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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 in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.

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S17 · E1755
Yesterday · 40 min
Giggles
Three stories about laughing at exactly the wrong moment, and finding out it was the right one all along. Three ways of getting through it sideways.
S17 · E532
Thursday · 1 hr 9 min
Live from Boston!
A bully reappears in the worst place. A dream vintage-store job turns toxic. A son traces his vanishing father through prison and beyond. Three live Boston stories.
S17 · E1754
September 8 · 36 min
No Harm, No Foul
A gallstone attack, an empty road, and a decision that nearly costs a stranger everything. A Christmas Eve joyride that ends in flames on the Turnpike. Two men on the road bring disaster on themselves, walk away unhurt, and go right back to who they were. Allen Fetters and Richard Velazquez.
S17 · E1304
September 3 · 1 hr 2 min
The Best of RISK! Inanity
A classic RISK! episode from November 2021, gathering the show's original songs, sound collages, and audio easter eggs. Jeff Barr, Kevin Allison, David Crabb, John LaSala, Soce the Elemental Wizard, and others turn original stamps.com jingles, goth ballads, bits from RISK! alums like TS Madison & Brian Babylon, plus pure nonsense into a jukebox of RISK! absurdity.
S17 · E86
September 2 · 47 min
The Best of School Stories #2
Tara Clancy heads from working-class Queens to a Manhattan college where her accent gives her away. Meanwhile, Susan Kent, dropped into segregated Fitzgerald GA at age six, spends the next decade crossing every line her town draws.
S17 · E1752
September 1 · 1 hr 5 min
So Long, And Thanks For All The Jeff: The Jeffisode
Kevin Allison and longtime RISK! editor Jeff Barr look back on almost two decades together, including their retelling of a mushroom trip Kevin took at Jeff's home in Colorado that left him convinced he needed an ambulance. Find all of our conversation story episodes at risk-show.com/conversationstories
S17 · E530
August 27 · 1 hr 4 min
Live From Pittsburgh!
Three storytellers live in Pittsburgh: a nurse who won't back down, a doorknob bound for a dark house in the woods, and a teenager's jar of coins.
S17 · E1751
August 25 · 40 min
Is It Her?
A found wallet, a 3 a.m. subway stare, and two New York men circling breakups. Brad Lawrence and Christopher Moncayo-Torres.
S17 · E529
August 20 · 1 hr 4 min
Death Defying
A classic RISK! episode from May 2014, where Dave Hill, CJ Hostetter and Tyler Phillips each get close enough to death to feel it. The mood swings from absurd comedy to real dread, sometimes inside a single sentence.
S17 · E1750
August 18 · 32 min
Exposure Therapy
Calvin Cato and Uriah Wesman tell stories about revealing who they really are in front of an audience.
S17 · E528
August 13 · 48 min
Live From Reno 2!
A classic RISK! episode recorded live in Reno, Nevada, in April of 2014, featuring Josie Spadoni and the late Emily Reese. The night ranged from pitch-black and profane to raw, tender reckoning with love and unconditional acceptance.
S17 · E85
August 12 · 45 min
The Best of Sex Stories #5
Ceara Lynch and Baruch Porras-Hernandez bring the heat and the complications. Ceara discovers her most marketable asset is one she flushes every day; Baruch gives a fake name at a bathhouse and watches the lie take on a life of its own.
S17 · E1749
August 11 · 55 min
Non-Ethical Non-Monogamy
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, and spends the next six weeks deciding whether to tell his wife. His confession lands nothing like he pictured. Funny, filthy, and more honest about marriage than he probably planned. Both men skipped the conversation that might have changed everything. Leave your comments on the stories and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ On September 8, 2026 in New York City ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ 💵 Make a one-time donation⁠⁠ via PayPal or Zelle to kevin@risk-show.com 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S17 · E527
August 6 · 1 hr
Live From Reno 1!
A classic RISK! episode from April 2014, recorded live in Reno. Virginia Munsterman, Jessica Levity, and Steve Emmerich bring three stories spanning unwanted propositions, roadside spiritual encounters, and psychedelic self-discovery.
S17 · E1748
August 4 · 49 min
Trying It On
Kenice Mobley and Richard Velasquez tell stories about chasing freedom. Kenice Mobley chases a movie-heroine fantasy of the woman who says yes to everything, and Richard Velazquez performs teenage toughness on a 1980s crack corner.
S17 · E525
July 30 · 1 hr 13 min
Freedom
A classic RISK! episode from April 2014. Sean Crespo, Jeff Simmermon, Kate Greathead, John F. O'Donnell, and Jean Ann Le Bec each get out of something: a summer job, a diagnosis, a heartbreak, a delusion, a marriage.
S17 · E1747
July 28 · 37 min
Let Him Go
Two very different encounters with love and loss. Tuesday Thomas turns a dating-app romance with a secretive man into a sharp reckoning with commitment, while David Hu walks through his father's last months in the Bronx.
S17 · E1746
July 23 · 1 hr 3 min
Still Dog People: Who Am I Now
In a spiritual sequel to our episode Still Dog People: Two Truths, Marilyn Gilchrist is attacked by a rescue dog on a routine welfare check. She tells her story to Michael Shikashio in a crossover with his podcast, The Bitey End of the Dog, about the injury, the fear that followed, and what she only thought she had lost.
S17 · E1745
July 21 · 44 min
Still Dog People: Two Truths
Guest-hosts John and Kate LaSala present the first of two Still Dog People episodes. Jill Karliner's four-year-old son was attacked by a neighbor's dog. Kate, a professional dog behavior consultant, joins John afterward to discuss Jill's story through a dog professional's lens.
S17 · E523
July 16 · 57 min
Mixed Feelings
From March 2014, a classic RISK! episode about the voices in our heads and what we do with them. Three storytellers each take the stage to face down a part of themselves they had spent years trying to ignore.

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