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The Best of RISK! #33


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

šŸŽ¤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.

šŸŽ¤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

šŸŽ¤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.Ā 

keywords: army, cheating, lying to the army, relationship

šŸŽ¤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.Ā 

keywords: blackness, changing minds, communication, conflict, empathy, grand dragon, ku klux klan, open minds, prejudice, racial hatred, racism, resolution, unchecked bias

šŸŽ¤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

šŸŽ¤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.Ā 

keywords: divorce, Psychotic Break, Rauschenberg Painting

šŸŽ¤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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