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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Brutal Authority
Cassidy Krug and Thomas Brazzle share stories about the men whose brutal dominion over their lives shaped them fundamentally, and the long, complex reckoning that followed. Guest host Taj Easton holds both stories with warmth, honesty and just a touch of his own bitterness on the subject.
May 26 · 1 hr 1 min
Fascination
Ryan Britt, Adam Wade, Brad Lawrence, and Lulu chase obsession, longing, and late-night curiosity through encounters with forbidden magazines, accidental identity theft, late-night soft-core television, and a kinky sex convention gone sideways. This is a Classic RISK! Episode, originally aired in February 2014.
May 21 · 1 hr 7 min
Patreon Picks #6
Two previously Patreon-exclusive stories, now out in the open: Shauna McGarry and David Zellnik on desire, male presumption, inherited silence, and what we carry from the cities that exiled us. Find hundreds more bonus stories at patreon.com/risk.
May 19 · 37 min
Live From NYC Podfest 2014
Recorded live at NYC Podfest 2014, this classic episode brings together Alex Edelman, Chemda, Keith Malley, Selena Coppock, and of course Kevin Allison, for an evening of confessions spanning cruising in Central Park, airport intimacy, first times getting high, medical absurdity, and romantic self-sabotage.
May 14 · 1 hr 10 min
What the Body Keeps
Ali Mac and Gordon Blitz share stories about ways that our bodies work for and against us.
May 12 · 37 min
The Best of Mother’s Day Stories #4
Jobim Santos and Amy Brooks share stories about the mothers who shaped them and the unexpected ways that love holds on when things fall apart.
May 7 · 40 min
The Best of RISK! #35
Our 35th compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast. Scott McMahon shares about false charges landing him in prison in the Philippines. Chelsea Dalsey shares about coming to a new understanding of her addiction/recovery journey.
May 5 · 1 hr 41 min
I'm Okay, You're Okay
I'm Okay, You're Okay
April 30 · 46 min
Pop Obie’s Vibrator
LeCount Holmes, the warmest grandfather you never had, sits down with his now surrogate son, Taj Easton, to tell him a story about his father. What he has to say will surprise you. Go in fresh. Trust us. Candid, tender, and genuinely unlike anything else RISK! has produced.
April 28 · 51 min
The Best of Adventure Stories #3
Winter Tashlin and Marshall York share about high stakes ventures of the unsettling kind.
April 23 · 30 min
Weirdos
Larry Dorsey Jr. and Tuesday Thomas share stories about the wonderfulness of the weird.
April 21 · 50 min
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 share episodes with new friends thinking: if this person loves these stories as much as I do, they're my people. That's RISK! — the show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share. RISK! has been the world's most surprising, most human, most unfiltered storytelling podcast for nearly 17 years. Created and hosted by Kevin Allison (The State on MTV), new stories every Tuesday, classics every Thursday. Much more at risk-show.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 17 · 1 min
A Hard Landing, Revisited
JP Michael's "A Hard Landing" is one of the most talked-about stories in RISK! history. Now, ten years later, JP joins Kevin Allison to revisit it and to reveal even more twists and turns!
April 16 · 1 hr 33 min
Bad Medicine
Bad Medicine brings together three storytellers whose bodies, doctors, and circumstances all conspire against them in very different ways.
April 15 · 49 min
Backfire
Two of RISK!'s most beloved storytellers, Nate Runkel and Kelli Dunham, bring the heat on this one. A corner of the early internet that took on a life of its own, and a summer that wasn't what it seemed.
April 14 · 39 min
The Best of RISK! #12
#12 is one of our all-time best Best of RISK! episodes! The stories span sexual awakening, infertility, inherited darkness, kinky adventure, cartel kidnapping, and child rescue. Richard Cardillo, Michelle Buteau, Moloch Masters, Kevin Allison, Pollo Corral, and Tim C. bring raw, revelatory storytelling that is hilarious, heartbreaking, and at times deeply harrowing.
April 9 · 2 hr 27 min
Into the Moving Dark
This episode of RISK! features just one extraordinary storyteller, Annie Carnrike. Annie recounts a night of survival, a murder charge that followed, and the long road through prison and back to a life worth living.
April 7 · 1 hr 16 min
Fighting Back
A classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in January of 2014, when Ellie Jackson and Liz Stewart told stories about facing traumas of their pasts and moving on.
April 2 · 44 min
The Best of RISK! #34
Our 34th compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast. Fixxy shares a terrifying night that started with a proposition, Kevin Allison has a disaster with a jar of unflushable pickles, and Mishelle Roberts confronts the deadly lies that shaped her childhood.
March 31 · 1 hr 41 min
Impulsive
A classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in December of 2013, when Lauren Cook, Daniel Lobell and J.J. shared stories about making rash choices and facing repercussions.
March 26 · 1 hr

RISK!

Brutal Authority

Fascination

Patreon Picks #6

Live From NYC Podfest 2014

What the Body Keeps

The Best of Mother’s Day Stories #4

The Best of RISK! #35

I'm Okay, You're Okay

Pop Obie’s Vibrator

The Best of Adventure Stories #3

Weirdos

Today's the Day. Welcome to RISK!

A Hard Landing, Revisited

Bad Medicine

Backfire

The Best of RISK! #12

Into the Moving Dark

Fighting Back

The Best of RISK! #34

Impulsive