ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
semiweekly
Average audio length:
53 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
1261 episodes
since March 19, 2002
episodic
explicit content
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~85.78% of listeners are from United States.
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US
85.78%
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CA
5.61%
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GB
2.19%
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NP
1.82%
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SG
0.62%
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RO
0.62%
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AT
0.51%
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ES
0.26%
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NZ
0.25%
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IN
0.23%
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CZ
0.23%
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AU
0.23%
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DE
0.17%
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JP
0.15%
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SE
0.13%
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IE
0.13%
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BR
0.11%
Others
0.96%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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 live event co-produced with Spark.
(Content note: suicidal ideation)
Dave Pickering heads to a swingers club to test whether the ugliness he's carried since …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Two RISK! favorites come back for Latine Heritage Month, handed to guests who know the territory. Brenda González & Delsy Sandoval, Latina co-hosts of Tamarindo podcast, join us to talk both stories through and celebrate Latine lives that rarely get to be this light.
Javier Morillo spent his t…
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 work call outside Chicago when his wife kicks the door open: their twelve-year-old twins are texting from a mall on lockdown for an active shooter. Tuesday …
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.
Brian Cirmo spends his last night in downtown Utica the way he and his heavyset childhood crew always did, at the strip clubs, before his friends pull one pr…
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 customs line that will not move, with a backpack full of rocks and a Tokyo souvenir that reads as an explosive on the X-ray.
Victor Ramirez was 17 in the Pocono…
Recorded live at DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill in 2014, this classic RISK! episode brings together three storytellers on the wilder edges of youth.
(Content note: emotional abuse)
Lauren Patton grows up on a Georgia estate where her father runs a criminal law firm out of the house, cycling yo…
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 Velazquez steps onto a 1986 Lower East Side corner for his first crack sale, carrying the demon-fear of a Jehovah's Witness childhood and a father who has star…
"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 through France with two sisters from Berkeley, plans to sleep in a Bordeaux park until a priest and a local drug dealer both warn him off. The dealer's alter…
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 to a heated Los Angeles delegate election, where bad blood between two party factions turns personal.
David Zellnik spends his childhood worshipping the sta…
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 stand-up whose marriage and career have both come apart, flies to Boulder for a peyote ceremony and finds his spirit guide is the last thing he would have chosen…
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