RISK!
RISK!

RISK!

RISK!

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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 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.

Recent Episodes

Live From Seattle!
JUN 4, 2026
Live From Seattle!
A classic from February 2014: Summer Waldron, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Emmett Montgomery, and Dan Savage took the stage in Seattle for a night that moved from dark comedy and family heartbreak to near-death hallucinations and one of the most disarmingly frank sexual memoirs you'll ever hear.
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73 MIN
Love, Death, and Dad’s Pee
JUN 2, 2026
Love, Death, and Dad’s Pee
Bailey Swilley and Nick Hornedo bring their most unwieldy true stories to Taj Easton's vision for RISK! this week, from a grandmother's emergency witchcraft to a high school friendship that kept ending in groin injuries. Plus a bonus deathbed anecdote from JC Cassis.
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43 MIN
Into the Mystic
MAY 28, 2026
Into the Mystic
A classic RISK! episode from February 2014. Christine Lee, Lulu, and Jen Kwok each brushed up against something they couldn't fully explain, in three accounts of faith, fear, and unexpected transcendence that span a church stairwell, a 1970s front porch, and a Staten Island express bus.
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46 MIN
Brutal Authority
MAY 26, 2026
Brutal Authority
Cassidy Krug and Thomas Brazzle share stories about the men whose brutal dominion over their lives shaped them fundamentally, and the long, complex reckoning that followed. Guest host Taj Easton holds both stories with warmth, honesty and just a touch of his own bitterness on the subject.
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61 MIN
Fascination
MAY 21, 2026
Fascination
Ryan Britt, Adam Wade, Brad Lawrence, and Lulu chase obsession, longing, and late-night curiosity through encounters with forbidden magazines, accidental identity theft, late-night soft-core television, and a kinky sex convention gone sideways. This is a Classic RISK! Episode, originally aired in February 2014.
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67 MIN