RISK!

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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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Dad Shelter (CRS171)

12.08.2023

A Classic RISK! Singles episode! A story that Shane Torres first shared on the podcast in July of 2017 about helping out his homeless father. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make ...

RISK! episodes:

12.08.2023 Dad Shelter (CRS171) A Classic RISK! Singles episode! A story that Shane Torres first shared on the podcast in July of 2017 about helping out his homeless father. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make ...
12.05.2023 Coming of Age Jessie Rosen and Aaron Calafato share about youthful indiscretions and growing pains. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • ...
11.30.2023 Live at The Story Studio! (CRE338) A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the thirty-eighth episode of our third season, Story Studio students JC Cassis and Dionna share personal stories at our school's latest live show. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support ...
11.28.2023 Over The Line TaTa Sherise and Justine Ang Fonte share stories about boundaries crossed. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • Get ...
11.23.2023 Sex Stories #1 Lulu, Lesley Jones, and Geoff Millard share provocative stories about sex, hosted by Bawdy Storytelling's Dixie De La Tour! • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get ...
11.21.2023 The Ugly Truth Jude Treder-Wolff and Anastasia Washington are confronted with the same ugly truth about some people. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live ...
11.16.2023 For the Love of Charlie and Then Some As part of our Grief Stories series, David Crabb tells a story of love and loss. Then he and pet death doula Kate LaSala look back on David’s story and discuss grieving the loss of a pet. • Pitch us ...
11.14.2023 Trans Lives #3 Maxfield Orr and S. Galvin share stories about finding joy and facing challenges regarding being trans today. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to ...
11.09.2023 Funny Stuff #3 There’s nothing but laughs in our Funny Stuff compilations of classic RISK! stories on the lighter side. This week, Jillian Welsh and Rich Monahan share stories chock-full of blood and grapefruit juice. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support ...
11.07.2023 There at the End As part of our Grief Stories series, Barbara Todd tells a story about grief, guilt, and forgiveness. Then death doula Angela Shook helps her unpack that story. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk ...
11.02.2023 Treacherous A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the thirty-seventh episode of our third season, Selena Coppock, William Mullin, Ariana Seigel, Eric Martin, and Julie Threlkeld share stories from the danger zone. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • ...
11.01.2023 Presenting Gone South Season 3: The Sign Cutter On September 3, 2018, a rancher in Laredo, Texas, discovered a woman’s body shot execution-style on the side of the road. When investigators identified her as a local sex worker, their search for the killer took them into the darkest ...
10.30.2023 Scary Stories #15: Skin-crawling! Our 15th annual Halloween special filled with scary true stories, spooky songs and frightful surprises. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live ...
10.26.2023 Scary Stories #8: Egad! A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the fourth episode of our eighth season, R. Ben Garant, Michaela Murphy, Ryan Stroud and Alan Weber share spooky stories in our 2016 Halloween episode. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions ...
10.24.2023 Pops Stories about dads. Can’t live without ‘em. Stories by Gail Thomas and Ron Hart with guest-host Taj Easton. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets ...
10.20.2023 The Light and Reflection As part of our Grief Stories series, Lee Trew shares the story of experiencing a profoundly challenging loss. Afterwards, he and therapist Laurel Marks reflect upon his healing and the many "gifts of Blaise," 10 years later. • Pitch us ...
10.17.2023 Feeling Feelings Aditya Mayya and Lisa Cantrell share stories about how challenging it can be just to feel your feelings, plus Nikki the Death Doula stops by to discuss the processing of grief in these stories. This episode is part of our ...
10.12.2023 Hispanic Lives #4 To celebrate Hispanic American heritage, this is the fourth in our Hispanic Lives series, guest hosted by Ana Sheila Victorino & Brenda González of Tamarindo podcast, with stories by Marga Gomez, David Arroyo, and Lily Be. • Pitch us your ...
10.10.2023 Shitshow Richard Munchkin and Katy Townsend share stories about things not going according to plan. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: ...
10.05.2023 Hispanic Lives #3 To celebrate Hispanic American heritage, we present the third in our Hispanic Lives series, guest hosted by Manolo Matos, with stories by Dioselín González, Nelson Lugo, and Nestor "the Boss" Gomez. To learn more about listener data and our privacy ...
10.03.2023 The Best of RISK! #29 Our 29th compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live ...
09.28.2023 Surrender and Recovery As part of our Grief Stories series, Marcy Langlois tells the story of recovering from a devastating tragedy. Then, she and therapist Paige Pancratz discuss her continuing healing journey. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon ...
09.26.2023 RISK! meets Gaslit Nation Live in NYC, Kevin Allison of RISK! and Andrea Chalupa of Gaslit Nation talk about their podcasts and their passion for sharing the stories that most need to be heard. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through ...
09.22.2023 Introducing Say More with Dr? Sheila In the world of feelings, there are winners and losers, and somebody has to be the judge. World-renowned, self-proclaimed couples therapist Dr? Sheila invites you to sit in on her private sessions with clients. (For legal reasons, Dr? must be ...
09.21.2023 Hispanic Lives #2 To celebrate Hispanic American heritage, we present the second in our Hispanic Lives series, guest hosted by Joanna Hausmann, with stories by Margarita Franco, Maribel Hernández Rivera, and Frank Traynor. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through ...
09.19.2023 Work Hard Play Hard Frank Traynor and Anna Roisman tell stories about work-related highs and lows. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • ...
09.14.2023 Hispanic Lives #1 To celebrate Hispanic American heritage, we present the first in our Hispanic Lives series, guest hosted by Jorge "El George" Rivera Rubio, with stories by Michele Carlo, Laura Wimbels and Javier Morillo. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support ...
09.12.2023 The Dark Bevan Choate shares a story about taking a job at a weed clinic engaged in highly illegal activities. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets ...
09.08.2023 Life or Death (CRE335) A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the thirty-fifth episode of our third season, Laurel Holland and Michael Shocka share about the thin line between here and the hereafter. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! ...
09.05.2023 The Kindness of Strangers Michelle Murphy and Cara Lopez Lee flee dangers real and imagined, all the while relying on the kindness of strangers. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • ...
08.31.2023 Funny Stuff #2 There’s nothing but laughs in our Funny Stuff compilations of classic RISK! stories on the lighter side. This week, Morgan Jones Phillips and Kitty Hailey share about penile emergencies and public turtle sex. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • ...
08.29.2023 Friction Sandi Marx, David Hu and Stuart Jacobson share stories about getting back at bullies, surviving bad bosses, and not-so-immaculate conception. 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
08.24.2023 The Tricky Part (Content warning: child sexual abuse) A Classic RISK! Singles episode. Martin Moran shares about what he endured as a child and the journey toward healing it led to. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at ...
08.22.2023 Ingénues T Bernacé and Skip Bacon share girlhood stories about sexual experimentation and narcing on Mom. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live ...
08.17.2023 Indecent? (CRE333) A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the thirty-third episode of our third season, Dave Hill, Elna Baker, Carlos Kotkin, Michael Pope and Kelli Dunham share stories they would never tell Miss Manners. • Pitch us your story! ...
08.17.2023 Extra! Kevin & Carolyn Kendrick on SongWriter Here's an extra treat for RISK! listeners! Kevin Allison and Carolyn Kendrick, the producer of the podcasts You're Wrong About and You Are Good, appear on Ben Arthur's podcast SongWriter. Kevin tells a story. Carolyn sings a song about it. ...
08.15.2023 Confessions Jonathan Bradley Welch and Lindsey Lange-Abramowitz tell stories about information they held close to the chest. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! ...
08.11.2023 RISK! Presents: What’s Your Story? We’re thrilled to announce the debut of the all-new facilitated social event created by the RISK! team where you meet new people through sharing stories! Hosted by Kevin Allison at Caveat in NYC on August 19th at 1pm. Tickets are ...
08.10.2023 In The Shadows (CRS063) A Classic RISK! Singles episode! A story that Moloch Masters first shared on the podcast in May of 2017 about dark family secrets. PLUS a new interview with the storyteller at the end of the episode. • Pitch us your ...
08.08.2023 Hot Water Ximena Ospina and Yamaneika Saunders share stories about peeing all over the place and escaping very strange danger. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets ...
08.03.2023 Funny Stuff #1 There’s nothing but laughs in our Funny Stuff compilations of classic RISK! stories on the lighter side. A.D. Miles and Ts Madison share about poopy pants and a congregation’s farewell to a big member. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions ...
08.01.2023 By Any Means Kona Morris and Randall C Via share about taking risks to finish school and get laid, respectively. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to ...
07.27.2023 Live From LA! (CRE331) A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the thirty-first episode of our third season, Greg Fitzsimmons, Pete Holmes, Brian Babylon, Jillian Lauren and Jenna Brister tell stories at our crazy, monthly NerdMelt Theater show. • Pitch us your ...
07.25.2023 Happy Endings Vicky Kuperman and Calvin S. Cato describe two very different kinds of happy endings. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: ...
07.20.2023 Spitting in the Face of the Devil In one of the all-time classics of RISK! stories, Bob Brader shares how he discovered just how much abuse his father was capable of. In conjunction with this re-run, we feature a conversation between Bob and therapist Marianna Vogt about ...
07.18.2023 Not Who I Thought Stories about people learning not everyone is who they seem to be. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • ...
07.13.2023 State of Emergency (CRE329) A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the twenty-ninth episode of our third season, Tim & Eric's Tim Heidecker and others share stories of crisis and catastrophe. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon ...
07.11.2023 Live at Caveat 2! Listen to how amazing our live shows at Caveat in NYC are. Heather Farley, David Drake and Yasmine Beydoun at our June 22, 2023 show. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make ...
07.06.2023 Five Hundred A Classic RISK! Singles episode! A story that Sean Patton first shared on the podcast in May of 2012 about ghosts, surprise punches and an explosive vagina down in the Bayou. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! ...
07.04.2023 Touch & Go James Urbaniak, Jessica M. Thompson, and Fancy Feast tell stories about staying standing on shaky ground. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! ...

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What's RISK! about?

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RISK! episodes:

Dad Shelter (CRS171)

Coming of Age

Live at The Story Studio! (CRE338)

Over The Line

Sex Stories #1

The Ugly Truth

For the Love of Charlie and Then Some

Trans Lives #3

Funny Stuff #3

There at the End

Treacherous

Presenting Gone South Season 3: The Sign Cutter

Scary Stories #15: Skin-crawling!

Scary Stories #8: Egad!

Pops

The Light and Reflection

Feeling Feelings

Hispanic Lives #4

Shitshow

Hispanic Lives #3

The Best of RISK! #29

Surrender and Recovery

RISK! meets Gaslit Nation

Introducing Say More with Dr? Sheila

Hispanic Lives #2

Work Hard Play Hard

Hispanic Lives #1

The Dark

Life or Death (CRE335)

The Kindness of Strangers

Funny Stuff #2

Friction

The Tricky Part

Ingénues

Indecent? (CRE333)

Extra! Kevin & Carolyn Kendrick on SongWriter

Confessions

RISK! Presents: What’s Your Story?

In The Shadows (CRS063)

Hot Water

Funny Stuff #1

By Any Means

Live From LA! (CRE331)

Happy Endings

Spitting in the Face of the Devil

Not Who I Thought

State of Emergency (CRE329)

Live at Caveat 2!

Five Hundred

Touch & Go

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