Hello kids, this is Risk.

The show where people tell true stories, they never thought they dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look

back at content from our earlier years.

The first two years of Risk episodes, the ones from October 2009 to October 2011, were

behind a paywall for a while.

So now, every other Thursday, we're rerunning them for free.

We ask that you keep the historical context in mind.

Today in 2021, there's a different consciousness.

We've always asked storytellers to speak in as unfiltered away as possible, and yet to

tell their stories with as much compassion as possible.

Even so, I'm sure the storytellers and the host might have worded some of what they said

on these old episodes differently if they'd been recorded more recently.

As always, the title of the whole series, Risk, is itself a content warning.

This week, the fourth episode from our second year, it premiered in November of 2010, and

it's the Risk All Star episode, number one.

Hello, kids, and welcome to Risk, the show where people tell true stories.

They never thought they dared to share.

At least not till I came up to them and said, well, how about for a podcast?

And they said, well, for a podcast, yeah, why the fuck not?

I'm Kevin Allyson, that was Wormburn, up top.

They have a new album out called Placed by the Gideons, and this is Sean Lee's Ping Pong

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