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Risk! Storytelling Podcast

RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. It"s featured people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Andy Borowitz and more, dropping the act and showing a side of themselves we’ve never seen before. See more information at www.risk-show.com

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62:14

S17 Ep451: How Embarrassing

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2026/01/01

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in September of 2013, when Kevin Allison, Jen Bosworth, Donna Steele and Dare Campbell all shared stories of humiliation.🎤Radio Story: Mother’s Little Helper by Donna Steele (Content note: poop) Donna’s mother has a strange habit of pooping in public. On this occasion, it’s into a McDonald’s coke cup in a mall dressing room. Donna is in awe of her mom’s nonchalance. 🎤Live Story: The Hustler by Kevin Allison In his early 20s, Kevin goes

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47:32

S17 Ep1715: Hosts with the Mosts

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2025/12/30

JC Cassis, David Crabb and Cyndi Freeman share stories at RISK! live shows when they were hosting🎤Live Story: Not That Casual by JC Cassis As a young woman, JC is excited to go to a wild NYE party. A hot guy dances with her as if he's a middle school boy. She says he can be more casual. He takes out his dick and grinds on her. She tells him “Not THAT casual.” 🎤Live Story: Kitchen Nightmares! by David Crabb After moving to LA, David invites new friends to try one of the few restaurants in his

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64:49

S17 Ep77: Holiday Stories Fan Favorites!

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2025/12/25

Every holiday season, RISK! fans ask about this small handful of yuletide perennial favorites. Well here they all are, wrapped up in one neat package with a bow. Unwrap and enjoy these stories from Elna Baker, Kevin Allison, Sarah Long Hendershot, and Kate Bohl.🎤Live Story: For the Love of Nubbins by Elna Baker Selling expensive, real-looking baby dolls for the holiday season at FAO Schwartz, Elna “adopts” an unpopular one she calls Nubbins, a Black babydoll. When the doll is bought, Elna

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S17 Ep1714: Holiday Stories #18

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2025/12/23

Ty Gentile, James Rana, and David Hu share yuletide tales about Christmas carols, Black Santas, and of course, excretory health in our annual winter holidays special for 2025.🎙️Radio Story: A Very Moving Christmas by David Hu David’s dad has Alzheimer’s. David always struggled to understand how to give and receive love from his immigrant father. But when he buys his dad dearly needed laxatives for Xmas, it’s a touching moment of bonding. 🎙️Radio Story: The Widow’s Song by Ty Gentile Struggling

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35:31

S17 Ep1713: Sex & Supper

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2025/12/16

Nikki Bailey and Hana Nobel share stories about how messy things can get with food and sex, with guest host, Taj Easton.🎤Live Story: That's Not Sexy, Baby by Nikki Bailey For Nikki, her hookup’s praise of her body is a boost to her self esteem. But when her digestive system acts up, she must become downright defiant about self-acceptance. keywords: Plus Sized Dating, Self-Acceptance, Queer, Body Positivity, BoPo, Self-Worth, Body Acceptance, Empowerment, Mr. Big, Sex and the City, Farting,

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S17 Ep76: The Best of Gratitude Stories #1

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2025/11/27

Satori Shakoor and Paul Cibis share stories of thanksgiving. A part of our series called Gratitude Stories.🎤Live Story: Thank You by Satori Shakoor Satori’s loss of her mother and son is devastating. Later, she dates a man who gets a kick out of Satori being “too much,” and she is grateful to remember to live life over-the-top, and fully alive. keywords: none 🎤Live Story: My Lifeline by Paul Cibis Paul's kidneys began to fail him. He was stuck in the tragic position of hoping someone would die

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99:48

S17 Ep1703: The Lies That Bind

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2025/10/14

DESCRIPTION: Mishelle tells Taj her story of a lifetime lived with an abusive mother in an environment of relentless lies, instability and unspeakable violence. Check out all of our Conversation Stories! 🎙️Conversation Story: The Lies that Bind by Mishelle Roberts SYNOPSIS: (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

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4:22

Get Undomesticated

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2025/10/13

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

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Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright

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2025/09/19

Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated series. Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test

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S16 Ep440: Queer

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2025/09/18

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in July of 2013, when Cameron Esposito, Kris Grey and Kevin Allison shared radically different stories of LGBT life in the early 2010’s. 🎤Live Story: All the Rage by Kevin Allison SYNOPSIS: A man living in Kevin's neighborhood started screaming, "Faggot!" at Kevin whenever he was in eyeshot. Then one day the man switched from screaming to punching. keywords: gay, homosexual, lgbtqia, queer, faggot, violence, homophobia 🎤Radio Story: The

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S16 Ep180: The Power, Revisited

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2025/09/11

Tori Weston revisits her story about surviving childhood sexual abuse from 2014 called “The Power” with Kevin Allison. Tori has many new insights eleven years later. You can also watch this episode on YouTube!🎤Radio Story: The Power by Tori Weston (Content note: child sexual abuse, suicidal ideation) At 12, going on 13, Tori was raped by her stepfather. When she came out about it, the situation pitted family member against family member. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in

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S16 Ep1663: My Secret Career: RISK! Reacts

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2025/08/26

Kevin hears C. J. Guy’s “My Secret Career” story from The Secret Room 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: My Secret Career by C.J. Guy CJ reveals his secret career path that started with dropping out of law school without informing his family and becoming a flight attendant. He maintained the lie for eight months

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57:25

S16 Ep438: Young Rebels

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2025/08/21

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in June of 2013, when Ethan Ullman, Katy Frame, Ben Lerman and Rob Lathan share stories about youthful indiscretions. 🎤Live Story: The Amazing Adventures of Ethan and the Lunch Monkey by Ethan Ullman In school, Ethan and a friend call a lunch lady who was mean to them "the Lunch Monkey." Called to the principal's office, they invent a comic book series they claim they were referencing, about a superhero by that name. CURRENT keywords:

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33:38

S16 Ep1661: Sink or Swim

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2025/08/12

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

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48:04

S16 Ep437: Live From Charleston 2!

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2025/08/07

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

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33:21

S16 Ep72: The Best of Adventure Stories #2

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2025/07/24

Sarah Jones and Myka Fox share stories about high stakes ventures. 🎤Live Story: Kibbles 'n Bits by Sarah Jones Sarah starts abusing laxatives to lose weight for her new hot boyfriend. When camping with his dog, she secretly shits in the woods. The dog laps it up and kisses the boy when back in the car. keywords: diarrhea, poop disasters, canine coprophagia, shitkisses 🎤Live Story: Hitchin' It! by Myka Fox Myka and her friend are hitchhiking and they're picked up by "Kevin Spacey with a Ray

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39:07

S16 Ep1658: Shoulda Seen It Coming

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2025/07/22

Jonathan Bradley Welch and Talia Tabin share stories of psychics, mediums and intuitions.🎤Live Story: The One? by Jonathan Bradley Welch After a psychic's prediction of lasting love, Jonathan pins his hopes on a pandemic crush—only to be let down. He learns love won’t save him, but self-acceptance just might. keywords: Queer love story, Provincetown romance, Gay dating journey, Psychic love prediction, Pandemic virtual boyfriend 🎤Live Story: What Older Brothers Do by Talia Tabin Years after

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50:27

S16 Ep1657: Animals Past and Present

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2025/07/15

Ray Christian tells Kevin about the pet cemetery he and his childhood friends created and the gruesome secret it might hold. You can also watch this episode on YouTube!Conversation Story: Animals Past and Present by Ray Christian (Content note: animal death) As a child, Ray and his friends held funerals for small animals. One day, Ray saw a monkey, then later what may have been the monkey’s remains… or those of a missing child. keywords: Funeral home, Mock funeral, Peacock, Monkey, Missing

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S16 Ep432: Live From Philly 3!

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2025/07/09

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in April of 2013, when Brady Dale, Elna Baker and Marjorie Winther shared stories at the 4/20/13 RISK! Live show in Philly hosted by First Person Arts. 🎧Live Story: The Prayer by Brady Dale After a streak of bad luck with women, Brady tries ancient Christian practices, like the mantra-like repetition of a pilgrim's prayer and self-flagellation with a belt. current keywords: flogging, mortification of the flesh, ascetic practice,

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41:32

S16 Ep1656: Campy!

Risk! Storytelling Podcast ·

2025/07/08

Lindsay Ames and Shannon Turner tell stories of camp flames. 🎧Live Story: The Jerk by Lindsay Ames As a teen at Jewish camp Lindsay is eager to have a sexual experience with the cute boy, and gets in a sleeping bag with him, but her friend Carly jumps in and steals Lindsay’s first handjob. keywords: handjob, Jewish camp, cockblock, virgin 🎧Radio Story: Tomfoolery by Shannon M. Turner Shannon is in love with a guy at camp. Her crush goes on for years, as they both end up on the camp’s staff,

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