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RISK!

If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK! Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this sur...

RISK! Podcast Guide

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My Old Man

This one originally aired in August 2013, and the fathers in it tend toward the unexpectedly generous. And heck, this episode may as well be...

68:52Jun 18, 2026

Something Wild

Kambri and Evan arrive on the same episode from opposite ends of the spectrum, which turns out to be exactly right. Kambri Crews grew up poo...

37:19Jun 16, 2026

Live From San Fran 2014

In San Francisco, 2014, four great storytellers took the RISK! stage at SF Sketch Fest: Stephen Tobolowsky was directing the New York premie...

67:33Jun 11, 2026

Captives

Two stories from people who found themselves in situations they didn't choose and had to figure out what to do from inside them. Guest-hoste...

45:50Jun 9, 2026

Live From Seattle!

One chilly Seattle night in February 2014, four storytellers on the RISK! stage said some things they probably wouldn’t have otherwise said...

73:00Jun 4, 2026

Love, Death, and Dad’s Pee

It's summer 2014, and Bailey Swilley has a boyfriend she's been trying to leave for months and a father who is about to make that the least...

43:58Jun 2, 2026

Into the Mystic

This one goes deep. "Into the Mystic" first aired in February 2014, and it brings together three accounts of the uncanny from three storytel...

46:53May 28, 2026

Brutal Authority

Guest-host Taj Easton is in the chair this week, presenting these two stories on the long shadow of patriarchy with a particular attentivene...

61:35May 26, 2026

Fascination

This one goes back to February 2014: a live RISK! episode built around the theme of fascination, meaning the things that get under your skin...

67:05May 21, 2026

Patreon Picks #6

Two storytellers, two very different ways of inheriting the past. Shauna McGarry throws a Halloween party with her newly single roommate, ho...

37:48May 19, 2026

Live From NYC Podfest 2014

Originally recorded live at NYC Podfest in January 2014, this is one of those classic RISK! episodes where the theme, confession, actually d...

70:17May 14, 2026

What the Body Keeps

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 thr...

37:13May 12, 2026

The Best of Mother’s Day Stories #4

Two mothers' days that look nothing alike, but hit just as hard. Jobim Santos grew up watching his mother Linda lose her battle with ALS pie...

40:56May 7, 2026

The Best of RISK! #35

This episode brings together two of the most gripping conversations in the show's recent run: a man who survived an extended stint in a Phil...

101:49May 5, 2026

I'm Okay, You're Okay

From the RISK! archives, this January 2014 episode gathers three storytellers around a theme that sounds simple and turns out not to be: act...

46:06Apr 30, 2026

Pop Obie’s Vibrator

Guest-hosted this week by Taj Easton, stepping in for Kevin to present a story by LeCount Holmes Jr., now Taj’s surrogate pops. (Content not...

51:51Apr 28, 2026

The Best of Adventure Stories #3

Two RISK! stories pulled from the archive, and both are worth your time. "The Best of Adventure Stories #3" is funny and unsettling in equal...

30:59Apr 23, 2026

Weirdos

This episode is a love letter to people who are magnificently, irrepressibly, sometimes accidentally weird. Larry Dorsey Jr. opens with the...

50:47Apr 21, 2026

Today's the Day. Welcome to RISK!

Think you've heard it all? You haven't. People pull over because they're laughing too hard to drive. People cry on treadmills. People share...

1:00Apr 17, 2026

A Hard Landing, Revisited

JP Michael first told "A Hard Landing" on RISK! in the summer of 2016, and it became one of the most talked-about episodes in the show's his...

93:56Apr 16, 2026