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RISK! RISK!
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4.7 • 201 Ratings
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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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Lost & Found
Stories about finding missing personal items and parts.
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The Best of Coming of Age Stories
Mara Wilson and Kelly MacFarland share experiences from their formative years.
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Innocence Lost
Barb Ponella and Katy Townsend share about growing pains.
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The Best of Drug Stories #1: 420 Edition
Caitlin Gill and Sean O’Brien share classic stories in the spirit of 4/20
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Boundaries
Quei Tann and Oliver Cromwell share stories about boundaries crossed.
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Presenting What Was That Like
Enjoy this special presentation of What Was That Like, a storytelling podcast with first-hand amazing, personal, true stories. In this episode, one guest shares the heartbreaking and wonderful story of her mom's decision to die. For more episodes of What Was That Like, be sure to check them out wherever you get your podcasts.
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Customer Reviews
Curator of non fiction story podcasts
To put it simply, Risk! Is a unique gem of a podcast. Each story is crafted beautifully, and what you will listen to you won’t hear anywhere else, it’s hard to describe so listen to a best of risk episode, and soon you too will have binged their past decade of episodes.
Over the line
I love Risk. I’ve laughed a lot and learnt a lot. But a recent episode, Over the Line, crossed a line. The first story teller, TaTa Sherise, a woman of colour who was car jacked by two men of colour, implied that it would have been preferable for her attackers to rob a nearby couple because they were white. Hopefully this was a joke, but if a white person had made that comment about a person of colour, no one would have accepted it as a joke. Even though the thieves were not white, and the man who returned her phone wasn’t white, her conclusions about humanity centred around racist comments towards white people, who she speaks of as one collective group. I hope she lives by her own conclusion to not ‘judge a book by its cover’ and to ‘treat people as individuals and not as a whole for one person’s mistake.’ The second story teller, Justine Ang Fonte, told two separate stories of being groomed by two white male tennis coaches. This was extremely unacceptable behaviour by the coaches, but Justine implying that this is a ‘white supremacy’ problem was not okay. The majority of white men are not predators and speaking about white people in this way exacerbates racial division. It is difficult for young men growing up in today’s world, constantly being blamed for their predecessors’ mistakes when they themselves have done nothing wrong. Both of the Risk stories demonstrate, if we want a better world, we need to do more to help boys grow into good men, regardless of race.
I know it's random but...
...I've been listening so long that Kevin feels like a friend :-)
I absolutely love this podcast - funny, heartbreaking and everything in between. Go listen!