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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.
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- Humiliating · 44 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 543Three people get taken down a few pegs in front of an audience in this classic RISK! episode, first released in August of 2014 and pulled back into the feed. Roger Hailes has…
- Nontraditional · 45 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 1806Two folks try to make love and family work without a road map. Adam Darrow agreed to an open relationship on a don’t ask, don’t tell basis, and it held up until his wife’s best…
- Live From Chicago 2! · 1 h 10 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 536RISK!'s second live Chicago show, back now from August of 2014, nearly came apart from technical trouble and a lineup crisis, but the audience there saved it. (Content note…
- Immigrant Stories #4 · 35 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 1805Two people, decades and continents apart, are both foreigners in the land they were headed for. Lucy McCullough is six when her parents’ visas expire and the family needs a…
- Scary Stories #4: Yikes! · 1 h 2 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 505Halloween weekend brings back one of RISK!’s eerier classics from November 2013. Jackson McKeehan, orphaned at seven and still an anxious wreck as an adult, books a session with…
- Scary Stories #18: Spine-tingling! · 1 h 3 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 1803The eighteenth annual Halloween-tide episode runs from a dark bedroom to a front porch to a burning house. Larry Dorsey Jr. is eighteen and staying at his girlfriend’s apartment…
- Make It Stop! · 52 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 541A classic RISK! episode from July 2014 built around three situations that everyone involved would happily have ended earlier. Sam Mullins is in his final year at the University…
- Bangkok Stories 1 · 56 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 1803Ploy Anderson is rushing out of her Bangkok house for a lunch date, a hair roller still clipped under her helmet, when a 10-wheeler drifts into her lane. Abel Athi Kumar is…
- Live From London! · 1 h 26 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 540This week we're revisiting the first RISK! episode ever recorded outside the United States. In July 2014, the show traveled to London for a live event co-produced with Spark…
- The Best of Hispanic Lives #5 · 40 minTwo RISK! favorites come back for Latine Heritage Month, handed to guests who know the territory. Brenda González & Delsy Sandoval, Latina co-hosts of Tamarindo podcast, join us…
- The Best of RISK! #37 · 1 h 16 minThree of the most memorable stories from the last six months of RISK!, back in one place. (Content note: gun violence) Jon Rappoport is on a work call outside Chicago when his…
- Seedy · 56 minDug out from the RISK! archives, this June 2014 episode goes straight for the seedier side of growing up, getting by, and getting out alive. Brian Cirmo spends his last night in…
- Gettin' Off Scot-Free · 35 min · Temporada 18 Episodio 1801Three people do something small and stupid, then meet the full weight of the law. Kona Morris spends a four-hour Beijing layover in a customs line that will not move, with a…
- Live From Chapel Hill! · 58 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 536Recorded live at DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill in 2014, this classic RISK! episode brings together three storytellers on the wilder edges of youth. (Content note: emotional…
- The Best of RISK! #36 · 1 h 50 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1756Twice a year we gather the best of the best from the last six months. This round holds three. (Content note: suicide) At fifteen, Richard Velazquez steps onto a 1986 Lower East…
- Stung · 1 h 3 min"Stung" is a set of four live stories from June 2014 back in the feed, each about someone caught off guard. Matt Kirshen, 18 and backpacking through France with two sisters from…
- Almost · 40 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1755Three people come within reach of what they want and are nearly undone grabbing for it. Karen Ibarra brings a self-described nerd's devotion to a heated Los Angeles delegate…
- Second Wind · 40 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 533This episode first surfaced back in June 2014, presenting two people who’d run out of road and somehow had to find more. Joe Mulligan, a stand-up whose marriage and career have…
- Giggles · 41 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1755Three stories about laughing at exactly the wrong moment, and finding out it was the right one all along. Three ways of getting through it sideways. Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See…
- Live from Boston! · 1 h 9 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 532Three wildly different stories from a night RISK! recorded live in Boston at the Nameless Coffeehouse back in May of 2014, pulled from the archive and dropped back into the feed…
- No Harm, No Foul · 37 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1754At twenty-four, Allen Fetters is blindsided by the worst gallstone attack of his life. Too stubborn to call 911 or even a friend, he decides to drive himself to the ER, floors it…
- The Best of RISK! Inanity · 1 h 2 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1304Back from November 2021, this episode is just bonkers: original songs, sound collages, audio easter eggs, and other inanities stacked one on top of another. We’ve got stamps.com…
- The Best of School Stories #2 · 47 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 86Two classic RISK! stories about walking into a room that codes you as wrong from the second you open your mouth. Tara Clancy commuted from working-class Queens to a Manhattan…
- So Long, And Thanks For All The Jeff: The Jeffisode · 1 h 5 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1752Kevin Allison sits down with Jeff Barr, RISK!'s longtime editor, for a farewell conversation almost two decades in the making. At its center is a story they've never told on the…
- Live From Pittsburgh! · 1 h 4 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 530Back in May of 2014, RISK! hit Pittsburgh for the first time, and this classic episode brings the whole strange, sharp-edged night home. (Content note: sexual assault) As a…
- Is It Her? · 40 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1751Two New York men take the long way through heartbreak. Brad Lawrence arrives in the city to become an actor while his girlfriend starts Columbia Law School, and their seven-year…
- Death Defying · 1 h 4 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 529An episode from May 2014 with more comedy than the alliterative title would suggest. Dave Hill wanted to frighten himself on purpose, so he flew to northern Mexico to stay with…
- Exposure Therapy · 32 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1750Two comedians with two very different things to stop hiding, expose themselves in turn: Calvin S. Cato is queer, twenty pounds lighter than he used to be, and willing to do…
- Live From Reno 2! · 48 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 528This one comes back from April of 2014, the second night of a RISK! live run in Reno, Nevada, and it swings hard between the filthy and the tender. Josie Spadoni is working an…
- The Best of Sex Stories #5 · 46 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 85Let's dig into two people’s lives where physical desire set off completely unplanned-for chain reactions. Ceara Lynch is a teenager when a stranger online suggests she bottle…
- Non-Ethical Non-Monogamy · 55 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1749Fox Emerson moves to Milan with his husband for a fresh start, then lets a charismatic man he met in Atlanta follow him there. The man settles into the apartment, grows colder…
- Live From Reno 1! · 1 h 0 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 527Live from Reno in April 2014, three first-time RISK! storytellers turn a single night into a run of proposition, prophecy, and psychedelic reckoning. Virginia Munsterman is a…
- Trying It On · 49 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1748Kenice Mobley grew up on a 1999 movie fantasy of the woman who travels the world, says yes to everything, and never flinches. As an adult she follows that ideal into a Paris sex…
- Freedom · 1 h 13 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 525From April 2014, five people finding a way out. Sean Crespo signs up for a sleep deprivation study to escape the worst summer job in Boston, then spends ten days plotting one…
- Let Him Go · 38 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1747Two people confront what it means to stay bound to someone who keeps letting them down. Tuesday Thomas, a trans woman in LA with a lifelong pull toward unavailable men, meets a…
- Still Dog People: Who Am I Now · 1 h 3 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1746Marilyn Gilchrist is a professional dog trainer, and "Who Am I Now" is her conversation with Michael Shikashio, lifted from his podcast The Bitey End of the Dog. Kevin Allison…
- Still Dog People: Two Truths · 44 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1745For the first of two Still Dog People episodes this week, John LaSala guest-hosts with his wife Kate LaSala, a professional dog behavior consultant. (Content note: graphic dog…
- Mixed Feelings · 58 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 523A classic RISK! episode from March 2014. Three live storytellers, three very different voices in the head. Vicki Tollemache spent her teens as the careful kid orbiting a wilder…
- The Best of Disability Stories · 49 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 84Kevin launches a new classic RISK! series for Disability Pride Month, revisiting stories about life with a disability from episodes past. Amy Salloway takes a job as guest…
- Out of My Hands · 40 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1744Two people learn something about protecting and being protected, one at a mall in lockdown, one on a plane full of strangers. (Content note: gun violence) Jon Rappoport is on a…
- Live From San Diego! · 1 h 17 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 522This classic RISK! episode first aired in March 2014, and the four San Diego storytellers behind it cover a remarkable range, from white-knuckle confession to gleeful filth…
- I Don't Know · 43 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1743Radio producer Jon Nelson curates and guest-hosts an episode built from three listener submissions RISK! never quite knew where to file, all circling childhood faith and the…
- Vagina Vagina Vagina! · 1 h 1 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 521Back in March 2014, RISK! tripled down on a single subject, and this classic episode was the result. Josh Healey is 17 and smitten with his drama club co-president when she…
- But You Look So Good · 40 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1742Two people who look fine on the outside, and the very different storms going on underneath. Ande Jackson is years into rebuilding after ovarian cancer. But one afternoon…
- The Best of Long Shot Stories · 39 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 83Long shots don't always pan out the way you hoped. Sometimes they catch fire. Sometimes they mug you. Shauna McGarry, a TV writer who can't shake her mother's thrift-store…
- Negative Attention · 35 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1741Brittany Ross and Sam Feirstein are both hungry for it in this episode: the moment someone finally looks your way and says, yes, you. For Brittany, that moment arrives in the…
- My Old Man · 1 h 8 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 446This one originally aired in August 2013, and the fathers in it tend toward the unexpectedly generous. And heck, this episode may as well be part of our Fathers Day Stories…
- Something Wild · 37 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1740Kambri and Evan arrive on the same episode from opposite ends of the spectrum, which turns out to be exactly right. Kambri Crews grew up poor in rural Texas with a deaf family…
- Live From San Fran 2014 · 1 h 7 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 520In San Francisco, 2014, four great storytellers took the RISK! stage at SF Sketch Fest: Stephen Tobolowsky was directing the New York premiere of The Miss Firecracker Contest…
- Captives · 46 min · Temporada 17 Episodio 1739Two stories from people who found themselves in situations they didn't choose and had to figure out what to do from inside them. Guest-hosted by the captivating Cyndi Freeman…
