A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in August of 2013, when Brad McMurran, Alicia Camden, and Sean Devereux told stories at the Norfolk Comedy Festival.

🎤Live Story: The Color Purple by Brad McMurran

🎤Live Story: Robbie Robbie by Alicia Camden

🎤Live Story: Train du Matin by Sean Devereux

Sean dates a girl who he only sees when they are both drunk. When he decides to have a lunchtime date with her without alcohol, he realizes they have nothing in common. To his bewilderment, she tries to convince him to stay by playing a French version of "Morning Train." 

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Mishelle tells Taj her story of a lifetime lived with an abusive mother in an environment of relentless lies, instability and unspeakable violence. 

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🎙️Conversation Story: The Lies that Bind by Mishelle Roberts

(Content Note: child abuse, child murder)

Mishelle tells Taj about growing up in the shadow of hospitals, horrific medical drama, and a web of lies that defined her entire life. As an adult, she starts to uncover what was really happening and discovers that the lies were bigger and darker than she ever could’ve imagined.

Mishelle’s story was also the focus of Season Six of Nobody Should Believe Me. 

keywords: Munchausen by proxy, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, medical abuse, child abuse, family secrets, attention seeking, childhood trauma, gaslighting, sibling death, mother-daughter conflict, Nobody Should Believe Me, podcast journalism

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Candiace Dillard Bassett (Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac) and Michael Arceneaux (New York Times best-selling author and culture critic) have thoughts…and on Undomesticated, they’re sharing all of them. Think of it like the group chat you wish you were in - brutally honest, funny, smart, and gloriously unfiltered. 

From viral TikTok drama to the celebrity news everyone’s talking about (and the ones they should be), Candiace and Michael are here to talk their talk, crack you up, and keep it 100…with just the right amount of petty.

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A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in 2013, when the RISK! live show came to Norfolk, Virginia.  

🎤Live Story: The Squatter by Billy Raim

Billy is afraid to poop in public until he decides to let go of of that fear, as it was ruining a trip with friends to China, with disastrous consequences.

keywords: Poop, Fear, China, Culture Shock

🎤Live Story: Sister’s Keeper by Tiffany Chilcott

Tiffany impersonates her sister on the phone and gets a guy to shave his head.

keywords: Siblings, Imposters, Pranks, Dating

🎤Live Story: The Last Time by Pete Roberts

Pete lets a drug dealer into his motel thinking he’s going to have a Bukowski moment, only to be robbed.

keywords: Bad Decisions, Drug Deals, Fear, Life Threatening

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On the 16th anniversary of the podcast, Jill Karliner and Kevin Allison share stories from their own sixteeny days. 

🎙️Radio Story: Save a Prayer for Jill by Jill Karliner

When she was sixteen, Jill went to a Duran Duran concert in an attempt to fit in with her friend group and got so inside her own head about not enjoying it, she panicked. 

keywords: concert, classical, duran duran, rick springfield, squeeze, high school

🎙️Radio Story: What’s in the Box?! by Kevin Allison

After being slighted by his high-school crush, a young Kevin mailed the unsuspecting straight boy his poop.

keywords: poop prank, mailing feces, unrequited teenage love, queer crush, revenge, poop

Watch Kevin's chat with Sean Malin, author of Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen, on YouTube.

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Andrea Dunlop tells Kevin about the time her sister was investigated for Munchausen syndrome by proxy child abuse and how this set her off on a long path towards advocacy, outreach and the pursuit of justice, through her podcast Nobody Should Believe Me.
This episode is guest-hosted by Taj Easton.
You can also watch it on YouTube!

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🎙️Conversation Story: Believe Her by Andrea Dunlop

(Content note: child abuse, child murder) Andrea’s sister is prosecuted for Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) child abuse, which sets Andrea off on a long path towards advocacy, outreach and the pursuit of justice for victims of MSbP. Years later, her podcast and vigilante journalism lead her to uncover irrefutable evidence of an unprosecuted, hideous crime, as well as towards healing of her own deep, familial wounds.

keywords: Munchausen by proxy, MSbP, Factitious disorder imposed on another, FDIA, medical child abuse, ethical true crime, true crime podcast, family trauma, child murder, Nobody Should Believe Me, 

Special thanks to Rafter for the generous and essential musical contributions.

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Scott Whitney revisits his story from 2013 about losing his faith called “Revelations” with Kevin. He has many new insights twelve years later. You can also watch this episode on YouTube!

🎤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.

keywords: Awake!, door-to-door, Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Watchtower

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Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by Cyndi Freeman.

🎤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen

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.

🎤Radio Story: Black Is the Loneliest Color by Larry Dorsey Jr.

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

🎤Live Story: What the Blorp?! by Kerri Doherty

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

🎤Radio Story: The Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis

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

🎤Live Story: Orgasmic by Yossi Rosenberg

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

🎤Radio Story: Breaking Point by Heather Farley

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

🎤Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad Lawrence

(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

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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.

🎤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

🎤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

🎤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 

🎤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

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Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story “Midnight in Manila,” about the time he was pulled into a nightmare of corruption, false rape charges, and five years in a Philippine jail. 

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🎙️Conversation Story: Midnight in Manila by Scott McMahon

Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story “Midnight in Manila,” 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

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