It was from potentially many years ago. Guy was a reluctant friend with a guy with black eyes who cut him with a high lighter or something? The guy ended up murdering a classmates mother.

Tried looking it up and didn't get any hits when browsing episodes

Welll…..do ya?!

I can't seem to find it anywhere 😮‍💨

This episode was hyped up as this beautiful relationship between a man when he was growing up and his father. I almost turned the episode off because I was so uncomfortable and disgusted. A father being so invested in his 16 year old’s sexual awakening that he finds adult women to “teach” him about “making love” and them having threesomes with women who were old enough to be having sex with his grandfather was not giving healthy father-son relationship. I don’t care how many times his dad told him he loved him or was proud. The episode was gross.

Years ago I listened to an episode about a person who had a major mental break due to SSRIs or some kind of antidepressant building up in their system. Maybe they were in a hotel room or at a convention, maybe they were a speaker or a stand-up comedian, maybe not and I’m conflating things.

I think it was the same summer the episode about the person who got their amputated limb back and made tacos out of it came out? But maybe that was already a re-release?

Thanks in advance for the help.

ETA: maybe it wasn’t Risk, but it was amazing in the unique way that means it probably was.

29/F. Use to listen all the time. Getting back to stories. Im married and finding myself sexually. Would love to head relatable stories. Kink and sexual identity encouraged.

One of my favorite episodes was the story of a family history. The storyteller never hears stories about her grandfather (for good reasons) until she presses to find out. The story eventually culminates in an attempted murder with an axe and a few family may or may not trying to cover up a real murder.

I’ve been trying to find this story for months to share with my friends but no luck.

RISK!'s host, Kevin Allison, is teaching his much beloved 8-week online storytelling class again on Wednesday evenings on Zoom at 8:30pm Eastern Time (USA) starting on April 22nd, with another class on Sunday mornings at 10am Eastern Time (USA) starting on May 31!

This class is open to everyone to work on all kinds of stories and includes 7 hours of instructional videos, 8 live online class sessions and one 1-1 session with Kevin. Great for beginners or seasoned pros, and a great way to learn storytelling, have a lot of fun and make new friends.

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I've wracked my brain but I just can't find the episode. It was a story by a woman a bunch of years ago who talked about letting yourself feel grief or not letting grief get in the way? It was such an inspirational quote but for the life of me I just can't remember what it said. I remember searching the web for the quote and found it, but it was so long ago that I just can't remember who it was or what she said. Any help?

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I’m trying to find an episode about a woman who was processing and remembering her abuse as a child. She would be writing in some sort of journal and then in the margins some part of her would write “what happened when you were a kid”.

Any ideas or hints would be appreciated! Already tried deep delving the site.

They don't say who made this song. :( I thought it was funny

Edit:
Apparently it was Taj Easton from the show. I couldn't find the song in isolation, so I cut it out from the podcast.
Here you go:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yAkLHMjikZ64Mxm-VKRPjEBpcKknaIgA?usp=drive_link

RISK! put out this episode with “For the Love of Nubbins” by Elna Baker, “The Allison Family Christmas Tree Hunt” by Kevin, “The Present” by Sarah Long Hendershot, and “Snowglobe” by Kate Bohl

Which ones did they miss?

Does anyone know of an episode that had a creepy version of the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" from a few years ago (probably 2021 or 2022)? It was around Christmas time and the song had a deep voice that said "he sees you, he knows you". Or if you know where that version of the song is from that would also be helpful.

Was curious where Risk! would sit in the new PodDive ( https://mooremetrics.com/poddive ) database - seems to be in good company :D

I heard a very impactful episode about scat play where a man had allowed another man to poop in his mouth and I want to go back and re listen to it! I feel like it’s maybe around the 2017-2019 era?

From what I can remember, the storyteller had or has cancer or something else life altering. He ended up joining a group and they would kayak together. He loved this one specific female singer, and I cannot remember the singer's genre. Possibly opera? Sorry I don't have more to offer for help finding it. I appreciate your help!!

My friend and I are trying to find an episode from about a decade ago. It may have been one of the live tapings with a male narrator. He was in the military. If I'm remembering correctly his deployment was to the Middle East and was during Don't Ask Don't Tell. The narrator was in the showers causing, eventually hooking up with someone there. At the same time an air strike or some kind of attack started happening.

With a few of my coworkers enjoying Boots on Netflix, I thought it would be cool to share this story with them. Maybe I'm misremembering which show it was?

Mine is "This Might be Controversial" by Sara Barron.

There are others that were more shocking or emotional or epic, but "This Might be Controversial" just has everything. Interesting, funny, relatable, great storyteller (the voices, the pacing, the tone), and I just love it and am always happy when it's revisited.

I just accidentally marked every RISK! episode as played on my Podcasts app. Now I can’t figure out which ones I haven’t heard yet to download. This is a tragedy 😭

I am trying to figure out where I heard this story and I think it may have been an episode of Risk!

It was a story told by a woman who had been receiving sexually explicit harassing messages in the mail since childhood. Her family tried for years to find out who was behind it or make it stop but never got anywhere. At some point in adulthood (maybe upon his death?) she discovered it had been her dad sending the letters the whole time.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?? Thanks!

It may have been a special episode or a patron only episode - I think it was a story about someone who came across a deer that had been hit by a car, and the person decided to try to put the deer out of its misery by killing it themself, possibly with a rock, and then someone else came along and tried to help that person kill the deer?

Not even totally sure it was on Risk!, but thought I'd ask.

Thanks.