Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allyson and every Thursday we release these special episodes that were calling

classic risk singles.

Each of these episodes features just one story from our earlier years.

If you're new to risk, you should know that the podcast can be very uncensored.

This week, a story that Miguel De Leon first shared on the podcast in September of 2014,

here's Miguel now.

With the story we call amateur.

Let's get one thing straight.

I'm a band nerd.

I'm a bando bandy bandfag band geek.

Whatever it was, you called it in high school.

That was me.

I got really into it when I learned how to play the oboe.

I saw it in concert once and I was like, that thing that sounds like it's piercing through

the orchestra.

I want to play that.

It was so showbooty.

It was so kind of apt for soloistic performance that I wanted to shine in the middle of the

orchestra.

One of the things that really, really made me want to play the oboe was listening to a

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