Valerie Ward and David Patteson share stories about calling for help when the world gets dangerous.
🎤Live Story: Treading Water by Valerie Ward
In her younger days, Valerie got stuck under a dock while swimming in a lake. It brought about mixed feelings about calling for help and how much people might or might not care about her.
keywords: lake, swimming, dock, childhood
🎙️Radio Story: Rescuer by David Patteson
As a kid, David is in danger of drowning till he's rescued by his big brother Mike, who goes on to fill in as surrogate mother to his brothers and sisters once their real mother abandons them.
keywords: swimming, drowning, childhood, family
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Live From Charleston 2!
A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in June of 2013 - Stories from our 2nd visit to Charleston’s Theatre 99!
🎤Live Story: The Storm by Camille Lowman
Camille attends a bachelorette party full of proper Southern suburbanites and watches them descend into drunken shenanigans when the male stripper arrives.
CURRENT keywords: women behaving badly, strippers, bad behavior, oral sex
🎤Live Story: The Wrapper by Nathaniel Bates
Nathaniel is confounded when, as a child, he sees his dad’s penis and realizes that it is much different from his own, causing him lots of secret shame and worry about having a foreskin.
CURRENT keywords: circumcision, penises, parents, childhood, puberty, school
🎤Live Story: Roadside Assistance by Shon Kennedy
Shon, a Black woman, is in a car accident in the deep South. A white trash redneck comes to her aid (with lots of marijuana to offer as well) and the two of them end up revealing their deepest insecurities to one another.
CURRENT keywords: Stereotypes, defied expectations, strange friendships, cars, pot
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Gregg fell into a crevasse: RISK! Reacts
Kevin hears Gregg LeFevre’s “Gregg fell into a crevasse” story from the what was that like podcast for the first time and gives you his hot takes. 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: Gregg fell into a crevasse by Gregg LeFevre
Gregg visits Las Vegas and decides to climb a glacier. Unprepared, he falls into a crevasse but escapes by following an injured deer. Later, he learns it wasn't even a real glacier.
keywords: las vegas, glacier, artist, deer
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Incompatible
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The Big Secret
Brad keeps a big secret for far too long a time. Guest hosted by Cyndi Freeman.
🎤Live Story: The Big Secret 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, church youth group, evangelical guilt, childhood abuse, shame, U2, murder, strangulation
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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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