A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in August of 2013, when Mather Zickel, Jen Curran, Joel Kim Booster and Julie Threlkeld told stories of times they crossed over the edge.

🎤Live Story: Waiting for the Man by Joel Kim Booster

Joel would love to find a kinky Dom to write "Bitch" around his asshole. One night, he plays with a Dom who is a huge disappointment.

keywords: Asian storyteller, gay, homosexual, lgbtqia, queer

🎤Live Story: Stop Thief by Jen Curran

Jen confesses that she feels no guilt about stealing. In college, she stole thousands of dollars worth of text books and got caught. She had to imagine she had murdered someone in order to muster guilty enough sounding words of apology.

keywords: theft, Guilt, Stealing, Honesty, Confession, coming-of-age, crime

🎤Live Story: You’ve Made Worm’s Meat of Me by Mather Zickel

Young Mather’s leather-clad skateboarding nights in New York in the mid-90s end in a brutal street fight in a small Southern town, revealing the fleeting nature of toughness.

keywords: 1990s, grunge, skateboarding, street fight, masculinity, rebellion, youth culture, small-town America

🎤Live Story: Snake/Mouse by Julie Threlkeld

Growing up in a neighborhood filled with legends of 60s/70s rock and roll, pre-teen Julie became friends with the girlfriend of a member of the Jefferson Airplane at the same time that the Vietnam War kept taking her journalist father away from home.

keywords: rock and roll, neighborhood legends, Jefferson Airplane, Vietnam War, music history, childhood, friendship, cultural nostalgia

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