Stephen Tobolowsky was directing the New York premiere of The Miss Firecracker Contest with Holly Hunter in the lead and a stalker with a ticket for opening night. The question of whether to go on becomes a different question entirely when Holly disappears into the basement holding what looks like a butcher knife.

Dana Gould spent years as pen pal and friend to Maila Nurmi, the actress who invented Vampira, destitute and barely known, living in a converted garage. He reads from the last letter he wrote her.

(Content note: child sexual abuse)

Nato Green landed a yard-work job at 16, took about fifteen years to figure out what his employer actually wanted, and has some thoughts on what actually protects kids.

Brendon Walsh got his hat ruined, his face rearranged, his brass knuckles confiscated, and his name put on a court docket, in that order.

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(Content note: references to torture)

Sofia Javed is a Pakistani-American interpreter hired to work in Uzbek and Russian at Guantanamo Bay, where she is ordered not to sympathize with detainees and then immediately put to the test. What starts as a potential crisis in a cellblock turns on a single, surprisingly mundane demand.

(Content note: physical abuse, domestic violence)

Heather Minter grew up in an evangelical fundamentalist family that uprooted itself for the mission field in Papua New Guinea, leaving her and her brother in a boarding school dorm run by a cruel and volatile house father. The faith that held her together through childhood eventually came apart in college, and what filled the void turned out to be its own kind of trap.

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Dan Savage told the story of his early days writing Savage Love in Seattle, doing drag to hide his identity, and one late-night encounter that left him genuinely bewildered by his own desire.

(Content note: murder, sexual assault)

Kelleen Conway Blanchard grew up carrying fragments of a story no child should know: her cousin Pam was murdered in her apartment, and the man everyone suspected walked free. Twenty years later, a phone call changed what Kelleen knew, though not necessarily how it felt.

Summer Waldron was freshly divorced, newly medicated for depression, and committed to a long-planned threesome. Then the night itself unraveled, pulled apart by side effects, a panicked call from her mother, and a body that had simply stopped cooperating.

Emmett Montgomery nearly died of hypothermia on a high school survival trip in the Utah desert, hallucinating through every bad decision on the way there.

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Nick Hornedo has been falling for his girl best friends since he was a teenager, and he knows it's a problem. In high school, a girl named Chloe pulls him into corners to talk, says things that sound like promises, and kicks him in the groin. He keeps finding reasons to stay in the game. It does not go the way he imagined.

Between the two stories, JC Cassis drops in with a deathbed anecdote about a grandfather who wanted everyone to know they should be working harder.

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Christine Lee, an Episcopal priest, has spent years navigating the gap between the faith she teaches and the faith she actually feels. When a parishioner with a seriously injured knee agrees to be prayed over, Christine finds herself in the stairwell of her church, watching something she cannot explain.

(Content note: emotional abuse, child psychological abuse)

Lulu grew up in 1970s Pittsburgh with a mother who was cruel and checked out. That summer, a neighbor's adult son with schizophrenia becomes her unlikely companion and proceeds to fill her head with detailed, terrifying visions of the Rapture, the Antichrist, and the Tribulation.

Jen Kwok is with her then-fiancé's family on Staten Island when his father collapses from a heart attack on Christmas Eve. The days that follow are brutal, and something extraordinary happens on the bus ride back to the city.

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Cassidy Krug arrives at Stanford a diver of moderate ambition, then spends nine years being screamed at by a coach whose legendarily ruthless style drives her to the Olympics. Fifteen years after retiring, she still isn't sure whether what got her there was abuse, or maybe exactly what she needed.

(Content note: domestic violence)

Thomas Brazzle grows up desperate for his ex-Marine father's approval, but the man abandons his family after Thomas intervenes on his mother's behalf during a vicious assault by his father. Thirty years later, at his mother's funeral, his father reappears, and Thomas is stunned to find he's still desperate for the approval of a man who brutalized his mother, abandoned them all, and is now a stranger to him.

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Ryan Britt was a self-appointed porn expert at age 10, thanks to his father's very open magazine policy and to a darkroom box labeled "Do Not Open" that turned out to contain something far more interesting than photographic paper.

Adam Wade spent years nursing a Rick Moranis complex, right up until a chance encounter at a pharmaceutical convention gave him an unusual opportunity to put it to use.

(Content note: eating disorder)

Brad Lawrence was 15, overweight, and utterly transfixed by a softcore film called Felicity — until a different movie sent him down a dangerous path of self-reinvention over a single summer.

Lulu left a long, sexless marriage at 44 and spent the next several years making up for lost time, culminating in a nerve-racking attempt to fulfill a very specific fantasy at a kink convention class in Astoria.

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Shauna McGarry throws a Halloween party with her newly single roommate, hoping for a fresh start after a breakup. A drunk coworker zeroes in on the roommate, her little brother in a Charlie Brown shirt enters the mix, and the night expands into something Shauna has been watching her whole life: the strange, exhausting game of male presumption that nobody asked to play.

(Content note: Holocaust, genocide)

David Zellnik arrived in Vienna for the first time as a dual US-Austrian citizen, his father having fled the city as a Jewish child in 1939. At a food festival, he ends up in a charged, flirtatious conversation with a tall blond Jewish convert that spins into a debate about Israel, Zionism, and who gets to claim a people's history.

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Kevin Allison opens with a story he has told for years, then stops midway to admit he has been leaving out the best part. What he adds reframes everything.

Alex Edelman turns a power strip at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport into a secret-collecting operation, until a soldier from Ramstein Air Force Base shares something that neither of them can easily walk away from.

Chemda recounts her first time getting high, which escalated from bong novice to shirtless Hulk impersonation to improvised superhero capes, and ended face-first in a party-size snack mix.

Keith Malley spent months in a baffling odyssey through free clinics and baffled physicians over a rash that ultimately resolved without medical intervention.

Selena Coppock traces her lifelong suspicion of genuinely nice men back to a seventh-grade ski trip, then confesses to acting on that suspicion in a way she is not proud of.

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Two stories about what the body holds onto and what it eventually gives back.

Ali Mac took a job in crypto after two years of Nazi death threats courtesy of Fox News. At the Miami Bitcoin Conference in 2022, she finds herself escorting her boss down a hallway and comes face to face with Tucker Carlson, broadcasting live, sitting very low, blissfully unaware of what is about to happen to him.

(Content note: death of a partner)

Gordon Blitz has been with his partner Scott since 1973, through an informal wedding, years of infidelity Gordon never told anyone about, and the terrifying early years of the AIDS crisis. "Bonded" follows Gordon through an HIV test, a week of waiting, and the long, complicated road of caring for the man who put him at risk.

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Jobim Santos grew up watching his mother Linda lose her battle with ALS piece by piece, from cane to wheelchair to hospice bed, all while praying at church each week that she would just live long enough to see him turn 13. She didn't quite make it. What he didn't expect was that grief would take another 13 years to fully arrive.

(Content note: domestic violence, murder)

Amy Brooks got a phone call one Monday morning about a blue-eyed three-year-old whose father had killed his mother. She said yes before the social worker finished the sentence. What followed was two and a half years in court while raising a child whose trauma was showing up in holes in the walls and phone calls from the police.

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(Content note: accusations of sexual assault, child abuse, false imprisonment)

Scott McMahon went to Manila for a construction job, ended up befriending a Belgian neighbor, and got pulled into a nightmare when that neighbor's wife turned the Philippine justice system against him. What followed was five and a half years in a maximum-security cell with 300 men, corrupt cops showing up every six weeks with a cash demand, and a family he could only see through a chain-link fence. It is one of the most staggering survival accounts this show has ever aired.

(Content note: addiction, overdose death)

Chelsea Dalsey was a medical student with a photographic memory, a habit she couldn't shake, and a lifelong partner in crime named Alex. Her conversation with Kevin Allison is part confession, part excavation, arriving at a truth she had spent 14 years burying alive.

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Joel Kim Booster grew up as a gay Korean adoptee in an evangelical family, and it wasn't until he fell for a man who specifically desired him because of his race that he realized how thoroughly someone else's rejection had shaped his sense of his own worth.

Dylan Brody has been performing the postmortem on his own victories since fifth grade, and it took competing in a full-contact TaeKwondo tournament at 41, with blood running down his face, to get a piece of advice he hadn't been able to give himself.

Jolenta Greenberg built an entire adolescent identity around the belief that she was a diamond in the rough, and her high school crush Brian eventually put that idea to the test.

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(Content note: explicit sexual activity involving a minor)

LeCount Holmes Jr. grew up with a father who told him he loved him, hugged him, cried in front of him, and believed that teaching his son how to love a woman was one of the most sacred things a father could do. This is the story of that education, of what was passed down through three generations of loving men, and one of the most unusual love stories RISK! has ever told. 

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Winter Tashlin was 16 years old, at a Jewish summer camp in New York, and desperately wanted one good day. The plan was the Empire State Building and a performance of Les Mis. He has Tourette syndrome, the city is unforgiving, and the day keeps getting worse.

Meanwhile, Marshall York drove solo across the American West, pitched a tent alone in the Grand Tetons, and went to sleep. Sometime in the night, a voice started speaking to him from inside the tent, calm and close and saying something he could not explain.

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Larry Dorsey Jr. opens with the true account of his first day teaching standup comedy at Northern California's top improv venue. He has TAs, a curriculum, a strategy. None of it survives contact with a visibly high student who, roughly fifteen minutes into class, pulls out his ding-dong and just starts going, putting Larry in an impossible position. And Tuesday Thomas moves to LA fresh from a divorce, meets Alexis Arquette within her first week, and ends up at a film premiere with Danny Elfman, where she personally escorts a legless, increasingly volatile Susan Tyrrell down Hollywood Boulevard in stiletto heels on a Friday night. She thought she had finally made it in Hollywood. And in a way, she had

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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.

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(Content note: self-harm, suicidal ideation)

The original story follows JP shortly after he relocated to New York City for a job that quickly fell apart, leaving him isolated and adrift. He meets Claire, a razor-sharp, deeply perceptive woman who becomes his anchor in the city, and when she develops a mysterious and terrifying illness, JP steps up as her primary caregiver. What unfolds over the following months is almost impossible to believe.

In the conversation that follows, JP reflects on the three-year gap between the events and telling the story, the therapy that helped him finally make sense of it, and a stunning new development: he recently tracked down one of the story's key figures and got answers he'd been missing for thirteen years.

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Pam Stepansky throws out her back on a spin bike, ends up bedridden at her father's apartment, and asks him to do something she never imagined asking any parent to do. What follows is a five-day hospital stay where she's dosed with narcotics she explicitly refused, and a long recovery that forces her to finally reckon with who she wants to be.

Brad Lawrence walks himself to the ER after gaining 25 pounds in five days and charms an entire floor of doctors and nurses into basically hanging out with him. Then his wife shows up to get shit done. Kevin Allison takes his first trip to San Francisco in 1993 with his best friend, buys three doses of surprisingly potent acid from someone who looks a lot like Jesus, and things escalate from there.

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As a teenager Nate Runkel built a satirical website that sexualized cartoon characters as a parody of how guys talk online. It got a million views, landed in Complex Magazine and a Maureen Dowd book, and earned him more attention than he ever wanted. The people he respected weren't laughing.

(Content note: conversion therapy) And Kelli Dunham’s story is set in the sweaty, armadillo-haunted wilds of an evangelical Florida summer camp. She was there by her own choice, fundraised her own way in, and came home proud, convinced for the next 20 years that the whole adventure was entirely her idea. It wasn't.

Two stories about getting exactly what you didn't ask for. Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/backfire 

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Richard Cardillo spent 14 years in a Catholic monastery before leaving his vows and landing in Lima, Peru, newly out and profoundly inexperienced, with a very steep learning curve ahead of him, while Michelle Buteau takes on a brain tumor, IVF, internet trolling, and multiple heartbreaks without ever losing her grip on the absurdity of it all.

(Content note on these two, for physical abuse, child sexual abuse, animal abuse)

Moloch Masters maps the darkness running through her family tree, from great-grandfather to father to herself, and what she found hiding in a closet she was never supposed to enter. And Tim C. spent 17 years conducting human trafficking and child sex slavery investigations. This is one case he will never forget.

Pollo Corral tells the story of being held hostage by a Juarez cartel for nearly 40 days, and what his father gave up to bring him home. And in the middle of it all, Kevin Allison goes to a secret all-male kink camp alone and anxious, which turns out to be exactly the wrong and right place for a lesson about fear.

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Annie Carnrike spent years close to her cousin Michael, a man of fierce loyalty and an equally fierce temper. When he showed up at her home one Thanksgiving night, drunk and out of control, what began as a familiar crisis turned into a fight for her life.

What Annie faced that night was devastating enough. What came after was its own ordeal: arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and placed in a men's maximum-security prison as a transgender woman. The case against her was built not on evidence but on bias. Her story is one of the most remarkable RISK! has ever featured.

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(Content note: sexual assault)

Ellie Jackson spent 12 years convincing herself she had moved on from being raped at a college party her freshman year. She'd built a careful system for managing intimacy, or avoiding it, and mostly it held. Then a routine visit to Planned Parenthood, a persistent social worker, and an accidental encounter with a Crest commercial undid all of it at once.

(Content note: physical abuse, domestic violence, child abuse)

Liz Stewart grew up with a sociopathic father and a paranoid schizophrenic mother who once pinned her to the floor to perform a homemade exorcism. She had boxed for eight years and never once hit back. Until she did.

Two stories. Both women fought back.

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(Content note: sexual assault) Fixxy starts a summer in Pittsburgh doing sex work for quick cash before a move to New York City. One night a client seems different, with an unusually easy request and a ride out to the suburbs. Things escalate in ways Fixxy never anticipated, leading to one of the more genuinely terrifying stories we’ve ever aired. In a completely different vibe, Kevin Allison tells the family legend he’ll never live down: a Super 8 film project, a borrowed jar of jumbo pickles, and an ADHD brain running out of options with the clock ticking.

(Content note: child abuse, death) Then there’s Mishelle Roberts, who grew up believing her mother was a devoted caregiver. Years later, she started finding records, asking questions, and pulling at threads that had held her family's story together her entire life. Mishelle’s story was also the focus of Season Six of Nobody Should Believe Me.

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Lauren Cook found her date for a stranger's New Jersey wedding on Craigslist Casual Encounters. She showed up with a fake identity, a room full of people who knew nothing about her, and a night that kept escalating in directions she did not plan for.

(Content note: gun violence)

JJ grew up in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn, fought his way into Wesleyan and then Wall Street, but one afternoon a neighborhood confrontation pulled him back to a version of himself he thought he had left behind. He came very close to throwing everything away.

Daniel Lobell sank $2,000 into a hairless cat as the foundation of a breeding empire. When the cat ended up at a friend's apartment and she stopped returning his calls, his plan to get it back got increasingly creative.

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The story: Timothy is a happily single gay man living in the heart of North Park, San Diego, where a buzzy Saturday night out ends with a casual wave to a stranger that sets off a chain of spontaneous, increasingly elaborate, and very adult events.

The reaction: Kevin is instantly charmed, finding echoes of his own younger self in Timothy's freewheeling urban adventures. He shares his own surprisingly relatable stories about role play, improv, and the particular chaos of letting a night take you wherever it wants to go.

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Dawn Jewel Fraser's "Brasilado" follows a young American woman deep into an immersive year in Rio de Janeiro, learning Portuguese street by street from her chain-smoking instructor Marcy, until a late-night taxi ride home unravels spectacularly when Brazilian police find weed in her bag and mistake her for a drug trafficker.

Then Katie Samson tells "The First Time Again," the story of rebuilding a romantic and sexual life after a sledding accident left her with a spinal cord injury at 20. Her homecoming weekend story is tender, funny, and genuinely triumphant.

Two women, two very different roads back to freedom.

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In 2016, Ed G. got on stage at RISK! and told a story he'd never told anyone. Now, ten years later, Ophira Eisenberg sits down with him to go places that story couldn't: the FBI, the Pope, the survivors who found each other decades later, and the hard-won question of where shame really belongs.

Ed's story begins in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where a boy abandoned by his violent father and drowning in poverty finds an unlikely lifeline in the local Catholic church. What the bishop who runs it asks for in return will take Ed the better part of a lifetime to fully reckon with.

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🎤Live Story: More than Survival by Karen McCaffrey

(Content note: sexual assault, rape) After surviving rape and a traumatic hospital experience afterward, Karen transformed her pain into purpose. Decades later, she directed a sexual assault forensic examiner program, advocating for victims' rights and ensuring survivors receive trauma-informed care.

🎤Live Story: My Vagina Job by Mary Cyn

Drawing on her own traumatic experiences with dismissive care, Mary transforms vulnerability into a tool for empathy, helping future doctors treat patients with compassion and helping women feel less fear and isolation about their bodies

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🎙️Radio Story: Growth by Michael McFadden

Michael is a child swimming prodigy trapped in a grown man’s body who fails a humiliating puberty test, loses his athletic destiny, and ultimately redefines masculinity and self-worth beyond the pool and beyond his penis size.

🎤Live Story: Smoochin' and Fiddlin' by Adrianne Frost

(Content note: child sexual abuse, self-harm) After surviving childhood sexual abuse and years of debilitating endometriosis, Adrianne equates beauty with value and spirals through painful sex and self-harm before discovering lasting love on new terms.

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🎤🎙️💻Live Story: My Father's Son by Byron Bowers

At 10, Byron goes to visit his dad's crack-addicted father near the projects. Four years later, Byron is selling crack, and he breaks down, wondering how he let his life become like his father’s.

🎤Live Story: Sister Act by Amy Salloway

Amy understands as a child that her relationship with her mother isn’t loving. When her half-sister is born, her mom casts Abbie as the angel to Amy’s devil. Even the cleaning lady says Abbie is the reincarnation of Anne Frank. 

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🎤Live Story: The Only Girl by Ria Spencer

Six-year-old Ria is diagnosed with severe cradle cap and must enter an all-male Arkansas barbershop to have her beloved locks shaved. It might have been traumatic, but the men were supportive and encouraging. 

🎙️Radio Story: Ample Package by Mindy Myers

Mindy orders therapeutic vaginal stretching dildos. When the package goes missing, she discovers one—nicknamed "The Rock"—was mistakenly delivered to a children's cooking class, where a student innocently used it as a mixing tool and taste-tested the sauce.

🎤Live Story: Butt Plug Inferno by Josh Connors

Josh falls for Damien, an HIV-positive guy. After a panicked butt-plug-burning incident forces honesty about his fears and desires, they eventually build a trusting, loving relationship that lasts a decade.

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🎤🎙️💻Live Story: Rollin’ With Grandma by Josh Healey

Josh's Grandma-in-law gets a pinched nerve and requires medical marijuana. The hilarity ensues of him buying pot for this little old lady and helping her to smoke it.

🎤🎙️💻Radio Story: Two Bowls by Christine Lee

Christine gets the rare and risky opportunity to visit her family in North Korea. When she sees the poverty, the graciousness and the extremely sheltered worldview that her family members live with, it breaks her heart. 

🎤🎙️💻Live Story: It’s All Happening at the Zoo by Kitty Hailey

Kitty falls in love with a brilliant man who is overcome by a neurological disorder that renders him something more like a 7-year old. When visiting the zoo, he yells out that the gorillas are fucking, causing a scene.

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🎤Live Story: Searching for Blue Sky by Emma Yarbrough

Emma believes an intruder has broken in her home but it’s a false alarm. It triggers memories of her PTSD following the murder of her beloved Aunt Day. Emma cherishes her aunt’s memory and is stronger for it. 

🎙️Radio Story: Keeping Us Safe by Joel Gonzalez

Joel is working a grocery store job during the pandemic and is in charge of enforcing the mask mandate. Joel has a sick wife at home and becomes overly obsessed with people not cooperating but then starts to calm down. 

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🎤Live Story: Over the Limit by David Jacobs

As a kid, it took David a while to realize he had anger management problems. After a few unfortunate outbursts, a therapist helped him get a hold of himself.

🎤Live Story: Street Smarts by Hania Ansari

Hania is held at gunpoint during a robbery attempt in Pakistan. She offers her TI-89 calculator. The robber asks her to teach him how to use it, revealing his educational background. He leaves without taking anything.

🎤Live Story: As Three by D.H.

In college, D.H. found herself in a happy three-person relationship. But like so many college relationships, it had to end.

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🎙️Conversation Story: Allowed to Look by David Zellnik

David has a transformative night at a gay bar in the early 90s, during the ongoing AIDS crisis. It felt risky but it also helped him to feel more visible and confident in his identity, changing his perspective on sexual relations.

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🎙️LIVE Story: Pleasant Mountain by Smith Galtney

Smith had the perfect husband, house and home... till he returned to the crystal meth habit of his younger years. His husband was able to support Smith in getting to rehab and putting his life back together again.

🎙️LIVE Story: Baby Love by Reba Sparrow

Reba has a history of body shame. She’d always felt her breasts weren't big enough. When she met a boyfriend who wanted to role play that he was her baby breastfeeding from her, she was horrified... until they tried.

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🎙️Radio Story: I Was the Appetizer by Connor O'Donoghue

A virgin with body shame issues, Connor falls for a straight guy he befriends in a psych hospital. He has a threesome with his crush and a girl, knowing the guy is only into the girl. Decades later, Connor sheds his sexual anxiety. 

🎤Live Story: Never Again by JC Cassis

JC gets a crush on Bobby, a glamorous classmate, and tells him about it. Bobby rejects her politely,  but when she says, "Let me know if you ever change your mind," with a joking tone, he says, "I'm never gonna change my mind," leaving JC wounded. 

🎤Live Story: Ready for Asking by Jay Michel

Jay joined the military to try to seem straight. He has a nerve wracking hookup on campus, but later has his first magical gay club experience with the guy, falling in love in a flash while kissing… then witnessing the guy hooking up with others moments later. 

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🎤Live Story: She and I by Brian Finkelstein

(Content note: miscarriage, suicidal ideation) Brian’s anxiety around marriage and fatherhood lead to a panic attack at a grocery store just before he learns his wife is pregnant… shortly before he learns of a miscarriage. 

🎤Live Story: Power In It by Carrie Wade

Carrie describes how her cerebral palsy affects sex, desire, and pain tolerance. She discovers through a BDSM experience that the very traits she was taught to hide are the source of her sexual confidence and power. 

🎤Live Story: The New Normal by Matt Oberg

With OCD tendencies, Matt strives to seem normal. A disastrous attempt at seduction involving a hidden collection of fingernail clippings leads him to realize honesty matters more than normalcy.

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🎤Live Story: Things Are Going South by Ezra Holmlund

Ezra and his brother are at home when they begin to suspect a stranger has broken into their house upstairs. When the police arrive, the two brothers are mistaken for being the criminals.

🎤Live Story: The Long And Winding Road (To Semen Analysis) by Sarah Adelman

Sarah is working at a sperm bank but loses her job after the HR department discovers her stand up comedy material is based off her work, forcing her to abandon a rigid life plan and choose an unpredictable creative path.

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🎤Live Story: The Riverside by Jan Scott-Frazier

(Content note: suicide) At 22, Jan moved to Japan, but was lonely, as foreigners often feel. She began to notice a woman who visited the same river she did, who was even more depressed. Jan strategized how to comfort this stranger, but was too late, discovering from the newspapers that the woman took her own life. 

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🎙️Radio Story: In Ways I Never Could Have Imagined by Stella Mayerhoff

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, out in the field studying bonobos, Stella has to get a local man back home by lying to him, saying his baby is sick, when in fact, his baby has already died.

Keywords: Congo field research, bonobos, primatology, grief in the jungle, moral dilemma, scientific fieldwork, malaria loss, human conflict abroad

💻Workshop Story: Unfolding by Rebecca Heron

(Content note: sexual assault, emotional abuse, child sexual abuse.) In a Zoom session for Kevin’s online storytelling workshop, Rebecca considers how her uncle, a victim of child sexual abuse never shared his story and she feels holding that in killed him, so she shares her own story of her own survival of sexual abuse. 

Keywords: trauma memory, dissociation, childhood coping, sexual assault survival, storytelling workshop, inherited pain, silence and disclosure

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🎙️Radio Story: Revelations by Scott Whitney

(Content note: cults, suicide ideation) A Jehovah’s Witness struggling with his faith, Scott knocks on the door of a traumatized recluse to attempt to convert him. The brief, troubled friendship convinces Scott to leave the church.

Check out our “Revelations, Revisited” episode, where Scott talked to Kevin about his then 12-year-old story.

🎤Live Story: Boots on the Ground by Dan Telfer

(Content note: suicide, suicidal ideation) After his brother’s suicide, a grieving young man channels despair into obsessive protest attendance until a police kettle triggers a panic-driven flight that forces him to confront his own paralysis and fear.

🎙️Radio Story: If I Am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus

(Content note: murder, domestic violence) Janine's sister is murdered by an abusive boyfriend. In retrospect, there were too many signs witnessed by too many people who knew the victim and her killer, but no one was sharing the story.

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🎤Live Story: Shem's Guide to Sexuality by Shem

As a joke, young Shem's frenemy gives him a sexy book, but it's a feminist book and he learns less about eroticism and more about the emotional needs of middle aged American women. 

🎤Live Anecdote: The Joy of Toes by JC Cassis

JC marvels at the outsized role that men’s big toes seem to play in that legendary guide to love making from the ‘70s, The Joy of Sex.

🎤Live Story: When I Came To by Nonye Brown-West

After a long history of medical trauma, Nonye is diagnosed with colon cancer. It is scary but eventually she is grateful she got her early diagnosis, and it all ends with her having an orgasm while getting a colonoscopy.  

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🎤Live Story: You Don’t Know Jack? by Stephanie Douglass

A high school erupts in laughter over a mysterious name on the morning announcements, sending a well-meaning teacher on a frantic mission to protect a bullied student who, disastrously, does not exist.

🎤Live Story: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got by Shannon CasonAfter obsessing over penis size and attempting a risky DIY “enhancement,” a man temporarily loses sexual function, panics through days of humiliation, and learns the terrifying medical reason behind his self-inflicted scare.

🎤Live Story: The Great Detective by Lily Be

Lily learns the reason her mom threw her dad out was that her mom once took on the role of private detective and hid in a car while her husband and his mistress had sex in it.

🎤Live Story: Dressing the Wound by Jim Padar

(Content note: fatal injury) A homicide detective in the ‘70s, Jim saved a dying boy by keeping his hand on the neck wound. The boy’s parents thanked him for giving them a chance to say goodbye.

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Conversation Story: Create My Life by Ms. Aishia

EDITOR’S SYNOPSIS: After leaving an abusive relationship, Ms. Aishia enters an intense, largely virtual romance that slowly destabilizes her sense of self, leading her to sever ties, confront emotional dependency, and ultimately rebuild her life through radical change and solo travel.

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🎤Live Story: Pure Fuckmachine by Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail learns how to masturbate and is so excited that he zips his pants too quickly afterward and cuts his penis on the zipper.

🎤Live Story: That New Ship Smell by Alecia Altstaetter

Alecia and her husband decide to take the kids on the high speed car ferry across Lake Michigan. A huge storm breaks out. The family ends up in the hospital covered in blood, urine, vomit and lake water by the end of the fiasco.

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🎤Radio Story: Santa's Revenge by Michael J Bennett

Michael is a shopping mall Santa when his worst teacher from High School comes in with his kid. The rule of a store Santa is make no big promises the parents have to fulfill. Michael promises this kid the moon and a pony.

🎤Radio Story: A Mom-Made Christmas by Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

Jessica is a teen when her mom has a stroke right before Christmas. Her mom was the end all be all of making Christmas magical throughout Jessica’s life. But this holiday, the miracle was simply being able to bring mom home on Christmas Day.

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🎤Radio Story: Mother’s Little Helper by Donna Steele

(Content note: poop) Donna’s mother has a strange habit of pooping in public. On this occasion, it’s into a McDonald’s coke cup in a mall dressing room. Donna is in awe of her mom’s nonchalance. 

🎤Live Story: The Hustler by Kevin Allison

In his early 20s, Kevin goes to a hustler bar to try to raise money for that month's rent. But despite following a friend's "7 Laws of Successful Whoring," his first attempt is a comedy of errors.

🎤Radio Story: We Could Do a Million Other Things by Dare Campbell

A BDSM date with a stranger abruptly derails when Dare’s partner forgets erectile-dysfunction medication, and flees. Dare learns to assure partners that sexual performance is unnecessary. There’s many ways to have erotic fun.

🎤Live Story: Job Satisfaction in Paraguay? by Jen Bosworth-Ramirez

Jen’s mother suggests she take a journey to Paraguay. There, Jen is robbed and then nearly sold into sex slavery, but she fakes insanity by peeing all over herself and gets away.

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🎤Live Story: Not That Casual by JC Cassis

As a young woman, JC is excited to go to a wild NYE party. A hot guy dances with her as if he's a middle school boy. She says he can be more casual. He takes out his dick and grinds on her. She tells him “Not THAT casual.”

🎤Live Story: Kitchen Nightmares! by David Crabb

After moving to LA, David invites new friends to try one of the few restaurants in his neighborhood open late, only to discover they’ve wandered into a real-life Kitchen Nightmares episode, the most chaotic restaurant ever. 

🎤Livestream Story: Tipping Points by Cyndi Freeman

Cyndi's new boyfriend seems to be a dream boat. Jealous over her getting a big tip at her new bar job, his misogyny shows. Cyndi decides to dump him, whereas in the past, she had stayed too long with toxic people. 

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🎤Live Story: For the Love of Nubbins by Elna Baker

Selling expensive, real-looking baby dolls for the holiday season at FAO Schwartz, Elna “adopts” an unpopular one she calls Nubbins, a Black babydoll. When the doll is bought, Elna grieves.

🎤Radio Story: The Allison Family Christmas Tree by Kevin Allison

Inspired by a Charlie Brown Christmas, Kevin’s dad begins a Christmas Tree procuring tradition in the early 70s that gets more complex and includes more people each year, featuring long distance travel, the Catholic Mass, and dirty diapers. 

🎤Radio Story: The Present by Sarah Long Hendershot

During a brutally cold winter, Sarah was a single mother with an 11-year old son, but she was out of work and on the verge of going homeless. Then a present arrived. A box filled with money. It was a fellow musician who suspected she might need it. 

🎤Radio Story: Snowglobe by Kate (neé Kevin) Bohl

Kate (at the time, Kevin) is locking up her bar as a blizzard begins. A beautiful young woman begs to come in for a moment to gather her bearings before figuring out how to get home. They slow dance to Billie Holiday

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🎙️Radio Story: A Very Moving Christmas by David Hu

David’s dad has Alzheimer’s. David always struggled to understand how to give and receive love from his immigrant father. But when he buys his dad dearly needed laxatives for Xmas, it’s a touching moment of bonding. 

🎙️Radio Story: The Widow’s Song by Ty Gentile

Struggling with homesickness, Ty gets a gig working as a Christmas elf in costume. He is surprised to find himself crying when an old widow breaks the tension in the crowd by breaking into song singing a Christmas carol. 

🎙️Radio Story: Alternative Santa by James Rana

James gets a gig as a Santa and, in spite of being a Black Muslim of Middle Eastern descent, he takes it and likes it. Then he’s asked to do a party for Kellyanne Conway (of the Trump administration) and is conflicted. 

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🎤Live Story: Oy to the World by Alex Edelman

In the story that eventually became his Broadway show and HBO special “Just For Us,” Alex shares how, in his childhood, his Orthodox Jewish family hosting Christmas to comfort a lonely friend led to life lessons. 

🎤Radio Story: Winter Storm by Jude Treder-Wolff

Driving home for Christmas in a massive blizzard, Jude and her sister get into a huge fight in the car. Jude is going to reveal to the family that she’s leaving the country for a while and everyone is upset about it.

🎤Live Story: To Kids from 1 to 92 by Danielle Kramer

A rebellious teen, Danielle despises Christmas, but after moving away and experiencing the loss of her grandfather and father, she comes to cherish family traditions, realizing the love her parents put into the holidays.

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🎤Live Story: That's Not Sexy, Baby by Nikki Bailey

For Nikki, her hookup’s praise of her body is a boost to her self esteem. But when her digestive system acts up, she must become downright defiant about self-acceptance.

keywords: Plus Sized Dating, Self-Acceptance, Queer, Body Positivity, BoPo, Self-Worth, Body Acceptance, Empowerment, Mr. Big, Sex and the City, Farting, Fuckboys, Hookup, U Up?, LGBTQ+

🎤Live Story: Curry Coitus by Hana Nobel

After returning from a week of mourning, Hana tries to revive the night with a sexy food-play surprise involving Indian takeout. It triggers a rash, and an unexpectedly grounding moment in her early relationship.

keywords: food play, Sex and the City, Samantha Jones, Indian Food, Curry, Shiva, New Boyfriend, Burning Man, Ringworm, unexpected rash, sex positivity, mourning, grief, stages of grief

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🎤Live Story: Servant’s Wages by Amanda Egge

Although she has little interest in the kink aspect of it, Amanda becomes intrigued that a BDSM "slave" would keep her total mess of an apartment clean for free. She quickly learns that her "slave" requires a lot of care. 

keywords: erotic cleaning, fetish foot kiss, MySpace submissive, clean-for-free, dominant-submissive relationship, clutter addiction, prostitution metaphor, Craigslist slave, sobriety story

🎤Radio Story: Absorption by Nayland Blake

Nayland wants to attend the infamous Black Party, NYC’s premier leather event, but he doesn’t have a leather uniform. Instead, he goes in a sanitation worker’s uniform. But when he finds himself in a group sex situation there, he finally feels he fits right in. 

keywords: Black Party NYC, queer leather community, uniform fetish, gay festival story, erotic confession, communal sex, nightclub kink, leather subculture, orgiastic dance

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🎤Live Story: Making the Chain by Christine Gentry

Christine’s friend needs a kidney donor or she will die. Christine is not a match for her friend, but she is able to join a chain of people donating, created by Be The Match. The experience transforms her life. 

keywords: Be The Match, dialysis, donation, donation chain, kidney, nephrology

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🎤Workshop Story: Sexual Healing by Mira Rivera

After her partner breaks up with her, Mira's confidence plummets. She goes on a series of dates in public with a hot guy who seems uninterested.One day, they have a date in private with weed and Mira discovers a whole new level of sexual and emotional chemistry.

keywords: bad dates, sexual chemistry, weed, sexual breakthrough, rebound

🎤Radio Story: Stranded by Rachel Anne Warren

Rachel spent years hiding her hair loss. When she finally stops running and faces what she’s been avoiding, she discovers the craft of wigmaking helps her rebuild her confidence and her sense of purpose. 

keywords: hair loss, alopecia, wigmaker, wig, body image, alcoholism

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🎤Live Story: Thank You by Satori Shakoor

Satori’s loss of her mother and son is devastating. Later, she dates a man who gets a kick out of Satori being “too much,” and she is grateful to remember to live life over-the-top, and fully alive.

keywords: none

🎤Live Story: My Lifeline by Paul Cibis

Paul's kidneys began to fail him. He was stuck in the tragic position of hoping someone would die soon, so that he could have their kidney. When it finally happened, he felt deep grief for the donor and gratitude.

keywords: none

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Here’s the Spotify Playlist mentioned in the episode.

And here is an article about the playlist from hopkinsmedicine.org.

🎙️ Story: The Day I Met ARFID by Danielle Meinert

After a lifetime of avoiding nearly all foods due to ARFID, Danielle tries psilocybin mushrooms in hopes of rewiring her brain, and discovers the joy, wonder, and liberation of truly tasting food for the first time as an adult. 

keywords: arfid, eating disorder, psychedelics, psilocybin

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🎤Live Story: The Redhead by Paul Normandin

Every year that his wife asked, "What do you want for your birthday?" Paul would answer, "A redhead." One year, his wife finally arranged for a hotel rendezvous with a redhead... who led him into a surprise party.

Keywords:  birthday story, marriage humor, Austin storytelling, sexual misunderstanding, redhead joke, surprise party, marriage comedy, public embarrassment, relationship humor

🎤Live Story: 6 Hours by Nick Scott

Nick has severe pain in his testicles and reads online that he's probably only got six hours before he has to lose them. He and his parents rush to the hospital and learn that he'd misdiagnosed himself. 

Keywords: testicular torsion, medical emergency, masturbation story, awkward comedy, parental embarrassment, Austin live show, hospital panic, male health humor, storytelling

🎤Live Story: The Bad Seed by Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Dhaya was the rebellious Hindu girl in Christian school forever in trouble. Seeing the bathroom graffiti “Jesus loves you motherfucker,” she realized how wit and creativity might turn a troublemaker into a successful student.

Keywords: childhood misbehavior, Hindu kid in Christian school, bathroom graffiti, learning to read, culture clash, Indian American humor, education story, Austin storytelling, gifted child

🎤Live Story: Bigger Than Love by Michael Jastroch

(Content warning: Death) Michael tells the bittersweet story of his first teenage crush, his envy of and rivalry with a friend, and how tragedy changed how he understood what it means to be the main character in life.

Keywords: teenage love story, AIDS revelation, high school heartbreak, coming of age, rivalry story, Austin storytelling, emotional true story, friendship betrayal, 1990s nostalgia

🎤Live Story: Taxi Driver by Sam Dingman

At the end of his rope in NYC, Sam is about to give up, when he decides to try being a taxi driver. One day, he is in 3 separate car accidents. It's an epic day of New York toil and trouble.

Keywords:  taxi driver story, New York storytelling, car crash, cab driving, workplace anxiety, life change, near-death experience, acting career, risk show live

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🎤Radio Story: Permission to Be Myself by Jen Nails

Jen struggles to fit in at her college acting program, which attempts to remove her from the class roster. Finally, her fellow students write to the administration appealing on her behalf and the school changes its mind. 

keywords: acting school, rejection, left out, 

🎤 Live Story: Fake It 'Til You Make It by Sandi Marx

In high school, Sandi dates a nice guy named Larry from a wealthy family, but he's boring. The night she plans to break up with him, he proposes marriage. She says no, but agrees to pretend she said yes, for the engagement party Larry’s parents planned for that night. 

keywords: Fake engagement, hockey game, rich boyfriend

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🎙️Radio Story: Always A Woman by Morgan

A biker and ironworker has a lifelong secret. After a nearly life-ending accident, Morgan finally decides to transition from man to woman. The people in her life are amazed, but they adjust.

keywords: LGBTQIA+ storyteller, Trans storyteller, transgender

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🎙️Conversation Story: Pretending to Be Human by Inky Montaine

Inky spent a lifetime switching masks but felt a certainty of unbelonging. Later in life, an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis didn't lead to yet another identity, but gave a name to the one he’s always had.

keywords: ASD, autism, neurodivergent, youth gender identity, punk rock, outsider, alienated, superman obsession

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🎙️ Story: Fresh Air by Brian Simpson

(Content note: suicidal ideation) In 2003, Brian is a Marine stationed in Kuwait, and his battalion drills for potential biological attacks. A Trivial Pursuit game reveals a shocking statistic: 50% of their gas masks are defective. Later, facing a missile attack, Brian is haunted by this. 

keywords: Marines, Kuwait, Iraq, gas mask, Second Gulf War

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🎙️Radio Story: Let Me Sleep On It by Brad Lawrence

In his youth, Brad finds and loses love with a fellow bookstore employee. Later, after marrying someone else, he sees his feelings for his fellow employee were just a crush, and that real love allows for making mistakes.keywords: crushes, love, marriage, relationships, youth

🎤Live Story: In the Belly by DC Pierson

As a nerdy virgin in high school, DC and his friend’s girlfriend become friends and have an affair in which he only kisses her stomach until eventually she goes down on him spontaneously and breaks up with her boyfriend. 

keywords: teenage, high school, affair, sexual exploration, cheating, relationships, youth, virgins

🎙️Radio Story: Remember You Like a Child by Nina Davis

At 14, Nina fell in love with a boy while on vacation. Decades later, she finally found him again. He’d been through homelessness and heroin addiction. Now, he was married with a child.

keywords: long lost love, lost and found, reuniting, young love

🎤Live Story: Complete by Selena Coppock

In her freshman year of college, Selena fell head over heels in love with a young man who had already graduated. It was never meant to be, but years later Selena got to share with him how much he’d meant to her.

keywords: love, dating, college, recent graduate, reconnection, closure, support, self love, self belief, confidence, unrequited love

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🎙️ Story: The Living Room by Diane Weipert

Through an unobstructed window, Diane observes the lives of a young couple in the apartment across the street, becoming a silent witness to their private moments, which become more and more profound. 

keywords: voyeurism, neighbors, rear window, death

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Three of our favorite scary stories from Halloween specials of our past. 

🎤Radio Story: The Thing by Thomas McKean

When Thomas was a kid, he and a friend saw a shadowy oblong shape following them on a beach. Years later, he feels chained to his bed in the middle of the night when the same figure, then two more hover over him. 

keywords: Paranormal encounter, Shadow figure,Beach sighting,Sleep paralysis,Night terrors,Childhood mystery,UFO-like entity,Supernatural experience

🎤Radio Story: Your Health and Your Soul by Erika Steigerwald

As a psychiatric nurse, it’s out of Erika’s wheelhouse to accept that a patient is possessed by a demon, and yet… the series of inexplicable and terrifying phenomena she experienced with one patient made her a believer.

keywords: Possession phenomenon,Haunted patient,Paranormal psychiatry,Demonic influence,Psychological horror,Supernatural events,Spiritual awakening,Mental health, spirits

🎤Radio Story: The Man in the Top Hat by Alan Weber

Alan and his little brother saw a growling man in a top hat one night in their bedroom. Alan's brother was so haunted by the figure that he stabbed himself, and later at church, was hurled toward the altar against his volition.   

keywords: Haunted figure,Top hat ghost,Nighttime apparition,Childhood trauma,Psychic disturbance,Spiritual haunting,Nightmares and visions,Supernatural horror

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🎤Radio Story: Do You Know My Name? by Robert Oakes

Robert leads ghost tours, but unlike his father, he’s unsure he’s a believer. After his father dies, Robert’s tour of a haunted house is visited by paranormal investigators, who have him ask a question to the spirits there which reveal a family connection. 

keywords: haunted house, paranormal investigation, EVP session, skeptic vs believer, Berkshire ghosts, Venford Hall, Edith Wharton, paranormal tourism

🎤Radio Story: A World of Corpses by Johanna Stein

As a child Johanna faked all sorts of finding of dead bodies, until the day she discovered a very real one in the dark waters near her house. 

keywords: Little kid, dead bodies, corpse, river

🎤Radio Story: Saint Andrew's Cross by Fixxy

New to sex work in his late teens, Fixxy gets picked up by a guy who pays Fixxy to be tied up and tickled. Things start out as negotiated, but once Fixxy has been bound and blindfolded, things become terrifyingly nonconsensual.

keywords: sex work, kink, consent, tickling fetish, fetish culture, BDSM, power dynamics

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🎤Live Story: Waiting for the Man by Joel Kim Booster

Joel would love to find a kinky Dom to write "Bitch" around his asshole. One night, he plays with a Dom who is a huge disappointment.

keywords: Asian storyteller, gay, homosexual, lgbtqia, queer

🎤Live Story: Stop Thief by Jen Curran

Jen confesses that she feels no guilt about stealing. In college, she stole thousands of dollars worth of text books and got caught. She had to imagine she had murdered someone in order to muster guilty enough sounding words of apology.

keywords: theft, Guilt, Stealing, Honesty, Confession, coming-of-age, crime

🎤Live Story: You’ve Made Worm’s Meat of Me by Mather Zickel

Young Mather’s leather-clad skateboarding nights in New York in the mid-90s end in a brutal street fight in a small Southern town, revealing the fleeting nature of toughness.

keywords: 1990s, grunge, skateboarding, street fight, masculinity, rebellion, youth culture, small-town America

🎤Live Story: Snake/Mouse by Julie Threlkeld

Growing up in a neighborhood filled with legends of 60s/70s rock and roll, pre-teen Julie became friends with the girlfriend of a member of the Jefferson Airplane at the same time that the Vietnam War kept taking her journalist father away from home.

keywords: rock and roll, neighborhood legends, Jefferson Airplane, Vietnam War, music history, childhood, friendship, cultural nostalgia

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🎤Anecdote: Another Conversation with my Dead Mother by Hannah Sussman

Hannah reflects on her relationship with her deceased mother—waking from a dream, looking in the mirror and eventually coming to peace with her own aging. 

keywords: mother daughter relationships, aging, grief

🎤Live Story: Each Other's Angels by Swapna Deshpande

Dr. Swapna Deshpande recounts her experiences with a patient she befriended named 'John' at a trauma center. She practically saved his life on a couple of occasions, but grieved when he passed after she’d been on a brief vacation. 

keywords: Doctor, Parkinson's, ICU, Coma

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🎤Live Story: The Color Purple by Brad McMurran

🎤Live Story: Robbie Robbie by Alicia Camden

🎤Live Story: Train du Matin by Sean Devereux

Sean dates a girl who he only sees when they are both drunk. When he decides to have a lunchtime date with her without alcohol, he realizes they have nothing in common. To his bewilderment, she tries to convince him to stay by playing a French version of "Morning Train." 

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🎙️Conversation Story: The Lies that Bind by Mishelle Roberts

SYNOPSIS: (CONTENT NOTE: child abuse, child murder)

Mishelle tells Taj about growing up in the shadow of hospitals, horrific medical drama, and a web of lies that defined her entire life. As an adult, she starts to uncover what was really happening and discovers that the lies were bigger and darker than she ever could’ve imagined.

Mishelle’s story was also the focus of Season Six of Nobody Should Believe Me. 

keywords: Munchausen by proxy, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, medical abuse, child abuse, family secrets, attention seeking, childhood trauma, gaslighting, sibling death, mother-daughter conflict, Nobody Should Believe Me, podcast journalism

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From viral TikTok drama to the celebrity news everyone’s talking about (and the ones they should be), Candiace and Michael are here to talk their talk, crack you up, and keep it 100…with just the right amount of petty.

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🎤Live Story: The Squatter by Billy Raim

Billy is afraid to poop in public until he decides to let go of of that fear, as it was ruining a trip with friends to China, with disastrous consequences.

keywords: Poop, Fear, China, Culture Shock

🎤Live Story: Sister’s Keeper by Tiffany Chilcott

Tiffany impersonates her sister on the phone and gets a guy to shave his head.

keywords: Siblings, Imposters, Pranks, Dating

🎤Live Story: The Last Time by Pete Roberts

Pete lets a drug dealer into his motel thinking he’s going to have a Bukowski moment, only to be robbed.

keywords: Bad Decisions, Drug Deals, Fear, Life Threatening

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🎙️Conversation Story: Believe Her by Andrea Dunlop

Andrea's sister is prosecuted for Munchausen by Proxy (MSbP) child abuse, which sets Andrea off on a long path towards advocacy, outreach and the pursuit of justice for victims of MSbP. Years later, her podcast and vigilante journalism lead her to uncover irrefutable evidence of an unprosecuted, hideous crime, as well as towards healing of her own deep, familial wounds.

keywords: Munchausen by proxy, MSbP, Factitious disorder imposed on another, FDIA, medical child abuse, ethical true crime, true crime podcast, family trauma, child murder, Nobody Should Believe Me, 

Special thanks to Rafter for the generous and essential musical contributions.

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🎙️Radio Story: Save a Prayer for Jill by Jill Karliner

When she was sixteen, Jill went to a Duran Duran concert in an attempt to fit in with her friend group and got so inside her own head about not enjoying it, she panicked. 

keywords: concert, classical, duran duran, rick springfield, squeeze, high school

🎙️Radio Story: What’s in the Box?! by Kevin Allison

After being slighted by his high-school crush, a young Kevin mailed the unsuspecting straight boy his poop.

keywords: poop prank, mailing feces, unrequited teenage love, queer crush, revenge, poop

Watch Kevin's chat with Sean Malin, author of Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen, on YouTube.

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🎤Radio Story: Revelations by Scott Whitney

(Content note: cults, suicide ideation) A Jehovah’s Witness struggling with his faith, Scott knocks on the door of a traumatized recluse to attempt to convert him. The brief, troubled friendship convinces Scott to leave the church.

CURRENT keywords: Awake!, door-to-door, Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Watchtower

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🎤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen

SYNOPSIS: In 1975, the North won Vietnam’s civil war, and LP's dad, high ranking in the Southern Army, was imprisoned. The children lost everything, hunted for food, swam to school, and after 7 years, got their father back.

🎤Radio Story: Black Is the Loneliest Color by Larry Dorsey Jr.

SYNOPSIS: Larry saves a suicidal Black man’s life on the streets of SF and examines his tendency to bridge things between people of different races and classes.

keywords: Black experience in San Francisco, homeless, knife attack subway, people experiencing homelessness, public violence bystanders, racial isolation, urban survival stories

🎤Live Story: What the Blorp?! by Kerri Doherty

SYNOPSIS: Kerri falls in love with a guy who tricks her into helping him lie to the army while he resumes his other life with his wife and daughter. 

keywords: army, cheating, lying to the army, relationship

🎤Radio Story: The Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis

SYNOPSIS: Daryl backs the Ku Klux Klan into a corner and demands that they tell him why they hate him, and he really listens. 

keywords: blackness, changing minds, communication, conflict, empathy, grand dragon, ku klux klan, open minds, prejudice, racial hatred, racism, resolution, unchecked bias

🎤Live Story: Orgasmic by Yossi Rosenberg

SYNOPSIS: Yossi is a shy guy raised in a conservative Jewish household with intimacy issues. He gets involved with the Orgasmic Meditation Scene, a somewhat iffy tribe that practices clitoral stimulation as a meditation.

keywords: clitoral stimulation, culty, Orgasmic Meditation

🎤Radio Story: Breaking Point by Heather Farley

SYNOPSIS: Heather has a psychotic break and leaves a Rauschenberg painting worth millions left to her in the divorce on a park bench. 

keywords: divorce, Psychotic Break, Rauschenberg Painting

🎤Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad Lawrence

SYNOPSIS: (Content note: child sexual abuse, murder, suicide) In a church where guilt is weaponized and silence rewarded, teenage Brad listens to a friend's secret that echoes into adulthood, long past her violent death.

keywords: abortion, childhood abuse, church youth group, evangelical guilt, murder, shame, strangulation, U2

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🎤Live Story: Standing Up by Kevin Boggs

Working as a waiter at an upscale Washington DC restaurant, Kevin gets into an emotional fight with an angry customer who calls him a "faggot." 

Keywords: Waiter, Rude customer, restaurant

🎤Live Story: Virgin Sacrifice by Stephanie Garibaldi

Stephanie visits a Mayan village, where Mayan culture lives on to this day. When the villagers decide she is a "fertility goddess," they begin preparing for her to marry a young man from the village. 

Keywords: fertility, Indigenous, Mayans

🎤Live Story: Mofo by R. Levin

R. discovers new things about herself while experimenting with a group of fellow moms in the kink community, where she ends up meeting her husband. 

Keywords: Kink, BDSM, Privacy, Moms 

🎤Live Story: Little Sister by Amy Saidman

Amy learns how to stand up to her older sister, and in the process, ends up unexpectedly bonding with her.   

Keywords:: Older sister, little sister, funeral

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🎙️Conversation Story: Midnight in Manila by Scott McMahon

SYNOPSIS: Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story “Midnight in Manila,” about the time he was pulled into a nightmare of corruption, false rape charges, and five years in a Philippine jail. 

keywords: Philippine jail, American imprisoned abroad, wrongful imprisonment, framed, corruption, corruption in Philippines, Manila, Manila prison survival, false rape charge, held without trial

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I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated  series.  

Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories  from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and  celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test your Springfield IQ.  

Hear exclusive stories from our guests who were there! Perhaps some scenes that almost never  aired, the jokes that died, the ones that lived and the moments that still shock me at the mic. 

Produced and showrun by Monica Gil-Rodriguez. From Audacy Podcasts and CRE84U  Entertainment.

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🎤Live Story: All the Rage by Kevin Allison

SYNOPSIS: A man living in Kevin's neighborhood started screaming, "Faggot!" at Kevin whenever he was in eyeshot. Then one day the man switched from screaming to punching. 

keywords: gay, homosexual, lgbtqia, queer, faggot, violence, homophobia

🎤Radio Story: The Other by Kris Grey

SYNOPSIS: Kris talks about how peculiar it was to be a trans man attending the various sex parties among the gay men on Fire Island, most of whom had never seen a vagina before. 

keywords: Hate crime, Street harassment, Growing up gay, internalized shame, transgender, Trans man, Queer nightlife, internalized stigma, cruising, genderqueer identity

🎤Live Story: Come Together by Cameron Esposito

SYNOPSIS: The week that gay marriage was made legal throughout the land, Cameron told the moving story of her family's coming to grips with her being gay. 

keywords: civil rights, lesbian identity, Catholic upbringing and queerness, same-sex marriage, LGBTQ community spaces, coming out to Catholic parents, gender nonconformity, gay rights history

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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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🎤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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🎙️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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🎤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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🎤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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🎤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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This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions.

🎙️ Story: My Secret Career by C.J. Guy

CJ reveals his secret career path that started with dropping out of law school without informing his family and becoming a flight attendant. He maintained the lie for eight months until his sister discovered the secret. 

keywords: flight attendant, law school, german, hogans heroes, lie, secret

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🎤Live Story: The Amazing Adventures of Ethan and the Lunch Monkey by Ethan Ullman

In school, Ethan and a friend call a lunch lady who was mean to them "the Lunch Monkey." Called to the principal's office, they invent a comic book series they claim they were referencing, about a superhero by that name. 

CURRENT keywords: sophomoric humor, boys will be boys, in trouble

🎤Live Story: Good Vibrations by Katy Frame

As a kid, Katy plays with things that vibrate around her private parts. She devises a machine of her own out of a mechanical toy set. Her parents shame her for it and it’s not till years later that she learns vibrators are common. 

CURRENT keywords: sexual exploration, vibrators, bird and bees

🎤Live Story: Intense Friendships in the Bus Depot by Ben Lerman

In his teen years, Ben forgets he left a gay porn video in the VHS at home while he’s off at a music festival. He calls his mom to make a convoluted excuse, but it doesn’t fly. 

CURRENT keywords: gay kids, in the closet, secrets and lies

🎤Live Story: Where the World Is by Rob Lathan

In college, Rob is bullied by frat brothers, but finds acceptance when he drinks huge amounts as they dare him to do. One night he drinks himself into a coma, with a blood alcohol level normally considered certain death. 

CURRENT keywords: near death, alcohol poisoning, peer pressure, hazing

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🎙️Conversation Story: The Rebound by John F. O'Donnell

John starts out in the New York comedy scene, dealing with his bi-polar disorder, plus memorable encounters during his early days as a comedian.

keywords: Bipolar I Disorder, lithium, mental illness, comedy, comedian

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The latest in the Self Help Special Series, which can be found at risk-show.com/specialseries/self-help-stories

🎤Live Story: Just Commit by Tommy Galan

Tommy drinks and drinks. His final days of drinking almost destroy his family life. When a mentor tells him to "just commit" to whatever he feels will work best for him, he gives up the bottle.

🎤Radio Story: Life is a Gift by Marc Amigone

Marc takes a trip to Thailand to study rock climbing, despite his parent's objections. He nearly paralyses himself in a climbing accident. His parents help him heal, but he still feels risks are worth taking.

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🎤Live Story: Treading Water by Valerie Ward

In her younger days, Valerie got stuck under a dock while swimming in a lake. It brought about mixed feelings about calling for help and how much people might or might not care about her.

keywords: lake, swimming, dock, childhood

🎙️Radio Story: Rescuer by David Patteson

As a kid, David is in danger of drowning till he's rescued by his big brother Mike, who goes on to fill in as surrogate mother to his brothers and sisters once their real mother abandons them.

keywords: swimming, drowning, childhood, family

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🎤Live Story: The Storm by Camille Lowman

Camille attends a bachelorette party full of proper Southern suburbanites and watches them descend into drunken shenanigans when the male stripper arrives.

CURRENT keywords: women behaving badly, strippers, bad behavior, oral sex

🎤Live Story: The Wrapper by Nathaniel Bates

Nathaniel is confounded when, as a child, he sees his dad’s penis and realizes that it is much different from his own, causing him lots of secret shame and worry about having a foreskin. 

CURRENT keywords: circumcision, penises, parents, childhood, puberty, school

🎤Live Story: Roadside Assistance by Shon Kennedy

Shon, a Black woman, is in a car accident in the deep South. A white trash redneck comes to her aid (with lots of marijuana to offer as well) and the two of them end up revealing their deepest insecurities to one another.  

CURRENT keywords: Stereotypes, defied expectations, strange friendships, cars, pot

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This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions.

🎙️ Story: Gregg fell into a crevasse by Gregg LeFevre

Gregg visits Las Vegas and decides to climb a glacier. Unprepared, he falls into a crevasse but escapes by following an injured deer. Later, he learns it wasn't even a real glacier.

keywords: las vegas, glacier, artist, deer

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🎤Live Story: The Big Secret by Brad Lawrence

(Content note: child sexual abuse, murder, suicide) In a church where guilt is weaponized and silence rewarded, teenage Brad listens to a friend's secret that echoes into adulthood, long past her violent death.

keywords: abortion, church youth group, evangelical guilt, childhood abuse, shame, U2, murder, strangulation

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🎤Live Story: Kibbles 'n Bits by Sarah Jones

Sarah starts abusing laxatives to lose weight for her new hot boyfriend. When camping with his dog, she secretly shits in the woods. The dog laps it up and kisses the boy when back in the car.  

keywords: diarrhea, poop disasters, canine coprophagia, shitkisses

🎤Live Story: Hitchin' It! by Myka Fox

Myka and her friend are hitchhiking and they're picked up by "Kevin Spacey with a Ray Liotta skin covering." They escape the creepy guy and hitch with another guy who is drinking while driving. 

keywords: dangers of hitchhiking, don’t take rides from strangers, hitchhikers in danger

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🎤Live Story: The One? by Jonathan Bradley Welch

After a psychic's prediction of lasting love, Jonathan pins his hopes on a pandemic crush—only to be let down. He learns love won’t save him, but self-acceptance just might. 

keywords: Queer love story, Provincetown romance, Gay dating journey, Psychic love prediction, Pandemic virtual boyfriend

🎤Live Story: What Older Brothers Do by Talia Tabin

Years after her brother’s death, Talia’s family meets with a medium. Talia gets teased from the beyond, realizing her brother’s teasing of her when he was alive contained love in it too.

keywords: grief and loss, medium reading, dead brother, afterlife signs, family mourning, spiritual session, psychic medium, sibling pranks, Grief and healing

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Moses comes to grips with the fact that his mom is not like others. She dresses like a rebellious teen and uses her kids to steal things like roller skates at the rink.

keywords: nonconformist, poverty, shoplifting

When Jenny decides to divorce her husband, she is sure her stepmom will hate her for it. When she reveals it’s because her husband won’t have sex, Jenny’s stepmom becomes like a supportive sister. 

keywords: sexless marriage, women’s issues, female bonding, 

Tommy has a real Boston brawler of a mom. Hardcore, working class Southie kinda gal. Their relationship ends when he comes out of the closet to her. Then, after much fighting, it begins again.

keywords: coming out, parents of gays, Boston Catholics, family feuds

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🎤Live Story: Semi-Charmed Kinda Life by Moses Storm
🎤Radio Story: Getting Friendly by Jenny Smith
🎤Live Story: Fighting for Each Other by Tommy O’Malley
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Conversation Story: Animals Past and Present by Ray Christian

(Content note: animal death) As a child, Ray and his friends held funerals for small animals. One day, Ray saw a monkey, then later what may have been the monkey’s remains… or those of a missing child. 

keywords: Funeral home, Mock funeral, Peacock, Monkey, Missing child

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🎧Live Story: The Prayer by Brady Dale

After a streak of bad luck with women, Brady tries ancient Christian practices, like the mantra-like repetition of a pilgrim's prayer and self-flagellation with a belt. 

current keywords: flogging, mortification of the flesh, ascetic practice, pilgrim’s prayer 

🎧Live Story: Jump by Elna Baker

Elna longs for luminous love and finally meets someone who sparks it—only to freeze at the leap. Elna learns the key to love isn’t magic, it’s a person who stays.

current keywords: phosphorescent love, falling in love, emotional intimacy, fear of love, real connection, unrequited love, letting go.

🎧Live Story: My Own Life by Marjorie Winther

When marriage ends after her husband is arrested for trying to meet up for sex with a 13-year old girl, Marjorie puts her life back together and embraces polyamory.

current keywords: polyamory, child molester, secrets and lies, divorce, 

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🎧Live Story: The Jerk by Lindsay Ames

As a teen at Jewish camp Lindsay is eager to have a sexual experience with the cute boy, and gets in a sleeping bag with him, but her friend Carly jumps in and steals Lindsay’s first handjob.

keywords: handjob, Jewish camp, cockblock, virgin

🎧Radio Story: Tomfoolery by Shannon M. Turner

Shannon is in love with a guy at camp. Her crush goes on for years, as they both end up on the camp’s staff, until a friend finally helps Shannon see it is time to move on. 

keywords: Crush, first love, camp counselor, preacher’s kid

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🎤 Live Story: AIM Me When You’re Ready by Anna Roisman
Desperate to lose her virginity before college, Anna reconnects with a summer fling for a hotel hookup. But years later, she’s left wondering if he might not have been into her… at all.

keywords: bisexual confusion, teen sexual exploration, awkward first time, questionable consent, early 2000s hookup, fluid identity, unexpected orientation, virginity loss, hotel sex, AIM nostalgia

🎤 Live Story: Faithful by Rachel Frost
A night of mezcal and ecstasy ends in an unplanned hookup with a woman, just hours before Rachel's boyfriend gets down on one knee.
keywords: bisexual moment, queer curiosity, cheating guilt, surprise proposal, LGBTQ confusion, party aftermath, Brooklyn nightlife, fluid sexuality, relationship crisis

🎤 Live Story: True Love Wafts by Aydrea Walden
Raised in a home obsessed with keeping her pure, Aydrea never expected her first real kiss to come from her best friend—or to feel more right than anything else ever had.
Keywords: queer awakening, first same-sex kiss, religious repression, purity culture, bi-curiosity, female friendship, unspoken attraction, evangelical shame, closeted teen, gentle discovery

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Here are some resources for advocacy, financial contribution, education and crisis support:

1. Transgender Law Center (TLC): @translawcenter transgenderlawcenter.org

2. PFLAG: @pflag⁠ pflag.org⁠

3. Trans Lifeline: @translifeline translifeline.org

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This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions

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This episode is part of our Mother’s Day Stories series. Pitch us your story about moms!

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• Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live

• Get the RISK! Book and shop for merch:risk-show.com/shop

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