Immigrant Stories #4
Two people, decades and continents apart, are both foreigners in the land they were headed for. Lucy McCullough is six when her parents’ vis...
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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 sur...
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20 of 1,250 episodesScary Stories #4: Yikes!
Halloween weekend brings back one of RISK!’s eerier classics from November 2013. Jackson McKeehan, orphaned at seven and still an anxious wr...
Scary Stories #18: Spine-tingling!
The eighteenth annual Halloween-tide episode runs from a dark bedroom to a front porch to a burning house. Larry Dorsey Jr. is eighteen and...
Make It Stop!
A classic RISK! episode from July 2014 built around three situations that everyone involved would happily have ended earlier. Sam Mullins is...
Bangkok Stories 1
Ploy Anderson is rushing out of her Bangkok house for a lunch date, a hair roller still clipped under her helmet, when a 10-wheeler drifts i...
Live From London!
This week we're revisiting the first RISK! episode ever recorded outside the United States. In July 2014, the show traveled to London for a...
The Best of Hispanic Lives #5
Two RISK! favorites come back for Latine Heritage Month, handed to guests who know the territory. Brenda González & Delsy Sandoval, Latina c...
The Best of RISK! #37
Three of the most memorable stories from the last six months of RISK!, back in one place. (Content note: gun violence) Jon Rappoport is on a...
Seedy
Dug out from the RISK! archives, this June 2014 episode goes straight for the seedier side of growing up, getting by, and getting out alive....
Gettin' Off Scot-Free
Three people do something small and stupid, then meet the full weight of the law. Kona Morris spends a four-hour Beijing layover in a custom...
Live From Chapel Hill!
Recorded live at DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill in 2014, this classic RISK! episode brings together three storytellers on the wilder edge...
The Best of RISK! #36
Twice a year we gather the best of the best from the last six months. This round holds three. (Content note: suicide) At fifteen, Richard Ve...
Stung
"Stung" is a set of four live stories from June 2014 back in the feed, each about someone caught off guard. Matt Kirshen, 18 and backpacking...
Almost
Three people come within reach of what they want and are nearly undone grabbing for it. Karen Ibarra brings a self-described nerd's devotion...
Second Wind
This episode first surfaced back in June 2014, presenting two people who’d run out of road and somehow had to find more. Joe Mulligan, a sta...
Giggles
Three stories about laughing at exactly the wrong moment, and finding out it was the right one all along. Three ways of getting through it s...
Live from Boston!
Three wildly different stories from a night RISK! recorded live in Boston back in May of 2014, pulled from the archive and dropped back into...
No Harm, No Foul
At twenty-four, Allen Fetters is blindsided by the worst gallstone attack of his life. Too stubborn to call 911 or even a friend, he decides...
The Best of RISK! Inanity
Back from November 2021, this episode is just bonkers: original songs, sound collages, audio easter eggs, and other inanities stacked one on...
The Best of School Stories #2
Two classic RISK! stories about walking into a room that codes you as wrong from the second you open your mouth. Tara Clancy commuted from w...