called to the principal's office, they invent a comic book series they claim they were referencing, about a superhero by that name. CURRENT keywords: sophomoric humor, boys will be boys, in trouble šŸŽ¤Live Story: Good Vibrations by Katy Frame As a kid, Katy plays with things that vibrate around her private parts. She devises a machine of her own out of a mechanical toy set. Her parents shame her for it and it’s not till years later that she learns vibrators are common. CURRENT keywords: sexual exploration, vibrators, bird and bees šŸŽ¤Live Story: Intense Friendships in the Bus Depot by Ben Lerman In his teen years, Ben forgets he left a gay porn video in the VHS at home while he’s off at a music festival. He calls his mom to make a convoluted excuse, but it doesn’t fly. CURRENT keywords: gay kids, in the closet, secrets and lies šŸŽ¤Live Story: Where the World Is by Rob Lathan In college, Rob is bullied by frat brothers, but finds acceptance when he drinks huge amounts as they dare him to do. One night he drinks himself into a coma, with a blood alcohol level normally considered certain death. CURRENT keywords: near death, alcohol poisoning, peer pressure, hazing 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in New York (9/25) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:59:05

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The Rebound

8/19/2025
John F. O'Donnell tells Kevin about that time he got kicked out of his favorite comedy club. You can also watch this episode on YouTube. Check out all of our Conversation Stories! šŸŽ™ļøConversation Story: The Rebound by John F. O'Donnell John starts out in the New York comedy scene, dealing with his bi-polar disorder, plus memorable encounters during his early days as a comedian. keywords: Bipolar I Disorder, lithium, mental illness, comedy, comedian 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC (September 25) or (December 11) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:42:11

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The Best of Self-Help Stories #3

8/14/2025
Tommy Galan and Marc Amigone share stories about helping others by helping themselves. The latest in the Self Help Special Series, which can be found at risk-show.com/specialseries/self-help-stories šŸŽ¤Live Story: Just Commit by Tommy Galan Tommy drinks and drinks. His final days of drinking almost destroy his family life. When a mentor tells him to "just commit" to whatever he feels will work best for him, he gives up the bottle. šŸŽ¤Radio Story: Life is a Gift by Marc Amigone Marc takes a trip to Thailand to study rock climbing, despite his parent's objections. He nearly paralyses himself in a climbing accident. His parents help him heal, but he still feels risks are worth taking. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NY (9/25) or (12/11) • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:39:22

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Sink or Swim

8/12/2025
Valerie Ward and David Patteson share stories about calling for help when the world gets dangerous. šŸŽ¤Live Story: Treading Water by Valerie Ward In her younger days, Valerie got stuck under a dock while swimming in a lake. It brought about mixed feelings about calling for help and how much people might or might not care about her. keywords: lake, swimming, dock, childhood šŸŽ™ļøRadio Story: Rescuer by David Patteson As a kid, David is in danger of drowning till he's rescued by his big brother Mike, who goes on to fill in as surrogate mother to his brothers and sisters once their real mother abandons them. keywords: swimming, drowning, childhood, family 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC September 25 or December 11 • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:36:38

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Live From Charleston 2!

8/7/2025
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in June of 2013 - Stories from our 2nd visit to Charleston’s Theatre 99! šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Storm by Camille Lowman Camille attends a bachelorette party full of proper Southern suburbanites and watches them descend into drunken shenanigans when the male stripper arrives. CURRENT keywords: women behaving badly, strippers, bad behavior, oral sex šŸŽ¤Live Story: The Wrapper by Nathaniel Bates Nathaniel is confounded when, as a child, he sees his dad’s penis and realizes that it is much different from his own, causing him lots of secret shame and worry about having a foreskin. CURRENT keywords: circumcision, penises, parents, childhood, puberty, school šŸŽ¤Live Story: Roadside Assistance by Shon Kennedy Shon, a Black woman, is in a car accident in the deep South. A white trash redneck comes to her aid (with lots of marijuana to offer as well) and the two of them end up revealing their deepest insecurities to one another. CURRENT keywords: Stereotypes, defied expectations, strange friendships, cars, pot 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in New York September 25th • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration:00:50:06

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Gregg Fell Into a Crevasse: RISK! Reacts

8/5/2025
Kevin hears Gregg LeFevre’s ā€œGregg fell into a crevasseā€ story for the first time and gives you his hot takes. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions. šŸŽ™ļø Story: Gregg fell into a crevasse by Gregg LeFevre Gregg visits Las Vegas and decides to climb a glacier. Unprepared, he falls into a crevasse but escapes by following an injured deer. Later, he learns it wasn't even a real glacier. keywords: las vegas, glacier, artist, deer 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • šŸŽŸ See RISK! live⁠ in NYC September 25 or December 11 • āœļø Pitch your story⁠ • ā¤ļø Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7/31/2025
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