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.

Kevin Allison, Rachel Frost and Luke Oyler share stories about being wasteful. 

Live Story: The Pickles Pickle by Kevin Allison

Kevin flushes a jar of pickles down his brother's toilet while making his first student film in college and causes a plumbing issue, which becomes a story the Allison family retells for years to come.  

keywords: Pickle jar, brother, student film

🎤Live Story: The Inside Scoop by Rachel Frost

Trying to be a perfect girlfriend, Rachel hides her human bodily functions from her "rolling sixes" boyfriend, to the point where she scoops her own poop out of a toilet when it fails to flush.

keywords:  clogged toilet, perfect girlfriend, poop, embarassing

🎤Live Story: My Least Favorite Pants by Luke Oyler

Luke pursues his lifelong dream of shitting his pants while visiting friends in the cafeteria of their college. He succeeds and everyone at nearby tables can smell it, as he runs off outdoors shaking the shit out of his shorts. 

keywords: poop, pooping pants, shitting pants, performative pooping, pooping in public

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Shit Happens

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. 

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The Power, Revisited

Chelsea Dalsey tells Kevin Allison about her journey with addiction and the process of truly coming to terms with her experience.  

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🎙️Conversation Story: Post Mortem by Chelsea Dalsey

SYNOPSIS: While working on cadavers in med school, Chelsea desperately hides her addiction to heroin and cocaine. Now, decades later, she has a realization about why she was finally able to quit the drugs.

keywords: med school, addiction, recovery

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Post Mortem

A compilation of some of the best school related stories from the podcast. 

🎤Live Story: Taking A Long Time by Angie Chatman

SYNOPSIS: At age 8 Angie is in 2nd grade. A policeman visits and when he asks for a volunteer he hand shoots up. He handcuffs her in front of the classroom and refuses to let her go until she says "please." The fright causes her to pee, until the teacher finally insists he let her go. Angie's mom does nothing about it, but tells her, "Change is going to come."  



🎤Live Story: Found In Translation by Eli Reiter

SYNOPSIS: Eli is an Orthodox Jewish Kid who becomes friends with a Muslim student at school. When the conflict in Israel heightens and his friend is there, Eli worries about his safety – discovering that friendship crosses boundaries. 



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The Best of School Stories #1

Bill, Brad, and Dominic recall the strange circumstances surrounding their broken or missing digits, with guest host John LaSala.



🎤Live Story: Just the Tip by Bill Worley

Bill reveals how he lost the tip of his finger—knife fights, dive bars, a guy losing an eye—before revealing something even stranger: the truth.

keywords: funny injury story, unreliable narrator, severed finger, missing finger, story slam 

🎤Live Story: The Pillowfighter by Dominic Dierkes

Dominic breaks his finger doing jiu-jitsu without health insurance, then bites through his own tongue under anesthesia and gets a personal follow-up call from the panicked anesthesiologist.

keywords: broken finger, jiu-jitsu injury, no health insurance, ER horror story, medical bill anxiety, hospital surgery gone wrong, biting tongue during surgery

🎤Radio Story: A Perfect Night by Brad Lawrence

Brad drunkenly breaks his finger during a dumb, hypothetical bar fight in a Brooklyn blizzard, but he refuses to leave, determined not to ruin a perfect night.

keywords: bar life, New York City blizzard, broken finger, drunken injury, barfight fantasy, Brooklyn nightlife, dating a bartender



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The Fingers Episode

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in July of 2013, when Trevor Noah and Robin Gelfenbien shared about scars they've healed from.



🎤Live Story: Vargas by Robin Gelfenbien

In college, Robin is bullied by a whole pack of frat brothers who call her "Vargas," after a character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In the end, she gets to confront the leader of the group about it.  

CURRENT keywords: bullying, frat life, hazing, sexism



🎤Live Story: The Best Looking Person in the Family by Trevor Noah

Growing up in South Africa during Apartheid, Trevor watched his mother deal not only with the prejudice they were facing, but with an abusive boyfriend who shot her in the head. 

CURRENT keywords: Best Of Risk, celebrity storyteller, South Africa, apartheid, prejudice, abuse, violence



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