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 in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.
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August 20, 2026 • 64 mins
An episode from May 2014 with more comedy than the alliterative title would suggest.
Dave Hill wanted to frighten himself on purpose, so he flew to northern Mexico to stay with an old college friend who had become the chaplain of a prison the cartels were running themselves. There is a pizza party, a borrowed guitar, and a man with a machete.
(Content note: suicidal ideation, suicide)
CJ Hostetter graduated into the 2009 economy...
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August 18, 2026 • 32 mins
Two comedians with two very different things to stop hiding, expose themselves in turn:
Calvin S. Cato is queer, twenty pounds lighter than he used to be, and willing to do almost anything to perform for more than three people and a sad disco ball. When a friend suggests the Naked Comedy Show, Calvin signs up on the strength of two words: "sells out." He does not ask a follow-up question. By the time he learns what "naked" actuall...
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August 13, 2026 • 48 mins
This one comes back from April of 2014, the second night of a RISK! live run in Reno, Nevada, and it swings hard between the filthy and the tender.
Josie Spadoni is working an afternoon at her Los Angeles dungeon when a client walks in with a request most people would refuse on the spot. She says yes.
(Content note: suicidal ideation)
Emily Reese grew up dreaming of a picket-fence Christian marriage and the submissive-wife role ...
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August 12, 2026 • 45 mins
Let's dig into two people’s lives where physical desire set off completely unplanned-for chain reactions.
Ceara Lynch is a teenager when a stranger online suggests she bottle and sell her urine. She does it on a dare to herself, he pays $250, and what starts as a joke becomes a career in fetish work and verbal humiliation—one she has to hide from the people who raised her. (Shout out to The Mystery Box Show where this ...
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August 11, 2026 • 55 mins
Fox Emerson moves to Milan with his husband for a fresh start, then lets a charismatic man he met in Atlanta follow him there. The man settles into the apartment, grows colder and stranger by the day, and one late-night argument escalates until Fox is the one in handcuffs, alone in an Italian jail cell with no idea why.
Patrick Holbert convinces himself his marriage is quietly open, books an appointment with a dominatrix in Queens...
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August 6, 2026 • 60 mins
Live from Reno in April 2014, three first-time RISK! storytellers turn a single night into a run of proposition, prophecy, and psychedelic reckoning.
Virginia Munsterman is a 20-year-old college student scraping by as a barista when a new job as a chiropractor's assistant lands her at a business conference in Clearwater, Florida. The company's multimillionaire CEO zeroes in on her immediately, and over two days his attention escal...
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August 4, 2026 • 49 mins
Kenice Mobley grew up on a 1999 movie fantasy of the woman who travels the world, says yes to everything, and never flinches. As an adult she follows that ideal into a Paris sex club, a single shared baguette, and a straight-faced argument about whether taking your clothes off makes anyone free. It’s all fun and game right up until it turns into a question about who a room actually wants.
(Content note: suicide)
Richard V...
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July 30, 2026 • 73 mins
From April 2014, five people finding a way out.
Sean Crespo signs up for a sleep deprivation study to escape the worst summer job in Boston, then spends ten days plotting one act of privacy. Kate Greathead, dumped and displaced, discovers she can cry on the subway every night and nobody will stop her.
(Content note: suicidal ideation)
Jeff Simmermon loses a testicle to cancer and gains an imaginary black bird that whispers to hi...
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July 28, 2026 • 37 mins
Two people confront what it means to stay bound to someone who keeps letting them down.
Tuesday Thomas, a trans woman in LA with a lifelong pull toward unavailable men, meets a charming match on a dating app. The chemistry is undeniable, right up until he looks her in the eye and warns her not to Google him. Her response becomes a very funny, surprisingly pointed argument about honesty and what commitment is really worth.
Then Da...
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July 23, 2026 • 63 mins
Marilyn Gilchrist is a professional dog trainer, and "Who Am I Now" is her conversation with Michael Shikashio, lifted from his podcast The Bitey End of the Dog. Kevin Allison sets it up and returns at the end with his own thoughts. This is a companion episode to Still Dog People: Two Truths, released earlier in the week.
(Content note: graphic dog attack)
An hour into a routine welfare check on a foster dog, Marilyn stood up to ...
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July 21, 2026 • 44 mins
For the first of two Still Dog People episodes this week, John LaSala guest-hosts with his wife Kate LaSala, a professional dog behavior consultant.
(Content note: graphic dog attack on a child)
Jill Karliner watched her four-year-old twin sons head into the neighbors' backyard to play with the big kids. Minutes later, she heard a scream that changed how her family would live with dogs. In the years since, she has come to hold tw...
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July 16, 2026 • 57 mins
A classic RISK! episode from March 2014. Three live storytellers, three very different voices in the head.
Vicki Tollemache spent her teens as the careful kid orbiting a wilder crowd. The summer before she turns 16, she decides to get her first kiss over with and arranges a late-night meeting with a boy she barely knows. The kiss becomes something she spends years trying to forget, for reasons she only understands much later.
Kev...
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July 15, 2026 • 49 mins
Kevin launches a new classic RISK! series for Disability Pride Month, revisiting stories about life with a disability from episodes past.
Amy Salloway takes a job as guest playwright at Entropy, a theater program for adults with multiple disabilities. On her first day, a charming client named Aaron falls at her feet. The interview quickly becomes something Amy knows is off-limits.
Mary Gossett meets Andrew on the Plenty of Fish d...
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July 14, 2026 • 39 mins
Two people learn something about protecting and being protected, one at a mall in lockdown, one on a plane full of strangers.
(Content note: gun violence)
Jon Rappoport is on a Zoom call in his home office when his wife bursts in with news that their twelve-year-old twin daughters are texting from a nearby mall about an active shooter and hiding in Macy's. He drives there in flip-flops, half feral, and the girls keep texting him ...
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July 9, 2026 • 77 mins
This classic RISK! episode first aired in March 2014, and the four San Diego storytellers behind it cover a remarkable range, from white-knuckle confession to gleeful filth.
Tommy Galan traces a drinking habit that began at age eleven and nearly cost him his family, until three little words from a bar owner reframe everything. Justin Hudnall grows up on the motto "you don't miss what you don't have," then goes looking for the Viet...
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July 7, 2026 • 42 mins
Radio producer Jon Nelson curates and guest-hosts an episode built from three listener submissions RISK! never quite knew where to file, all circling childhood faith and the certainties grown-ups pass down.
Jana Fisher is eleven and the most devout girl in her friend group until a sleepover becomes a contest over who is truly saved. Jesse Bradley-Amore is twelve and watching cartoons when his mother appears with a police nightstic...
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July 2, 2026 • 61 mins
Back in March 2014, RISK! tripled down on a single subject, and this classic episode was the result.
Josh Healey is 17 and smitten with his drama club co-president when she casts him, a boy, in the first ever co-ed production of The Vagina Monologues. The soccer team has questions, the college feminists have objections, and the cast is heading toward open revolt.
Amy Salloway, fresh off a massage therapist's humiliating refusal t...
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June 30, 2026 • 39 mins
Two people who look fine on the outside, and the very different storms going on underneath.
Ande Jackson is years into rebuilding after ovarian cancer. But one afternoon mid-treatment, immune system flattened by chemo, she decides to open her door to a neighbor holding a casserole. The woman means well, and reaches for a thought about mortality that does the opposite of comfort."
(Content note: heavy drug use)
Chetter M. Gallowa...
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June 25, 2026 • 38 mins
Long shots don't always pan out the way you hoped. Sometimes they catch fire. Sometimes they mug you.
Shauna McGarry, a TV writer who can't shake her mother's thrift-store instincts, talks herself into a $2,500 used hot tub from a shady Craigslist dealer named Dan. Things don’t turn out so great.
David Crabb waitered through the days after 9/11 at one of the only open restaurants in lower Manhattan, listening to strangers u...
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June 23, 2026 • 34 mins
Brittany Ross and Sam Feirstein are both hungry for it in this episode: the moment someone finally looks your way and says, yes, you.
For Brittany, that moment arrives in the least expected form. She is in her early 20s, grinding through acting classes and princess gigs and bar shifts, desperate for anyone in Los Angeles to see her as the star she knows she could be. When a neighbor with an apparent break from reality begins accus...
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