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A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in August of 2013, when DC Pierson, Selena Coppock, Brad Lawrence and Nina Davis shared stories of love and loss.

🎙️Radio Story: Let Me Sleep On It by Brad Lawrence

In his youth, Brad finds and loses love with a fellow bookstore employee. Later, after marrying someone else, he sees his feelings for his fellow employee were just a crush, and that real love allows for making mistakes.keywords: crushes, love, marriage, relationships, youth

🎤Live Story: In the Belly by DC Pierson

As a nerdy virgin in high school, DC and his friend’s girlfriend become friends and have an affair in which he only kisses her stomach until eventually she goes down on him spontaneously and breaks up with her boyfriend. 

keywords: teenage, high school, affair, sexual exploration, cheating, relationships, youth, virgins

🎙️Radio Story: Remember You Like a Child by Nina Davis

At 14, Nina fell in love with a boy while on vacation. Decades later, she finally found him again. He’d been through homelessness and heroin addiction. Now, he was married with a child.

keywords: long lost love, lost and found, reuniting, young love

🎤Live Story: Complete by Selena Coppock

In her freshman year of college, Selena fell head over heels in love with a young man who had already graduated. It was never meant to be, but years later Selena got to share with him how much he’d meant to her.

keywords: love, dating, college, recent graduate, reconnection, closure, support, self love, self belief, confidence, unrequited love

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Kevin hears Diane Weipert’s “The Living Room” story from Love and Radio for the first time and gives you his instant reactions. 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.

🎙️ Story: The Living Room by Diane Weipert

Through an unobstructed window, Diane observes the lives of a young couple in the apartment across the street, becoming a silent witness to their private moments, which become more and more profound. 

keywords: voyeurism, neighbors, rear window, death

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Three of our favorite scary stories from Halloween specials of our past. 

🎤Radio Story: The Thing by Thomas McKean

When Thomas was a kid, he and a friend saw a shadowy oblong shape following them on a beach. Years later, he feels chained to his bed in the middle of the night when the same figure, then two more hover over him. 

keywords: Paranormal encounter, Shadow figure,Beach sighting,Sleep paralysis,Night terrors,Childhood mystery,UFO-like entity,Supernatural experience

🎤Radio Story: Your Health and Your Soul by Erika Steigerwald

As a psychiatric nurse, it’s out of Erika’s wheelhouse to accept that a patient is possessed by a demon, and yet… the series of inexplicable and terrifying phenomena she experienced with one patient made her a believer.

keywords: Possession phenomenon,Haunted patient,Paranormal psychiatry,Demonic influence,Psychological horror,Supernatural events,Spiritual awakening,Mental health, spirits

🎤Radio Story: The Man in the Top Hat by Alan Weber

Alan and his little brother saw a growling man in a top hat one night in their bedroom. Alan's brother was so haunted by the figure that he stabbed himself, and later at church, was hurled toward the altar against his volition.   

keywords: Haunted figure,Top hat ghost,Nighttime apparition,Childhood trauma,Psychic disturbance,Spiritual haunting,Nightmares and visions,Supernatural horror

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Our 17th annual Halloween special with scary true stories about ghosts, corpses and mortal danger. 

🎤Radio Story: Do You Know My Name? by Robert Oakes

Robert leads ghost tours, but unlike his father, he’s unsure he’s a believer. After his father dies, Robert’s tour of a haunted house is visited by paranormal investigators, who have him ask a question to the spirits there which reveal a family connection. 

keywords: haunted house, paranormal investigation, EVP session, skeptic vs believer, Berkshire ghosts, Venford Hall, Edith Wharton, paranormal tourism

🎤Radio Story: A World of Corpses by Johanna Stein

As a child Johanna faked all sorts of finding of dead bodies, until the day she discovered a very real one in the dark waters near her house. 

keywords: Little kid, dead bodies, corpse, river

🎤Radio Story: Saint Andrew's Cross by Fixxy

New to sex work in his late teens, Fixxy gets picked up by a guy who pays Fixxy to be tied up and tickled. Things start out as negotiated, but once Fixxy has been bound and blindfolded, things become terrifyingly nonconsensual.

keywords: sex work, kink, consent, tickling fetish, fetish culture, BDSM, power dynamics

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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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Hannah Sussman and Swapna Deshpande tell stories about coming to terms with mortality. 

🎤Anecdote: Another Conversation with my Dead Mother by Hannah Sussman

Hannah reflects on her relationship with her deceased mother—waking from a dream, looking in the mirror and eventually coming to peace with her own aging. 

keywords: mother daughter relationships, aging, grief

🎤Live Story: Each Other's Angels by Swapna Deshpande

Dr. Swapna Deshpande recounts her experiences with a patient she befriended named 'John' at a trauma center. She practically saved his life on a couple of occasions, but grieved when he passed after she’d been on a brief vacation. 

keywords: Doctor, Parkinson's, ICU, Coma

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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

Brad’s first sexual experience goes wrong when an allergic reaction to spermicidal condoms sends him to the ER, where his mother discovers his purple-stained underwear.

Keywords: teen angst, losing virginity, sex mishaps, allergies

🎤Live Story: Robble Robble by Alicia Camden

After returning home broke and aimless, Alicia hopes Halloween plans with her best friend will cheer her. But a night dressed as the Hamburglar is humiliating, until Alicia finds the comedy in it. 

keywords: Halloween costumes, costume parties

🎤Live Story: Train du Matin by Sean Devereux

Sean dates a girl who he only sees when they are both drunk till 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." 

keywords: drunk love, mismatched couples

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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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