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RISK!
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...
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Live From Seattle!
One chilly Seattle night in February 2014, four storytellers on the RISK! stage said some things they probably wouldn’t have otherwise said out loud.<...
Love, Death, and Dad’s Pee
It's summer 2014, and Bailey Swilley has a boyfriend she's been trying to leave for months and a father who is about to make that the least of her pro...
Into the Mystic
This one goes deep. "Into the Mystic" first aired in February 2014, and it brings together three accounts of the uncanny from three storytellers who h...
Brutal Authority
Guest-host Taj Easton is in the chair this week, presenting these two stories on the long shadow of patriarchy with a particular attentiveness, repeat...
Fascination
This one goes back to February 2014: a live RISK! episode built around the theme of fascination, meaning the things that get under your skin and won't...
Patreon Picks #6
Two storytellers, two very different ways of inheriting the past.
Shauna McGarry throws a Halloween party with her newly si...
Live From NYC Podfest 2014
Originally recorded live at NYC Podfest in January 2014, this is one of those classic RISK! episodes where the theme, confession, actually delivers on...
What the Body Keeps
Two stories about what the body holds onto and what it eventually gives back.
Ali Mac took a job in crypto after two years...
The Best of Mother’s Day Stories #4
Two mothers' days that look nothing alike, but hit just as hard.
Jobim Santos grew up watching his mother Linda lose her ba...
The Best of RISK! #35
This episode brings together two of the most gripping conversations in the show's recent run: a man who survived an extended stint in a Philippine jai...
I'm Okay, You're Okay
From the RISK! archives, this January 2014 episode gathers three storytellers around a theme that sounds simple and turns out not to be: actually bein...
Pop Obie’s Vibrator
Guest-hosted this week by Taj Easton, stepping in for Kevin to present a story by LeCount Holmes Jr., now Taj’s surrogate pops.
(Content...
The Best of Adventure Stories #3
Two RISK! stories pulled from the archive, and both are worth your time. "The Best of Adventure Stories #3" is funny and unsettling in equal measure,...
Weirdos
This episode is a love letter to people who are magnificently, irrepressibly, sometimes accidentally weird.
Larry Dorsey Jr. opens with t...
Today's the Day. Welcome to RISK!
Think you've heard it all? You haven't.
People pull over because they're laughing too hard to drive. People cry on treadmills. People sha...
A Hard Landing, Revisited
JP Michael first told "A Hard Landing" on RISK! in the summer of 2016, and it became one of the most talked-about episodes in the show's history. Now,...
Bad Medicine
Bad Medicine brings together three storytellers whose bodies, doctors, and circumstances all conspire against them in very different ways.
Backfire
Two RISK! veterans deliver stories about plans that—you guessed it—backfired.
As a teenager Nate Runkel built a satirical w...
The Best of RISK! #12
For the first time, we’re putting a Best of RISK! episode back on the feed. Originally released in July 2017, #12 remains one of the most epic compila...
Into the Moving Dark
(Content note: sexual assault, justifiable homicide)
Annie Carnrike spent years close to her cousin Michael, a man of fierce loyalty and...
Fighting Back
This is a classic RISK! episode from January 2014, and it holds up with a particular kind of ferocity.
(Content note: sexual assault)
The Best of RISK! #34
Three stories so worth your time, from darkly funny to devastating. Our 34th compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the podcast....
Impulsive
Three stories about snap decisions and what happens next: a classic RISK! episode from December 2013 that still hits hard.
Lauren Cook fo...
Males of the City: RISK! Reacts
Kevin hears Timothy Vaux's "Males of the City," a story from So Say We All, for the first time. In RISK! Reacts episodes, there's no preview, no prep,...
Presenting True Crime News: The Podcast
True Crime News: The Podcast is your weekly dose of real-time updates on the most gripping true crime stories, current cases, investigations, scams, a...
Live From Philly 4!
First released in December 2013, this live RISK! episode from Philadelphia's First Person Arts pairs two storytellers with a lot to say about losing c...
Quid Pro Quo, Revisited
(Content note: child sexual abuse)
In 2016, Ed G. got on stage at RISK! and told a story he'd never told anyone. Now, ten years later, Op...
Where It Hurts
In this crossover episode with The Story Collider, Karen McCaffrey and Mary Cyn share stories that illustrate the importance of compassion in healthca...
Metamorphosis
Michael McFadden and Adrianne Frost share stories about evolving feelings about their bodies over time.
🎙️Radio Story: Growth by Michael...
The Best of Coming of Age Stories #2
Byron Bowers and Amy Salloway share experiences from their formative years. A part of The Best of Coming of Age Stories series.
🎤🎙️💻Liv...
Private Parts
Ria Spencer, Mindy Myers and Josh Connors share stories about learning to feel at home in your body.
🎤Live Story: The Only Girl by Ria S...
Family Secrets
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in November of 2013, when Kitty Hailey, Christine Lee and Josh Healey share stories of sur...
Catastrophe
Emma Yarbrough and Joel Gonzalez share stories about learning and growing from hard times.
🎤Live Story: Searching for Blue Sky by Emma Y...
Live from Brown/RISD
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in November of 2013, when students from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of De...
Lights Off, Pants Down
David Zellnik tells Kevin Allison about a moment of sexual liberation in a dark back room at a gay bar in the early 90s. Check out all of our Conversa...
The Best of Love Stories #4
Reba Sparrow and Smith Galtney share some of our favorite unusual love stories from our 16-year history.
🎙️LIVE Story: Pleasant Mountain...
Unrequited
Connor O’Donoghue, JC Cassis and Jay Michel share stories about crushes and rebounds.
🎙️Radio Story: I Was the Appetizer by Connor O'Don...
Live From LA Storytelling Fest
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years when Brian Finkelstein, Carrie Wade and Matt Oberg told true stories at the live RISK! show for the 2013...
Come and Go
Ezra Holmlund and Sarah Adelman tell stories about things involving coming... and going.
🎤Live Story: Things Are Going South by Ezra Ho...
The Riverside, Revisited
In memory of Jan Scott-Frazier, we revisit her 2011 story called “The Riverside” and, until now unreleased, her conversation about the story in 2021 w...